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February is designated as "American Heart Month." And while stores are filled with heart-shaped chocolates and red and pink floral arrangements, the hearts we are referring to aren't metaphorical. American Heart Month is all about the organ that keeps us alive! Heart disease affects men and women alike. So take care of heart matters in February and all year long.
Shockingly, according to the CDC, one American dies from a coronary event every minute in this country. Not so surprisingly, the best defense against heart disease and Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack) is to follow a daily regimen that includes a healthy diet and plenty of exercise.
Here are the common signs of an impending heart attack (If you experience these, do not hesitate to call 911):
- Uncomfortable chest pressure or a squeezing sensation
- Discomfort in the arm, neck, or jaw
- Shortness of breath
- Cold sweats
- Lightheadedness
What can you do to stay heart-healthy?
- Get moving!
- Use the stairs instead of elevators. (First, check stair railings and make sure non-slip surfaces are present on each step.)
- Instead of jockeying for premium parking places, purposely park your vehicle away from the front door.
- Track your physical activity by wearing a pedometer. Health experts suggest walking a minimum of 10,000 steps per day.
- Take advantage of free or discounted gym memberships offered by some insurance companies and/or employers.
Eat right!
- Follow a heart-healthy diet.
- Eat plenty of fiber. The best way to do this is to include plenty of fruits and vegetables at every meal.
- Stop eating and drinking foods that contains refined sugar. Soda intake has been linked to increase risk of heart disease.
- Cut diet soda from your diet, as well. Some studies indicate that diet carbonated beverages increases the risk of heart disease. Your best bet for good health is water.
- Buy fresh ingredients at your local farmer's market.
- Select organic products, whenever possible.
Additional tips and safety:
- Stock aspirin in your Go-Bag. Studies show that people who experience symptoms of a heart attack can chew an aspirin to reduce the severity of the episode.
- Limit your exposure to second-hand smoke.
- Try not to stress out. Most medical professionals agree that people who are under a lot of stress have an increased risk of heart disease.
- Take advantage of programs such as "The Heart Truth," which provides tools for preventing and treating heart-related health problems.
- Take a CPR class, so signs symptoms and treatments of heart attack will become second nature.
While disaster planning for earthquakes, fires, and mudslides is a no-brainer, it is equally critical to prepare for smaller-scale but no less serious disasters such as heart disease, which claims millions of lives. So Go Red not just in February, but all year long.
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Norwich City Ladies 1 Stevenage Ladies 2: Canaries pay price for first half display
PUBLISHED: 12:47 02 October 2018
After an SSE Women's FA Cup fixture last weekend, it was back to league action this week at home against Stevenage, at Plantation Park.
The game started as a nervous affair, with neither side entirely comfortable on the ball. However, Stevenage settled first and scored their first on 19 minutes when Shona Chitate capitalised on a midfield mistake and struck from distance, beating Hope Armstrong, the Norwich keeper.
Stevenage scored a second with 24 minutes played when Ashleigh Deacon bypassed a stretched Norwich defence and found the net. At the restart and with barely four minutes played, it looked like Stevenage were set to score a third, when Sasha Diston conceded a penalty. However, the young Norwich keeper had a different view and kept her nerve resisting the temptation to guess which way to go and dropped onto the ball played straight up the middle and gathered the ball.
The next six minutes saw both teams making substitutions, Norwich Kate Parsons making way for Laura Thacker and a season debut for Ellie Smith recently returned from America on for Reeanna Cook. Stevenage replaced Amy Runiman with Kristi Burling.
Norwich, now clearly on the offensive, were going all out to claw their way back into the game and after a number of near chances were rewarded, when Laura Thacker cut the deficit, her downward header finding the net past a stranded Hannah Vandersluis.
More opportunities came and went for Norwich who now looked much the better side, but they couldn't convert their chances.
A final round of substitutions, for Norwich Kathryn Stanley on for Jodie Drake and for Stevenage Amy Josland on for Amy Makewell and Poppy Bennett for Ashleigh Deacon. However, despite an onslaught on the Stevenage goal up to the whistle, final score 2-1.
Norwich: Armstrong, Robson, Parker, Diston, Parsons (Thacker 58), Drake (Stanley 77), Durrant, Daviss, Garrett, Love, Cook (Smith 61), Subs not used: None
Stevenage: Vandersluis, Logie, Chitate, Godbeer, Deacon (Bennett 88), Makewell (Josland 83), Searle, Runciman (Burling 64), Emmings, Ryan, Pope, Subs not used: None
Referee: Ashley Tyne
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The Jeep Renegade has one of the most distinctive provenances of any vehicle currently on sale in the US. For starters, it's almost entirely made in Italy. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has taken a platform it also uses for the Fiat 500X and made it into a Jeep. In terms of the maths, 62% of the vehicle is
bella figura Italian, while 22% is red, white, and blue — or just red and white as some parts hail from Canada.
Yes, it's a Jeep that would make President Donald Trump spit his Diet Coke across the Oval Office at Steve Bannon.
But in a white-hot compact SUV market, consumers don't seem to care where the Renegade was bolted together: FCA sold almost 61,000 units after it was introduced in 2015 and was within a single sales month of doubling that in 2016, when over 106,000 examples of the vehicle rolled off dealer lots.
It isn't hard to see why the Renegade has been a success for Fiat. What we have here is a very Jeepy "cute ute" crossover SUV that definitely feels like it wants to get dirtier than, say, a Mazda CX-3 or Honda HR-V.
Jeep was kind enough to let me borrow a 2016 Renegade Limited 4×4, stickering at $US31,500 after the addition of quite a few appealing options. I drove it around the suburbs of New Jersey for a week. I didn't ford any streams, nor did I rock-hop. But I went shopping and I took my kids to school, which is test enough of a small SUV's capabilities in real American life.
The Renegade, of course, has that unmistakable Jeep look: the boxy shape, the slotted grille, the round headlights, the squared-off wheel arches — you know, that purposeful Jeep aesthetic that's intended to make Jeeps stand out as vehicles with a rugged heritage dating back to the 1940s and the Second World War, distinguishing them from latter-day copycats that wouldn't know how to dodge shell craters even if they got a few weeks of basic training.
Frankly, I hated it at first, as I do the look of all Jeeps that aren't the classic, no-frills Wrangler or the ancient Grand Wagoneer. But as is always the case with Jeeps, the design grew on me and after a few days, I was smiling when I gazed upon the Renegade in my driveway. It helped that my first-grader was immediately and encompassingly smitten by the car. I can't deny that there's something adorably childlike about Jeeps, and in the case of the smaller vehicles, a more rough-and-tumble type of cute than you get from a MINI Cooper.
My tester was a sober "Granite Crystal Metallic," which is Fiat for "charcoal grey." The interior featured black upholstery that was a synthetic-leather composite and looked as if it would be pretty durable. The layout combines a nice, high driving position with a pretty no-nonsense arrangement of features, plus a fairly roomy back seat and good amount of cargo space. For comparison, you might want to check out a Subaru Forester. Vehicles such as the Mazda CX-3 and the Honda HR-V are more car-like, plasticky, and compact. The bottom line is that the Renegade is successful downsized Jeep, rather than a Jeeped-up Fiat.
I found the ride to be, initially, horrendous: crude and bumpy. But then I reminded myself that this is a dang Jeep. The whole point is that ride is meant to prepare you to deviate from the beaten path and forge a new trail and explore the virgin wilderness … Well, you get the idea. We are not striking out for Lexus country.
After I adapted to the looks and accommodated myself to the ride, the Renegade and I were automotive besties. The straightforward 2.4-litre four-banger motor serves up 180 horsepower and is plenty peppy, and I imagine that the brisk-shifting 9-speed automatic makes the EPA-rated 21 mpg city/29 highway/24 combined a reasonable estimate of fuel economy. That isn't great, but it isn't bad either, and given that the Renegade's all-wheel-drive system adds weight but makes up for it with genuine off-roading credibility, the compromise could be worth it.
Heated front seats and a heated steering wheel are wonderful — and standard on the base-priced $US26,995 Renegade. The main extra costs are for the 6.5-inch center infotainment touchscreen and an unusual moonroof that has removable panels. There's also a windshield-wiper de-icing system that I imagine would be useful in the Northeast.
Otherwise, infotainment and navigation are up to par for the segment (FCA's Uconnect system is easy to use), with SiriusXM satellite radio, Bluetooth pairing, USB and AUX ports, and plenty of airbags all around. A few cheesy elements are present, such as the plastic plaque above the infotainment screen that reads "SINCE 1941" in the sort of old-school stenciled military lettering that evokes Sherman tanks and ammunition boxes. But they quickly fade into the overall package.
Driving the Renegade was never joyful, but it was ultimately a more stout, if less comfortable, experience than what I've encountered with other cute utes. This isn't a large vehicle, either, so you can zip and dart around in ways that are unlike what you might have used to go with bigger SUVs. The steering is responsive, and the acceleration is adequate.
The bottom line is that the Renegade feels absolutely nothing like an Italian car. That dashing spirit of The Boot has been ruthlessly engineered out and replaced with steadfast Jeepy values. And if you think about, that means the Renegade is something of a work of genius.
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Our family loves pancakes. We make them at home a lot… but now we've got some serious competition. Denny's has upgraded their pancakes, creating a recipe so good it even tops those that are homemade!
One thing I've learned throughout my time as a Denny's ambassador is that this is a company wholly committed to quality. They put hours of work into each recipe that makes it to the menu, so it was no surprise when I learned they transforming their pancakes with pure ingredients and classic flavors for a bigger, better, and tastier pancake. They're now 50% fluffier and made with fresh ingredients such as real eggs, buttermilk and vanilla.
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Well, on Tuesday, my orthopedist (who also happens to be my husband's surgeon), informed me that the x-rays he took 2 weeks ago confirm I have a fracture in my right foot. I have been sentenced to 6 weeks in an Aircast Walking Boot. OMG!!!
Now I've heard of walking a mile in someone else's shoes, but did I really need to take this so literally?
Although I had been in pain for months, this "solution" is in many ways worse than the fracture. It has been less than a week and I am already complaining about the inability to move quickly, the stress on my shin and knees, and the inability to wear cute shoes during the summer. But these few short days have given me a brand new appreciation for what my husband has been through.
Are you willing to walk a mile in someone else's shoes?
There has been a lot of discussion on the web recently about race and racial tension. Much of the recent conversation has been fueled by Paula Deen's recent admissions and the search for justice in the Trayvon Martin case. It never ceases to amaze me how emboldened folks are by the anonymity of the internet – they post things that surely they would not say in a room full of people.
Yesterday, I read a post suggesting that since slavery was so many years ago, blacks should "just get over it."
Oh if only they could walk a mile in the shoes of black men and women! (And I'm not talking about Jay-Z and Beyonce]
Anyone who would state that blacks should just "get over" slavery does not understand the horrors that were the backbone of that institution. Men and women were forcibly carried from their homelands to become the property of men who treated them like animals and hated them because of their black skin. Slaves labored hard in the fields, lived in shacks, and were fed scraps. They were beaten to within an inch of their life and only provided medical care if they were in danger of dying, so their master would not suffer financial loss. Families were ripped apart, sold to the highest bidder, women raped and forced to "breed" more slaves for their owners.
And yes, hatred based on skin color still impacts the health and well-being of black communities today.
Are you brave enough to walk a mile in someone else's shoes? Better check the history first.
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Sept. 3
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Neighbors want to raise $68,000 to commission artwork at Kiest Park honoring Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan. All proceeds from this concert, with performances from Jim Suhler, Smokin' Joe Kubek and Carolyn Wonderland will go to the project. The musicians are expected to pay tribute to the Vaughans as well as Freddie King, T-Bone Walker, The Nightcaps and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Guitars autographed by celebrities will be auctioned off between sets.
The Kessler, 1230 W. Davis, 214.272.8346, thekessler.org, $75-$250
Sept. 1
Deepwater Horizon
"The Great Invisible," a documentary about Deepwater Horizon, the offshore drilling rig that exploded off the coast of Houston in 2010, causing the largest oil spill in U.S. waters and killing 11 people, is the First Tuesday Social Justice Film.
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff, 3839 W. Kiest, 214.337.2429, firsttuesdayfilms.org, free
Sept. 4-6
'Turbo Kid'
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, this 2015 Canadian film is about a young solitary scavenger who is obsessed with comic books but has to man up and save the girl of his dreams.
The Texas Theatre, 231 W. Jefferson, 214.948.1546, thetexastheatre.com
Sept. 5
Artist DIY
Oak Cliff's own Daniel Yanez, aka Artist DIY of the Basement Gallery, opens a solo show at Deep Ellum shoe store Epocha.
Epocha, 2540 Elm, 972.863.9260, epochadallas.com, free
Sept. 8
Book club
The North Oak Cliff Library's book club selection for September is the historical novel "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. The club meets at 6 p.m.
North Oak Cliff Library, 302 W. Tenth, 214.670.7555, dallaslibrary.org, free
Sept. 10
The Weight
The Band had massive hits, including "The Weight," "Ophelia," "Up On Cripple Creek," "Arcadian Driftwood," "Makes No Difference," "Rag Momma Rag" and so many more. The Weight, the band, includes members of The Band, Levon Helm Band and Rick Danko Group.
The Kessler, 1230 W. Davis, 214.272.8346, thekessler.org, $28-$42
Sept. 10-20
Play Pride
The second-annual Play Pride LGBT Festival from TeCo Theatrical Productions features one-act plays from local playwrights. Audience members vote for their favorites, and one author will win $500.
Bishop Arts Theater Center, 215 S. Tyler, 214.948.0716, tecotheater.org, $15-$20
Sept. 19
Rock the Cliff
The second-annual Rock the Cliff 5k funds scholarships for Oak Cliff high school students. It starts at 10 a.m., and there's also a 1-mile fun run.
Lake Cliff Park, Colorado at Zang, rockthecliff.com, $10-$35
Sept. 26
90th birthday
Sunset High School celebrates its 90th anniversary with an official dedication of a Dallas County historical marker and Texas Registered Landmark designation. The event includes tours of the school and speeches from students. RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Sunset High School cafeteria, 2120 W. Jefferson, 972.502.1500, sunsetalumni.com, free


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In the summer of 2001 Vice President Dick Cheney's staff invited a group of environmentalists over to the Old Executive Office Building to talk about building more fuel-efficient automobiles.
Dan Becker, the Sierra Club's director of environmental programs, wasn't expecting much from the meeting, but he brought along a surprise expert, a Chicago auto dealer. "We went around the table, and everybody introduced themselves," he says. The auto dealer introduced himself by saying, "I'm Chuck Frank, president of Z Frank Chevrolet in Chicago." Becker remembers that two of Cheney's people--chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby and James Connaughton, a Chicago lawyer who chaired the Council on Environmental Quality--did a double take. Borrowing a line from Annie Hall--when Woody Allen silences a know-it-all pontificating about a writer outside a movie theater by reaching behind a signboard and pulling out the writer himself--Becker said, "Meet Marshall McLuhan."
"They were a little surprised and interested," says Frank, who bills his business as "The World's Largest Chevy Dealer." "I got a few words in. They asked me about supply and demand in the car business. I told them I thought if they raised the standard, the auto companies would build vehicles to the standard and customers would buy the best vehicles."
Cheney's staff countered with the auto industry's most effective argument against mileage standards: If the government raises them automakers will have to build smaller cars, and smaller cars will mean more deaths on the highway.
Frank told them small cars aren't the problem. The problem is SUVs plowing into small cars. "If you allow half the population--and usually it's the wealthier half--to have big vehicles," he said, "then you allow more big vehicles on the road, and it's less safe for small cars."
A month earlier Cheney had told an audience in Michigan that the Bush administration would never raise the miles-per-gallon standard on American cars. Nevertheless, the Sierra Club came into the room proposing that the government require every automaker to produce a fleet that averaged 40 miles per gallon. At the time the standards were 27.5 mpg for cars and 20.7 for "light trucks," which includes pickups, minivans, and SUVs.
"They were unmoved," says Becker. "But they would have been unmoved by anything."
Frank is even more cynical. A few weeks after the meeting he got a call from a staffer at the Council on Environmental Quality thanking him for his testimony. "I still have the voice mail," he says, sitting in his office near the corner of Western and Peterson surrounded by blown-up photos of camping trips to Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Alaska, and Argentina. He punches a few buttons on his phone and out comes the voice of John L. Howard Jr., an aide to Connaughton.
"Charles Frank was very kind to send us a letter about a meeting we recently had on CAFE [Corporate Average Fuel Economy] here in Washington, with Sierra Club and many other folks," says Howard in a Texas drawl. "I appreciated the letter, and I wanted to let Charles know that we appreciate his frank comments on this important issue."
Frank pulls a face.
Howard goes on, "We too are looking forward to moving forward on this issue and have set up a series of future discussions hopefully that will include many folks and have an opportunity to move forward and improve fuel economy."
"You've seen how much they've done to improve fuel-economy standards," says Frank sarcastically.
Actually, in 2003 the Bush administration did raise fuel-efficiency standards, but only for pickups, SUVs, and minivans. And only by 1.5 miles per gallon by 2007.
Frank's father, Zollie, founded Z Frank Chevrolet in 1936. Frank says the dealership has sold over a million Chevys, more than any other single lot in the country. When he was young he worked there as a cashier and parts stocker, but he says he had no particular interest in cars. He did have a love of nature, which he developed on boyhood camping and fishing trips. He wanted an outdoor career, but that seemed impossible for a city kid.
"If I'd have known then what I know now I probably would have gone to law school and become an environmental lawyer," he says. "But that field was just getting started back then, in 1974, so I kind of viewed my options as going into forestry. I don't know anything about agriculture or trees or botany. I just didn't see myself as a forest ranger."
Frank's father persuaded him to go to the University of Chicago and get a business degree. When he graduated, Zollie offered to pay him $18,000 a year, the average starting salary for an MBA, to work at the dealership.
Frank had joined the Sierra Club the year before, after a U. of C. dean who'd gone with him on several canoe trips handed him an application. He started taking a greater interest in the organization's work in 1981, the year his wife, Debbie, developed asthma and President Reagan chose as his interior secretary James Watt, who denounced environmentalists as a "left-wing cult" and promised to "mine more, drill more, cut more timber."
In the early 1990s Frank wrote his will, leaving the Sierra Club a large sum. As a result he was invited to join its national advisory council, a group of big donors. The next year he went to the annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
"I had some real concerns about getting involved in the club, being a car dealer selling Tahoes and Suburbans," he says. "I didn't know if I'd be welcome. I didn't know if I'd be viewed as the enemy. People loved the fact that a large car dealer would be interested."
As a salesman, he knew what turned on car buyers, and he persuaded the group to change the way it promoted fuel-efficient cars. It had been trying to guilt-trip consumers into driving small cars by pointing out the environmental benefits. Now its Web site features articles titled "Clean Energy Policies Would Create 1.4 Million New Jobs" and "High Gas Prices Not a Problem for This Toyota Prius Owner."
"Chuck explained why people find the behemoth vehicle more attractive," says Becker. "Some people see them as better value for their money. We accentuated the money savings and the benefits rather than the societal impacts."
Frank has traveled to Washington numerous times to lobby Congress for an increase in mileage standards. In 2003 he sent a letter to all 100 senators, and it was read on C-SPAN by Dick Durbin, who was sponsoring a rider to an energy bill that would have raised standards on passenger vehicles to 40 mpg. The rider failed.
"Chuck is one of the few people in the industry who will take a stand on this," says Durbin. "I got his letter in the midst of the debate on the fuel-efficiency standard. I was certainly familiar with the Z Frank dealership, and here was the man who was managing this dealership sending me a letter saying we've got to do better, when I was used to getting resistance from that industry."
Durbin--who's fighting not only industry lobbyists, the president, and the vice president, but labor unions--needs all the help he can get. Mileage standards have barely changed since 1984, but he'd like to see them increase regularly as automobile technology improves. He also wants to close the truck loophole that permits light trucks to have a lower miles-per-gallon requirement than cars. The loophole made sense in 1984, when most light trucks were pickups used for hauling heavy loads, but now most light trucks are SUVs or minivans--passenger vehicles. "It's going to take a number of years to do it," he says. "And there appears to be no appetite in Detroit for fuel-efficient vehicles."
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers--a Washington lobby group representing General Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, and six foreign automakers--opposes any increase in mileage standards. And it sees Frank as a heretic on a misbegotten crusade. "He's alone on that," says communications director Eron Shosteck. "The fundamental problem with fuel-efficiency regulations is that they don't take into account market dynamics."
Shosteck points out that even though miles-per-gallon requirements haven't changed since 1984, fuel efficiency has increased dramatically, thanks to better engines and transmissions. Frank says that's true, but the automakers haven't used the gains to build vehicles that get better mileage. They've used them to build bigger vehicles that get the same mileage. "The manufacturers have the technology to improve mileage by 50 percent," he insists. "They'd rather put on an MP3 player. What sells cars is style, power, and goodies."
Pickup trucks, SUVs, and minivans now outsell cars in 46 states. Because they have lower miles-per-gallon requirements, the average fuel economy for all passenger vehicles has actually been decreasing, from 22.1 mpg in 1988 to 20.8 in 2003. That, along with urban sprawl and more multivehicle households, has raised America's foreign oil consumption from 7.8 million barrels a day in 1992 to 12.2 million in 2003, much of which comes from the Middle East.
Frank thinks that's reason enough to change the standards. "Higher mileage will reduce the need for us to be dependent on foreign oil and will have, I think, a real impact on international policy in the United States," he says. "If you don't need to go to the Middle East for oil, we're not putting American culture in the face of people who resent American culture. And number two, their source of funds dries up--they can't buy all the arms and do all the stuff that they do."
He also believes that American auto manufacturers are repeating the mistake they made in the 1970s, when they kept building gas guzzlers while the public was turning to Hondas. The Big Three belatedly started making compacts, but the early models were junk like the Pinto and the Gremlin. Many consumers who defected to Japanese cars never bought another American one.
Today hybrid cars are on the cutting edge of fuel economy, and once again the Japanese are kicking our butts. Honda's been in the market since 2000, Toyota since 2001. Ford only recently introduced the Escape, a hybrid SUV, and GM won't join the market until 2007. By then, Frank worries, Toyota and Honda will be established in the public's mind as the hybrid-car companies.
At a recent meeting in Detroit, Frank says, "I tried to impress upon Chevrolet leadership that it wasn't strictly about economics but about marketing. It's about image. I would love to be able to sell a hybrid car. I drive a Chevy, and I always will. But I'd love to be able to drive a hybrid."
In 2004 Americans bought only 88,000 hybrids--that's 0.5 percent of the U.S. market. By 2008 the figure is expected to increase to 2.4 percent. But Frank compares the hybrid car to the compact disc player. In its early days the CD was the toy of a few audiophiles, yet within a decade it replaced LPs and cassettes. He expects the internal combustion engine to be obsolete within a generation. "They'll still be around in 20 years," he says, "but you won't be buying new ones."
As Frank speaks these words, he's sitting not far from a Chevy Suburban that he's trying to sell for $49,000. His wife drives a small SUV. But he says he's decided not to bring his activism to the showroom floor. He doesn't push the fuel-efficient Aveo on customers. He doesn't tell them the Tahoe SUV contributes big-time to global warming. His left hand collects money for polluting energy hogs, and his right hand writes checks to the Sierra Club and the Illinois Air Quality Campaign, an organization he founded to take polluters to court.
"Do I feel a conflict?" he asks. He pauses. "The fact of the matter is that I make a good living from Chevrolet, and because of that, I can provide financial resources to environmental organizations that I couldn't if I weren't as financially successful as I am," he says. "I belong to probably 30 other environmental or outdoor organizations. Let me put it this way. Somebody's going to sell Chevrolets. It may as well be an environmentalist, somebody who cares and recycles that profit back into environmental causes."
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): photos/Yvette Marie Dostatni, Lou Russo Photography.
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At its meeting April 30, Nepal's newly reconvened House of Representatives unanimously approved Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala's proposal for elections to a constituent assembly which will prepare a new constitution determining the fate of the monarchy.
"The Nepali people desire peace and the democratic atmosphere is all about an environment whereby people could live fearlessly," the prime minister told the delegates. "The process for this has already begun. Let's all cooperate in this process."
Koirala and other leading parliamentarians, including Madhav Kumar Nepal, head of the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) — the country's second largest parliamentary party — joined in calling on Maoist rebels to negotiate a peace agreement.
Saying the government's two main responsibilities are to announce elections to the constituent assembly and to start the process of bringing the Maoists into the political mainstream, Nepal added, "If the people want a republic, the king should be ready to accept it."
At its meeting April 29, the CPN(UML)'s central committee called for election of a constituent assembly to establish a democratic republic.
The Maoist rebels, who have waged a decade-long armed struggle, last week declared a three-month cease-fire. However, they set preconditions for talks with the Koirala government, including unconditional elections, the release of all political prisoners and dropping their party's designation as a "terrorist" organization.
As the week began, the Seven Party Alliance had decided to form a 21-member cabinet including representatives of all seven parties but was still working out specifics.
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Last Monday, a day before the new moon, I leased a new car.
To be exact, I leased a 2016 BMW, 328d sedan. And it is a he.
I don't know how I know his sex. I just do.
Here, let me introduce you. Beloveds, meet Benoit…
Benoit (French pronunciation: [bənwa]) is a handsome diesel fueled, 42 miles to the gallon on the fwy, fully loaded exquisite car with only 10,785 miles, driven by one owner who was a female executive at BMW.
Wow, that was a mouthful.
When I test drove Benoit, gliding over street bumps as if they were small blemishes on a teenager's face, while listening to Sade's, Soldier of Love, I knew our souls were meant to be together.
Then something interesting happened on my drive home.
My mind started a shaming session about how I was undeserving and what would people think about me now that I'm driving a BMW, and you know how the rest goes, right?
Does any of this sound familiar?
You buy something nice for yourself or your business, and your mind starts critiquing what you've done, showing you the millions of ways it can go wrong or how other people will judge you for it…
Well… don't listen.
Or better yet, listen, but don't believe the story your mind is telling you.
Instead, follow your heart. Be sensible, of course, and then return to following your heart.
When you invest in the new design or remodel of your waiting room, clinic, office, treatment room or other healing space, you are investing in your soul's work.
You are also expressing in the outer environment how you feel in your internal space.
So tell me, what does your wellness space say about you, your business and your team?
For example, does your nature artwork depicting luscious cedar trees overlooking a serene lake in Montana speak volumes about gratitude, wealth and love?
Or does your small print from Ikea with a stick figure you thought looked kinda cute feel sad and dwarfed now that it's hanging in your large waiting room?
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I told her I would sleep on it and then the next morning I woke up in love. In love with Benoit, in love with this new expression of abundance in my life and grateful for this opportunity to get to do work I love, every single day.
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DescriptionUnits-filter is a basic standalone filter written in C language, flex and bison. It inputs strings like "1.5e3 nN.m.s^-1" (it could be the time growth ratio of a torque) and outputs the value in standard SI unit, followed by the physical dimension of this value.
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"Rapid prototyping is a really cool thing to do," he gushed after completing his mini-game.
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Another reason is to do team-building exercises, the process of "prototyping" something in a new setting can motivate the participants and help them form a group identity.
He shook Charlie's hand, saying in so many words that he was warming to the idea of prototyping Nimbus, but he wanted Charlie in exchange.
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Head out of the house and then run over to Main Street. Go inside the bakery and talk to Jane the baker. Tell her, "Fiona sent me." She then walks over to the pastry case and it sinks into the ground. A new case rises up to replace it and it contains all kinds of cool ghost hunting gear! One of which is the Camera.


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Canadian stalwart Bryston is not known for ostentatious flights of fancy nor hyperbolic self promotion. Rather, the company has established a sterling reputation—in both professional and consumer circles—for conservative design, unparalleled product reliability, and superlative sound quality. The astonishing new BDP-1 Digital Player is exactly the sort of product one might expect from a company like Bryston: an unassuming, discrete chassis housing a technological tour de force that bridges the generational divide between the old-world familiarity of a traditional CD player and the new world of high- resolution files and music library management, between a past constrained by frustratingly compromised digital-audio sound quality and an exciting future in which digital artifacts have finally been reduced to inconsequential levels. Within seconds of first hearing music emanate from the BDP-1, I knew that I had found my new reference digital source component.
So what exactly is a Digital Player? The most obvious analogy is simply a CD transport. Since the early days of digital, high-end audio companies have gone to heroic lengths to address the myriad problems endemic to transforming an infra-red beam reflected off the surface of a rapidly spinning disc into an electrical waveform representing a digital bit stream. Premium CD transports have commanded prices well into five figures, and audiophiles have been willing to pay those prices in order to derive maximum enjoyment from the 80 minutes of music that can be stored on a compact disc.
The Bryston BDP-1 performs like a CD transport, but it plays data files from removable USB storage media capable of storing thousands of hours of music, rather than from optically encoded discs. The BDP-1 plays files of all industry-standard sample rates at their native resolution— from CD-quality 16/44.1 up to mastering grade 24/192— in a multiplicity of file formats too numerous to list. As with dedicated CD transports, the BDP-1 offers only digital output, in both S/PDIF and AES/EBU formats, for connection to an external digital-to-analog converter. Naturally, the Bryston BDA-1 DAC that I use as a reference makes an ideal partner.
To enable new users to get up and running with the BDP-1 as quickly as possible, Bryston smartly included a half-page Quick Start guide enumerating the simple steps to install the BDP-1, insert the included USB thumb-drive containing eight complementary 24/96 high-resolution songs courtesy of Chesky Records, and begin playing music via the front panel display and buttons. The entire process from unboxing to enjoying the sample tracks can be completed in less than five minutes.
The BDP-1's front-panel controls mimic the familiar operation of a CD player, offering a comfortable, nonthreatening user interface for music lovers unfamiliar with, and uninterested in, the potentially overwhelming complexities of most alternative computer-based music playback systems. Bryston's optional BR2 remote-control handset continues this operational theme, providing the usual basic playback functions: Play, Pause, Stop, Previous Track, and Next Track.
I suspect, however, that most users will move beyond these "old school" control paradigms to take advantage of the advanced capabilities that become available when the BDP-1 is connected to a home network. Using a Web browser, one can access the BDP-1's software interface to check system settings, install firmware updates, and control playback via either of Bryston's embedded programs, Mini or Max. Several weeks after I received the BDP-1, Bryston released a firmware update, which I downloaded to my PC and installed over the network in a matter of minutes. I was thrilled to see that as part of this update Bryston added a playlist of Internet radio stations, further expanding the BDP-1's capabilities. Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to get the BDP-1 to accept and store URL links to additional stations.
The BDP-1 conforms to the open-source MPD Server architecture (see "Under the Hood" for the technical details), enabling the user to control the BDP-1 from MPD Client programs running on a broad range of platforms. Users of the Firefox Web browser (v3.x only, as of this writing) might want to start with the Music Player Minion plug-in. Users of touchscreen devices such as smart phones and tablets can operate the BDP-1 via MPD client programs available from the Apple AppStore or Android Market. For PC users, Bryston recommends Gnome Music Player Client (GMPC), a mature stand-alone program featuring multiple customizable "browser" views to filter, sort, and display music library selections. Alas, the Mac version of GMPC still requires a daunting, convoluted installation process that even a computer geek like me would be reluctant to undertake.
After installing the BDP-1 and connecting it to my home network, I copied a selection of lossless FLAC files from my computer to a 320GB portable hard drive, and plugged it into the bottom USB port on the rear panel of the BDP-1. Bryston recommends using this particular port for portable hard drives that draw power from the USB interface; the other three USB ports function as a shared hub, and are thus best used with either USB thumb drives or larger desktop-type USB hard drives that have their own power supplies.
Returning to my desktop PC, I downloaded and installed the free network device discovery program Bonjour from Apple's Web site, which allows programs to identify devices located on the network by names rather than by IP addresses that may change over time. I launched the Firefox Web browser, installed the Music Player Minion plug-in, configured a few settings to connect to the BDP-1, and was immediately presented with a listing of the music that I'd loaded onto the 320GB USB hard drive now attached to the BDP-1. I could browse the contents of the drive by navigating directly through the nested folder and file hierarchy that I had created when copying files onto the drive, but I preferred using Minion's tag-based file selector.
I then installed the powerful Gnome Music Player Client program (previously mentioned), which quickly became my preferred method of controlling the BDP-1. When playing files directly from my PC, I use the playback program Foobar 2000 because of its flexibility in customizing how my music library is sorted and displayed. Thus I was delighted and relieved to find that the GMPC user interface can also be customized easily. After spending some time tweaking GMPC on my desktop PC, I installed the program on a notebook PC, which connects to my network wirelessly. I can now control the BDP-1 with the notebook PC by my side on the listening couch, jumping from Bach to Miles to Zappa with a few clicks of the trackpad buttons.
Okay, okay; but how does it sound? In a word, incredible. I was wholly unprepared for the quantum leap in performance that I heard immediately with the BDP-1. I queued the instrumental "Mistress of Storms" from Bruce Cockburn's 1996 album Charity of Night and pressed Play on the remote. As Bruce's energetic finger-picking exploded on the left, accompanied by Gary Burton's exquisite vibe figurings on the right, I laughed out loud, exclaiming: "Now where did all that come from?" I had listened to this track hundreds of times over the past fifteen years, through many different audio systems, but I had never before heard it like this, with such a captivating sense of sheer immediacy as these two master musicians confidently tossed lines back and forth. I marveled at Bruce's preternatural dexterity interleaving percussive rhythmic patterns with blindingly fast melodic runs, while Gary's mallets released shimmering cascades floating effortlessly into the air.
Moving on to the album's title track, I found myself drawn into an evocative, dreamy musical landscape painted by guitar, vibes, accordion, mandolin, and bass—the perfect backdrop for troubadour Cockburn's three distinct narrative tableaux. It's one thing for a hi-fi component to reveal more sonic detail in a recording; it's something else entirely to present the elements of a musical performance with a natural, unforced ease that connects directly with the listener, bypassing the mechanical trappings of reproduced sound.
Throughout our collective audio history, we've learned to expect—and accept—trade-offs: phono cartridges that sound detailed but edgy; tube amps that sound lush but sluggish, etc. It may take some time to come to terms with the apparent (but not actual) contradictions in the performance of a component like the Bryston BDP-1 and to readjust your perspective accordingly. Be forewarned, however: Once you've heard music through the BDP-1, there's no going back.
Deconstructing the performance of the Bryston BDP-1 into a checklist of sonic attributes seems to completely miss the point; its defining virtues transcend mere reductionism. Consider an analogy from the field of photography. Image A is an optimally exposed photograph created with a precisely focused, exceptionally sharp lens attached to a tripod-mounted camera. Image B is a snapshot of the same subject, but poorly focused and carelessly exposed, taken with a mediocre hand-held camera. What sort of differences might we expect between the two photographs?
Image A exhibits more detail, since the sharper lens and tighter focus actually increase effective resolution, but this detail does not "stick out" in an artificial or enhanced manner. Colors in Image A have greater fidelity to the original scene, as do tonal gradations between light and dark. Everything depicted in Image A looks more natural, more convincingly believable, more realistic. Furthermore, Image A demands less work on the part of the viewer, less effort to compensate for fuzzy edges, less effort to discern fine detail, less effort to see what's lurking in the shadows, less effort to correlate colors and tonal subtleties with their real-world counterparts.
The Bryston BDP-1 is to music reproduction what the camera that created Image A is to photographic reproduction.
Through the BDP-1, timbres are infused with the harmonic bloom and resonant decay of instruments heard live. Pitch intervals are so precise and rhythmic patterns so assured that music breathes and pulses with extraordinary energy and excitement, but no trace of the overshoot or ringing that have historically plagued "fast" electronics. Crescendos build with imperturbable smoothness, neither short-changing nor overdoing climaxes.
While enjoying the 24/96 download of David Chesky's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, I wrote the following (copied verbatim from my notes, hence the awkward phrasing:) "Notice the busy fast pattern in the cellos. The complex rhythms and dynamic swings are rendered so effortlessly that they now just sound real and natural, not reproduced and hi-fi. The soloist's phrasing and particularly his bowing technique are revealed as never before: digging into some notes, letting the bow bounce on others. Hear the paradoxically slippery yet dry glissandos." Lesser digital gear can make a mess out of this thrilling performance; the BDP-1 tracks its exciting twists and turns with tenacious dexterity and unflustered poise. One hallmark of a truly exceptional audio component is its ability to make sense out of unfamiliar, challenging music, encouraging the listener to explore new musical styles and forms. I've never heard any source component, analog or digital, that does this better than the Bryston BDP-1.
Since the BDP-1 is so adept at conveying music's amplitude and timing relationships, one would expect it to present spatial cues with equal verisimilitude. Indeed, instruments are rendered with vivid three-dimensionality and corporeal solidity, never wavering during dynamic peaks. The psychoacoustic cues that contribute to our auditory perception of depth are particularly well communicated: the apparent size of the sound source, its distance-dependent tonal balance, and the proportion of direct to reflected sound. Scale and perspective are completely determined by the choices of the recording engineers; the BDP- 1 imposes no editorial bias of its own.
Listen to the 24/88.2 download of William Carter's delicate, lyrical performance of Santiago de Murcia's Gaitas [Linn Records CDK288]. Through the BDP-1, one can easily hear both the baroque guitar's distinctive resonant signature and how the small instrument's sound reverberates throughout the recording space. With some digital components, the fairly loud ambient noise level in this recording tends to obscure the sound of the guitar itself, but the BDP-1 so clearly differentiates between direct sound, reverberant decay, and ambient hall sound that the listener can easily tune out the background noise and take delight in Carter's impeccable touch.
I approached the Bryston BDP-1 with high expectations, but also some trepidation. I wondered how much improvement it would offer over the ESI Juli@ card in my PC. As I mentioned at the outset of this review, any reservations that I might have had were immediately dispelled as soon as the music began to play. Bryston has shrewdly built upon the considerable strengths of the Juli@ card, adding a premium quality digital output stage, fabricating a bespoke computer platform built to the standards of a high-end audio component, and optimizing software control of the file-playback process. While I had presumed that such measures would elevate performance beyond that of a generic PC or Mac feeding a DAC from a sound card or asynchronous USB interface, I had no idea just how much better file-based playback could sound through a signal chain thoroughly engineered from storage device to digital output, until I heard the BDP-1.
The Bryston BDP-1 doesn't merely "sound better"; the experience of hearing music through it is qualitatively different. It plays music with unprecedented purity, a lack of artifice or artifact that is manifestly, incontrovertibly closer to the real thing.
So what exactly do we have here? The Bryston BDP-1 is a sophisticated next-generation digital source component, tastefully presented in a slim chassis. It can be operated like a CD player, or controlled via flexible music library management software. It uses inexpensive, readily available storage media, and is capable of accommodating collections of any size. It can play music in a wide variety of formats, from lossy MP3 files to master quality 24-bit/192kHz high-resolution recordings. It provides all the sonic benefits of file-based playback, with none of the liabilities of general-purpose computers. With the BDP-1, Bryston has created a reference-grade source component that merits comparison with anything at any price—a remarkable achievement.
Under The Hood
Shortly after power-up, the Bryston BDP-1 emits a curiously familiar beep, the same sort of beep that often accompanies the boot phase of a personal computer. The BDP-1 is, in fact, a computer, highly optimized for digital audio playback, running the open source Music Player Daemon (MPD) server software on a customized Linux kernel.
There are no moving parts inside the BDP-1, nor extraneous circuits such as video graphics outputs that could compromise performance by emitting spurious RF radiation. A fanless, industrial-grade motherboard houses the CPU, RAM, flash memory module, Ethernet adapter, USB ports (two on the back panel, two on the front), and a PCI slot fitted with the digital section of an ESI Juli@ sound card, the unambiguous winner of my sound card survey published in Issue 213.
One wouldn't expect Bryston's engineers to be satisfied with the digital output circuitry of the stock Juli@ card, and indeed, they have added an entirely new, proprietary digital output stage offering two transformer-isolated digital outputs: a 75 ohm BNC jack for the coaxial S/PDIF output, and an XLR jack for the AES/EBU output.
I much preferred the BDP-1's S/PDIF output. When terminated with 75-ohm BNC connectors, coaxial S/PDIF cables can maintain a true constant-impedance transmission line from source to load, which is simply not possible through the XLR connectors that necessarily compromise AES/EBU circuits. While the BDP-1's AES/EBU output sounds as good as I've heard from this format, it marginally flattens instrumental dimensionality, foreshortens depth, truncates note decay, and homogenizes textures compared with the superb S/PDIF output.
The left side of the BDP-1 chassis houses both a linear power supply with a toroidal transformer for the motherboard and digital output stage, and an application specific power supply to drive the front-panel controls and display. Bryston clearly knows a thing or two about building stable, low-noise power supplies, optimizing ground paths, isolating critical circuitry from parasitic interactions, and other engineering arcana that should theoretically elevate performance well beyond that of a generic computer with a noisy switch-mode power supply.
Hard-disc drives connected to the BDP-1's USB ports can be accessed remotely as Networked Attached Storage (NAS) devices, enabling easy transfer of music files from any computer or storage location on the network. One could even download files or rip CDs directly to the BDP-1's drives over the network connection. Note that the network interface is used only for operational control and for transferring data files. Music played from the BDP-1 always originates from the storage media connected directly to its USB ports, thus eliminating playback problems such as audio glitches, drop-outs, and inconsistent data transfer rates that can compromise performance with common network-streaming audio architectures.
The Verbatim 320GB portable USB hard disc that I used for the bulk of my evaluation features a nearly silent single platter Samsung 2.5" drive mechanism, and was used with its short stock USB cable; there was no sonic advantage to substituting alternate USB cables. I was mildly surprised to find that music played from USB thumb drives and other flash memory devices connected via the BDP-1's front-panel USB ports, such as the 4GB Class 6 SDHC card and USB adapter that I tested, sounded slightly veiled and washed out compared with playback from the hard drive. I won't speculate why this might be the case; nor do I consider it worth more than a cursory mention, since most users will want to store large music libraries on high-capacity hard drives anyway, using USB sticks to conveniently play music from visiting friends or for quick file transfers.
I experimented with various vibration-evacuation cones and isolation devices beneath the BDP-1's chassis, but they all added frequency-specific colorations that compromised its fundamental coherence. With great delight, I just used the BDP-1 resting comfortably on its own four feet.
Output sample rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192kHz
Jitter: Master clocks standard deviation less than 20 picoseconds, 10Hz to 10MHz
Acoustic noise: Silent
Output impedance: S/PDIF 75 ohms, AES/EBU 110 ohms
Power consumption: ~10 watts
Dimensions: 17" x 11" x 2.75"
Weight: 12 lbs.
Price: $2195
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677 Neal Drive
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
(705) 742-5325
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Evolution within the Executive Committee of Groupe PSA in the context of an enlarged group.
As of February 1, 2018, Groupe PSA Executive Committee is evolving to benefit from the full potential of the team, with a view to continue the successful execution of the Push to Pass strategic plan, improve performance in China, anticipate the future challenges and support the implementation of the reconstruction of Opel Vauxhall's economic fundamentals.
Brigitte Courtehoux joins the Executive Committee and becomes Executive Vice President of Mobility and Connectivity Services to replace Grégoire Olivier. After having set up numerous initiatives with a powerful management of the Business Unit dedicated to this activity, she will develop the group's "Core Mobility Strategy" to support the ambition expressed in the Push to Pass plan.
Grégoire Olivier is appointed General Secretary and succeeds to Olivier Bourges. He will use his understanding of the issues related to the rapid evolution of the automotive industry. In addition, his extensive knowledge of China will legitimately allow him to focus his action in the field of Public Affairs in support of the leader of this region. Moreover, he will retain in his new mission the responsibility of the Business Lab.
Olivier Bourges becomes Executive Vice President of Programs and Strategy replacing Patrice Lucas. Thanks to his experience gained at another car manufacturer on the American continent on a similar function, he will take into account all the economic parameters of the company, while developing the strategic foresight dimension of the group. In charge of Groupe PSA's banking activities, he retains control of the two groups sales financing JVs.
Patrice Lucas is appointed Executive Vice President of the Latin America region to replace Carlos Gomes. His perfect knowledge of the company's performance levers will enable him to take responsibility for the group's industrial, R & D and sales activities in this region with a strong potential of growth and thus continue to improve its economic performance.
Carlos Gomes becomes Executive Vice President of the China and ASEAN Region to replace Denis Martin, who has decided to pursue personal projects outside the group. With the results obtained in Latin America in a difficult economic context, Carlos Gomes will be able to use his commercial expertise and managerial skills to give a new impetus to this region with strategic issues for the company.
Xavier Chéreau, Executive Vice President Human Resources, is entrusted with the management of the transformation of the company with the reporting of the Digital Management, the real estate Management, in addition to the fixed Cost Committee for which he is responsible. Having positioned the Human Resources Department as a strategic business partner, he is thus entrusted with the responsibility of major levers of the group's transformation.
On the strength of these changes, the Executive Committee will continue to implement the actions of the Push to Pass plan with strength and determination and respond to future challenges.
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Thomas Rhett Surprises Healthcare Workers With Virtual Performance
By Blake Taylor
August 7, 2020
Thomas Rhett is doing what he can to show his appreciation for healthcare workers amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Last week, the country star teamed up with Cisco and Live Nation to deliver a surprise performance to a group of healthcare workers from Banner Health in Arizona and Colorado, and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis.
"It was really special to be able to surprise this group of healthcare workers because I'm so appreciative of their incredible work and bravery through this crazy time," Rhett said in a statement. "Even though I can't thank them all in person right now, this was a really cool way to stay connected and offer up my gratitude face-to-face. They are truly inspiring."
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Recently both Kodak and Co-op's branding has been updated, with new logos drawing heavily on their vintage predecessors. Over the last few months, we have discussed the modern re-brands and refreshes of the likes of Mastercard and Instagram with the continuing trend of flat iconography and simple Sans Serif fonts. It seems like we are hitting a turning point, especially when it comes to re-introducing retro logo marks and brand icons.
The Co-op has now begun rolling out it's old/new 1968 'cloverleaf' logo after a 2 year build up and the launch of a new business plan. This plan offers members higher rewards on any purchases they make on own-brand products and services. The 'Cloverleaf' has been redrawn from its archived state, it's colours enhanced to the original Co-Op styling along with the addition of a new typeface across all of its print, packaging, signage and vehicles.
Allan Leighton, Chair of the Co-Op stated "Our brand identity, whether seen on a Fairtrade bottle of wine, on a funeral home fascia or on our insurance website, will signify a better way of doing business." A vision that American company Kodak seem to have followed. Returning to one of their classic icons, Kodak have been given a new twist on their 1970 'K' logo acknowledging that this logo has a place in people's minds and that it has the strength to re-establish a confident, history-rich consumer brand.
Kodak recently released a number of interesting new products at CES this year like the re-release of their classic Super 8 camera and a new Photography first smartphone. It seems they too have waited for the release of a new service or product to initiate the launch of a brand refresh with the help of New York-based agency Work Order.
The people at Kodak don't see this as "bringing back the iconic identity of Kodak" as they feel that in people's hearts and minds it never really left. However compared to The Co-Op they have had to put more thought into how this new logo will sit harmoniously with existing packaging and signage positioned around the world. It's nice to see they have not used a standard sans font here like the recent MetLife rebrand and the new Premier League styling, but to have gone with a wider sans that uses every last bit of the space on offer in the K icon.
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Having problems with your Gateway FPD1975W 19" LCD Monitor ?
Monitor has no red in it
\015 Hello, I have a Gateway FPD1975w monitor, sometimes it has a blue tint to everything (no red). I have searched all around the net, and have tried everything I can. It is not always blue, but it changes to blue with no warning and may be that way for 3 hours, or for 30 seconds. It is really annoying. This is what I have done to troubleshoot it. First, I don't believe it is the monitor itself. Last time it turned blue, I unplugged it and tried it on a different computer, it was fine, but when I plugged it back in to the original computer it was blue again. Also, when I hit the menu button on the side of it, the menu looks fine, it has all the correct colors in it, as well as the gateway logo when the monitor turns on is the correct color. So, that seems to rule out the monitor itself to me. I checked the pins on my vga cable on both ends, and they are all lined up correctly, and the connections are firmly seated. I flexed the cord 1 inch or so at a time while watching the monitor and that had no effect. I still think it may be the cable though, because it is pretty chewed up (stupid cat). But I guess my question is, could it be the graphics hardware. I have onboard graphics, Geforce 6150LE. If it is this I don't know if there is much I can do about it, considering I cannot afford a standalone video card. So, what are the odds that it is the video hardware or does anyone think it is the cord with cat teeth marks all in it, even though flexing it has no effect. Also, I physically moved the computer twice to different rooms in the past few months. I'm sure I sound like a moron to some, but this blue screen is quite annoying and really ******* my eyes, and I just wanted to get someone elses advice before I start trying to save money to buy things to fix it. Thanks!!\015
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Hey Ya'll,
Bad news. I have the same set up with the same problem and it's awful. The odd color of the monitor is due to a bad nVidia GeForce 6100 video card. You'll have to cough up the cash for another PCI graphics card. Also, the FPD series LCD monitors have defective capacitors in the power supply. This will cause strange lines and streaks of color to appear and stream down the screen. Eventually, it will display nothing else and then, one day, blackness It is a progressive problem. If you're handy, these capacitors are replaceable but it is VERY involved. Gateway should be skinned for selling this low quality hardware.
Good Luck--You'll Need It!
Bad news. I have the same set up with the same problem and it's awful. The odd color of the monitor is due to a bad nVidia GeForce 6100 video card. You'll have to cough up the cash for another PCI graphics card. Also, the FPD series LCD monitors have defective capacitors in the power supply. This will cause strange lines and streaks of color to appear and stream down the screen. Eventually, it will display nothing else and then, one day, blackness It is a progressive problem. If you're handy, these capacitors are replaceable but it is VERY involved. Gateway should be skinned for selling this low quality hardware.
Good Luck--You'll Need It!
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