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MINNEAPOLIS -- The Twins and Major League Baseball are set to contribute a record $8 million toward local projects and national charitable initiatives as part of the 2014 All-Star community legacy effort.
The All-Star community legacy effort by the Twins is both the most extensive in All-Star Game history in both the amount of projects and the funding contributed, the specifics of which will be unveiled leading up to the 2014 MLB All-Star Game to be held at Target Field on Tuesday, July 15.
The Pohlad family is contributing generously to charitable efforts that will consist of a range of renovation projects and life-enrichment initiatives in the Upper Midwest region and beyond.
The projects will support several youth baseball field renovations, impact the lives of underserved youth and local veterans, place a focus on improving the health and well-being of local citizens, support cancer research and highlight the importance of environmental consciousness.
"It's humbling," said Twins president Dave St. Peter at a press conference to make the announcement at Target Field on Friday. "Obviously the All-Star Game itself is going to be a wonderful showcase of the ballpark, the city and the state but the legacy giving projects are going to be here long after the All-Star Game concludes. So it's really a chance to give back and make a difference to people who need help."
The donations will be made through MLB Charities, the Twins Community Fund and the Pohlad Family Foundation. It's set to support national charitable initiatives, such as the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the Jackie Robinson Foundation, the National Recreation and Park Association, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, Stand Up To Cancer and Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
"We're here to celebrate Major League Baseball giving back to the community it serves," Pohlad said at the press conference that featured MLB and Twins executives, several elected officials and Twins legends. "On behalf of the Minnesota Twins and the Pohlad Family Foundation, we're proud to be a part of that."
The first All-Star Fans Choose grant initiative will also award $500,000 to a nonprofit organization in the Upper Midwest region to support a capital project that will benefit the local community. Nonprofit groups in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and western Wisconsin can apply at AllStarGame.com/FansChoose through May 23.
Additionally, MLB and The Color Run are joining together to host the first The Color Run MLB All-Star 5K presented by Nikeon July 13 at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in Falcon Heights, Minn.
The Twins are also looking to raise environmental awareness by "going green" via public-service announcements. All-Star "Green Teams" will also be on hand throughout All-Star Week events wearing branded organic cotton T-shirts and circulating throughout the ballpark collecting recyclable materials.
In a touching tribute to the late Hall of Famer, the Twins are also set to fund the Kirby Puckett Mobile Eye Clinic, which will be part of the Kirby Puckett Education Center at the Phillips Eye Institute, to provide more than 43,000 uninsured or underinsured children and adults through Minnesota with preventative eye care.
"That's a project I'm particularly fond of," St. Peter said. "Kirby had such a tremendous impact on so many of us in the Twins organization. He meant so much to people in the Upper Midwest that we felt this was an opportune time to celebrate his legacy long-term."
Four youth baseball fields owned by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Parks and Recreation Department are also scheduled to be renovated. The fields are Northeast Athletic Park and NSP Field in Minneapolis, El Rio Vista Baseball Field in St. Paul, Minn., and Lee Park in Robbinsdale, Minn.
Additionally, an official Miracle League field will be constructed in Hibbing, Minn. The specially designed field for youth with disabilities will serve kids from more than 10 communities in the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, and it's the first of its kind in the area.
"Whether it be a Miracle Field in Hibbing or a Little League field in St. Paul, there's a lot of projects that will be special to people," St. Peter said. "So it'll be fun to see it all come together over the next few months."
MLB and the Twins, in partnership with the Starkey Hearing Foundation in Eden Prairie, Minn., will fund a project to fit preselected recipients with their own customized, state-of-the-art digital hearing device. Patients will be identified by local audiologists and through partnering with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and local schools for the hard of hearing.
The Jerry Gamble Boys & Girls Club in Minneapolis will be renovated to transform a currently unusable indoor pool into a functionally multipurpose room with a synthetic floor for multiuse athletic space, a new scoreboard, new lighting and windows, bleachers, a stairway to the balcony, an air-handler unit for locker rooms, an HVAC system and a concessions area.
The Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Twin Cities in Minneapolis will undergo a renovation to the common area and 48 rooms. A baseball-themed lounge will also be created in the central space.
MLB and the Twins are also set to join CommonBond's effort to develop 58 new homes at Fort Snelling for veterans and their families who are experiencing homelessness. The homes will be located on the VA Medical Center campus on the upper post of Fort Snelling.
On the environmental side, the Twins will help fund a seven-acre woodland restoration at Trout Brook Nature Sanctuary in St. Paul. The project will transform a former railroad site into a nature sanctuary complete with prairie, savanna, maple-basswood forest and a stormwater management system of filtration ponds and wetlands.
"We know this event is about more than just baseball," said St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman. "It's about creating opportunities for children, the restoration of natural areas, providing for veterans and making our community a great place. Baseball is special to all of us in this region and we love Target Field but we love this partnership that makes our communities better."


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Exactly, Ray. That's the point at which you should crop. Not later, unless there's no other option.Absolutely. I've also noticed that Photoshop developers are world-famous software engineers, not world-famous photographers.
Stamper, As far as I'm concerned the art of photography is in what you frame on your camera. That means you see what you're after, frame it, and shoot it. You don't bang away hoping you might find a picture later when you're playing around in Photoshop. There are times when you can't get exactly what you want: the scene is vanishing and you're not yet close enough, so you have to include things in the frame that you know you'll have to crop out later. But if you're having to crop more often than once in a blue moon, you haven't mastered your art.
Don't tell people how to make their art.
My work that I consider art, is almost always panoramic.
Hi Ray, I don't have any idea who might have made that first statement, but I'm sure it wasn't Cartier-Bresson. In any case, to put it as politely as I can, it's a statement that leaves something to be desired. How about after the crop that "improves" the photo? Can the revised photo still be "improved" by cropping? If so, where do you stop? With a single pixel? If you've never seen a photo that couldn't be improved with some cropping, it seems to me that even that last pixel would have to go and you'd end up with a blank screen.
Wide is too wide when one ... uses it to get "more" into their photos.
Do you think that is the case in the photographs I posted?
Wide is too wide when one is not confined by space and uses it to get "more" into their photos. The wide then expands perspective and makes everything look way too far away.
... While one can use a telephoto lens to make a series of images and get a similar field of view (and much higher resolution) than a single image with a wide angle lens, it won't be the same shot as it won't have the same distortions, the way wide angle tends to push everything away and the way telephoto lenses tend to magnify and flatten the foreground/background....


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Aaron Rodgers, Packers serve playoff notice to rest of NFL
GREEN BAY, Wis. — You don't want any part of Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers right now.
Not if you're Dallas. Not if you're Atlanta or Seattle. Not even if you're New England. Not when Rodgers is playing arguably the best football of his career.
And most definitely not when he's flashing that smile that can make a linebacker's blood run cold when asked if he's beginning to feel as if this is Green Bay's year.
"Yes," he said. "I do."
With good reason.
The Packers have now won seven in a row after their 38-13 rout of the New York Giants in Sunday's NFC wild-card game, a victory that pairs Green Bay with the top-seeded Dallas Cowboys for next weekend's divisional round.
Aaron Rodgers heats up, slings Packers past Giants in wild-card win
But it is the way the Packers are winning that ought to terrify everyone that still stands in their way — and I don't just mean the latest in Rodgers' Hail Mary highlight reel.
There have been games during the streak that the Packers have won handily, as they did when they beat Seattle last month. But more often than not they've had to overcome adversity. The more they do it, the more their confidence grows.
Sunday's game is a perfect example. The Giants were, arguably, the best defense the Packers have played in the last seven weeks, and New York lived up to the hype for the first 26 minutes. Green Bay's wide receivers were bottled up, the running game was sputtering, and Rodgers was sacked three times in the first three drives as New York took a 6-0 lead.
After that third sack, the Packers had minus-8 yards of offense. Yes, that's right. Minus-8. Just to be clear, the objective in a football game is to go forward, not backward.
Aaron Rodgers completes another Hail Mary pass, and Lambeau goes crazy
When Jordy Nelson was shown hunched over, his face in his hands, as he was driven to the locker room with a rib injury, the image captured Green Bay's fortunes perfectly. After running the table to end the season, they had run out of room to run.
But so long as the Packers have Rodgers, they can overcome just about anything. Green Bay's end-of-the-year surge might have come too late for him to win a third MVP award, but week after week he shows there is no one in the NFL who is better.
Down to their final play of the first half, at the Giants 42-yard line, Rodgers bought enough time for his receivers to get into the end zone. Randall Cobb took up position in the back, with Landon Collins, Eli Apple, Trevin Wade and Keenan Robinson all parked in front of him.
As Rodgers let fly, Cobb gave Collins a shove. It was a small one, but it was enough to give him space to out-jump the Giants defenders and snag the touchdown.
The play was reminiscent of New York and Green Bay's playoff game five years ago, only that time it was the Giants with the momentum-changing play. It also was reminiscent of Rodgers' Hail Marys last year in Detroit to save Green Bay's season and again in the divisional-round game against Arizona.
"It's fun," Rodgers said. "Every time."
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The momentum was short-lived, thanks to coach Mike McCarthy's head-scratching decision to go for it on fourth-and-1 from his own 42 on the second drive after halftime. The gamble failed, and the Giants scored two plays later, making it a one-point game.
But this is Rodgers' year, if not all of the Packers, and he's not anywhere close to being done. He connected with Jared Cook and Davante Adams for long gains before finding Cobb for the 30-yard touchdown. It would be the first of four consecutive scoring drives for Green Bay.
The Packers, once in negative numbers for yardage, would finish with 406. Rodgers would throw for four touchdowns and no interceptions, finishing with a passing rating of 125.2.
In the last seven games, he has thrown 19 touchdowns with no interceptions. He's completed 69.6% of his passes, and has a quarterback rating of 121.7.
"Adversity is inevitable in this game. It comes almost every game, comes every season. The good teams overcome it and use it as a weapon," said veteran guard T.J. Lang. "You hit that adversity point and we've been through it a lot. We understand how to respond."
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A happy birthday to Dave 1976. Another year older. And a nice birthday present you bought yourself by the way.
A happy birthday to Dave 1976. Another year older. And a nice birthday present you bought yourself by the way.
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Realtek works, just make sure it's different to the onboard one, or you may suffer from the PCI ID overlap issue (although this can be fixed with some jiggery pokery, it was just beyond me personally). I bought a really ancient 10/100 one, and use that for the external network, and use the onboard gigabit one for the internal network.Also I don't think all the RAM can be utilised, think max is 3 GB. I would buy a matched (2 x 1 GB) pair, see if that meets your needs, else upgrade with another 1 GB stick at a later date.Cheers,Matt.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg aside, for many men, the days of wearing hoodies and flip-flops to work are over.
After a decade of increasingly casual office dress requirements (inspired by Zuckerberg's 1990s Silicon Valley predecessors), CEOs began demanding a more polished look beginning with the 2001 recession. By 2002, more formal dress codes had been reinstated by 19 percent of companies with more than $500 million in revenues, according to a Men's Apparel Alliance survey.
"The 2001 recession gave Americans a taste of the tougher job market," says Darnell Jones, a business professional and creator of TUKZ Undergarments for men, which have clasps that ensure shirts stay tucked.
"Then along came the Great Recession in December 2007 and, with it, the layoffs and high unemployment we're still experiencing. Today, if you want to get hired and if you want to get promoted, you've got to look like you mean business."
Jones notes that it's not just corporate leaders who want a more professional-looking workforce. In a 2012 survey by Salary.com, nearly 25 percent of respondents said their workplace's dress code is too lenient. Less than 10 percent said theirs was too strict.
"Right or wrong, how much care you take – or don't take – with your appearance communicates a lot about you," Jones says. "If you take pride in how you look, you probably take pride in the work you do. If your outfits are thrown-together or dated, you may be reckless with details and not up on the latest in your profession."
If you're ready to give up your office hoodie, but aren't sure what to replace it with, Jones offers these tips:
• Get a navy blue or gray blazer or suit coat: Solid colors are best, although pinstripes are fine, too. Get the best material you can afford. If wearing a jacket all day doesn't fit with your workplace vibe, keep one in your office or cubicle to have handy just in case. Whether it's a surprise visit from a client or an unexpected meeting with the CEO, slipping on a jacket is an easy way to make a good impression."You'll be amazed at how much more seriously people take you when you look the part," Jones says.
• Watch your feet: Invest in a good pair of lace-up shoes -- brown, black or, better yet, both. (The color should complement your trousers and match your belt.) Avoid square-toed shoes -- they're dated. Be sure your shoes are polished, and replace the heels when they get run down, particularly if you're going on a job interview or attending an important meeting. Of course, you'll need socks, too. They should coordinate with the color of your trousers – and with each other!
• Avoid the peacock effect: Your shirt should be a solid color – no patterns and no hot pinks. Be sure it's pressed. An undershirt is a must; it helps prevent unsightly perspiration stains and unwanted views of underlying body parts. If you're not wearing a tie and leaving the top button or two undone, make sure the T-shirt collar is not visible at your throat. If you're wearing a coat, about a half-inch of shirt cuff should be visible at your wrist.
• Flatter your face with a V-neck: A good-quality gray, V-neck pullover sweater worn over a blue dress shirt is a great look for business casual. The bottom of the sweater should stop at your belt line.
"The best thing is, dressing well makes you stand taller and feel more confident. That's really a winning look."
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CHICAGO, Nov. 8, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare, today announced that Summit Radiology Associates, a multi-site practice, will implement Merge's end-to-end suite of Radiology Solutions to improve workflow and achieve Meaningful Use.
"Summit Radiology Associates interprets studies for three sites: a busy hospital, a large multi-specialty practice, and a free-standing imaging center in Westfield, New Jersey," explained Dr. Amir Salomon, President, Summit Radiology Associates. "With the growing complexity of healthcare, we sought a system that would increase our efficiency and enhance our workflow. We needed a vendor whose solutions could quickly and easily scale to fit our growing needs. In Merge, we found an innovative partner at the forefront of the field offering a comprehensive suite of solutions."
"Additionally, by selecting the latest version of Merge's end-to-end Radiology Solutions, we will be well positioned to pursue Meaningful Use for many of our radiologists," added Marisol Ortiz, Business Manager, Summit Radiology Associates. "This will enable us to receive Meaningful Use incentive payments over the next four years and avoid future penalties."
"Meaningful Use is the basis for health information exchange in the U.S. and our goal at Merge is to help make it easy for specialists to qualify for incentives and realize the true benefits of the program," said Jeff Surges, CEO of Merge Healthcare. "With the recently announced Stage Two requirements that focus heavily on the viewing of diagnostic images, it's clear that specialties like radiology are very much included in Meaningful Use. Now is the time for specialty physicians to adopt a Meaningful Use strategy so they can qualify for Stage One funding, while preparing for Stage Two."
Merge Radiology Solutions include Merge RISTM, a web-based radiology information system that streamlines workflow and enables providers to meet Meaningful Use criteria; Merge PACSTM, a real-time picture archiving communication system that provides storage and access to images from any enterprise web-based location; Merge FinancialsTM, a comprehensive billing system; Merge DocumentsTM, a paperless office solution to store and manage documents electronically; Merge Referral PortalTM, a web-based portal to engage referring physicians; and Merge DashboardsTM, an on-demand business intelligence solution.
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Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel face off in Los Angeles mayoral debate hosted by KPCC, NBC4, Telemundo and USC (video)
See photos and read more about the debate at this link.
RESERVATIONS FOR THIS EVENT ARE AT CAPACITY. However, the debate will be broadcast live on 89.3 KPCC, NBC 4, and online here at kpcc.org. Thank you.
As we approach the election of a new mayor for Los Angeles, KPCC has joined with NBC4 Southern California and its Spanish-language partner Telemundo52, as well as the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy to co-host a mayoral debate between City Councilman Eric Garcetti and City Controller Wendy Greuel on Monday, April 22 at USC's Louis B. Mayer Auditorium on its Health Sciences Campus in East L.A. The debate will be broadcast live and commercial-free on NBC4, Telemundo52 and KPCC from 7-8 p.m. The NBC4 live video will also be available online at kpcc.org.
NBC4 chief political reporter Conan Nolan will moderate the debate. Three expert panelists will present questions to the candidates: Frank Stoltze, KPCC crime and politics reporter; Ana Patricia Candiani, Telemundo52 news anchor; and Jack H. Knott, dean of the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy.
The debate will cover a wide range of critical issues facing the city right now, including jobs and the economy, pension reform, a growing budget problem, and public safety.
For a more detailed map of the USC Health and Sciences Campus, click HERE.
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An alliance of CIOs at some of the biggest companies and organisations operating in Britain has issued a call to action, saying that it's time the government stops listening to technology firms on IT issues and starts paying attention to the people that actually use the technology.
A new report from the Education and Skills commission of The Corporate IT Forum comes out today, and in it the commissioners (think IT chiefs at outfits like McDonalds, the Land Registry, Channel 4, Tesco etc) have harsh words for the usual suspects - the state of ICT teaching in schools and universities, for instance. The report states:
There is an immediate and pressing skills problem that is unlikely to be resolved for some years without emergency interim actions ...
IT user companies have a need for employees who are digitally literate as well as an increasing need for employees with advanced ICT skills to manage new business applications. The delivery of high-level skills relies on long-term strategies - a high level of unemployment does not guarantee that the demand for the specialist skills can be easily satisfied.
Basic digital literacy is critical to all employers. Research by other bodies indicates reasonable levels of satisfaction with school performance in this area although this was not ratified by Commissioners' own experiences.
Perhaps more controversially, the assembled IT honchos also criticise the way the government is setting about trying to fix things, suggesting that in fact technology companies themselves are a large part of the problem:
Government interest in ICT is confined to the value of technology as a business sector rather than recognising the key role it plays in success across every industry. This is in part evidenced by the Government's near-exclusive focus on engagement with the IT vendor community in relation to ICT consultation events and development of the new curriculum. We believe that the voices of the IT-dependent employer community and those of the teaching profession are every bit as vital.
The assembled IT bosses say that the skills shortage can't be fixed by simply training up more young people: the report notes that numbers of Computer Science graduates have been falling, but even so some 17 per cent were unable to find work in 2011. In the CIOs' view this shows that the real shortage is of experienced "mid level" types as opposed to newbies. That said, they don't make any suggestions as to how this can be sorted out, though they do have a lot of ideas for reforming IT education in schools and universities.
Here are a few of those ideas:
There should be an unbundling of IT into three subject areas: Digital Literacy, Information Technology and Computer Science.
Digital Literacy and Information Technology are essential subjects and should be taught to all children ... Computer Science should be taught to children hoping to study the discipline long-term.
The standard should be such that all universities recognise a GCSE or A level in Information Technology as being on a par with other science subjects.
And there are other problems besides the low status of the subject and the general IT ignorance among teachers:
Important aspects of Computer Science and Information Technology teaching and learning are being compromised by the need to maintain a secure network – in the same way that health and safety myths are holding back practical science.
The report adds that there should be greater efforts to ensure that schools have properly trained IT teachers who actually know relevant stuff, perhaps to be achieved by industrial placements. There's also a need to sort things out in the universities:
Few Higher Education departments appear to hold Computing A-level in high esteem ... Computer Science courses suffer from a high first-year attrition rate – possibly as a result of students arriving without a clear understanding of what Computer Science is ... Some universities do not accept Computing or IT at A level as fulfilling entry requirements for a degree in Computing – for example [the UK's] York University.
However the report does suggest that even once somebody has managed to graduate in Computer Science they may struggle to find work in IT because "there are either no jobs or the positions are outsourced/given to overseas graduates ... Businesses have made matters worse through outsourcing ICT jobs, particularly to Asia." This might, of course, be a reason why the much-desired experienced mid-level bods are not to be found: the jobs which would let them acquire experience have been outsourced.
This does rather suggest that the British IT skills problem is not entirely down to the schools, the universities or even an overly tight focus on advice from technology vendors. ®
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Urgh, this is what I hate about PD.com, it is the only site in existence where a perfectly good spam thread can be misused for high quality discussions. I hate you all.
I could totally ride the WOMP bus. Hey Richter, remember these?!http://kaousuu.net/images/captions.html This is how our office spent a very slow December. o.o
As a neuroscientist I have to disagree with the perception that anyone is doing mathematical modeling of cognitive intelligence, yet; intelligence as an economist defines it, yes, but economists are worlds away from actual cognition.
Don't fucking judge me, I've got tentacles for a face.
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If you provide care for an elderly loved one, it's important to recognize the signs of dementia versus normal age-related memory loss. Most of us, as we age, forget names from time to time, or why we entered a room. Unlike normal forgetfulness, dementia can be disabling and can impact a person's everyday performance. Dementia affects one's ability to perform routine tasks, such as paying bills, taking medication or bathing. Those with dementia may get lost or disoriented, even in familiar places. In order to keep your loved ones safe and provide adequate care, be sure to monitor them for behavioral changes and signs of dementia.
Dementia, unlike Alzheimer's, is not a disease—it's a non-specific syndrome that affects the memory, language, problem solving and attention areas of the brain. The condition progresses over time, and may worsen due to Alzheimer's or a stroke. Any type of stress, physical or emotional, can often worsen dementia. If your loved one experiences depression, side effects of medication, vitamin B12 deficiency, or dehydration, eliminating these can help reduce the effects of dementia. Keep your eye out for sudden changes, or decline in your loved one's ability to care for him or herself. Even a urinary tract infection can cause confusion and abrupt changes in elderly behavior. Taking note of progressive and sudden changes can help you provide the best possible care for your loved ones.
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On my third night in Paris, I met a heavy metal dude from Scotland. He had long hair that covered the top third of his Iron Maiden t-shirt and hand rolled his own cigarettes. I've always secretly wished to be a heavy metal guy myself, to say "screw it all!" and walk around looking like I was in a Motorhead cover band. This guy I met in Paris was super cool. Laid back, with an intensely thick accent. We sat in the hostel bar and ordered bottles of red wine. One, two, three. The wine was causing us to be loud. It was after two in the morning and the hostel kicked us out, shoeing us off. We bought another bottle of wine and staggered down the streets of Montmartre. It was raining, lightly. The metal dude took out his phone and started playing "Surrealistic Pillow" through its small speakers. The music was soft, like we were in the parking lot of a Jefferson Airplane concert in 1968. We drank and sang. Ohhhhh you're my, best – you ARE my best friend – we slurred the lyrics and swayed. Nobody else was out on the streets and it was dark. He smoked another cigarette and then he sat down on a bench and starting vomiting. I swigged from the bottle and told him it was okay. Halfway through the bottle, drunk as hell, I sat on the bench myself and puked wine all over the street. The metal dude laughed and we drank until the bottle was empty. I talked about going to Scotland. Why not? I'd always wanted to go to Scotland. And I'd have to see my new best friend in the whole world, the metal guy, couldn't abandon him. He was thrilled. We started making plans. The rain picked up a little bit and we began walking back to the hostel, holding each other up. The next morning my head pounded, wine slamming my brain against the walls of my skull. The metal dude was leaving Paris, and he wrote his email on a little slip of paper, gave it to me, and about twenty minutes later he was gone and so was that little slip of paper because I'd lost it.
Ah well. Friends always seem to fade away, I'd just accelerated the process by losing his contact information. I didn't even remember his name. I've had a lot of friendships drift apart after two, three years…this one was kaput after two days. Is there really that much of a difference? It occurred to me that I wouldn't be going to Scotland, but damn, that was a hell of an exciting trip to plan. I went and saw Rodin's Thinker and then the Eiffel Tower, and when it got dark, I sat in the hostel bar and found new people to drink with.


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Short Version
David Armano, widely considered to be a really smart guy has left Critical Mass to join a startup company called Dachis Corp. Some people are happy about the above and think this is great. Others are completely pissed.
Long Version
For the last 12 months there's been a lot of discussion in the interactive space regarding "personal brands." Not familiar with the concept of personal brands? Let me give you the down and dirty.
For years employees have been cogs in a company's machine. Employess were expected to live, breathe, and die for the greater good of the organization. But, the rapid evolution of interactive marketing towards "social media" started to change that concept. People mattered. Yes, people mattered. Frank Eliason from Comcast, the man Business Week called "the most famous customer service manager in the U.S., possibly in the world" is perhaps the best example of this evolution.
The people that are pissed about Armano's decision to leave Critical Mass believe the following:
- He was brilliant in getting Critical Mass to fund the trips for his speaking engagements.
- He was brilliant in getting Critical Mass to embrace his personal blog, tweeting, and column in Adweek.
- He became the outward face of Critical Mass.
- He established and built a reputation in the industry because of Critical Mass' willingness to fund his "personal interests" and "ego."
- He leveraged #1 and #2 to jump to a "better" more lucrative position – and in doing so has left Critical Mass in the lurch.
This comment from a reader of Brian Morrisey's article on David's departure captures the spirit and sentiment of those who are pissed at his decision to bail.
Critical Mistake
April 10, 2009
Armano is giving up the sweetest deal of all: Critical Mass paid him a salary to build his own brand at the expense of theirs. So today Armano is a social media rockstar and Critical Mass is still an unknown agency. He's always feeding us some line about learning from people. Love for him to teach us how he managed to pull that one off.
It's an interesting point and one I can understand. It's similar to college basketball coaches that are given an opportunity by a school, paid well, and treated like rock stars – only to abandon that school for a more lucrative or better known school. The people in Memphis are saying this very thing about John Calipari's decision to leave them for Kentucky.
Here's the facts, as I see them:
- Critical Mass is a great shop
- David Armano was a smart guy before coming to Critical Mass
- Critical Mass enabled David Armano to become the well know welebrity (his word, not mine) that he is today
- David left for a great opportunity
- Critical Mass is weakened by his departure
To me it's that simple. Companies cut employees all the time. Sometimes for good reasons. Sometimes for silly reasons. I've been there, I've seen it happen, and recently I was part of it. Whenever we leave an organization we hopefully do it on our own terms and for good reasons. I left Fallon in 2000 while I was working on BMW Films because the culture had changed too much. Publicis' acquisition of the agency really altered the company and made it a place I no longer wanted to be at. I left Leo Burnett 3 years later for the same reason. I've seen people leave for a title, 5K a year more, and because the company stopped offering free beer on Thursdays. The point is, people leave a for a variety of reasons.
I'm happy for David. I wish him well. But, this situation definitely shows us the danger of companies investing in personal brands. David has clearly benefited from Critical Mass' direct investment into his brand, and I'm sure on some level so has Critical Mass. How much we'll never know. What we do know for sure is that Critical Mass invested a lot and now 2 years later they have a massive hole to fill.


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The first trailer for director Joseph Kosinski's (TRON: Legacy) sci-fi film Oblivion has been released. At first blush, it's not exactly what I was expecting and I think that bodes well for the picture. Rather than a straight shoot-em-up actioner or a generic survival story, Oblivion looks to have elements of mystery and betrayal all tied into Tom Cruise's character, Jack Harper. Olga Kurylenko looks beautiful even dressed-down and Morgan Freeman channels his own version of Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus. The all-white aesthetic looks sharp and clean against a backdrop of chaos and destruction and the overall design definitely has some nods to TRON. There are also elements of The Fifth Element, Minority Report and The Matrix presented in this introductory trailer, but Oblivion looks to be something all its own. (But what is up with that creature that looks like Darth Vader and sounds like a Tusken raider?)
The film also stars Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and Melissa Leo. Oblivion opens on April 19, 2013. Hit the jump to watch.
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Here's the official synopsis for Oblivion:
Tom Cruise stars in Oblivion, an original and groundbreaking cinematic event from the director of TRON: Legacy and the producer of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. On a spectacular future Earth that has evolved beyond recognition, one man's confrontation with the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he battles to save mankind.
Jack Harper (Cruise) is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack's mission is nearly complete.
Living in and patrolling the breathtaking skies from thousands of feet above, his soaring existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.
Oblivion was shot in stunning digital 4K resolution on location across the United States and Iceland.


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Alfaprint necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 38 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
Askeladden Navnelapper
We are a company who specialises in pre-printed personalised nametags/labels for clothes and other items such as lunchboxes etc.
We take pride in providing an added value service to our customers. It is important for us not to be to "pushy" in the sales process, but let the customers understand the need themselves.
We give the customers a 10 year warranty against release -> wash proof.
We produce and ship the same working day we receive the order.
We have had a positive development over the years and are still keeping that momentum.
Core products are two types of tags -
1 Iron-on tags - for clothes
2 Stickers – for other items
Existing site - Norwegian http://www.navnelapper.no
Sister company - http://www.mynametages.com
We operate as a mail-order company in a niche market. We have been market leader for several years and see the need to take another step and evolve further.
Our existing customers are very loyal to us, but we need a fresher look to attract new customers.
What we want are 2 new catalogues which will be used in differentiating markets and will be translated by us.
An A3 downloadable poster for pre-school.
**Focus on front pages**
NO-named files
UK files are only for refference
Today the catalogues work well, but we see more and more customers moving to the web. We need to strengthen the communication to the customer that we are on web and were to find us.
1. Families/Mothers with children in Kindergarten or pre-school (aged 1-9) where there is a need to tag clothes and stuff (DVD's ski's, lunchboxes etc).
The products are affordable and there is a saving from losing items.
It is a requirement in our territory from the kindergartens that parents tag the clothes.
2. Retirement/Care homes & Elderly and their custodians (aged 65+). To this market main focus is the iron-on tags – we do not focus on the stickers.
These customers are both professionals and normal consumers.
Text input in English from your side - we translate.
We have a few criteria:
a. The bear should be included (Norwegian version) for pre-school.
b. The basic colour should be based around the Orange colour behind the logo (R:248, G:200, B:79).
c. We don't see the logo changing too much.
d. The logo colour should not change to much (R:218, G:37, B:29).
e. Existing motives are included and should not be changed.
f. All files are owned by us and editable for later use.
Designer is free to come up with ideas as long as the product speaks to the targeted audience.
**Pre-School/Kindergarten Catalogue**
How it is today:
Please also see the attached files - the English files are for reference only to get the understanding of the wording.
1. Tear off-Catalogue for pre-School.
Size today A4
2 page leaflet (front 4 colours, back b/w)
Back leaflet (b/w) - for re-ordering of coupon book (Catalogue)
**A3 downloadable file **
Simila design profile as pre-school.
**Retirement/Care homes Catalogue**
Normal size today has been A5 tear-off catalogue
We are not fixed on including the bear
Colour scheme should follow above.
2 page leaflet (front 4 colours, back b/w)
Back leaflet (b/w) - for re-ordering of coupon book (Catalogue)
These catalogues work OK today for the market.
**Focus on front pages**
"NO...."-named files
"UK...." files are only for refference - page 2 in th "UK...." files.
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Lorne necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 138 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
Hi, I'm a travel, fine art and commercial photographer. I'm redoing my web site and the last piece of the design will be a reworking of my "name logo". Here's the tricky/challenging part. I am marketing myself to ad agencies and fine art photo collectors and do NOT want to come off as a "business/corporation", but rather as an artist. So that means that my "logo" needs to look non-logo like. In other words I do not want anything that looks like a traditional logo - no extra "things" in the design. Stars, suns, eyes, cameras, etc., I just want a new take on the 3 words: Lorne Resnick Photography. Something interesting with font/color. I want to key on the concept of "artist" and "creativity". My name is unisex, but I'm a male, so I don't want anything to "flowery". I do want the name to look "strong". I want something super creative - but now wildly distracting , so that the only thing your eye keeps going to when you look at the site.
see above
this logo will mainly be for my website, but I may use it for identity letterhead down the road.
For now, since it must fit into the color scheme on my website here's what I need:
Final size it must "read" at is: 500 pixels wide by 57 pixels high. That's the aspect ratio and space you have to work with. You can see what my name logo looks like now on my website.
It must "fit" into my website. the background color on my website is hex value 222222, so the background for the logo must be the same.
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Ardex 4211 1 Quart Stereo Glaze #2 Polish
The 4211 includes:
- 1x Quart Ardex 4211 1 Quart Stereo Glaze #2 Polish
- Ardex's Finest polish for the quality detail shops
- Great for removing acid rain spots or other blemishes
- Contains high percentage of functional silicones, polymers
- Use on black cars with a foam pad or clean wool polishing pad for a swirl free finish
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Advisors Resources
The SOuRCe offers a variety of programs geared at helping you serve as a mentor and advocate for your organization. These programs are offered throughout the semester and cover various topics relevant to being a Campus Advisor.
Every organization at The University of Akron must have an active Campus Advisor. In order to qualify to be the Campus Advisor, the individual must be a full-time faculty or contract professional at The University of Akron.
The role of a Campus Advisor is one which we hope you will enjoy as an extension of your position or expertise. The primary role of an advisor is as a:
- Listener
- Historian
- Policy Interpreter
- Mediator
- Advocate
- Mentor
- Teacher
- Motivator
- Financial Advisor
Wondering what it means to be a "good" Campus Advisor?
We encourage you to utilize your own leadership style and incorporate this into your chosen advisory style. Successful advisors take care of the people in the organization and their needs, as well as maintain a concern for the organization's purpose and tasks. Be yourself. Your best advising style will be your own style. In the end, the most effective method of teaching outside the classroom comes through modeling behavior. Let the students get to know you and your expectations, and let them see your sincere concern for them. The rest will come naturally.
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EE3 LLC is an oil and gas exploration and production company based in Boulder, Colorado. EE3 LLC is the successor company to Ellora Energy Inc. which held over 850,000 net acres in the Hugoton field in Kansas and 71,000 net acres in East Texas and Louisiana. Following the successful sale of the Hugoton assets to Occidental Petroleum in early 2010 for just under one quarter of a billion dollars, Exxon Mobil purchased Ellora Energy Inc. later that year. The Exxon transaction was valued at just under three-quarters of a billion dollars, providing investors with over a 4.5 return on investment. Key members of the Ellora management team then formed EE3 LLC and began looking for their next venture.
In February 2013, with funding once again from Yorktown Energy Partners in New York and other investors, EE3 LLC closed on the purchase of approximately 100,000 acres in North Park (Jackson County), Colorado. The property in North Park consists of seven horizontal and two vertical wells. The EE3 LLC team plans to apply a variety of completion and production techniques to the properties to increase production. In addition, they have a comprehensive drilling plan which will allow them to develop and further prove the potential of the North Park Basin.
Dec 23, 2013
Denver Business Journal: Boulder oil and gas company targets Colorado's North Park oil resources
Dec 10, 2013
EE3 LLC's Damfino #02-06H North Park Basin Niobrara Well Averages 685 BOEPD during 30-day Test Period
Oct. 14, 2013
EE3 LLC Completes Record Niobrara Horizontal Well in North Park Basin


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I think we're talking about apples and grapefruit here. There's stitching, there's cropping and there's wide-angle or telephoto lenses. While one can use a telephoto lens to make a series of images and get a similar field of view (and much higher resolution) than a single image with a wide angle lens, it won't be the same shot as it won't have the same distortions, the way wide angle tends to push everything away and the way telephoto lenses tend to magnify and flatten the foreground/background.
If everything seems equally important in the photo, then the field of view may be Too Wide - unless that lack of differentiation is the point of the photo. Unless extra thought is put into wide angle composition, landscapes can tend to be a little dull (saving a spectacular sky). I am a newbie and am having to learn how to use an ultra-wide angle lens.
Lens focal length has nothing to do with perspective, it's your position relative to subject that determines that. Obviously getting a head shot with say a 28mm lens will mean exaggerated perspective of the features. But only because you moved closer to subject than if using an 85mm. If you stay in same place however and enlarge the wider picture/crop to be the same as the longer lens, then the perspectives will be identical.
Um, the point of view is determined by location which is referred to as the "true" perspective. The focal length, or to be more accurate, the difference between the "correct" viewing distance (based on a ratio of the focal length to format) and the "standard viewing distance (based on a ratio of the format), changes the "apparent" perspective. The "apparent" perspective is real, which is why we have a bias against wide for portraiture--people don't look distorted because we are close to them or further away. They look distorted in photographs because the projection does not match the point of view.Your crop example is simply showing the apparent perspective is real and changes with the angular projection of the image. And that is really a basic difference--a linear relationship and an angular relationship. The camera position fixes the linear relationships and the focal length setup the angular relationships.
Marc, interesting article. WRT the 'crop in camera' and 'image purity' nonsense related to cropping after the fact, there are plenty of reasons and needs to crop after the fact. Aspect ratio is a big one. Being constrained by some artificial film or sensor aspect ratio and thinking that is what one should be forced to use is bollocks. A few cameras help in that regard by offering different aspect ratios (D800, GH3) but those are few and even then only offer a couple of options. The idea that cropping is bad is as stupid as the idea that no editing should be done to an image post-capture - film or digital.
The way you put it makes sense, but in doing so you miss/avoid the rationale behind the dictum: in the world of 135 format, as you start with a tiny amount of real estate, you are pretty much obliged to maximize its use at capture. Doing otherwise does you no favours. That's all it's about. That's also why 6x6 made such sense: with that format you could gather the most relevant, possibly valuable visual information around your subject and later crop to suit editorial purpose that often varied for the same shot.So whilst nobody really believes that cropping, per se, is a sin, the concept behind it is very real and based on common experience of what was probably the most-used format in photography.With 135 you did best for yourself composing as per viewfinder (hence the value of Nikon's 100% coverage) where the job allowed. If it didn't you were better off using other formats, which is why we all owned different formats.Rob C
However, the perspective as displayed in the photographic print can be influenced by many factors, including the focal length of lens used, the degree of cropping by the camera's sensor, the degree of further cropping in post-processing, the size of print made, and the viewing distance to that print.
Cropping has zero effect on perspective, nor does print/sensor size or viewing distance and the biggest myth of all, focal length.All that matters is one's distance from subject - the confusion has arisen because when you are close to subject, you tend to need a wider lens to capture said subject and when you are at a distance you tend to use/need a long lens to capture same subject, so people associate the lens with the change in perspective and not the distance.Take a full length shot with a telephoto of someone and then increasingly wider lenses from same location. Crop the widest shot to match framing of other shots and there will be no difference in perspective.
This is fact: it should settle the discussion once and for all, but I know perfectly well that that's not the objective in some minds: the objective is making a contradictory argument that holds the delusion of a morsel of truth when, in reality, it's bogus.That's usually the time when a thread's worth abandoning for good.Rob C
Cropping has zero effect on perspective, nor does print/sensor size or viewing distance and the biggest myth of all, focal length.
Take a full length shot with a telephoto of someone and then increasingly wider lenses from same location. Crop the widest shot to match framing of other shots and there will be no difference in perspective.
Ray, you're wrong. Cropping has zero impact on perspective. There's a difference between actual perspective and the apparent perspective distortion of a lens. Actual perspective is a product of distance to subject only. Focal length or cropping have no impact.
"The appearance of objects, buildings, etc, relative to each other, as determined by their distance from the viewer, or the effects of this distance on their appearance
I'm quite certain that the wide-angle shots that I take, result in images which display elements with a different perspective than the same elements in the narrower-angle shots that I take from the same position. I can also demonstrate that such differences in perspective, as displayed in the wider-angle shots, can be altered through cropping and made the same as in the narrower-angle shots, thus proving that cropping can change the perspective in a photographic print or image.
Absolutely true, JJJ, provided one is not comparing extremes of wide-angle crops with extremely long telephoto shots. But haven't you defeated your own argument here? Why is it necessary to crop the wider shots to match the framing of the other shots if cropping has no bearing on perspective?


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YOUNGSTERS are sure to circle this merry-go-round in a hurry...and form long lines to get a piece! CT's kitchen staff created the carousel's top and base with cakes. For the pretty ponies, they shaped cookies using Philip's flavorful recipe. Best of all, putting the confection together doesn't require any unusual materials—just wood dowels, ribbon and other easy-to-find supplies.
Total TimePrep: 1-1/2 hours + chilling Bake: 40 min. + cooling
Makes15-18 servings
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 2-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon each ground cloves, nutmeg and allspice
- 6 tablespoons milk
- 4-1/2 teaspoons meringue powder
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 2 to 3 tablespoons warm water
- Purple and pink gel food coloring
- 8 miniature semisweet chocolate chips
- 1-1/2 cups butter or margarine, softened
- 2-1/2 cups packed brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 4-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2-1/4 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
- 3 cups applesauce
- 2 cans (12 ounces each) whipped vanilla frosting
- Purple and pink gel food coloring
- In a large bowl, cream shortening and brown sugar. Add egg; mix well. Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and allspice; add to the creamed mixture alternately with milk. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until easy to handle.
- Roll out dough to 1/4-in. thickness. Trace body and tail patterns onto waxed paper and cut out. Position patterns on dough; cut out four horses and four tails. Place on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Remove to wire racks to cool. (Bake remaining dough for additional cookies to serve on the side or refrigerate dough for another use.)
- For icing, in a small bowl, beat meringue powder, confectioners' sugar and water on high speed for 5-7 minutes or until smooth and thickened. If too stiff, add more sugar. Place 1/4 cup frosting each in two bowls; tint one purple and the other pink. Leave the other remaining icing white.
- Wrap the 15-in. ribbon around the 3/4-in. dowel, leaving 2-1/2 in. at end of dowel unwrapped. Use icing to attach ends of ribbon. In same way, wrap each 13-in. ribbon around a 1/4-in. dowel.
- Attach tails to horses with white icing. Spread white icing over one side of horses. Use pink icing for manes, forelocks, tails and saddles of two horses; use purple icing for the other two horses. Attach chocolate chips for eyes. With icing, attach each horse 2-1/2 in. from the top of a 1/4-in. dowel. Let dry, about 2 hours. Cover and refrigerate remaining icing.
- When icing on horses is dry, decorate other side in the same way; let dry.
- For cake, in a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar. Add eggs; mix well. Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; add to the creamed mixture alternately with applesauce. Spoon into three greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
- Place 1 cup whipped frosting in a bowl; tint purple. Place 1/2 cup frosting in another bowl; tint pink. Leave the remaining frosting white. Place one cake on a 10-in. serving plate. Frost top of cake white; top with a second layer. Frost top white and sides purple. Place remaining cake on a thin lightweight plate or 9-in. round piece of cardboard; frost cake top white and sides pink.
- Cut a hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic bag. Insert star tip #21; fill with white frosting. Pipe evenly spaced vertical stripes on sides of cakes. Using pink frosting and star tip, pipe rosettes between each strip on pink cake.
- Insert large dowel in the center of purple cake. Insert remaining dowels evenly spaced around cake. Place pink cake on top of dowels. For more stability, attach top cake to dowels with cookie icing if desired.
Editor's Note: In addition to standard baking supplies and the ingredients listed in this recipe, this cake requires four 10-inch lengths of 1/4-inch wooden dowel, two 13-inch pieces of 1/8-inch wide purple ribbon, a 10-inch serving plate, a thin lightweight plate or 9-inch-round piece of cardboard, a star #21 pastry tip, pastry or plastic bags and the patterns on page 19. Meringue powder is available from Wilton Industries. Call 1-800/794-5866 or visit www.wilton.com.
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Is it a car? Is it a plane?
Imagine easing up and over slow-moving traffic, backed-up bridges and tied-up tunnels … The flying car may be here sooner than you think
"Mark my words: A combination airplane and motor car is coming. You may smile, but it will come."
The automobile pioneer Henry Ford spoke these words in 1940. Some technological ages down the line and his prediction remains unfulfilled despite the efforts of a host of inventors – from top-notch scientists to amateur mechanics – to create a serviceable flying car. Over 2200 models have been built and roughly 300 actually took off, but there was not one prototype suitable for serial production among them.
Until now, that is. In the U.S. and Europe, tests are underway on flying cars that are rumored to be almost ready to market. The engineers owe their breakthrough to carbon, a very lightweight material they are using for bodywork (heavier models didn't even get off the ground). Promising models include the AeroMobil from Slovakia, Terrafugia Transition from the U.S. and the Carplane from Germany; their developers hope to be able to start selling them soon.
The potential market is massive. Who wouldn't want to make an airborne detour over a closed-off highway? Such a car would fulfill many a Hollywood dream. Apart from being able to travel on the ground and through the air, the new models have little in common with the sleek Batmobile, the legendary DeLorean from Back to the Future or the blue Ford Anglia in which Harry Potter jets off to Hogwarts. The real-life models use aerodynamic principles – and are luxury products. An AeroMobil, Carplane or Transition will likely cost as much as 300 000 euros. But you don't have to be Batman to drive one, and no great aviation skills are required, either. Issues such as flying licenses, permits and liability have not yet been finally settled, and flying cars likely won't be permitted in big cities, which lack necessary infrastructure like runways. Instead, the new hybrids could take off in sparsely populated areas, such as rural regions of the U.S., Australia or Saudi Arabia, making them very appealing to millionaires with remote properties. It seems, once again, Henry Ford was spot on.
With the wings of an albatross and a cabin shaped like a snub nose, the Arrowbile is famous for being the first flying car to actually stay up in the air. Its inventor, Waldo Waterman, built the vehicle in California in the 1930s. Today's engineers may sneer at the Arrowbile's mechanics, but Heinrich Bülthoff, an expert on biological cybernetics at the Max Planck institute in Tübingen, Germany, is impressed: "You use the same steering wheel to control the Arrowbile on the ground as you do in the air. That's very user friendly." The cockpit even had room for a passenger, so the Arrowbile was ideal for romantic outings, too.
The Aerocar became a media sensation in United States in the fifties. It was the ultimate flash set of wheels for the car-crazy playboy in the sitcom "The Bob Cummings Show." To switch to road mode, you had to fold up the wings and tail manually, a metamorphosis that Bülthoff, the Max-Planck expert, dismisses as "too complex." Today, the Aerocar models, manufactured by the U.S. company Moulton Taylor, are sought-after collector's items. One seller is offering an Aerocar at the reduced (!) price of 2.2 million dollars on aerocarforsale.com, where he describes it as "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
At 440 kilos, the Maverick weighs roughly the same as a Fiat Nuva 500. The lightweight car gets its lift from a small propeller and a parachute. Its slender body looks a lot like a dune buggy, and it's as agile as a scooter on the ground. The Maverick was designed by missionary Steve Saint; as a development worker in South America he dreamed of a vehicle he could use to reach the most remote settlements in the Amazon, across mud tracks and through the air. Bülthoff likes the simple design: "The Maverick gets by without high-tech engineering," he says, "its glider technology gives do-it-yourselfers the option of making their dream of a flying car come true."
Millions of Germans know and love the flying car in this classic puppet film: The egg-shaped "Fliewatüüt," which can fly, drive and float on water, is well ahead of the competition in Hollywood. This is mainly thanks to the rotors that lift it up like a helicopter, a design that is still considered forward-looking. Because the vehicle ascends vertically, it needs no runway, allowing pilots to take off from the front yard. However, there are still a few small issues, not least safety, to be solved before technology catches up with this particular piece of fiction.
In this James Bond classic, the villain Scaramanga makes a spectacular escape, speeding out of a barn, its wings rigid on the roof, and soaring into the clouds in his golden coupe. All 007 could do was gaze after it in bemused admiration. But the car was not a viable model for real-life roadable aircraft; its body was altogether too heavy and bulky.
The hundreds of cars you see whizzing through the air between the skyscrapers are science fiction at its best. The multi-level traffic would require highly sophisticated flight control systems involving autopilot steering. The film, in which a taxi driver (played by Bruce Willis) rescues the world from evil emanating from the depths of space, is set in 2263. A lot can happen in the meantime.
Designers call it a "revolution": the light, supply Transition by U.S. startup Terrafugia. It's the first commercial model of its kind to be made of carbon and is currently under construction. Its wings fold away automatically, instantly turning it back into a car. The body is as minimalist as the cabin of the BMW Isetta (bubble car). Bülthoff says: "The Transition is as close to a functional flying car as it gets." However, he criticizes the wingspan: "Like a glider, it needs an airfield to land and take off, which is a great drawback."
The German contribution to the international fleet of flying cars is the Carplane from Brunswick, which featues an extravagant dual body, similar to that of a catamaran. This sleek car flies through the air at a speed of 200 km/h. On the ground, the wings are folded between the two body sections, making for good downthrust and speeds of up to 176 km/h. As a typical German feature, the Carplane will comply with the Euro 5 emission standard, a very respectable eco footprint for a flying car of this format.
The AeroMobil is the European rival of the U.S. Transition and it employs the same principle: a carbon structure with folding wings. The AeroMobil has the advantage that it needs less space to land: supposedly only 50 meters. So how good is it in the air? In May, a prototype crashed during a test and the pilot had to bail out with his parachute. The crash pilot was the design expert Stefan Klein, who had previously done research for both Audi and BMW. In the key test stage "unexpected events" can occur, he noted dismissively, adding that now at least, they know the emergency systems work.


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text: Friday, June 21, 2013 Study: Outcomes From Physical Therapy vs Surgery for Cervical Radiculopathy Similar After 2 Years (Spine. 2013 Jun 17. [Epub ahead of print]) "Structured physiotherapy should be tried before surgery is chosen," concluded researchers of a study comparing surgery followed by physical therapy and physical therapy alone for cervical radiculopathy. Even though the results of the 24-month randomized controlled trial, published this week in Spine, showed greater improvement in the first postoperative year, the differences between the groups decreased after the second year. The study compared 2 approaches to cervical radiculopathy: anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF) with a physical therapy program (31 subjects) and the same physical therapy program alone (32 subjects). The physical therapy program included general and specific exercises and pain coping strategies. Outcome measures were disability (Neck Disability Index, NDI), neck- and arm-pain intensity using a visual analog scale (VAS), and the patient's global assessment. At 12 months, there was no significant difference between groups for NDI or VAS for arm-pain intensity. The surgical group scored significantly better on the VAS for neck-pain intensity, and 87% of patients in the surgical group self-rated their symptoms as "better/much better" compared with 62% of those in the physical therapy-only group. However, at 24 months, both groups showed significant reduction in NDI, neck pain, and arm pain. Comments Was there a specific rehabilitation protocol that all of the patients received, with everyone receiving the same exercises? Or were programs individually tailored to each patient? Posted by Sylvie Le on 6/21/2013 6:57 PM I think this also means that the effect of surgery is negligible since both groups received PT! Posted by Baker on 6/24/2013 5:32 PM Actually, the study shows that effect of surgery was not negligible, and it is only at the two year mark that there is an equalization, so to speak. And two years is a long time when you consider the disabling effects of such an injury. And, the lasting psychological effects from loss of pleasure, productivity, income, independence, etc, from living with such a disabling problem for that long (as compared to those who had relief sooner) can also be significant. I think that is the real question to be answered. Posted by Dieringer on 6/24/2013 10:57 PM Dear Powersports Industries, I recently had a comment left on my blog (http://notesfromtheroad3.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/top-10-north-american-motorcycle-rides.html) by "powersports" with a link to your site. Rather than a link from a comment, which is worth almost nothing and can even - in excess - negatively effect your site's rankings, I'd be happy to link to your site from within the content of my posts. Free of charge. I'd just want a link from one of your sites and/or blogs in return. If you're interested in any kind of link and/or guest blog exchange, just let me know. Thanks, Roy Posted by boots on 6/26/2013 10:36 PM The results here are typical for many types of injuries. Since surgery is rarely a quick fix, patients benefit to know that non-surgical treatments are often just as helpful. I think that, all too often, surgeons fail to impress upon their patients that rehab will take time either way. There really are no shortcuts. Posted by Rehab Orthopedic Medicine on 5/9/2014 5:15 PM


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The right footwear for the jungle
The only professional soccer player I ever actually met was a man named Sete, or Seven – his number on the pitch. I met Sete in the Amazon rainforest, to the right of the Rio Negro river. A bad knee injury had put an end to his career with FC São Paulo, but like many men of his ilk, he hadn't put away a penny. So here he was in the jungle, searching for gold. Not me. My stories are my gold and the border area between Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia is rife with stories, but the one about the gold seekers is the best. They feared neither god nor man but they did fear the black jaguar, which is why they never walked alone – and even rarely in pairs. The group I had joined consisted of ten men and two women, and Sete was their leader. Despite his sports injury, the former striker was the fastest mover of the lot, which is saying something when you're surrounded by rangers and indigenous types.
I've never seen men move so fast carrying so much weight: their equipment, their hammocks, their machetes, their cooking pots, their beans and rice – and since they needed enough food for at least a month if not two, everyone was weighed down by roughly 30 kilos. Everyone except me, that is, because I had a porter. But I still brought up the rear, while Sete was always out in front. He didn't wear rubber boots like the rest of us, incidentally, he wore soccer cleats. He swore by the studs, and the track through the jungle proved him right! In muddy parts, in swampy bits, here, there, going uphill, coming down or balancing along a log that was lying across a ravine (there were many of those) – Sete's cleats were the real deal. The only drawback: Rubber boots protect your legs more fully against snakebite, but Sete wasn't bothered about snakes.
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Brooke Mueller is in rehab, according to multiple online reports.
TMZ.com was first to report that the 32-year-old wife of Charlie Sheen checked into The Canyon rehab facility last Tuesday.
Next, E! Online reported that Mueller, mother of Charlie's twin boys, Max and Bob, is in rehab for substance abuse. A source reportedly told E!'s Web site, Mueller "wants to get better for the babies."
A lawyer for Mueller has not yet returned a call from Access Hollywood about the reports.
Last week, a source told Access Hollywood Mueller was planning to look into inpatient rehab facilities.
According to the reports, Mueller's reported rehab stint came just one day after she appeared in court last week in Aspen, to support her husband, who was formally charged with one felony count of menacing, a misdemeanor count of assault in the third degree and a misdemeanor count of criminal mischief.
The charges stem from Sheen's December 25 arrest in Aspen, Colorado, after a woman who identified herself as Brooke called authorities and claimed Sheen threatened her with a knife.
A restraining order was put into place following the incident, however, the judge modified the order at last week's court hearing allowing the couple to see each other.
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