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FSG need to prove themselves
The owners dont need to prove anything, they have been brilliant and this is a learning curve for them. They came in, unsaddled our debt and then within 18 months have trimmed away £500k a week of our wage bill whilst reducing the average age of our squad by monstrous amounts and in keeping with the homegrown rules and prepared us for FFP. Other then the players we bought in the summer, we also went for Phil Jones and Ashley Young, just that we know of as well as not planning to sell Meireles till he showed his late hand.
The only reason we didnt buy in January was because they had learned their lesson with over priced January signings, showing they are quickly learning the football 'game'. Comolli was sacked as they have developed a new plan, the new stadium plan is being developed and we have a kit deal worth around £300m! What do some people want?! We were 1 day away from administration and now people want to be competing in the shop window with Madrid and City! Even though results have been average this year, we are moving forward as a club, if patience is really so low, there is other clubs you can support!
What do I want Peter? I want my cake and eat it!
I want a club with the best website, best commercial department, best youth set-up, best reserves and best first team etc. Simple eh?
My point is that the owners have been going on about how money is no object when it comes to success. They can't expect to throw 20 million in the kitty in the summer and expect us to get CL next season if the other big clubs are going on massive spending sprees as well. It is a historical fact that you have to spend massively on the squad to get success. We have to do that. I wouldn't expect us to compete for the title for 3 years at least even with major squad investment every year.
The fact that they have only spent 30 odd million net shows they have not yet proven those words. To be fair, I was very impressed with the fact that they allowed us to make signings before shipping out the cr@p, and I am confident they will put their money where their mouth is, but nonetheless, they need to really show it in the summer or we will never have the success in the league we all crave.


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STABBING... IT HAPPENED EARLY THIS MORNING... IN LIBERTY TOWNSHIP... A COUPLE... AND THEIR SON... ARE NOW RECOVERING IN AREA HOSPITALS... WLWT NEWS 5'S ANDREW SETTERS IS LEADING THE WAY ON THIS STORY... HE JOINS US LIVE NOW WITH THE LATEST ON THE INVESTIGATION. ANDREW? RIGHT NOW, WE KNOW THAT ONE PERSON IS FACING CHARGES. WITH THREE PEOPLE HURT - IT'S NOT CLEAR IF MORE CHARGES COULD BE FILED. THIS DOMESTIC ASSAULT TURNED DANGEROUSLY VIOLENT THIS MORNING WHEN A KNIFE WAS USED. POLICE WERE CALLED HERE TO ROCKDALE ROAD AROUND 5-30 THIS MORNING. THE BUTLER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE SAYS 64 YEAR-OLD RICHARD GROVE SUFFERED KNIFE WOUNDS AND HAD TO BE AIRLIFTED TO U-C MEDICAL CENTER. HIS 58 YEAR-OLD WIFE, SHARON AND THEIR 23 YEAR-OLD SON MATTHEW WERE BOTH TAKEN TO WEST CHESTER MEDICAL CENTER. ALL THREE ARE EXPECTED TO RECOVER. INVESTIGATORS HAVE REMAINED ON THE SCENE HERE WAITING ON A SEARCH WARRANT SO THEY CAN GO INSIDE AND LOOK FOR THE WEAPON. NEIGHBORS SAY THERE HAVE BEEN PROBLEMS AS THE HOME BEFORE AND THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME DEPUTIES HAVE BEEN CALLED TO THIS HOME. (Sgt. Rob Whitlock, Butler County Sheriff's Office) ("There is a history here, at this house. We've had several calls at this house for numerous things. As far as the specifics of what those calls were I don't know.") RIGHT NOW - 58 YEAR-OLD SHARON GROVE IS OUT OF THE HOSPITAL - AND NOW SHE'S IN THE JAIL. SHE'S CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. IT'S NOT CLEAR WHAT EXACTLY SHE'S ACCUSED OF DOING, OR IF HER HUSBAND OR SON WILL BE CHARGED. LIVE IN LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, ANDREW SETTERS, WLWT NEWS FIVE. WE'RE ALSO FOLLOWING SOME
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Regan is an adolescent girl, living with her mother in Georgetown in Washington. She exhibits strange symptoms, including levitation and great strength. When all medical possibilities are exhausted, her mother is sent to a priest who is also a psychiatrist. He becomes convinced that Regan is possessed and he and a second priest experienced in exorcism try to drive the spirit from Regan before she dies.
In 1998, the year of its 25th anniversary, you couldn't avoid The Exorcist. There were books, a television documentary and thousands of column inches to mark its theatrical reissue. It was re-viewed and reviewed, and the general consensus was that it was as good today as it had always been.
However, in a surreal twist of events, the British Board Of Film Censors still refused to grant the film a video certificate. The then BBFC boss James Ferman said, "The problem with The Exorcist is not that it's a bad film, it's that it's a very good film — one of the most powerful ever made."
Thus, in 1998, despite this sense that The Exorcist was back in the public domain, you still could not rent or buy it in this country. In effect, one of the most powerful films ever made was rendered even more powerful. Like Clockwork Orange (1971), The Evil Dead (1982) and The Beach Boys' Surf's Up album, The Exorcist attained the mythic power of unattainability. Then, in 1999, the spell was broken. The BBFC woke up, smelt the coffee, and finally saw fit to grant The Exorcist its requisite 18. Out it came on video, laserdisc and DVD.
Now the demon Pazuzu walks among us; he lurks in high street shops between A Bug's Life (1998) and Patch Adams (1998), he sits on Ikea shelves the length and breadth of the country, he is seen by under-age kids, kids of 12, the same age as Regan MacNeil. The question is, does a film as powerful as The Exorcist lose any of its power by being as accessible as Toy Story? Because we can now skip to a scene, or pause for a cup of tea, or view the film while its director provides a running commentary, does that subtract from the primal fear it tapped into more than a quarter of a century ago? The answer, thankfully, is no. However much the religious aspects of the film affect you (they seem to work best on the devout and the stubbornly atheistic), The Exorcist is still a terrifying movie, a fact proven by the great horror litmus test: even the bits set during the day are scary.
Halloween passes this test (Michael Myers among the washing), as do The Shining (1980) ("All work and no play...") and more recently The Sixth Sense (1999) (the hanging bodies in the school). Although, perhaps the most traditional shock in The Exorcist occurs in darkness (in the attic, in fact), a disarming sense of unease begins in the autumnal streets of Georgetown as fallen leaves dance to the strains of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells. The very thought of The Exorcist can produce goosebumps at any hour of the day — that's how scary it is. Why does this film retain this power to unnerve and upset and how does it have the ability to drain the colour from our cheeks? It's about the Devil possessing a small child (Linda Blair), that's horrible enough, and it contains scenes of physical degradation that would make a coroner blanch. But that's just cheap gore and facile exploitation of our fear of graveyards — you might argue that the really scary thing about The Exorcist is the sound.
There's the aforementioned appropriation of Tubular Bells, there's Jack Nitzsche's sparing but eerie incidentals (insectoid strings underscore the revealing of the words " help me" on Regan's stomach). But put the music aside and concentrate on the actual sound edited by Robert Knudson and Chris Newman (who took home one of the film's measly two Oscars) and you will hear where the horror lies. Here's the heart of the film's subtle command over our synapses: the mysterious scuffling in the attic; the rising crescendo of wind and fighting dogs in Northern Iraq when Father Merrin (Von Sydow) faces the demon statue; the fading echo of screaming as a possession scene cuts to a more peaceful one; and the brilliant use of traffic noise: constant car horns, a deafening subway train, the plane which obscures the conversation between Karras (Jason Miller) and a younger priest in the church courtyard, overheard by Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn).
But the film's piece de resistance, soundwise, is the demon itself, thanks in no small part to the dedication of actress Mercedes McCambridge. It is her guttural voice that provides the obscenities and her willingness to experiment with mushy apple and raw eggs that resulted in her (quite literally) coming up with the vomiting effects. A delicate blend of wild animals, loops and treated voices combined to create the full demonic chorus — so effective that it can be deeply disturbing even without the sight of Linda Blair under Dick Smith's makeup. When Karras plays back a tape recording in his apartment, we're just as spooked as he is.
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RTE's managing director of radio, Clare Duignan, let fly at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications when senators and deputies had a go at RTE.
RTE has angered the public by making unfounded accusations against a Catholic priest. An opinion poll conducted last week for the Sunday Independent shows that most people want the station's chairman, Tom Savage, to resign at this point.
But Duignan is putting distance between those responsible for the debacle and others. Like many RTE programme-makers she is embarrassed by the Prime Time Investigates mess. She herself is the former director of television programmes at RTE.
She reacted fiercely last week when Senator John Whelan referred to "the systematic failures, poor morale, low standards and, in certain quarters, group-think culture which has been spawned by a cult of the clique and cronyism that is alive and well in Montrose and over which he presides".
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"I want to say firmly on the record that I completely disagree with that sweeping generalisation," said Duignan, taking some of the pressure off both Savage and RTE's director-general Noel Curran
Duignan felt besmirched and told Whelan so in no uncertain terms: "It is grossly unfair to me, my colleagues and so many hard-working people in RTE, who are deeply unhappy with this programme, with the outcome of it and with the mistakes that were made. They are embarrassed and ashamed by these failings in one programme in one part of the organisation that have been identified."
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The fact is that relatively few complaints are received by the Press Council and by the BAI Compliance Committee and even fewer are upheld. Some of those who complain loudest about media bias never use such mechanisms. I wonder why.
If the Prime Time Investigates' failings were "typical" of RTE, then people would have complained loudly about other programmes. Even now, after all the negative publicity surrounding that particular production, there is little to indicate similar major mistakes. Surely RTE's competitors in the media would have been quick to highlight them, as they highlighted the phoney tweet on The Frontline, for example?
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You can consider these an add-on to my "By the Harbor" letterbox or you can do it on its own. Enjoy! This is a mini-series of two boxes and only one has the log book.
Start at the location of my By the Harbor Letterbox in Northeast Harbor. [Or find the open park with the flagpole down by the harbor in Northeast Harbor-don't forget to bring the clues and do "By the Harbor" while right here!]
Follow the line of trees across the road, along the edge of the fire department parking lot. Go up the stairs unti you reach the scenic overlook.
Look Behind box
Stand on the top step before going onto the overlook. To you immediate left, you will see a trio of 2-4inch tree trunks. Behind the middle trunk is the Look Behind Box. Use the convenient bench in front of the plaque for stamping.
Look Ahead Box
Once again, stand on the top step before going onto the overlook. Over to the right, you will see a lone evergreen tree in the corner off to the right of the bench. At its base, on the hillside of trunk, you will find the second letterbox.
Be sure and look ahead at the plaque and behind at the beautiful view of the harbor this secret stairway overlook has to offer.
Be sure to bring my clues for "Northeast Neighborhood"- a hint to its location is to continue up these stairs, straight through the parking lot and take a left once you hit town...you are getting warmer! I also have several other letterboxes in NE Hbr, so check them out.


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Complaint Review: First Capital Financial Services Corp
First Capital Financial Services Corp8275 S. Eastern Ave, suite 200 Las Vegas, Nevada United States of America
First Capital Financial Services Corp Property Resale Contract Las Vegas, Nevada
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Jason called us back next few days, after many conversation, we agreed to sell our timeshare and after few changed of the contract which Tracy Callahgan who is Director of Administration of their company sent to us. They asked us send a check of $2276 to cover 1/2 of the closing cost for which it will be fully refund at closing. They promissed that after received the money, they will send us the document with buyer name, address and the closing will be between 14 to 90 days.
On Jan 12, 2 days after we sent the money express to them, we received a letter from Andrew Devaney, who said he is president of the company. He thanks and said will keep us inform every 7 to 10 days of the progress of the sale.
We file a complaint with BBB on Feb13 after many phone call to Devaney but no return call.
On March 8 we received a phone call from Mathew Walters who said he is customer representative of First Capital Services. But when we demand it in writing (via email) and also said we will report this conversation to the BBB, he hang up the phone.
Up to today, there is no news from them consertning our sale of timeshare. We will cooperate with any lawyer concerning this operation inorder to prevent them scam other seniors.
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Welcome to Green Spa Village Holistics!
Western New York's Premiere Organic, Holistic Day Spa
Our goal is to facilitate your journey toward health and wellness on all levels.
Green Spa Village Holistics offers a unique and diverse selection of holistic healing therapies and treatments that will calm, relax, heal and raise you up to your full potential.
Our focus is on whole body healing and wellness. All of the products utilized throughout the spa offered for sale are organic and all natural. Nutrition counseling, diet restructure and whole-body nutrition cleansing assists with healthy living.


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Three schools in Montgomery County got a multi-million dollar face lift as part of a county-wide plan to boost enrollment.
Garret Park, Seven Locks and Cannon Road reopened Wednesday after renovations that took a year and half and more than $50 million dollars to complete.
"I know the excitement for our family was that we started out in the holding school so for us to have this first day, it's been amazing," said Meredith Josef, parent.
After nearly a year-long wait, the schools are now bigger, better and have the latest teaching technology.
"Oh definitely, definitely worth the wait," said Principal Elaine Chang-Baxter.
Officials are hoping that the upgrades will prompt a spike in enrollment. More than 7,000 students are expected to flood the system by 2017.
The schools have promethean boards in the classrooms, green gardens on the roof, bigger gyms and the ever-so coveted big-kid lockers - a huge hit the first-graders.
"The promethean boards will be a big help actually," said Noah Drill, math teacher. "The kids will be able to use them, it's very interactive for the students. It just makes everything a lot more engaging."
Still, the pencil and paper remain.
"Some things stay the same, school is still school," he said.
While many are looking forward to using the new facilities, others are focusing more on what's next.
"A lot of our schools need updating and we need to not only deal with the growth but also the updating of some of our facilities," said John Suhre, teacher.


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Pooja Gandhi's Abhinetri Is A Tribute To 100 Years Of Indian Cinema: Atul Kulkarni
It's a known fact that multi-lingual actor Atul Kulkarni is sharing screen with Pooja Gandhi in Sandalwood's forthcoming movie Abhinetri. The actor, who is busy in the shooting of the movie in Bangalore has said that Abhinetri is a perfect tribute for 100 years of Indian Cinema.
Atul Kulkarni is a well known face in Kannada film industry with the movies like Bhoomi Geetha, Aa Dinagalu and Edegarike. The critically acclaimed actor has also bagged Filmfare award for his role in Edegarike early this year.
Currently, Atul Kulkarni is busy with the first shooting schedule of Abhinetri in Bangalore. Speaking to leading daily, Atul said, "This film is like the perfect tribute to 100 years of cinema. I actually grabbed the opportunity the moment it was offered to me." It is said that Atul is playing the film director's role in the movie.
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Earlier, Pooja Gandhi had refused reveal Atul Kulkarni's role in the movie. Talking about his role in Abhinetri, Atul revealed, "I play a director in the movie and a pleasant one at that. It is a soft character, and I am happy that the director saw me fit into something like this, which is quite different from what I have done so far here." Continue reading the story on slides...


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Hawks Ranch Trucking LLC1449 St Rd 437 Pryor, Oklahoma United States of America
Hawks Ranch Trucking LLC Total Ripoff Pryor, Oklahoma
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After sending in $24.95 in a money order for productclaimcenter.com's activation fee to get a computer, I am waiting 6 weeks later for an order form in which I send in $49.95 to get my computer.
Direct Buy did send me a check for the two amounts because the computer was supposed to be free.
At the end of April I sent an email submitted from their website to them regarding the order form. I received a reply from a Michael Pouls (firstname.lastname@example.com) telling me the order form comes within one month of receipt of the $24.95 money order.
Today I emailed him asking for a $24.95 refund because all of this hassle is not worth it.
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How many miles? 366 Miles / 588 Km
How many times? 5 hours 23 mins
Distance from Muskego, WI to St. Louis, MO is 366Miles or 588 Km. You can get this distance about 5 hours 23 mins. If you want to planning travel with plane for 315 Miles or 507 Km, You can get this distance about 1 hours 10 mins .
A car with an average MPG will needs 16.94 gallons of gas to get the route between these points.
The estimated cost of gas to get between Muskego, WI and St. Louis, MO is $38.45.
During the route, an average car will release 331.89 pounds of CO2 to the atmosphere. Your carbon footprint is 0.91 pounds of CO2 per mile.
* Average US MPG used for calculations is 21.6 MPG.
* Average US gas price used for calculation is 2.27 per gallon.
* Coordinates of Muskego, WI is 42.905848, -88.1389779 and coordinates of St. Louis, MO is 38.6270025, -90.1994042
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Bollywood Celeb's Quirky Superstitions
Luck plays an important role in Bollywood celebrity's life as not all the talented actors are able to achieve stardom in the film industry. Each Bollywood star has his or her own superstition that is followed religiously in order to obtain success in their work.
Ekta Kapoor is the queen when it comes to such superstitious beliefs but there are many top Bollywood stars who wear some talisman or follow some belief thinking that is the reason for their success. For example all Karan Johar's movies starring Shahrukh Khan start with the letter K and the latter's arch rival, Salman Khan has a lucky charm bracelet that he wears 24x7.
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Similarly every Bollywood celebrity has his or her own weird beliefs, talismans which they believe is the reason for what they are today. Most of these beliefs are linked around film releases, IPL cricket matches and other individual success stories.
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About 3 years ago I got involved in our local skatepark project and
sought to bring some UCD to the mix. As a skater, I had to broaden my
understanding of what motivated us skaters from 8 years old to 40 and
help support the most sustainable forms of skating knowing that we were
working in concrete. It was quite an experience and challenge. About
200 hours of work and 3 years later our first park opened and our
research was dead on. Our 9,500 sq foot park has become the "crack" of
the neighborhood skaters and a regional hit as well. About 200 unique
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The Apparatus X project started with an exploration of the architect as an activist in areas of needed intervention.
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast specifically St. Bernard's Parish and the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana. After many initial recovery efforts have failed and additional rebuilding factors have surfaced, these areas have still not effectively been reinhabited.
1 Political issues: relief response factors (including the past failure of
evacuation and rescue), influence/policies (that sometimes undermine re-
habitation, including newly enforced FEMA standards)
2 Housing issues : lack of funds, flood insurance, demolition of home, new
housing standards, lack of infrastructure
3 Quality-of-life issues: a decentralized education system that contributes to
Class segregation, general safety with regards to NOPD corruption and
inefficient crime response, and the fear of flood recurrence and levee
The project advocates an engaging and educational rebuilding strategy to be initiated and implemented by an activist architect as a member of the community. This can be a strategy of material reclamation and repurposing, participatory design, and social engagement bringing together tools, knowledge, and hard work to effectively rebuild these neighborhoods.
Click here to view the full Bachelor of Architecture undergraduate thesis written and developed by Aaron Wertman. (NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME)
In order to acheive this long term vision, the initial catatlyst must be discovered or created. This initial catalyst is Apparatus X, and it's envisioned impact goes beyond that of single community application.
Apparatus X is a recreational vehicle that has been redesigned as an adaptable tool trailer capable of transforming an empty lot into a workspace in communities and areas affected by natural disaster. The trailer will also serve as a mobile design studio for both individual and community design, fostering a collective knowledge and collaborative learning environment. As a third function, the trailer will serve as a micro living unit, which functions at a high level of mechanical efficiency and illustrates a comfortable and spatially efficient living environment.
There are multiple goals and values associated with this design build project:
To provide an apparatus to provide design build service to communities
To serve as an example of efficiency of space, material, and lifestyle
To learn while doing / as a result of the process
To develop skills as a design builder / problem solver
To initiate a role as activist architect
To start a humanitarian effort that promotes self-progressivism
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"I have come to believe that in order to be an effective enabler you have to be a prudent provider. I have come to believe that there are four integrally related sets of responsibility vital to good practice: PROVIDING, ENABLING, ADAPTING, and SUSTAINING (PEAS). Together these define the ideals, responsibilities, and activities of development practice.
There will always be things and resources that we provide. What we provide to save lives (food, tents, first aid, information) will be different to what we provide for the longer term to build livelihoods (skills, knowledge, land, money, materials).
The question is what and how much should be provided to meet the needs of now; and how much and when so that we can sustain development over the longer term? What kind of catalyst interventions will start a process of long-term reconstruction, rather than
pre-empt it? We also know that change and the capacity to adapt to changing circumstances over time is a resource to sustain well-being, and build a sense of belonging and the resilience of community.
It is a resource for building all sorts of assets, tangible and intangible. How should we think about change and resilience as integral to our planning and designing post-disaster reconstruction?
Providing catalysts, promoting enablement - community as well as market and political enablement - building the capacity for change, the ability to be adaptive socially and spatially, are all integral to sustaining reconstruction as a developmental and not just relief process. Together they define a culture of practice, practical in its objectives and strategic in its purpose and endeavors.
Being strategic, after all, is synonymous with being sustainable."
Building Back Better, forward by Nabeel Hamdi, 2010
Lyons, Michal, Theo Schilderman, and Camillo Boano. Foreword.
Building Back Better: Delivering People-centred Housing Reconstrution at Scale.
Warwickshire, UK: Practical Action Pub., 2010.
The Problem
There are countless communities that are disrupted annually, either due to a natural or artificial catastrophe. While there are many organization dedicated to helping these communities, many rely on external financial aid in direct response, while only temporarily solving the issue until another catastrophe occurs. While these organizations do positively effect these communities much of the time, they are either not financially sustainable, or attempt to solve the problem in an unsustainable way.
The lower ninth ward is an example of this problem. Many organizations have tried to help build homes for the displaced population so that they can return. Unfortunately, it proved to mainly be a solution to the wrong problem. The largest obstacle is the lack of infrastructure in the area. The most common solution: gentrification.
How can we create sustainable community restoration without gentrification, while eliminating the need for external financial aid and at the same time provide for an immediate more efficient disaster response? A new approach. Apparatus X
Social Goals: The Reason for Apparatus X
Short Term (Immediate Disaster Response)
The philosophy of Apparatus X is embodied in the soon-to-be patented unit Build-X the company specializes in fabricating. This unit is adaptable to various needs from the small business owner who would like to be more mobile, to the large disaster response organizations that would like to more efficient. Our prototype, the Build-X is designed to be a mobile live in toolbox, allowing a team of two to immediately move onto the land most in need of restoration and build the space necessary for a larger team to live, with all the tools needed already on site, eliminating travel time and allowing for a more entrenched experience for the team members.
Long Term (Sustainable Community development
For communities that require a more holistic approach, for instance those that are economically disrupted, Build-X can be moved into the community for a period of years, allowing the team on the ground to integrate with the community in need. This team will give free tool use, design, and entrepreneurial training sessions to the community members. These training sessions will be centered on active learning; teaching skills to the community members by designing and building projects which would increase their standard of living. Any community member who successfully completes all the training sessions would then have the potential to be hired by Apparatus X, creating a revenue flow into the community while integrating further, and while hiring an employee that is emotionally invested in the impact they are having. Community integration and assessment then becomes a consequence of our approach to reaching the goal of a sustainable community by creating a personal presence within the community; eventually having local community members that can then run future projects in the area while the company expands to another area in need.
The truly socially sustainable aspect of Apparatus X is that it is a knowledge based company, giving people the skills they need to overcome adversities they may face in the future.
The Business Model
Our main revenue stream is created by selling customized units. These units are assets to the smaller businesses that want to be more mobile while taking a bit of home with them, (chicken butchers, craftsmen, food venders, etc). Small business are able to find seasonal customers, or can be on a more frequent rotation, reaching many more customers than the stationary business would otherwise be able to do. Restauranteurs that want to be seasonably mobile, but have a permanent presence throughout the season, can buy a unit which pops out to a footprint more than twice the size of the unit during transport, basically enabling the transport of a restaurant, rather than the product.
Large companies that would like to bridge the communication problems that stem from digital communication can also gain from customized units. Larger companies will be able to mobilize teams in customized units on site, allowing for many more in person communication between team members and separate teams, while supplying all of the tools, design software and internet access necessary for the efficient function of each team. Whole teams that may otherwise have miscommunications will then be connected further with the company they work for by fostering closer relationships as well as giving them a larger picture of the company, eliminating siloed information and further enabling lean construction.
Aid organizations can buy our customized units for the purpose they specialize in. An organization dedicated to eliminate homelessness could buy a customized bunkhouse unit. able to move to the area that is needed most at the time. An organization dedicated to eliminating hunger could buy a customized model specialized in storing and preparing large quantities of food. An organization specialized in disaster response can order a Build X, maximizing the efficiency of their aid efforts.
The ability for the Apparatus X to custimize a unit to the needs of the customer allows the company to approach a broad pool of potential clients.
Additional Information
Build X is also able to fabricate a copy of itself, or a unit designed for a different purpose, (similar to an idea, it fabricates itself while adapting components to suit the needs of the future)
It has a water collection system, 160 Gallons water storage capacity, a 48V solar cell system, sink, stove, shower, toilet, as well as a design space, a work space complete with all the tools necessary and a relaxing space.
Many aspects of our world are digital and will only become more so. Unfortunately, many problems facing communities in need are not. We can now accrue information concerning disparities in society extremely fast and efficiently. Apparatus X helps solve these disparities.
The application of Apparatus X is countless, attacking national needs that are mobile and constantly changing by meeting them face on with a grassroots approach.
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Wired.com Runs Apparatus X Story!
Apparatus X is published on Wired.com:
"This Simple Trailer Has Everything You Need to Deal With Disaster" by Alexander George
College of Engineering, Penn State
Check out the story from Penn State's College of Engineering supporting project awareness and promoting the fundraising campaign.
Local Newspaper Publication!
The Daily Item and The Danville News, Wertman's hometown newspapers published a story on his recent work on the Apparatus X project.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 17th, 2015
The subfloor is down, the elevated floor is framed, and we are one step closer to completion.
This event took place at the workshop in Centre Hall.
Check out the gallery for more photos!
Penn State News!
The project was recently featured on Penn State's homepage highlighting student work from around the university.
College of Arts & Architecture, Penn State
Check out the story published by the Stuckeman School of Architecture featuring the project patron, Aaron Wertman.
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Nighttime construction runs from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, through Friday morning, Oct. 11, on Crater Lake Avenue between Delta Waters Road and Owen Drive.
Crater Lake Avenue will be closed to through traffic and the section between Forest Hills Drive and Ford Drive will be closed to all traffic during the overnight construction. A detour using Crater Lake Highway will be in place.
Motorists should plan for detours and delays. For more information, contact Medford Public Works at 541-774-2100.
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'Dr. Horrible' DVD simply divine
It's fabulous in its horribleness.
Just as you'd expect from "Buffy" and "Firefly" creator Joss Whedon. Only better. Really, you'll like it. Even if you don't like musicals. You may be fascinated but horrified by the fact that you're fascinated - and that's all right, too.
"Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog," created by the Whedon Gang of Talented People as a free three-part Web series, was so popular from the second of its July launch, it immediately crashed the Dr. Horrible site. We who belong to the Cult of Joss Whedon would have been there no matter what, but it seems like everyone with access to the Internet caught on quickly. And there's not a year-end list that doesn't include "Dr. Horrible" among its "best-ofs," for the viral videos, for TV (Entertainment Weekly put this No. 1 among it's TV bests, even though it was entirely on the Web), for soundtrack ... the list goes on.
I could have watched the DVD extras online, too, but I wanted to give the folks who worked so hard to make me smile some of my hard-earned cash. Joss and his brothers, Zack and Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen, and the rest of the volunteer cast and crew, created this piece of art to fill the horrible hours of the writers' strike. They deserve a buck or two, if for nothing else, then just for being so wonderfully warped.
From the Evil League of Evil taking over the usual DVD "FBI Warning" to "Commentary: The Musical" (there's also a spoken commentary, but how ambitious is a second soundtrack?) to Neil Patrick Harris, a TV and Broadway veteran but new to the Loyal Cast & Crew of Whedon, mastering a speed-up, tongue-twist song to why, oh why do they kill . . . no, I won't do it. In case there's anyone out there who hasn't seen "Dr. Horrible" - really, just do it already - I won't give anything away.
As the title character, it's Harris' fabulous horribleness (something Dr. Horrible would say) that makes it all work. He's a singer and a ham and a professional and, well, he's the man. Nathan Fillion ("Buffy," "Firefly") is a loyal Whedonite who has the time of his life hamming it up as Captain Hammer, the most insincere superhero ever to be seen on screen. Felicia Day does innocence without a note of insincerity.
They create a triangle that only this bunch could have come up with: Dr. Horrible is a mad scientist desparate to be given a place in the Evil League of Evil or to rule the world, whichever comes first. He's also dying to get up the nerve to talk to the object of his affections Penny (Day), a sweet girl who he stalks at the laundromat. Captain Hammer is Horrible's nemesis, thwarting his attempts to do bad stuff and winning Penny's heart, much to Horrible's dismay. Watch for "The Big Bang Theory's" Simon Helberg as Horrible's friend in crime, Moist.
It gets more demented from there, and it's all done to music that would be up for a Tony if it were on Broadway - hey, there's a idea I hope catches on ...
One of the Whedons brothers says that all you can aspire to is to create a character that people want to dress up as. At Comic-Con in San Diego, the Captain Hammer shirts (sold at the Browncoats fan club booth) were sold out from the moment they were in stock. So he's already reached a milestone.
Also in the extras, they talk about rushing to get "Dr. Horrible" up on the Web "in time to rock Comic-Con." As someone who was in the audience during the panel, let me tell you that they did that and more, causing a flurry of activity to add room for the thousands who wanted in. Fillion was at his most charismatic and Harris seemed stunned at the attention. He'll learn that when you're around Joss Whedon, adoration seems to follow.


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that hurt
I'm sure United feel the same way tonight, playing so embarrassingly badly. Next question... Liverpool vs. Milan the sequel, who wins this time?
Yeah, we weren't up to it tonight, Milan were great. I thought you guys were good defensively, but AC had it sewn up. I'm imagining we'll all be wanting a Milan victory in Greece?


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The only upside down fridge 'n freezer.
Advertising Agency: DDB Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
Creative Directors: Renata Flório, Rodrigo Almeida, Rodolfo Sampaio, Julio Andery, Sergio Valente
Art Director: Rodrigo Tórtima
Copywriter: Adriano Matos
Photographer: Rafael Costa, Eliza Flores (Vetor Zero)
Account Supervisor: Cristiane Pereira
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So this fridge is so bloody inconvenient for people....
we don't want to buy such stupid product. which is not making my life simple.
The benefit is that you don't need to bend to get most of things in the fridge.
But I agree the ad doesn't express that as it should
The only upside down fridge and freezer? I don't think that's new, my gf has had one of those for years.
maybe that means that we only use our heads [or teeth] to reach the freezer in all others fridges.
why on earth do i need an upside down freezer?
the product benefit is that you don't have to bend down while getting stuffs from the freezer. however, the ad doesn't communicate one thing of that. what a waste of time and resources! is it a problem of brief from the client's end? else, what could have gone wrong? so ameturish, shouldn't have come from an agency like DDB. I'm serious.


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THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING; Apple Endorses Some Achievers Who 'Think Different'
By STUART ELLIOTT
Published: August 3, 1998
A computer marketer wants to become the apple of your eye by advertising itself as the Apple of your icon.
For almost a year, Apple Computer Inc. has been displaying images of some of the world's most-admired achievers in fields from government and business to human rights and the arts as the centerpiece of a campaign that ungrammatically urges consumers to ''Think different.''
The goal of the campaign is to further polish the once-tarnished Apple brand name, asserting that the company nurtures creativity by behaving as unconventionally as the accomplished thinkers and doers who are praised as ''the round pegs in the square holes'' in television commercials, print ads, billboards, posters and wall signs.
''The ads are for people who don't care what the computer does,'' said Allen Olivo, senior director for worldwide marketing communications at Apple in Cupertino, Calif., ''but care about what they can do with the computer.
''The premise is that people who use Apple computers are different,'' he said, ''and that we make computers for those creative people who believe that one person can change the world.''
The celebrated strivers who make it through a nomination and selection process at Apple and its advertising agency, the TBWA Chiat/Day unit of TBWA Worldwide in Venice, Calif., are portrayed in the ads as larger-than-life icons in striking black-and-white photographs. They are presented as the kind of heroes who, a commercial proclaims, ''push the human race forward,'' a phrase that subtly flatters the intended audience for recognizing the subjects.
The campaign has so far featured more than 40 so-called crazy ones: historic and contemporary figures who include Bob Dylan, Einstein, Ted Turner, Picasso, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Edison, Muhammad Ali, Alfred Hitchcock, Miles Davis, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Amelia Earhart, Jim Henson, Rosa Parks, Frank Lloyd Wright and Jerry Seinfeld. And more are on the way.
''We're not trying to say these people use Apple,'' said Lee Clow, the chief creative officer at TBWA Worldwide, owned by Omnicom Group, ''or that if they could've used a computer, they would've used Apple. Instead, we're going for the emotional celebration of creativity, which should always be part of how we speak about the brand.''
Asked if it was overreaching to involve Einstein, Gandhi and Picasso in pitching, Mr. Olivo replied: ''We would never associate these people with any product; it's Apple celebrating them versus Apple using them. To say that Albert Einstein would have used a computer would cross the line. Why would he need one? But it's different to say he looked at the world differently.''
That makes the Apple advertising a kind of commercialized, updated version of songs like ''They All Laughed'' and ''You're the Top,'' which paid tribute to such men and women of distinction as Marconi, Garbo, Ford, O'Neill, Astaire and the Wright brothers. Indeed, at least two figures mentioned in those songs -- Edison and Gandhi -- have turned up in the Apple campaign.
And of course there is a lengthy list of campaigns that feature constellations of stars rather than single celebrities, from the ''Dewar's Profiles'' for Dewar's Scotch whisky to the khaki-clad notables for Gap Inc. to the ''milk mustache'' ads created for the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board.
Critics often complain that celebrities appearing in ads are ''selling out.'' Mr. Olivo said that Apple and TBWA Chiat/Day ''haven't really heard that,'' even about performers in the campaign like Mr. Dylan and Joan Baez, ''perhaps because we don't use their work as much as show them working.''
The ads have already won several industry awards; the first television commercial in the campaign has been nominated for an Emmy. The ads have also inspired parodies. The ABC and CBS television networks ran promotional spots spoofing the campaign, while pranksters have posted ''Think different'' lampoons with Charles Manson and Genghis Khan on Web sites.
And there are games based on the campaign. One is to guess who may next be featured in an ad; how about Steven Spielberg? Ray Charles? Bill Gates? Another is to play ''Whozzat?'' with friends and co-workers, asking them to identify some of the less familiar faces like the dancer Martha Graham, the photographer Ansel Adams, the architect Frank O. Gehry, and the advertising executives Bill Bernbach and Mary Wells Lawrence.
The genesis of the campaign was the crisis facing Apple last year when Steven P. Jobs returned to run the company, which was confronting huge problems that included plunging market share, declining stock value and sagging employee morale. It was a year ago today that Mr. Jobs decided to seek help by reuniting with Mr. Clow. Mr. Jobs and Mr. Clow -- whose birthday is coincidentally Aug. 3 -- collaborated on Apple ads like the famous ''1984'' commercial when Mr. Jobs originally ran Apple and Mr. Clow was the top creative executive at the old Chiat/ Day agency.
''They asked us to come in and talk about what Apple needed to do to get its focus back,'' Mr. Clow said. ''It really wasn't hard; it was just to go back to Apple's roots.


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Colorado Gets 1st Ever Chief Operating Officer
Posted: 06/08/2009 - Gov. Bill Ritter has named his economic development director to serve as the state's first chief operating officer.
Posted: 06/08/2009 - Gov. Bill Ritter has named his economic development director to serve as the state's first chief operating officer.
Posted: 06/09/2009 - The economic impact on our countries two largest auto makers has finally hit close to home. Tuesday afternoon, the Lithia Chrysler Jeep dealership in Motor City in Colorado Springs closed its doors for good.
Posted: 06/08/2009 - A senior Obama administration official says Fiat SpA will shake up management and change the culture of Chrysler if the courts allow the sale of its assets to the Italian automaker.
Posted: 06/08/2009 - President Barack Obama says the United States remains in a deep recession that will take considerable time to escape.
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I am probably one of the few people who ordered a system from those cretins and received what I ordered, albeit it took months of weekly telephone calls to do so. The only thing I failed to receive was the rebate from the computer manufacturer, Everex. In talking to an Everex customer service representative I learned that VCStore closed its doors owing them more than $7,000,000! No wonder they aren't enthused about making good on rebates. Still, their business problems aren't mine and I intend to continue to press them for the refund which they offered without restrictions regarding the stupidity of their management in allowing anyoe to get that deep in debt to them.
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I have been seeing Dr. Felton for the last two years after leaving my last doctor for always being behind for an hour or two. Dr. Felton is a wonderful doctor. He has great bed side manners, is caring, and so far, he has been right on with all his diagnosis. His office works very well. They are on time and I rarely have to wait much at any station. I highly recommend him.
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I'm building my personal website and trying to get the portfolio plugin working on my "Work" page: http://bensullivancreations.com/?page_id=8
When clicking on the round images to zoom in, I get the error message "Image cannot be loaded. Make sure the path is correct and the image exist."
Obviously the image exists since it's showing up in the circle. How do I fix this?