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Idin needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 114 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Kalamala.com is an online grocery store, mostly targeting the Persian and middle eastern communities. Established in 2004, we are currently migrating our site to a newer, more efficient, and easier to use E-Commerce Solution. In honor of this redesign we wish to employ a new logo.
Kalamala serves the 25-45 middle eastern community. We offer prices that are competitive to local markets, and many of our products are not widely available in many states. Our customers have a sense of nostalgia when visiting, seeing many goodies and favorites that they have not had access to for many years. We do not wish to be perceived as too fancy or high priced. We serve customers internationally but most of our customers do reside within the USA.
This logo is going to primarily be used for our online presence as such the following are important to us.
1. We would like a primarily text based logo, we want the 'Kalamala' to stand out only be accentuated by a graphical element.
Example: Think more along the lines of Amazon, Barnes and Noble and less like Apple and Firefox.
2. The logo should not be conceived as 'extra-fancy', 'expensive', or 'elite'. We do not want our customers to associate the website with exclusive(expensive) gourmet products, but rather as a supplement to their regular grocery shopping.
3. Design should be in line with other design elements and not stand out too much. (See attached image for what new design looks like.) Please note: minor alterations to the site color scheme will be considered to fall in line with the logo if it looks good. So don't be daunted with current color scheme.
The files we will require are:
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Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
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1. The new website - the logo would take the place of the current 'Magento' logo, as well as the text to the right of it.
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Ingrid1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 250 diseños de 39 diseñadores freelance.
Husband and wife team developing website for patient info and sale of an anti-snoring device. Husband is a Respiratory and Sleep Physician with 20 yrs experience, wife is the practice manager and Qualified Respiratory Scientist. Wife oversees practice and laboratory. Live on Gold Coast in Australia.
We have a lung function laboratoy. undeveloped site view at http://www.lungfunction.com.au for colour scheme.
Anyone with sleep disorders. Stats: 5% of adults have sleep apnoea. Approx 45% have severe snoring issues. 40 plus age demographic.
An upscale looking logo for a professional medical webpage. Site would like to focus on sleep disorders, with link to lungfunction lab for respiratory resources.
Would like a professional medical theme to indicate medical nature of site. Nothing too cartoony please.
Have used pink and aqua colour scheme for lung function lab. ? use similar or complementary colors.
The idea of incorporating an owl to form part of the Q appeals to me during these later stages of the comp if anyone would like to try it.
Design to indicate a sleep tone. Not necessarily confined to snoring, but am willing to consider designs that refect snoring.or sleep. Q needs to be in caps font so that word does not look like sleepmedia.
The best designs have incorpoated the design in the text. Keep it simple.
Have attached a lab test patient referral to our lab by primary care practitioners to indicate colour scheme in use.
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Author Notes: I received a really super cool email the other day. I was asked to be a Judge in the "Cookie" Division at the Tennessee State Fair this year! How cool is that?!?
I even get to have a name tag that says "Honey, the Water's on Fire"! WOW! I am so very very excited. I have never even been to our state fair, but man I wish it was tomorrow!
So, needless to say, I have been thinking about fair food all week… I put out a question to my Facebook followers and asked them what their favorite foods from the fair was. Quite a few like the candied apples. (YUM) One friend even said that her fair does fried vegetables made with a batter similar to onion rings. I could just keep going and going here.
I know, so totally UNHEALTHY. The way I see it, fairs are once a year. Not gonna kill ya'.
We have a drive-in movie theatre pretty close to us that has some amazing food there. Kinda like going to the fair. They have pizza, fried chicken, tater logs (who doesn't love a tater log?), loads of candy, funnel cakes, and **sigh** fried oreos! We ate the oreos for the first time last week. I swear if it came down to it, I would leave my husband for a deep fried oreo. Think I'm joking? lol
Soooo, we set out to recreate the tasty confection we had at the Montana Drive-In in Estill Springs!
YUM! I didn't claim to be a healthy blog, did I?
So if you are going to the Tennessee State Fair in September, stop by and see me when I get to judge (and consume) loads of tasty cookies!!!
—Elizabeth St Clair McKenzie
Serves: 4-24
cups bisquick
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- Drop into heated oil.
- When Oreo rises to the top flip so the batter will remain on the Oreo.
- Fry until golden brown. Around 3 minutes per side.
- Place on paper towel to drain excess grease. Dust with confectioner's sugar.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Fair Food
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A major risk with the current obsession with climate change adaptation is in fact maladaptation: expensive solutions to problems that may never emerge or which themselves create new problems (the famous law of unintended consequences). This is evident in Vietnam where in 2009 the prime minister approved a plan to build concrete sea dikes (replacing the existing dirt dikes), at a cost of US$3 million per kilometer, along the entire coastline. This was motivated in part by a World Bank study that showed that most of the Mekong Delta will be flooded when sea level rises by 1 meter as it is predicted to do sometime between 2050 and 2100. A study by an academic at Can Tho University of the costs and benefits of concrete sea dikes around the Mekong Delta concluded that these were a good idea (http://www.eepsea.net/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=434:adaptation-to-sea-level-rise-in-the-vietnamese-mekong-river-delta-should-a-sea-dike-be-built?&Itemid=192). The assumptions on which the study is based are highly selective, however. For example, it assumes that rice and freshwater shrimp are the highest value land uses in the coastal zone, ignoring the benefits of saltwater aquaculture and changing market demands over time.
Meanwhile, in Europe and the USA, thinking has moved away from reliance on "hard" engineering solutions to coastal protection. The state of Maryland has started to buy up properties around the Chesapeake Bay to create a mosaic of land that will allow coastal wetlands to migrate inland as sea level rises. If residents want to stay in their homes, they can, but the state will provide no relief in case of flooding or collapse. Insurance companies have withdrawn coverage. In the Mississippi Delta, the state of Louisiana no longer provides power, water, school, and other public services south of I-10, the highway that runs east-west through New Orleans. When the Army Corps of Engineers, the cheer leaders of concrete-based solutions to water management, presented the budget for a new post-Katrina coastal defense system, the state turned it down. It couldn't afford the US$100 million annual maintenance cost.
World-wide, governments love dikes and other large-scale engineering water management structures. They are visible, protect grateful voters (at least in the short term), and offer terrific opportunities for kickbacks and patronage. In the Mekong Delta, the German-funded WISDOM project has documented the mutually beneficial relationships between district departments of agriculture and rural development and dike construction companies (http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77&Itemid=1). But as the costs of these projects become apparent, questions are being asked. Even in the official media, doubts are being expressed about the value of the proposed US$2.4 billion (probably a huge underestimate) "super sea dike" connecting Vung Tau and Tien Giang, and the high dikes in the delta that were built to intensify rice production (http://vietnamnews.vn/Environment/235790/big-dykes-inflict-major-environmental-damage.html). This kind of public scrutiny is particularly important in a country in which EIAs are "tick the box" exercises with no practical relevance.
Provincial governments along Vietnam's 3,000-kilometer coastline find themselves in a particularly difficult position. On the one hand, they are criticized for any loss of life caused by storms. On the other, relocating people away from the coast is expensive and often strongly resisted. The last thing a provincial official wants to be associated with is a "social incident". The provinces are also caught between Hanoi's demand that a certain area be kept under rice production and the fact that conditions are getting saltier. So what solutions to coastal protection make economic, environmental, and political sense?
The first point to make is that sea level is rising but very slowly: by about 3.5 mm a year. This is not a crisis that requires an emergency response with potentially large negative consequences. The government has the time to consider the full costs and benefits of different options and take advantage of international experience. Second, the government needs to move away from a "defend at all costs" approach to coastal protection. The forces of nature are powerful and relentless. Adaptation that works with not against nature is the only realistic option, as countries much richer than Vietnam now realize. Third, the government needs to value mangroves not just for their storm protection functions but for the many other services they provide, particularly nurseries for marine life. The focus on storm protection is one reason why mangrove plantations are typically single-species and biologically poor. Management rules also need to change to give local communities the right to harvest mangrove resources sustainably; most mangroves are currently designated for strict protection. Finally, the government needs to shift thinking from a line of defense to a zone of defense. What would such an approach look like?
Most of the Mekong Delta is surrounded by compacted earth dikes. These are typically 2-3 meter high and erode rapidly wherever the mangroves have been lost. As sea level rises, it will become increasingly difficult to maintain them. Dike breaches and salt water flooding will become more frequent. Eventually, they will collapse completely. Behind the sea dike there are large areas of intensive shrimp ponds and seasonal rice-shrimp farms with no tree cover. A response to sea level rise is to transition this zone into a mangrove-based polyculture. The move to less intensive shrimp farming is already happening in some places because of the risks of disease and crop failure.
A mangrove-based polyculture has several advantages. First, because it relies on a more natural water flow, it is less susceptible to water-borne diseases. Second, shrimp grown under natural conditions are typically larger and fetch higher prices. There are also opportunities to have the shrimp certified as organic. These sell for a 10% price premium on international markets. Third, a polyculture produces crab and fish as well as shrimp, resulting in a more diverse livelihood. In the integrated shrimp-mangrove farms of Ca Mau, the net income from crab and fish is close to that from shrimp on a per hectare basis. Finally, because of its storm protection function, a polyculture removes the need to relocate people inland. Conversely, a concrete dike prevents mangroves from migrating inland as sea level rises and the consequent loss of mangroves will expose the dike to strong wave action. And if (or when) it fails, which is what happened in New Orleans in 2005, people living nearby can suffer devastating consequences.
The distance between the sea dike and the sea varies considerably. In Soc Trang, Bac Lieu, and most of Kien Giang, the distance is about 50 meters; in parts of Ben Tre and Tra Vinh, it is up to 2 kilometers because of the slightly higher topography. Households are not allowed to own land outside the dike; it is all state owned. But tens of thousands do, many of whom have lived there for years. Removing them is not an option. One option is for the government to offer resident households long-term leases and encourage them to invest in polyculture that protects them against storms and traps sediment at a rate that keeps pace with rising sea level.
A transition from existing land uses to a mature mangrove-based polyculture will take 20 years. This is the time-frame in which the government needs to respond. But this gradual approach to adaptation challenges a government fond of solutions (such as cement dikes) that can be implemented quickly in a blaze of positive publicity but which invariably turn out be much more expensive than planned. An incremental approach requires new thinking that takes into account the gradual pace of sea level rise, the risks of maladaptation, and the fact that the demand for agricultural products changes over time.
Not all the impacts from rising sea level rise are amendable to environmental-based adaption; in some cases, complete retreat or concrete-based defenses may be needed. In the Mekong Delta, however, a polyculture that yields multiple high-value products has the potential to increase the resilience of local communities and economies—and save the government a lot of money in the process.
Jake Brunner - Mekong Programme Coordinator (Viet Nam, Cambodia and Myanmar)


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Nowhere are these weaknesses more acute than in Medicare, which pays most participating doctors and hospitals on a fee-for-service basis. Shifting Medicare to new payment methods that encourage quality and efficiency is crucial to sustaining the program, which is the biggest driver in the federal government's long-term fiscal problems. As the baby boom generation enters its dotage, the ranks of Medicare beneficiaries are expected to swell from the current 50 million to 80 million in 2030. Unless the government can motivate the industry to treat these patients more effectively at lower cost, the pressure will only grow to shrink Medicare benefits or cover fewer of the elderly and disabled.
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This weeks "Chopped Challenge Thursday" kicked 2013 off with a real bang!
The combination of Boudain (I'll explain later!), Wasabi, Candy Canes and Shrimp, gave my culinary mind a run for its money, but I came up with something pretty delicious and super spicy to kick off the new year!
After googling "Boudain" I found out that it is a Cajun sausage typically made of rice, spices and pork, but can also be made with crawfish or shrimp instead of pork. I then yelped "where to buy Boudain" and found my newest adventure.
This morning I headed to east San Diego to "Mardi Gras Cafe and Cajun Market" to purchase the now infamous Boudain.
The owners were an extremely sweet couple and very helpful. I purchased my Boudain, then they proceeded to show me some of their favorite sauces (of the over 100 they had in stock!)
I can't wait to grab a couple of bottles of these before my annual Super Bowl Party!
In addition to a variety of Boudain sausages and walls of hot sauce options, they also sell alligator meat and offer a full restaurant menu. I can't wait to go back and try their Louisiana home cooking!
Now back to that Chopped Challenge! I decided to combine Japanese and Cajun flavors into a Jambalaya fusion recipe topped with a Sweet and Spicy Wasabi Mayonnaise made with crushed Candy Canes! The result was a spicy, peppery, unique and flavorful dish!
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 red onion (diced)
- 1 jalapeno (diced)
- 4 cloves garlic (minced)
- 12 oz boudain sausage
- 1 cup mushrooms (sliced)
- 1/2 cup cucumber (diced)
- 1/2 cup rice
- 1/2 tsp wasabi
- 1 tsp sriracha
- 2 cups beef stock
- 1 candy cane
- 1/2 tsp fresh ginger (grated)
- 1/2 cup wasabi mayonnaise
- 8-10 large shrimp
- 1 tsp sesame seeds
(Just ignore any of the other ingredients that snuck into the picture above, this was an experimental recipe and not all of the ingredients made the cut 😉 )
Begin preparing the dish by heating the olive oil over medium heat in a large skillet. Add the onion and jalapeño to the heated oil and sauté for 5 minutes. Next, add the garlic. Sauté for an additional minute then remove the boudain from its casing and crumble into the pan.
Next, add the mushrooms and cucumber.
Then add the rice, sriracha and wasabi.
Finally, add the beef stock and stir all of the ingredients together.
Cover with a lid and allow to simmer for 45 minutes.
In the meantime, prepare the Sweet and Spicy Wasabi Mayonnaise to top the jambalaya. I'm not going to lie to you all, it wasn't bad, but the jambalaya definitely doesn't need it.
Pretty much unless you have a bunch of candy canes on hand and some extra wasabi mayonnaise lying around that you feel like experimenting with, this step can be skipped 🙂
If so desired, break a candy cane into a small food processor, then add the ginger and wasabi mayonnaise and mix well.
Now, back to the jambalaya. After the dish has simmered covered for 45 minutes, most of the liquid should be gone from the pan and the rice should be tender, now add the shrimp to the pan and continue simmering for an additional 5-10 minutes.
Remove from the pan and top with the sesame seeds and a little drizzle of the Sweet and Spicy Wasabi Mayonnaise.
I also sprinkled a little fresh parsley on top to add some color and served the dish with a couple of lemon wedges to mellow out the super spiciness of the wasabi, sriracha and hot boudain!
This was the perfect warm dish on a cool San Diego winter day!
After all my hard work on this very unique Chopped Challenge dish, I couldn't wait to dig in!
♣ Vegetarian Option: Replace the shrimp and boudain with extra rice, mushrooms and cucumbers for a vegetarian alternative.
♦ Gluten Free Option: This recipe is gluten-free (just make sure the beef stock you use is gluten-free!)


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The selection board for the government position will definitely observe that you've included a well-formatted and competent looking cover letter; it makes up the very first perception of your written application.
An opening sentence that says what placement you're making a claim for, it's job / placement / advertisement number, the date it was announced and what you're attaching in your application package, for example. "please find included my curriculum vitae, statements against selection criteria, report of qualifications…" is crucial in a government job cover letter.
A middle sentence declaring your crucial claims for the position needs to be brief and to the point. Don't go into too much detail but at the same time make it obvious you have composed this cover letter especially for this government job, and it is not a pre-formatted template that you've filled in.
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Actually everyone knows what's been happening to the U.S. team, but a few readers have wondered whatever happened to Power Line's coverage of that team. One even suggested (jokingly, I trust) that my lack of commentary about the teams "success" betrays an underlying indifference or worse.
In fact, there is no real success to report. The U.S. is in last place in its group. We were terrible in the first match against the Czechs and mediocre in the first half of the second match against the Italians. Our only goal came on a piece of luck — a misplay by an Italian defender — and we showed no cutting edge even when the Italians went down a man. To be sure, we played inspired desperation soccer after we went a man down in the second half, but one half of good football in a match that has lost its shape doesn't inspire me.
But it's not my lack of inspiration that has kept me silent — it's the fact that readers can get coverage of the U.S. team from multiple news outlets and blogs. I just haven't had any unique insights about our team to share, and thus have focused on other aspects of the tournament.
I do have a few thoughts about our upcoming must-win match against Ghana, though. Ghana team may be that African surprise package I was looking for before the tournament started. They are quick, powerful, and reasonably well-skilled. If they have a weakness, it's probably at the back. They gave up two goals to the Italians and, although they kept a clean sheet against the Czechs, they were helped by the fact that the Czechs played only one man up-front and (due to injuries) he was only their third best striker. In addition, some of the aging Czech stars looked a bit weary.
To be sure, the U.S. has not been much of a goal-scoring threat so far. However, I believe that if we can maintain a decent share of possession, we will score against Ghana. And since Ghana needs only a draw, they may not be as intent as they should be on denying us possession.
The U.S. will have to play without the suspended Pablo Mastroeni and Eddie Pope. Mastroeni will be missed in the war against the powerful Ghanian midfield. Essien, Appiah, and Muntari have made up one of the very best midfields in the tournament (fortunately, Muntari is suspended too). However, if Bruce Arena replaces Mastroeni with John O'Brien, and if O'Brien is fit, it could give us the creativity we need in a match we must win.
I'll also be interested to see who replaces Pope. The obvious choice is Jimmy Conrad, who filled in well against Italy. But my choice would be to move the more experienced Carlos Bocanegra into central defense and reinstate Eddie Lewis at left back. Before the tournament, I expressed concern about Lewis as a left back (he isn't one), and he had a terrible time against the Czech wingers. However, I haven't seen much of a threat from Ghana on the right side, and I believe that in a match where we have to score, Lewis' ability to run the flank and his delivery on set pieces could make the difference.


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Heritage Festival needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 131 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Festival
We are a group of volunteers who want to share our cultural background as Asian Americans! For 30 years, we have been at the forefront of creating and sustaining public-private partnerships to help us organize the annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival!
The Asian/Pacific American Heritage Festival is celebrated in the month of May (during Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month).
Learn more here: http://capaonline.org/faqs.htm
Beginning in 1979 with 25 organizations participating, the Festival has grown to over a hundred booths featuring Asian foods, exhibits and information. The more than 20 stage performances scheduled throughout the day have in the past included traditional Korean, Chinese, Indian, and Filipino dancing, taiko (Japanese drumming), Vietnamese and Polynesian music and dance, modern dance, and jazz, folk, classical and rock music.
Everyone! Especially those who are not Asian American as we view it as a huge block party to celebrate our culture! It is a family friendly and focused event so come and enjoy the free music and games!
Learn more here: http://capaonline.org/faqs.htm
We want a bold, clean logo!
Must be able to communicate that it is an Asian Festival without the words
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Something that appeals not to just one Asian ethnicity.
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by Pete Mazzaccaro
Last week, in three separate votes, three institutions – the Chestnut Hill Community Association's board of directors, the Philadelphia Planning Committee and Philadelphia City Council – gave Bowman Properties the permissions and legislation it needed to transform the former Magarity Ford site at 8200 Germantown Ave. into a mixed retail and residential complex anchored by a 20,000 square foot Fresh Market grocery store.
Those approvals will put Bowman Properties to work on the new 5-story complex on Germantown Avenue and a set of new town homes along Shawnee Street. The final action – a unanimous vote Thursday by City Council to provide the zoning legislation Bowman needed to proceed – changes the front two-thirds of the two-acre parcel into C2 commercial and the rear third to R10B, allowing the construction of homes along Shawnee Street.
The CHCA will continue to work with Bowman to see that a Community Development Agreement is finalized and followed.
After the City Council vote, Bowman Properties' project manager Seth Shapiro said the plan would now enter the design phase.
"We are excited to embark upon a design process with the community association to further flush out what the building will look like," he said.
Shapiro said preliminary site improvement work would likely begin in spring or summer. By some time in 2013, the entire site should be transformed entirely.
Spot zoning?
Although the approval process was smooth for Bowman Properties, neighbor reception was not. To be sure, there are many in Chestnut Hill who are excited to have the Fresh Market coming to town. Business owners said they welcomed the additional foot traffic, not to mention the residential units that Bowman will put right on the Avenue.
Many near neighbors to the project said that they were not opposed to a mixed retail and residential development on the property, but instead believed it should have conformed to Germantown Avenue guidelines that suggest buildings to be three stories tall and have storefronts no wider than 30 feet.
At the Dec. 12 meeting of the CHCA board, near-neighbor Thomas Beck asked CHCA's Land Use Planning and Zoning Committee member Joyce Lenhardt, who led a negotiating committee of neighbors and professionals who met directly with Bowman Properties to get concessions on zoning and design, why Bowman was getting away with blowing right past those requirements.
"I and a few of my fellow citizens agree this project is essentially way to big too be imagined by anyone to be appropriate to the context of Chestnut Hill," he said. "[The Germantown Avenue Urban Guidelines] recommend residential not be converted to commercial use and calls for no more than 3 stories. Bowman's scheme is 5 stories. My question is why didn't the Community Development Agreement respect those recommendations?"
Lenhardt told Beck that the committee worked within the guidelines of Bowman's proposal.
"The committee didn't feel it had the latitude to demand or expect that those guidelines would be followed," she said.
John Beckman, a near neighbor and planner who was on the negotiating subcommittee, said at that meting that he felt the committee had little choice to make demands. With or without the CHCA's blessing, Bowman was free to go ahead and request the zoning change from the city. The best the negotiating group could hope for was terms it could live with.
"We were working with a deadline," he said. "I had no reason to disbelieve any of his [Bowman managing partner Richard Snowden] assertions that this rezoning would happen. It was the best thing we could do given the political calculus."
The legislation route had been roundly criticized by opponents as "spot zoning." In a letter to the Local on Dec.8, Hill resident Ben Brown, who earlier this year was granted a zoning variance to keep bees on his property, questioned the way in which Bowman was seeking zoning relief.
"We now have a situation in our community, granted, far more momentous than my own endeavor, in which the person needing a zoning variance has decided to totally bypass the protocol we have in place," Brown wrote, referring to the zoning variance process in which the CHCA endorses those seeking zoning relief to the Zoning Board of Adjustment, which grants variances.
"I would implore the CHCA board to reject this attempt to circumvent the system and recommend to City Council that they vote no on the ordinances before them," Brown wrote.
Bowman Properties lawyer Matt McClure addressed the charge of spot zoning at Monday's meeting of the CHCA board and at nearly every other pubic meeting at which the matter was raised. The zoning situation of the Magarity site and the mixture of C7 and R5 zoning had a "perverse effect," McClure said, rendering the property impossible to develop.
It was a matter, he said, that was far too complicated for the usual zoning relief by variance. The CHCA typically hears zoning proposals that seek variances, often for things far less dramatic than the sweeping changes Bowman needed to realize its plan.
"The zoning variance is for 'nips and tucks,'" McClure said at the Dec. 12 meeting. "Large scale relief cannot be done by variance."
Others at the Dec. 12 meeting agreed with McClure and said Bowman's plan, while not in keeping with the Germantown Avenue Urban Guidelines, was solid and that a positive decision by the Philadelphia Planning Commission or City Council was not evidence of spot zoning, but rather sound planning. Both the Planning Commission and Council hearings allowed for public input as well.
LUPZ member Steve Gendler said at the Dec. 12 meeting that Magarity's plan was exactly what a study by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission – Mobilize to Thrive – called for.
"Success in Chestnut Hill is people living over the shops," Gendler said. "What's being created in design is the embodiment of walkable urbanism. These things create property value for everyone. All of our interests are served by having this mixed use."
Hill architect Larry Goldfarb agreed and said zoning by legislation was a legitimate zoning tool.
We don't have many planning tools in urban America," he said. "All this noise about spot zoning – zoning is planning. Who makes a plan and doesn't revisit it?"
A tough process
Despite eight months of CHCA meetings and an established negotiation method in which neighbor representatives worked with the developer and members of the CHCA' s Land Use Planning Zoning Committee (a group of professional architects and planners), neighbors and others who did not support the project say they feel disenfranchised. Not only were near neighbors not polled, they say, but a petition signed by some 1,500 residents of Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy was ignored.
Speaking at the City Planning Commission, which also unanimously supported Bowman's proposal on Tuesday, Dec. 13, neighbor Terry Halbert said as much.
"We really feel process itself has been deeply flawed," Halbert said. "When the developer first rolled out this idea, his team made it very clear to all of us that their plan was to go to City Council and get zoning legislation to enable their plan to exist just the way they wanted it to."
Hill resident Marion Frank, who also attended the Dec.12 meeting of the CHCA board, said she felt the entire process was "a farce."
"Serious questions and concerns about the massiveness of the building, the appropriateness of the tenant, the future potential impact on the community, the 1,500 concerned signers of a petition – all of these went unacknowledged … and unanswered," Frank said in an email to the Local. "In fact, not one serious discussion focused on a specific, particular possible change to the previously agreed upon plan. The results of negotiations were already determined and were obviously not up for further real discussion.
"I have to admit that I left before the meeting officially ended, which was way past the official termination time. I just saw no point to being there."
Those involved in the process, however, did not feel that way. Land Use Planning and Zoning Committee co-chair John Landis, who worked on the subcommittee that negotiated several key concessions during the negotiating process, said the meetings had been a success.
"We didn't get everything we wanted," Landis admitted at the Dec. 12 meeting, but added, "This process really brought out the quality of design. This is a very good precedent. This is a very good building. It will be special in many ways despite its mass."
The concessions achieved in that process included getting the more restrictive C2 zoning instead of C3 for the retail portion of the property, a 3-foot setback from Hartwell Lane and further setback for the fourth and fifth stories of the building.
Larry McEwen, co-chair of the community association's Development Review Committee, said he understood that people felt disenfranchised. He said he would like to see neighbors involved in the process.
"Going forward, I know we will be looking at ways to improve our own process, how it coordinates with the new zoning code, what remapping might occur in Chestnut Hill," McEwen told the Local in an email. "I don't have specifics for you right now, but CHCA will be responsive as to how we can better communicate our consideration of balance between the needs and rights of the residents, businesses, and institutions that together constitute our community."


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Banks Fail To Repel Cyber Threat
Attacks that have tied up bank websites show U.S. financial institutions' vulnerability to electronic terrorism.
A shadowy but well organized hacker group in the Middle East has disrupted the electronic banking operations of America's largest financial institutions in recent days, underscoring U.S. vulnerability to online terrorism.
A group identifying itself as Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters attacked the websites of Wells Fargo, U.S. Bancorpand Bank of America. The strikes left customers temporarily unable to access their checking accounts, mortgages and other services.
The banks said account and personal information for their tens of millions of online and mobile customers were not compromised. Still, experts said the size and ferociousness of the attacks highlight the broader threat posed by electronic crime and the susceptibility of financial targets.
Of particular concern, experts said, is that the attackers used the Internet to warn the institutions ahead of time — but the banks still couldn't repel the assaults.
"The banks put a lot of effort into cyber security. But they're so desirable as a target, even with all that effort they still have problems," said James Lewis, an expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "If you can pull together enough resources, you can overwhelm any defense temporarily."
The attacks on banks began last week on the largest institutions in the country: JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America. They spread to Wells Fargo on Tuesday and U.S. Bank on Wednesday. Another attack has been threatened against PNC Financial Services on Thursday.
The U.S. government and banks have been working feverishly to learn more about the attackers. A financial executive not authorized to speak publicly described a "war room" where bankers were coordinating efforts with the Department of Homeland Security
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam is the name of the military wing of Hamas, the political party that governs theGaza Strip. Experts say the attacks appear to have originated from the Middle East, thought it isn't clear who is behind them or the motivation.
However, on Tuesday the group posted a manifesto on the Internet saying attacks would continue until a video insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad was removed from the Internet. That video, "Innocence of Muslims," has caused violent clashes in the Middle East, and led to the attack of the U.S. embassy in Libya.
Dmitri Alperovitch, a computer security expert investigating the recent attacks, said they are the latest in a series of cyber assaults by the group. The attacks were not only on financial firms, he said, although he declined to identify other industries. Alperovitch said Izz ad-Din al-Qassam has demonstrated "advanced capabilities."
He said it was unlikely that the anti-Islamic video alone had triggered the attacks. He said his firm, CrowdStrike Inc., has linked the group to attacks on other targets since January, long before the trailer for the anti-Islamic film was posted on YouTube.
Wells Fargo, based in San Francisco, had intermittent service interruptions all day Tuesday, distressing many of its 21 million online customers.
Similar problems occurred Wednesday at U.S. Bank. The Minneapolis-based bank said it was experiencing unusually high Web traffic and that the coordinated attacks were "very similar" to those at other major banks. "We are working very closely with federal law enforcement," spokesmanTom Joyce said.
Pittsburgh-based PNC, facing the threatened attack on Thursday, was preparing for the worst. "We've seen the posting" on the Internet, PNC spokesman Fred Solomon said. "We're taking appropriate measures."
Security consultant Alperovitch said the volume of phony demands on bank sites was two to three times heavier than previous records for denial of service attacks, and 10 to 20 times higher than the average such attack. Still, the onslaught so far has had a "very limited impact," resulting in only brief shutdowns of websites.
"The attacks, while very, very large and historic in that sense, are not super sophisticated," he said. Although evidence points to a group "certainly of Middle Eastern origin," his company could not tell whether a state or private group was behind the attacks.
Some speculation centered on whether Iran might be retaliating for economic sanctions placed on the country because of its nuclear program and enforced by U.S. banks.
"I don't believe these were just hackers," Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said last week in an interview on C-SPAN's "Newsmakers" program. "I think this was done by Iran and the Quds Force," a secretive Iran military unit blamed for terrorist activity.
Lieberman was observing Yom Kippur and could not be reached Wednesday. The FBI and Justice Department declined to comment on the origin of the attacks.
Two bankers, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said their banks were also on the alert for cyber thieves who might use the attacks as a diversion.


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Attorney General Talis Colberg Announces Settlement with Directory Billing, LLC to Stop Use of Activation Checks
26 States settle with on-line business directory
March 3, 2008
(Anchorage, AK) Attorney General Talis Colberg announced today that Directory Billing, LLC, (doing business as USDirectory.com) has agreed to settle allegations that it engaged in deceptive business practices by using "live" activation checks to obligate businesses and organizations to pay for a preferred business listing on Directory Billing's on-line yellow page directory, located at www.USDirectory.com. The agreement is the result of an investigation by the Alaska Attorney General's Office and 25 other states regarding Directory Billing's use of activation checks. The State will file the settlement agreement with the court, which must approve the settlement before it becomes final.
According to the terms of the settlement agreement to be filed with the court, Directory Billing has agreed to not use activation checks as the means of obligating businesses to purchase its products and services. The company also has agreed to pay $400,000.00, collectively, to the states to be used for restitution to former Directory Billing customers that did not understand the consequences of depositing the activation check and to reimburse the states for their investigation costs. Directory Billing also agreed to contact its current activation check customers to inform them of their right to cancel their agreement and of their potential eligibility for a partial refund of monies paid to Directory Billing, LLC.
Current Directory Billing customers which are being billed through their telephone bill or bank account for a listing and which became a customer by depositing an activation check should be contacted by letter within the next two (2) weeks by Directory Billing. The letter will advise them of this fact and offer a partial refund if they elect to cancel. Any customers with questions are invited to call the Attorney General's Office at (907) 269-5200.
The States alleged that since early 2004, Directory Billing, LLC, sent businesses and other organizations "live" activation checks in the mail. These checks were made payable to the business or organization for a small amount, usually $3.50. On the back of the checks, in fine print above the endorsement line, was language stating that by depositing the check, the recipient agreed to purchase advertising from Directory Billing, LLC, in its on-line yellow pages directory. The fine print also stated that by depositing the check, the recipient authorized Directory Billing, LLC, to bill monthly fees through the business's telephone bill or through automatic debiting of the amount from the bank account into which the recipient deposited the check, or by other methods.
The States' investigation revealed that some activation check recipients which had deposited these activation checks did so without knowing that they were purchasing Directory Billing's on-line advertising services or that they were authorizing a monthly billing through their telephone bill or through debits from their bank account. In some of these cases, the recipient remained unaware that they were being billed for several months, or longer, following that deposit.
The allegations that gave rise to the States' investigation and the settlement have not been admitted by Directory Billing, LLC, and its agreement to address the State's concerns and allegations does not constitute an admission of wrongdoing by the company.
Any Alaska business or entity that deposited an activation check from Directory Billing, LLC, since January, 2004, paid through its telephone bills or bank accounts, and believes that it did so unknowingly and without understanding the consequences of depositing the check, may file a complaint with the Alaska Attorney General's Office within the next thirty (30) days to participate in this settlement. Complaint forms may be obtained by calling the Attorney General's Office at (907) 269-5200 or from its website at: www.law.alaska.gov/consumer .
For questions about the settlement, please contact Assistant Attorney General Julia Coster at (907) 269-5200.
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Here's a short video I just put together from the Bighorns here in Wyoming, USA. It was this last weekend. It's a 3 minute Vimeo movie. I'll get some jibbing in the next videos with more snow. I'd really appreciate any leads on good music for videos...
We weren't sure if there'd even be snow because everyone was backing out of the weekend. Wayne and Pascal texted at 11pm Friday night before for a 5am start Saturday. I was digging my snowkiting crap out of the closet until 3 am.
We hit the road to get a beautiful sunset session. The funny part is how EPIC kiting can make 0-8" of snow. We knew the last storm blew N and NW so we had hopes for some wind loading on the SSE slope. Ultimately I like to think that it wasn't pure luck and there was some calculation somewhere.
We used a Canon 60d DSLR camera and a GoPro2 for all the shots. I shot in 720 at 60fps even though vimeo uses 30fps. I've been practicing this summer and was really excited to test things out on the snow.
Anyways, I hope you like it and I hope they just get better from here. I'd appreciate a little feedback as well.
Cheers! -Will Taggart


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Rumor Control: Can I Contract HIV From an Experimental AIDS Vaccine?
July 5, 2010
Absolutely not. Here's how vaccines work: They help train our bodies to ward off diseases. They trick the body into thinking it already has an illness. This triggers the immune system to build an army of defenders, called antibodies, to attack the fake infection. The antibodies remain on call to protect us against future assaults. But antibodies are disease-specific. These microscopic warriors guarding against one sickness don't work when other infections invade.
Most vaccines for familiar diseases -- think the measles, the flu and human papillomavirus (HPV) -- employ harmless, weakened or dead disease cells, known as antigens, to trigger the body's defensive response. However, several different types of vaccines exist, including the following:
Experimental HIV vaccines contain synthetic components only -- no virus is injected into volunteers, and you can't get HIV from them. By the way, there are two types of experimental HIV vaccines: Preventive varieties are intended to keep HIV-negative people from becoming infected; therapeutic strains are designed to strengthen the immune systems of those already HIV-positive.
So what happens after scientists develop an experimental HIV vaccine in the lab? Researchers first immunize primates to test whether the inoculation works. Only after experiments with our animal cousins prove the vaccine safe and effective do researchers initiate testing in humans, a process that requires several phases. If the experimental vaccine proves safe and effective in people, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves it for medical use. The human stage of this testing process alone may take up to a decade.
Currently, many experimental HIV vaccines are being tested in human beings. But even though Blacks are disproportionately infected -- the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projects that 1 in 16 African American men and 1 in 30 African American women is expected to be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime -- few Blacks are enrolled in HIV-vaccine trials.
What's up?
"There are conditions that contribute to lower enrollment," says Kevin Trimell Jones, research-projects manager at the University of Pennsylvania's HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Division. These include residual mistrust from the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the fact that many predominantly Black neighborhoods lack access to HIV information, testing sites or knowledge of how trials contribute to the quest for a cure.
Yet if we want the HIV vaccine to protect us once one is approved, Black people must participate in clinical trials.
That's where people like Jones and the University of Pennsylvania HIV-prevention team come in. "We try our best to get permission and buy-in" from communities where many Black Americans are affected by HIV, either directly or indirectly, he says. Then, working out of mobile vehicles, Jones and his team fight the pandemic by engaging in outreach in neighborhoods with a high incidence of HIV/AIDS and other STDs; for example, teaching HIV-prevention and safer sex techniques, dispelling myths and rumors and talking to community members about the war against the pandemic. They also encourage qualified people to volunteer for HIV-vaccine trials.
When the dialogue is successful, Jones says, people begin to understand that "their participation will help inform the next stages of research, whether that's a vaccine that works or a contribution to the body of knowledge that will eventually grant the vaccine we're all hoping for."
How can you get involved? Help advance the next phase of preventive HIV vaccine research by learning more about clinical trials and then locating a trial near you. If you're an HIV-negative gay or bisexual man looking to participate in a vaccine study, go here.
New York City resident Ramon Johnson is the gay-life guide at about.com, part of the New York Times Company.
This article was provided by The Black AIDS Institute. Visit Black AIDS Institute's website to find out more about their activities and publications.
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Undergraduate Catalog
2011 – 2012
Office of Admissions
Emil H. Messikomer Hall
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West Chester, PA 19383
Phone: 610-436-3411
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Alice Speh, Coordinator
This program is offered jointly by the faculty of arts and sciences and the faculty of professional studies.
Any student in the University, regardless of his or her area of specialization, may earn a minor specialization in Russian studies after satisfactory completion of 18 semester hours of work, distributed as follows:
Required: Either A or BA.
C. Electives (6 semester hours)
Selected under advisement from Russian-oriented courses offered by the departments of Anthropology and Sociology, Art, English, Political Science, or other WCU departments.
For advising, see Dr. Alice Speh in the Department of Languages and Cultures.
A student should maintain a 3.0 average in area-studies courses to be recommended for graduate work in the area-studies concentration.


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Brussels, 19 July 2012
Better protection for deep-sea fish stocks and their habitats : Questions and Answers
1. Which fisheries are concerned by the measures proposed and which fisheries are not concerned by those measures? Which regions and fishing industries are concerned?
Vessels directly involved are mainly French, Spanish and Portuguese. These vessels operating in deep-sea fisheries are not only large trawlers off the West of the British Islands (Hatton and Rockall banks) but also carrying out small-scale fisheries with longlines, which do not use bottom trawls, in some of the EU's outermost regions (e.g. Azores, Madeira, Canaries). The big trawlers are mainly based in Britanny and Normandy (France) and in Galicia, Asturias and the Basque Country (Spain).
The Commission believes that the overall economic importance of deep-sea catches is small: The 34.334 tonnes of deep-sea species landed from the North-East Atlantic (2008) represents only about 1% of the overall landings (3.563.711 tonnes) from the North-East Atlantic (Data on deep-sea catches from Joint Research Centre). In the regional context, the picture might be different but the impact of a phase-out of bottom trawls and bottom-set gillnets remains limited. For example, in the case of France, the French government and their industry reviewed two years ago the state of the activity and estimated that about 180 jobs are linked to the deep sea fishing vessels, mostly trawlers, although those trawlers also operate in other fisheries. About 200 fish mongers are specialised in deep-sea fish. The four ports with more activity linked to deep-sea fisheries are Boulogne sur Mer, Lorient, Concarneau and Le Guilvinec. The Commission proposal would be of very limited impact nationally, although more sensitive at a local level (Brittany).
2. Is this initiative the prelude of a total bottom trawling banning in EU waters?
This is certainly not the intention of the Commission. Deep-sea fisheries, both targeted and by-catch will be defined in base of the overall catch weight per day of a mixture of species precisely listed. The only segment to be phased out is the targeted fisheries. Other commercial fisheries will be not affected. In fact there are species that are mainly fished by trawling, including Norway lobster, with high economic value.
3. Which efforts are already underway to research and manage deep sea fisheries?
The EU is financing a project (Deepfishman) under its research framework programme that aims to provide a reliable assessment of the main deep-sea species. The efforts made by the industry to collect more detailed data are already paying and the expectations are for better scientific advice for the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea this year.
In addition, the Commission continues to research and testing for better fishing techniques with sustainability as the end objective. Under the EU Data Collection Framework, a study has been commissioned to support research into gear improvements that would contribute to a more sustainable exploitation of deep-sea resources while reducing the negative impact on the ecosystem. The study is developed in cooperation with the fishing industry and involves the use of observers on board commercial fishing vessels.
In parallel, the Commission is compiling very detailed data from vessel's satellite locators and crossing them with data on catches in order to draw up a more precise footprint of the activities of these fleets. This will provide a clear picture of where these fisheries take place for the different fleets involved, and will also help scientists know with ever more precision where and how the fish stocks evolve.
4. Why do trawls cause concern in deep sea fisheries and how can they be replaced by more environmentally friendly fishing techniques? How about bottom-set gillnets?
Bottom trawling may cause more harm to vulnerable deep-sea species and habitats than other fishing methods. Further concerns have been expressed that bottom trawling heavily impact the deep-water benthic fauna, particularly the reef-forming corals1. It can be one of the reasons for the decline of cold-water and other habitat forming taxa2. Significant impact on certain habitats and ecosystems next to the sea floor is greater due to the fact that this fishing gear is in dragged along the bottom of the oceans. On the other hand, bottom trawling involves high levels of unwanted catches: the so-called "by-catches". The estimated rates of undesired catch in observed trawl fisheries are on average between 20-30 % in weight (ICES 2010). The variety of species discarded by trawlers depends mainly on the fishing ground and the season. For instance, in the Western slope of the Hatton Bank, experimental fishing by trawlers targeting roundnose grenadiers and smootheads, discards are mainly composed of grenadiers and deep water sharks3.
Bottom-set gillnets are nets that are "planted" on the seabed and left static to entangle the catches. The vessels then return after some time to retrieve them and haul the catch. Their impact on the environment is felt in terms of the unwanted catches they take and on the cases where they get lost or abandoned, and continue to ghost-fish for very long periods of time. They are already under a general prohibition of use in depths of more than 600 m. The proposal tabled here basically consolidates the rules in their respect.
The Commission is ready to work with the industry and Member States to facilitate a transition towards more selective methods or towards change of fishing gear targeting deep sea species and/or the redeployment of the vessels affected to other fisheries that may be able to accommodate them. Together with the national authorities primarily responsible, the Commission is ready to explore possible financial support from EU funds to ease the impact of permanent cessations of deep-sea activity and the potential loss of jobs (e.g. by redirecting jobs to other fisheries).
5. If the fishermen have been responsible in contributing better data and as a result the science improves, and if indeed there is a chance even to fish more than in the past, does it make sense to propose phasing deep trawling out?
There is consensus among the scientific community that many of the deep-water fish stocks in the North-East Atlantic have declined and are now outside safe biological limits4. However, the information on the state of most deep water fish stocks is still limited or poor despite recent initiatives to expand sampling and data analyses. These efforts should continue and in some cases be expanded. It will take a long term commitment to ultimately improve assessments of deep-water fisheries.
The answer to the question is yes, it does. In 2012, ICES has for the first time implemented an approach which enables quantitative advice to be given in data poor situations, based on the precautionary approach and where possible also considering MSY. If some – very few – stocks were to look like doing better under improved science then of course the fishermen can see the reward of their efforts.
However, this argument does not take away the good sense of incentivising the fishing industry to harvest such species in a more sustainable way, and for that, one has to look not just at the levels of catches, but to the impacts that fishing gear leaves behind. If there is more fish in the sea for some of these stocks – again just very few of them – it is also thanks to the limits that have been imposed on catches over the recent years. What we need now is to help industry redirect itself to means of harvesting that are environmentally sounder. The possibility to increase catches safely for some stock, if science says it is possible, is an opportunity for the trawling fleets to have better economic returns in the short term. This means a unique chance to restructure into lower-impact gears for the longer term.
A combination of stocks in better shape and cleaner fishing methods, with much less catch of unwanted species and much less impact on the deep sea habitat is a winning recipe for the future.
More information: http://ec.europa.eu/fisheries/cfp/fishing_rules/technical_measures/index_en.htm
Fosså et al., 2002
Gage et al., 2005
Duran Muñoz et al., 2012
Campbell et al., 2011
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Alright well its almost that time... What do you guys plan on doing to your new camaro? What kind of mods?Well the Editors of GM High-Tech Performance Magazine were wondering the same question. That why they set up a little poll for you to let them and us know what your intentions really are.Click Here For The Little Poll
I already submitted mine... thank guys!
Good Deal! Thanks for your input!
First of all, not buying one if they still look like Cadillac XLR's. I'll stick with my 89 and my Corvette until they get it right, If ever. Remember the GTO. You can only disenfranchise the true believers so much. Oh, and we're older now, no mullets and good incomes. GM needs to look at what Ford did with the Mustang, It looks just like a Mustang! Sorry to be so negative ***
Take it your not a fan? haha im looking forward to it, i wish i had the money to get one
Bro, I have the money, and the high hopes, but Damn. GM is dropping the ball. This "Camaro" isn't aimed at us. Like the retro GTO. What a miss, all the right stuff, WRONG package. Talk to the truck guy's, Chev peeps are kinda conservative. I will be here to scam LS's and 6spd's from the wrecks though! More performance, Less Bling!!!! I sat in my first IROC in 1985, I was 17, I was hooked, in basic we were allowed one "pinup" in our locker, mine came from GM. No BS.
Check out a link the guys at jalopnik posted, Its a video of the new camaro. It looks pretty good in all black!
Im pretty excited to get my grubby hands on one
holy crap, i'm really pleased with how the camaros turned out, much better than the third and fourth gen. i can't wait until' my bf gets one, while he's at boot camp for the navy he's leaving it with me, haha
Awesome what dealership is he getting his from? What option package is he choosing?
bommarito. um, honestly i don't know, i'll have to ask. i'm excited though!
The Camaros are sick
haha yup! =)i can't wait until' i see em' on the street
Same here, I haven't seen any on the freeways yet.
nope, but i got to touch one at the dealership though, lol, i was happy =P


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Amazon Stops Processing Payments For Crowdfunding Platform For Creative Commons Books
from the weird deptSo this is a bit strange. Unglue.it is a cool crowdfunding platform that focuses on raising money for authors/rightsholders so that they'll release an edition of their books under a Creative Commons license. We've seen a few similar offerings, but Unglue.it seemed really interesting (and to be getting some attention/traction). Basically, they would work with rightsholders, to find out at what price they'd be willing to put their works out under a Creative Commons license, and then try to crowdfund that amount. Neat idea. However, as Jack Allnutt alerts us, despite having already been processing payments for Unglue.it, Amazon has cut the service off, with a bizarre claim about how they don't want to work with any new crowdfunding platforms:
Amazon Payments has informed us that they will no longer process pledge payments for Unglue.it, forcing us to suspend all active ungluing campaigns. According to a Senior Account Manager at Amazon, Amazon has decided against "boarding fresh crowdfunding accounts at this time". Amazon has been providing payment services for Unglue.it, as it does for the popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter.Of course, that statement doesn't make much sense, given that it was already processing payments for Unglue.it. In fact, part of this news was that Amazon is requiring Unglue.it to void all payments for existing campaigns (i.e., those not yet funded). So the idea that this is about not "boarding fresh crowdfunding accounts" doesn't make much sense. Amazon has been the only choice for payments on Kickstarter since the beginning, and that seems to have gone well, so it's odd that they're now cutting off others (and, of course, opens up Amazon to wild conspiracy theories). I contacted Amazon to get their side of the story, and they provided the following comment:
We support a wide variety of businesses, but we have regulatory obligations as a licensed money services business for how we operate. Unfortunately, Unglue.it's model is not the same as some other crowdfunding services and at this time does not allow us to meet those obligations.That statement makes this all the more... confusing. They're clearly implying that there are regulatory issues preventing them from supporting Unglue.it, though I'm not sure I can think of what the concern here might be. There have been some regulatory issues around equity funding via crowdfunding, but that doesn't seem to be an issue here. If they're just working out deals for licensing books... I'm at a complete loss.
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Time to "buy"?
As always, there's no set answer to that question, but the the shortest answer to that question is yes, we're getting to the point where it's probably time to start scaling into some more long side exposure as the markets have really started to get a panicky. I used the word "start" there a couple of times in that prior sentence to drive the point home that you're not going to draw a line in the sand here. Indeed, I'm just gently looking at scaling into some more Level 3 Communications /quotes/zigman/7013898 /quotes/nls/lvlt LVLT and a couple other names this morning. And next, it's probably time to buy back some Apple /quotes/zigman/68270 /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL we sold higher too.
Is it hard to make the buys right now while the stocks are down and the markets are down and the sense of dread and panic among the bulls is rising? Of course, and as I'll remind you guys many times — the hardest trade to make is usually the right one. Just six short weeks ago, I wrote:
You know how good it feels right now? Remember how bad you felt when the mainstream media and the markets were freaking out about the Greece-EU-Crisis a few months ago?
Another old saying you guys should think about is — the hardest trade to make is usually the right one. How hard is it to sell Apple right now? How hard is it to trim down as the markets are going nuts? Then again, how hard was it to buy when the markets were crashed and the Euro was supposedly going to destroy our US economy? Make the hard trade.
Well, we're certainly at some sort of a flipside of that analysis right here, right now. But again, I'm not saying go all-in here. Just as I didn't recommend selling everything and getting short in that article — and to be sure, some of our stocks and some of the indexes continued rising from the place they were at when I wrote that.
The same day I came back and wrote:
So here's today's thought of the day as I sit here in the ABQ airport on my way to LA for the Apple Investor Summit — do you know any bulls who are actually scared right now? Do you know any bears who are confident?
Go back and look at all the times during this big market rally over the last few months that I've pointed out that I didn't think there was a clear answer to my "Who's more scared?" question. I repeatedly noted that even though the markets were rallying steadily and that even though we'd expect the bears to have been scared and the bulls cocky, I didn't see that dynamic out there, and it helped keep us steadily net long with lots of upside exposure that has obviously paid off big during that run.
With that huge pop into the close yesterday and the steady melt-up in so many stocks and with the broader markets continuing to motor through multi-year new highs, and with me headed to a conference all about Investing In Apple — well, it sure seems like there's a lot of people that the market could get around to fooling right now, huh?
I've no idea if we're at a short-term, intermediate- or any other kind of bottom right here right now this morning with the Nasdaq /quotes/zigman/123127 COMP at 2,953, down about 7% from its recent highs. But the outlook for our stocks remains very positive and the economy/market continue to present themselves bullishly for revolutionary tech stocks, and we were selling at much higher levels and have been patient waiting for better pitches to put that money back to work.
These are definitely better pitches, whether they're the exact bottom or not. So you make a couple swings today. And don't get too leveraged or crazy or too aggressive for you, whatever that "too" may mean for you personally.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Make the hard trade. Or as Yoda might say it, "The hardest trade is one you should make, yes."
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Cody Willard writes Revolution Investing for MarketWatch and posts the trades from his personal account at TradingWithCody.com. At time of publication, Cody was net long Apple and Google.


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RochaAzul necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 84 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
Restaurante Rocha Azul
This logo is for a beach restaurant in the Algarve Portugal region.
The main dishes are sea food and the style of the restaurant is modern and made of wood. The staff is also young and the ambiance is informal.
The target audience are tourists mainly from the UK, Ireland and Spain.
The restaurant is located on the beach in Praia da Rocha, Algarve Portugal.
Most customers are on holiday, so the logo should reflect a happy sunny mood, where people will feel like they will be welcomed in a relaxed setting among rocky cliffs and sandy white beaches.
On the bottom of the logo we would like to see a silvery sardine (fish) and inside the sardine the company name " Restaurante Rocha Azul ".
We would like to see two triangular rocks (view attachment), one larger and one smaller in the background, use the rock on the left of the photo as your guide.
The rocks should be in the color blue (Rocha=Rock Azul=Blue).
The sardine should overlap the bottom of the rocks and be slightly wider then the two rocks.
We would like to see one or two seagulls flying around (optional)
The restaurant name should be in blue with (maybe) white, with a modern youthful style.
The overall mood of the logo should be happy, relaxed, sunny, beach style..
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Karu had made an aborted attempt at turning hero with his Mandhira Punnagai, which flopped.
He is now playing safe and going for a remake of the Malayalam hit Ordinary, titled Jannal Oram, produced by Hemanth Movies.
Ordinary is 2012's 'extraordinary hit' - a Malayalam comedy drama directed by Sugeeth featuring Kunchacko Boban, Biju Menon, Asif Ali and Ann Augustine.
The Jannal Oram puja was held recently. The film sees the coming together of Vimal and Vidharth along with Manisha and Poorna, who it is said will be seen in a very significant role.
Parthiban is also part of the big cast.
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Redknapp reveals late Adam bid
Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has revealed his club missed out on signing Blackpool midfielder Charlie Adam "by minutes" before the transfer deadline.
Spurs boss Redknapp has had a low-key month but revealed chairman Daniel Levy instigated a last-ditch move for the Scotland midfielder.
Redknapp told talkSPORT: "Daniel rang me late on and asked if I like Charlie Adam. I said 'yes, he's a fantastic footballer'. He said do you want him, I said 'can we get him?'. We pushed on and tried to do it, Daniel was confident he could get it through. It went to the wire but we missed out by minutes."
Redknapp added: "Daniel dealt with it. Apparently the boy was definitely up for coming...apparently the chairman couldn't get hold of two shareholders who had to sign the forms as well. It's just one of those things."
It seems the financial details had been agreed for Adam to move to White Hart Lane with only the aforementioned absent shareholders - on Blackpool's side, according to Redknapp - proving the stumbling block.
Redknapp confirmed a move for Everton captain Phil Neville, his only other realistic target, did not come off.
Reports also linked Tottenham with a move for a host of strikers, with suggestions the club had turned their attention to Diego Forlan after missing out on his Atletico Madrid team-mate Sergio Aguero.
It was rumoured that Spurs had tabled a £17million bid for the 31-year-old former Manchester United man, who has also been linked with a move to Real Madrid.
Asked if a new striker would be arriving, Redknapp said: "Definitely not.
"There's nothing happening at all there. I don't know where the stories were coming from. All these people were suddenly linked with us."