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Magic Flute Review – Lyric's Musical Gift to Whole Family
If you've read any of the glowing reviews of Lyric's production of Mozart's Magic Flute, you've already been advised that this opera is the perfect introduction to the opera for young children, and the perfect Holiday entertainment for the entire family. I wholeheartedly agree!
Consider the convergence of all these delightful elements in one work of art: Mozart's incredible music coupled with his mischievous nature added to the stunning, vintage production and topped off with an incomparable cast and orchestra. Ah, but those are just facts. The artistry, the wizardry, the layers of imagery, the sheer magic of it all is beyond prose. Gather your family together and bring them to see this charming, romp of an opera and you, too, will be challenged to capture its poetry into words.
Nicole Cabell is perfectly cast. Her voice is Pamina's voice. Her presence is Pamina's. And her love for handsome, noble, brave Charles Castronovo's Tamino is sincere, devoted, courageous. We're cheering them on through all their trials and challenges. However, we're also caught up in the inventive, hilarious antics of Papageno (Stéphane Degout), the bird catcher and a variety of savory and unsavory characters.
After all, this IS opera. A preposterous plot is de rigueur. Fans of Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland, and Star Trek alike will be engaged in the strategy, the connivances, cleverness and unpredictability of this cast of characters.
Another thing you can expect from Lyric Opera is fantastic staging. Thanks to the ingenious use of layered sheer scrims, stunning lighting, pyrotechnics, projections and who knows what else?, the vision on the stage shimmers, undulates and morphs from one impossible place to another. Yet the whole time, it feels as though you're simply turning the pages in a beautiful children's book (maybe on a humongous iPad). All this becomes even more astonishing when you realize that the original set was designed and painted 25 years ago. Set Designer Jörg Zimmerman and Lighting Designer Jason Brown deserve high praise for their high-tech embellishments, transformations and otherworldly creations.
Want a preview? Let Renée Fleming, Lyric's Creative Consultant, tell you more about Magic Flute: http://www.lyricopera.org/tickets/production.aspx?pid=10254
Want to know what a couple members of the audience thought about Magic Flute? Here's what they had to say:
Holly K, "Love it. Scenery. Whimsy. Costuming." Holly's son was introduced to Magic Flute in second grade when he came home with a CD of the opera. Now a senior in high school, it's still a favorite of his.
Jackie K, "Heard an ad stating that Magic Flute was a good second choice to the Nutcracker. It's my first choice—it's so child-friendly.
Want to take the family to the Magic Flute? Here's some helpful information on how to do just that:
Lyric Opera of Chicago, performing in the Ardis Krainik Theatre of the Civic Opera House, is located on the northwest corner of Madison and Wacker in downtown Chicago.
All ticket-holders are encouraged to arrive early for an engaging and informative pre-opera lecture. Lectures begin one hour prior to curtain for each performance (except Opening Night).
Buy tickets, get detailed information on Lyric's dining options and nearby restaurants, driving directions, and parking and transit information, information on opera running times, advance reservations for valet parking, and special hotel rates for out-of-town guests at Lyric's website, http://www.lyricopera.org
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TAMHSC addresses workforce shortage with most graduates ever
(COLLEGE STATION, Texas) — Helping to alleviate the state and national shortages in the health care workforce, the Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) graduated 597 students at commencement ceremonies earlier this month across the state.
"On behalf of the Texas A&M Health Science Center, I offer sincere congratulations to our newest doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, public health workers and scientists," said E.J. "Jere" Pederson, interim TAMHSC president and interim Texas A&M University System vice chancellor for health affairs. "The health care providers that comprise this largest group of graduates in our institution's history will have an immediate impact on patients and communities across Texas and the United States by serving as leaders in their fields."
Graduates from each component are as follows:
- Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy – 79 students received a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.).
- College of Medicine/School of Graduate Studies – 136 students received a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) and 18 a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.).
- College of Nursing – 96 students received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.).
- School of Rural Public Health – 65 students received a Master of Public Health (M.P.H.), 23 a Master of Health Administration (M.H.A.), 1 a Master of Science in Public Health (M.S.P.H.) and 2 a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.).
- Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry – 101 students received a Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.), 11 a Master of Science (M.S.) in Oral Biology, 29 a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Dental Hygiene, and 36 in various master's degrees and certificates in specialty programs.
Media contact: Dee Dee Grays, 979.436.0611.

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"Why is that idiot so rich and I am not?"
particularly compared to the financial professionals?
Those who are still in the engineering field, but are making money by the truckloads, left Brazil
you should present a solution that appropriately fits a problem
We discussed money the other day, I asked how much an EE would expect to get in Brazil and the answer was $2000, "A week?" I asked, no that was a month. Of course it's cheaper to live there so it's not a fair comparison but it's still a lot less than in the west.
We decided that things were back to front, I should move to Brazil and do work for companies in Oz/US/EU.
By truckloads of money I mean over US$ 300K / year.
Brazil is a very expensive country to live in.
move to Australia a few times. Once my wife finishes here post-doctorate, we might just accept her offer.
QuoteBrazil is a very expensive country to live in.
I didn't realise that, so you've got a double whammy then, low wages and high costs.
I didn't realise that, so you've got a double whammy then, low wages and high costs.
Obnoxious import regulations, as well, apparently.
The Olympics in Rio de Janeiro were being discussed on the radio recently, they were saying i'ts going to be very expensive for the guests coming in to see events.
4 distinct seasons: hot, damn hot, even hotter and "I can't believe it isn't summer".


text: Kathleen Bell is Director of National Marketing for SUBWAY Canada and is responsible for all aspects of corporate and franchisee marketing. She has more than 12 years leading marketing and sponsorship efforts in both the non-profit and corporate sectors. Prior to joining SUBWAY she worked for Special Olympics Canada managing sponsorships and corporate partnerships. Kathleen holds a BA in Business Administration and a Masters in Marketing Communication from the Schulich School of Business.


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The most dangerous idea on the November ballot isn't one initiative. It's a small piece of a larger initiative.
The initiative is Prop 31, the long (8,000 words) and complicated reform proposal brought forth by the California Forward Action Fund, the political arm of the foundation-funded, good-government giant.
Prop 31 is mostly thought of as a budget reform measure -- because California Forward put almost every conceivable, technocratic budget idea it could in the measure.
U.S. & World
It's too much. With all the reforms in it -- paygo, performance-based budget, greater budget power for the governor, etc., etc. -- it's impossible for anyone to know how it will change the budget process, other than making it more complicated. The only guarantee is that there will be unintended consequences.
But there's another piece of Prop 31 that's so thoughtful, provocative and disruptive that it should be its own measure -- because it deserves serious consideration.
The provision in question would allow local governments to work together to adopt "Community Strategic Action Plans." That sounds bureaucratic, but it's potentially revolutionary.
Governments could come together and do big things -- on the regional level, where more smart, collaborative governance is needed in California -- even if state laws and regulations are in their way.
That's what makes it dangerous -- and potentially so appealing. California's regions are really the size of states. They have distinct interests, and shouldn't have to live under the same states as other regions, particularly if such laws get in the way of progress.
That said, it's easy to see how local governments could abuse this power and circumvent important laws that protect the environment or freedom of information.
What to do? The more your blogger thinks about it, the more he likes the idea of living dangerously.
One reason Californians aren't engaged in government is that their governments can't do all that much, particularly on the local level.
Giving local governments the ability, and the power, to do more in collaboration would not only solve problems -- it would bring more people into the process. And I tend to think that the potential of that power is worth the very real downside risk of having locals trample on the rights of others.
Unfortunately, this powerful idea is part of the same initiative as all those budget reforms.
Another problem with Prop 31: it's a constitutional amendment, adding too much into an already too-long constitution.
If only the idea for Community Strategic Action Plans could stand on its own.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
Send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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It's beginning to look like the famed VistA EHR may be shelved by the Department of Veterans Affairs, probably to be replaced by a commercial EHR rollout. If so, it could spell the end of the VA's involvement in the highly-rated open source platform, which has been in use for 40 years. It will be interesting to see how the commercial EHR companies that support Vista would be impacted by this decision.
The first rumblings were heard in March, when VA CIO LaVerne Council suggested that the VA wasn't committed to VistA. Now Council, who supervises the agency's $4 billion IT budget, sounds a bit more resolved. "I have a lot of respect for VistA but it's a 40-year-old product," Council told Politico. "Looking at what technology can do today that it couldn't do then — it can do a lot."
Her comments were echoed by VA undersecretary for health David Shulkin, who last month told a Senate hearing that the agency is likely to replace VistA with commercial software.
Apparently, the agency will leave VistA in place through 2018. At that point, the agency expects to begin creating a cloud-based platform which may include VistA elements at its core, Politico reports. Council told the hearing that VA IT leaders expect to work with the ONC, as well as the Department of Defense, in building its new digital health platform.
Particularly given its history, which includes some serious fumbles, it's hardly surprising that some Senate members were critical of the VA's plans. For example, Sen. Patty Murray said that she was still disappointed with the agency's 2013 decision back to call of plans for an EHR that integrated fully with the DoD. And Sen. Richard Blumenthal expressed frustration as well. "The decades of unsuccessful attempts to establish an electronic health record system that is compatible across the VA in DoD has caused hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to be wasted," he told the committee.
Now, the question is what commercial system the VA will select. While all the enterprise EHR vendors would seem to have a shot, it seems to me that Cerner is a likely bet. One major reason to anticipate such a move is that Cerner and its partners recently won the $4.3 billion contract to roll out a new health IT platform for the DoD.
Not only that, as I noted in a post earlier this year, the buzz around the deal suggested that Cerner won the DoD contract because it was seen as more open than Epic. I am taking no position on whether there's any truth to this belief, nor how widespread such gossip may be. But if policymakers or politicians do see Cerner as more interoperability-friendly, that will certainly boost the odds that the VA will choose Cerner as partner.
Of course, any EHR selection process can take crazy turns, and when you grow in politics the process can even crazier. So obviously, no one knows what the VA will do. In fact, given their battles with the DoD maybe they'll go with Epic just to be different. But if I were a Cerner marketer I'd like my odds.


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DbUnit talk at PHPSW in Bristol
I had the pleasure of talking to the PHPSW group in Bristol on Wednesday (13/04/2011). Considering it was my first talk, I felt it went quite well. Had some good comments :) and only small amounts of heckling. Overall a really good experience and something I'd definitely like to do again.
The talk was about the PHPUnit database code testing extension, DbUnit. I'm really fond of this extension and it seems to have a lack of decent documentation on the 'net. Ever since Benjamin Eberlei penned a comprehensive tutorial on it, I've been hooked.
Testing LAMP applications by Sebastian Bergmann
Testing PHP/MySQL Applications with PHPUnit/DbUnit by Sebastian Bergmann
Database Testing with PHPUnit and MySQL by Matthew Turland


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That stat is safe for another season as the Lady Bisons beat Belmont 73-59 Thursday night at Allen Arena. The Lady Bisons lost to Belmont 56-52 Jan. 13.
"We have had a good week so far," Lady Bisons coach Frank Bennett said. "It is a time we need to be playing well with so many games so close together.
"I liked the intensity we played with particularly the last seven or eight minutes. I thought we played really good basketball. Belmont has so many three-point shooters. When you start counting by threes those leads can disappear pretty quickly."
Bennett was also concerned about Belmont's rebounding. Belmont held a 41-33 edge on the boards, grabbing 12 offensive rebounds.
"We had to really battle on the boards," Bennett said. "We were giving up too many offensive rebounds in the second half."
The Lady Bisons led 28-22 at intermission after trailing the first 11 minutes. The Lady Bisons led by 13, 28-15, with 3:20 left in the first half. But Belmont scored seven unanswered points to close out the half.
In the second half Belmont challenged several times, but the Lady Bisons never trailed or were tied in the final 20 minutes. The Lady Bisons biggest lead of the game was 21 points, 72-51, with 2:10 remaining.
"We were much more aggressive," Bennett said. "We played better defense. In our last game with USC Upstate we thought we had a lot of defensive breakdowns. We didn't have those against Belmont for the most part."
The Lady Bisons were led by senior guard Jenna Bartsokas with a game-high 25 points. It was the third time in her career that she has scored more than 20 points against Belmont. It was the seventh time this season she has scored 20 or more points in a game.
Also in double figures for the Lady Bisons were junior guard Anna Bowers with 14 and junior center Brittany Duerk with 10.
In every win this season the Lady Bisons have had three players score in double figures.
Junior forward Leah McAlister led the Lady Bisons in rebounds with seven.
Belmont was playing without center Haley Nelson, their top scorer and rebounder.
"That hurt them a little bit," Bennett said. "She has double-doubles fairly often."
Guard Molly Ernst led Belmont with 17 points. Center Alyssa Visbeen finished with 12.
Belmont guard Shaunda Strayhorn had a game-high eight rebounds.
The Lady Bisons ended a five-game losing streak. Their record is 8-12 overall, 5-6 in the A-Sun.
Belmont lost its fourth game in a row, dropping to 7-13 overall and 4-7 in the conference.
"We have to be more consistent," Bennett said. "There were times in the game where we messed around and made little mistakes here and there.
"In the second half we got defensive stops. Miaca Bowman and Anna Bowers really set a tone for our defense. We didn't allow very much in transition."
The Lady Bisons shot 43.5 percent from the field, hitting 27-of-62 shots. They were 33.3 percent from beyond the arc, hitting seven-of-21.
"Offensively, we were pushing the ball and making good decisions," Bennett said. "Sometimes when we push the ball we shoot fair or poor shots. And sometimes when we push and there is nothing there we stand around.
"But against Belmont we got the push and looked for the easy shot if it was there. If it was not there the ball was moving and our players were moving making plays 10 or 15 seconds later."
The Lady Bisons are back in action at home Saturday when Florida Gulf Coast visits for a 6:30 game at Allen Arena.
Written by Mark McGee, Senior Publisher/Director of Media Relations.


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On DZone.com today there's a new post from Chris Shiflett sharing some timeless advice from an older copy of a PHP Quick Reference (published in 2009) about performance and security.
While cleaning out my desk, I found an old copy of a PHP Quick Reference I helped make a few years ago. On the front page are a few performance and security tips that I thought I'd share. (Performance tips are from George Schlossnagle.)
Performance tips include profile early/profile often, cache when possible and don't over-optimize. The security hints include some of the usual suspects - trust nothing, filter input/escape output and use prepared statements.


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Kathy (bound for the Philippines) and Lauren (bound for Malawi) stopped by our June meeting in Ballston Spa.
We wish them well and hope they keep in touch. Both have plans to blog during their service (how modern is PC these days!?) so we'll be on the look out for internet goodness from them.


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The Other Media Player
Information, screenshots, and source for noatun, a new media player, developed in the hope for release as part of KDE2.1 is available at noatun.derkarl.org. Noatun will be more than capable of competing head-to-head with XMMS, and is already stable, and usable. Comments and help are, as always, welcomed.
Re: The Other Media Player
Finally, more details on this mysterious media player! Cool. I see it has been removed from kdemultimedia. Can't it make KDE 2.0.1 or does a lot remain to be done?
PS We're still wondering about the name... :)
By Navindra Umanee at Sat, 2000/09/30 - 5:00am
Re: The Other Media Player
Yes! The mysterious media player :)
Well, Yes, a lot remains to be done: Effect support, skin loading and Visualization.
It'd be nice to release the current copy with 2.0.1, but that version cannot add translations, much less any new programs. But for 2.1, it will rock.
Oh, and the name? Well, there's a whole story to it, and I tend to just leave it as mystery :)
By Charles Samuels at Sat, 2000/09/30 - 5:00am
Re: The Other Media Player
Stable ? Usable ?
By Someone from the Net at Sat, 2000/09/30 - 5:00am
Re: The Other Media Player
XMMS may be nice, but as you have said, it's not a true KDE app, and it duplicates functionality (which wastes memory and creates more overheead), with KDE 2. KDE 2, has native Mp3 support built into aRts, so using a third party decoder would be silly.
Second, XMMS is not nearly as modular as noauton, and as you said uses gtk+. These means when you start XMMS, you have to load a bunch of stuff you really don't need (including artsdsp esd if you want to play music in XMMS the same time as KDE).
XMMS certainly has a few KDE specfic features, like supporting xdnd in the song list (along with KDE 1 dnd). But it's not a real KDE app.
By AArthur at Sat, 2000/09/30 - 5:00am
Re: The Other Media Player
I had the same stability problem until I updated my out-of-date kdemultimedia. I think arts just segfaults if a bogus/no mp3 arts plugin is found.
Both kaiman and noatun work great now.
By ac at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
This thing looks pretty cool!
By A user at Sat, 2000/09/30 - 5:00am
Re: The Other Media Player
I guess variety and competition is good, but I have to say this project has a lot to do to make itself so insanely great that it will actually overcome the inertia of wanting to just stay with XMMS. I am extremely happy with XMMS, its architecture, stability, and plugin availability (I have a plugin that uses my keyboard lights (caps, num and scroll locks) as a meter -- wicked cool :), one that accelerates mp3 decoding by utilizing 3dNow! multitudes of effects, visualization, input, general and output plugins and many skins -- this is a lot to duplicate). Obviously this project has moved so far along now that it has its own character, and thus it shouldn't be snuffed out... but IMHO the ideal KDE ultimate multimedia system would merely be an effort to liberate XMMS from its toolkit dependancies thus allowing for a KDE or gtk+ native player... but I think this is even unnecessary because as long as I can drag files from konqueror to XMMS and have it work ... I'm happy *shrug*.
By the_1000th_Monkey at Sat, 2000/09/30 - 5:00am
What's with the Norwegian website translation? Seems like babelfish.altavista.com or something ;)
By Haakon Nilsen at Sat, 2000/09/30 - 5:00am
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Ahh, excuse me, but I really don't understand one thing..
If KDE 2.0 supports MP3 playing built in, and we got KAction to play some Video formats (mpeg 1 etc) - then why do we need this?
I mean - sure, it's nice - but I already seen couple of those MP3 players with skin selections. Nothing new with this one..
What I really hope is that someone will add MPEG-2 playing capability to the KDE 2.0 itself..
By Hetz at Sat, 2000/09/30 - 5:00am
Why does the open source community waste so much e
Why do open source programmers insist on wasting their time by producing fifteen competing versions of the same thing? Xmms is the best media player there is, and it really doesn't make sense to write another one from scratch.
It's not like the closed source world where there are reasons for producing hundreds of apps that do the same thing; here collaboration is essential.
This player will have to be compatible with all of XMMS' plugins and skins or will fail. In addition, it would be nice if it reused as much of the XMMS code as possible (or collaborated with that project); this way people don't waste as much time and improvements can be made to both packages.
By Matthew Brealey at Sat, 2000/09/30 - 5:00am
Re: Why does the open source community waste so much e
How is XMMS the best player available? As far as I can tell, it plays media formats, just like any other media player. Nothing especially great about that. However, it is ugly. You can only use rectangular skins with xmms (well, there's that kjofol plugin that acts as a remote; that's not handy). Noatun and Kaiman both support shaped skins. Plus the obvious fact that xmms isn't a KDE app. Some of us prefer KDE apps, especially over gtk ones.
By chris at Sat, 2000/09/30 - 5:00am
Re: The Other Media Player
What about Kaiman? It is part of Kde2, it is stable, it is skinable... Why duplicating programs?
By Zeljko Vukman at Sat, 2000/09/30 - 5:00am
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Yes, this is a lot of duplicated effort, but here I go trying to explain myself:
By Charles Samuels at Sat, 2000/09/30 - 5:00am
Waste of Time
The current version of KDE on my system (1.1.2) already has not one, but two MP3 players. It also has a "media player" that as far as I can tell can only play .WAV files, and "aktion", which can play AVI/QT/MPEG files.
Why do we need another media player? Especially one that calls itself a "media" player, but only plays MP3 files? Why can't you take one of the other media apps for KDE and build on it or mold it to your vision?
Is it our destiny to have a dozen MP3 players, ten IRC chat clients, and five instant messengers? Can't someone work on a tool that KDE needs, but doesn't already have?
By Michael Portuesi at Sat, 2000/09/30 - 5:00am
Re: Waste of Time
Not a good point.
If you see the need of an at this time absent application, start to code it;
he wan´ts to code a media-player, that this time is limited to mp3s and may be enhanced via plugins to support other formats.
Both kaiman and noatun crash on my system (final-beta), but I like the possibility to choose between different apps, so I await both to be finished/half-way-working.
By Thomas Regner at Sat, 2000/09/30 - 5:00am
Re: Waste of Time
I really have to take some mild offense to this comment and others like it. Come on people let's think about it.
I know that we would all like to have every wonderful piece of software for Linux now, but when you consider how long Linux and KDE have been around the progress has been remarkable.
What I hear is a lot of people saying the wish other people would just up and get together to produce the perfect (for that user) environment. Each of these projects was taken up to meet what the author saw as a need, or to gain experience in their area of interest.
What we need is not more programmers doing what somebody else wants, but more somebody elses taking some time and getting involved programming.
Just my opinion... BTW I love KDE-dot-News!!!
By Eric Laffoon at Sat, 2000/09/30 - 5:00am
Re: Waste of Time
I suppose you are justified in taking offense to my first message - it was intentionally written in an inflammatory manner.
Perhaps I shouldn't have picked on this individual project, but this isn't the first time I've seen redundant projects spring forth from the minds of creative and intelligent people.
It's one thing to do something that's been done before if it is going to result in some new benefit that the existing implementations don't already have. Many other people have noted that XMMS is a really good package, and will be tough to beat.
I understand fully (and support) the goal of having KDE-based programs, and not having to depend upon GTK apps. But does that require starting a new project entirely from scratch, as opposed to building upon the XMMS infrastructure? Where do you draw the line between standing on the shoulders of others, versus reinventing the wheel?
In response to the "if you see a need, then start coding to fill it" claim: that is a legitimate (and very justified) response to people like myself who do possess the programming and technical skills necessary to start coding a KDE application. But most people do not possess these skills. Not everyone was born a Picasso. They'd still like to use KDE to balance their checkbook, though.
By Michael Portuesi at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: Waste of Time
I think you're missing the point.
As noble as it is to write a program "for the good of the community", not everyone spends their time in front of the compiler pursuing such ideals. Sometimes, it's purely for the fun, or the experience, or to "scratch an itch".
When somebody does this, I am happy to know that it has been released under the GPL, so that the code is available for others to use IF they choose to. The goal is not "never reinvent the wheel", but to have the code there so you don't have to.
By Cameron Tudball at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: Waste of Time
If a non-programmer has a good suggestion for an app they feel is missing from Linux / KDE or whatever let them shout it from the rooftops and hopefully a few will agree and write it.
They could even offer to help with the myriad of non-programming tasks which help a project become a successful project.
There is a lot of difference between suggesting a good idea for a new, different app and critisising the development of a media player though.
That last paragraph sounds so obvious now, doesn't it? :o)
By Michael at Tue, 2000/10/03 - 5:00am
Re: Waste of Time
Noatun (and Kaiman) already play mp3, Ogg Vorbis, and MPEG video. There may also be some MPEG2 support. Vorbis doesn't work out of the box yet, but I, myself, play a lot of these Vorbis files (and may I add, they're quite a bit nicer than mp3).
I am doing it for my own purposes. Remember that the only player currently to support plugins and all is XMMS (and FreeAmp?), neither of which are KDE or QT based.
All KDE players are very limited.
About Noatun (and Kaiman) crashing on certain people's systems on start? aRts is still in development, I can't promise that it will work on non intel-linux systems.
It can promise it will work on: FreeBSD/intel and Linux/Intel.
Unfortunately, the MP3 decoder code (mpeglib) doesn't even work on FreeBSD for now. I do not write this code, I solely work on Noatun (not aRts or mpeglib). I'm hoping that it will be far more portable by the time KDE2.1 (And noatun) are released, but I can at least take comfort that a majority of my users will be using Linux/Intel (not that I don't hope that all other users are blessed with noatun, but I don't have the resources to fix this stuff, unless you volunteer another system, or fix it :)
Ok, let's explain "Noatun" further:
Noatun, as has been stated, is a place in the old Nordic religion.
But first, please be aware that my nickname on IRC is Njaard (as spelled Njård in at least norsk), and frequently spelled Njord (And in english, pronounced Nyord). Njård is the nordic god of wind and sea.
So, in conclusion, Noatun was Njård's home :)
By Charles Samuels at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: Waste of Time
Hello everybody,
reading the above comments I could not resist to add my on 2 cents worth.
Haven't we heard all these comments over and over again, and --- I am sorry, but that's how it seems to me --- usually from people who don't code themselves. Why would anybody want to write another editor, we have emacs and vi. Why would anybody write another text processing system, we have TeX. Why would anybody write another window manager, we have twm (or whatever was there before that).
I am sure none of the programs that seem to be just plain copies of another one are really exactly the same. The more people think about a problem, the more usefull ideas are likely to come up and nobody will deny that this is to the benfit of all of us.
So go on copying, cheers, Tobias
By Tobias Vancura at Sat, 2000/10/07 - 5:00am
Re: The Other Media Player
noatun, is a place in old nordic religion, and the
Just for fun :)
By Smári P. McCarthy at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: The Other Media Player
How long after the skin loader is released will someone release a skin based on the Nóatún logo? :-)
By Neil Stevens at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: The Other Media Player
Bah.. the Noatun logo isn't very cool. See for yourself :)
Also, there's a place in Finnmark, Norway called Noatun.
By Haakon Nilsen at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: The Other Media Player
I can understand where some people are coming from on the ''redundancy'' issue. However, as mentioned before the reason for the 10s of thousands of apps out there for Linux based systems vary as much as the people who write them. To ''scratch an itch,'' fill a need, or perhaps just curiosity and then share it with the rest of the world; for personal gratification, prestige, and the wanting to share.
What I would like to see is a highly ''integrated'' media player that can play the gamut of file types automagically (sure you're looking at bloat) but integrated with KDE would give it a smaller memory footprint. The ability to play mp3, wav, mpg, mov, asf, avi, etc would be a big plus. And extremely pluggable as well for those of us who like eye candy :). One more reason to get friends to switch from that ''other'' operating system when they see the kewl kapabilities of KDE on Linux. Hats off to the programmers!
By Joseph Nicholson at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: The Other Media Player
What I would like to see is a highly ''integrated'' media player that can play the gamut of file types automagically
Yes, this is what I would like to see, too. I'm glad to see that noatun is going to try to cover the spectrum of media file formats, and isn't aiming to be another "look ma, I've got skins" MP3 player. If it truly can become the "one-stop-shop" that KDE users can turn to for playing back media files, then redundancy be damned - I'll take it.
By Michael Portuesi at Mon, 2000/10/02 - 5:00am
Re: The Other Media Player
It only seems to support audio. Big deal, there are a zillion players for audio out there. I'd like to see a real media player which supports both audio and video, including streaming protocols. Offcourse fully plugin-driven, so it can contain decoders for every format out there.
Besides the obvious audio formats like wav, mp3 and au, I'd also like to see a good player for mpg, avi, dvd-video (yeah, I know) and maybe even realvideo/audio (Real can release their plugin as binary format).
By Erik Hensema at Mon, 2000/10/02 - 5:00am
Re: The Other Media Player
What about .mpg's, .avi's and .mov's?
I sure am tired of rebooting to Windoze in order to view most video clips.
I see now that this project isn't intended to cover these file formats, even though I got excited when I read about the 'new media player for KDE 2.1'.
Is there a project to cover this? This is perhaps the very last thing that forces me to keep Windoze around.
By Matt Thompson at Tue, 2000/10/03 - 5:00am
Re: The Other Media Player
MPG is supported
And I'de be surprised if AVI or MOV is supported because the certain companies that produce those things don't believe in fair competition or standards.
By Charles Samuels at Tue, 2000/10/03 - 5:00am
StarCinema: Multi-Movie Media Player for Windows
StarCinema ia an advanced Multi-Movie Media Player that has unique features such as Multi-Movie playback, slow motion, reverse slow motion, frame inspector, movie browser, cinema explorer, media lists, etc.
By Rodolfo A. Frino at Mon, 2001/11/19 - 6:00am
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And what does this have to do with KDE?
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This year for Mother's Day, I have decided to really spoil my mother. I want to throw her a sweet little party and just cook and clean for her all day! I'm going to set out all my little part decorations around and take lots of photos! For my party decor i used a few diff collections. I love that you can mix and match them all so easily! I have a few tuts for you to try out if you are interested :) The party hat, the balloon props, and the sweet little cameos. Hope you like them! Happy Mothers Day to all the beautiful ladies out there! xo
Graphic 45 Papers
Botanical Tea Chipboards and Sticker Sheet
A Ladies Diary Stamp Set
Graphic 45 Staples
Imaginarium Chipboard Title
Blue Fern STudios Chipboard Frames
Michaels Wooden Frames , Crown, and Chair
Ingvild Bolme Tassels and Junkyard Findings
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Take a Deep Breath
Mary Pat Murray has lived with ALS for more than four years. Checkups are not just routine for her, they can be lifesaving.
Traditionally, patients like Mary would use a BiPAP machine to help her breathe. She'd wear a mask, tethered to a ventilator. It would force air into Mary's lungs.
Now, Mary is the first ALS patient at The Ohio State University to be implanted with a diaphragmatic pacing system to help her strengthen her muscles.
"It feels like a really hard hiccup at first and then eventually you get used to it," Mary told Ivanhoe.
The external device sends electrical signals to the nerve that controls the diaphragm, replacing signals normally sent by the brain telling it to expand and retract.
"All she needs to do when she is ready at night is to turn that on and it'll begin to help to contract the diaphragm as she's breathing," Stephen J. Kolb, MD, PhD, Co-Director, ALS/MND Clinic, Department of Neurology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, told Ivanhoe.
The DPS conditions the muscle while Mary sleeps.
"This gives us another tool in our tool belt where we can maybe engage the motor-neurons in the diaphragm; maybe allow the diaphragm to maintain strength longer in ALS, and improve quality of life and lifespan, so it's very exciting," Dr. Kolb said.
In just six months, Mary says she's felt a difference.
"I can carry on a conversation. I can eat. I can drink," Mary explained.
She is thankful for the technology that allows her to do what most of us take for granted.
Thirty thousand Americans are living with ALS right now. Next year the device will be part of a multi-clinic study to determine if DPS actually helps ALS patients live longer in addition to breathing easier.
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by Louise E. Wright
Well might Rodney Chonka agree with the hero of Homer's "Odyssey": "It is the wine that leads me on." Unlike Odysseus, whose travels lasted a mere 10 years, the Germantown oenophile has been pursuing the grape for more than 30. This month he pours "Sparkling Wines of California" for the Mt. Airy Learning Tree, where he has hosted over a dozen tastings.
Chonka began his affiliation with MALT teaching French, in which he holds two degrees. Knowing his passion for the grape, however, Jonna Naylor, the organization's recently departed director, suggested a wine class. In winter 2009, he offered "Wines of Bordeaux." "It was a likely place to start," he explained, "as so much wine culture emanates from" that region.
In fact, Bordeaux served as Chonka's introduction to that culture. Thanks to a program at the University of California-Santa Barbara, from which he earned an M.A. in French literature, Chonka spent a year in the early 1980s teaching English at the University of Bordeaux. "It was a great honor, a great position," he recalled.
Declaring Bordeaux "the mother lode of wine culture," Chonka said, "It is the pre-eminent wine region. It touts the most expensive, most recognized wines in the world."Certainly it produced the "most prestigious wine" Chonka has ever enjoyed: a 1973 Château Latour, purchased during his year-long stay in France. "I shared the bottle with friends. I bought it in 1983, and we drank it a year or two later, so it had 12 years of cellaring. It cost $40-50 a bottle. These days, you can't get a Château Latour of any vintage for less than $1000."
The self-educated wine enthusiast has acquired his expertise through what he refers to as "experiential investigation" and characterized himself as "always learning." He devoted four days of a recent vacation, for example, to exploring the central Loire. In addition to sampling the region's cabernet francs and crémants — the generic for French sparkling wines produced outside Champagne — Chonka toured the maze of deep, intricate cellars carved into the area's porous soil. Used throughout history for different purposes, including hiding from Nazis, they now store wine.
Far from limiting himself to France or even to Europe, Chonka has studied wines from around the world. He speaks knowledgeably of the difference between old world wines — "minerally" and "made to pair with foods" — and those of the new world, which are "fruit forward" and enjoyable "without the need for anything else."
Tastings at MALT reflect the breadth of his expertise and have included bottles from Spain, Portugal, Australia and New Zealand. Chonka has offered introductory surveys of a country's wines but likes to follow up with classes focused on specific regions. After presenting an overview of Italy, for example, he devoted separate classes to Tuscany, the Piedmont and the Veneto. "Usually I select one particular region and concentrate on it."
Although "Sparkling Wines of California" will not focus on a particular region, Chonka plans to showcase those wineries with ties to French Champagne houses, such as Napa's Domaine Chandon, established in 1973 by Moët et Chandon.
A typical tasting includes six or seven bottles, depending on cost and class size. While some of the wines may be dry, the instruction definitely isn't. "I ask people to bring hors d'oeuvres and foods to nosh on," Chonka says. "We try to make it a social affair as well as a learning experience."
Classes attract both newbies and knowledgeable enthusiasts. "I welcome all levels," Chonka declared. "Everyone is a neophyte at some time." That definitely includes Chonka himself. "I didn't grow up in a family that drank wine," the Chester County native admitted. Reluctantly he identified a New York State pink catawba as the first wine he remembers tasting. "My brother got hold of a bottle. It was in the fridge. I took a swig and thought, 'Oh, this isn't too bad. Kinda sweet and light. A little stronger than beer.'"
Another embarrassing incident from his teen years involved "going to a party and chilling the red wine, which basically killed the experience. It was a good French wine, but we didn't know how to drink it properly. We thought you drank everything cold."
One of Chonka's aims is to provide students with a grounding in different styles and regions so as to minimize the stress of ordering wine in a restaurant. Wine anxiety, he acknowledges, is "very real." Even those conversant in the field can feel overwhelmed by an extensive wine list. "You don't need to know vintages, châteaux and so forth."
By day, Chonka, 56, evaluates and selects journals in the physical, chemical and earth sciences for inclusion in data bases produced by Thomson Reuters. The sciences offered "better opportunities, more responsibility and more of a future." Having double-majored in chemistry and French at Beloit College, he was able to make the switch.
Looking ahead, the enthusiast plans to make his own wine sometime in the next year. At The Wine Room of Cherry Hill, he explained, "You make it from scratch; they get the grapes in. I'm also considering doing a blog."
Rodney's next MALT class is "Sparkling Wines of California" on Tuesday, June 18, 7 to 9 p.m., at Cliveden Carriage House, 6401 Germantown Ave. More information at 215-843-6333 or www.mtairylearningtree.org


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Ryan told supporters during his third trip to swing state Ohio in the last two weeks that there are enough energy resources for North America to become energy independent within eight years.
"We need to unlock the energy we have in this country to create jobs,†he said.
Ryan blamed President Barack Obama for standing in the way of the Keystone XL pipeline and pushing too many environmental regulations that have cost jobs in the coal industry, a thorny issue for the president in southeast Ohio, where coal has a large footprint. He said similar control by Washington has hampered manufacturing growth throughout the Midwest, including Michigan and his home state of Wisconsin.
Obama earlier this year objected to the Keystone XL pipeline's proposed 1,179-mile route over environmental concerns, suggesting that the pipeline should go around a sensitive aquifer in Nebraska. But Obama encouraged the company to pursue a shorter project from Oklahoma to the Gulf Coast.
Approving the entire pipeline would get people back to work in construction and factories, Ryan said.
The Wisconsin congressman said coming up with new energy sources, improving job training programs and removing bureaucratic barriers will go a long way in helping Ohio, Michigan and other industrial states that have lost jobs over the last four years. He told supporters at a late-afternoon private fund-raiser in the Detroit suburb of Pontiac that pro-growth, anti-regulation policies of a Romney administration would also improve the fortunes of the manufacturing industry, which has lost hundreds of thousands of jobs during the past few years.
"We know a very healthy auto economy is healthy for America,†he said.


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Chalk another one up for media anti-Catholic bigotry.
Syndicated editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich, working for the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, created a cartoon bashing the Catholic Church for controlling women. The cartoon features a wizened old bishop in a confessional, saying to a woman that "The contraception debate's about controlling you." The cartoon has the caption "Confession" at the bottom.
Luckovich's implied argument is false, of course. Contraceptive access is hardly a problem in America. But the HHS mandate decrees that religious employers be forced to pay insurance companies that pay for birth control. Many that self-insure must essentially pay directly for treatments, including the "morning after" pill.
Contraception is against the teachings of the Catholic Church, and has been since the Church's foundation. By forcing employers to subsidize a product they and many of their employees hold to be immoral, the government is forcing the Church to violate its own beliefs. The contraception debate really is about control – the government trying to control the Catholic Church, not the Church trying to control Catholic women.
But Luckovich's cynical bigotry in depicting the Catholic hierarchy as control freaks is even more troubling than his flawed logic. Would Luckovich's cartoon have been published, if he had depicted an imam, talking about burqas being designed to control Islamic women? For that matter, would any cartoon featuring Islamic imams in a negative light – as Catholics are frequently depicted – be tolerated?
Somehow, it seems unlikely. But anti-Catholic bigotry is clearly acceptable to newspaper editors.


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The Milo 10 Light Foyer Chandelier is an Indoor Ceiling fixture by Kalco Lighting. This fixture is recommended for the beautification and illumination of a variety of rooms including but not limited to FoyerFoyerLiving Room etc.
This Milo Pendant is a/an design.
Mid-Century Modern inspired design with stainless steel construction. G9 LED lamps included.
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- Height -38 inches Length -13 inches Width- 13 inches Diameter- 13 inches
- Weight - 21.8 lbs
- Backplate/Canopy Diameter -5 inches Backplate/Canopy Width - 5 Backplate/Canopy Height - 1 Backplate/Canopy Length - 5 inches
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text: Morgan Community College announces the beginning of choir rehearsals for the MCC Morgan County Chorale. Practice begins on Thursday, August 29 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the School for the Performing Arts, 914 State Street in Fort Morgan. The group will continue to meet every Thursday night at the same location. The choir is under the direction of Tertia Cain, and the accompanist is Letty Graff. No auditions are required to sing with the Chorale, and everyone who enjoys choral music is encouraged to join. Those interested in becoming a member are asked to attend the first rehearsal to register. College credit is available. For more information about the MCC Morgan County Chorale, call Tertia Cain at (970) 467-2244.


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- Lauren Dicioccio Thank You bagSan Francisco-based artist Lauren Dicioccio is known for making perfect replicas of mundane, everyday objects out of hand-embroidered fabric. Her latest work takes on perhaps the most mundane object of them all: the ubiquitous plastic bag. Using taffeta fabric, Dicioccio creates machine-embroidered, reusable tote bags that are dead ringers for the soon-to-be-obsolete plastic bag, which is banned in San Francisco.1
- Lauren Dicioccio Thank You bagSince 2007, San Francisco banned the use of non-compostable plastic bags by large supermarkets and pharmacies.2
- Lauren Dicioccio bagOn October 1, that ban will be extended to all retail stores, and on January 1 it will apply to bakeries and restaurants as well.3
- Lauren Dicioccio bagDicioccio's totes memorialize the plastic bag, and they encourage people to reuse and recycle them.4
- Lauren Dicioccio bagThe bags are sturdy and washable, and they're currently for sale at the The Workshop Residence, a unique maker and art space in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood where Dicioccio is currently in residency.5
- Lauren Dicioccio embroideryDicioccio's work focuses on reproducing mass-produced objects that are facing obsolescence; she has reproduced everything from playing cards to National Geographic covers with her painstaking embroidery.6
- Lauren Dicioccio embroideryPlastic bags aren't the only replicas of disposable plastic objects that Dicioccio has on display at the Workshop Residence; she also produced a textile replica of a disposable water bottle and a pocket memo pad.7


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Drawings from around 1800 of neoclassical subjects, they might be derived from Greek vases or they might be from Roman art which was influenced by Greek vase painting.
The drawings are for sale on Ebay.
Hercules in his Lion Suit from the Tufts website.
Hercules in a lion skin from Marjan Wadarki's website.
Hercules and Athena at the Trinity College Dublin Website.
Helios, the sun god from the Classical Mythology Course at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Theseus and the Minotaur, Orestes at Delphi
Early Greek Vase Painting, 11th-6th Centuries BC: A Handbook (World of Art)
Comic Angels: And Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Paintings
Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour
Greek Vase Painting: Form, Figure, and Narrative: Treasures of the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid
Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period: A Handbook (World of Art)
Roman Art
Roman Art
Classical Art: From Greece to Rome (Oxford History of Art)
How to Read Greek Vases (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Women in Ancient Greece
Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity
Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation
The Greek Body
More images Vroma.org
Wikipedia page red figure painting
These drawings are for sale on Ebay.


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The Blue Devils serve North Lenoir loss for the second time in the rivals series.
DEEP RUN --- With apologies to Yogi Berra, it was d�j� vu all over again in Deep Run Tuesday night when South Lenoir hosted county rival North Lenoir in a pivotal Eastern Carolina 2A volleyball game.
The Blue Devils (14-2, 8-0 EC2A) swept the season series against the Hawks, winning 25-15, 22-25, 25-22, 25-19. Coincidentally, the first match-up went along similar lines, with South Lenoir winning the first set, dropping the second and rebounding to take the final two.
The win all but wrapped up a conference title for the Devils, who have matches remaining against Greene Central and Kinston, teams occupying the bottom two positions in the conference.
Meanwhile, the loss places the Hawks in second place in the league and one game ahead of Ayden-Grifton.
South Lenoir coach Lisa Smith understood the importance of Tuesday�s match.
�It�s awesome,� she said of the win. �The girls and the coaches have worked extremely hard all season. We still have two games in conference, but we hope to sweep the conference.�
The Devils jumped out to an early 5-0 lead in the first set on the strength of Maecy Croom�s serve. Croom ended the set with seven service points and 10 for the match. Though the Hawks would eventually close the gap to just a 14-12 deficit following a string of four straight service points from Madison Allen, the Devils closed on an 11-3 run to take the first set.
North Lenoir (14-3, 6-2 EC2A) evened the match at a set apiece, taking the second set 25-22.
Hawks heavy hitter Mya Parks, who registered a team-high eight kills (matched by teammate Laura Haerer), served well in the set, as her team converted her serve into points five times.
The Hawks couldn�t keep the momentum, however, as South Lenoir won the final two sets, serving well, capitalizing on a number of North Lenoir errors and taking advantage of the scoring opportunities with well-placed kills.
�Our girls battled,� NL coach Heather Carson said. �They fought hard and never gave up, but when we have the lead, we have to keep the lead. They capitalized on our mistakes, and we couldn�t pull through it.�
The Hawks led for much of the third set, but Taylor Bryan strung together five straight points on her serve to give the Devils a 21-18 lead, thanks in large part to the play of Demeyia Adams and Bree Williams, who combined for 10 kills and seven blocks on the evening. Croom finished the set with an ace to put the Devils on the brink of victory.
In the decisive fourth set, North Lenoir jumped out to an early 11-3 lead and held a five point lead as late as 17-12, but the Devils rallied, closing the set with 12 of the last 14 points, including a pair of Rachel Dawson kills sandwiched between a Bree Williams ace to win it.
�This was the last regular season home game for our seniors, and I think they came out a little tense,� Smith said. �They fought for each other all night and came together as a team to persevere.�


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RUNA necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 86 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
Second Place Prize is $100.00. Runa is an Amazonian beverage company that will make simple, healthy, fair trade energy drinks from the highly caffeinated leaves of a previously un-marketed Amazonian tree. We are looking for an energy drink can design that is magnetic, simple, and bold power of our unique ingredients.
We are creating RUNA energy drinks with only one ingredient: the caffeinated leaves of an Amazonian tree named Ilex Guayusa. Traditionally, hunters and their dogs drink Runa to sharpen their instincts, and it is often called the "Night Watchman" because it helps them stay alert and awake all night. It offers the energy of coffee without the jitters or crash, and the clarity and simplicity of tea without the bitterness. With compounds proven to lower blood sugar and blood pressure, wayus uniquely calms the body and awakens the mind to what the Kichwa people call "mental strength and courage."
Our goal is to expand our customer-base beyond the traditional confines of the natural food and energy drink markets. We intend that Runa drinkers will be both the mature adult who wants easy energy during the day without the overwhelming jolt of typical energy drinks or coffee, and also young professionals and students who steer clear of hyped, macho energy drinks and are looking for a more satisfying and healthy option. We will target universities, social foundations, and natural foods stores as our main audience and our ideal consumer is between the ages of 17 and 34.
- Energy drink designs for approximately a 12oz. aluminum can - functionally shaped anyway you like!)
A.) Runa energy drink (just guayusa as the only ingredient)
B.) Energy drink oriented towards women (not exclusively but obviously). The only two ingredients are "wayus" and "jasmine flower" _ Use a strong pink, orange, or tan color scape for this design.
*** If you have a suggestion for a different style of can/bottle design that uses other, preferably more sustainable materials than aluminum please propose it.
Here is the text that should be communicated on the label in this order (you can play with size, font, placement, spacing, color, etc.) I would like the can to have space and not be too busy. If you want a sample sketch of this outline please email firstname.lastname@example.com and I can send it to you.
1.) ORGANIC - stretching across the top
2.) Naturally Sweet
3.) RUNA - biggest text, very bold
4.) original, small and just below "RUNA" to the right
5.) Amazon Energy Drink - smaller and below RUNA original
6.) *"Just One Ingredient" - display in a way that catches the eye and is the next thing that someone sees after "RUNA"
7.) "Zero Calories and No Sugar" - somewhere below "Just One Ingredient
7.) In the lower third of the can and towards the center put the Rainforest Alliance Certification logo (find on google) and the Glycemic Index Certification logo (http://www.glycemic.com) side by side or however you want to position them.
*** Behind the text, I want a royal blue colorscape: Something that stands out when put against other flashy energy drinks. Blended in with the blue, I want jaguar spots to fan out in a fibanocci sequence or to mimic the look of a drop of water hitting a still body of water and rippling out. (google images: "fibonacci sequence"). The idea is that near the center of the can where it says "RUNA" the jaguar spots will be very small and almost indistinguishable and that they get bigger and more highly contrast the background as they approach the sides of the can and the back of the can. I can't explain this terribly well in words so try it and I'll give feedback. The point is to have jaguar spots spiral out in a fractal pattern that follows a geometric sequence but that still looks artistic and peppered by the lack of uniformity in the size and shape of the spots themselves.
CLEAN AESTHETIC, SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE COMPANY, SUSTAINABLE PRINCIPLES, FAIR TRADE, ORGANIC, HEALTHY (obviously), with THE SPIRITUAL UNDERTONES AND PHILOSOPHY OF A TEA COMPANY.
- the feel communicates SIMPLICITY, POWER, and HEALTH with a mild Amazonian flair
- looks professional yet welcoming and attractive
- Something that directly competes with Red Bull for the energy drink design (this is where the Blue Jaguar idea came from- but don't be attached to it, "Runa" is still central)
- hints and suggestions of the Amazon and ancestral power, mythic roots, authenticity**, indigenous wisdom (think 21st century Amazonia, 'Living Myth')
- I see a true, royal blue as the main color with bold, piercing white lettering (like the lining of a cloud at dusk) perhaps with gold lining around some letters. Try and incorporate a nice green that matches the blue in some places.
- look at the logo for Sambazon that, at least subconsciously, imitates the Starbucks logo (This is how we might relate to Red Bull for the energy drink, but we want our overall aesthetic as a company to be more neutral so we also can also sell teabags and loose-leaf tea) (see http://www.sambazon.com)
- we don't want anything gimmicky, too New Age, or overly exotic


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Hello Dear Followers,
Where do I begin with "Pride And Prejudice?" I do not know. I have to say overall, I enjoyed the book, I thought it was good. I found myself bored at times however, of their constant talking and constant declarations of emotions. I kept wanting to say "get to the point already!"
I gained a respect for Mr. Darcy, I found him to be a good man and seriously mis-understood. I think we can all learn a lesson from Elizabeth Bennet's presumptions of him. Don't we all judge a book by its cover never really allowing ourselves to fully know a person until we have fully spent some time with them and really hear what they have to say?
I was glad Elizabeth learned her lesson and beyond that was able to love him how she should. People like Mr. Darcy don't come around very often and if they do, they may not be given the credit they fully deserve.
I feel this was story not just about Elizabeth, but also about her sister. It was about their lives, their choices about whom they choose to love. I firmly believe this story is based a lot on Jane Austen's life and her own sister Cassandra's in many ways. While both Austen sisters never married, I feel this was about a part of their lives that many may not too much about unless you have of course see "Becoming Jane" (wonderful movie, if I can keep my eyes open, I may watch it now)
I do have to say I could not stand their mother, she was too much. Pardon me, but so many times I wanted to tell her to just shut up and their sister Lydia was a replica of their mother in so many ways. So very much the same in many ways. I truly loved their father, I felt he was real, I felt he looked at life realistically and truly wanted what was best for his daughters money or no money.
I couldn't imagine living this life where your whole life as a woman was dependent upon whether you could find a suitable partner in your life or be labeled a "spinster." Women weren't given the choices they are given today. While I would have loved to live in a different time, I don't think I could stay long feeling so suffocated.
I would recommend this book to anyone willing to spend the extensive time following a classic love story that isn't seen today in a society that no longer exists.
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This year's the U.S. Celebration of World Standards Day will include an exhibition, reception, and dinner on Oct. 7, focusing on the theme "Standards for Environmental Stewardship." The event, which will kick off at 5:30 p.m. at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., is co-chaired each year by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) will serve as this year's administrating organization in celebration of their 115th anniversary.
From reducing greenhouse gas emissions and conserving energy to supporting sustainable buildings and products, consumers worldwide are focused on protecting and preserving the environment. Technologies and strategies that support these initiatives often rely on coordination among manufacturers, standards development organizations, conformity assessment bodies, and consumers. This year's WSD will highlight the critical role of standards and conformity assessment programs in the development and implementation of these green initiatives.
Celebrated annually, World Standards Day serves to raise awareness of the importance of international standardization to the world economy and to promote its role in helping meet the needs of business, industry, government, and consumers worldwide. The global celebration is coordinated by the principal international standards organizations: the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
The evening's festivities include presentation of the 2009 Ronald H. Brown Standards Leadership Award to Jim Sanford, assistant U.S. trade representative for Market Access and Industrial Competitiveness, who is being honored for his contributions to the use of standardization to reduce trade barriers. The winners of the 2009 World Standards Day Paper Competition will also be announced and presented with awards. For more information or to register, please visit www.wsd-us.org. Advance registration is required.
WSD is part of the World Standards Week 2009 (WSW) series of events, which include committee meetings, forums, and an awards ceremony. Scheduled for Oct. 5-8, WSW will be held at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Bethesda, Md. For more information, visit www.ansi.org/wsweek.
ANSI oversees the creation, promulgation and use of thousands of norms and guidelines that directly impact businesses in nearly every sector: from acoustical devices to construction equipment, from dairy and livestock production to energy distribution, and many more. ANSI is also actively engaged in accrediting programs that assess conformance to standards – including globally-recognized cross-sector programs such as the ISO 9000 (quality) and ISO 14000 (environmental) management systems.


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Zondervan Partners with Accordance . . . in 1999!
Today Zondervan announced that it is discontinuing its Pradis Bible Software for Windows and will be licensing its materials to other Windows Bible software developers. This is a major shift in policy and welcome news for Windows users who did not want to use a separate Bible program exclusively for Zondervan content. The first of Zondervan's new partners is naturally and excitedly publicizing this long-awaited change, and some people may be getting the mistaken impression that this product has somehow replaced Pradis as the exclusive platform for Zondervan content.
What many people don't realize is that Pradis has never been the exclusive software platform for Zondervan content. On the Macintosh platform, MacBible existed before Pradis was ever developed. Then, ten years ago, Zondervan discontinued MacBible and partnered with Accordance to deliver its award-winning Bible reference materials to Mac users.
Zondervan released its first Accordance-compatible CD-ROM in February of 1999, and since that time has released numerous titles such as the Expositor's Bible Commentary, NIDNTT and NIDOTTE, the Zondervan Pictorial Encylopedia of the Bible, the NIV Study Bible notes, and much more. What's more, our partnership with Zondervan remains strong, and there's a lot more Zondervan material in the pipeline.
So while Windows Bible software users are partying like its 1999 while they continue to wait for Zondervan materials to be released for other programs, Accordance users can quietly smile and keep using their Zondervan resources today.
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Why can't we all celebrate together? I don't think the "other" software program ever said that they had exclusive access. I've been using NIDOTTE on Pradis, and NIDNTT on Accordance, and am grateful that now users of that software platform have access as well, especially Windows users. Pradis was archaic.
David Lang
Jonathan, I'm not trying to rain on anyone's celebration. It's just that a couple people were quick to ask if this news signaled a change in Zondervan's relationship to Accordance and I wanted to address that.
Wondering why these questions would even come up, I went back and read both companies' announcements again. Zondervan's press release makes it clear that they intend to license multiple "search engines," while the software developer's announcement speaks of Zondervan "changing" and "moving" to that company's product as "their new platform." I trust the difference in language is the result of innocent enthusiasm rather than deliberate marketing spin, but it did create concern on the part of some users and I felt the need to quiet those concerns. Once again, Zondervan's decision to begin new partnerships in no way affects our longstanding partnership with them.
So while Windows Bible software users are partying like its 1999 while they continue to wait for Zondervan materials to be released for other programs, Accordance users can quietly smile and keep using their Zondervan resources today.
Smile? Why? Quality materials have not been easily asssible to a lot of people for 10 years! IMHO Zondervan should have been licensing these products ages ago to several Windows Bible Programs, because Pradis has always been a priorietary barrier.
We should be all smiling because hopefully this will add further momentum to getting lots of quality materials out in multiple mediums, including Accordance, Logos, PC Study Bible, Bibleworks, etc. We need people studying the Bible in as many ways as possible. The software is just a tool. Accordance is a great tool and I hope that many more materials comes to it, but I will never smile if these materials are only available on Accordance or any other Bible program I own.
David Lang
John, Accordance users can smile at the fact that they have had access to Zondervan materials for more than a decade without smiling in malicious enjoyment of the fact that others have had more restricted access. It is possible to enjoy one's own blessings without delighting in the scarcity of others.
As I said both in my post and in my response to another comment, this was intended to allay some users' concerns that Zondervan's change in policy somehow signaled a change in their relationship with us. I just thought the "party like its 1999" crack was clever. What can I say? I grew up in the eighties! ;-)


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Study abroad program is one of the exciting parts of being a student. It provides a new approach in learning a lot of things in a foreign country.
Study abroad is one of the most prevalent summer study program being availed by many college students. A number of colleges and universities around the world offer such programs to foreign students. This provides the students the opportunity to pursue their education in other countries. Other students who have major academic subjects study in a particular country wherein they can have hands on experience. With this, they can have the chance to apply their knowledge in actual practice. Generally, subjects taken during the study program is credited to the student's academic records.
Basically, one of the common reasons of students in studying abroad is to learn different languages. Many believe that in order to learn a language effectively, one must immerse into the setting where the language is spoken. Another reason is that the students want to experience traveling and learn from diverse cultures of other nations. It is also a way to expand their knowledge beyond those that their home school can provide.
Students under the study abroad program stay in dormitories designated by the home university or live with a host family who agrees to provide student lodging. Study abroad programs normally last for a week or even longer. It most often takes place during the summer break of the academic year. Study abroad also presents loads of benefits to students such as scholarships, grants, and even job opportunities.
Some students may pursue a college degree in which they directly enroll or apply to educational programs offered by study program abroad companies. These companies grant more options to students and allow them to be involved in group of students from all other countries. Another choice offered by these companies is the chance for students to attend intensive language schools during summer. These schools focus their classes on foreign language instructions given only to their students.
There are certain requirements that a student needs to comply before availing the study program abroad. The student must first identify and decide on a program of interest. He or she must secure important travel documents such as passport, visa, and in some cases a medical certificate, as well. A student is also advised to make necessary arrangements for accommodation. Some schools which maintain dormitory facilities in the host country can house their students. In some instances, the student must shoulder his or her own board and lodging expenses.
In addition to all these, students are obliged to attend an orientation so as to know what to expect from their destination country. Through the orientation, the students are provided with all necessary information on the culture of the host country. It will also prepare them with possible difficulties they might encounter in the host country.
In the United States, mandates under the Higher Education Act of 1965 states that students can receive financial aid for study abroad if they are enrolled in a program that is approved by their home institution. Under the law, financial aid can cover reasonable cost for a study abroad which includes:
Round-trip transportation for the approved program
Tuition and other fees for the programs
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In order to qualify for the government aid, the student must secure and complete the Federal Application for Student Aid (FAFSA). The funds are awarded by the United States Department of Education.
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Michael Davis, a jazz musician in New York City, was wearing
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The new
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dandies, it's their whole being -- they couldn't exist any other way," Adams
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Bandleader Dandy Wellington told CBS News' Serena Altschul, "My style is a little bit of Jazz Age. There's that old Harlem feel."
New York filmmaker Raymond Chu.
Mickael Francois Loir, a financial consultant and clothing designer in Paris, says it is easy to be fashionable or eccentric - but difficult to be elegant.
Cator Sparks, a Southern gentleman and editor in chief of themanual.com ("The essential guide for men"), admits he once wore Adidas sneakers (!), but on a trip to London became transfixed by the city's dandy gentlemen. Still, he's not beyond wearing a kaftan.
David Carter, an eccentric dandy, is a London interior decorator and hotelier - he owns 40 Winks - who is also the city's "Lord of Pajama Parties."
For Carter, "dressing up" is not about being yourself, but being like an actor creating a character (and exhibiting an inner confidence to be able to withstand public heckling).
Clothing designer Domenico Spano says he has hope for the future of menswear: today fewer people on the street ask if he's in the Mafia.
Winston Chesterfield, a pianist and writer in London, says that being elegant catches a woman's eye.
asked if the rumor was true that he refuses to wear a bullet proof vest, New York
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Sean Crowley, a menswear designer in Brooklyn, once had an Anglophilic teacher who gave him extra credit for wearing ties and jackets to school. A collector of vintage objects, Crowley expresses an affinity for traditional English style, and owns between two and three thousand ties.
Patrick McDonald (occupation: "New York Dandy") says that clothing is the paint with which he covers himself, like a canvas, but also that "dandyism can be an armor, attracting certain people and keeping others away."
English escapologist Michael "Atters" Attree, and his moustache, are photographed in his ornate Regency townhouse.
Londoner Ray Frensham, a "professional Bohemian," with top hat and monacle.
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James T. "Terry" Riordan, Wabash Class of 1991, has been appointed director of human resources of Con-Way Transportation Services, Inc. He replaces J. Patricia Jannausch, who was promoted earlier this year to vice president of culture for CNF Inc., the corporate parent of Con-Way.
Riordan will be responsible for the management of all Con-Way human resource programs, planning, policies and services for Con-Way's 20,000 employees.
Riordan joined the Con-Way organization as a dockworker in 1992 at the Con-Way Central Express (CCX) facility in South Bend, IN. In 1993 he was promoted to account manager at the CCX Business Development Center. He was promoted to field account executive in 1994 and worked out of the Flint, MI service center. Two years later he was named operations assistant with responsibilities for properties at CCX. In 1997 he was promoted to manager of personnel for CCX. Since February of 2005 he has served as the service center manager in Richmond, IN.
"Terry brings a wealth of hands-on experience and knowledge to his new position. He is thoroughly familiar with how we operate and that will benefit Con-Way as he takes on this new assignment," said David S. McClimon, president of Con-Way Transportation Services. Riordan will report to McClimon.
Con-Way Transportation Services, Inc. is a $2.6 billion transportation and services company that provides time-definite and day-definite freight delivery and logistics services for commercial and industrial businesses in the United States, Canada and Mexico. All Con-Way operating components are ISO certified for 9001 and 14001 and the less-than-truckload and expedite units are C-TPAT/PIP certified and FAST highway carriers.
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As front-runner, NYC mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn has a target on her back
For mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn, leading in the polls nine months before the election promises burdens along with blessings.
The most recent survey from Quinnipiac University put the first female City Council speaker at 37 percent in the five-way Democratic field.
Appearing to hold the top rank in the city's dominant party should help Quinn, the only woman in the race, collect more endorsements and money.
But in any campaign, being perceived as king or queen of the hill paints a target on a front-runner's back. Quinn's primary rivals are just starting to hit her Council record hard in their public remarks.
For example, a bill to mandate paid sick leave for private-sector employees who don't now have it has stalled in the council. Quinn has said she still wants to see economic data showing the right time to enact it. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and Comptroller John Liu, rival Democratic candidates, call that a dodge.
Another candidate, William C. Thompson Jr., the former city comptroller, signals other gibes to come. Thompson already has cited a 2008 tempest over how the Council doled out member items, suggested some Quinn endorsements were tied to her legislative actions and said she "broke her word to voters" by carrying out the change in the term limit law that effectively kept her and Mayor Michael Bloomberg in their offices for an additional four years.
Quinn campaign consultant Josh Isay says: "We know some of her opponents are going to point fingers and make political jabs. But she is not about talking. She is about getting the job done. The campaign is focusing on her record of accomplishments -- from balancing seven budgets and protecting teachers' jobs to expanding pre-K, to protecting a woman's right to choose, to thousands of jobs in all five boroughs. We realize that politics is politics."
If Quinn prevails in the fall, she'd break a losing streak for speakers: The last two -- Gifford Miller and Peter Vallone Sr. -- fared poorly in mayoral primaries.
And Quinn has a bigger jinx to break, according to Albany-based political consultant Bruce Gyory, who says: "No Democrat who was the front-runner for an open seat for New York City mayor at the dawn of the campaign has been elected mayor since 1953."
Those one-time "front-runners" included Mark Green in 2001, Mario Biaggi in 1973, and Paul Screvane in 1965. Even when the late Ed Koch won for the first time in 1977, neither he nor the second-place finisher, Mario Cuomo, appeared likely to make the runoff in a New York Times-CBS poll two weeks before Primary Day. But both did.
Well into that year, in fact, some believed candidate Bella Abzug would become the city's first female mayor.
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Los Angeles City Controller Wendy Greuel has picked up some unexpected tips during her run for mayor of Los Angeles.
"In a debate, 55% of what people are looking at is your appearance," she said during a panel discussion at TheWrap's Women in Leadership breakfast on Thursday at the Montage Hotel. "So in my very first debate, months ago, people said to me, 'Just look good, long strong and don't screw up.'"
Also read: Kamala Harris on Overcoming Perceptions on the Road to Attorney General
If she wins, she would be the city's first female mayor.
Greuel (center, with panelists Nell Scovell, Cathy Schulman, Kamala Harris and Anne Globe) noted that she is a "qualified candidate who happens to be a woman," acknowledging that she had some incredible mentors and women who created the pathway.
"But just this week I got a call from a reporter, who said, 'Don't kill me but my editors have made me ask this question. Why have you grown your hair long'?'" she recalled. "And I said, 'Did you ask the guys that? Or why they had a different tie?'"
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After frantically poring over the 564 amendments offered to the Finance Committee's bill to overhaul the health system, senators said they "are pretty confident" that the amended version will cover Sen. Olympia Snowe's cat.
After frantically poring over the 564 amendments offered to the Finance Committee's bill to overhaul the health system, senators said they "are pretty confident" that the amended version will cover Sen. Olympia Snowe's cat.
"It remains to be seen whether any American would still be eligible for insurance under this landmark legislation, but it has at least insured that Se. Snowe's cat will have the power to choose the doctor it wants and get the coverage option that will give it peace of mind. It also remains to be seen whether Bo, the Obamas' Portuguese water dog, will qualify under the amended bill," said one bleary-eyed legislative aide who had just finished reading over all the amendments to the bill.
That the proposed legislation would at least cover Snowe's cat was seen as good news for the Finance Committee chairman, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., who last week had just put the final touches on his bill.
"All of us have had to rein in our expectations – including me," Baucus said in a telephone conference call with reporters and officials from the American Association of Feline Practitioners. "When I started out in this process months ago, I had expected this bill to provide health benefits to millions of the uninsured. Now I am just happy that we seem to have come up with something that will assure that Olympia's cat can live out its days in the dignity it deserves and without having to worry about finding affordable health coverage. And I am still hopeful about Bo's prospects."
Baucus insisted he had no idea that when his bill finally made it to the full Finance Committee, the chief beneficiary of the legislation would end up being the pet of one of the panel's key members.
But since it appears the challenge for Baucus is to prevent his fellow Democrats (they outnumber Republicans 13 to 10) from shifting the bill so much so as to chase away the support of Snowe — a Republican from Maine who could provide the crucial 60th vote needed to get the measure through the Senate — having stumbled into language that may guarantee that the senator's cat has access to affordable health care could prove crucial to winning her support.
"I don't see the Republicans offering any proposals that go as far as the Finance Committee's bill in terms of addressing the health care needs of Sen. Snowe's cat, and that could prove to be a big problem for them," said one longtime political observer.
Snowe, who is being wooed by the White House to support health care reform, said her cat "is as surprised as anyone" that it has turned out to be a principal beneficiary of the Finance Committee's legislation.
"But as my cat likes to remind me, health care reform in America has to begin somewhere," she said. "Perhaps it might make sense to start with people if people here really wanted to help one another. But they seem more open to helping out a cat than one another. So I'd say we are beginning where we should start."
Snowe said her cat had always wanted health insurance but had consistently been denied coverage in the past because of a pre-existing condition – namely, that it is a cat.
Democrats voiced cautious support for the Baucus bill while also expressing a variety of concerns. Rep. Charles B. Rangel of New York, the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, said he was troubled that the amended legislation, by seeming to pare coverage for anyone but Snowe's cat, appeared to do little that would help people buy insurance.
"This is reducing coverage for poor and working people," Rangel said, "And I am not convinced it does much for cats as a whole, either."
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said he doubted that subsidies in the Baucus bill would be enough to enable middle-income people to buy insurance for Snowe's cat without straining family budgets, and he vowed to seek changes.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., challenged Baucus and backers of his plan to help finance coverage of the millions of still uninsured cats by imposing $4 billion a year in fees on manufacturers of medical devices and diagnostic products.
Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, a Republican and self-professed "Blue Dog" lover who participated in the bipartisan negotiations, said he wanted to lower the overall cost of the bill, estimated at $880 billion over 10 years. In addition, he said he wanted stronger guarantees that federal money would not be used to pay for abortions for Snowe's cat or subsidize health insurance for illegal mice the senator's cat might smuggle over the border. Grassley said he is also seeking unspecified "medical cat practice reforms."
At the same time, Grassley said he hoped to "stay at the table" working with Democrats.
"Legislation that impacts every American should have strong bipartisan support. That's why I think it is important to keep the discussion going and to bring Bo into it,"
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