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The Dapper Apper necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 9 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
The Dapper Appers
The Dappers Appers is a new mobile application company that is looking to establish relationships with the right graphic designers, and is looking to find these talented people through 99Designs. This project is the tip of the iceberg.
This game is targeted at users in the wide age range of 15-35, both men and women who know how to enjoy a good mobile app...
In the PNG format, we will need the following-
1. 2D images of a dart (with a silver tip, green body with black trim, and plumes at the back that are rotating yellow and green) for the game. These will include the following dart views-
A) a view of the tip and upper half of the dart that will appear from the bottom of the screen so that users can see part of the dart before they flick it.
B) for when the dart is flicked by the user- multiple images of the darts which will be rotated quickly to give the appearance of them rotating in flight. The darts will have silver tips, and some combination of green and yellow on the rest. When a user flicks a dart, the images will be rotated quickly so it appears as if the dart is spinning.
C) an angled view of the dart as it is stuck into the transparent dart board
Have fun with it, most important thing is for the darts to be cool!
2. A dart board comprised of four concentric circles- The borders of the circles won't exist so it will appear that the circles are floating on each other. the interiors of the circles will be very transparent, so items placed below them will be visible.
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Henry Grabar
Henry Grabar is a staff writer for Slate's Moneybox and a former fellow at CityLab. He lives in New York.
Back in the mid- to late-1990s, Columbus, Ohio, faced a familiar urban problem. The city's vibrant High Street was split by the trench of Interstate 670, separating the hip Short North area from the Convention Center and downtown. For years, American cities like Boston, Phoenix, Seattle, Washington D.C., and Dallas have been hiding urban highways beneath decks, caps or lids supporting parkland. But Columbus tried something new: it hired architect David Meleca to transform the drab overpass into what by all accounts was America's first habitable bridge, modeled after Florence's Ponte Vecchio, which debuted in 2004. Despite the fact that eight lanes of traffic run below and around it, the new block of High Street, lined with shops and restaurants, has proved largely indistinguishable from those around it.
The habitable bridge, out of favor since the Renaissance, has been making a bit of a comeback. After the I-670 cap opened in Columbus, Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid designed this stunning habitable bridge in Zaragoza, Spain, completed in 2008 (pictured above). The following year, architect Steven Holl, whose designs often include sky-borne passages, completed an apartment complex in Beijing where a swimming pool, bookstore and cafe hang between buildings. Plans are underway for habitable bridges over highways in Washington, D.C., and New Haven, Connecticut, and architects and planners have proposed similar ideas in Montreal, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Acapulco, and London.
It's hard to imagine, but habitable bridges were once the rule rather than the exception. At one time, nearly every city in Europe could boast at least one chaotic span that balanced people, shops and houses over a river. The most famous was probably the old London Bridge, which Mark Twain portrayed in delightful detail in The Prince and the Pauper:
The Bridge was a sort of town to itself; it had its inn, its beer-houses, its bakeries, its haberdasheries, its food markets, its manufacturing industries, and even its church.... Children were born on the Bridge, were reared there, grew to old age, and finally died without ever having set a foot upon any part of the world but London Bridge alone…
Gradually, habitable bridges were replaced by their familiar single-use counterparts. Installing the urban infrastructure of modern life—plumbing, for instance—on solid stone bridges was nearly impossible. The design suffered further with the completion of Paris' spare and uninhabitable Pont Neuf in the late 16th century, which attracted admirers from all over Europe.
"From the Renaissance on," says Alan Plattus, a professor of urban design at the Yale Architecture School, "there's a developing idea that a bridge is a place where you get outside the city, where you get a view of the city." After the Pont Neuf, habitable bridges that burnt down were not rebuilt, and new bridges tended to be, well, just bridges. When Columbus started its freeway cap project in the early 2000s, there were only four habitable bridges left, in Florence (the Ponte Vecchio, at left), Venice, Bath, and Erfurt, Germany.
In Columbus, obscuring the view was the goal—the I-670 is no Seine—but Meleca found, like generations of European planners before him, that suspending an entire street poses a series of infrastructure challenges. Because bridges do not have the natural insulation of solid ground, simple concerns like heating pipes required inventive solutions. Forging a reliable connection between the roadway, which should give a few inches when trucks roll over the bridge, and the buildings, which should not, was another test. According to Meleca, these innovations go mostly unremarked, which is fine with him. "That's when you know you've succeeded," he says. "When they don't know they've gone over a bridge."
Unlike most single-use spans and green freeway decks (which can indirectly increase nearby property values), the I-670 cap and its kin are designed to be profitable investments. In Columbus, developer Jack Lucks, chairman of Continental Real Estate Cos., spent about $7.5 million on the buildings, while the city and state paid just $1.9 million for the bridge. If other cities replicate the Columbus model, the habitable bridge could shift the task of mending the urban fabric toward the private sector.
That's what's happening in New Haven, which has undertaken an enormous project to mend the scar of another urban renewal highway, using a similar public-private financing model. In order to turn the College Street overpass into a connecting street alongside a new biotech facility, the city is combining traditional government funding for infrastructure with the management and investment of a Massachusetts developer to build—and rent—the lab at 100 College Street. Within the next 10 years, New Haven should have a "habitable bridge" of sorts in College Street, at least on the west side, where traffic will roll under the new building.
In Washington, D.C., there are two projects in the works to build habitable bridges over Interstate 395. Plans to redevelop the District's sleepy Southwest quadrant show the 10th Street overpass expanded into a tree-lined street with buildings on each side suspended above the highway. Closer to downtown, development group PGP is attempting to build an entire business district above Interstate 395.
Top image: Flickr user Wojtek Gurak.
Columbus photos: Flickr user Great Photographicon.
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Two new studies have revived the long-running debate over how police respond to white criminal suspects versus African Americans.
Despite new research on police brutality, we still have no idea whether violence toward African Americans is fueled by racial prejudice. That has consequences.
Will COVID-19 change how cities are designed? Michele Acuto of the Connected Cities Lab talks about density, urbanization and pandemic preparation.
Even before coronavirus, many workers hated the open-plan office. Now that shared work spaces are a public health risk, employers are rethinking office design.
To stay protected from Covid-19 on buses, trains and planes, experts say to focus more on distance from fellow passengers than air ventilation or surfaces.


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Read all about it! Restaurants have no secrets now
Health inspections. We mention them all the time– especially when it comes to new restaurants– but rarely reveal all the dirty details. Sure, you'd probably rather not know what sort of critical violations were recently discovered at your favorite eatery.
But now, thanks to a new Virginia Department of Health website– the first of its kind in the country– which went live on May 1, food consumers no longer have an excuse to remain in the dark about local health practices.
Go to vdh.state.va.us and then click your way into Healthspace, a comprehensive site that lists inspection reports (after January 1, 2003) for all restaurants, fast food operations, delis, day care centers, cafeterias, and the like. There you can see just how many critical and non-critical violations were found, and also learn what has been done to clean them up.
It's the criticals that really count– violations like "raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food in the refrigeration unit" or "the hand sink in the cooking area was blocked by a trash container." If left uncorrected, these are the types of slip-ups that most likely contribute to food contamination, illness, or environmental degradation.
Thank heavens for health inspections and inspectors. This new website is the perfect opportunity to find out more about the job performed by some of our most secretive (by necessity) public servants.
In an attempt to put a human face on the whole inspection process, and to see first hand how technology is changing this previously paper-heavy profession, Dish met with Catherine Cummins and Adam Meurer, two very committed health inspectors who are part of a five-and-a-half person team covering the 485 restaurants (and other food service facilities) in the Thomas Jefferson Health District, which comprises Charlottesville and Albemarle, Greene, Nelson, Louisa, and Fluvanna counties.
Cummins, an inspector for 20 years, spends much of her professional time handwriting reports on-site, then returning to the office to enter the same data into the computer. Meurer, who just finished up his first year, will rarely use a pen on the job.
Inspectors now show up (unannounced, of course) toting a stewardess-like case on wheels. Inside is a tiny laptop computer, where the inspection data is entered directly, and a tiny printer, for printing the report, which is given directly to the person in-charge. (If there is one– otherwise, that's critical violation number one!)
"This new technology is cutting our workload in half," Meurer tells Dish, "which means we can now give even more priority to new restaurants and also make sure we visit each facility at least twice a year."
Cummins and Meurer are excited about the new website, not only because it saves them time, but also because improving communication- both with food service owners/operators and with general consumers– is one of their top goals. "We view Healthspace as an opportunity to keep things open and accessible," Cummins says. "Restaurants have been very supportive of the site overall, and we hope it will also keep consumers happy and informed."
Is it possible to enjoy eating out after you've thoroughly inspected a restaurant's kitchen? Dish had to ask. Apparently both Cummins and Meurer have no trouble separating work from pleasure. "I eat out all the time. We have our favorite places like anyone else," Cummins says.
She didn't reveal any names, but she did admit to being superstitious: "I never eat in a restaurant on the day of an inspection." Sounds like a safe practice, and one that we can all follow now– with the help of a few clicks.


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Law pushes back online posting requirement until April 15.
President Obama signed into law a bill delaying the online posting of senior executives' personal finances until spring 2013.
The law postpones the posting requirement for thousands of high-ranking career employees subject to the 2012 Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act until April 15. Congress passed the bill last week and Obama signed it into law Dec. 7, one day before the current deadline expired.
The STOCK Act, designed to combat insider trading in government, requires lawmakers, congressional staffers and thousands of executive branch employees to submit their personal financial details to an online, searchable public database. Proponents of the law cite the importance of transparency to deter nefarious behavior, but many oppose including the finances of federal career executives in the online database. Those disclosures also would affect the spouses of federal employees, regardless of where they work. High-ranking government personnel currently file financial disclosure forms to the Office of Government Ethics; they are available to the public upon written request.
Congress earlier this fall delayed the posting requirement for career feds until Dec. 8. The latest delay, which also applies to congressional staffers, is the third such postponement. The public financial disclosure requirement for the president, vice president, lawmakers, congressional candidates and political appointees took effect on Sept. 30.
Under pressure from several groups over the STOCK Act, Congress already had pushed back the deadline from Aug. 31 to Sept. 30 for federal executives and others covered by the law to provide personal financial information for the public database. In September, a federal district court judge, issued a temporary preliminary injunction postponing enforcement of the STOCK Act until Oct. 31.
Various organizations, including the Senior Executives Association and the American Foreign Service Association, have objected to making 28,000 high-ranking career employees subject to the requirements of the STOCK Act. SEA cited numerous unintended consequences that could result from posting the financial details of the senior civil service corps online, including identity theft, security threats to employees and their families living overseas, and personal safety and national security threats posed to intelligence personnel working undercover in foreign countries.
The bill that delayed the posting requirement for senior executives until Dec. 8 also directed the Office of Personnel Management to work with the National Academy of Public Administration to study the issues raised by the public disclosure of career employees' finances and report to Congress with recommendations within six months. That report is due March 28.


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The research determined that these differences could not be explained by a patient's medical or treatment history, and hypothesized that they could affect both cancer recurrence and overall survival rates.
About three-quarters of women battling breast cancer have a partial mastectomy, a surgery that aims to remove cancerous cells while maintaining maximum cosmetic appearance of the breast. However, failure to remove all the cells during the initial operation requires additional surgery. According to the study's findings, nearly one in four of these women received additional surgery – called reexcision – to remove additional tissue, a situation that can produce considerable psychological, physical and economic stress for patients and delay use of recommended supplemental therapies.
Led by Laurence McCahill, M.D., a former UVM/Fletcher Allen surgeon now at Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine, the Lacks Cancer Center at Saint Mary's, and Van Andel Research Institute, the study measured variation in reexcision rates across hospitals and surgeons from 2003 to 2008 in 2,206 women with invasive breast cancer who underwent partial mastectomy at four sites across the country.
In addition to McCahill, collaborators on the study include Richard Single, Ph.D., UVM associate professor of statistics; Ted James, M.D., UVM associate professor of surgery; Johanna Sheehey-Jones, clinical analyst, and John Ratliff, senior measurement analyst, of the Jeffords Institute for Quality and Operational Effectiveness at Fletcher Allen; and researchers from Kaiser Permanente in Colorado, Marshfield Clinic Cancer Care and Research Institute in Wisconsin, and Group Health Research Institute in Washington. This team developed a database of surgical outcomes in order to address these issues. Roughly 1,000 of the women in the study were enrolled at the UVM/Fletcher Allen site.
"A partial mastectomy is one of the most commonly performed cancer operations in the United States," says McCahill. "Currently, there are no readily identifiable quality measures that allow for meaningful comparisons of breast cancer surgical outcomes among surgeons and hospitals, but the current U.S. health care environment calls for increasing accountability for physicians and hospitals as well as transparency of treatment results."
"That's really what this study highlighted – there isn't a standard of care," James adds. "This study uncovered a wide variation across the United States in the treatment of women with breast cancer that could potentially impact quality of care. We need to study this further to determine best practices and best outcomes."
UVM's Single explains that the size of the study allowed the team to use advanced statistical techniques to model both clinical outcomes variables, as well as individual surgeon-level effects.
"We found that controlling for patient and tumor characteristics, along with the volume of surgeries performed by each surgeon, left a great deal of unexplained variability in the rate of reexcision," says Single. "For example, given a specific patient, choosing two surgeons at random from different institutions resulted in an average of a 60 percent greater chance of a reexcision for one surgeon versus the other."
Johanna Sheehey-Jones of Fletcher Allen's Jeffords Institute for Quality and Operational Effectiveness led the data standardization at all four sites. A uniform data collection instrument was necessary to meaningfully combine data elements extracted from a variety of databases at the participating institutions. John Ratliff, also of the Jeffords Institute, developed the Fletcher Allen databases and aided in the design of the multi-institution database. One of the study's objectives was to develop an initial framework for identifying areas on which future studies could focus in order to define measures of quality in the surgical treatment for breast cancer. The current study, says Single, employs comparative effectiveness research, which involves the use of existing data for novel research to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes. Increasing healthcare costs have driven the interest in such research.
The study was funded by a National Institutes of Health grant via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
(This article was adapted from a news release produced by Jason Cody of Michigan State University.)


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The federal government is capable of enormous waste, which obviously is bad news, but the worst forms of government spending are those that actually leverage bad things. The old welfare system, for instance, paid people not to work and have babies out of wedlock (this still happens, but it's not as bad as it used to be). Paying exorbitant salaries to federal bureaucrats is bad, but it's even worse if they take their jobs seriously and promulgate new regulations and otherwise harass people in the productive sector of the economy. In a previous video on the economics of government spending, I called this the "negative multiplier" effect.
One of the worst examples of a negative multiplier effect is the $100 million that taxpayers spend each year to subsidize the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. This video has the gory details.


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Sri Martha was born in the city of Solo, Indonesia in November 1941, with the name of Sunarto. From young, he has already developed an interest in painting. He went to SR (People's School) for his early education and had already gotten excellent scores in his favourite subject, Art. After graduating from high school, Sri Martha started to develop his painting skills from his uncle, Mochammad Asief. After his Uncle passed away, he began to learn on his own. With practice and perseverance, he began to develop his own style in the paintings.
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Developer plans condominium with synagogue
Costa Hollywood to have 307 units, gym, spa, restaurants
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – A developer plans to build an upscale condominium in Hollywood with a synagogue.
Hollywood Beach is best known for its historic boardwalk and Art Deco motels. But in a few years, it will look a little different.
One of the newest projects for the beach is Costa Hollywood. It will feature 307 luxury residences with a gym, spa, and several upscale restaurants.
But what really makes this property special is the synagogue and kosher restaurant on site.
"It's a big deal for us," said David Malka.
Malka said the amenities that cater to the Jewish community made his purchasing decision easy.
"We will be able to have kosher food, synagogue, and be with the community," Malka said. "We will be able to spend the holidays in a joyful environment."
The goal is to attract international Jewish buyers who don't want to sacrifice their religion for vacation-style living.
"With the sales, we see it is very diverse, very international," said developer Moses Bensusan. "I think that Hollywood was ignored by a lot of developers and this is going to be the first project."
While the building isn't completely kosher, Rabbi Steve Karro thinks it's a great concept, filling a niche demand for the Jewish population.
"It's close to the beach," said Karro with the Torah Ethics and Culture Center. "People are going for vacation to combine spirituality with having fun. It will be something very convenient."
Karro will hold services at the condo, and for those who live on the beach, it will be an easier walk to temple.
"To help this community and to gather together and to bring God to this location, it's amazing," he said.
"Instead of walking to synagogue on a day where it's 90 degrees, it's great to stay at a hotel where there is a synagogue," Malka said.
So far, about 50 percent of units have been sold. Prices start at a $250,000 and go up from there.
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I'm actually loaded to the teeth with mods too... I guess I should do a vanilla screenshot comparison XD
Does it still do this even after setting "interceptOnlySystemDlls" to "true" in the "Edit Settings"?
Setting it to true fixed that issue, Thank you.Although i'm still not sure if it's working correctly, i remember last time i used gedosato it used to tell you it was downsampling when u first launched the gameNow it's not doing that, it's also in windowed screen and the resolution doesn't look so great.EditAfter changing the in game settings so that full screen is disabled(keep aspect ratio doesn't seem to make a difference)it launches to a windowed full screen, and the resolution looks better. I use MSI After burner overlay to monitor temps/etc for other gameswith gedosato resolution set it makes the writing super small on msi afterburner overlay, which makes me think the resolution has been set rightbut there is definately no confirmation of the downsampling by gedosatoquote mcindus from pg1 "You will see text in the top left of the screen confirming your downsampling rate if you did everything right"Looking at the configs everything seems to be right, i've changed the presentwidth/height to 0 & hz to 144theres no more errors in the logs.Just no confirmation from Gedosato on the upper left makes me feel it's not working, plus being in full screen windowed annoys meborderless windowed would be fine (i also edited the ini so that it forces borderless windowed but that didn't worki also use RaW v06 i don't know if this would cause any issues seeing it doesn't use a seperate launcher anymore
oh well with all the mods everyone in this amazing community has brought out the game already looks amazing so i am happy.Thanks for help, great community
Hey Tenaka89, I believe I have figured out the issue. After doing more research in regards to that error message I was getting, what I did was just copy and paste the D3DCOMPILER_47.dll file that is located in the GeDoSaTo folder, and put it in the Final Fantasy VIII folder in the steamapps/common folder. I didn't get the error when I ran Launcher.exe and now I see the new resolutions in the drop down. Hopefully this works for ya!
Hey, this seems great and all (haven't tried it yet; just installed GeDoSaTo), but could you ditch the ad.fly link? I mean, sites like that are just plain dangerous to less-savvy (and even some more-savvy) internet users. I had at least three different fake download pages (one of which wanted me to enable notifications for it before it would let me "download") before I hit the proper MEGA link.
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Houghton, Mich. – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International has extended the accreditation of Michigan Technological University's School of Business and Economics for five years.
AACSB accreditation is the hallmark of excellence in business education. It has been earned by less than five percent of the world's business schools. Today, there are 620 business schools in 38 countries that maintain AACSB accreditation.
"I am very proud of our faculty and staff who continuously work hard to maintain this distinct level of quality in business education. This accomplishment confirms our initiatives designed to meet the needs of business as we educate our students to be leaders in innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology management to impact our nation and the global economy," said Darrell Radson, dean of Michigan Tech's School of Business and Economics.
The School of Business and Economics first received AACSB accreditation in 2001 and recently completed its second rigorous internal review and evaluation process. AACSB accreditation standards require a high-quality teaching environment, a commitment to continuous improvement and curricula responsive to the needs of businesses.
"This accreditation extension affirms the high regard that academic leaders have for Michigan Tech. The School of Business and Economics has worked hard to achieve this level of quality instruction, scholarship, and research," said President Glenn Mroz.
View the press release from AACSB.
Michigan Technological University (mtu.edu) is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 130 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences.
AACSB International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), founded in 1916, is an association of more than 1,200 educational institutions, businesses and other organizations in 78 countries and territories. AACSB's mission is to advance quality management education worldwide through accreditation, thought leadership, and value-added services. AACSB's global headquarters is located in Tampa, Florida, USA and its Asia headquarters is located in Singapore. For more information, please visit www.aacsb.edu.


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This week on Teen Mom 3, Alex Sekella puts her Matt McCann induced pity party on hold to go to her senior prom. I expect her miserable self to pick up the party right where she left off next week. Fingers crossed!
Mackenzie Douthit and Katie Yeager whine about the same things they've been whining about for the past eight episodes. At least they're consistent. Whereas Briana DeJesus spends the entire episode in public. My guess is her house is being fumigated, to smoke out the male species, and she will resume couch sitting next week.
Also, it's Father's Day, and Mackenzie takes the above charming picture of Gannon as part of Josh's gift. You'll never believe how Josh McKee reacts to that much cuteness. Hint: he doesn't. Because his brain is broken.


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Police Beat - June 25, 2012
I Want I-Phone
A shopper in the 13900 block of NE 178th Place took her eyes off her shopping cart momentarily, only to find that her I-phone had been spirited away. Here's hoping that the thief momentarily enjoyed the two cores in the A5 chip and up to seven times faster graphics with 8 megapixels and all-new optics. A retroactive "I want" would be an I-Phone tracking app.
Ding Dong—Scrounger Calling
An Avon rep in the 15500 block of 135th Place NE discovered that two boxes of Avon products had been stolen from her front porch after the UPS delivery. Although the pilferer didn't leave any clues behind, it is assumed that they slithered back into whatever scum-covered body of water from where these bottom feeders live and breed.
Dionysus vs. Ares
A concert-going reveler in a wine-related music venue near NE 145th Street consumed a bit too much fruit of the vine and was overcome by a sudden feeling of talent. Police attempted to remove him from the stage area, but he refused to follow their fairly simple instructions. Apparently imbued with intoxicant superpowers, our imbiber managed to kick all attending officers to the ground. The man was placed in a taxi to go home and will be cited for trespassing.
Unintended Presents
A parking lot patron reported his briefcase, computer and cell phone stolen from his unlocked vehicle while parked in the 13900 block of NE 175th Street. Oh, trusting soul, even when you lock it, chances are, you'll still lose it. Please don't leave valuables in your car unless you don't mind "gifting" them to miscreants.


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For anyone looking to purchase real estate along the Emerald Coast, The Premier Property Group has you covered.
The boutique real estate firm has doubled its offices and agents in the past two years adding office locations in Grand Boulevard and Kelly Plantation, expanding their reach beyond 30A and into the Destin market.
"Every area is so unique and there are good values everywhere," said Jo Stewart, a Realtor in the Grand Boulevard office.
In each location, brokers and Realtors not only sell the lifestyle, but they live it. Stewart herself lives in Sandestin, where she primarily sells.
"I live, work and play here," Stewart said. "It's nice to offer that expertise."
Agents at all of The Premier Property Group locations agree that now is a great time to purchase a second home or investment property.
"As a whole, real estate prices have gone up 17 percent, that speaks volumes on the investment," said Erin Oden, Broker Agent at the WaterColor office. "Rental income is ticking up. Getting a return on property investments is very attractive. Everybody is looking to get as close to the sand as possible."
"It's slowly turning in to a seller's market right now," said Grady Elder, Broker Associate and Manager at The Premier Property Group Destin office in Kelly Plantation. "Inventory is getting lower."
As the summer sun starts to roll in, Realtor Karen Wagner, who has worked out of the WaterColor office for 15 years, projects strong sales in the new season.
"After all of the bad weather during spring break, the summer has to be better," she said. "As the economy continues to improve in key feeder markets � Texas, Nashville and Louisiana � we should be getting more visitors. The market has changed for the positive with prices up 27 percent in WaterColor and absorption rate is down. It's a seller's market."
The Premier Property Group builds relationships with clients and works together as a team to ensure client satisfaction. It's no wonder the firm is the top-ranked brokerage in Destin and South Walton for real estate sales, according to its website. Company-wide for the first quarter of 2014, The Premier Property Group closed $65,675,212 in residential sales and more than $280,000,000 in 2013.
"First and foremost, we have a strong group of Realtors who are an enthusiastic and professional group to work with," Stewart said.
Realtor Scott Markowitz has been with The Premier Property Group since 2008. One of his favorite parts of the jobs, he said, is building relationships with clients.
"I've been around long enough now, just by talking on the phone, I can zero in on the opportunities our clients are looking for," he said.
A huge resource to both clients and The Premier Property Group team is the firm's innovative use of technology with a newly designed, user-friendly website and even a smartphone app for iPhone and Android users.
"Buyers now seem to be a lot more sophisticated when it comes to searching for listings," said Elder. "It's a wonderful tool to be able to show clients listings."
Now's a great time to fall in love with a new or second home along the Emerald Coast.
"I am working equally with customers seeking resales and buying lots to build upon as land resources are limited," said Janet Murphy, Realtor with The Premier Property Group's Seacrest office. "They are realizing now is the time to seize that opportunity. Four of my closings in 2014 were lots. I predict that we will see a trend in tear-downs and rebuilds in the coming year going forward."
"You can't go wrong buying a slice of paradise," added Markowitz.
To see property listings along the Emerald Coast and for more information about The Premier Property Group, visit www.thepremierpropertygroup.com and follow them on Facebook.


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Leonardo DiCaprio films scenes for his new movie The Wolf of Wall Street on a yacht on Monday morning (September 24) in New York.
The 37-year-old actor was joined on set by his co-star Kyle Chandler and some hot blondes dressed only in bikinis. Leo also filmed a scene holding up two lobsters!
The Wolf of Wall Street is about a New York stockbroker (DiCaprio), who refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration.
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Oregon Softball League Raffles Off A-R 15 rifle
Team was trying to raise money for uniforms.
Portland, Ore. – Forget selling gift wrap or cookies to raise money, an Oregon softball league has turned to raffling off an A-R-15 semi-automatic rifle to bring in extra cash.
The St. Helen's girls softball team needs work on their field and new uniforms. So, their league president came up with an interesting idea.
The team is raffling off an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle with two 30 round magazines.
Tickets were $10 for one ticket or $60 for five.
Some people were not happy about the idea in the wake of high-profile gun violence.
"I think that it is ludicrous that they are giving away guns," said one person.
But the league's president reassured worried parents. He told reporters that the winner must over 18 and be legally allowed to own a gun. The team even offered to pay for a background check for the winner.
"None of the raffle tickets were ever in the girls' hands. This was all adults. An adult to adult word of mouth type deal," said the President Devin Degraffenreid.
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Race and Non-Race on the High CourtNews at Home
Gingrich's comment here is symptomatic of the larger conservative movement to claim the discursive context of the race debate, a complicated project that involves white-washing the body politic and erasing race as the historical and contemporary force that it is. Grasping and twisting the scientific logic that acknowledges race as a social construct rather than biological certainty, the conservative thrust now is to wield that as a discursive trump card: race is a construct—this argument goes—therefore, everyone is alike and all things are equal (one may find this most overtly in efforts to strip affirmative action and welfare rights). Yet, in acknowledging the social construction of race, there is a tangible danger in simply sufficing to say that "race doesn't exist"—namely, that those infrastructural systems that are set up to combat discrimination and racism are fundamentally destabilized. In reality, the stamp of race and American racism has left an imprint on virtually every page of national history, and the notion that we can suddenly "move past" that history is extraordinarily ludicrous. But there's more to this than simply the broad disregard for the centrality of race within our national history, and the current disparities in access and experience that that history has birthed.
When Sotomayor suggests that her experience as a Latina woman would afford her unique—and indeed, perhaps "better"—conclusions on certain issues, the pillorying that follows shows something truly remarkable about how her critics understand race. Allowing that our lived experiences and cultural backgrounds are inflected in each of us and influence how we understand the world and decisions that we make (regardless of our occupations, locations, or other circumstances), one would assume that every judge's experiences bleed into their decision making, at least to an extent. So why the uproar over Sotomayor's acknowledgement of what is almost certainly a commonality between her and her peers?
The Supreme Court's history is, with precious few exceptions, a history of white men, and it is perhaps in the intersection between that history of the Court and Sotomayor's personal one that the crux of the issue is found. White maleness is inscribed as normative in this instance, and thus functioning as the standard, it gets a free pass on the "objectivity" question: the high court has always been run by white men, so as a normative entity, their decision-making is presumed rational and unencumbered because of the historic continuity of its demography. Once they—as white men—are enveloped within this normative framework, the forebears of today's Court are no longer individualized actors operating within their own lives and experiences, but rather, as the race- and gender-neutral standard to be used to measure others against. Both Sotomayor's Latina heritage and her femaleness, then, mark her outside this standard: whereas her predecessors were presumably always, in some ways, influenced by their white maleness, that influence was never recognized as such because it was seen as normal. To be white, then was to be non-raced. Sotomayor's forthright assertion of her gender and racial heritage, by contrast, lies outside of this normative framework and thus, to many, appears noteworthy and problematic.
It is not simply an abstraction to suggest that race and racism have had deep impacts on previous incarnations of the Court, even when it was the exclusive domain of white men. To cite but a few of the more well known examples, lest we forget, this is the same body that passed down the infamous Dred Scott decision, in which Chief Justice Roger Taney remarked that blacks had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect." Decades later, the Court upheld the legality of segregation in Plessey v. Ferguson, in which it passed the notorious "separate but equal" doctrine. Even in striking down (in part) that ruling a half-century later in Brown v. Board of Education, the court failed both to fully articulate segregation as fundamentally illegal beyond the context of the schools, and to offer any tangible enforcement methods for desegregation. (Indeed, the Court would be forced to later revisit the case in order to correct the enforcement issue, in a case known as Brown II.)
Furthermore, tt would seem, even now, that we have enough daily reminders that race still matters to caution us away from launching into ill-advised and manipulative articulations of color-blindness. Just one recent example is the pending lawsuit between Wells Fargo and the city of Baltimore, in which the city is suing the bank for blatantly racist lending practices that resulted in huge numbers of foreclosures. Though from the look of things, this story won't be the only one of its kind, it is nonetheless gut-wrenchingly awful, complete with explicit racism (Wells Fargo employees referring to African-Americans as "mud people") and heartbreaking loss (the destruction of both community and family equity). Similarly, rising xenophobia toward immigrant workers and the "Arab world," and accounts of racist vigilante violence, suggest that race still not only matters, but is of paramount importance in understanding the problems we collectively face today.
Returning to the nomination of Judge Sotomayor, it is not only impossible to ask that she separate herself from this social context and her own background as she makes her legal judgments, but it would also be ahistoric to suggest that her drawing upon that context and background would be somehow aberrational within the broader history of the Court. In discussing how Sotomayor's race and gender background affect her professional judgment, it is crucial to not mark her as "raced" or "gendered" simply because she does not conform to the normative "white male justice" mold. This conflation of "whiteness" with racial-neutrality is extraordinarily dangerous (though it carries heavy historical precedent) for the way it marks non-whites as "other." If we can move past that rendering, and understand that every one of us is—and has been—affected by the racial discourses swirling around us and by our own racial and cultural background, then we can perhaps work toward both a more inclusive, realistic conception of the Court and a more equitable vision of American society.
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Charles Lee Geshekter - 6/22/2009
I am not sure if Sotomayor is a racist or not.
But based on her frequent statements and recent opinions, she clearly believes in and accepts racial, gender and ethnic stereotypes.
In his essay, Simon Balto refers to some "normative 'white male justice' mold" that Sotomayor apparently stands outside of.
Are there are certain things that a "wise white male" must know that a Latina woman cannot or will not know? What exactly are those things that we should identify as important in the choice of a Supreme Court Justice?
Finally, can Sotomayor and her defenders identify for me three vitally important characteristics that Scalia, Alito, and Kennedy have in common? No racist or sexist generalities, please.
Steven F. Sage - 6/22/2009
<< to them, others were ethnic, while they were, I suppose, regular. >>
If Professor Loewen's (so-called) "white" undergraduate students construed the words "ethnic" and "ethnicity" to refer to categories other than the so-called WASP group, they would merely be reflecting the now-standard mainstream media usage of those terms to exclude persons of "WASP" identity. The students, after all, do not hold doctorates in anthropology.
But perhaps some of these students privately bridled at the very notion of being asked to commit to one or another ethnicity, and hence resorted to a non-committal "none".
Professor Loewen further proposes (or "supposes") that the students drew a dichotomy between "ethnic" and "regular" (the latter being the professor's own term). However, if students were in fact to use the term "regular" it would be understandable, given the choices as deemed by such authorities as the U.S. Census. The prevalent, pervasive multi-cultural ideology and practice has usually lumped many disparate groups into a broad and artificially construed "white" category without any finer official subdivision. So-called "white" students aged 19 or so will thus have been assigned to that category from kindergarten on up through secondary school, i.e., their entire sentient lifetimes. Does Professor Loewen "suppose" that after years of inculcation, these students should think any differently?
But suppose there were students who did think differently? Does the professor "suppose" that on Day 1 of a race-relations class, any private dissidents among them would dare to openly protest arbitrariness in the way these categories have been set?
Mark Reitz - 6/22/2009
What is the definition of racism that is being dealt with? Were a white male to state "a wise white man with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a member of a minority community", would that be racism?
The comment by Sotomeyer was not a singular statement, but one she has repeated over many years. Does she, herself, believe what she says? Is that a form of racism? Are there two different standards for what is racism?
James W Loewen - 6/22/2009
When I taught race relations at the U. of VT (trust me -- a white environment), I handed out a little one-page form on the first day of class, asking things like name, age, sex (gender), race, ethnicity, probable major, etc.
A sizable % of white students replied "none" to the question on ethnicity. They were, of course, WASP, but to them, others were ethnic, while they were, I suppose, regular.
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Geospatial data has become a natural part of a growing number of information systems and services in the economy, society, and people's personal lives. In particular, virtual 3D city and landscape models constitute valuable information sources within a wide variety of applications such as urban planning, navigation, tourist information, and disaster management. Today, these models are often visualized in detail to provide realistic imagery. However, a photorealistic rendering does not automatically lead to high image quality, with respect to an effective information transfer, which requires important or prioritized information to be interactively highlighted in a context-dependent manner. Approaches in non-photorealistic renderings particularly consider a user's task and camera perspective when attempting optimal expression, recognition, and communication of important or prioritized information. However, the design and implementation of non-photorealistic rendering techniques for 3D geospatial data pose a number of challenges, especially when inherently complex geometry, appearance, and thematic data must be processed interactively. Hence, a promising technical foundation is established by the programmable and parallel computing architecture of graphics processing units. This thesis proposes non-photorealistic rendering techniques that enable both the computation and selection of the abstraction level of 3D geospatial model contents according to user interaction and dynamically changing thematic information. To achieve this goal, the techniques integrate with hardware-accelerated rendering pipelines using shader technologies of graphics processing units for real-time image synthesis. The techniques employ principles of artistic rendering, cartographic generalization, and 3D semiotics—unlike photorealistic rendering—to synthesize illustrative renditions of geospatial feature type entities such as water surfaces, buildings, and infrastructure networks. In addition, this thesis contributes a generic system that enables to integrate different graphic styles—photorealistic and non-photorealistic—and provide their seamless transition according to user tasks, camera view, and image resolution. Evaluations of the proposed techniques have demonstrated their significance to the field of geospatial information visualization including topics such as spatial perception, cognition, and mapping. In addition, the applications in illustrative and focus+context visualization have reflected their potential impact on optimizing the information transfer regarding factors such as cognitive load, integration of non-realistic information, visualization of uncertainty, and visualization on small displays.


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BIN is an organization for people and groups that feel a spiritual connection and identify their spiritual lineage with the founders of the Insight Meditation movement in the West.
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I asked about Steel and Ice I want to know all of them just curious
Well, most are pretty self-explanitory, like how Grass gets burned by Fire, how bugs eat vegetation, and gets uproot by many birds. Also, most immunities make too, like how Something covered in steel plating won't get affected by poisons, or how Earth grounds and neutralizes electrons (Electric against Ground).
Other weird ones, like Fighting against Dark, and Dragon against Dragon / Ghost against Ghost, are for more in-depth reasons.
Fighting and Dark have been confirmed by Game Freak to be a Good vs. Evil Scenerio, where Fighting-types are the "Light / Hero / Fight with honor" type. Dark is the "Dark / Villian / Fight Dirty" type (Explains all of the tricky attacks and evil names, like Beat up, Pursuit, and Nasty Plot). Game Freak wanted to promote a child-friendly "Good will prevail over evil" theme, and thus, Dark was made vulnerable to Fighting.
Dragon and Ghost are always known throughout Pokemon history as "the strongest types", because of their rarity and overpowered stats. In many myths around the world, a hero would always prevail over a so-called "invincible" enemy by fighting fire with fire, and so, that's how Game Freak came up with the idea of Ghost and Dragon being weak to themselves.
Sorry if this wasn't quite what you meant. =p
I know this was an old question, but it still really intrigued me, so here are my thoughts on each one.
My chart is as follows:
Type of pokemon: weaknesses
Normal: Fighting
Fighting types are trained at combat, while a normal type is not. It's like Jackie Chan fighting a Random guy on the street. Chan would have the advantage
due to his training.
Fire: water, ground, rock
Water puts out fire, soil and rock can be used to put it out as well.
water: electric, grass
plants absorb water and water is a very good conductor of electricity.
Electric: ground
Earth is not a good conductor of electricity.
grass: bug, poison, flying, fire, ice
Fire and ice are super effective because most plants cannot survive in extreme temperatures. Fire burns up the plants while the cold can freeze and kill
them. Bugs and flying types are strong because many insects and birds eat plants. Poison is a common killer of plants too. (despite many of them being
poisonous themselves, explaining the common grass/poison type combo.)
Fighting: Psychic, Flying
Psychics are strong against them completing the brains over brawn theme, and things in the sky have the advantage over things stuck on the ground. Like the comic pokemaster posted, "have you ever tried to punch a bird?"
Ice: fire, rock, steel, fighting
Fire melts ice. Stone is harder than ice and can break through it, as is the case with steel (a mechanical device is capable of drilling through stone.
Martial artists can demonstrate their strength by breaking through things like wood, stone, and in this case, ice.
Poison: psychic, ground
The earth absorbs toxins and is able to heal itself in time. Psychic types can have the "mind over matter" theme as well as use their psychic powers to keep the toxins at bay.
ground:water, grass, ice
Water erodes soil, plants grow and get nutrients from the earth, and ice can crack through things it freezes. It could also be something like continental drift.
Flying:electric, ice, rock
Lightning is drawn to metal, as well as tall objects;while not necessarily tall, flying types usually take to the sky, making them more prone to electric moves.
Ice is bad for birds since many of them go farther south for the winter. The piercing cold makes it harder for them to fly. Rocks weigh down birds and can be
projected at them for damage. It might also be based on the saying "killing two birds with one stone."
Psychic: bug, dark, ghost
This one was my personal favorite to come up with. Psychic types are usually pokemon that depend their mind and thoughts very much. Fear is all in your mind, and three of the most common fears for a human are insects, the dark, and death. These fears manifest themselves as weaknesses. Dark was also put in to balance out psychic types, who were very overpowered in generation I. Bugs can also break your concentration, which psychic types rely heavily on.
Bug: fire, flying, rock
Fire and rock are pretty self explanatory. You can crush a bug or burn it. Flying types are the birds that eat insects.
Rock: Water, grass, fighting, ground, steel
Water breaks rock down very slowly and makes it into sediment; Plants can grow their way through rocks; Martial artists break through rocks as training;
the ground can contain and swallow rocks with earthquakes, and metal is stronger than stone. Think of a drill.
Ghost: Ghost, dark
Ghosts aren't solid, so it takes a ghost to beat one. Anything else would just go through it. Ghosts are typically thought of during night time.In fiction, They wouldn't normally appear during the daytime, so the best time to strike them, when they are "seen," is at night, when there is darkness.
Dragon: dragon, ice
Dragons are mythical creatures, and they're believed to be so powerful, that the only thing that can defeat them is another dragon. Dragons resemble reptiles
a lot, so they are likely cold blooded. Low temperature would affect them very badly if that were the case. Though that would mean they would also be weak to fire.
Ice was probably thrown in to make sure they didn't become too broken. (since there weren't any reliable dragon moves in gen I, battling lance would be a pain.)
Ice helped as a fairly easy to obtain type and balance things out.
Dark: bug, fighting
Fighting is super effective since they typically fight with honor, as opposed to the dark types more sneaky tactics. This is the light conquering dark theme
once again. Many insects have very poor sight, so having darkness won't be much of an advantage. Since dark types use that as something of a stealthy advantage,
and bugs are used to fighting such opponents, it gives them an edge. It was also to help bug types a bit more since they didn't have a ton of types to be
super effective against.
steel:fire, fighting, ground
Intense heat melts metal. Steel was made from the earth, so the earth is connected to it. To kill the earth-the source of steel-would be harming steel itself. However, the earth can survive without steel is it had before steel existed. Nature beats machinery I guess. Fighting types being super effective seems to follow the "man over machine" theme. It was also to help give it something of an advantage so it would see more use. After the psychic regime of Kanto, it was a necessary one. (though I honestly thought poison types could use a bit of help too. Poison can pollute waters, acid can eat through metal, there's tons of stuff they had to work with, but it's strong against just one measly type.)
Some of the type advantages do seem a little odd but many are quite logical.
Some are very obvious like Fire burns Grass, Water puts out Fires, Water and Electricity don't mix, Poison kills plants, etc.
Ice shatters, that's why fighting/rock/steel work against it.
The earth does not conduct electricity, that's why electric has no effect on ground
Normal people can't see ghosts and vice-versa, and cos they're not really there, you can't punch them either (although by that logic all physical moves should not hit ghost)
Fire burns a lot of stuff, melts steel, but heating a rock doesn't hurt it.
Steel is very tough so many things can't hurt it. Poison only works on living things or creatures, not inanimate objects (which steel types are, partly).
Ice freezes the ground in the winter. It also freezes water so I dunno why its not effective against water. And if you're high up it gets colder, that's why its good against flying.
Finally, my random theory about Psychic. It's kind of the opposite to the brute power of Fighting and I think was introduced to show it's better to win with your mind than with fists. And Bug is good against Psychic because bugs are annoying and disturb your concentration!!
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water - waters weakness becuase electricity goes through water killing everything in it and grass becuase water makes grass grow.
grass - Bugs eat grass, flying types some birds eat some plants, posion toxic fluids make plants die, fire burns crops.
Fire - Water puts out fire, ground cover fire, and rock does the same thing as ground
Ground - water and grass seep into the ground, ice freezes it.
Rock - water and grass same as ground, earthquake break rocks, strong punches shatter rocks(and bones).
Dragon - no reason for dragon hurting dragon, Ice freezes dragon fire and chills to the bone
Normal - No reason except fighting punches kicking butt
Fighting - Giant birds pick up ninjas and throw them off cliff(lol), psychic brains beats brawn.
Psychic - no reason for bug, ghost, or dark weakness
Ghost - no reason for ghost or dark weakness
Dark - again no real reason, bug and fighting
Steel - Fire melts steel, ground shakes steel, fighting heits it so hard it breaks
Flying - lighting strikes bird and kills it, Ice why do you think birds migrate, rock ever thrown a rock at a bird(I haven't).
Bug - Fire burn bug, rock crushes bug, bird eats bug
Poison - you can't posion ground, psychic lifts poison and moves it away
Ice - fire melts ice, fighting brakes ice with fist, steel and rock crush ice.
Electric - ground absorbs lighting
This is because the Pokemon games are RPGs. A common RPG element is the use of attacks that do more damage against certain types of enemies. The creators of Pokemon made the types the way they are so as to what would make sense and also to make all types evened-out.


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Port Townsend weather has lows in the teens and highs in the 70's. November through February have the coolest temps, sometimes below freezing, but not often. Mid-July through September are our warmest months, and morning fog begins in late summer. Daily wind speed can average 10 miles per hour with some days blowing over 30 mph. It is rare that we don't have some wind. Cool evenings anytime of year and we are affected by the maritime influence which keeps temps moderate.
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With the Occupy Wall Street protests still smoldering and the national debate over wealth and income disparity in full gear, many high- net-worth families feel that public perceptions of them have grown more negative since the 2008 economic crisis. Amid calls for imposing the "Buffett Rule" and other measures to increase taxes on the rich, they are also concerned about a less publicized but potentially serious threat to their financial well-being: a costly liability lawsuit.
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Their fears are well founded. Under the widespread doctrine of joint and several liability, if more than one defendant is responsible for a plaintiff's injury, any one of them may be held liable for the full amount of the damage award. Therefore, a lawyer will often target the person with the highest net worth, not the one most at fault.
Few wealthy families, however, have translated their increased concern into action. According to our survey, more than 40% carry less than $5 million in umbrella liability insurance, including 21% who have none. An umbrella policy is essential for high-net-worth families. It provides additional liability coverage on top of the coverage in home and auto policies for extreme cases. What's extreme? InCalifornia, when a college student was injured in a multi-vehicle crash and expected to require lifetime care, the jury verdict was $49 million.
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While trusts and other techniques can shield some assets from the court's reach, prudence suggests choosing umbrella liability coverage at least equal to your current net worth and present value of your employment income stream. Umbrella coverage typically costs only a few hundred dollars in premium per million dollars of coverage, and the cost-per-million decreases as the amount of coverage increases. Moreover, the expense can often be entirely offset by choosing a higher deductible in the home and auto policies.
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Yesterday the news broke that it was possible to get a fully functioning Siri on older jailbroken iPhones. Less than 24 hours later, tech blogs are strongly advising against running this work-around.
Several blogs yesterday posted vids of people running a full version of Siri on their iPhone 4's, which, officially, do not support the feature. If users were fine with jailbreaking their phones, (and probably voiding their warranties in the process) they could have all the bells and whistles as iPhone 4GS users.
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First, the hack, called H1Siri which comes from a Chinese group calling themselves CD-Dev Team, uses copyrighted code.
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The big issue users should be aware of, is that when using the H1Siri hack, all personal information gets sent to someone in China.
TechCrunch reports that hacker @chpwn has confirmed jall email, SMS, contacts, calendars, as well as location are all being sent to servers in China.
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When you think of Vitamin C, the first thing that probably comes to mind is a big glass of orange juice. Clementines, tangerines, Valencia oranges and other citrus fruits are rich in these ascorbic acids, helping to repair and regenerate tissues from the inside out. They also boost iron absorption to prevent anemia and is chock-full of antioxidants to avert cell damage – including the four types of skin cells located in the epidermis: keratinocytes, melanocytes, Merkel cells and Langerhans cells.
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- Promotes the synthesis of barrier lipids, which reduce hydration and moisture loss¹
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The recommended daily dose for adults varies between 65 to 90 milligrams. One standard-sized orange delivers about half of recommended intake. Consider the foods that offer the most Vitamin C per serving:
In addition to changing up your diet or taking supplements, integrating Vitamin C into your skin care routine encourages a brighter, more youthful-looking complexion. When applied topically, it helps treat and prevent the symptoms of aging and hyperpigmentation, as outlined in a study on the Indian Dermatology Online Journal.² You can use serums, infused moisturizers, cleansers and facial sprays for direct absorption.
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Former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt told Bloomberg Television on Tuesday morning that if he were running a firm, he would not take SAC Capital's Steven Cohen as a client.
Levitt joined Bloomberg to discuss yesterday's guilty plea by SAC to securities and wire fraud and the record $1.8 billion penalty. He went on to say insider trading was a "pervasive" problem and that this situation was "not unique," predicting that "we will see more of this under the present leadership of this [Securities and Exchange] commission and the U.S. attorney."
Former SEC Chairman Levitt on the significance of the record SAC penalty:
"This is real theater. This is David vs. Goliath. Little Mary Jo White takes on great big Stevie Cohen and not just for a day or a week or a month, but for years, and her tenacity, her toughness has delivered what a great SEC chairman should deliver. It's an admission of guilt at long last that she has brought to the SEC, and it hasn't had that in 30 years. And highly visible Stevie Cohen who has done everything he possibly could to go in her face."
On whether Steven Cohen has been found to do anything wrong:
"The curtain hasn't fallen get on Stevie Cohen. The whole notion of failure to supervise is part of the fiber of the securities business. It is inconceivable that Cohen wasn't aware of some of the goings on and didn't build the culture of insider trading that permeated that company. This is not the last act, but it is a very important intermission."
On whether companies like JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs should continue doing business with SAC:
"I think they probably have to continue to do business because I understand there are some firms that haven't left Cohen yet and cannot leave them in the wilderness. The question is, and I think that should be posed, would they take Stevie Cohen as a customer tomorrow if they weren't doing business with him? If I was running a firm, I would say "No way."
On where the win should be attributed to U.S. Preet Bharara over White:
"Yes, of course, but the image the public will have, in my judgment, is less Preet and more Mary Jo. Mary Jo has become almost a rock star by virtue of her personality, of her size, of the way she is handling herself."
On whether SEC needs a bigger budget to go after more Steven Cohens:
"They do need a bigger budget, but it is how they use the budget, and Mary Jo has shown all her predecessors just by one act, but saying 'we are no longer going to accept or deny, we are going after them,' that message resounds outside the halls of government."
On how pervasive is the issue of insider trading:
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This park is named in honor of Captain Gerald MacDonald (1882-1929), a World War I soldier and former resident of Forest Hills, Queens.
Aptly born in the town of Warrior Run, Pennsylvania, MacDonald served in the 22nd and 12th Engineers in World War I. As an army engineer, not only was he in the front line of battle, but also he was among those responsible for digging trenches, building bridges, and constructing other wartime military installations. He valiantly braved the rigors of war, only to die in a car accident in Maine twenty years later, at the age of 47. Captain MacDonald's brother, Henry, played a key role in the creation of this park. A member of American Legion Forest Hills Post 630, naval reservist in World War I, and Roman Catholic lay leader, Henry MacDonald commissioned sculptor and brother-in-law Frederic de Henwood to create a bronze statue of his veteran brother. Post 630 donated $1,500 for the bronze figure, and the statue was presented to the public on May 26, 1934. The statue stands in the middle of the park.
Forest Hills was once farmland owned by Frederick Backus, George Backus and Horatio N. Squires. The Long Island Rail Road's path through this rural stretch of central Queens spurred development along its route. Construction of the nearby LIRR station and a Queens Boulevard surface trolley in the mid-19th century increased the farmland's real estate potential.
The Cord Meyer Development Company bought up much of the land between 1906 and 1910, naming the new neighborhood for its proximity to Forest Park. Cord Meyer, who operated several factories on Newtown Creek, also developed the neighborhoods of Elmhurst and Maspeth. In 1936, the IND subway opened to the Union Turnpike, further increasing access to and from this rapidly expanding residential area. In the1980s, Forest Hills experienced an influx of immigrants from Europe and Asia.
Bounded by Queens Boulevard, Yellowstone Boulevard and 70th Road, this site was acquired on November 19, 1917 for use as a street area. With the extension of Queens Boulevard in 1931, the park took its current shape. It was originally known as Thomas F. Harvey Square, so named in 1932 by George Upton Harvey, one of only two Republican Borough Presidents in Queens history. He had named the park for his father, a printer by trade. This park was named to honor Captain MacDonald on April 25, 1933, by the Board of Alderman at the request of the American Legion Forest Hills Post 630 and MacDonald's brother. MacDonald Park was formally dedicated at a ceremony on May 27, 1933.
In 1982, the park underwent a $407,456 renovation that added close to 100 trees and shrubs, three circular plazas, benches, and a cultural center for concerts and recitals. The Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce contributed an additional $2,000 for the renovation. MacDonald Park remains today as a reminder of those who fought in World War I.
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