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Borrow from Stephen King a house with a wormhole that somehow allows for time travel, re-create the monstrous chilliness of scenes between a serial killer and his female victims in The Silence of the Lambs, and you could easily end up with a pretty derivative thriller. But talented Cape Town writer Lauren Beukes has managed to turn such borrowing and theft into a triumph in her new novel, The Shining Girls. It's her third book, and a marvelous narrative feat that spans the history of Chicago from the 1930s to the 1990s.
Though Cape Town may be a world away from Chicago, Beukes' version of the city seems as convincing a scene as any set by the Windy City's native thriller writers.
And her heroine, the smart and spunky Kirby Mizrachi, is as exciting to follow as any in recent genre fiction. Kirby first meets the time-traveling Midwest lowlife serial killer Harper Curtis as a child, in an ominous encounter involving the gift of an orange plastic pony. Years later, he stalks her along the lakeshore while she's walking her dog — more about this ghastly encounter in a moment — and still later, she becomes his nemesis, doggedly in pursuit of this incredibly brutal and cunning murderer.
Harper's ability to go hop-scotching through time makes him an elusive criminal, and the jumps take some getting used to. But each chapter in which he appears holds a reader's attention, especially the sharply described murder scenes — some of which read as much like starkly rendered battlefield deaths out of Homer as forensic reconstructions of terrible crimes: "The chafe marks on her wrists would indicate that her hands were tied, although the restraints have been removed. Wire probably, by the way it has bitten into her skin. Blood has formed a black crust over her face, like a caul. She has been slit sternum to pelvis in an inverted cross ..."
I cite this passage, and could cite many others, not just to prove how graphic and disturbing Beukes has made her murders, but to warn any would-be crime novel aficionados that this book means business when it comes to the monstrousness of such encounters. According to Harper's insane vision, his victims are "shining girls," women whose aura of life and energy compels him to seek them out. Some of them seem to give in to the killer's desires; one, in particular, even seeks to become his accomplice. And all of them live in or around Chicago or its environs, during a 60-year span that Harper has access to through the wormhole house.
Kirby is the only one who survives her initial attack. When Harper's knife is intercepted by that valiant dog, the plucky victim — holding her intestines in place — runs off to find help. After a long recovery, she takes an internship in the sports department at the Chicago Sun-Times. And there she makes a plan to catch her assailant, even as he moves back and forth in time — and crime – inevitably discovering that Kirby has survived.
Accident, coincidence, fate — however you'd like to describe the unfolding of the plot in space and time — it becomes clear fairly early on that the reader is caught up in a well-made, though extremely complex temporal creation. "That sharp edge of awareness" Harper feels when he enters the house and finds the names of his victims listed there, his recognition that his goal is to "find the girls through different times and places" — you will feel it, too.
This doesn't happen by accident. Beukes has done tremendous research about the long span of Chicago time in which her story occurs, and carefully constructed the eccentric and brilliant plot. One of Harper's most pathetic victims, the industrious single mother Zora, an African-American Rosie the Riveter from 1943, becomes before her death a master at her art, "welding the curb plates, like a baseboard for the wiring or the wheel valves that would flood the ballast tanks with water to weigh the flat-bottomed ship down for ocean crossing ..." Beukes has done similarly sturdy work, taking us on a frightening journey in time and punishment.
Our book reviewer Alan Cheuse has been turning the pages of a thriller. It borrows from Stephen King a house with a wormhole that somehow allows for time travel. It re-creates the monstrous chilliness of scenes between a serial killer and his victims a la "The Silence of the Lambs." It could easily have been a pretty derivative novel. But Alan Cheuse says "The Shining Girls," by Cape Town writer Lauren Beukes, manages to turn such borrowing and theft into a success.
ALAN CHEUSE, BYLINE: Beukes' book, set in Chicago and spanning that city's history from the early 1930s to the early '90s, stands as a marvelous narrative feat. And her heroine, the smart and spunky Kirby Mizrachi, is as thrilling to follow as any in recent genre fiction. Kirby first meets the time-traveling, Midwest, low-life serial killer Harper Curtis when she's about 5; and then about 15 years later, as he stalks her along the lakeshore while she's walking her dog - more about this ghastly encounter, in a moment; and then four years after that, as his nemesis in her long pursuit of this incredibly brutal and cunning murderer.
Kirby is the only victim who survives her initial attack. When the killer's knife sinks so deep into the body of her dog - the animal attempts to defend her - that he cannot pull it out in time to finish the murder, the plucky victim, holding her intestines in place, runs off to find help. After a long recovery, Kirby takes an internship in the sports department at the Chicago Sun-Times. There, she makes a plan to catch her assailant, even as he moves back and forth in time and crime, eventually to discover that Kirby has survived.
The killer feels a sharp edge of awareness, Beukes tells us, when he enters the magical house. There, he discovers the names of his victims listed as if in a vision, and he sees that it's his goal to find the girls through different times and places. You will feel that sharp edge of awareness as Lauren Beukes takes us on a frightening journey in time and punishment.
SIEGEL: Alan Cheuse, reviewing Lauren Beukes' new thriller, "The Shining Girls." Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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This is a quick howto to setup the latest CVS server on the latest Arch Linux machine. Best of luck.
Update or install to the latest version of cvs and xinetd (as root):
# pacman -Sy cvs xinetd
Create the cvs group - members of this group will have write access to the repository (as root):
# groupadd cvs
Create the cvs user in the cvs group (-md makes the home directory) (as root):
# useradd -md /home/cvsroot -g cvs -p Insecure0 cvs
Initialize your CVS repository (as cvs):
cvs% cvs -d /home/cvsroot init
The permissions on the directory (not the files inside, however) should be 2775 (drwxrwxr-x), but if not, run (as cvs):
cvs% chmod 2775 /home/cvsroot
Add any users that you want to have local access to the repository to the group cvs by using the following two steps. The 'adduser' script is very handy.
You can add pre-existing users to the cvs group with the command (as root):
# gpasswd -a username cvs
Make a file in /etc/xinetd.d/ called cvspserver with these contents (as root):
service cvspserver { port = 2401 socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = root passenv = /home/cvsroot server = /usr/bin/cvs server_args = -f --allow-root=/home/cvsroot pserver }
Edit /etc/services and add this line containing the information for cvspserver service if does not exist (as root):
cvspserver 2401/tcp #CVS PServer
Edit /etc/hosts.allow and add this line to allow users to connect (as root):
Now restart xinetd (as root):
/etc/rc.d/xinetd restart
Become cvs ("su cvs") and create a 'passwd' file in ~/CVSROOT:
# Format is username:password:group anonymous:: luser:HopefullySecure0:cvs other:Insecure0:cvs
Now create a 'writers' file in ~/CVSROOT, which grants write privileges to the users you created in 'passwd':
luser other
Now create a 'readers' file in ~/CVSROOT, which grants read privileges to the users you created in 'passwd':
You can test out the server using the following commands:
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Although not all couples exchanged rings in the eighteenth century, many did seal their wedding vows with rings like this gold band Elihu Hoyt (1771-1833) of Deerfield, Massachusetts gave to Hannah Taylor (1772-1864) in 1794. Weddings usually took place at the home of the bride with a minister present. Weddings and other celebrations generally occurred during quieter times of the farming year. Elihu and Hannah wed in early December, a time of year more popular for weddings than any other in this period.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Friars Club is honoring Don Rickles with a lifetime achievement award.
The entertainers' group said Wednesday it will celebrate the 86-year-old comedian at its annual awards ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.
Bob Costas, Tony Danza, Kathy Griffin, Bob Newhart, Regis Philbin and Joan Rivers are among those set to participate in the honors on June 24.
Rickles started his career in the 1950s and has worked with generations of legends, including Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. He still appears on the late-night shows of Jay Leno, David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel and Craig Ferguson.
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If you make an infographic colorful enough and confusing enough, people won't pay attention to how absurd your methodology is. That seems to be the theory motivating this chart, posted by Alexander Russo and originally developed by the futurejournalismproject:
A few objections. First, it simply can't be the case that teachers in the UK only work 15.6 weeks a year, which is what the chart implies (~625 hours / 40 hours). In fact, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, a teacher union there, claims British educators are overworked and average 50 hour weeks much of the year. There's clearly a fundamental problem with the underlying data for hours worked ? one of Russo's commenters suggests contact hours, not work hours, are being measured.
Second, salary divided by GDP per capita is not a useful measure of how well a profession is compensated, because it suggests teachers in the US deserve the same fixed share of economic output that teachers in other countries command. In doing so, the chart compares apples to oranges ? Korea's teachers are drawn from the top 5% of their class in...
Esther Quintero, a research associate at the Albert Shanker Institute, blogs today that focusing on teacher quality and accountability is un-American, because it "views students exclusively as passive recipients of their own learning." She goes on to criticize school reformers for portraying students as "devoid of agency."
That's a false dichotomy. Reformers believe that good teachers are capable of transforming the lives of their students, leveling the playing field for poor kids and providing every child with the opportunity to live up to their full potential. But it's not that home life and background play no role ? it's that hard work by students doesn't amount to much without good teaching. The a priori assumption that all under-performing students must be duds is offensive.
I don't say this abstractly. I come from a working class family living in an economically-depressed rural area in the middle of the country. Three generations of my family worked as coal miners, sheet metal workers, and firefighters after coming to the US from Italy (which my grandparents still called "the Old Country" when I was a kid). My brother and I succeeded and found middle-class careers in small part because of our...
We at Fordham strongly believe school districts can and should learn to spend their dollars more effectively. That said, I can't agree with Kristi Bowman's idea that Congress should mandate "fiscal accountability measures" in its reauthorization of ESEA:
Congress could require that as a condition of receiving funding under the ESEA, each state must: (1) help school districts create immediate, additional cost savings; (2) publicly monitor districts' fiscal health and create a plan for escalating involvement when a district nears and reaches fiscal crisis; and (3) assist in stabilizing districts' revenues for the long term.
I'm not sure why there should be a role for the federal government in this (the paper on which the EdWeek article is based seems to boil this down to "because it's important" and "because the Feds can"). That is far from the only worry I have, though. Bowman also calls for a federal maintenance of effort mandate for all state school spending throughout the country. Not only would it make fiscal crises worse (if you can't cough up enough state funding, you lose your federal funding!), but innovative state policies to save money would now be illegal.
There are some...
Georgia is on the road to eliminating seniority-based layoffs throughout the state. The big news is that they're replacing it with a flexible, sensible option for performance evaluation to be determined by local school and district managers.
GA's Senate Bill 184 sets three basic policies. First, local school boards cannot use length of tenure as the "primary or sole determining factor" in deciding whom to lay off during reductions in force. Second, performance should be the primary determining factor in making these layoffs. The bill states clearly that "one measure of [teacher performance] may be student academic performance." That is, local districts are free to decide how much to weight to assign to test scores and the like, and for which teachers they're relevant. Third, the bill establishes a commission of teachers, ed school profs, school managers, and others to identify effective professional development opportunities by 2015 to help all teachers improve their craft. It looks likely that the governor will sign the bill into law.
Some teachers and union folks say we can't evaluate teachers until we have a universally-valid evaluation system. Some reformers cling to a magical 50% weight for student test scores (or...
As you probably know by now, the President and Congress came to a budget agreement late last night that will keep the government operating through the end of the fiscal year. The deal apparently includes a five-year reauthorization of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program, a popular voucher program for kids in the District:
The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program ? which provides low-income District students with federal money to attend private schools ? is a top priority of Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). The program was closed to new entrants by Democrats in 2009, but Boehner has sought to revive and expand the program. The House passed a Boehner-authored bill last month -- the SOAR Act -- to reauthorize the program for five more years, and that bill will be included in the final spending deal and signed into law by Obama.
The SOAR Act includes the so-called "three sector" payments, meaning that DCPS and public charter schools will also benefit from the program. I worked in the charter financing office in DC last summer and saw how much good those funds have done for the charter sector in the city. This seems like a big win...
Districts in many states are spending the last of their federal stimulus dollars, and their strategy for dealing with the resulting fiscal pressure is: freak out and fire people.
The combined weight of those state and federal cuts would force Florida's Volusia County school district to cut an estimated 900 employees, including teachers, administrators, and clerical staff, said Margaret A. Smith, the system's superintendent. The district, which has a total operating budget of about $470 million, also might have to cut back programs in art, music, and physical education, as well as extracurricular and sports programs, she said.
The combined weight of those state and federal cuts would force Florida's Volusia County school district to cut an estimated 900 employees, including teachers, administrators, and clerical staff, said Margaret A. Smith, the system's superintendent.
The district, which has a total operating budget of about $470 million, also might have to cut back programs in art, music, and physical education, as well as extracurricular and sports programs, she said.
Volusia County is a good object lesson in why it's turning out to be so hard for districts to do more with less and what that failure costs. Unable to adjust classroom staffing due to Florida's onerous class-size mandates, the district is requiring principals like Marie Stratton to pull double duty managing multiple schools. Based on her schools' enrollment figures, she's managing 35-plus teachers and who knows how many paraprofessionals, yet the district is powerless to increase class sizes by one kid to pay for the managerial capacity they need for each school.
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In light of the heroic efforts of some school districts around the country to "do more with more" by raising fees paid by students for things like school supplies, driver's ed, and sports, I'm excited to announce that the Thomas B. Fordham Institute will be charging you, our readers, for all the thoughts we produce as of today, April 1, 2011.
The fees will follow a tiered schedule based on how good the thoughts produced are. Half-baked thoughts produced during staff meetings or the Education Gadfly Show podcast will cost $500. Carefully researched ideas arrived at through rigorous analysis will cost anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000, based on their impact on student test scores. Brilliant ideas that have the potential to save American education before the next school year (most of which come from our staff assistant and interns) will cost a mere 1 million bucks. They have the potential to put us out of business if they work, after all, so we have to charge a bit more for...
If you believe the two sides currently duking it out over collective bargaining in Wisconsin, Ohio, and other states, contracts with teacher unions are either the only thing saving American education from utter ruin or they're the greatest impediment to reforming the system. What's absent from the discussion is an examination of the role of school and district leadership, which has the power (largely unrealized, alas) to make labor agreements far less influential.
Last week, I attended a great panel at the Yale SOM Education Leadership Conference on teacher contracts, ably moderated by Andy Rotherham. Discussing the district's 2009 contract, New Haven Public Schools assistant superintendent Garth Harries placed a lot of blame for the restrictive nature of labor agreements on the poor state of education management, saying that teachers will routinely go above and beyond the requirements of their contract if they trust management. The AFT's Joan Devlin, speaking to a largely unsympathetic crowd, agreed, pointing out that a good working relationship between the New Haven local and district management allowed everyone to move from haggling over hours to talking about how to reform schools together. The entire panel agreed that bold, visionary leadership with integrity is rare...
How does your local school spend its money? If your district received funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Arne Duncan knows:
Provided further, That each local educational agency receiving funds available under this paragraph shall be required to file with the State educational agency, no later than December 1, 2009, a school-by-school listing of per-pupil educational expenditures from State and local sources during the 2008?2009 academic year: Provided further, That each State educational agency shall report that information to the Secretary of Education by March 31, 2010. (p. 67 of the ARRA.)
These data came up at the Center for American Progress?American Enterprise Institute event on Title I a few weeks ago. As I recall, Carmel Martin, Assistant Secretary of Education for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, said ED is still sifting through the data, and no decision has been made about whether they will ask for something like this on an ongoing basis from more school districts.
The Department should release these data (which they've had for a year) to the public, and they should strongly consider incentivizing states to require annual public reporting of school-level data. Rhode Island is already doing it,...
Sometimes the right thing doesn't look great politically. New York City's efforts to future-proof its schools are coming under fire, with Manhattan's borough president pointing out that the city is spending half a billion dollars on technology (mostly network infrastructure) when it may have to fire thousands of teachers. This kind of spending is necessary, however, especially when the long-term sustainability of our present models of schooling is under fire. Never mind the fact that the city couldn't legally use the cash to pad the operating budget anyway ? the investments look smart on the merits.
As the Times article notes, many schools are already finding their infrastructure inadequate to support tools like smartboards, computer labs, and adaptive testing that are or will become standard features of 21st century schools. More importantly, NYC DOE's Innovation Zone schools are developing thoughtful methods for using technology in the classroom effectively, a sharp contrast to the "smartboards and fairy dust" approach to networking classrooms seen in some other districts and charter networks. In order to bend the cost curve so that tailored instruction for all kids is affordable, districts will have to spend more money on technology, not less. A...


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John DiStaso's Granite Status: O'Brien dismisses 'rabble-rouser' Obama's attack on his criticism of health care lawBy John DiStaso, Senior Political Reporter
September 26. 2013 2:19PM
THURSDAY, SEPT. 26: OBAMA TAKES ON O'BRIEN. O'BRIEN RETURNS FIRE. Former New Hampshire House Speaker Bill O'Brien says President Obama, by chiding comments O'Brien made critical of the Obama health care law, showed he is a "rabble-rouser" and "still engaged in harsh ridiculing rhetoric," rather than trying to unite the country.
Obama, during a Maryland speech defending the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, cited O'Brien's comparison of "Obamacare" to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 during an anti-Obamacare rally sponsored by the conservative Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire issues advocacy group.
O'Brien, a Mont Vernon Republican who is still a state legislator, certainly did not back away from the comparison on Thursday after hearing of Obama's comments.
In fact, he invoked the comparison again.
O'Brien said in his August speech, "And what is Obamacare? It is a law as destructive to personal and individual liberty as the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 that allowed slave owners to come to New Hampshire and seize African Americans and use the federal courts to take them back to slave states."
Obama, in his Thursday speech defending his program, said at one point, "You had a state representative somewhere say that it's as destructive to personal and individual liberty as the Fugitive Slave Act."
He did not mention O'Brien by name.
"Think about that," the President continued. "Affordable health care is worse than a law that lets slave owners get their runaway slaves back.
"I mean, these are quotes," added Obama. "I'm not making this stuff up."
O'Brien, who had considered running for the U.S. House but announced in late August he would not, told us, "It's unfortunate that a President in his second term has not been able to depart from his history of being a rabble-rouser and community organizer enough to slow up and understand why people are concerned with the assault on liberty that is the result of Obamacare."
O'Brien continued, "Many of us understand that just as the Fugitive Slave Act was an overreach by the federal government when it came to the rights of states and the rights of individuals in states to determine their policies as to slavery, so too we understand that Obamacare is an assault on the rights of individuals to choose what services they buy or don't buy.
"It's a qualitatively different type of law than our founding fathers ever anticipated that the federal government would ever enter into," O'Brien said.
"So," O'Brien said, "President Obama, who is at a point in his presidential career where he ought to be trying to unify the country, after dividing us enough to get himself reelection, is still engaged in harsh ridiculing rhetoric rather than trying to understand the majority of the people agree this is an assault on liberty.
"We've got to address the real problems in providing medical care to people in ways that don't involve overreach by the federal government," O'Brien said.
Shortly after Obama's comments, the state Democratic Party sent a fund-raising email to supporters.
"For two long years, Bill O'Brien and his Tea Party colleagues embarrassed New Hampshire time and again with their extreme ideology. Today, it reached the breaking point," wrote party chairman Raymond Buckley.
"This morning, the President of the United States personally called him out on national television. The President has had it with out of touch Republicans and their shockingly inappropriate rhetoric and so have I," Buckley wrote.
"For too long," he wrote, "New Hampshire Republicans have been making national news for their embarrassing and extreme positions and it's time for us to once and for all to put a stop to it."
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Swenja Zaremba is a student of German literature and journalism at the University of Karlsruhe. She is one of a group of Germans working on a joint learning module with their contemporaries from Manouba University in Tunis.
"It's about Euro-Arab parallels in the history of ideas," says Zeremba. "We're looking at the philosophy and history of Europe and the Arab world, and comparing great philosophical thinkers on the one hand.
On the other hand, we're comparing 'motclais', i.e. certain key terms and ideas such as freedom and the state. The goal is to create a mutual set of semantics, a meaning of these key terms that both sides can agree on."
Experience with different forms of communication
The products of the German-Tunisian collaboration will soon be published, and will also become part of the degree course on the "History of European Culture and Ideas" at the University of Karlsruhe. Working with the Tunisians, which takes place in French, has not only brought Swenja Zaremba into contact with Europe's Arab legacy, but also with the different way of communicating at the Tunisian partner university.
The project she has been taking part in is one of around 80 cooperations between German and Arab universities. There are summer schools, joint research projects and bilateral degree courses.
One particularly ambitious project is the German-Jordanian University in Amman. Since autumn 2005, it has offered young Jordanians the opportunity to study business administration, computer science or biomedicine technology, based on the German academic model. And the students also get to know the world of German universities and gain work experience in German companies.
Hierarchical structures are a hindrance
The degree courses all include a semester abroad and a six-month work placement. The university's German Vice-President, Peter Uecker, is very pleased about the open and enthusiastic new students. However, he does worry about the university's hierarchical structures – a widespread problem in Jordanian society. For instance, Uecker explains, there was initially no selection process to speak of, and the system is still having difficulties in this area.
That makes Peter Uecker wary of describing the German-Jordanian University as a form of "Euro-Islamic dialogue". For him, the project is more of a bridge between Germany and Jordan – and especially a bridge between institutions.
Alaa al-Hamarneh from the University of Mainz also has difficulties viewing all cooperations between German and Arab universities primarily under the aspect of Euro-Islamic dialogue. In some projects, such as the collaboration between the universities in Karlsruhe and Tunis, dialogue is part of the concept. In others, however, intercultural dialogue is restricted to personal contact between the students:
"There are targeted projects that aim at inter-faith or intercultural dialogue, but there are also many projects in the fields of engineering or medicine, and they have nothing to do with intercultural dialogue," explains Alaa al-Hamarneh.
Exporting German education models to the Arab world
Since the UNDP report on human development of 2003 at the very latest, Arab states have been working hard on making academic training more international. The report highlighted the poor performances of Arab schools and universities in comparison to the rest of the world.
International cooperations and private universities will now bring about a change, it is hoped. Germany has been involved in promoting its education models in the Arab world for some years now. Alaa al-Hamarneh welcomes this development, but sees a lack of concepts for the future on the German end.
There is the German University in Cairo, and other examples in Jordan and Syria. Each model is a project of its own, but there is unfortunately no strategy as yet for exporting German education models, says al-Hamaraneh: "We don't have any branding, the universities don't take their names abroad with them like the Sorbonne or Harvard. The only label we have is 'German University', but I'm afraid there's no strategy behind it."
Mona Naggar
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Translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire
German-Jordanian University
An Absolute Novelty in the Middle East
The German-Jordanian University, GJU, opened its doors in mid-October. The study programs are designed according to the model of German Universities of Applied Sciences. In this interview, Labib Khadra, GJU president, talks about the university's goals
Education in the Middle East
German Universities an Export Hit in the Arab World
While Germans continue to bemoan their educational system, German higher education is being successfully exported to the Arab world. Jabeen Bhatti reports
Private Universities in Egypt
Education as Export Commodity
Gold-diggers from all corners of the earth appear to be streaming to the Nile. Private universities are a lucrative business in Egypt and are springing up like mushrooms. A report by Frederik Richter


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bnt needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 71 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
Bacon not Tofu, bnt.li
Bacon not Tofu is a one-man-show which makes iPhone apps.
1. Me. I have a company without a logo, thats not a real company, right ?
2. page viewers
Those are my ideas:
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-maybe two bacons crossed
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Maginot Technologies necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 450 diseños de 128 diseñadores freelance.
We're seeking a logo for Manhattan Market, a boutique style convenience store located in an upscale mixed-use condominium/office/retail/hotel project located 10 minutes west of the Las Vegas Strip.
It's the kind of place where residents of the development and the local community can stop in to grab freshly prepared foods to go, sundries, and packaged liquor.
Manhattan Market
The Business
Manhattan Market is an upscale convenience store located at ManhattanWest, a mixed-use condominium/office/retail/hotel project located 10 minutes west of the Las Vegas Strip.It's the kind of place where residents of the development and the local community can stop in to grab a freshly prepared foods to go, sundries, and packaged liquor. While the project is located 10 minutes from the Las Vegas Strip, you'll want to draw on a more urban, New York flavor, and avoid anything that says Las Vegas.
Our Customers
Manhattan Market will be located in ManhattanWest, a mixed-use community featuring 700 residences, shops, restaurants, offices, and a hotel. Customers will typically be evenly split male and female, 25-55, professional, singles or younger couples, and empty nesters.DescriptionWe're looking for a logo that feels independent and original, rather than a rehash of a chain convenience store. It doesn't have to match our other logos, Elixir—see the winning design and other styles we liked here:
Or the logo for the project ManhattanWest. But it should play well with both of these logos. You can view a rendering of the exterior of the plaza in which the market will be located here:
The work needs to be easily adaptable for use on everything from exterior signage to letterhead, to our website.
oThe winner of our last contest hit on something we'd never have been able to effectively describe ourselves, but we loved it, so we are a little looser on what we want with this logo than we were with our previous contest. We will likely be inspired from entries we like to narrow down to a more specific direction.
• A balance between urban and upscale.
• Something fresh and original
Inspiration from the colors and style shown in the exterior shot shown here.
• A look and feel that plays well with the overall look and feel of the project.
• Something that will work as well in one or two color as it works in four color process. We'll need to be able to use the logo in everything from electronic media to one color promotional items.
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• Unaltered clip art. If we can tell it's clip art, you'll want to stay away from it.
• Cute
• "On-the-nose" New York or Manhattan themes
• Las Vegas themes
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matt.blak wrote:I did the 210km last year and there were signs at all turns and marshals at major intersections and at most city intersections.
There were no closed roads, but lots of people heading in the same direction.
I didn't take a map, and would not have used it if I had one, not necessary on the ride I think.
Study the map before you go and if you can ride sections of the course as part of your training and you will be right.
Hi Blatant, no need to worry about getting the course right-pretty well signposted and I usually have plenty of people in front of me to follow
No road closures but they do have two lanes closed on westgate bridge for safety. haven't really used the map on course for direction, just location of rest stops.
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NEWARK, Del. (AP) – A Delaware couple has been indicted for allegedly locking their 12-year-old son in his room for three months.
Police in New Castle County arrested 41-year-old Robert Hohn III and 39-year-old Shannon Watterson in late November after the malnourished and barefoot boy escaped to a neighbor's home. A New Castle County grand jury indicted the couple Monday.
Hohn, the boy's father, and Watterson, his stepmother, are facing one count each of felony first-degree child abuse, endangering the welfare of a child and conspiracy as well as unlawful imprisonment and eight counts of misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child.
Police say the boy had been locked in his room from September to late November and allowed to leave only when he had to use the bathroom.
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Stay Strong, Stay Healthy is an eight-week strength training program for middle-aged and older adults. The program's goal is to improve health and quality of life. The class will meet once a week. We will incorporate warm-up exercises; simple strengthening exercises, with or without weights; and cool down stretches. Weights are provided for the class. Wear comfortable clothes and shoes. Bring water bottle and towel.
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Power outage time after Sandy not extraordinary
NEW YORK (AP) — As the number of nights without power stretched on for thousands left in the dark after Superstorm Sandy, patience understandably turned to anger and outrage.
But an Associated Press analysis of outage times from other big hurricanes and tropical storms suggests that, on the whole, the response to Sandy by utility companies, especially in hardest-hit New York and New Jersey, was typical — or even a little faster than elsewhere after other huge storms.
The AP, with the assistance of Ventyx, a software company that helps utilities manage their grids, used Energy Department data to determine how many days it took to restore 95 percent of the peak number of customers left without power after major hurricanes since 2004, including Ivan, Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Ike and Irene.
Twinkie maker Hostess reaches the end of the line
NEW YORK (AP) — Twinkies may not last forever after all.
Hostess Brands Inc., the maker of the spongy snack with a mysterious cream filling, said Friday it would shutter is operations after years of struggling with management turmoil, rising labor costs, intensifying competition and America's move toward eating healthier snacks even as its pantry of sugary dessert cakes seemed suspended in time.
Some beloved Hostess brands like Ding Dongs and Ho Ho's likely will be snapped up by buyers and find a second life, but for now the company says its snack cakes should be on shelves for another week or so. The news stoked an outpouring of nostalgia around kitchen tables, water coolers and online, as people relived childhood memories of their favorite Hostess goodies.
2 years after IPO, GM is piling up cash
DETROIT (AP) — Two years after a wounded General Motors returned to the stock market, the symbol of American industrial might is thriving again.
Sunday marks the anniversary of GM's initial public stock offering in November 2010. The company has made money for 11 straight quarters, piling up more than $16 billion in profits. Its cars and trucks are selling for good prices. And sales are strong in China.
But there are signs of trouble. GM's U.S. sales, the prime driver of its profits, aren't rising as quickly as the overall market. There's been turmoil in the executive ranks, and the company is hemorrhaging cash in Europe.
Hill leaders voice new confidence in deficit deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders from both parties voiced fresh optimism Friday after meeting with President Barack Obama about avoiding year-end "fiscal cliff" tax increases and spending cuts that would hammer the middle class and risk plunging the economy into recession.
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio said Republicans are willing to consider increased revenue "as long as it is accompanied by spending cuts" as leaders in a divided government get to work on a possible deal after a fierce election campaign.
Boehner presented a framework that one official said called for a deficit down-payment of unspecified size by year's end, to be followed by comprehensive tax reform and an overhaul of Medicare and other benefit programs in 2013.
Sandy, budget worries hold back US factory output
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. factory production of machinery and equipment fell sharply last month, held back by temporary disruptions caused by Superstorm Sandy and companies' fears that a federal budget crisis could trigger a recession next year.
The Federal Reserve said Friday that factory output, the most important component of industrial production, fell 0.9 percent in October from September. It would have been unchanged without the storm, the Fed said.
Overall industrial production fell 0.4 percent last month. Utility output dipped 0.1 percent, while mining, which includes oil and gas production, rose 1.5 percent.
Foreign holdings of US debt hit $5.46 trillion
WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign demand for U.S. Treasury securities rose to a record level in September for the ninth straight month. The increase suggests that overseas investors are confident in U.S. debt despite a potential budget crisis.
The Treasury Department said Friday that total foreign holdings rose to $5.46 trillion in September, up 0.1 percent from August.
China, the largest holder of U.S. government debt, barely increased its holdings in September to $1.16 trillion. Japan, the second-largest, increased its holdings to $1.13 trillion. Brazil trimmed its holdings to $267 billion.
JPMorgan, Credit Suisse paying $417 million in SEC case
WASHINGTON (AP) — JPMorgan Chase and Credit Suisse have agreed to pay a combined $417 million to settle federal civil charges that they sold risky mortgage bonds to investors that the banks knew could fail ahead of the 2008 financial crisis.
JP Morgan did not warn investors that homeowners were behind on their payments for the mortgages tied to the bonds, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday. And both banks failed to properly disclose practices that allowed them to profit while investors lost millions, the SEC said.
When the real estate bubble burst, home values plunged and millions of people defaulted on their mortgages and lost their homes. Investors who bought the securities backed by mortgages lost billions.
Judge leaning toward OK of $22.5 million fine of Google
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A proposed $22.5 million fine to penalize Google for an alleged privacy breach is on the verge of winning court approval, despite a consumer rights group's cry for tougher punishment.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston told lawyers during a Friday court hearing in San Francisco that she is likely to approve the fine, which is the cornerstone of a settlement reached three months ago between the Federal Trade Commission and Google Inc.
The rebuke is meant to resolve allegations that Google duped millions of Web surfers who use the Safari browser into believing their online activities couldn't be tracked by the company as long as they didn't change the browser's privacy settings. That assurance was posted on Google's website earlier this year, even as the Internet search leader was inserting computer coding that bypassed Safari's automatic settings and enabled the company to peer into the online lives of the browser's users.
IKEA regrets use of forced labor in East Germany
BERLIN (AP) — Swedish furniture giant IKEA expressed regret Friday that it benefited from the use of forced prison labor by some of its suppliers in communist East Germany more than two decades ago.
The company released an independent report showing that East German prisoners, among them many political dissidents, were involved in the manufacture of goods supplied to IKEA between 25 and 30 years ago.
The report concluded that IKEA managers were aware of the possibility that prisoners were used in the manufacture of its products and took some measures to prevent it, but they were insufficient.
Nike to sell Cole Haan brand for $570 million
BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) — Nike is selling its Cole Haan brand to private equity firm Apax Partners for $570 million, part of its effort to focus on core brands.
The sneakers, clothing and sports gear maker said in May that it wanted to sell the leather shoe and bag division and its Umbro soccer jersey brand to cut costs.
Nike is focusing on its namesake brand, Jordan, Converse and Hurley.
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The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 45.93 points, or 0.4 percent, at 12,588.31. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 6.55 points, or 0.5 percent, to 1,359.88 and the Nasdaq rose 16.19 points, or 0.6 percent to 2,853.13.
Benchmark crude oil futures rose by $1.05 to finish at $86.92 per barrel in New York. Brent crude, used to price many international varieties of oil, rose 94 cents to end at $108.95 per barrel in London.
Heating oil rose 1.33 cents to finish at $2.9868 per gallon. Wholesale gasoline rose 1.39 cents to end at $2.7101 per gallon. Natural gas rose 8.3 cents to finish at $3.9040 per 1,000 cubic feet.


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George P. Bush Hints at Running for Office While Campaigning for Romney
George P. Bush hopes to be the next in the political family dynasty to hold public office, he said in an interview with Fox News Latino on Saturday.
Bush, who generally has avoided discussing his plans for his own political future, said that possibly "in the next election cycle" he'll focus on holding public office in Texas, where he lives. Some political insiders in Texas have been raising 2014 as a year when Bush might figure prominently as a candidate.
Though he did not get specific about what office he is eying, political observers have mentioned Texas State Attorney General or Texas Land Commissioner.
Bush is the oldest son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the nephew of President George W. Bush, and the grandson of President George H. W. Bush. He is part Mexican – his mother, Columba Garnica Gallo, is a Mexican immigrant who became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He grew up in a home, he said, where Spanish as well as English was spoken – his father Jeb speaks Spanish fluently.
The 36-year-old, whose handprints from his childhood years are in the White House children's garden, has been campaigning for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
On Saturday, he was Miami to push for Romney. He is a founding board member of the Hispanic Republicans of Texas and is a treasurer for the state GOP.
The younger Bush served in the Navy, and did a six-month tour in Afghanistan. Like his younger brother, Jeb Bush Jr., who lives in Florida, George has focused much of his attention on attracting young Hispanics to the Republican party, heading PACS that support such efforts.
FNL: What would you want Latinos to know about Mitt Romney that you think is not well known by this voting bloc?
Bush: What gets lost in the discussion about Mitt Romney is that he's a champion for small business. Two-thirds of new jobs created since the Carter administration are created because of small businesses. It will be small businesses that fuel economic growth. Mitt Romney has had a lifetime of private sector accomplishments.
FNL: You're from a state where Latinos have driven population growth. Some Democrats have said it may well turn into a blue state [Democrat], since most Latinos have voted Democratic traditionally. What do you say?
Bush: We're already 40 percent Hispanic. But the percentage of registered Hispanic voters is very low – about 10 percent. I think our colleagues on the other side of aisle are getting ahead of themselves. In Texas, Republicans have a majority in the state Senate and the House. In Texas, we're getting behind Hispanic political candidates. We have seven Latinos in the state legislature. We're getting behind [Texas state Rep.] Raul Torres, who is running for state Senate. He is a man of faith, he's Evangelical. He's running against the incumbent, Juan Hinojosa.
FNL: Many Evangelicals have conservative values, a recent poll shows 39 percent Romney, though 50 percent support President Obama. Is that a source to be tapped for more Republican Latinos?
Bush: Oh yes. Evangelicals are an emerging political force in Texas. They're very involved politically, they periodically meet with the state's political leaders. But Catholics, too. I myself am Catholic, and many Catholics have values that are a priority for Republicans, especially as they relate to marriage and life.
FNL: What do Republicans have to do to attract Latino voters?
Bush:We Republicans have to be mindful about reaching out more to Hispanics, not only because they're the fastest growing minority, but also because we share their conservative values on marriage and life.
FNL: The next presidential debate is this Monday. It's focusing solely on foreign policy.Of course, many Latinos expect – and want – the Middle East, Libya and Syria, for example, to come up for discussion. But many also are wondering "What about Latin America?" Latin America, many Latinos long have complained, too often seems to be treated as an after-thought, as America's overlooked backyard. Do you think they're correct? Should Latin America be a part of the debate on foreign policy?
Bush: Do you mean Mexico, or Latin America?
FNL: Both. Mexico is important, but you have Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, and Raul Castro in Cuba, and there are trade, immigration and political stability concerns in the hemisphere.
Bush: There needs to be attention on Latin America, there's been a lack of it. My uncle was very engaged, especially in Mexico, he was governor of Texas. My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in Latin America. But I really hope that the debate deals with the Mexican drug cartel violence situation, particularly as a Texan, I feel strongly that it needs to be addressed.
FNL: What will Mitt Romney bring up on Monday?
Bush: He's going to take the president to task for the Benghazi attack. And we're witnessing one of the largest humanitarian crises in Syria, and this administration has not dealt with it [properly]. Americans in general, I think, don't understand the weight and gravity of foreign policy and how to engage the world at large. With Chavez and Castro, we need a policy of isolation. With the recent election results in Venezuela, I find it problematic that the polling data leading right up to the day of the elections showed a much closer race than what the results were. We all know Chavez's intentions.
FNL: You have been asked many times about your own political future, about running for office someday. I've seen your answers, but the typical answer people give when they're asked that question is that they have no plans, that they're just focused on the present. That's the line.
Come on, it's hard to believe it's not in your plans. Your name is George Bush, you grew up with politics, with presidents. Come on George, tell us.
Bush:[Laughter] O.K., I am drawn to public service. I am thinking about statewide office, the next election cycle. After this election [Nov. 6] is over, I'll entertain it. I'm intrigued by being in public office. I'm feeling the bug, the bug to jump into it. It's in my genes, I can't get it out.
FNL: How is your father?
Bush: He is enjoying life in the private sector. He's enjoying being the elder statesman in the party, being the voice of reason. He will probably help the party with immigration reform, putting it back on track. He's taking life day to day.
FNL: What do your uncle and grandfather think of today's politics?
Bush: Well, "41" and "43" think it's too polarized, "41" recalls the days when he could have a beer with Tip O'Neill, and they'd work on legislation.
FNL: Do you call them 41 and 43, even in family reunions?
Bush:[Laughter] No, 41 is Grampy to me and all the grandchildren.


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Designer aus der ganzen Welt reichen kreative Designs für alphaj in Kodierte Website Design - custom ein.
*changed to a Uncoded template contest* All designers welcome. This is for a kitchen and bathroom store. They have a show room but looking for a quality online presence. Women are the decision makers when it comes to kitchens and bathroom, there for the site must be simple and very appealing.
you create one!
Desired Color Scheme:
blue, green, purple, white (your choice of combinaton)
Desired Style:
A design that demonstrates a professional look and elegant feel. Displays appeal to both men and women. Be as creative as possible. Looking forward to what comes up.
Accepted File Formats:
psd, eps or vector based.
This is a quick 5-day contest (now extended for a few more days) and feedback will begin on Monday Jan 8th. Entrys will recieve feedback daily.
The ideal site will include the following items:
- Home page
- A section to retrieve and save visitor email addresses
- A section for advertisements
- A section for a running blog
- Photo gallery page
- About us page
To help spark ideas, the business also performs the following services:
Flooring, tiles, counter tops, cabinets, sinks, hoods, vents, faucets, entertainment centers.
The current logo can be found here:
The wireframe to be used can be found here:
The goal is to have a professional site directed at people looking for home upgrades and that want to come back and learn about doing upgrades themselves. a blog will be part of the site educating the consumer.
- Other payments may be considered if fees come out of prize money
- We reserve the right to end the contest early based on client direction
Good luck to all contestants.