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Highline College is a public, 4-year college based in Des Moines, undefined that offers undergraduate programs to its students. The highest level of offerings is bachelor's degree.
In the 2019 academic year, the in-state tuition for enrolling in Highline College was $3,192, in addition to fees of $834. This number excludes room and board. The school does provide on-campus housing, which you may want to factor into your cost analysis when planning to attend Highline College.
Cost is a crucial factor to consider when deciding what college to attend. At Highline College, the tuition for in-state residents is $3,192. Combined with fees of $834, the $870 cost of books and supplies.
Out-of-state residents can expect to pay more. While the costs for room, board, and other expenses are the same, out-of-state tuition is significantly higher. Out-of-state students must pay $4,462 in tuition.
Students at Highline College are eligible for federal financial aid. The average federal aid awarded to students at Highline College was $4,432 last year. with 29% of students were awarded federal aid.
Student composition is an important deciding factor for most students applying to Highline College.
Highline College has a good gender split, with 59% of undergraduates being female and 41% of undergraduates being male.
At the school, most students are undefined residents; in fact, 98% of all students reside in undefined. However, 2% of students come from out-of-state .
The student to faculty ratio at Highline College is 13:1. This means that you should have no trouble getting the academic support you need from Highline College to thrive in your studies.


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Saturday, 29 December 2012
RespawningCouch Podcast: Favourite Films of 2012
As the end of year draws closer, Jack and Nick round up their favourite films of the year, and some of the disappointments.
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
RespawningCouch Audio Review: The Hobbit- An Unexpected Journey
"I think" I review the Peter Jackson uberfest The Hobbit. But does it live up to the hype?
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Audio Review: Seven Psychopaths and The Hobbit Predictions and Hesitancy
This week I review In Bruges director Martin McDonagh's latest offering Seven Psychopaths. But does it hit the same notes? And I go on to give my worries for the imminent release of The Hobbit .
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Monday, 3 December 2012
RespawningCouch Podcast: Audio Review: Sightseers
This week I review Ben Wheatley's "dark, black comedy" Sightseers. Does it hit the highs of his 2011 Kill List?
Kill List on my Top 11 of 2011
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What is a Filbert Tree?
A filbert tree is actually a woody bushy plant that has been trained into the shape of a tree by pruning suckers at its base. It is a nut-bearing tree, producing the filbert nut. It is also known as a hazel; thus, another name for the filbert nut is hazel nut. The filbert nut tree is relatively small in size, growing from 15 feet (4.6 meters) to 20 feet (6.1 meters) at the maximum. Filbert nut trees need to cross pollinate to produce their nuts, and they typically like cooler, wet environments. About 75 percent of the commercial filbert nut crop comes from Europe, but they are also a commercially important crop of the Pacific Northwest in the United States.
Filbert plants can make excellent hedges when not pruned to form trees. They form suckers at their bases and spread into a bushy plant. The fact that this plant also produces a nut crop often makes its use appealing to home gardeners. Filberts also can attract birds and provide great cover for them. Blue jays in particular enjoy the nuts, and they often need to be deterred from eating the nut crop if it is being grown for commercial harvesting purposes.
Caution ought to be taken, however, when planting filberts in the United States because some varieties of the European Filbert tree are vulnerable to Eastern Filbert Blight, a fungal disease affecting the filbert's bark. The blight can be controlled by careful pruning, spraying, and replacing severely affected trees. Blight resistant varieties include the Turkish Filbert tree, the American Filbert tree, and many subspecies that have been developed through hybridization.
Filbert nut trees can be grown from seed, grafted or propagated by division. They actually flower in mid to late winter, with the nut being ready for harvest by late August to early September. The nut of the filbert tree varies in size depending on the variety planted, and it has many culinary uses. The filbert nut is often used in simple dishes featuring squash, sold in mixed nuts and cereals, and also in cookie and candy recipes.
The use of filberts as a food crop dates back to at least the time of the ancient Romans — Roman author and philosopher Pliny refers to them in his writings. At that time, however, they were not referred to as filberts. Instead, they were known as hazel nuts. The name filbert originated because the filbert nut was typically harvested in Europe around the Christian celebration of Saint Philbert's Day.


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The Colorado Springs Gazette has been purchased by entities controlled by Philip Anschutz who also owns The Oklahoma Publishing Company, OPUBCO Communications Group, The Oklahoman and NewsOK.com.
Ryan McKibben, CEO of Clarity Media, also owned by Anschutz, made the announcement Friday. The Gazette was sold by Freedom Newspapers of Irvine, Calif.
"This is an exciting announcement," said Chris Reen, president of OPUBCO Communications Group and publisher ofThe Oklahoman. "When Phil Anschutz purchased The Oklahoman as part of OPUBCO 14 months ago, he made clear his belief in the importance of the newspaper business and his plan to be in it for the long haul. This newest acquisition reaffirms his commitment to the industry and its viability. We feel great about it at The Oklahoman."
Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
The Gazette was founded in 1872 and was acquired by Freedom Communications in 1946. The Gazette is the second largest daily newspaper in Colorado behind the Denver Post, with a daily circulation of 74,172 and a Sunday circulation of 85,718.
A veteran reporter and editor from The Oklahoman, Joe Hight, will be named as The Gazette's editor after the acquisition. Hight has 30 years of journalism experience. He also concentrated on the online development of NewsOK.com.


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Why limit yourself to your internal pool of designers when you can hire an agency? But why would you limit yourself to an agency, when you have thousands of designers with explosive ideas, right? And, oh , they will give you their ideas for free hoping to expand their portfolio and win a substantial prize.
Moreover, given the needed exposure the campaign will raise overall brand awareness and will give people a sense of ownership in the brand as well as hype their curiosity.
I think it's brilliant and as a cinephille and popcorn addict I will be watching the result closely.
If you are young designer, why not give it a go, you never know what will happen!
I found this little beauty in last month's Executive Magazine. I am half certain that I have seen this concept before in some design handbook, but one must admit its interactive and very effective!
After you take off the business card you, the message reads:
"If not you can remain in a business of wasted opportunities where clients complain which will lead to your employees resigning. You won't get any bonuses. You wide will stop hosting dinner parties. You will sell the Chalet, the sports car and the golf kit. then before you know it your family will be living on discount coupons."
The only thing that I don't like is that it does not convey the fact that Terra Biz is part of Terra Net and the services they offer are internet related.
If you've seen any of its predecessors , tell me!
It might not be as creative aslast week's ad but it certainly is a nice teaser! And when looking for unique talents companies need to play naughty to be noticed 🙂
I praise the internet Gods for this age that we live in! An age in which one can extend a call-out to anyone and be answered. Remember I sent out an inquiry to Cedar's Premium regarding their Kazouza drink? … Well graciously, Mr. Joseph Najm , the AGM Cedar's Premium SAL, has been very helpful in giving me full disclosure & replying to my nosy questions throughout a series of emails. And not only is the Kazouza mystery uncovered, but I have also been able to get a sneak preview of his company's plans for the future and the overall brand philosophy.
Turns out the are 3 more elusive flavors, which we haven't stumbled upon yet, totaling to a magical octagon: orange, lemon ice, pink lemonade, watermelon, strawberry melon, grenadine lime, tamarind and berry mix. And Mr. Najm says that the drink can be found in many supermarkets and minimarkets, however it will be a while before it will be distributed to all shops. So you'd better watch out, and inform me of locations of sightings 🙂
As we all were guessing, the product's mission is to take us back in time with a twist, " Kazouza 1941 is the nostalgic, yet renewed, Lebanese product/brand with varied and innovative flavors and a unique bottle shape differentiating it from available products in the market. It was decided to name the brand Kazouza 1941 to be true to our positioning of an authentic Lebanese product." But what we did not know was the source of the magic numbers 1941, but be clueless no longer as Joseph explains, "1941 was the year "Kazouza" product was launched under the "Najem" brand; it was the first bottled soft drink in Lebanon, as the Sprite or 7Up lemon lime today. And Cedar's Premium is a new company owned by the descendants of Najem in 1941."
And with an eye on the future and a proud smirk on his face ( I can only presume that this is what was taking place behind his laptop's screen), Joseph leaves us expecting more by adding, "Cedar's Premium will launch in the near future other typical Lebanese products/brands such as but not limited to Jalloul which will have a different target segment and packaging."
I think it is a beautiful story of rebirth of a family business, especially that I am a sucker for all nostalgic products. And I would once again like to thank Mr. Joseph Najm, for the attention he has given me, by taking his time away from strategic planning and marketing to satisfy a blogger's curiosity.


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Fresh off of Rutgers men's basketball media day Tuesday, here is a feature on Byron Joynes and a few notes in today's Gannett New Jersey papers (link: Joynes). I spoke with Byron at length and he has some great perspective, having been through a lot of ups and downs in his five years. He also is doing an interesting internship right now with UMDNJ, as you will see in the story.
I also spoke with J.R. Inman for a feature in next week's season preview package, Anthony Farmer and Hamady Ndiaye.
My colleague Keith Sargeant got some interesting information about the proposed new arena in New Brunswick. The RAC is a great place to watch college basketball, but I guess it's become a little outdated. Check Sarge's blog for more information: http://php.thnt.com/blog06/
Here is a notable quote from Fred Hill about his freshman class:
"I don't know if you win with all those young players on tehfloor. They've got to go through a Big East season. They've got to undersand what the Big East is all about.
It took those kids (Villanova's class with Randy Foye and Allan Ray) two years before they broke through and made the NCAA Tournament. Look at UConn last year . . . they were 6-10 in the Big East with a Hall of Fame coach and their kids were McDonald's All-Americans. It's difficult when you have two, three freshmen on the floor in this league."
Hill is tempering expectations, which is a good move because this could be another long season. The biggest goal for the Scarlet Knights this season is to show some promise. Last year the offense was hard to watch.


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We're spending more time on tech/media than sleeping!
If you've got some time, here's an interesting slide deck from former Yahoo board member Michael Wolf on the future of tech and media. Wolf says that the average American spends more time on tech and media then sleeping, and predicts that messaging will blow past social networking. Here's a link to the presentation on Business Insider's website.


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Throw another city on the barbie Buddha, it went into the triple digits out here in the Big Apple. And as I write this review on the latest Smeyer crackcaine-fest, it's in the upper 80s. Bad idea when you have to sit through 153 pages on a PC screen. On the upshot I read it quite fast considering the pirated .pdf I have is rather crappy and am forced to read it at 243% zoom as if I were Brenda Kerrigan.
Well I was really (not) impressed by the latest installment of the Twifuck saga- but I will say this, Smeyer's editor Rebecca Davis probably threatened her with a lawsuit should she not be allowed to do her job because the first thing I noticed was the reduction of thesaurus assrape. This is not to say Smeyer doesn't stick in unnecessary adjectives here and there (to look educated) AND some actual research took place! After a feeding frenzy where Bree's coven wiped out an entire boatload of passengers coming down from BC on the Washington State Ferry, she correctly used metaphors when she called the coven barracudas because they are native to Puget Sound (I did some fact checking, something publishing companies believe gets in the way of their bottom line).
Now shmeiliarockie did a wonderful review of this and I encourage you to go watch it, as well as her final installments of YAB. I could understand why she could give it a good rating, the pacing was faster and Smeyer didn't waste time glossing over how beautiful characters were. Then again, this is lookist Smeyer we have here. Beauty is equated with good, and evil is on par with ugly. Regardless of what she claimed in the intro, we don't really know how Bree looks like with the exception that she was a Mormonpire for 3 months, was 15-16 when she was turned, and that she had red eyes. Smeyer ultimately doesn't really care about this character, she only pulled this turd out of her ass to make some more quick cash, to niggle the screenwriters, and to shut her critics and unsatisfied fans up because her brother that filters her fanmail has probably been bitching at her.
Smeyer's first major mistake (aside from first sitting down to write) was the title. Back when public schools were slightly less shit I was instructed by my ninth grade English teacher, Ms. Warner, that lengthy titles were completely unnecessary. Two to four worded titles were preferred, using your creative juices to spit out a catchy and unusual title with the fewest words possible does tell a prospective agent a lot about the writer. Case in point, Kowloon Tong by Paul Theroux, one of my favorite novels about my most favorite place in the world. I mean, hasn't Smeyer figured that out by now? She used it when she hawked her first set of crap! Oh wait… she's a BYU alum, where she spent the majority of her time candlepassing and making fun of people without brand name clothes. Bree was uninteresting, but only less so than Bella. None of these characters were annoying (per se) but you felt no pathos, just a lot of frustration, teen angst and rebelliousness that Smeyer was channeling from her days as a young Mormon in the real world. Bree is attempting to confront her past and has lots of questions about who/what she is and is generally dissatisfied with the prepared answers she gets from a leader she once trusted. Utah has the highest percentage of anti-depressant use and Mormons have admitted that they are experts at avoiding their problems because one of their core tenets is perfection. An outward constant show of happiness is reaffirmation of their beliefs. If a TBM is expressing unhappiness, then the problem lies with shaken faith therefore results in shaky social relations within the cult.
This book should have been called Blood Before Meat, and it's set between Relapse and Breaking Brains (I think). Now our leading Mormonpire Bree was a would-be-16-year-old battered runaway living on the streets hooking for food (they usually go for cash but Smeyer probably set Bree up on the lower rung of prostitute-dom because she's so ugly) until she encounters beautiful, blond Riley ("Hey kid, want a cheeseburger?") stake president of Bree's undead marble people ward who then takes her to Victoria (Her) to be turned.
So Bree, swarthy Diego, Freaky Fred, and others are horsing around the darkened alleyways of downtown Seattle for some type O and after getting their fill of victims without families who therefore aren't important won't be missed (dregs) and causing some destruction Bree and Diego do a little shopping at the local closed mall (CDs and a dozen books) and Target (Hefty bags, Ziplocs, and backpacks). Now here's what drives me nuts. Of course Bree being a female angsts over herself as the boys are infuriatingly overconfident. Then she does a typical Smeyer 180 and only starts feeling like a god when Diego says how smart she is and that Riley appreciates her for her brains as well. Well Bree and Diego are very young vampires, in fact Bree is only three months old and Diego a year, and according to Smeyer logic younger Mormonpires are stronger while older ones are weak. I'm sorry, but in almost all of the vampire novels I've read the lore was that the older you got, the stronger you were.
So Bree and Diego head back to the scene of the crime where a pile of bodies and wrecked cars lie in the middle of an intersection and proceed to cover their tracks. Now let me ask you something, why would a criminal carry a Zippo in a plastic bag? Well because it was stolen and is being handled to ensure that the former owner's fingerprints stay on it so that when it's being used by the (usually) gloved criminal, the evidence will point to the owner. But Diego isn't wearing gloves and with Smeyer's wonderful continuity the lighter becomes a match. Did you know that Mormonpire venom is also flammable?
So they try to beat the sunrise and race to the ward's hideout deep in the Washington sticks where they occupy the basements of cabins that they know are owned by dead people. Apparently the ward of abused runaways they're in are so insane they regularly burn down their hideouts (but no real fights are seen, just posturing), and this one was no exception. So Bree and Diego hide in some tunnels on the beach and as they form a secret ninja club becoming BFFs/eternal mates they start analyzing their stake president and get the feeling that he's keeping some major info on the DL from everybody.
They believe in the "myth" that Riley drills into them that they'll burn up in the sun and that they could be staked by humans until Diego tests this theory and finds out that they're just a pair of walking disco balls (Smeyer actually wrote that). So they follow Riley to a quaint gingerbread cottage where they discover that he's been knocking boots with Victoria and overhear their conversation/makeout session via Spider hearing that her big plans are set in motion. All of a sudden Bree and Diego spot the General Authority from The Vatican arriving in their hooded robes walking in a perfect diamond formation to confront Victoria. They speak in tongues warning her to set her invasion of The Cullens within five days or they're KFC, Victoria gets pissy, Diego stays behind to talk to Riley ordering Bree to go back to the cabin just in time to see the stake prez return and pull a temper tantrum that pwns Edward's because he included some amputations after seeing a smoking pile of Mormonpire remains (no explanation).
Riley launches into an abusive tirade calling everybody a bunch of stupid assholes, and that they've got to get serious and start training to kill The Cullens who are devious weaker, older yellow-eyed Mormonpires. He promises them upon success of eradication of the enemy that they will get to rule the planet Seattle and a "dessert" upon the kill of Edward- we finally find out what happened to Bella's red sweater. Bree is grouped with Freaky Fred (another gorgeous tall blond) where they make a little connection over rummy and train for a few days. Riley pulls Bree aside gives her a little cryptic message from Diego who says he will meet up with her after the battle, tells her not to give up on him, and reminds her that she's one of his smart ones.
They set off to fight The Cullens, but Freaky Fred doesn't feel the good vibrations and humps it to Vancouver when Riley told Bree that Diego has already made it to the staging area and he retreats. Bree can't smell Diego anywhere figuring out that he was killed by Riley and Vicki and surrenders herself to Edward fighting off the urge to kill Bella. The GA arrive to interrogate Bree who tells them the whole of Riley's lies and just before they make mincemeat out of her she telepathically tells Edward that the GA instructed them to attack under the penalty of excommunication.
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Israel has discovered very large natural gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean. We can even export natural gas. Earlier, we used to say that Israel had no natural resource. Now we are in a position to export natural gas
Prof. Asher Susser, director of external affairs at the Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern Studies in Tel Aviv University, has a regret. He hasn't been to India earlier.
Hailed as one of the foremost experts in Middle East history, Susser was in India last week to take part in an international conference organised by the O.P.Jindal Global University, in collaboration with Tel Aviv University. He concluded the two-day visit with a resolve: He will come again. Excerpts from an interview with Prof. Susser.
It has been 25 years since India and Israel established diplomatic relations. Now, the prime minister of the country is visiting Israel for the first time. What are the factors cementing this relationship?
India and Israel have several common interests in the field of security, technology and economy. But that is not all. Israel has very difficult relationships with its immediate neighbours. The association with India was a great breakthrough for Israel. It cemented Israel's legitimacy in the comity of nations. Without this relationship with India, Israel's diplomacy is not complete. We ought to engage key countries of the world—not just the United States, European Union or others. India is a major player in the global scene today, and an emerging power. We ought to be engaged with India.
What prompted that reach-out? Was it the end of the Cold War?
Even during the Cold War, there were no bilateral problems. There were no issues of historical underpinnings. This was not the case with several countries in Europe, where the Jewish experience was not a very happy one. So we could forge an easy and natural relationship, which we couldn't do with, say, Poland or Germany. The end of the Cold War became a turning point when India and Israel found that there were several common interests. It became very easy to reach out. Don't forget Oslo. We made that breakthrough in the Oslo accord [when Israel recognised Palestine's right for self-determination]. It made it easy for India and several other nations to reach out to Israel.
Palestine had always been an issue. India has always maintained a stand that was disapproving of Israel's policy on Palestine.
We know that India supported the other side. But that was nothing compared to our problems with many European countries. India's stand on the issue did not create any significant negative impact.
Is there a convergence of strategic interests now?
The relationship today is more than strategic. The ties have matured into several other areas, such as science and technology, economy and so on. Now, we can cooperate even in ensuring energy security.
Energy security?
Israel has discovered very large natural gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean. We can even export natural gas. Earlier, we used to say that Israel had no natural resource. Now we are in a position to export natural gas. India would be interested.
Let us talk about India. Israel has been supplying a lot of technology that several others are not ready to part with. We know how you had shared your surveillance capabilities during the Kargil conflict.
Israel has the capability to supply certain technologies without much dependence on others. Acquiring from Israel, you will find, will not involve the elbow-wrenching that you may experience from some of the great powers. We are not a great power. So we can't do elbow-wrenching.
But our world views are different. Israel, as we see, is a security-obsessed state. We claim to have a more rounded outlook which determines our diplomatic conduct.
That is because we were born in a conflict situation and that continues. We can't deny the problems we are living with. The Middle East has been one of the most unstable regions in the world. Now, it is exporting instability to Europe. The state system has been weakened in the Middle East. This is creating a fertile ground for non-state actors to emerge powerful. Look at what Europe is facing today. It is not terrorism, but massive immigration that is changing the character of the societies. Terrorism is not the key problem for them, migration is. Europe has a population deficit. Middle East has a population surplus. Europe needs immigrants in the work force, because their population is ageing. They can't resolve this dilemma. So that's the issue in Europe. Not terrorism.
Is terrorism the new threat that Israel faces?
This threat is not existential, unlike the military threat from other states that we were faced with earlier. We are not worried that Israel will collapse because of terrorism. This threat can't be tackled with military power of the state, it has to be tackled with better policing, surveillance and intelligence. This needs cooperation across state agencies. We both have experience tackling this. We can learn from each other.
You mean, the convergence of interests is not strategic alone.
No. These are not strategic, but micro-tactical. This is a threat others are also facing. It will not imperil, say, the global or regional balance of power. This threat is at a working level of the police and the intelligence.
The world is changing again, as it did in the early 1990s when relations were established. The US, which was the most dynamic global power active in the Middle East, is showing signs of world-weariness. Whereas, under Vladimir Putin, Russia is making a strategic comeback. What do you foresee in the years to come?
We do have some issues with Russia's role in the Middle East. But then, we should also remember that Russia is the only outside power today that is engaging all the actors in the Middle East. Our air force and the Russian air force have found ways of operating together on the basis of certain understanding. And you see how often Netanyahu is going to Moscow. The Russians also have a stake in Israel. There are a million ex-Russians in Israel. Russia always had cultural ties with them. So it is a huge change from the Cold War days. Today we have a balanced relationship with Russia, just as you have. If we have problems with Russia, they can be resolved. What they are doing in Syria is good for us. On other issues, we are at least communicating. Earlier, we were not.
Would China be the new power that fills the vacuum in the Middle East? We have a competitive relationship with China. How is Israel viewing this?
Israel has a very good relationship with China, but not as advanced as our relations with India. The rise of China will also depend on the US. If the US reasserts vis-a-vis China in the Pacific, China will find it difficult. But if the US takes a backseat, that is different. Russia wouldn't have been so assertive in Syria, had the US been more upfront.
What about China in the Middle East?
Does China have the strength to reach out to the Mediterranean? I doubt. Also that depends on how much the US would allow it.


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The Scosche cellCONTROL device is a tool that, when installed in your vehicle, will prevent you from using your cellphone to make calls or write text messages.
This tool comes as a response to a push from the National Transportation Safety Board, encouraging tech companies and cellphone carriers to create products the will eliminate a driver's ability to text while driving.
Using Bluetooth to block calls and other functions, the Scosche cellCONTROL kicks in as soon as your car starts moving. All phone functions are blocked, including ingoing and outgoing calls and texts, describes Autoblog. However, the company points out that once a headset is detected, the device will allow the user's phone to work. What's more, if the Scosche cellCONTROL is deactivated or removed, it will automatically alert an administrator.
Scosche cellCONTROL Ensures Safe Driving All the Time
Katherine Vong — January 24, 2012 — Autos
References: autoblog & news.discovery


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funny thing, that – something of the last post echoed with me – the part about times gone by. it reminded me of listening to luomo's vocalcity.
when i first heard the record, i was just…it was a time when house was boring and the only escape was disco-tech (techno with disco-samples) (i guess somewhere in the future i will have to make a post about gene farris…) – music that still evoked the feeling of these parties when one had many gin-tonics, laughed a lot, basically misbehaved and danced with other sexy men and beautiful women and wild drag queens and very macho drag kings to new, exciting and uplifting music.
but it was all a pastiche in the sense of frederic jameson: the samples were a copy of an original disco record – the music was a copy without original (=pastiche). meaning it is a reference to something that never existed.
of course i am into that kind of music – i like to imagine that i have lived in the seventies as a gay clone and would have done all the things gay clones did at the time… grin… that this past as imagined by me never existed i am well aware of – but i do fall for music that gives me this faux nostalgic feeling. and it is also something the photographs of youssef nabil do -reminding me of a past i lived through in my fantasies…
so back to the beginning. house music was boring – and then my record dealer gave me this record to have a listen to!
and whooaah – it was new, exciting, never heard before – and at the same time drenched in nostalgia, somewhat very mature – whoaahh. even the artwork for the record: a shattered mirrorball was just so…fitting.
doing some research i realized: i know the artist behind it – but under the name of vladislav delay, through experimental, rather ambient stuff on the mille plateaux label (and yes, there will be certainly a post about mille plateaux and mille plateaux, too). and to my shock and disbelief i realized that this was a young artist – so i again mixed up maturity with age…
so for me this record is an alltime favourite, and the artist, sasu ripatti, publishing music under vladislav delay (the more ambient stuff), luomo (the more housy stuff), and uusitalo (the stuff with beats that isn't house) and some more monikers one of my favourites. interesting is that he has his sonic universe – sounds from one project get used in the others in a different context. so it is less the hunt for new and exciting sounds then a certain big idea with a personal sonic universe – yeah, it smells of gesamtkunstwerk, somehow….
vocalcity was new especially for its really crisp production, while having, since the music is so multilayered (put your headphones on) – voices shine up and are sometimes in the foreground, then again in the background – a hazy, nearly dubby feel to it – swimming underwater, but in really clear water. the record was actually a success and is still seen as one of the important house records.
luomo himself though talked of this record as unsatisfactory – i think even as a failure. i disagree – but hearing the follow up to vocalcity, the present lover it really seems that luomo's aim was less to produce underwater music – he emerged from the water to sit in the sun on the side of the pool with his feet dangling…
so the present lover has less a nostalgic feeling to it – and its reception has been somewhat mixed – especially with people that liked vocalcity. sometimes i suspect the explanation is quite easy: luomo just stopped smoking weed – and some of his listeners still did… (i have to add that the present lover is a fantastic record to have sex to. i know J likes his drumming while sex – but then we might have very different sex…)
what else is there to say? well, get it
here (link expired) and listen to it.
then i highly recommend more or less everything he published under his various names – the more you listen, the more you realize that this artist does have an artistic vision. which one i'm not quite sure, but it is fun to follow him exploring his universe… and there is a lot to discover – the man seems to work all the time – he is releasing one record after the other and also tours the world with his live performances. but i do especially recommend the four quarters by vladislav delay. if i'm not mistaken it was adorno who once said (i'm paraphrasing, allright…) that music can show us through the way it relates to other music (sound in general?) how we could relate as persons to the world. i'm still pondering this saying and listening to the four quarters somehow makes this statemnt ring true – music for new ways of living?
how do you get his music? the easiest is via his website of his own record label: www.huumerecordings.com, where you can download for very little money nearly his whole discographie in high quality digital form.
you also find luomo on myspace – and there is a website dedicated only to the work of luomo, where you can listen to his latest release paper tigers. speaking of paper tigers: there is a very interesting article about this record and the work of luomo in general.
and since i'm such a nice person i digged in my vault and came up with a recording of a live performance by luomo in 2004 in detroit. get it
here (link expired).


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The Living House is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. It is first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of houses within the complex social and symbolic fabric of indigenous South-East Asian peoples.
The main focus of the book is on Indonesia, but in tracing historical links between architectural forms across the region, it reveals a much wider field of inquiry—covering all of the Austronesian peoples and cultures extending as far afield as Madagascar, Japan and the Pacific islands to New Zealand and Hawaii. As it probes the centrally significant role of houses within South-East Asian social systems, The Living House reveals new insights into the kinship systems, gender symbolism and cosmological principles of the peoples who build them, ultimately uncovering fundamental themes concerning the concepts of life force and life processes inherent in all of these cultures.
A vivid picture is produced of how people shape buildings and buildings shape people—how rules about layout and spatial usage impact social relationships. The book concludes with a consideration of present-day changes affecting the fates of indigenous cultures and architectures throughout the region. This book will be of tremendous interest to architects and historians, and anyone interested in the indigenous art and cultures of South-East Asia.


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Listening to music recently, a song came on by Steven Curtis Chapman. The music began and I enjoyed the introduction. Then, without me knowing it was coming, I heard the voice of the character Mrs. Clara from "War Room". Within the song, I heard her voice several times praying with all her might for the family she had met as they had many problems. At the beginning of the movie, she said, "Send me one more…!" She was asking God to send her someone to help and to pray for. How powerful and how beautiful. At one point in the movie as she was trying to sell her house, a gentleman opened the door to her "War Room" where she had cleared that room of clutter so she could pray. He came out of the bathroom knowing that something spiritual had taken place, he felt that praying had taken place. He knew that he had stepped on Holy Ground.
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Hospital and health system Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) from central and south Georgia announced on Tuesday, July 23, 2013 their plans to participate in a newly formed alliance which will create one of the nation's largest collaborations of hospitals, healthcare systems and physicians aligned to develop a clinically-integrated network. The alliance, to be called Stratus Healthcare, consists of 23 hospitals and approximately 1,500 physicians. Stratus, a non-equity partnership at the outset, expects to form a non-profit limited liability corporation, pooling both human capital and financial resources to meets its mission and vision. Members of Stratus Healthcare will work together in a formalized partnership to exchange best practices, combine resources, develop coordinated information systems, reduce costs and manage the health of populations. Dodge County Hospital will take advantage of a shared services model, yet remain independent.
Central Georgia Health System (CGHS) in Macon and Tift Regional Health System (TRHS) in Tifton first announced a partnership in April of 2012 and respective presidents/CEOs Dr. Ninfa Saunders and William T. Richardson have worked purposely since October to develop the partnership framework and recruit members for the alliance. Saunders and Richardson said that Stratus Healthcare partners share a common vision for the future and the affiliation provides an alternative to mergers and acquisitions.
Stratus Healthcare will consist of the following member hospitals and respective medical staff physicians: Bleckley Memorial Hospital in Cochran; Central Georgia Health System (Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, Central Georgia Rehabilitation Hospital in Macon and Medical Center of Peach County in Byron); Coffee Regional Medical Center in Douglas; Columbus Regional Health System (Columbus Regional Medical Center, Doctors Hospital and Hughston Hospital all in Columbus); Crisp Regional Hospital in Cordele; Dodge County Hospital in Eastman; Houston Healthcare (Houston Medical Center in Warner Robins and Perry Hospital in Perry); Jasper Memorial Hospital in Monticello; Oconee Regional Medical Center in Milledgeville; Putnam General Hospital in Eatonton; South Georgia Medical Center Health System (South Georgia Medical Center in Valdosta, Smith Northview Hospital in Valdosta, Louis Smith Memorial Hospital in Lakeland, Clinch Memorial Hospital in Homerville and SGMC-Berrien Campus in Nashville); Taylor Regional Hospital in Hawkinsville; and Tift Regional Health System (Tift Regional Medical Center in Tifton and Cook Medical Center in Adel).
Hospital and physician leaders from each hospital system assembled for a news conference in Greensboro stating that the goal of Stratus Healthcare is to enhance the health and wellness of residents in their communities by improving the regional coordination of medical services for patients, employers and payors.
In the future, primary care doctors and specialists will need to work closer together on a regional scale to develop clinical guidelines and the sharing of outcomes data. The timely exchange of electronic patient information is becoming increasingly important to improve quality and prevent duplication or over-utilization of healthcare services. Stratus will coordinate and support physicians in this endeavor.
"Federal healthcare reform will require that medical care be reimbursed based on a fee-for-value framework rather than the fee-for-service model used in the past," said Saunders. "Stratus Healthcare will create the delivery model for this transformation."
Richardson said the name 'Stratus' was chosen because of the upward inference of the word and the alliance's goal to strive for excellence. "The collaborative wants to elevate health care to a higher level," said Richardson. "We wanted an organizational title that reflects our mission to enhance the health and wellness of our patients by delivering exceptional care through a connected community of physicians, hospitals and shared services. Each Stratus partner wants to add value for patients and create scale, yet realizes it could be accomplished much easier through coordinated effort with other health care organizations. Dodge County Hospital is an important health care leader within the region and having them as a Stratus partner is significant."
Saunders said that forming a collaborative partnership sets the stage for innovation in the changing healthcare climate. She added that Stratus will serve as a vehicle to keep health care local with the goal to improve outcomes, enhance the patient experience and increase efficiency as required by health care reform.
"It's about the right care, the right access at the right cost," said Saunders. "Initially, the Stratus Healthcare work groups will explore primary care, emergency medicine, hospitalist and specialty care networks to include the development of clinical guidelines, telemedicine connections, transfer arrangements and the sharing of outcomes data. Work groups will examine collective purchasing, an integrated clinical network and shared business resources."
An open forum featuring Hometown Health President/CEO Jimmy Lewis is scheduled for August 13, 2013 at the Eastman-Dodge Chamber of Commerce conference room. Lewis will be informing citizens of changing climate of rural healthcare.
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WhatsApp Encryption: It's Now the Most Secure Instant Messenger (Or is it?)
WhatsApp is easily the most widely-used instant messaging service for phones and tablets. Founded in 2009, the service has now exploded to more than 700 million active users – almost 250 million more than the second-placed alternative, China's WeChat. Since being acquired by Facebook for an eye-watering $19 billion twelve months ago, the firm has been forced to clean up its approach to security and privacy, which resulted in the news last year that it has introduced new encryption measures TrueCrypt Is Dead: 4 Disk Encryption Alternatives For Windows TrueCrypt is no more, but fortunately there are other useful encryption programs. While they may not be exact replacements, they should suit your needs. Read More .
What Was The Problem?
WhatsApp had suffered countless embarrassments and exposures over their poor security. The problems started as long ago as May 2011, when a security flaw was discovered that allowed users' accounts to have their session hijacked (gaining unauthorised access to information by exploiting a valid usage session), and have their traffic intercepted and logged by a package sniffer. A new version of the app was released, but data continued to be sent and received in plaintext.
Their difficulties continued into 2012. At the start of the year a hacker published WhatsAppStatus.net, which allowed people to change the status of any user of WhatsApp, and the developers of the app were slow to respond – initially claiming the flaw had been fixed when in reality they had merely blocked the website's IP address. Unsurprisingly, similar tools soon popped up, and the firm was forced to respond in a more robust way. By the late spring, WhatsApp finally stopped using plaintext for data, but its replacement – a cryptographic method – was widely criticised for being broken at launch.
In late 2013 a security researcher in The Netherlands claimed anyone with enough technical knowledge could decrypt communications sent within the app thanks to several "long documented weaknesses" – mainly the fact WhatsApp used the same encryption key on both sides of a conversation. Thijs Alkemade, the student at the University of Utrecht who discovered the flaw, said "You should assume that anyone who is able to eavesdrop on your WhatsApp connection is capable of decrypting your messages, given enough effort". Adding, "There is nothing a WhatsApp user can do about this… except to stop using it until the developers can update it".
As recently as November 2014, WhatsApp scored a mere two out of seven on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's secure messaging scorecard – losing points thanks the fact it used an encryption which the provider had the key for, there was no way to verify a user's identity, and its security design was not well-documented.
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On the 18th November last year, WhatsApp's new owners Facebook decided enough was enough. Although Facebook isn't exactly well-regarded in terms of its own transparency about privacy and security, they didn't want to jeopardise their expensive new acquisition and risk losing users to a rival service such as Viber or Tango Tango - A Budding Skype Alternative For Android, iOS & Windows The world of Voice over IP is expanding fast, and we're getting more and more options for calling our friends without paying cellphone providers. The strongest, and most known contender in this area is obviously... Read More .
As a result, they announced a new partnership with Open Whisper Systems in a deal that would finally bring end-to-end encryption to the service, hopefully banishing the gremlins of the previous three years. Open Whisper said the new encryption would be the largest of its kind anywhere in the world, and would use TextSecure – a service which uses a cryptographic key that's unique to individual devices – to protect its giant user base. Experts were quickly impressed, as Wired claimed the solution was "practically uncrackable", and the Wall Street Journal stated that "the encryption is so robust that even the law enforcement won't be able to decrypt WhatsApp messages".
How Does It Work?
Instead of storing the keys for unscrambling the encryption on a centralised server that's owned and operated by the WhatsApp developers, end-to-end encryption works by instead only storing the keys on a user's device. When combined with TextSecure, which uses a protocol called "forward secrecy" to issue a fresh key for every new message, it's easy to see why WhatsApp's CEO Jan Koum claimed they had "now built WhatsApp around the goal of knowing as little about you as possible… Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA".
The encryption now used by the service differs hugely from that used by similar instant messaging apps Forget WhatsApp: 6 Secure Communication Apps You've Probably Never Heard Of The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a lobby group dedicated to "defending civil liberties in the digital world". They maintain the Secure Messaging Scorecard, which makes for worrying reading for fans of instant messaging. Read More and social networks, who mostly still store the keys on their own servers as well as a person's device. This means companies and governments can access the contents of your messages and data on demand, as well making it easier for hackers to gain access to private and personal information.
In fact, the move by WhatsApp is part of a larger movement towards increased privacy by leading tech firms, though not everyone is happy. When Apple and Google both expanded their encryption services Google End-To-End Encryption, Slender Man Attempted Murder [Tech News Digest] Google goes End-To-End, Kickstarter softens campaign rules, Sony kills the PSP, Chrome goes 64-bit, Slender Man attempted murder, Todoist For Business, and teens reacting to 90s Internet. Read More in the run up to the WhatsApp announcement, FBI Director James Comey criticised the move, claiming that "the post-Snowden pendulum has [now] swung too far".
Are All The Problems Fixed?
Providing effective security isn't easy. While WhatsApp were clearly a long way behind the game at the turn of the decade, the late 2014 update sounds entirely hacker-proof. Sadly, that's rarely the case, and in recent days more negative press has emerged for the Mountain View-based firm.
Although the contents of a user's message seemingly remain secure, a simple piece of software has been released that can be used by hackers to circumnavigate various privacy settings – thus giving them a way to see whether a user is online or offline, a way to monitor a person's profile picture, a way to see a user's status, and the ability to see someone's personalised privacy settings.
The software, called WhatsSpy Public, has been created by a Dutch developer and can reveal the timeline of a tracked-user's online status, even if the user has the strictest privacy controls Everything You Need to Know About Your WhatsApp Privacy Settings As with all communication tools, privacy is of utmost importance. Here's how to protect your privacy when using WhatsApp. Read More enabled. "You may think now you've set all options to 'nobody' you are safe, privacy-wise, but nevertheless I can still track your moves on WhatsApp" said the software's designer Maikel Zweerink. The good news for users is that the software is hard to set up, and will only be able to track users on rooted Androids or jail-broken iPhones – so if you use a "vanilla" OS you should be ok.
WhatsApp have not yet responded to the allegations officially, though an insider move to play down the breach when he told the UK media that "This is not a hack… in essence he built a program that just records and monitors information he has access to anyway".
Despite that, given WhatApp's poor track record its users are unlikely to take much solace in the statement. Whatever the truth may be, the issue simply points to the overriding fact that security in a digital age can never be taken for granted; even when you think you're protected you can be certain there is a hacker or criminal looking for the next bug or flaw with which to compromise you.
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Do you use WhatsApp? Has its poor history ever put you off the service? Have you tried some messaging alternatives but always find yourself being drawn back to the ubiquitous app? Does privacy generally concern you, or do you subscribe to the mind-set of "nothing to hide, nothing to fear"?
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As well as all the other wonderful features that we have covered, the billbutler app even has a split bill feature which lets friends and family share the cost of bills – this is so convenient for students and house sharers. Never again will you have to have a lump sum taken out of your account, only to wait weeks for your flat mates to pay the money back into your account. billbutler also hopes that by the end of 2018, users will be able to view and pay even more household bills from the app such as home and car insurance and Netflix.
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Sylvester Hvid & Co has acquired the activities of advertising agency Monopolet and we're happy to welcome them as part of our team.► Read more
Skanska is one of the world's biggest commercial property developers and leading within sustainable buildings with more than 10.000 green building projects currently going on worldwide.► Read more
Chas. Hude, founded in 1896, is the oldest IPR business and one of the leading Danish companies in IPR consulting (Intellectual Property Rights). The company's mission is to enhance customer value through strategic advice on all aspects relating to the use, protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights.► Read more
After years of cooperation, our client IDA (The Danish Society of Engineers) came to us with a new challenge. They had a vision of ensuring growth by raising awareness of the benefits derived from a membership.► Read more
SEB Pension, Denmark's fourth largest commercial pension company with the industry's highest customer satisfaction, was looking for a way of communicating the rather complex concept of pension agreements – a notoriously low involvement product - in an easy way.► Read more
Københavns Tekniske Skole/Copenhagen Technical College (KTS) is the capital's technical college and one of Denmark's largest technical colleges.► Read more
In Greenland, TelePost is the market leader in telephony and Internet services, and consequently, the company plays an important role in the development that Greenland currently goes through technologically and societally.► Read more
On behalf of European Recycling Platform (ERP), Sylvester Hvid & Co carries on the previous years' national campaign for collection of batteries, in a cooperation with the KFUM scouts. The campaign has shown an impressive effect both externally and internally on the scouts' own members due to the shared values between the scouts and the good cause of recycling batteries.► Read more
Stibo Systems develops master data management solutions for several of the world's largest companies. A dialogue with c-level decision makers at such companies requires meaningful relations based on a convincing professional foundation.► Read more
Spring is here – at least according to the calendar. Spring is ice cream time, because it is now where new ice cream flavors of the season arrive at the local ice man.► Read more
The Business School in Roskilde offers a number of different educational courses to young people and adults. The school had two major challenges when it turned to Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd to ask for help and advice.► Read more
Very few musicians achieve an iconic status during their life. Best chances to get there, artists have who besides their talent also work professionally and deliberately with their brand. The stars who are able to create a personal identity and a brilliant story telling about their artistic work.► Read more
Nowadays, most people have smartphones and tablets, but quite few integrate them with their daily office work like printing and scanning documents.► Read more
McDonald's is the world's largest family restaurant. In order to meet people's stronger focus on nutrition and quality ingredients, McDonald's Denmark decided to create a platform for its core customers – families - that they could develop healthier food on.► Read more
In the middle of a wave sending dozens of Danish and international energy drinks, typically based on highly potent and action dominated activities with s built-in adrenalin rush, Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd has helped the Danish Beverage Group launch a new soft drink with the directly opposite goal.► Read more
Advantages and benefits are many when moving to eco-friendly office premises. Both direct economic advantages thanks to lower energy consumption and indirect gains reached through a better indoor climate, lower sickness absence, happier employees and a stronger profiling of the company.► Read more
What to do if you have got a limited budget for spreading a message about battery recycling to people all over Denmark? You call the KFUM scouts and ask them for help.► Read more
Danish Beauty Akademiet is a highly recognised trading company with expertise in beauty and makeup.► Read more
The Danish law firm Nielsen and Thomsen has specialized in offering services and counselling re: timeshare condominiums. It is a complex area that is difficult to communicate, and therefore the law firm asked Sylvester Hvid Online for help.► Read more
Traditional news coverage is quickly moving away from printed to digital media, and the same development can be seen clearly in the market for customer media and internal magazines. For more than three years, Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd. has developed and produced the magazine "Investering" for Danske Bank's private banking clients.► Read more
For many years, Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd. has been one of Denmark's best consolidated agencies. We got another proof of that, when we in November 2011 reeeived a new AAA rating.► Read more
For a couple of years, Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd. has been the agency of choice for Borup Kemi whose chemical and guard products are represented in almost any Danish household. The collaboration has gained a lot of recognition. Just recently, we have for the sixth consecutive year received the award for the most read ad in Idé Nyt.► Read more
Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd. has a strong position in the Danish public sector with numerous clients among government, regions, municipalities and semi-public organizations.► Read more
Social media are gaining more and more influence. The number of users and services make social media a very powerful factor in the formation of public opinion – and it is a channel which has to be taken seriously in marketing.► Read more
Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd. has created a national information campaign for the organisation Hold Danmark Rent ("Keep Denmark Clean"). The objective of the campaign was to stop people throwing away garbage in the nature.► Read more
In order to strengthen our position within graphical design and visual identity, Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd. has acquired the design agency Krogh & Co.► Read more
The international smartphone brand HTC had a strong growth in Denmark and opened a flagship store in downtown Copenhagen.► Read more
European Recycling Platform (ERP) handles the collection and recovery of electronic waste such as old batteries on the behalf of importers and manufacturers in several European countries.► Read more
Brother is marketing itself as Denmark's greenest printer supplier, and most of the company's products have the Nordic Swan certification. They are also recommended by the official Danish "Good Energy" initiative.► Read more
Botjek are experts in all types of buildings: Homes, public buildings and business buildings. Within all these categories, Botjek offers tests, condition reports, labelling reports and counselling services which all contribute to securing quality and utilization of opportunities in every building project.► Read more
Today, people and businesses communicate internationally. In order to handle our clients' interests in all relevant languages, Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd. has acquired the translation bureau Intertext.► Read more
Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd. has been working with online marketing and web advertising since 1995. In 2010, we have felt an increasing demand for an even more strategical approach to the online media.► Read more
9 of 10 Danes have low energy light bulbs in their homes, but most people tidy up wrongly when the bulb stop working. That is why Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd. carried out a national information campaign for the Danish Environmental Protection Agency.► Read more
Naturgas Fyn is one of Denmark's biggest energy companies. It sells and distributes natural gas to both private homes and businesses.► Read more
In many ways, Air Greenland ties together the Greenlandic society. Alternatives to air transports are often very difficult or non-existing.► Read more
The Union of Danish Librarians has a basic challenge that many of its prospective members do not identify themselves with the traditional role of a librarian.► Read more
It is a complex task to convey knowledge about substantial economic, political, commercial, scientific, demographic, environmental, technological and social trends.► Read more
The percentage of engineers being organised in a trade union is quite high, and the awareness of IDA (The Danish Society of Engineers) is nearly 100 percent in this profession.► Read more
Unilever has allocated budgets for its ice cream brands to Sylvester Hvid & Co Ltd. The budgets cover both consumer and channel communications.► Read more
Kræftens Bekæmpelse (The Danish Cancer Society) has unified its national lotteries and a number of other printed paper jobs and given them to Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd.► Read more
Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd. has created a new and contemporary visual identity for Vejdirektoratet (The Danish Road Directorate).► Read more
In connection with an offensive growth strategy, Ingeniørforeningen in Denmark (IDA) made a profound analysis of its members. As a result of that, the society of engineers decided after talking to Sylvester Hvid & Co Ltd, that it needed to position itself on a number of add-on services such as insurance offers – in addition to its core output.► Read more
Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd. has begun working as a full service provider of communication services to the Air Greenland group.► Read more
Words that are not followed by action, are waste of time. As a full service communications agency, Sylvester Hvid & Co Ltd wants to take care of our clients' interests all the way from introductory brand building to the final sale. It is not enough for us to create preferences. We want to provide the communication contribution that inspires and activates consumers to take the intended action.► Read more
Being a prison officer can be a tough job – both physically and mentally. Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd. has for the Danish Prison Service developed a strategy and recruitment campaign that could rapidly and efficiently create knowledge of and attraction towards the position as prison officer.► Read more
Sylvester Hvid & Co Ltd. was behind the development and introduction strategy for Denmark's new electric company Switch.dk. Our agency did contribute business sparring, analysis, strategy, identity and the creative process.► Read more
Syddansk Universitet (SDU) has merged with Ingeniørhøjskolen Odense Teknikum. Now, the university can offer many new and exciting engineering specialities in both Odense and Sønderborg.► Read more
Communication and marketing directed at young people, rarely happens at eye level with the target group and even less on the young peoples' own terms.► Read more
Many Danish municipalities struggle with recruiting qualified staff. The municipality of Roskilde was one of them. The advertisements that the municipality put into local and regional newspapers, did not generate enough applications, and many of the candidates were not qualified for the jobs. Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd was assigned the job to develop an employer brand that could strengthen the municipality's profile as a nice place to work.► Read more
Danske Arkitektvirksomheder, DANSKE ARK, is an association of consulting architect companies.► Read more
Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd. received two first prices for graphic design at the annual INBA award ceremony. INBA is an international network of independent ad agencies.► Read more
What is the similarity between wellknown Danish brands such as Illum, Bang & Olufsen, Kræftens Bekæmpelse, Copenhagen University and Vejdirektoratet?► Read more
Both the newspaper Berlingske Tidende and the audience at the annual Sicef HR Fair choosena job advertisement from DONG Energy as the best of 2006.► Read more
Copenhagen Airport hosted one of the most important events in the international aviation industry this year. The Routes conference about route planning, which gathered about 2,000 delegates from airlines and airports in the Danish capital.► Read more
In late 2004, Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd was asked by Vestegnens Vandsamarbejde to develop a multi-annual campaign. The seven municipalities in the Vandsamarbejde group were looking for a campaign that could motivate children in fourth to sixth grade to drink more water from the tap.► Read more
Communication and dialogues with citizens, current staff and future employees is a growing issue in the public sector. The need for perceptive and strategic communications advice is growing similarly. Municipalities, counties, government and many semi-public organisations are seeking citizen's involvement using communicative initiatives. That is why Sylvester Hvid & Co Ltd. opened a special division focusing on the public sector.► Read more
For several years, Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd. has been a full service provider of communication services for Amagerbanken, is a medium sized regional bank in the Copenhagen area.► Read more
The ability to create the unique story about a product or a service is more crucial than ever before for the competitive performance. A good story telling creates the differentiation.► Read more
When Sylvester-Hvid & Co. Ltd. was founded 103 years earlier it was Denmark's first advertising and Public Relations agency► Read more
Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd. is 100 years old and publishes the anniversary book "Da reklamen var ung" (When advertising Was Young) describing the history of the Danish advertising industry.► Read more
The phenomena World Wide Web is less than three years old, and people still fight with first Windows versions on their PCs.► Read more
After having had its addresses in downtown Copenhagen and on Nørrebro for almost 100 years, Sylvester-Hvid & Co. Ltd. moved its headquarters to Nordre Fasanvej on Frederiksberg.► Read more
Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd. acquires the graphic production agency O'Brian. The goal is to increase its competences within graphic design and production.► Read more
Sylvester-Hvid & Co. Ltd. acquires Svalgaard Trade Marketing and strengthens its focus on marketing services for retail suppliers.► Read more
Sylvester Hvids & Co. Ltd's new strategy for growth through acquisitions was introduced with the take-over of the ad agency Norup & Nielsen.► Read more
Big international chains of agencies had established themselves in Denmark and gradually taken over budgets from international brands, which they were also servicing in other parts of the world.► Read more
During the 1960's and 70's, Sylvester-Hvid & Co. Ltd. was one of Denmark's dominating advertising agencies and received several take-over offers from international agency groups.► Read more
Unless you wanted to work for the Germans, the Danish advertising agencies were not very busy during Second World War.► Read more
Cinemas popped up like mushrooms all over Denmark and in 1921, Sylvester Hvid & Co. Ltd. was one of the first advertising agencies to produce commercials for the new cinema media.► Read more
In 1900, Jens Sylvester-Hvid defined for the first time the notion advertising in Danish: "In short, to advertise is to remind people about one's existence with a business purpose in mind."► Read more
When in 1899 the young bicycle dealer Jens Sylvester-Hvid was in need for more customer traffic in his just opened bike shop in Copenhagen, he met a lot of skepticism with this newfangled vehicle.► Read more


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Hello everyone,
I now declare my digital scrapbooking blog open!
There is still a lot of space to be filled here, but for now you can view a few of my layouts in my gallery and download some freebies. Soon you'll also find my own designs on this blog and of course great stuff from other designers in the wonderful world of digital scrapbooking.
Have fun!
Majorie from Mayo Designs
Friday, August 31, 2012
My digital scrapbooking blog is now open!
Posted by Majorie at 5:33 PM
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When it comes down to Internet access at the base level, we're dealing with electronics. It's wires strung on poles and equipment in cabinets on road sides and street corners. Equipment fails and wires get cut. Then what? If you lose Internet access for any reason, business stalls. You're not able to access email. Hosted-applications are unavailable. You suffer from lost productivity and lost revenue. Business relationships may even be impacted.
Can you afford to deal with an Internet outage?
When running multiple Internet services, you don't receive the benefit of increased speed by aggregating or bonding the services, but that's the effect. This isn't recognized by a single user, but if your local network crowded with users, each making requests at the same time, as a whole, their connections will have access to a higher bandwidth, equal to the sum of the single-access bandwidths. Equipment is available from a number manufacturers that will make this possible.