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WASHINGTON — In a surprise, the Federal Reserve has decided against reducing its stimulus for the U.S. economy because its outlook for growth has dimmed in the past three months.
The Fed said it will continue to buy $85 billion a month in bonds while it awaits conclusive evidence that the economy is strengthening. The Fed"s bond purchases are intended to keep long-term borrowing rates low to boost spending and economic growth.
"Conditions in the job market today are still far from what all of us would like to see," Chairman Ben Bernanke said at a news conference shortly after the statement was released.
Stocks spiked after the Fed released the statement at the end of its two-day policy meeting. The Standard & Poor"s 500 index and Dow Jones industrial average jumped to record highs. The Dow closed up 147 points at 15,676.94.
In the statement, the Fed said that the economy is growing moderately and that some indicators of the job market have improved. But it noted that rising mortgage rates and government spending cuts are restraining growth.
The Fed repeated its plan to keep its key short-term rate near zero at least until unemployment falls to 6.5 percent from the current 7.3 percent. In the Fed"s most recent forecast, unemployment could reach that level as soon as late 2014.
The Fed"s short-term rate indirectly affects many consumer and business loans.
"We"re in a slow-growth economy with high unemployment and low inflation," said Greg McBride, senior financial analyst at Bankrate.com. "There"s no specific catalyst for the Fed to remove stimulus."
The Fed was widely expected to scale back its bond purchases. But long-term rates on mortgages and some other loans have jumped since May, when Bernanke first said the Fed might slow its bond buys later this year.
At his news conference, Bernanke said there"s "no fixed schedule" date or "magic number" for when the Fed will slow or end its bond purchases.
In its statement, the Fed said the rise in mortgage and some other loan rates in recent months "could slow the pace of improvement in the economy and labor market" if they"re sustained.
Bernanke also said the Fed is concerned that looming fights between Congress and the White House over the budget and taxes could slow the economy. Unless Congress can agree to fund the government past Oct. 1, a government shutdown will occur.
The government is also expected to reach its borrowing limit next month. Unless Congress agrees to raise the limit, the government won"t be able to pay all its bills.
"This is one of the risks we are looking at," Bernanke said.
The Fed lowered its economic growth forecasts for this year and next year slightly, likely reflecting its concerns about interest rates. It predicts that the economy will grow just 2 percent to 2.3 percent this year, down from its forecast in June of 2.3 percent to 2.6 percent growth.
Next year"s economic growth will be a barely healthy 3 percent, the Fed predicts.
The Fed"s policymakers expect the unemployment rate to fall to between 7.1 percent and 7.3 percent by the end of 2013, slightly below its June forecast of 7.2 percent to 7.3 percent. It predicts that unemployment will fall as low as 6.4 percent next year, down from 6.5 percent in its June forecast.
The Fed"s policy statement was approved on a 9-1 vote. Esther George, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, dissented for the sixth time this year. She repeated her concerns that the bond purchases could fuel high inflation and financial instability.
The decision to maintain its stimulus follows reports of sluggish economic growth. Employers slowed hiring this summer, and consumers spent more cautiously.
Super-low rates are credited with helping fuel a housing comeback, support economic growth, drive stocks to record highs and restore the wealth of many Americans. But the average rate on the 30-year mortgage has jumped more than a full percentage point since May and was 4.57 percent last week — just below the two-year high.
Investors had bid up those loan rates on expectations that the Fed would reduce its stimulus as early as this month.
John Canally, investment strategist at LPL Financial, suggested that financial markets had overreacted in anticipation of reduced bond purchases.
Higher rates "started to impact the real economy, and (the Fed) got a little bit concerned."
Economists suggested that the Fed will still eventually scale back its bond buying, perhaps before year"s end.
"Tapering will come sooner rather than later, assuming that the economy cooperates," Sung Won Sohn, an economist at California State University Channel Islands, wrote in a research report. "The economy is steady, though not strong, and is moving in the right direction
The unemployment rate is now 7.3 percent, the lowest since 2008. Yet the rate has dropped in large part because many people have stopped looking for work and are no longer counted as unemployed — not because hiring has accelerated. Inflation is running below the Fed"s 2 percent target.
The Fed meeting took place at a time of uncertainty about who will succeed Bernanke when his term ends in January. On Sunday, Lawrence Summers, who was considered the leading candidate, withdrew from consideration.
Summers" withdrawal followed growing resistance from critics. His exit has opened the door for his chief rival, Janet Yellen, the Fed"s vice chair. If chosen by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate, Yellen would become the first woman to lead the Fed.


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In an earlier post I reminded artists that many important grants are awarded through an anonymous nominations procedure, noting that if we don't know about your work we can't nominate you. I want to add this thought: when considering entering competitions, which takes time, and money – I urge you to ask yourself if the JURORS are individuals that can move your career forward. Do your homework – not just on the competion sponsors but perhaps more importantly on those individuals who will spend time looking carefully at your submission. Observe their professional affiliations (i.e. the magazines they edit, the gallery they direct, the collection they may serve as curator for, and so forth). Based on what you learn, if you feel they would respond positively to your work, DO invest in putting your work in front of them – and doing this via juried competitions can begin a professional relationship.
Additionally, if the competition you are considering entering will circulate the work more broadly than a gallery or museum presentation, i.e. through an on-line presentation of winners, and/or a publication featuring the winning entries, all the better.
Lastly, consider the COST to enter. My feeling is that fees charged by organizing venues are used to quite literally produce the competition – from flying in/feeding/housing distinquished jurors, renting judging space/tables/light/LCD projectors and other equipment, securing PR for the show and producing a catalogue on-line, on CD-Rom or in print. Personally I am happier when there is a flat fee and one set number of images that may be presented per submitting artist, rather than being able to pay more and gain more "exposure" in front of the juror(s). If you have questions about how any aspect of juried competitions are to be judged (i.e. will images be projected, or not), and how the winners will be promoted, do not hesitate to call and inquire. The more questions you ask, the better the chances are that next year's application information will be more clearly spelled out.
I hope this perspective helps you sort through the maze of competitions to enter; know that on this blog I will suggest those I feel of great value to you and your career.

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...is to set up an ebay account, even if you're not planning to use ebay to buy or sell (or, like me, simply plan to use it as a last resort), so that you can do a search for whatever synth/sampler/drum machine/etc you're curious about how much to ask for / pay for then click the link to see completed listings. only very, very rare items won't have shown up. values definitely do rise and fall, but it at least gives you a fair ballpark.
thought i ought to toss this out there since it's one of the most common topics in the buyer's guide section.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 43 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
Mentoring Minds - "Critical Thinking for Children!"
Mentoring Minds is an educational publisher focused on creating a successful learning environment for children.
Our philosophy: We consider ourselves partners with educators in the continuous pursuit of providing a quality education for all students. As educators dedicated to excellence, it is our privilege to provide valuable teaching tools that are needed to empower teachers and to positively impact the lives of children.
A person that educates, especially a teacher, principal, or other person involved in planning or directing education. Mentoring Minds to-date has been primarily focused on elementary schools and reaching principals; however MM touches a broad range of school types, including: Public, Title One, Charter, and Private/Christian/Catholic. The majority of educators tend to be female with bachelors degree or higher and emotionally attached and passionate about the future success of children.
To be more precise, our audience consists of, but is not limited to, persons who hold the title of district administrator, principal, assistant principal, teacher, curriculum instructor/director, or grade leader.
Mentoring Minds is looking for a graphical face lift of the current website. We are looking for something that is clean, easy-to-read, and easy to navigate. We are known for the use of purple, so that color needs to be leveraged in the new site. The core design for this project will revolve around the homepage, but the header will be used on subsequent pages, such as product pages, as well.
As previously mentioned, the back-end of the site is being reworked, so new buttons and topics will be implemented. Some of the new changes that can be integrated into the design:
Open-ended search function
Account Login
Buttons across the top consisting of: Products, Research, About Us, Contact, Home, FAQ
An area to sign up for newsletters
Implementation of flash
An area for static images dedicated to special offers
Integration of photos of educators and kids
A site layout we liked is http://www.lululemon.com
Our website can be found at http://www.mentoringminds.com.
Our overall desire is to have a "refresh" of the look of our site. We want a professional, yet inviting look, but keeping children at the core of our look. In other words, some color, but not overbearing.
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Mesa Verde National Parks new Visitor Center and Research Facility is not quite completed, but it already is drawing praise for its innovation while keeping down costs.
You live in one of the most beautiful places, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told a small group of local dignitaries and federal lands employees Saturday morning in front of the new building. This park is the crown jewel of history among the nations parks, he added.
The Visitor Center and Research Facility can be seen from the highway and will help boost tourism to the United States, Salazar said.
Creating international tourism
There are nearly 9½ million jobs created through tourism and preservation, Salazar told the group of about two dozen people.
The presidents goal (in his) tourism strategy is to make the U.S. the top destination in the world, he said.
Salazar is a native Coloradan from the San Luis Valley, a rancher and former U.S. senator representing the state. He became President Barack Obamas Interior secretary the same day the president took the oath of office.
The last time I was here, he told the group Saturday, it was just an open field, though some grading had begun.
Referring back to the almost completed building, he added, It will open up a whole new window to Canyons of the Ancients and its related sites along the Trail of the Ancients.
Several of those attending the preopening visit suggested the new Mesa Verde National Park Visitor Center probably will be the most public face of the whole complex of Four Corners national archaeological parks and monuments.
Several attendees also made sure to point out to the secretary and others present the cooperative nature of the project with state and local governments, tourism officials and others.
Even if you tripled our (Department of Interior) budget, we still couldnt do it ourselves, said Victoria Atkins. She is supervisory interpretive specialist at the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores and a member of the team that helped prepare tourism-related documents.
Its really cool to live in a country where theres so much public land, Atkins added.
LouAnn Jacobson, former manager of Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, echoed Atkins: Just getting to go on public land and enjoy it is a privilege.
On time, under budget
The Visitor Center and Research Facility originally was estimated to cost around $19 million, received a bid of about $12.1 million, and the final cost will be around $14.1 million, said Clifford Spencer, Mesa Verde National Park superintendent.
Funding came from the Obama administrations stimulus package for shovel-ready projects.
Not only is the 24,000- square-foot project costing less than original estimates, it also is being completed on time, with a soft or unofficial opening set for November, with the official grand opening set for May 23, 2013, Spencer said.
Spencer said the project culminates about 90 years of requests from Mesa Verde superintendents for a new visitor center at the entrance to the park. He noted that the first such request was in the 1924 superintendents report.
The Visitor Center, with rotating archaeological and artistic exhibits, will occupy about 8,000 square feet, with the rest housing research and archival space, Spencer said.
In addition, he explained, the building incorporates architectural aspects paying tribute to the areas native cultures, both modern and ancient. A number of Native American-oriented sculptures accent the building both inside and out.
Energy-efficient building
The Visitor Center and Research Facility also is an energy-efficient building. Power is supplied in part by photovoltaic cells barely visible to visitors, as well as hydroelectric power generated by the Mancos River from water at Jackson Gulch Reservoir northeast of Mancos.
The building also uses 18 geothermal wells to power the cooling and heating system. Other energy-saving advantages include windows with an insulating R factor of 14, just slightly below the R-18 rating for insulation used in most homes.
There is an automated system to control energy use and heating and cooling, including lowering and raising window shades.
Spencer said exterior lighting is kept at a minimum to keep the night skies visible to visitors.
People who live in cities never see the Milky Way the same way people in rural areas do, Salazar said, confirming Spencers position.
Salazar added that this attention to the visceral pleasures of rural travel are being implemented at other federal sites, such as Big Bend National Park in Texas.


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RSnake necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 109 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
MarketSlant is a company specializing in search engine marketing and search engine optimization. Basically that means we try to help people get to the top of the search engine rankings so they can get more traffic to their websites. More traffic = more money for them. It's a win win! We need a logo that is professional, and will grow with our company.
Okay, let's just lay it out there. We suck at design. No, just really atrocious. And I'm being nice here. We've tried a bunch of concepts internally in an effort to make some good logos, but alas, nothing has jumped out at us, other than the utter awfulness of our own abominations that is. That's why we're here. We love this site, and we need your help!
We happen to be absolutely amazing with computers - we have some of the best talent in the world (no, I'm not exaggerating). But our ideas on design need a lot of work. However, we do tend to know what we like, and we like a lot of your work, so please submit your ideas. Yes, that means you!
- We want something that reflects the reason we chose the name. People want their profits go go up. Slant is meant to describe their market share increasing. I don't care if it has any actual Slant-iness to it, but it should reflect the power of positive change. We played around with stock graphs, and arrows and the like but we never liked anything we came up with.
- It should be iconic and it should stand on it's own. It shouldn't look like anyone else's logo out there - especially computer or marketing related. We have seen thousands of logos, and we know a lot of our future customers will have to, so keep this in mind. We don't want to remind them of some company they absolutely hate.
- I would prefer it to be in gray scale (or at minimum a gray scale option), because it makes printing the logo far cheaper. Remember,this logo is going to be printed on doors, pens, checks, letterhead,etc... so making it scale nicely, reproduce cheaply (not too manycolors), and making it recognizable is key. It should scale from veryvery small (side of a pen) all the way to a 5' graphic if necessary.
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With the Eastern Seaboard struggling to recover from the effects of Superstorm Sandy — a recent winter storm that only added to the region's woes — teams of volunteers from the tri-city area continue to assist with relief efforts there.
Twenty-seven linemen from Burbank, Anaheim, Pasadena and Riverside have joined 12,000 of their counterparts from around the nation for the joint relief effort. Ten of them, from Burbank Water and Power, are assisting with power restoration and relief efforts in New York City, officials said this week.
They arrived after loading an Air Force cargo plane with more than 100,000 pounds of equipment from Burbank — including five utility trucks loaded with tools and chainsaws.
"All their spirits are great," said Brad Grecker, manager of electrical distribution for Burbank Water and Power. "They just want to help; they just want to get the people back in power."
But the storm has left the city and surrounding areas "a mess," Grecker said. "[The Long Island Power Authority] didn't have the resources to bring people back online in a timely way."
The nor'easter that swept through the Northeast on Wednesday night dumped record snow, hampered efforts to recover from Superstorm Sandy and has been linked to at least one death.
From New Jersey to New York, roads, trees and homes were blanketed in overnight snow and another 100,000 households lost power, adding to the misery in a region still grappling with widespread storm damage.
The bad weather and white-out conditions prompted major airlines to cancel hundreds of flights, most in the New York area, although airports in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C.
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Meanwhile, the Glendale Fire Department sent its own team of volunteers to help with the recovery effort.
Capt. Tom Marchant has been assigned to the New Jersey shoreline, where he is leading a resource unit as part of the 45-team from California, said Glendale Fire Battalion Chief Ron Gulli.
Organizers have requested that Gulli, Battalion Chief Vincent Rifino, Police Sgt. John Gilkerson and Senior Planner Jeff Hamilton be prepared to be called on for additional support, which mean be a trip of 14 to 28 days. They all have emergency management skills that could prove valuable, Gulli added.
Recovery support will likely encompass restoring power and transportation, clearing debris and building inspections, he said.
But mostly, the region needs financial assistance, Gulli said.
"They really need money," he said.
And basic services. Scores of frustrated residents, still without power, have been venting on network television in recent days.
From 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., the linemen crew sent over to help have been restoring power lines that were knocked over from the wind, rain and falling trees, bringing an estimated 10,000 households a day back online, said Burbank Water and Power spokesman Joe Flores.
The crews have been spending their nights in Tent City, a makeshift campsite near a Long Island substation, Grecker said.
"They're anxious just to help people," Grecker said. "There are many areas that are more rural that they may be going to later."
The crews will likely return home before Thanksgiving.
"We're hoping this experience will help us if and when we get hit with some major deal out here, because of the experience they've gained by helping others," Grecker said.
A cold slap to Superstorm Sandy's victims
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo: Nor'easter made 'bad situation worse'
-- Alene Tchekmedyian and Veronica Rocha, Times Community News
Follow Alene Tchekmedyian on Google+ and on Twitter: @atchek.