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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard men's tennis team will host its first tournament of the New Year when Fordham and Marist come to the Murr Tennis courts this weekend. The Crimson will compete in an individual tournament with the Rams and the Red Foxes running through Jan. 20-23.
Harvard opens its 2012 slate hosting Fordham and Marist at the Murr Tennis Center Jan. 20-23. The three squads will compete in an individual tournament.
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Harvard last played on Nov. 4, when the team traveled to Williamsburg, Va. to compete in the William and Mary Fall Invite. Alex Steinroeder led the Crimson, finishing 2-0 in the singles flight, while teaming with Alistair Felton and earning a 2-0 mark in doubles action.
Three other Crimson competitors joined Steinroeder in the undefeated category as Henry Steer, Denis Nguyen and Felton posted a sterling 5-0 record. Senior captain Davis Mangham also recorded a singles-competition victory going 1-1 during the tournament.
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The Red Foxes wrapped up a fall schedule that saw it compete in tournaments at Brown and Columbia, the USTA Collegiate Open and faced division opponents Rider and and Siena. Marist most recently had three players compete at the ITA Northeast Regional event held in New Haven Conn. Harvard's Denis Nguyen proved to be too much for Joris Van Eck defeating him 6-2, 6-3 while team "Nguyen" (Denis and Andy) defeated a Marist duo of Will Reznek and Lorenzo Rossi 9-7.
The Rams wrapped up its fall season going a perfect 6-0 in dual meets defeating Siena, St. Peter's, St. Francis, La Salle, Wagner and NJIT. Kuba Kowalski, Mischa Koran, and Srikar Alla competed in the ITA Northeast Regional event to cap off the slate. Kowalski and Koran advanced to the round of 128 before falling to Stony Brook's Francis Bertrand and Cornell's Quoc-Daniel Nguyen, respectively. Alla, meanwhile, fell in the first qualifying round. The doubles team of Alla and Kowalski lost to Princeton's Augie Bloom and Dan Davies in the round of 64, 8-4.
While Harvard looks to its spring schedule, it is safe to say that the Crimson had a successful fall campaign. The Crimson went 56-45 in singles competition and 26-10 during doubles matches. The highlight of the 2011 fall schedule was the team of Alistair Felton and Casey MacMaster advancing through the ITA Northeast Regionals falling just short of capturing the doubles crown in the championship match.
Harvard's roster has undergone a youth movement in 2011-12. After watching graduating seniors Alexei Chijoff-Evans '11 and Aba Omodele-Lucien '11 move on, the Crimson has an infusion of young talent on it's roster. The class of 2015 secured a 25-18 singles mark between the five players and have gone 17-10 in doubles play.
As has been the case with many freshman this season Alex Steinroeder has been impressive to watch through the team's fall slate. Stienroeder accrued a singles record of 8-4 and a doubles mark of 5-5. Steinroeder also added a individual tournament win to his resume when he defeated teammate Denis Nguyen at the Harvard Halloween Invite, 6-2, 7-6.
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Freshman Daniel Nguyen was also one of the Crimson's most successful players during the fall schedule. The Anaheim, Calif., native posted the team's best singles record going 11-3.
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In the latest edition of ITA rankings, posted on Jan. 3, the doubles team of Alistair Felton and Casey MacMaster were recognized as the 45th ranked team in the country. The tandem advanced to the ITA Northeast Regional finals and has recorded a 5-2 record as a duo.


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I didnt REALLY mean I was bumping. I was really just bitching and moaning about the fact that we have all these people here that have been preparing for days saying that they would be able to capture the teams at LAX when the race started but we have little info so far. I understand that it is rude of me to act like that if there are people who have taken pictures and gathered info but havnt been able to post it yet.I guess I am just used to how things worked out LEG 1 of TAR:Unfinished Business. We knew everything about that leg lol
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real guys i love the ideal of twin when was last time we had male twins before let think season 320
We have had twins on season 2,3,19,20 and 21. The last male african-american twin team was in Season 3. I think its safe to say they will bring something different to the table as opposed to the Twinnies and Liz and Marie and definitely Elliot and Andrew who I can hardly remember guys! But its funny - we asked for twins for so long after the Doublemints, and then all of a sudden its four in a row
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Dear 45s Record room,
I just finished driving due north to beautiful Vashon Island off the coast of Seattle; 1200 miles of dodging Highway Patrol speed traps, over-thinking routes and stuck in hyper caffeine overdrive listening to crazy-ass tirades from loony-right-wingnut talk radio. I suspect the elitist-socialist-coast-hugging-Hollywood-sissy-leftist-yoga flexing-public radio-wingnut they're talking about is me, except I'm just a record geek on vacation driving a Ford mini-van with my wife and kid on that silvery ribbon of highway. By the way, gas wasn't terribly overpriced anywhere on the road.
We spent a couple of days at the mouth of the Russian River just north of the Bay Area; insanely gorgeous and weirdly quiet. For most of us, spending a night in John's cabin was probably a treat. Up there on the Russian River surrounded by big blue chunks, there is no noise, just pure unadulterated silence. I woke one morning very suspicious of silence. Is silence golden? Hell, I think silence is more often than not iron pyrite. Confucius said "Silence is the true friend that never betrays." Well, I'm always a little dubious. In Buddhism silence and allowing the mind to become silent can help lead to spiritual enlightenment. Unfortunately I doubt I'll ever know. My hearing is shot and if the high pitch ringing in my ears doesn't drive me mad, all the noise I use to cover my tinnitus every single frigging day will. I'd like to blame someone other than myself for this predicament; it is the true blue American, Fourth of July, consecrated right to deny personal responsibility. Could I blame some of the 5000 different bands I did sound for in my years as a live engineer? I was raised in the Catholic Church-- maybe the blame should be directed at god? Then again, what's that going to accomplish? I'm pretty sure by the sixth chapter of the first book in the bible god was ready to kill off everybody; I doubt my tinnitus could qualify as either a concern of the almighty or the act of a vengeful god ... too simple a scheme. However, according to talk radio rationale, I could and should blame Obama, Pelosi, or Letterman and Franken or a least my college education for all my problems.
Anyway, I'll write you again later, don't forget to feed the new psychedelic record box, and take out the thrash records, thanks. Oh, and send my regards to the pop vocals clutter. PS: here are a couple of pix from along the way and an old song. One more thing, according to the great mime Marcel Marceau, "Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music." I presume he wrote that down.


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Santa Marta, Colombia — Cars are pretty expensive to buy in Colombia, so a lot of people take cabs and buses. As a friend of mine always told me, wheels beats heels, and by that logic catching a ride in someone else's car works for me.
One sweltering summer day as I sweating to death in Santa Marta, Colombia, I decided that it would be a great idea to leave the steamy Caribbean coast for the much cooler environs of a mountain village nearby. So I hailed a cab. The ride up the mountain in a beat-up Chevrolet took longer than I thought, and included a random sack of bananas and an Indian sucking on a bowl of Coca. The ride back was a three-deep night run on a windy dirt road.
With the exception of the U.S., most places I've traveled in the world are pretty simple to navigate if you don't have your own set of wheels. Getting from point A to point B usually involves some kind of bus or cab ride, or if you're in one of those fancy European and Asian countries where
socialists the government uses taxpayer money for solid public transit systems, you can ride the train.
Cab rides in Colombia, or, I've found, in most places other than the States and Europe, are somewhat more leisurely than I'm accustomed to. Here (South America), cab and bus drivers take advantage of opportunities to stop, chat with friends, pick up snacks, and get all kinds of little non work related things done. (I experienced something like this on a bus in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn once, but that doesn't count, as it's a place lost in time.)
My girlfriend and I were headed up to Minca, a jungley mountain hamlet about 12 miles inland and a couple thousand feet uphill from the sea. You could ride a bike there, but you'd have to rent/steal a shitty bike from somewhere, and the hill's pretty steep. Plus the motor traffic can be a little hairy for people who aren't used to riding in conditions like that. But they've thought of everything here, and have collective taxis that make the trip back and forth between the sea and the mountains all day. Once they have four people to stuff in a tiny old beater, you're off to the races.
We ended up in a well-used natural gas-powered 1985 Chevrolet Chevette — one of the Vauxhall ones you never see in the States. I was raised to regard Chevettes with a certain degree of disgust, but the South American variant, even the battered one we climbed into, is pretty cool-looking (and judging by the condition of the one we rode in, they withstand quite a bit of abuse). It was also one of the few small cars of the econobox era to maintain a rear wheel drive setup, which you all know we here at Jalopnik are big fans of.
This particular Chevette was pretty worked over, and had clearly seen years of hard use as a taxi in this mountainous/coastal region. (Neither mountains nor salty air are good for a car's longevity, but Colombians are pretty good at keeping cars on the road forever no matter what they've been through.) Its body had been painted a bright, serviceable white, and its interior stripped of all but the bare essentials to keep stuff from falling off on rough roads. There was no carpet or headliner, and a fresh coat of gloss black had been brushed onto the floor in the not-too-distant past. The only adornments it had were a religious mural hanging from the rear view mirror and a portrait of Pope John Paul II stuck squarely in the center of the dash.
The driver explained that his company uses old cars on the Santa Marta-to-Minca trek because the roads are pretty bumpy. Chevettes are cheap to fix, easy to find parts for, and if they completely destroy one, it's not a huge loss. Slapping an inexpensive (which is to say, not extensively engineered) natural gas conversion into one doesn't do much for fuel economy, but natural gas is really cheap compared to gasoline, so lots of cabbies are burning the stuff.
Leaving the cab stand, we trundled through Santa Marta's grid of weathered, Casa Blanca set-looking buildings, the car's shrill horn sounding whenever the traffic ahead moved too slowly, when there were pedestrians who wanted to cross, when we passed women who struck the driver's fancy, when he saw one of his cabbie bros... You get the picture. The horn was constantly tooting, even while he was telling us about his farm in the mountains and the 1955 Willy's Jeep he has squirreled away up there.
The cabbie seemed to know everyone, and other cabbies, and cab passengers wearing traditional Arhuaco Indian outfits, sped by from time to time, honking and waving and yelling greetings out the windows.
At some point, our driver swerved to the side of the road, the car clattering to a halt in the gravel. An Arhuaco guy named Sam, all kitted out in traditional garb, hopped into the car with a cheerful smile. He had long, wavy black hair capped under a thimble shaped white hat, and was wearing the Costeños' white linen trousers and a white, native style poncho cinched at the waist with a thin belt. The woven bag slung over his shoulder was the type that would sell very well at a Williamsburg hipsterdashery. As he plopped into his seat, we saw him twisting a stick into a curious wooden bowl shaped thing.
As the road ascended, the pavement gave way to ever more frequent sections of erosion-damaged dirt. The ol' Chevette didn't fall apart, but its suspension made some interesting sounds as it clunked in and out of huge potholes. At times, I was surprised the thing could continue under its own power with four people on board. But the cabbie seemed to know what he was doing and the car chugged steadily uphill.
Again, he saw another one of his muchachos, a man standing next to a red Chevette, and bounced onto the shoulder. The red car's back wheels were chocked with stones and the man jabbered something in his lighting fast Costeño brogue about needing help. Our driver proffered a phillips head screwdriver, but that didn't seem to be what the situation called for. So he and his stranded friend did what anyone would do in that situation and paced slowly around the car, scratching their heads and doing nothing to actually fix the car.
Eventually, they decided that the thing to do was take the massive bag of bananas out of the broken car and throw them into the trunk of our cab. The Indian slid the stick in and out of his wooden contraption while the other two tied the lid of the car's overloaded trunk with a piece of twine. Broken car man saw what he was doing and broke into a smile.
He suggested that the Indian should give some to us, but he didn't offer and I didn't want to be rude, so he smiled and took a slug from the thing as we trundled back onto the roadway with our new cargo. Miraculously, the little Chevette didn't fall apart and made it the rest of the way up the mountain.
By the time we got to Minca, Coca man was smiling broadly, and looked ready for a day spent bullshitting with tourists in his paradisiacal workplace (unfortunately, he scurried off before I could get a photo of him). Its not like he was blowing rails or anything — Arahuayo Indians have been drinking and chewing on Coca for millenia — but he sure looked happy. I wish my morning cup of coffee could do that.
Maybe someday, the U.S. government will get wise and let the rest of us give it a try. People say coca is a good medicine, so we can start by passing it out in Congress to see if it will do anything to cure the malaise that currently afflicts that effusive lot of heel-draggers.
But enough of all that. Nobody really thinks about politics when the chips are down. They think about more vital issues, like how you're going to get back down a mountain you got someone to drive you up in their dilapidated clap trap taxi.
First, let me say that if you've never been to Colombia and want to, you should check out Minca. The hiking trails up there are through some of the most beautiful country I've ever seen, and will take you snaking through Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark first act scenery like nothing you've ever seen. Every time I heard a stick crackle, I was looking over my should for that huge round boulder, or 100 poison dart-blowing natives.
We had gotten our Chevette driving cabbie to agree to pick us up in the same little crossroads in Minca at 7pm, well after dark when you're that close to the equator. After running up the side of a mountain to swim in a truly massive mountain stream, we descended back into town to find that he wasn't there. In a case like that, there's only one thing you can do. Buy some cheap food and a bunch of beer at a roadside stand and think over your options. Only there weren't any.
All of the cabs had gone back down the mountain for the night, and none of the locals was really into making a special trip down. After we'd stuffed our faces with some delicious fried chicken potato pocket thing and slurped down some of the national brew, we managed to talk the stand's proprietor into calling someone he knew to pick us up on his motorbike.
That meant three people were going to be riding down a sketchy mountain road on a 150 cc motorcycle at night. I was ready to go (especially since it was way cheaper that bribing someone to drive us down in a car), although my girlfriend wasn't so keen on it. But with no other options and a promise from the driver that he'd keep it suavecito we were off.
We were all wearing shorts and T-shirts and only the driver had a real helmet, but it was way more fun than driving in a cab. Our driver gunned the motor out of turns into straightaways, speeding onto flat tarmac until it was time to slow down again for another washed out section of road.
Every so often, we'd pass another motorbike loaded down with people, and I remembered that the whole time I've been in this little slice of coastal paradise, I haven't seen one BMW or Porsche or screaming fast crotch rocket. Most people here can't afford that stuff. The muse I'd had about everyone driving slow crapcans and everyone being safer reappeared. If they could afford better, I'm sure they'd go for it, but for now, expectations are low, so everything is muy tranquilo. It's interesting to see a society at a point where that could all change so quickly.
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I expected many things when I first heard Somerset House in London was planning the exhibition Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore, which opens next week with more than 100 pieces from the late style icon's wardrobe.
I expected, for example, that this would inspire many odes to Isabella, from those who knew her well and not so well. And so it proved: among those weighing in were journalist Colin McDowell, novelist Andrew O'Hagan, and heiress and artist Daphne Guinness, who actually bought Isabella's wardrobe, preserving it in perpetuity.
I expected it would serve as an opportunity to pay photographic homage to many of Blow's most amazing looks, from an Alexander McQueen flesh-toned crocodile dress to a Jun Takahashi pink burka-like garment. And so it did, thanks to a high-concept catalogue photographed by Nick Knight, styled by Amanda Harlech, and featured everywhere from V to the Daily Mail.
What I did not expect was the stream of condemnation it has provoked about street style – the popular practice of photographing "real people" as they go about their business in "real clothes" and then posting the pictures online for all to see. For street style has made stars out of people otherwise toiling away in the fashion trenches, from Taylor Tomasi Hill, until recently creative director of the ecommerce site Moda Operandi, to Tank editor Caroline Issa, and, it appears, not everyone is happy about that.
For almost every memoir written about Blow focusing on her "eccentric style", there has been an equivalent amount of scorn cast on those who aspire to pick up her mantle of fame through clothes. To sum up these arguments: Blow was the real thing, and today's crew are simply pretenders. She was dressing for her own love of the art, and they are dressing for the camera, and their own brand building. She had integrity, they are fakers.
It's a seductive argument, especially for anyone who has rolled their eyes at the ridiculousness of someone dressed up in full evening garb at 10am for what seems like the sole purpose of catching the eye of a photographer. It's tempting to join this chorus of disapproval but isn't it more interesting to wonder what all this is actually about?
As far as I can tell, the problem is that we no longer trust the idea of personal style. Once upon a time – in Blow's time – someone who dressed in a highly specific way, consistently, over time (which I think is a more accurate characterisation of her style than "eccentric", which devalues the considered way she built her look), was clearly dressing to please themselves or to define themselves. Because, otherwise, what was the pay-off? Passers-by giving you weird glances? It's not like random looks went viral to create an insta-brand. And it's not like what Blow wore – the corsetry, the hats, the extreme shoes – was about comfort; it was about reinvention: of the body, perception, possibility.
The reason her style is so lauded now is that it represents a kind of insider surety that we – by "we" I don't just mean fashion professionals, I mean anyone who pays attention to what others wear, and thinks about how they themselves might be affected by it – no longer have.
The irony is, it's precisely that kind of dedication to an individual look that spawned the whole idea of street style in the first place: that inspired people such as Scott Schuman (aka the Sartorialist blogger) to search for men and women with a carefully crafted way of dressing themselves, who might not – in contrast to Blow or any other fashion professional – find their way in front of a photographer's lens in the course of their daily lives. Meaning the photographer had to go to them. Wherever they might be.
And once they did, and the discipline took off thanks to the perfect storm of fashion, reality pop culture, and technology, the brands that used to set trends took note, and started wooing the style stars. Which meant it became harder to tell what was true personal choice when it came to what Blow's heirs wore, and what was marketing. Which undermined the entire endeavour, and led to condemnation, which led to . . . well, what we have now: the hagiography of Isabella Blow as a representative of a genuine approach to dressing that no longer seems to exist.
(Even though it does; consider US Vogue's Lynn Yaeger, a journalist whose kewpie doll lips, Clara Bow hair and tendency to dress in layers like a matryoshka doll complement razor-sharp skills of observation.)
It's a sad state of things, really, and it seems to me we should stop whining about what we can't know, and have a little confidence in our own powers of perception. Indeed, Blow herself would be horrified, because if there is one lesson that should be drawn from her wardrobe, it is about the pure joy that can be found in great clothes; the fun and self-expression and safety blanket that is the art of dress. Wear it and weep.
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ROCKMART, Ga. - A northwest Georgia homeowner says she was surprised to learn that armadillos were responsible for damage to her lawn, though many of her neighbors didn't know the critters were living in her county.
Vicki Ferguson of Rockmart tells the Rome News-Tribune (http://bit.ly/WfS4Wd) that she first noticed her lawn was dying in patches. There were holes everywhere. She thought the damage was the work of grub worms, moles or gophers.
She says a landscape specialist, Brent Cooper, was the first to tell her that armadillos were responsible. The unwanted visitors had built several tunnels around her home.
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With roles like Thor, Chris Hemsworth is known for having one of the best bodies in Hollywood, but he had to put that title aside for his latest film, "In the Heart of the Sea."
The hunky actor got to chatting on Twitter with some of his fans and revealed the hardest part about filming for the role--in which he plays a sailor who is stranded at sea for 90 days--was being forced to lose an insane amount of weight, which he did so by dropping down to 500 calories a day.
WATCH: Chris Hemsworth talks extreme weight loss
Sharing a photograph of himself looking incredibly frail and almost unrecognizable, he wrote, "Just tried a new diet/training program called Lost At Sea. Wouldn't recommend it...#IntheHeartoftheSea."
Along with the weight loss, Hemsworth revealed some other fun facts about himself during the Twitter chat. Here are 11 things we learned:
1. He thinks acting in a comedy is harder than a drama.
2. We might get to see him and Liam Hemsworth in the same film some day!
3. Kelly Slater was his inspiration growing up and the reason he became a surfer.
4. But his brother, Luke, was the one who got him into acting.
5. His favorite artist is Van Morrison.
6. His favorite movie of all time is "The Never Ending Story."
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7. If he wasn't an actor, he'd be a zookeeper.
8. He says the best Hemsworth of them all is his mom, Leonie.
9. He wishes he had the power to time travel.
10. His go-to dance move is the worm.
11. He's Team Peeta (Sorry, Liam!).
To hear more about Hemsworth's upcoming film and his intense weight loss plan, check out E! News' interview with him below!
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Is there some way to set this to not "expand" the tab? and what might be the rationale behind this expansion?
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The future looked bright at Structural Composites Indiana, a small fabricating company building fiberglass tops for motorhomes and travel trailers. Set in a small industrial park in Ligonier, 20 miles from Elkhart, the company had flourished. Last March, 130 employees were working two shifts, 5-1/2 days a week.
Then the bottom fell out.
When the market for recreational vehicles collapsed last year, so did scores of companies across northern Indiana. Structural Composites kept its workers as long as it could. Many were friends, relatives and neighbors. "It really became a heartache to tell people, 'We can't support you for now,'" recalls CEO Jim Fearnow, one of the founders. But by December, the work force had shrunk to just 20.
The company didn't close. Nor did it simply hunker down, as many have done, to wait for better times. Even before surging gasoline prices soured Americans on motorhomes, Fearnow and his business partner had been looking for new uses for their fiberglass, according to the Christian Science Monitor.
The recession gave that quest a new and powerful urgency. At a trade show in Chicago, representatives of the coal industry had confided a wish to put lids on coal cars. Covers could keep swirling coal dust from escaping during coal's long journey from the western coal fields. They might also save money by streamlining the cars, reducing drag and lowering fuel costs.
The company went to work designing a fiberglass top bigger than anything it had fashioned before – 58 feet long and weighing three-quarters of a ton. It tested two prototypes in February, lowering them with a crane onto rail cars in Bismarck, N.D. "Nobody knew what was going to happen," says Roy Huber, who helped design the cover and had his doubts. "They loved it."
That demonstration on the frozen plains of North Dakota yielded an initial order of 90 covers. Workers are just now making final adjustments on the mold, and the company plans to begin production by mid-June. Six workers came back to make the prototypes; another 10 will return to start production. In a region staggered by recession, they feel grateful.
"We wouldn't be working now if it wasn't for the new project," says David Bacon, one worker who was rehired.
No region of the country is bound to manufacturing more closely than northern Indiana. Indiana is America's most industrialized state, and its northeastern counties – bordering Michigan and Ohio – rank among the most industrialized in the nation. Small and medium-sized manufacturing plants turn out parts for medical equipment and automobiles and the machines that make those parts, down to the smallest bolt and fastener.
Even before the recession hit, many manufacturers were struggling, as work and jobs slipped away first to Mexico, then to China. But across the region, some companies are fighting back. Like Structural Composites, they are striving to remake themselves, adapting to the new conditions by shifting to new industries and seeking out new opportunities.
There's a faith here that Americans can still make things.
Nick Busche has been traveling a lot lately, searching for new customers. Ten years ago, when he founded the company that bears his name in the little town of Albion, Ind., it was tied almost completely to the car industry. But a downturn in 2001 and growing financial pressure on partsmakers told Mr. Busche that bigger trouble lay ahead.
"When you have that much concentration in one industry, it was the tail wagging the dog," he says. He went looking for new customers and found them in companies like John Deere, Caterpillar, Honeywell and Navistar. The search continues. Busche Enterprise Division Inc. recently added seven new workers when it started fabricating metal housings for a company that makes precision refrigeration equipment.
"We call ourselves Heinz 57," says Busche, a gruff, fast-talking, and highly confident executive. "It's more difficult to deal with 30 or 40 customers than one or two. But if you don't go through the difficulty and pain, you won't get the advantage."
Busche hasn't given up on cars. Indeed, experts say the industry will almost certainly remain a significant part of the Midwestern economy. But Busche said his strategy is to make "safety-critical components" like steering components – parts he believes carmakers will always want manufactured close by. The company is already picking up business from failed competitors who made steering and suspension parts for Toyota pickups.
"The strong will survive," he says. "We'll come out of this with half the competition."
Not all local manufacturers see diversity as the answer. Some companies are simply yearning to move into industries of the future, like wind power. Last month in nearby Fort Wayne, Ind., hundreds of local business people showed up to hear presentations from wind-power companies seeking partsmakers.
"The same type of skills and expertise used to make engine parts and auto parts can be used in the wind turbine industry," says John Sampson, head of a regional office promoting economic development in northeastern Indiana.
For others, the answer is medical products. Northern Indiana is already home to a prosperous and well-established medical parts industry.
"Every tool-and-die shop in the nation that used to do the automobile industry wants to do biomedical," says Brian Emerick, CEO of MicropulseInc., a former tool-and-die shop that made the transition a few years ago.
It was not easy. Making surgical tools, implants, and other medical equipment requires far greater precision than making car parts. But the gambit has paid off.
Micropulse employs 160 workers and, despite the recession, has slowly been hiring more. Emerick expects the company to continue growing at a rate of 15 to 20 percent a year. "It was probably a good thing we went into it when we did," he says. "It's almost impossible to get into it now."
Don Wood, a plain-spoken entrepreneur, started 80/20 Inc. some 20 years ago with a vision for a better way to make metal supports for machinery. Instead of welding "and all the hassles you go through," he used extruded aluminum frames that could be assembled without welding. Five years ago the business had grown to 300 people. Since then, the recession has cut business by 35 percent, and 60 workers have lost their jobs. The company is still gaining customers; they simply have less money to spend.
Wood is undaunted. "We don't spend much time at the beach," he says. Among the company's new products are frames for solar pan els. "This is one we're cranking up," he says.
In some ways these companies are the exception. Economic development officials in the region struggle to name more than a handful of companies that are hiring or reporting hopeful news. Yet they celebrate the exceptions as examples of an entrepreneurial spirit that might shape a new manufacturing economy.
"This is a region that makes things and knows how to make things," says Alan Tio, an economic development official in Whitley County, Ind. "The opportunities in the past have been in automotive. The future will hold other opportunities."


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DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 1 March 2012. OCLC has transferred to EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) the rights to license publisher-owned databases that are currently available through the OCLC FirstSearch reference service. This transaction is intended to complete the cooperative's transition out of the role of content reseller. OCLC is focusing on management and access to libraries' full collections through the OCLC WorldShare Platform.
In March 2010, EBSCO acquired the NetLibrary Division of OCLC as well as the rights to license a select number of publisher-owned databases available through FirstSearch. The current transaction completes the transfer of OCLC's rights to license publisher-owned databases on FirstSearch that began under the 2010 agreement.
EBSCO has agreed to host, distribute and support these licensed databases, and plans to load the databases and begin providing access to users on EBSCOhost. OCLC and EBSCO are working together to ensure a smooth transition for users, and uninterrupted service for customers.
FirstSearch remains part of OCLC's discovery and delivery services. As these services become part of the OCLC WorldShare Platform, FirstSearch users will see improved integration and workflows. OCLC will continue to provide access to WorldCat and other databases published by OCLC, such as ArticleFirst, OCLC WorldCat Dissertations and Theses, SCIPIO and Electronic Books.
"OCLC's strategy is to provide a neutral platform that libraries can rely on to manage and offer access to their collections," said Chip Nilges, OCLC Vice President, Business Development. "Instead of hosting and reselling content, we want to partner with content providers so that we can incorporate their collections into the OCLC WorldShare Platform, help our members automate their collection workflows, and improve access to content."
The OCLC WorldShare Platform is a global, interconnected Web architecture that supports OCLC's Webscale services and applications, and provides flexible, open access to library data through APIs and other Web services. Library service and content providers, like EBSCO, can offer libraries access to their content and services through the OCLC WorldShare Platform.
OCLC started the FirstSearch service in the early 1990s, which shifted the model from mediated to patron accessible online reference services. Much of the content available on the FirstSearch service was licensed from publishers or database providers. "Today, content reselling is a mature business and is best done by companies that specialize in the field. Libraries will be better served by EBSCO, one of the leading service providers in the field," said Mr. Nilges.
OCLC has agreed to assign to EBSCO the hosting contracts for the following databases:
- Anthropological Index
- Anthropological Literature
- Anthropology Plus
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
- Chicano Database
- Heritage of the Printed Book (formerly Hand Press Book)
- History of Science, Technology and Medicine
- Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals
- Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
Senior Vice President of Business Development at EBSCO Publishing, Mark Herrick, says the databases involved will fit in nicely with the current database offerings from EBSCO Publishing. "These databases from FirstSearch will both complement and augment the databases available on EBSCOhost. Since EBSCOhost is the most-used research platform, we expect a smooth transition for libraries and their end users."
Offering these resources on EBSCOhost is in line with EBSCO's approach to making available the highest quality subject indexes. Customers of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) who subscribe to these databases on EBSCOhost will be able to leverage EBSCO's unique Platform Blending technology to infuse results from these databases into their EDS experience.
About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is the producer of EBSCOhost, the world's premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives, and eBooks. The company provides more than 350 databases and nearly 300,000 eBooks. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of journals and magazines than any other discovery service (www.ebscohost.com/discovery). For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: firstname.lastname@example.com. EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.
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Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing library costs. More than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries have used OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, preserve and manage library materials. Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world's largest online database for discovery of library resources. Search WorldCat on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.


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pwnt2j wrote:I'll be an elf
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Smack Santa wrote:They will be required to organise and split jobs between themselves, set up the webcomic profile, organise the secret santas (matching up, PMing, answering queries), upload the gifts (and link user profiles), find and organise the Gift Elves, and deal with scrooges, grinches and rule breakers.
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Attend our monthly events and activities for Viña del Mar expatriates to get to know like-minded expatriates in real life.
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Meaning the "Vineyard of the Sea," Viña del Mar is a large city on Chile's Pacific coast. Home to the most popular beach resort in the country, Viña del Mar is popular with both tourists and expats alike. The clean and organized city is a stark contrast to the neighboring city of Valparaiso. Viña del Mar instead features clean-cut boulevards, a beautiful public beach, and large green parks that justify its nickname, "the Garden city". Many expats based in Chilean cities find the transition to living in the country, and particularly in the modern city of Viña del Mar, very easy. The modern, stable, and wealthy country offers expats a comfortable life that many enjoy.
InterNations is a safe and secure private network of expats. Every member has gone through an approval process first to ensure they understand the guiding principles of InterNations and enable members to interact in a safe environment. To meet up with like-minded members who are also living in Viña del Mar, you can take a look at our local InterNations Groups. Here you will find groups and events that are taking place in Vina del Mar right now, such as poker nights and coffee outings. Joining a group or event, it will help you to feel at home in your new country. And if there isn't a group that includes your hobby or interests, why not start one? It really is that simple. And in case you are feeling more like networking and socializing in general, don't forget our larger InterNations Official Events that are regularly held at some great local venues.


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I know, I know...what would Christmas be without dozens and dozens of homemade cookies? Or batch after batch of Chex mix? And, what about that beef stick in BBQ sauce or your special chocolate cake? It's just too much to ask to pass on all these goodies, just in the name of staving off a few pounds...pounds that you plan to lose, starting in January, when you plan to get to the gym again for your New Year's resolution, right?
If that plan worked as well as we intended, I don't think we'd be the nation of expanding waistlines that we have become. But, here is where we can implement our new LIFESTYLE changes to make a compromise, rather than our choices being the extreme of enjoying holiday goodies to our heart's desire or not having any...at all...ever...forever. There can be a happy medium here. You could sort your cookies into serving size baggies and allow yourself to have one a day, instead of standing beside the platter and mindlessly eating your way through a couple of tiers of them. The same strategy would apply to the other snacks, too. There is also the option of swapping out ingredient to shave excess fat and calories. You would be surprised, if you've never done it, what a little tinkering can do for your health without counting against taste:
--use sugar substitutes like Splenda
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A Q Brothers' Christmas Carol
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December 31, 2014
Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare
written by GQ, JQ, Jackson Doran
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developed with Rick Boynton
directed by GQ and JQ
A wildly engaging hip-hop take on Dickens' classic
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A hip-hop holiday treat set to a bangin' beat! CST and Chicago hip-hop sensation the Q Brothers—creators of Othello: The Remix and Funk It Up About Nothin'—have toured around the world, playing to sold-out houses in Edinburgh, Germany, South Korea, Australia and London. Now the team turns up the volume on Charles Dickens' classic tale, mixing everything from reggae, dancehall and dubstep to epic rock ballads. The Ghosts of Hip-hop Past, Present and Future lead Scrooge on a journey filled with rhythm, rhyme and redemption.
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bmatheny necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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After 10 years of working for other startups, I'm doing my own thing now. I'm an engineer at heart and love writing software, designing and building high-availability systems, and working with startups. I live in Indianapolis and am primarily working here for clients here but am planning to grow outside of the midwest in the next year.
I am currently only working with startup companies. These startups all have technology and software development needs. My goal is to be a trusted advisor to the founders of these companies, and provide a solid technical foundation for their business that can be built on for years to come. The entrepreneurs are cost conscious, business savvy, risk takers who are trying to have a vision come to light.
Want the logo to represent the company. The company name itself (Software Things) is a bit tongue in cheek, and an ideal logo would be fun/bold.
The logo will be used in many different ways:
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The designer should think about using a pallet that is portable.
I would like the logo to be clean/sharp, easy to read, not cartoonish or too garish and simple. The following concepts are ones I use when thinking about the business: fun, trust, startup/entrepreneur, software/technology.
What do you think about some kind of character/creature looking out from behind the text? The 'things' in software things might be monsters, etc. Just thinking.
When I'm thinking about this logo I'm currently thinking about incorporating it into a site design similar to this: http://99designs.com/static/images/
Fun, interesting, but a solid logo. A lot of the designs I'm seeing feel very 'corporate' to me.
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Pair a slicing or chef's knife with this curved fork for perfectly sliced meat every time. Crafted in Germany by the renowned cutlery experts at Wüsthof, the full-tang high-carbon-steel fork has a smooth polypropylene handle.
- Fork is precision forged from a single piece of sturdy high-carbon steel that resists stains and corrosion.
- Wüsthof's Precision Edge Technology (PEtec) ensures a 20% sharper blade with twice the edge retention.
- Curved tines hold meat in place for steady carving and slicing.
- Full tang is triple riveted to the handle for exceptional durability and control.
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The Lehi City Council, in Utah, has renamed Morning Glory Road after a technology company planning to relocate to the street raised concerns about the name's sexual connotation.
Council members in Lehi, which is about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City, voted unanimously last month to change the name to Morning Vista Road.
Minutes from the meeting show that Xactware Solutions Inc., which provides software for the insurance industry, asked for the name change so that the road would fit with its "international corporate image."
"Morning glory" is the name of a flower and part of the title of a popular 1990s song from British rock band Oasis. But the term is sometimes used to describe male arousal.
Councilman Johnny Revill, who moved to approve the resolution at the Dec. 11 meeting, told the Salt Lake Tribune that he didn't know about the term's slang meaning previously but was happy to appease Xactware officials.
"That name has a negative meaning for some reason," Revill said. "When you use the word, there is a different meaning that can be taken from that."
Councilor Mark Johnson told the Daily Herald that he only knows of the noxious weed called Morning Glory that is difficult to control, but he also voted in favor of the resolution. Johnson said Lehi doesn't like to change street names, but it does in some cases to "honor people or organizations."
The street name was a red flag for Xactware officials when they began considering moving their company's headquarters from Orem to Lehi's Traverse Mountain, said Jonathan Gardner, commercial venture project director for the planned community.
The company was worried that the sexual connotation of morning glory would become too prominent in the minds of prospective clients, Gardner said.
Morning Glory is far from an R-rated word in most of America. It is the name of a 2010 Hollywood film starring Rachel McAdams as an upbeat television producer trying to revive a struggling morning show. That movie is rated PG-13.
In the popular 1960s TV show "Bewitched," the family lived at 1164 Morning Glory Circle.
Morning Glory is also the name of a small community near El Paso, Texas.
Xactware went "a little overboard," in requesting the street name change, said Lehi resident Emily Scanlon. She said she has never thought of the sexual connotation in her four years driving past the road.
Lehi, with a population of about 48,000 people, is named after a prophet in the Book of Mormon and is the former home of the Brown family that stars in the reality TV series, "Sister Wives." Kody Brown moved his wives and 16 children from Lehi to the Las Vegas area in January 2011 after Utah authorities began a bigamy investigation.


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Andy's Steak & Seafood Grille - also known as Andy's Diner - has over 50 years of experience in providing mouth-watering food; making us the oldest continuous restaurant operation in Fredericksburg, TX.
What makes Andy's unique and different from other Fredericksburg restaurants? All of our homemade entrees, sauces, vegetables, salads and desserts are all prepared from SCRATCH. We hand-cut every piece of beef, chicken, pork and seafood right here on-site. We also buy only the freshest quality available in produce and ingredients for your salads, vegetables, sauces and pastry items.
We will always strive to provide you with the best dining experience for the best price possible.


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Dr. Kreithen integrates his artistic talent and experienced clinical skills to produce stunning results through a variety of aesthetic surgery procedures, including breast augmentation, liposuction, body contouring, and skin rejuvenation. Dr. Kreithen also specializes in hand surgery.
Discover why our patients are finding more confidence with outstanding results. Call to schedule a personal, confidential consultation with Dr. Joshua Kreithen at Lakewood Ranch Plastic Surgery, located in the Bradenton and Sarasota, Florida area in the new state-of-the-art Lakewood Ranch Medical Building.
Technical Skill, Artistry and Compassionate Care
Meet Joshua Kreithen, MD
In addition to extensive surgical training, Dr. Kreithen is also an experienced artist. He combines his artistic sense of balance and aesthetic judgement with his surgical skills to create superior results.
Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery
Medical Staff Affiliations
Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, Lakewood Ranch, FL
Doctors Hospital, Sarasota, FL
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery 3-year Fellowship
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Shands Hospital
Alachua General Hospital
Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Residency Training
General Surgery 5-year Residency
East Tennessee State University, Tri-Cities, Tennessee
Johnson City Medical Center
Bristol Regional Medical Center
Holston Valley Medical Center
Indian Path Medical Center
Mountain Home Veterans Affairs Medical Center
· M.D. Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
· B.S. with honors, Microbiology University of Pittsburgh
Publications & Presentations
· 2006 Lower Extemity Trauma, Soft Tissue Repair for Proximal and Middle Third Problems
· 2005 The Total Lower Body Lift, Obesity Help Regional Conference, Orlando, FL
· 2004 A Comparison of the Lejour and Wise Pattern Methods of Breast Reduction,
· Southeastern Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, Hot Springs, VA
· honored with the Outstanding Resident Award, published in Annals of Plastic Surgery
· 2003 Comparison of Nipple-Areola Reconstructive Techniques
· Southeastern Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeons, Palm Beach, FL
· 2001 Analysis of Free Tissue Flow Waveforms, American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, San Diego, CA
· 1996 Venous Outflow of the Leg, Journal of Vascular Surgery
Professional Affiliations
· American Society of Plastic Surgeons
· Florida Medical Association
· American Society for Laser Medicine & Surgery
· Manatee County Medical Society
· Sarasota County Medical Society
· ObestiyHelp Advisory Panel
· Clinical Associate Professor, Lake Erie Osteopathic School of Medicine
· Interplast - Cleft lip & palate missions to Honduras
· University of Florida Anatomy Instructor
Breast Procedures:
· Breast Augmentation
· Breast Lift
· Breast Reduction
· Breast Reconstruction
· Male Breast Reduction
Body Procedures:
· Liposuction
· Tummy Tuck (Abdominoplasty)
· Lower Body Lift
· Arm Lift
· Thight Lift
· Body Contouring After Weight Loss
Skin Care:
· Botox
· Dermal Fillers
· Chemical Peels
· Microdermabrasion
· Customized Facials
· IPL Photorejuvenation
· IPL Hair Removal
· Acne Treatments
· Skin Care Products
· Jane Iredale Mineral Skin Care
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Drawing Connections between GIS and Design16 Sep, 2009 By: Cyrena Respini-Irwin
Wacom's pen display technology supports geodesign tools in ESRI's ArcGIS 9.4.
ESRI has been discussing the forthcoming release of ArcGIS 9.4 for more than a year, and with the beta version planned for the fourth quarter of 2009, the wait is nearly over. This major release will incorporate a palette-based geodesign toolset, reflecting the company's current emphasis on placing design in a geographic context.
In a summer 2009 ArcNews article titled "GIS: Designing Our Future," ESRI President Jack Dangermond described the concept this way:
GeoDesign brings geographic analysis into the design process, where initial design sketches are instantly vetted for suitability against a myriad of database layers describing a variety of physical and social factors for the spatial extent of the project. This on-the-fly suitability analysis provides a framework for design, giving land-use planners, engineers, transportation planners, and others involved with design, the tools to leverage geographic information within their design workflows. . . . While traditional CAD is a useful tool in the architectural design of a building, GeoDesign is concerned with designing that same building in and around the environment.
According to Mike Dana, business development manager for Wacom, an ESRI business partner, "The idea of geodesign is to take a fresh approach to the authoring and use of GIS data. . . . Can we give people a new set of tools to build GIS data? Can we make access to GIS data more intuitive?"
As GIS technology has been evolving over the past 15 to 20 years, Dana explained, developers and users have focused on expanding capabilities and skill sets. Now that GIS has matured in terms of both ease of use and tool robustness, he noted, it's time to determine how we can best integrate engineering and design with GIS. That goal may be facilitated by Wacom's interactive pen display systems, which operate in place of a traditional mouse and monitor. According to Dana, Wacom worked with ESRI product engineers to ensure that the pen-input technology will enable users to fully exploit the new geodesign tools in ArcGIS 9.4.
Reworking Workflows
When using the pen display, users navigate and create features by drawing directly on the surface of the screen. For example, a GIS professional could use the system to annotate and mark design changes on a digital map. The original file is updated more quickly than when users work on hard copies, and there is less risk of introducing errors when transcribing changes. One aspect of the process, however, remains the same as when writing on paper: "The experience of working with the pen in your hand is familiar to all users," said Dana.
In ArcGIS v9.4, new feature templates will enable users to simply select a desired item — such as a meter or lateral — from a database and drop it into place, said Dana, without having to select a feature class or drawing tool first. Also, as shown during the plenary session of this year's ESRI User Conference, users may drag and drop analysis routines into the user interface. As Dana explained, this process is faster than having one person build the GIS data then hand it off to a higher-level analyst to create an analysis routine. According to Wacom, its pen technology complements these changes in ArcGIS, making these drag-and-drop workflows more intuitive and natural than when using a mouse.
Hands-On Hardware
Wacom's systems use electromagnetic resonance technology to determine where the pen is located relative to the writing surface. The display incorporates a sensor PCB (printed circuit board) with a wire grid, which emits a signal about every 20 microseconds. Once the pen comes within 0.5 centimeter of the writing surface, it receives the signal and the two components are able to communicate with each other, Dana explained. The signal causes the pen's coil-and-capacitor circuit to oscillate, generating energy that is detected by the display's grid, indicating the pen's location.
Wacom's interactive pen displays send a signal from the sensor layer that is received and returned by the pen, thereby indicating the pen's location on the writing surface. The monitor relays the pen's position, the amount of pressure being applied, and other information to the tablet computer up to 200 times per second.
The pen does not use batteries or a power cord; instead, the display provides power to the pen through resonant coupling. The display registers up to 1,024 levels of force, and can also determine the angle of the pen. The conical interference pattern, which is strongest at the pen tip, changes when the pen is tilted in any direction.
Continuing Convergence
According to Dana, this technology will likely find further CAD and GIS applications in the future. Wacom is affiliated with partner programs with ESRI, Autodesk, and Bentley, and expects to continue to work with them directly as well as with software developers who utilize these types of platforms.
"There is a clear history of software manufacturers and developers leveraging Wacom core pressure sensitivity and tilt recognition to enhance the end user experience for their user communities," said Dana. "I fully expect that as a larger audience of end users and software developers in the GIS and AEC industries become familiar with Wacom pen displays, we can expect new software enhancements in these industries similar to the changes in animation and graphic arts software that have already developed around these technologies." For example, it may eventually be possible to use the tilt of the pen as a navigation tool in 3D environments, or to apply the pressure sensitivity capability to customize hill shading based on slope and aspect.
What we can be sure of is that GIS and CAD technologies will continue to converge. As Dana observed, we are already starting to see a commonality in the types of data that are built and employed, such as building information models that consume geographic data sets. The look and feel of GIS and CAD interfaces will also become more similar, Dana predicted, as well as more intuitive and more reliant on 3D models: "It's going to become almost the look and feel of virtual reality, a video game–type environment."


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To work, to excellence. Doing your job
Early in life, everything is possible–
It's a time to dream big dreams.
Stack the dreams like cord-wood; there are infinite possibilities: a butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker.
There is the law,
Be a captain of industry,
work on the railroad,
or make Arcadian magic.
But as sand runs out of the glass, the possibilities dwindle.
The average American has a half dozen careers, a dozen employers. We weather investment bubbles, indebtedness, default, relocation. Nobody said it was going to be easy.
Did you wake up one day and ask, "Dear God, how did I get here?"
The bloom fades from the rose. Which career did you pursue? Did your job grow with you? Did it feed you– heart, mind, and soul?
In middle age, the time for reinvention is over. The inchoate idea has become a longing to climb the mountain.
But the mountaintop might not be Valhalla. Fame does not guarantee transcendence.
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle
The global economy and Wal-Mart have redesigned the American workplace. Your job has been exported.
My daughters stand on the threshold of the working world.
What example have I provided? I orate to the rain and wind. I am not a businessman.
Music worried Plato. But there is strength and comfort in music.
Malcolm Holcombe is a musician about my age who lives in the mountains of North Carolina. I read in Rolling Stone that Malcolm is Lucinda Williams' favorite singer-songwriter, a strong recommendation in my book. Malcolm released a new CD March 28, 2005.
"Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks. Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such."–Waylon Jennings
Take some of that money you've saved with your George Forman grill and spend it on a content provider– invest in music. Make Waylon wrong.
To excellence! To another day! Do your job.


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Jury Members and Evaluation
Gli Additivi/ Italy
Thomas Bade / Germany
Jacqueline Gothe / Australia
Keiichi Koyama / Japan
Christian Lunger / Austria
Maija Rozenfelde / Latvia
Susan Verba / USA
Jury Members and Evaluation
The international jury is composed of experts from their respective fields. Each jury member and its team will review all the entries in their category and select the top five shortlisted submissions. The shortlisted submissions will be evaluated by the entire jury to determine the category winner and honourable mentions.
Submissions to the IIID award will be judged on the following criteria:
1) Quality of the employed problem solving procedure:
- identifying the information needs of users
- making needed information available, accessible, understandable/usable
- assessing the effectiveness s of the provided information, it at all possible
2) Attractiveness and elegance of the designed information
The IIID award will recognize outstanding work done in the field. The breadth of information design has led us to develop 15 categories of awards, focused on specific topic areas. They include:
Focus of the Call for Submissions
The IIID award will recognize outstanding work done in the field. The breadth of information design has led us to develop 15 categories of awards, focused on specific topic areas. They include:
Information design that makes physical, social and mental well-being possible.
Submissions should focus on money matters including: economics, personal financial management, banking and investments.
Navigation in unfamiliar environments.
Traffic and Public Transport
Ensuring people get where they need to go by foot, underground, bike, car, bus, airplane, boat...
Social Affairs
Projects that make a positive, tangible, impact on a specific population.
Emergency / Safety
Ensuring hazards are properly identified and avoided, and the consequences when they're not.
Corporate Design and Communications
Helping companies/businesses to fully and completely express themselves and what they have to offer.
Projects that focus on educational or instructional information design.
Products and Services
Projects making products and services accessible, understandable and beneficial for the users.
Submission related to media, journalism and writing.
Universal Design
Information design that creates an inclusive environment.
Future Concepts
New and innovative projects. Something that makes us wish we had thought of it first!
Methods and tools for information design.
Focused on the relevance of ecological issues and impact on natural resources as well as "green" design practices for information design.
Student Work
Open to those who are studying to be information designers with no restriction on the theme of the submission.
Gli Additivi/ Italy
An association by Andrea Aufieri, Margherita MacrÏ, Marco Spinelli / Lecce
Gli Additivi. We are Andrea Aufieri (journalist), Margherita MacrÏ (editor) and Marco Spinelli (graphic designer). We promote the open data culture. We share a passion for the stories, according to our skills and through the path followed so far: the data, the story, the design. Each of us was an additive for others and together we try to improve the field that we chose by simplyfing most complex things. We were born in 2014 in Italy to discover the consequences of hybridizing our passions. The first step has to do with the Socratic: Visualize, the first laboratory from below, based on data culture. For us, this is an innovative way to help social actors to think about themselves and their interactions. Additives as we facilitate and improve the quality of these processes.
Thomas Bade / Germany
CEO of the Institute for Universal Design in Munich.
Thomas Bade, who holds a degree in social education, sees social design and social entrepreneurship as the key element of universal design. For ten years, he has been committed to achieving the aim of entrenching universal design in business, academia and society. Thomas Bade is a co-founder of universal design e.V., signatory to the Weimar Declaration and lecturer for Industrial Design at the Technical University of Munich. Since July 2016, he has also served as the CEO of the Institute for Universal Design in Munich.
Jacqueline Gothe / Australia
Director Visual Communication Design
School of Design University of Technology Sydney
Jacqueline Gothe is a visual communication design academic in the area of information and communication design. Committed to practice led research her methodological investigation is guided by the knowledge creating paradigm of research through design. Jacquelineís research is concerned with the role and practice of the critical information and communication designer in collaborative transdisciplinary projects. Her doctorate Tracing Country: Visual Communication Design and Chorography. Towards a critical practice in Visual Communication Design, awarded in 2016, investigates the role of the visual communication designer in complex interdisciplinary and cross-cultural environmental communication design projects. Since 2011 she has participated in research projects concerned with river health, biodiversity and ecological resilience while continuing her work with the Indigenous-led initiative Firesticks and The Living Knowledge Place.
Keiichi Koyama / Japan
i Design inc.
Managing director and designer
Keiichi is a signage and information designer in Japan, specialized in signage design of public facilities, such as airports, railway stations, and environmental design fields. He has been working for the sign systems of Narita, Haneda, Kansai, New Chitose and Central Japan airports, and the sign manuals of Central Japan, West Japan and Keikyu railway companies. He also designs many kinds of communication support board which are necessary to facilitate communication for persons who have difficulties communicating, then established the international standard ISO 19027: Design principles for communication support board using pictorial symbols. His main objective is to communicate information by developing and providing user-friendly signage systems. He is a member of IIID, SDS in UK, and collaborates with ISO/TC 145 as a chair of Japanese national committee for ISO/TC 145/SC 1 : Public graphical symbols.
Christian Lunger / Austria
motas ñ design & products for smart places
Co-founder, service designer
Christian Lunger was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1970 and grew up in Tirol/Austria. He studied international economics at the University of Innsbruck and at Aston University, Birmingham/England. He is a professionally educated systemic organisation consultant, service designer, quality manager and co-founder of motadesign.com. motas is a consultancy and design company specializing in environmental/experiential graphic design. Their work includes wayfinding systems, exhibit design, virtual and mixed reality storytelling and video storytelling for the built and natural environment. He is co-author of the book ìOrientierung auf Reisen - a handbook for wayfinding systems in the tourist industryî.
Maija Rozenfelde / Latvia
Art Academy of Latvia, Riga / Lecturer
Design studio Foreign Embassy / Design Director
After receiving her masterís degree from Pratt Institute in New York City, Maija immersed herself in solving branding and packaging needs for global brands such as Smirnoff, Captain Morgan, Google, Accenture and others. In 2014 Maija received RedDot Award for her innovative packaging design for pistachio nuts. Maija is currently design director of Foreign Embassy design studio in Riga, Latvia, where she injects her knowledge and award-winning talent across different branding and packaging projects. Since her return back home, Maija has joined the faculty of Art Academy of Latvia where she shares the knowledge and is in charge of developing a new program in graphic and packaging design.
Susan Verba / USA
University of California, Davis
Associate Professor, Design, and Director, Center for Design in the Public Interest
Principal and co-founder, Studio/lab (San Francisco & Chicago)
University of California, Davis professor Susan Verba (Department of Design) directs the UC Davis Center for Design in the Public Interest (DiPi). She brings together teams of creative people from different fields to solve problems through better design and to study how interdisciplinary groups work, investigating the question: What does democratic design look like? Susanís academic background includes a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MFA in Graphic Design. She also is principal and co-founder of Studio/lab, where she leads research-based projects and advocates for the value of design in corporate, nonprofit, and government communications


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Good evening, I was wondering if you could help me. My grandad asked me to look at a watch he'd found in a filing cabinet years ago that he'd removed from a building as part of his job. I had a brief look at it but I didn't really think twice about looking into finding out about it until tonight. It's a lamania, engraved with BBC and a number on the back. I'll get the number tomorrow hopefully. I'm intrigued to find out more about the history of the watch. Any comments would be gratefully received.
Many thanks in advance, Chris.
Hi Dave.
Sorry to bother you. I need to replace the crystal of an Wakmann Regate and I know you had one custom made.
Could you please give the contact of the company who made it for you? And the cost of it?
Thank you in advance.
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Publicity requests?
Contact us at email@example.com and we'll help set up that interview, send you high-res press photos, or point you in the right direction.
Licensing or publishing queries?
Need a song for film, television or an advertising placement? Often, we control both the master and publishing, so consider us your one stop shop. Contact us here.
Can I send you a demo?
Absolutely. Just pop a CD in the mail with a handwritten note and your contact information. No fancy packaging is necessary. We'll do our best to listen. Also, we should note, we spook easily - so please don't be a nag. If we like it, we will be in touch.
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Vancouver, BC
What else can you do to get our attention? Get involved with your local music community. Go on tour. Make lots of friends. Get people talking. We'll notice.
Who distributes your releases?
For info on ordering Mint Records please check out our Fancy New store, contact us at email@example.com or reach out one of these fine, fine, superfine people:
CANADA: Outside Music
USA: Revolver USA
UK: Shellshock
Can you explain the Mint Records logo?
The Mint Records logo was envisioned by co-founder Bill Baker and executed by Scott Fearnley, he of local computer animation/wizardry fame, who spent many hours studying the shadows made by candies under a spotlight. Some folks have said that the words look like "KILAT Records" but we can tell the difference.
This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada's private radio broadcasters.
Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada.
Mint is an organization made up of settlers and we would like to acknowledge that the land on which we live and work is the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations. Huy ch q'u (thank-you).


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Running Helps Alumna Beat Life's Challenges
By Grant Martin
The cover of Runner's World magazine typically shows professional models or professional athletes. Jennifer Andress, a 42-year-old mother of two, is neither of those, yet the UAB alumna and runner appeared on newsstands this summer after winning the race of her life—against cancer.
Andress, a 2001 graduate of UAB's Master of Business Administration program, is one of seven people featured on eight different versions of RW's July issue. Each of the cover models, who include cyclist Lance Armstrong and Survivor champion Ethan Zohn, are cancer survivors as well as accomplished runners.
While Andress may not have the running credentials of the usual RW cover girl, she does have three sub four-hour marathons to her credit, including the prestigious Boston Marathon. Those races, however, are just the latest challenges to test Andress's endurance.
Choosing a Path
"I started running when I was 11 and competed in track and cross country throughout high school," Andress says. Through college, graduate school, marriage, and having children, Andress retained some time for running, but a series of medical events in her thirties threatened to take away her hobby and much more.
She watched her mother and aunt go through breast cancer treatment in 2000 and 2003, respectively. Then, in 2004, she learned that her 11-month-old son, John, had a genetically caused hearing impairment. Andress was pregnant with her second child at the time of the diagnosis, and UAB geneticists said that her new baby could inherit the same hearing impairment.
Two months later, "I found a lump in my breast, and they confirmed that it was cancer and that it was in the entire breast," Andress explains. "The cancer had replicated but hadn't invaded healthy tissues. Radiation was an option, but I wanted to be as aggressive as possible." Andress immediately had a mastectomy and six lymph nodes removed while still pregnant.
Her son, Will, was born in September and was diagnosed as hearing impaired. She began radiation therapy that same month, and in April 2005, Andress had her other breast removed. Her fight against cancer was over, but she emerged from the battle with a new outlook. "Those experiences taught us a lot," she says. "When the stakes are that high, you can't sit and complain about it. You have to look at the options, choose a path, and do it."
Running with Purpose
Following her surgeries, Andress became involved with the Bell Center, a local institution dedicated to helping children with developmental delays. Her old love of running began to resurface—with a new goal. "I had never considered running a marathon before, but I saw an opportunity to raise money for the Bell Center through running," she says. "Then it was the same process as when we faced a challenge in the doctor's office. I envisioned an outcome, and I started working toward it."
Andress ran her first marathon in Birmingham, finishing the 2010 Mercedes Marathon in 3:43—good enough to place her in the upper echelon of runners by qualifying her for the Boston Marathon. She ran the 2010 New York Marathon with a time of 3:58, then tackled the Boston course in April 2011, finishing in 3:46.
"Running has become a kind of obsession," she says. "I'm involved with a great local running group, and I'm taking better care of myself than ever before by paying close attention to my running and my diet. I feel that I have a purpose in everything I do."
Striking the Pose
RW readers include everyone from seasoned marathoners to rank beginners. Andress frequently monitors both the RW Web site and its Facebook page—which is where she noticed a request for stories of cancer survivors who were runners.
"I submitted my information in February and didn't hear anything for several weeks," she says. "Eventually it slipped my mind, but in March, I got a message asking if I could send them pictures.
"The whole experience has been wonderful," says Andress. "Before the issue hit Birmingham, a guy sent me a picture from the New Orleans airport, and there I was on the newsstand. It's funny because it's usually in the middle of fitness magazines, so you see super-ripped people on either side, and then there's me—just running."


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I get a multypolygon from my web service and want to calculate the area of that polygon. I was trying to use this piece of code:
var poly = new OpenLayers.Geometry.MultiPolygon(poligon);
var area = geom.getArea();
But that returns the area in square degrees. The projection is EPSG:3243.
I then tried to use
OpenLayers. Layer. SphericalMercator
But that didn't help me a lot.
Is there any other solution or some other hint?