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CoreProvider | ECProvider | PQCProvider | NFProvider | ASN.1 Codec | Licensing
The FlexiProvider is a powerful toolkit for the Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA/JCE). It provides cryptographic modules that can be plugged into every application that is built on top of the JCA.
The goal of our project is to supply fast and secure implementations of cryptographic algorithms which are easy to use even for developers who are not well-footed in the field of cryptography.
The FlexiProvider has been developed by the Theoretical Computer Science Research Group of Prof. Dr. Johannes Buchmann at the Departement of Computer Science at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
Examples of how to use the FlexiProvider can be found in the examples section.
The CoreProvider contains well-known public key algorithms such as the RSA cipher and signature in different flavours according to PKCS #1, a multitude of symmetric block ciphers, most prominent among them the AES cipher Rijndael and 3-DES, password-based encryption (PBE) according to PKCS #5, hash functions such as MD5, SHA1, and RIPEMD, MACs such as CBC-MAC, CMAC, HMAC, plus its own pseudo-random number generator (BBS).
The ECProvider is a provider for cryptographic algorithms which are based on elliptic curves. The provider includes the digital signature schemes ECDSA and ECNR, the Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key agreement scheme, and the Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme (ECIES). The schemes are implemented according to following standards:
EC domain parameters, keys and signatures can be ASN.1 encoded. Please see the documentation about additional information on which EC domain parameters are supported.
The PQCProvider is a provider for cryptographic algorithms which are secure even against quantum adversaries. Most of the algorithms are not standardized, but instead are topic of current research. The provider currently contains the CMSS signature scheme, the McEliece cryptosystem in four variants, the Niederreiter cryptosystem and the CFS signature scheme.
This provider has been developed as a proof of concept for the viability of Number Field Cryptography in imaginary quadratic orders (IQ) by our research group. It contains two DSA variants (IQRDSA and IQDSA) as well as the Guillou-Quisquater signature scheme (IQGQ). We have also devised an ASN.1 module for describing the domain parameters, keys, and signatures.
Note: The NFProvider should currently be considered experimental.
ASN.1 CoDec
For encoding and decoding ASN.1 data structures, we use a third party package originally written by the SeMoA group and currently hosted on SourceForge.
The FlexiProvider is open source. The Core provider module is LGPL licensed, the EC, PQC, and NF provider modules are GPL licensed. Alternative licensing options are available upon request. The SourceForge CoDec package is GPL licensed.


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The photo above shows two button sets that most likely belong to the iPhone 5s. While the light gold color makes sense, the other middle set I wasn't so sure about. New part leaks this morning appear to show a lighter graphite - or steel gray to keep the metal theme going - colored housing for the iPhone 5s that just happens to match the buttons above. So, what does it mean?
To be clear, the two middle button sets are what we are concentrating on. The exterior two are simply the buttons used in the current iPhone 5 that are added for a good visual comparison. While I don't necessarily think Apple will release four models when it comes to the iPhone 5s, I also am not convinced the casing is a fake either. According to Sonny Dickson, who posted the leaked housing photos in graphite, this color will be available alongside black, white, and gold/champagne. That's where I think he may be wrong.
mendmyi managed to snag the photos of the button sets. They sent me the above image last week before posting their own theory about them. While I don't think black is going anywhere, I could possibly believe that they are altering the current black model.
We have known since the release of the iPhone 5 that Apple has had issues with quality control when it comes to anodizing black, or slate as they call it. Before I'd believe there are four potential models for the iPhone 5s, logic may dictate Apple is altering the current black and slate model. Or, perhaps, experimenting with alternatives.
I don't think we've heard anything about another color until now because it doesn't make sense. Whether or not gray replaces black is hard to say. Black is incredibly popular, but is also incredibly hard to anodize consistently. Apple may keep it, because of its popularity, or they may try to replace it for something that provides a better finished product. Time will tell.
Sources: mendmyi, Sonny Dickson

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Evy Johansen 9/30/2003 10:47:06 PMThis is really a beautiful image, Vien! Love it! #63177
clifton Mair 9/30/2003 10:53:42 PMWonderful, well taken, very delicate. #217522
William A. Estes 10/7/2003 10:55:37 AMVein, I really like the way it feels as if one is inside this image looking out instead of looking in. - andy #224522
Dan S. Coquia 10/17/2003 8:47:03 AMCongratulations! #235697
Evy Johansen 10/17/2003 2:07:03 PMMany congratulations and good luck, Vien! #236261
Vien Nguyen-vu 10/17/2003 2:25:53 PMThank you Evy, Dan, Andy, and Clifton! I'm delighted. Very happy to have this photo chosen to be in the finalists. I've already fallen in love with photography :-). This is a great encouragment and for sure will keep me going! #236321
Gabriela Cunha 10/17/2003 5:05:38 PMCONGRATS, Vien!
Damian P. Gadal 10/17/2003 7:22:08 PMNice work - Congrats Vien! :-) #236744
Wanda Judd 10/18/2003 5:21:20 AMGreat image...has a swept away feel to it. #237233
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Grayce Pedulla Dillon 10/18/2003 3:07:09 PMVien, This well deserves the honour. I'm inspired by it! Congrats!!! #237978
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Vien Nguyen-vu 10/20/2003 9:13:06 AMThank you everyone for your kind comments! I'm really glad that the photo got chosen to be the 1st place, since according to my opinion, all of the other photos made to finalists are very amazing too. Each one has its own beauty, and they are very unique! #239936
Thomasa 10/20/2003 10:36:45 AMWhat a beautiful B&W image. You captured such great detail and most of all the softness of the flower. Great work! #240043
John D. Quixley 10/21/2003 5:39:29 AMBeautiful soft lighting. congratulations on your win #240695
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The next podcast is going to sound a whole lot better ... at least, from me
No kidding . Looks pretty good, Walter in 5.1 THX!
http://skullknight.net/images/new mic.jpgThe next podcast is going to sound a whole lot better ... at least, from me
Here's a thought for Sunday's SK discussion. Kind of a long question:In the conviction arc, Skull Knight says he's heading to Albion seeking an apostle, namely the Beherit Apostle, presumably to kill it. As mentioned in the previous pod cast, SK rarely makes much effort to hunt down individual apostles, and rather appears at junction points. So was he seeking to prevent the incarnation? And if so, can we explain how or why he failed to kill the Beherit Apostle on several occasions. SK is typically unparalleled in combat and Beherit apostle didn't seem to be that special as far as fighting is concerned. Do you think he intentionally let the ceremony occur? Perhaps to bring Femto onto the material plane where he'd theoretically be vulnerable?
Going through all the podcasts again because why the hell not, the podcast is brilliant.
Regarding the Skullknight armor and I am sure this has been discussed before but anyways, if Gaiseric did wear the Berserker armor for several hundreds of years is it not possible all his flesh was consumed but his skeleton stayed intact and the armor slowly sculpted his skeleton into the armor shape? Essentially fusing armor and bone together, so in a way it would be his bones/skeleton.
I just mean that when they finally did remove the Berserker armor it had changed his skeleton so much that it imitated the armor, it completely changed his bone structure to fit the armor better when he ran out of flesh, that would explain why there are hinges and bolts etc.
You could argue the Berserker armor had the skull shape when Guts first put it on cause that was the last face which influenced it
That doesn't make any sense no matter how you look at it...
Well if the armor is magical and can warp the skeleton frame to fit the armor surface that could make sense.
Well if the armor is magical and can warp the skeleton frame to fit the armor surface that could make sense. Eventually the skeleton would have indentation of the armor layout. Like how play dough fills in crevasses or a mold.
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ATLANTA -- In the sports world, when athletes refer to big games as having a "playoff atmosphere" it's about as cliché as possible. However, calling tonight's Raw Supershow anything less than a "PPV atmosphere" would be a disservice to the great show put on by the WWE.
The last time the WWE was in Atlanta was on Halloween with the Muppets as the guest host. While I loved the Muppets interactions with the WWE Superstars, tonight's Raw far surpassed that show which brought back wonderful childhood memories for me.
For more than four hours, those in attendance were treated to episodes of NXT, SuperStars, SmackDown and of course, Monday Night Raw. Don't worry, there are no spoilers about the first three shows, save for one.
Just a short 356 days ago, Philips Arena was host to the first Raw after WrestleMania XVII and with the announcement of WrestleMania XVIII's main event that night, it's only fitting that The Rock and Cena return to the building where history was made.
In a night that showcased a mini DX reunion (you read that correctly) where Shawn Michaels did admit that he is better than Triple H, the best was definitely saved for Raw. Two hours before Raw started, Philips Arena already had more people in the stands than during last year's Halloween episode. While the attendance wasn't announced, anything less than 16,500 people (almost capacity) attending would be shocking.
While it was expected to have numerous promos for the WrestleMania XVIII matches, the WWE put together two great sets of promotions for the two non-title main event matches. The "Once in a Lifetime" promo segments got a good reaction but the "End of an Era" HHH/Undertaker/HBK promo was the hands-down best both from a production and reaction standpoint. By the time WrestleMania XVIII ends, I fully expect Metallica's "The Memory Remains" to get the same iTunes download treatment that Living Colour's "Cult of Personality" did when C.M. Punk made it his entrance theme.
During nearly every commercial break the crowd would break out into the "Let's go Cena ... Cena sucks!" back and forth chant, even without any video package of Cena and the Rock to rile up the crowd. The chants continued well after the show ended and even spilled into downtown Atlanta when the fans left the arena.
Much like WrestleMania XIX, all of this occurred even before the main event of the evening: the final pre-WrestleMania showdown of John Cena and The Rock. This was the first time I've ever witnessed a promo where I actually thought there was a possibility of the wrestlers breaking character and getting into a legitimate fight. Not only did Cena point out that he has been in the business now longer than The Rock (ten years fulltime while The Rock was fulltime about eight years) but he now considers The Rock nothing more than "a visitor" returning to WrestleMania, like the countless celebrities over the years.
Cena's comment that he would be "God-damned" to let a visitor beat him at WrestleMania looked like it genuinely upset The Rock, given he retorted by saying he is anything but a "Goddamn visitor". I wonder how much of that was beeped out for the television audience.
Regardless of what made it on TV, the entire confrontation including a quick but heated stare down where Cena proclaimed he would "Rip The Rock's ass", to end the televised segment is the best way to transition into a PPV that I have ever witnessed.
With The Rock noticeably aggravated that Cena got the last words in, the crowd was fortunate that The Miz decided to show up to further irritate The Rock. Miz had one simple goal with his confrontation with The Rock: he demanded an apology from The Great One for last year's WrestleMania after the Rock gave him a People's Elbow after "retaining the WWE Title with a concussion."
After some choice words between the two discussing the quality of "pie" in Atlanta (Rocky says it's some of the best he's ever had), Rock shook Miz's hand then proceeded to Rock Bottom him as well as follow up with another People's Elbow.
With the Road to WrestleMania XVIII now coming to an end, the WWE made sure that the final pre-WrestleMania XVIII Raw would not simply be an afterthought. Six days and counting and I cannot wait!
Matthew Asher's career with SLAM! Wrestling began at the conclusion of last year's WrestleMania, so it's only fitting that he cover tonight's event as well as WrestleMania 29 in New Jersey (hint, hint).


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I met Mark , or shall I say I ignored him and made him feel like someone normal which he probably is if has seen through the starmaker machinery . Why did I do this ? Because this guy or any other star would end up with a mob scene all wanting autographs and maybe he came to Cameron's not only to do some studying on one of the Shatford brothers to an idea of who they are but maybe to relax . I played my 6 string Bass the best I could currently (because I was jut shedding to be ready for my next big band ) . If I had the chance I would have told him to watch Rusty because I knowhe was more like Bobby for the part . Me being on the stage at 7 years of age with the GHS thespians because my sister codirected it taught me a bit about acting . Was that a form of Method acting Mark? I have been playing for 27 years and Im only known in Gloucester for my High school years as a musician I had to try to make it in a sea of a zillion Boston musicians climbing and clawing their way through the obscurity and the bleak fact that 90% fail . I didn't fail , I just never gave up . Now I am still obscure(and underpaid) but I still play my bass like I still have a chance.I think Im ready to trade some privacy for money LOL .Keep up the good work Mark
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Yeah , he is tiny compared to the real Bobby Shatford but I bet he did a great job to the best of his ability . I had issues with all the others at the club kissing his ass like starf***ers but I know he see through it and he had a job to do . I wouldn't let my best friends sleep at the Crows Nest to see Gloucesters best but he wanted to wear those shoes . Its Method Acting used by all the greats . I lived 2 blocks from the Crows Nest on 298 Main St.in my teen years . I am having trouble trying to make myself walk into that theater , I had a school friend die in that movie David Sullivan . I saw his namein the paper when it happened but I was preoccupied with my newlywedded wife about economics and homelessness due to joblessness . Then I saw his face on the Discovery Channel special and my mouth dropped , that was someone I knew like the back of my hand for 12 grades . I briefly met Bobby and he claimed he has seen my bands with Archie Muise one night that summer of 1991 at the Outrigger with a failed band I played with called the Killer Squids . All bands I put together in gloucester failed because the weed is more important there to the bandmembers .I tried to set the example by not doing it but it still fails because they like it too much. Great musicians but lack of doing what it takes and being able to remember the material holds them . I know because that was my downfall there too LOL. Enough of that , back to Mark. What I mean to say is he like any human loves the loveyou all give him but if you see him in a place that he is not announced , treat him right and keep yourself from freaking on himand let him know how much you appreciate him by treating him like a human . Even if it means you haveto pretend he is not there. Say helloif you have to and if he feels like being bothered he might respond to that hello . Stars are human too . I once had that kind of power in my highschool and it is scary for one to be treated like the reputation you created , especially if that is not true to your real self . Kids took my crazyman stage act litterally and it changed and harmed my life in school . Its just acting .Its a job .
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Summer 2010
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Outstanding Barnard alumnae are selected through a rigorous application and interview process, with winners representing the power and promise of a Barnard education. the Fellowship for Graduate Study is generously funded by the Edith and Frances Mulhall Achilles Memorial Fund.
Reunion Wrap-Up & Looking Ahead
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On April 20, more than 400 alumnae and friends of Barnard College gathered at New York's historic plaza hotel for the school's annual Scholarship Dinner and Auction: Igniting Excellence. Featuring live and silent auctions in addition to an online auction, the event raised a total of 1.7 million dollars for Barnard's financial aid program.
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Reunion offers an opportunity for the alumnae association to recognize especially distinguished graduates who have achieved renown in their professions, or contributed their time and talents selflessly on behalf of Barnard as volunteers.
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The advent of the Kindle and iPad has changed not what we read but how we read it. Before these devices, we obtained books in stores, libraries, or through friends and mail-order clubs; we tucked one into a bag or briefcase, and when we read it, turning the pages, we savored the movement of the bulk from the right side to the left as it neared the end. Although books on tape (now on Cd) changed where and when we could enjoy a book by turning it into a listening experience, new media devices maintain the need for active and involved reading. While online publishing allows otherwise unknown authors a place to sell their work, e-books allow us to carry a multitude of books in one compact device. In response to these massive changes taking place, book publishers are rethinking their approach to the business.
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I have absolutely no time to read all my favorite blogs this week and construct a post with my favorite links, but I was excited to see the Meridian Pendant in mumm by Lights Up! receive some AT love the other day. I originally bought this lamp for my own home at DRTC here in Atlanta, and when Drew, a founder of Design Public came to visit, I showed it to him and told him we simply must find out the vendor and carry it at DP. That was years ago, and the graphic prints of the Lights Up! fixtures are still going strong.
In following the AT Before/After story of the Lights Up! owners Nick and Kate (photographed above), I followed the trail to another favorite blog, Door Sixteen. Apparently, Nick and Kate inquired about the pendant lamp they spied in Door Sixteen's New Years Eve Party Post, which is this lovely piece from another favorite of mine, Mibo. The uber-renovators over at Door Sixteen led Nick and Kate over to Design Public, where they eventually picked out their mumm Meridian Pendant Lamp.
I'm starting to feel like Elaine on Seinfeld typing all of these exclamation points. When I actually take the time to edit my own posts (which is, ah, ahem, not that often, usually after I've posted and read it live and say "oh crud, this post is a disaster."), I find myself cutting out exclamation point after exclamation point, so you are kind of killing me right now, Lights Up!(!!!)!
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When the planet Archetryx is threatened by a Dalek assault squad, the Doctor and Evelyn become embroiled in an ever-deepening mystery. What has become of President Romana, missing for twenty years? What lurks in the vast gravity wells of Archetryx? What is the secret of the ancient element the Daleks are synthesising - and how does Gallifrey feature in the plans?
The Doctor finds that if his oldest enemies cannot conquer the universe they will watch it go up in flames...
'We may never get to see, read, or hear how the Time War between the Daleks and the Time Lords ultimately played out, but this is about as close as we'll ever get.' John Clark's Blogspot
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Austin Nurse Headed to the Philippines Part of National Nurses' Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda Relief Effort
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While many are settling back into regular routines after the holiday break, David Abeles an RN at Arise Medical Center in Austin, Texas, is starting the new year by traveling to the Philippines where he will provide medical support for those who continue to be affected by the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda.
Abeles will join the fifth team of RN volunteers, part of the National Nurses United's Registered Nurse Response Network, that departs on Wednesday, January 15, 2014, to Roxas City on the northern end of the island of Panay, which was in the direct path of the storm. The super typhoon killed over six thousand people, left almost two thousand missing and 4 million either homeless or with damaged homes.
The team includes RNs from New York, Minnesota, Texas, and California. They are among the 3,000 RNs from all 50 states and 19 nations who volunteered in the days after the deadly storm to assist with the relief project for Haiyan/Yolanda.
"Probably like most RN's who apply to go, I feel compelled in my heart and gut to take care of people in a disaster area as soon as possible. It's part of our DNA," said Abeles. "I went into nursing because my parents were Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe and from their experience a fire was born in me to help the underserved sectors of society. When I was an adult I felt nursing would most closely match this desire and it definitely has." Abeles, has been an RN for eleven years and is the proud father of a sixteen-year-old daughter, Shalui.
"I expect the work there to be very fulfilling to me as a human and RN," said Abeles. "There's nothing more special and moving for me than people being moved to act to help one another on basis of human solidarity rather than financial benefit. The world would be a better place if it was based on mutual aid rather than profit."
Tomorrow morning Abeles will meet with the Austin Metro Committee of the NNOC (National Nurses Organizing Committee) to provide an overview of RNRN's relief effort in the Philippines.
"Now that the world is no longer focused on the devastation in the Philippines, it is even more important that we continue to lend our support," said Bonnie Castillo, RN, director of RNRN. "We are working closely with our sister organization in the Philippines, the Alliance of Health Workers, to determine the most effective ways that we can be of assistance." The Alliance of Health Workers and National Nurses United are both members of Global Nurses United, an international network of nurses' organizations established last summer.
Joining Abeles will be volunteer, Ireneo Jore, an RN at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City, and originally from Roxas City, where he practiced as a family physician. "I am glad to be part of this opportunity to help the victims of this horrific calamity in my own home town" said Jore, who now lives in Manhattan. Jore has 10 siblings, five of whom live in Roxas City and lost their homes in the disaster.
Ireneo, Abeles and the others departing this week will follow in the footsteps of the RNRN volunteers who have been providing basic medical care at rotating mobile clinics, in a ruined chapel, school, gym and other temporary settings as well as at a city health clinic in and around Roxas, and other sites in the Philippines.
The RNRN volunteers have worked in conjunction with local public health officials, physicians, a church and other community supporters, providing wound care, giving tetanus and other shots, offering critical stress debriefings, and other basic care.
National Nurses United invites the public to contribute to the effort at www.sendanurse.org
RNRN, a project of National Nurses United, the nation's largest organization of RNs, was formed in 2004 in the aftermath of the South Asia tsunami in 2004, when the need for nurses was not being met by traditional disaster relief organizations. Since that time RNRN has send hundreds of direct-care nurse volunteers to assist following Hurricane Katrina, the massive earthquake in Haiti, and Hurricane Sandy.


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I bought the IF MODE and within a week, the paintwork and Pacific decals started peeling off in many different areas. Of course the poor paintwork peeled off the hinge areas albeit extremely quickly but paint also peeled off in unexpected areas. I have tried to speak to Juan who is the UK representative for Pacific Cycles but he seems to always be unavailable. Very poor customer support for a very expensive product. While I am here, I will also mention the gear change is very clunky and does not seem very durable.
Also, the disk brakes are not very powerful, you can't tighten them either as this would stop the wheel going round when the bike is folded and pushed along. Quite the glaring oversight. Based on Juans lack of any help whatsoever and the very early problems I am experiencing, I would not advise buying this bike.


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5 Seconds of Jay Leno Kills a Funny 2 Minute Video!
Jay Leno is corny. Not Funny. Corny. He's not been funny in a loooooong time. His five second cameo in this commercial for the new Honda Acura, starring Jerry Seinfeld, in my opinion, ruins what would've been a funny ad.
Watch the commercial and see if you agree.


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Thanks, Broncos, we all needed that.
Just your basic, boring blowout victory — circa 1997. For only the ninth time in league history, a team had 500 yards on offense, didn't punt, didn't allow a sack and scored at least 37 points.
On a soothing, serene, spectacular, as-seen-on-TV Sunday afternoon, the Broncos barb-wired the Raiders by 31. Everyone not dressed in black went home happy, fat, sassy and satisfied.
Especially Broncos punter Britton Colquitt. He didn't punt once. And especially Brock Osweiler. Kid QB got into his first NFL game with 18 seconds remaining — not to throw a Hail Mary, but to kneel down on the final play. And especially the two guys in orange in section 113 — who splashed each other in the face with full cups of beer at game's end.
John Fox badly needed that. Pat Bowlen needed that. Peyton Manning certainly needed that. Champ Bailey needed that. John Elway wanted that. Broncoids in the stadium and all over the Rocky Mountain region craved that.
Enough of those heart-stopping, mind-bending, stomach-aching, fourth-quarter and overtime bang-bang, pull-the-trigger games. Enough of those dismal, devastating division defeats at home. Enough of other teams scoring 40-plus or sneering at the Broncos as they departed the field. Enough of the putdowns. Enough already.
And how appropriate was it the Raiders, and the genuine NFL officials, who were invited guests.
It has been 14 consecutive home games since the Broncos went barefoot in the park and wiggled grass between their toes.
The last time was Nov. 14, 2010, when the Broncos barbecued Kansas City in Our Town 49-29.
Over the past 36 months in Denver, the Broncos dropped three games to both the Raiders and the Chargers. They were thwacked twice by the Chiefs. They gave up 59, 45 and 41 points at home. Even when they won, nothing came easy.
I give you Houston two Christmases ago, and last year, Cincinnati, Chicago, the New York Jets, and lest we forget, Pittsburgh (playoff) games. Then, this season, the Steelers game again going down to the final moments in the opener, and the loss to the Texans in the second home game. The beginning of the Peyton Manning Era was more of the abbreviated Tim Tebow Era.
So, Sunday was splendid.
The Broncos were up 31-6 after three quarters and coasted.
According to Raiders coach Dennis Allen, who was on the other sideline last year, the Broncos "outcoached us, they outplayed us, they beat us in every phase."''
Platitude, attitude and altitude.
Manning needed a clean 30-of-38 for 338 yards, three touchdowns and zero interceptions. Willis McGahee, who was stuck in the ribs last game, needed to respond with 112 yards and a touchdown. And the Broncos needed to have possession for 37 minutes, 25 seconds.
The passing and running games clicked.
The Broncos permitted the Raiders only two measly field goals and 34 yards rushing by Darren McFadden, a longtime Broncos buster. Carson Palmer was ineffective and sacked three times.
Overall, very impressive.
"I think it all started Wednesday when we started preparing for this game," Fox said. "Guys kind of looked in the mirror and practiced better, and for that, we played better."
Upon reflection, the Broncos were fairer than Snow White.
The first and third quarters had been the Broncos' undoing the first three games, but they scored 10 in the first and 21 in the third against the inept Raiders' secondary. It would have been more, except Demaryius Thomas did an air-guitar fumble after breaking open on what would have been a 71-yard touchdown play in the second quarter.
The Broncos aren't on Easy Street, or off Colfax Avenue now. Games at New England and San Diego loom the next two weeks.
But the victory Sunday was more like it, and there will be more like it. This is what was anticipated when the Broncos enticed Manning to Denver. And this was more like the home domination the Broncos enjoyed when the executive VP was QB.
Hannibal needed elephants to cross the Pyrenees. Denver needed the Broncos to put a can of whoop-run, whoop-defense and whoop-pass on the Raiders.
It's been a long time coming.
Woody Paige: 303-954-1095 or email@example.com


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text: On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: > The recent emails from rgb and Doug lead me to a question. Has anyone > tested codes running under a VM versus running them "natively" on > the hardware (native isn't a good word and I hope everyone gets my > meaning)? The last word I heard is that performance takes a substantial > hit if you are running a code in a VM. Some of the reasons are that the > code has only virtualized access to the hardware (particularly the NICs) > and memory management is a bit more difficult (although Barcelona with > nested page tables should help there). I do remember VirtualIron saying > that they had IB drivers so that the VM had direct access to the hardware. > > Thanks! I'd actually expect that as always YMMV. For CPU bound code, I don't expect that it WOULD take a hit on modern CPUs with hardware support for virtualization, although yes you'll pay a penalty for adding what amounts to an additional superscheduler on top of the kernel scheduler per se. That is, the toplevel host OS has to get enough cycles that its scheduler doesn't starve because it may be multitasking the VM(s) with pretty much whatever you like. So there is the baseline overhead of a single instance of Linux as a host OS running the VM manager plus whatever tasks you choose to run there (which may be none at all). To give you a very precise idea of the average load associated with the VM manager itself, VMware has been running on a server I help control since April 18th (without a system reboot, although it is due to come down tomorrow for a memory upgrade so you're lucky you asked this today:-). For most of the time from May on, it has been running a VM instance of Linux pretty much full time (the system itself is a dual CPU, dual core IBM server). In all that time, VMware has accumulated about 2100 minutes of CPU, or about a day and a half. Lessee, May, June, July, August, September -- call it 150 days, give or take -- and we see that it has cost around 1% in net overhead. Not, actually a huge burden. However, this system has idle cores at all times and hence does not thrash. CPU bound code, especially on a multicore system with a core to devote to the host OS, probably will not slow down "at all" in a VM partition, although I can probably test that if you give me a day or three (I'm working on a multicore laptop, but I don't have a working linux VM on the system at this particular moment). My other laptop has VM Workstation on it but only a single core. I can probably borrow cycles on a failover server to run some straight numerical benchmark tests but not before Thursday or Friday. Network bound code is a different matter altogether. VMs present the running guest OS with a "virtual" hardware layer that is wrapped up to look like a "standard" widely supported network adapter, one likely to have readily available drivers in any OS. In addition, it can insert itself between the VM's "network" -- an entirely artificial private internal network -- and the real world, acting as a NAT/gateway for the VM guest, or it can actually give over the guest interface to e.g. DHCP or static addressing on the host system's network. Clearly there are differing amounts of work being done by the intermediary host OS in these cases, but pretty much all of them will add LATENCY to any sort of connection, and may eat a bit of bandwidth as well. Again, I'm happy to run e.g. netpipe to test this, in a couple of days, but I'd predict 1.5-3x the native latency of ethernet and 95% of the bandwidth accessible to the (unloaded) host OS, lessened by contention and thrashing caused by multiple VMs sharing an interface. Disk performance can vary quite a bit, as VMs can mount native partitions or e.g. NFS partitions with performance that should be at least comparable to native performance or NFS performance (modified by network efficiency in the latter case), OR all VM disk can itself be virtual. In the case of VMware you have two distinct categories of the latter -- preallocated disk (the "disk" for the VM is basically a big, fixed size file) and "growable" disk (the "disk" is still a file, but it starts out at modest size and then dynamically grows as you fill it up to some maximum). In order this is fast (almost as fast as native), slow, and slower, for again fairly obvious reasons. Nevertheless, there are plenty of times one might want to run the VM in a relatively slow but growable file to minimize impact on your available disk resources while still in PRINCIPLE being able to create a big file without completely reprovisioning the entire VM. VMware (through its better toplevel interface) lets you reprovision things fairly freely with the exception of the fixed-resizable transition. You can add processors (or cores), memory (within sane bounds) and so on to any quiescent VM. It is truly a pretty awesome tool, although IMO it is too expensive by a factor of 3-4. It is the usual thing -- at $50 a seat full retail in single-seat quantities, $25 a seat academic for VMware Workstation, I think they'd sell a zillion seats because it is SO damn useful. Who wouldn't pay $50 to be able to never dual boot their box again? Pop Windows in right where it belongs as a Linux task, add a few other Linux VMs for e.g. code prototyping or node prototyping or putting up a webserver or FTP server that CANNOT compromise your host OS and your valuable data even if an exploit goes unpatched. But for $189 list and well over $100 either academic or bulk, lots and lots of people that might otherwise buy it don't, and VMware fails to take over the world. As I like to say, if Sun Microsystems had sold Unix for the Intel architecture for $50 full list, $25 academic back in 1988 (at which time it should be noted that they HAD a Unix that would run on the 386 and where these prices would have undercut Microsoft's prices for DOS), then Sun would be Microsoft and Microsoft would either be selling unix or out of business. Products that never would have been developed include Windows, OS/2, NT, and -- Linux. Maybe, just maybe, BSD would have still survived. VMware has a similar opportunity now, but the window (so to speak) is rapidly closing as Microsoft is due to co-opt the entire VM market any day now using their standard strategy. VMware has created and proven the market, chip manufacturers have moved to support it, so MS will now implement their own version of VM, ensure that it only works well for Windows VM guests (and may not work at all for other guests), change their licensing to make it more or less illegal to run Windows guests under other VMs (already underway), use their sales channels to insert their product cheaply everywhere, sow some judicious FUD about how their product is secure, reliable, and supported and its competitors are not (backed up with ominous rumblings about license violations, DRM, and legal action). In six months, a year tops, they own 70% of the market, and its open and closed competitors spiral down to gradual extinction as virtualization is a key component of modern server provisioning and failover and not even Linux can hold its own in the server room if Microsoft (say) makes it a license violation to run its Server products in a non-Microsoft VM manager. You heard it here first, folks -- pure crystal ball stuff determined by my awesome psychic powers. VMware's window to beat this absolutely standard operating procedure (used time and time again by Microsoft under precisely these conditions) is probably measured in months. If it weren't for the Vista debacle, it would probably be underway already, as Vista introduced the first of the necessary licensing changes, but until MS's clients are comfortable paying through the nose for Vista business class licenses or better in order to virtualize at all, and until the stink from Vista's amazingly poor performance goes away, they're laying low. VMware needs volume -- massive volume. Volume at the consumer level, to have a CHANCE of creating a bit of a consumer revolution, volume at the server level. Ubiquity. They need low margin high volume sales, not high margin low volume sales. It might already be too late, but then -- it might not! But Alas, nobody listens to an Oracle... rgb (...and yes, fully open source Xen and KVM are safe enough topically as open source products never really go away even if they DO stop being overtly profitable in 80-90% of all instances, but by the time the billion dollar antitrust lawsuit winds down and Microsoft loses (some 2-4 years from now) the issue really will be moot. And VMware doesn't have that luxury -- the dark side of closed licensing of a product that Microsoft "wants" is that they are trying to beat Microsoft at its own game, which is basically impossible. After all, it owns the playing field and the umpires and the balls and the bats, and the world series is over long before an appeal to the commissioners has a chance of being heard.) > > Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. 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So, I am sitting at my local Starbucks and decided to give the new AT&T free Wi-Fi a spin on my iPhone 3G. The process was painless. After turning on Wi-Fi, you are presented with a screen to enter you phone number. Afterwards, it tells you that you are receiving a link via text (for free) with a link to access AT&T's free Wi-Fi.
I have to admit, at first I was thinking that this seems a little complicated and a lot of steps to just connect via Wi-Fi... but wait, it is all-goooooood.
So, I get my text message and it tells me that I now have access and that it is renewable every 24 hours. Cool. Now, why is this exciting and post-worthy? Well, If you have tried to connect to an AT&T Wi-Fi access point before, say, via Starbucks, you connect, but as soon as your iPhone goes into sleep mode, you loose the Wi-Fi connection and you have to reconfigure it all over again!
With this process, this does not happen! I can only assume it adds your MAC address to AT&T's service. So everytime your iPhone goes into sleep mode, you don't have to worry about turning it back on! It automatically connects (well, for 24 hours anyway). How great is that! I say kudos to AT&T in taking the extra time to ensure that the free Wi-Fi experience on your iPhone is flawless. Good job.
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SA2 Mod Loader - MainMemory
SA Tools - MainMemory
Decryped Executable - MainMemory
IDA 5.5 Database - MainMemory
SA2 Cheat Table - flarn2006
Notable Mods:
MainMemory's Mods
SA2B - Network Mod - Morph
Sonic Adventure 2: Pro Edition - Dude
SA2: The New Challengers - Neo
No Upgrades for Sonic or Shadow - darkspines35
Fusion's Chao Editor
Trial Sonic Mod - darkspines35
Better Buttons - Morph
Stache Fix - Morph
No LoD - Morph
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Anyway, recently I've been trying to actually extract the .MLT files, something I don't think has been done before. I found a set of python scripts meant to do this here:
Unfortunately, these scripts were made in an older version of python, and it seems some of the syntax has changed. Months ago, I updated most of it to work with the current version of Python, but I still couldn't get it to work. Here is the updated code for dsfmake:
Now, there's still at least one problem left in the code. When the code is executed, you get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\dsfmake.py", line 250, in <module> dsfmake(nout,ndrv,nmlt,bank,track,volume,mixer,effect) File "C:\dsfmake.py", line 121, in dsfmake dsfbin = array('B','\x00'*0x200000) TypeError: an integer is required
I've never dabbled in python before this and I haven't been able to fix this. If anyone knows what's wrong, feel free to fix it or say what's wrong. I think the mlt files can almost be extracted, which I find quite exciting.
Also, if anyone else wants to discuss any other aspect of SA2 hacking, feel free to post your findings...


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Caution – the indented design feature of this decanter must not be used as a handle. Do not insert any item into the indented area.
RIEDEL Decanter Black Tie Face To Face
Year of design 2009
Volume 1766 ccm
Height 600 mm
Box quantity 1
Type of Manufacturing manual production
Material Crystal
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- Decant an older wine to separate it from its sediment.
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text: Here's an intriguing bit of news for this Friday morning. According to some industry intel, Google is engaging in some "casual" talks with Dish Network about potentially becoming a wireless carrier. If true, the implications of this begin to boggle the mind as the imagination runs wild. Can you picture a "pure" Google device, unfettered by the excessive restrictions of the big carriers like Verizon and AT&T? Sounds pretty good doesn't it? Of course, the source of this news report (The Wall Street Journal) also shared that these talks are nowhere near any official stages yet, and is more like a friendly sit down chat over morning coffee. In fact, they also reported that Dish Network was having some of the same discussions with AT&T on the subject. However, AT&T doesn't have the $45 Billion in cash like Google. For now we can chock this one up as a potential "dream come true scenario" and wait to see what happens. Source: Phandroid


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bspwm is a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree. It has support for EWMH and multiple monitors, and is configured and controlled through messages.
Install bspwmAUR or bspwm-gitAUR from the AUR. You will also want to install sxhkdAUR or sxhkd-gitAUR, a simple X hotkey daemon used to communicate with bspwm through
bspc as well as launch your applications of choice.
To start bspwm on login, add the following to your
sxhkd & exec bspwm
Example configuration is found on GitHub.
Copy bspwmrc to
~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc, sxhkdrc to
~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc and make bspwmrc executable with
chmod +x ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc.
Documentation for bspwm is found by running
man bspwm.
There is also documentation for sxhkd found by running
man sxhkd.
These two files are where you will be setting wm settings and keybindings, respectively.
Be sure to take a look in the rules directory for example scripts to set window-specific rules. These scripts are required to run the example configuration file.
The following environmental variables may need to be defined:
echo $BSPWM_SOCKET echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
If either of these do not respond with a value, then go to your /etc/profile and add the following lines:
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="~/.config" export BSPWM_SOCKET="/tmp/bspwm-socket"
See also
- Mailing List: bspwm at librelist.com.
#bspwm- IRC channel at the irc.freenode.net
- https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=149444 - Arch BBS thread
- https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm - GitHub project
- https://github.com/windelicato/dotfiles/wiki/bspwm-for-dummies - earsplit's "bspwm for dummies"


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Arizona Cardinals receiver Michael Floyd played just 12 snaps during Sunday's win over the Houston Texans.
Floyd left the game after suffering a shoulder injury late in the first quarter. He caught a 20-yard pass from Carson Palmer and Texans' cornerback Kareem Jackson hit him squarely on his right shoulder. Floyd appeared to show some discomfort after the play but came back on the field after one play on the sidelines. He again landed on his right shoulder while trying to block in front of a running play and asked out of the game as the first quarter came to a close.
According to Josh Weinfuss of ESPN.com, head coach Bruce Arians said Monday that Floyd has a sprained A/C joint in his shoulder and is considered to be day-to-day.
"At first it looked like just a bruised shoulder but I don't know the difference between a bruise and a sprain," Arians said. "I think he's going to want to play. That's a big part of it.
"If he can't play it's a big blow because he's starting to break out."
Floyd caught five passes in four straight games earlier this season and had caught a touchdown pass in two of the Cardinals' last three games. He had already caught two passes for 31 yards in the first quarter against Houston before leaving with the injury.


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It's possible, I suppose, that some children may find things to like about "Mr. Peabody & Sherman." The animated feature about a time-traveling dog with a genius IQ and his human companion has even more than the recommended daily allowance of scatological humor and B.O. jokes for the average 8-year-old.
Anyone much older than that — and certainly anyone who remembers the cartoons on which the film is based, which ran as segments accompanying Jay Ward's Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons — is in for a big disappointment. Despite an updated CGI animation style, the movie has all the superficial attributes of the 1959-64 series but none of the charm. Both revolve around a boy named Sherman; his canine master, Peabody; a time machine; and bad puns. Yet by visual standards alone, the characters, rendered in eye-popping 3-D, resemble nothing so much as Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade floats.
They're just as lifeless and inexpressive, too.
This is especially odd, considering that writer Craig Wright and director Rob Minkoff go to great lengths to flesh out the characters' back stories and devote inordinate attention and energy to what is presented in the film as the father-son relationship between talking beagle Peabody (voice of Ty Burrell) and Sherman (Max Charles), the human child he lives with.
While it's true that in the original series, Peabody legally "adopted" Sherman, anyone who has seen the old show can tell you that the relationship between the two was closer to pet ownership than paternal custody. Portraying Sherman as Peabody's legal dependent, instead of as his slightly dimwitted best friend, not only violates the spirit of the original series but also is just plain weird.
"Peabody's Improbable History," as the television segments were called, was an irreverent, even subversively educational romp through famous moments in history. The new film is a sappy comedy about the difficulties of contemporary parenting. Sure, the plot superficially hops around in time — from the French Revolution to ancient Egypt to the Italian Renaissance to the Trojan War — but its main narrative has less to do with history than with the headaches of single fatherhood when your child is an idiot.
Sherman sets the story in motion by letting his classmate Penny (voiced by Burrell's "Modern Family" castmate Ariel Winter) use the time machine, known as the WABAC, despite Peabody's express instructions not to. In short order, Penny gets stuck in Egypt, where she is betrothed to the boy king Tutankhamun (Zach Callison), forcing Peabody and Sherman to rescue her. A subplot about the dangers of disrupting the space-time continuum only muddies the narrative and will upset even the most open-minded aficionado of cinematic time-travel conventions.
The question, then, is: Who is this movie for? Certainly not baby boomers who grew up with the series, and who probably only came to fully grasp its wordplay and wit when they were adults. Their teeth will likely be set on edge by the aggressively lowbrow nature of the script.
But what strange child cares about jokes referencing the 1999 film "Runaway Bride" or Bill Clinton's dalliance with Monica Lewinsky? That's right, Mom and Dad, the 42nd president pops up here to remind your child about that 1990s sex scandal. The off-color allusion is the only time the film goes quite this far, but it's emblematic of the film's inability to strike the right tone. Good luck explaining it on the way home.
Then again, you might not have to. If there are as few laughs as there were at the screening I sat through, that nasty little innuendo might fly right over Junior's head.
In that sense at least, "Mr. Peabody and Sherman" does resemble the original cartoon, which always packed more gags into it than any child could be expected to understand. The difference is that with "Peabody's Improbable History," you had to grow up to get all of the humor, which ran from silly puns to more slyly sophisticated — if family-friendly — double entendres.
With "Mr. Peabody & Sherman," you'll need not only your own WABAC machine, but also a shower.
PG. At area theaters. Contains mild action and rude humor. 82 minutes.


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I will not be at the game on Thursday night at Rogers Arena. The Vancouver Canucks will be facing off against the Nashville Predators. In fact, like I wrote in the previous blog, I will probably cross the Fraser River and watch the game in the suburbs. Since the existence of the franchise, I have never seen another team beat them while I am watching a game, in person, that involves the Preds. In short, I'm cursed.
Whenever I tell people about the this 'curse', I usually get a chuckle. In fact, I've had a few people down right not believe me. However, I have some examples of how this curse is closer to the truth than the myth.
Dec 22, 2009: The Vancouver Canucks had a home game vs the Nashville Predators. I decided to watch a movie with my then 12 year old daughter that night. The Canucks were up 4-0, as soon as we got out of Scotiabank Theatres downtown and passed by Earl's Restaurant near the movie theatre and Patrick Hornqvist ruined Luongo's shutout near the 15 minute mark of the third period. I glanced at the TV, the game was on, the minute I saw the screen, Preds score. We later proceeded to meet up at La Bodega for a birthday party and I told my spouse about the Earl's incident and he shook his head. Although not at the arena, being in the downtown core was enough to give the Preds a little luck.
March 20, 2011: I was in Toronto on business. I arrived a couple of days early and on the Sunday, a friend and I drove down to Buffalo to watch this game. These were when the 5PM starts started to show up in schedules and I forgot. So we arrived at the (then called)HSBC Arena part-way through the second period. The Sabres were up 3-1. My friend mentioned, I guess we chose a good day, the boys are up! So after a couple of beers and a period after, Blake Geoffrion decided to make a fool out of me and score two third period goals to complete his hattrick, to send the game to OT. I was shaking my head. I had yet to tell my friend about my "Predator Curse". As a joke, I said, I betcha Erat will score just to make my day. Guess who scrored? 4-3 in OT, the Sabres lost. So en route back to Toronto, I told my friend of how the Nashville Predators always win when I am in the arena watching. He threw his hat at me and called me "Nashville's Good Luck Charm".
May 7, 2011: It was the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Game 5. The Vancouver Canucks were up 3-1 in the series and my spouse told me it was time to 'break the curse'. He told me I was going to this game with him and the Canucks will advance to the next round. I thought about for a few days, and well, I reluctantly accepted and attended the game. Well, let's just say, Joel Ward was determined to make sure my curse was in tact. Tied 2-2 after the second period, just over a minute into the third, Ward makes it 3-2 for the Predators. I had to close my eyes and shake my head. The first thoughts going through my mind were, "I wish I said no to Chris. Why am I here?". He killed any sort of hope I had in about four minutes after he scored his last goal and scored to make it 4-2. Kesler made a late attempt to try for a comeback but fell short 4-3.
By that cup run, I have been to about 20 Nashville games in a few different arenas including the ACC, the then-called Gaylord Entertainment, Complex Rogers Arena, the Saddledome, and as well as that woe-ful day in Buffalo. All the games with me in attendance? The Predators have won. So when it comes to the January 23, 2014 game vs. Nashville for the Canucks, my spouse is taking a very good friend of mine instead. I will not be to blame if the Canucks somehow manage to lose that game. I will as far away from Rogers Arena as I can muster and away from giving any winning vibes to the Nashville Predators.
Justine Galo


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Jayne Justice needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 51 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
Working as a dietician in the hospital, Jayne Justice found her true passion in preventive health and fitness. While teaching weight loss and cardiac fitness classes in the hospital and outpatient clinics, she was chosen to work as a Dietician and Fitness Instructor on the Norwegian Caribbean Cruise Lines, giving lectures and teaching classes.
Discovering her love of the ocean and warm weather lead her to California over twenty years ago where her passion for health continued to flourish. She has studied Chinese medicine and taken numerous courses under Ron Teeguarden. She is an avid runner, yoga enthusiast, and loves to be fit and outdoors.
To further her studies with a holistic approach to health, a friend introduced her to the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in New York City. This program promotes balance in our lives, while giving an individualized approach to counseling. Jayne loves helping people get healthier and has become a Lifestyle Nutritional Coach certified by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners.
Logo will be used on website and print collateral. Audience is adults looking for help with diet and nutrition for a variety of reasons; overweight, diabetes, skin disorders, improve fitness, etc. I work with both men and women as well as children but the actual audience are adults.
The target market may or may not currently be into health and fitness but are usually searching for a solution.
The logo should have the the following 2 components:
1. My name, Jayne Justice, stylized in some way
2. A symbol reflecting me and my practice
Other notes:
1. I am in private practice as a nutritionist, fitness instructor, promote natural supplements.
2. I am all about ENERGY, VITALITY, LIVING YOUR BEST LIFE, VIBRANT, WARMTH
3. Love the ocean and would like to feel it in the logo
4. Really like the colors of blue, more turquoise, than sky blue
and the color between orange and fuschia pink.
5. logo needs to have motion, simplicity, class, beauty,
6. also, a tag line would be helpful.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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When I was a child growing up in the 1950s, Major League Baseball was the national pastime. Baseball dominated media sports coverage.
But that is no longer the case.
The extraordinary shift is confirmed by the television Nielsen ratings for Sept. 3-9. The NBC coverage of last week's Steeler-Bronco game had 27.5 million viewers and was the top-rated show. The second-rated show was NBC coverage of the Cowboy-Giant Wednesday night game with almost 24 million viewers.
The third rated show was NBC's Sunday pregame show with an audience of 20 million. The fourth rated show was NBC's pregame show preceding the Wednesday night football with almost 19 million viewers. Rounding out the top five was Football Night in America with 13 million viewers. The No. 7 seven rated show was NFL Opening Kickoff with an audience of 10 million. That means the top five shows and six of the top seven were all football on NBC.
By comparison, two high rating perennial shows like "America's Got Talent" had nine million viewers and "Two and a Half Men" had six. When six of the top seven rated entertainment options on television – matched against the best entertainment that the 300 stations and cable options that Hollywood and other sports have to offer – are NFL games or pre-games, something fundamental has shifted in America.
How did this dramatic shift occur? Television and the NFL evolved together since the 60s into a marriage made in heaven. The multiple cameras, sound, highlights, instant replay, slow motion and other novel production techniques used in NFL coverage captivated a large audience. NFL Films, led by the combined genius of Ed and Steve Sabol, innovated the combination of music and highlights. This became the norm on local news and ESPN.
Direct TV enables viewers to watch all the Sunday games, with compelling features that move the audience from highlight to highlight.
The NFL Network features a variety of NFL content.
A sport like baseball has slower rythyms. It is an experience passed down from fathers to sons which needs history and statistics to be fully enjoyed. The more leisurely pace of baseball still has millions of dedicated fans, but the NFL has passed it by.
The NFL is an "event sport" played once a week. There is a weekly pre-game anticipation and buildup and post-game analysis. Every game matters and may be critical in the race to the Super Bowl. American appetite for violent, collison-filled action has increased. The NFL features bigger, stronger, faster bodies which produce an exponentially more impactful "physics of the hit" that is increasingly dramatic.
The NFL has had the leadership and vision of promotion oriented commissioners, from Pete Rozelle to Paul Taglibue to Roger Goodell. Continuous labor peace and long-term collective bargaining agreements have assured fans that games would be played and are not overshadowed by labor strife.
Owners like the Cowboys' Jerry Jones and the Patriots' Bob Kraft have pushed the cutting edge of creative branding.
NFL Properties and Players Inc. have been agressive in marketing. Vast NFL and team aparell and memorabilia are omnipresent.
Tailgating, sports bars, luxury boxes, premiere seating, naming rights, cheerleaders and team logoed credit cards have driven the experience.
Millions of fans play fantasy football on a weekly basis giving them a special rooting interest.
Gamblers and the ubiquitous office game pools heighten focus.
Talk radio and the internet provide endless commentary and reports.
This country has morphed into NFL madness. The second most popular sport in most reader polls is ... wait for it ... college football. And following the collegiate players elevation to the pros - highlighted by massive amounts of draft coverage, amplifies the effect.
To guage the evolution of American culture and tastes, simply trace the substitution of the public's love affair with the more textured, pastoral game of baseball by the current obsession with the faster-paced, more violent National Football League.
LEIGH STEINBERG is a renowned sports agent, author, advocate, speaker and humanitarian. His column appears weekly. Follow Leigh on Twitter @steinbergsports or blog.steinbergsports.com.


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George Elgood was one of the great Victorian watercolorists specializing in flower gardens.
His paintings show botanically accurate flowers in natural groupings, often with architectural or landscape elements. Flower gardens are a brain-busting challenge to paint in watercolor because you have to paint precisely around all the light shapes.
Let's go back in a time machine 100 years to see how he does it.
Mr. Elgood draws the whole subject carefully in pencil, especially if there are architectural elements. But he prefers not to tie himself to a hard and fast outline, instead drawing as much with the brush as much as with the pencil.
According to A. L. Baldry, who watched him work, he often "lays the whole thing in at once, sometimes in colours which are not by any means those he sees in nature," thinking ahead to the colors he wants to add later when finishing.
He then builds the rendering from a strong dark and light focus. He works fairly rapidly, often focusing on a group of flowers that is in peak bloom.
He then moves on to other groups on subsequent days of a multiple-day plein-air study. All of his works are done primarily on the spot, though he doesn't copy what he sees, but rather uses nature as a reference for a composition that he assembles from the best elements.
He uses no opaque white and limited scratching out. His preference is for lifting lights out of wet washes and in general working simply and directly. He works on smooth, stretched Whatman paper with a relatively small palette of colors.
A. L. Baldry "The Practice of Water-Colour Painting," London, 1911
Friday, August 6, 2010
Elgood's Secrets
Posted by James Gurney at Friday, August 06, 2010
Labels: Paint Technique, Watercolor Painting
4 comments:
- The Surfin' Squid said...
Wow, that is some insanely complicated watercolor work. Hats off to this guy.
Part of the reason I like this blog is because it introduces me to illustrators I had no idea even existed.
- August 6, 2010 at 12:23 PM
- Steve said...
Ditto Surfin' Squid on both counts.
The variegated texture Elgood got into the taller topiary shrubs in this painting is phenomenal in any medium, but especially watercolor.
- August 6, 2010 at 2:28 PM
- DavidStill said...
Wow.. That's insanely good. You really have to be aware of negative shapes to do that...
- August 6, 2010 at 4:00 PM
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ORLANDO, Fla. - There's a new winning snake in the state's "Python Challenge."
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said Sunday that Blake Russ, of Fruitland Park, should have won $1,000 for bagging the longest Burmese python. Russ competed with hunters holding special permits for harvesting pythons.
"It's been just a dream come true to come down here and catch Burmese pythons. It's something I wanted to do as a little kid, catch large snakes," Russ said.
Russ told Local 6 he hunted only about 8 days out of the month-long challenge. He was working with a partner the day he first spotted the nearly 12-foot python, hidden in some brush. Russ says half of the snakes body was already slithering into a canal.
And unlike many of the other competitors who hunt with guns and machetes, Russ uses only his hands and a large pillow case.
"So I started pulling, pulling, pulling and I could feel the snake slipping out of my hands like I'm losing it. It was stronger than me," said Russ.
Russ says the python became exhausted after striking at him several times.
"Right after the strike, you can't hesitate, you have to go for the head and go for the neck and grab it as quick as you can. It ended up biting me on the inside of my leg and I can feel the blood dripping down my leg, into my pant leg and onto my ankle. But it's not that bad," said Russ.
Russ describes python hunting as a full-time hobby, and expects to be back at it later this week.
Among competitors without the python permits, Paul Shannon, of Lehigh Acres, won $1,000 for a 14-foot-3-inch snake.
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Towel and Tissue Titan: George Wurtz III '78
A shrewd investment in his industrial arts education has paid hefty dividends in his manufacturing career. Just to be clear: George Wurtz III '78, president and CEO of Soundview Paper Co. LLC, fully intended to teach industrial arts after graduating from Oswego. Hardwired with his grandfather's love of woodworking and machinery, Wurtz had graduated from


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Very In-My-Back-Yard (IMBY) forecast, but since I've been out of town and not keeping up with the weather I can't really make a nice snowfall forecast.
With so much uncertainty with the cut-off for the big snowfall totals, I will go with 3-6″ of snow for DCA and Montgomery County (65% confidence), with higher totals (including 10″+) in eastern MD and 2-4″ further west in places like Leesburg, VA. There is about a 25% chance that DCA and MoCo could see higher than 6 in., and about a 10% chance that they could see less than 3 in.
This will be an event that will have to be closely followed on radar to see where the significant snowfall line sets up. The difference of a few tens of miles could be all it takes to go from "meh" to "wow this is a lot of snow!"
Either way, it looks like this snow storm will put DCA in the above normal snowfall category for December (we're only ~1.2″ short of normal at this point), which would be a great start to a La Niña winter in the Mid-Atlantic as they tend to have below normal snowfall totals for most of the region.