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The Ravens have a chance to end their season series against the NFC North at .500 by beating the Chicago Bears this week at M&T Bank Stadium. More importantly, they will hold onto their tenuous as-of-this-writing hold on the final wild card spot in the AFC (by virtue of Jacksonville's loss to Indy last night).
The Bears came into 2009 with big hopes. After barely missing the Playoffs at 9-7 last year, they made a huge splash in the offseason by bringing in the big arm of quarterback Jay Cutler, who was supposed to put them over the top. However, the first season under Jay has been quite a disappointment, as instead of lighting up the Windy City sky with touchdown passes, he leads the league with his 22 interceptions.
Cutler's penchant for turning the ball over is good news for a Ravens secondary that is likely to be without Ed Reed for the third consecutive game. Second year safety Tom Zbikowski has stepped up in Reed's absence, picking up an interception in each of his two starts and Ravens cornerbacks Lardarius Webb, Chris Carr, and Dominique Foxworth played well last week against Detroit…but that isn't really saying much. On the bright side, the Bears don't have a weapon that resembles anything close to that of the Lions' Calvin Johnson. Their leading receivers are former kick-returner extraordinaire turned wideout Devin Hester, and sophomore Earl Bennett. Tight end Greg Olsen leads da Bears with 6 receiving touchdowns, and could provide match-up problems for the Ravens' linebackers, who have struggled in coverage all season.
On the ground, da Bears don't do much, as many a Matt Forte fantasy football owner will attest. People want to slap the "sophomore slump" label on B'More's Joe Flacco, but a guy that is exemplifying the term is the Bears' running back. Forte averaged 3.9 yards per carry in his rookie year, on his way to a 1,200 yard, 8 touchdown campaign (he also scored 4 receiving touchdowns). This year has been a different story, as he has been held to just 3.4 yards per carry and 4 total scores. It will be weakness against strength, as the Ravens lead the league in yards-per-carry allowed on defense.
Speaking of defense, da Bears, much like the Ravens, are not quite what they used to be. Team leader and linebacker Brian Urlacher managed just three tackles in the 2009 opener, before suffering a season-ending wrist injury. Chicago is 16th against the pass and just 25th against the run. Cam Cameron would be wise to once again unleash the 3-headed monster running back, as he did last week against Detroit, when Ray Rice, Willis McGahee, and Le'Ron McClain all had at least six carries.
One area in which da Bears have excelled in is causing fumbles. They have forced 19, 2nd in the league just behind San Francisco. Their secondary gang-tackles, holding up ballcarriers, while other defenders, entering the play late, go for the strip. With Ray Rice suddenly catching a case of fumble-itis over the last two games, it is cause for concern for us purple faithful this week. Let's hope ball security was a point of emphasis this week at practice in Owings Mills.
Those practices, by the way, have been disconcertingly ill-attended. Reed, Jared Gaither, S K.J. Gerard, Jarret Johnson, Brandon McKinney, Terrell Suggs, Kelley Washington, and Mark Clayton all missed Thursday's session, according to Glenn Clark at WNST.net. Also limited were Matt Birk, Derrick Mason, Haloti Ngata, and (shock!) L.J. Smith.
All teams are beat up this time of year, but…yikes. Will we even recognize the guys running around out there in black jerseys (and, ugh, white pants…John Harbaugh, your taste is nearly as bad as your clock management skills are) on Sunday?
Harbaugh, by the by, will have the chance to match mis-wits with another guy who never met a challenge flag or poorly used timeout he didn't like, Bears' head coach Lovie Smith. Sunday is likely to be a textbook example of "How not to manage the clock" with those two going at it.
All kidding aside, this game sets up very well for the Ravens. Many of those listed on the injury report are likely to play, and da Bears' inability to stop the run plays right into the Ravens' hands. The game plan should be to run, run, and run some more. They should have success, which will help take the pressure off Joe Flacco. Last week was nearly a bye for Natty Joe. With the game was never in question, he was an efficient 13/20 for 230 yards, and his line kept him on his feet for just the second time all season. Hopefully the easy day against the awful Lions helped restore some confidence in Flacco, after his terrible night in Green Bay.
The Ravens need this win to finish the year a respectable 6-2 at home. I don't have the numbers, but it doesn't seem likely that teams who go 5-3 on their home turf make the post-season very often. They should be able to make Forte a non-factor, force Cutler into some mistakes, and impose their will with the running game.
For crying out loud, two weeks ago Chicago struggled to get past St. Louis, squeaking by the Rams 17-9.
The Ravens close M&T Bank Stadium for 2009 in style.
Ravens 27 da Bears 17


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R. Kelly Seduces Kelly Rowland on 'All the Way'
It looks like R. Kelly's album, 'Black Panties,' has sprung a leak. Several tracks from the collection have surfaced online, including this bedroom banger, 'All the Way,' which features Kelly Rowland.
On the song, K.Row creeps out on her man to finally hook up with the Pied Piper, himself.
"It's 3AM and I'm not with him, it's the moment that I know we've both been waiting for," Kelly seductively coos in a whispery falsetto. "Now we can pretend / We are together again."
Kellz is up for the challenge and compares their sexual compatibility as a high-octane drug.
"You don't know if you're addicted 'til you relapse from detox of loving each other / For an hour or two or three, till 6 morning," he sings. "Do you have a good excuse to be on the down low with me in the telly, sweet."
The song is destined to be a fan favorite on R. Kelly's 'Black Panties' album, which arrives in stores Dec. 10. The collection features cameos from Ludacris, 2 Chainz, Jeezy, Migos, Juicy J and others.
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I don't think I've ever played an app made from felt. Have I? Hrm, nope! But that's exactly what Brownie: Spirt of the Woods is—an iOS game made from felt.
In this motion controlled game, you are a bear, a felt bear, riding a broomstick. A storm is coming, and you must fly into the trees and collect the animals. Once you do, you tap the screen to teleport them to the scared grove.
The whole thing doesn't make much sense! Why is the bear flying on a broomstick? Teleport? Wait, what? The game's makers, however, seem to be in on the game's playful, nonsensical nature. I think.
The gameplay is hard to control and kind of herky-jerky—and from what I can tell, short (though, correct me if I am wrong!). However, I really like that the game was made from felt—like, actual felt. I like the idea of a felt video game that was made by cutting with scissors. More felt, please. Scissors, too.
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"Proceeding on through a beautiful country…" That's how Captain William Clark described his first travels in what eventually became Idaho. Idaho's history is rich, diverse, and interesting. In fact, it is so interesting that in the early 1980s then Idaho Public Television General Manager Jack Schlaefle and former Program Director Myron Tisdel decided IdahoPTV should produce a series of television programs telling Idaho's story.
Originally, producers planned only for a series for an adult audience. But as more teachers learned of IdahoPTV's plans, they asked if something could be done for younger students. Thus, in May of 1988, IdahoPTV began production of its History of Idaho-13 one-hour programs for adults, a companion book, a sound track cassette, a teacher's guide and a series of video tapes specifically designed for fourth graders.
The adult series, "Proceeding On Through A Beautiful Country " started with Producer Royce Williams and a small production staff, assisted by dozens of advisors. Hundreds of individuals, foundations and corporations donated over $700,000 to fund the project. The crew interviewed more than 130 people, shot more than 400 hours of video tape, composed over 150 pieces of original music and logged more than 60,000 miles. The adult series took over two years to write, shoot and edit. Its 1990 premier coincided with the state's centennial celebration, IdahoPTV's gift to Idaho.
In the fall of 1990, Producers Joan Cartan-Hansen and Jeff Tucker started work on the fourth grade series, "Proceeding On... Visions of Idaho." Boise State University Associate Dean of Education Phyllis Edmundson hired on as the new host.
New scripts were written to match the current curriculum for fourth grade Idaho history. Hours of new video tape and several new interviews supplemented the material gathered for the adult series. In August of 1992, more than 375 sets of tapes and teachers' guides were distributed to all the state's public elementary and intermediate schools with a fourth grade, at no charge, a gift from IdahoPTV and the project funders.
Due to the overwhelming number of requests we have had for additional copies of this series in the past few years, we determined that until a new series could be developed, we would make this series available on the internet. You can view the video online or download it to your personal computer. The teacher's guide is available for each "video chapter" in both html and PDF.
1) Geography - A look at Idaho
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4) Tools - A demonstration of Native American tool making and plant use
5) Storytelling - How tales and memories illustrate history
6) Early Exploration - From Lewis and Clark to the Idaho territory
7) Religious Settlers - how religious settlers shaped Idaho
8) Homesteading - The lifestyle of ten-year-olds during Idaho's transition from territory to statehood
9) The World Comes to Idaho - Idaho's diverse ethnic history
10) Mining - A look at the history of Idaho's first major industry
11) Agriculture - The history of Idaho's number one industry
12) Timber - A review of the history of the timber industry in Idaho
13) Quality of Life - How Idahoans' view of wilderness has changed
14) Spirit - The history of the arts in Idaho
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Senior Brian Six shot a career-best 7-under par 206 to finish second at the Del Walker Intercollegiate in Long Beach, Calif.
Six's finish led UC Santa Barbara to a season-best tie for fourth-place in the tournament held at the Virginia Country Club. As a team, the Gauchos shot a three-round score of 868 to tie with North Texas for fourth. UC Riverside, also out of the Big West, won the team championship with a two-shot victory over Texas-San Antonio, 855 to 857. Lamar University finished third at 862 with UCSB and North Texas tied for fourth, six shots back of the champs.
Lamar's Chris Stroud won the individual title with an 11-under par 202, four shots ahead of Six. Troy McKinley of Pacific finished third at 207 and Todd Saukkola of Long Beach State shot 208 to finish fourth.
"Brian was very good the past couple of days," said UCSB head coach Steve Lass. "He was consistent both days and really hit the ball well."
Six shot rounds of 67 and 68 on day one of the tournament and today he finished up with a par round of 71 on the 6,633 yard course.
The other UCSB finishers were Jean-luc Burnier who shot 219 and finished tied for 26th, Joe Ryon who shot 223 and tied for 45th, Greg Wells who shot 224 and tied for 49th and Leigh Silver who shot 229 and tied for 66th.
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Thursday, 21 April 2011
New: catalogue essay for Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
I've written a catalogue essay for this show of Jan Fabre's work at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Details of the show are below.
Jan Fabre: The Years of the Hour Blue
The Picture Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum presents a group of around thirty works from the series "The Hour Blue" created by Jan Fabre between 1986 and 1990; the show marks the culmination of a personal trilogy by the Belgian artist (Antwerp 2006, the Louvre in Paris 2008). Executed in blue BIC ballpoint pen, these drawings and three-dimensional objects interact with the highlights of the KHM's collection on show in the Picture Gallery. In addition, important sculptures by the artist are displayed in the Entrance Hall and – visible from Maria-Theresia Square – on the roof of the museum, creating a fascinating discourse between the present and the past, the transitory and the eternal.
The works on show are loans from important private collections and international museums such as the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Museum Kiasma in Helsinki.
For further information on Jan Fabre and his work please visit his official websites www.angelos.be (visual arts) and www.troubleyn.be (performing arts).
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careful with the turpentine though. That stuff rots brain. Hard to paint when you can control your hands.
Snap, only your 3rd oil ever? Well played dude. None of the facial distortions bother me at all, I think it works for the fantasy subject matter. I do agree, it's a bit too blue, some warmer colors in the right places would make it really sing. Keep painting!
Okay, its been a while, Ive got a few snapshots of some stuff I'm working on. These are all WIPS, pretty much, or just initial sketches I did before I draw them on nicer and larger paper.
This one is actually a pig fetus that I've distorted and screwed up pretty much. We have some preserved animals in our biology lab and I drew the fetus one time, (although I lost the sketch) and decided to draw it larger and mess with it.
The second one is for something Im gonna enlarge, its just an initial sketch.
And the last is just for kicks, I drew that on the back of a board game's cover when I was like 5.
Hito- Thanks man! Yeah I am, all windows and fans open and on. Although I'mna take a break from the oil painting now that were done with it in our class, I'll go back to it in a few weeks maybe when I gather enough money to buy some turpentoid and less scented materials.
Andy P-hehe my friend justified the facial distorions cause of the rhyme and humpty falling. Yeah, I gotta pick on color theory a bit more. Thanks for stopping by!
nice stuff! love the tube-critter there - more! MOOOre!
www.hyver.com -()- sketch thread
Really nice stuff! Good to chat with you again. Take it easy!
Cave House Studios - creative animation and video
What the Sketchbook
hey another pinoy! Sa pinas ka ngayon?
Hyver, Some_guy/Mike - Hey guys, thanks again for the loads of help youve given! I really appreciate it!
patdzon - YEp, nasa pinas pa ako! Init dito! Grabe! Masaya din naman ang ulan minsan, hehe, signal 2- walang pasok sa hs!
Just a quickie...I should start posting my sketches.
Anyway this is for my art elective:
Im in the process of painting it right now.
Ill post up the full shot next time, but heres a detail of what I gave my friend for her birthday.
Here is a GUIDELINE, that I fixed up in photoshop. I used the dodge and burn, as well as the contrast options in photoshop and made myself a guide for fixing up the original drawing. Still in the process of re-doing the original drawing. Most of these crits are from a bunch of people from these forums who are friggin awesome and some from my own crits.
Alright you bastard, you quited IRC as I got to talk to ya (just kidding)
ohwell, I was just going to tell it was a very cool update, like
the last one alot! keep at it! and keep this book updated!
very very nice pencils.
love the nose on this guy
keep to it
the pig in the tube is really good.
you're getting good.
I really love how your pig fetus has fleshed out (oh, so punny!) You really took care to render out those little skin folds and veins and it shows that you really enjoyed that bit. You sicko! it's great that you did your own photoshop fix as well, you've caught a lot of the issues that I would have brought up. Heightening the contrast around the head was a good call.
With your latest art elective piece, you're getting more expressive with your faces, but only a teensy bit! I think having the pursed lips and wide eyes is fine for this expression, mind you, but let's see some open mouths and contorted cheeks in the future, girl! I need to amp up my own expressions too... it's hard. ._.
Miss you tons!!
dile, tigermilk, hito- Thanks a bunch!
Steph-too true, gotta open up em mouths and push em cheeks, ill work on those more and ill post em up THanks! miss ya too!
quickie update, i just got a wacom two days ago. Spent almost 90% of the past two days waking up at noon and sleeping at 2 am painting infront of the computer. Most of which ive scrapped and trashed. Especially for the past two hours where ive been trying to do a self portrait and almost tried to yank all of my hair out. Cant seem to draw my friggin' nose. Anyhow I'll post one up once ive felt they looked showable.
Im new to this tablet Thang, so PLEASE Crit. I needsta get the hang of this thing.
Hey man. Great stuff with those 3 self portraits, I really like. I love self portraits! Glad to see that you got a wacom too, seems like your on the right path. Just keep it up brother!
jake- Thanks man! Although those arent actually self portraits...theyre well just portraits of this clown dude i made up on the spot. But thanks though! And im not a guy, im a girl hehe. But its cool man,dont worry about it, im easily thought of as a guy cause of my username Got any suggestions though for Self Portraits? I'll post one up eventually. Im horrible with the likeness thing. And seeing the portraits youve got in our SB thread, got any tips?
Anyway the master reproduction thing. Im thinking of starting over.
When I do SPs I always think about the defining features. I think about what really catches my eye to make a face..a face! I make all the shapes quite simple at the start. Getting the right shapes of the face to start is extremely helpful. Umm thats my 2 cents haha!
Jake - Thanks! I was able to use that bit of info there for the SP I did (on the bottom of the doodled things)
-Here are the doodles. The last one there is an SP I did new years eve at 3 am. Small but yeah, its a start. haha.
-Going digital on the pig!
-and the mutant kid ive been working on. Driving me nuts, but its a load of fun! His arms look a quite screwed though.
Havent been able to use the tablet since school started 3 days ago. Eugh!
Tried another SP. PIcture was taken after the SP; I drew from a mirror. I think this is what I'd look like, 15 years from now, if I went on an all Red Bull diet and stopped eating Krispy Kreme. Tchah, depressing indeed...
Great sketchbook dude! nice new updates ! as I mentioned, I really like the way you draw faces, both digital and with pencils, they look like they are alive ( nice expressions! ) and they are well worked-out, so thumbs up man!
Also* your pencil stuff reminds me slightly of lukias rendering, ( and THATS a great thing! )
dile- haha lukias rocks! THanks a bunch man!
lookin very good! youve improved so much since i last saw your art... keep goin, and get on aim so i can host an oc for us
Sketchbook: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthr...t=70895&page=3
Art Blog: http://www.beyesart.blogspot.com
Burning Eyes- Hey man! I'll try to get on as much as I can, If I can. Ive got exams this week X_X!
did these last night while i was out and about...
Very small update,did it while waiting for the teacher in class and during recess. It's exam week for me
Did these today. Colored pencils are fun,but prisma colored pencils are addicting.
Dished, pls check out the "CA.org Local Artist Groups" section and click on "The Philippines" thread. Let us know what you think. We're also looking for more Filipinos here on CA( preferably, yung mga nakatira sa Pinas). If you know anyone, pls direct them to that thread. Thanks!
Dished! Mhan am I jealous! If I get my sketchbook going again it'll be because of you. Getting to see your development is great. You've inspired me. At your rate, I'll be showing you my portfolio for CnCs.
oi firstly thanks for those links in my sb Dished
that bumskee thread is soo good. im gonna go through all of the exercises and post them. Tutorials are something ive been meaning to get into but i just keep on wanting to complete any idea i come up with. But maybe i should start at the basics eh? I would realy like those tutorials bro!
Awesome sketchbook. i realy like the expressions in your charactors faces, you have the ability to tell a story with the face realy well and thats got to be one of the most important things there is to figure drawing. when you have the head and the hands you can tell the whole story of the pose without it even being all there. Hockney did that realy well, if you can find any of his sketch's or paintings i think they are definnitaly worth looking at. and to think when i was 16 i was struggling to draw lips.
this this this is my sketchbook
hawkin-Salamat! yess! start your SB, I wanna see!
Gleeson- Hey man, no problem! I can post some links in your sb to some of the more creativity based tutorials.Besides its loads more fun learning the basics and the creative stuff at the same time. Im searching for hockney right now. I'll do some more hand and feet studies, ive been kinda sticking to heads and stuff for quite a while.Thanks for commenting and for stopping by! Appreciate it
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75 Watt – trailer from COHEN VAN BALEN on Vimeo.
Experimental design/art studio Cohen Van Balen's new project 75 Watts features an actual factory, assembly line, and workers. However, the product the assembly line workers are constructing does absolutely nothing. Well, almost nothing. The purpose of the product is simply to choreograph the movements of the workers as they construct it. 75 Watts illustrates the complex dance of production, consumption, and the human relationships therein regardless of the product. The project received its name from a rather creepy quote from the book Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers: "A labourer over the course of an 8-hour day can sustain an average output of about 75 watts." Check out the video to see the dance of the pointless product.


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taniaaust1 wrote:Yes, its very possible to feel pain in the same way as you would in real life, in a dream where someone is fully lucidIn a lucid (or regular) dream, what you expect to happen, will actually happen.
That is so true. One can also have ones real life normal "instinctual" thoughts come into lucid dreaming which may cause one issues even if one is fully aware one is dreaming at the time.
I wont try flying any more in LDs as one time when I tried that, I threw myself in the air (from standing position..thinking "fly" and expecting to fly but I guess my waking instinct when I felt myself falling, may of been to think of hitting the ground even thou i wasnt aware I'd thought it. I found myself slamming (belly flopping) into the concrete I'd been standing on before my attempt to fly.
This REALLY REALLY HURT.. i was in agony (felt like I broke ribs) as that had happened (felt the same as if I'd done something like that in real life and not bothered to put my hands out to save my fall). That's enough to put anyone off of trying to fly in a LD, its made me paranoid due to the pain one is capable of feeling in a LD (ive since flown in a LD but did it safely sitting in a chair!! flying chair). (Fortunately the pain did soon leave but it was such a shock too).
Makes me wonder if one could die in a LD, what would I have experienced if I'd jumped off a tall building in my LD instead of trying to take off from the ground?.. (I know one can do that in a normal dream no issues but if one did it in a LD could that be dangerous??? would it be easier to give oneself a heart attack due to the waking consciousness being present???)
R99 wrote: i thought u r an expert on this dream exploration. dont make me think i was wrong. looking forward to ur response. i wont let u scare our fellow young dreamers. i bet u can even shot in ur head with a shot gun(results-no head) in the dream and u will surely wake up unharmed.
I have a similar view for you(taniaaust1) as R99's( of u being an expert), and maybe that's a reason you feel pain. Because in a dream you are as conscious as waking life and one feels pain in waking life and therefore you think and believe about pain in dreams and therefore experience pain.


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File this in the "rumors that make us giddy" department, but there are people saying that the next 911 GT3 RS might have a third pedal for your shifting enjoyment. That's right, a clutch pedal. For shifting. Gears. Manually.
Car and Driver is reporting that while many sources say that the new GT3 RS will be paddle shift PDK only, their sources say that Porsche is strongly considering making the car with an honest to goodness manual gearbox.
Is this true? Honestly, probably not. Why would they do that after making such a big deal out of how good the PDK in the new GT3 is? Do we hope it's true? You bet your sweet little bippy we hope it's true. Porsche's best 911 with three pedals where there were once two?


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As former (for now) Cowboys defensive lineman Josh Brent awaits trial on intoxication manslaughter charges, the presiding judge has offered some friendly advice to the lawyers involved.
Watch what you say.
Though a formal gag order wasn't issued, the Associated Press reports that the judge asked counsel to be more careful with their words, given that some of the things said have been inaccurate.
Brent's lawyer wanted the judge to tell the prosecutor to zip it completely. That won't happen for now, and it likely will never happen if the lawyers exercise more prudence when commenting publicly.
Brent retired from the Cowboys on Thursday, in a move that likely resulted from behind-the-scenes discussions that included the league office telling Brent if he doesn't retire he'll be indefinitely suspended.


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Clarkson University #7 in New York for Return on Investment (ROI)
Clarkson University has been ranked #7 in New York state for colleges and universities that provide the highest return on investment (ROI).
The ranking by AffordableCollegesOnline.org (AC Online) identified 84 New York colleges and universities with the greatest lifetime return on investment out of 472 analyzed. The company says that "graduates from these schools enjoy the largest earnings gap between non-degree holders over 30 years, and earn more on average than graduates from other New York schools."
The rankings can be found at http://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/online-colleges/new-york .
"These are important lists for prospective students to consider," says AC Online founder Dan Schuessler. "We've sifted through comprehensive data sources to find colleges and universities in New York that offer a high quality education with consistent, long-term payoffs in the workplace."
In considering colleges for consideration as a "High ROI College," AC Online selected public or private, fully accredited, four-year, degree-granting institutions and examined their ROI according to PayScale's 2013 College Value Report. AC Online also used data from NCES, IPEDS and the Carnegie Classification.
This is only Clarkson's most recent third-party accolade. In the past year ABC News & PayScale listed Clarkson as one of 12 schools whose new graduates earn more than Harvard's, and U.S. News & World Report lists Clarkson as #34 on its "Great Schools at Great Prices" list, #1 in the nation for graduates with the most internship experience, and #12 in the nation for its online graduate business programs. Ninety-six percent of Clarkson students place in their field of study or career aspiration in their first year after graduation.
Affordable Colleges Online provides students with information about affordable higher education options. The website offers financial aid videos, advice, and cost savings ideas.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
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TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Aerospace Composites market to reach US$3.95 billion by 2016. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increased adoption of composites in aircraft design. The Global Aerospace Composites market has also been witnessing strong demand in general aviation. However, complex regulatory requirements pose the biggest challenge in the market.
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Bas Janssens necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 330 diseños de 76 diseñadores freelance.
The Goldfish
My name is Bas Janssens,
I'm the owner and director of Pepperminds sales staffing agency based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The Pepperminds sales staffing agency has recently changed business format to become an independent agency. Therefore we need to change our name and logo. Our new name will be "The Goldfish", and we are looking for a design for this fish that is at least as hot as pepper! I would like to invite 99 Designs to tender for this project.
About our agency:
Our company is a recruitment agency for young sales and marketing professionals in the Netherlands. We act as a match maker between promising candidates who are looking for sales and marketing jobs, and business partners who seek driven sales and marketing staff.
Our business partners are predominantly media companies. Our most successful concept has been a sales traineeship in which we teach our candidates to work hard, smash their targets and earn a lot of money. We train them to be the best they can be in their jobs and to become great communicators.
Currently we employ 3 project managers in our own office, who manage about 20 sales trainees based at our clients' offices. In the coming three years we aim to expand dynamically beyond our current scope: our target is for 10 project managers to coordinate 100 trainees.
Our business partners are media companies that operate in a crowded market at the cutting edge of technological and commercial developments.
In order to meet their commercial staffing needs, we recruit young ambitious sales talents between the age of 20 and 30. Our candidate pool typically consists of 60% male and 40% female sales recruits. Most of our candidates join us straight from high school or university. They are attracted to jobs in which they expand their horizon, earn good money, have fun, and grow in their potential and career: work hard, play hard and learn hard.
Candidates we are aiming to attract are individuals who have just started a career and still feel very young. They have sales talent so they are very competitive. Their priorities are going out, dating, playing sports, having fun, being successful and being able to buy nice things.
We are headhunters, so we aim for the most valuable and scarcest fish in the sea – this goes both for our candidates as for the companies we work for. The most valuable fish in the sea are the ones that give the best of themselves: they find the gold in their own capabilities so they are The Goldfish.
Our candidates must find it attractive to identify themselves with The Goldfish logo. So we want the logo to be charged with the energy of the words we associate with our candidates: success, curious, result oriented, fun, professionalism, enthusiasm, competition, inspiring and guts. It is a long list but the design that matches these words may well be very simple and basic.
Our current website: http://www.pepperminds-detachering.nl/
Example of our old logo: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Amste…754?v=wall
Our new name: "The Goldfish" needs a strong logo that is congruent with the look and feel of our current website and logo. If posible we aim to be able to integrate the new name and logo in our current website.
"The Goldfish" needs to be a fish with personality. It may be a goldfish but it could also be another type of fish (for example a clownfish or a fantasy fish).
See for the keywords that we associate with our candidates above in target audience.
And then some other things we learnt from looking at the designs:
• We most like fish that swim or jump from the left to the right, clockwise.
• We want TheGoldfish to be written as one word with the word gold in another color: TheGoldfish ("The" may also be on top).
• We use a letter type like Verdana or Calibri in our website so we prefer the logo not to completely mismatch these letter types
We hope u all are inspired by our mission, and look forward to receive your best "TheGoldfish" logo creations. Success!
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Director, Pepperminds / The Goldfish Sales Staffing Agency
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From the Sacramento Bee (sacbee.com) Crime Section:
Two Placer County teenage girls were arrested for allegedly using drugged milkshakes to knock out the parents of one of the girls so they could log on to the Internet, Rocklin police said.
Internet access at the Rocklin home was routinely shut off at 10 p.m., said Lt. Lon Milka, a department spokesman.
Milka said that on Friday evening, a 15-year-old girl – who had a 16-year-old friend from Roseville visiting – offered to pick up milkshakes from a local fast-food restaurant for her parents.
The parents drank about a quarter of the milkshakes but didn't finish them, saying they tasted funny and were grainy, Milka said.
But the shakes – loaded with prescription sleep aids allegedly provided by the friend – were effective, and the parents quickly fell asleep.
They awoke at 1 a.m. with unexplained hangover symptoms, but went back to sleep. In the morning, with the headache and grogginess still present, they went to the Rocklin police station to pick up a drug test kit, Milka said.
"Many parents buy them and have their kids' urine tested," Milka said. But in this case, they used the $5 kit to test themselves, he said.
When the parents tested positive, they alerted the police, and the girls were taken to juvenile hall.
"The girls wanted to use the Internet, and they'd go to whatever means they had to," Milka said.
What the girls did on the Internet that night is not yet clear, Milka said.
"For our investigation, that wasn't as important as the drugging with the milkshake," Milka said.
It's also unclear whether someone manually shut off wireless Internet access each night at 10 p.m. or it happened automatically.
A little bit of adolescent pushback, as teens begin to express their individuality, is good, said Leslie Whitten Baughman, a child therapist with a practice in Sacramento. But drugging your parents "would not be a healthy level of rebellion."
The 15-year-old told police that her parents' Internet policy was "too strict," Milka said.
Teens often fear being left out of "once-in-a-lifetime" events, which they might experience on the Internet, said Gordon Richards, executive director of EMQ FamiliesFirst, a children's social services nonprofit.
While the alleged actions seem extreme, Richards said it's important to note that the human brain is still developing in teen years – helping to explain the apparent lack of judgment.
Milka said he's never seen anything like the Rocklin case.
The teens were arrested on charges of conspiracy and willfully mingling a pharmaceutical with food.
"If they were adults, they could be facing prison time," Milka said.
He said the girls were arrested as juveniles and that it would be up to the District Attorney's Office to decide if the crime justifies adult punishment. Because the girls are juveniles, their names are not being released to the media.
Milka said he didn't know how long they were in custody or whether they had been released.


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Portable hard drives stolen from Sentara Heart Hospital
The letter copied below was sent this week to 1,040 patients who underwent electrophysiology procedures at Sentara Heart Hospital in one of the electrophysiology labs between Sept. 4, 2014 and Aug. 14, 2015. The patient information on the portable hard drives was limited to name, date of birth and a unique patient identification number produced by Sentara, plus physician notes about the procedures.
Background: Due to the number of patients affected, we are required by federal law to provide notification to patients and the news media and post the notification on our website. However, the Sentara Privacy and Compliance team notifies patients under most circumstances involving protected health information, to keep our patients informed and assure them of our continuing efforts to protect their personal information.
Details: The theft occurred over the weekend of August 14 in a procedure area normally restricted to staff and patients. We believe these small portable hard drives were stolen for whatever street value they may have, and not for purposes of identity theft or fraud. The identifying information is so limited it does not facilitate fraud. The information on the drives is purely clinical. Updated procedures are in place for the secure storage of these devices. We sincerely regret any concern or inconvenience the theft of these devices may cause our patients.
Resolution: The hospital's Risk Management team notified Norfolk Police of the theft. The Risk Management team and the Sentara system Privacy manager conducted an internal investigation, including interviews with personnel assigned to Sentara Heart Hospital that weekend, and closed the investigation on September 29. Portable hard drives are now secured in a locked drawer at all times, connected by cable to the laptops being used. Only management personnel have keys. Additional security improvements are planned to further limit access to the clinical area affected.
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As part of the Sentara Commitments to you, our patient, we strive to protect the confidentiality of your personal information. Regrettably, we are writing to inform you of an incident involving that information.
On Aug. 20, 2015, Sentara first learned that two unencrypted hard drives were missing from two Electrophysiology labs located within Sentara Heart Hospital in Norfolk Virginia. We immediately began our own internal investigation.
The information on the hard drives contained backups of electronic notes taken during procedures performed in those two rooms. The information included your name, unique medical record number, date of birth, procedure date, diagnosis, procedure, surgeon and staff names, allergies, notes and medications that relate only to the procedure performed. The hard drives did not include your social security number or billing information.
We assure you that we are committed to the security of your personal information and are taking this matter very seriously. To help prevent this from happening in the future, we are reevaluating the access to these lab rooms and working to ensure the backup drives will be protected.
If you have any questions, or you need further assistance, you may contact 1-844-322-8235, between the hours of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern time. Please refer to incident number COE151471.
Greg Burkhart
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Title V--Promoting Informed Parental Choice And Innovative Programs
Innovative Programs (V-A)
The Innovative Programs State Grants assist local education reform efforts that are consistent with and support statewide reform efforts. They also support state and local efforts to implement promising education reform programs, provide a continuing source of innovation and educational improvement, help meet the special education needs of at-risk and high-need students, and support programs to improve school, student, and teacher performance.
WHAT'S NEW--The No Child Left Behind Act
Increases Accountability for Student Performance
- Requires an annual achievement report. States are now required to submit an annual statewide summary of how the program is improving student achievement or improving the quality of education for students.
Reduces Bureaucracy and Increases Flexibility
- Increases aid to school districts. States must distribute 100 percent of the funds that they receive beyond what they received in FY 2002 to districts. For small states, at least 50 percent of those funds must be distributed to districts. This ensures that funding reaches the schools and teachers closest to students rather than state offices.
How It Works
Funds are allocated by formula, based on states' relative share of the school-age population, with each state receiving a minimum of one-half of one percent. States must award subgrants of at least 85 percent of their funds to districts based on the relative enrollments in public and private schools. State education agencies (SEAs) may use their share of program funds for supporting school choice options, school renovations, technology, or implementing other state reforms.
How It Achieves Quality
The Innovative Programs State Grants program provides SEAs and districts with additional funding to support high-quality, innovative educational programs. Funding can be used in a broad range of areas to improve academic achievement and the quality of education for students, to improve teacher quality, and to improve school performance.
How Performance Is Measured
The district must conduct an annual evaluation that describes how the programs that it supported affected student academic achievement.
Key Activities For The State Education Agencies
State education agencies must:
- Submit an annual statewide summary to the U.S. Department of Education based on evaluation information submitted by districts.
- Allocate funds to districts, provide technical assistance to districts, and carry out state-level innovative programs.


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one site, five writers, five weekdays (five RSS feeds). every day each writer posts something new – either a piece of a serial, or a short fiction, or an article. Under 500 words, ideally (probably 100-200 words is the ideal), but whatever. Each writer is therefore, yes, generating content for free – but each writer's sequence goes POD-book when it's generated enough words, the spine and back of the book also bearing the ROTOR mark. And then start again. Or bail out and free up a slot for another writer, whatever.
(tumblr version of same: one writer, one illustrator, one photographer, one musician, one video/filmmaker = five slots = one POD DVD every six months or whenever)
#thinkingoutloud (nothing I'll ever have the time to do, so I throw it out into the wild)


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Obama to outline case for a limited foreign policy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronting critics of his foreign policy, President Barack Obama will soon outline a strategy for his final years in office that aims to avoid overreach as the second of the two wars he inherited comes to a close.
The president will make the case for that seemingly more limited approach during a commencement address Wednesday at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The speech will come amid growing frustration in the White House with Republicans and other critics who contend that Obama has weakened America's standing around the world and faltered on problems across the Middle East and in Russia, China and elsewhere.
Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, said the president had not yet finalized his decision and no announcement was expected while he is in Afghanistan. Rhodes spoke with reporters accompanying Obama on a surprise visit to U.S. troops serving in the closing months of the Afghanistan war.
FILE - In this May 22, 2010, file photo, addressing the graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, President Barack Obama outlined a foreign policy vision using diplomacy and a strong military together, in West Point, N.Y. Obama will soon outline a strategy for his final years in office that aims to avoid overreach as the second of the two wars he inherited comes to a close. The president will make the case for that seemingly more limited approach during a commencement address Wednesday, May 28, 2014, at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Even so, Rhodes said, "You can expect to hear additional clarity from the president on his thinking on Afghanistan in the coming days." He mentioned the upcoming West Point speech.
"It's been two years since he's been able to get to Afghanistan, and he felt that it was very important for him to express directly to the troops his gratitude," Rhodes said.
Criticism over Obama has only mounted over the past year following Obama's decision to pull back a military strike in Syria and his inability to stop Russia from annexing territory from Ukraine. A White House official said Obama would specifically address both situations, as well as the status of ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran.
The president is also expected to discuss how he views shifts in the counterterrorism threat from al-Qaida and other groups, according to the official, who insisted on anonymity to preview the president's speech.
Obama came into office vowing to end the lengthy American-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and seeking to keep a war-weary nation out of unnecessary conflicts. The war in Iraq ended in the closing days of 2011 and the Afghan conflict will formally conclude later this year, though the White House is seeking to keep a smaller contingent of U.S. troops behind to train Afghan forces and conduct counterterrorism missions.
While Obama has followed through on his pledge to end America's wars, some foreign policy analysts argue that he has overcorrected, and his aversion to military action makes it harder for the U.S. to levy credible threats that force international foes to change their behavior.
"In a world where no one will lead except America, he has abdicated and surrendered much of the leadership," said Aaron David Miller, a Middle East adviser to Republican and Democratic administrations.
The White House official said Obama will argue that the U.S. remains the only nation capable of galvanizing action and will make the case that American power needs to be part of a sustainable international system. He will argue that his foreign policy philosophy is not isolationist, but rather "interventionist and internationalist," according to the official.
The president is expected to expand on remarks he made last month at a news conference in the Philippines, when the extent of his frustration with his critics boiled over. He specifically targeted those who are quick to call for U.S. military action, arguing that they had failed to learn the lessons of the Iraq war.
"Why is it that everybody is so eager to use military force after we've just gone through a decade of war at enormous costs to our troops and to our budget?" he said. "And what is it exactly that these critics think would have been accomplished?"
Yet Obama also cast his approach as one that "avoids errors" by being more limited in scope.
"You hit singles, you hit doubles," he said. "Every once in a while we may be able to hit a home run. "
Ahead of the president's speech, Obama's top advisers have been holding private meetings with congressional lawmakers to address their specific foreign policy concerns. However, the outreach appeared to accomplish little, according to some participants, with a Republican senator calling one meeting "bizarre" and another lawmaker saying the White House refused to provide specific answers to questions.
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., was among those who participated in the White House meetings. In an interview, he questioned how much Obama's speech can accomplish in shifting the way the White House's foreign policy approach is viewed.
"One of the problems with the White House is that they view speeches as foreign policy," Corker said. "They don't really follow through with much in the way of substance. It's always minimal."
The White House official said Obama will build on his remarks during an early June trip to Europe, where he'll give a speech about the U.S. commitment to the continent while in Poland and meet with Group of Seven leaders in Brussels. Obama's top foreign policy advisers, including Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and national security adviser Susan Rice, are also expected to follow the president's address with events of their own, according to the official.
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As this Kai-Fu Lee story develops, I'm getting the distinct impression that Mr. Lee truly wants to work at Google, and may have even been a bit more aggressive than previously thought. According to the BBC, Lee actually approached Google looking for a new job, because he wasn't pleased with how well Microsoft was doing in China. And despite this, he told Microsoft in June that he would be retuning to the company after his sabbatical, which Lee said was an "honest" but "not complete" answer. He was talking to Google about employment at the time.
Groklaw has an extensive write-up of the hearings so far, for those of you looking to start a bar fight over the details. The short of it is that Microsoft is trying to establish that Lee would be doing for Google what he had been doing for Microsoft, while Google and Lee are downplaying that.
Ballmer, in his deposition, said Lee had "a huge impact on what we did in China very broadly, including all the issues around government relations." Ballmer described Lee as the executive in Redmond responsible for "shepherding all of our R & D activities in China." But lawyers for Lee and Google repeatedly showed a Microsoft organizational chart to point out Lee's position in the Server and Tools division, separate from the MSN and Microsoft Research units involved in the company's search business..
Obviously a bit piece of this debate, then, is going to be whether or not Lee will be doing the same kinds of work for Google. Given the fact that he a) was involved in China-Microsoft relations at Microsoft, b) was upset with how things were going at Microsoft, and c) apparently left in order to take a role at Google working on, among other things, China-Google relations, it's hard for me to see Google's argument panning out.


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Quantum Dots: Artificial Atoms & Molecules in the Solid-State
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Quantum dots are artificial atoms in the solid-state occurring in a variety of size and shape, and can be realized in a variety of materials. Electrons and holes in quantum dots are confined in three dimensions typically by the junction of two different materials or by geometric or electrostatic confinement. Unlike other solid-state systems, quantum dots do not have any periodicity, and are characterized by a set of discrete energy levels and localized wave functions analogous to atoms. Quantum dots have found a variety of applications, including light-emitting diodes, photo-detectors, solar cells, quantum computing, logic devices, medicine and biology, to name a few. In this lecture, I will describe how quantum dots are similar to atoms in the periodic table, with the exception that these artificial atoms can be engineered to suit the needs of various applications. Starting from the quantum mechanics of the Hydrogen atom, I will describe two simple models of quantum dots: the particle in a box, and the quantum harmonic oscillator. I will describe experiments that show evidence of shell structure in quantum dots analogous to multi-electron atoms. I will also describe several applications, which rely on the customized properties of quantum dots. Lastly, I will describe how electron transport in a quantum dot differs from that of a solid-state transistor, and introduce the phenomena of Coulomb Blockade.
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LAKESIDE welcomed its youngest ever shopper yesterday when a mum gave birth to a baby girl.
A section of the shopping centre outside Primark was cordoned off when the mum went into labour, but while waiting for an ambulance to arrive, baby Deborah arrived around 5pm with the help Lakeside security officer Maggie Webb and her team before being taken to hospital for a full check-up.
Izzie Peskett, marketing manager for the centre, said: "We would like to congratulate the Williams family on the arrival of baby Deborah.
"While a few women have gone into labour here, this is the very first baby that has actually been born in the centre in the 23 years that we have been open. It was an exciting evening for everyone!"
Shoppers have been busy sending in their well wishes for the family through Lakeside's social media channels, even creating the hashtag #LakesideBaby.


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I could not sleep and I knew I had a live video for the Fox news station in San Diego for Adam Lambert's homecoming, so I decided to watch. Weird? I had some video streams for the rest of them, but who cares about Danny and Kris?! I even have a link to the whole interview with the news crew!
My Review - Adam Lambert Goes Home to San Diego
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We recently discussed how Pinterest might enable copyright infringement, and how to ensure your business is protected from liability. Before getting a Pinterest page, however, you should also read the site's Terms of Use.
Read this passage twice:
'By making available any Member Content through the Site, Application or Services, you hereby grant to Cold Brew Labs a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, adapt, modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, view, and otherwise exploit such Member Content only on, through or by means of the Site, Application or Services.'
What's it mean?
Every image you upload to Pinterest becomes their property. They can sell, alter or display it however they like. You forfeit your rights to the image at the moment you upload it, and you can't get them back.
We're not lawyers, and these terms haven't faced a legal test yet. But we think they will. Pinterest's policy is a sharp contrast to how you expect your ILS and social media partners to treat your images.
Pinterest may never sell or re-use your property, but for now, they can. Since many images aren't uploaded by their owners, there may be consequences to this. Before joining Pinterest, businesses should consider the possible ramifications.


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