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Linux Orbit: KDE 2.1 Review
While waiting for KDE 2.1.1, it might be worth checking out this nice review of KDE 2.1 on Linux Orbit. "With the release of KDE 2.0 on October 23, 2000, the KDE development team upped the ante in the bid for the hearts and minds of GNU/Linux desktop users. With major improvements in features and stability, KDE users couldn't wait for the next version. When KDE 2.1 arrived on February 26, 2001, few were disappointed." Lots of pretty pictures.
Re: Linux Orbit: KDE 2.1 Review
Very cool review.
By Craig Black at Sun, 2001/03/25 - 6:00am
Re: Linux Orbit: KDE 2.1 Review
Thanks :)
By Zodiacus at Mon, 2001/03/26 - 6:00am
Re: Linux Orbit: KDE 2.1 Review
nice review.. but at the end he says he is waiting for a good ripper for KDE! I mailed him saying that its there in front of him... type audiocd: and see the magic :)
By sarang at Sun, 2001/03/25 - 6:00am
Any performance gains?
I have a 233mhz laptop w/ 64 megs of RAM and it looks like I'm stuck with kde1 since kde2 was unusably slow.
Binaries were so bad that I went to the trouble of compiling everything myself (it took almost and entire day the machine is so slow) with recommended -O settings etc. etc. I was still disappointed with the slowness of the interface.
kde1 is the only linux GUI that is anywhere close to the speed of MS-Windows on my machines (all of which are 300mhz and slower - and still the speed at which kfm windows open menus popup etc is at least 2-3 times slower than Windows. I also have a 233mhz desktop with 128 megs of RAM dual booting win2k and RH 7.0 and the speed difference in the GUI's is measurable with a wrist watch! (gnome is very slow) ... is there any discussions of ways to increase the speed of X/KDE GUI and make it more "snappy"? (caching pixels or something?)
By guy at Sun, 2001/03/25 - 6:00am
Oops that was with 2.0
so I was wondering if 2.1 was faster than 2.0 for people...
By guy at Sun, 2001/03/25 - 6:00am
Re: Oops that was with 2.0
at least file copying/moving/deleting and the khtml rendering engine are *much* faster than in 2.0
konsole in current cvs starts on my system in 1.8 instead 3.6 seconds as in the 2.1 release :-)
more work on improving performance is on its way
By aleXXX at Sun, 2001/03/25 - 6:00am
Re: Oops that was with 2.0
In my opinion this is at the moment the only thing lacking with KDE. Speed.
I'm always running the latest KDE CVS on my athlon 900, 256 mb, matrox G450 and I must say I'm impressed with how much work is being done *every* day ! However, as I stated above, speed really is far worse when compared to MS Windows. To name a few issues, redrawing of windows is slow, starting apps and popping up dialogs is slow :( I know that a good design as is the case with KDE(2) comes with a few speed drawbacks, that's why I think more has to be done thinking in the direction of preceived speed. For example, opening outlook express is (on a less capable system than mine) popping up the program almost instantly, however it's a few more milliseconds before something can actually be done with it. What I mean is, the user sees a response to clicking the outlook express icon almost immediately (it looks really fast) and after that the user will most of the time rethink what he/she was about to do, so the small delay in the app itself isn't a problem.
I know concerns regarding speed have been expressed before, I would therefore like to state that I think the KDE developers kick ass and are doing a superb job. If only it all could be made it little bit more responsive, I could convince so much more users to switch from windows to KDE. And for as far as I can tell that is part of KDE's mission, right ? :)
Good luck,
Jelmer Feenstra
By Jelmer Feenstra at Sun, 2001/03/25 - 6:00am
Re: Oops that was with 2.0
I have a GeForce 256 DDR with 32mb, and screen updates are blindingly fast. This is due in large part to the native Linux / XFree86 drivers supplied by Nvidia. Perhaps your Matrox card's drivers need more optimization?
KDE2.1 overall seems much faster to me than Windows 98. I too wait 3 seconds for Kmail to launch, but then things are very fast from that point on. I forgive the initial wait considering I have over 10,000 email messages in 75+ folders. I have 90+ complex email filters that can rip through thousands of email messages in mere moments. Searching is also incredibly fast in comparison to Outlook.
With that said, I myself have noticed that KDE 2.1 seems a tad more sluggish. I think with the release of KDE 2.2 the focus should then be moved to code optimizations in critical portions of the code. It would be nice to have the likes of someone like Michael Abrash take a whack out of converting certain pieces of code into hand written x86 assembly :). We'd probably be looking at a 400% speed increase.
By Sean Pecor at Sun, 2001/03/25 - 6:00am
It could be g++ and gcc
I agree that xfree86 is the problem with screen redraws. But with other performance issues, I believe g++ may have something to do with it.
Most Windows based compiliers have really improved over the years including Microsofts Visual c++. Some things like polymorphism and inherietence run quicker on newer compliers due to optimization. However g++ is quite awefull and behind the times. I beleive only part of the STL is even supported. This is one of the reasons why gnome is written in c and not c++.
The STL issue might also explain why redhat chose gcc 2.96 instead of 2.95.2. gcc 2.96 supports the STL better and will make Unix to Linux porting easier. Windows98 is faster then Windows95 is some aspects because Visual C has improved and has been alot more optimized. I believe there were more misses in brach prediction with earlier compiliers when trying to implement standard c++ sutff like inheritence and polymorphism. I know borland has released their linux c++ compilier for free but I haven't tried it with kde yet. I wonder if kde will run faster after being compilied with it.
But I am glad that KDE did not do the mistake gnome did by chosing c for c++ like work because of compilier worries. I believe when gcc and g++ 3.0 come out, Kde2.1 will run alot faster. I wish i knew some assembler to help out.
The bright side is that once version 3.0 of gcc and g++ come out it will beat gnome in terms of performance because c is not optimised for c++ features.
By Tim Gibney at Mon, 2001/03/26 - 6:00am
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By sofiane at Thu, 2002/09/05 - 5:00am
Re: Oops that was with 2.0
About the usage of assembler, I'm afraid we'll quickly loose portability in that case :)
Concerning the screenupdates, It's not that my card has problems putting the pixels on the screen, but more that switching desktops will result in noticing apps popping up (you can see them being 'constructed'). Scrolling for example a large webpage in konqueror is *very* fast :)
By Jelmer Feenstra at Mon, 2001/03/26 - 6:00am
Re: Oops that was with 2.0
I doubt that x86 asm will really help that much. These days, ASM is mainly only useful in tight loops, something that's doesn't occur much in a windowing environment. While coding in ASM for the inner loop of a software renderer might gain you some speed (though not as much as it used to back when Abrash wrote his books, thanks to optimizing compilers) it wouldn't do much for a desktop, where performance bottlenecks aren't so closely grouped in one place. The real reason that KDE is slow is because it wasn't designed for performance. While the whole "dozens of processes communicating over IPC" is an elegant design, it is also insanely slow. The reason apps take so long to launch is because tons of administrative work has to be done with the object system. Lastly, KDE 2.1 is the fourth layer of software between the app and the hardware (the hardware driver, XFree86 itself, Qt's rendering engine, then KDE.) Compared to something like the windows GDI (which has the hardware driver, then the GDI, both of which run inside the kernel) the design just begs for poor performance. Still, KDE needs to shoulder a lot of the blame for its poor performance. Other window managers (blackbox, Window Maker) manage to provide decent performance while still dealing with X. Methinks that if the KDE developers would stop concentrating on "nifty" or "elegant" (who cares if you can make remote RPC calls to another object over the internet? Give me a simple, fast messaging system in the kernel any day) and start making the thing usable (I should not be able to *time* the startup time of an app. Even Office 97 starts up instantly on my 300MHz PII running Windows 2000) then a lot more people would find the Linux desktop appealing.
PS> For an example of what *not* to do, look at Nautilus. IIRC, Windows 95 did most of the things Nautilus does (document previews, searches, etc) at 10x the speed.
By Rayiner Hashem at Sun, 2001/05/06 - 5:00am
Re: Oops that was with 2.0
use something like sawfish blask box or WindowMaker by itself, then in your .xinitrc start kicker or gnome-pannel or something, or buy a comercial X server and a comercial CDE there fast.
By robert at Mon, 2001/03/26 - 6:00am
Re: Any performance gains?
That's very strange. I'm running on a 200mhz system with 64mb of ram, and kde 2.1 runs at just about the same speed as kde1 (with a slight slowdown when I login, mainly because of aRts). Although it isn't as peppy as windoze, it runs quite fast enough for daily use. If I open a kwrite, kppp, konsole, and konqueror one after the other, it takes about 30 seconds for them all to load, and that seems fairly fast considering my system.
By Carbon at Sun, 2001/03/25 - 6:00am
Re: Linux Orbit: KDE 2.1 Review
Yeah - K *was* for "kool". I think some people have tried to crush that idea, saying it's something after "CDE" or whatever. But I remember the messages which started it all. Basically my thought back then was "Yeah, another group of lame h4x0rs that can't spell. They'll get far..."
By EKH at Sun, 2001/03/25 - 6:00am
poor Performance
I am also very annoyed with the slow/sluggish performance of KDE 2.x. Can't we have a website dedicated to Optimizing and speeding up KDE like http://optimize.kde.org ? KDE 1.1.2 is 10 times faster than KDE 2.x. I feel sorry for that... anyway expecting great performancing from KDE 3.x :)
By Asif Ali Rizwaan at Sun, 2001/03/25 - 6:00am
Re: poor Performance
I think this comparison between KDE 1.1.2 and KDE 2.1 is almost the same like the comparison between Win 3.11 and win 98.
(Sorry for my bad English but I hope you understand what I mean)
By Magnus K at Sun, 2001/03/25 - 6:00am
Re: poor Performance
Linux is an OS that suppose to let old machines with limited resources run... Running KDE2 or Gnome requires a Ghz machine with 1 Gig of RAM. It is incredibly slow kde2... running 2 apps would cause my 64 Meg machine to swap... Windows GUI have more functionality and consume less memory. Win32 guis are always crisp & fast. Plus KDE2 comes with really eyesore fonts. what's with that???
By Steamboat_Annie at Mon, 2001/07/02 - 5:00am
Re: poor Performance
KDE is just too slow. I'm running 2 machines side by side, an Ultra 5 270 Mhz with Solaris 8 and CDE and a Pentium 3 550 with Mandrake 8.1 and KDE 2.2. The intel box is dog slow compared to the Sun box - but ONLY when running KDE.
I'm quite impressed with its functionality but they have GOT to make it run faster. ANY version of windows on this hardware gives better performance with respect to the graphical environment.
By Nick Huggins at Thu, 2001/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: poor Performance
I have to agree with this thread. I've got a Dell PII 450, 384 MB ram. On this hardware, KDE is dog slow. Admittedly, it's faster now that I bumped up the RAM to 384 over the 128 the machine came with, but it's too damn slow.
By THIBOLOT at Wed, 2001/12/26 - 6:00am
Re: poor Performance
I also agree that KDE 2.x. are very slow compare to M$ windows..
But I love KDE, I setup my computer to dual boot.... RedHat 7.2 or Win98...
When in a hurry no choice... WIN98
yeah yeah yeah put more memory...I have 384Mb
The again.... if for every new Linux version or KDE or GNOME we need a better and faster machine....what's new and good about that? Doesn't M$ already do that everytime they come out with a new Win?
I bet WinXP will run dog slow in my computer....
Hope the code gets better in version 3.x and don't forget us (the people with the old machines)
By Patrick Park at Tue, 2002/05/21 - 5:00am
Applications do launch slowly...
Especially Kmail and Konqueror. But after this the KDE 2.1 interface is extremely FAST (at least as fast as Win98 on my computer). I have no problems moving and resizing opaque windows. I test this by trying to move windows after launching Kmail and a couple Konquerors. Overall I'm VERY impressed with KDE 2.1 (I used to be a GNOMER). I never used the first KDE much so I can't really compare it (speedwise) to KDE 2.1
I do have a few complaints though :)
1) I wish Kmail would keep redrawing itself while sending a large mail (Outlook Express does the same thing)
2) I wish I could right click on an entry in the taskbar and kill that application (I'm not a big lover of key combinations like ctrl-alt-escape).
3) I wish noatun would stop freezing on me ehehe
Overall I think GNOME 1.4 has a tough act to follow (especially in the file manager department)
By Rimmer at Mon, 2001/03/26 - 6:00am
slow kde2 & threads
I've read some comments and i must say that kde2 runs well on my 266Mhz PentiumII with 64mb ram.
By denbrice at Thu, 2001/10/04 - 5:00am
slow kde2 & threads
I've read some comments and i must say that kde2 runs well on my 266Mhz PentiumII with 64mb ram.
By denbrice at Thu, 2001/10/04 - 5:00am
Re: slow kde2 & threads
I am also using a 266Mhz PII but with 256MB. I got a very, very bad performance. I tried with a PIII 700Mhz with 128MB and I could work but I still having performance problems.
I really apreciate if the author of the previews message could send me some information about how to compile the KDE to make it faster.
Thanks and sorry for my english.
By José Lourenço T... at Mon, 2001/10/29 - 6:00am


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Why did Marissa Alexander get a 20-year sentence despite invoking 'Stand Your Ground'?
Late Saturday evening, George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The issue of self-defense played a central role in Zimmerman's not guilty plea and his defense's argument against the second-degree murder charges, and his acquittal is drawing comparisons in the media to the verdict of another high-profile Florida shooting incident: the case of Marissa Alexander.
Alexander, an African-American Florida woman, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2012 for shooting what she described as warning shots into a wall during a confrontation with her husband. Alexander's lawyers claimed self-defense in the case, and said her husband had a history of abuse in their relationship. They invoked Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, which gives people the right to use lethal force if they feel their life is threatened. The jury ultimately sided with prosecutors in deciding Alexander's actions were not in self-defense, WJXT reported.
Her sentencing fell under the guidelines of what's known in Florida as the "10-20-Life" law, which set certain mandatory minimum sentences for crimes committed with a firearm. The law enacted in 1999 requires that any crime committed with a gun earns the perpetrator a minimum ten year sentence, as the Florida Department of Corrections explains. If the firearm is discharged, the convicted will receive a 20-year minimum sentence, and if shots fired from the gun injure or kill anyone, the minimum sentence is 25-years to life.
Angela Corey, who oversaw the prosecution of Zimmerman, also tried the case against Alexander, and defended the sentencing at the time.
"When she [Alexander] discharges a firearm in the direction of human beings, the legislature says it's dangerous," Corey said, according to the Florida Times-Union. "And one of the reasons is because the bullet went through the wall where one of the children was standing. It happened to deflect up into the ceiling, but if it had deflected down it could have hit one of the children."
Editor's note: George Zimmerman has sued NBC Universal for defamation. The company strongly denies the allegation.

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I was adopted and never met my birth father or mother, but my adopted mother, Amanda, one great lady, was abused by her husband, whose name I carry now. She was an old fashioned lady, and I am certain she tried with all her strength to please him. She spoke only rarely to me of... View Article


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Assorted internals tidbits
Compiler backend
VINSN Virtual instruction (probably akin to SBCL's VOPs) LAP Lisp Assembly Parser; compiles SEXPs into opcodes
VINSN macros
<- copy register @ label @= label (aligned) -> jump to label ^ branch ? register (unwired) $ register (wired)
(from compiler/X86/x862.lisp)
Operand syntax
(% x) register ($ x) immediate (@ x) memory operand; x ~ ([seg] [disp] [base] [index] [scale]) x labelref (:rcontext x) memory operand, using segment register or gpr; see @ for syntax of x. (:self fn) self-reference
(from compiler/X86/x86-lap.lisp)
- x86: the FS register contains a pointer to the current TCR.
- x86: the TCR is defined in lisp-kernel/x86-constants32.h (struct tcr)
Memory allocation
Explanation by gb:
Memory allocation is per-thread; a thread conses within a private "chunk" of memory by decrementing a per-thread pointer that starts at the high end of its current chunk and comparing that pointer to the low end of the chunk; if the pointer's above the limit, we use the memory, otherwise we need a new chunk:
[21] (subl ($ 7) (@ (% fs) 132)) ; subtract the size of a cons - the tag of a cons ; from the per-thread pointer [30] (movl (@ (% fs) 132) (% temp0)) ; load the per-thread pointer into a temp reg [38] (cmpl (@ (% fs) 136) (% temp0)) ; compare to limit [46] (ja L50) ; continue if above limit [48] (uuo-alloc) ; trap, get a new chunk L50 [50] (andb ($ 248) (@ (% fs) 132)) ; clear tag bits in thread-local storage [59] (movl (% arg_y) (@ 3 (% temp0))) ; store car [62] (movl (% arg_z) (@ -1 (% temp0))) ; store cdr [65] (movl (% temp0) (% arg_z)) ; return cons cell
Exception handling
The manual has some information on this. Here's some more.
UUOs (by gb)
On the DEC PDP-10, the acronym UUO stood for "Unimplemented User Operation"; UUOs were used to invoke system services and/or to invoke what we'd think of as exception handlers. [...] As it's used in CCL, the term just means "an illegal instruction that'll ultimately cause a lisp-aware handler function to be called."
Implementation details
Executing an "int $n" (#xcd n) instruction transfers control to an entry insome (incredibly complex and baroque) table of handlers maintained by the chip. The OS might use a few entries in this table to implement system calls (though modern x86 CPUs often have faster ways of doing system calls), and some entries are reserved for hardware- related interrupts.
Trying to execute an "int $n" instruction that doesn't have a defined entry in this table causes a General Protection Fault, and this eventually causes (on Unix) a signal to be raised. Exactly what signal depends on the OS; there's a macro called SIGNUM_FOR_INTN_TRAP defined conditionally in ccl/lisp-kernel/x86-exceptions.h that defines this. As you can see, it's generally overloaded on SIGBUS or SIGSEGV, which usually indicates an addressing exception (yes, SIGILL would make more sense, but since it involves a GP fault an undefined "int $n" winds up taking the same path as a memory protection fault) and we need to look at other arguments to the signal handler (as defined by the IS_MAYBE_INT_TRAP macro: if IS_MAYBE_INT_TRAP is true, we believe that we can look at the the byte that the PC in the signal context is pointing to to see if it's #xcd; if not, the SIGSEGV or SIGBUS might have been caused by trying to execute code at an unmapped address.)
We also use "ud2a" instructions (followed by a byte or more of data) for similar purposes, but "int $n" is generally shorter; illegal instructions that use the ud2a opcode (which generally -does- raise SIGILL when executed) are sometimes called "xuuos" (eXtended UUOs).
Once in a while (when doing a port to a new OS), we've found that the OS uses an interrupt that we've previously considered free for our use, and have had to do things differently (reassign UUOs or avoid emitting conflicting ones.) I suppose that that could happen if we ported to some other OS (NetBSD ?), but it's unlikely that x8632 OSes will invoke new functionality via "int $n" (since other means of doing system calls are generally faster/better.) See the comment in x86-asm.lisp:
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State University of New York
General Education Requirement
All students enrolled in programs leading to A.A., A.S., and baccalaureate degrees are required by the State University of New York to complete 30 credits of SUNY-GER general education in a minimum of 7 of 10 areas. Students must take at least one course each in both Mathematics and Basic Communication and in 5 of the following 8 areas:
- Natural Sciences
- Social Sciences
- American History
- Western Civilization
- Other World Civilizations
- Humanities
- The Arts
- Foreign Language
Students who are planning to transfer to SUNY baccalaureate programs are strongly encouraged to take 3 of the 5 courses in Natural Science, Social Science, and the Humanities, as these areas are required in nearly all bachelor's degree programs.
In addition to the 7 of 10 course requirement, students must also demonstrate the following competencies, which are infused throughout the General Education program:
- Critical Thinking (Reasoning)
- Information Management
See list below to determine which Suffolk County Community College courses fulfill the SUNY General Education requirements.


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SYDNEY (AP) Eight-time major winner Tom Watson says golf has no place at the Olympic Games.
Watson, who will play at the Australian Open this week for the first time since winning the tournament in 1984, told reporters Tuesday that he doesn't support golf's return to the Olympics in 2016.
``I still think of Olympics as track and field and not golf to be honest with you,'' he said. ``I don't want to pour cold water on it, but I don't think it should be in the Olympic Games.''
Watson said golf has its four major championships, which remain its pinnacle events.
Golf was played at the Olympics in Paris in 1900 and St. Louis in 1904.
Watson supported the decision of golf officials to ban long-handle putters, but added he did so ``with mixed emotions.'' He said a broomstick stroke ``is not a stroke of golf. That's not a stroke but it makes it easier to play.''
``My son Michael, with a conventional putting stroke, he couldn't make it from two feet, but he went to a belly putter and he makes everything,'' Watson said. ``The game is fun for him now, so there lays the danger. Do we take the ability for people to have fun away?''
Three of the last five major winners have used long putters, including South Africa's Ernie Els, who capitalized on the collapse of Australian Adam Scott to win the British Open in July.
``I thought Ernie Els said it perfectly after he won the Open Championship,'' Watson said. ``He was asked `Why did you go with the long putter Ernie?' And he said `I'm cheating like the rest of them are.'''
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Three Republican senators are asking President Barack Obama whether he spoke to any Libyan government official during the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last September.
In a letter Tuesday, John McCain, Kelly Ayotte and Lindsey Graham pressed Obama on whether he sought help for U.S. personnel who were under attack. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans died in the Sept. 11 raid.
The three wrote that despite testimony from senior Obama administration officials and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a number of questions remain unanswered.
Graham has threatened to block Senate confirmation of the president's national security nominees over Libya. The letter makes no mention of that threat.


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I heard about this workshop on the Transitional Genealogists mailing list and thought it would be worth sharing. I try to highlight many different educational opportunities in genealogy.
Peg Ivanyo, the conference administrator, wrote:
"The early-bird deadline ends on June 1st for the Eastern European Workshop sponsored by the Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies (FEEFHS). This year's workshop features tracks on German, Czech, Russian, and Polish research, in addition to a handful of specialty courses and a Records and Resources track. The workshop environment allows sufficient time for research at the nearby Family History Library in addition to consultations with the instructors. Since this program offers something for both beginners as well as advanced researchers, it is a great way to get started in a new area, build on existing skills, or work on a brick wall."
The workshop will be held July 12 - 14, 2012 at the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel near the Family History Library. Full details can be found at feefhs.org or read the society blog at http://feefhs2012.blogspot.


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albeit brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 104 Designs von 21 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Deep Therapeutics
My name is Al Brown and I want to significantly improve the lives of millions of people. There is unnecessary pain in the world and preventing or relieving pain is often an information problem that can be solved through technology and a team of dedicated individuals.
Muscular tension and dysfunction is just such a problem. Relieving it will not only improve the quality of life for millions, but that it will make possible many other creative interactions.
In the process, I hope to make available these benefits to friends and family and the communities where I spend my time. Many social problems flow from untreated physical problems and we all benefit when those around us are free from private suffering.
My target audience is the health care industry. The image I seek to build must convey stability, safety and a sense of deep care for our fellow men.
The target market is health professionals that make decisions affecting the quality of care for those with chronic muscular tension and pain.
We also seek to reach investors that are looking for intelligent opportunities that will create lasting contributions.
We feel we offer an approach that will yield radically better outcomes for many people. We must convey this while simultaneously respecting existing traditions. We seek to make friends while quietly delivering the message about the great thing we have created.
In our logo we seek to promote the brand name "Deep Therapeutics". Please spell this correcty; its quite easy to reverse the e and the u.
Although this logo will appear on our web site, we do not seek to promote "deeptherapeutics.com" in our logo. We have a physical machine and don't deliver services to consumers using the web. Our site will simply promote our machines and our unique thinking on muscular tension.
I like the image of a ripple moving across calm water. We are disruptive but not destructive or upsetting. We offer healing to those that have been poorly served until now.
A ripple moving across calm water is not a necessary image, simply one idea that certainly may not be best for all that I have described above. I welcome your creativity. You are the expert.
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For everyday visits, the spacious dog run, colorful playground, and large grassy area make for a happy escape from the busy midtown area in which Madison Square Park is located. Free Wifi gives the laptop-toting set the opportunity to check their email outside, while the more traditional bring paperbacks to read on the lush lawn and comfy benches.
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Copper is more than the main ingredient in wire and gold is more than what we wear on our fingers and around our necks. These commodities, along with others like oil and grains, are used by investors to gauge the health and short-term direction of the market, but how does it work? What do commodity prices tell us that we can use as traders?
SEE: Commodities That Move The Markets
Gold is the best-known commodity because it appeals to investors and non-investors alike. Consumers may not think of gold as an investible product, but the story of gold is actually complicated. Not only does it serve as a commodity, but also as a currency. In the latter part of 2011 and into 2012, it has taken on the behavior of a stock often mirroring the overall market.
Traditionally, gold tends to move in the direction opposite the market. Investors use gold as a market hedge, dumping money into the commodity when the market is trending lower. In times when it is acting like a commodity, investors watch gold closely. When they see money pouring into GLD, the ETF that tracks the performance of gold or gold futures markets, they believe that a market downturn may close at hand.
Copper doesn't have the allure of gold since it's a base metal used largely for industrial purposes, but that doesn't change the fact that investors watch it closely for hints of the overall market sentiment. Because Copper is an industrial metal, investors use it as a way to gauge the health of the manufacturing and housing sectors of the world's economies.
Investors also use Copper as a way to gauge trader sentiment. When copper is rising, some see that as investors having an appetite for risky assets, since Copper is known as a volatile commodity. When copper loses value, it may indicate that investors are selling risky assets and a market correction may be imminent.
If gold is the best-known commodity, oil isn't far behind. Oil, and the way it is priced and traded, become talking points around water coolers and on the news, particularly when the price of gas is rising; but savvy investors know that oil has a big effect on the stock market.<br/>
Since somebody's win is always somebody else's loss, oil can only go up so much before stocks begin to feel the pinch. The Wall Street Journal reports that the recent oil rally has caused transportation stocks to come under pressure and this will cause consumers to stop spending, if the rally continues. As oil rallies, those not invested in oil and energy stocks quickly become defensive.
Not That Simple
If investors could look at the performance of these commodities and gauge the movement of the market, then everybody would be rich, so it must not be that simple. In fact, many experts believe that other factors, such as ETFs, have an artificial impact on the price of commodities. The SPDR Gold ETF has a market cap of $60 billion and holds gold in its London vault equal to the value of the fund. With this amount of gold out of circulation, that may drive the price of gold up.
In 2008, oil speculators were blamed en masse for the run-up of oil prices, but others claim that with the massive amounts of money pouring into commodity markets, such as oil, a few large investors making predictions about the future direction of a commodity could artificially move the price. All of these factors combine to make analyzing moves in commodities an educated guess that can only be used in combination with other factors.
The Bottom Line
Although commodities may not move based strictly on supply and demand, investors use their price movements to gauge the overall sentiment of the market and make short-term decisions of where the market may go. Start watching these commodities and see if they predict the market corrections that are sure to come.
SEE: Commodity Investing 101
How Commodities Predict Market Movement
Copper is more than the main ingredient in wire and gold is more than what we wear on our fingers and around our necks. These commodities, along with others like oil and grains, are used by investors to gauge the health and short-term direction of the market, but how does it work? What do commodity prices tell us that we can use as traders?


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Tom is back with an all new adventure! Tom is your cat that responds to your touch and repeats everything you say in a funny voice.
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Battle for Elk City
By: Ellen Sterling
It is clear that Elk City, Okla., is different from the overwhelming majority of small cities in the United States today.
With a population of just under 12,000, this western Oklahoma city is booming because of its oil riches. It has a thriving downtown filled with small businesses and, in July, with the national rate at 8.3 percent, Elk City's unemployment rate was only 2.6 percent. Elk City also has two daily newspapers and, now, it has a newspaper war.
The first shot was fired July 25, when the following appeared on journalismjobs.com:
"Ready to lead a newspaper war?
"The Elk City (OK) Daily News is seeking an aggressive managing editor to lead our fight against a competing daily newspaper. With cities as large as New Orleans unable to support even one daily paper, our oil-and-gas boomtown in the South-Southwest is thriving with two. But we want to be the only paper in town, so we need an experienced editor with a fire in his or her belly to take the reins.
"Unlike most newspapers, there's no cloud of gloom-and-doom hanging over us. We're taking on the competition to better serve our readers with relevant and compelling journalism.
"The Elk City Daily News has been family-owned for three generations and traces its roots back to 1901. We will soon launch a redesign that reflects our passion for the hard news and community service that we provide every day.
"Requirements: J-school diploma and/or 5 years newspaper experience, familiarity with Adobe InDesign
"Preferences: Management experience
"Submit resume, references, five published writing samples, and salary requirements…"
The Elk City Daily News was launched in 1901 by the grandfather of former Vice President Dan Quayle. It was bought by the grandfather of current publisher Elizabeth Perkinson in 1937, and was then published by her father, Larry R. Wade, starting in 1972. When Wade died in March 2011, his daughter came into the family business. According to Perkinson, the Daily News has the larger circulation of the two newspapers in Elk City.
"I had no journalism experience," Perkinson said. "It was always in my family, but I'd not worked in the field. I enjoy the challenge and I've had a lot of 'attaboys,' so people think I'm doing well."
Small-town dynamics
Though it began as a weekly, today the paper is published Tuesday through Saturday. It was the only newspaper in Elk City until 2003, when The Daily Elk Citian was started by Derek Manning, a retired Oklahoma state trooper, and his wife, Holli, a former junior high English teacher. That paper published weekly until August 2011 when it also began a Tuesday through Saturday publishing schedule.
When she became publisher of the Daily News, Perkinson enlisted the help of Alan Jacobson, president and chief executive officer of Brass Tacks Design, a leading newspaper design and content consulting firm.
"I was called in to redesign the paper. But, once I realized there were two papers in town, redesigning the look alone wouldn't solve the problem," Jacobson said. "I knew the answer was to change the look and improve the editorial content."
As a consultant, Jacobson immersed himself in the task of building up the Daily News. "I spent two weeks in Elk City and learned a lot about it," he said. "This really is one of those situations where everybody knows everybody. I was amazed at the number of multigenerational businesses still open when there's a WalMart down the street."
Sandy Werner, chief executive officer of Elk City's First National Bank and Trust, elaborated on the vibrancy of the small town. "I love my city. I tell people I'm living the Norman Rockwell dream here," Werner said. "It's a small city with friendly people, but we have a large retail area. There's very little between us and Amarillo, Texas. Though we only have 12,000 people, we're a hub for an extended area."
In looking at the city, Jacobson said, "Although it's a small town, there is still a need, for example, of crime coverage. I tried to tap into that and the small-town sense."
Toward that end, Jacobson suggested a daily police blotter and, to improve the publisher's bottom line, suggested using the press for jobs other than to print the paper. Jacobson also led the paper away from hand paste-up and worked with ad sales to boost the bottom line. The new design was released July 31.
Of Perkinson, Jacobson said, "I'm so impressed with what she did. She came into the paper with no journalism experience at all and led the change to electronic publishing, as well as into strong editorial decision-making."
Then came that ad, published only on journalismjobs.com.
"I wanted to bring in someone with some energy," Perkinson said. "I was expecting some negative feedback, but that didn't happen. The ad brought more than 15 highly qualified people and, probably, another 15 who weren't qualified enough. I wanted someone who is aggressive but not so aggressive they're going to offend anyone. Some people who replied were so aggressive they were scary. Others just submitted their resumes and nothing else.
"The person I chose wrote a very long letter that contained her whole history. It was very clear that she loves journalism and wanted to help us, not do harm to someone else."
That person, the new managing editor who started early in September, is JB Blosser Bittner. She said the tone of Perkinson's ad caught her eye while she was employed at another newspaper.
"I was in Stillwater, Okla., not feeling fulfilled the way journalism was going in the chain. We used journalismjobs to post ads, and I saw Liz's ad because part of my job was to monitor the ads because we use the service," Blosser Bittner said. "I thought it was intriguing. I knew when I read her ad what she was looking for. I thought, 'That's a noble calling, to go to a community newspaper that had been in her family for three generations.'" Blosser Bittner said she was especially drawn to the family owned business and the notion that journalism is still a noble endeavor.
"What especially drew me to her ad was the family newspaper aspect. I worked for UPI and, when I did, they were UPI clients, so I knew the paper. I believe that, if we make this the best paper we can, we don't have to worry about the other newspaper in town. It doesn't hurt to know that somebody else is looking," she said. "I didn't contact her for the job. It was more a journalism fraternity type of thing — a 'what can I do to help?' I came to Elk City, and we had some iced tea and talked."
The other guys
After a few days on the job, Blosser Bittner said, "I know nothing about the other paper. That's not even on my radar. My focus is on the Elk City Daily News. It's been here since 1901. A hometown newspaper is the source for news. Its job is to be fair, be objective, be accurate. Readers should be able to pick up the newspaper and see their community reflected in their hometown newspaper."
Reflecting on Perkinson's ad, Daily Elk Citian publisher Derek Manning said, "I guess about the only comment I could make is that we look at this as a healthy business competition and really nothing more. We believe Elk City and all the surrounding communities we serve actually benefit from such a competition. People like having choices."
Manning echoed Blosser Bittner's sentiment, saying he doesn't spend too much energy worrying about the competition.
"Our focus, and the focus of our staff, is to provide the best product possible and the best customer service possible. If we do those two things consistently, the market question tends to take care of itself," he said.
Hearsts and Pulitzers? Maybe not.
Looking at Elk City from the perspective of historic newspaper wars — especially the Hearst-Pulitzer competition in New York City in the late 19th and early 20th century — W. Joseph Campbell, Ph.D., professor of journalism history at American University in Washington, D.C., and author of "Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies," said he expects that readers will be the real winners of this war.
"The ad for a managing editor is intriguing. It is an attention-grabber and is a bit of a throwback," Campbell said. "It's hardly like what was going on in New York City 110 or 115 years ago. The ad quite clearly is a declaration of war, isn't it? Readers can be expected to take certain benefits away from a newspaper war — more coverage, more sports, people getting more for their money as editorial content is ramped up. So, it's not all bad."
As for Perkinson, with her new editor in place, her new design, and revamped editorial content now permanently in her paper, she said, "I'm enjoying it here. I like challenges. It's like a chess game."
Ellen Sterling is an award-winning journalist. A New Yorker, she's now living in Las Vegas, where she blogs on the Huffington Post, reviews shows and movies, and freelances. Reach her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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After starting her professional life in the fields of motion graphic design for film and broadcast, Nina now specialises in integrated projection design and content production for Theatre and Live Events.
Recently, she designed projections for Die Frau Ohne Schatten at the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, which received 4 stars from the Financial Times and which, in addition to repertory performances, will be touring to Ljubiana, Tokyo and Edinburgh over the next twelve months. A DVD of the show is due to be released on the Mariinsky label within the next few months.
This year, other projection design projects for Theatre include Video design and content production for Armstrong & Miller's Live UK comedy tour and Katy Brand's UK comedy tour.
She has also worked on Chichester Festival Theatre's 42nd Street; the Broadway and Seattle incarnations of Stephen Sondheim's Musical Sunday In The Park With George; The 2008-9 European tour of Richard O'Brien's Musical Rocky Horror Show and Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen Opera cycle at the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg and Royal Opera House, London in 2009 (Associate Video Designer) and Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor's Alex, The Stage Play - a one-man show with the remaining cast and set provided by projection (Assistant Animator).
Recent live events include Video design and content direction and production for Wella's ITVA awards and trend show in Paris; An evening of illuminations, bringing to life calligraphy and illustrations from the new St John's Bible on the architecture of St Martin in the Fields, London; and projection design and content production for the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Doha, where surfaces included two suspended heliospheres with projection on two sides and four circular mats. She also provided a projected courtyard installation for Hermes in the Musee De La Chasse in Paris for a private event.
Upcoming projects include projection design for the National Theatre's new production of Emperor and Galilean and for the Mariinsky production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Nina was educated at Edinburgh University, Goldsmiths College and the Universitaet der Kuenste, Berlin and is based in London.


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Hard money a costly quick fix for property owners
Short-term, pricey loan aids property owners
Khoi Senderowicz needed capital to rehab her run-down rental properties, but her credit was shot from a foreclosure during the housing downturn.
Spurned by banks for a home-equity loan, she turned to "hard-money," high-interest, short-term loans secured by real estate and issued by individuals or small private companies. She borrowed $200,000 as a second mortgage against a duplex she owns in Oakland's Montclair neighborhood that has substantial equity.
"I feel like I can breathe again now," she said. "I had been juggling with nothing."
Her two-year loan came with a hefty price tag: 12 percent interest - almost triple today's rates - and four points, or $8,000.
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Senderowicz and other real estate investors say paying a premium for hard money is worth it for super-quick access to funds. Hard money, despite technically being loans, helped fuel the surge in all-cash offers seen nationwide and in the Bay Area.
"We offer speed with not a lot of paperwork," said Glen Goldan, CEO of hard-money lender REprop Financial in Eureka. "We don't care about your credit, but we want to know how you're going to repay us."
It works for investors
The biggest users of hard money are individual real estate investors who emerged in force during the downturn to buy, fix and flip foreclosures. Exact numbers on hard-money loans are unknown as there's no requirement to disclose their use. Guy Cecala, publisher of Inside Mortgage Finance, estimates that they're less than 1 percent of the mortgage market. The fact that the vast majority of borrowers are professionals rather than owner-occupants alleviates concerns that hard money is another form of subprime lending.
"The conventional mortgage market has blacklisted (real estate) investors as too high risk because we just came out of a credit crisis where investor loans defaulted at three times the rate of owner-occupied, so everyone's gun-shy," Cecala said. "That's creating an opportunity for hard-money lenders."
Hard money "provided real estate investors with much-needed capital so they could purchase and remodel thousands of distressed and older homes throughout the Bay Area these past four years," said Mark Hanf, who runs Pacific Private Money, a Novato hard-money lender.
Josh Roofener, who runs Beyond the Horizon Construction in Oakley, said he's been using hard money to buy and rehab foreclosures.
"It's more expensive, but gets you the cash you need in the time frame you need," he said. "I use hard money to make all-cash offers, which are always stronger because people with regular mortgages have to jump through a lot more hoops."
Worth the price
Senderowicz said she doesn't feel the 12 percent interest was unreasonable.
"Credit cards charge that much interest all the time, but just dole the money out in smaller portions," she said. "And because this is a home loan, I'll get a (tax) write-off on the interest; you don't get that with credit cards."
People who borrow hard money must have more "skin in the game" than conventional borrowers. Usually at least 30 percent of a property's value must come out of their pocket.
Hard-money lenders, who must have a real estate license or a finance lenders' license, don't scrutinize borrowers' assets and financial histories. Still, under today's stricter lending laws, they are supposed to verify income, and, like banks, must provide borrowers with simple disclosures of loan terms and costs. Lenders also get property appraisals to document that there's enough collateral to back a loan. "Flipper" borrowers have to show plans for rehabbing a property and local comparable sales to support the eventual price they hope to get, Roofener said.
Many hard-money lenders are individuals who relish the chance to earn 9 percent or more on their funds - and can tolerate the associated risk. Often they go through brokers like Pacific Private Money to arrange deals. Just as with a regular mortgage, hard-money lenders can use the foreclosure process to seize real estate if borrowers default.
Pacific Private Money, in business since 2008, arranges 10 to 15 loans a month, mainly in the Bay Area, and mainly to investors, ranging from $150,000 to $500,000, Hanf said. Most are for 12 months with interest rates from 9 to 11 percent, plus three or four points paid up front.
Immediacy a big plus
Speed - closing a property sale in days - "is the single biggest reason real estate investor-borrowers use hard money," Hanf said. Tarnished credit - many investors lost properties to foreclosure in the downturn - is another strong motivation.
Pacific Private Money charges 0.5 percent to service loans and pockets the points, so, for instance, a loan at 10.5 percent nets the investor a 10 percent return.
A Danville man, who asked not to be identified for financial privacy, said he turned to Pacific Private Money when a last-minute holdup with a conventional mortgage threatened purchase of a new home. His banker steered him toward hard money.
"Initially I was skeptical, but as I looked into it, I was surprised at how efficient a market it was," he said. "I could move much more quickly that way, although I paid a price for it."
His $900,000 loan came with about 9 percent interest and two points. He'll do a cash-out refinance into a conventional mortgage within months.
And when he does, he plans to take out some extra money and put it to work with Pacific Private Money, becoming a hard-money lender himself.
"It's basic supply and demand; (hard money) is meeting a market need," he said.
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Brad Lidge did not expect to find himself on the mound for many ninth innings this season, certainly not on Opening Day at Wrigley Field. He signed with the Washington Nationals in late January with the understanding, despite his 223 career saves, that he would set up and provide a mentoring voice.
"Give the guy a million dollars and let him look after the kids," said Lidge, 35.
But there he was Thursday, capping an idyllic afternoon with save No. 224, finishing a 2-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs filled with both unexpected twists and predictable themes. The Nationals stuffed their first game with story lines they could have spent their day off Friday dissecting.
In sum, potentially the best team in Nationals history took one game to validate both the highest hopes and worst fears about it. From Stephen Strasburg, Tyler Clippard and Lidge, they received the kind of dominant pitching expected to vault them toward contention. From their offense, they received a reminder of what might block them from it.
"I don't think there's ever a championship that's been won in the first game or the first month," shortstop Ian Desmond said.
"You've just got to go out and play good baseball. We know what we can do. We've got our manager behind us. We really just have to be confident, go out there and play."
The primary question the Nationals face this season is whether their offense can produce. Other than Desmond, who went 3-for-5 and knocked in the winning run in the ninth inning, the Nationals' starting position players went 0-for-23 and left nine men on base. Adam LaRoche and Jayson Werth, the Nationals' Nos. 4 and 5 hitters, went 0-for-7, each twice missing opportunities to drive in two runners in scoring position.
But the Nationals' offense did not resemble their 2011 attack, which ranked 25th in the majors, in every way. Werth's game-tying, bases-loaded walk gave the Nationals six walks for the day, a total they reached in less than 10 percent of their games last season.
And the most pressing question about the offense was whether Desmond and Danny Espinosa would reach often enough. They each got on base three times, counting the at-bat Espinosa reached on an error, and gave the middle of the order ample scoring chances.
One game is never a sound sample to draw conclusions from, and Thursday's conditions made it an especially poor example. The wind, blowing straight in from left field, knocked down several hard-hit balls. Ryan Zimmerman probably would have had two homers on a different day. LaRoche called Zimmerman's second blast, in the sixth inning, one of the hardest balls he had seen hit.
"I couldn't believe that one didn't go over both walls," manager Davey Johnson said.
Strasburg received help from the wind, too, especially when Alfonso Soriano crushed a fly ball to center that did not even reach the warning track. But Strasburg did not require much assistance in seven smooth innings, firing only 82 pitches, 58 of them strikes.
The Cubs' plan against Strasburg revealed the way teams will likely attack him, and the way he will respond. Strasburg has adjusted his approach to reduce long at-bats and strikeouts, favoring weak contact and quick innings. The Cubs complied, swinging early in the count, unwilling to fall behind Strasburg as he pumped strikes. The first six Cubs batters, and 10 of the first 13, saw two or fewer pitches.
"I think that's kind of something hitters are going to do throughout the season," Strasburg said. "They're going to try and put the ball in play early because they don't want two strikes. At the same time, I can't just lay it in there."
Strasburg's first 10 pitches were fastballs, and he threw first-pitch heaters to all but one of the first 11 hitters he faced.
He effectively established the inside corner, but as the Cubs started to jump on his early fastball, Strasburg changed his strategy.
Among his first 26 pitches, Strasburg threw only four curveballs and no changeups. In his final 56 pitches, 26 were off-speed, including five first-pitch curveballs.
"They're all going to go after him," pitching coach Steve McCatty said. "We all know what's going to happen. They're going to try to jump on the first pitch. We talked about it, too. If they're going to come up first-pitch swinging, it's a good chance to get a feel for the breaking ball. If they want to come out and whack at the first pitch, get a little feel for it and use it."
Strasburg's breezy innings make one wonder: If it looks so easy, why will the Nationals limit him to 160 of them? But throwing 95 mph — his average fastball Thursday — is not easy on the arm, and the Nationals will not budge on their precautionary restriction in Strasburg's first full season after Tommy John elbow ligament-reconstruction surgery, even if it means shutting him down in a playoff push.
"Unfortunately, I think we're going to end up needing him at the end of the year," Werth said. "Under the circumstances, we won't have him. We're going to need to get every inning, every pitch out of him while he's here. And we did that."
If the Nationals stick to their script, they will be playing many more games like their opener: low-scoring, grind-it-out affairs. Whether they perform as expected, the next 161 games will decide.


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BP Strategies provides employee benefit insurance products and consulting services. We are located in Tulsa, Oklahoma - which is a rather conservative place. We are a member of United Benefit Advisors which gives us national resources to use on a local level -- sets us apart from other local brokers. Clients range in size from 2 employees to several thousand. Our target market is 50-250 employees.
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Subversion project devotee WANdisco has updated its uberSVN open ALM platform for the Apache version-control system. Squeezing in one last update before the end of year, the company has coalesced new updates on its uberAPPS app store with new "social coding capabilities" for developers.
Now at version 11.12, uberSVN latest enhancements are designed to help programmers purchase and/or assemble software development lifecycle apps for Subversion. This release adds the ability to make installed apps visible or invisible, on a per-user basis. There is now support for anonymous reading so that, when enabled, the repository can be accessed/read without the need to authenticate.
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I am a freelance web developer, requiring a designer to add a professional graphics touch to a preliminary website design that I have started on. The idea is there, I just need some fine-tuning.
not required, maybe someting like: Independent Investment Consultant OR Independent Investment, Retirement, & Financial Consultant
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dark navy blue, white, a splash of a rich darkish red for contrast
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Clean, professional, personal - the design should convey an established, trustworthy feel.
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I have started on the redesign of a website for a financial services company, but require a graphic designer to work on my design, as I am more of a developer than a designer. I think the idea is there, but it lacks professional graphical design elements. Maybe it's too squeaky clean, and requires a very minimal 'grunge' effect. I don't really know...Any ideas are welcome.
You can find a jpeg sample of the preliminary design at: http://www.ddtc.co.za/ddtc_layout.jpg
This site requires a clean, professional, trustworthy look and feel. Black/dark text on white background is preferred. If you go to http://www.ddtc.co.za you'll get an idea of the current site content. The most important part is the news room, which will contain articles/presentations etc (in a blog type layout). The design has to allow for sub navigation as well.
Navigation has to be text-based, so nothing too elaborate/fancy. I would prefer the navigation on the right. No top navigation. Sub-navigation will be required (which will be coded in the form of nested lists, and styled with CSS). I'm open to any ideas, so let me know if you have anything else in mind.
businessman/boardroom image: http://www.ddtc.co.za/ties2export.jpg (this is a low quality jpeg, i will provide the vector image once I have decided on a winner). Let me know if you the image quality is too low to work with.
logo (the spiral, with the company name - very simple): http://www.ddtc.co.za/logo.png (this is a layered fireworks png image. I don't have a high quality logo image at the moment. If you want to change anything, you can do a temporary simple recreation. The logo can either be white on dark blue or dark blue on white. The current site has another variation of the logo.)
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I am willing to buy images/art from http://www.istockphoto.com or http://www.123rf.com, so just let me know if you need anything.
What would be nice is if there could be 'info'/'alert' boxes (don't know what you call them) below the intro article, or somewhere... (maybe 2 or 3 next to each other). It should be something eye catching, for info about new articles/content, affiliate banner (doesn't have to be as big as the wine banner on the current homepage, can be any size), site news etc. On the current ddtc homepage, there are 3 such boxes, below each other though, but very very boring!
Another thing: I would appreciate it if entrants could lay out the text in 'blog' format, with one or two content items. Dummy text is fine, and there doesn't have to be much text. The way in which content is going to be displayed on the new website is going to be more in a blog type format.
Just a general comment about the 'minimal grunge effect' that I mention in my brief:
What I mean by minimal grunge, is to break up the rigid 2 column boxed looked, by using design elements. The spiral theme of the logo can be used to get this effect. (I know the spiral is quite 'corny', but it doesn't have to be used exactly like that.) Have a look at these designs from csszengarden:
They have a totally different look than this design requires, but I think it illustrates what I'm trying to say. Both designs have fixed boxes laid out, but the rigidness of the boxes are disguised via design elements. Also note the way the navigation headings is designed. Very professional, not just a heading with a plain background color.


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Ever wondered how the canyon and caves that are home to the Gila Cliff Dwellings were formed? Volunteer-in-Park Xavier Bruehler will lead a special geology tour of Cliff Dweller Canyon at Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument on Thursday, August 22 at 10 am to explore the ancient origins of this volcanic landscape. Xavier Bruehler earned his degree in Environmental Geology from Western Washington University. His special tour will begin at the trailhead to the Gila Cliff Dwellings, last approximately one hour and involve hiking the one-mile loop trail to and through the Gila Cliff Dwellings. The trail is rugged and climbs 180 feet in elevation. Please carry water and dress for the weather. Please plan to eat before or after the tour since food and beverages other than water are not permitted along the trail. Pets are not permitted on the trail, but self-serve outdoor kennels are available near the trailhead. Visitors are also invited to join the 45-minute tour of the cliff dwellings themselves which is currently offered every day at 11 am.
There is a $3.00 per adult (16 years and older) entrance fee to Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. Self-guided tours are available throughout monument hours. The entrance to the Gila Cliff Dwellings opens at 9 am. Last entry is at 4 pm, and all must exit by 5pm. Area thunderstorms at any time may require that the trail be closed for staff and visitor safety. Visiting before noon generally lessens the chance of being affected by area thunderstorms. The Gila Visitor Center and Western National Parks Association Park Store are open from 8 am to 4:30 pm.
Since area weather conditions can change rapidly, please call the Gila Visitor Center at 575-536-9461 for the latest information and current conditions before visiting. For more information about Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, visit www.nps.gov/gicl.
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