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CNN's Dana Bash fact-checked President Obama's falsehood about the sequester on Friday, but the major networks didn't exactly follow CNN's lead in reporting the distortion that Capitol Hill janitors and police would receive a pay cut because of the sequester.
In his Friday press conference, Obama claimed, "They're going to have less pay, the [Capitol Hill] janitors, the security guards. They just got a pay cut." Shortly after that, CNN's Bash obtained from the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms that the workers would not receive a pay cut, just a limit on overtime pay. NBC ignored the distortion on its weekend newscasts, while CBS and ABC reported it one time each.
This Week host George Stephanopoulos brought up the claim about the sequester in a Sunday interview with White House economic adviser Gene Sperling:
"And at least twice this week the administration got caught exaggerating the impact. The President claimed the Capitol janitors are going to get a pay cut. The architect of the Capitol denied that. He said it was premature at best."
Meanwhile, CBS White House correspondent Major Garrett reported this on Saturday's CBS Evening News: "The White House has been accused by fact checkers of The Washington Post of exaggerating the speed and severity of education job losses and janitorial cuts on Capitol Hill."
Contrary to the networks' near-blackout of the matter, CNN was on the story from the beginning. Bash tweeted her fact-check shortly after the President's press conference and her report aired twice on Friday's The Situation Room. CNN made two other mentions of Obama's fiction, once on Saturday's 12 p.m. hour of Newsroom and then during the 8 a.m. hour of CNN Sunday Morning.
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Veterans Day
Isn't this a great image for Veterans Day?
A very close childhood friend, Kim Rounseville Herrington, shared this image with me and many of her friends. My writer's itch took hold when she advised the men in the picture were her father and son.
Grandfather and grandson never knew each other but years apart they both answered their country's call and served proudly. The image seen here is one of Kim's most favorite images of her father. It was the last picture taken of him blended with a picture of her son Timothy the day he came home from his first tour in Iraq. My friend received the picture as a gift from her daughter-in-law.
Kim tells me her father, Joseph W. Rounseville , was involved in the Tet Offensive in 1968 after enlisting in the Army at the age of 17. Unfortunately, he gave the ultimate sacrifice and was killed in action having attained the rank of First Sergeant in February, 1968. He was a "Master Blaster" in the Rangers, Airborne with the 82nd Division in Ft. Campbell, KY.
Kim advised me her father's awards are too numerous for her to list, but in her possession she has a Bronze Star with four Oak Leaf Clusters (9th highest award given), Silver Star (third highest given), and one of his Purple Hearts and one of his Vietnam service medals.
In the last few years Kim has been able to make contact with her father's relatives and has learned so much about him. She advises me he was a class act and many of the letters she has received from men that were under his command said he led by example, not by word. He was the one in FRONT of them to show the way, not behind them.
Kim son, Timothy Herrington is currently a Staff Sergeant in the Army with over five years of service.
Happy Veterans Day to all of those who have served……to all of those currently serving their county and our most reverent remembrance for our fallen heroes.
If you would like to read my other Veterans Day postings please follow the Veterans Day link found in the site index to your left.
Posted by EHT at Thursday, November 11, 2010
Labels: Iraq, Veterans Day, Vietnam War
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Lisa, a beautiful tribute to two honorable men and the woman who loves them both. It really touched my heart an I can only imagine what it has meant to Kimberly to have such a beautiful tribute as a keepsake that she can share with her family. Cynthia
Hey Lisa, just a FYI, the 82nd Airborne Division is at Fort Bragg NC and the 101st is in Fort Cambell KY. As a VN I appreciate your article, thanks Jerry.
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If your little one has her heart set on playing Elsa for Halloween, you're in luck because Disney costumes for girls are available in stores and online. If your kids love to play dress-up and make-believe, these costumes will get extra use after Halloween is over. Choose costumes and toys from Disney favorites like the Little Mermaid, Frozen, Cinderella and Sofia the First and more. And don't forget the accessories! On sale now, accessories come in sets so that you can easily complete the costume with the matching play jewelry.
Tiaras and jewels, shoes and costumes oh my! Dress your toddler up as Tinkerbell and let them flutter by in their own imaginary world. Disney costumes are also available for little newborns. Shop the Disney Baby Collection for an array of costumes made for baby. Choose from Baby Minnie Mouse, Baby Snow White, Baby Belle and much more. For the older kids, you can go all out, with hair pieces and wigs to really complete the look. If you get a Rapunzel costume for your little girl, you'll have to get the available hair piece that goes with it, unless she's already amassed her height in hair.
If your child decides that they don't want to be Elsa from Frozen because all their friends are doing that, don't worry. There are plenty of alternative character costumes to choose from. Classics like Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Tigger and Eeyore, and even some of their favorite characters from Toy Story. We've got the accessories to go with their costumes, so even if the costume is homemade, you can finish it with the right accessories, like Woody's Hat if your little girl wants to be Woody from Toy Story. Shop the complete Disney collection at JCPenney for some great ideas for the upcoming Halloween season.


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While going through photos and documents my aunt received after my grandma passed away, we came across this Christmas card that my mom must have given her and my grandfather either in nursery school or kindergarten. I think she had a little bit of help making it. The card is a triptych, with the opening down the middle of the front. Opening the card reveals a photo of her in a toy car:
The photo on the inside:
Nothing is written on the card or on the back of the photo, unfortunately. Props to the teacher for using photo corners instead of glue/paste to attach the photo to the card.
The Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories (ACCM) allows you to share your family's holiday history 24 different ways during 24 days in December! Learn more at http://adventcalendar.geneabloggers.com.


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It's here, it's here!! Woo-hoo… seriously, for 15 bucks, go grab it!
DICE, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio today announced that Battlefield 1943™ is now available on Xbox LIVE™ Marketplace and will be available tomorrow on the PlayStation®Network. Battlefield 1943 is an all-new download-only multiplayer action game that brings DICE's first-class WWII action to gamers for just $15 or 1200 MS Points. Gamers can get a taste of the epic large-scale battles by downloading the free trial version on Xbox LIVE Marketplace and the PlayStation Network.
Battlefield 1943 is a critically-acclaimed First-Person Shooter (FPS) multiplayer game that GamePro magazine describes as "a triple-A title at a quarter of the price" and GameSpot says is "a rock-solid value at $15."
Battlefield 1943 introduces two thrilling new modes where 24 players can compete across four classic WWII Battlefield maps: Wake Island, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Coral Sea. These maps are inspired by the award winning Battlefield 1942™ game, but have been redesigned and reengineered using the DICE Frostbite™ engine allowing players to rain havoc and destruction via land, sea or air. The free trial version will feature Wake Island and give players the freedom to choose from the full arsenal of weapons and vehicles on both sides of the battle, either the US Marines or Imperial Japanese Navy.
The Coral Sea map will be unlocked as part of a worldwide community challenge, where players will work together to reach 43M kills on both Xbox LIVE and the PlayStation Network. The official countdown begins on July 10, 2009 at 19:43 GMT.
"We are excited to witness the intense battles that are going to take place on these tropical Pacific Theatre maps, ripping them to shreds and leaving nothing but debris behind," says Gordon Van Dyke, Producer on Battlefield 1943. "Reliving these classic maps with the DICE Frostbite engine's destruction capabilities and full FPS gameplay ups the ante on what can be done in downloadable games. We're proud to be able to provide this experience to shooter fans for just $15."
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DENVER -- A 5-week-old baby girl whose skull was fractured in a rollover crash in Aurora Monday morning has been upgraded to good condition, her parents said Tuesday.
The baby, Lizbeth McComas, and her mother Shalimar, 35, were injured when their Dodge Caliber was hit from behind by a Jeep around 2 a.m.
The collision caused both vehicles to rollover and the driver of the Jeep, William Page III, 21, of Denver, was ejected from the vehicle, police said.
Page remains in the ICU at the Medical Center of Aurora.
According to Aurora police spokesman Chuck DeShazer, Shalimar McComas had just dropped her husband off at work in Parker and was returning home when the crash happened. Parker Road, a busy route for morning commuters, was closed for several hours while officials cleaned up the crash.
Authorities say the only thing that saved the baby's life was the fact that her mother had properly restrained her in a car seat.
McComas was treated for minor injuries. Lizbeth suffered a skull fracture and is being treated at Children's Hospital.
Her father told FOX31 News their "miracle baby" will be taken out of the ICU on Tuesday and that she is eating on her own now.
McComas said she was listening to a Christian radio station when the crash happened. She remembered hearing her baby cry as she crawled through broken glass and debris to get out her car.
"When the car stopped my immediate thought was: My baby. My baby. I got out of the car and I was trying to reach her," McComas said.
McComas said she had trouble getting into the backseat of her car where Lizbeth was.
"I couldn't get in through the windows," McComas said adding that she scrambled around the vehicle looking for a way to get in. "It was very scary."
Eventually she was able to get the seats of the Dodge Calibur to push forward. "I was able to push the back of the seats forward and I was able to get her out that way," she said.
Lizbeth was "moaning" after the crash and had blood coming from her head. "I'd never heard that sound from her," McComas said. "But she was alive and she was breathing."
Police said Page was driving over 100 miles an hour when he hit the Caliber. DeShazer said it's too soon to determine if he will be charged in the crash.


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WhatsApp Messenger uses the same Internet data plan as web browsing and email on your phone. If using your cellular data while roaming will normally result in additional charges, you may be charged extra by your mobile provider for using WhatsApp while roaming. Contact your wireless carrier for details about international roaming countries, SIMs, rates, and policies. If you do not have an international data plan, turn off Data roaming options to avoid data roaming charges.
To confirm that your data roaming is disabled go to:
Windows Phone Settings > system > cellular+SIM or mobile network > Data roaming options > don't roam.
Provided you have Wi-Fi Internet access and active WhatsApp service, WhatsApp should be free to use over a Wi-Fi connection. Please note that some Wi-Fi networks may charge you for usage.
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Maps Of Monaco
See location and detail maps of the country of Monaco by clicking on the the thumbnail images below, and use the interactive travel map below that to look around, and to check out anything that we have listed in this country. You can also switch between road, satellite or hybrid map views for different perspectives, or use the links below the interactive map to see more maps of places in Monaco.
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If you want to upload your own avitar, do the following:
- Click on the User Control Panel button in the upper right hand corner.
- Under Options, click on Profile
- Under Profile, select "Edit Avitar"
- Click Browse and select a file that contains an image that a maximum of 90x90 pixels and no more that 6 KB
- Click on Submit
- If you're not happy with the result, repeat above until you are.
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Baseball celebrations make for great, out-of-context photos, and Joba Chamberlain pouring some (possibly frigid?) champagne down Ichiro's back after the Yankees clinched the American League East title last night is another excellent entry, especially when you consider that Ichiro's reaction is maybe the fourth-best part of this photo, behind Joba's goggles, facial expression, and gesturing/comforting left hand.
Is it the Best. Photo. Ever? At least in terms of recent baseball celebration pics, this Jayson Werth moment deserves some consideration as well.
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The Iron Horse Advertising & Marketing Company Inc.
343 Boulevard, Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 07604
201-288-8656 · Fax: 201-288-7215 · E-mail
Thank you for visiting our web-site.
Secret to success: Early to bed, early to rise. Work like
hell and advertise.
Advertising is totally
unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.
Agency Print
Production Showcase
Here are some samples of our print production work
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Showcase 3
Print Publishing
The Gazette Newspaper is a 28 to 32 page monthly community newspaper with
15,000 printed. The Gazette is mailed FREE to every household
in Hasbrouck Heights, Moonachie, Teterboro and Wood-Ridge. Additionally every
business in the Meadowlands region is sent a copy to include: Carlstadt, East Rugherford,
Hasbrouck Heights, Little Ferry, Lodi, Moonachie, South Hackensack, Teterboro and
Wood-Ridge. Plus there are over 5,000 online internet readers per issue of the
page-for-page pdf version. [Index]
Annual Hometown Shopping & Business Guide 20,000 are produced with
15,000 inserted into The Gazette Newspaper, and the balance distributed free throughout
the area. The Guide is printed every other year. [2007
Business Guide]
Web Publishing
Our un-Official community site presents "a slice of community life" with
interesting tableaus reflecting our hometown. This very successful web-site contains
hundreds of pages of community news, information and features. This web-site draws
thousands of visitors and page views each month (with over 1,500,000 page views since
January 1, 2000). Established in 1998. Advertising accepted.
We set up and maintain the official Hasbrouck Heights web-site -- drawing upon the
content of hasbrouck-heights.com.
This un-Official web-site was a spin off of hasbrouck-heights.com.
We offer a rich editorial line-up to include regional news, information &
features -- such as Teterboro Airport, Bergen County Animal Shelter, Xanadu, Meadowlands,
Secaucus Junction, George Washington Bridge, Paterson Great Falls, area parks, etc.
This southern Bergen County demographic includes 500,000 consumers and thousands of
businesses. Advertising accepted.
Photography Showcase
We have extensive photo-journalism experience and would
like to put this exciting and powerful medium to work for you. Here are some
selected photographs that were used ...
Editor's Choice: 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
area photos General photos
Public Relations Showcase
Red Ribbons Feed Hungry
Since 1998, hundreds of bright red ribbons lined have decorated The Boulevard
from November to February, with proceeds feeding the hungry in our region through The Center for Food Action. For details about this
program go to: buy-a-ribbon.com
Good Neighbor Day
Since 1995, over 1,000 dozen roses were given away each year on the first
Wednesday in September. Since 2002, the request for food donations netted the Center for
Food Action over 300 bags of groceries each year plus hundereds of dollars in cash
donations. Here are some Good Neighbor Day stories & photos: 2004 [1][2]
2003 [1][2][3]
2002 [1][2][3] [2001] [2000] [1999]
Hasbrouck Heights 4th of July Fireworks
From 1984 to 1999, we were instrumental in producing the Annual Hasbrouck Heights
4th of July Fireworks and Big Band Concert.
1999 event photos [1999]
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2003 event update [Story
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We deliver the magic.
Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread. Jef
L. Richards
In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope. Charles Revson
Advertising says to people -- Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you.
Here's how to get it. Leo Burnett
Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if
he could talk to all this prospects face-to-face. But he can't. Morris
The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. David
That is the kind of ad I like. Facts. Facts. Facts. Samuel Goldwyn
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. Mark Twain
Properly practiced creativity can make an ad do the work of ten. William
We find that advertising works the way grass grows. You can never see it, but every
week you have to mow the lawn. Andy Tarshis
There is no such thing as 'soft sell' and 'hard sell.' There is only 'smart sell'
and 'stupid sell'. Charles Browder
I have learned that you can't have good advertising without a good client, that you can't
keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better
advertising that he understands or has an appetite for. Leo Burnett


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We've been looking forward to this Marantz VP-1C1s1 1080p DLP Projector for months, since we first introduced you to it back in mid-April. It's not the first 1080p projector on the market, nor is it the cheapest—Sony, for one, has beaten Marantz by a longshot in availability and price, too—but this is the first projector using Texas instruments' 1080p DLP chip. Not only can it reproduce true 1080p, it also has an image processor from Gennum that up-converts standard definition video to that Holy Grail of high-definition resolutions. And, just look at it. We're liking its retro-dentist's-office-chic appearance.
About the only thing that's like pulling teeth with this product is its price, quoted on the Marantz site at upwards of $20,000, but in April we heard it was going to be selling for more like $15,280 on the street. Either way, this unit can pump out some video we'd like to see. As we mentioned in April (with little gained since then), now all we need is some decent content in 1080p, and we're good to go.
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June 7, 2011
Infectious disease expert with international research experience selected to lead Biosecurity Research Institute
An expert in vector biology, arthropod-borne infectious diseases, immune modulation and vaccine evaluation is the newest leader of the Biosecurity Research Institute at Kansas State University.
Stephen Higgs comes to K-State from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he is a professor in the department of pathology and director of the biosafety level-3 insectary. His particular research interests are mosquito-virus-vertebrate interactions. He will begin his new position in July.
"I am very excited to be joining the Kansas State team," Higgs said. "The existing expertise in animal and plant diseases and in food safety and security at K-State -- combined with the dedicated leadership, faculty and staff committed to advancing education and research to achieve the K-State 2025 goal -- is truly outstanding. The BRI has unique research and training capabilities that will allow K-State to develop collaborations with local and international groups and companies, whilst work with federal agencies to facilitate NBAF research will ultimately enhance the nation's security."
Located in Pat Roberts Hall, the Biosecurity Research Institute is a biosafety level-3 and biosafety level-3 ag facility that studies infectious diseases affecting the food supply. In addition to directing the institute, Higgs will also serve two other roles: Peine Professor for Biosecurity in the department of pathobiology and diagnostic medicine and associate vice president for research, facilitating bio-preparedness research campuswide. While at K-State Higgs will remain editor-in-chief of the international journal Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases.
"The experience and credentials that Stephen Higgs brings to the K-State family is what will help us reach our goal of becoming a top 50 public research university by 2025," said K-State President Kirk Schulz. "With him at the helm of our biosafety level-3 laboratory, our national renown in animal health will be strengthened even more."
Higgs earned a doctorate in parasitology from Reading University in the United Kingdom and a bachelor of science with honors in zoology from King's College in London. He was involved in training and research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and at the Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology, Oxford in the United Kingdom before coming to the United States in 1991.
Higgs is experienced in developing collaborative, multidisciplinary research projects and has organized training in biocontainment facilities for researchers from other universities and other countries.
"Stephen's expertise is unparalleled when it comes to experience in facilities like the Biosecurity Research Institute," said Ron Trewyn, vice president for research at K-State. "The fact that he has organized collaborations with leading research universities and other public and private-sector entities shows that he is an excellent choice to manage our growing research programs and expand the institute's biosafety, biosecurity and biocontainment education programs."
Alfonso Torres, associate dean for public policy at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, serves on the Biosecurity Research Institute advisory board. He has Higgs lined up to lecture at the 11th International Transboundary Animal Diseases course at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York. The center is being replaced by the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, which is under construction adjacent to the K-State campus.
"Stephen's expertise in medical entomology and many important arthropod-borne diseases is a great asset not only for K-State but for the future NBAF and for the current education and research programs on the most important animal diseases affecting the livestock industries and public health," Torres said.


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District Employment (Claremont, Subiaco or West Perth Districts)
Casual Community Football Clinic Coordinators
We are currently seeking males and females with football and/or coaching exeprience willing to be trained as Community Football Clinic Provders on a casual basis with the Falcons, Tigers and Lions Football Districts.
Programs include our Footy Fundamentals Program and our clinic and education program accross WA Primary Schools.
Suitable applicants should have experience in one or more of the following:
- Football Experience
- Coaching Experience
- Teaching Experience
- Experience working with children
All applicants will be required to have a current Working with Children Check.
For more information contact Andrew Ridley, Community Development Manager on 0408 298 725
Work Experience
The WA Football Commission, Claremont District, Subiaco District and West Perth District often work with Universities, other tertiary institutions and local secondary schools to help develop students in sport and recreation through work experience programs.
Experience can include administration and sports delivery and is available through Perth's Northern Suburbs.
To register your interest please contact Andrew Ridley, Community Development Manager on 0408 298 725.


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A Met Office yellow warning of ice for all of Northern Ireland is valid until 9am this morning.
Salting of roads on the scheduled salting network was carried out last night and is underway again this morning where required.
Road users are advised to exercise caution especially when travelling on untreated roads.


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The Science of DuPont™ Tyvek®
DuPont Graphics products take printing to the next level of durability, quality, strength and flexibility. They are designed to easily and affordably meet the requirements of a vast range of printing applications.
DuPont™ Tyvek® brand protective material is a miracle of science from DuPont. It is a family of tough durable sheet products of high-density polyethylene fibers. The sheet is formed first by spinning continuous strands of very fine interconnected fibers, and then bonding them together with heat and pressure.
Tyvek® is white, non-toxic, chemically inert and contains no binders. The non-woven sheet, after bonding, combines a good printing or coating surface, high opacity and toughness to a degree unique among sheet products of similar weight and price.
Tyvek® is produced in two different types, namely 10 and 14. The fibers in Type 10 Style are bonded to form a tough, dense, opaque sheet. The dense packing of the fine, interconnected fibers produces a smooth surface, high opacity and whiteness. The large number of bonds per unit area results in a stable and abrasion resistant surface with a stiffness similar to paper. Fiber bonding of Type 14 is restricted to discrete points in the non-woven sheet, producing a high degree of fiber mobility, and giving the non-woven a fabric-like drape.


text: The main objective ofAgrave; votre tour!is to advance students to a level at which they can comfortably express themselves on a variety of French and francophone topics. Avoiding the excessive rigor of most intermediate texts,Agrave; votre tour!immerses students in authentic language and cultural contexts to achieve three key objectives: to build and reinforce oral and written communicative skills, to develop reading skills and cultural awareness, and to forge a strong linguistic base. New!Tecirc;te agrave; tecirc;tecommunicative activities require one student to use communicative skills to elicit unknown details from another student in order to complete a task, with basic vocabulary and grammar structures recycled to reinforce previously learned material. New!Integrated video correlates to theFranccedil;ais PratiqueandInterlude Culturelsections of each unit and to corresponding video activities provided in the Student Activities Manual. New!Updated cultural material highlights recent cultural trends, such as prices expressed in euros, French phone numbers with appropriate area codes; reflects the current political realities; and offers many entry points for further development of cultural awareness, grammar, and lexical points. A broad introduction to French and Francophone cultures provides authentic language and cultural contexts without an intense grammar curriculumadapted for students who might take French as a minor, rather than a major. Accessible presentation enables students with basic conversational and grammar skills to achieve success through careful pacing, cyclical review and re-entry of structures and vocabulary, and engaging conversational material. Solid grammar review builds a framework by first covering basic structures and expressions, then adding more advanced concepts to expand students' linguistic abilities.


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goldmine had een nieuw logo ontwerp nodig en lanceerde daarom een wedstrijd op 99designs.
Een winnaar werd gekozen uit69 ontwerpen ingezonden door28 freelance designers.
Need a complete logo and stationary set for a b2b website/business that offers business financing, sba loans, equipment leasing, factoring, accounts receivable/purchase order financing.
Strategic Business Funding
Desired Color Scheme:
see description
Desired Style:
clean, sharp/bright, finance/business related theme
Accepted File Formats:
psd, transparent logo for website, whatever is suitable to provide to a printer.
Complete, from-scratch logo & stationary design for a company that helps small & medium sized business solve cash flow problems and assists in sourcing funds for business start ups, expansion, or equipment purchases.
A clean, bright, and professional design is required.
Our customers are small & medium sized businesses so we need a logo that conveys trust & reliability. We solve problems for the business owners by helping them with with their business financing needs. The "theme" of the logo can incorporate some type of financial concept. Or a play on the 'strategic' part of our name.
Business Name on Logo:
Strategic Business Funding
We are open to color suggestions within one of these three color combinations: blue/white, blue/yellow, blue orange
Keep in mind we will be building a website around the color scheme of this logo. In fact, we intend to launch a design contest for the website when this contest is completed.
Letterhead set: The logo should look good on standard white paper.
Business card: Contemporary & professional look. White background. The back of the card should be a solid color with the following tagline/headline and bulleted services in whatever format you desire:
In this order
Tagline: Business Financing & Cash Flow Solutions
- Customized financing solutions.
- Creative equipment leasing programs.
- SBA loan packaging & assistance.
- Get cash fast with factoring.
- Commercial real estate financing.
- Hard to fund situation? We can help!
Website: http://www.StrategicBusinessFunding.com
Phone: 1-800-xxx-xxxx
Buusines Card Note: If this is too much text for the back of a card - let me know.
- Will provide feedback as we move along.
- If you do website design, we will be posting a contest upon completion of this contest.
- We have a residential lending division as well. We would like to work with the winner to develop a similar set of creatives for that side of our business in the future.
This contest was originally listed in multiple categories:
- Logo Design
- Stationery Design
Bekijk hoe een ontwerpwedstrijd werkt of leer meer over logo ontwerpdiensten.


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Hospital bosses are holding an open day in a bid to attract people to fill 50 nursing vacancies.
Jobs are on offer across a number of elderly, medical and surgical specialties at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The organisation has a Warning Notice served on it to improve staffing levels by Friday, March 7, after Care Quality Commission inspectors made surprise visits to Bradford Royal Infirmary in September and October.
The watchdog said there were not enough qualified, skilled and experienced staff which had a major impact on those using the hospital.
It is hoped that next month's nurse recruitment open day will attract strong candidates. Chief nurse Juliette Greenwood said: "At Bradford Teaching Hospitals we are proud to provide high quality, patient-centered care and we are looking for compassionate, motivated nurses, who share our passion for putting patients first, to join our workforce.
"Our open day, on Wednesday, February 12, at Bradford Royal Infirmary's Field House, is aimed at all nursing students who are close to qualifying, as well as newly qualified nurses and those would like a change or wish to return to the profession after a break. We are also eager to talk to nurses keen to pursue a career as an advanced nurse practitioner as there are openings for these roles within our hospitals too."
The Foundation Trust is also working in partnership with Bradford University to support nurses seeking to return to practice. Representatives from the School of Health Studies will be there to answer questions and provide information about the wide range of post graduate continuous professional development courses available.
Education Services manager, Amanda Hudson, said: "There will be information stands from all recruiting specialties, as well as representatives from the hospital's Human Resources (HR) department and the BRI's Health and Wellbeing Centre, who can discuss the benefits of working for Bradford Teaching Hospitals."
In November, the Royal College of Nursing released a report which said nationally there were nearly 20,000 nursing vacancies unfilled in England.
l The recruitment event runs from 2.30pm to 6pm on Wednesday, February 12. For more information and to register interest visit education.bradfordhospitals.nhs.uk/courses/career-open-days/nurse-recruitment-days-register-your-interest.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Coaches Across Continents, with the help of Seamus Malin '62 and Nick Gates '91, has been named a finalist for the NGO for Peace of the Year award at the 2011 Peace and Sport Awards, to be held Oct. 27 in Monaco.
The program will be honored by Prince Albert of Monaco at the event after continuing its work in Africa last year, highlighted by working with former child soldiers in Uganda. Coaches Across Continents is one of three finalists for the 'Non-Governmental Organization for Peace of the Year' prize.
Sponsored by L'Organisation pour la Paix par le Sport (known as "Peace and Sport"), the Awards "reward initiatives and people who have outstandingly contributed to peace and social stability in the world through sport. The winners have implemented projects that are symbolic of what sport can accomplish to create links between divided or opposed communities."
The criteria for selection include:
- The capacity to be innovative in implementing sport for peace
- Involvement of local stakeholders
- Emphasis placed on sustainability and transfer of skills
- Adaptation to the local environment
- Innovative thinking about what sport represents in the local context
- Quality of monitoring and evaluation processes in the long term
- Cooperation with national governmental and/or non-governmental institutions
- Quantitative and qualitative data reflecting the opinions and aspirations of concerned individuals
- Contribution made to the public debate on the crucial matter of sport for peace
- Flexibility and creativity
Malin, a U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer, and Gates run Coaches Across Continents, which is an organization that allows experienced soccer coaches to work and assist developing regions using a designed soccer education curriculum. This not-for-profit organization, which was founded in 1990, is designed to develop young people to become modern leaders in their community.
Current Crimson women's soccer player Sophie Legros has multiple summers during her collegiate career working with the program in Africa. Legros has visited Kenya and did extensive volunteer work, including demonstrating how soccer can change and improve the lives of young girls in Africa.
Legros will be appearing before a panel for the Weissman International Internship program Friday, Oct. 14. Legros received a Weissman grant for the summer of 2009 to visit Kenya, where she starting a program with Friends of Orpahns, a rehabilitation center for former child soldiers and sex slaves.
Legros's teammates, Alicia Johnson and Alexandra Millet, as well as Richard Smith and John Bryan from the Harvard men's soccer program, have also volunteered their summers with the Coaches Across Continents program.


text: During the time that devices are introduced with constant regularity, presently we can turn our attention to a leaked itemization that highlights the possibility of Nokia launching an Android-based handset. With reports released from EvLeaks, it is viewable that a handset dubbed as "Normandy" is speculatively in the works. According to lowdowns from The Verge, it is believed that this device run a forked version of Android. This will be similar to the software that is presently existent on Amazon's Kindle Fire line. Continue reading


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NEW YORK (AP) — A peak performance coach who once worked with former New York Knicks star Allan Houston says in a lawsuit Houston damaged his career by trashing him instead of trumpeting his skills.
Art Rondeau late Monday sued the Knicks and Houston, who's now a team executive.
Rondeau's work involves helping athletes focus mentally to improve their games. He worked with Houston in 1999 and 2000.
Rondeau's lawsuit says he helped Houston turn around shooting slumps but the All-Star guard never followed through on promises to praise Rondeau's work publicly.
The lawsuit says Houston instead disparaged Rondeau to reporters, Knicks officials and others. The suit seeks more than $2.5 million.
The Knicks say the lawsuit is "completely without merit."
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<see article below> I don't know where to begin.. This guy is horribly confused and since he is reaching an audience- there will be damage done. He says: "There is no best way to run. Period. Studies have been done on the footstrike of hundreds of elite runners and what we know is that half of them run heel-to-toe, and half have a midfoot strike. They run the way it works for them. You do too"
I counter - there is no way to know how you run with the overly supportive footwear that we're fitted for by someone who sells you shoes to treat your symptoms.
All elite athletes running differently from each other, ok - but the greatest ALL have 'growing up shoe-less' in common. They found their 'way' to run by running without the support we're stuffed in to at a young age. The reason there's no 2nd generation elite long distance runners so far is because the athlete is risen from poverty and their kids don't have to walk to school, that can afford expensive shoes, they don't walk to get well water, etc...
Are muscles and tendons are aligned to sequence in a certain way. I dare-say you don't KNOW the way unless you're in touch with the ground and aren't running on muscles that have been atrophying since you moved out of your toddler shoes. Am I crazy?
The barefoot running joke: when will Chris MacDougall quit selling his snake oil?
email@example.com | BioAlong with about a zillion other runners I read Chris MacDougall's book "Born to Run" when it first came out, and then I went to the Cooper Aerobic Center to hear him speak. I was amazed after reading the book and listening to his talk that anyone could be guilty of such faulty logic.
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To hear him tell it, the Tarahumara Indians are the greatest runners in the world because they live in these remote and steep Copper Canyons of Mexico, they have no cars and no money, and run everywhere up and down these huge hills, from the first day they can walk.
So as a long-time runner, I thought to myself, "Hey, that would make me a good runner too, running up and down hills all day, never riding in a car, running to school, running back home, no money, no video games, just running with my friends. Yeah, I can see that."
But in an amazing leap of non-logic, MacDougall concludes that the entire reason the Indians are superior runners is that they run barefoot. And from there he tries to convince us that running barefoot is the only way to run long, fast and injury-free. He then moves on to the injuries and damage that runners undergo because they run in today's running shoes, with their motion control, stability, thick soles, heel protection and cushioning.
Now let's examine this sanely by first eliminating both ends of the running performance curve, the super weak and the super strong.
In 1954 Morton Thompson produced the great novel "Not as a Stranger" about Dr. Lucas Marsh, who struggles to do the best he can for his patients. He asks his older partner why it is the same people come to the clinic with ailment after ailment. Dr. Runkleman explains, "Some people are just constitutional inadequates." I never forgot this line, and I use it often to explain injuries. Every doctor knows it too. No matter how they run or what they put on their feet, some people are injured all the time.
At the other end of the spectrum are those super athletes and strong runners who could put bedroom slippers on their feet and run backwards for 50 miles, never stretch and never do core work. They never get hurt. I hate them, and so do you.
In the middle are the rest of us, and if you don't know this yet, get ready for some startling information. There is no best way to run. Period. Studies have been done on the footstrike of hundreds of elite runners and what we know is that half of them run heel-to-toe, and half have a midfoot strike. They run the way it works for them. You do too.
Alexander Pope said, "Tis with our judgments as our watches; none go just alike, yet each believes his own." Ask a group of men what time it is and they will all say a different time, then argue that only their watch is correct. Religion is the same. No matter what you believe, there are people who are convinced that theirs is the one true faith and you don't know what's right.
Here's my advice. If you want to take up minimalist running, try it in very small doses over a very long period of time to allow your body to adapt, so that you won't join the crowds of people visiting their podiatrists after joining this cult. It may not be for you, no matter what Chris MacDougall says.


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The U.K. alien across-the-board changes to its internet bank laws with the access of the Bank Act of 2005. The declared purposes of the act were actual noble: to anticipate bank from getting a antecedent of abomination and disorder; to ensure bank would be conducted in a fair and accessible manner; and to assure accouchement from getting afflicted by administration the acknowledged bank age of 18 years. In practice, of course, the act led to a billow in on website operators affective to the country and a agnate access in tax revenues as a result.
In the U.S., the bearings is abundant different. Bank is acknowledged beneath Federal law but banned in abounding states, with some bounded exceptions. Acknowledged bank states cover Nevada and New Jersey, although abounding states accept anesthetized laws that approve bank in assertive municipalities as able-bodied as on Native American lands. Internet bank laws, on the added hand, accept finer banned operators from accomplishing business aural the states.
In 2006 Assembly accustomed an act that badly afflicted the internet bank laws and finer proclaimed the industry illegal. That act threw the industry into turmoil, and collection around all of the U.S. based operations out of the country. Sites operated out of the U.K. and the Bahamas now accumulate a majority of this assisting business. But abundant faults in the 2006 legislation and the activity that Assembly has added important things to anguish about accept now pushed the country to the border of legalizing the industry.
If the U.S. is to advance with the amends of bank over the internet, assembly accept to aboriginal do abroad with its awkward advance at authoritative it actionable beneath the 2006 Unlawful Internet Bank Enforcement Act (more calmly referred to as UIGEA). The purpose of that act was adequately simple: accomplish it actionable for banks, acclaim agenda companies, and added transaction processors to alteration funds from gamblers to online casinos and from those online casinos aback to the gamblers.
You accept to understand, however, that the alternative of assembly has consistently been to prohibit online gambling. But apropos about the amends of such a prohibition as able-bodied as the apperception extraordinary problems associated with administration the ban accept consistently dead any accessible accomplishments forth those lines. So Assembly chose instead to try to advance the botheration by preventing the breeze of basic amid the gamblers and the casinos beneath the UIGEA.
Now, acknowledgment in no baby allotment to the civic banking meltdown, Assembly is assertive to about-face its access to internet bank laws and abrade the problem-plagued UIGEA. Beneath a brace of proposed House bills including one sponsored by Barney Franks and Ron Paul, Assembly now appears assertive to approve and adapt the industry.
Whenever Assembly in fact considers such a alive access you can accept that there are abeyant tax revenues to be gained. So it shouldn't appear as a abruptness to apprentice that one of the above allowances of legalized bank is added acquirement for the government. Recent studies accept adumbrated that the tax revenues the government stands to acquire from a legalized online bank industry could ability added than $50 billion over the next 10 years.
Hopefully, based on accepted affect in Assembly apropos internet bank laws, U.S. based online bank admirers will anon be able to adore their action accurately through U.S. based operations that will be beneath the scrutiny, and demanding power, of the Federal government.


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Benvinguts al meu racó fosc poc de la web! Here you'll find a lovely (i, de vegades l'atzar) assortiment de llaminadures de tot tipus d'anime. Navegar, veure, compres i gaudir!
Anime (アニメ, an abbreviated pronunciation in Japanese of "animation", pronounced [animat] in Japanese, but typically /ˈænɨmeɪ/ or /ˈænɨmə/ in English.) is commonly defined as animation originating in Japan. The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, animat is also referred to as "Japanese animation".
While the earliest known Japanese animation dates to 1917, and many original Japanese cartoons were produced in the ensuing decades, the characteristic anime style developed in the 1960s—notably with the work of Osamu Tezuka—and became known outside Japan in the 1980s. Anime, like manga, has a large audience in Japan and recognition throughout the world. Distributors can release anime via television broadcasts, directly to video, or theatrically, as well as online.
Both hand-drawn and computer-animated anime exist. It is used in television series, films, video, video games, commercials, and internet-based releases, and represents most, if not all, genres of fiction. Anime gained early popularity in East and Southeast Asia and has garnered more-recent popularity in the Western World.
Anime began at the start of the 20th century, when Japanese filmmakers experimented with the animation techniques also pioneered in France, Germany, the United States, and Russia. The oldest known anime in existence first screened in 1917 – a two-minute clip of a samurai trying to test a new sword on his target, only to suffer defeat. Early pioneers included Shimokawa Oten, Jun'ichi Kouchi, and Seitarō Kitayama.
By the 1930s animation became an alternative format of storytelling to the live-action industry in Japan. But it suffered competition from foreign producers and many animators, such as Noburō Ōfuji and Yasuji Murata still worked in cheaper cutout not cel animation, although with masterful results. Other creators, such as Kenzō Masaoka and Mitsuyo Seo, nonetheless made great strides in animation technique, especially with increasing help from a government using animation in education and propaganda. The first talkie anime was Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka, produced by Masaoka in 1933. The first feature length animated film was Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors directed by Seo in 1945 with sponsorship by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
The success of The Walt Disney Company's 1937 feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs influenced Japanese animators. In the 1960s, manga artist and animator Osamu Tezuka adapted and simplified many Disney animation-techniques to reduce costs and to limit the number of frames in productions. He intended this as a temporary measure to allow him to produce material on a tight schedule with inexperienced animation-staff.
The 1970s saw a surge of growth in the popularity of manga – many of them later animated. The work of Osamu Tezuka drew particular attention: he has been called a "legend" and the "god of manga". His work – and that of other pioneers in the field – inspired characteristics and genres that remain fundamental elements of anime today. The giant robot genre (known as "Mecha" outside Japan), for instance, took shape under Tezuka, developed into the Super Robot genre under Go Nagai and others, and was revolutionized at the end of the decade by Yoshiyuki Tomino who developed the Real Robot genre. Robot anime like the Gundam i The Super Dimension Fortress Macross series became instant classics in the 1980s, and the robot genre of anime is still one of the most common in Japan and worldwide today. In the 1980s, anime became more accepted in the mainstream in Japan (although less than manga), and experienced a boom in production. Following a few successful adaptations of anime in overseas markets in the 1980s, anime gained increased acceptance in those markets in the 1990s and even more at the turn of the 21st century.
Japanese write the English term "animation" a katakana as アニメーション (animēshon, pronounced [animeːɕoɴ]), and the term アニメ (animat, pronounced [animat] in Japanese) emerged in the 1970s as an abbreviation. Others claim that the word derives from the French phrase dessin animé.[4] Japanese-speakers use both the original and abbreviated forms interchangeably, but the shorter form occurs more commonly.
The pronunciation of animat in Japanese, [animat], differs significantly from the Standard English /ˈænɪmeɪ/, which has different vowels and stress. (In Japanese each mora carries equal stress.) As with a few other Japanese words such as saké, Pokémon, i Kobo Abé, English-language texts sometimes spell animat as animé (as in French), with an acute accent over the final e, to cue the reader to pronounce the letter, not to leave it silent as English orthography might suggest.
Word usage
In Japan, the term animat does not specify an animation's nation of origin or style; instead, it serves as a blanket term to refer to all forms of animation from around the world. English-language dictionaries define animat as "a Japanese style of motion-picture animation" or as "a style of animation developed in Japan".
Non-Japanese works that borrow stylization from anime are commonly referred to as "anime-influenced animation" but it is not unusual for a viewer who does not know the country of origin of such material to refer to it as simply "anime". Some works result from co-productions with non-Japanese companies, such as most of the traditionally animated Rankin/Bass works, the Cartoon Network and Production I.G series IGPX o Ōban Star-Racers; different viewers may or may not consider these anime.
In the UK, many video shops will classify all adult-oriented animated videos in the "Anime" section for convenience, regardless of whether they show any stylistic similarities to Japanese animation. No evidence suggests that this has led to any change in the use of the word.[citation needed]
In English, animat, when used as a common noun, normally functions as a mass noun (for example: "Do you watch anime?", "How much anime have you collected?"). malgrat això, in casual usage the word also appears as a count noun. Anime can also be used as a suppletive adjective or classifier noun ("The anime Guyver is different from the movie Guyver").
English-speakers occasionally refer to anime as "Japanimation", but this term has fallen into disuse. "Japanimation" saw the most usage during the 1970s and 1980s, but the term "anime" supplanted it in the mid-1990s as the material became more widely known in English-speaking countries. In general, the term now only appears in nostalgic contexts. Since "anime" does not identify the country of origin in Japanese usage, "Japanimation" is used to distinguish Japanese work from that of the rest of the world.
In Japan, "manga" can refer to both animation and comics. Among English speakers, "manga" has the stricter meaning of "Japanese comics", in parallel to the usage of "anime" in and outside of Japan. The term "ani-manga" is used to describe comics produced from animation cels.
Visual characteristics
Many commentators refer to anime as an art form. As a visual medium, it can emphasize visual styles. The styles can vary from artist to artist or from studio to studio. Some titles make extensive use of common stylization: FLCL, for example, has a reputation for wild, exaggerated stylization. Other titles use different methods: Only Yesterday o Jin-Roh take much more realistic approaches, featuring few stylistic exaggerations; Pokémon uses drawings which specifically do not distinguish the nationality of characters.
While different titles and different artists have their own artistic styles, many stylistic elements have become so common that people describe them as definitive of anime in general. malgrat això, this does not mean that all modern anime share one strict, common art-style. Many anime have a very different art style from what would commonly be called "anime style", yet fans still use the word "anime" to refer to these titles. Generally, the most common form of anime drawings include "exaggerated physical features such as large eyes, big hair and elongated limbs… and dramatically shaped speech bubbles, speed lines and onomatopoeic, exclamatory typography."
The influences of Japanese calligraphy and Japanese painting also characterize linear qualities of the anime style. The round ink brush traditionally used for writing kanji and for painting, produces a stroke of widely varying thickness.
Anime also tends to borrow many elements from manga, including text in the background and panel layouts. Per exemple, an opening may employ manga panels to tell the story, or to dramatize a point for humorous effect. See for example the anime Kare Kano.
Character design
Body proportions emulated in anime come from proportions of the human body. The height of the head is considered by the artist as the base unit of proportion. Head heights can vary as long as the remainder of the body remains proportional. Most anime characters are about seven to eight heads tall, and extreme heights are set around nine heads tall.
Variations to proportion can be modded by the artist. Super-deformed characters feature a non-proportionally small body compared to the head. Sometimes specific body parts, like legs, are shortened or elongated for added emphasis. Most super deformed characters are two to four heads tall. Some anime works like Crayon Shin-chan completely disregard these proportions, such that they resemble Western cartoons. For exaggeration, certain body features are increased in proportion.
Eye styles
Many anime and manga characters feature large eyes. Osamu Tezuka, who is believed to have been the first to use this technique, was inspired by the exaggerated features of American cartoon characters such as Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, and Disney's Bambi. Tezuka found that large eyes style allowed his characters to show emotions distinctly. When Tezuka began drawing Ribbon no Kishi, the first manga specifically targeted at young girls, Tezuka further exaggerated the size of the characters' eyes. Indeed, through Ribbon no Kishi, Tezuka set a stylistic template that later shōjo artists tended to follow.
Coloring is added to give eyes, particularly to the cornea, some depth. The depth is accomplished by applying variable color shading. Generally, a mixture of a light shade, the tone color, and a dark shade is used. Cultural anthropologist Matt Thorn argues that Japanese animators and audiences do not perceive such stylized eyes as inherently more or less foreign.
malgrat això, not all anime have large eyes. Per exemple, some of the work of Hayao Miyazaki and Toshiro Kawamoto are known for having realistically proportioned eyes, as well as realistic hair colors on their characters. In addition many other productions also have been known to use smaller eyes. This design tends to have more resemblance to traditional Japanese art. Some characters have even smaller eyes, where simple black dots are used. malgrat això, many western audiences associate anime with large detailed eyes.
Facial expressions
Anime characters may employ a variety of predetermined facial expressions to denote moods and thoughts. These techniques are often different in form than their counterparts in western animation, and they include a fixed iconography that's used as shorthand for certain emotions and moods.
There are a number of other stylistic elements that are common to conventional anime as well but more often used in comedies. Characters that are shocked or surprised will perform a "face fault", in which they display an extremely exaggerated expression. Angry characters may exhibit a "vein" or "stress mark" effect, where lines representing bulging veins will appear on their forehead. Angry women will sometimes summon a mallet from nowhere and strike another character with it, mainly for the sake of slapstick comedy. Male characters will develop a bloody nose around their female love interests (typically to indicate arousal, which is a play on an old wives' tale).[35] Embarrassed or stressed characters either produce a massive sweat-drop (which has become one of the most widely recognized motifs of conventional anime) or produce a visibly red blush or set of parallel (sometimes squiggly) lines beneath the eyes, especially as a manifestation of repressed romantic feelings. Characters who want to childishly taunt someone may pull an akanbe face (by pulling an eyelid down with a finger to expose the red underside). Characters may also have large "X" eyes to show a knockout, or in some cases, even illness. This is typically used for comedic purposes.
Animation technique
Like all animation, the production processes of storyboarding, voice acting, character design, cel production and so on still apply. With improvements in computer technology, computer animation increased the efficiency of the whole production process.
Anime is often considered a form of limited animation. That means that stylistically, even in bigger productions the conventions of limited animation are used to fool the eye into thinking there is more movement than there is. Many of the techniques used are comprised with cost-cutting measures while working under a set budget.
Anime scenes place emphasis on achieving three-dimensional views. Backgrounds depict the scenes' atmosphere. Per exemple, anime often puts emphasis on changing seasons, as can be seen in numerous anime, tal com Tenchi Muyo!. Sometimes actual settings have been duplicated into an anime. The backgrounds for the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya are based on various locations within the suburb of Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan.
Camera angles, camera movement, and lighting play an important role in scenes. Directors often have the discretion of determining viewing angles for scenes, particularly regarding backgrounds. A més, camera angles show perspective. Directors can also choose camera effects within cinematography, such as panning, zooming, facial closeup, and panoramic.
The large majority of anime uses traditional animation, which better allows for division of labor, pose to pose approach and checking of drawings before they are shot – practices favoured by the anime industry. Other mediums are mostly limited to independently made short films, examples of which are the silhouette and other cutout animation of Noburō Ōfuji, the stop motion puppet animation of Tadahito Mochinaga, Kihachirō Kawamoto and Tomoyasu Murata and the computer animation of Satoshi Tomioka (most famously Usavich).
While anime had entered markets beyond Japan in the 1960s, it grew as a major cultural export during its market expansion during the 1980s and 1990s. The anime market for the United States alone is "worth approximately $4.35 billion, according to the Japan External Trade Organization". Anime has also had commercial success in Asia, Europe and Latin America, where anime has become more mainstream than in the United States. Per exemple, la Saint Seiya video game was released in Europe due to the popularity of the show even years after the series has been off-air.
Anime distribution companies handled the licensing and distribution of anime outside Japan. Licensed anime is modified by distributors through dubbing into the language of the country and adding language subtitles to the Japanese language track. Using a similar global distribution pattern as Hollywood, the world is divided into five regions.
Some editing of cultural references may occur to better follow the references of the non-Japanese culture. Certain companies may remove any objectionable content, complying with domestic law. This editing process was far more prevalent in the past (e.g. Voltron), but its use has declined because of the demand for anime in its original form. This "light touch" approach to localization has favored viewers formerly unfamiliar with anime. The use of such methods is evident by the success of Naruto and Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block, both of which employ minor edits. Robotech i Star Blazers were the earliest attempts to present anime (albeit still modified) to North American television audiences without harsh censoring for violence and mature themes.
With the advent of DVD, it became possible to include multiple language tracks into a simple product. This was not the case with VHS cassette, in which separate VHS media were used and with each VHS cassette priced the same as a single DVD. The "light touch" approach also applies to DVD releases as they often include both the dubbed audio and the original Japanese audio with subtitles, typically unedited. Anime edited for television is usually released on DVD "uncut", with all scenes intact.
Some fans add subtitles to anime on their own and distribute the episodes. These are known as fansubs. Often, people will collect these fansubs and upload them to websites which they also put advertisements on so as to earn money, which violates copyright laws in many countries. The ethical implications of distributing or watching fansubs are topics of much controversy even when fansub groups do not profit from their activities. Once the series has been licensed outside of Japan, fansub groups often cease distribution of their work. In one case, Media Factory Incorporated requested that no fansubs of their material be made, which was respected by the fansub community. In another instance, Bandai specifically thanked fansubbers for their role in helping to make The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya popular in the English speaking world.
The Internet has played a significant role in the exposure of anime beyond Japan. Prior to the 1990s, anime had limited exposure beyond Japan's borders. Coincidentally, as the popularity of the Internet grew, so did interest in anime. Much of the fandom of anime grew through the Internet. The combination of internet communities and increasing amounts of anime material, from video to images, helped spur the growth of fandom. As the Internet gained more widespread use, Internet advertising revenues grew from 1.6 billion yen to over 180 billion yen between 1995 i 2005.
TV networks regularly broadcast anime programming. In Japan, major national TV networks, such as TV Tokyo broadcast anime regularly. Smaller regional stations broadcast anime under the UHF. In the United States, cable TV channels such as Cartoon Network, Disney, Syfy, and others dedicate some of their timeslots to anime. Some, such as the Anime Network and the FUNimation Channel, specifically show anime. Sony-based Animax and Disney's Jetix channel broadcast anime within many countries in the world. AnimeCentral solely broadcasts anime in the UK.
Influence on world culture
Anime has become commercially profitable in western countries, as early commercially successful western adaptations of anime, tal com Astro Boy, have revealed. The phenomenal success of Nintendo's multi-billion dollar Pokémon franchise was helped greatly by the spin-off anime series that, first broadcast in the late 1990s, is still running worldwide to this day. In doing so, anime has made significant impacts upon Western culture. Since the 19th century, many Westerners have expressed a particular interest towards Japan. Anime dramatically exposed more Westerners to the culture of Japan. Aside from anime, other facets of Japanese culture increased in popularity. Worldwide, the number of people studying Japanese increased. In 1984, the Japanese Language Proficiency Test was devised to meet increasing demand. Anime-influenced animation refers to non-Japanese works of animation that emulate the visual style of anime. Most of these works are created by studios in the United States, Europe, and non-Japanese Asia; and they generally incorporate stylizations, methods, and gags described in anime physics, as in the case of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Often, production crews either are fans of anime or are required to view anime. Some creators cite anime as a source of inspiration with their own series. a més, a French production team for Ōban Star-Racers moved to Tokyo to collaborate with a Japanese production team from Hal Film Maker. Critics and the general anime fanbase do not consider them as anime.
Some American animated television-series have singled out anime styling with satirical intent, for example South Park (with "Chinpokomon" and with "Good Times with Weapons"). South Park has a notable drawing style, itself parodied in "Brittle Bullet", the fifth episode of the anime FLCL, released several months after "Chinpokomon" aired. This intent on satirizing anime is the springboard for the basic premise of Kappa Mikey, a Nicktoons Network original cartoon. Even clichés normally found in anime are parodied in some series, tal com Perfect Hair Forever. Anime conventions began to appear in the early 1990s, during the Anime boom, starting with Anime Expo, Animethon, Otakon, and JACON. Currently anime conventions are held annually in various cities across the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Many attendees participate in cosplay, where they dress up as anime characters. Also, guests from Japan ranging from artists, directors, and music groups are invited. In addition to anime conventions, anime clubs have become prevalent in colleges, high schools, and community centers as a way to publicly exhibit anime as well as broadening Japanese cultural understanding.
Anime and American audiences
The Japanese term otaku is used in America as a term for anime fans, more particularly the obsessive ones. The negative connotations associated with the word in Japan have disappeared in its American context, where it instead connotes the pride of the fans. Only in the recent decade or so has there been a more casual viewership outside the devoted otaku fan base, which can be attributed highly to technological advances. Also, shows like Pokémon i Dragon Ball Z provided a pivotal introduction of anime's conventions, animation methods, and Shinto influences to many American children.
Ancient Japanese myths – often deriving from the animistic nature worship of Shinto – have influenced anime greatly, but most American audiences not accustomed to anime know very little of these foreign texts and customs. Per exemple, an average American viewing the live-action TV show Hercules will be no stranger to the Greek myths and legends it is based on, while the same person watching the show Tenchi Muyo! might not understand that the pleated ropes wrapped around the "space trees" are influenced by the ancient legend of Amaterasu and Susano.


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The potato appears to propagate by growing an 'eye'/'bud' which eventually grows into a new plant. So there would probably be single representative of the potato species in the world with all others being genetically identical.
Yet wikipedia indicates there are several closely related species of the potato; apparently as a result of selective breeding. To my understanding (which is probably wrong) there is only a single potato that grows the eyes without the need for a second parent - so there should probably only be the same genes repeated in each potato/plant.
What am I missing here? Why are there multiple varieties of the potato?


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Directions: From Cambridge, US 95 N; pass Alpine in ~5 mi; R (S) on W Indian Valley Rd; continue until pavement ends; at fork, R (W) on Ben Ross Rd; follow to reservoir.
Description: Spring is the best time to bird the road to the reservoir. Breeding Greater Sage-Grouse, Long-billed Curlew, and Short-eared Owl can be seen as well as Swainson's and Ferruginous Hawks, Burrowing Owl and Grasshopper Sparrow. During migration, a variety of waterfowl can be found at Ben Ross including goldeneye, swan, and Snow Goose, as well as a variety of waterbirds.
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At the end of 2012, this support scheme had prompted a surge in wind farm proposals. The state-owned operator of Sweden's electricity grid, Svenska Kraftnat, says that applications for 20GW in new wind capacity had been received, with more expected.
This is equivalent to almost 75% of the country's maximum power requirements. Svenska Kraftnat estimates that if all this new wind capacity were to come online, wind energy would alone deliver 140% of Sweden's total electricity demand.
While 2012 saw 846MW of capacity added, this year is not expected to be as good — with 500MW in new installations expected.
David Williams, senior consultant in the strategy and policy unit at GL Garrad Hassan, is philosophical. "This could mean the system is working as intended, he says. "The market is rebalancing itself away from an oversupply towards a realistic goal."
The offshore market is muted because the support mechanism is not banded, so there is no differentiated support for offshore wind. No new capacity was added in 2012, remaining at 163MW.
If transmission system operators pay for transmission to shore and install new cables, there are a "couple of projects that could be viable but nothing significant," Williams says. There are fears that unless the Swedish government incentivises offshore wind, the majority of projects that have been granted development concessions and permitting risk being abandoned.


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NEW YORK - You don't need a TV drama to tell you these are dark days for Detroit.
But a once-great city's headline status facing bankruptcy serves as poignant timing for the debut of "Low Winter Sun," a gritty cop show whose Motor City setting gives this unforgiving saga even greater urgency.
"Low Winter Sun" premiered on AMC Sunday at 9 p.m., right after the midseason premiere of "Breaking Bad," adding up to quite a drama-series twofer. Like its companion show, but in its own way, "Low Winter Sun" is not a series for the faint of heart.
Of course, piling on Detroit is not the point of the series, nor is this locale even essential to its story (the series is adapted from a British miniseries that was set in Edinburgh, Scotland). But Detroit at this moment proves an all-too-apt backdrop, an even-more-accommodating setting than even the show's creative team might have planned.
For starters, the police and all they survey in their bleak precinct are in desperate straits, even down to the paint flecking off the station house's walls.
And then: The show's presumed hero, homicide Detective Frank Agnew, participates in a terrible act - he executes a fellow cop - that promises to keep him in a desperate state for the season to come.
On some level, it's a justifiable act: Detective Brendan McCann is corrupt, depraved and a menace to his fellow officers and the citizens alike.
So McCann's fed-up partner, Joe Geddes, conspires with Agnew (who nurses a particularly personal urge for payback) to drown him in a kitchen sink, then fake his suicide at the wheel of his car plunged into the Detroit River.
Despite their best efforts, this won't be the perfect crime they meant to engineer. Suspicions of foul play are immediately raised. An investigation is launched.
Haunted by his deed and his possible exposure, Agnew is powerfully played by Mark Strong, the British actor who originated this role for the British series and whose credits also include such films as "Body of Lies," "Syriana," "Sherlock Holmes" and "Green Lantern."
Bald and wiry and taciturn, he is first glimpsed with tears rolling down his cheeks.
"I'm not a bad person," he tells Geddes as the moment nears for them to carry out their plan.
"No," says Geddes, "but (McCann) is. The man's a disease."
There seems little doubt of that. But Geddes (played by Lennie James, whose TV credits include "The Walking Dead," "Hung" and "Jericho") just may be as compromised as the cop he helps kill, and may have set up Agnew as his partner in crime.
On their tail is Detective Simon Boyd, a chillingly composed and dogged member of Internal Affairs. He is played by the excellent David Constabile, whose diverse TV roles have included a murderous detective on "Damages," a beleaguered newspaper editor on "The Wire," and a prissy crystal-meth chemist on "Breaking Bad."
The unsolved murder of a cop - even a bad cop - sends the department into spasms. But the internal trauma (and Agnew's subterfuge to hide his involvement) aren't the only aftershocks of the killing.
McCann's disappearance also hastens a scheme by crime lord Damon Callis (James Ransone) to overthrow the city's reigning mob boss. Thus does crime beget crime, played against the bleak backdrop of a city in distress.
Executive-produced by Chris Mundy (whose writing and producing credits include "Cold Case," "Criminal Minds" and "Hell on Wheels"), "Low Winter Sun" offers up few answers to the problems it showcases. It is not a series that preaches right and wrong.
No wonder. As Geddes tells Agnew, morality isn't black or white or even shades of gray.
"You know what it really is?" he seethes. "It's a damn strobe, flashing back and forth all the time."
So "Low Winter Sun" leaves the viewer to identify with Agnew, and root for him, a flawed good man pushed to extremes who does a dastardly thing for all-too-understandable reasons. Along the way, the audience is welcome to grieve for the city where Agnew is trying to find justice.


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