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Flamenco on the hoof: Bartabas the Furious and his dancing horses
"Voyage au pays de Zingaro," says a poster in the restaurant at the Zingaro theatre. "Journey to Zingaro country" – it's a phrase that sums up perfectly a couple of days spent in the company of Bartabas the Furious and his troupe of dancing horses. Chevaux must go on: behind the scenes at Bartabas's horse theatre – in pictures View gallery Everything about Zingaro country is strange. It occupies a large site in Aubervilliers, to the north-east of Paris, where the equestrian choreographer was in effect gifted land next to a 19th-century fort to build his circular wooden theatre, complete with restaurant and stables. A 50-strong community of riders, musicians and staff live on the site in caravans. They perform nightly throughout the winter, then tour in the spring and summer. Visitors do not so much watch a two-hour show as spend an evening in another land, imbibing some Gypsy spirit. The 700 seats in the arena are full the night I attend, with the young and the old to the fore. Bartabas has never brought his show to the UK – the latest is called On Achève Bien les Anges (rough translation: They Shoot Angels, Don't They?). But when we talk in his caravan the morning after the performance, the Frenchman tells me he is in negotiations to bring it to the 2017 Edinburgh festival. It would be a perfect fit, though transporting 30 horses and 19 truckloads of equipment won't be cheap. A gravity-defying scene from Bartabas's show On Achève Bien les Anges Facebook Twitter Pinterest 'I have to know the horse perfectly. If they get tense, they can break everything in the theatre' … a scene from Bartabas's show On Achève Bien les Anges. Photograph: Hugo Marty For the moment, the UK is being offered a more intimate side of Bartabas: a show at Sadler's Wells in London next month called Golgota, in which he appears, on horseback of course, alongside the celebrated Spanish flamenco dancer Andrés Marín, recreating the rituals of Seville's Holy Week in an extraordinary series of tableaux inspired by the paintings of 17th-century Spaniard Francisco de Zurbarán. It is strange, beautiful and highly dramatic; the coup of having four horses (and a donkey) on stage, performing with remarkable precision, is itself unsettling. Advertisement "I wanted to work with Andrés," says Bartabas. "I was very interested in flamenco, and was waiting for the new generation to take it beyond the tourist image. Now they have. They've cleaned it and gone to the heart of flamenco – the rhythm and the expression." Five years ago, Bartabas visited Britain with The Centaur and the Animal; this was a collaboration with Kô Murobushi, the late master of butoh, the Japanese dance form that mixes extreme motion and stillness to evoke raw emotion. Quite how you teach this to horses is beyond me. Bartabas says such pairings challenge him, take him out of his comfort zone – not that he strikes you as someone who needs such a trigger. "He is very demanding," says one of his assistants, "very exact in what he wants." There are certainly no cliches in Golgota. The stage is covered in crumb rubber – to replicate the soil the horses are used to – so get ready for a lot of silent flamenco. "Andrés is a very interesting dancer," says Bartabas. "When I say I want you to dance on sand without shoes – for a flamenco dancer, that seems to be taking away half his possibilities – he accepts it. He says: 'I want people to see the rhythm, not hear it.'" A scene from On Achève Bien les Anges. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A scene from On Achève Bien les Anges. Photograph: Hugo Marty/PR Image Inspiration for a piece often starts with music. Tom Waits's wonderfully weary songs are the soundtrack to the Angels show; for Golgota, the starting point was the great 16th-century Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria, whose soaring sacred music underpins the performance. "I don't believe in God," Bartabas says, "but I do believe humans need God. That's why they create gods. The celebration of God was the first theatrical manifestation, so I constructed Golgota like a mass. I once made a Zingaro show with Tibetan monks, because I was fascinated by the way they used sound to put you in a position of meditation." A Zingaro show, he says, is like a puzzle. "Each person in the audience makes their own story. Proust said it is the reader, not the writer, who makes the book. You have to let the performance be open to their imagination." Since Golgota was made for theatres rather than arenas, it poses new challenges. "I can only do it with very old horses," says Bartabas, "because I have to know the horse perfectly. There is very little space in the theatre and I have to work on their breathing so they are relaxed. If they get tense, they can break everything in the theatre. Communication is more precise on stage, too – you have to trust the horse totally. You see many new details. When a horse moves its ears, you see it." Is this dance, theatre or circus? "That's very difficult," he says. "At Zingaro, we call it equestrian theatre. Golgota is more contemporary dance – but with horses." Although horse-lovers will come to Sadler's Wells, he warns them not to expect a conventional horse show. While there are elements of dressage, the equestrian skills are subservient to the artistic vision. Bartabas, a very fit-looking 58, was born Clément Marty – he renamed himself Bartabas the Furious early in his performing career to signal his desire to live the life of the artist, though he has now mellowed sufficiently to let the Furious slide. His father was an architect and, despite an urban childhood spent close to Paris, he developed an early love of horses, skipped university, started performing at the age of 17, and soon had his own circus troupe. Golgota, the show Bartabas is bringing to Sadler's Wells in London Facebook Twitter Pinterest 'This is like contemporary dance – but with horses' … Golgota, the show Bartabas is bringing to Sadler's Wells in London. Photograph: Nabil Boutros Within 10 years, those early experiments had evolved into Zingaro. "To do this kind of thing," he says, "you have to live with the horses. But at the beginning, I didn't realise Zingaro would be so intense artistically. The public said, 'What is that? It's not a circus, it's not a theatre.' And show by show, we found that more was possible. Fifteen years ago, I choreographed Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps. I never imagined I could do that." It speaks volumes about Bartabas's standing that Pierre Boulez, the great composer and conductor who died last month, agreed to conduct the Orchestre de Paris in three special performances. The Centaur and the Animal – review The horses are astonishing, but the dancers need reining in, writes Judith Mackrell Read more Bartabas has had many offers to work elsewhere: he made two films in the 1990s, and opera companies have also asked him to direct. But mostly he has resisted, even when US producers offered him pots of money to do a circus-style show in Las Vegas. "They thought this Frenchman must be very stupid to say no," he says, but the show would have been too big, the audience too distant, the horses overworked. Five shows a week is his limit. "My power is the company. If I start to go in another direction, I would lose my originality. Every artist has one special thing. My originality is this, so I have to take care of it and renounce other things. Through your uniqueness you find the universal." His identification with Zingaro also explains why he lives in a caravan – admittedly, one with a classic Chrysler sports car parked outside. "I have the money to have a house," he says, "but I know I will never have a house. I have no time to take care of it. And the idea of taking the Métro or a taxi to work – no. I'm living in my work. That is very important. I can say I've never worked, because I live my passion. For me it is a miracle." There was a Mrs Bartabas, but they have separated. When I get a tour, I see one of their two sons working out in the site's makeshift gym. Bartabas at Sadler's Wells in 2011 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bartabas at Sadler's Wells in 2011. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images "I never buy a horse for a performance," he adds. "I don't say, 'I want to do that, let's find a horse to do it.' The horses are there because I like them or they are cheap. They are part of the family." The same applies to the people. An elderly man has attached himself to the enterprise, becoming part of life in Zingaro country. Dressed in a black Russian fur hat to keep out the winter cold, he sits by the door of the restaurant playing a barrel organ and grunting incomprehensibly as theatregoers arrive. Everyone has a role. Another delightful touch is the lighting of a bonfire close to the theatre after each performance. Instead of hurrying away into the night, people linger, buy a glass of wine, watch the flames dance against the blackness of the sky. The old man playing the organ, the clowns and musicians who seat the audience, the late-night fire are all part of the performance. Bartabas has created a phantasmagoric world visitors are reluctant to leave. After communing with angels, descending into the Métro has little appeal.Read More
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There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.- Sir Winston Churchill From the outside, horseback riding may look like just sitting and that all a rider has to do is give the horse some simple instructions like go, whoa, and turn. In carrying the rider the horse is doing all the work, right? Wrong. There is far more to horseback riding than the casual observer might expect. And, there are benefits beyond simple enjoyment; physically, mentally and emotionally. Physical Riding develops balance and coordination. The movements required to cue a horse require body awareness. Riding also uses many muscles; most importantly the leg, abdominal, shoulder and back muscles. Riding does not depend on strength alone, but strong flexible muscles aid in stability and coordination. Most new riders will find that their inner thigh muscles, particularly the gracilis muscle, become sore, but the muscle will quickly become stretched and strengthened. Riding a horse at a walk stimulates the internal organs just as walking on foot does. This aids in liver function and digestion, and makes riding a great therapy option for those in wheelchairs. You will be burning calories. According to the "Body For Life for Women", by Dr. Pamela Peeke, General Horseback Riding accounts for 5 calories per minute for a 150 pound woman. Increase the speed and distance you ride and you'll increase the intensity of your work out and burn more calories. Horseback riding is a sport that people of any age can participate in. As many people approach their middle years they may finally have the time and resources to realize their dreams of riding or owning a horse. With proper instruction and guidance there is no reason why people in their forties and beyond can't learn to ride or drive. Lots of seniors have ridden or driven into their 'golden years' with a favorite equine companion. As you groom, clean stables, carry saddles, equipment or bales of hay you are also doing weight bearing exercise that helps maintain bone mass. Although riding, grooming and mucking out is good exercise, many riders who wish to compete at advanced levels find it beneficial to lift weights and do core strength training such as yoga and Pilates. Mental At first you may feel that just learning to stay on and steer the horse is a challenge. When that becomes easy, many more learning opportunities present themselves. As you progress with riding and horse ownership you will always have questions and problems. Even the most experienced equestrian would admit there is always something new to learn. Research has shown that lifelong learning may prevent memory loss. Just like your muscles, your brain needs exercise to keep young and supple. Riding provides an active avenue for keeping your brain exercised. Riding can provide many opportunities for success. Whether you learn to post the trot or receive high marks in a dressage test, you'll feel good about what you are doing. Emotional/Spiritual For many a horse is a connection with nature whether they ride in the ring or down the trail. Many people find companionship and solace while working with their horse. Although riding can present its frustrations and challenges, most people find it a relaxing pastime. The camaraderie of people who enjoy similar activities is also appealing. It's fun to get together with friends for a lesson, team endeavor such as mounted games or drill riding, or a trail ride. If you crave solitude, riding or driving can provide that as well. Many horse owners feel their horse is somewhat of a kindred spirit in tune with their own feelings and emotions; more so than any human companion. In times of stress a horse can be a quiet friend, who is without judgment or guile.Read More
The Health Benefits of Horseback Riding
Before we all had cars to drive in, people used horses to get around, and almost everyone was taught to care and ride a horse. Today, our dependence on these large mammals is non-existent and horseback riding has become recreational. There are many obvious health benefits to riding, including strong core and legs, but there are also many less obvious benefits, such as boost in confidence and meditation. Horses are even used in therapy for mentally disabled children- which only proves further how healthy they are! Samir Becic, 4 times Number 1 Fitness Trainer in the world and Health Fitness Revolution's top list of the health benefits of horseback riding: Body Awareness: Horseback riding really works the core muscles that stabilize the trunk: the abdominal, back, and pelvic muscles. However, it's not just about the strength of the core, but the coordination and stability of it as well. The more you ride, the more the body learns to move with the horse. Quick Thinking: riding a large, powerful animal with a mind and agenda of its own is a full-body workout that will force you to engage muscles you didn't know existed and be constantly adjusting to the form of the animal. Coordination: There are many movements that need to happen simultaneously while riding for the horse to be properly guided- this is what coordination consists of. Therapeutic riding programs for the sight-impaired have had a lot of success developing better coordination. Core Strength: Horseback riding is an isometric exercise, which means it uses specific muscles to stay in certain positions, in this case, keeping balanced on the horse. Because of this, postural strength is very important when riding and the posture of riders improves even in day to day activities. Muscle Tone and Flexibility: Along with the core muscles, the inner thighs and pelvic muscles get the biggest workout as a rider positions himself or herself. Riders often have to maintain a squatting position while they ride, constantly adjusting to the cadence of the horse. This exercise helps with good overall muscle tone and flexibility. Stable Strength: Riding is not the only way this activity gives the body a workout. Working in a barn and taking care of a horse strengthens muscles and increases cardiovascular capacity. Mental exercise: There are so many mental benefits to horseback riding. Not only do you really learn about yourself as you experience time on a horse but it can also have a meditative effect because for the time being, the only focus is on riding and staying on the horse. While horseback riding is a great exercise, there is a real benefit i the connection with the animal and the peace of mind that comes with every ride. Although Samir himself loves extreme fitness, his philosophy encompasses a much more balanced approach to fitness, nutrition, mental, social, and spiritual synchrony. To pre-order his life-changing book releasing Oct 31st, 2017, click here. Learn how to become the happiest, strongest, and smartest version of yourself with the revolutionary ReSYNC Method.Read More


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This is a couple weeks old, but James Pethkoukis's Capital Commerce blog at U.S. News & World Report has an interview with Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee that briefly touches on Social Security reform. Here's the excerpt, followed by a quick comment:
Does Obama want to raise payroll taxes or uncap the income limit to fix Social Security?
What Obama has said is that the problem with Social Security is not a crisis, but that there are fiscal issues associated with the aging of the population. In his view, the place to start is with the regressivity issue of the payroll tax. It is my own view that the majority of Americans do not understand how the payroll tax works. How it is that a guy making $90 million a year is paying the same tax as a guy making $97,000 a year? I think that at best it would strike them as highly weird and at worst grossly unfair.
The italics are mine. This sentence is interesting since it seems to indicate a willingness to raise the payroll tax rate as well as the cap. (Why? First, it's not clear what raising the payroll tax cap "6 percentage points" means, so I'm inferring it refers to the rate; second, for Obama's plan to lift the cap to keep the trust fund solvent another 50 or 60 years would require it be implemented very quickly, not over decades.) This would seem to indicate a dedication to little or no reductions in scheduled benefits at all.
But he has not called for uncapping it completely, and there are several different ways to do it. But before anybody starts talking about cutting benefits, let's address that issue. It would also get the trust fund to last another 50 or 60 years. An increase in the payroll tax of 6 percentage points phased in over many years or decades doesn't strike me as a dramatic move. They have uncapped the top rates in Ireland, and they have grown extremely well.
From my previous work on Obama's tax plan, the payroll tax rate would need to rise by around 4.7 percentage points -- from 12.4 percent to around 17.1 percent -- by 2080 to maintain solvency, even after his plan to lift the tax cap has been implemented.
For what it's worth, Goolsbee's general comments in the first paragraph focus on Social Security taxes distinctly from the benefits that are linked to them. Yes, the Social Security tax is flat when measured up to the cap, and regressive when measured relative to total income. But benefits are paid progressively based on taxes, so low earners can expect to receive a higher return on their contributions than can high earners. Given the program's history, in which taxes and benefits are linked in a single system, to focus on the progressivity of one element rather than the program as a whole seems misguided. The U.S. already has a much higher taxable maximum than most developed countries; eliminating it entirely would put us out of step even with countries with far more extensive welfare states than our own.
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The New Model Of Indie Film Finance, v2011.1/
I recently had one of the top sales agents explain to me that the only indie film that gets made or sold these days are those projects that make absolute sense. Okay, granted what he was referring to was only within the mainstream indie business -- the type of films that he and his cohorts commission -- but it is worthy of our time to delve a bit deeper into this. What indie film project makes absolute sense?
The agent said there was no room for guess work in today's mainstream indie business. If you want to get your film made, you have to have to make it for a price that all concerned feel it will certainly recoup at. "Absolute sense" is this regard is a film that will inevitably make back what it cost. "Absolute sense" can also mean a project that a company feels it has to have, usually due to the people involved or the timeliness of the concept, but those "packages" are frankly even harder to come by than those that seem to be inevitably recoupable. You are looking for the needle in the haystack with either, and need to build it yourself if you want to hope to come close.
My last few projects all were designed to remove any guess work for financiers. Between foreign sales estimates, tax credit rebates, and the undisputed value or attraction of the stars, if you want to be sure your film will get made, your project needs to read that the value of the work will exceed the cost of creating it. Value in this regard, is strictly business related, and not cultural (sorry art-for-art's-sake fans, this isn't going to be one of those posts). As much we can understand or even accept, those words though, what is the math that adds up to this formula? And where do the numbers even get their value anyway?
Even with 39 or 40 (and still rising) films selling at Sundance this year, the first take away from it is we probably should keep our budgets below $5 million. Granted the highest sales were the ones that had budgets towards the higher side of the scale, but those were also the ones that had the most to lose. The films at Sundance 2011 were acquired for reasonable amounts with the US acquisition price generally in the low 7 figures or below. No one, even the large corporate distributors, can stomach losing a great deal of money these days, and the business is currently designed around this preventative action of covering one's ass (no surprise that several of the corporate funded indies are now exploring the micro-budget field).
If the film business remains in an era of risk mitigation (and how in this economy could it not be?), just as acquisition prices will continue to be reigned in, budgets will be kept to a minimum by most investors. Let's leave the issue of how to attract experienced producers and directors to a project when you can't afford to offer them a reasonable rate aside, and not worry about how budget effects the quality of the project; instead, let's try to give some greater understanding to what this principal of risk mitigation looks like in practical terms of getting our movies made.
As foolish as it is, the mainstream indie film industry relies on estimates from foreign sales agents to set the value for the films. It is this "market value" that truly determines the budgets for the films that get made under this system. Forget for the moment that everyone recognizes that those estimates rarely hold water any more these days. Let's ignore the fact that international sales have been dropping 20-30% annually for several years. Dismiss it as anomaly that certain former major territories no longer license films like they used to. Until we develop the tools and know how to assign valid figures to the other factors that actually determine a film's success, this is the system we have.
Tomorrow, I will get into how foreign value appears to be determined.


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An electropop adaptation of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe was released on April 17th. To commemorate the 167th anniversary of the poem's first publication in 1845, a limited edition of 167 hand numbered CDs were made for the release. The video for "The Raven" is set against a backdrop of the original illustrations for the poem by Gustave Doré.
The limited edition set of 167 CDs is presented in a black digipak bearing the shadowy silhouette of the raven. Each case is individually hand numbered and monogrammed with a wax seal. The insert features the EP's cover art and a reprinting of the last verse of the poem in Poe's own handwriting. The CD includes all three tracks from the release.


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The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI) foresaw the mortgage crisis that hit the U.S. in 2008 a number of years before anyone even suspected such a cataclysmic event would happen.
Within the African-American community, at any rate.
As far back as 2004, "our pastors were calling us up, concerned at the number of people buying houses and asking for dedications [a church blessing]," says Reverend Anthony Evans, NBCI's president. "They did not recall many of these individuals having steady and consistent employment and that set off a red flag."
But in 2004, there wasn't even a hint of the crisis to come, and convincing any official entity of that eventuality, as the NBCI tried to do, was next to impossible. So the NBCI went ahead on its own, Evans says, initiating a concerted financial literacy and education program that today remains a focus for the organization and aims to rebuild and increase the savings rate of African Americans across the country.
Once 2008 hit, of course, most of America was badly affected by the mortgage crisis and its after-effects, but because the African-American community is usually "three years behind every boom and bust," the effects of the crisis have been even deeper and more protracted, Evans says. More importantly, they have impacted the capabilities of the church, to which many – even those in the higher-income brackets who were its key financial supporters – have turned to and continue to look toward for help.
Given that the church is the main pillar of the Black community ("the pastor is the spiritual leader of the church – he comes to grandma's bed when she dies and visits Little Timothy in jail… nothing happens in an African-American church without the pastor's sanction," Evans says), it has to be financially sound in order to provide support to its congregation, so a major part of the ongoing financial literacy and education program is aimed at fortifying the church's finances first.
However, "we also want our congregation to know that the church is not the lender of last resort," Evans says, so the program also hopes to be able to impart the basics of proper financial planning, from day-to-day budgeting to saving, to church members. Not only will these people become more financially astute and able to fend for themselves better, but as their savings increase, they will be in a position to give back to the church, which will then be able to extend a helping hand to the neediest members of its congregation, Evans says.
Thus far, NBCI has successfully educated 125,000 families on the important facets of proper financial planning, Evans says, through classroom-style financial literacy classes and other grassroot approaches. The church also asks all its members to save one year of their salary over the next seven years and it has applied for a grant to kick off an online, faith-based financial education course that can be completed in anywhere from six months to three years.
"Our program remains in effect over the next 10 years as a way to establish budgetary discipline in the church and in families that attend our church," he says. "We want to improve church members' overall credit rating and we also want to deal with the unemployment in the African-American community. We have to be able to find jobs for the middle-class members of our congregation that are unemployed but are the backbone of our church budget."
To that end, one of the fastest growing sectors looking to employ African-Americans and other minorities is the financial planning industry. Firms like Wells Fargo and others are keen to hire more minorities and are making a concerted effort to recruit African Americans, Evans says.
He firmly believes that over the next decade, there will be a significant increase, to the tune of 6% to 7%, in the domestic savings of the African-American community, and that this will pique the interest of the financial services industry.
To ensure that happens, the NBCI will shortly be conducting its own survey of the financial health of its community members.
"Ours will be a microscopic study of where every dollar goes in the black community," Evans says.
To date, he says, the availability of data that allows the financial services industry to assess the financial condition of the Black community is limited, "so we want to be able to document the exact rate at which the savings rate is going to increase over the next several years, to allow the financial industry to measure deposits based on geography and other factors."
Evans has been president of NBCI since 1992 and continues to work on behalf of social and economic justice issues. He leads a coalition of 34,000 churches across the country.


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This question is closely related to these two, but the former doesn't go far enough and the latter didn't attract much attention, and anyway I want to ask the question slightly differently.
Recall that in the category of Topological spaces or in the category of Manifolds, a submersion is a (not necessarily surjective!) map $f: X \to Y$ so that for each point $x\in X$, there exists open neighborhood $f(x) \in U \subseteq Y$ and a map $g: U \to X$ splitting $f$, i.e. $f \circ g = \operatorname{id}_U$. This definition does not generalize well to other categories: it requires at least that "points" know a lot about the objects, and that we know what are "open neighborhoods".
My question is: How much extra "abstract nonsense" structure do I need to put on a category for it to have a good theory of submersions?
On the one hand, the surjective submersions of manifolds are all regular epimorphisms (does this characterize the surjective submersions?), and so I could imagine defining "submersion" to mean a map that factors as a regular epi and a regular mono (I think that the regular monos in manifolds are the open embeddings?). Then it seems that I don't need any extra structure, but I have not checked that this conditions characterizes submersions.
On the other hand, (surjective?) submersions form a Grothendieck pretopology, and hence determine a Grothendieck topology. Conversely, I would have assumed that a Grothendieck topology (which is extra structure on a category) determines which maps are submersions, although I am sufficiently new to this that I don't have a proposal for such a definition.


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Expert forecasts warn that rainfall in the Horn of Africa throughout the March to May growing season is likely to be lower than average. The UN and humanitarian partners are now urging early action to prevent food insecurity from worsening across the region, with an emphasis on building resilience and sustainable livelihoods.
According to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), rainfall in the eastern Horn is expected to begin late, to be poorly distributed over space and time, and to reach only 60 to 85 per cent of the average. This is a significant deterioration compared with earlier forecasts.
Although some humanitarian conditions in the region have improved, around 10 million people are still food insecure and need immediate assistance. If rainfall is below average, it could reverse progress made over the last few months in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti. It could also lead more people into a more serious humanitarian crisis, especially agropastoralists and pastoralists.
In Ethiopia, women are learning agricultural practices that give then both food and income security. With the extra food they grow, they are able to buy household goods and provide for their children. Credit: WFP/ Judith Schuler
The UN and its humanitarian partners have called for a more sustained humanitarian response and more resilience-building projects to prevent the loss of livelihoods and agricultural assets. Without the ability to cope with recurrent droughts, people will continue to be trapped in chronic vulnerability, warned OCHA.
On 4 April in Nairobi, the Assistant Secretary-General (ASG) for Humanitarian Affairs, Catherine Bragg, addressed the Heads of States of Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on the Horn of Africa. She stressed the need to "manage the risk, not the crisis."
ASG Bragg highlighted the need to build national and local capacity, invest in disaster risk reduction, and improve humanitarian coordination and collaboration in order to promote resilience and sustainable livelihoods in the Horn.
"In this and other extreme food-and-nutrition insecurity crises, we find that we saved lives, but we generally failed to prevent the massive loss of assets of the most vulnerable households. This traps them in chronic vulnerability," she said.
In response to lessons learned from the Horn of Africa crisis in 2011, OCHA has now included more early recovery and resilience-building projects in its humanitarian appeals for the region in 2012. Humanitarian partners are carrying out immediate life-saving work in the affected countries. They are also providing livelihoods support, which includes distributing agricultural tools and drought-resistant seeds to farmers, and managing cash-for-work projects that enable people to buy their own food.
"Unfortunately, funding for projects aimed at recovery and resilience remains a challenge," said Mrs. Bragg. "In 2011, these projects were only 27 per cent funded, and most humanitarian funding so far this year has gone to providing immediate life-saving support," she added.
OCHA has stressed that funding is critical to cover immediate interventions and longer-term efforts needed to help people cope with these life-threatening disasters.
"The resilience-based approach further elaborates the importance of integrating short-, medium- and long-term interventions… and seeks not only to save lives, but to save livelihoods," said ASG Bragg.
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Sustainable Family Residence in California: 2 Bar House
Feldman Architecture have completed a modern residential project entitled 2 Bar House and located in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California. Especially developed for a couple with two young children, the house mirrors the lifestyle of the family members and provides both indoor and outdoor spaces for various activities. Here is a description from the architects:"The 2 Bar concept floats a bedroom bar above and perpendicular to a living bar, an arrangement that allows both spaces to open up to more light than the typical box. The lower, living level features accordion and lift/slide doors which allow the house to open to a generous backyard and garden. A private, green roof with deck allows the upper level to also have a connection to garden and landscape. The horizontal slats that clad the upper bar create a simple and elegant rain screen and provide operable panels over the windows that can be easily moved to control light and privacy." The?2,120 square foot residence features green materials and cost-efficient technologies, making this project not only aesthetically pleasing, but also sustainable.


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The electronic loads of the series EL900 are very efficient devices which offer a big variety of interesting features at a small form factor. Besides the common functionality of electronic loads you can test batteries, load voltage or current sources with a pulsed operation, where the pulse widths and the amplitude are adjustable. Or you can remotely control the device via an interface card and control and monitor nearly all its features from a PC.
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I often hear in the news that High-Frequency Traders can front-run incoming trades because they are faster at acquiring information and to execute trades. I also read that speed is only a necessary condition but not sufficient. The other necessary condition concerns the "special order types" that HFTraders have access at different exchanges... what are those special order types? It is not market or limit orders... what's so "special" about them?
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Everyone can do what HFTs do, if they spend the necessary time and money to build and run the infrastructure required. This may involve becoming a regulated broker/dealer, but it is in no way an invite-only club.
Now, to your specific question, you'll find some information on Haim Bodek's site. Bodek does content that ISO's and Day ISOs are used to gain certain microstructure advantage. Of course, anyone trading in the market is attempting to gain an advantage of some sort. Another example is the Hide not Slide order. This can be used to gain microstructure advantage resulting in advantageous queue position when a new level lights. Again, the order type is available to any market participant whose market access makes it available to them (meaning, your broker could give you access to hide not slide, if they wanted to).
Front running is not possible and is against the law. Anyone that contends that HFTs front run orders is misinformed. What they might mean is that HFTs react faster than they can. This has happened before and can be seen as both an advantage (in the early days) of being a local in an exchange pit as well as a disadvantage (1990s, early 2000s) of being a pit trader in an increasingly electronic market. The HFTs are simply the next step.


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I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but having listened to the recording, the lady seems to be pronouncing "issue" as "iss-ue", rather than more normal [to me, anyway] "ish-ue". One hears it pronounced both ways in the UK.
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There might be another thread like this but tbh I cba to find it. Basically music discussion is spilling out into other threads and while you can never get too much music it's nice to have one set place to call everyone elses tastes utter rubbish. I was thinking about genre specific threads but I doubt that would get as much attention and you know the more general it is the better. Sure we have a listening thread but no one bothers their arses to use that as a discussion place like they should so yeah.
I'd like to start by saying that obscure prog is like the biggest goldmine in great music ever. Stuff like Comus and (less obscure) Wishbone Ash are some of the greatest bands ever and yet so underappreciated.


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Jobs, jobs, jobs. Location, location, location.
That about sums it up.
We all want the same thing for Bluffton, Hardeeville, Beaufort and Jasper counties. and the surrounding area: We want economic development that leads to job creation. Sometimes we just take different paths to get there.
Bluffton's rapid growth over the past decade has been pretty well documented. One of the town's biggest draws for business is its proximity to Hilton Head Island, Interstate 95, Savannah and both the Savannah port and the Charleston port.
That's not to say the community I now am part of doesn't have a lot of other things going for it. Access to top-notch health care, good schools and an above average quality of life are just a couple of the other highlights.
These are factors that companies and people look at when deciding whether or not to relocate to a community. Suitable housing is yet another.
We all are familiar with the housing boom and then bust. If you drive around you see the signs — literally and figuratively. Foreclosures are more common in every neighborhood than we'd like to admit. And it happens to good, hard-working people who lost jobs because of the down economcy. The rental market is thriving. It's become a cottage industry.
It's a vicious cycle and one that has taken far too long to climb out of for most Americans.
What's the answer? It's economic development and thinking more about the region and not just about in our own backyard.
What's good for Hardeeville and Hilton Head Island is probably going to be good for Bluffton.
I know the proposed casino and resort in Hardeeville has its critics. People should ask tough questions about projects like this. We are. But we also should keep an open mind and gather plenty of information about the project so that we are able to make an informed decision.
The project would bring tourists. Or it will give tourists already visiting the area another attraction to visit.
Tourists like to spend money. The taxes they pay when they spend money help to pay for road improvements and other infrastructure improvements that improve the quality of life for local residents.
I think I can speak for many others when I say that I like to have a good choice of places to eat and shop in the community where I live.
Retail operations generally follow rooftops. The more people, the more opportunity for that retailer to add to its customer base.
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Richard Ortiz is an artist of comics and storyboards from Montevideo, Uruguay. He began his career in the early 2000s, drawing for the Montevideo newspaper La República and its supplement Quimera. A freelancer since 2004, he worked for the US publisher Avatar Press on 'Lady Death' since 2004, and on 'Jungle Fantasy' in 2007. He is also an artist for Zenescope's 'Grimm Fairy Tales' line.
He drew two books of 'Le Capitaine Nemo' from scripts by Pascal Davoz for the French publisher Clair de Lune in 2008 and 2010. In that same period, he contributed to Revista Freeway in Uruguay. Ortiz and Davoz worked together again on the historical comic 'Indes 1821', published by Clair de Lune in 2013.


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This article was originally published on SailNet in September 2000.
Without a rudder you are adrift, literally. Until a jury rudder can be fashioned, you will have little directional control of your boat, even with the sails set, and the situation is exacerbated with flat-bottomed, fin-keel hull shapes. If the wind is strong and a steep sea is running, there may be nothing you can do to prevent a knockdown. This point was proven during the infamous 1979 Fastnet Race when 14 boats suffered rudder failure and a few were knocked down or rolled as a result. Adlard Coles, in the Fastnet Race appendix of his classic volume Heavy Weather Sailing (third edition), attributes rudder breakage to the loss of life in two yachts. A well-thought-out plan for emergency rudder construction might just save your boat and your life.
There is a distinct difference between steering system problems and rudder failure. If a steering cable slips a sheave, a turning block pulls out of a bulkhead, a hydraulic cylinder springs a leak, or an overloaded tiller snaps, it is an annoyance. Of course, depending upon when it happens, steering failure can lead to serious trouble, but at least the boat can be directed with an emergency tiller and quick action usually averts most problems. Also, don't forget about the autopilot during a steering emergencyif it is connected to the rudder stock directly, you can probably use the autopilot to steer the boat.
|" If we had lost the rudder, the situation would have been more interesting to say the leastwe were 500 miles from the nearest landfall!"
Losing the rudder is rare, but, as an article in BOAT US magazine notes, it does happen. In June of 2000, a Texas couple had just begun a passage from South Padre Island to Galveston in their Ericson 32 sloop Papa's Boat. According to the news report, "35 miles offshore the rudder dropped off and disappeared." The couple spent an hour trying to contact the Coast Guard without success before deciding to activate their 406 EPIRP. The article boasts about how efficiently the 406 EPIRP signal helped launch a Coast Guard rescue, but it unfortunately doesn't mention whether the crew took any measures to regain steerage before triggering their emergency beacon.
Rob Jordan, a friend and yacht broker in Ft. Lauderdale tells a story of losing the rudder while on a sea trial. Jordan and the prospective buyer were enjoying a pleasant sail aboard a lightly used Beneteau 40 in 10 to 15 knots of wind, approximately five miles off the coast. "Things were going great," Jordan says with a laugh, "I was already counting the commission." Then, suddenly there was no steering. "I was sure it was just a problem with the steering cables, or maybe the quadrant," Jordan explained, "I didn't believe it was the rudder." Jordan inspected the steering system, but nothing seemed amiss.
Fortunately it was downwind back toward Port Everglades and Jordan managed to steer by flopping the genoa from side to side, literally jibing again and again. He made radio contact with Sea Tow and the two boats rendezvoused just off the sea buoy. The boat was towed to a yard and hauled out. "It was amazing," Jordan explained, "the carbon fiber stock was cut clean at the first bearing. The boat looked weird without a rudder."
The rudder doesn't have to disappear into the deep blue to be disabled. Rudders, and more importantly, rudder stocks, can be bent and twisted by groundings or collisions. A seriously bent rudder stock is almost as useless as no rudder at all. Indeed, in some ways a bent stock is more dangerous than a lost rudder because it may cause the fiberglass rudder tube that houses the stock to flex and subsequently crack as the rudder is turned. Poorly constructed rudders can also come undone under load, causing the rudder stock to break lose from the reinforcing web that holds the blade to the stock. At this point the stock turns freely but doesn't turn the rudder blade. You should always check your rudder condition when hauled. Lash or lock the wheel or tiller and push hard on the rudder. If any movement is detected between the rudder and the stock, the rudder needs immediate attention.
Another way to lose the rudder is when inadequate pintles and/or gudgeons fail on outboard-hung rudders. A friend recently told me how he was sailing his O'Day 23 from Naples to the Dry Tortugas (an ambitious passage in an O'Day 23) and he lost steering and nearly the complete rudder when the lower gudgeon pulled out. The O'Day 23, which is a fine little trailer sailer, came standard with pintles and gudgeons that were ridiculously undersized. If you have an outboard rudder, carefully inspect how it is attached to hull and if you have any misgivings don't hesitate to beef up the hardware.
What should you do if you lose your rudder at sea? Should you simply call the Coast Guard, and if you can't reach them, trigger your 406 EPIRP and sit back and wait for help? I hope this isn't the way you'd respond to a crisis, unless of course your boat is in imminent danger of sinking or being rolled. I firmly believe that you should make every attempt to deal with the situation on board before putting out a distress call. While communication, especially in an emergency, is always prudent, self-reliance is at the very center of what makes offshore sailing so satisfying. Besides, accepting a tow in rough conditions can ultimately be more damaging than trying to resolve the problem yourself. If the situation isn't dire, use your energy to find a solution, not to cry for help.
Once you have determined that you have lost the rudder, the first step is to make sure that the boat is not leaking. My boat is fitted with a rudder stuffing box that is below the waterline and serious rudder damage could easily result in a leak. Many fiberglass boats have tubes that house an upper bearing and encase the rudder stock until it is above the waterline. Carefully check the tube-to-hull joint. It is likely that when the rudder failed, this joint was severely taxed. Len Ackley, who sailed his Challenger 32 across the Pacific, nearly sank when his spade rudder was bent from a collision with an unseen piece of flotsam and the wobbling stock cracked the rudder tube.
Your course of action depends on your location and the weather conditions. If, like Rob Jordan, you lose the rudder in moderate conditions close to port, you can attempt to steer the boat with the sails. Some of us remember learning to steer dinghies as kids without the rudder; unfortunately the same principles rarely work effectively on big boats. The problem is that the mainsail and boom become dangerous when you can't prevent jibes and without the main it is hard to develop directional control. Also, you can't shift your weight around to alter trim. Still, in general, to steer off the wind with sails, luff the main and ease the jib until it fills. To bring the boat up, luff the jib and sheet in the main. The only way to steer straight is to achieve a balance between the main and jib, which is most likely occur on a moderate close reach. You must be alert to ease and tighten the sheets constantly. Once you gain a bit of speed it becomes easier to steer by sail trim.
Rudder failure offshore, as in the case of Len Ackley, is a more daunting prospect and some type of jury-rigged steering system with an alternate rudder will need to be devised and deployed. A spinnaker pole and plywood from a settee are good ingredients for a stern sweep. Drill through one end of the pole and bolt the plywood in place. If you don't have long bolts in your spare parts kit, you can usually pirate them from another part of the boat, including the temporarily useless rudder quadrant. If you have a saw aboard you can shape the plywood, but do this by trial and errordon't cut off too much before attempting to steer. Also, the plywood may need to be weighted to keep it vertical in the water. Lashing the spinnaker pole astern, most likely to the backstay or to the stern pulpit if it is stout, is necessary. Naturally the lashings will chafe quickly and will need to be checked and frequently retied. Also, if your boat is large, you will need a long sweep, which requires a lot of muscle to steer. You may need to lead tackles to the sheet winches for additional mechanical advantage, taking care that the downward thrust of the tackle doesn't lift the rudder blade out of water.
If you're lacking a spinnaker pole, use your imagination. When the Miles Smeeton's 46-foot ketch Tzu Hang was capsized and dismasted in the Southern Ocean, it also lost its rudder and tiller. Undaunted, crew member John Guzwell fashioned a 16-foot long sweep by joining corner posts taken from the interior. He made a rudder blade from a teak locker door and the whole assembly was lashed to the mizzen chainplate. The three brave sailors steered with this makeshift rudder and a jury rig for 1,350 miles.
If you are well offshore, a jury rudder, stock, and tiller are probably the best emergency steering system and surprisingly can often be fabricated from materials aboard. If you have a self-steering windvane, of course it becomes the first logical alternative to the rudder. Lacking a vane, a section of a spinnaker pole might provide a nifty sleeve for a reaching strut, or if the spinnaker or whisker pole is telescoping, the outer section is the perfect sleeve for the inner section that will be used as the rudder stock. Using a hacksaw, cut the pole to length so that it reaches down to the approximate depth of the original rudder. Secure the sleeve to the stern pulpit and or backstay with large hose clamps. Also, if there is way to secure the outer section to the transom it will really help steady the assembly. The rudder blade, which again can be shaped from any wooden surface, should be bolted to the stock. Drill holes through the blade and run lines back to the sheet winches to steady the blade and keep it from wobbling. The emergency tiller, a pipewrench with an extension or any solid piece of wood or metal, can be used to rotate the the assembly for steerage. Of course you will have to be on a constant lookout for chafe, and you should try to minimize course adjustments by trimming the sails.
Rudder failure is a serious and potentially dangerous problem. However, if you have already anticipated the problem, you will be much more effective when the crew summons you from your bunk and says, "Hey skip, we don't seem to have any steering."
Suggested Reading:
Offshore Perils by John Rousmaniere
A Nearly Doomed Delivery by John Kretchmer
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England v Australia, November 17
England eye hat-trick of victories over Australia
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England's Chris Ashton races away to score a memorable try against the Wallabies at Twickenham in 2010 © Getty Images
England will look to make it three wins-in-a-row against Australia when they go head-to-head at Twickenham on Saturday.
A narrow 21-20 victory over the Wallabies in June 2010 - their first on Australian soil since their 2003 Rugby World Cup final victory over the same opposition - was followed with a more emphatic 35-18 triumph at Twickenham later the same year. The latter game also featured an outstanding try from England winger Chris Ashton who boasts three tries in three appearances against the Wallabies.
Australia hold the all-time advantage having won 23 of their 40 clashes including the 1991 World Cup final where a try from prop Tim Daly and boot of fly-half Michael Lynagh carried the Wallabies to a 12-6 victory. England exacted revenge in the 2003 World Cup finale with Jonny Wilkinson sealing a dramatic 20-17 triumph with a drop goal in the last minute of extra-time.
Their intense rivalry, that dates back to their first meeting in Blackheath on January 9, 1909, also includes a memorable 15-15 draw at Twickenham in 1997. England's biggest margin of victory over Australia is 17 points - they won 20-3 in 1973 and 23-6 in 1976, both at Twickenham. Australia biggest victory was 76-0 in Brisbane on England's 'Tour from Hell' in 1998.
England v Australia All-time record: Played: 40, England won 16, Australia won 23, drawn 1.
Biggest winning margin: Eng: 17, 23-6 at Twickenham, 1976; Aus: 76, 76-0 at Suncorp Stadium, 1998.
Highest score: Eng: 32 (32-31) at Twickenham, 2002; Aus: 76 (76-0) at Suncorp Stadium, 1998.
Most tries: Eng: 4 (28-19) at Twickenham, 1988; Aus: 11 (76-0) at Suncorp Stadium, 1998.
Longest winning sequence: Eng: 5 (2000-04); Aus: 4 (1984-88).
Most points (individual): Eng: Jonny Wilkinson 114; Aus: Michael Lynagh 108.
Most tries (individual): Eng: 4 Rory Underwood and Ben Cohen; Aus: 7 Ben Tune.
Most points in a Test: Eng: 22 Jonny Wilkinson at Twickenham, 2002; Aus: 22 Matt Burke at Suncorp, 1998.
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Okay, it's a W-12. And okay, it's art in a somewhat ghetto manner. But you've got to admire the painstaking attention to detail it takes to Swarovski an engine logo.
European intern Máté and I spotted this example of subtle Budapest bling on an Audi A8 this morning as we were ambling across the city between espressos in the 90° heat.
It took nerves to lean in close enough for the macro shot, because the sort of people who drive big German iron in this part of the world tend not to be connoisseurs of photography when it comes to their private property.
Still: Swarovskis!


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Top China Stories from WSJ: Trash Bin Deaths, Bangkok Spending
Your daily round-up of the best of the Journal's best China coverage:
Chinese Rattled by Deaths of 5 Boys: The discovery last week of the bodies of five children in a trash bin has rattled China's online community, highlighting anger over the country's wealth gap. (Free)
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This season, we're reaping the nutritious benefits of juicing fresh fruits and vegetables, and we want you to join us.
Start with our tips and recipes from the pros, then get creative and share your own favorite combinations.
Start off the new year with a cleanse from Juice Generation
We partnered with Eric Helms of New York's Juice Generation to bring you the easy-to-use cleanses below. Read his full story in our exclusive Q & A, and check out his new book for more.Read the Q & A on our blog >
Find more juicing recipes and tips in Eric's new book, Juice Generation.
The Cleanses
Looking for an easy way to refresh your body? Whether you juice for one day or three, periodic juice cleanses can help you
come back to balance without requiring a lifestyle overhaul. Here's how to pull it off.
Choose Your Plan
Juice for a day
When to do it A one-day cleanse is just right when you want to spend a quiet day oriented towards rest and rejuvenation. Use this reset as an occasional tool as part of an overall wellness routine.
Tips Start the day with hot water and lemon and end it with warm herbal tea. Go to bed early, and maybe even schedule a massage.
Three-day cleanse
When to do it Dive into a three-day cleanse when you want to deepen the restorative benefits and when you have extra time to take care of yourself. By the end, you may feel lighter and brighter, with a renewed energy. Use a longer cleanse sporadically, such as every few months, and to help you transition between the seasons.
Tips Plan your cleanse with some foresight. Two or three days before and after the cleanse are an opportunity to ease in and out of your cleanse by consuming clean, freshly prepared foods. Go to bed early and schedule light exercise.
What to Drink & When
Use the recipes below to get all of the vital nutrients you need for a one-day or three-day cleanse. An ideal day would include a morning green drink; a mid-morning fruit juice; a mid-day vegetable-rich green drink or, for more nourishment, a nut milk; a coconut water or green drink in the mid-afternoon; a fruit or vegetable juice in the late afternoon; and a nut milk for soothing nourishment in the evening.
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More Expert Tips
Charlie, Ben and Jake Gulick of Juice Shop
This San Francisco trio
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Carly de Castro of Pressed Juicery
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The creator of our colorful juices explains exactly what makes each one unique.Learn More >
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Title: Titanium: a Novel
Author: Zeia Jameson
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: April 19, 2016
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The KDE marketing group is pleased to announce the release of SpreadKDE.org [2], the new home for KDE's promotional activities. Such a hub for marketing activities has been sorely lacking in KDE until now, and we consider this site a to be a key milestone in establishing a solid foundation in growing KDE's promotional activity.
In the past, the KDE community has had no centralized location for holding promotional materials or listing related tasks. However, with the release of SpreadKDE.org, we hope to meet and exceed those basic needs by:
Full Story [3].


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Our free will, or its illusion,
Is the source of much confusion;
We make choices all the time, but can we say that they are free?
Mind and body in cohesion
Make us think we are Cartesian,
But the whole of modern science makes me want to disagree!
A causal mind's existence,
Though a meme of some persistence,
Has the weight of long tradition, but the evidence is slim.
Our environment controls us;
Though Cartesian thought consoles us,
The truth is, we're reactive, and we never act on whim.
Even my creative rhyming
Is controlled by sound and timing
And a history of consequences leading to this end;
Rhymes appear as chosen freely,
When the truth is different, really—
There are multiple parameters to which I must attend!
(Parenthetically, I mention
That "free will" will draw attention
To the action and its consequence, but little to its cause;
The resulting shift of focus
Makes it seem like hocus-pocus;
Through a bit of misdirection, it appears we break the laws!)
Reposted from here (where there are some links and comments worth seeing). Everything old is new again; I'm talking free will in another comments section. Gotta run to class; I'll throw some links up in a bit.


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jprazen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 36 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
Authors University is a premium training program that takes aspiring authors completely through the process of writing, publishing and successfully promoting their books. The site features a 12 week core training program, as well as ongoing industry expert interviews, coaching, and Q&A calls. The material will center on the training and experience of best selling author and renowned speaker John Harricharan.
Our target audience consists of aspiring authors, including business professionals wishing to enhance their credentials, as well as all other non-fiction writers who are looking to get published and have their books sell successfully. Often, aspiring authors get lost in or frustrated by the many publishing and promotion options available to them, and Authors University seeks to help them overcome this obstacle by defining a clear path to creating a best-selling book.
I'd like to see a logo that will display well on a white background. It should communicate professionalism and authority in the realm of book publishing and promotion.
I'd like to see variations of the logo that incorporate one or both of:
1) John Harricharan's name
2) Our tagline or a variation thereof: "How To Write, Publish & Make Your Book A Success"
We're open to creativity and any ideas you may have.
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The name of the Hors-d'hoeuvre dish is a homage to the characters from the novels of the poet Foix, who in turn lends his name to the pioneering Tray from this collection.
Born in Barcelona in 1941. He receives the architecture degree in the "Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura" of Barcelona in 1965. In that school, he was a drawing teacher from 1977 to 1984. During the 95/96 and 96/97 courses he was a visiting professor in the P.F.C classroom and Projects I and II teacher in the 97/98, 98/99 and 99/00 courses. In 1964 he founds Studio Per in cooperation with the architects Pep Bonet, Cristian Cirici and Oscar Tusquets. With the latter, he collaborates in multiple projects until 1983. In 1984, he joins in partnership with Ignacio Paricio for the architectonic production until the year 2008. He is also a founding partner of the firm "B.D Ediciones de Diseño" There are collections of his work in the Modern Art Museum of New York (USA), in the Industrial Design Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (France), in the Architecture Museum in Frankfurt (Germany), in the Bonnafort Gallery in San Francisco (USA), in the New York World Gallery (USA), and in the Columbia University (USA).


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Jeff@capri necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 134 diseños de 44 diseñadores freelance.
Zoë Lucca
Capri Williams is a manufacturer, importer and designer of fashion jewelry. We have always shipped our goods to companies who have used their own brand name on our goods, but, now it is time for us to launch our own Brand with excitement and power. We have been in business over 20 years and will be launching the "Zoë Lucca" Brand Name. Our goal is to make the Logo, launch the Name Brand Name. It must be Classy & Sophisticated but at the same time we want a very poweful impact.
Our Audience is two-fold.
Wholesalers- we want to distribute our products and sell to their own customers and...
Buyers of large Department Stores who are looking for the next hot brand name.
Our primary customers are 21-55 years old. They like the "look of real" and also are style driven. They buy the real thing and mix our products in so nobody knows its costume. They buy brands like Juicy, Fossil and Liz Claiborne along with other famous designer brands.
We need a logo that represents Zoë Lucca and has a broad appeal. It will be used on our ring, pendant and earring boxes, so, it must be able to fit in a small space (lid) and we will also use it on our letterhead and hang tags (expanded-full version) This means we will need to have a design that can be modified to fit a small area, yet not lose its powerful punch. We want a Logo that will make people look twice and have to have it. We will need to appeal to all tastes and styles so be creative and have some fun but remember, simple and striking is our goal. We like blacks, grays and whites with a splash of gold but feel free to go out of the box a little to achieve the WOW factor. Colors, if used right can make the Logo even better than the base colors suggested. We are open to everything and if it "Pops" it's the one. Good Luck!
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November 29, 2012
CHRISTmas in review
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Oh I'm so sorry you're still so sick. I hope that things can get back to normal for your sake soon! Take care of you and your cute family right now. We definitely understand! Thanks for the roundup. I love how you help us focus on the REAL meaning of CHRISTmas.ReplyDelete
What a round up! Looking forward to taking a closer look at it all during naptime today :) As for the morning sickness? Blah.....I do not miss that.....rest up momma!ReplyDelete
Love all these ideas, thank you! I just finished printing out 24 different scriptures which I'm going to use for a "scripture advent" calendar that I saw on Boxwood Clippings via Lil Luna via Pinterest. :) (The internet is amazing!) Anyway, I hope it will help us with our efforts to make Christ the center of our Christmas. I've also always wanted to do the nativity 12 Days of Christmas gift you mentioned above ... maybe this will be the year. :) Thanks! Hope you feel better soon.ReplyDelete
All beautiful ideas that I can't wait to work my way through! Hope you are feeling better very soon xxReplyDelete
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Sentai Filmworks Licenses Majestic Prince
HOUSTON — Sentai Filmworks' is proud to announce its newest acquisition: Majestic Prince. This 24 episode sci-fi action series is directed by Keitaro Motonaga (Akane Iro ni Somaru Saka, Getbackers) and features series composition by Reiko Yoshida (K-ON!, Girls und Panzer) with character designs by Hisashi Hirai (Mobile Suit Gundam Seed series, S-CRY-ed), and mecha designs by Yuji Tani, Koji Watanabe (Blue Gender) and Yasuhiro Moriki (Martian Successor Nadesico).
It's GC 88 in the New Space calendar. Mankind has settled the solar system as far as Jupiter, when an unknown force suddenly attacks and humanity is plunged into war on an epic scale never before seen. Forced to retreat in the face of the enemy's overwhelming onslaught, humanity finds itself push to the brink of destruction. Mankind's last hope for survival lies in the genetically evolved cadets of Gurantseere and their robotic mecha. But can Izuru and his fellow mecha pilots turn the tide of battle in humanity's favor? Or will they prove to be too little, too late? For the first time in human history, a full-scale war against a force from outer space has broken out and it could just be the end!
Majestic Prince will be available soon through select digital outlets with a home video release to follow later this year.
About Sentai Filmworks
Sentai Filmworks is one of the fastest-growing anime companies in North America, producing hit series like High School of the Dead, Towanoquon, Samurai Girls, Guin Saga, Needless and Angel Beats as well as high profile theatrical films such as Grave of the Fireflies and Appleseed. Sentai Filmworks' programs can be found on home video distributed by Ingram Entertainment, Baker & Taylor, Section23Films, The Right Stuf and other good and fine distributors. Digital product offerings may be found at iTunes, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, Zune Marketplace, Anime Network, Playstation Network, Google Play and YouTube.


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Dwyane Wade, seemingly frustrated by a foul 35 feet from the basket on Ramon Sessions of the Bobcats, reacted by lifting his leg and kicking Sessions in the groin. It's fairly obvious this act was on purpose. If you don't think it was, then you don't think Suh-went-balls on Schaub on Thanksgiving.
Guess the refs didn't see it that way, as no foul was called on Wade. Said Sessions: "I thought he did it on purpose, and it wasn't called." Charlotte has lost 16 games in a row.
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nmoore necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 233 diseños de 60 diseñadores freelance.
We are a rapidly growing and young IT Services company based in Sydney, Australia looking to build our first website before we embark on a sales and marketing campaign.
We look after Small to Medium Businesses IT requirements with clients ranging from 2 users, up to 100 users. We focus only on this area of small business and have built up a great base of clients who are all extremely happy with our work. Our clients love that we are extremely approachable and can easily understand not only their IT requirements, but their business requirements to make sure the 2 tie in together. We have had our logo designed on here and absolutely loved the outcome. Unfortunately the designer isn't too experienced in HTML design so we couldn't use him for our website. He did kindly build the JPG image that is currently at http://www.mooretechnology.com.au which has got us through the first 6 months of startup, however now that we have consolidated all our initial clients, we are about to embark on a mission to grow and find more.
Hence, the next step of our growth is to build a fresh, new website in preparation for some marketing and push for some sales.
First off let me say that we usually try to be quite original and come up with our own requests, however in this instance, we absolutely love everything about this contest: http://99designs.com/contests/12903. If this contest hadn't existed, ours would have been pretty much the same as this (apologies to the owner of this contest if you feel we are copying!) We want a design for a website that will be 100% incoroprated into the Joomla content management system (the latest version), however we believe 99 Designs only allows us to tender the design part. After comments and messages from a few people, at this stage, it looks like we will be using http://www.psd2html.com as they seem to offer a fantastic service in cutting up the design and getting it ready for Joomla. If the winning designer has the capabilities to cut up the design and create a Joomla template out of it, we will talk with you first before going to http://www.psd2html.com.
The winning design from the aforementioned contest is absolutely fantastic, and I invite that designer to hopefully enter this one as well. The areas for the main menu we need are: Home | Services | Clients | News | Partners | About Us | Contact Us. A call to action on the main page is a must (something like "Click here to contact us today" which just links to the Contact Us page. We also want a newsletter subscription box ("Business Technology Newsletter") on each page (possibly on the right hand side). The News page is going to be regularly updated with articles related to IT and Small Business (geared to the owners of small busuness). A shortcut to the top 5 articles below the newsletter subscription box with just the heading of the article which is the link to the article page.
We do not have any corporate photography, so please feel free to use something like http://www.istockphoto.com and we will pay for anything that has been used. Our logo ZIP file can be found at http://www.mooretechnology.com.au/logo.zip
The look of our business cards it located at http://www.mooretechnology.com.au/front.jpg and http://www.mooretechnology.com.au/back.jpg
You will see from our logo contest ( http://99designs.com/contests/12847 ) that we provide loads of feedback as much as possible and will be doing the same on here. If there is any more information at all, please let me know and I will get it up here immediately. As this is a guaranteed contest, if we are not getting the results we hope for, we will extend the time, and if needed, post more prize money. However from looking around, it seems as though we have posted on the higher end of the scale for what we are after.
Of course, there is the possibility of ongoing work and even the possibility of a partnership in the future if we work together well. Offering web design as part of a complete package to our customer is definitely something we would look to in the future.
- Fresh, Web 2.0 Style - Needs to be corporate/trendy - Ability to easily turn into RSS/XHTML/CSS - Very SEO Friendly - In line with the style of our business cards - White background - Ability to add/edit new sections if needed (hence enough room left in the menu bar for growth - Fill with Loren Ipsum text - we wil have a copy writer finish the text - Feel free to add your own little extras/recommendations
- Feel free to not just use IT related photos, use your creativity
- Limit your creativity