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Best Picture: Philomena
Could Philomena be the surprise that upsets Oscar predictions? That's the gist of an ad currently running in The New York Times. This writer sure hopes so. Promotions for the film suggest that its emotional center will be the powerful bond between a mother and the son she has been missing and mourning for half a century. But more intriguing to me is the bond between Philomena and her writer-companion on this quest: a man of considerable intellect and talent who mocks notions of God and faith. He just can't fathom how Philomena does not harbor hate for those who separated her from her son. In the end, although there is no happy-ending reunion, Philomena forgives those whose deception caused her much sadness and pain. For me, the quiet beauty of this movie is that we are privileged to witness how one good woman becomes an inspiration and a wonder to one cynical man. It is a touching tale of redemption, a contrast to some of the other Oscar nominees which chronicle lives without purpose or a moral compass.
Elizabeth Bookser Barkley, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Faculty Advisor to Dateline
Best Animated Film: Despicable Me 2
Frozen may be this year's obvious pick for Best Animated Film. It's got strong female characters that give princesses a good name and it underscores the importance of sisterhood. However, in my household, Despicable Me 2 isn't just best Animated Film of 2014, it's the best movie ever, according to my almost two-year-old little boy, who doesn't let us get out much for movies and who giggles uncontrollably whenever he sees minions on TV. And, that's what makes this movie: more minions and their delightful gibberish. There's also, for this professor (who incidentally hasn't yet seen the movie Frozen), some terrific intellectual wit. There's a great line early in the movie, when a very young birthday party guest asks Gru (former villain gone super-dad, dressed as a princess), why he's "so fat." His answer, "Because my house is made of candy and sometimes I eat instead of facing my problems," should win an Oscar of its own. It may be for purely selfish and sentimental reasons, but, we watch part of this film every day and my son still laughs just as hard as he did when he saw the film for the first time.
Elizabeth Taryn Mason, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in English
Faculty Advisor to Lions-on-Line
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett
Though Cate Blanchett already has one Oscar to her name (for her uncanny performance as Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator) and a slew of other nominations, she deserves the Best Actress award this year for her frighteningly good performance in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine. A loose retelling of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, the film tells the story of Jasmine Francis, a pampered New York socialite whose life is turned upside-down when her scuzzy, Bernie Madoff-like husband (Alec Baldwin) is arrested for embezzlement. Jasmine is forced to move to San Francisco and live with her estranged sister (the excellent and also-nominated Sally Hawkins) and significantly scale back her lifestyle. Blanchett's turn as the boozy, Xanax-addicted Jasmine is by turns funny, nasty, abrasive, endearing, and, ultimately, heartbreaking. It's been impossible for me to get the film's final image of Blanchett's face out of my mind. Allen is a master at getting wonderful performances out of his leading ladies (Diane Keaton, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Penelope Cruz, et al.), and here he adds Blanchett to that distinguished group.
Drew Shannon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Faculty Advisor to the Drama Club and the English Club
Best Costuming: The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is nominated for an award for costuming this year. I remember the last time Gatsby was made into a film with a young and romantic Robert Redford as Gatsby, also magnificently staged and costumed, but also disappointing. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby is a fragile, illusive personification, not a "fully-developed" character. He is a reflection of a glamorous, over-the-top, but morally-decadent decade, morally-empty American Dream. The film version spends so much energy depicting the "scenery" that Gatsby fades into it becoming one more beautiful prop. We are so overwhelmed and entertained by the representation of glitz and glamor that our imaginations are not engaged in distinguishing Gatsby, and thus finding meaning in his aspirations and failure, which is the task Fitzgerald has set for his reader and the pleasure of reading this great American novel.
Marilyn J. Serraino, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Why I Can't Pick a Winner
I find myself in the unusual position of not having seen any of this year's Oscar nominees for Best Picture. Most of the time, I've seen at least one or two of them, but just never got around to it, I guess, this past year... To tell the truth, I am an avid movie fan and really enjoy seeing a good screenplay put into pictures—and especially a good book translated into a screenplay that's, in turn, filmed well. In fact, I've always been interested in the contrast between images evoked in the brain by the written word and the images presented for me on the screen by someone else. Studies seem to show that doing such "reading between the lines" yourself builds mental acuity when compared to the lesser effort of literally accepting a prefabricated view. And I'll confess to being gratified that this appears to be borne out when I hear my students tell me that they find the often intensely deep and emotional visuals they get from reading assignments more satisfying than those sometimes presented to them in movies. To my mind, though, a compelling story drives visuals having an impact. While the other way around is not impossible, I think it's a lot harder to do well. In any case, I'll be looking forward this year to hearing, "And the winner is…"
Michael R. Klabunde, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English and History


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I would be pretty shocked at first, angry too. but i would eventually accept it, but i would never bring myself to worship it/them.
I can't help but be reminded of my favorite quotes:
"How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation to lower your gullibility, otherwise leaving you alone? If you believe this, you are pretty gullible, and should perhaps consider such an operation."
~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
If there's a god, it is bat-shit crazy or else how is described by the devil in Devil's Advocate, an absentee landlord. I see little chance for such an entity to exist, given our universe. If shown to us, we'd probably see it as an advanced life-form and little more.
In other words, many of us have outgrown the concept.
I would take the late Christopher Hitchens' lead and hope that whatever this "god" is would prefer honest disbelief to dishonest belief "just in case".
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
--Marcus Aurelius
Very nice.
My answer to that question is simple: christians claim that god makes us all exactly as we are. That being the case, it means that he knew while creating us that we'd doubt, that we'd ask questions and that we'd stop believing.
Why would he punish you for being exactly the creation he made?
if there is a "god" atheist will be the first to know it. christains just are not smart enough.
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Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is working a series of murders in which six young women have been wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire. Their charred remains have been scattered around various dump sites, creating a grisly pattern of death across western Washington.
At the same time, thousands of miles away in the Arizona desert, Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady is looking into a homicide in which the elderly caretaker of an ATV park was run over and left to die. All the man has left behind is his dog, who is the improbable witness to some kind of turf warfare—or possibly something more sinister.
Then a breakthrough in Beaumont´s case leads him directly to the Southwest and into Brady´s jurisdiction. When the two met on a joint investigation years earlier, sparks flew. Under different circumstances, both of them admit, even more could have happened.
But here, as the threads of their two seemingly separate cases wind together, Beaumont and Brady must put aside echoes of their shared past as they are once again drawn into an orbit of deception. Except this time it´s not just their own lives that are in danger but those of the people closest to them as well.
J. A. Jance is the New York Times bestselling author of the J. P. Beaumont series, the Joanna Brady series, the Ali Reynolds series, and five interrelated thrillers about the Walker family, as well as a volume of poetry. Born in South Dakota and brought up in Bisbee, Arizona, Jance lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington, and Tucson, Arizona.
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The object of this paper is the study of differential equations possessing certain properties, later defined, which may be called Sturmian properties, since they characterize equations first discussed by Sturm in his celebrated Mémoire sur les équations linéaires du second ordre, in the first volume of Liouville's Journal. This memoir of Sturm's is chiefly devoted to the study of the equation
with a few slightly more general forms. At the close of the article he refers briefly to the fact that these results were first obtained by the use of equations in finite differences of the second order, but none of this work was ever published, owing probably to the fact that at that time it was impossible to treat the subject with sufficient rigor by this method. In the present state of analysis Sturm's original method may easily be placed on a satisfactory basis as regards rigor, and it is found to possess certain marked advantages, due to the ease with which recurrent relations satisfying the necessary conditions are set up, and to the possibility of generalizing much of the work. Sturm's famous theorem in regard to the location of the real roots of an equation is only a result of the application of this general method to polynomials.
In order to establish on a rigorous basis the method of finite differences, se will be made of a recent theorem of Painlévé and Picard in regard to the Cauchy-Lipschitz proof of the existence of a solution of a differential equation.
After recalling some familiar definitions and theorems of which use will be made, a method will be developed by which recurrent relations of the required character are constructed. Some properties of the functions which satisfy these relations will then be established, and it will be shown that these same properties characterize the differential equations, to which under certain conditions the recurrent relations lead.


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Thanks to the perfect integration of the styling and engineering activities, the Cambiano is an extended range plug-in electric car that combines top performance and roominess with the comfort of a luxury car and total respect of the environment. The type of engine chosen and the position of the battery pack in the rear of the car (under the luggage compartment) have created a vehicle architecture with a perfectly flat floor, that is regular and low, guaranteeing excellent access, liveability on board and a lower centre of gravity.
The Cambiano's generous range was achieved by the innovative drive system, by focussing attention on aerodynamic efficiency, obtained in the Pininfarina Wind Tunnel, and by a significant weight reduction: the Cambiano weighs 1695 kg empty, an excellent result if we consider the size of the car, its remarkable performances, the hybrid drive and 4 wheel drive transmission. The chassis is light, resistant and modular, comprising a carbon fibre cell for occupants and two aluminium modules, one at the front and one at the rear, which act as crumple cells, absorbing impact and supporting all the mechanical parts.
This engineering solution allows the same modules to be used for an entire family of derived vehicles. The central cell can be built with materials and dimensions that will allow it to adapt to the various requirements of cost, manufacturing volumes and furnishings of the cabin of a future derived vehicle. The front and rear structural modules will also adapt effectively to different wheelbases and tracks. Where the energy management system is concerned, the objective is to minimise consumption and polluting emissions into the atmosphere, keeping turbine operating times to a minimum. This is triggered automatically when the battery charge falls below 20% of maximum capacity.


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The cream, the bone, the off-white, the white, the ivory or the beige?
The 12th Man's parody of Richie Benaud's blazer options is no joke for home decorators picking a shade of white paint. Pavlova, bombe Alaska, clotted cream, cumulus, Mont Blanc or cottontail? With minds racing between desserts, natural formations and underwear, they must choose from thousands of options on the market.
''People just think white is white and it's not at all,'' says Stephanie Souvlis, who is updating her home's colour scheme.
''It could have a little bit of green in it or blue in it … or a touch of pink that makes each white colour look slightly different.''
Faced with so many options, she turned to a colour consultant for help.
There is a science to choosing the right white, but it is complicated by the fact that people are suggestible when it comes to shades. The American colour guru Donald Kaufman uses numbers instead of names to negate those preconceptions. ''Mint sounds like the colour of a hospital, but call it 'faded eucalyptus' and people love it,'' he told the Elle Decor website.
Everybody sees colour slightly differently, and the human eye is capable of perceiving incredibly subtle variations. Lighting, surfaces and floor coverings all affect the appearance of the white. The same white might look pink against blackbutt floorboards and yellow against a carpet.
''We tend to find more faults in white than you would in bright, dramatic colours as we see more subtleties in white,'' Damien Salomons, a technical adviser for Porter's Paints, says. He recommends that people test several different shades of white against a purely stark white background.
Lighting is key. ''Essentially, if you've got a room which has low natural light … the warmer the white, the more inviting that room will be,'' he says. ''Whereas if you have a sunny room, which gets a lot of western light, you might want to try and cool that down so it seems almost like a refrigerator.''
A colour consultant, Renee Henzell, has fielded many distress calls from people floundering in 50 shades of white. Her business, Roar Canvas, scopes buildings for the lay of the light. One client, a bridal retailer, had covered her wall in a patchwork of white swabs to test what background would work well with every dress.
''She had gone through a lot of whites and … got herself terribly confused,'' Henzell says. ''We were trying not to compete with the creams and whites of the wedding dresses but still make it look crisp and clean.''
Henzell often prescribes different whites within the same room in order to make the colour look even across different surfaces. The same white will look darker on gyprock than it will on a rendered surface, for example. She always uses a stark, flat white on the ceiling, to make it look higher and mask any imperfections.
The best-selling Dulux whites are ''antique white USA'', ''whisper white'' and ''hog bristle''. Paint companies simplify matters for consumers by narrowing their ''white'' colour palettes to a mere 50 or so, even though many colours that could be described as white appear elsewhere in their spectrums. But as far as colour options go, the only way is up, with paint companies continually adding to their colour collections in an effort to keep pace with fashion.
Henzell says the latest trend is for mostly white houses with feature walls. This is a departure from the late 1990s and early 2000s, when everything was white, and a welcome one, in her book, from the 1980s, when salmon was ubiquitous.
''If I could, I would paint out Sydney of salmon,'' she says.
''I can't stand it, it's the most disgusting colour and I'm happy to say I've got rid of a lot of it.''


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13th Australian Masters Games Adelaide 7-16 October 2011
13th Australian Masters Games (AMG) - Adelaide, South Australia from 7-16 October 2011. AMG is Australia's largest regular multisport event held every two years. The first was staged in Tasmania in 1987. The event attracts 10,000 participants including 1,000 international participants competing in over 45 sports. This is the 5th time the AMG is hosted in Adelaide. It's crucial to provide participants with new, fresh stimulus to make sure this Games is the best they have ever been to. The Confederation of Australian Sport (CAS) is owner of the Australian Masters Games. The management rights to the event have been assigned to Australian University Sport (AUS). Australian University Sport (AUS) is the peak, non-profit, governing body of university sport in Australia. We currently have 41 member institutions, which represent more than 1,000,000 higher education students nationally.
The AMG provide the opportunity for participation and competition for people over the age of 30 regardless of background or ability with the aim of encouraging lifelong participation in sport. Last time Adelaide hosted AMG it attracted just over 9,500 participants, 44% female 56% male, Average age 46, Largest participant age group was 40-49 years. While the competition is important, one of the key attractions of the Games is the social interaction and spirit of camaraderie experienced by participants.
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2. Potential participants who are aware of the Games, but have never participated. This is an important market for new participants. They already participate in the sport but they may have a perception that you need to be 'old' to compete in an AMG. We want our logo and imagery to help dispel this perception.
3. Potential participants who are unaware of the Australian Masters Games. These people compete in sports regularly (eg triathlon and cycling) either socially or in corporate sports. AMG is a big event that can offer them good competition but the event currently isn't 'on their radar'. We want to change that this year.
4. International participants - The majority of international participants come from New Zealand with the second highest number coming from Guam followed by India and Sri Lanka.
Goal: Design a fresh, new, vibrant logo for the 13th Australian Masters Games that conveys a sense of health, vitality, and youthfulness.
Celebration – The social program is as just as important as the sport program. Our logo and imagery should reflect a sense of joy, fun and celebration.
Youthful – We want to dispel the perception that you have to be old to be a Masters athlete. Masters are active, healthy, young and young at heart.
Movement – The logo should contain graphic elements that depict movement and activity. No hands in the air. This has been done to death.
Tagline: Previous Tagline - Serious Sport Serious Fun. We want a new tagline. One idea so far - 'Get in the Game!' This may be incorporated into the logo design or could be kept separate. We want the tagline to convey action.
Colour Scheme: The last AMG used Blue so avoid blue this time around. The 2005 log used blue green and red. We want a complete colour change to make sure this year's logo is completely different.
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The only French and Indian War fort erected on its original site, based upon archaeology and historic maps.
As the English and French fought against one another for control of the North American continent, they enlisted Native American allies to help in their attacks. The Moravians were not immune to the fighting, and as stories of families attacked by Native Americans reached Bethabara, the Brethren decided to build a palisade around the village houses, "making them safe before the first incursion of the Indians should take place."
A stockade was erected in 1756 to protect inhabitants and non-Moravians who came for shelter from attack by Native Americans throughout the French & Indian War. Built with the unskilled labor of the Moravians and their neighbors, the original palisade fort was constructed in 18 days. The pales were crooked oak, pine and cedar logs of various sizes, available from timber felled on the hillside above the town that had been cleared for defense against attack. The fort had no bastions, a detail that reflected the Brethren's lack of military skill and the speed with which the stockade was constructed. Created in haste in response to reports of local attacks, the Moravians had only enough time to create a rough wall that would separate the settlers from hostile Shawnees. The initial construction indicates that its purpose was to stop the rush of a foe that preferred close combat with a tomahawk rather than musket balls.
The fort was strengthened in 1758 as the Cherokee War heated up and a multitude of non-Moravians began fleeing to Bethabara for protection. It was reinforced yet again in 1760 as the war intensified. It is essentially this last 1760 configuration that is represented in the reconstructed fort today. The palisade fort lasted 8 years. In 1763 peace was confirmed and the fort was taken down.
The fort is the only French & Indian War fort in the southeast reconstructed on its original site. South Carolina State Archeologist Stanley South, the pre-eminent expert on historic archeology of early fortifications, researched, excavated and reconstructed the Bethabara palisade fort in the 1960s and recovered the remains of the first fort during his archeological excavations. The reconstruction of the fort followed the pattern of the palisades discovered during his excavations.
In 2012 the Historic Bethabara Park Inc. Trustees, concerned about degenerating fort posts and fallen palisades, elected to replace the Palisade Fort. Deterioration at the base had caused individual palisades to fall, raising safety issues. Reconstruction took place between November 2012 and January 2013. Wilson-Covington Construction Co. replaced the 2200 fort posts and re-graded the area surrounding the palisades to allow for water run-off to insure long term preservation. The top of each post was individually sharpened and posts were hand worked with a draw knife to create a hand hewn appearance.
This significant reconstruction project was recognized with two prestigious awards: the Preservation North Carolina 2013 Minnette C. Duffy Landscape Preservation Award and Preserve Historic Forsyth's 2013 Cultural Landscape Award.
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Credit: By Andy Baber | Wiltshire Tiems | 30th April 2014 | www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk ~~
Protesters turned out in force to show their opposition to a proposed single wind turbine at Thoulstone Farm in Chapmanslade, at a consultation event held by developers on Monday.
The wind turbine, which was put on display at a drop-in information event at St Phillip and St James' Church, is being proposed by Seren Energy and will be 87 metres high with blades 53 metres in diameter.
Seren Energy says the scheme is being developed with the Welch family at Thoulstone Farm, with the family owning 80 per cent of the scheme and Seren Energy owning 20 per cent.
However, a group of residents have set up a group to oppose the turbine, which they believe will blight the views of, and from, Cley Hill, as well as causing noise disruption and danger to wildlife.
Tim Page, spokesperson for the Stop Thoulstone Farm Wind Turbine group, said: "The noise is a big problem. They are also not useful in terms of energy production and are not very CO2 friendly. We are not against renewable energy, but it needs to be in the right place.
"Cley Hill is an iconic setting and this wind turbine would spoil the views. Also if this was to go ahead there would be nothing stopping them from putting more up."
Mr Page added that the opposition group has more than 200 registered supporters, including residents in the nearby parishes of Upton Scudamore and Corsley.
Chapmanslade resident Mary Medhurst said: "I haven't come across anyone who is for this proposal."
The wind turbine proposal could be the first to benefit since the planning inspector ordered Wiltshire Council to remove a planned minimum separation distance between housing and wind developments in its core strategy.
Director of Seren Energy Steve Hack said: "We were pleased with the turnout as our aim was to get lots of people to come along and find out more about the proposal, and that's what happened.
"Lots of people were clear that they didn't like it and if anything I'd say they were in the majority, but people who are clearly for something like this are less likely to come along to an event like this."
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Amra was a science fiction and fantasy fanzine devoted to the "Swords and Sorcery" genre published by George Scithers (1929-2010).
Amra was published in Chicago, illinois, U.S.A, in the 1960's and 1970's. The term "Swords and Sorcery" first appeared in the pages of the zine, leading to the name for the genre exemplified by writers such as Robert E. Howard.
Contributors of writing included Dan Adkins (Boonfark), Poul Anderson, Alicia Austin, Redd Boggs (The Lovecraftsman), Anthony Boucher, John Boardman, John Brunner, Ken Bulmer, L. Sprague de Camp, Catherine Crook de Camp, Ray Garcia Capella, Lin Carter (Spaceteer), John D. Clark, Richard H. Eney, Jane Gaskell, Harry Harrison, C.C. Hebron, Frank Herbert, D Hulan, Fritz Leiber, Richard Lupoff (Xero), Archie Mercer and Beryl Mercer (Link, Oz), P. Schyler Miller, Michael Moorcock, Bjorn Nyberg, Jerry Pournelle, E. Hoffman Price, P, Rasch, Robert Silverberg (Spaceship), Harry Warner, Jr. (Horizons), Ted White, and Roger Zelazny.
Covers were by George Barr, R. Barrett, Ray Garcia Capella, Jim Cawthorn, Alex Eisenstein, Larry Ivie, Jeff Jones, Tim Kirk, Roy G. Krenkel, BB Sams, Alex Nino, Dennis Smith, among others, with art work by George Barr, John Boardman, Lin Carter, Jim Cawthorn, Philip Foglio, Frank Frazetta, Robert Gilbert, Eddie Jones, Jeff Jones, Tim Kirk, Roy G. Krenkel, Gray Morrow, Jim Nielson, Ron Ross. Bernie Wrightson and Jean Young.
Amra won the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in the years 1964 and 1968.


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What is the problem?
KDE does not respect other window manager/DE settings.
Is there a way to safely run KDE alongside other window managers without having to reconfigure them every time after finishing my testing with KDE?
My user's main desktops are primarily xfce (4.6, 4.8, 4.10) and Unity.
- I frequently test multiple Window Managers(fluxbox, enlightenment, unity, gnome, etc). Only KDE causes me problems when returning to another WM once I am done testing some KDE functionality.
What I have done to fix this?
When returning to a WM other than KDE, I find that I have to delete config(specifically *gtk files) files in order to return my other WM's to their default settings.
What answer am I looking for?
- Are there any file permissions that I can set to prevent KDE from breaking my other WM settings?
- Is there a way to determine what files in my home directory that KDE touches and modifies? That might help my narrow down my issue.
- I am amenable to building a login script to correct anything that KDE has broken. For three users, this would be acceptable. This doesn't scale to 50 users.
What can I do to safely test KDE and return to my default window manager without having to continually restore my configuration?
Why is this important?
Here is a use-case that is causing me problems:
I have a user(think C-level exec) that likes to change back and forth between KDE and xfce(among other WMs). How can I configure their profile so they do not get KDE window decorations when they decide to move back to xfce?
As it stands, I have been unable to prevent an xfce session from being totally mangled after a user logged into a KDE session.


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Stepon necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 57 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
JoyRide Foundation
Hi - we're a new non profit organization that gives new bikes to Least Fortunate Children -
We're launching a program over the holidays to raise money and bikes for kids. The site is going to be launched at joyridefoundation.org and also on facebook
We're targeting adults who care about the well-being of children
There's a fine line here.
the logo should communicate youth - and bikes.....potentially a playful font.
but it's a foundations so there should be an amount of sternness to the logo.
I can't stress enough that it has to convey kids bikes in the logo - if it's standing alone you should be able to know it's something about bikes.
make sense?
The logo will have to appear on white - so a black knockout will be required....as well as a colored version.
Please see the attached files for some cool examples I found and a drawn one.
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Winnebago County Sheriff's Police
News Media Release
News Release Number
Information: SEARCH WARRANT/ GANG ARREST
Date: 10-31-2013
Time: 8:30a.m.
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On Thursday October 31, 2013 at approximately 8:30 a.m. Detectives of the Winnebago County Sheriff's Police the Rockford Police Department and Loves Park Police Department (members of the Winnebago County Violent Crimes Task Force) executed a search warrant at 2904 Conklin Drive Apt.16,(Rockford) for narcotics and weapons.
The target of the search warrant was Charles Brown Jr. (DOB 5-13-88/25yrs old) AKA "Tweet", a known WACO street gang member (a criminal organization).
During the execution of the warrant Brown was located in the apartment. A quantity of a substance believed to be heroin, a loaded semi-automatic pistol and ammunition was recovered.
Brown has been charged with the following:
-Violation of the Illinois Controlled Substance Act (possession of over 15grams of heroin with intent to deliver)
-Unlawful Use of weapons by a felon
- Parole Violation.
The charges against Brown are merely accusations. He is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. He is lodged in the Winnebago County Jail.
The Winnebago County Violent Crimes Task Force is a multi agency investigative unit formed to target the most violent offenders. It includes members of the Winnebago County Sheriff's Police, the Rockford Police Department, the Loves Park Police Department the Illinois State Police and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives. The unit works closely with the FBI and DEA.


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Sports figures who ran for election Tuesday:
Jim Renacci, Arena Football League owner, Ohio, R, U.S. House.
Jon Runyan, NFL, New Jersey, D, U.S. House.
Fred Smith, Harlem Globetrotter, Arkansas, Green, Legislature.
Clint Didier, NFL, Washington State, R, public lands commissioner.
Al Lawson, college basketball, Florida, D, U.S. House.
Linda McMahon, pro wrestling, Connecticut, R, U.S. Senate.
Danny Tarkanian, college basketball, Nevada, R, U.S. House.
Sports figures with family ties:
Tom Rooney, NFL, Florida, R, U.S. House.
George Allen, NFL, Virginia, R, U.S. Senate.
Ben Chandler, baseball, Kentucky, D, U.S. House.
Connie Mack IV, baseball, Florida, R, U.S. Senate.
Jimmy Farris, NFL, Idaho, D, U.S. House.
Phil Hansen, NFL, Minnesota, R, Legislature.
Jim Tedisco, college basketball, New York, R, Legislature.


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GPS Sight
From Openmoko
The GPS preview is a GTK based project to create a usable GUI tool with the simple output (no maps). It is build and tested around the gllin driver but should work with any other driver via pipe at /tmp/nmeaNP. It detects GPRMC and GPGGA messages and constantly shows on the screen the following data:
- Location.
- Speed in kilometers per hour (converts from knots).
- Altitude
- Curved distance from the initially marked point (uses advanced IERC 2003 geodetic reference to convert degrees into kilometers).
- Number of the satellites.
- Time (UTM, not a local time).
The source code of this project is available in the project page (http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/gpv/), under LGPL.
The most interesting part of this project was to keep the external driver thread and GUI thread sufficiently happy together. We cannot just read from the pipe in a loop as this blocks the GUI repainting! Instead, the code schedules the GTK timer, and then it needs to check if any input from the pipe is available - again, without blocking the current thread for too long. This is done using select function.
The GPS Preview program (gpv) is released either in .ipk file or in the form of the source code. The released installer still needs the gllin to run.


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Our goal is to provide an interactive resource tool, a "living textbook," that can enhance lessons by offering students and teachers fresh resources every day.
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All items > Knives > Italian Knives > Bolster Lock
- Overall Length:11.00"
- Blade Length:5.00"
- Cutting Edge:4.50"
- Blade Thickness:0.12"
- Blade Material:Stainless Steel
- Blade Style:Kriss
- Blade Grind:Flat
- Finish:Polish
- Edge Type:Plain
- Handle Length:6.00"
- Handle Thickness:0.71"
- Handle Material:Acrylic
- Color:Gray
- Bolster Material:Nickel Silver
- Frame/Liner:Brass
- Weight:4.34 oz.
- Knife Type:Automatic
- Opener:Push Button
- Lock Type:Bolster Lock
- Brand:SKM
- Model:11" Stiletto
- Country of Origin:Italy
- Best Use:Collection
- Product Type:Knife
This 11" Italian Stiletto from SKM Italy offers classic stiletto style with a gray pearlex handle and a kriss style blade. SKM worked with famed knife-maker Armando Beltrame to bring you traditional stiletto designs at an affordable price. This 11" model has a pearlex handle with stainless steel bolsters. Brass pins and liners add a classic finishing touch to the piece. The kriss style blade has a plain edge and a satin finish. Experience the affordable Italian quality of these authentic stilettos from SKM Italy.
Italian Stilettos are handmade using traditional knife-making techniques. As a result they will have a more rustic fit and finish than most production knives. These traditional Italian knives are intended more for collection and display, rather than hard EDC use.


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Block Windows
A safe efficient optionBy James Dulley
Glass- and plastic-block windows have few air leaks, protect against storm damage and provide security against break-ins.
As people become more concerned about home security, they are replacing more of their old, inefficient windows with glass- and plastic-block windows. This is particularly true for first-floor and basement windows where a would-be thief can hide and take time to quietly pry open or break a standard window.
Protection from severe weather is now also becoming a more widespread concern. Some standard pane-glass windows can withstand the force of the wind during a violent storm, but damage from flying debris often does much of the damage. Hurricane-resistant block windows can prevent this damage.
It is possible for an intruder to break through a glass-block window, but it would be very difficult, take quite a bit of time, and create a lot of noise.
Plastic-block windows are also available and look identical to true glass blocks. Most are molded from acrylic plastic, which is fairly impact-resistant, much more than standard double-pane glass windows, and it does not yellow over time.
Glass- and plastic-block windows can be energy efficient for several reasons. There is a sealed insulating air gap inside of each block. This works to be particularly efficient in glass blocks because the two halves are fused together under heat. When the glass blocks and the air inside the sealed gap cool, a slight insulating vacuum is created inside the block.
Just as most replacement windows now use low-E (low-emissivity) coating on the glass, so do glass and plastic blocks. Some Hy-Lite acrylic plastic blocks have an efficient low-emissivity coating on a third pane inside the block, providing an R-3 insulating value. This can be combined with a tinted block for summer heat rejection of SHGC (solar heat gain coefficient) = 0.27, plus winter heat savings.
Another plus: block windows are very airtight and remain so. There is very little, if any, air infiltration when the blocks are assembled properly in mortar or clear silicone. (When installing a completed block panel, make sure to caulk well around the frame perimeter.)
If you want the option of natural ventilation, several of the blocks can be replaced with a small hopper window. The opening panel is made from tough polycarbonate plastic. It is too small to get through even if someone could break it. A hopper-style window closes on compression-type weatherstripping, so it is very airtight.
Opening casement-style block window panels with privacy style blocks are often used in bathrooms and basements. Always check your local building codes about egress (escape) requirements for rooms in your house. If there is a fire or a roof collapses during a tornado or hurricane, you need to have a window that will open wide enough to crawl through. Many casement style block replacement windows should meet these requirements.
There is quite a learning curve to install individual blocks yourself, so if you are inexperienced, select preassembled panels. These large complete panels are installed similarly to any replacement window. Some of the strongest glass block panels, which meet IBC (International Building Code) and Dade County, Fla., hurricane impact tests, are framed by 2-by-6 pressure-treated lumber.
Glass-block panels, such as from Pittsburgh Corning, are available in 60 sizes and three block patterns. Plastic blocks, such as from Hy-Lite, can be custom-sized to fit your existing window opening.


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Working with Erlang for writing RESTful interfaces JSON is the communication "language" of choice. For simplifying the process of JSON to a model the backend could work with efficiently I've created maru_models. This app decodes the JSON with jiffy and uses functions generated by a modified version of Ulf's exprecs to create an Erlang record. The generated functions are created with type information from the record definition and when a property is set for the record through these functions it is first passed to the convert function of maru_model_types to do any necessary processing.
I separated this application into a separate repo to simplify people trying the examples. But the real development will be done in the Maru main repo.


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"First of all, let me introduce myself. What you see sittin' before you is not a figment of your imagination. I'm comin' to you live and in beautiful living colour, causing excitement all across the nation. Now for some folks, I don't need any introduction. But for those of you who don't know, they call me Brickhouse Brown -- master of seduction."
Along with being the self-proclaimed master of seduction, Brickhouse Brown could be considered the master of shoot interviews, as he knocks down the walls sharing tell-all stories�of drugs and orgies in a new DVD from Highspots' shoot interview series.
Brickhouse Brown is one of a kind, to say the least. From his rocky start in the Southwest to his short stay in the Mid-Atlantic, then to his volatile time with Bill Watts in the Mid-South, Brown leaves no stone left unturned in this highly entertaining, profanity-filled double-disc set.
Articulate, insightful and real, Brown discusses his childhood watching Championship Wrestling from Florida on Saturday nights, and being a big fan of Terry Funk. When asked how he got into the wrestling business, Brown isn't joking when he says, "Nobody in pro wrestling has gotten into pro wrestling the way I did. It had never been done (like that) before, and hasn't ever been done since." The story that unfolds is hysterical as Brown delivers the goods on his ill-fated first match, and the hard lessons learned.
Throughout the shoot, there's a running theme of ethnicity as Brown sheds light on some the challenges he faced being a black wrestler in the '80s, working multiple territories from Florida to Memphis. At some points in his career he was the only black wrestler on a roster, while in other territories the opposite was true. "(In Memphis), I showed up and there were 12 black guys and I'm thinkin' what the f*** am I gonna do here? It looks like they're making a Tarzan movie. Guys like Pork Chop Cash, Bad Leroy Brown and Ray Candy -- they were all there, and havin' 12 black guys in one territory was unheard of."
Before arriving in Tennessee, Brown pitched the idea of a tag team to Jerry Lawler called the PYT (Pretty Young Things) Express, where both wrestlers would dress like Michael Jackson. But when Brown got there, the gimmick had already been given to two other black wrestlers. "I walked into Tennessee and what do I see, Koko B. Ware in a red jacket and glitter glove." It was from this point on in the interview, Brown shares one entertaining story after another he had working for Lawler.
A true journeyman, Brown worked anywhere and everywhere wrestling as both a face and heel, in tag teams like Soul Patrol, and The Breakers (inspired by the break dancing craze of the early '80s), and singles competition working with Dusty Rhodes and Kevin Sullivan in Florida.
Brown tells the story of the Junkyard Dog getting a briefcase full of money from Vince McMahon, guaranteed if he walks out on Bill Watts in Mid-South with no notice. In another candid tale, Brown shares his tumultuous relationship with Ernie Ladd, who once told him, "You've got to be the most boring, lifeless, colourless black man I ever seen in my life -- you ain't got no motherf*****' rhythm." With a degree in communication, Brown was told by Ladd he should give up wrestling because, "You ain't gonna make it."
But Brown persevered, and later came to respect Ladd who befriended him, and "became like a father figure." Brown tells the story of how Ladd once beat up both Jack and Jerry Brisco in a parking lot with a crowbar, then drove them to the hospital and dumped them at the entrance.
Along with Ladd, Brown shares stories of working for Watts, and the respect he had for "the real shoot promoter" who was tough but fair. "It didn't matter if you were white, black or blue, Watts would spit in your face like big papa bear -- and I loved it." In another funny tale, Brown talks about being fired from the Mid-South and heading to the Mid-Atlantic to wrestle for Ole Anderson. After wrestling his first match on television for Mid-Atlantic and losing to Kareem Muhammad (Ray Candy), Brown recounts the hilarious story of an irate Watts calling him up to tell him to get back to the Mid-South. "You stupid mother f*****!" Brown recalls Watts screaming through the phone. "Tell Ole to give you your money and to 'suck my d***!'"
From there, Brown takes us back to Tennessee working for Lawler, and the time he was interviewed by the local news station about Lawler's troubles with the law. "Jerry got into trouble dealin' with young girls," says Brown. He then explicitly shares what he said on camera, and candidly spoke about being a father himself, and what he would do if anyone touched his daughters.
"I ain't sure why nobody ever whooped Jerry's ass," said Brown, then, in a strange segue he breaks into a promo, "I'm good when I got a partner, but I'm great when I go at it alone. I'm the baddest mambo jambo in the business, when it comes to spinnin' on the microphone." And Brickhouse Brown believes it, as he names only a few current WWE wrestlers who are on his level: "Ain't too many who can out talk me even today," boasts Brown. "The only man who could go tit for tat with me was Iceman Parsons, we were on an even keel, and we could call each other n******."
And it's from this point on, when the interviewer asks Brown to dish out some dirt that the�interview really picks up with graphic stories of sex and drugs, starting with Miss Jackie in the USWA. "You must know how to boost sales on these motherf*****' DVDs," Brown says to the interviewer. "We try," the interviewer replies off camera as Brown sips on a Budweiser and lights up a cigarette.
From Matt Borne and Eric Embry to Buddy Landell and Barry Darsow, no one is left out as Brown spills the beans about another wrestler's alleged rape, wild sexual escapades, and his introduction to cocaine. And though his father was "a bona fide pimp," Brown credits Jimmy Valiant, Ric Flair, Gary Hart and referee Tommy Young for his introduction to smoking weed, on a long car ride through the Mid-Atlantic.
When on the topic of World Class Championship Wrestling in Texas, Brown�unleashes outlandish tales about everyone from the Von Erichs to the Missing Link and Gino Hernandez. "If I'm gonna tell shit about others, I have to tell it on myself," says Brown, who was a drug dealer to all the stars of World Class. It's in this riveting segment, Brown speaks of his biggest customers, some of which bought $400 worth of drugs a night. "Drugs were so prevalent," says Brown. "World Class had its own aura, when you watched it on TV, you could tell it was different to Memphis and other territories. I don't know if it was because we were all so f*****' high!"
Drugs, sex, and violence are recurring themes as Brown's monologue meanders from territory to territory, to a brief stint in the WWF, and over to Puerto Rico and Japan. "Bruiser Brody and Stan Hansen would beat your f*****' ass," said Brown, recalling wrestling them both around the globe. In one of the most explicit and graphic recollections of the murder of Bruiser Brody in a Puerto Rican locker room, Brown states Brody would be alive today had he not been a bully. "He would beat the f*** out of a guy in the ring, and that's what he did to the guy (who stabbed him to death). Brody could have been saved, but all the guys who watched him bleed to death in the shower -- guess what, he beat all their f*****' asses. That's what happens to bullies, and they let him die in that stinkin' shower in Puerto Rico."
From there, Brown shares insight on the racial discrimation lawsuit in WCW, and varying effects it had on all the black wrestlers from Ice Train to Booker T. "Tony Atlas was supposed to be the first black (World) champion in the WWF," says Brown, who tells a story of Atlas' behaviour that resulted in that championship reign never happening.
"Working on top, you have to be selfish," Brown states referring to fellow black wrestlers who have achieved great success and world championships. At a recent WWE house show, Brown walked backstage hoping to talk to those at the top and score a job. "Triple H after his match gave me 20 minutes of his time and said, �Man, Brickhouse, you look good," said Brown, who inquired about opportunities in the WWE. "(Triple H) said Vince didn't want to put no money into a guy what can't give him 10 years," says Brown, who was then advised to consider a referee position, making $80,000 a year. Brown then goes on to talk about his referee try-out with the WWE at a show in Nashville, and his frustrating dealings with Joe Laurenitis and others backstage.
As the interview winds down,�Brown once again revisits the topics of sex and drugs as he shares explicit stories of Sweet Brown Sugar, Downtown Bruno, and Jeff Jarrett. "I got Jeff Jarrett his first black piece of p**** -- I laid it out for him," Brown laughs. "And he's been sprung ever since."
In one last story, Brown tells a jaw-dropping tale of one wrestling personality renowned for "his ethnic jokes." Brown chuckles as he revisits the time he took things to the extreme and had everyone on their stomachs face down in the locker room: "So I pulled out my gun and said, �Alright, that's it goddammit. I'm tired of these f****** n***** jokes!"
But Brown claims he's only touched the surface, as another shoot DVD with Highspots is in the works, along with an autobiography that will have, "both an adult version and a kiddie version." He says he's got plenty more dirt to dish about some of the biggest names in the business.� "This," he promises at the end of the three-hour shoot interview, "(was) just a sample!"
Marshall Ward is a visual artist, independent filmmaker, and weekly columnist with the Waterloo Chronicle. Email is welcome at marshall_ward @hotmail.com.


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