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What are the ingredients found in Vimax and are they truly non-toxic?
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Vimax contains specific amounts of Velvet, Damiana leaf, Ginkgo biloba leaf, natural oats, Muira Puama (otherwise knows as Balsam), Ginseng root, Caltrop fruit, Cayenne fruit, Tribulus terrestris and Avena sativa. Vegetable stearate, cellulose, and silica are also part of the ingredients in Vimax. It is an all natural, vegetarian product with no additives or fillers such as artificial coloring, corn, artificial flavors, milk or dairy, preservatives, sodium, soy protein, sugar, wheat gluten or yeast. This pill is totally natural and easy to use.
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Next is Horny Goat Weed. You can be sure that an herb with a name like Horny Goat Weed is going to do a lot to boost your sexual desire, enabling you to perform at a moment's notice. Vimax pills also contain saw palmetto, which helps improve sexual libido and has been show to improve prostate health as well. You get two bangs for the buck with this pill.
The fruit from the cayenne plant has been shown to help lengthen a man's penis by up to four inches.
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A container of Vimax which will last for roughly 30 days runs in the range of $30 to $40. In order to avoid running out of pills, it is best to stock up with a few months' supply, then you will never find yourself without them when you need them. You can also get a better deal on price and shipping if you buy Vimax in a larger quantity.
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You have to consider the advantages and disadvantages of this product just as with any other product you may choose to take. Let's take a look at the advantages of taking Vimax first.
Stronger erections for you.
Increased sexual stamina
You will watch your penis expand by anywhere from one to four inches.
And your penis will also become up to 25% percent thicker.
An increase in the intensity of your orgasms will occur.
Your urination will become easier.
Blood flow to the penis will be improved, effecting your overall health.
An increase in your sex drive.
If you suffer from impotence, Vimax will definitely help.
Sperm production will increase
You will see a dramatic, overall improvement in sexual performance.
Of course, there are also some disadvantages to Vimax.
These are the possible issues that should be kept in mind.
Price: About $35 a month for Vimax
The time it will take to see results, which could be as long as a month.
Side effects: none have been reported, but every man is different.
Can I expect the results to be permanent?
The results from Vimax are forever. Unlike pumps, creams, and most other products, the results from Vimax pills are easily seen and felt and last forever. If you increase the length of your penis by 4 inches while taking Vimax, that increase in length will be with you forever. Your results will not fade over time – they are there for the rest of your life.
A lot of "penis enlargement" products that are sold today make bold claims that they can't back up. We've all seen the spam emails about great penis enlargement products that promise huge results but are really no more than hype out to make people a fast buck. Vimax is not like those companies. Vimax have been offering assistance to men and their partners for the last 5 years. There is really no company offering penis enlargement that is more trustworthy than Vimax.


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Go Native! Be a Native Bee 'Beekeeper'
"Go native" with native bees, that is.
Many folks are building or buying bee condos to provide nesting sites for blue orchard bees (Osmia lignaria) and leafcutting bees (Megachile spp.).
A bee condo is a block of wood drilled with specially sized holes for nesting sites. Bees lay their eggs, provision the nests, and then plug the holes. Months later, the offspring will emerge.
In our backyard, we provide bee condos for BOBs (short for blue orchard bee) and leafcutter bees.
In the summer it's fun watching the leafcutter bees snip leaves from our shrubbery and carry them back to their bee condo. It's easy to tell the nesting sites apart: BOB holes are larger and plugged with mud, while the leafcutter bee holes are smaller and plugged with leaves.
Osmia lignaria, a native species of North America, is sold commercially for use in orchard crop pollination.
At the Bohart Museum of Entomology Open House on Sunday, March 2, native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, UC Davis emeritus professor of entomology, displayed a variety of bee houses.
If you want to learn how to build them or where to buy them, Thorp has kindly provided a list of native bee nesting site resources on the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility website. You can also purchase them at many beekeeping supply stores. (Also check out the Xerces Society's website information.)
Better yet, if you'd like to learn more about native bees and their needs, be sure to register online for the Pollinator Gardening Workshop on Saturday, March 15 on the UC Davis campus. Hosted by the California Center for Urban Horticulture, it begins at 7:30 a.m. in Room 1001 of Giedt Hall and ends at 2 p.m. with a plant sale at the UC Davis Arboretum Teaching Nursery and a tour of the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden on Bee Biology Road, west of the central campus. For the small fee of $40 you'll receive a continental breakfast and box lunch and return home with an unbee-lievable wealth of knowledge. Speakers will include several honey bee and native bee experts: native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp; pollination ecologist Neal Williams and Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen. See the complete list on the website.
You'll be hearing from Robbin, Neal and Eric, but you'll be thinking about BOB.
Leafcutting bees heading home to their condo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis, shows Danielle Wishon of the California Department of Food and Agriculture a bee condo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Blue orchard bees on display at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of bee nesting sites shown March 2 at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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When you install bee condos--those wooden blocks with holes drilled in them to attract nesting native bees--sometimes you get the unexpected.
Like earwigs!
Home invasion! Home invasion!
We installed two bee condos, each about the size of a brick, in our yard. One is for leafcutting bees (genus Megachile) and is filled quite nicely, thank you, with 10 tenants. Another, with larger holes, is for blue orchard bees (BOBs, genus Osmia). Despite our "vacancy" sign (discounted rates, free WiFi, free continental breakfasts), nothing is occupying it except earwigs.
Earwigs! We're wigged out.
They were especially persistent in the damp weather.
Native bee guru Robbin Thorp, a native pollinator specialist and emeritus professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, who has researched native bee holes with colleagues John Barthell and Gordon Frankie, told us: "We found that mostly wasps and earwigs occupied the largest holes. Only a few of the introduced leafcutting bees that could not find appropriate size holes when bee populations were abnormally high would make aberrant nests in the larger cavities. By 1990, we scaled back to the three diameters that our bees use: 4.5, 6.5 and 8 mm (3/16, 1/4, and 5/16 inch) for our studies in California."
The earwigs, Thorp says, "are not so likely to be present now that the weather is hot and dry, but in shady, damp, cool areas, and especially early in the year when it is wet and cool, they can be a problem."
Their research, published in Environmental Entomology in 1998 and titled "Invader Effects in a Community of Cavity Nesting Megachilid Bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)" involved native bee species and their introduced competitors.
Like earwigs.
In their paper, they wrote that the European earwig (Forficttla auricularia L) from Eurasia and northern Africa, was introduced into North America at the turn of the century. "It has invaded most counties in the state of California since its apparent introduction in the late 1910s (Essig 1923, Langston and Powel! 1975)," they wrote. "Its populations have grown to high numbers in natural areas, especially in riparian zones where humidity levels are relatively high (Barthel! and Stone 1995). The earwig is most active during evening hours, climbing into tree crowns to scavenge and hunt but hiding in cracks, crevices, or holes during the daylight hours."
Active indeed. Those European earwigs soon found our condo for BOBs (which perhaps should now mean Big ol' Blast).
Earwig inside a blue orchard bee condo, which has larger holes than one for leafcutting bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This bee condo for leafcutting bees has 10 tenants. It is about the size of a brick and has smaller holes than a bee block for blue orchard bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Leafcutting bee provisioning her nest. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)


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I am currently almost done growing my hair out in a style reminiscent of Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. It's thick and curly like Hayden Christensen's, but with little more blond. I'm a young man and I have a baby face on top of that, so it's not like I'm a creepy old guy trying to look young. A few of my older relatives don't like it, but I've gotten compliments from at least a couple people I know. Opinions?
I've kept it pretty close to the scalp in recent years, but that wasn't always the case. I started wearing it long in high school, and kept it that way for too long. My 80's hair unfortunately hung around into the late 90's. Done right, it can look good, and quite frankly, if you combine long hair with a guitar and a bar band, it can make you quite popular. Or, at least it could when I was still young and stupid, and people still went to bars to listen to live music.
When I finally got it cut off, it was, literally and figuratively, a great weight lifted from my shoulders. Long hair is high maintenance and after a while becomes more of a liability than it's worth. Plus, it comes back to haunt you down the road in the form of embarrassing school pictures.
Hah! Charlie's Angel, without the figure. Such is the nature of following fads ... you'll look like a dufus in pictures 20-years down the road.
Well at least you had the hair for it! My awful longhaired senior pic would stop clocks. Atomic clocks.
Holy crap! It's Elrond!
You look elvish!
Mae govannen!
Maiden effin rules man
I'd have to see a picture to know what I think.
I'd also post a pic of myself to show that long hair on old men doesn't mean pining for lost youth... except I cut it. It wasn't worth the bother.
Aces and eights. Never sit with your back to the door.
Yes. Long hair on men is traditional. Just not in the mid-century. Then it made a comeback.
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Posted: September 13, 2013
Just north of Chicago and west of Lake Michigan, Conway Farms Golf Club hosts this week's BMW Championship, the penultimate event in the FedExCup Playoffs. With the combination of stiff breezes, fast greens and the pressure to crack the top 30 of the FedExCup standings--the intensity and focus on the range this week is palpable.
So, in the final chance to claim a spot in next week's Tour Championship, 44 players in the field of 70 will put their trust in a Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. That's more than six times the nearest competitor with 7, and more than all other competitors combined.
Titleist is also the top choice in the irons (18), sand, lob and approach wedge (63) and putter (23) categories.
And as Titleist Brand Ambassadors Adam Scott, Charley Hoffman, Brendon de Jonge, Jordan Spieth, Steve Stricker, and Jason Dufner (among others) scouted the course for the first time and kept their swings dialed, Team Titleist cameras were inside the ropes to capture the action. Take a look at the video, and play well this weekend!
Posted: September 10, 2013
<12> Overview Overview Overview Overview Overview Overview Overview Overview Overview Overview CLICK IMAGE TO LAUNCH SLIDESHOWThe Titleist Tour Leadership Team on the PGA Tour has a new home away from home as the new Titleist Tour Van is making its debut this week at the BMW Championship.
Now, to call it a "van" could be a little bit of an understatement, as the new 18-wheeler is 42' long by 8'6" wide and weighs 36 tons when fully loaded. It features four "pop-outs" that extend the width to 15' 6" for a total of 650 square feet of working space, nearly 30 percent more than the previous trailer.
Dave Southworth, Titleist's Senior Technical Representative for PGA Tour, was responsible for designing the new trailer and accommodating the needs of the 10-person Tour Leadership Team that services up to 40 full product line players a week, in addition to others who rely upon Titleist 913 metals, MB, CB and AP irons, Vokey Design wedges and Scotty Cameron putters. And during an average week on tour, there are more than 100 Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf ball players to service, which keeps the Titleist Tour Van buzzing with activity from arrival time on Sunday through its Wednesday afternoon departure.
"It is not very often you get to design a Tour Van from scratch, so you want to make sure you get it right," said Southworth. Based upon the response of the Titleist Tour Leadership Team, as well as players, caddies and other tour support teams who have paid a visit so far, he seems to have accomplished his goal.
"This 'van' is basically our workplace and home for half the week for the next six or so years," said Southworth. "With that in mind, I took everybody's requests and suggestions into serious consideration and implemented them as best I could. I wanted it to be as efficient and comfortable as possible, primarily for our own tech reps that are building clubs everyday, but also for the players, caddies, managers, network associates and tournament officials that use it as a meeting place or to just hang out at some point during the week."
The word Southworth heard most often for the workplace area from his fellow tech reps was "maneuverability," that is, more space to hone their craft, which includes but is not limited to, replacing shafts, grinding and stamping clubs, changing grips, measuring lofts and lies, and just building clubs from scratch. There is also a separate workspace for the Vokey Design wedge team within the trailer.
The challenge was to accommodate those needs while still securing enough room to stock an inventory of shafts, clubheads, grips, tools, headwear, headcovers and umbrellas. There is also a separate computer station and wi-fi, a satellite dish, three television monitors, a couch, stools and table for meetings, and an ice chest and cabinetry for cold drinks and healthy snacks.
This marks the third and most technologically advanced Titleist Tour Van since the original debuted in 2002. That 32' van was replaced late in 2006 by a 34' version which appeared at virtually every PGA Tour event (with the exception of Hawaii) over the past seven years, totaling nearly 130,000 miles crisscrossing the country. It will continue to be used to service the equipment needs of players on the Web.com Tour, making its first appearance at last week's Chiquita Classic.
"This is really a win-win for our Tour Leadership team," said Southworth. "We have a state-of-the-art trailer that will help our team service our growing list of full product line players more efficiently, and the Web.com Team will be able to do the same now that they have a full service van."
Posted: September 9, 2013
The FedExCup Playoffs took the weekend off but there was still plenty of exciting golf being played over the weekend including a pair of all-Pro V1x sudden death playoffs at the Web.com and Champions Tour events.
At the Chiquita Classic, the second event in the Web.com Tour Finals series, Pro V1x golf ball loyalists Andrew Svoboda and Will MacKenzie finished at 12-under 276 to force a playoff. The final round action featured Svoboda closing with a 2-under par 70 and MacKenzie rallying with a 5-under par 67 to force the playoff. Svoboda prevailed with a par on the first extra hole to enter the winner's circle for the second time in 2013.Meanwhile on the Champions Tour, Pro V1x loyalist Esteban Toledo earned his second Champions Tour victory of the season, topping fellow Pro V1x loyalist Kenny Perry with a birdie on the third hole of a sudden death playoff.And on PGA Tour Canada, Mackenzie Hughes trusted his Pro V1x golf ball to birdie four of the last five holes to win the Cape Breton Celtic Classic, which secures his 2014 Web.com Tour status.
Titleist golf ball players have now earned 108 victories across the Worldwide Professional Tours in 2013, more than three times the nearest competitor with 32 and more than all golf balls combined.
In total, 16,867 players have teed up Titleist golf balls in competition on the 2013 worldwide professional tours, more than six times the nearest competitor with 2,515 and more than all competitors combined.
It's time to take a trip around the golfing world with the Team Titleist Tour Recap.
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WEB.COM TOUR: Chiquita Classic
The victory marks the second win of the year for Svoboda who captured the Price Cutter Charity Championship in August for his first Web.com Tour title. He began the final round tied for first with Titleist Brand Ambassador John Peterson.
Of the 129-player Chiquita Classic field, 91 relied upon Titleist golf balls, seven times the nearest competitor with 13.
The Chiquita Classic was the second tournament in the four-event Web.com Tour Finals series. The top-25 players on the Web.com Tour money list - including Svoboda - are assured PGA Tour cards for 2014, while there are also another 25 cards available through earnings in the four-tournament series.??
CHAMPIONS TOUR: Montreal Championship
Toledo shot a final round 3-under 69 to match Perry in regulation at 5-under 211. They each parred the par-4 18th twice in the playoff, and Toledo won on the par-3 10th. The Champions Tour rookie captured the Insperity Championship in May, also winning that event on the third hole of a playoff. ??
Of the 80-player Montreal Championship field, 65 relied upon Titleist golf balls, more than 16 times the nearest competitor with 4. ??A total of 16 players finished among the top 10 and ties at the Montreal Championship with all 16 of them relying upon a Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball for their success.
PGA TOUR CANADA: Cape Breton Celtic Classic
Hughes began the day six shots behind the 54-hole leader, but fired a 6-under 66, the best round of the day, to chase down the victory. The win ensures Hughes' playing status on the 2014 Web.com Tour.?
Of the 154-player Cape Breton Celtic Classic field, 108 relied upon Titleist golf balls, nearly five times the nearest competitor with 22.
Posted: September 3, 2013
Sept. 3, 2013 – Precision engineered for advanced performance, the new Titleist AP1 and AP2 irons deliver longer flight with increased forgiveness and a more solid feel.
Precise iron play requires both distance and control, hitting shots that fly the desired distance with the proper trajectory to softly land the ball near the pin. The new AP1 and AP2 (714 Series) irons, feature progressive designs developed by the Titleist Golf Club R&D team to produce optimum launch, trajectory and distance for each loft.
Advanced CG height progression, precisely designed into both models, creates higher launching long irons and flatter launching short irons for more carry distance with outstanding control to help players stop the ball on the green, closer to the hole.
Titleist R&D also utilized innovative tungsten weighting and manufacturing technologies to make AP1 and AP2 the most forgiving irons in the game at the head sizes and blade lengths preferred by serious golfers. Performance-engineered profiles with precisely placed high density tungsten weighting in the long and mid irons help produce higher MOI, increasing the speed on miss-hits to provide consistent distance without sacrificing workability or shot control.
The new AP1 irons are the longest, most forgiving irons Titleist has ever made, with a multi-material, dual cavity design for players that want maximum distance, forgiveness and solid feel in a great looking progressive game improvement chassis. The new AP2 models are multi-material forged irons that offer distance with trajectory control and forgiveness with workability in a solid feeling, great looking tour-proven chassis.
"When it comes to iron play, distance without the ability to stop your shot is meaningless. You have to hit the ball far enough to reach the green, but also have the proper ball flight to stop it near the hole," said Steve Pelisek, General Manager, Titleist Golf Clubs. "What our R&D team has accomplished with the new AP1 and AP2 models is impressive, effectively taking each individual iron as its own design and optimizing its performance to provide longer distance, more consistent distance and stopping control, even when you don't hit a shot perfectly."
The new irons debuted on the PGA Tour this summer to immediate validation and success, with two instant converters to the new AP2 models quickly earning breakthrough victories. Jordan Spieth won his first-career PGA Tour title at the John Deere Classic with new AP2 irons in the bag, just two weeks after the clubs launched on tour. Soon after, Jason Dufner played new AP2's in winning the PGA Championship for his first major title.
LONGER, PRECISE FLIGHT: Titleist Golf Club R&D designed the new AP1 and AP2 irons to provide the best combination of trajectory and distance control. The long and mid irons feature improved dual-cavity constructions (AP1 has a new, deep undercut; AP2 has a 25-percent thinner upper cavity face) with high density tungsten efficiently placed low in the head for lower CG, making it easier for players to launch the ball higher for more carry distance. The short irons have a thicker upper face and narrower sole that help raise the CG for a lower, flatter trajectory with outstanding control into the green.
The short iron lofts in both AP1 (#7-W) and AP2 (#6-W) have been strengthened 1 degree to help lower launch and increase ball speed for more distance. A second AP1 gap wedge (52º) has also been added to help with set gapping.
"We've really taken progressive design to another level to get that flight and forgiveness where we want it," Pelisek said.
To ensure proper CG height throughout the set, high density tungsten is placed low in the bottom of the hosel of the AP2 P and W irons. This also helps make for a better transition to utility wedges, which typically have the CG slightly closer to the heel.
MAXIMUM FORGIVENESS: AP1 and AP2 irons provide the most forgiveness in the game at their tour-proven blade sizes. High density tungsten is precisely placed low in the toe (and co-forged into the heel of AP2) of the long and mid irons to create high MOI that drives higher ball speeds across the face for more consistent distance on off-center hits.
"Every player can benefit from added forgiveness. You always want to maintain distance so that you carry that bunker, or water hazard, even if you don't catch it on the center of the face," said Dan Stone, Vice President of Titleist Golf Club R&D. "There's a progression in how we design irons. Since long irons require more speed and are more difficult to hit for most players, we try to maximize the forgiveness. You can design more forgiveness into an iron by simply make the head bigger, but in doing so, we would give up control. And Titleist wants to use a profile and shape that players prefer. So we push the envelope with high density tungsten in order to maximize forgiveness while retaining the look that serious golfers want to play."
CO-FORGING PROCESS: Pioneered by Titleist R&D, the co-forging process allows for the extreme placement of high density tungsten low and out on the heel of the AP2 long irons. The result is higher launch with maximum forgiveness, without the loss of workability or shot control, at the AP2's constant, tour-preferred blade length.
The tungsten co-forging process takes place in the middle of the AP2's standard forging process. The partially forged head is removed from the forging die, after which a pilot hole is drilled into the heel. The hole is seeded with the tungsten weight and a steel cap. The head is then returned to the forging die where the tungsten is precisely hammered into place.
"The co-forging process really illustrates the critical thinking and the tremendous design and engineering expertise we have in Titleist R&D to keep finding way to improve our irons," said Marni Ines, Director of Titleist Irons Development. "We have more discretionary weight to play with on the AP2 because of its smaller chassis, which provided us the opportunity to place tungsten in the extreme perimeters of the club head. On average there are over 40 grams of tungsten in the long and mid irons (#3-7), which is around 20 percent of the total head weight. This efficient weighting produces high MOI in a tour-proven profile."
MORE SOLID FEEL: Progressive CG not only helps flight the AP1 and AP2 irons properly, it also helps provide solid feel. The optimized CG heights are positioned closer to the point of impact, resulting in a larger sweet spot for a more solid feel on every shot.
A new face support bar in the AP1 long irons further tunes face vibrations for improved feel at impact. With both models, increased face thickness in the short irons adds mass behind the ball for a more blade-like short iron feel.
IMPROVED SOLE PROFILE: AP1 and AP2 irons feature a new pre-worn leading edge that reduces digging at the point of turf entry, and increased camber (more in the short irons) that helps control divot depth to allow a smooth entry and release from the turf for a more playable sole.
An improved hosel-to-leading edge blend reduces the appearance of offset through both sets, while the AP2 8, 9 and P irons feature a reduced heel height for a more proportioned, compact profile.
AP1 long irons feature a wider topline that adds confidence, while AP1 short irons have a slightly thinner topline and sole for a more playable, solid visual.
Both AP1 and AP2 feature a satin polish playing position with bright polish cavity highlights for superior appearance at address.
PRICE AND AVAILABILITY: The new Titleist AP1 and AP2 (714 Series) irons will be available in Australian and New Zealand golf shops beginning week commencing Nov. 15. AP1 irons have a SRP of AUD $135 per club (steel shaft) and $169 per club (graphite) and NZD $159 per club (steel shaft) and $199 per club (graphite). AP2 irons have a SRP of AUD $185 (steel) and $219 (graphite) per club NZD $219 (steel) and $259 (graphite) per club.
ON TOUR: Nearly 40 players on the worldwide professional tours have already switched to the new AP1 or AP2 models since the seeding and tour validation process began in late June at the PGA Tour's AT&T National. At the John Deere Classic, just two weeks after the new models made their debut on tour, Jordan Spieth trusted the new AP2's to three-consecutive 65s and a maiden PGA Tour title.
Less than a month later, Jason Dufner earned his first major title at the PGA Championship playing a new set of AP2 irons and, as one national golf magazine cover boasted, "lots of precise iron shots." Dufner hit 54 of 72 greens in regulation at Oak Hill, which ranked third overall for the week.
"The new AP2's are really nice. The soles are better, the bounce is configured a little bit differently, and the feel is better," Dufner said. "They just feel real solid through the strike, there's no turf grab with the leading edge and they're just going right through the turf really nice. They feel really solid all around, even if you catch one a little thin or a little heavy they still seem to hold their flight well."
On the Web.com Tour, Peter Malnati also gamed a new set of AP2's in winning the News Sentinel Open, birdieing five of his last seven holes.
Other players who have already put AP2 irons in their bags include: Ben Crane, Kevin Na, Brendon de Jonge, Jbe Kruger, Jason Bohn, Mark O'Meara, Brad Faxon and Jay Haas. Ben Curtis switched to the new Titleist AP1 irons the first week they were available.
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PRECISE FLIGHT with optimum launch, trajectory and distance. More carry distance from higher launching, low CG long irons. More control from compact, flatter launching short irons.
INCREASED FORGIVENESS from the deep, undercut, dual cavity design with high density tungsten weighting. More distance on miss-hits with maximum ball speeds across the face from the high MOI design.
SOLID FEEL through the set from the progressive CG (lower in the long irons). Smooth turf release from the camber sole with pre-worn leading edge.
IMPROVED PROFILE with progressive blade length, topline, and sole widths. Superior appearance with a satin polish playing position with bright polish cavity highlights.
STOCK SHAFTS: AP1 stock shafts feature two high performance, flighted designs to match the flight goals of the new irons. The True Temper XP 95 features a flighted launch with great feel and is 15g lighter than the stock steel shaft in the 712 Series. The Mitsubishi Kuro Kage 65 is a lightweight graphite shaft with higher, flighted launch and great feel.
PRECISE FLIGHT with optimum launch, trajectory and distance by loft. More carry distance from the higher launching, low CG long irons. More control from the thicker face, flatter launching short irons.
INCREASED PLAYABILITY from the dual cavity design with high density tungsten weighting. Consistent speed on miss-hits from the high MOI design for better distance control.
SOLID FEEL through the set from the progressive CG (lower in the long irons). Crisp turf release from the camber sole with pre-worn leading edge and beveled trailing edge.
TOUR PROVEN PROFILE with progressive weighting, face thickness and sole widths. Superior appearance with a satin polish playing position with bright polish cavity highlights.
Sept. 3, 2013 – The new Titleist CB and MB irons, high performance, tour-proven forged blade irons, provide maximum shot control with improved address profiles and enhanced feel through the turf.
Available in golf shops worldwide beginning Nov. 8, the new CB and MB (714 Series) irons maintain the core design fundamentals that have resonated with highly skilled, traditional blade irons players since their initial launch in 2009, delivering advanced shot and trajectory control with classic solid feel and contemporary looks. The Titleist Golf Clubs R&D team has made improvements to the sole, leading edge and hosel of the new models for smoother ground interaction and a more confident visual at address.
"When we ask tour players what we can do to improve the CB or MB irons, their immediate reaction is always the same: Don't do anything. It's a welcomed challenge for our R&D team," said Steve Pelisek, General Manager, Titleist Golf Clubs. "Through advanced computer modeling and extensive player testing we've been able to really fine tune these new designs and provide more performance. The new CB and MB models allow players to work the ball high and low and left and right with a solid blade feel, and now they look better at address and perform even better through the turf."
Forged from 1025 carbon steel, the new Titleist CB and MB irons feature tour-preferred constant blade lengths with minimal progressive offset for maximum workability. Compact shapes with precise CG locations and traditional tour lofts deliver the proven flight, feel and shot-making confidence that have made CB and MB the choice of many of the world's best players.
The new CB irons feature an optimized shallow cavity-back design with an inner cavity muscle behind the impact area for solid blade iron feel. MB is a classic muscle back forged iron, delivering great feel from muscle back weighting positioned behind the sweet spot.
The sole design of both CB and MB features a pre-worn leading edge for crisp ground contact and less digging at entry, and a smooth sole width progression as you move through the set to enhance ground interaction. The slightly wider CB sole now features increased front-to-back camber for better turf release and playability from a variety of attack angles.
"The feel of an iron isn't just about the feel at impact. An often overlooked component is how the iron feels after impact, going in and out of the turf," said Dan Stone, Vice President, Titleist Golf Club R&D. "For most tour players the ball has already left the face by the time the club enters the turf. But how the club goes through the turf can significantly affect what the player feels. One of our main goals with the new CB and MB irons was to make that turf feel smoother and easier."
The new CB and MB models have an improved address profile with a slightly straighter leading edge that promotes a square setup and a new hosel-to-leading edge blend that creates less visual offset.
"The type of player that plays CB or MB does not want to see any offset," said Marni Ines, Director of Titleist Irons Development. "We've been able to reduce the appearance of that offset in the new models by better blending that transition from the hosel to the clubface.
"We've really taken our designs to a new level using CAD technology, by creating formulas that drive the shapes and proportions we want to achieve. As a result, we have more consistent shapes and more consistent performance through each set."
The profile in the CB #8, #9 and P irons has also been modified by reducing the PAR (heel) height for a more compact shape.
CB and MB feature a Tour-preferred satin finish that reduces glare and accentuates the toe and topline profile for easier alignment of the face and confidence at address.
ON TOUR: More than 75 players across the worldwide professional tours have already added new CB and MB irons to their bags, including Matteo Manassero (MB), Tim Clark (CB), Geoff Ogilvy (MB) and Graham DeLaet, who played a mixed set of CB and MB irons in registering top-3 finishes at The Barclays (T-2) and Deutsche Bank Championship (3rd).
Gregory Bourdy put a mixed set of the new CB and MB irons in play for the first time at the European Tour's Wales Open, where he birdied his final three holes to win by two shots. John Riegger, playing the new MB irons, birdied three of his final four holes, to win the Champions Tour's Boeing Classic.
"The new irons are fantastic, it just has that kind of classic look to them, you put them down and you feel like you know you're going to hit them straight," said John Merrick, who finished T-6 at the Canadian Open, the first week he put the new MB irons in play. "They go through the turf excellent."
"They look great," said Ben Kohles, who put the new CB irons in the bag the first week they were available at AT&T National. "They have a little bit of a different sole to them, very slight, but you can tell that through impact is a little bit more forgiving."
Other players that have put the new CB models in play include: Greg Chalmers, D.H. Lee, Brett Rumford, Anders Hansen, Brooks Koepka and Tom Gillis. Those also playing the new MB models include: Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Marc Leishman, Bud Cauley, Soren Hansen, Jimmy Walker and D.J. Trahan.
PRICE AND AVAILABILITY: The new Titleist CB and MB irons will be available in Australian and New Zealand golf shops from November 15. Both models have a SRP of AUD $175 per club/steel and $209 per club/graphite and NZD $219 per club/steel and $249 per club/graphite.
MAXIMUM SHOT CONTROL from the traditional constant blade length with minimal progressive offset.
CLASSIC SOLID FEEL from the compact head shape and shallow cavity with inner muscle.
HIGH PERFORMANCE SOLE with increased camber and blended width progression.
IMPROVED ADDRESS PROFILE with slightly straighter leading edge and blended hosel for less visual offset.
COMPACT SHORT IRONS with slightly reduced blade height in the heel.
STOCK SHAFT: High performance, tour-proven Dynamic Gold steel shaft provides tour-preferred flight, feel, feedback and performance.
CLASSIC SOLID FEEL from the compact head shape and muscle back weighting.


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To improve global health, what we need isn't just Bill Gates' billions, but Microsoft's managers.
When I attended public health school in the early 1990s, my coursework included biostatistics, epidemiology, AIDS, and demography. These are all "issues" in public health, but less so in public-health delivery. Little of it helps me in the public health work I conduct today. Even at the time, I had spent enough time in the field to know that the study of these discrete areas was no match for the problems faced by implementers every day. Ironically, it wasn't until I spent a few years working as a private-sector management consultant that I obtained skills that would be helpful in the public health arena. I wanted to understand how the world's best companies strategized and implemented their strategies. How did they measure success and constantly improve? How did they bring their ideas and products to scale?
When I returned to public health in 2002, I worked to build out teams to aid in the preparation of Global Fund proposals for African countries. But instead of just picking people with strong public health resumes, I looked for MBAs and others with business acumen. I was often viewed skeptically by the public health establishment. My mentor and the dean emeritus of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, Allan Rosenfield, initially balked at my first hire for Rwanda, a senior manager from McKinsey, the global management consulting firm.
But attitudes changed quickly: By the time that manager had helped expand AIDS testing services from two clinics to 65–in the course of a year–the tide had already begun to shift (and so had Rosenfield's opinion). His experience building professional management, deepening the pools of local capacity, and rapidly achieving results helped set Rwanda's experience apart from other nations which were ostensibly better financed and positioned for success.
Today there is, from my own perspective at least, a new willingness to consider merging private-sector thinking with public health priorities. But the shift is incomplete. For too long, doctors have run the public health establishment. Their exclusiveness and insularity has crowded out those with other, equally needed, skills. Epidemiologists–perhaps the next-largest class of the public health cognoscenti–are taught a much different and more liberal way to think, but only by a matter of degrees. While doctors and epidemiologists are vital to global public health efforts, what's missing is the sort of perspective economists, sociologists, management consultants, and even politicians can bring, a new and enlightened way of answering the question public health specialists and doctors ask: What do people die from? What is needed today is a spectrum of others with varied backgrounds in business, management, and public policy who can offer new, creative diagnoses that require far more complex approaches.
Public health professionals are latter-day martyrs–and, for better or worse, they know it. The dirty little secret of global public health is that the focus has always been on how to gallantly do as much as possible with as little as possible. That central fact of professional life for public health workers–dating back to Cicely Williams's work on childhood nutrition in the Gold Coast in the 1920s and 1930s–has been the model into which all public health experts have been indoctrinated. This perspective has pushed public health to remarkable achievements given the funds invested. But it has also stifled the ambitions long advocated by the community, dreams like the 1978 Alma Ata declaration of "Health for All by the Year 2000" and today's more tempered but still ambitious Millennium Development Goals to "have halved by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS" and to "reduce by two-thirds" the "under five mortality rate." More contentious, system-reinforcing efforts like providing family planning and maternal health services are notably absent from the Millennium Development Goals, thanks to lobbying by an unlikely group that includes Iran, the Vatican, and the Bush White House. Such idealism and ambiguity can only lead to unrealized dreams (with some exceptional successes in countries that manage to put together the right business plan and team for achieving this success).
Perhaps one of the leading drivers of poor performance–or at least acceptance of poor performance–is that unlike a corporation, which is clearly motivated by profits, NGOs' and donors' motives are less defined. Larry Diamond has noted in these pages that after spending $500 billion on aid in Africa, the continent is largely worse off for the expenditures ["End Foreign Aid as We Know It," Issue #8]. That critique is often rejected for failing to consider some small accomplishment or another, as well as the relatively small amount of "good" aid that has gone to programs that deliver results. Correctly, however, Diamond joins a chorus of others who conclude that the way in which aid is given must be radically restructured, along with the way that aid is used.
The failure of aid in the past for global public health has influenced today's approaches enormously. In part, we focus on AIDS today because counting people on AIDS medicines is an inarguably objective criteria hard to match in more complex endeavors such as comprehensive health systems' improvements. Alas, this singular focus on AIDS and related pandemics means that doctors and nurses who previously focused on primary health care and childhood and maternal health have been lured away by higher wages for AIDS work, offered by donor-funded initiatives. Some countries, such as Rwanda, have attempted to steer disease-specific funds toward overall health advances by using investments to improve infrastructure where possible and to focus on diseases other than AIDS, many of which are easily treatable but have been largely ignored. Nevertheless, the Rwandan experience and other nations' progress continue to demonstrate that developing countries need an across-the-board upgrade of their health systems and that the management to get that job done does not yet exist.
What would a new, management-oriented approach to developing world public health look like? Ask Jim Yong Kim, a co-founder of Partners in Health, a public health NGO, and a professor at both the Medical School and School of Public Health at Harvard University. Kim has long been a fervent advocate for applying business acumen to the public health sector and to teaching public health much the way business is taught today: by case studies. He often jokes that there should be a collection of case studies on public health failures. He recently asked, "What can we learn from business and communications experts that will help us better deliver healthcare? How can we ensure that the lifesaving products and technologies are as available in poor countries as imported soft drinks?"
In response, Kim is putting together the Global Health Delivery Project (GHD), a new initiative out of Harvard in which global health meets the business world. Led by Kim, physician Paul Farmer, and business professor Michael Porter, GHD addresses the implementation gap between good plans and good execution by studying successes and failures in global health care delivery and the design and management of health care delivery systems in low-resource settings. According to them, "Practitioners of health care worldwide need effective care delivery models, support, training, information, and tools to utilize new resources in a way that will provide the best-possible care; yet no comprehensive effort currently exists to address their needs." They plan to focus Harvard's program in four key areas: education to teach effective methods of health delivery; interdisciplinary "communities of practice" to leverage the Internet to disperse these ideas; research to unite clinical research, operational research, and engineering science; and innovation centers, located across Africa, to provide on-the-ground research, learning, and teaching for Harvard's affiliates and others.
This is, of course, just one effort, not a wholesale reform; on the other hand, there is no governing body of public health, and so any change will have to come through the effective demonstration of new approaches by groups like Kim's. The key is figuring out the right curriculum and case studies to train the talent required today. The intersection of the private and public sectors is a challenge for any discipline, and public health implementation anywhere–the United States being a glaring example–has an extraordinarily difficult time getting it right. A true business approach in global public health demands that clear metrics, interventions, incentives, and feedback mechanisms be put in place to focus on health improvement just as the private sector focuses on profits. Practitioners need not have an understanding of the minutiae of health challenges. They simply need to be great managers, trained in the basics of public health, with superb strategic, organizational, and implementation skills. The next step for Kim and Harvard needs to be satellite programs across Africa; even with innovation centers, the project is still rooted in Cambridge. As Kim and others in GHD know first-hand, learning management techniques thousands of miles from the health centers of Africa risks irrelevance.
The Rwandan Model
In recent years Rwanda–not Harvard–has been at the forefront of bringing management techniques to its public health system. In light of its history of genocide and war, Rwanda seems an unlikely candidate for a rapidly expanding professionalized health care system. However, during the decades prior to the genocide, hundreds of thousands of Rwandans spread across the world in a massive Diaspora. They were exposed to new approaches and developed new expectations about health care, all the while longing to return and rebuild the nation. Their return in the 1990s coincided with the rise in international interest and, eventually, funding for specific diseases, particularly AIDS. Furthermore, the relatively transparent government, combined with its can-do attitude, has made it a haven for donor dollars seeking speedy results.
Millions of health dollars–from governments, the Global Fund, NGOs, and family foundations–began flowing in 2003, but the limitations of the country's remote health centers often kept these resources from reaching a substantial portion of the country's population. While funds for international health issues increased, on-the-ground success lagged behind. In response, the Access Project, an initiative to deliver management talent to far-flung health centers, began working in health centers in Rwanda with business-style metrics and private-sector expectations of sustainability and scalability.
The Access Project is just one local initiative, and yet its success illustrates the possibility for similar efforts elsewhere. This is not a stand-alone effort, but one that complements existing programs. Financed by technology maven and businessman Rob Glaser, the CEO of Real Networks, it builds on the Global Fund's success by delivering on-the-ground assistance with its implementation. Blaise Karibushi–a medical doctor and MBA who currently directs the Access Project in Rwanda–insists that with proper guidance and systems, any health center can improve its operations to the point where it can sustainably deliver quality health care to the community. The interventions his team has implemented fall into ten categories of management, none of which sound as sexy as delivering AIDS drugs to desperately ill children, but all of which improve health–including management of data, planning and reporting, human resources management, and financial management, including local insurance schemes. This is the stuff that most donors want nothing to do with, but it is the stuff that the future of public health must be built on.
Unlike other organizations that immediately move into a health center and choose a specific need (X-ray machines, water, electricity, training), the Access Project begins by diagnosing the management needs of health centers. It has found centers where there are plenty of nurses, but because there is no proper scheduling, they are deployed inefficiently and as a result deliver terrible results. In other centers it has found that just three nurses are expected to manage the delivery of care to a population of 25,000, procure medicine, handle community insurance, and maintain the facility, all on a total budget of a few thousand dollars per year. The results are predictable: no health care delivered, low morale, and few patients. But with a proper management structure–merely by providing sufficient accounting systems, drug procurement guides, and basic management training–these centers have been able to get on their feet quickly. And while donors have proved hard to corral before Access Project begins work on a particular facility, once it has completed its overhaul, they tend to become suddenly interested in making investments. In one dramatic case, a health center that had been seeing five to 10 patients a day was seeing over 150 patients six months after management reforms were implemented, and as a result it qualified for other donor financing to offer AIDS services.
Global Health at a Crossroads
There is a true revolution in global public health funding going on. The Gates Foundation has become the most prominent force financially and ideologically in the sector, spending nearly $3 billion in 2008, but thousands of smaller foundations are also engaged. There are more than 71,000 foundations in the United States today, and with over $40 billion donated last year (albeit only a small percentage for global health), their giving is accelerating and great opportunities are in the offing.
This outpouring provides a window for action; many in the global public health community, from doctors to donors, are opening up to the idea of a managed, systems-wide approach. In 2006, having seen the limitations of disease-specific approaches particularly in countries with weak health systems, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced that it would accept proposals for improvements in health systems. Advocates for anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) are today at the forefront of demanding that health workers be trained and placed in the hills and deserts, not just in the urban and peri-urban areas where delivery of ARVs is easier. They are beginning to address health not by focusing on a limited slate of diseases, but rather by focusing on every aspect of life that contributes to health, from the management of care programs to agricultural productivity to telecommunications improvement and the provision of clean water.
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Josh's excellent piece points to an opportunity for skilled managers looking to apply their experience in new ways after the end of their earlier careers.
The McKinsey alum who spearheaded the Rwanda work would appear to be a case in point, and Bill and Melinda Gates themselves, in looking for a new leader of their foundation, did indeed pick a senior Microsoft manager, Jeff Raikes.
There's a wealth of management talent becoming available as members of the boomer generation start to reach the end of their midlife careers. How about a global management corps to train, consult and mentor local public health managers?
Civic Ventures and Encore.org would be happy to play a role in such an initiative.
David Bank
Editor, Encore.org
Thanks Josh for this excellent piece. It's very comprehensive and addresses many issues. For readers who would like to learn more about the GHD project, here's our blog/website: http://www.globalhealthdelivery.org.
Also, health care practitioners are invited to join the recently launched GHD "Communities of Practice" platform - where implementers share proven practices, connect with colleagues, and find resources they need to improve health outcomes in resource-limited settings - here: http://www.ghdonline.org
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This tutorial will show you how to make a Digital Girl. This tutorial is intended for intermediate to advanced Photoshop users.
Step 1:
- Start off by finding an image you of a model that you would like to use. I used a picture of Jarah Mariano, and I used the pen tool in 'Shape Layers' mode and outlined the outside contour of her body.
- With the newly created shape layer rename is "Model", and set the color to #B9C2D3 and put its fill opacity to about 77%.
- Then add a Stroke layer style with the stroke color set to white, and a 2px stroke radius. The image should look something like this:
Step 2:
- So now we want to have only the image of the model without the background. Make sure that your on the layer with the model's image on it.
- Hold down the ctrl button and click on the "Model" shape layer you just created. You'll get a dotted line around the outline of the model. With your Rectangle Marque Tool, left click on the document, and click on "Layer via Copy". That should have created a new layer with only the model on it, and the background should be transparent.
- You can now change the background to a gradient or any color you wish. I made the background color black:
Step 3:
- Now we're going to trace the inner contours of her body including the clothes she's wearing. To being with, click on your brush tool, and set it to a "Hard Round Brush" and set the radius to 2px. Create a new layer, and using the Pen Tool set to 'Paths' mode, start tracing an inner contour of the model's body.
- Once you have one inner contour finished, right click and select "Stroke Path". Make sure that when you get the Stroke popup menu, that you have tool set to Brush and keep the 'Simulate Pressure' box unchecked. You should now have a stroke line on the new layer you created.
- Repeat this step until you have all the contours of her body stroked. I Recommend that you put the contours of the models face, and clothes, on two separate layers so you can tweak them later. Once you finish creating all the inner body contours, put those layers into a layer set. Your Image should now look something like this:
Step 4:
- Now, hide the inner countour layers and the 'Model' shape layer, and have the layer with the model's image selected.
- Have the layer with the model on it selected and desaturate the image (ctrl+shift+u)
- Go up to Image>Adjustments>Curves, and set your curves so that the shading on the model's body looks something like this:
Step 5:
- Go to Filter>Noise>Median, and set the median to 1px. Your image should look something like this:
Step 6: Go to Filter>Artistic>Plastic Wrap and put in these settings:
Step 7:
- Go to Filter>Noise>Median again, and have the radius set to 1px.
- Make all the contour files you hid in step 4 visible.
- Select the 'Model' layer shape and set the blending mode to "Multiply" and put an Outer Glow layer style:
Now put on an Inner Shadow layer style:
Now add a stroke Layer Style:
Step 8:
- Now, with the inner contour strokes we created in step 2, set their blending mode to Soft Light.
- I wanted to make the stroke lines of the model's face less noticeable, lowered the opacity until I got the effect I liked. Your finished image should look like this:
- I was looking at the image and i wasn't happy with how the Plast Wrap filter left some parts of the image looking a bit…odd. So to fix that problem I used the Dodge and Burn tool to darken/lighten certain areas of the image.
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Bedbugs: See a map of the addresses of all bedbug complaints made to the city in 2010
Denver's bedbug infestation has been called one of the worst in the country. But is that true? As explained in this week's cover story, "Bug Bedlam," it's tough to tell, since the city doesn't track bedbug infestations. But it does take complaints about them through the Department of Environmental Health. Page down for a map showing addresses of all bedbug complaints in 2010. Note: Just because a complaint was made doesn't mean it was founded.
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NEP Trio Video and NEP Screenworks Mark Seventh Year of Providing Production Services to Austin City Limits Music Festival
NEP Trio Video and NEP Screenworks Deliver Complete HD Video Solution for Webcasts and On-Site Big-Screen Presentations for World-Renowned Festival, Expanded to Two Weekends This Year
PITTSBURGH — Nov. 5, 2013 — NEP Trio Video has completed its seventh successful year as the exclusive provider of mobile video production facilities and services for the Austin City Limits (ACL) Music Festival, held Oct. 4-6 and Oct. 11-13 at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas. Stretched to two weekends this year for the first time, the ACL Music Festival offered more than 30 hours of live HD video coverage over its two YouTube(TM) channels, all of it captured by NEP Trio Video's trucks and crew. In addition, NEP Trio Video partnered with its sister organization, NEP Screenworks, to supply content to the ACL Festival Network — a private on-site network that delivered the live video to VIP areas and to large-format on-stage screens and monitors throughout the venue. NEP Trio Video and NEP Screenworks were under contract to festival video producer Springboard Productions and C3 Presents.
"C3 believes in the power and appeal of live music, and demonstrated that belief by expanding the festival to two weekends this year," said Hank Neuberger, president of Springboard Productions. "Of course, we knew NEP Trio Video and NEP Screenworks would provide the flawless results we've come to expect for both the on-site festival attendees and our online Web audiences. They're able to share resources, equipment, and expertise to provide a nearly seamless HD video experience for our customers — something that's difficult to find with other mobile production companies."
NEP Trio Video provided its Tango, Beta, and XL2 mobile units, more than 14 cameras, and engineering support to cover this year's sold-out ACL Music Festival, which featured more than 125 bands over eight stages and drew more than 70,000 music fans each day. The live two-channel webcast was available at the festival's YouTube channel and the aclfestival.com website.
In addition, the on-site Festival Network has become a valuable revenue source for C3 Presents, enabling C3 to offer the video feed to sponsors as part of an overall sponsorship package. NEP Trio Video (with support from NEP Screenworks) supplied eight entertainment channels to the ACL Festival Network — four channels of live music from the main stages, two HD webcast channels, and two specialty channels with changeable content.
"The 2013 ACL Music Festival caps a very busy music season for us. This year, we provided HD trucks and/or engineering support to every major North American music fest, including Coachella, Stagecoach, BottleRock, Hangout Fest, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and Outside Lands Festival, as well as Lollapalooza Chile. In total, these festivals represent more than 1,000 music performances," said Peter Kimball, senior account manager at NEP Trio Video. "As the festival business continues to grow and mature, organizers are concentrating more on their overall message and branding, and they've realized they need the most professional, competent, and technically advanced production partners they can get. We appreciate the trust we've built with Springboard Productions/C3 Presents and look forward to building on our relationship in 2014."
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An independent concert promotion, event production and artist management company based out of Austin, Texas. Annually, C3 produces the Austin City Limits Music Festival and Austin Food & Wine Festival in Austin, Texas, Lollapalooza in Chicago, Illinois, Big Day Out in Australia, and Orion Music + More in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In addition, C3 puts on special events worldwide, including President Barack Obama's Election Night Celebration and the Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial, both in 2008. C3 Presents is the third largest concert promoter in the United States and C3 was awarded Top Independent Promoter from Billboard in 2012. http://www.c3presents.com/
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SPRINGBOARD is a unique production resource. Founded by Grammy-winning producer Hank Neuberger in 2007, Springboard has delivered groundbreaking new media solutions at high-profile live events for broadcast, broadband, mobile, and IPTV. Springboard consistently combines the highest quality with just the right technology to best realize their clients' presentation goals. http://springboardproductions.net/
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With the world's most advanced equipment, largest fleet of mobile units, and global production studios to suit every genre, NEP enables its clients to execute, deliver, and display exceptional productions on any platform around the world. For more than 30 years, NEP has ensured its clients' success by delivering superior service and building lasting relationships with a passion for continuous innovation. NEP's talented staff is committed to acting with integrity and working as a team to deliver comprehensive solutions for remote production, studio production, video display, webcasting, and power generation that set the global industry standard. For more information, visit www.nepinc.com.
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Since Microsoft's revamped MSN search, now named Bing, was launched in June 2009, the search engine has slowly gained market share in search and shopping. For several years now, MSN search has hung around the 5-percent market share point, with Yahoo over 20-percent and Google between 60 – 70 percent.
After the two month honeymoon phase is over, Bing search has gained a percentage point in the market from 8.23 in June to 9.41 this month. Now, this may not sound like a lot but it makes a Bing / Yahoo partnership more understandable.
Consider that last year Yahoo search was over 20-percent in market share and now its numbers are half of that. Also, consider that Google is around 77.5, so with Bing and Yahoo combining forces, there will once again be some semblance of competition.
Bing has also made significant strides in another area as well. Bing Shopping has increased 169-percent since its debut in June. Bing Shopping is now the 4th largest shopping comparison site (with Yahoo Shopping in 1st place).
And, just this week, Microsoft has announced Bing Shopping's Double Cashback promotion. By purchasing from merchants enrolled in the Cashback promotion, Microsoft will send you a direct check.
In the Bing interface, you sign up under the Extras pull down in the top right corner and then any store that displays the Cashback logo will qualify you for a Microsoft check. Now, for years Microsoft has been lackadaisical about search.
Bill Gates a couple of years ago even commented about how Microsoft underestimated the value of search from the very beginning. But, in 2 months time, Bing has made some serious headway as a tool to search for both information and products.
It may take a while before Bing takes a ding out of Google and gives us a bang for our buck. Google followers are a loyal bunch. But, building a better mousetrap will always turn people in your direction and so let's see in the weeks and months to come if Bing becomes such a mousetrap.


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President of Broward Title and Escrow Company Charged in Multi-Million Mortgage Fraud Scheme
Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Vance Luce, Acting Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service, Miami Field Office, and Tom Grady, Commissioner, State of Florida's Office of Financial Regulation, announced today that defendant Michelle Austin-Wilks, 38, of Parkland, Florida, was charged in a federal criminal complaint with wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343, for her participation in a mortgage fraud scheme. If convicted, Austin-Wilks faces up to thirty years' imprisonment on the wire fraud charge.
According to the criminal complaint, Michelle Austin-Wilks was President and Director of Direct Title & Escrow Services, Inc., in Oakland Park, Florida. Austin-Wilks and others allegedly engaged in a scheme to enrich themselves by fraudulently buying and selling residential real estate property in Broward County through straw buyers. These straw buyers obtained high value mortgages based on fraudulent mortgage loan applications and closing statements.
According to the complaint, after the lenders approved the loans based on the false loan applications, Austin-Wilks prepared false HUD-1 Settlement Statements that, among other things, falsely represented to the lenders that the straw buyers were bringing their own money to closing. She also created and submitted duplicate HUD-1 Settlement Statements for the same real estate transaction, reflecting different sales prices to the seller and to the lender. The lender's version reflected a significantly higher purchase price than the seller's version of the HUD-1 Settlement Statement.
After closing, the lenders wired a total of approximately $3 million in mortgage loan proceeds into Direct Title & Escrow's bank account, which was controlled by Austin-Wilks. Thereafter, defendant Austin-Wilks wire transferred $68,562 and $382,000, respectively, to a mortgage broker and a straw buyer for their assistance in the mortgage fraud scheme. The mortgage broker, Jinnie Mathurin, has pled guilty to one count of wire fraud and is scheduled to be sentenced on February 28, 2012, before U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks. The straw buyer, Guhier Florvilus, has also pled guilty to one count of wire fraud and is scheduled to be sentenced on March 1, 2012, before U.S. District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley.
Mr. Ferrer commended the investigative efforts of the U.S. Secret Service and Florida's Office of Financial Regulation. Mr. Ferrer also commended the U.S. Marshal's Service for their substantial efforts in locating defendant Austin-Wilks in Jamaica and returning her to the United States to face charges. This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Katz.
A complaint is only an accusation and a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
A copy of this press release may be found on the website of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida at http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls. Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida at http://www.flsd.uscourts.gov or on http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov.


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Sickness caused by contradiction between external data from the eyes and internal cues from the balance centre in the inner ear. For example, in seasickness the inner ear senses the ship's motion, but the eyes see the still cabin. This stimulates stress hormones and accelerates stomach muscle contraction, leading to dizziness, pallor, cold sweat, and nausea and vomiting. Minimizing changes of speed and direction may help, as may reclining, not turning the head, closing the eyes, or focusing on distant objects. Drugs can prevent or relieve motion sickness but may have side effects. Pressing an acupuncture point on the wrist helps some people.
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Seasickness is a form of motion sickness characterized by a feeling of nausea and, in extreme cases, vertigo experienced after spending time on a craft on water. It is typically brought on by the rocking motion of the craft. Some people are particularly vulnerable to the condition with minor stimulus and will feel seasick simply by setting foot on a boat, even if the vessel is in dry dock, while others are relatively immune, or become immune through exposure.Some people have even claimed experiencing sea sickness while watching nautical themed television programs.
Seasickness can be a debilitating condition and can be dangerous if the sufferer has an important role to carry out, such as steering a yacht through stormy seas while avoiding rocks and other hazards. It is also particularly hazardous for scuba divers who, through dehydration following vomiting, are at increased risk of decompression illness.
Sea-sickness has such a remarkable effect because both the sense of sight and touch are disturbed by the motion of a craft on water. The severity of seasickness is also influenced by the irregular pressure of the bowels against the diaphragm as they shift with the rising and falling of the ship.
In his book The Human Body, Isaac Asimov related the anecdote about a seasick passenger whom a steward cheerfully assured that nobody ever died from seasickness. The passenger muttered, "Please--it's only the hope of dying that's keeping me alive."
Many experience similar effects while not at sea:
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George Will's January 1 column in the Washington Post was a laundry list of familiar criticisms of progressives and Democrats–they worry too much about climate change, for instance.
Another non-problem, in Will's world, is student loan debt:
Political logic suggests that this year Obama will try to rekindle the love of young voters with some forgiveness of student debts. But one-third of students do not borrow to pay college tuition. The average debt for those who do borrow to attend a four-year public institution is $22,000, and the average difference between the per-year earnings of college graduates and those with only a high school diploma is … $22,000.
I guess one lesson is that 2/3 of college students should either get themselves full scholarships or wealthier parents. But in the event that this isn't possible, never fear–you'll make enough money in a hurry to pay off your debt.
The more important question might be how this level of debt has changed over time. According to this item from the Wall Street Journal's Real Time Economics blog (8/15/11), "There was $550 billion in student debt outstanding in the second quarter, up 25 percent from $440 billion in the third quarter of 2008."
And as the Project on Student Debt reports, the average debt load doubled from 1996 to 2008: