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Tampere (Swedish: Tammerfors) [178] is the third largest city in Finland with around 213,000 inhabitants and a metro population of nearly half a million. Being located 170km north of the Finnish coastal capital Helsinki, it is also the biggest inland town in the whole Nordic region. Geographically, the city lies on a narrow isthmus between Lake Näsijärvi, which reaches far to the north, and Lake Pyhäjärvi in the south. In addition, there are 200 lakes and ponds in Tampere, and a total of 450 in the entire region. Despite being predominantly a former heavy industry centre, today Tampere is a major hub for information technology, research, education, culture, sports and business. In 2010, the City of Tampere came in first in an image survey comparing the largest cities in Finland. Leaving Helsinki behind, it was also found the most attractive city among Finns who plan on moving.
Tammerkoski rapids that now run in a canal through downtown Tampere connected the two major lakes with an elevation drop of 18 metres. As early as the 7th century people started to gather at the banks of the lakes, and in the 18th century the utilization of the rapids as a source of hydropower resulted in a population boom. Tampere was officially founded on the banks of Tammerkoski in 1775 by Gustav III of Sweden, and four years later, 1 October 1779, Tampere was granted full city rights. The newly founded city was soon after established as a proving ground of revolutionary economical theories by declaring a freedom of trade to the city dwellers. The status of free town enabled import and export of foreign goods without customs. In addition, it was ordered that the citizens were allowed to freely practice any Christian faith. Due to the uncommon liberties, Tampere grew as a major market town and industrial centre in the 19th century. During the latter half of 19th century almost half of Finland's industrial labour force was in Tampere. The town's industrial inclination in the 19th and 20th centuries gave it the nickname "Manchester of the North", "Manse" for short (in Finnish) that sticks to this day.
Tampere has been an industrial pioneer in Finland since the very beginning. Finland's first paper mill started operation in 1783, and the first paper machine was engaged at the J.C. Frenckell & Son's factory in 1842. The cotton factory established in 1820 by James Finlayson grew to become the country's first large-scale industrial establishment. The first electric light in the Nordic countries was also lit in Finlayson's modern production facilities in 1882. Finlayson grew aggressively and eventually became the large industrial complex in the Nordic countries. The city's engineering industry was bolstered by the manufacturer of grinding machines and water turbines Tampella, which was established on the upper reaches of the Tammerkoski rapids in 1861.
By the time of the Finnish declaration of independence in 1917, Tampere had already grown into a major industrial hub that was predominantly inhabited by factory workers. Because of the unusually large working class, Tampere was also the worker's union stronghold. The workers' living conditions were terrible which was increasingly generating social tension in the society. The First World War was initially profitable for industrial Tampere, but after the October Revolution in Russia, the vital eastern trade was severed. Now the Finnish society was deeply divided, and the socialists seized control of Tampere 1918. During the Finnish Civil War in 1918 Tampere became the Red (Social Democratic Party of Finland) stronghold. However, in April 1918 the eventually victorious White forces led by C. G. E. Mannerheim captured the town after the Battle of Tampere. It was the largest battle in Nordic war history. Whites seized 11,000 prisoners, summarily executing actual and suspected leaders and locking the remaining prisoners into camps. The decisive victory quickly led to the end one of the bloodiest civil wars in Europe.
After the war, both the city and the national consensus were rebuilt, and Tampere grew rapidly. In 1927 the first of the factories stopped industrial operations, and city offices later moved into the empty buildings. Even though the structural changes were already on their way, by the time of the Second World War, Tampere was centre of the Finnish war industry. In addition to uniforms made in textile mills, Tampella factories were manufacturing mortars and artillery. Tampere was bombarded during 1939-40 by the Soviet air force, but the damages were not extensive. After 1960 most factories started to grind to a halt, but the buildings were kept. Nowadays the cityscape of Tampere is characterized by charming old red-brick industrial buildings, most of them reinstated as offices, restaurants, and places of culture. Modern Tampere has come a long way from its heavy industry roots, and transformed into a hi-tech research and development powerhouse.
Get in
By plane
Tampere is serviced by Tampere-Pirkkala airport[179] (IATA: TMP) (ICAO: EFTP) , which lies 17 km from the city. Finnair has several connections to Tallinn and Helsinki every day. During winter season there are also flights up north to Kittilä and Kuusamo. Blue1 has direct flights to Stockholm and Copenhagen. More importantly for the budget traveller, Tampere is Ryanair's Finland hub, with service to Kaunas, Oslo, Edinburgh, Bremen, Frankfurt/Hahn, London, Milan, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Rome, Trapani, Alicante, Budapest and Malaga. Ryanair uses Terminal 2, while all other airlines use Terminal 1.
TKL Bus Line 1[180] can get you to both the main city square, Kestustori, and the railway station (€2,60). Ryanair has its own bus service [181] (€6) to Terminal 2. Both take around 40 minutes. In addition to regular taxi service (€25-40, 20 min), there is also a shared airport taxi service (€17 one-way between Tampere and airport) [182]. The direct bus service betweeen the airport and Helsinki has stopped running, but it is possible to change in Tampere long-distance coach station (linja-autoasema) between airport bus 61 and long-distance coaches to Helsinki and elsewhere.
Low-cost Onnibus [183] expressbus service to Helsinki and Turku leave from Pirkkala ABC gas station, located about 4 km north from the airport, in the intersection of road 308 (Lentoasemantie) and road 3/E12 (Pyhäjärventie).
By train
The national railroad company, VR [184], offers extensive train services from different parts of Finland to Tampere with connections south to Helsinki, south-west to Turku, west to Pori, and north to Jyväskylä and Lapland. The trip to/from Helsinki using the fastest Pendolino connection takes 90 minutes and costs €33.90, whereas a local train will take just over 2 hours and cost €22.50. On weekdays, there are hourly connections to Helsinki except few hours during the night. On weekends, there may be a gap of up to 2 hours between trains. For Finnish students (ISIC not accepted) and children (6-17 years) all train tickets are half price.
From Helsinki-Vantaa airport, where most visitors arrive in Finland, the best way to reach Tampere by train is to take a short bus or taxi ride to Tikkurila train station closest to the airport (instead of Helsinki main railway station), and board a northbound long-distance train there. The station ticket office is closed at night, but tickets can be purchased from machines (Finnish credit cards only) or onboard the train. Trip from Tikkurila to Tampere takes between 75 and 110 minutes depending on the train.
Tampere main train station is located downtown, at the east end of the main street Hämeenkatu. Most hotels are well within walking distance of the station.
By coach
There is an almost hourly ExpressBus [185] coach connection from Helsinki-Vantaa airport to Tampere bus station operated by Paunu, departing from platform 13. The service operates round the clock, although there may be a gap of 1 to 2 hours between services in the small hours of the night. The trip takes between 2 h and 2 h 30 min depending on whether the service calls in towns on the way. In some cases, there is a change of coach close by at Keimolanportti service station, but it is well-coordinated and effortless. Tickets cost €27.00 (round trip €48.80) for adults, €13.50 for Finnish students (ISIC not accepted), senior citizens (65+) and children of age 12-16.
A budget coach service Onnibus recently started operating between Tampere and few Finnish cities, such as Helsinki, with bargain ticket prices as low as €3. The departure terminals vary between the destinations. Coaches from Helsinki, Turku and Jyväskylä arrive to Hervanta (take a local bus 13, 20, 23, 24 or 30 to get downtown). Be sure to book online as the tickets are more expensive when bought from the driver. [186]
By car
Tampere can be easily reached by car. The drive from Helsinki takes about 2 hours and there is a four-lane motorway throughout the journey (speed limit 120 km/h with small portions 100 km/h in the summer, or 100 km/h throughout in the winter). The motorway is new and in excellent condition, but is mainly not well lit. Care must be exercised when driving in the dark, particularly in winter as driving conditions can be harsh due to snow and slippery roads.
There are also road connections from Tampere to Turku, Pori, Rauma, Seinäjoki/Vaasa, Jyväskylä and Lahti. These are mostly two-lane regular roads with speed limits between 80 km/h and 100 km/h.
By boat
In the summertime there's route traffic coming in from both Lake Näsijärvi and Lake Pyhäjärvi. Boats use the slow but beautiful water routes made of strings of lakes.
When coming to Tampere from the north one can hop on on the Poet's way historical steamship from small towns of Virrat and Ruovesi north of Tampere and arrive in Mustalahti harbour. [187]
When coming from the south the Silverline can be easily taken to Laukontori harbour from Hämeenlinna and Lempäälä where the boat stops are some half a kilometer from to the railway stations on the Helsinki-Tampere line. [188]
Get around
Downtown area of Tampere has a couple of prominent features which make it easy to navigate in:
You can get a great overview of the city beforehand from the aerial photos shot in 2011 at Virtual Tampere [189].
There are only few neighborhoods in Tampere which can be considered interesting to most visitors, namely Downtown, Pyynikki, Pispala. While downtown area is certainly where tourists often hang out in Tampere, it's worth the effort to spend a few hours hiking around the ridge in Pyynikki and Pispala district which lie just 2-3km west of downtown. Hervanta and Nekala districts are more off beaten path.
On foot and bike
Walking is the preferred way to get around downtown Tampere. From the main railway station, the central square is just a couple of hundred meters straight down the main street. Biking is more difficult since there are only few cycling lanes downtown. Unfortunately, also in Pispala and Pyynikki districts neighboring downtown, moving around by bike can be difficult not only due to the lack of bike lanes but also because of the elevation differences and abundant flights of stairs in many alleyways.
By car
Driving in the city and everywhere in the region is safe and straightforward, but one should keep in mind that there are many one-way streets in downtown. Roads are in excellent condition, but they will be icy during winter time, and can be very slippery also on those chilly spring and autumn nights. Always drive extremely carefully if you do not have experience in driving in harsh conditions. If you choose to drive outside Tampere, heed moose warning signs, especially at dawn and dusk. The legal driving age is 18 and the maximum blood alcohol level while driving in Finland is below 0.5 ppm. There are no open bottle laws, but the police are allowed to measure the alcohol level of the driver on spot even if they do not suspect driving under influence.
Many international and local car rental agencies have offices in Tampere:
While street side parking is limited, there is ample parking in indoor car parks downtown:
By bus
An extensive city bus network connects the suburbs to downtown. Due to the unique geography of Tampere, most of the bus lines run in east-west direction and pass through the main street Hämeenkatu. All buses stop at or near the central square, and the City of Tampere operates a handy trip planner service [190].
When you want to stop a bus, give a clear signal to the driver by holding your hand up: if you are just standing still, the bus will probably just pass the stop. Keep in mind that you can only enter the bus from the front door, unless you are traveling with an infant in a pushcar (and then you must use the middle doors). Single tickets for adults (12 years and above) cost €2.60 and children cost €1, and allowed unlimited transfers within 60 minutes. Every paying adult can be accompanied for free by one child under the age of 7. Adults with a baby in a pushchair can travel for free. Between midnight and 4/5AM, night buses charge €3.40 extra (except if you have a valid Tourist Ticket). Tickets can only be purchased in cash from the driver on board.
You may also choose to purchase a Tampere Tourist Card [191] for unlimited travel by bus within the city limits (€6 for the first day, additional days cost €4 for adults; youth and children are €4/€3 and €3/€2 respectively). Purchase the smartcard at the railway or bus station, central square kiosk or city transportation [192] office at Frenckellinaukio 2 B, on the northeastern side of the central square.
The tickets are also valid on most regional bus lines (lines 45-95 and even on some non-numbered routes; though not on line 54) within city limits. You'll recognize a city tariff zone bus from the "hailing driver" logo near the right corner of the front of the bus. If you're traveling outside the city limits, for instance to the town of Kangasala, you have to pay according to the distance of your trip, so just tell the driver where you're going and how many tickets you want.
By taxi
As elsewhere in Finland, taxis in Tampere[193] are clean, safe, reliable and expensive. The drivers are extremely competent and will know their way around. If you happen to know the address of your destination, you may consider writing it down and showing it to the driver to avoid misunderstandings. The cost of the trip depends on the number of passengers and time of day (day/night). For example, 1-2 persons traveling in daytime a 5-kilometre trip costs about €10 and a 10 km trip about €16. You can try to hail a passing cab if its roof light is on, but the most common way is to find the nearest taxi stand and get a cab from there. There is a stand in front of the train station and in central square, among other locations. You may also call the taxi station (the number is 10041 from landline, or 01004131 from a mobile phone) and ask for a taxi to your current location. Taxis accept cash and major credit cards. There are no taxi companies, the national taxi service is the only legal service provider.
Museums and galleries
Most of Tampere's museums concentrate on its industrial history. Kids will get a kick out of the Moomin Valley and the Spy Museum.
Parks and gardens
Sightseeing on a city bus
City buses offer a cheap and convenient way to get to know off beaten path locations. All the bus lines depart from the central square. Few interesting lines worth traveling include:
2 Pyynikintori square - Tammela - Rauhaniemi: A midtown line which takes you to Tammelantori market place, Lapinniemi spa (and Naistenlahti marina) as well as to Rauhaniemi beach / public sauna[194]. Departures every 15-20 min.
3 Lahdesjärvi - Central Square: A midtown line which takes you to idyllic Petsamo garden suburb, with deep woods in Kauppi (great for hiking, stargazing and other outdoor activities!) and allotments nearby. Departures every 30 min.
10 Pispalanharju - Järvensivu: A relatively short (ca. 25 min) line from the must-see Pispalanharju ridge and Pispala workers' district through nearly-untouched Pyynikki ridge with the observation tower. Then it descends through the upper-class Pyynikki with luxurous villas and palaces (and an art museum Villa Mac) and arrives to Laukontori market square / harbour, also a must-see destination. Eastbound from the Central Square, it continues under the railway station and by the university to Järvensivu, a "light edition" of Pispala. Departures every 30 min.
20 Särkänniemi amusement park - Railway stn. - Hermia – Hikivuori: Westbound, takes you from the railway station, drives through the main street, then turns right to the picturesque Hämeenpuisto avenue and finally stops at the gates of Särkänniemi amusement park. Eastbound, it's a rather boring commuter line to Hermia technopolis (if you really want to see where Nokia used to develop their mobile devices). Also a line for architecture enthusiasts. It goes by every (post)modern buildings of Tampere designed by the famous architect couple Reima and Raili Pietilä. When the bus leaves Pyynikki square, the next stop is at Metso, the city library resembling a capercaillie above[195]. Then at the end of Itsenäisyydenkatu street (which begins from the railway station tunnel) is a very prominent Kaleva church, also known as the "silo of the souls". From Kaleva the line continues along a boring highway to Hervanta. In Hervanta the whole central axis is planned by Pietiläs, namely from the old part of Duo mall and the public buildings surrounding the "bazar" and "piazza" west from the mall. Departures every 20 min.
21 Tesoma – Lielahti - Hatanpää - Turtola: A devious and long line. Southbound from Central Square: the line continues southbound to Hatanpää Arboretum (must-see during the mid/late summer), and then all the way through some boring suburbs to Turtola hypermarket area. There's however a nice pasture with cows, owned by Ahlman farming school along Veisunkatu road, just between the apartment blocks. You can buy raw milk (bring your own can!) and other locally produced foods from Ahlman. Westbound from Central Square: see the ugliness of suburban Finland. Line goes through Paasikiventie strandway, Lielahti shopping district (big-box stores, a few bigger malls etc.) and dormitory Ikuri suburb before arriving to another mediocre shopping hell of Tesoma, where the line terminates. Departures every 30 min.
25 Tahmela – Central Square – Sammonkatu – Janka Western terminus near to line 10 Pispalanharju terminus, but dozens of meters below. It curves through picturesque lower Pispala, or more specifically Tahmela and continues along a narrow road made in the ridge wall, just like in Monaco. The line goes by Rosendahl hotel and the Pyynikki summer theatre and passes some nice villas and palaces like the line 10. You may use also this line to the Pyynikki Tower, but the walking distance is somewhat longer. Eastern terminus is in Janka suburb, the route there goes through a rather nice and livable Sammonkatu high street. At the end of that street is Prisma-Centre (Sarvijaakonkatu bus stop), which is a megalomaniac mall together with some big-box stores. Departures every 20/30 min.
61 Pyynikintori square - Airport (travelling to airport crosses the city border, so you need to buy a specific ticket onboard (4.60 €). Traveling within the city limits is possible with the Tourist Card). The line to use to and from the airport. Departures every "now and then", about once an hour[196]. Much cheaper than taking a cab (which can easily exceed 30€ to city center).
70 Nokia - Central Square - Kangasala (travelling to Nokia or Kangasala crosses the city border, so you need to buy a specific ticket onboard. Traveling within the city limits is possible with the Tourist Card). If you are eager to see a town called Nokia, use this line (or lines 71 and 79) westbound. There's nothing special or worth to see. The paper mills along Nokia river are the origin of the contemporary Nokia corporation, but the mobile phone firm has no longer any activities in Nokia town. Nokia manor is however still owned by the corporation. Eastbound to Kangasala, there's much more to see. The line passes the long Kaukajärvi lake, which has served as a world-championship paddling stadium. There's two well-equipped and popular swimming beaches along the line, particularly in the west end of the lake (Kaukajärvi swimming stadium) and in the east end (Liuttu beach a half kilometre from the bus stop). The lake offers also some great views to Kaukajärvi suburb, with "recumbent skyscraper" apartments on the opposite shore. They are of wow especially at night, when the windows are lit. The line then proceeds to Kangasala with some ordinary industrial and residential areas and then the bus arrives to Kangasala bus station. There's a small market place at the bus station, some local cafés and very nice hiking routes along the roads or the ridge. Further away there's some observation towers which offer great views. One of them has inspired the 19th century poet Z. Topelius, who wrote the poem A Summer's Day in Kangasala. Departures every 20-60 minutes.
90 Pyynikintori square - various termini in Teisko area. The bus routes to various parts of the vast rural areas incorporated in the city of Tampere, with city fares. The ultimate experience available with your Tourist Card. The common route for all the variations is the same as for the city line 28, from Pyynikintori square to Sorila. Recommended for adventurous backpackers or bored exchange students. If you want to see some oldest fossiles on Earth, the 2 billion years old "carbon bags" (hiilipussit), take the Aitoniemi-bound feeder bus 91 in Sorila. If you want to experience the hillbilly scene of Tampere, take the Kämmenniemi/Terälahti/Kaanaa-bound bus and leave at Kämmenniemi (the first proper village after Sorila). There's somewhat legendary Kessan baari, the local pub in a former gas station. Near Kämmenniemi there's also a winery called Teiskon Viini[197] with a wine kiosk (bus stop "Värmälä", road address Sääksniementie 76) Even further north is Terälahti, the northernmost village in Teisko area with any services. There's though only a small grocery store and a library with irregular opening times, so it's more for hikers than shoppers. The final terminus within city limits is in Kaanaa, and there's practically nothing there. Feeder line 92 in Sorila takes you to deep woods of Viitapohja and some nice rural views by the longest known inland fjord Paarlahti.
Most festivals are held during summer, but events are always organized somewhere throughout the year [198]. Some national holidays, such as May Day, are also celebrated like festivals, and others, such as Midsummer, may offer other special events.
Festivals in Tampere Region
Although Tampere is lacking some of the international high end boutiques and brand stores, there are still lots of shopping opportunities from small specialized shops to malls. As Finland is generally quite an expensive country, one would do best to concentrate on finding high quality Finnish products, such as textiles, clothes, glassware, design and home decor. Notably, practically all stores are closed on Sundays.
Grocery stores in Tampere (and in Finland) are usually quite easy to find. There are grocery departments in the bottom floors of all three department stores downtown (see below). In addition, look for e.g. K-market, S-market, Sale, Siwa, and Lidl for small to mid-size grocery stores. Supermarkets (Prisma, Citymarket) are large stores located outside the city centre, and you can buy a range of different products (e.g. food, clothes, electronics) there. For emergencies, small Siwa grocery store at Puutarhakatu 14 in downtown has the best hours: 06-24 every day. Alcohol, however, can only be sold from 09-21. Wine or strong liquor are only sold at Alko stores that are closed on Sundays and open (depending on a store) Mon-Thu 09-20 or 09-18, Fri 09-20, Sat 09-16 or 09-18. They are usually located next to larger grocery stores and the three department stores. There is one Alko store however, in Tammela Kullervonkatu 11, that is the only one in Tampere that is separate from a bigger grocery store.
Department stores
Tampere is (in)famous for its black sausage (mustamakkara), a sausage made of blood and barley. The most authentic way to sample it is from one of the stalls at the Tammelantori or Laukontori markets which will serve it with a dab of lingonberry jam and a carton of milk on the side. Order by price, not weight: "two euros" will get you a nice hefty chunk. Both markets close by 2PM and are closed Sundays too. If you can't make it to the stalls, go to the Market Hall, or as a last resort, to the food sections of any of the three department stores.
For inexpensive fast food, local fast food chains Hesburger (McDonald's with added mayo) and Kotipizza pizzeria (which are actually rather good - they win international pizza contests on regular basis) have restaurants everywhere. Ethnic pizza and kebab restaurants can be found throughout the city, and they are usually even cheaper than the fast food restaurants. Some restaurants stay open as late as 5am in weekends.
Many of the more pricey restaurants also have lunch specials under €10 during weekdays, most notably the lunch at Ravintola C is a steal at 10-12€. Lunch can also be bought in several places inside Kauppahalli market hall in Keskustori central square, and in University restaurants located on downtown campus.
Tea rooms
None at the moment.
Pubs and nightclubs
There's no shortage of nightlife in Tampere, and better yet, it's all concentrated to a very manageable area downtown. Virtually all the noteworthy establishment are located either on the main street Hämeenkatu or on the adjacent streets. Therefore, pub crawling is ridiculously easy and there is virtually no fear of getting lost even on the morning hours.
As anywhere in Finland, most pubs close at 02, but nightclubs stay open until 04, at least on weekends. People enter the clubs quite early by central European standards, and the queues are the longest around 11. Most clubs have an entrance fee of 3-10€ plus an added mandatory service fee of 2-3€. The legal drinking age in Finland is 18, but some places have even more strict limit at 20 or 22. Dresscode is rather informal even in the highest end clubs (one might even say that there are no high end clubs in Tampere), but locals still often try to dress to impress.
Bartenders in night clubs are usually not very knowledgeable and drinks are almost always poorly made, if available at all. This is probably because of the hardcore alcohol laws in Finland that ban all drinks with more than 4cl of strong alcohol. On the other hand, there might be a rather good selection of shooters at clubs and Finnish and foreign beers in pubs. While the standard big brewery Finnish lagers are rather bland, new and exciting microbrews are popping up every year. Be sure to give them a try somewhere along the way. Nearly every decent pub has some of them nowadays, but you won't find them in clubs. Also, a kind of Finnish drink speciality are ciders and long drinks (gin and grapefruit flavoured mild drink) which are flavoured with (sometimes exotic) artificial essences. The ciders do not bear a strong resemblance to their Continental European counterparts.
Finnish is the language spoken in Tampere. English is also widely spoken in Tampere, particularly by the younger people. Swedish, while not as universally spoken as in Helsinki, Turku or Vaasa, is still spoken to a considerable degree. Other European languages (mainly German, French, Spanish and Russian) may also be understood by hotel staff and people in tourist profession, and also by many students at the academic level.
The local regional dialect can be recognized by the strong trilling "r"s, as in the greeting Moro!, and the use of mää and sää instead of mä and sä for me and you. There is a stereotypical belief that the word nääs ("you see") is widely used in the area, but it's quite rare in reality.
There are two universities in Tampere; the University of Tampere [199], and Tampere University of Technology [200]. The former has about 15,000 students and the latter about 10,000 students. Tampere has also two universities of applied sciences, the TAMK [201] and PIRAMK [202], each of which has some 5,000 students.
City of Tampere runs the Adult Education Centre [203] that offers rather cheap courses for everyone.
Internet cafes are not very common in Finland, and Tampere makes no exception. If you have your own laptop or a smartphone, most cafes offer free wi-fi (or WLAN as it is commonly called in Finland). In the city center and some other locations around town, there is the Wireless Tampere network. [204]. The tourist office and main library as wll as the several side libraries also offer free Internet access. There is a free wifi all around the Shopping Mall Koskikeskus.
Stay safe
As Finland in general, Tampere is one of the safest cities on Earth. Though, on weekend nights, intoxicated people wandering around city streets may be an annoyance, especially during big summer festivals such as May Day's Eve, which is the most important beer-drinking festival in the Finnish calendar. Warm summer nights always gather a drunken crowd downtown. Intoxicated Finns tend to be rather noisy (in stark contrast to sober Finns) and admittedly sometimes picking a fight with just about anyone. Just use your common sense, and steer clear of overly loud groups of young men. As Tampere is not a big tourist destination, pickpockets and common hustlers are rare.
The extreme cold in the winter should be borne in mind by visitors, especially those planning outdoor activities. Whilst in summer the temperature rises occasionally to 30ºC, in the winter months it can drop to around -30ºC for a week or two. Dressing up accordingly is a must. Also, watch out for slippery sidewalks in winter. Thousands of people fall down and hurt themselves every winter! Winter-time driving needs also special caution as the roads may be very slippery with ice and/or snow.
The national emergency number is 112.
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No your calendar isn't wrong, it isn't January. Its August, one of my favorite months of the year. Since its my birthday this week, I spent some time reflecting and thinking about the past and the future and I am ready to make some changes!
Some of these changes are going to be smooth and easy while others might be more painful both for me and maybe even others around me. I want to be a REAL Jesus girl! Both real in my pains and journey and in my JOY! Making time for the people in my life that WANT to be REAL. I intend to spend more time with my daughter as she starts her journey out of my nest. I want to be at all my son's sporting events and be the loudest cheerleader there so they hear my voice in the stands above everyone else. I want to have time to sit, LISTEN and talk with my freshman son when he gets home and has stuff to share about his day I want to spend more time romancing my boyfriend of almost twenty years. When he reaches for my hand or to wrap me in his arms, I won't pull away to get back to cooking dinner or the kids are asking for me. Instead I will pause and relish the moment and enjoy the tingle and the butterflies he still gives me after all these years! I want to feel more passionately and love more completely. I want to be more spontaneous and "in the moment". I intend to let the over one hundred little ones that God has entrusted to me every Sunday morning to know that I love them and I know they are special because GOD SAYS SO! I will smile more when I am truly happy, looking for the blessings that I receive EVERY day as the gift that they are. I will cry and share when I am sad and hurting with those who truly ask and love me. I will spend time with my Jesus more than just once a day and work on making my time with Him relational and not just to say "there I did it, check".
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Although more people have the condition than is identified, the market is essentially a new market. We already treat patients with this, but want to expand our services by adding another therapist. Few people or even doctors know there is treatment even available for the condition. The clients are generally aged 40-65 but we are also looking to service the paediatric patients (children may be born with this).
We would like to let caregivers, physicians, nurses, case managers
community organizations and support groups know about our unique service and highly professional dedicated well educated staff.
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Attached: logo for the company. Just use Park Road Physiotherapy with the PR and 1/2 maple leaf.
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Charles Schwab said it had net income of $238 million for the second quarter of 2011, or 20 cents a share, up roughly 17% from $205 million, or 17 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Net revenues were nearly $1.2 billion in the recent period, up about 10% from close to $1.1 billion a year earlier. Both results met analysts' estimates.
For the six months ended June 30, 2011, the company's net income was $481 million, 43% higher than the $337 million earned in the year-earlier period excluding certain charges relating to the Schwab YieldPlus Fund and the company's affinity credit card program.
"While trading activity is relatively soft, our diverse suite of investment products and services is propelling our ongoing growth, as clients increasingly opt to enroll in our advisory solutions," said CEO Walt Bettinger in a press release.
The total number of average daily trades declined 9% year over year and 16% quarter over quarter to about 397,000. The amount of revenue per trade, though, rose slightly to $12.23 over both time periods
Schwab says client assets in Schwab retail advisory offerings grew 20% year over year to $113 billion as of June 30.
"Adding in assets under the guidance of an independent fee-based advisor brings total advised assets at quarter-end to $811 billion, up 17%," Bettinger explained. "Overall, we ended June serving 8.1 million active brokerage accounts, 745,000 banking accounts and 1.44 million retirement-plan participants."
"Net new assets totaled $15.4 billion for the second quarter, up 10% from the second quarter of 2010, after adjusting for a large clearing outflow last year," Bettinger said, "and total client assets reached $1.66 trillion at quarter-end, up 22% from a year ago."
In the second quarter, client assets held in advisory-services accounts totaled $697.8 billion, up 17% year over year and up slightly, 1%, from the first quarter. Net new assets in these accounts grew 4% year over year to $10.6 billion but declined 25% from the first quarter's $14.2 billion.
"We are on the right course," said Bettinger in a statement. "Consistent with our ongoing efforts to help clients manage their finances when and how they choose, we now offer a broad array of mobile investing, banking and deposit capabilities as part of the integrated brokerage and banking services available to iPhone and Android smartphone users.
For independent advisors, Schwab says it has enhanced its Business Consulting Services is developing an integrated technology platform to be unveiled at the upcoming IMPACT meeting in the fall.


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It's the fourth week of six on the road with Seal, and I haven't posted a single blog entry here. Terrible, I know. I've had enough of a challenge getting the photos up to seal.com, but found a groove a couple of weeks or so ago and am now getting the photos from any given show online within 24 hours. Which doesn't sound like much until you realize that immediately after each show, we get on the bus and drive to the next city, usually sleeping on the bus (kind of a half sleep as the bus rocks along), get into a new city at maybe 5, 6, 11am, then often go back to bed for a few more hours. If there's another show that night, I'll scramble to get the photos out before soundcheck 'cause usually once that starts, I can't get back onto the computer to finish an edit.
Anyway I've started uploading the same photos to my own gallery. You can always see the freshest at seal.com/tour/tour-gallery but as I can I'll upload them to my own gallery on josephlinaschke.com (where you can see them larger than on seal.com).
I've uploaded the first five shows; Birmingham, Edinburgh, London, Oxford, and Manchester. We completed show 16 in Lucerne, Switzerland last night, and have just arrived in Carcassonne, France where we have two days off before the show here Tuesday night.
Here's a favorite from each of those five shows; click each one to open the complete gallery.


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About Hello Bully
Since 2005, Hello Bully has been serving the greater Pittsburgh area and beyond. We are a Pit Bull rescue and much more! Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and repair the reputation of the American Pit Bull Terrier; and to provide assistance to all companion animals of underserved communities with a goal of reducing overpopulation and preserving the human–animal bond. Because of our amazing Hello Bully Volunteers and incredible supporters, we have helped thousands of dogs and owners through rescue and adoptions, spay/neuter, support programs, and community outreach.
Hello Bully is a non-salaried 501c3 non-profit charity registered with the Internal Revenue Service and the Pennsylvania Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations. We are proud to be a grass roots organization, serving our breed and our community for 15 years. Hello Bully is volunteer developed and driven. Our working Board of Directors helps to meet our mission by staying active and engaged in the organization. Hello Bully Volunteers help with day-to-day operations, ensuring that donor dollars go to programs and direct care.
Your support enables us to operate The Hello Bully Halfway House, a small facility where our rescued dogs enjoy life as we work to match them with forever families. Your donations also make possible programs like Pit Fix Plus, Pittsburgh's only free Pit Bull spay/neuter and vaccine program; and our Pittsburgh Pets Community Outreach program, that reaches out to Pittsburgh's most under-served communities, providing free veterinary care, food, and pet supplies. Hello Bully is Pittsburgh's Pit Bull rescue. We're a little rescue doing big things, and we couldn't do them without you!


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Halo 4 has new bad guys, and those new bad guys have new guns. Here are those new guns in action.
I'm still unsure whether Halo 4's marketing is just lying to us, or whether 343 has performed some kind of dark magic on the Xbox 360. Those are the only two explanations as to how this game is looking so good on such ancient hardware.


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Welcome to Lane Gibson Recording and Mastering
Located right outside Burlington in the beautiful Green Mountains of Charlotte, Vermont, Lane Gibson Recording and Mastering, formerly knows as Charles Eller Studios, has a long and venerable history surrounding the creation and capture of music and sound. Expertly designed and built by Charles Eller in the early 90's, it is a comfortable and welcoming space, large enough for technical separation to ensure accuracy, yet intimate enough to allow easy communication and convenient access from room to room.
From architectural to electronic design, the studio was built to facilitate your project's smooth workflow. Nestled in the Green Mountains of Vermont, all of the amenities you expect from a high-end studio are within arm's reach. Top of the line microphones and preamps are in plain sight and easily accessible for quick, efficient mic setups. Vintage outboard gear and tape machines live right alongside a modern ProTools recording system.
In the live room, you'll find clear sight lines and separation of sound to ensure the kind of comfort that facilitates great recordings. The control room is extremely frequency-accurate, which is critically important to making mixes sound great no matter what the playback system. In addition to having soffit mounted Tannoy System 15 monitors, we also faithfully cross reference every mix on a pair of Neumann near-field monitors, a Bose wave radio, a variety of high quality headphones, and of course, an old Panasonic boombox… the ultimate test!
We also have some very lovely instruments, from a Yamaha C-7, 7'6" grand piano, to exotic and rare keyboards like a mini-Moog and an early 60's Hammond B3 organ as well as vintage guitars and amps available for use.
Even with our architectural and technical excellence, the ultimate key to our success is how unencumbered the artist experience is. This is the human side of the equation, and we use our thousands of successful sessions as a reference library. There isn't much that we haven't seen or experienced, and we apply this vast experience to gently guide you when appropriate, translate technical options and their meaning, and above all, make your recordings the very best they can be.
From encouraging performances to choosing the the ultimate microphone-preamp-dynamics chain—the goal is to successfully express your vision.
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These videos are great!
I've always been reluctant to do any service beyond replacing ram and drives.
Now, I feel confident that I could tear my laptop down and replace any part I could get my hands on, should it ever become necessary - and not end up with 'extra parts' when I'm done.
I've been raving about this laptop since I purchased it.
No, it's not a speed demon, but it's competent, and I can upgrade the cpu/ram/drive/wifi as necessary when I need the performance boost, or when cpu prices drop.
I bumped to 2g with ram from a macbook I had upgraded to 4g.
Next step is to put a fire breathing mini pci wifi adaptor from Engenius.
(I may mod the case for an external antenna, though I dunno if I want to void the warranty just yet...)
I live on my laptop, and when I'm testing long range wifi links, I really need the same radio/antenna on both ends.
There's no reason that a sata (not sata2) 7200 rpm drive wouldn't be compatible, is there?
Is there a bios size limitation?
I'm thinking of tossing in a 200g 7200 rpm drive for a bit faster io.
My average file size is probably larger than most folks, so I think I'll gain a respectable bit of speed there.
The combination of OS agnosticism, good design for serviceability, and easy availability of drivers and tech data is a relief.
I used to specify high end Vaio laptops, but now I'll be specifying Lenovo for any new laptops we buy.
Wish list: A comprehensive component upgrade matrix, including components that Lenovo may not support officially, but which should work in most cases. The bios update notes mention some cpu's, but I'm unsure of exactly what other cpu's work in my 3000 N200 0769 alu.
Ok....I'll stop now...
Looking at the service videos for the N100, I note the CPU is removeable. Could it be upgraded to one of the faster and cooler ULV CPUs?
I'd like to see a cpu support matrix as well.
Buying the desired cpu with the laptop in the first place may be preferred, but sometimes cost factors intervene and it's nice to know that you can upgrade later.
I would assume that any cpu model originally offer ed as an option/submodel for *that specific board* would be compatible, as well as any cpu for which support is specifically added in a bios update.
The grey area that I see is that you could have a bios that covers more than one board revision, and may implement a feature/support on one rev, but not on another.
You'd have bios support, but not necessarily the required underlying logic circuits.
I don't know if this is an issue with the 3000 series or not.
From what I can tell, the 3000 N100/200 series use three different boards, the 0689 and 0768 on the N100, and the 0769 on the N200.
The 07x boards seem to be compatible with a lot of Core 2 Duo processors, including at least several 45nm models.
I haven't seen specific mention of support for the ulv procs.
The ulv's are cooler, but not faster if you compare them to their equivalent non-ulv counterpart, rather than your existing cpu.
The ulv's have less l2 cache, lower clock speed, and on some models the l2 runs at a different speed than the core - which is really odd to me. Then again, I'm no EE.
The upgrade I have in mind is the T7500. It's pretty fast, and has the 4 mb l2 cache.
I'm less concerned with power consumption than performance.
How about the T2xxx or T5xxx? It's also more than bios - it has to match the cooling and voltages.


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Australia's Dimity Stoyle Earned the First Perfect 10 of the Championship
Day 2 offered smaller surf than yesterday's picture-perfect waves and with clean conditions at the 2013 Reef ISA World Surfing Games in Playa Santa Catalina, Panama.
Round 2 of the Open Men's Qualifying and the Opening Round of the Open Women's were on the schedule.
"The performance level from the world's best men and women was great today," remarked ISA President Fernando Aguerre. "The camaraderie between all the National Teams and the local Panamanians has created a great vibe amongst the surfing tribe. With tropical air and water temperatures, Santa Catalina is a surfer's dreamland. Stay tuned all week and don't miss a minute of the live webcast. And if you can't, just log in and watch the photo albums and the video highlights, capturing the essence of this incredible event."
In the Open Men's, Australia's Thomas Woods, once again, was the standout of the day, posting the highest total heat score of 16.47. The smaller conditions suited his powerful surfing style and aerial maneuvers. Woods defeated Davey Brand (RSA, 12.66), while Lucas Santamaria (ARG, 11.54) and Miguel Tudela (PER, 9.20) fell into the Repechage Round.
In a high scoring affair and heat of the day, Mexico's Adrian Gonzales (16.00) narrowly defeated South Africa's Shaun Joubert (15.70), sending Wade Carmichael (AUS, 8.50) and Carlos Goncalves (ECU, 4.14) into the Repechage.
Other Men's standouts were Brazil's Alan Johnes, who had the second highest heat score of the day, 16.33, as well as local surfer Jean Carlos "Oli" Gonzales, who earned a 14.66, making Panama proud as he advanced to the next Qualifying Round.
On the Women's side, Australia's Dimity Stoyle, Copper Medalist from the 2011 ISA World Surfing Games, had the first perfect 10 of the competition, while posting the day's highest heat score, 17.67. Stoyle was dominant in her win over Sofia Alonso (URU, 6.10) and Evelin Centeno (SAL, 6.10).
Other standouts were Ecuador's Dominic Barona and New Zealand's Ella Williams. Barona, with a 14.50 total heat score, defeated Valeria Sole (PER, 11.87) and Nao Omura (JPN, 11.50). Williams had a dominating performance with a total heat score of 14.33, defeating Faye Zoetmulder (RSA, 8.60), and sending into the Repechage Leah Oke (CAN, 5.93) and Greta Dalle Luche (ITA, 4.10).
For a full list of today's results, click here- http://isawsg.com/results/
The 2013 Reef ISA World Surfing Games resumes tomorrow at 7:40am (Panama time) with The Morning Show hosted by Otto Flores. His guest will be Costa Rica's Gilbert Brown and Peru's Valeria Sole.
Following that, the competition will feature:
Open Women's Repechage Round 1
Open Women's Qualifying Round 2
Open Men's Repechage Round 1
The live webcast of the entire championship is available on http://isawsg.com/
Here is the scheduled for Day 2:
Sunday, 7:40am Santa Catalina, Panama
Sunday, 5:40am West Coast USA
Sunday, 2:40pm Western Europe/ South Africa
Sunday, 11:40pm Sydney, Australia
Monday, 12:40am Auckland, New Zealand
The International Surfing Association (ISA) is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the World Governing Authority for Surfing. It was originally founded as the International Surfing Federation in 1964 and has been running the Open Division World Championship since 1964, the World Junior Surfing Championship since 1980, the World Masters Surfing Championship since 2007, the World Bodyboard Championship since 2011, the Hainan Wanning Riyue Bay International Surfing Festival in China, and the World Standup Paddle (SUP) and Paddleboard Championship beginning in 2012. The ISA also sanctions the World Kneeboard Titles and the World Tandem Surfing Championship, and will launch the World Longboard Championship in 2013. ISA membership includes the surfing National Governing Bodies of 73 countries on five continents. Its headquarters are located in La Jolla, California. It is presided over by Fernando Aguerre (Argentina), first elected President in 1994 in Rio de Janeiro and re-elected seven times since. The ISA's four Vice-Presidents are Alan Atkins (AUS), Karín Sierralta (PER), Debbie Beacham (USA) and Layne Beachley (AUS).
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The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology
Bonanza Books, 1981 - Religion - 557 pages
A full-scale compendium of fact, history and legend, from original sources, about witchcraft and demonology, covering demonic possession and exorcism. Illustrated.
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AEP Audience engagement Platform
AEP or Audience Engagement Platform is a web-based solution which will facilitate meaningful and productive two-way interactions between performing artists and their audiences.
AEP will feature a powerful arsenal of effective and low-cost tools to mobilize audiences, inviting them to engage with arts organizations (dance, theatre, music) and individual artists as active partners, providing them with creative ways to support and promote their arts online.
AEP's mission to sustain and enhance art through more meaningful and inclusive audience relationships cuts across all arts disciplines, and is relevant to organizations of every size. AEP promotes an expansive vision of art as involvement and as a highly interactive process, in which distinctions between artist and audience, participant and observer, evolve into a more dynamic and enriching partnership.
Arts organizations, Performing artists, and patrons of the arts who are interested in the progress of the development of AEP. Once AEP is launched they can come here and see how other people in the Arts are using AEP effectively
Use Color scheme in the logo provided. In the navigation will be just be this main page and an about page. Page should be inviting and look like a blog for a web 2.0 start-up that is appealing to the performing arts industry.


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Oysterhead announced a pair of shows at 1st Bank Center in Broomfield, Colorado next February 2020.
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New Instagram and Twitter accounts for supergroup Oysterhead featuring Trey Anastasio of Phish, Primus' Les Claypool and The Police's Stewart Copeland were launched overnight.
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What does "rendition" mean in the following paragraph?
References to the pea jacket appear in American newspapers at least as early as the 1720s, and modern renditions still maintain the original design and composition.
This comes from the article about pea coat at Wikipedia.
I have an idea that this could have something to do with the design of the coat? I could not find a definition that's appropriate to the context.


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Welcome to Sunset Cliffs Aikido
San Diego's Premier Iwama Aikido Dojo since 1984
Call Us Today
(619) 222-5085
Sunset Cliffs Aikido is home to Head Instructor Bernice Tom Sensei (7th Dan, Shidoin, Board Member of the Takemusu Aikido Association), a direct disciple of Morihiro Saito Shihan, who trained closely with the founder, Morihei Ueshiba O'Sensei.
Well known for its close affiliation with Morihiro Saito Shihan, the Founder's closest disciple, Sunset Cliffs Aikido served host to Saito Shihan for many years, and was the filming location for much of the important historical footage of the late master.
A world-class Aikido training facility affiliated with the Aikikai Hombu Dojo, Aikido World Headquarters; Sunset Cliffs Aikido is a top destination for Aikidoists across the globe. Today SCA continues disseminating the teachings of the Founder as handed down by Morihiro Saito Shihan.


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Designed by the engineering team responsible for TOA's highly acclaimed "Z-Drive" processed speaker systems, the SR-A Series Mid-Size Line Arrays feature TOA's proprietary "Sync-Drive" horn technology (pat. pending) to provide a uniform, high frequency sound field offering excellent sound clarity and minimal interference. Mid-high modules include the SR-A12L (long-throw) and the SR-A12S (short-throw) each with dual compression drivers and 12" low frequency driver. The SR-A18 subwoofer module features a heavy duty 18" low frequency driver rated at 720 Watts continuous power handling. Along with weather resistant models and multiple mounting hardware options, the SR-A Series Line Arrays are backed with a five year product warranty.
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The first Earl of Oxford was Aubrey de Vere, (c. 1115-1194.) His son Robert de Vere (c. 1165-1221), 3rd Earl of Oxford was hereditary Master Chamberlain of England and was one of the guarantors of Magna Carta. This line of earls continued until Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford (1627-1703.) Lavenham, Suffolk, became the home of the family of the Earls of Oxford.
"The church was rebuilt in the reign of Henry VI., partly by the De Veres, earls of Oxford, who resided here, and partly by the family of Spring, wealthy clothiers. The entrance is by a porch, supposed to have been erected by John de Vere (1442-1513), the fourteenth earl of Oxford, and much enriched; over the arch is a finely-sculptured double niche, and on each side of the niche are three escutcheons, each bearing quartered coats of arms of the De Vere family." [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
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So, this is a weird question -- but do dogs suddenly get moles?
Our pit suddenly has a small black mole on her nose that was never there before... it's not raised and it's not gotten larger, so I'm not sure it's something I need to worry about?
Talk about diets, exercise, and disease.
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Lumps are always something that I feel should be checked out, not necessarily urgently but if it is concerning, it's always better to address it sooner rather than later.
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Published writer. Background in sociology, deep interest in psychology, music, movies. This is my second book on Michael Jackson. I tried to understand him, using the psychology as a tool. I did a very big work to make it fun an easy to read.
If you are entering this contest now, please make something original, search for new visual ideas, symbols. The game is still open.
This product will be first released as an ebook, and then as a paperback or hardcover book.
As an ebook, the cover will be first seen only in a post stamp format, so the CONTRAST must be strong, and the cover easily readable.
(May be you noticed something : english is not my native language... the book will be translated by a pro).
INCENTIVE 1 : of course, you will get full credential, and there will be an active link in the ebook to go directly to your web site.
INCENTIVE 2 : I entend to make a "How I choose the design of this book "page on my website. Every top 4 finalist, if they are ok with that, will have their cover on this page, with a direct link to their website (I will only ask for a tiny format like 125 x125. At this stage, feel free to put a big red tag "project" on it !)
INCENTIVE 3 : All contestor will get a free copy of this ebook when released, if they ask for it.
This product is for people daring to understand who Michael Jackson really was. This is not the official story. It is not designed for fans. It is more of an essay. It is also a book for people who wants to understand the way Michael Jackson choose to communicate (using rumors). I also explain how the Thriller video clip works, why Michael had surgery. I talk much about childhood, this is a VERY IMPORTANT part of the book. The idea of multiple personnalities too. The most surprising chapter is on Michael Jackson fatherhood. Reading this book, you will, someway, know how it felt to be the King of Pop.
Exposing the King Of Pop's Secret Mindsets
If you enter this contest now, please, give me a brand new design.
1/ Ebook cover
(JPG or gif, like everything else)
3D, A4 format.
Strong and strange. Black or deep blue should be the main colours, with white and grey.
The central idea is the door. Neverland gates can be used.
Then the night, shadows, suspens, full moon, The shadow of a man ? Michael Jackson's shadow? MICHAEL AS AN ADULT AND AS A CHILD ?
Symbols (a key point) : all seeing eye (MJ inside the eye?), pyramid, MJ with a skull in it's hand, like in old paintings. Macbeth. Oedipus. ET (from the Spielberg moovie) Surgical mask. Masks. Lost boy.
You must suggest things. This cover could, someway look like a thriller book cover, but not so much.
A few more words : Secret report. Neverland ferris wheel. Broken puppets. Broken dreams. Personnality disorder. Multiple personnality. Multiple frames. Broken mirors. Haunted castle. Magic show.
2/The book cover,
same as the ebook cover but in 2 D
"U.S. trade format", that is 6''x9'' (or 15.24 cm x 22.86 cm)
I need a high definition quality, this material will be printed.
3/Banner (with 3D cover)
320x250 (medium rectangle)
Use shadow on the cover of the book.
Background colour must create an interesting contrast.
With a button "Clik here for free preview" (underlined)
and http://www.backdoortoneverland.com
Please : Make sure I have full rights to use any art/photos, I don't joke with copyright issues.
Good luck ! Again, if your work is up to the task, you will get specific feedback.


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The 2013 LA Art Show presents the art world's limitless range featuring exhibitors who appreciate the past, embrace the present and forecast the future. The LA Art Show is the West Coast's most comprehensive art experience, with 4 distinct sections: Modern & Contemporary, Historic & Traditional, Vintage Posters, and the IFPDA Los Angeles Fine Print Fair, showcasing the highest caliber galleries enhanced by exceptional programming and special exhibitions.
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Unable to register through firewall, it keeps telling me that I have invalid login credentials. Whereas I used the same to post this message.
Unable to register through firewall, it keeps telling me that I have invalid login credentials. Whereas I used the same to post this message.
Same here, using company squid prxy with authentification
Unfortunately proxy servers are proving more challenging than in our private beta. We're on it and hope to have resolution soon.
Products like Appcelerator Titanium have this issue as well. So does Browser plus
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We are using squid prxy withOUT authentification and that went fine..
Ext (5.1.0) Docs: http://docs-origin.sencha.com/extjs/5.1/5.1.0-apidocs/
I also have been problem in login; what can I do about it ?
I am network proxy.
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Here is a code sample demonstrating the issue.
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名古屋市 → 到着地: 東京 2019/10/21
出発 2019年10月21日月曜日 16:00 出発地: 名古屋駅
Arrival: 2019年10月21日月曜日 17:40 到着地: 東京都
所要時間 1時間 40分
クラス: 標準シート
Facilities and services: エアコン Steward WC
確認書: Operator uses manual confirmation. Ticket confirmation may take up to 24 hours.
キャンセル: No refunds, no cancelation
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Information for routes from Tokyo. Tickets can be taken in the office.
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France v Tonga, Rugby World Cup, October 1
Les Bleus look to end difficult week on a high
ESPNscrum Staff
September 27, 2011
France head coach Marc Lievremont is feeling the strain at the moment © Getty Images
Just over a year ago, France's footballers rebelled against their manager midway through their World Cup campaign in South Africa. Are the nation's rugby players currently in the process of following suit?
There were rumblings of discontent before Les Bleus even arrived in New Zealand, with one report claiming that an unnamed player had claimed that 25 members of France's 30-strong squad were unhappy with head coach Marc Lievremont. That story was dismissed by all and sundry but, in light of the events of the past few weeks, it would not be surprising if there was serious unrest within the camp.
First, Dimitri Yachvili expressed his disappointment with Lievremont's decision to publicly criticism him and his team-mate Imanol Harinordoquy for their allegedly sub-standard displays in the team's tournament opener against Japan.
Then, Lievremont picked a slightly strange line-up for Saturday's pivotal pool clash with hosts New Zealand, with the most perplexing selection the positioning of Clermont Auvergne scrum-half Morgan Parra at fly-half. That, coupled with the omission of William Servat among others, prompted accusations that Lievremont had deliberately picked a 'B team' because he wanted to lose the game so that France would go into quarter-finals on the easier/northern hemisphere side of the draw.
That prompted a succession of heated exchanges between Lievremont and the French press pack, culminating in the coach telling one reporter to "go to hell with your question" after being asked after Saturday's defeat by the All Blacks if France could still win the World Cup.
Lievremont is clearly feeling the strain and that has only added weight to the rumours that he has lost the dressing room. Veteran lock Lionel Nallet claims the squad remains united behind their under-fire coach but the proof will be in the performance against Tonga this weekend.
France - Player to Watch: It's got to be Parra again, with Lievremont having decided to stick with the same half-back pairing which faced the All Blacks. Parra did not do a whole lot wrong against the Kiwis but he will have to produce a far more commanding display against the Tongans to justify Lievremont's unexpected decision to hand him the No.10 jersey.
France - Team News: Lievremont has decided to once again go with Parra alongside Yachvili in the half-backs. Elsewhere in the backline, Maxime Medard takes over at fullback from Damien Traille, who drops out of the 22, and that switch facilitates a recall for Alexis Palisson on the left wing. In the pack, William Servat returns at hooker in place of Dimitri Szarzewski, while Raphael Lakafia is preferred to Louis Picamoles at No.8.
Tonga - Player to Watch: Viliame Iongi has the ability to to trouble even the most battle hardened of defences if given the opportunity in broken field. With an open game hopefully in the offing, Iongi will look to get on the ball as much as possible.
Tonga - Team News: Flanker Finau Maka returns from a rib injury in one of four changes to the side that beat Japan 31-18 in their last Pool A outing. Prop Kisi Pulu also returns while inside centre Andrew Ma'ilei and winger Iongi have also been restored to the starting line-up.
Key Battle: Maka at seven will look to get the better of his opposite number Julien Bonnaire at the breakdown. With Maka effectively playing for pride and Bonnaire looking to nail down the openside berth, expect the battle to be ferocious.
Stats: Vincent Clerc is France's all-time RWC record try-scorer, his treble against Canada having taken his tally to nine, one more than Christophe Dominici
Trivia: France have never failed to get beyond the quarter-finals of a Rugby World Cup
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"I have been hearing stories, rumours about little uprisings by the players and a lot of nonsense like that. At the moment there is a very good atmosphere in our squad and we are all united with each other. "
""Whoever is playing, they have the French flair, they can beat anyone on their day. They can beat any team in the world, whether it's New Zealand or Australia, so for us we have to expect a really hard game."
Prediction: Tonga can, mathematically at least, still qualify for the last eight so they will give it their all and they showed enough in the second half of their opening-day clash with the All Blacks to suggest that they could trouble the French. However, even in this seemingly vulnerable state, Les Bleus should have just too much class for their Polynesian opponents. France to win but not without picking up a few bumps and bruises along the way.
© ESPN Sports Media Ltd.
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Joe Flacco actually isn't the NFL's highest-paid player
Joe Flacco (Photo: Suchat Pederson/The News Journal)
Winning the Super Bowl made Joe Flacco the highest paid player in the NFL. Now "The Man" may be taking that distinction away.
Figures from Americans for Tax Reform show that Flacco's high Maryland tax rate would bump him below Drew Brees in annual NFL contract salary.
With the new six-year, $120.6 million contract, Flacco's marginal tax rate will be 51.98%, a figure which doesn't include the "jock tax" that requires athletes to pay income tax for each road game or any property taxes he'd pay to Maryland.
Annually, that would mean Flacco makes $470,000 less than Drew Brees does from his five-year, $100 million deal.
Any player at the income level of Flacco or Brees has to pay $8.72 million in federal taxes. The difference between the two comes from the $1.72 million Flacco will have from Maryland's state and county burdens.
Louisiane's rate is 49.4%, according to ATR.
FLACCO: Nearly signed for much, much less
BELL: Check back in three years on Flacco's deal
The salary calculations aren't exact. The foundation notes that their figure only looks at "contract salary and does not take into account his bonuses, endorsements, and other sources of viable income." That means the $1 million Flacco will make in salary, plus the $29 million he'll earn in bonuses in 2013 aren't calculated.
It's an important distinction, since ATR's mission is to lower income taxes. There's as much spin in their numbers as in the ones initially released by NFL agents after signing contracts. Everyone has an agenda.
The growth of the game and value of the dollar means salaries are as inflated as the box office numbers that try to convince you A Good Day to Die Hard will be as popular as Die Hard.
ATR notes that four of the nine states with no income tax are in need of a quarterback: Florida (Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Jacksonville Jaguars), Tennessee (Tennessee Titans) and Texas (Dallas Cowboys). That mean Grover Norquist thinks Ryan Tannehill is better than Tony Romo.
Make of that what you will.
PHOTOS: Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco


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How Guitar Hero Came to DS When Nobody Asked: Shack's Hands-on Preview and Interview
"People thought it was ludicrous," Vicarious CEO Karthik Bala told me at a Guitar Hero event earlier this week. "It was never in the plan to do that."
As Bala puts it, the whole thing came out of the Vicarious staff playing around to "see if it was even possible to do a really good music rhythm game on a handheld." Twenty-three prototypes and a few cardboard guitars later, a breakthrough came in the form of a "crazy Frankenstein GBA cartridge" wired with fret buttons.
Activision and RedOctane thought it was insane. And when the first prototype was presented to Nintendo, Bala says they were stunned.
But the really, really amazing part? For all the unwieldy-looking peripherals and wacky ads, the Nintendo DS entry, Guitar Hero: On Tour, really is Guitar Hero. It works. It's fun. In fact, I think it does some things better than the console editions of Guitar Hero 3. Registered users can use the HD Stream.
The second that No Doubt's "Spiderwebs" started playing, it didn't matter that my hand was curled around a DS instead of an actual toy plastic guitar. The part where I was about to strum the touch screen with a pick stylus didn't factor in. And I didn't miss a note, at least at first, which surprised the hell out of me. I wasn't expecting the transition to be that seamless.
Whammies? A simple matter of holding down the stylus and shaking it back and forth. Star Power? Yell in the mic, or just press one of the face buttons during a slow bit.
I wasn't expecting the game to be so challenging either. Don't get me wrong, I'm no master, but I can get by in Rock Band and Guitar Hero on Expert. However, the second I tried anything beyond Medium in On Tour, I didn't do that well. So much for the missing button making the game easier.
In the console versions, this can be accomplished by strumming up and down instead of just down. On the DS edition, I found myself instinctively lifting the pick away after each strum. I had to retrain myself to keep it low to the screen, to alternate left and right strums instead of going in one direction. I still didn't do all that well, but I got further in Blink 182's "All the Small Things" than I did on an earlier attempt.
But where the game really shines, and where I feel it surpasses Guitar Hero 3, is in its item-based Duel Mode. You can face off against an actual opponent via local wireless or duke it out with an AI character, and as with Guitar Hero 3, you earn items by hitting all the notes in a certain combo.
This time around though, the item-based attacks are more fun than frustrating, with skill and reflex playing a larger role than luck and patience. A broken string doesn't force you to stop and endlessly mash a fret; instead, you can quickly restring it with the touch screen. The temporary screen swap will probably have you attempting to strum on the top screen of the DS, but most will learn to compensate on the fly.
Amp fires can be put out by blowing on the DS instead of waiting for them to extinguish on their own. And, really, who's going to get that angry when they have to briefly stop playing to sign an autograph?
If you want definitive proof though, here's the telltale sign that there is fun to be had. In a room full of jaded and experienced game journalists, no one was talking. Everyone had their headphones on, completely engrossed in the game. As I put the DS down, the only sound I could hear was the gentle "tap tap tap" of nearly a dozen plastic picks.
Amidst the frequent tapping, I was able to catch up with the developer's CEO, who filled me in on some of the more interesting aspects of the title's unorthodox origins.
Shack: How did you adapt the note charts for the GH3 tracks from five to four buttons?
Karthik Bala: We actually did all the note charting from scratch for this game.
When we selected the songs that we wanted to bring over from Guitar Hero 3, they were remastered for the best audio fidelity on the DS and they were re-note charted and scaled. We still have Expert as really friggin' challenging, as you noticed, and it scales really nicely from Easy to Expert.
Turn the page for more, including a partial track list, talk of early prototypes, and Nintendo's reaction to the project. _PAGE_BREAK_
Shack: What can you tell me about the song list?
We had this crazy [prototype] where we had a cardboard guitar and we had a DS taped onto it.
Karthik Bala: There are 20 exclusive songs, there's more than 25 songs in the game. We've taken a handful of songs that were some of our favorites from Guitar Hero 3 and brought in a lot of new songs.
85% of the songs are the original master recordings. In fact, the few covers that we got, the record publisher could not find the masters. As you progress through the game, just by difficulty, the more classic rock, 70's and 80's tunes, are later on in the setlist.
Known tracklist as of May 30:
* designates a cover
- Do What You Want - OK Go
- All the Small Things - blink-182
- Spiderwebs - No Doubt
- Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet
- We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister
- All Star - Smashmouth
- Breed - Nirvana
- Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
- Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar
- This Love - Maroon 5
- Heaven - Los Lonely Boys
- Helicopter - Bloc Party
- China Grove - The Doobie Brothers
- Rock And Roll All Nite* - Kiss
- What I Want - Daughtry
Greek Arena
- Jet Airliner* - Steve Miller Band
- Black Magic Woman*- Santana
- Stray Cat Strut - Stray Cats
- La Grange*- ZZ Top
- Youth Gone Wild*- Skid Row
Karthik Bala: The neat thing about this project was that it did start out because a bunch of guys at Vicarious Visions who really wanted to just see it it was even possible to do a really good music rhythm game on a handheld. We wouldn't have done the project if we didn't think that we would be able to make a good game.
For the better part of the year, the touch screen strumming mechanics were worked on.
It was tuned and modified because what we were finding was [with] different people, the strumming techniques and stuff were different. We had to accommodate a really broad set of play styles. For some people it was working perfectly, for other people it wasn't working at all. We were like, "We need to get a really broad sample set and be able to tweak the code and make it really robust."
Shack: What about the audio? Earlier I heard it was compressed using a variable bit rate.
Karthik Bala: For the audio, we're doing three simultaneous audio streams streaming off the cart. It's compressed music, it sounds great on the DS. I think it's certainly the best-sounding DS game we've ever made.
There's a lot of new technology that we developed to do all that audio streaming, and the animation streams, the graphics, textures, it's all streaming.
The visual quality on the game was another thing. We didn't know whether we could pull off the look [of Guitar Hero] because the DS can run 2,000 polygons per frame. It's a hardware limit. We figured out a technique to double that, the engineers did some kind of voodoo to make that work.
The characters themselves, each character is around a couple thousand polys a piece. If they were whittled down to fit a standard DS game, it wouldn't have looked like the Guitar Hero characters. It wouldn't have gotten the dynamic lighting and the stage show, the choreography and the lighting effects.
That was a, "How the hell are we gonna do this" kind of question. It was just a lot of hurdles all along the way.
Shack: How did the Guitar Grip itself even come about?
Karthik Bala: When we initially were working on the game, we built like 23 prototypes, just trying all kinds of different things. One of them happened to be this crazy Frankenstein GBA cartridge that we had put in electronics and wired up these switches and things like that. The guys figured out a way of reading input, brand new input, from a peripheral on the GBA slot while running in DS mode.
That was kinda the breakthrough moment. We were like, "Okay, here you go. Here's the fret and you've got this tactile experience." None of the other prototypes gave you that tactile experience that really got you into the music.
The reason we have four buttons is because you've got four fingers and you can't slide up and down the Guitar Grip without shaking the screen, and when you shake the screen you lose track of what's going on so it's actually less fun.
When we built these prototypes, we had a three-button version, we had a six-button version, we had a design for this crazy twelve-button thing.
Shack: What about a foot pedal?
Karthik Bala: [laughs] We didn't have a foot pedal, interesting idea.
Shack: Can you talk about some of the other prototypes?
Karthik Bala: [laughs] We had this crazy one where we had a cardboard guitar and we had a DS taped onto it.
[Bala demonstrates, indicating that the DS was taped to the guitar's body so players could strum with the touch screen while craning their heads to view the top screen.]
That didn't work. We did a bunch of stylus-only prototypes, different stroke recognition and things like that. That didn't work, it was too abstract.
We did a lot of work trying to figure out what was going to go on what screen, to figure out how we were going to handle the interface, how you can use the touch screen and be able to strum without actually having to look at it. There was a lot of craziness on this project, it was purely R&D for six to eight months.
Shack: When did that R&D actually kick in?
Karthik Bala: So we started the project a little over a year ago. It was sort of a secret project for a number of months because, quite frankly, we weren't going to go forward if we didn't think we would be able to have something.
When we did, and this it to Activision and RedOctane's credit, they were like, "This is insane." They were skeptical, just like we were. "But you know what, why don't you go try that."
Shack: So you were never asked to make Guitar Hero on the DS?
Karthik Bala: No. People thought it was ludicrous. I don't blame 'em. It was never in the plan to do that. Quite frankly, when we presented our first prototype to Nintendo, they were really surprised. They were like, "Wow, this is ...different." [laughs]
They got behind it, because Nintendo loves to innovate and do surprising things. So they came on board to help us, try and solve a lot of the tough problems. Once we built the initial electronics and the design of the peripheral, the RedOctane guys--who are really great hardware engineers--they came in to sculpt the device and look at the form factors and stuff like that.
It's a very collaborative project. Everybody started to coming on board and we didn't know where this crazy bandwagon was gonna go, but they were very supportive.
Shack: Any plans for more Guitar Hero games on the DS?
Karthik Bala: We'll see how it goes with the first one. Nobody expected it to come this far. I wouldn't rule anything out at this point, and frankly, the team had a blast working on it.
Guitar Hero: On Tour arrives on Nintendo DS this June. Priced at $49.99, it will come packaged with the Guitar Grip peripheral as well as a spacing unit to enable compatibility with the original DS.


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Has Dwight Howard played his final home game with the Orlando Magic? ESPN sure thinks so.
Well, then, has he been traded to the New Jersey Nets, which appears imminent anyway? No, but why should that stop the NBA from making a little preemptive coin? Just 25 bucks, hot off the third-world assembly line.
And while you're at it, why not pick yourself up one of those snazzy, cobweb-gathering Devin Harris shirts? At $10, you can't afford not to.
UPDATE (11:45 pm): It appears the NBA has taken the order form down. Here's a screengrab for posterity. Hopefully, you snagged yourself a sweet D-Har shirt before it was too late.


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|GIL .. BIOSCI/Bionet News .. Biosequences .. Software .. FTP
Netters, I am currently working on a research project that involves generating solid or geometric models from MRI images. Part of the procedure will require me to possibly perform Thresholding & Edge Detection on my MRI images in order to find out which pixels lie on boundaries between two different regions. Thus, I would like to have an Image Processing Software package that has good Edge Detection and Classification ( Segmentation ) modules/routines. I have heard a lot about Khoros ( University Of New Mexico) and PV-WAVE (Precision Visuals) and was curious if other professionals or students had any experience on how good they are for the above purposes. Suggestions on other software packages are also much welcome. Thanks, Ahmed Nadeem


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Cosmo's Showcase Edition of the iPad app is now available for download! And no one's more pumped about the launch than Pauly D. Seriously. The Jersey Shore star says he never creeps without it.
Watch the video of Pauly below to learn his secrets, find out more about the app, and get a glimpse of the guy who shares Pauly D's barber.
We literally can not stop saying, "Iiiit's tee shirt time! As in, time for you to take off yours." So. Freaking. Funny.
You can find out more about the Cosmo iPad app here and then be sure to follow Pauly D's advice and download the Showcase Edition here.


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Production began today (May 19) in a former Fleetwood Enterprises Inc. towable facility in La Grande, Ore., purchased earlier this month by Ron Nash, president of Northwood Manufacturing Inc., which already was based in the northeast Oregon community.
"We will have some lines similar to what Fleetwood was doing with the Prowler, Wilderness, Terry and Backpack" Nash told RVBusiness.
The former Fleetwood factory, which Nash bought for $2.05 million, will produce yet-to-be-named towables under a new corporate umbrella.
"It will be owned by the (Northwood) corporation, but it will be a separate company with a new name," Nash said. Units will be sold mostly in the northwest U.S. and southwestern Canada.
Nash anticipates shipping the first medium-priced units from the former Fleetwood factory by the middle of June. "We are not going to build the real low-end stuff," said Nash, who was a Fleetwood general manager a number of years ago. "We need to build stuff with a little more integrity than that."
One hundred production employees and a dozen managers, most of whom worked for Fleetwood before it closed its towable division in March prior to filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, have been called back. "Most of them are long-term Fleetwood people who were laid off," Nash said. "And we've taken some people who have worked here (at Northwood)."
Nash said he also expects that as many as 50 Fleetwood dealers will stock the new product. "We have just started setting up the dealer network," Nash said.
The 79,000-square-foot former Fleetwood factory complex includes a 72,000-square-foot main plant, a 7,000-square-foot chassis shop and an open-air warehouse. "It is a major move on our part, not only from an expense standpoint but from an opportunity standpoint," Nash said.
The new company will set up extended warranties for Fleetwood products and for the foreseeable future will keep parts on hand for Fleetwood towables.
Northwood, with about 170 employees and a 200,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in La Grande, builds Nash and Arctic Fox travel trailers and fifth-wheels, Arctic Fox truck campers and Desert Fox sport utility RVs.
In May 2008, Northwood closed a manufacturing facility In Westchester, Va., that previously belonged to Fleetwood, citing the company's inability to build its own frames as it does in Oregon.
"Our business has been difficult," Nash said. "But we've maintained some of our best dealers and they are coming back to sales levels that are similar to what they were before the recession. Durability seems to have become a main issue, and that always has been our deal."


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Philip Stehlik necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 231 diseños de 65 diseñadores freelance.
Taulia is mixing new web-technology with proven B2B software and needs a new, excitingly awesome, original logo to create an online brand that represents the professionalism, the novelty, robustness and connectivity of the business and service. The logo will appear on mixed media (web, print,...).
* please read the full brief *
Company name is Taulia
Taulia develops B2B software and delivers technology and projects in a new exciting way.
Besides the classical website, we are dealing a lot with widgets and emails, so a version of the logo should be able to either fit in a small area or should be abstractable to an icon like form-factor.
A plus (but not required) would be if the logo reminds of connecting business', establishing trust and/or sharing and making data available.
Please submit your designs on a plain (!) white (or one white, one black) background. Please no gradient backgrounds.
We will place it on a plain background (website, business cards etc) later and have to see how it looks. thanks!
- elegant
- simple
- professional
- should look good on one-colored background
- has to look good in small form-factor (or be abstractable to icon size)
- most probably sans-serif font (unless you have something really good with serifs)
- classical 'Web 2.0' logo
- glossy surfaces etc (see 1.)
- network/computer symbology (switches, plugs, database, keyboard, mouse etc.)
- pointy or sharp arrows - we don't want to spear anybody ;)
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