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The list seems endless.
Deoni Jones, age 23. Stabbed to death in Washington, DC.Agnes Torres, age 35. Decapitated and thrown in a ditch in Atlixco, Mexico.Anil Aayiramthengu, age 39. Throat slit in Thangassery, India.Thapelo Makutle, age 24. Throat slit and mutilated in Kuruman, South Africa.Barbarita Alemán, age 21. Shot to death in Colonia San Martín, Honduras.Secil Dilşeker, age 46. Throat slit in Antalya, Turkey.Sirena Paola, age 44. Beaten to death in Maicao, Colombia.January Marie Lapuz, age 26. Stabbed to death in New Westminster, Canada.Rayza Morais Costa, age 18. Bound and shot to death in Belém, Brazil.Cassandra Zapata, age 39. Strangled to death and burned in Rouen, France.
November 20th is the Transgender Day of Remembrance, when we remember these names among those of the hundreds of other transgender people who were murdered in 2012. According to the Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide project, murder took the lives of more than 1,080 transgender people in 56 countries between 2008 and 2012. This number is only the tip of the iceberg, as it includes only the handful of cases that garner media attention.
As the trans scholar and advocate Susan Stryker puts it, many people have difficulty recognizing the humanity of another person if they cannot recognize that person's gender. As a result, trans people in countries around the world frequently encounter extreme prejudice, harassment, and even murderous violence based simply on who they are.
There have been many different ways throughout history and across cultures of conceptualizing gender and describing the process of negotiating socially determined gender boundaries. Over the last century, the term 'transgender' has evolved as a popular umbrella term for people whose gender identity — their internal sense of being a man, a woman, or another gender — or gender expression is different from that typically associated with their birth sex. Some people claim a trans identity, while others are identified as trans on the basis of social definitions of masculine and feminine.
Trans people, like any group of people, come from a wide range of backgrounds. They live in cities and rural areas; are young, elderly, and middle-aged; began to live as their true gender when they were children, young adults, or much later in life; and live in families of all varieties. Trans people, and the communities they live in, are diverse in terms of factors such as race, income, and sexual orientation.
While violence can affect trans people from any background, its patterns are anything but random. The overwhelming majority of the lost trans lives that we honor on the Transgender Day of Remembrance are transgender women of color. Some were immigrants. Many struggled to make a living through sex work and were attacked by clients and police alike. Most were poor. In life and in death, their names and histories hover on the edge of invisibility in societies that accorded them few safe places to call their own.
This invisibility, like the brutality of the violence that claims so many trans people, is a reflection of the pervasive poverty, sexism, and other forms of systematic exclusion that circumscribe trans lives. Transgender people routinely confront institutionalized discrimination in areas of everyday life such as health care, housing, employment, education, and legal recognition in their true gender.
Anti-trans discrimination in health care is a particularly cruel reality, since many trans people need transition-related medical services to fully embody their true selves. And even while seeking the same basic health care that anyone might need to fix a broken bone or treat the flu, trans people frequently encounter biased and inadequate treatment from health care providers and denials of financial support from national health systems and health insurance programs.
The consequences of discrimination in health care are deadly. Transgender people are not only disproportionately likely to be victims of violence: They are also more likely to contract HIV, to go without preventive care that can catch diseases like cancer early, and to attempt suicide. In a recent study of more than 6,400 transgender people in the United States, for example, 41 percent of trans people reported attempting suicide — a rate 25 times higher than the general population.
Across the world, trans people are being excluded from jobs, turned away by doctors, funneled into prisons, and left to die by the side of the road. They are not slipping through the cracks: Indifference, hatred, and violence are actively forcing them down through the gaps in our social safety nets, our health care systems, and the legal systems of citizenship by which our societies determine whose lives matter.
The thousands of trans people whom we remember this November 20th must rely on the living to seek their justice. Fortunately, trans activists and their allies in countries across the globe are fighting to end the violence and invisibility that erase trans lives and advocating for policies that respect gender diversity and the full human rights of trans people.
A forthcoming report from the Sexual Health and Rights Project at Open Society Foundations, Transforming Health: International Rights-Based Advocacy for Trans Health, provides snapshots of 16 trans health and rights initiatives from 9 countries and the World Health Organization. The report makes recommendations across fields such as health care, data collection, and government identity document policies that we hope can help build a world in which there are no new names to read out at the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Until then, we must not only work for justice here and now — we must pause this November 20th and remember our dead.
Deoni, Agnes, Anil, we remember you. Thapelo, Barbarita, Secil, we remember you. Sirena, January, Rayza, Cassandra, and so many others — you will remain forever in our hearts.


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AUGUSTA, Maine — Hard feelings from a bruising election campaign followed by caustic rhetoric and an unfamiliar political landscape have combined to foul an atmosphere for cooperation in the Maine State House at a time when bipartisanship is most needed.
AUGUSTA, Maine — Hard feelings from a bruising election campaign followed by caustic rhetoric and an unfamiliar political landscape have combined to foul an atmosphere for cooperation in the Maine State House at a time when bipartisanship is most needed.
With the unsteady economy eating away at revenues, newly elected lawmakers face hard budget choices that are bound to fuel debate. And Gov. Paul LePage has promised to press forward with pet issues that have proven difficult in the past, including energy costs and education reforms.
Unlike last session, when the Republican governor had a Republican majority, Democrats are now in charge of the House and Senate for the next two years. So far, the two sides have not gotten along well, and they will need each other to get anything done.
"I've been hanging out here since the '70s, and I've never seen anything like it," George Smith, a State House fixture and outdoors issues writer, said when asked if he's ever seen a session get off to such a poisonous start.
"There's plenty of Republicans who want to get off to a good start, but (LePage) is pushing them toward the Democrats. He's weakening his own leadership," said Smith, a Republican.
Just over a month ago, harshly worded campaign ads, often bankrolled by outside political forces, toyed with facts in attempts to spear some candidates. Hard feelings carried over to last week's session-opening crack of the gavel.
Meanwhile, the governor refused to meet with Democrats out of frustration over being trailed by a Democratic video tracker, then shocked many lawmakers with his remarks at the session's formal opening when he sarcastically thanked the Democrats for "my own paparazzi." He toned down his remarks between Senate and House appearances, but they still didn't go over well.
Rep. Joe Brooks, a Winterport independent and former Democrat who is starting his fourth session, said the comments were "wholly inappropriate." A former Bangor Daily News Bureau chief at the State House, Brooks said, "Even though I've seen a great deal of consternation between the parties ... I've never seen this much distance between the majority party and the chief executive."
LePage spokeswoman Adrienne Bennett played down worries about sour relations between the governor and Legislature, noting that the governor's senior staff "is in constant contact with the Democrat leadership."
"We have to find a way to move forward together. We know there are differences ideologically," Bennett said. "We have to bridge that gap."
Democrats, despite their feel-good rhetoric, have been quick to take potshots at LePage. When the figures were not yet final on a spending curtailment plan being prepared for the governor, the new Democratic leaders, House Speaker Mark Eves of North Berwick and Senate President Justin Alfond of Portland, expressed shock that LePage had not looped them in on his plan.
Democrats had no intention of recalling their video tracker despite the governor's displeasure, said Ben Grant, Maine Democratic chairman.
"This thing with the tracker is petty," Grant said.
He also pointed out that some early-session antagonism can be expected, given the partisan divide between the legislative and executive branches.
"This is the first time we've had a split government in quite a long time," Grant said. "This is new territory for almost everybody here."
There's still time for the two sides to ease the partisan stress, and leaders from both sides said on opening day they hope that happens. And Alfond extended an olive branch to LePage by inviting the governor and his wife to dinner at a restaurant of LePage's choosing.
"Even as we meet here today, there are those on both sides spoiling for a fight, and expecting the worst — a showdown in Augusta between the Blaine House and the Legislature," Alfond told senators Wednesday. "I say let's disappoint them.
"Let's show the people of Maine what can happen when we seek common ground," he said.
Senate Republican Leader Michael Thibodeau of Winterport reminded senators that the two parties had to cooperate in order to balance nearly all budget documents last session.
"Balancing the state budget following the recent shortfalls promises to be one of the top priorities for the 126th Legislature. But I am confident that we can work with our Democratic colleagues to achieve real solutions for the people of Maine," Thibodeau said. Statements reflecting similar sentiments came from House leaders.


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"Congress, We Have A Problem": Toxic Secrets
Many members of the 104th Congress think the less you know about toxic substances released in your community, the better. S. 343, the so-called Regulatory Reform Act, contains provisions that would effectively eliminate the public's right to know about toxic pollution from factories. The provisions would:
- Curtail reporting requirements for up to 90 percent of toxic chemical emissions that factories must report to the EPA under the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI),
- Eliminate reporting requirements for many toxins presently on the TRI list,
- Bar the EPA from adding TRI reporting requirements for additional toxic chemicals.
The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), established in 1986, requires public disclosure of some releases of some toxic chemicals by some manufacturing facilities in the United States. Despite its limited scope, the TRI has achieved far more pollution reduction per dollar spent than any other environmental law.
In 1993, American industry reported dumping 2.7 billion pounds of toxic chemicals into the environment. Before the 104th Congress abolished it, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment concluded that ninety-five percent of all toxic chemical releases to the environment are unaccounted for by the TRI.
Nonetheless, in 1995, the new leadership in the Congress tried several times to dismantle the TRI, and so with it, the public's right to know about toxic chemical releases in communities across the country.
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Industry releases huge amounts of toxic chemicals into the environment nationwide. If Congress cripples TRI reporting requirements, Americans will know even less about toxic releases in their communities.
- In 1993, U.S. industry reported over 2.7 billion pounds of toxic chemical releases to the environment.
- Cancer causing chemicals accounted for 199 million pounds of all reported toxic chemical releases in the same year.
- Four states--Lousiana, Texas, Tennessee and Ohio--accounted for 40 percent of the total toxics emissions reported by industry under TRI nationwide in 1993.
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Sut wrote: But it has an air of inevitability about it.
I've posted before I've gone all digital for music and books but as yet I'm not prepared to go digital on games. Although I do feel I may be in a minority outside the mainstream gamers.
Interesting you should bring up books. eBooks had an air of inevitability about them too. Then the market started to speak long term.
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Turns out, what I always believed was true: Mot people who bought eBook readers or downloaded the apps weren't (wait for it) readers. People like sut are clearly the minority (i.e. people with ereaders who actually read). Most people with eReaders are likely like the people I know who bought eReaders. People who bought another gadget (like Wii Fit, BowFlex, kitchen gadgets, etc) convinced it would help them "become" something they were not: people who read.
I think the same thing happens in games. As long as you race to the bottom on Steam, iOS, etc. you can sell a lot of digital games. But gamers? Like core, industry driving, money producing gamers? I think the ones who like to buy real media are a bigger part of the real market than we think. Like me and my bookshelf filling bibliophiles have turned out to still be the actual book market.


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Norwich � For almost a year, Deb Hinchey has built her campaign for mayor on a promise: No city layoffs to balance the budget.
Although her stature as mayor gives Hinchey no direct control over crafting budgets, City Manager Alan Bergren has taken that message to heart, meeting with department heads earlier than ever, hoping to avoid any eleventh-hour strife over the funding of positions.
�If we�re going to have a livable community, you can�t just dismantle services and expect to be a good place to do business or have people live,� Bergren said.
Six months ago, the City Council adopted a $116.3 million 2013-14 budget that raised taxes by 2.6 percent but saved 15 of 17 jobs that were imperiled.
Aldermen withstood bruising criticism from rank-and-file employees and people who relied on city services as budget talks proceeded.
Among the most vocal opponents was Angelo Callis, president of AFSCME Local 2422, a 58-person bargaining unit that covers City Hall employees.
On Monday, he said he was encouraged that officials have begun reviewing the budget so early in the process.
�We hope that this is not just a Band-Aid. But we�ve never had a statement that strong, so we�re happy about that and cautiously watching to see if they carry through with it,� Callis said.
Under the city�s system of government, Hinchey�s political power is equal to any other person on the council. But as Norwich�s chief economic development official, Hinchey said reducing the work force to realize savings puts a strain on every facet of that job.
�We are at bare bones with the personnel we currently have. And we have to provide services. People expect their roads to be plowed,� she said. �I think we learned a lot last year, and I�d like to move forward in the direction the city manager is going.�
Early budget talks is the first of a two-step process Bergren is using to prepare for next year. He�s also established a �positive work environment committee,� a panel of 12 to 15 people from various levels of the city to �discuss core values and positive workforce issues that include morale, efficiencies and improved communications,� Bergren told the council on Nov. 18.
Departments have also taken on the task of finding efficiencies internally, and they have responded, according to first quarter fiscal reports.
In public works, for example, snow plow routes are being put into a GPS system to enhance response times, while the finance department has started to let vendors use electronic payments instead of checks � a program that began Sept. 3 and has led to the processing of $45,611 worth of invoices.
Callis, who has watched his bargaining unit drop from 74 people a decade ago to its current level, said such moves may help the city�s labor market in the long run.
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(Editor's note: An earlier version of this story miscalculated the timing of recent events that alter the original angle of the story. The controversy surrounding the fee-only planner designation began in earnest after former CFP Board Chairman Alan Goldfarb was sanctioned on June 18; the survey was conducted from late May to early June. The statistics presented here are not connected to the recent controversy, and the story has been changed to reflect this.)
Nearly two-thirds (63%) of CFPs say the CFP Board's services meet their expectations, according to a just-released survey by the CFP Board.
That is a big jump from the 48% who felt this way in 2011, when the survey was last conducted.
The telephone survey of a random sample of 803 certified financial planners was conducted in late May and early June by Fondulas Strategic Research, and provides what the CFP Board says is an "in-depth picture" of CFP professionals' perceptions of the value of their CFP certification, its impact on their careers, and their views of the CFP Board and the financial planning profession.
The survey found that 91% of the CFPs polled said they were "very satisfied" with their career choice in financial planning — a six-point increase from the 2011 survey — and that 92% of the CFP respondents were very satisfied with their decision to pursue CFP certification.
Sixty-four percent of respondents also said that becoming a CFP professional had a positive impact on their income.
"The support of our nearly 69,000 CFP professionals is important to CFP Board's work, especially as we continue to strengthen our standards and ensure that the public seeks financial advice from competent and ethical financial planning professionals," said CFP Board CEO Kevin Keller in releasing the survey results.
Other key findings from the survey include:
- 76% of respondents strongly agree that the CFP certification contributes directly to their own professional success
- 87% say that they work directly with clients as their primary professional role — a 4% increase from the 2011 survey
- 91% say they would recommend the CFP certification to other financial professionals.
The survey also found that CFP professionals "strongly believe" in the importance of CFP Board's priorities and initiatives:
- 86% of respondents say that CFP Board should pursue a public awareness campaign featuring advertising, such as CFP Board's "Let's Make A Plan" campaign.
- 97% of respondents agree with the statement that "financial planning should be a recognized profession"
- 84% agree that a "fiduciary standard of care is appropriate for all financial service" professionals
- 81% say that CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct provides them with "necessary guidance for delivering financial planning services to my clients with the highest ethical conduct" – a five point increase from the 2011 survey.
The CFP Board has been embroiled in controversy recently over its definition of "fee-only" advisors and its consideration of entering the continuing education business, which it is in charge of regulating.
In a survey conducted this summer by the Financial Planning Association, 54% of CFPs said it would be a conflict of interest for the Board to offer its own CE programs, ThinkAdvisor blogger Bob Clark recently reported.
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"One for the Money" is the story of a divorced Jersey Girl who's been fired from her job and facing an impending financial crisis. In order to earn money, she turns to her cousin's bail bonds business, hoping for a filing job. When she finds out that one of her ex-flames has a large bounty out, what she winds up doing instead is becoming a bounty hunter.
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|St. Mungo's Hospital was founded by Mungo Bonham
|St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
|Location information
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St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries is a wizarding hospital located in London, England. It was founded by famous Healer Mungo Bonham in the 1600s.[1] The emblem of St Mungo's is a wand crossed with a bone. It is a huge hospital.
Hogwarts students that are injured at school are normally treated at the hospital wing by Madam Pomfrey, the school nurse, but some injuries are too major for her, so the students are sent to St Mungo's Hospital for better treatment.
It may be that the hospital serves the entire British wizarding population. It may be the case that some charms have been placed upon it to be bigger on the inside than the outside, though a large enough department store could quite easily provide sufficient space as the wizarding population of Britain is small compared with the Muggle population of Britain.
Entering the HospitalEdit
To enter the premises, one may step through the window of what appears to be a red-bricked, condemned department store called Purge and Dowse, Ltd. This acts as a magical gateway to the main building, much like the barrier at King's Cross Station to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. The interior, on the other hand, looks exactly as a hospital should. One way one individual can enter the building is speaking to an apparently inanimate dummy in the department store.
The hospital is located where it is because no one could find a better place to house it. Everywhere in Diagon Alley was too small, so people came up with ideas to build it underground like the Ministry of Magic, but it was decided that underground was too unhealthy. Eventually, a normal Muggle building was purchased so that patients could come and go and fit in with the crowds.
Although the hospital is meant for the magical community, as with all other wizarding institutes, Muggles are admitted when they fall prey to magical attacks, such as two Muggles who lost their fingers to Willy Widdershins' biting doorknobs and must have their bones regrown, or Herbert Chorley who had his mind addled from a poorly performed Imperius Curse and had to remain in the hospital to recuperate as well as to prevent him from posing a danger to anyone.
There is a strict guidelines of gifts that are allowed into the hospital, for the safety of the patients. As such, each and every one would be searched and inspected thoroughly and would be determined whether it is safe to be given. This is shown when Miriam Strout neglected the rule and allowed a cutting of Devil's Snare, mistook it for Flitterbloom, into the ward, thus assassinating Broderick Bode.
- Harry Potter: "Are they doctors?"
- Ron Weasley: "Doctors? Those Muggle nutters who cut people up? Nah, they're Healers."
- — Harry Potter and Ron Weasley on Healers[src]
Medics at the hospital are known Healers or Mediwizards. Their uniform robes are lime green. Requirements to become a Healer include N.E.W.T.s of at least grade E (Exceeds Expectations) in the subjects of Transfiguration, Potions, Charms, Herbology and Defence Against the Dark Arts.
Dilys Derwent was a St Mungo's Healer from 1722-1741. Afterwards, she became Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1741-1768. Another Healer at St Mungo's was a man named Lancelot.
Miriam Strout was a Healer around 1995. She was in charge of the Janus Thickey Ward, caring in a motherly fashion for the long-term residents there. However, she neglected the importance of the gift guidelines, thus allowing the Death Eaters to smuggle in a cleverly disguised Devil's Snare to assassinate patient Broderick Bode. Strout was suspended on pay as a result.
Floor planEdit
Ground Floor - Reception and Artefact AccidentsEdit
In the reception area, a Welcome Witch sits at a desk marked Inquiries. The receptionist helps anyone who is unsure where to go, incapable of normal speech, or unable to remember why they are at the Hospital.
Artefact Accidents deals with cauldron explosions, wands backfiring, broom crashes, and so forth. Katie Bell would have been a patient on this floor when she was admitted to St Mungo's after touching a cursed necklace she was carrying.
First Floor - Creature-Induced InjuriesEdit
The "Dangerous" Dai Llewellyn Ward addresses; bites, stings, burns, embedded spines, etc.
- Healer-in-Charge
- Hippocrates Smethwyck
- Trainee Healer
- Augustus Pye
Arthur Weasley was a patient here after being attacked by Nagini. He shared the ward with a man who had been bitten by a werewolf and a woman with a massive chunk out of her leg.
Second Floor - Magical Bugs and DiseasesEdit
Addresses contagious maladies such as; dragon pox, Vanishing Sickness, and Scrofungulus.
Third Floor - Potions and Plant PoisoningEdit
Addresses rashes, regurgitation, uncontrollable giggling, and more.
Fourth Floor - Spell DamageEdit
Addresses unliftable jinxes, hexes, incorrectly-applied charms, etc.
Herbert Chorley, Muggle Junior Minister, was admitted to the hospital, afflicted with a badly-performed Imperius Curse. The spell caused him to impersonate a duck. While being treated at the hospital, he tried to strangle some Healers.
Professor Minerva McGonagall was admitted to this floor after receiving four Stunning Spells to the chest at the hands of Dolores Umbridge.
Nymphadora Tonks was a patient here after her battle with Bellatrix Lestrange in 1996.
Someone who was there at the same time as the Weasley family had shoes that his brother had jinxed to bite his feet.
Also located on this floor is the Janus Thickey Ward, a long-term residence ward which is usually kept locked. Patients with permanent or long-lasting spell damage reside here. Residents at this ward have been Broderick Bode, Alice and Frank Longbottom, a witch named Agnes, and Gilderoy Lockhart.
Fifth Floor - Visitors' Tearoom and Hospital ShopEdit
A place for visitors to relax and purchase gifts for patients.
Mungo Bonham could have been named after Saint Mungo, aka Saint Kentigern, the patron saint of Glasgow.[2] His pregnant mother was abandoned by her family before his birth. He is considered the first bishop of Scotland. "Mungo" was also a nickname meaning "dear one" or "darling".
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Mentioned on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- Wizard of the Month (Mentioned only)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ Wizard of the Month
- ↑ Source: Pocket Dictionary of Saints, published by Image Books, 1983.


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Skanning with Kooka
Torsten Rahn is ebullient about a
Kooka is a raster image scan program for the KDE2 system.
It uses the SANE libraries and
KScan and Kooka are under construction. Don't expect everything to work
The best way to describe an app is often with screenshots:
Kookas main features are:
Kooka is being maintained by Klaas
Looks nice
Cool, now if only I didn't have a paralell scanner : (
By Ashvini at Thu, 2000/12/21 - 6:00am
Re: Looks nice
But some parallel scanners are supported by SANE, so they shoud work with Kooka Have a look at http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners.html
By Andrea Cascio at Thu, 2000/12/21 - 6:00am
Re: Skanning with Kooka
Looks great! Will it be integrated into the KParts framework? How cool would it be to be in KWord and have a button to scan in a document and have it OCR'd and then opened in KWord for correction and editing? All without leaving KWord!
Keep up the great work! I look forward to hearing more about this project... Now, maybe if I could just find the $ to get a scanner :)
By Tom Philpot at Thu, 2000/12/21 - 6:00am
Re: Skanning with Kooka
How about a system in kio?
By KDEer at Fri, 2000/12/22 - 6:00am
Re: Skanning with Kooka
There were discussions about that already. I dont like the idea to have just one image in a directory scanner:/1, because one image is not enough. Should it always be the last scanned image or should it be scanned on the fly ?
Kooka saves your scan results automatically into a 'special' directory. Future releases will be able to save descriptions like date, caption etc. beside the images.
I would like the idea that scanner:/1 leads you to that directory where you are able to manage your image pool. And that's hopefully fairly easy, because that should only be just a symlink to Kooka's image save dir or a bookmark ;-)
By Klaas Freitag at Sat, 2000/12/23 - 6:00am
Re: Skanning with Kooka
Hi. Looks really cool, I like it. 2 hours ago, I just finished my university project on Handwriting OCR. As far as I have seen on the web page, gocr, the OCR engine, does not use neural networks but a more classic approach. I would like to dig into the source but I just started my thesis -- so little time :-(
By Christian Naeger at Thu, 2000/12/21 - 6:00am
Re: Skanning with Kooka
This description sounds indeed very promising.
Automatic generation of file names can be a good aid, but another option would make it even better:
It would be really a relief for document storage and retrieval, if the handlig of metadata would available in KDE-Applications. Kooka could mark the start, pixie, konqueror etc. to follow.
By Bernhard Vornefeld at Wed, 2000/12/27 - 6:00am
Re: Skanning with Kooka
Thank you very much for the links.
Yes, I tried to design kooka to handle mass scanning with approbiate scanners. SANE offers drivers for Fujitsu and Bell and Howell by now, maybe that improves ?
ADF-Support depends on SANE. If a SANE driver supports ADF, kooka also should. There is already something coded (see massscandialog.cpp), but not yet finished and tested, because I do not have an ADF (yet).
Automatic file name generation is just a starting point. The interface to the object, which stores the images, was designed as 'slim' as possible to allow the implementation of storage objects as required: Handling XML, database connections or whatever. Barcode and/or form recoginition for metadata generation should also be possible.
By Klaas Freitag at Wed, 2000/12/27 - 6:00am
Re: Skanning with Kooka
I have been looking for this for a while. Thanks.
By Hannes Kruger at Fri, 2000/12/29 - 6:00am
Re: Skanning with Kooka
Hannes, I dont know what NIST is, but handwriting recognition sounds very interesting to me. Is there any open source software existing already?
By Klaas Freitag at Fri, 2000/12/29 - 6:00am
Re: Skanning with Kooka
The NIST Public Domain OCR System Release 2.1 is at:
It recognizes handprint characters only (in german: Druckbuchstaben). Perhaps it can be included in the Recognition engine. Chris
By Christian Naeger at Mon, 2001/01/01 - 6:00am
Re: Skanning with Kooka
This is just what I'm waiting for. I'm writing a little KDE app that requires scanner support. Will Kooka work as a Kparts plugin type thing? I need to be able to call it to import the image into my app.
Does Kooka have auto selection of the media being scanned? (if you insert a 4x5 picture, will it autoselect the picture at the edges, or do you have to do that manually?)
By Jay Austad at Tue, 2001/04/24 - 5:00am
Tif scanning in Kooka
I was just wondering about why the ability to save as a tif file hasn't been included in kooka ?
The scanimage command has the option to output as tif.
A great job has been done on the app, with a lot of progress.
G4 compressed tif files are small and can be at 600dpi, quite easily. I
I found a way for this script to work with whichever sane scan device you
#test to see if a filename has been entered
#Read output of help command to get scanner device name
echo Now scanning your A4 document on $scanner
#scan the A4 binary(b&w) file uncompressed at 300dpi to temporary file
#Use tif utility to convert the temporary binary tif to a G4 compressed tif
# display resulting G4 tiff file
#test to see if a filename has been entered
#Read output of help command to get scanner device name
echo Now scanning your A4 document on $scanner
#scan the A4 binary(b&w) file uncompressed at 300dpi to temporary file
#convert to pdf with G4 compression
#display pdf
By chris at Wed, 2004/11/17 - 6:00am
Re: Tif scanning in Kooka
epson:/dev/usb/scanner0 epson:/dev/usbscanner0 epson:/dev/usbscanner
whereas under 2.6 only one scanner is listed.
So swap the line which says :
scanner=`scanimage --help | sed -e 's/ /\n/g' | tail --lines=1 `
or even better
scanner='scanimage -f %d | sed -e 's/0/\n/g' | tail --lines=1 '
which should work on 2.4 or 2.6 kernel, plus hopefully others
By Christopher Booth at Mon, 2004/12/06 - 6:00am
Re: Tif scanning in Kooka
Respected Sir,
Can u please let me know the solution for the above problems and hence the reduce the size for the pdfs and the tiffs and help me Sir.
Hope to do a healthy and longstanding longstanding business relationship with Professionals lilke You Sir.
Dr.V.shivakumar Sharma
By Dr.V.shivakumar... at Mon, 2005/11/28 - 6:00am
Re: Tif scanning in Kooka
Okay - I have built some improvements on this script, turning it into a small bit of perl.
sub usage()
} while(user_has_more() == 1);
print "stitching...\n";
#Look at multiple page scans - either from a preset parameter, or an interactive prompt, using the tiffcp command
#Convert to a B&W tiff as well, and pass through ocr. Filter out non-dictionary
print "outputting\n";
for my $i (1..$count) {
By Danny Staple at Wed, 2006/03/22 - 6:00am
Re: Tif scanning in Kooka
How annoying - the posting system removed all my indenting. And there was me thinking posters just neglected it...
There is a bug there - the $temp on the unlink in the loop should actually just be temp, no dollar sign.
By Danny Staple at Wed, 2006/03/22 - 6:00am


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The impending brain drain that will result when baby boomers retire en masse has plenty of businesses biting their nails, but a report from the Plan Sponsor Council of America and sponsored by Principal Financial Group found nonprofits are expecting to lose at least 10% of their work force to retirement.
Non-profits have depended on their retirement plans instead of big salaries to attract the best talent, according to Bob Benish, executive director of PSCA. "We've seen 403(b) plans improve dramatically over recent years," he said in a statement. "It is clear those plans will be increasingly important in the race for high performers, especially in higher educational institutions."
Almost 70% of nonprofit firms surveyed by PSCA said they planned to replace the majority of retirees, but 38% are expecting it to be a challenge. More than half expect to lose between 10% and 20% of their workers over the next five years.
The survey highlighted the top challenges non-profit firms are expecting as they try to replace qualified, experienced workers.
- More than 42% anticipate an increased need for training.
- Similarly, 40% say there will be skill gaps in their work force.
- More than 38% say remaining workers will be overburdened as they pick up responsibilities of departing workers.
- Almost 34% say they will have to increase their use of technology to compensate.
Interestingly, less than 10% of respondents said they would outsource some of the responsibilities of retired workers to pick up the slack. Only 6% said they would cut some services to be able to work with their remaining work force. Thirty-three percent of firms said they didn't expect a major impact because they were preparing for the big hit to their work force.
Aaron Friedman, national tax-exempt practice leader for The Principal, noted that there were opportunities for advisors to add business from the nonprofit space, especially among large firms and higher education institutions. The survey found 20% of organizations with at least 500 employees, many of which are colleges and universities that experienced a hiring spike in the '70s and '80s, expect to lose one-fifth of their workforce to retirement in the near future.
"As a generation of academics nears retirement, financial professionals have another reason to focus on higher education as an opportunity to grow their business," Friedman said. "Financial professionals who can help enhance plan designs—making plans more successful and therefore better appreciated by employees—stand to position themselves well in this burgeoning non-profit marketplace."
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Mark your calendars; this Saturday, December 10th a total lunar eclipse graces our fair planet, and a good swath of humanity will get to see it. This particular eclipse occurs at sunset/moonrise for observers in central Europe, the UK, and north-eastern Africa westward, and just before sunrise/moonset for all of North America except the U.S. eastern seaboard and the Maritimes. [Read more...]


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Mainomai: It means "I'm raving, I'm mad, I'm drunk, I'm delirious." Like the Maenads, but male in my case.
So there I was, minding my own business, doing a google search on pantheon - the building. In Rome. I found a different Pantheon, indeed. And I'm in love.
So I thought I'd say, xaire, you have a new fan.
By day I am a computer geek. By night I'm a crazed Hellenophile. I amuse myself by reading the homoerotic bucolic mimes of Theocritus, or Herondas' nice poem about matrons dildo shopping - in Greek. I offer my services for future racy Greek needs, in prose or verse.


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By Fareed Zakaria
There was a blockbuster article in the New York Times recently that details the extent of the private wealth amassed by the family of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. The story is already creating huge waves in China, and although Chinese authorities have reportedly blocked the paper's site, the story is still being discussed in a million different, quiet ways.
"A review of corporate and regulatory records indicates that the prime minister's relative – some of whom, including his wife, have a knack for aggressive deal making – have controlled assets worth $2.7 billion," The New York Times reported. "In many cases, the names of the relatives have been hidden behind layers of partnerships and investment vehicles involving friends, work colleagues and business partners."
What this highlights for me is not that China is especially corrupt, although corruption there is (as elsewhere) a genuine problem. Instead, this report underscores the answer to a question many of us have been wondering over the years: is China somehow largely immune to the kind of corruption that afflicts developing countries?
Certainly, China has often seemed smoothly technocratic compared with the messy, chaotic, highly corrupt reality of India. And there's still some truth to this observation. Bureaucratic institutions do function better in China, and from what I can tell there is less corruption there than in India in the routine provision of things like licenses and permits.
However, this article underscores that there is extensive corruption in China of a different kind. People that are well-connected – especially the so-called princelings – get favorable treatment in terms of government loans, investment and licenses. And, because of China's breathtaking growth, such assistance can add up to hundreds of millions of dollars, meaning that the sums involved are more much more massive than the cash in a brown paper bag that would be handed out for a permit elsewhere.
The issue for China is not whether it has a corruption problem – as I have suggested, I would argue that on a day-to-day basis it has less of a problem than nations such as India and Indonesia. Instead, Beijing's problem is that its closed political system does not have the legitimacy of elections. This could hit the Communist Party hard as it undermines the image the country has of itself as managed by an elite that governs for the greater good, in a highly meritocratic system.
Now, with the revelations about Wen's family and the case of disgraced politician Bo Xilai, it will be interesting to see how the Chinese handle these disruptions to the narrative moving forward. Given that its leadership does not appear to intend to hold elections, what processes will the Communist Party implement for handling corruption and leadership selection to maintain any semblance of legitimacy?
It will be fascinating to see how the country grapples with this question.
However, this article underscores that there is extensive corruption in China of a different kind. People that are well-connected – especially the so-called princelings – get favorable treatment in terms of government loans, investment and licenses. ................
So in other words China is like a USA. Corruption at the individual level is small but at governmental and corporate level is high! Should I say the Military Industrial Complex? or how about the $40K hammer and toilet bowl? How about the F-35 program that is now costing US taxpayers over $100 billion?
Replace the word 'corrupt' with' lobbying' and regulatory with legal and this article isdescribing the USA. In other words there is ZERO difference. At least in china if truly caught they kill you.. in the US you get promoted or at worst spends couple months in a house arrest in million $ penthouse.
I'm from hong kong, those chinese from mainland are so pathatic, their comments simply endorse the crooked regime. I also want to say all guys here are wrong. Wen has very limited power. This was all but framed by Bo xi-lao's gang.
I suspect the level of corruption in Red China is on a par with the levels of corruption in pretty-much every totalitarian state throughout history: VERY.
Gee, how many of these comments are being generated by the Chinese Government? Now thats real corruption!
"what processes will the Communist Party implement for handling corruption and leadership selection to maintain any semblance of legitimacy?"
Come on Fareed! What "processes"?? Those in the CCP most in danger of being exposed will begin eliminating those
who threaten them. And those least able to hide their corruption will begin allying themselves with those most capable
of eliminating "threats" and protecting "friends". The "process" is simply Darwinian survival of the fittest.
It's too bad that the "process" won't eliminate the CCP or the newly wealthy "business geniuses" whose sole operating
principle is "greed is GOOD!"
China is heading for a catastrophe of its own making.
It's a very good article.However,there are some points I can't agree with.So far as I konw,what's magazines said about Wen's family haven't involed any direct evidence.Maybe some magazine will be sued for defamation of Wen's character. The media should adhere to be objective,that's to say,medias should be responsible.
The author is wrong about the Bible being easier on the killing of an unborn baby. It is treated the same as a life outside the womb throughout the Bible. The author of this article has a habit of trying to defend his liberal agenda by using argumnets made by different Christians. At any point in time you can find many perspectives from man but the Bible is very clear about the killing of unborn babies ( not fetuses ) and other culturaly sensative issues the writer loves to twist. If you muddy the water it allows you to avoid the truth – but the Bibles position is clear to anyone who reads the Bible without an agenda.
Who cares about China, or any other countries? They can corrupt anyway they want. Someone please care a little bit for USA! Fareed Zakaria must be paid by China.
Mankind is corrupt and not worthy of inheriting the Earth. Evolution has a long way to go with this species.
no different than it has always been....and will always be...until there is no more china.
Wow, this is a seriously poorly written article...reads more like the work of an undergrad student than a seasoned reporter..
Chi-coms? They are inherently corrupt...just like the Soviets....
In the history few years, several of the theme at this pandal have been subject matter like women's empowerment and the human rights and duty of citizens. This year's theme of forthrightness has been bring to life by art director Nilesh Choudhary.
No there's no corruption!:) "The prime minister's relative – some of whom, including his wife, have a knack for aggressive deal making – have controlled assets worth $2.7 billion" Clearly the family has connections good and bad.
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A 15-country coalition of rainforest nations has complained that the UN climate change mechanism encourages countries to replant forests they have cut down, but fails to reward 'good' countries that have not deforested in the first place.
PANOS FEATURES - Nairobi] The Coalition of Rainforest Nations, led by Costa Rica, Papua New Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have told the UN climate change summit in Nairobi, Kenya that they want to be rewarded for the vast swathes of rainforest they have left intact.
The Coalition says it wants to receive 'carbon credits' similar to ones given to countries like Brazil, which has chopped down many of its rainforests and is now receiving credits for new plantations.
The carbon credits system evolved out of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. That agreement, aimed at mitigating climate change, assigns emissions targets to signatory industrialized nations, which in turn divide them among businesses involved in large air-polluting activities.
Firms that exceed their targets have an option to 'buy' credits from others who are not using up their full allowance, or offset their excess emissions by "˜buying' an equivalent amount of carbon that is naturally trapped in trees.
The seller must have approved 'carbon credits', which are endorsed under the CDM and given only to new afforestation projects. That, the Coalition says, is wrong.
"The positive impact of [intact] forests has not been taken on by the Kyoto Protocol," complained Georgette Koko, the minister of environment of Gabon, where 70 per cent of forests remain.
"Our sustainable development efforts may be seriously slowed down unless we get the support of the international community for the rational and sustainable use of our forests," she said at the Nairobi conference.
"Central African countries consider that their efforts made in managing forests deserve to be recognized and supported, because they are positive for climate," the Coalition said in its proposal to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
It says the proposal "" which describes the claim for credits as 'avoided deforestation' - should be adopted after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, and a new regime is put into place.
The move has the support of the Washington-based Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, which calculates that in 2005 "" at the rate of US$20 for a one-ton unit of carbon dioxide "" the forests of the 15 nations were worth around US$1.1 trillion in carbon credits.
Credits for "˜avoided deforestation' are also supported by Kenya's respected Nobel peace prize winner, Wangari Maathai, who said that the Congo basin forests are second only to the Amazon.
"The efforts by their government to retain them should be an incentive for them, instead of them being just observers in the climate change market," she said to reporters at the Nairobi summit.
Maathai added that it was a "serious misrepresentation of climate mitigation that no incentives should be given to these countries".
The rainforest network wants the conservation of its forests to benefit from a tax on large over-polluters, and through any other fund that the Convention might build up. Costa Rica already has a similar tax on fuel, the money from which goes towards small landowners and local communities to keep their forests intact.
The Rainforest Coalition does have opponents, among them India, a strong member of the G77 developing-nations alliance.
"There are too many scientific uncertainties present to support primary forest in the carbon market today," commented India's Secretary of the Environment, Dr Prodipto Ghosh, on the sidelines of the Nairobi conference.
"It is not our intention that those taking steps to reduce deforestation should not be awarded, but this cannot be through the carbon market", Ghosh stated.
But the DRC's Kasulu Seyas Makonga is equally determined. "We will push for our stand till we get it, because we believe it to be fair," he said.


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Today we focus on 1980 and a changing of the guard. The previous season ended on a somber note, as highly respected veteran Gaylon Mosier, winner of the '79 High Point 500cc National on a factory Kawasaki 500, was killed in a training accident near Unadilla before the Trans-USA race there when he was hit by a truck while riding a bicycle.
Gaylon Mosier was killed in the fall of '79 while bicycling on a road near Unadilla.
In 1980 a couple of new tracks joined the AMA Motocross circuit, and one is still there: Washougal, high above the banks of the Columbia River, will host its thirty-first Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross National on July 23. Broome-Tioga in Binghamton, New York, also joined the tour and would remain on it for more than twenty years.
When Bob Hannah broke his leg water-skiing after another dominant season, the door was wide open for someone to step in and take over as the leader in this nation. In AMA Supercross it was Hannah's young Yamaha teammate Mike Bell who ended up champion, as he swept the first two rounds at the old Seattle Kingdome and then rode a good, consistent series—and by then the SX tour had grown to seventeen rounds!
Kent Howerton took the 1980 AMA 250cc Motocross title.
Bell was solid outdoors too, but not as fast as Suzuki's Kent Howerton was. The "Rhinestone Cowboy" from Texas won all but one round of the seven-round tour, and the only race he lost—RedBud—went to another Texan in the form of Team Honda's Steve Wise. Howerton would also win the Trans-USA tour, now all the way down to just four rounds, including two current AMA National tracks in Unadilla and RedBud. There was not a single European rider in the top ten that year, as the series was no longer of great importance to the factories.
The 500-class title would go to Chuck Sun, nicknamed the "Rising Sun" due to his Asian roots. The Honda-backed Sun, who hailed from Oregon, was the first minority rider to win a major AMA title and would not be matched until James Stewart came along in 2002. Sun topped Goat Breker and the veteran Marty Smith, now on a Suzuki after spending most of his career at Honda.
One other moment that year is mostly lost to history: Ohio's Denny Swartz won the RedBud National on a Maico, marking the last win in the once-proud German brand's history.
"Flyin'" Brian Myerscough was fast but also had some health issues.
The 125 class saw the biggest upset, though, as three-time champion Broc Glover was finally stopped in his tracks by Mark "The Bomber" Barnett, as the Suzuki rider ended the Golden Boy's dominant streak. He had some early support from teammate Brian Myerscough, but the former minicycle hotshoe suffered from blood disorder called hypoglycemia that robbed him of his energy, though he did win the Saddleback National.
Nineteen eighty was a big year for American motocross on the global stage. Brad Lackey was in contention for the 500cc FIM World Championship, Marty Moates shockingly swept both motos of the U.S. Grand Prix at Carlsbad on a privateer LOP Yamaha to become the first American to win that race, and in another huge upset, Mugen Honda privateer Johnny O'Mara won the 125cc U.S. GP at Mid-Ohio. But Team USA could not get their act together, and for the second year in a row there was no U.S. entry at the Motocross and Trophee des Nations.
That would change—as would the balance of power in world motocross—in 1981. More on that tomorrow.
Check out Johnny O'Mara on that sweet Mugen Hon!
1980 250cc National Motocross
3/23 Sacramento, CA Kent Howerton, San Antonio, TX Suz
3/30 Irvine, CA Kent Howerton, San Antonio, TX Suz
5/18 Southwick, MA Kent Howerton, San Antonio, TX Suz
5/25 Mt. Morris, PA Kent Howerton, San Antonio, TX Suz
6/1 Buchanan, MI Steve Wise, Pharr, TX Hon
6/8 Atlanta, GA Kent Howerton, San Antonio, TX Suz
6/15 Lakewood, CO Kent Howerton, San Antonio, TX Suz
1980 250cc AMA Motocross Point Standings
1.) Kent Howerton, San Antonio, TX 336
2.) Mike Bell, Lakewood, CA 259
3.) Steve Wise, Pharr, TX 222
4.) Warren Reid, Westminster, CA 200
5.) Darrell Shultz, Trinidad, CA 178
6.) Larry Wosick, San Jose, CA 160
7.) Mike Guerra, Bolton, CT 152
8.) Marty Tripes, Santee, CA 130
9.) Jim Ellis, E. Hampton, CT Yam 103
10.) Steve Martin, St. Petersburg, FL Yam 98
1980 500cc AMA Motocross Championship
5/25 Mt. Morris, PA Chuck Sun, Sherwood, OR Hon
6/1 Buchanan, MI Denny Swartz, Marietta, OH Maico
6/8 Atlanta, GA Chuck Sun, Sherwood, OR Hon
6/15 Lakewood, CO Goat Breker, Anaheim, CA Kaw
6/29 Sonoma, CA Chuck Sun, Sherwood, OR Hon
7/6 Washougal, WA Chuck Sun, Sherwood, OR Hon
8/24 Binghamton, NY Chuck Sun, Sherwood, OR Hon
8/31 St. Petersburg, FL Danny LaPorte, Yucca Valley, CA Suz
1980 500cc AMA Motocross Point Standings
1.) Chuck Sun, Sherwood, OR 307
2.) Goat Breker, Anaheim, CA 247
3.) Marty Smith, San Diego, CA 233
4.) Rick Burgett, Sandy, OR 231
5.) Jim Gibson, Orange, CA 216
6.) Arlo Englund, Denver, CO 213
7.) Danny LaPorte, Yucca Valley, CA 178
8.) Denny Swartz, Marietta, OH 175
9.) Gary Semics, Laguna Beach, CA 172
10.) Marty Moates, San Diego, CA 147
1980 125cc AMA Motocross Championship
3/23 Sacramento, CA Mark Barnett, Bridgeview, IL Suz
3/30 Irvine, CA Brian Myerscough, Calimesa, CA Suz
5/18 Southwick, MA Broc Glover, El Cajon, CA Yam
6/29 Sonoma, CA Broc Glover, El Cajon, CA Yam
7/6 Washougal, WA Mark Barnett, Bridgeview, IL Suz
8/24 Binghamton, NY Mark Barnett, Bridgeview, IL Suz
8/31 St. Petersburg, FL Mark Barnett, Bridgeview, IL Suz
1980 125cc AMA Motocross Point Standings
1.) Mark Barnett, Bridgeview, IL 314
2.) Broc Glover, El Cajon, CA 305
3.) Jeff Ward, Mission Viejo, CA 219
4.) Brian Myerscough, Calimesa, CA 214
5.) Richard Coon, Ghent, NY 186
6.) Scott Burnworth, Jamul, CA 151
7.) Donnie Cantaloupi, Stockton, CA 138
8.) Chappy Blose, Phoenix, AZ 124
9.) Jim Holley, Northridge, CA 122
10.) Ron Sun, Lake Grove, OR 12
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The candidate qualifying period for a long list of local election races begins at noon Monday.
The candidate qualifying period for a long list of local election races begins at noon Monday.
Voters in Fort Walton Beach, Crestview, Shalimar, Cinco Bayou and Laurel Hill will cast ballots in municipal elections March 12.
�There�s still plenty of time for people who are interested in running for public office � to get in,� Okaloosa County Supervisor of Elections Paul Lux said.
Although most county offices will close at 3 p.m. Monday for New Year�s, the elections office will stay open to 5 p.m., Lux said.
His office will be closed New Year�s Day, a federal holiday, and reopen at 8 a.m. Wednesday.
The deadline to qualify is noon Friday.
Twenty people already have pre-filed to run for various offices up for grabs in towns and cities across the county.
In the March 12 election, Fort Walton Beach voters will elect a mayor and four City Council members. Shalimar voters will elect a mayor and two town commissioners while Cinco Bayou residents will elect three Town Council members.
In Crestview, voters will elect a city clerk and three City Council members. Laurel Hill voters will elect a mayor and two City Council members.
Candidate hopefuls in Cinco Bayou, Fort Walton Beach and Shalimar can pickup qualifying packets at Lux�s office in the county Water and Sewer Administration Building at 1804 Lewis Turner Blvd.
Qualifying packets for the Crestview and Laurel Hill elections are available at the elections office in the Buddy Brackin Building at 302 Wilson St. N., Suite 102, in Crestview.
TO LEARN MORE: For more election information, go to www.govote-okaloosa.com.
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Kari Barlow at 850-315-4438 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @KariBnwfdn.


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ibiz necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 117 diseños de 48 diseñadores freelance.
We want to change the logo we originally had developed for us.
We will need a logo format for the website, business cards, and a version that we can use as a Windows Start Programs Icon.
Here is our current logo - http://www.crmInnovation.com
We are a Microsoft ISV that is creating add-in solutions for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM application (customer relationship management). Originally we specified that our logo should utilize the same color scheme that microsoft uses for their CRM logo.
I am not sure if this is the best approach.
One thing our current logo doesn't allow us to do is to have an icon verision of our logo as it can't be 'repurposed' into say 32x32 pixels.
The logo must include the company name CRM Innovation (do not included LLC)
- Item 1...Logo for website in color
- Item 2 - a version of the logo that works well in b/w
- item 3 - same logo in color for business cards
- item 4 - an icon version of the logo that we would use in Start Programs screen. Our software installs on the client's machine and we need a similar look to our (full size) logo that we can use there and as an icon in the add/remove control panel. It doesn't have to include the company name (in fact it shouldn't or actually can't as there isn't enough room)
- item 5 you can continue to follow the microsoft CRM color pallete if you want.
- file format - we will need the native source file that this image was designed it - it will need to be the windows version not the Mac.
- Item 1... i don't necessarily want space for a tag line
- Item 2 - i don't want a remake of our current logo unless it is really creative.
- i don't want any light bulb images for demontrate innovation :)
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paul_CP necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 81 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
This contest is to design a logo for a contemporary Hotel with a full service spa that caters to the tourism industry in Northern California, situated in between the Sonoma wine country and the Redwood Forrest. The logo needs to reflect nature and the outdoors, while also indicating modern serenity and relaxation.
Baechtel Creek Inn & Spa
The Baechtel Creek Inn & Spa resides in beautiful Northern California nestled in between the Sonoma wine country and the Redwood forest. It is a small resort that offers guest all sorts of access to outdoor activities and natural wonders as well as a full service spa for some serious relaxing. We are a quaint and quiet place to relax and rest your head while you enjoy the tourist sights of beautiful Northern California.
- This logo needs to be something that will look good on a business card and stationary, as well as on our new website. If it is marketable enough it may also go other places as well, like on our sign and perhaps in the town chamber of commerce hall. We want a logo that reflects our location. We are very near the Redwood Forest, and the wine country so it would be great if somehow imagery from those two areas could be tied together in the location. Also, because we are a spa, it needs to suggest tranquility and relaxation. I like the idea of embossed logos, but I'm open to other things as well. Please start submitting ideas and I'll gladly provide feedback to the ones I like or think have potential. Nature tones are preferred, but if you have something that you think looks great, show me and maybe I'll be pleasantly suprised!
- Things that look coprorate or sterile. We are not a technology firm or a wireless phone company. We are not an investment group or law practice. We are a spa, we are a retreat from all things corporate and annoying and we want to reflect that in every way possible.
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