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Spookhand Show last Fri Night!
This pic was taken backstage at THE MUSE during the Punk Rock Halloween party last week right before we hit the stage. It's the only shot I have from the night, as none of my group brought a camera. Jeano from the Creeping Cruds took this with his cell phone... as you can see, my costume was very much inspired by Ash from Army of Darkness... but then my momma always told me I had a good head on my shoulders - and two heads are better than one, right! Hey, scoff if you like, but you should hear my harmonies!
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Twitter's new feature, Conversations, which lets users see a chronological list of up to three tweets on his or her timeline, is reportedly designed to boost membership and its value.
The microblogging service is estimated to be worth $10 billion, and Twitter chief Dick Costolo wanted 400 million users and $1 billion in revenue in 2013 as the company readies its initial public offering, according to GigaOm. Instead, it will make $580 million and 400 million users may not be feasible. Why? Twitter isn't as easy to understand as Facebook's Newsfeed. It moves faster and it frequently needs another program to keep it readable and organized.
Conversations, a way to make Twitter more like Facebook, is a way to make it less disorienting and may make users stick around. (This is also going the other way around, with Facebook trying to be more nimble like Twitter.) In short, they need those reliable numbers and users to get big ad and revenue gains.
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This is my favorite Calvin and Hobbes-related thingamabobber since I saw Berkeley Breathed reveal his affable cartoon wars with Bill Watterson at Comic-Con 2010. The Tumblr Calvin and Hobbes GIFs takes Calvin's flights of fancy and animates them in the name of internet tomfoolery. Tyrannosaurs in F-14s next, please.
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Peermont recently announced the launch of Crown Key, the group's inaugural loyalty drive aimed at giving corporate and government guests better value and an experience above and beyond the hotel group's star ratings.
After extensive research into competitor programmes, it was decided that the new Peermont Crown Key rewards programme would be easy to understand and offer members real benefits at all of the group's 16 hotels in South Africa and Botswana from the day they join.
Crown Key members enjoy an enhanced experience every time they stay – with automatic room upgrades where available, a free welcome beverage and mineral water in the room, complimentary movie and show tickets, free Internet access at all hotels, as well as discounts on green fees and spa treatments. Busy corporate and government travellers can now earn valuable loyalty points and redeem them for a free stay. Members who stay 10 nights get one free. For every R10 or P10 (Botswana pula) spent, a member earns one Crown Key point.
Incidental expenses such as room service, laundry or phone use earn points as well. Guests at four- and five-star hotels enjoy more benefits including unlimited free Internet, newspaper deliveries on-the-house, airport pickup and free laundry on one item. Crown Key members also have access to more than 228 lifestyle discounts and offers through www.peermontrewards.com.
Research by Market Metrix has shown that hotel loyalty programmes now rank fourth in the top deciding factors when booking a hotel. The group is looking to address this, and create a 'welcome back' experience for returning guests.
The Crown Key programme is free to join, and there are no tiers to membership, so corporate and government guests get a better business experience upon joining, at hotels of all star grades, as long as they stay at regular qualifying rates – such as the best available rate, corporate contract or government rate.
What also sets the Peermont Crown Key programme apart, is that there are no limits or blackout periods for redemptions. Nothing is more demoralising than being told points are not valid over certain peak holiday periods. Points are redeemable on any available rate or package. And when members do cash in points on a free night at a Peermont hotel, they can earn points on that night too – a 'double-dip' bonus. Simply check your points status online at www.crownkey.co.za.
Joining Crown Key is extremely rewarding for business and government travellers. They can register when they check in (or out) at a Peermont hotel, online at www.crownkey.co.za, www.peermont.com or any Peermont resort site, or through Peermont Central Reservations 0860 777 900 or +27 (0)11 928 1928.


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Project Moldova necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 137 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
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Our charity works with Moldovan orphans, the poorest of all eastern European countries. We provide traditional Moldovan crafts programs in 11 orphanage-boarding schools that teach the children useful skills, offering them creative outlets, fostering hope, and cultivating their individual self worth.
Our Tagline: Instilling Hope. Inspiring Creativity. Saving Children.
Target market: USA donors 30-50 years old; more females than males; higher education.
Prefer a simple, clean yet modern/bold design that is more graphic in nature. Please nothing that is a picture in a box. Original concepts preferred.
General themes to consider conveying: children (first and foremost) hopefulness, growth, creativity/craft, protection, individuality.
The logo may be used on promotional items (like pens and mugs) so please keep in mind that the logo still needs to look good if it is done in all black or all white, etc.
Prefer less detailed, cleaner logos so that if it is shrunk down very small you can still see what it is without losing anything.
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LONDON, Ont. -- "3 Straight" IHRA Funny Car Champion Rob Atchison is pleased to announce the return of Pennzoil-Quaker State Canada as associate sponsor to Atchison Racing for 2006. "We not only use Pennzoil Oil and Lubricants but we recommend them to our fellow racers and machine shop customers" stated Atchison. One key to winning a championship is running consistent race in and race out and Pennzoil's flawless performance has enabled us to achieve that goal. We are very confident running Pennzoil Oil and Lubricants so we can direct our focus at performance gains knowing we run the best oils. Pennzoil has been with me throughout my racing career beginning with the For Wheels Auto Care Super Pro Camaro right through to our championship Erickson Tie Downs and Tow Strap Pontiacs and now on to our new Monte Carlos.
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Detroit Mayor Dave Bing's lawyers to argue city attorney, Krystal Crittendon, is exceeding authority with lawsuit against state
Detroit mayor wants city attorney to pull lawsuit aimed to derail consent agreement with state of Michigan
DETROIT – She's gone rogue.
That's the argument lawyers from Miller Canfield will be using Wednesday in front of Judge William Collette. They argue Detroit's Corporation Counsel Krystal Crittendon has far exceeded her authority in penning a lawsuit aimed to derail the city's consent agreement with the state of Michigan.
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Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has called in the outside attorneys to try to stop Crittendon's lawsuit.
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Rob Huth, an expert in municipal law, said Bing is playing the best option in an ugly situation.
"It's completely unprecendented," Huth said. "You have an attorney filing a case without permission from the client to do so. There is only one attorney in this state that's allowed to do that, and we call him Mr. Attorney General."
Huth, like many other experts in his field, see Crittendon's lawsuit as poorly conceived and without merit.
"It's going nowhere. If it doesn't get dismissed tomorrow the Court of Appeals will likely overrule this judge like they have a couple times recently," Huth said.
More: Detroit mayor orders city's top lawyer to drop lawsuit with state of Michigan
Judge Collette does not have to rule on anything the mayor's lawyers try in court on Wednesday. The judge can adjourn the hearing. He can tell both parties he will hear arguments next week, or he can tell them he will hear it on Wednesday.
There are many options in this case.
Meanwhile, City Council members tell Local 4 that they expect Bing to come to them Wednesday morning asking for support in forcing Crittendon to pull her lawsuit.
Mayor Bing would need six votes from the City Council to fire Crittendon.
Ramifications from the legal showdown already are being felt. Fitch downgraded Detroit's bond status because of Crittendon's lawsuit and the uncertainty over what will happen next.
The word from Lansing is no more money will be going to Detroit unless a consent agreement is in place.
"The mayor and City Council are not on the same page. They need to get on the same page and resolve this issue," Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said.
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Two bills were introduced in April that could restore rights to a segment of Maine's unorganized territories residents, rights they lost to the 2008 makeover of the state's wind power siting laws.
More than 99 percent of Mainers, in organized and unorganized areas, have input into the siting of wind power projects in their communities, how they're sited or even whether they're sited. Such input used to be available to 100 percent of Mainers.
At a hearing April 22, it was disappointing to hear two of the state's largest environmental groups speak out against fairness for all citizens, urging legislators to continue the denial of our rights.
The Natural Resources Council of Maine and Maine Audubon were part of the process that put constraints on our community members, and here they were, lobbying to make sure that the constraints stay in place.
At issue is whether these rural Mainers can participate in siting matters prior to the permitting phase of wind developments.
Almost every Mainer has this right, including most of the staff, board and membership of these two groups. They just don't want us to have it, fearing it might slow their push for more mountaintop wind development.
Instead, they want us to be limited to input only in a permitting hearing, a drastically reduced level of participation.
A permitting hearing is not a forum for the broader discussion of a community's future. Most Mainers have the right to influence wind siting in their communities long before it reaches this final permitting phase. Five years ago, it was a basic right that every Mainer enjoyed.
The Natural Resources Council and Maine Audubon appear ready to work hard to keep some rural Mainers from having meaningful input into wind matters in their own communities. That's disappointing. I expect that from corporate wind interests, not the Natural Resources Council and Maine Audubon.
Alan Michka
Lexington Township
Story spreads stereotypes of reasons for immigration
I applaud the Press Herald for covering the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project's Celesoiree celebration April 12 and for highlighting the experiences of immigrants in Maine.
However, I am disappointed and upset at your article that appeared in the newspaper of April 21 ("Society Notebook: Here and after"). This article falsely described my move to Maine as my having "fled Namibia."
I did not "flee" Namibia. This statement is offensive to me and my home country, Namibia, which has enjoyed peace and political stability since 1990.
Aside from being displaced by wars, Africans migrate to the USA for many reasons. I came to Maine to be with my wife, Shayna, who I met and worked with in Namibia.
I am by no means suggesting that being labeled a refugee is a bad thing. My point in short is: It's wrong for the reporter to stereotype and consequently make a wrong assumption.
Inaccurate and false reporting like this reinforces negative ideas that the entire African continent is a war zone. It is not!
Many African immigrants do hail from war-torn lands, and the African community is grateful that Maine has opened its doors to those who cannot return home.
I want the conflicts to end, and peace and prosperity to reign in war-torn countries. This will not come about unless the world understands it is possible. Africa is also a continent of hope and opportunity.
The Press Herald can help the world achieve this understanding. In the future, your readers would be better served if your reporting explored the diversity of immigrants' personal stories and took care not to make assumptions about any individual's past.
This is the best way to avoid perpetuating a negative stereotype of developing countries and the immigrant experience in general.
Dempy Malyata
In democracy, we don't need guns to settle our differences
Why are we in these United States so scared that we need to have weapons of mass destruction, to own weapons built for war?
What is going on in our towns and communities that we are not trying to ease our differences within a democratic process?
The Mainers who I know hunt with sane weaponry, not multiple clips — which would cut a deer in half with all the multiple rounds firing. They are not armed for war with anyone that I can see.
We attend town meetings to air our differences and then vote on whatever matter is at stake. It is called "participating in and taking care of our communities."
I am an owner of a one-shot shotgun to keep vermin away from eating the wood on my old barn and other structures. If I can't get them with one well-placed shot, then I don't have any business owning a gun. In other words, know how to aim, shoot and use a gun safely.
I ask again, why are we seeing so many scared people here in the United States that we feel the need to own weapons of war; to walk down a crowded city street flashing said weapons, or to walk into a tavern or shopping mall packing a gun?
Why so scared?
Sylvia Niznik
Views on lodging tax prove legislator is no economist
State Rep. Ben Chipman of Portland certainly proved he has no grasp of economics and should not be entitled to have a say in state tax or fiscal policies.
During an April 26 public hearing on his effort to hike the lodging tax, he said that tourists don't factor lodging taxes into their decisions on where to vacation.
He is wrong.
When the Maine Republican Liberty Caucus prepared its winning bid to host the 2015 RLC National Convention in Portland, a 7 percent lodging tax was factored into our net cost estimate.
This enabled the site selection committee to compare net expense estimates from city to city.
How many conventions with a large influx of visitors will Rep. Chipman turn away from the city he represents because of his ignorance of economics and his greed to grab other people's money?
Victor Berardelli
Northeast region director, Republican Liberty Caucus
Maine hospitals spend a lot to offer services to neediest
After I read this letter to the editor, I had to scratch my head for a few moments after saying to myself, "Hospital payback deprives poor Mainers of state aid" (April 28).
It appears there are a lot of misconceptions on why the state of Maine owes Maine hospitals all these millions of dollars.
These dollars represent services the hospitals provide for poor Mainers. It is state aid for poor Mainers.
If the state did not guarantee the hospitals that they would be paid for services provided to the poor families of Maine, at some point the hospitals would need to either ask for payment at the door or refuse care.
Hospitals are businesses. Hospitals have employees whose wages they need to pay.
You withhold payments to these hospitals, and you see doors being shut, hospitals being closed, all those nurses, lab technicians and well-trained doctors leaving for jobs elsewhere.
How many hospitals in your area are in financial trouble now?
Mid Coast Hospital? Maine Medical Center? Central Maine Medical? MaineGeneral?
Do you think that the greed of hungry CEOs is draining the system dry?
It's non-payment of our bills, our bills, the state of Maine bills for the poor Mainers who live here.
And no, I do not work for any doctor, hospital, etc. I have no personal interest in any of these facilities or organizations.
Our state guaranteed these payments. Now we need to pay them.
Sharon Newton
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Now, I don't consider the 'food' at fast food restaurant McDonald's particularly tasty (or edible for that matter) however I am slightly amused and concerned about their presence in the news lately as San Francisco has tried to regulate their Happy Meals and today's news that a Sacramento woman is actually -suing- them over it.
Here's a heads up in case you missed it. Fast food isn't good for you.
Let me repeat that… FAST FOOD ISN'T GOOD FOR YOU.
It doesn't matter if it comes with a toy or overprocessed apple slices (that take -weeks- to brown in their little baggie, by the way), the food is high in sodium, high in fat and low in nutritional value. This goes for the regular adult portions of things as well as the Happy Meals. For those of you that are now pointing to the salad options in protest, sure…they have salads, but be forewarned…just because it's called a "salad" doesn't mean it's healthy either. Their Southwest Salad with Crispy Chicken has 430 calories, 42% of which are from fat, and 920mg of sodium. And that's before you even add a drop of dressing.
Now, the lawsuit is basically stipulating that McDonald's is engaging in "unfair, deceptive and illegal" marketing practices according to Michael Jacobson, executive director of CSPI, the Center for Science in the Public Interest. I'm going to leave whether or not it's legal to the lawyers and courts, but last I checked, we had a free market society, so I don't find it "unfair" that McDonald's has figured out a way to market their products more successfully than their competitors in the fast food space OR that they've essentially outperformed the loyalty to the family dinner table. You want your kids to eat better? Make them dinner more regularly at home and have them -help- you. As for "deceptive", nope…not buying it. As long as I can remember, McDonald's has offered a toy or a collectible in their Happy Meals. I distinctly remember collecting a set of Muppet Movie drinking glasses as a child and treasuring them for years until they eventually all broke. Deceptive would be saying that the meals come with a toy and then not providing one or something like that. They are upfront about exactly what is in the meal and what the toys are. Not "deceptive."
The main problem I see here is not with McDonald's food (though I completely avoid it now myself) or with their marketing practices in general or specifically in regard to Happy Meals. The problem is with the mother.
According to the article on CNN, she says she is suing because "We have to say no to our kids so many times and McDonald's makes that so much harder to do. I object to the fact that McDonald's is getting into my kids' heads without my permission and actually changing what my kids want to eat."
Sorry honey…it isn't McDonald's fault that you are unable or incapable of saying no to your children.
You are.
As parents, my husband and I determine what our three children watch on tv, their commercial exposure, as well as where and what they eat. It is my responsibility. Not the government and certainly not some fast food restaurant.
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henrygeorge had een nieuw logo ontwerp nodig en lanceerde daarom een wedstrijd op 99designs.
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A new logo is needed for an established company. After over six years of using the same logo, Silk Screen Biz is in need of a brand new logo. Please read the full description to get an idea of what is needed.
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I want to stick with the Kelly Green color. So either the logo can be green (and any other color that you think looks good) or white (or any color) on a kelly green background. The logo will also be used in a grayscale format in some cases.
Desired Style:
I'm not going be very specific. I'll leave it up to each designer. It just needs to be professional, but I will say that I'm a fan of the web 2.0 style of design. I'll give you feedback, but I'm not going to paint any designer into a corner. Be creati
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My name is Ryan and I'm the owner of a company called Silk Screen Biz (http://www.silkscreenbiz.com). I also own a company called Button Biz (http://www.buttonbiz.com). Over the past few years the silk screen side of the business has been neglected a little bit because of my focus on the button side of the business.
I'm planning to redesign/update the silk screen website. So, I thought I might as well start fresh with a brand new logo. Once the logo is chosen, I will probably open a different contest for a header for the website.
The new silk screen website will look similar to the Button Biz website. I posted a jpg of what the new website will likely look like - http://www.silkscreenbiz.com/new-design.jpg
Company Background:
Silk Screen Biz is a silk screen equipment supplier. Most of our customers are just starting out in the silk screen industry. People that purchase Package #1 usually have no experience in screen printing, and want to start a business printing shirts or other garments. Silk Screening (or screen printing) is the process used to put designs on t-shirts and a variety of other garments.
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It is convenient for many people first venturing into the online business world to conceive of the project as a one-time thing: everything is set up at the start, upkeep later on is minimal, and you can more or less let it run by itself after that. The truth, as
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The web itself should already point to this. The Internet is a place where stagnation tends to be considered the enemy, where constant change and updating is the norm. And with current technologies permitting information exchange and distribution speeds to go faster than ever before, the shifts and morphs in this space happen at a rate few persons in the past could ever have predicted. This has led to an age where people themselves expect information faster than ever, where attention spans are actually shortened in order to accommodate the high-speed barrage of data that has become par for the course on the Web.
What does this mean for your SEO Sydney strategy? Simply this: you cannot rest, whether on your laurels or on your defeats. You may have found the best keywords for this month, for instance, to use on your website's content; what about next month's keywords? For with a public attention span that sometimes lasts mere seconds, you get shorter durations of interest in topics as well, and have to constantly update your main keywords to make sure you are following the trends effectively. What if your site is currently boasting a 60's art retro vibe and in the next month, the preference shifts to 70's designs? What if some external factor changes the tastes of your online customers? What if some culturally significant event shifts visitor interest away from what you are currently offering? These are just some of the things that happen in this fast-paced world, and they happen regularly. Your duty is to make sure that you are tuned in to the world around you and to your public, and can successfully flow with the times as they keep changing.
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VANCOUVER – It took a while, and some trick plays, but Mike Reilly finally earned a win against his former CFL team Saturday.
Reilly completed three touchdown passes as the Edmonton Eskimos came back to beat the B.C. Lions 27-20 in the first game of the CFL season for both teams.
The last time the Eskimos won in Vancouver, on July 21, 2012, Reilly was still a Lions backup. The Lions suffered only their third loss at B.C. Place Stadium since it received a new retractable roof in 2011.
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"It's a fresh start, it's a new season, and this is a tough place to win in," said Reilly after beginning his second season with the Eskimos following a January 2013 trade from B.C. "Records aside, or who's playing in the black and orange, they've made this place loud, and they've done well since they've come back from Empire (Field, the Lions temporary home during renovations).
"I know that first-hand. It's something that we haven't done in a long time, to win in Vancouver. That's a good feeling."
Reilly completed 22 of 35 passes for 229 yards as the Eskimos overcame an early 14-0 deficit. It was only his fifth win as Edmonton's starter. He helped new coach Chris Jones earn a win in his first CFL game as a head coach after making defensive co-ordinator stints with three other clubs.
Calvin McCarty, Fred Stamps and Adarius Bowman caught Reilly's touchdown passes. McCarty also enabled the Eskimos to complete a fake field goal in the third quarter, leading to the touchdown that put them ahead to stay. The Eskimos also pulled off a successful onside kick early in the fourth quarter that kept their offence on the field longer.
Grant Shaw provided their other points in the form of three converts and a pair of field goals.
"Everybody chipped in," said Reilly. "Special teams got us a few extra possessions. Defence got the ball a lot, created a lot of turnovers, and offensively we were able to get some points. So (it was an) all-around team effort, but we know we've got to get better to reach our goal."
The Eskimos are looking to become a championship contender by reversing a 4-14 season in 2013 that was their worst in 50 years. The Lions are looking to make amends for a first-round playoff loss to Saskatchewan.
Lions quarterback Kevin Glenn got off to a strong start in his regular-season debut, completing two touchdown passes in the first quarter. But Glenn, who is replacing injured starter Travis Lulay (shoulder), was undone by four interceptions.
"I didn't play a good game," said Glenn. "We turned the ball over, I turned the ball over, and that's something we can't do and expect to win."
Glenn completed 10 of 13 passes in the first half, but finished a modest 18 for 28 passing for 251 yards. Andrew Harris and D-Tre Player scored touchdowns for B.C., while Paul McCallum added two field goals.
"We just didn't keep the momentum going," said Glenn. "We turned the ball over in the second half."
The Lions' first TD, a 55-yard pass-and-run play, came 1:58 into the game. Shortly after catching a pass near the Edmonton 40-yard line, Harris easily shook off rookie linebacker Dexter McCoil's tackle attempt, eluded a couple of other Eskimos and ran the ball along the sidelines into the end zone. It was only Glenn's third pass of the regular season.
Player, a rookie offensive lineman playing his first-ever CFL regular-season game, scored B.C.'s second touchdown while playing out of position late in the first quarter. After lining up as a tight end and being left wide open, he caught a two-yard pass from Glenn.
But thanks to Shaw's two field goals in the second quarter, the Eskimos only trailed 17-14 at half-time. In the third quarter, Aaron Grymes intercepted Glenn's pass intended for Shawn Gore deep in the end zone and then McCoil's pick-off sparked the decisive drive that was aided by the successful fake field-goal. In crouch position, holder Matt Nichols, Edmonton's backup quarterback, flipped a three-yard pass to McCarty, who helped the Eskimos convert a short-yardage situation.
The trickery led to Reilly's 17-yard pass to a wide-open Stamps in the corner of the B.C. end zone that, combined with Shaw's convert on the final play of the third quarter, gave the Eskimos their first lead of the game, 20-17, and put them ahead to stay with 15 minutes remaining.
McCarty, who grew up in nearby New Westminster, B.C., could not remember the last time he completed a fake field goal.
"I don't think I've run one since I've been here," said McCarty, who is in the eighth year with the Eskimos.
After Stamps' touchdown, Pat Watkins recovered Edmonton's onside kick. The Eskimos did not score on the ensuring offensive sequence. But on their next drive, Bowman hauled in a 35-yard touchdown pass.
Edmonton then ended B.C.'s victory hopes with back-to-back sacks by Almondo Sewell, which forced a punt, and an interception and forced fumble, both by Eric Samuels, that snuffed the hosts' late comeback hopes.
"It's a big win for us and a good way to start the season," said McCarty.
Notes: A moment of silence was held before the game for the three RCMP officers slain in New Brunswick earlier this month. … Former B.C. centre Angus Reid, who retired after a back injury kept him out of the entire 2013 season, conducted the coin toss. … Lions DB Dante Marsh played his 170th CFL career regular-season game. He has spent his entire career with B.C. … The Lions have 19 new players, including 14 first-year CFLers and five veterans. … After Harris scored the game's first touchdown, the public address announcer saluted former Vancouver Canuck Gino Odjick, who is suffering from a terminal disease that affects his heart. The crowd chanted "Gino! Gino!" in tribute.


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This post is part of a special National Geographic News series on global water issues.
Some of Asia's mighty rivers will be hit hard by climate change, with nearly 60 million people facing potential food shortages as a result, but other rivers will see little change, as was previously predicted, according to a new study this month in the journal Science.
It's rare to get good news on climate change–but if the study's predictions come true, China and much of India could be better off than many scientists had expected.
However, two other major rivers–the Indus, which feeds Pakistan, and the Brahmaputra, which runs through eastern India and Bangladesh–could lose large amounts of water, resulting in a huge rise in hunger.
Asia's "water tower'–the snow and glaciers in the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau–supplies some of the world's largest rivers. In turn, these rivers support nearly 1.5 billion people, or one-fifth of the world's population. Some previous reports argued that most of these rivers would be hit hard as temperatures rise, forcing river flows to dwindle to a trickle.
One such claim–a major report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published in 2007–was retracted (pdf) earlier this year as a mistake.
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In the new study, lead researcher and Utrecht University hydrologist Walter Immerzeel said, "We project significant decreases in discharge–but the rivers won't run dry."
The new study used climate models to estimate what would happen by mid-century if greenhouse gas emissions continued to rise under "a business-as-usual scenario," climbing to about double current yearly emissions.
The meltwater from the snowpack and glaciers "plays only a modest role for the Ganges, Yangtze, and Yellow rivers," the study said, explaining that these river basins depend more on rainwater than glacial melt. However, it "it extremely important in the Indus basin and important for the Brahmaputra basin."
With today's often inefficient agricultural systems, the drop in water by mid-century would mean that Pakistan, eastern India, and crowded Bangladesh would struggle to feed growing populations.
The Indus would be capable of supporting about 25 million fewer people, the study estimates. In the Bramaputra basin, the drop in flows would mean river-based irrigation could support just 27 million people–less than half the current population.
So, the researchers argue, these hard-hit areas would likely need to revamp their agricultural methods to use water more efficiently.
They might need "different crop varieties which are less water-consuming," said Immerzeel, or they could adapt by "providing economic incentives to farmers to use less water.
For more on Asia's water tower:
National Geographic magazine: Tibetan Plateau
National Geographic News: "Goddess" Glacier Melting in War-Torn Kashmir
National Geographic News: "Venice of Asia" Canals Disappearing
For more on water and how to conserve, visit National Geographic's freshwater website.
Photograph of Gangotri Glacier, India by George F. Mobley, National Geographic
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ROCHESTER — Experience Southern storytelling at its best, when Rochester Opera House Productions presents "To Kill a Mockingbird" from Thursday, Feb. 28 to Saturday, March 9 with evening performances at 8 p.m. and matinees at 2 p.m. This timeless classic compels us to take an honest look at our nation's past and our moral responsibility to each other. The fundamental lessons of compassion, justice, integrity and courage are significant and still powerfully relevant today, making this play a must for every new generation.
As this compelling story is told through the eyes of Scout (Amanda Cortina), the tomboyish young daughter of small town lawyer Atticus Finch (David Durham), it becomes clear that "To Kill a Mockingbird" is also a love story: a father's love for his children, their love for him and a love for the South. The play, written by Christopher Sergel, is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Harper Lee.
Director Jonathan Rockwood Hoar explains his approach to the play, "Looking at the scripts, I thought the better challenge for us all was to choose the one where Scout is never seen as an adult. The three kids, Scout, Jem (Kylee Brown) and Dill (Madeleine Aubin) easily have two-thirds of the show to themselves, with the adults, even Atticus, seeming to be mere visitors to their world until deeper into Act II."
Rockwood Hoar has chosen to add a gospel choir to the production, which he feels adds "a personal touch."
During auditions for the ROH production of Annie, Rockwood Hoar met his perfect Scout in Amanda Cortina. He felt she would embody the soul of Scout, a tomboy with a big heart and fast fists. He describes Scout as "such a spitfire… a skinny, pugnacious child, who becomes sort of a front-line soldier for Atticus' morals, while maintaining the innocence and wonder of a child."
Rockwood Hoar says, "The cast includes several military veterans, who also appeared in A Few Good Men, and I have worked closely with Sandi Clark, who plays Calpurnia, and other folks, who are active in Black History Month. This is going to be a true ensemble piece from start to finish."
Reserve tickets ($16/$14) online at www.rochesteroperahouse.com or call/stop by the box office (603) 335-1992, Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. or two hours before the show. This show is sponsored by Eastern Propane and Oil and Radio Station WHOM 94.9.
The Rochester Opera House is located in City Hall, 31 Wakefield St. The season continues with the Spirit of Johnny Cash March 15 and Dueling Pianos March 16.


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When the first acceptance speech of Sunday night's (Nov. 18) American Music Awards started with Justin Bieber saying, "First of all, I wanna say, this is for all the haters," I thought the show might go downhill from there. But leave it to the country winners — Taylor Swift, Luke Bryan, Lady Antebellum and Carrie Underwood — to shine during their own speeches.
When Underwood's name was announced for favorite country album for Blown Away, she hugged her husband Mike Fisher, had him hold her purse and then made her way to the stage. She admitted, "I couldn't love my life any more than I do right now." She also thanked the fans and radio for "giving us jobs" and added, "This means so much to me because I really am so very proud of this album."
And when Bryan won his country male artist award, he immediately took his wife Caroline's face in his hands and kissed her. Then he did it again. Then he thanked her first when he got up onstage. "I wanna thank my wife for letting me be a big kid out on the road every week playing shows," he said. "I love you, baby."
Swift won country female artist and kind of toned down her oft-imitated shock face. But she did say, "This is unreal" and "I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm really, really happy right now and that's all because of you [fans]."
In winning the country band, duo or group award, Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum made their winner's speech relevant to the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday by saying, "We have so much to be thankful for this year, and it just feels really good." Short, simple and so, so sweet.


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The Gifford Pinchot National Forest is working with Pinchot Partners and South Gifford Pinchot Collaborative groups to gather public input on a forest roads analysis. The National Forest Service Travel Management Rule requires forests to identify sustainable forest road systems by 2015. In order to meet this requirement, the Forest is completing a roads analysis responsive to ecological, economic and social concerns. This questionnaire is an alternative way to provide access needs input used in the roads analysis. Your answers to the following questions will be used to better describe existing conditions, which would then lead to identifying issues and key public concerns. The next step in the analysis will be to integrate access needs with environmental risks and expected budgets. The outcome of the roads analysis will identify opportunities for changes to the road system, and be carried forward to inform future decisions regarding management of the Forests transportation system. Please print and answer the following list of questions on public access needs and mail a hard-copy by Dec. 31, 2012 to c/o Ken Sandusky 10600 NE 51 Cir. Vancouver, WA 98682.
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This is the start of the next round of closures. The idea this time is to get down to a level that is maintainable with the budget allocated. Look for most ML 4&5 roads to stay open, probably most ML3's to remain, and a lot of ML 2's to go away.
Scream loud now, you notice that it is all how do you use what is already closed, and what is not needed.
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Certain professions and areas of study translate well to financial planning. Engineering? Absolutely. Psychology? You bet. But personal training?
"I was Larry's personal trainer," Chris Lopez said at Cambridge Investment Research's Premier Club Conference on Monday in Colorado Springs, Colo. when reflecting on how he met partner Larry Lof. "I was looking to get into a career and was about to get married. I told Larry that I had interviewed with MetLife, and he said, 'Aw, you don't want to work for Snoopy.' He recognized in 1998 and 1999 that succession planning was important and wanted to turn his business into an asset for his family."
"I recognized that Chris was smart; he had a degree in exercise physiology and a master's in education," Lof added. "More important, he was a people person."
Lopez, now the managing partner and co-founder of Lof Lopez Retirement Income Specialists in Tuscon, Ariz., is a former football player from the University of Arizona who still looks like a linebacker. He started on April 3, 2000.
"Larry had planned to mentor me, but at the top of the market, it was baptism by fire," he said. "Larry had a phone on each ear, so I concentrated on streamlining and improving the office's efficiency, mainly through technology. Looking back, it was the best thing that could have happened. I got to watch his ethics and integrity in managing clients through a down market."
The firm is structured so that Lof and Lopez are equal partners. It also has three associate planners who each take a third of the client load.
"In this way, clients have three CFPs on their case; myself, Chris and one of the associate planners," Lof, the firm's president, explained.
In 2010, Cambridge, through its CPG subsidiary that's meant to match older and younger advisors for the purpose of succession planning, valued the practice at $2.6 million, but Lof knocked it down to $2 million. He then sold half to Lopez for $1 million. Lopez borrowed $400,000 for financing from Cambridge, and Lof carries the rest in a note.
"I could then tell clients, 'I will be around for as long as I can effectively function, and we have a plan in place for after that,'" Lof said.
"Our age disparity [Lof is 68, Lopez is 40] was a real benefit," Lopez added. "The continuity it offered was huge."
Lof said another thing he liked about Lopez was that "he was a blank slate. He didn't come with baggage and bad habits. The personalities fit."
The firm currently has $94 million in assets under management and 400 clients, although only about 120 of them are financial planning clients.
"You always have the people that will just want to come in and invest," Lof said. "But our true core is around 120 clients."
"Because the personalities fit so well, there are certain things neither one of us like to do, so they wouldn't get done," Lopez concluded. "The key is to recognize your weaknesses and account for them in the other people you hire."
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In a story March 30 about President Barack Obama's weekly radio and Internet address, The Associated Press incorrectly identified the congressman who delivered the weekly Republican address. He is Rep. Lee Terry of Nebraska, not Terry Lee.
A corrected version of the story is below:
Obama: Easter, Passover a time to pray, reflect
Obama: Easter, Passover time to recommit to loving neighbors, seeing others as God's children
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is wishing a joyful Easter to those who celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the Easter and Passover holidays give millions of Christians, Jews and people of other faiths a chance to slow down and recommit themselves to loving their neighbors and seeing everyone as a child of God.
Jews celebrated Passover at sundown on Monday. Easter is Sunday.
In the Republican address, Rep. Lee Terry of Nebraska called for approval of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to bring oil from Canada's tar sands to Texas Gulf Coast refineries. Terry says the project would help create tens of thousands of jobs.
The Obama administration is considering whether to approve the project, which would run through Terry's home state.
Obama's address: https://www.whitehouse.gov
Republican address: https://www.youtube.com/HouseConference


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Zac Efron wants to do an action movie – but he doesn't want it to be "weird."
"I would love to try an action film at some point, but not too soon. I think that can be a kiss of death," he said in an interview with TIME magazine where he took fan questions. "There's got to be a real role that I can bring something unique and specific to, a way for me to do it believably. Until then, I think it would just come across as weird."
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The young star, who'll take the screen next in "Me and Orson Welles," due November 25, also dished on how he keeps his fabulous mop so perfectly disheveled.
"I've never told anyone this before. This is a hair scoop," Zac explained. "Shower before you go to bed, and then sleep on your wet hair. Towel-dry it. In the morning, it's all messed up naturally. If you have that messed-up thing going when you wake up, it's more willing to stay that way. That's Zac's hair tip."
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And while he and his hair may be ready for action, Zac added that he'd love to go back to school – and try Broadway.
"I know at some point I will go back and study [in college]," he said. "But at this point I'm definitely focusing on working as hard as I can on film… I've always wanted to [do Broadway]. I would want to make sure it's something special."
In the meantime, Zac's still looking for challenges in the movie world.
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"Would I go watch this movie? That's probably first thing I think about. The second is, What's the challenge? What's the risk?" he said, adding "Me and Orson Welles" helped him grow. "There wasn't a particular skill set I could fall back on, like singing or dancing or basketball. So I was forced to grow in other areas. The other actors in the movie are all incredibly accomplished, and I didn't want to disappoint."
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Brazil Serie A Wrap: Cruzeiro, Botafogo win
Cruzeiro and Botafogo consolidated their Brazil Serie A top-two standing, as Gremio and Atletico PR slipped up on the weekend.
Marcelo Oliveira's league leaders Cruzeiro defeated Atletico PR 1-0 at home, with Nilton scoring the winner on 36 minutes.
Botafogo's Elias struck a brace in their 2-1 win on the road at Santos, who had Cicero pull a goal back in the 67th minute.
There are five points between second-placed Botafogo and third-placed Gremio after the latter slumped to a 1-0 home loss to Atletico Mineiro.
Fernandinho scored the game's only goal as Mineiro extended their unbeaten run to seven matches in all competitions.
Fifth-placed Internacional have made a habit of being hard to beat this season, and that form continued with a 1-0 win at Criciuma.
Otavinho hit the winner on 51 minutes, as Internacional joined the top two with the fewest losses (three) this season.
Vitoria had their first win in a month, coming from behind to beat Nautico 2-1 courtesy of a Dinei brace.
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Ponte Preta and Flamengo both finished with 10 men, and a point, after their 1-1 draw.
Goias struck late to salvage a 2-1 victory on the road at Corinthians, with Amaral's 85th-minute goal the difference.
Sao Paulo climbed out of the relegation zone, with a 2-0 win away at Vasco da Gama - the team that replaced them in the bottom four.
Fluminense came from 1-0 down to post a 2-1 home triumph over Portuguesa.
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ANY teacher who has faced the imposition of NAPLAN testing since 2008 is aware that there are significant problems. Many of these problems appear to be confirmed in a University of Melbourne report.
As a secondary school teacher, I have seen this first hand. Moreover, I taught in England under the League Table regime introduced by the Thatcher government. Australia is beginning to mirror exactly the problems that have beset British schooling.
The fact is that NAPLAN was never intended to be a test of school performance. It has morphed into this. There is massive pressure on schools and individual teachers to lift their school results. The logical consequence is to teach to the test.
It is hard to think of a more ethically corrupt idea. What happens come NAPLAN time is clear. Usual curricular content is suspended as NAPLAN practice commences. This is entirely unjustified as it means suspending the sequential study of the curriculum to prepare for a day's testing. According to the Melbourne University study - The Experience of Education: The impacts of high stakes testing on school students and their families - 73 per cent of teachers confirm this to be so.
The fact is that NAPLAN has now become a school examination. It is not about the students but it is all about the school and where it sits in the league tables that parents and schools create from the release of NAPLAN data. If the figures are good and the school is up-table, then everyone smiles. If they are bad, well, there is one way for the school, down to sinkdom. Schools are as much to blame for this parlous state as are ambitious parents who want to claim bragging rights. My school's better than yours.
Under the previous Coalition government, the then education minister David Kemp introduced benchmarks as a means to determine the development of students in literacy and numeracy. Heavily criticised at the time, they were benign when compared with NAPLAN. The Kemp benchmarks were not about hot-housing performance.
Australian school education has become a bit of a milch-cow for commentators who have either never been in the classroom or not for decades. NAPLAN, they say, is all about standards and therefore they support their implantation. They have little sympathy for the daily running of a classroom, nor do they understand how disruptive NAPLAN has become.
It beggars belief that the Australian Curriculum Assessment Reporting Authority says ''NAPLAN tests are not something that students can prepare for''. Why then is there a NAPLAN industry where tests are available along with guidance from publishers to make your NAPLAN results successful? This is a nice little earner capitalising and exploiting the anxiety of students and parents. Schools aid and abet this by opting to purchase these materials.
But what is of deep concern and reflective of the flawed British experience of persistent testing is that standards in the classroom are not linked to NAPLAN. The information given to parents is of palpably little worth. It tells you that on a given day your child scored this or that. It does not reveal anything about the richness of your child's learning or indeed what your child may be able to do over time. It is a hoop-jumping exercise that students are trained-up for.
Schools that make a big deal of NAPLAN are actually in cahoots with the way NAPLAN has been appropriated by parents to describe a school's worth. It is not going too far to say that this is an abrogation of their responsibility to insist that they are about educating a child over time and not using children to bolster a school's profile. The temptation is to produce NAPLAN results as a marketing tool. Schools that do this are culpable of hijacking the NAPLAN tests to advertise ''excellence''. It really defines a kind of minimalist rote learning that was dismissed in the 1960s as a desirable education outcome.
The fall-out of pressure on students to perform is also unwelcome. Given that 90 per cent of teachers say that the NAPLAN tests made some students stressed is an indication that NAPLAN is not fair or reasonable.
Moreover, NAPLAN tests a relatively small sample of subjects: numeracy and literacy. Why is problem-solving not included, why is logic not included? Why is the ability to work in teams not included to meet a pursued goal?
It is simply wrong that Education Minister Peter Garrett says NAPLAN is about the here and now of classroom teaching and that, ''there is no reason why the teaching of other subjects should suffer or that students should feel stressed''.
The truth is simply this: NAPLAN has become a crude means to determine school performance on something as arbitrary as a league table placement. It is, on every education ground, an ossified approach to knowing what students can and cannot do.
If it is used as a way to promote schools as better performing than others, then it is little more than an exploitative marketing opportunity.
In so far as the quality of Australian school education is concerned, the reality is that NAPLAN is supposed to tell us how good students are. It all comes down to statistics. A comforting thought that your child is a mere spoke in the NAPLAN number-crunching wheel.
Christopher Bantick is an education commentator and a senior literature teacher at a Melbourne Anglican Boys independent school.


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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
6 Mobile Learning Trends That Grew in 2012
Unless you've been living under a rock, you might have heard by now that mobile learning is no longer the next big thing – it IS the big thing. In the past, smart phones and tablets were something only the "trend setters" had, but now that they are more affordable and accessible than ever (with Apple's announcement of the iPhone 5 earlier this month, the iPhone 4S price has dropped to $99) it's no wonder mLearning has taken off. Here is a quick breakdown of the mobile learning trends you need to be watching. All of these trends saw significant uptake in 2012… and look to continue. Read more here ...
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Matthitchman necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 160 diseños de 53 diseñadores freelance.
Ivybird energy is a start-up specializing in the installation of small scale wind turbines. There is a branch of the business that designs and sells eco-scooters (electric scooters).
The logo needs to work for both branches of the business.
The idea of having Ivybird as a name is beacuse Ivy is a plant - green (eco friendly) and bird is soaring in the air, wind turbines use air like birds do. I find turbines elegant and beautiful as I do birds in flight and wanted to use aspects of a turbine shape and birds in flight within the logo. we are also selling electric motorbikes that are eco friendly and the Ivybird works with this too in the easy rider, triumph thunderbird sport way!
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The Wind turbines we sell are aimed at people who have enough money and land to install one. ABC1 demographic, environmentally conscious.
2. 18- 35 yr olds Eco-scooter buyers.
Young professionals, city dwellers, commuting to work, want a greener hassle free way to do it avoiding public transport. Environmentally conscious.
Logo to have both:
'Ivybird' in text and a graphic.
It needs to work with other words it but also on its own.
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Ivybird Energy
Ivybird Eco-motion
Ivybird Holdings
That kind of thing, like the Virgin brand works with lots of different companies.
When I was scribbling on a fag packet I was trying too use the shape of the blades of a wind turbine to make a bird shape too, that looked a bit like Ivy and gave the impression of motion and the tail of the bird was long and went underneath the 'Ivybird' text a bit.
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Earlier this week, we posted that Motorola will soon launch the much-awaited Motorola Razr Maxx in India. This handset was already up for pre-order at Infibeam from last week. Today, Motorola officially launched the powerful Motorola Razr Maxx in India. This device was originally announced and showcased as the 'Motorola Droid Razr Maxx' at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012 in Las Vegas. It offers continuous talk-time of more than 18 hours straight on a single charge, thanks to the 3300 mAh battery.
Robert van Tilburg, senior regional sales director, South Asia, Motorola Mobility, said:
"Razr is synonymous with design excellence and both Motorola Razr Maxx and Motorola Razr V reflect that. With its fantastic battery, Motorola Razr Maxx is in a class of its own. Not only do you get everything you love about the Motorola Razr, but now you get the power to last through marathon calls, hours of surfing the Web or streaming movies. You'll drop long before this phone ever does."
Motorola Razr Maxx features a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED display, sporting a resolution of 540 x 960 pixels, 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread OS (upgradable to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS), 8 megapixel rear camera with auto-focus and LED flash, HD (720p) video recording and playback, 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video calls, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, 3G Connectivity and so on.
Other features include a 3.5 mm headset jack, 1 GB of RAM, 16 GB of ROM, 11.5GB user available internal memory, Micro SD card slot, 32 GB expandable memory, GPS with AGPS, Bluetooth 2.1, micro USB, HDMI out, FM Radio, Google Play Store, up to 18 hours of talk-time, up to 15.8 days of stand-by time and a 3300 mAh battery.
This handset will ship with the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) Operating System. However, the latest Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update will arrive soon after the launch. The Motorola Razr Maxx comes with a price tag of Rs.31,590 (approx. $565). This handset will go on sale from June 21, 2012 in India.


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|System: Xbox 360, PS3
|Dev: Fatshark
|Pub: Capcom
|Release: February 1, 2011
|Players: 1-2
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
by Steve Haske
Bionic Commando has always been an interesting series. Though traditionally an action-platformer, a lack of jump button more or less completely changed the dynamic of what would otherwise be a run-of-the-mill design. Though Grin's swan song, the three-dimensional BC, gave series protagonist Nathan Spencer the ability to jump, it was still all about swinging. And while the game wasn't perfect, because the developers stuck to their guns and designed heavily around the use of Spencer's arm, BC remains a great and underrated title. Before that, however, Grin brought the series back to life with the original Rearmed, a game that was designed for the hardcore Bionic Commando player. With its 2D design and no jump button, getting used to using your arm for everything took some practice, and gameplay required a great deal of finesse, particularly in some of the later levels. It was everything that the new BC would prove not to be, and while both titles are great in their own right, the more traditional Rearmed is generally viewed as the much better game.
Rearmed 2 is something a mix between old and new, taking a few cues from its predecessor as well as from Spencer's three-dimensional outing. The first and most obvious change between Rearmed and its sequel is that now you can jump. I wasn't too thrilled when I first heard about this, since the lack of jumping ability is in large part what made the original Rearmed so tough. It turns out there's nothing to worry about here though, because Fatshark makes up for your newfound jumping ability by adjusting spaces between jumps and navigation points as well as some somewhat devious level design. Swinging across gaps and the like is still the name of the game here, and at times, you'll be very happy Spencer can jump. It doesn't disrupt the gameplay or make the game too easy, and if you're really a hardcore purist, you won't have to rely on jumping much at all. I'm still glad it didn't drastically change the gameplay, however.
Spencer has a few other new tricks up his sleeve, too, such as a power uppercut, and special augmentations such as health regeneration and a midair ground strike taken from his 3D adventure. Again, these don't drastically change how you'll play Rearmed 2, but they help break up the act of simply shooting baddies when you're not swinging (particularly noteworthy are the inclusion of some short sniping segments as well as arcade shooting chopper levels). Puzzles also play a bigger role this time around, at least if you can call switch-based directives puzzles. Expect to hit a lot of buttons and release a significant amount of levers as you make your way through this one.
There's no doubt that Rearmed 2 feels like Bionic Commando, but whether or not it's as good as the original is somewhat up for debate. In many ways, Fatshark's sequel is far improved from the original: the level types are more varied, Spencer has (mostly) better weapons, and the graphical facelift is significantly better than the first Rearmed's comparatively basic graphics, with huge improvements in lighting and particle effects, especially. Jumping doesn't make the game much easier, but it does cut down on the huge annoyance of requiring absolute precision to make a tough jump or series of jumps. I think the chiptune soundtrack may actually be better this time, as well, though that's a matter of preference.


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Rules To Live By
This story appears in the February 1999 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Most family businesses don't need written family policy guidelines during their first few years of operation. If available and willing, spouses, children, parents, cousins, aunts and uncles pitch in during the overwhelming initial stages. The founder or founders make decisions on the fly. And while the decisions may create a stir from time to time, it's not until a nephew says "What do you mean I can't come work here when I graduate from college?" or a child says "I thought when I was ready to take over the business, you'd leave" or a bank says "We'd like to see a succession plan before we lend you any more money" that most family businesses think about establishing written family policy guidelines.
Starting Early
In the best of all possible worlds, the realization that guidelines are essential if the family wants the business to succeed from generation to generation is enough to get a family working on them. That's what's happening at MCI Products Group, a Plainview, New York-based family business that creates, develops and manufactures new products, ranging from collectibles to gifts and decorative items for clients. Brothers Mike and Bruce Zutler are the second-generation leaders of this company, started in 1970 by their father, Aaron.
"We're thinking about a whole slew of family business questions," says Mike. "Should spouses be allowed to work in the business? (Bruce is married; Mike isn't.) At what point and how will children come into the business? (Mike has no children; Bruce's are young.) Should children be required to work elsewhere first? We'd like to think through the problems before we have to face them."
When a Need Arises
The Zutlers are unusual. Most families don't tackle family policy guidelines until the company is flooded with relatives or "until a benign event occurs, such as when the founder faces the succession issue," says Ron Norelli, founder of Norelli & Co., a business consulting firm in Charlotte, North Carolina.
That's what the Gersh family did when father Max decided to retire from Maxons Restorations Inc., the Manhattan, New York, emergency property-damage restoration firm he and his son, Damon, founded 10 years ago. The Gershes' business had almost been toppled once before because of the blurring between business and family policies. "If we had some family guidelines when my older brother David joined the firm several years ago, maybe it would have worked out," says Damon. "We would've set ourselves up for success if everyone's expectations had been addressed in advance. But we didn't do that, and it was a blessing that my brother did an inventory of what he wanted and decided to leave the business. At least we preserved--maybe even strengthened--our personal relationship."
In light of their almost disastrous experience operating without family policy guidelines, the pair did things very differently when Max announced he wanted to retire. Damon and his father scheduled meetings to deal with issues before they became problems. "What resulted from those discussions was a formalized process for the transition," says Damon. "As a result, the succession was very easy."
It's most treacherous to set policy when a legal, financial or family crisis is looming. In this scenario, you're typically under tremendous time pressures that don't allow you to fully explore options and examine the consequences of a decision rationally. Sometimes, if you're lucky, things might turn out all right--for a while. Too often, however, family businesses under the gun set policies they wind up regretting.
Laying the Groundwork
Before creating the policies themselves, the family needs to lay down the rules of engagement. "Every family member participating in the discussions needs to be able to withstand any disagreement and not take it personally," says Joseph Astrachan, co-author of Family Business Policies: Your Guide to the Future (Business Owner Resources Publisher) and a professor of management at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. It also means participants need to put aside or resolve old resentments and hurt feelings before the discussions begin. "Otherwise, the family winds up frustrated by the process or constructing something on an unstable foundation."
Each family's policy will be different, of course, but underlying any written document are two basic principles:
1. What's the purpose of the family business? Will the business operate to serve the family or will the family operate to serve the business?
2. How will important decisions concerning the business be made? Will they be by a simple majority rule vote of shareholders, through consensus, by the chairperson in conjunction with a board of advisors, or through some other type of arrangement?
Family business advisors experienced in developing policy guidelines can help move the process along more quickly. They can provide input about policy issues and help families make fewer false starts. But they don't make policy--that's the family's weighty, but vital, responsibility.
Spell It Out
Not sure where to start when creating your family business policy? Here are the basic essentials included in most:
- A mission statement
- A policy on how important decisions are made
- A method for handling disputes
- A determination describing how and when children or other family members can enter the business
- A method for family member performance evaluations
- A mechanism and process for selecting a successor
- A way of ensuring adequate communication among family members (even those not in the business)
- A policy on compensation for family members working in the business
- A shareholders' agreement
- The role of nonfamily senior managers
- The rights and responsibilities of shareholders, directors and family managers
Contact Sources
Family Enterprise Center, firstname.lastname@example.com, http://www.kennesaw.edu/fec
Maxons Restorations Inc., 280 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016, (800) 3-MAXONS
MCI Products Group Inc., 80 Skyline Dr., Plainview, NY 11803, (516) 822-1561
Norelli & Company, (704) 376-5484, http://www.norelli.com
Patricia Schiff Estess writes family business histories and is the author of two books, Managing Alternative Work Arrangements (Crisp Publishing) and Money Advice for Your Successful Remarriage (Betterway Press).


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To the future!
A journey through Georgia is like a trip into the past. To discover the modern side of Georgian life, you need patience and determination.
Now one of you has to make a toast," says Irakli Pruidze, "I've already made so many." And yet the 54-year-old knows full well that toasting is an art form no visitor masters quite like a Georgian – the folk poetry of it, the well-judged pause before the glass is tipped. Pruidze is a thin man; his contours are barely discernible beneath his shirt. He radiates a calm that renders all measure of time meaningless. When no one responds, he lights up another cigarette, raises his glass, and speaks: "All right then, let us drink to the future, to what will come and to meeting again one day, right here."
Like Fabian, the photographer, I want to get to know this country between Europe and Asia, its people, its landscapes and characteristics. We are sitting in the afternoon sun beneath a wild peach tree in Kakheti, a region that extends across the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountains and is one of the oldest wine-growing areas in the world. I imagine Tuscany must have looked something like this in the 1950s before all the agriturismo fans and water-color amateurs arrived.
This country of proliferating wild herbs looks untamed yet serene beneath a brilliant sun that warms both skin and heart. Before us on a rickety table are a plate of bread and cheese, a single glass for white wine, two for red, a water glass and three bottles of Pruidze's wine. The first is a young white, unfiltered and cloudy; the second, crystal clear and sweet as a summer's day; the third a red wine, dark and dry. A rooster crows next door, and the sweetish woodland smell of a campfire fills the air. To the future, then!
Pruidze is actually a physician who has healed children, devised screening programs and advised institutions. As a sideline, he and four friends, who previously knew nothing about farming, bought this property in Bakurtsikhe village and buried qvervis – huge, big-bellied clay pots – in the sun-parched earth. This is how the people of Kakheti have fermented grape juice for several thousand years. Pruidze and his friends have made 6000 liters of wine, or "Our Wine," as they call it from mzwane and rkaziteli grape entirely without additives, yeasts, sulfur or sugar – or chemicals fertilizers and pesticides. "We had absolutely no idea how to make wine or how things would turn out," says Pruidze, as we tramp across the land, past rampant blackberries and a dog dozing in the shadow of a fig tree. The friends made their first attempts at wine growing in Soviet times, fermenting bought grapes and drinking the wine themselves. "Once the Soviet Union was finished, we started again from scratch, but properly." Today, they send their wine all over the world – to Italy, Canada, Japan and Australia.
Sitting at a different table, two days later, we hear the same words: "We started all over again when the Soviet Union collapsed." We are in Tusheti, in the outermost reaches of northeastern Georgia, just ten kilometers from the Russian border. After leaving Pruidze's vineyard, we drove deep into the Caucasus Mountains and I found my mind wandering not to Tuscany, but to the Alps of 100 years ago, when life in the remote mountain villages was still tough. We drove through one Caucasian village after the next until the asphalt ended, then continued on, for hours, along dirt roads beside the Stori River, passing waterfalls and crossing the Abano Pass, which at 2950 meters is the highest pass accessible to road vehicles in the Caucasus and marks the border between Kakheti in the south and the Tusheti region in the north. In the end, we switched to horses, which are small and agile here, and move about the narrow paths like mountain goats. They climbed slopes, leaped rocks and waded through streams until we arrived at the tiny village of Vestomta, roughly 2300 meters up and home to just 12 families.
Georgij Karsamauli lives in Vestomta. His family has owned sheep for generations, and today they have a herd of 1200 animals. We sit in his cool kitchen on wide wooden benches with a soft covering of sheepskins. At night, the benches double as beds. Three puppies play outside in the sunshine beside the small cabin where tourists can stay. Soon, the puppies will grow up to become big Caucasian shepherd dogs.
At 2300 meters, the air smells clean. The mountains outside the kitchen window look as though they are covered in pale-green velvet dotted with dark flecks – coniferous forests. Karsamauli has visitors; neighbors have dropped by, as well as some friends from Tiflis. Together, we knead khinkali, drop-shaped pastry cases, which people here fill with lamb seasoned with cumin and salt.
"To the future!" is a toast you regularly hear in Georgia
Karsamauli earns his living from tourism and by making sheep's milk cheese, which is matured in sheepskin pouches stored in a shed made of wooden posts and plastic tarpaulins. I try some with the freshly made khinkalis – it has a natural, elemental flavor. This is a cheese that needs no herbs and certainly no flavorings. After the meal, I walk over to the well to fetch water. The path runs along the garden fence Karsamauli made from crooked branches and takes me past a line of drying laundry. Is everything here still rooted in the past?
I set out in search of modern Georgia – and end up right back where I started – in the past. This time, I find myself in the Soviet era, in the years of promises, of superlatives, of megalomania. Two-and-a-half hours west of Tiflis is a colossal monument that squeaks and rusts where the paint is peeling off. The words "Chiatura, my pride" are written in towering letters on a cliff outside of the city. Concrete blocks rise like avant-garde installations in the foreground. Cable cars connect the city center with the districts in the foothills. Stalin built Chiatura in the 1950s, when manganese mining had its heyday. Chiatura is situated in the Imeretia region at the foot of the Greater Caucasus, where one of the world's largest deposits of manganese was found. The metal was needed for use as a fertilizer, for coloring glass and bricks, and for tempering steel. The ore was transported down the mountains by the ton, bringing in money and along with it pride, hopes and dreams.
In downtown Chiatura, a large theater still testifies to the monumental splendor that was built to last an eternity. But the ornamental pool at its entrance is empty, and instead of water, dry leaves cover its blue tiles. The future came all right, but not the one people had hoped for. Of the few cable cars intended for passengers, two are still in operation and still exactly as they were in 1954. The population is said to have halved since 1990, and only 16 000 people live in Chiatura today. A paste-up on the wall of the cable car's valley station in the city center depicts the silhouette of a miner leaning on his shovel. Gold paint is peeling off the cable car that's rumbling in. The combined effect is like a work of art on the subject of hope and the search for happiness. On a small poster beside the paste-up, I find a reference to the originator of the work; the artist duo Sadarismelia. And this is how I find the future in the end.
Tiflis, the following morning. It's Saturday and we are walking past a club where people are still partying to a droning bass beat. Next to a mural of a girl knitting a sweater for a wolf, someone has sprayed the words "What to do with all this love." If the walls were plastered, you might imagine yourself in Berlin, London or New York.
I meet up with Mariam Natroshvili and Detu Jincharadze, the artist duo Sadarismelia, whose trail I picked up in Chiatura. We meet in the inner courtyard of a literature café. Natroshvili, who does most of the talking, keeps getting muddled and loses her thread, but always manages to pick it up again. She talks about Sadarismelia and Jincharadze's work, about her own as well, and about the collaborations they curate. Their installations have names like "Museum of word" and "Illegal Kosmonavtika" (Illegal Astronauts). Most of them take place in Tiflis, where there are gallery spaces and a growing group of people for whom art and discussing art are gradually becoming the norm.
In Chiatura, the city of forgotten mine workers, art is not as widespread and is still the exception. It would have been unheard of not so long ago for someone to stick or paint personal statements on the walls, to make critical social statements or even to individually inhabit public space. Sadarismelia did just that with historical photos, with installations that traveled up and down the mountains in the cable cars; with graffiti and by exhibiting paintings in public. "We wanted to show the people of Chiatura that their city was special," says Natoshvili. "You only have to change your perspective a little bit to see its beauty. With our work, we aim to set processes in motion. It's not so important where those processes actually lead."
Natroshvili and Jincharadze have led me back to the present, to a time when people are taking back their country and shaping it with their own hands. And perhaps they will also take me with them into the future because I already know that I would like to visit this transitioning country again. Who knows, maybe wine grower Irakli Pruidze's toast will also come true and we will meet again, glass in hand, beneath the wild peach tree.


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