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Photographer's Note
Detailed shot of one of the buildings at Syntagma Square in Athens.
Special Thanks to our friend Jason(jcpix),who helped me to choose the right picture for my next post and for give an idea for the title.It really looks like Jenga game:)Thank You for your help Jason!
In WS you can see other version of this shot.
I hope you´ll like it!
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Royaldevon (67121) 2014-02-05 2:24
Hello Krzysztof,
This is a great abstract pattern.
The comparison with Jenga Tetris is very appropriate.
I really like how you have photographed a building and cropped it in such a way that the pattern becomes more important than the structure.
I think the b&w treatment adds to its impact.
The shades between black and white emphasise the pattern without distraction.
Have a great day,
Bev :-)
Romano46 (18472) 2014-02-05 2:45
Ciao Krzysztof
ancora bianco e nero ed ancora un bel motivo grafico che si avvale di una ripresa nella quale anche la luce aggiunge il suo valido contributo.
Ottima come sempre la nitidezza
Ciao e buona giornata
jhm (195123) 2014-02-05 2:52
Witaj Krzysztof,
Your second picture is the most beautiful, alone this is my choice.
Both pictures show a modern architecture with all these balconies.
Sharpness and clarity be superb.
Excellent composition nice presentation.
Very well done, FTS.
cornejo (61504) 2014-02-05 3:00
Witaj Krzysztof, I like this good photograph of this beautiful and interesting composition with the terraces of the building very well captured in this interesting image with good sharpness. Interesting job perfectly done, congratulations my friend. Thanks for sharing this beautiful work.
Good afternoon and happy rest of the week.
Warm greetings from southern Spain.
rbassin (27464) 2014-02-05 3:23
Hello Krzysztof,
un gros plan intéressant faisant bien ressortir les zones d'ombre et de lumière.
Graphisme réussi.
Bonne journée
Kamilutka (8107) 2014-02-05 4:33
brawo dla Jasona za tytul - naprawde swietnie oddaje klimat zdjecia.
Natomiast dla Ciebie gratulacje za sam kadr. Podoba mi sie geometria tej kompozycji i jej jednolitosc. Niski POV pozwolil na uzyskanie bardzo dobrego katu dla wszystkich linii.
Ladny kontrast i ostrosc.
timecapturer (49288) 2014-02-05 6:26
Hi Krzysztof
clever and arty B&W study this. Love the diagonals and lines it looks like an Andy Warhol piece. The tonal quality and shadow detailing are excellent and the effect both original and compelling. I hear JayCee is a Jenga Warrior! or have I misspelt that. :-).
Regards - B.
ikeharel (101003) 2014-02-05 9:16
A view upwards on the returning pattern, well taken Krzysztof.
Most usually concrete structures are not suvch a picturesque sight - but with an askewed angle upon, you made it looks intriguing.
Good evening,
dta (96416) 2014-02-05 9:20
Hello Krzysztof ,
Excellent choice of the B&W for this very graphical picture with superb contrasts and a perfect exposure .
chrislo (4097) 2014-02-05 10:00
Hello Krzystof,
Excellent graphic composition with strong visual impact. I like the subtle interplay between light and shade, and the way your tight crop emphasizes the contrasts and gives a 3D feeling. The black and white is a good choice to enhance the geometrical patterns of the balconies. The workshop photo has a more dynamic feel, the diagonal perspective and the cloud filled sky all come together to make a very interesting image. Well done.
Kind regards,
gildasjan (43826) 2014-02-05 10:36
Bonsoir Krzysztof
Un bon cadrage vertical avec ces diagonales et ici le contraste B&W est bien rendu pour une image très graphique.
Bonne soirée
Graal (103040) 2014-02-05 11:42
fajny obraz, niczym budowla z klockow. Dobry pomysl i temat, WS ok. takze.
Milego wieczoru.
ourania (51103) 2014-02-05 12:56
Hello Krzysztof,
a wonderful play of diagonals, repetitive patterns and alternating grey tones. You created a solid and elegant composition, filled the vertical frame with graphism and rhythm. I like very much the play of light and shadow, there's a limited range of grey tones and their precise repetition is superb. I know this building, I have a tilted close-up picture of it too:) Your approach is very creative and pleasing. Congratulations and thank you!
All the best, have a good night,
jcpix (14030) 2014-02-05 15:51
Hi Krzysztof,
And here it is, awesome! As I mentioned before, you can't go wrong with either version...but yeah, my preference is this one. :)) Looking over some of the comments, it would seem to be a split decision...but what a great choice to have to make, both are worthy of praise! The bigger, bolder, "in your face" kind of patchwork and graphism is what immediately attracted me to this composition. The layering and 3D effect is fantastic, such a fun and exciting architectural style...I'd call it modern chic.
The black & white adds that artistic flare and would appear to suit the construction material just right. As with the WS version, I like that you left a touch of space for the open sky, leaving a bit more to the imagination if you didn't already know what you were looking at...and its some additional contrast of element. I'd love to see what this is like in that Cyan effect too. Thanks for the mention, glad I could help on the decision to post...but the credit is all yours my friend, creative interpretation and visualization is from your keen eye! Excellent! Enjoy the day ahead.
Cheers from the sunny side,
Sure hope no one tries to remove one of these blocks as if it were the actual game!? :o
Sonata11 (34119) 2014-02-05 19:59
Witaj Krzysztof, zawsze znajdziesz wspanialy punkt widzenia na zrobienie ciekawego zdjecia. Wyszlo wspaniale i przyciaga wzrok. Super geometria i swietny wybor color czarno bialego. Moje gratulacje. Super zdjecie.
Serdecznie pozdrawiam, Barbara
Mics (984) 2014-02-06 2:21
Hello Krzysztof,
My choice is this one. I like it more in terms of angle/composition as it creates more appealing visual impact to the viewer....and it seems that the blocks gonna fall on me. Nice effect!
Have a nice day :-)
adramad (63448) 2014-02-06 7:19
Hello Krzysztof.
Superb composition with this beautiful effect of light and shadows that mark the diagonal of the terraces, which give a beautiful graphic composition, a very powerful image that immediately captures the attention. The B & W is going great for this kind of images.
Good lighting and sharpness.
Well done.
Have a good afternoon.
Best wishes.
rychem (70011) 2014-02-06 8:49
Gratuluje pięknego op artu, doskonała kompozycja, pięknie wypatrzone
No_One (4) 2014-02-06 9:49
Hi Krzysztof
I like this a lot, and I love the title. Its been a while since I played Jenga, or Lego for that matter, so I think I might have to dig them back out again!
It creates a beautiful abstract scene to take this slice of this building and view it in this manner, and the light has done so much to help with that too, the dark shadows and area of light look superb.
Thanks for the workshop too to help understand what this building actually looks like in its full form.
All the best
PaulVDV (49252) 2014-02-06 11:09
Hello Krzysztof,
You've observed this well. I've been several times on Syntagma Square and I've never been aware of the possibility of this graphical image.
I have a preference for the main picture. Perhaps the included clouds in the sky could make the picture in the WS more beautiful in colour. Don't know. Just an idea.
Best regards, Paul
macjake (94403) 2014-02-06 13:12
Hi Krzysztof
I have to be honest, I think the WS photo is better :)
but thats just a personal preference type of thing.
guess i like the WS one because of the sky as a contrasting element.
It's so funny because you asked Jason for advice but my advice is totally different lol
and yet i respect both of you guys so much!
again, its just personal choice, and both photos are deserving of being posted :)
cheers mate
adidas5nb (5743) 2014-02-06 21:17
now this frame is so graphically beautiful.very nicely seen .great angle and execution.
kasianowak (14492) 2014-02-06 23:20
Czesc Krzysiu
Ciekawa graficznie praca, czarnobiale podkresla ksztalty i kontrast.
Pozdrowienia z Norwegii :)
pajaran (95405) 2014-02-06 23:51
Dobar dan.
Lep pogled na fasadu ...
Lep igra svetla i senke ...
Dobra ostrina snimka i kontrast, lepo pokazana fasada sa balkonima.
Dobar rad sa lepom fotografijom u radionici.
Imajte lep i uspesan dan, sve najbolje za vikend, srecno.
Good afternoon.
Nice view of the facade ...
Nice play of light and shadow ...
Good image sharpness and contrast nicely demonstrated facade with balconies.
Good work with beautiful photography workshop.
Have a nice and successful day, all the best for the weekend, good luck.
abmdsudi (84181) 2014-02-07 6:58
Hi Krzysztof
A subject made up of similar concrete blocks turned to an interesting close up which makes an interesting abstract image. Good angle and perspective, strong lines, light and shadow. Well spotted and captured, Congrats
Best regards
fabbs99 (17179) 2014-02-07 21:46
Hello Krzysztof,
Really a nice design exhibited in black and white colors.Very crisp and classy image.TFS.
danos (110395) 2014-02-08 9:18
Witaj Krzysztof,
very nice the tight frame with the created texture from the building to be an important optical effect.I like the creative perspective as the clarity and the beauty of the scene.
serp2000 (47063) 2014-02-08 9:46
Privet, Krzysztof,
It looks some familiar composition for me, I saw similar view from the same point of view on the TE. Anyway excellent b&w photo!
Best wishes,
siudzi (34141) 2014-02-09 7:46
Witaj Krzysiu
- obie wersje są rewelacyjne! Fantastycznie wypatrzone oraz zbudowane sceny. Efekt graficzny jest dominujący oraz przyciąga uwagę. Brawo!
subhendu_bagchi (26091) 2014-02-11 17:59
namaste, a nice graphical one. Enjoyed the presentation. Those dark tone are superb and I think it is looking great here in monochrome. Excellent minimal composition. Tfs.
Didi (61569) 2014-02-17 8:30
Hi Krzysztof
Very good game with contrast
Good use of the grey scale
Interesting frame quality
Best regards
delpeoples (60326) 2014-02-17 22:36
Witaj dear Krzysztof
Ahh this is you at the top of the game. I love your B&W and every time I see one to click on, I feel like a kid at Christmas unwrapping a present under the Christmas tree. Stunning geometries, graphism and 3-dimensional qualities. Your play of light and shade and the diagonal lines really is clever and the whole image looks 3D. This looks like it should be in a museum. I love it. Congrats.
mcmtanyel (57703) 2014-02-20 13:43
Hi Chris,
This is one of the artsier photos of you. The repeating patterns generated by the balconies (?) are quite pleasant and B&W suits this photo well.
Hansaphotos (11189) 2014-02-21 12:04
Hello Krzysztof
Wonderful upwards POV on these balconies, like Lego blocks. Your well chosen b&w highlights the interesting graphical effect. Great work!
Best regards, Erling
adores (46979) 2014-03-05 16:46
Hi Krzysztof!
The pov is really great and gave you a very special graphism. Perfect in b&w! A very good shot!
Photo Information
- Copyright: Krzysztof Kusy (krzychu30) (15512)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Black & White
- Date Taken: 2013-10-03
- Categories: Architecture
- Camera: Nikon D3100, Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 G AF-S VR, Hoya CIR-PL PRO 1 DIGITAL 67mm
- Exposure: f/6.3, 1/60 seconds
- More Photo Info: view
- Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
- Date Submitted: 2014-02-05 2:13
- To kasianowak: Czesc Kasiu (2)
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Liberty concludes the regular season with a 2-15 overall record and a 1-6 mark in Big South Conference games. The No. 7 seed Lady Flames will now make preparations for Wednesday's Big South Lacrosse Championship quarterfinal game at No. 2 seed Davidson at 6 p.m. Longwood heads into the conference tournament as the No. 3 seed with an 8-9 overall record and a 5-2 league tally.
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Senior White House officials are in talks with business leaders that could expand the executive actions President Barack Obama takes on immigration.
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Progeria, or Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), is a rare, fatal, genetic condition of childhood with striking features resembling premature aging. Children with progeria usually have a normal appearance in early infancy. At approximately nine to 24 months of age, affected children begin to experience profound growth delays, resulting in short stature and low weight. They also develop a distinctive facial appearance characterized by a disproportionately small face in comparison to the head; an underdeveloped jaw (micrognathia); malformation and crowding of the teeth; abnormally prominent eyes; a small nose; prominent eyes and a subtle blueness around the mouth. In addition, by the second year of life, the scalp hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes are lost (alopecia), and the scalp hair may be replaced by small, downy, white or blond hairs. Additional characteristic features include generalized atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease and stroke, hip dislocations, unusually prominent veins of the scalp, loss of the layer of fat beneath the skin (subcutaneous adipose tissue), defects of the nails, joint stiffness, skeletal defects, and/or other abnormalities. According to reports in the medical literature, individuals with HGPS develop premature, widespread thickening and loss of elasticity of artery walls (arteriosclerosis), which result in life-threatening complications during childhood, adolescence, or early adulthood. Children with progeria die of heart disease (atherosclerosis) at an average age of 13 years, with a range of about eight to 21 years. As with any person suffering from heart disease, the common events as heart disease advances for children with progeria can include high blood pressure, strokes, angina (chest pain due to poor blood flow to the heart itself), enlarged heart, and heart failure, all conditions associated with aging.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
I've been reading atheist blogs and Christian rationalist blogs, trying to find someone else in my predicament. But the dividing line between believers and anti-believers seems drawn too sharply, and there are very few souls out there wavering and wishing to believe but not feeling able to. Well, if you are out there, speak to me.
I was telling Sam that I feel like my faith has been slowly eroded ever since college. I grew up with fundamentalist evangelical doctrines that I defended and didn't question. College, even though it was a Christian college, changed all that by forcing me to take a hard look at some of the superfluities I had blindly accepted. I reconsidered my stances on theological mainstays as well as hot topics like abortion, homosexuality, creationism vs. evolution, and the place of women in church and society. I became ever so slightly more liberal, a trend that continued as I felt more and more aligned with politically democratic ideals as a radically loving Christian who believed that Jesus' message of freedom for the oppressed and care for the downtrodden jibed with that party's general outlook. I maintained more conservative positions on "morality" issues like abortion and homosexuality, but even there I found myself becoming more ambivalent and "who knows" about the whole thing, and more accepting of people who held differing opinions.
And then I became a parent. And my focus shifted from being faith-focused to being parenting-focused. Maybe it's not as easy as all that, but I really do think it affected me. It coincided with a growing dissatisfaction on the part of both Sam and me with our local church -- we felt less and less connected there, but it had taken us two years to find it as a church home in the first place. We had been drawn to it by its stance on social justice and compassion while at the same time having what we considered a biblically sound theology. And, besides all that, it was just cool, and the people were welcoming. It met in a candle-lit coffeehouse/community center in the dark of a Seattle evening at an unconventional time, and at the first strum of the guitars in the worship band, we felt God's presence.
It's changed a lot. Change can be good or bad or neither, but its nature is that it's always different. We liked what we had before and felt we had a place there. As the church grew, it grew more conventional. A lot of people now, but not as much per-capita involvement or leadership. A move into a traditional church building with stained-glass windows, and a pull on families with an expanded childcare ministry. We now felt stranded in a sea of pew-sitting strangers. Maybe that's not fair. Maybe it is.
So, back to being a parent -- I have found that reading books as a parent is challenging. I rarely have two hands, I rarely have good lighting, I rarely have quiet. The best I can manage is a few sentences while I'm on the toilet, and only then if Mikko doesn't scootch in and start pulling toilet paper off the tube and yanking on my pants.
So I've had to concentrate my efforts. I've tried reading other types of books when I needed a break and managed a few here and there, but then it's usually back to the long list of parenting books I've been recommended. The kind of parenting I want to do doesn't seem supported by my faith tradition. Maybe it is and I just haven't found the books to prove it -- I know, for instance, that Dr. Sears is in line with most of what I believe both parenting- and faith-wise, but some of the more progressive parenting books and sites I've read have been on a spectrum from non-Christian to anti-Christian. They're atheist, or spiritual but in a murkier way. Some authors are former Christians, which is even more salient.
It's had an effect on my already fragile faith. To take one doctrine as an example, it's hard for me to believe in original sin when as a parent I can't live that way. I can't expect Mikko to be bad or to have a core of evil intent. I need to expect good from him so I can put the best interpretation possible on his actions. Otherwise, I would become unreasonable, angry, and capricious.
I told Sam yesterday that I feel like my faith was a coherent whole before leaving for college, and every new thing that challenged it poked a hole in it. I started patching it up as best I could. Women do have inherent worth? Well, then, Paul must have been speaking to a specific situation, not to women through all time. There! Solved that puzzle. Or, Science says the earth is billions of years old and wasn't created in six days? Well, the creation story is poetic and tells who created the earth, not how. Ok, safe. But now I have these huuuuge questions: "Does God exist?" "Who is he?" "Do our lives have meaning?" "Is God knowable?" "Did we just make all this s*** up?" and no Band-Aid is going to cover those holes.
Sam said something to me that was comforting and a call for action. He said that he's had the same experience but not the same perception. He sees the truth of God as a shining core covered over with crappy, tacky trappings. Layers and layers of schlock and irrelevancies and prejudices and misconceptions. And every time a doubt comes up, it chips away one more inaccurate human addition to the truth, so that we get ever closer to that glowing nugget at the center.
He proposed that I'm succumbing to peer pressure, trying to be like the cool atheist kids I've been hanging out with. So he recommended a few authors to explore: Brian McLaren, Frederick Buechner, Henri Nouwen, Kathleen Norris, Macrina Wiederkehr, Anne Lamott, Gary Wills, L. Wlliam Countryman, Rich Mullins, Sundar Singh, J. Philip Newell, Thomas Cahill Richard Rohr, Shane Claiborne N.T. Wright -- all the writers he's been engaged with these past several years as I've secretly worried that he's slipping from orthodoxy into heresy. But, at this point, I'm ready for a little heresy.
We'll see if I can reconstruct a faith system out of the dust of my old beliefs. I'm finally willing to try.
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I love Sam's list of authors. I would add Ronald Rolheiser to the list. He's written The Holy Longing: the Search for a Christian Spirituality; The Shattered Lantern: Rediscovering a Felt Presence of God; Against an Infinite Horizon: the Finger of God in Our Everyday Lives; The Restless Heart: Finding Our Spiritual Home in Times of Loneliness... among others.
- September 12, 2008 at 10:43 AM
- Lauren Wayne said...
Thanks for the recommendation -- I'll check him out. The titles sound just right!
- September 14, 2008 at 10:50 AM
- Wilderness Mama said...
If you don't mind reading online, check out this page http://theearlychurch.com/english/index.html. Sound Doctrine and The Blueprint are entire books packed with tons of biblical insight. EXCELLENT reads! Then there is the recommended book list on there as well. The man who owns this site (Cliff) lives very close to me. I've been to 3 or so of his "home church" meetings, and it was so incredible! I really, truly felt like they were living out the New Testament church! Everything seemed perfect when we were together! (I just wished we lived a little closer.)
Just don't turn away because of this world or our earthly religions. I am on a journey right now as well, trying to find that "perfect" church for our family (that is also nearby). I know it doesn't exist, but I feel like it should! LOL! It's frustrating! But my point is, don't lose faith in God because of others around you who are not living godly lives. Does that even make sense? Look to God and His word. If you have a question about something you have always believed, test it against God's word. You may discover that what a particular church has always taught is actually NOT BIBLICAL! It will strengthen your faith. It has mine! :)
Wow, my comments are long tonight! LOL!
- November 5, 2008 at 9:10 PM
Wow! I can really relate to all that you have written here. We also had a similar fellowship that met in an old (remodeled) barn in the middle of an orchard and eventually it grew so that we moved into a shared church building and things changed.
Throughout our time with the fellowship I was encouraged to use spanking with my child even though it never felt right for me. I wasn't to do it with anger though...I was confused because these women had similar views as me...organic foods, babywearing, cloth diapering, homebirth, etc...Such a fragile time for me and I followed them. Thankfully I did break away from the spanking but it has left an impression on me and because I practiced it, sometimes I have to really fight off the 'old habit' of using it as an easy way out.
Did you read any of the books that you have listed here? I am curious what has become of your feelings since writing this post.
- May 30, 2010 at 9:38 AM
- Becky said...
I too struggle with religion and frankly spirituality as well. Lately I have been ashamed to tell people that I'm Mormon, but mostly that's because I live in Utah where the majority are Mormons. I don't want to be pinned as a follower, someone who doesn't think for herself. I married a non-Mormon and haven't been to church since August 2007. Now, I have a baby and I'm thinking of how we should raise her. My husband would be happy if our daughter never stepped inside a church. I want her to go to church and build a relationship with God and to gain an understanding of what I believe. But on the other hand, I feel that I could be pushing her into what I believe. It's a double sword... if I take her to church she will be influenced by that experience and if I don't, will so be ambivalent to religion and/or spirituality? True, my motivation for going back to church is for social reasons, to get to know the neighbors and get into a social network.
My back-and-forth thinking might be a bit more extreme than this post. I've watched the documentaries The Root of All Evil? and Religulous. I liked the first better than the latter, only because it was more respectful and had a scientific approach.
I'm whittled with guilt and I contribute that with my religion, either true or false. I don't want my daughter to go through the thoughts that have crossed my mind while growing up (and honestly it seems like this has only been my problem! My old friends and family are seemingly "normal"). I guess I'll introduce faith and spirituality to her and let her choose how much she wants it in her life. Now, I just need to decide how much I want it in my life.
- June 1, 2010 at 8:27 PM
- lauren. said...
this comment is years late, but i totally understand where you're coming from. from my perspective, i essentially see so much artificiality & social construction in religion that i, too, have strayed from my church in the last few years. i, too, have not found a new one.
from what i can tell, sam & i seem to be close to being on the same page. i believe that the only truth i need to know is god's love & his subsequent gift of sending christ to us. further, i think that modeling parenting after god's parenting helps to eliminate many of the social restrictions & rules that have been placed on families in our culture. i think this may help you address your issues with original sin. god knows that sin is inherent in us, but he doesn't let it define us. he sees the good in us always, & he allows our sin to be forgotten & forgiven daily (even at every moment), just as we forgive children. (in all honesty, i believe that sin really only manifests itself in children as selfishness. we all know that babies & kids are selfish, but we forgive them for it, because we know they can't do any better yet. one of the biggest lessons parents must teach their children, in fact, is to step outside of themselves & let go of that selfishness.)
i must admit that i haven't read any of the authors that sam suggested, & i haven't really found anyone to discuss these issues with. they're simply things that i've been milling around inside myself & talking to god about. the more i recognize the artificiality of our society, the more i look to god for the essentiality of his truth. i believe that christians are one of the groups most blinded to the reality of social construction & one of the least accepting groups in general.
for these reasons, i've begun to think of my role as a christian in terms of being rebellious. god has asked us to be not of this world, & for that reason, i think we must rebel against it. against convention for its own sake. against oppression. against narrow-mindedness. against selfishness. against the idea that western culture is the way god wants us to live (this one makes me sick to my stomach - this country is so freaking ethnocentric!). i've charged myself with the task to love unconditionally & uncontrollably - & to rebel against the rest.
i'm not sure if any of these things are what you're really dealing with, & i realize that i have written way too much (as usual), but i felt that what you were getting at are the exact things that i have been pondering for the several years, as well. thank you for always being so open & honest - & for welcoming an open forum of expression.
& p.s. a late congrats on your pregnancy. i can't wait to learn all about him/her!
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An example of our solution working. Imagine, there is a Coca-Cola automatic vending machine where you can buy a Cola by throwing a coin in the machine. If you do not have any coins, you can not purchase your Cola.
With our solution:
You as a client can buy your Cola from the same vending machine by calling to a certain number or sending an sms (mobile billing).
Service people using our software know exactly what vending machines need to be refilled (Real Time Inventory Tracking).
Management knows what are the current sales results and stock inventory.
Some product features:
Real Time Tracking – monitor vending machines sales and inventory, see current stock in each vending machine
Various reports – sales by product, by vending machine, by time period, by location (region, etc.)
Alerts – vending machine out of order, product best before date is reached, vending machine inventory level (needs to be refilled), etc.
Optimal route calculation for vending machine refill operation
and more...
Now we are entering EU markets with domain http://www.vendon.net and brand "vendon" for which we want the new logo.
Main target audience: vending industry companies - those who own vending machines, automated laundry service, automated coffee machines, etc.
Secondary target audience: vending machines producers (may have more interest in our software as they often already have the hardware part of vendon solution).
We provide also GPRS tracking devices but the main stress is on software, it means that "vendon" mainly is software with witch you can connect to your vending machines.
Markets – primary European Union, but we are interested in any country.
We are looking for modern logo design that is with style and fits in business environment.
It should be in one line (together with graphic sign if such exists) so it doesn't take much vertical space.
Name "vendon" is from words "Vend" and "On" (Vendin + Online). You can use these words but don't make them the main point! As we plan to use it also in countries where English is not native language it should be pronounceable in other languages as word without any meaning.
Also it's important that the logo (or just the graphic sign) looks good as favicon.
You can make logo with capital or small letters we will look through all versions. All depends how good it looks and how appropriate it is for our needs.
Logo design must be without .com
Some examples we like:
p.s. these examples are just 5 minute search result, so don't limit your self with these ones just remember we like that style.
Examples of vending machines are attached to the brief.
Keywords that our client must think about "vendon" – make more efficient use of his vending machines, have all vending machines online, new mobile billing options, money saving on vending machines management, to be always informed, easy to use, "vendon" is reliable, modern, flexible, top quality product.
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Some of us have come to the realization that organized religion isn't for us and want to discuss why.
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We want to find the truth, no matter what it is, and fight for our right to follow it.
We want to create a safe place for people to exchange thoughts and ideas that we were taught not to talk about.We want to support each other and help each other deal with family questions and formulate answers.
We want to give others the chance to choose what they want for themselves, without fear of death, imprisonment, or persecution.
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And as this group is still in its infancy, we would like to keep it limited to people from Muslim backgrounds, as this will help us talk freely and comfortably knowing that we all come from the same place.
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Oliver Heaviside
Born: 18 May 1850 in Camden Town, London, England
Died: 3 February 1925 in Torquay, Devon, England
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Oliver Heaviside's parents were Rachel Elizabeth West and Thomas Heaviside. Thomas was a wood engraver and water colour artist. Oliver, the youngest of his parents four sons, was born at 55 King Street in Camden Town. He caught scarlet fever when he was a young child and this affected his hearing. This was to have a major effect on his life, making his childhood unhappy with relations between himself and other children difficult. However his school results were rather good and in 1865 he was placed fifth from 500 pupils.
Academic subjects seemed to hold little attraction for Heaviside however and at age 16 he left school. Perhaps he was more disillusioned with school than with learning since he continued to study after leaving school, in particular he learnt Morse code, studied electricity and studied further languages in particular Danish and German. He was aiming at a career as a telegrapher and in this he was advised and helped by his uncle Charles Wheatstone (the piece of electrical apparatus known as the Wheatstone bridge is named after him).
In 1868 Heaviside went to Denmark and became a telegrapher. He progressed quickly in his profession and returned to England in 1871 to take up a post in Newcastle upon Tyne in the office of Great Northern Telegraph Company which dealt with overseas traffic.
Heaviside became increasingly deaf but he worked on his own researches into electricity. While still working as chief operator in Newcastle he began to publish papers on electricity, the first in 1872 and then the second in 1873 was of sufficient interest to Maxwell that he mentioned the results in the second edition of his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Maxwell's treatise fascinated Heaviside and he gave up his job as a telegrapher and devoted his time to the study of the work. He later wrote:-
I saw that it was great, greater, and greatest, with prodigious possibilities in its power. I was determined to master the book... It took me several years before I could understand as much as I possible could. Then I set Maxwell aside and followed my own course. And I progressed much more quickly.Although his interest and understanding of this work was deep, Heaviside was not interested in rigour. His poorest subject at school had been the study of Euclid, a topic in which the emphasis was on rigorous proof, an idea strongly disliked by Heaviside who later wrote:-
It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally .. obvious.Despite this hatred of rigour, Heaviside was able to greatly simplify Maxwell's 20 equations in 20 variables, replacing them by four equations in two variables. Today we call these 'Maxwell's equations' forgetting that they are in fact 'Heaviside's equations'. FitzGerald wrote:-
Maxwell's treatise is cumbered with the debris of his brilliant lines of assault, of his entrenched camps, of his battles. Oliver Heaviside has cleared these away, has opened up a direct route, has made a broad road, and has explored a considerable trace of country.Heaviside results on electromagnetism, impressive as they were, were overshadowed by the important methods in vector analysis which he developed in his investigations. His operational calculus, developed between 1880 and 1887, caused much controversy however. He introduced his operational calculus to enable him to solve the ordinary differential equations which came out of the theory of electrical circuits. He replaced the differential operator d/dx by a variable p transforming a differential equation into an algebraic equation. The solution of the algebraic equation could be transformed back using conversion tables to give the solution of the original differential equation. Although highly successful in obtaining the answer, the correctness of Heaviside's calculus was not proved until Bromwich's work.
Burnside rejected one of Heaviside's papers on the operational calculus, which he had submitted to the Proceedings of the Royal Society , on the grounds that it:-
... contained errors of substance and had irredeemable inadequacies in proof.Tait championed quaternions against the vector methods of Heaviside and Gibbs and sent frequent letters to Nature attacking Heaviside's methods.
Heaviside went on to achieved further advances in knowledge, again receiving less than his just deserts. In 1887 Preece, a GPO technical expert, wrote a paper on clear telephone circuits. His paper is in error and Heaviside pointed this out in Electromagnetic induction and its propagation published in the Electrician on 3 June 1887. Heaviside, never one to avoid controversy, wrote:-
Sir W Thomson's theory of the submarine cable is a splendid thing. .. Mr Preece is much to be congratulated upon having assisted at the experiments upon which (so he tells us) Sir W Thomson based his theory, he should therefore have an unusually complete knowledge of it. But the theory of the eminent scientist does not resemble that of the eminent scienticulist, save remotely.In this paper Heaviside gave, for the first time, the conditions necessary to transmit a signal without distortion. His idea for an induction coil to increase induction was never likely to be taken up by the GPO while Preece was in charge of research proposals. Heaviside dropped the idea but it was patented in 1904 in the United States. Michael Pupin of Columbia University and George Campbell of ATT both read Heaviside's papers about using induction coils at intervals along the telephone line. Both Campbell and Pupin applied for a patent which was awarded to Pupin in 1904.
Not all went badly for Heaviside however. Thomson, giving his inaugural address in 1889 as President of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, described Heaviside as an authority. Lodge wrote to Nature describing Heaviside was a man:-
... whose profound researches into electro-magnetic waves have penetrated further than anyone yet understands.Heaviside was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1891, perhaps the greatest honour he received. Whittaker rated Heaviside's operational calculus as one of the three most important discoveries of the late 19th Century.
In 1902 Heaviside predicted that there was an conducting layer in the atmosphere which allowed radio waves to follow the Earth's curvature. This layer in the atmosphere, the Heaviside layer, is named after him. Its existence was proved in 1923 when radio pulses were transmitted vertically upward and the returning pulses from the reflecting layer were received.
It would be a mistake to think that the honours that Heaviside received gave him happiness in the last part of his life. On the contrary he seemed to become more and more bitter as the years went by. In 1909 Heaviside moved to Torquay where he showed increasing evidence of a persecution complex. His neighbours related stories of Heaviside as a strange and embittered hermit who replaced his furniture with:-
... granite blocks which stood about in the bare rooms like the furnishings of some Neolithic giant. Through those fantastic rooms he wandered, growing dirtier and dirtier, and more and more unkempt - with one exception. His nails were always exquisitely manicured, and painted a glistening cherry pink.Perhaps Heaviside has become more widely known due to the Andrew Lloyd Webber song Journey to the Heaviside Layer in the musical Cats , based on the poems of T S Eliot:-
Up up up past the Russell hotelHowever it is doubtful if many people understand the greatness and significance of the achievements of this sad misunderstood genius. As stated in [3] Heaviside was:-
Up up up to the Heaviside layer
A mathematical thinker whose work long failed to secure the recognition its brilliance deserved ...
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- Obituary: The Times
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Central Connecticut junior Rob Hollomon was named to the 2013 CFPA All-Purpose Performer of the Year watch list on Sunday afternoon by the College Football Performance Awards. Last Monday, Hollomon was named a Preseason All-America by The Sports Network, he earned a third team selection as an all-purpose player.
All CFPA recipients are selected exclusively based upon objective scientific rankings of the extent to which individual players increase the overall effectiveness of their teams. All players are eligible for awards at their respective positions; players are not preemptively eliminated from consideration.
Hollomon is one of 32 players on the preseason all-purpose performer watch list.
As a sophomore, in his first season with the Blue Devils, Hollomon totaled 1,710 all-purpose yards and six touchdowns, including 1,104 yards and five touchdowns rushing. His yardage total is the sixth highest in program history and he is just the ninth Blue Devil to reach the milestone in a season. He averaged 5.2 yards per rush and 110 rushing yards per game.
Hollomon boosted his all-purpose yards by catching 21 passes for 231 yards, returning 15 kicks for 336 yards and five punts for 36 yards.
On October 20, against Robert Morris, Hollomon totaled 377 all-purpose yards (208 rushing, 56 receiving, 113 return) to set CCSU's Division I program record. Hollomon's 96-yard kickoff return for touchdown was a single yard shy of the NEC's all-time record for longest kick return.
Hollomon followed up his special game against Robert Morris by posting 307 all-purpose yards against Saint Francis U the following week. In that game, Hollomon rushed for 207 yards and three scores. He also had 80 receiving yards and 20 return yards.
Over the final five games of the season, Hollomon posted 100+ rushing yards and 200+ all-purpose yards in each contest. During that stretch he went over 200 yards rushing and 300 all-purpose yards twice. For the season, Hollomon averaged 171 all-purpose yards per game.
Hollomon earned a pair of NEC and national weekly awards during the 2012 season. He was named NEC Special Teams Player of the Week on Oct. 22, and NEC Offensive Player of the Week on Oct. 29. The College Football Performance Awards named Hollomon National Kick Returner of the Week on Oct. 24, and The Sports Network named him National Co-Offensive Player of the Week on Oct. 29.
Hollomon and the Blue Devils will open the 2013 season on Saturday, August 31, at James Madison University.


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Recovering Derrick Rose says he still can't dunk
BOSTON (AP) Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose says he is making progress in his rehab from reconstructive knee surgery but his left leg "still isn't right."
Speaking with reporters after Wednesday night's 71-69 loss to the Celtics in Boston, Rose said he won't rush back just to play this season if he isn't ready.
"If it's where it's taking me a long time and I'm still not feeling right, I wouldn't mind missing this year," he said Wednesday night in the visitors' locker room at TD Garden.
"I would love to play this year. I would love to. That's why I approach my rehab and my workout so hard. I'm trying to get back out there on the court as quickly as possible. But if I have anything later on there's no point."
Rose tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during a playoff-opening win over Philadelphia, and the top-seeded Bulls wound up losing to the 76ers in the first round. He has not played this season, but he has been practicing and traveling with the team.
Although he has given few interviews, Rose told USA Today in a story posted Tuesday that he wouldn't come back until he was "110 percent," adding that he was "far away, far away" from being ready.
"My leg still isn't feeling right," he said in Boston on Wednesday, adding that he is unable to dunk. "I know if I could dunk off stride, I know I'd be out there playing. But I can't."
Rose said the team is not rushing him to come back.
"It's really on me to make a decision when I'm going to play again. So that's cool that they left it up to me," he said. "That's the last thing I'm thinking about, coming back too soon. I know it's all on me. I've just got to make a decision when I'm ready."
One concern, Rose said, is that he doesn't want to have to avoid contact. Although he's working on his outside shot, he doesn't want to limit his game once he returns.
"I'm working on my shot, but you're not going to label me as a shooter," he said. "My game is always going to be driving."
Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said in Chicago on Tuesday that nothing had changed in the team's outlook.
"He's right on schedule," he said. "When he's ready, we'll know. We'll go from there. That's why we've approached it the way we have. The team has to concentrate on their improvement and their next opponent. He has to do his rehab, and then at some point, he'll rejoin us and we'll go from there."
Rose said he played three-on-three and one-on-one recently and hasn't had any setbacks.
"That's a good thing right now, to go in every day just knowing you're getting better," he said.
The Bulls had the best record in the Eastern Conference last season and were among the favorites to reach the NBA finals before losing Rose and bowing out to the eighth-seeded 76ers. This year, they weren't expected to do much - at least until he returns.
But Chicago is fifth in the East heading into this weekend's All-Star break, and just a half-game away from home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
"It's great knowing that they are winning games," Rose said. "It seems like they are fighting for me out there. So I don't have anything but to respect them, for how hard they've been working out there in practice and when they are going out there playing as a team."


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