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Bacterial meningitis vaccination
Get vaccinated. It's the law.
Watch this video from Texas Children's Hospital to see why the meningitis vaccine can literally save life and limb:
Texas Senate Bill 1107, passed in May 2011, requires that new HCC students and former HCC students returning after an absence of at least one fall or spring semester who are under the age of 22 are required to present a physician-signed certificate showing they have been vaccinated against bacterial meningitis.
The immunization must have been received with in the last five years and be administered at least 10 calendar days before the start date of the session in which you are enrolling, regardless of your actual first day of class.
All students are encouraged to consult with a physician about the need for immunization to prevent this disease.
You are exempt if you:
- Will be 22 years old on the first day of class (no documentation required).
- Cannot take the vaccine for medical reasons. You must submit a HCC Meningitis Vaccination Verification Form and an affidavit or a certificate signed by a physician who is duly registered and licensed to practice medicine in the United States and in which it is stated that, in the physician's opinion, the vaccination required would be injurious to the health and well-being of the student.
- Decline the vaccine due to reasons of conscience, including a religious belief. You must complete an Exemption from Meningococcal Vaccination Requirements for Reasons of Conscience Form available online at https://corequestjc.dshs.texas.gov/.
- Are a dual-credit student attending on a high school campus (no documentation required).
Required Documentation
- Documentation must be in English. Write your name, HCC Student ID, and date of birth on each page you submit. Submit your documentation along with theHCC Meningitis Vaccination Verification Form.
- An official immunization record generated from a state or local health authority. Documentation must be in English and submitted with theHCC Meningitis Vaccination Verification Form.
- An official record received from school officials, including a record from another state.
- Affidavit or a certificate signed by a physician who is licensed to practice medicine in the United States which states that in the physician's opinion the meningococcal vaccine would be injurious to your health and well-being. Documentation must be in English and submitted with the HCC Meningitis Vaccination Verification Form.
- A completed Exemption from Meningococcal Vaccination Requirements for Reasons of Conscience Form available online at https://corequestjc.dshs.texas.gov/. Documentation must be submitted with theHCC Meningitis Vaccination Verification Form,
Submitting Documentation
Documentation must be in English. Write your name, HCC Student ID, and date of birth on each page you submit. Submit your documentation:
• At any HCC campus
• By email: Complete the HCC Meningitis Vaccination Verification Form, scan your documentation and attach both to an email to email@example.com
• Fax: 713-718-2882
• Mail: Houston Community College, Admissions & Records – MC 1136, P.O. Box 667517, Houston TX 77266-7517
• Upload the documents from your student checklist by clicking on the meningitis upload tab and attach the PDF file
Where to get vaccinated
You can get the meningococcal vaccine at most doctors' offices and private clinics, many large pharmacy chains, and some minor emergency centers or medi-clinics. Call in advance to see whether they offer the vaccine, require an appointment, and take your insurance.
If you have Medicaid or CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Plan), please contact your established healthcare provider as your first option.
If you are uninsured or your insurance will not cover the meningococcal vaccine:
- If you are 18 or younger, you might qualify for the Texas Vaccines for Children Program. Call the United Way's referral helpline, by dialing 211, to find healthcare providers in your area who participate in this program.
- Many Texas city/county health departments offer free or low-cost meningococcal vaccine as part of children and adult immunization programs. Call to confirm that they offer the meningococcal vaccine for someone your age and in your circumstances. These services are ONLY for those without insurance or whose insurance does not cover the cost of the vaccine.
About Meningococcal Disease
Meningococcal Disease (meningitis) is easily spread by direct contact, or by droplets of respiratory secretions (coughing, sneezing, kissing, and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation). Bacterial meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord. The bacterium can also infect the blood. Symptoms include fever, headache, a stiff neck, and often nausea, vomiting, and mental awareness changes.
Meningitis is often lethal because people associate early symptoms with the common flu, and don't consult a physician. However, symptoms can progress rapidly, sometimes leading to death in 24-48 hours. Following the initial symptoms, the disease can result in joint infection, pneumonia, organ system failure, and shock.
Among those who survive Meningococcal Disease, approximately 20 percent live with severe health problems and permanent disabilities, including brain damage, kidney failure, learning disabilities, hearing loss, blindness, limb damage which may require amputation, and mental retardation.
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I have an idea for a web app that I'd like to discuss. I like it a lot but chances are that I missed some evident security hole. Or, maybe it just sucks.
The idea is a web-based secure text notes manager, with the following features:
- because it's web, it can be accessed from anywhere;
- importing/exporting encrypted notes;
- the only thing stored on server are encrypted notes (no user accounts! more below);
- local version (use on your own server);
- password is never stored anywhere (not as a hash or anything).
Here is how it works:
The server keeps a database of notes, where each note has:
- author's email;
- encrypted content;
- metadata (modified time, etc).
When a user opens the web app for the first time, it asks for email.
(Oops, new users aren't allowed to post images! Please follow this link for a screenshot: dl.dropbox.com/u/456669/Screenshots/3EqQx.png )
If this email has not been used on this device before, a message with validation link is sent. (Link, of course, expires very soon).
After validation, the device+email combination is saved into a cookie. Encrypted notes are loaded from server.
After that, all job is done with Javascript, no server interaction.
The app asks for password.
Notes are decrypted with password. Then, there goes the actual user interface for managing notes (it will be super nice, but that's not the topic of the discussion).
When saving changes for a note, it's encrypted with entered password (which is stored in Javascript variable, or in paranoid mode, asked again). The encrypted note is synced with server.
Why I like the idea
I get access to my secure notes from anywhere (home, work, guests, travel).
I can be sure no one can access my notes. If someone enters my email, I receive a validation email, which I decline.
If my email is hacked, and a hacker accesses my notes, he still needs password to decrypt them.
Password is only used to decrypt notes. In other words, wrong password simply means messy notes on screen.
Open source means I can install it on my home server, and do not trust a 3rd-party service.
Not perfect
While I was writing that, a problem occured to me. Because the app cannot check if a password is correct (that's the idea!), there needs to be some way to prevent user from entering wrong password, getting "messy" notes, and then saving them on server. Hmm!...
Anyway, thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for your thoughts and feedback!

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Socialists win French parliament election
Close on the heels of its victory last month in the French presidential poll, Socialist party is surging ahead to win the parliament poll as well now.
France's 46 million eligible voters have been picking representatives for 577 seats in the French National Assembly. The outcome of the just concluded parliamentary polls in France is expected to determine the extent and pace of reform under the newly-elected French leader.
According to final results, President Francois Hollande's Socialists and allies look set to emerge with a majority after first round voting in French parliamentary elections. Left-wing and green parties won a total of more than 46% of the vote compared to 34% for the centre-right UMP party, interior ministry figures showed. The turnout nationwide was a modest 57%. Run-offs are to be held next week.
With the Senate already under the control of the Socialists, it appears that Hollande will also have a majority in the lower house - even if only with the support of allies - which would give him unprecedented power to force through his reform program. Hollande's government is due to present a revised budget plan to parliament next month. The result of the parliamentary election will determine the pace of reform and how radical it becomes.
The estimates indicate that the Socialists and their Green allies might win as few as 283 seats or potentially as many as 347. However, potential allies in the anti-capitalist Left Front would take 13-20 seats and ensure a majority. The communist-backed Left Front, led by Jean-Luc Melenchon, won 6.9% of the vote.
The election also saw a surge in support for Marine Le Pen's far right National Front, which won almost 14% of votes - way beyond the 4% it achieved in the last parliamentary election of 2007.
However, under France's first-past-the-post system, that would give the party only three parliamentary seats at best and possibly none at all. It is hard to predict accurately what the final tallies will be before next week's decisive round of voting. In many constituencies there will be a three way run-off.
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, an influential Socialist said that it's a good result tonight, but "we have to remain mobilized for the second round". It was a big night for Ms Le Pen on a personal level. The firebrand leader of the hard left Jean Luc Melenchon had challenged Madame Le Pen for the seat in the northern town of Henin Beaumont. In the end he finished third and last night withdrew from the second round race.
The left bloc as a whole have more support than the right, they will have a majority in the new parliament and that will ensure that Hollande can force through the ambitious tax and spend policies that he has set out. There is certainly a downturn in support for the conservative UMP. It is a symbolic win for the left; they hold the Senate, key regional administrations and now also the lower assembly so he has considerable power to push through these reforms.
The far right has not held any seats in parliament since the 1980s. The electoral system may yet deny them a seat – but the National Front is now by some margin the third biggest party in French politics. They are eurosceptic and anti-globalization and could cause problems for Hollande, particularly when it comes to spending cuts that if he decides to enact against popular will or if he is to meet the promises he set out to Brussels and to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. But it is a win for Hollande, but not perhaps as big a win - symbolically - as he might have wanted. He is only neck and neck with the UMP - and will need the support of allies on the left and, perhaps, even the support of the Left Front, the far-left party.
Francois Hollande, France's president is an experienced political organizer would not dare commit anti-people mistakes to please capitalist allies on immoral austerity measures. The modest image of this man who until recently preferred to travel to work on a scooter conceals, his supporters would argue, his pro-people intent and a steely determination to lead his country.
Having been active in student politics, he joined the Socialist party in 1979 and played a junior role as an economic adviser in the Mitterrand presidency. He knows he would be hated by people if he pursues austerity measures and hence he would not fall an easy prey to right wing politicians.


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The Secret Supper Club in Denver. What is it? Where is it? And more.
The Colorado contingent at Yelp know how to throw a party. And now they're throwing more parties than ever, including a monthly food gathering they call the Secret Supper Club.
Have we piqued your interest? What's the secret? Is there supper? And where's the club? All good questions. And we'll do our best here to answer them with Yelp's local director of community management Tiffany Nieslanik.
Q: What is the Secret Supper Club?
Tiffany: The Secret Supper Club is an opportunity for adventurous diners to join a roomful of strangers (soon to be friends) around a communal dining table in the name of epicurean pursuits. For a mere $25 (plus tip) attendees are treated to a 3 course meal with a complimentary cocktail from an innovator on the local restaurant scene.
The only catch is that you'll have to buy your tickets without knowing exactly where you'll be dining as the location of the Secret Supper Club will not be revealed until the day before the dinner takes place. However, we will give you hints as to where it is and announce the menu to you in the weeks leading up to the dinner. We're hosting one each month for 2012 and so far they have been a blast!
Q: So, tell me more about previous Secret Supper Clubs.
Tiffany: Our previous Secret Supper Clubs have been hosted at Venue (yes, the infamous Shrimp and Grits were one of the main course choices), Olivea (desserts were just as delicious as you'd expect from a semifinalist for the James Beard Foundation's Oustanding Pastry Chef Award), and Trattoria Stella on Colfax (homemade pastas, St. Germain champagne cocktails, and Zeppole doughnuts had guests oohing and aching all night long.)
The Suppers have been for anywhere between 45 and 60 guests and people often come in singles or pairs to sit at bigger communal-style tables so there are a lot of new friendships being made and it's just an awesome opportunity to interact with local chefs and fellow food-lovers around the Mile High.
Q: You know you're doing something right when you're selling seatings out – without announcing the restaurant – right?
Tiffany: You know, I wasn't sure how the Secret Suppers would go when I first came up with the idea, but it turns out that Denver is full of people who love a good adventure, or maybe just enjoy a good secret. I've found that a lot of people really like the mystery behind where we'll be hosting the next dinner and absolutely love guessing where it will be based on the clues we post in the days before it happens. And I think that the Secret Supper Club is offering a fun, eclectic experience at some of the best places around town at a really reasonable price, which makes it a great night out for anyone interested in food.
Q: We know this next event on April 23 is at a French restaurant and it's downtown — those are the clues you've given so far — but can you give our readers another hint?
Tiffany: I think this is the point where I'm supposed to say something like, "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you." Right? In all seriousness though, here's one extra clue for you — the restaurant believes in making French fare available most times of the day, in true Parisian style, so you can enjoy dinner, lunch or even brunch here.
Sounds tasty. Anybody have a guess as to where this Secret Supper Club will be?


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SNC – an overview
We link our top-selling suppliers directly with our IT systems via a web-based supplier portal based on the SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SNC). All relevant information is thus available on a common platform in real time. Orders can be confirmed at the push of a button and deliveries announced so that there is always absolute transparency on delivery status.
For applicable materials, we transfer planning responsibility to our suppliers in the context of a "Supplier Managed Inventory" program. This enables suppliers, based on current inventory and requirement figures, to ensure replenishment as well as optimal production planning on their part – with significant benefits on both sides.
The functions of the SNC
Orders via the supplier portal
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Could Doonesbury Learn Anything From XKCD?
from the help,-I'm-trapped-in-a-newspaper-factory-with-no-business-model dept
Via Poynter Online, there's a recent interview with Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau where he talks about his post-newspaper media plans and what he sees as his future options while newspapers face significant declines in their circulation numbers.
Trudeau continues on, saying that he believes that e-readers are promising because so many people are happy to pay for iPhone apps and Kindle content. He also says that his livelihood doesn't seem to be threatened in the short-term because only "big newspapers" with loads of debt are really going under -- and most small newspapers are still getting by and can support his line of work for the foreseeable future. But, essentially, Trudeau sounds like he's given up on his own plans for making Doonesbury into a business outside of syndication. (Or he's being much too modest about the "little money" he earns from his website, and he doesn't want to offend his current newspaper benefactors.) In any case, he seems to envision a giant news consortium that will be able to retain subscribers due to a form of monopoly advantage. And if that's really the future of journalism, that doesn't sound too promising.
"Doonesbury" has been on the Web for 15 years, and the site actually makes a little money -- unheard-of for media sites. But it's not really a plan, just a presence. I don't believe there's anything I can do personally to prepare for a post-newspaper future, other than hope that the large media companies will come to their senses and form a gated Web collective along the lines of cable TV. They need to form a news utility, financed by subscription or micropayments because going it alone has been disastrous for all of them.
Additionally, though, Trudeau asserts that the "Web is a lost cause" because everyone thinks content on the web should be free. But that statement directly contradicts the work of online cartoonists such as Randall Munroe and his xkcd webcomic (which just happens to be one of my favorite examples of a "free" online comic strip). Munroe has a significant following for xkcd and has proven that "free" can be a sustainable way to promote and publish his work. So can we help enlighten Trudeau? Munroe sells prints, t-shirts, a book, and even sponsored comics. Is there a path to becoming the "Trent Reznor of webcomics" for Trudeau? Or is there something unique about Doonesbury that makes it impossible for it to take advantage of "free" distribution?
Filed Under: business models, comics, doonesbury, garry trudeau, online, russell munroe, xkcd


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Rollercoaster Ride
|Rollercoaster Ride
Salvatore Leone telling Toni Cipriani that he wants him to deliver a message to union boss Jane Hopper.
|GTA Liberty City Stories
|Salvatore Leone
|Jane Hopper
|Saint Mark's, Portland, Liberty City
Contra-Banned (after completing Booby Prize)
Chauffeur Outfit
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Rollercoast Ride is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories given to protagonist Toni Cipriani by Leone Family Don Salvatore Leone from his home in Saint Mark's, Portland, Liberty City.
Toni drops by Salvatore's home looking for more work and finds Salvatore listening to the radio. Jane Hopper, the dockers union boss, announces to Liberty City that she's not afraid of the mafiosi trying to control the strikes and use the docks (despite Salvatore's previous attempt to appease her with a monetary payoff). Salvatore has enough and tells Toni to send her a message.
The player is required to arrive at the Head Radio station in Harwood within two in-game hours (two minutes) and kills the chauffeur, taking his clothes. Toni enters the limousine and waits for Hopper to exit.
After concluding her interview, Hopper leaves the building and enters the limousine, ordering Toni, thinking him to be her driver, to head to the picketers at Harwood ferry terminal. She later realizes that the driver is Toni, who then drives erratically over Portland until she agrees to do as Salvatore tells her. The player is essentially required to drive at high speeds, collide with anything, execute stunt jumps, or perform a combination of the two or three until Hopper's "Scare" meter is full, which indicates Hopper will be fully cooperative with Salvatore. The mission is complete once the player finally drops Hopper off at the ferry terminal.
Jane Hopper (radio): This strike will continue until I get some assurances from this city! Mafiosi, thinking they can run the union, can think again!
Salvatore Leone: Listen to this shit.
Jane Hopper (radio): They don't scare me! I've got bigger balls than all of them!
Salvatore Leone: I should call a hit on this bitch. She's taking me for a ride! ...well two can play that game. Toni, you're gonna deliver a message for me!
(Toni drives to the Head Radio station in Harwood and hits the chauffeur)
Chauffeur: Hey!
(Toni kills the chauffeur, takes his clothes and waits in the limousine)
Jane Hopper: Harwood ferry station and step on it!
Toni Cipriani: You said it!
(Toni then begins to drive around the city)
Jane Hopper: Hey, take it easy, we're not in a race! Hey, you're not my regular driver! Who the hell are you?!
Toni Cipriani: Shut up! From now on you do exactly what Salvatore Leone tells you to! Capiche?
Jane Hopper: I... I refuse to be scared by this!
Toni Cipriani: We'll see!
(Toni continues to drive erratically over Portland)
Jane Hopper: Let me out right now!
(Toni continues to drive erratically over Portland)
Jane Hopper: Please! You'll kill us both!
(Toni continues to drive erratically over Portland)
Jane Hopper: OK! OK! I've had enough! I'll do whatever you want.
(Toni drops Hopper at the ferry terminal)
Toni Cipriani: And don't forget out little agreement, Lady!
The reward for completing the mission is $1,000 and the mission Contra-Banned, if the player has completed Booby Prize. The Chauffeur Outfit is also unlocked after the mission.
- Despite the player being required to drop Hopper off within the ferry terminal compound, the terminal's picketers will remain hostile to the player and given chase, as they do outside missions.
- Insane Stunts and Unique Jumps work well in this mission.
Toni Cipriani shooting Jane Hopper's chauffeur.
Toni Cipriani about to enter the limousine hired by union boss Jane Hopper.
Jane Hopper about to enter the limousine.
Toni Cipriani driving the limousine erratically through the Red Light District attempting to scare union boss Jane Hopper into submission.
Jane Hopper finally agrees to allow Salvatore Leone access to Portland Harbor.
Toni Cipriani about to drive Jane Hopper back to the ferry terminal.
Toni Cipriani reminding union boss Jane Hopper about her agreement with Salvatore Leone at the ferry terminal in Harwood.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Columbus Crew may have seen a streak of four straight postseason appearances come to an end this year. But there's a belief around the club that they are headed in the right direction for a very good reason. Two of them, actually.
"We've got two little magic guys up top that we can always build around," said defender Josh Williams.
Those two little guys would be Jairo Arrieta and 2012 MLS Newcomer of the Year Federico Higuaín, forwards who were not with the club at the start of the season but made major impacts at the end.
Since the debut of Higuaín (above, left) on Aug. 19 at Houston, Columbus went 7-4-2 in the final 13 games to finish 15-12-7. The third Designated Player in Crew history had two goals in the season finale against Toronto FC to give him five goals and seven assists in just roughly a third of a season.
Just as importantly, the Argentine attacker clicked almost immediately with Costa Rican international Arrieta (above, right), who joined the Crew in mid-July and tied midfielder Eddie Gaven for the team lead with nine goals in 18 games while adding four assists.
"The second half of the season was exciting," head coach Robert Warzycha told MLSsoccer.com recently. "It was better soccer. More enjoyable. The guys were better tactically. We were more competitive."
READ: RSL nab ex-Crew man Grossman in Waiver Draft
The Crew feel they are in better spot than a year go at this time as they look ahead to the upcoming season. Coming off a 13-13-8 season and a quick exit in last year's play-in round, they released talented but troublesome forward Andrés Mendoza even though he scored 13 goals to rank among the best in MLS in 2011.
Columbus spent the offseason and well into 2012, trying to solve their goal-scoring problems before finding solutions.
"We added good forwards who can score goals so we feel better about that," Warzycha said. "Adding Higuaín and Arrieta adds stability up front and Eddie Gaven had one of his best seasons, especially in the second half."
Gaven thought the Crew also had a good team at the conclusion of the 2011 season, but back then, he knew something was missing.
"The difference is we now have the pieces to the puzzle in place for next year," he said, referring again to those two little guys, "guys who are going to be difference-makers and they'll be here the whole year."


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billkara necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 120 diseños de 40 diseñadores freelance.
We run a number of online game websites. In this case we are looking to change the look and feel of http://www.wordgames.com to match the viewers a little better.
We have found our current design to be too cluttered, also our viewers play mostly from work/school so the new look must be more corporate in nature and allow for this.
We want a very mainstream, clean site which is user friendly and will not look cluttered. It will be less fun but better for our viewers which want good games without too much design. In short this must look like a site like yahoo/msn ect...
We are going after an older audience, playing games at work and school. They want a clean looking design which is easy to find games with and does not look overly childish.
Please keep the structure similar to http://www.wordgames.com, meaning we still need the same amount of ads in similar placements.
We require a logo/index page and content (game page), no HTML needed.
Please consider this as a re-skin almost, but at the same time you can try and improve the look and feel as long as the general site elements/navigation remains the same. Perhaps changing the feature area size, number of games and their placements ect... The overall page elements must remain. Top level navigation, feature spot area, top games ect...
Keep it clean and simple while trying to be original.
Use the same thumbnail images provided from http://www.wordgames.com. Only use these 2 sizes in your design.
In this contest the simple, unique, classy, work friendly, user friendly design will win.
Some other design we like are:
Best of luck and thanks for trying this out!


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text: So what exactly takes place during a webcam abortion? During this process, which Planned Parenthood refers to as "telemedicine" or "telehealth", a woman merely chats with a doctor over the Internet. If the physician is satisfied by this conversation and a glance at her medical records, he presses a button at his location, and a drawer pops open in the patient's room, giving her access to abortion-inducing drugs including RU-486.


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NEW YORK-- "It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." That is what Winston Churchill said about Russia 76 years ago. It sort of describes how I feel about Tesco, Fresh & Easy, Yucaipa and Wild Oats today.
Tesco PLC last week agreed to sell most of its Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets Inc. small-format grocery business to investment firm Yucaipa Cos. LLC, for an undisclosed amount. The decision follows London-based Tesco's strategic review of its U.S. retail business. Los Angeles-based Yucaipa will acquire more than 150 stores as well as El Segundo, Calif.-based Fresh & Easy's Riverside, Calif., distribution and production facilities.
Tesco was riding high 10 years ago, around the time they decided to set their sights on the U.S. market. They were highly profitable and widely acclaimed. U.S. retailers came to England to learn from them … and the United States--the world's largest market--was sitting there for them to capture. They were one of the world's leading retailers. What could possibly go wrong?
The riddle, therefore, is why did Tesco create a completely new concept to enter the U.S. market, instead of doing what they knew?
The Fresh & Easy format had little relationship to anything Tesco had done to make them successful in the U.K. It had a new and unknown name. It did not offer gasoline. (Selling low-priced petrol at supermarket sites had been a major contributor to Tesco's success the U.K.) The stores were much smaller than Tesco's U.K. supermarkets and much larger than their Tesco Express convenience stores. The company had no existing U.S. supplier relationships or clout--and brought their prepared food suppliers with them. And American consumers had not grown up believing that cold-chain delivered packaged foods could be really fresh. On top of that, Tesco's vaunted market research failed to show that price competitiveness was a key factor in the U.S. grocery marketplace.
Part of the answer is that Tesco mistakenly believed that they had found a large opening in the market here--that introducing cold-chain-delivered foods would give them a big competitive advantage. They assumed that U.S. supermarkets--many of whom had visited them in the U.K.--had not taken much notice of the cold-chain system, which was originally developed there by Marks & Spencer, had been around for more than 30 years and had become standard operating procedure for U.K. supermarkets. They failed to understand that the smart and savvy U.S. food store operators had indeed taken notice, but had learned that the vast delivery distances and far-less-dense population here than in the U.K. made a cold-chain unworkable for them. As a result, they had developed their own alternatives--primarily in-store food preparation--which U.S. consumers accepted as the standard.
So why did Tesco underestimate the competition in the birthplace of the supermarket? I told you it was a riddle. And did it have to be so complicated and expensive for them to find this out? Not if they had asked me.
In a June 2007 meeting in London with a consultancy that was helping Tesco with their U.S. launch (several months before the first Fresh & Easy stores opened), I outlined a number of reasons why I thought Fresh & Easy would fail. Not only was I ridiculed, but the prominent U.S. publisher who I was travelling with wanted to usher me out of the room as quickly as possible. It was unthinkable that Tesco could be wrong. Nevertheless, at the time of the launch, CSP published columns, online and in print, in which I expanded on these reasons.
In later columns I also dealt with ominous signs of Fresh & Easy's failure. For example, in October 2008, a year after the launch, under the headline "Think Small" (see File Attachments below), I called attention to two pieces of information that Tesco themselves had released to counter press reports that Fresh & Easy was struggling. Using their own information, from one of these I extrapolated that each store was doing $15 million a year; and, from the other, that each store was doing less than $1 million a year. Which was the right number? As I said in the column, "It depends on whether you listen to Tesco … or Tesco!" I also tried to contact Tesco directly to offer help in rectifying the situation. To this day I have heard nothing.
So the mystery is why, after Fresh & Easy was clearly failing, did Tesco kid themselves that it was not? Or, to put it another way, if they knew it was, why didn't they do something about it?
This is a fundamental issue: what do you do when you realize you have made a mistake? Do you bury your head in the sand, hoping that time will heal all ills and the problem will go away? Or do you take decisive action to correct it? Tesco did the former. I would have recommended the latter--and suggested exploring the following alternatives.
First, acquire, a large grocery chain with many outlets within range of your distribution and food processing infrastructure (which is the albatross around the neck of the enterprise). Introduce Fresh & Easy departments into the acquired stores and use your logistical capabilities to enhance their other fresh-food offerings.
Or, second, sell the distribution and food processing facilities to an existing wholesaler, which (as several did) wanted to add cold-chain capabilities. Keep the Fresh & Easy stores and have them become customers of the wholesaler, eliminating the distribution albatross and enabling the stores to become profitable. (The only way a cold chain can be made to work in the United States is by a wholesaler offering it to all its customers, providing the needed critical mass of outlets to make it viable.)
Or, third, if the other options fail, shut up shop as quickly as possible and stop making daily trading losses. Don't kid yourself that it will get better. It won't.
So why has Yucaipa acquired Fresh & Easy? That's the enigma I'll explore in Part 2 of this column tomorrow.
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Today, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (opinion,pdf) threw out a preliminary $7.25 billion settlement between Visa and Mastercard and any merchant accepting credit cards (including U.S. PIRG), ruling that despite that seemingly massive payment for past practices that the settlement gave inadequate relief to merchants going forward, as it essentially immunized the networks for any future illegal conduct while providing mostly illusory benefits (Bloomberg story). Since we accept credit cards from our members, we, joined by Consumer Reports, had formally objected to the settlement as consumer advocates who also happened to be merchant class members (most merchant associations also objected).
The court also said (although it expressly "did not impugn the motives or acts" of the merchant attorneys) that perhaps "the potential of gigantic fees," in this case $544 million, a portion of the $7.25 billion penalty for past misconduct, resulted in "inadequate" representation for all merchants accepting cards in the future. In particular, the court highlighted two flaws in the relief that were highlighted in our objection.
- First, the court noted that the preliminary settlement's major relief was elimination of the networks' sweeping ban on credit card surcharging; but then the court noted, however, that: "The incremental value and utility of this relief is limited, however, because many states, including New York, California, and Texas, prohibit surcharging as a matter of state law."
- Second, the court explained that the settlement's sweeping "releases" from lawsuits for future misconduct "in perpetuity" were unfair to the future sub-class. The court explained that the releases extended to conduct related to "imposition of default interchange fees." These unfair swipe fees, as we have previously explained, harm all consumers at the store and the pump, including cash customers. Also importantly, our objection argued, and the court agreed, that the releases from future liability would even extend to illegal conduct on current or even any future payment platforms.
We look forward to hearing the next steps in this case to rein in the uncompetitive credit card marketplace but are gratified that the court agreed with us that Visa and Mastercard and the big banks that still largely dominate them, although they are now publicly traded, should not be allowed to pay a go-away fee, even a large one of $7.25 billion, for the unfair anti-competitive privilege of being able to engage in future conduct that harms merchants and consumers, basically forever.
We have supported challenges to the "no surcharge laws" of several states, including New York's. Although the federal Truth In Lending Act explicitly allows discounts for cash, New York's law, for example, criminalizes merchants that surcharge for credit, even though the practice is simply an inverse of the legal "discount." Recently, after a successful PIRG-backed challenge to the New York no-surcharge law was overturned on appeal, we filed a brief to the Supreme Court (a cert. petition) urging its review in Expression Hair Design (a small merchant) vs. Schneiderman (the New York Attorney General).
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Yes. More and more visitors choose the convenience of online ticket purchases, but we still sell them the old fashioned way!
The Observatory ticket office accepts U.S. currency, all United States-based travelers checks, and all major credit cards.
You may visit at any time between 8AM and 2AM on the date of purchase, with last elevators going up at 1:15 AM. There are no fixed visiting windows or time limits.
Check out the ESB AM/PM Combo Pass, which allows you to visit twice in the same day. More information is available on our ticketing page.
For groups larger than 20, visit our group sales page. If you would like to arrange a visit for a dignitary or celebrity, see our Celebrity Visit page.
Tickets are non-refundable.
Cardholders who are not visiting with their party should purchase a gift certificate. Please visit our buy tickets page for more information.
Getting to the Empire State Building
Observatory visitors should enter through our visitors' center at 20 W. 34th St. Other entrances on 34th and 33rd Streets are reserved for tenants and their visitors.
Leave the car at home! Just in case, the closest garage is located on 33rd Street between Fifth Avenue and Broadway, across the street from the building. The Empire State Building is minutes by foot from all of midtown Manhattan.
Your Visit
The least crowded visiting hours are at 8AM or around 3PM, but peak visiting times vary by season. We are open 365 days a year from 8AM to 2AM regardless of weather conditions.
Yes. We are open until 2AM daily, with the last elevators going up at 1:15 AM. Live music is available Thursdays through Saturdays (from 10PM to 1AM from Memorial Day through Labor Day, and from 9PM to 12AM from Labor Day through Memorial Day).
Only if you are participating in the annual Empire State Building Run-Up. The stairs are closed to all guests at all other times.
There are no time limits or specified visiting windows. You should allow at least one hour for your visit, and slightly more if you will be visiting both the main deck and the top deck.
During peak visiting hours, especially in the warmer months, there may be extended waits to buy tickets and enter the elevators. You may shorten these waits by buying an express ticket online, which allows you to skip the ticket office and jump to the front of all other lines.
Yes, a free multimedia tour APP is included with every admission to the Empire State Building. Download the APP for free from either the Apple Store or Google Play, or connect once on-site via our free Wi-Fi.
Restrooms are available on the 86th Floor only.
We offer powerful binoculars to take in the unobstructed views in every direction.
There is no restaurant or concession on the observations decks, but there's a lot of food to choose from on the main concourse at the lobby level, and there is a Walgreen's at the end of the Observatory tour. Click here for a complete list of shops and restaurants at the lobby level.
Yes. Elevators are available for visitors with baby strollers. Strollers must be folded on observation decks.
No. Tripods are prohibited at the Observatory, and there are no storage facilities on site.
Your firearm will be seized and you will be arrested unless you are a member of the following law enforcement agencies:
- New York City Police Department
- New York State Police
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
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The items listed are not permitted in the Empire State Building. Do not carry any of these items into the security screening area. Items that are confiscated may not be returned. Please note that this list is not exhaustive, so if you are unsure about an item, please do not bring it. Any questions and uncertainties should be referred to the Security Officers on duty.
- All weapons, including firearms, ammunition, knives, swords, scissors, mace, any dangerous items and any dual-use items that could be dangerous are strictly prohibited in the Empire State Building.
- Glass items, including bottles, glasses, marbles, etc.
- Alcoholic beverages
- Cans, bottles, flasks, etc.
- Professional cameras, equipment and camera stands: mono-pods, bi-pods and tri-pods
- Sports equipment such as skateboards, roller skates, golf clubs, baseball bats, hockey sticks, baseballs, footballs, tennis balls, etc.
- Marking instruments, including spray paint and markers
- Musical instruments
- Large packages, suitcases, carry-on luggage and other such parcels.
- Costumes and masks
There are no locker storage facilities at the Empire State Building for personal belongings.
There is active, 24/7 security at the Empire State Building. All you will notice is the primary security screening, similar to airport security procedure. Please keep in mind you will be monitored by cameras and other means throughout your entire visit.
We sell a fantastic range of Empire State Building memorabilia on the 80th Floor Gift Shop, most of which is exclusive, or online.
The Empire State Building is fully ADA compliant. We have handicapped restrooms on the 86th Floor Observatory and also have lowered viewing walls and binoculars. Service dogs are allowed throughout the building. Motorized and non-motorized wheelchairs are permitted. The 86th Floor has ramps to make getting around easier and lowered viewing walls so that visitors in chairs can still take in the view. The 102nd Floor Observatory features floor-to-ceiling glass windows with unobstructed views.
After Your Visit
For lost items, call (212) 736-3100. If you find items while visiting, please take them to the Visitor Information Desk in the Main Lobby. Unclaimed items will not be kept after 7 days.
Yes! Tag your pictures #EmpireStateBuilding on Twitter or Instagram for a chance to be featured on our social media pages.
The Tower Lights
We change the tower lights to recognize holidays and events throughout the year. For a full schedule of the tower lights and reasons for the lighting, please see the Tower Lights schedule.
The tower lights are turned off at 2AM daily.
History & Facts
New York State's nickname is the Empire State, which led to the Empire State Building. Legend is that when Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River, he was so taken by the beauty and majesty of the area that he said, "This is the new empire."
The Empire State Building is the center of the New York City and tri-state region's broadcasting operations. Its technology supports delivery of broadcasting signals to cable and satellite systems and directly to television and radio receivers reaching over 7.4 million television households, representing over 6.5% of all TV households in the U.S. Over 130 antennas provide a variety of point-to-point radio and data communications services to utility companies, telecommunications providers and public safety agencies. Read more info on our Broadcast page.
We recommend Building the Empire State by Carol Willis and Empire: A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal, and the Battle for an American Icon by Mitchell Pacelle. Also, buy our official souvenir book in the gift shop or online, filled with information and exclusive photos.
Partnerships, Jobs, & Events
Please contact Human Resources at (212) 736-3100.
We do not host private wedding ceremonies. However, the Empire State Building holds its annual Valentine's Day Weddings contest, where couples are selected to get married on February 14, at the world's most romantic building. Please visit our Facebook page for more information and to enter.
Absolutely! We recommend proposing when our saxophonist is on the 86th Floor Observatory (Thursdays-Saturdays, 10PM–1AM). You may request your special song to help set the mood. Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate requests to close down the Observatory for proposals.
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Pages by Kate Brown, Suzy Varty, Simone Lia, Simon Gane, Dan McDaid, Philippa Rice and Will Morris. There are also pages in Nelson by WJC, Duncan Fegredo, Rob Davis, Roger Langridge, Woodrow Phoenix, John McNaught (you know his work for Nobrow, right?), Luke Pearson, Sean Phillips, Philip Bond, Carol Swaine, Dave Taylor, Hunt Emerson, and many, many more (including many, many women) but you have to read the book to see those. And everyone's work is damn good, making, in all, something very special.
With Nelson, there will be, like there is in UK comics, something for everybody. Not a compromise, not a design by committee, but far from that. The term 'exquisite corpse', used to describe a story made in relay, such as this is, had the right word all along. Exquisite.
Note on 07.11.11 (I'm just adding some more pages): These, in my opinion are non-spoilery images chosen to give an idea of the texture of Nelson, as much as anything. It is perhaps the best work yet of Kate Brown (this is just a taste) and I really like Simon Gane's narrative work- it is so effortless to read, yet you find yourself sticking around to look more anyway. Half the artists, I had some familiarity with their work, half not. Nelson is a brilliant jumping on point for finding the work of an artist you love. And I'll say this, as a person, Suzy Varty is brilliant- I will post the Juno this UK comics legend drew for me after the upcoming Thought Bubble festival, where all these artists (including Suzy) will be in attendance.
Thank you very much to Martin at Blank Slate for providing these images and to Kenny, Woodrow and Rob for being OK with me posting them. A couple of days on I'm still thinking about Nelson and know I'll be reading it again. If you buy it, buy for durability, it is not a one time read.


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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Big 30: Chronoswiss Régulateur 30
2013 promises to be an illustrious year for German brand Chronoswiss. It marks the thirtieth anniversary of the brand and it's the legendary Régulateur's 25th anniversary too. Therefore, it makes sense to pay tribute to the figurehead of the brand in the shape of the Régulateur 30.
This new anniversary watch is not typical of a Régulateur. The first surprise is that it includes a window at the 12 o'clock position.
It's here that the hour is placed within a Mechanical "digital" display. The minute display has also moved upward a little bit, intersecting the display of seconds.
The Régulateur 30 will be available only in a limited edition of 130 pieces in a red gold case and 300 pieces in a stainless steel case.
The dial is crafted into a lavish barleycorn guilloché pattern cut into the pure Sterling silver dial and emanating from its centre.
This is in homage to the original Kairos model. Both versions also contain a chessboard guilloché pattern within the minute and seconds subdials.
The watch is is completed by thermally blued hands, which have been ground by hand and thus display precisely the right length for the dials' displays.
Intricate details such as these will continue to play a significant at Chronoswiss now and for the next 30 years and beyond.
About Chronoswiss
Chronoswiss is a German watch manufacturer based in Karlsfeld. The company was founded by Gerd R. Lang in 1983 with its mission being to make exquisite mechanical timepieces. Prior to founding Chronoswiss, Lang had gained significant experience in manufacturing movements for other major brands.
Chronoswiss tries to stay exclusive by only producing 7,000 watches per year. Though a German company, every component is produced in Switzerland and then the watches are hand-finished. While many of the movements used in Chronoswiss watches are based on the Enicar 165 movement, the Chronoswiss versions feature significant improvements, both technically and aesthetically.
Michael Kobold of Kobold of Kobold Watches was trained by Gerd Lang. In the key North American market, the company restructured this year. Oliver Ebstein and his wife Eva have bought and taken over the management of Chronoswiss.
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Nearby, you'll find Japantown, the oldest and largest such enclave in the United States. The Japan Center mall is a mecca for all things Japanese as well as the Sundance Kabuki Theaters for all your favorite films. From the spectacle of the Peace Plaza pagoda to the grandeur of St. Dominic's Church, it really seems there's something here for everyone. The Japan Center mall is a mecca for all things Japanese as well as the Sundance Kabuki theaters for your favorite first run features and a number of film festivals, attracting cinephiles from all over.
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It may sound like the title of a bad goth poem, but razorblades and roses are just two elements in Wal-Mart's promotional blitz for Madden 10.
Wal-Mart is going all out for the Madden 10 release, prepping thousands of stores for a midnight release on August 14th, with a couple of exclusive promotions to make sure players don't offend their loved ones too badly in the days following the game's release.
First off, Wal-Mart stores will have a limited edition Gillette Fusion NFL razor for sale with the game, with handles featuring your favorite NFL team. It doesn't specify that this is the Gilette Fusion Gamer, but seeing as that's just the normal Fusion marketed at gamers, it might as well be the same thing.
Then come the roses.
With thousands of men likely to be glued to the game after Friday, Walmart is rolling back the price of a dozen roses to $8 and making them easily available in the Electronics department, so guys, who may need some early forgiveness, can remember their gals who don't want to feel "left out." An easy to send and thoughtful "early apology email" is also available at Walmart.com/madden.
That's extremely thoughtful of them, isn't it? You can even visit the company's Madden micro-site and send a pre-emptive apology email. Extremely cheesy as well, but this is Wal-Mart. It's not as if they could have used my idea of an NFL-licensed marital aid anyway.
Wal-Mart is also offering a $10 online gift certificate to anyone who pre-orders the game online instead of hanging around the store in the middle of the night, but I'm not sure you can call yourself a Madden fan if you aren't physically handing over a method of payment at 12:01am.


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I'm doing some more ST research at the moment and writing some more testers which I will be opening up as and when possible. STeem is astonishingly accurate - did you guys write testers of your own?
One long-standing STeem bug the CPU tester found I can report straight away, a crash in divide: IIRC, if you divide 0x8000000 by -1 the x86 CPU takes an integer overflow exception and STeem crashes.
I have also found one other very small thing: the real ST waits 4 cycles before taking an interrupt after clearing the ISR in the MFP if there's one pending. The MFP tester seems to think that STeem does the wait for IMR writes but not on ISR clears.


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Trading card and memorabilia company Panini said it "painstakingly removed" Herndandez stickers from 500,000 of its sticker books, and will replaced them with stickers of Tim Tebow.
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While everyone is poring over their seed catalogs and dreaming of warmer weather, (at least us here in the Northern Hemisphere) planning for seed saving needs to be part of the scheme too.
I always say the work of gardening and farming is half observation. And this is especially important if you're going to save seeds. Paying attention all year round from seed storage during the off season, how the plant behaves during the growing season, and finally at harvest time all have a bearing on the success or failure of your endeavor.
Good seedling vigor is important, and can be an indicator of your seed selection from the year before. Or a big one, seed storage. No matter how good your seed was, if you don't take care of it during the off-season you risk poor germination. Dark, cool, and dry are the best and easiest to pull off for the home gardener. If you have room in your freezer (I don't) that would be the ideal situation. I store my seeds in a cabinet in a cool room in our house, and I don't have any trouble with the viability of my seeds.
Cucurbita maxima, and Cucurbita pepo
While you're planning your garden layout, plan for seed saving too. Some plants freely cross, so you have to do your homework for isolation, and how plants are pollinated. Wind, insect, self? Do I need only one plant or do I need a large number to insure the plant variety doesn't run down? Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties by Carol Deppe and Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth are good books on the subject.
I save seeds from winter squash and naked seed pumpkins, who will not cross, so they can be planted near each other. Summer squash will cross with my naked seed pumpkins so I have to plant my zucchini in a different garden.
I have found that growing the Naked Seed pumpkins are a good fill-in in my food pantry for nuts. They are delicious in pesto, and take the place of more exotic and expensive nuts. There is no competition from squirrels for these seeds, and they are ready within one growing season. Planting nut trees is always a good idea, but these pumpkins can help you weather the gap between nut tree planting and bearing age.
They are easy to harvest, and will keep in storage for a few months while other pressing garden and preserving duties take place.
It's been nice to peck away at this job. I store these in the barn, so I can throw open the doors on a sunny day and get to work. My limitations on harvesting these seeds are getting it done before they rot, since C. pepo's aren't know for keeping, and being able to dry these properly for storage without any molding.
Styrian Naked Seed pumpkin.
My method is pretty simple, I just cut or break open the pumpkins, pull out the seeds with my fingers until I have a colander full of seeds. That is about the quantity that I can dry in my kitchen without taking up too much space. Mileage may vary. While I'm doing this, I am observing or asking questions. Do larger pumpkins have more seeds? Do I see any variation in seeds in correlation to size of pumpkins? Do some have less stringy flesh? Are some rotten and others not? Any evidence of cross pollination? Do they taste good or bitter? All these questions get answered and go along with any observations I have made during the growing season, and are important if I am to save the seeds best acclimated to my garden.
After harvesting the seeds, I wash the seeds in the colander and pick out the remaining bits of flesh. The water seems to break the bond between the two and makes it much easier to separate the seeds. After washing, spread the seeds on screens if you have them or baking sheets, no more than a layer deep. Air circulation is the key to proper drying. For seed saving I only air dry, but for the pantry, I may occasionally put a tray in the warming oven of the cookstove, or in the electric stove oven after baking something. Note to self: Check oven for seeds before turning on to bake again. Don't ask how I know that...
The flesh is pretty stringy compared to my winter squash, so I feed the pumpkin leftovers to our cattle or chickens. They get a treat, and I can get rid of the mess. And if you're cramped for space in your garden, I think these would be perfectly edible.
I like to think that observing the plant through all the stages, makes gardening that much more interesting. The joy of gardening is not just the eating.


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The West End Historical Society and Forks Timber Museum announce that they will combine efforts for their monthly programs.
Every third Tuesday, these historical presentations will be brought to you at the First Congregational Church, a short board meeting Timber Museum Board meets at 11:30 a.m. and the WEHS meeting starts at noon.
November's program will be a presentation of some of the Historical Society's old slide photographs from the late 1800s to mid-1900s.
December's program will feature Lonnie Archibald talking about his new book, "Let's Go Truckin," with a book signing to follow.
Please come join us for these lively presentations and discussions. You are welcome to bring your own items to share and we encourage questions.
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What's better than smart styling paired with the benefits of merino wool? "Not much" say my feet. I wear these socks mainly off the bike, but will absolutely put them to good use this fall/winter when the going gets cooler. These can be worn casually, formally, or on the bike. I say that's money well spent.
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Chrome might be known for their incredible US made messenger bags, but their socks are worth shaking a chainwhip at. They are actually really warm and durable. Word on the street is they are made in the same factory as Defeet. Who knows if this is true, but if it is, it would explain their great quality, soft fabric, and warmth. I would definitely recommend getting your feet in a pair of these socks.
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I like nice socks and these are king. They were my sock of choice for 100 mile mountain bike races this summer and yet I pull them out for frosty 30degree commutes in the fall and winter. versatile.
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With hesitation I purchased three pairs right off the bat. I like to buy in threes. Foot Happiness is an understatement with these socks. I traveled Europe in the summer in these and climb roofs in the winter. My favorite sock. The best thing is that they placed the toe box seam under your toes, Genius!! There is no seam nub to deal with. Don't second guess, buy a few pairs and be happy. PS I might wear one pair three days or so, with no smell and continued comfort.
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Gunfleet 74
Designer Tony Castro has created a spectacular yacht in the new Gunfleet 74. The sleek outboard profile and powerful hull lines will ensure head-turning attention and real pride of ownership. In all, she is a simply stunning cruising yacht with powerful performance, variable draft and class-leading accommodation, and offers more than any other yacht in this size range.
Setting a new benchmark in this size range
The Gunfleet 74 offers an unbeatable range of features usually only found on much larger yachts, not surprising given the amount of experience behind this project. Like her smaller sisters, the Gunfleet 74 features an anchorage friendly, low centre of gravity, shoal draft, bulb keel with a centreboard and twin rudders. Hence this 74 footer draws just 2.06 metres 'board up' but has a sailing draft of 4.11 metres.
Designed for performance
The 74's performance orientated sail plan is complemented by a choice of cutter gear or a solent jib with hydraulic furling on both headstays for ease of handling. The standard rig is a fully battened mainsail, but in-mast furling or in-boom furling are also available.
Separate cockpits for guests and crew
On deck, the 74 is designed for ease of operation by professional crew, as well as providing generous relaxing areas for guests. Sailing operations all take place in the separate aft cockpit, featuring twin 'Flightdeck' pedestals – well out of the way of guests. The exceptionally large, forward cockpit provides generous seating and twin cockpit tables, each incorporating refrigerated drinks coolers. This is a boat for serious alfresco relaxation and guests will enjoy the flush aft deck, which is the perfect place for sunbathing, before taking to the water via the hydraulic stern platform.
Semi custom – means choice not compromise
Of course, the Gunfleet 74 is a semi-custom build with a wide choice of interior finishes and layouts to cater for any owner's specific requirements. The standard arrangement provides no less than four en-suite cabins for owner and guests. There is excellent separation from the crew, as the crew cabin is located forward of the galley and features its own crew mess and en-suite heads. The fully equipped professional galley is closed off from the saloon so the chef can work undisturbed. Any professional chef will be happy with the generous counter space, high- specification domestic appliances and easily accessible fridge and freezers. There is a choice of tender options - stern tender garage, stern davits or a tender chocked on the foredeck. Class-leading stowage for gear and 'toys' is provided by the huge full-width lazarette and the generous forward sail locker.
A luxurious interior with stunning outboard views
The full-beam owner's cabin is a masterpiece with queen-size centerline berth, office area and settee, whilst the saloon features a dining area comfortably seating 8 to 10 guests with an abundance of natural light. All cabins feature spectacular outboard views.
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"The Trashmaster" takes the art of turning a video game into cinema and delivers an astonishing 88 minutes film.
While we've seen similar Grand Theft Auto IV-related projects recently, we've never seen one run for that long, nor have one that took over two years to put together.
Sadly, while it looks great, with lots of moody scenery shots and tastefully-selected scenes, the voice-acting (the product of English being the creator's second language) leaves a lot to be desired. Which is a shame, considering there's constant narration.
Think of it as Heavy Rain with faster cars, though, and you'll do OK.


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Inaugural conference and exposition will be held Oct. 8 to 10 in Las Vegas
A discounted rate of $330 is available through the conference's website, www.WaterSmartInnovations.com. After July 11, full conference registration will increase to $390. WaterSmart Innovations will be held at the South Point Hotel & Casino, at the south end of the famed Las Vegas Strip.
Presented by the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) in conjunction with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) WaterSense Program, WaterSmart Innovations will serve to broaden the knowledge of innovations in urban water efficiency and water conservation including products, programs and outreach. It is anticipated to be the largest and most comprehensive conference of its kind.
The conference's program committee selected more than 100 of the highest quality presentations from about 240 abstracts submitted by water-efficiency professionals from around the globe. In addition to representatives from the U.S., the program committee received proposals from Australia, Canada, China, Bulgaria and Bangladesh.
Education and training tracks at WaterSmart Innovations include alternate sources; drought management; plumbing, appliances and fixtures; code, policy and rates; conservation and incentive programs; construction and development; education; landscapes; utility and infrastructure; innovation marketplace; marketing and outreach; and special topics.
Other organizations collaborating with the SNWA and the EPA on WaterSmart Innovations include the Alliance for Water Efficiency, California Urban Water Conservation Council, the California-Nevada Section of the American Water Works Association, Irrigation Association, American Society of Irrigation Consultants, Audubon International, the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials and the National Association of Home Builders.


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MEMPHIS, Tenn. >> The Clippers tightened their defense waiting for the offense to come around.
The result was a second-half burst with a strong push from the reserves to lead Los Angeles to a 101-81 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday.
"I looked up at one point, and we were shooting like 28 percent," Clippers forward Blake Griffin said. "Our defense was keeping us there, then we finally took the game over when we started hitting shots. That's a good lesson for us."
Reserves Darren Collison and Jamal Crawford scored 15 points each to lead the Clippers. Chris Paul also had 15 points and eight assists as Los Angeles snapped a two-game losing streak. Griffin added 14 points and nine rebounds, while DeAndre Jordan had 10 points and 14 boards.
The performance was a reversal from the previous night when the Clippers lost 107-97 at Atlanta — an effort coach Doc Rivers called "awful." Rivers credited Griffin and Jordan with stopping the Memphis frontline, particularly Zach Randolph, who was returning from missing two games after ingrown toenail surgery.
"I thought those two guys fought hard down low," said Rivers, who recorded his 600th win. "I just thought their leadership defensively was why we won the game."
Kosta Koufos led Memphis with 17 points.
The Clippers shot 13 for 20 in the fourth quarter as Paul and Griffin sat on the bench, leaving the game to the backups.
"The Clippers played real well defensively," Koufos said. "They established themselves early in the second half. They hit some tough shots."
The Clippers trailed 42-40 at the break before outscoring Memphis 61-39 in the second half while shooting 56 percent. Los Angeles' reserves ended the night outscoring their Memphis counterparts 50-31.
"That team has a lot of good players," Randolph said. "They have a lot of good bench players that could be starting."
As is the case when the two get together, it was chippy from the start. After meeting in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs the last two years, a rivalry has developed.
In third, Jerryd Bayless shoved Griffin for a flagrant 1. Randolph started mouthing with anyone in a Clippers uniform. And the lobbying for calls from both teams led official Danny Crawford to warn the coaches he had heard enough.
In the meantime, the Clippers turned up the defense, enabling them to click off a 21-7 run to open the quarter for a double-digit lead.
"I thought the way we responded was good," Griffin said. "There are challenges mentally and physically, and I think that was a mental challenge for us. We were mentally tough in that situation."
The rally helped the Clipper outscore Memphis 24-11 in the frame and carry a 64-53 lead into the final quarter.
Los Angeles connected on 10 of its first 14 shots in the fourth, continuing to build the lead to as many as 24.
Several Clippers players said the frustration from games like the one at Atlanta is they believe in their ability to play good defense.
"It would be one thing if we knew were weren't capable of it, and we didn't have the bodies and the people to execute it, but we do," Paul said. "We have myself, young, athletic guys that know what we're capable of. I may not be athletic, but I am young."


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Anne-Lise necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 137 diseños de 52 diseñadores freelance.
Hundekompaniet (meaning "the dog company" in Norwegian
We are a web based pet shop, focusing on dog equipment, but we also sell things to cats and smaller animals.
We are importing and selling exclusive designer brands and products, as well as more ordinary pet equipment. However, we are getting more and more focused on the designer products, and want our customer so see us as a high-end store.
You'll find us here: http://www.hundekompaniet.no
We are targeting pet owners.
Many of our customers has their own pet-blogs, know a lot about photography and editing photographies, and have above average computer-skills.
We are looking for a new logo for the store (the one we have now is quite terrible).
- It needs to have the name "Hundekompaniet" or "Hundekompaniet.no" in it.
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- Use any colour you think will fit us. We will adjust our web shop accordingly.
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I know this is kind of vague - but I am not a creative person so I don't really know what's needed. You - the designer - know better than me what our customers will find appealing. Feel free to put your personal touch on it.
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|Sourdough, basil, red onion, heirloom tomatoes,
and Dubliner cheese. Dam in the background.
After our fossil excursion, Mom and I stopped at the Grand Coulee Dam (throw your hands up for the second largest concrete structure in the world!), where we received dining advice from one of the volunteers, but ultimately decided against Grand Coulee Thai food (in my book, a sketchy prospect) and ate some open face sandwiches in the parking lot. Those swell sandwiches were courtesy of me. We didn't stay for the laser show (again, against the volunteer's advice) mostly because I thought it sounded way lame. I mean, I've been wrong before but never about lasers.
|From the GCD Visitor Center. Dam workers went down to the depths with these helmets.
The back is open--I assume for photo ops. Did I stick my head in there? No I did not.
Here's my rundown of the Grand Coulee Dam. Yes, it's amazing. But you want to go on the tour. It's not as amazing if you just look at the spillway from the parking lot, or if you drive up to the tour station above the Third Power Plant expecting there to be a 5PM tour (like it said on the website) but find out that the last tour was at 4PM. OK, so the website does have a small caveat about calling in advance to check the tour times. It's a volunteer-staffed deal, I get that. Still, going inside the Third Power Plant is like being inside The X-Files movie (which I didn't realize until my dear friend {ABBIE!} saw the connection). What diabolical scheme is being hatched beneath those turbine covers? And what exactly is the use of the world's largest crane? Something to do with alien-human-hybrid-worker-bee-clone-children? I have my suspicions. Yeah, the Grand Coulee Dam is exactly like that movie. (While we're on the subject of The X-Files: never ever watch the 2nd X-Files movie, X-Files: I Want to Believe, because it is exactly like stupid.) OK, now that that's taken care of...
|The berries and boots were shiny.
Me: "The crickets?" And then she said something to the effect of the hazy morning cricket activity reminding her of being on the farm as a child. Um...the moment was much sweeter than I've rendered it here. Yet more terrible evidence of my MFA credentials.
|The entrance to all things apple.
|Mom picked a bag-full.
|Mom said these little flowers used to grow along the fields on the farm in Minnesota. It was a morning for memories.
|This Gala is a twofer.
|The flags fly over Walter's Fruit Ranch.
All in all it was a good visit.