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The management of financial assets is important in all businesses. Finance describes how businesses raise the capital they need to start and sustain themselves, decide which projects make financial sense, and manage risks; how people invest in companies; and how financial markets work - how an economy allocates money to where it will have the most value.
In Chicago Booth's legendary finance curriculum, covering both corporate finance and investments, you will learn to evaluate risk and reward through an empirical lens. Our corporate finance offerings will prepare you at the business level: Should a company buy or build? Should they borrow money or issue stock? How should they compensate executives? Should they hedge costs, and if so, how? Investment courses prepare you to make decisions in financial markets: What determines stock and bond prices? How do you evaluate a fund manager? What financial risks carry big rewards, and how should an investor allocate his or her portfolio to take advantage of them? Through our culture of questioning and debate, you'll acquire a healthy skepticism that prompts you to look at each solution and probe for better explanations.
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You'll learn about the forces shaping capital markets around the globe from professors who conduct groundbreaking research, have sat on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and advised the president and heads of state.
John H. Cochrane, AQR Capital Management Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, is a research associate and past director of the asset pricing program of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. His recent publications include the book Asset Pricing and numerous articles on his research topics.
Lin William Cong, assistant professor of finance, primarily studies corporate finance and investments. His research interests include real options, entrepreneurial finance, market efficiency, statistical learning, financial intermediation, and China's economy and capital markets. He was a George Shultz Scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and a PhD Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies.
George M. Constantinides, Leo Melamed Professor of Finance, studies the causes of the historically observed premium of equity returns over bond returns, the value premium, and the size premium; the pricing and hedging of fixed-income securities, options, futures, and other derivatives; the effects of transaction costs and taxes on the pricing of derivatives; and portfolio management.
Douglas W. Diamond, Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, specializes in the study of financial intermediaries, financial crises, and liquidity. His work has appeared in such notable journals as the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Economic Studies, the American Economic Review, and the Journal of Political Economy.
Eugene F. Fama, Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, is widely recognized as the "father of modern finance." Fama is among the most cited of America's researchers. He focuses much of his study on the relation between risk and return and implications for portfolio management.
Stefano Giglio, assistant professor of finance, has research interests that span several topics, including asset pricing, macroeconomics, and real estate, with a particular focus on the role of frictions in credit markets. His work has been published in the American Economic Review and in the Journal of Monetary Economics. His most recent paper explores the role of counterparty risk in Credit Default Swap markets and its relation to the measurement of systemic risk. For his work at Harvard, he has received the Martin Cornerstone Grant and the Douglas Dillon Fellowship from the University.
Samuel Hartzmark, assistant professor of finance, studies asset pricing and behavioral finance. His research has appeared in the Journal of Financial Economics and the Quarterly Journal of Finance. He has received a number of awards, including the UBS Global Asset Management Award, the Michael J. Barclay young scholar award, and he was a finalist for the 2014 AQR Insight award.
Tarek Alexander Hassan, associate professor of finance and economics, studies applied and theoretical econometrics, the uses of high-dimensional statistical methods in economic applications, estimation of panel data models, quantile regression, and weak instruments. In 2008, Hansen was named a Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow.
Zhiguo He, associate professor of finance and Robert King Steel Faculty Fellow, is primarily interested in agency frictions in corporate finance and asset pricing, with a special focus on contract theory. Before joining the Chicago Booth faculty in 2008, he was visiting the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University as a postdoctoral fellow. He also taught at Northwestern University, and was a stock analyst at the China International Capital Corporation in Beijing in 2001.
John C. Heaton, Joseph L. Gidwitz Professor of Finance; Deputy Dean for Faculty, studies asset pricing, portfolio allocation, and time-series economics. His research in these areas has earned him numerous fellowships, including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Fellowship and a Provost Fund Fellowship from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Steven Neil Kaplan, Neubauer Family Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, was named one of Businessweek's top 12 business teachers in the country, and has served on the boards of Illinois Venture Capital Association and Morningstar. He is widely published in academic journals and often quoted for his expertise in publications like the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.
Anil K Kashyap, Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance and Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellow, focuses his research on banking, business cycles, corporate finance, price setting, and monetary policy. His research has won him numerous awards, including a Sloan Research Fellowship, the Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Sciences, and a Senior Houblon-Norman Fellowship from the Bank of England.
Bryan T. Kelly, associate professor of finance, has research interests including theoretical and empirical asset pricing; models of tail risk, volatility and correlation dynamics; and asymmetric information in asset markets. He is a faculty research fellow at the NBER and an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Econometrics.
Richard Leftwich, Fuji Bank and Heller Professor of Accounting and Finance, has been a member of the faculty at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business since 1979, and he visited the Harvard Business School as a Marvin Bower Fellow in 1986 - 87. He has been deputy dean for the faculty since July 2004.
Juhani Linnainmaa, associate professor of finance, studies learning, asset prices and portfolio choice, mergers and acquisitions, investor behavior, and high-frequency data.
Gregor Matvos, associate professor of finance, studies corporate finance and organizational economics. His paper "Cross-Ownership, Returns, and Voting in Mergers," written with Michael Ostrovsky, is published in the Journal of Financial Economics and has been covered in several media, including the Financial Times and US News.
Tobias J. Moskowitz, Fama Family Professor of Finance, was recognized by the American Finance Association with its 2007 Fischer Black Prize, which honors the top finance scholar under the age of 40. The award cited his "ingenious and careful use of newly available data to address fundamental questions in finance."
Stavros Panageas, associate professor of finance, studies asset pricing and macroeconomics. Previously he has taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and he has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the London School of Economics.
Lubos Pastor, Charles P. McQuaid Professor of Finance, focuses his research mostly on financial markets and asset management. His latest work analyzes the effects of political uncertainty on asset prices. He has also written on a broad range of topics such as liquidity risk, stock price bubbles, portfolio choice, performance evaluation, stock volatility, return predictability, technological revolutions, and IPOs. He has analyzed various effects of parameter uncertainty and learning in finance.
Jacopo Ponticelli, assistant professor of finance, is an applied economist that primarily studies corporate finance and development economics. Most of his work is focused on financial frictions faced by firms in emerging economies. His latest paper, "Court Enforcement and Firm Productivity," studies the role of the judicial system in shaping the impact of a bankruptcy reform in Brazil.
Raghuram G. Rajan, Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, is on leave from Chicago Booth, serving as the governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Rajan was chief economist at the International Monetary Fund from 2003 to 2006. He is the author, along with fellow Chicago Booth faculty member Luigi Zingales, of the book Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists. He received the inaugural Fischer Black Prize in 2003.
Kevin Rock, AM '80, MBA '80, PhD '82, clinical professor of finance, has been a faculty member in the finance area at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Amit Seru, professor of finance, is interested in issues related to financial intermediation and regulation, interaction of internal organization of firms with financing and investment, and incentive provision in firms. His papers in these areas have been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics and the Review of Financial Studies.
Kelly Shue, assistant professor of finance, focuses her research on social networks, executive compensation, mergers and acquistions, credit markets, and corporate social responsibility. Her current research explores the extent to which financial markets underreact to "no news," i.e., the pure passage of time. Her work on executive social networks was awarded the 2012 Wharton School-WRDS Award for Best Empirical Finance Paper.
Amir Sufi, Chicago Board of Trade Professor of Finance, studies the broad areas of finance and macroeconomics. His research has won numerous prizes, including the Brattle Prize for Distinguished Paper from the Journal of Finance and the inaugural Young Researcher Prize from the Review of Financial Studies. Sufi has articles published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. His recent research on housing and the macroeconomy has been profiled in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist. He was also awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2011.
Margarita Tsoutsoura, associate professor of finance, studies empirical corporate finance, entrepreneurial finance, family firms, and financial intermediation. Her most recent research for her dissertation looked at the effect of succession taxes on entrepreneurs' succession decisions, investment decisions, and financial policies. Tsoutsoura earned the 2009 Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for this work, which is titled "The Effect of Succession Taxes on Family Firm Investment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment." The Fulbright Fellowship and the WFA Trefftzs Award are amongst Tsoutsoura's other varied honors and fellowships.
Pietro Veronesi, Roman Family Professor of Finance, conducts research that focuses on asset pricing, stock and bond valuation under Bayesian uncertainty and learning, stock market bubbles and crashes, return predictability and stochastic volatility, and equilibrium models on political uncertainty and asset prices. Veronesi is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Robert W. Vishny, Myron S. Scholes Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, currently teaches a course titled Behavioral and Institutional Finance. Vishny previously taught Cases in Financial Management and Corporation Finance at ChicagoBooth over a 20-year period.
Michael Weber, assistant professor of finance and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow, research interests include asset pricing, macroeconomics, international finance, and household finance. His work on downside risk in currency markets and other asset classes earned the 2013 AQR Insight Award and is forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics.
Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and the David G. Booth Faculty Fellow, is coauthor with Raghuram G. Rajan of Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists. The book received acclaim from the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
Mark Zmijewski, Leon Carroll Marshall Professor of Accounting, focuses his academic writing and consulting on issues related to valuation, security analysis, and the effect of financial and other disclosures on capital market participants and security prices.
Eric Zwick, assistant professor of finance and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow, studies the interaction between public policy and corporate behavior, with a focus on fiscal stimulus, taxation, and housing policy. His research draws insights from finance and behavioral economics while using a variety of methods: new data, natural experiments, theory, and anecdotal exploration.
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I'm getting peppered with e-mail about two videos regarding Barack Obama, one his new ad and another that contains some home-town criticism of Obama's first term in the Senate. Let's start with the second, in which the local CBS affiliate reported that Obama traveled more than any other first-term Senator on the taxpayer dime — and to some exotic locales:
A new study claims Sen. Barack Obama travels too much at the expense of taxpayers. The findings show he spent more taxpayer money on trips than any other first-term senator.
As CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports, the world traveler is defending his globe-trotting and says he has no intention of slowing down.
Obama traveled last weekend using a privately paid for charter plane dubbed "Obama One" to carry his campaign for president to Iowa.
Now that he is running for president an earlier round of travel is under scrutiny with critics questioning why he used more taxpayer dollars than any other freshman senator to travel overseas.
In fact, Obama spent almost $10,000 more than any other freshman Senator in the 109th Congress. He racked up over $28,000 in bills for his junkets, which included stops in Israel, Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Kenya, and South Africa. Obama's office pointed to his membership on the Foreign Relations Committee, claiming that Obama did substantive work on those occasions, and that bringing his family on the trips did not make them taxpayer-funded vacations.
Obviously, Obama wanted to build a foreign-policy resume for his presidential run, which tends to argue against his scoffing at presidential aspirations, a clip included in this video above. However, given all of the travel that he did on the taxpayer dime, one has to wonder why Obama only visited Iraq once (and only in January 2006), and not a single trip to Afghanistan. Was there any foreign-relations issues bigger than Iraq and Afghanistan during his three short years in the Senate? Maybe that's why Obama has not held a single meeting of his subcommittee to discuss American policy in Afghanistan, which is in his purview.
Next is his first general-election campaign ad which, as e-mailers note, contains a few stretches of the truth:
It's a pleasant ad, one that maintains the high road and sounds a lot of what we like to think are American themes and displaying American values. It's in the second half where Obama runs off the rails a bit, as several media outlets have already noted:
PolitiFact: Obama's "third claim on veterans health benefits is less clear… Obama was not a sponsor of the bill, and without more detail we can't confirm whether he contributed to the law…" (06/23/08)
FactCheck.org: "[F]or Obama to say that he 'passed a law' casts him as a legislative Lone Ranger, hogging credit that properly belongs to other parties as well." (06/20/08)
Washington Post: "Obama sponsored or co-sponsored – but did not 'pass' – the welfare and tax measures but does not mention that these were in the Illinois legislature in 1997 and 2000. He sponsored congressional measures that helped hospitalized veterans, but in a relatively minor way: extending beyond 90 days the period in which they can receive free meals and free phone calls to family members. Obama may have turned down Wall Street jobs after graduating from
Columbia Universityin 1983, but he spent a year working for Business International Corp. in New Yorkbefore becoming a community organizer in Chicago, and he later joined a law firm there." (06/20/08)
New York Times: "Mr. Obama refers to three bills that passed during his time in the Illinois Senate and in the United States Senate, and he did have a hand in passing all three. But he did not actually vote on the third bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, which passed overwhelmingly in January." (06/20/08)
Chicago Tribune: "Obama ad cites bill he did not vote on… While the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee authored provisions that ultimately made it into the law, he did not vote for its passage on Jan. 22, when he was busy campaigning in advance of the
South Carolinaprimary." (06/20/08)
Will any or all of this matter to the voters? Hard to say. The ad's pleasant themes in the first half sets the tone well enough that most people aren't really paying attention to what Obama's saying in the second half. He moved people from welfare to work? He helped veterans? Sounds great!
On the other hand, if the McCain campaign and the RNC keeps hammering on Obama's half-truths and the one flat-out lie regarding the NDAA, it could help define Obama as either careless with his facts or dishonest altogether. He has more vulnerability on the travel issue, because the American people clearly didn't gain any advantage from almost $30,000 of his junkets. They didn't even prompt Obama to hold meetings on policy under his direction, let alone result in any legislative efforts or strengthening of American security.
McCain has to get out in front on this, as well as on Obama's rather stunning reversal on public financing. He did the latter in his national TV spot that Allahpundit featured earlier. He needs to keep up the pressure, because from what we have seen, Obama doesn't respond well at all to it.

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For less than $1 per day, you can empower struggling families with the tools to become self-reliant.Become a Monthly Donor
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Celebrating 75 Years
of working with communities to increase income, improve nutrition, care for the Earth, and end world hunger and poverty. Learn about the progress we've made and the work yet to be done.
Creating Change
For 75 years Heifer's cornerstones have empowered people to change their lives.
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We have all needed a helping hand in our lives. Start a cycle of positive change by helping others as you have been helped. The giving spirit grows exponentially with each person it impacts.
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We're all part of communities, from the family level to the global level, so we must be accountable for our actions. Take responsibility for your place in the world. Pledge to work hard and pass on what you learn and receive.
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Prevent Workplace Violence in Psychiatric Settings
Safety & Health Assessment & Research for Prevention (SHARP) Research for Safe Work
The health care sector continues to lead all other industry sectors in incidence of nonfatal workplace assaults with 48% of all nonfatal injuries from violent acts against workers occurring in this sector. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, mental health workers experienced the highest rate of simple assaults in the health care sector, with 43.2 assaults per 1,000 workers. According to research studies, psychiatric nurses report among the highest violent victimization rates among all types of nurses.
Workplace violence is defined as violent acts, including physical assaults and threats of assault, directed toward persons in a workplace or on duty. Washington House Bill 2899, passed in 2000 to address violence in health care, requires mental hospitals to give employees violence prevention training at least annually and to have procedures for reporting and responding to physical and verbal assaults. SHARP research efforts strive to determine more about the risk factors for workplace violence including assessing various situational and environmental factors which contribute to workplace violence in psychiatric health care settings with worker-client interaction. To address this issue, SHARP conducted individual interviews and focus groups in three psychiatric settings with the following objectives:
- Obtain background information on managers' and staff perceptions of workplace violence hazards, solutions, and recent changes;
- Understand the organization of work, workplace culture, physical and psychological demands and workplace violence exposure of the direct care staff in the current work scheduling conditions;
- Review current workplace violence policies, reporting procedures, scheduling procedures, and assault prevention training.
We present here 2 key themes from our study findings, illustrated by quotes from interview participants, and recommendations for each theme.
Schedule control
Schedule control includes concerns regarding low staffing levels, long hours due to mandated and voluntary overtime, inconsistent teams from floating or pulling staff, and unscheduled absences. Many of the control issues are linked in a positive feedback loop. For example, low staffing levels lead to mandated and voluntary overtime. Working long hours through mandated or voluntary overtime results in stress, exhaustion, illness, and work-family conflict which lead to unscheduled absences. In turn, a high rate of unscheduled absences leads to increased mandated and voluntary overtime. Workplace violence and incivility are an additional stressor that contributes to this spiraling cycle of events.
The following causal loop diagram illustrates the study findings on schedule control in a systems feedback loop where plus (+) signs indicate increasing levels. In this diagram, constraints on when vacation time can be scheduled with pulling staff to other wards, mandated overtime, incidents of workplace violence and incivility, and unscheduled sickness absence contribute to conditions in the system that are positively reinforcing, resulting in work stress and exhaustion.
For example, floating or pulling staff from some wards to other understaffed wards at the start of a shift is a regular practice in some psychiatric settings to address inadequate staffing coverage. The challenges of this form of low schedule control for direct care staff are many including disrupted teams, poor quality and lack of continuity in patient care, staff frustration and disengagement, increased burden on regular staff, and increased risk for patient frustration and escalation that may lead to violent incidents as noted below by a supervisor:
"When you have to move staff around a lot, it just creates dangerous situations."
- Supervisory nursing staff
In addition, long hours, psychologically demanding work, inflexible schedules, and low schedule control contribute to employee excessive use of unscheduled absences to recover from stressful work conditions and illness, and to manage their work and nonwork lives.
"This is a 24/7 service. So that requires probably the majority of the nursing staff to work antisocial hours. They're working either evening shift or night shift. And they don't have regularly scheduled weekends off. So the question is, does that contribute to excessive unscheduled absences?"
- Supervisory nurse
Increased schedule control can contribute to direct care staff well-being and will likely reduce workplace violence.
Recommendations for schedule control:
- Limit use of mandated and voluntary overtime.
- Reduce pulling staff to other wards and maintain stable work teams on each ward.
- Create a float pool of permanent workers who have the ability and desire to function in this capacity.
- Identify options to increase schedule flexibility for direct care nursing staff.
- Create a system and culture of schedule control.
Supervisor / Coworker Support and Incivility
Social support from the immediate supervisor and coworker-teams is a component of organizational culture. Social support in organizations is defined as employee perceptions that their supervisor and coworkers value their contribution and care about their well-being. Incivility can occur in workplaces with low social support from supervisors and coworkers.
Supervisor support and leadership are extremely relevant for patient and staff safety. In the psychiatric hospital setting, unit supervisors are influential on the wards through their occasional presence. The charge nurse is also influential in the role of immediate supervisor to floor staff.
"I talk to people about, 'Hey, you did a good job with that patient. Thank you for talking to him that way.' That changes people's minds. You have to make that one-to-one connection with somebody."
- Supervisory nurse
Direct care nursing staff must be equipped with the competencies and skills needed to effectively and efficiently organize and design patient care delivery practices. One skill of great importance to workplace violence prevention while delivering quality care is working together as a team. Teamwork was a theme of importance to direct care staff workers in particular, because their safety depended on coworker support and teamwork to safely manage agitated patients on the ward. At all levels of interviews teamwork was valued and reported on as, in some cases, successful and in others, tenuous or less successful.
"When an RN2 or 3 engages their people in decisions in which they have a stake, they feel included and they feel safer. Every time you put somebody in restraints or take them out, you have an opportunity to build team, or you have an opportunity to really strongly undermine the sense of, 'We're in this together.'"
- Safety Committee Focus Group
Incivility is low-intensity counterproductive behavior with ambiguous intent to harm the target and is in violation of workplace norms for mutual respect. Examples of incivility include hostility, inappropriate or loud tone of voice, nonverbal gestures such as glaring, failing to pass on information, exclusionary behavior, intimidation, put downs, and gossiping. Bullying is a more intense form of negative behavior and occurs when a target is exposed to negative acts, from unconscious incivilities to blatant emotional abuse and physical assaults; negative acts are repeated and there is a prolonged experience over time, 6 months or longer. The Joint Commission (TJC) published a Sentinel Event Alert on intimidating and disruptive behaviors in health care organizations that undermine a culture of safety - this document includes requirements for a new leadership standard (LD.03.01.01) effective January 1, 2009 and suggested actions for organizations.
"When you have staff who is bullying other staff, the whole team breaks down. And when the team doesn't work together, the patients pick up on it, and then you really have a problem. It's very unsafe."
- Supervisory Nurse Focus Group
Recommendations for supervisor and coworker support and incivility:
- Train upper level management, unit directors, and supervisory nurses on the role of support in psychiatric settings, supervisor and coworker-team support behaviors, and how to foster these in the organization to create a culture of nonviolence and support for safety.
- Develop and implement a "Respect in the Workplace" hospital incivility policy that defines and addresses incivility including the organizational response to uncivil/bullying behavior. Refer to TJC Standard LD.03.01.01 for guidance.


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A used Nissan Xterra may be the way to go if you are wanting a rugged off road vehicle without a rugged price tag. The Xterra was made to appeal to younger generations who wanted a fun SUV to drive. The price tag for a new Xterra doesn't reflect this drive towards the 20 something population. A used Xterra is a great way to get this fun car without the high price tag.
If you've found a year and trim for sale that you like, you can check user reviews on the Internet. There are many forums and car enthusiast sites that allow the average driver to post their own reviews. This is helpful because you can see what everyday people have to say about the car, and not just paid reviewers or dealers.
Finding information as well as good deals on used Xterra's is easy if you visit a dealer. At a used Nissan dealership you can test drive an Xterra, and may even be able to find special financing on certain used models. A car lot will receive new models in around August. When they get a flux of people in buying new cars, they also tend to have a slew of used cars taken for trade. Visiting a dealership later in the year can find you great prices on used vehicles. As they want to start to clear their used car inventory, you can often find specials and sales even on the used car fleet. A dealership that specializes in Nissan's may also offer certified used cars. This means the vehicles have been through an inspection and are certified to be in good order. This can help you avoid getting a lemon.Show More »
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SummerFreeze necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 26 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
I am a global internet marketer who sells many different products across the internet in many different niches we specialise in branding different products and taking it straight top the top of the market. We always have an elite level feel to out products and go for the best brand image.
This is targeting the global travel market who use mobile phones and need to communicate with people over different countries. We are also targeting business travelers who use their phone alot and need international sim card to use.
I need a design for our new global sim card we are releasing. This image will be used on our website as well as go to the actual printers to print on to the actual simcard so will need some very good very high quality images.
Before I go into the description of what we want, here is a few of our competitors designs that you can look at so you have a better understanding:
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We want the most exclusive looking hottest sim card out there. I am open to all ideas and designs but here is one idea that we have been working with.
Black Card with Gold Writing Saying: "121 SIM" underneath that we have our tagline: "1 World 1 Sim" We the have a logo of a sim card in gold with rays of light coming out enveloping a golden globe.
This is just one idea but we are open to all elite looking exclusive high end designs. Must Ensure we have the writing 121 SIM and our tagline "1 World 1 Sim" as well as a cool logo.
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Luke Ford interviews author David Klinghoffer.
Luke Ford was profiled by the Jewish Journal on Aug. 3, 2007.
Luke Ford is the author of five books, including:
» Rebel Without a Shul, » The Producers: Profiles in Frustration » Yesterday's News Tomorrow: Inside American Jewish Journalism
Read Luke's autobiography here. Pictures. Fiction. Contact info. Facebook. Press. Twitter.
Luke Ford discusses the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and YouTube.


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—With a two-day total of 577, a full 11 strokes ahead of the second-place team, Lee University won the 2011 'Southern Shootout, hosted by Birmingham-Southern at Highland Park Golf Course.
Lee's Courtney Shelton was also the individual champion after winning a play-off today against Columbus State's Kimesha Anthony and Nikki Crowley and Shorter's Lisa Persson. All four players shot 140 total, with Shelton shooting a tournament-low 67 today in round two.
Columbus State placed second as a team with a total of 588, followed by 13-time defending national champion Methodist University with 596.
The Panthers placed ninth in the 16-team field with a two-round score of 645, led by sophomore Ellen Chun who shot 154 (73 and 81) to place 20th overall.
BSC is back in action beginning this Sunday, Oct. 16, at the Rhodes Collegiate Classic in Tunica, Miss.


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Soils for Salmon
Builders, developers, and landscapers are adopting practices that preserve and improve the soil on building sites, and protect waterways, and local governments are beginning to require it.
The simple soil "best management practices" (BMPs) described here include preserving site topsoil and vegetation where possible, reducing compaction, and amending disturbed soils with compost to restore healthy soil functions.
Advantages to builders, consumers, and the environment include:
- More marketable buildings
- Better erosion control
- Easier planting
- Healthy, attractive landscapes
- Easier maintenance with less water and chemical needs
- Reduced stormwater runoff, with better water quality for salmon, wildlife, and people too.


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EarthCraft Virginia
A version of this article appears in the July/August 2007 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
July 01, 2007
EarthCraft Virginia serves as a blueprint for building multifamily homes with high energy efficiency and healthy indoor air quality through environmentally responsible design and construction.
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The Missouri 100, an advisory group assembled by University of Missouri Interim President Gordon H. Lamb, will have its inaugural meetings this weekend in Columbia.
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Monday, December 22, 2008
red hair... pieces of yarn tied firmly to the top of the head, and then I have untwisted the ply
12 arms... six down each side... I went with a curlicue look for these
10 legs... made them long and hairy... a decision which I know I will regret when my son's room is covered with the little hairs which shed (especially when they play tug-o-war with those legs)
8 eyes... a small piece of vinyl sits behind the buttons
and here his is in all his glory! what do you think?
18 comments:
- Jenny said...
he looks wonderful!
- December 22, 2008 at 9:53 AM
- Astaryth said...
I love it! I want one!! LOL!
- December 22, 2008 at 10:42 AM
Fantastic! I love the eyes and arms, they look great. I'm sure master 6 will love it!
- December 22, 2008 at 11:16 AM
- KAF said...
That is just gorgeous. I get it about the legs but they LOOK perfect. I bet your boy loves it - despite your gross negligence earlier.
I loved the one you made for your other son too.
- December 22, 2008 at 11:53 AM
- Karen said...
That is off the hook. Wow! Great interpretation of the design. Very cool.
- December 22, 2008 at 12:08 PM
- Karen said...
Oh I am smiling hugely......hoooray for you!!!!!
- December 22, 2008 at 12:42 PM
- Sam said...
Fabulous! A real alien :-) I love the arms as much as I love the eyes, and that hair...LOL.
Your kids are going to have a wonderful Christmas!
- December 22, 2008 at 1:32 PM
- Zabigdog said...
Okay, it's official. I now am officially madly in love with you. Wow. I was gasping with pleasure as I looked at each foto. I only just discovered your blog yesterday and you've already inspired me in so many ways. I love everything about what you do, from the craftwork itself to the writing and the photos. Whee! Can't wait to start making stuff. Okay, gushing over. For today anyway. THANK YOU from Nashville, Tennessee!
- December 22, 2008 at 3:57 PM
- Robbie said...
Absolutely Fabulous!!!!
Love it and I am sure Master 6 will as well....
I think the curlicues treatment for the arms is very effective indeed - Christmas morning at the Goldfish Bowl is going to be a wonderful event!
- December 22, 2008 at 4:28 PM
- Puglette said...
well done!
- December 22, 2008 at 5:20 PM
- psmflowerlady said...
Wow! That's all I can say. Wow!
- December 23, 2008 at 12:52 AM
- whatsonox said...
- December 23, 2008 at 1:19 AM
- I Kreative said...
- December 23, 2008 at 11:49 AM
- Jennifer said...
It reminds me of a tesseract from A Wrinkle in Time, for some reason.
I don't think I've commented here yet, but I so love all your creations!
- December 23, 2008 at 3:36 PM
- nima said...
OMG....you are a creative mom. When i read your post earlier, i was thinking how can we make such a thing....This is what is called creativity to the core.
Merry christmas
- December 23, 2008 at 4:45 PM
- misha said...
Wow! I'm sure the kids will love it. The legs look so real, like tarantula's!
- December 23, 2008 at 6:35 PM
- laughing purple goldfish said...
jenny - thanks :)
astaryth - he's not that difficult to make!
jacqui - I was a bit stuck with the eyes for a while there, but it all came together beautifully in the end
kaf - yes.. it's hard to know it I will EVER be forgiven for that negligence :)
karen - thanks so much
karen - and my alien would smile back... but wait... he doesn't have a mouth!
sam - I love the curlicue arms, too... and so much quicker than the scarf!
zabigdog - what beautiful feedback :) glad you are enjoying the blog... hope to inspire you down your own path of creativity!
robbie - I can't wait for christmas morning at the goldfish bowl... and the kids are so hyped up!!!
puglette - thanks sweetie :)
psmflowerlady - taa!
whatsonox - he's a little bit odd... but very cuddly
i kreative - thanks for stopping by
jennifer - thank you so much!
nima - it's amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it!
misha - YES... the legs are very much like those of a big fat hairy spider
- December 23, 2008 at 9:58 PM
- donna said...
wow i love it!!!!!
- December 23, 2008 at 11:41 PM


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Déjà vu is a French term that literally means "already seen" and is reported to occur in 60-70% of people, most commonly between the ages of 15 and 25. The fact that déjà vu occurs so randomly and rapidly—and in individuals without a medical condition—makes it difficult to study, and why and how the phenomenon occurs is up to much speculation. Psychoanalysts may attribute it to wishful thinking; some psychiatrists cite mismatching in the brain causing us to mistake the present for the past. Still, parapsychologists may even believe it is related to a past-life experience. So what do we know for certain about what happens during an episode of déjà vu?
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The brother of a popular YouTube firearms and explosives expert, who was murdered at a gun making business, finds it surprising that he did not pull out a weapon to defend himself.
Keith Ratliff, 32, was found with a bullet in his head Thursday evening inside FPS Industries, his gun fabrication business near Carnesville, Ga.
"For him not to pull out that gun and try to defend himself, he had to feel comfortable around somebody. Either that or he was ambushed," his brother, Kelly Ratliff, told ABC News affiliate WSB-TV.
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"Born in Brazil and based in Chicago, the composer Marcos Balter is making big waves lately for his adventurous, unpredictable works. On '100 Names,' the debut CD by the International Contemporary Ensemble bassoonist Rebekah Heller, Mr. Balter's " and also a fountain" stands out among an arresting batch of pieces, transforming words by Gertrude Stein into an enigmatic, deliberately intoned ritual."
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|Plot: The film is divided into six segments. (1) "Pasternak": While being on a plane, a model and a music critic realise they have a common acquaintance called Pasternak. Soon they discover that every passenger and crew member on board know Pasternak. Is this coincidence? (2) "The Rats": A waitress recognizes her client - it's the loan shark who caused a tragedy in her family. The cook suggests mixing rat poison with his food, but the waitress refuses. The stubborn cook, however, decides to proceed with her plan. (3) "The Strongest": Two drivers on a lone highway have an argument with tragic consequences. (4) "Little Bomb": A demolition engineer has his car towed by a truck for parking in a wrong place and he has an argument with the employee of the towing company. This event destroys his private and professional life, and he plots revenge against the corrupt towing company and the city hall. (5) "The Proposal": A reckless son of a wealthy family has an overnight hit-and-run accident, in which a pregnant woman gets killed. He wakes his parents up and his father calls the lawyer. The parents propose to pay the groundkeeper to take the blame for the boy. Soon the father discovers that he is a victim of extortion of his lawyer and the detective in charge of the investigation. What will be his decision? (6) "Until Death Do Us Apart": During the wedding party, the bride discovers that her newlywed husband has been cheating on her with one of the guests, and she decides to pay him back.
Rating: 8.1/10 (104325 votes)
Director: Damián Szifrón
Writer: Damián Szifrón
Stars: Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa, Rita Cortese
Runtime: 122 min
Rated: R
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Released: 2014 Aug 21


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Music hours: 6:30 to 10:30
Excursion's music is a unique blend of world styles and progressive jazz. Its members are as eclectic and progressive as the music they create. While some of Excursion's players often rotate, its core consists of pianist Peter Deneff and bassist Vik Momjian. Together they weave an intoxicating matrix of vibrant rhythm, exotic harmony, and world class improvisation.
Peter Deneff grew up listening to Greek music and studying classical piano. After starting his professional musical life he became consumed with straight-ahead and Latin jazz.
Vik Momjian is a master of the four, five, and six-string, fretted and fretless electric basses. Over the years, Vik has established himself as the first-call musician for many top Middle Eastern and ethno-European artists.
The group's self titled cd EXCURSION is a colorful fusion of Middle Eastern and Latin jazz styles. It was recorded at Musician's Institute where Peter and Vik were instructors.


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carolina bob Brad, how did that chicken compare to what we had at Wagner's Village Inn in Oldenburg last fall?
BuddyRoadhouse So, when are gonna make a long weekend in LaSalle County, Illinois to hit the Fried Chicken Belt? Ripp's, Smitty's, and The Cherry Supper Club, among others are beckoning. And we can burn off the calories with brisk walks through Starved Rock and Matthiessen State Parks.
ScreamingChicken No problem. You're a big fan of mini corndogs, right?
mar52That chicken is how I like it. I like a thick batter that crunches when I bite into it. Was the chicken juicy underneath?


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Chances are, you know a Doctor Who fan. Greg Kumparak, formerly of Tech Crunch is also a (pretty big) Doctor Who fan, and decided to get a little crafty and build his own TARDIS. As explained in the video above, a TARDIS is a vehicle to drive you through space and time, that just happens to look like a 1960s era British police call box. Greg's looks pretty authentic after a nice paint job.
But here's the thing about a TARDIS. They are bigger on the inside. While that is easy enough to accomplish with the magic of television, it took a different kind of magic to make it happen in the real world. That's where Android comes in. Using augmented reality, Greg can open the TARDIS door and point his Nexus camera at a freaky black and white pattern. Thanks to the Qualcomm augmented reality framework, Greg built an app to interpret that pattern, and display the interior of his TARDIS as it should be on his screen. Very cool.
This just might be the best use of augmented reality ever. Be sure to watch the video, and hit the source link to read a little about how it was constructed.
Source: GK's blog


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Police Chief Looks to Add Drones to Police Force
ST. LOUIS (AP) - St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson wants to add drones to his crime-fighting arsenal.
Dotson wrote a letter this spring to the Federal Aviation Administration making the case for unmanned aerial vehicles, according to reports from The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He says it's crucial to look at new technologies to keep officers and the public safe and to apprehend criminals.
The letter was a preliminary step toward seeking approval for unmanned - and unarmed - flight.
The assent of Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce is required, and she also wrote to the FAA to offer "enthusiastic support."
Dotson says he would seek donations and grants to pay for the drones. They cost from $60,000 to $300,000 each. While pricey, they're still cheaper and safer than helicopters.
Privacy advocates have raised concerns about the drones.


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Seven injured after explosion at Texas plywood plant
Seven employees and one volunteer firefighter were injured in an explosion at a Georgia-Pacific lumber plant in Corrigan, about 20 miles north of Livingston in Polk County.
Corrigan police say the call came in just after 6 p.m. Saturday that there had been a blast at the plant that produces plywood about 100 miles northeast of Houston.
Four medical helicopters and three ambulances were sent to the scene to pick up the injured. It's thought three were in critical condition, with a Corrigan Fire Department spokesperson reporting that the situation was "very bad."
The most seriously injured were brought to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston.
About 400 people work at the plant, according to Corrigan police spokesperson Dawn Aguilera-Quiroz. It's unknown how many were actually on duty at the time.
Aguilera-Quiroz said it is still unclear what caused the blast, but noted that some had thought it had started in the "dryers area" of the plant.
The fire was out by 8 p.m., according to officials, and Georgia-Pacific has closed the plant for an "undetermined length of time."
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families," Georgia Pacific spokesman Eric Abercrombie told KHOU-TV.
The Corrigan Fire Department arrived on the scene as crews from the plant were fighting the blaze. Diboll, Livingston, Apple Springs and Onalaska fire departments assisted, according to the Montgomery County Police Reporter website.


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Chocolate spread
Is there anything nicer on a Saturday breakfast than a delicious crisp bread roll with some rich, deep chocolate-flavored spread? I invented this recipe after playing with butterscotch, and it makes a superb sweet, yet bitter, aromatic spread. And the best part is that you can make it in no-time on your own whenever you want!
Coffee cake
My first real cake, made with delicious coffee-flavored buttercream. It was really good, and simple! Because this cake doesn't require leveling, you can simply bake two layers separately, then stack them — a perfect recipe for beginners! :-)
I made my cake with normal instant coffee, but you can also use decaf coffee for same taste, but caffeine-free cake! :-)
I started my cake-making adventure lately, and the first, most basic cream used to ice the cake is the buttercream — it's very simple, and makes a delicious, thick and stable cake cream that you will love!
As you can see in the recipe image, I used it already in my vanilla butterscotch cupcakes, which got rave reviews from my friends and coworkers! :-) Unfortunately the cream alone is rather not spectacular, just a sweet, delicious blob of butter and sugar ;-)
German Zimtsterne (cinnamon almond cookies)
I always wanted to make these, and finally got the guts — oh boy, I wasn't really prepared for the amount of nitty-gritty with making these. I started with original German recipe that called for 500g of almonds, but that ended up being 2 full baking sheets and lots of sneaky snacking between steps ;-) But the result is good, and these cookies are worth the effort.
German vanilla Kipferl (cornetti)
One thing that I like about living in Germany is that during the Christmas time, locals cook and bake many delicious local dishes — one of them is Vanille-Kipferl, also known in other countries as Italian cornetti, French crossaints, or Polish rogaliki. But however you call them, they are basically very crispy cookies covered with vanilla sugar. And for this simplicity I absolutely love them :-)


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Aid Watch Rerun: A suggestion for the 1MillionShirts guy
NOTE FROM THE EDITORS: Over the holidays, we'll be publishing reruns of some of our posts from the first 2 years of Aid Watch. This post originally ran on April 28, 2010, and was one contribution to a controversy that erupted on the internet when aid workers got wind of an amateur aid effort called 1 million shirts. We will be back running new content starting tomorrow, January 4th.
Here's the back story: A young American entrepreneur wanted to use his powerful social media profiles to do good. He hit on the idea of convincing people to pack up all their unneeded T-shirts, throw in a dollar for shipping, and send them - 1 million of them - somewhere in Africa. He partnered with two charities, applied for 501(c)3 status, and voila, a new cause was born: 1MillionShirts.
Yesterday, professional aid workers, academics, and researchers responded vociferously to this idea. Take a look at these blog posts for more details, but for our purposes we can break it down to two reasons why 1MillionShirts is a poor idea:
- It's terribly inefficient. One million T-shirts are heavy, and shipping and customs cost a lot, likely more than it would cost to produce those shirts locally. Plus, cheap donated clothes flood local markets, undercutting local textile industries.
- It's just not needed. There are many serious health, economic, social and political problems challenging different African countries today, but lack of T-shirts isn't one of them. This project idea, like many bad ones, clearly came from thinking "what kind of help do I want to give" rather than "what kind of help would be most useful to some specific group of individuals."
So it's safe to say that Jason, the guy behind 1MillionShirts, is not an expert in giving aid to Africa. But maybe he IS an expert in something.
He is an expert in reaching people through social media. We can conclude this because Jason makes his living from companies that pays him to wear their T-shirts for a day and spread videos, pictures, blog posts and tweets about it to their networks—see iwearyourshirt.com. As one of the testimonials on their website puts it, "They are funny, creative guys who really know how to promote you and your products by wearing your shirt." Another one: "Gotta love a guy who wears a shirt, gets great exposure for the company whose shirt he's wearing as well as himself, and who manages to turn it into a business."
After Jason's do-gooding was met with such a barrage of criticism, he apparently offered to axe the 1MillionShirts campaign if someone could come up with a better idea.
So here's our suggestion: Why doesn't he use his own specialized expertise to help get the word out that giving cash is better than giving stuff. I bet if he put his mind to thinking about creative ways to spread that message, he could knock it out of the park.
And if the 1MillionShirts guy doesn't feel that spreading this important message satisfies their desire to do good in the world, he can still follow the advice of many people who devote their professional lives to thinking about problems like these, and donate cash to a trusted charity with local knowledge and experience working to solve some specific problem—just so long as it isn't African shirtlessness.
Update: Alanna Shaikh has written a definitive rebuttal to 1MillionShirts and Jason's reaction to criticism- see it here. Update 2: See also the open letter from Siena Antsis. Update 3: A perspective on the broader meaning of the 1MillionShirts fail from Christopher Fabian of UNICEF's innovation team. Update 4: This blog post has been edited at Jason's request to indicate that only Jason (and not Evan, with whom he works on iwearyourshirt.com) is involved in the 1MillionShirts campaign.