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11/14/2007 7:03pm, #1
Obvious Epiphanies
One of the greatest understandings of my admittedly short, sheltered life is the knowledge that the gulf between knowing something superficially, trivially, and understanding it as a fact is much wider than we initially assume. Sure, it's easy to regurgitate dogma we know to be true, but to understand the precise reasons why, to apply them in daily living and make them something more significant than a trite truism is a whole other beast.
For example, in BJJ we chant "position before submission" as our mantra. We tell it to every white belt, scream it at the top of our hoarse lungs to every catch wrestler. But when was the first time you realized that, Jesus, having a strong position really DOES help your submissions?
Black belts love to harp on the idea that fundamentals are the essence of good jiu-jitsu. Few will openly admit to a reliance on fancy, elaborate moves, unless they're trying to sell you something. But when did you realize that, indeed, inverted spider guard really IS kind of retarded when you can just armbar a guy?
Lately I've been going back and reviewing things like this, that I've taken for granted over the years, truisms I've turned into inapplicable cliches. I'd like to share a couple of mine that have really helped out my game, and would love to hear some of yours.
--Break posture in the guard.
This wasn't explicitly taught at my school for a while. For my first couple years I had a sort of vague notion that it was important--almost all our attacks from the guard contained some degree of breaking an opponent's balance, introducing entropy, but I never integrated it as part of my game until a while back. Amusingly enough, Eddie Bravo's books have been extremely helpful in this regard, stressing the necessity of attacking posture before anything else.
--Break grips before passing the guard.
As a white belt, one of the things I found most intimidating was the open guard. It just seemed overwhelming, a constantly-shifting sea of grips, hooks, pushing, pulling, hip switching, arm dragging. "I'll never learn enough guard passes to deal with all this ****!" I thought. Over time I came to realize I wouldn't have to, that all I needed to do was defeat the individual limbs using simple techniques. Break the grip he holds over your sleeve. Kick your ankle out if he's grabbing it. Throw your hips forward. It seems obvious, which like I said, is the theme of this thread, but I've often surprised myself with how often I catch myself dicking around in someone's guard when all I need to launch my offense is break a single grip.
--Keep your opponent off-balanced from within the open guard.
On the flipside, it's not necessary to memorize a million different stimulus/response patterns to have an aggressive open guard, either. Even if you don't know a lot of sweeps, you can still force your opponent on the defensive by constantly attacking various balance points. Kick the leg away, use push/pull combinations with your butterfly hook, yank down on the collar, pull the sleeve across the chest, move the hips. Have a basic understanding of your options, but don't feel consigned to compulsively memorize every sweep for every scenario.
--Use the bump and roll in conjunction with shrimping to assist your escapes.
This is a big one. I've been scoring a lot of turnovers lately by explosively shrimping away from side mount and immediately bridging when my opponent tries walking around to north/south. Even though the 101 upa is a bit harder to get from mount, it still contains a lot of potential for re-guarding; even the slightest elevation of your opponent's ankle can be enough of an opening to put you back in half guard.
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11/14/2007 8:27pm, #2
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As I was approaching my purple belt, I started having this experience I couldn't articulate. It seemed so unique.
I had started putting moves together in new ways and changing how I thought about momentum. I felt like I'd struck on something really special. Moves were "just happening" on their own and I'd see how two previously separate moves fit together.
I tried describing it to a brown belt. He went "Oh, you're just using combinations."
Like everyone has always said to do a billion times.
Still, it didn't really mean anything until my body made it natural and automatic.
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Oh, and shaking the baby. Shaking grips to off balance them, shaking to get under their chin for chokes, shaking to break their defense to armlocks and kimuras, shaking my hips to get rid of hooks, shaking my shoulders to adjust.
11/14/2007 9:21pm, #4
As far as the "Why the %&$# didn't I see that before epiphanies" go that haven't already been mentioned:
1)The use of the foot when passing.
Knee through had pretty much been the meat and potatoes of my passing for years. However, when one of my training partners started using a stack pass where he'd crouch with his weight sitting on his opponent's ass, and dragging the feet to the side, the ease with which he did it suggested there was something to it.
When I tried it out for myself, it seemed as good as using the head as an anchor point. A good 2-on-1 foot pull applied with decent timing can ruin an opponents guard. Ever since then, it has become far and away my favourite mode of passing. Even from well outside the guard, where the foot goes, the body does follow
2) Changing Pressures
This is probably one of the most influential epiphanies of my game. We are, as BJJers, always told to keep improving our position. We are, however, never told to, Helio forbid, sacrifice, say, a precarious side control so we can back out around/over the opponent's guard (made ineffectual by effective leg/foot control), and go over to the other side for a much more secure side control and/or opportunistic straight armlock. Or back out of halfguard to disengage a lockdown (all lockdown players know the hilarity of watching someone try to crash straight through their half guard repeatedly, and wondering why it doesn't work).
A somewhat fluid and situational positional hierarchy served to really alter my way of thinking, in that regard. Whilst I would never change the "thus spake Helio...this is mine positional hierarchy, all others are heresy!" manner of teaching of the positional hierarchy, as I gain more experience, it seems more like a guideline than an ironclad rule
11/14/2007 11:31pm, #5
Please feel free to laugh at my noobness, I'm only a white belt (or a no belt) so its OK for me to suck.
1) Downward pressure when sprawling
I have an average sprawl going in terms of keeping my legs away and my hips forward, but I always went for the double underhooks and never capitalised on it, and my opponent would just keep pushing through and eventually take me down. Then I realised I could keep the pressure on the shoulders and head/neck to push them to the ground. Duh.
2) Push head away when going to armbar from mount
People kept turning in and grabbing the trapped arm when I would let go of mount for the armbar. So I pushed away the head so they couldnt turn towards me and it really helped me lock in the armbar.
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- Putting weight on the opponent
I can't make myself heavier than I really am. I only have so much mass. What I can do is make sure that as much as possible of it is placed on the opponent. In side control, any weight I put on my elbows, knees hands and feet means less weight placed on my opponent. So I try to keep as as many of those limbs as possible slightly off the mat as that will mean more weight on the opponent.
Obvious enough for you?
11/15/2007 5:28am, #7
-In order to take them down or sweep them, get your hips underneath theirs
I don't know why I didn't realize this one earlier. I've been doing this four years. There were big honking blaring signs pointing to it. And yet I wasted my time with obscure judo throws and memorizing sweeps for every single possible angle of pressure and limb configuration.
There's only two really effective ways to take someone down:
1: Get your hips underneath theirs
2: Snap their upper body down and take advantage of that structure
and two ways to sweep them:
1: Get under his hips
2: Use your hips to control his shoulders or head
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11/15/2007 6:18am, #8
--Position before submission.
I had heard it a thousand times, but it never really sunk in until I rolled with a purple belt. Everytime I would grab a limb and hang on he would roll out of it. He stopped rolling and broke it down for me.
Now I always get some sort of posiiton before I attempt submissions and my tap out versus being tapped out ratio has gone up.
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my latest epiphany is that few techniques work by themselves, always have a followup technique. just using combinations is general, whether it's the takedown, sweep, submission, etc etc. i wish i could write more but i've gotta take an exam.


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Civilians, defense lawyers and activists are welcoming the sentencing Monday of an army lieutenant colonel and eight other soldiers in the mass rape of dozens of women in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. They say, though, it is just a small step in the fight against rampant rape in the war-torn country.
Hundreds of people jeered at the convicted as they were led away in handcuffs outside the makeshift courtroom in the lakeside Congo village of Baraka.
Defense lawyer Therese Kulungu said in her words "the untouchable has been touched." The reactions followed a military court sentence of between 10 and 20 years in prison for those convicted of a mass rape on New Year's Day in the nearby town of Fizi, in the mineral-rich and lawless South Kivu Province.
The main accused was former rebel-leader Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Kibibi Mutware, who was reintegrated into Congo's army in 2009, as part of long-delayed peace agreements. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of crimes against humanity for ordering his troops to rape, beat and loot the population of Fizi.
Forty-nine victims of the New Year's Day attack testified in court, and as part of the verdict, the senior judge said they should receive up to $10,000 in compensation from the government.
An activist against rapes in the Congo, Lisa Shannon, has been following the trial from the United States. Several years ago, she visited the area where the trial took place and found staggering statistics.
"It was common in women's groups for half of the women to have been gang raped within the last six months," said Shannon. "I visited villages in the area where 90 percent of the women had been raped. In all of the areas I visited in South Kivu, I did not visit communities that identified higher rates of rape than in that area. It was the highest."
She said women face an impossible choice of being stopped by competing groups of armed men and raped while going to farm their fields, or watching their children starve.
Despite growing attention to the problem, rapes are still reported on a regular basis from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, often committed by government soldiers. The medical charity group Doctors Without Borders said it had received credible reports of 30 new rapes last week in areas near Fizi.
Shannon called the trial an enormous first step in dealing with a total lack of justice and a culture of impunity. She said Congolese officials, activists, judges and defense lawyers cannot be expected to reverse this grim reality on their own.
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The Blue Devils (5-0) will meet the winner of the game between No. 2 Louisville and No. 13 Missouri for the championship tonight.
No. 7 Florida 79, UCF 66: Kenny Boynton scored a season-high 24 points, Scottie Wilbekin added a career-best 17, and the Gators beat Central Florida in Gainesville.
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No. 8 Kentucky 104, LIU-Brooklyn 75: Alex Poythress and Archie Goodwin each scored 22 points and the host Wildcats ran away from the Blackbirds.
Goodwin added 9 rebounds and 9 assists. Poythress also had 9 rebounds as Kentucky (4-1) won its third in a row.
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No. 15 Michigan St. 70, Oakland 52: Keith Appling shook off a sprained right ankle in the first half and finished with 20 points to help the host Spartans beat the Golden Grizzlies.
The Spartans (4-1) have won four straight since starting the season with a loss to Connecticut in Germany.
The Golden Grizzlies (2-4) never led, but didn't make Michigan State's night easy until late in the game.
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Howell finished with 15 rebounds and also knocked down two free throws with 5 seconds left to secure the win for North Carolina State (4-1), which finally shook free of the Bulldogs late after trailing most of the way.
Jeremy Atkinson scored a career-high 28 points for the Bulldogs (1-5).
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Mitt Romney, in a bold redirection of his campaign and in an apparent appeal to waffling Catholic swing voters, named Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan his running mate on Aug. 11. While Ryan's pro-life views and his stance against same-sex marriage have been praised by some Catholics, his budget and tax proposals have drawn criticism from others, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
What Ryan's elevation will mean to Catholic voters across the United States remains to be seen. Once considered to be a united front, today's Catholic voters can be divided into three distinct groups, says Steve Schneck, director of the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies at the Catholic University of America and a national co-chair of Catholics for Obama: (1) Latino Catholics, about 70 percent of whom favor Obama; (2) "intentional" Catholics, who tend to be more traditional and who favor Romney; and (3) cultural Catholics. This last group, Schneck says, are the Catholics for whom the two candidates will be competing.
Ryan makes a "fascinating selection," said Schneck. He said Ryan's fiscal proposals raise concerns about the well-being of the elderly, the poor and those in need of housing and education. "The long-term debt problem is scary, but the way we address it isn't by shredding the minimal safety net," Schneck argues. "It's finding other sources of revenue. It's asking the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes."
Dan Finn, a professor of economics and theology at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn., said that Ryan's "individualistic economic analysis" leads the candidate to believe that reducing payments for welfare is actually good for people in poverty because welfare makes them dependent. This view, however, fails to see the larger framework necessary for an accurate analysis. "There are many causes of poverty. Dependency is certainly a problem for some, but for many it is not," Finn said. "They're working trying to make ends meet. What's missing is the debate about the social and scientific analysis that undergird anyone's position on this matter."
The question of Catholic identity also has gained prominence because of the Ryan pick. Despite a shared faith, Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden hold opposing views on the legality of abortion, same-sex marriage and government assistance to the poor. The debate surrounding these issues has caused some voters to make judgments not just about who is a better candidate, but who is a better Catholic.
The divisions represent a "moment of truth" for the church, said the Rev. Bryan Massingale, a professor of systematic theology and ethics at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis. "Is there more to Catholic public identity than opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage?" he asked. "Everyone on the right and left would say, 'Of course.'" But he argues that the question must be extended: Is there more to Catholic identity in reality than in rhetoric?
"Paul Ryan represents a group of Catholics who believe that as long as they're with the church on abortion, then they get a pass on the rest of Catholic identity," he said. "And I think there are some statements of our bishops that have fed into that. But we need to ask: How does our commitment to the poor and vulnerable factor into Catholic public identity and witness? The question goes deeper than Paul Ryan. He becomes a symbol of something that has been an ongoing conversation in the church and that we need to engage more forthrightly."


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With a British father and an Italian mother; Mary Olivia Cork spent all her childhood in the environment of Italian villa: the sumptuous "frescos" and romantic gardens of Tuscany were her daily surrounding. Her decorator's profession now obliges her to live most of time in our gray metropolises. However she absolutely wanted to keep with her the perfumes of her native Italy and pictures of our Provence that she loves.
Mary Olivia Cork asked a famous artist from the south of France, to create canvases evoking these Provencal and Italian gardens. So was born a collection of panels in linen that she can always take in her luggage.
When we discovered these painted canvases; we fell under the charm of their elegance and their so particular simplicity. We met their creator Dany Chevalier and we asked her to collaborate with us to find artists who she would teach the original mind of her works.
Today we are proud to introduce you to the Marv Olivia Cork collection.


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Seib & Wessel: Congress Prepares for a Fall Fight
WSJ's Janet Hook looks at the odds this fall of a government shutdown or a showdown on debt payments, as Democratic and Republican lawmakers remain far apart on spending and taxes -- and face another debt-ceiling deadline as well.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
the ... so maybe this gets rolling August know we head into the fall but in the fall people here's the commitment ... to budget to the spending items which are better leader to the great ... fiscal debate ... um it was clear to me though with the debate this fall when Congress is going to be about ... how much do we spend it or do we raise the debt ceiling is both those things are going to ... heads ... on this fall ... for those two things get intermingled lecture gas ... well as the spending question comes first because the um the fiscal year ends on September thirty s and Congress is nowhere close to ALM pass spending bills they need to keep the government open ... so I didn't have to come to grips with that he panicked at least a short-term way ... aam and and that the debt ceiling is a little less certain when they actually dropped in half to raise the debt ceiling is definitely after September thirty or ... so eventually they probably get completed Obama and Democrats are coming back but their argument though they are not going to negotiate over raising the debt ceiling ... the Republicans are coming back with their argument that somehow an increase in the debt ceiling has to be matched with some ... spending cuts or as austerity ... it does feel to me though like right now ... that the will to have a big ... note default threatening fight over the debt limit isn't there for the Republicans that are too big to do ... much when from that ... and so ... that is the question is actually seem a little bit ... more difficult to untie the committee more relevant to what's really going to happen this fall right right I mean we do have a second round of sequester cuts coming in ... here before about the sequester the first time as if that weren't at the ceiling debate will dislike nine more years of ... sea of across the board spending cuts ... ALM that nobody's figured out how to undo and as a result ... there were gonna have to write deals to succumb to some very stringent limits ... now I'm fortunately the house the Senate in six different overall spending targets so they're breaking bills that don't match up so nobody really knows and there are a little the final idea that you are in less than two ... hundred billion so ... I guess the spending priorities are skewed it's actually a perfect ... in each of the differences between the parties which is that the Democrats ... plus the pulpit domestic accounts and set an overall higher target ... the Republicans scrunched down the overall spending and also put all of that the ... cuts in domestic programs and kept the Pentagon all ... so in others a lot of alot of hashing out to do is between two parties in a ... note but neither one really ... looking at cutting spending ... it's all about the ... car ... back ... so so if you are um if you're trying to predict whether this can be either a debt crisis or a government shutdown crisis this fall I knew that ... I bet that neither happened to me that he got ... shot them in the remaining dough going to fall I mean I think for every race is close to either of those ... closer to a government shutdown ... it's hard to presence in that position because as you pointed to a speech he gave has a fairly ambitious agenda for ... federal spending and what he calls investments in those very things that the Republicans are ... coming ... write to write a mean this is this actually isn't both houses Senator to be on debating the same dilemma for next week it's the transportation housing built and is the perfect contrast because it has a lot of that kind of investments or programs ... housing and transportation and ... community development ... the class up into on the Senate side and the house truly can turn suspects ...


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Decisive Cleanroom Competence
Fully electric machines guarantee best-of-class precision and efficiency
When it relocated to larger premises with a new cleanroom for injection moulding operations, V.A.R.I. - Lindal Group decided to switch to fully electric presses. These machines have allowed the Italian manufacturer of valves for pharmaceutical applications to comply with the increasingly stringent requirements of its customers while ensuring maximum precision and efficiency.
V.A.R.I., a company of the Lindal Group, is a leading manufacturer of valves and actuators for pharmaceutical aerosol products. For 25 years, it has produced 20-mm valves for CFC and HFA propellants that have been employed all over the world in a vast range of pharmaceutical applications. The company has an established presence in Europe, as well as in Russia, Asia, South America and Africa, with a market share of over 90% in some of these regions.
V.A.R.I. is located in Oggiono (near Lecco) in a modern site covering 60,000 sq.m including 1,500 sq.m devoted to cleanrooms, a laboratory of 300 sq.m, and 900 sq.m of office space. The new factory was built in 2009 from scratch and is equipped with ultramodern positive-pressure cleanrooms featuring HEPA filters for injection moulding processes in a strictly controlled environment. The new cleanroom includes fully electric injection moulding machines with a clamping force of 100 tonnes delivered by ENGEL, each with a HEPA laminar flow box above the clamping unit. All servoelectric drives are fanless and totally encapsulated, as is the injection unit. The completeness, size, functionality and dosing capacity of all the valves produced can be checked directly on the assembly lines. All the valves are laser-coded for total traceability. "We are the only manufacturer of these parts within the Lindal Group," remarks Giovanni Corti, plant manager at the Oggiono factory. "We are the aerosol competence centre for the international pharmaceuticals market." The Lindal Group, whose head offices are situated in Bad Oldesloe near Hamburg, Germany, has developed, produced and sold valves, spray heads and caps for all kinds of aerosol products in the cosmetics, household, technology, food and pharmaceutical industries since 1959. Lindal delivers more than 2 billion valves each year, and is thus one of the market leaders in this field. The Group boasts a global presence, with numerous subsidiaries and licensed dealers in more than 15 countries.
From the initial idea through to series production
Every year the new factory in Oggiono produces several million valves with a diameter of 20 mm. To adapt the single components the valves undergo a customisation step, because each change of recipe requires appropriate materials and structures. V.A.R.I. has its own laboratory and engineering departments to cope with these requirements. "We offer our customers a full service, from product tests to design and concept, through to series production," says Corti.
The cleanroom for injection moulding production is the heart of the new pharmaceutical division. Five ENGEL e-motion fully electric injection moulding machines were commissioned here in late 2010. V.A.R.I.'s move to the new facilities also meant that the company switched to fully electric machines. "Our customers have increasingly strict requisites, and this is reflected in our product portfolio. To be able to go on meeting these requisites in the future, we decided to invest in new injection moulding technology," Corti explains: "Fully electric machines ensure extremely clean operation and at the same time a high level of precision, and we need this for automated assembly downstream."
The fully electric drive system, the position measurements with absolute encoders and high precision linear guide rails provide for accurate movements. In combination with the autoprotect software, this provides extremely sensitive mould protection.
In the ENGEL e-motion series all machine movements are controlled by servoelectric drives, from injection and metering through to the mould and the ejector. This ensures a
high degree of efficiency, with virtually no energy consumption while the machine is idle. The servodrives have a central energy supply where the braking energy is recovered as electric energy and fed directly back into the power grid. Parallel motion of all drives reduces the dry cycle and cycle times, thus additionally improving efficiency.
Although Giovanni Corti had already used ENGEL machines at the former site, it was not merely a matter of course to continue working with ENGEL after the expansion and modernisation programme. Quotations from several machine manufacturers were examined and talks were held, with Corti paying attention to one thing in particular: the manufacturer's cleanroom competence. "As plastics processors we ourselves have only limited experience in the pharmaceutical field," Corti points out, "in other words we have to trust, absolutely, in the machine manufacturer's experience and know-how." And this was the point at which Corti quickly discovered major differences between the various bidders. Finally, ENGEL came in with an offer that proved convincing in all respects. The dependability and competence demonstrated by the Medical Business Unit were decisive for the purchase. But Corti also appreciates the proximity of ENGEL's Italian subsidiary in Vimercate, just half an hour's drive from Oggiono. The staff of ENGEL Italia were just as familiar with the details of the project as Christoph Lhota, head of the ENGEL Medical Business Unit in Schwertberg, Austria. "Whenever I called with changes in the planning phase, everybody immediately knew what I was talking about," says Corti.
To avoid wasting time during the planning and commissioning stages, ENGEL was entrusted – as a turn-key supplier – with the delivery of the e-motion presses, the automation systems, the laminar flow boxes and the mould change system. The turn-key package also included the documentation for the cleanroom equipment (with the EverQ certificates) in line with GMP practices. "Not every machine builder is capable of supplying the required documentation scope," comments Corti, "you really have to take a very close look at the offers at the bidding stage."
A cleanroom in the cleanroom
At the new Oggiono factory the ENGEL e-motion machines are installed in an ISO 8 cleanroom. The clamping units on all of the e-motion presses are encapsulated and equipped with laminar flow boxes incorporating HEPA filters rated to Class ISO 7, just like the adjacent cleanroom where the valves are assembled. "The laminar flow boxes are totally custom built," emphasises Christoph Lhota, "we collaborated with our partner Max Petek Reinraumtechnik to come up with a custom solution here."
The fact that V.A.R.I. opted for the tiebarless variant of the e-motion machines is an advantage. This choice means more space in the mould area, which at the same time facilitates part handling and mould changes. To be able to bring in the moulds from the side without using a hoist, ENGEL integrated a mould change system including rollers and a trolley. Thanks to the trolley, the mould can easily be moved to the maintenance zone.
Each injection moulding machine is equipped with an ENGEL ERC 23 robot which takes care of part removal from the mould. The grippers were designed individually to meet the requirements of valve production, as a standard solution would not have been suitable for handling small parts with diameters of between 2 and 20 mm. After removing the parts, the grippers deposit them on a conveyor belt integrated into an ISO 7 enclosure. The conveyor belt transports the individual components through an air lock into the neighbouring intermediate storage. From this point on, the ISO 7 standards are complied with throughout.
Bound to grow
The intermediate storage fulfils several functions. This is where the quality control areas for the moulded parts are located and the individual components are packed for final transport to the assembly line in a third cleanroom near the other two. The valves are assembled in a fully automated process. The tolerance for the moulded parts is between 0.02 and 0.05 mm, a requirement which the fully electric ENGEL e-motion machines fulfil with ease.
The Chameleon of MDI valves
One size fits all
LINDAL Group provides the technique inside and the design "on top" of over 1.9 billion aerosols per year. Established in 1959 and never ceasing to innovate, LINDAL has become one of the global market leaders in aerosol technology.
VARI, part of the Lindal Group, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of valves and actuators for pharmaceutical aerosol systems. VARI has manufactured 20mm metering valves for a wide range of pharmaceutical applications for over 25 years, supplying pharmaceutical companies all around the world. Part of the VARI products range is the KHFA valve, a pMDI valve completely manufactured and assembled in a clean-room environment with approaches and procedures consistent with the aims of cGMP.
The KHFA valve is the result of years of development and commercial use, which offers a valve design capable of maintaining its "prime" with SOLUTION formulations, while at the same time allowing "rapid-fill / rapid drain" with SUSPENSION formulations. The careful selection of materials for the valve components offer a valve with LOW level of extractables. Great care has been taken to avoid some of the more reactive species that can leach from some materials, which can adversely impact on the stability of the most sensitive drugs in solution. The outcome is a pMDI valve, a Chameleon, which offers superior performance with both solution and suspension formulations, without the need for design and material changes.
The key enabling factors of the VARI KHFA valve are:
• Outstanding moisture barrier protection
• Low propellant loss
• Excellent metering consistency
• Rapid fill / rapid drain technology (NO need for priming)
• A design able to deliver small volumes
• Clean extractable profile
• Selection of compatible polymers
• Highly competitive price
For more information please contact:
Sergio Monti
Via al Mognago, nr. 47
23848 OGGIONO (Lecco)
Tel +39 0341 269525
Fax +39 0341 269540


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OKANOGAN The first-degree murder trial of a Riverside man has been postponed, pending confirmation to the court that he's had a mental evaluation.
Don Arthur Moore, 65, was charged April 24 in Okanogan County Superior Court in the April 20 shooting and stabbing death of Bruce R. Molony.
Moore's trial had been set for Oct. 1.
Instead, his next court date is Oct. 14 for a review of whether a mental evaluation has been completed.
He was arrested early April 20 at Molony's home on Foggy River Loop Road near Riverside and booked into the county jail early the next morning. Bail was set at $1 million.
Moore called the Sheriff's Office at 4:13 p.m. April 20 to report the incident. He reported he had been stabbed and that the person who stabbed him was dead after being shot and stabbed.
Moore had previously reported several items missing from his home at 30007 U.S. Highway 97, Riverside, and that he suspected Molony of taking them.
He later allegedly discovered a clutch missing from a truck and confronted Molony, who allegedly came after Moore with a knife, court documents show.
Moore allegedly responded by pulling out a .22-caliber pistol. Molony was shot eight times and stabbed eight times, an initial autopsy report showed.
The suspect was treated at Mid-Valley Hospital and then taken to jail, where he remains.
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Ultimately, the purpose of emergency management is to increase the University's capabilities to respond to the hazards that threaten the campus, all the while, preventing or reducing the impact of the hazards on the community. The purpose of the University of Utah's emergency management program is to coordinate the activities of various departments responsible for continued operations during disasters, coordinate inter-local agreements for use of resources, communicate with state and federal agencies, and provide education and training. The University of Utah is committed to the welfare of our students, faculty, staff, and visitors. Our emergency management program is designed to respect this commitment; to maximize human safety and survival; to minimize danger; to preserve university property; to restore normal working conditions; and to assure responsive communications within the university community and to our surrounding neighborhoods, the broader Salt Lake City community, and media outlets.
The U's emergency operations plan is enacted whenever a natural disaster or other emergency affects the university. This plan is a tool for the university to accomplish its stated purposes efficiently and effectively, with a minimum of confusion, and with the best interests and safety of our community members in mind. The U's Emergency Operations Plan is reviewed annually and updated as necessary. Download the University Emergency Operations Plan (PDF, 588KB)
Mitigation: Refers to actions taken before an event occurs to prevent or lessen the impact the event has to life and property. Examples of mitigation include; building codes, remodeling, and training. In 2010, the University received FEMA approval of its campus mitigation strategy. Details addressing specific mitigation actions are available at http://ehs.utah.edu/dru.
Preparedness: Refers to activities, actions, procurements, planning, training and inter-jurisdictional cooperation designed to increase response readiness to identified hazards the University community faces.
Response: Mobilization of resources to meet the needs of the community in response to the nature of the disaster. Response is usually associated with the period of time immediately after the event and necessary to ensure life safety issues are handled. Examples include; building or campus-wide evacuations, fire and emergency medical services, hazardous materials clean up, debris removal, public works activities and law enforcement. University response instructions are available here: In Case of Emergency
Recovery: Refers to long term mobilization of support operations that work toward returning the community to its pre-event condition. The greater the magnitude of the disaster the greater the recovery effort required.


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Brian (the anthropomorphized dog) is portrayed as the most intelligent character on the animated series. He shows his copy of Dawkins' book to a girl he is interested in.
Granted, this is comedy. Nevertheless, anything that draws attention to books like "The God Delusion" is a good thing (imo.) Seth MacFarlane's satire of family values is wonderfully heretical.
LOL. Thats a good one! I like the smoke in his hand too. Very authentic.
Family guys is full of fun little gems.
I use that particular graph as well. However, I have added Dubya underneath the creationist category.
Hey, thats the silver hardcopy version just like I have! I wonder if mine is missing?
Creationism illustrated.
Note: I agree with some but not all of the goals of yoism.org. I just happened to find the Family Guy creationism clip at that site.
Brian (the anthropomorphized dog) is portrayed as the most intelligent character on the animated series.
In the episode where Brian goes back to finish college at Brown, there is a scene where he walks by the sports stadium. Ever notice who their opponent is?
Yup, "Board of Education".
Ha! And you know who teaches cell biology at Brown U right? None other than our very own Kenneth R Miller, who testified in the 2005 Dover Pennsylvania trial on behalf of evolutionary science. Very clever.
All i know i learned from Family Guy (this is from a t-shirt)
A Quahog is a clam.
Dogs and babies can talk, listen to them.
Death is no good with the ladies.
When you're beautiful doors magically open for you.
The dinosaurs died out because you touch yourself.
Don't take coupons from giant chickens.
Greased up guys are impossible to catch.
Don't accept popsicles from weird old men.
Evil monkeys aren't as evil as they seem.
Pimples, however are very evil.
Everything works out if you do whatever you want.
Don't trust people in checkered suits.
Don't buy volcano insurance.
You can't eat a stapler.
Don't do 'Toad.'
TV is freakin' sweet.
Petitions actually work.
From The Simpsons:
The float should have read, "Non-pedophile Priests."


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UConn can't hold lead, falls to No. 15 Michigan
EAST HARTFORD — David almost beat Goliath. Almost.
Holding a two-touchdown lead early in the third quarter, little UConn, a program with just over a decade of Division I-A football experience, was on the verge of knocking off mighty Michigan, a program with 134 years of history with the most victories (906) in all of college football.
But in the end, history and experience won out over heart and emotion as the Wolverines scored the last 17 points and rallied to beat UConn 24-21 before a record crowd Saturday night at Rentschler Field.
The 42,704 announced attendance — the stadium added 2,800 additional seats for the game — made it the largest crowd for a football game in the history of Rentschler Field. It was also the Huskies' 31st sellout since starting play at the Rent in 2003.
"It was a tremendous atmosphere," Huskies head coach Paul Pasqualoni said. "It was a great night, just a great night for football. The fans were great and the stadium was great."
And early in the third quarter, UConn was holding a 21-7 lead and the Rent was rocking. The Huskies were making big plays on defense, catching some breaks on offense and holding every upset card in their hands.
They just didn't have the ace up their sleeve.
Michigan did. Quarterback Devin Gardner scrambled around to gain 64 yards, and he added another 97 passing to back up the power of tailback Fitzgerald Toussaint, who pounded his way for 120 yards on 24 carries. Toussaint scored both second-half touchdowns — on runs of 35 and 12 yards — as the Wolverines came all the way back. They overcame four turnovers in the game.
"UConn played hard, we thought they would, we knew they would," Michigan head coach Brady Hoke said. "They have a coach who's a damn good coach, and they executed very well on defense and sometimes offensively. They way our kids responded was great."
Michigan improved to 4-0 while UConn fell to 0-3, the first time since the 2001 season that the Huskies have lost their opening three games.
Michigan snapped a 21-21 tie on a 21-yard field goal from Brendan Gibbons with 4:36 to play. UConn tried to answer, but on a fourth-and-29 from the Huskies 33 with 1:48 left, Whitmer's pass over the middle to Deshon Foxx netted 26 yards, leaving the Huskies so close, but yet, so far from a stunning victory.
"I think what happened tonight was (Michigan) made a few more plays than we did," Pasqualoni said. "Hopefully this will give us something to work toward. I'm proud of the effort, proud of the kids that had to step up and play."
Once again, UConn's offense struggled to get anything going. The much-maligned run game continued to do nothing, managing just 47 yards. The pass game wasn't much better, netting just 159 yards. Whitmer was sacked four times (three in the second half) and threw a crucial interception that eventually led to a Michigan touchdown.
"That's a pretty good (Michigan) defense. They're big and athletic," Pasqualoni said. "I thought we did some good things but you obviously want to have more production. We worked to be better in the run game but we weren't as good as we needed to be. We have to go back and evaluate and see what we can do."
It was a 17-yard touchdown scramble by Gardner with 1:56 left in the first quarter that completed an 11-play, 69-yard drive and gave Michigan a 7-0 lead. But UConn's defense, which had been criticized by both fans and media for its miserable run defense over its opening two games — they were allowing 212.5 yards a game — held Michigan to just 120 total first-half yards, and that allowed the Huskies to take advantage of not one, but two big breaks.
Walk-on tight end Spencer Parker caught an 11-yard touchdown pass — his first career reception — with 3:54 left in the first half to tie the game at 7-7. On the next possession, Cole Wagner's punt hit Michigan's Da'Mario Jones in the back of the leg, and UConn's Obi Melifonwu recovered at the Wolverines 9-yard line. One play later, Whitmer found Lyle McCombs coming out of the backfield to score a touchdown with 1:47 left to put UConn in front 14-7.
That was break No. 1.
Early in the third quarter, Michigan went for it on a fourth-and-1 call from its own 34. Gardner plowed into the line and fumbled the football. It bounced right to Ty-Meer Brown, who picked it up and went 34 yards untouched into the end zone for a touchdown with 13:39 left in third quarter to give the Huskies a 21-7 lead.
That was break No. 2.
"You can't be loose with the ball," Hoke said. "That's a major league problem and we've got to fix that." But on the next possession, Toussaint took a pitch from Gardner and went 35 yards, cutting back against the spread-out UConn defense, to score a touchdown and get the Wolverines back within a touchdown with 5:37 to play in the third quarter. UConn had a chance to extend the lead, but Chad Christen missed a 46-yard field goal try wide left with 1:14 left in the third.
The shift in momentum continued as Michigan linebacker Desmond Morgan intercepted Whitmer at the UConn 41 and returned the ball down to the 12. On the next play, Toussaint scampered into the end zone to tie the game at 21-21 with 9:49 to play.
"There are no moral victories," Pasqualoni said. "It's disappointing, the outcome ... we'll be a better team. We're not at all discouraged."


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Wife of fallen Watauga County deputy gives birth
Wife of fallen Watauga County deputy gives birth
The wife of a fallen Watauga County deputy has given birth to a son just 2 1/2 weeks after her husband's death.
William Hunter Mast was born around 7 p.m. Sunday, Watauga County Sheriff Len Hagaman said. Both mother and son are doing fine, Hagaman said.
William is the son of William Mast Jr., 23, who was shot and killed July 26 while in the line of duty on Hardin Road in Deep Gap.
Mast and another deputy had responded to a 911 call at a trailer when the suspect opened fire, striking Mast.
The suspect, who the Associated Press identified as Mitchell Allen Trivette, 33, was killed in return gunfire.
Along with the birth of his child, Mast was getting ready to celebrate his 24th birthday this month.


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I like to watch (instantly): "30 Days"
Certain reality shows work for me, like "Project Runway" and "Top Chef." I like thinking about the creative process and how it works under varying pressures. Both of those are getting old, though. The formulas are cliché, and every hackneyed improvement they add on for freshness just trashes things up. I haven't kept up with them.
I usually feel kind of dirty after watching that stuff, as if I just fed my brain a bunch of cotton candy.
"30 Days" is perhaps the broccoli of reality TV. It's the brainchild of Morgan Spurlock, that dude from Super Size Me who ate nothing but McDonald's for a month.
His TV show is modeled similarly. In the first episode, Spurlock and his girlfriend try to live on minimum wage for 30 days. It's a fascinating exploration of poverty and, unintentionally I think, it showed the effects of being broke on an otherwise happy relationship.
That's the genius of immersing oneself in a drastically different lifestyle for 30 days. The truths unearthed are nuanced and unexpected.
For the rest of the first season, other people undergo the experiment. A Christian homophobic guy from a small, all-American hometown moves in with a gay man in San Francisco's Castro District for a month. A super healthy, totally sober mom binge drinks for 30 days to better understand her college freshman daughter. Consumer city slickers move off the grid to a commune that works to eliminate its carbon footprint.
Results are mixed. Not everyone has a breakthrough. But ideological divides are probed in a way that pundits and arguments can't manage. The show's motto is: Putting the middle back in America. Even if an episode's test-subject doesn't grow from walking in someone else's shoes, at least one ep is likely to alter your opinion.


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Zack Wheeler (9-8) allowed two earned runs while working 5 2-3 solid innings. The Mets split their quick two-game interleague series.
Wheeler is 6-0 with a 2.12 ERA over his nine outings since June 30. The A's chased him after two innings in the shortest start of his career June 25.
The right-hander and former San Francisco Giants top prospect improved to 4-1 in his last 10 road starts.
Jeurys Familia relieved Vic Black with the bases loaded and one out in the eighth and walked in a run but avoided further damage. He finished for his fourth save.
Campbell and Duda homered during a five-run third against Jeff Samardzija (3-3).


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I usually dry hop in the fermenter for a week or two, than add more to the leg which stay in for as long as the keg is on tap...2-3 months. I have never gotten the fabled off flavors.
When its time to bottle I line my bottling bucket with a paint strainer bag to catch any hop debris that passes through the siphon. I then let it sit for a couple of hours to let a lot of the fine particles drop below the level of the spigot. This keeps most of the hop debris out of the bottles.


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MW: Treasurys pare losses after U.K. formally begins Brexit process
Treasury prices gained some ground on Wednesday after U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May began the Article 50 process, which formally begins the process of taking the country out of the European Union.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note TMUBMUSD10Y, -1.15% slipped 2.6 basis points to 2.398%. The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond TMUBMUSD02Y, -2.42% fell 2.3 basis points to 3.006%. The yield on the 2-year Treasury note TMUBMUSD30Y, -0.67% fell 2 basis points to 1.286%.
Bond prices move inversely with yields and one basis point is equal to a hundredth of a percentage point.
âThe 10-year note yield has backed off from levels that suggest a breakout above the 2.60% is not likely to happen anytime soon.â wrote Peter Cardillo, chief market economist for First Standard Financial, in a note, predicting Treasury yields were unlikely to follow through on the rise seen Tuesday.
âIn fact, with the formal request by Great Britain to exit the EU this week, coupled with the upcoming French elections, yields may be poised to hang around the present levels,â he said.
See: Brexit: Hereâs what happens now that the U.K. has triggered Article 50
On Tuesday, positive economic data took yields up as better-than-expected readings from the consumer confidence index heightened demand for risky assets and sapped demand for safe government paper. But after Theresa May ended months of anticipation on when the U.K. would begin the process to leave the EU, investors flocked back to haven assets as one source of geopolitical uncertainty in Europe is now concluded.
Opinion: Three ways todayâs triggering of Brexit will change Britain and Europe
Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans, who is a voting member of the central bankâs interest-rate-setting committee, said he expects âone or twoâ more interest rate increases this year. Evans added an inflation rate of 2.5 % âfor a timeâ would not be out of keeping with the Fedâs plans. His remarks appeared to break the fall of Treasury prices.
San Francisco Fed President John Williams and Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren are also expected to speak on Wednesday.
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Assess yourself is the topic for week 3. I would bet everyone that read this challenge said to themselves "uh-oh". Here we are (I hope I'm not speaking for just myself) searching for weeks, months even years for so many of our elusive ancestors. If we do find a complete document (with a name for the mother or father besides Unknown) we jump for joy, blog and tweet about it. When we find a document with only sketchy information, we are hopeful for clues but grumble under our breath. Knowing how these highs and lows impact our research and approach to it, we would never dream of putting future genealogist through the same, right? Wrong!
Do we take for granted we will be around with plenty of time to document the important things in our life? Probably. Do we think that no one will be interested in where we lived, worked or what we looked like 50 years from now? Definitely!
While I have not taken the time for any type of journal to chronicle my life, I have made an effort to preserve my photographs. Once I bought my first digital camera, preserving photos became much easier. I have photos backed up on CDs, jump drives and online photo storage services. I always try to note the place and date of the photos but not the names of those in the photos. I will have to make improvements in that area.
I have my childhood scrapbook that I gave up on sometime in high school. I should complete as much as possible and put in an archival album. Then there are those boxes of pre-digital photos that need to be scanned or at least labeled and stored properly.
Now that I have created a list for myself, no promises or even estimates on when I will complete this. I'm going to be around for a long time and nobody is going to be interested in me 50 years from now anyway!


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College softball team and head coach Jamie Madwell-Grodecki are pleased to announce their annual Alumni Day, set for Sunday, March 13 at noon.
This is a great opportunity to come out and support Georgia College softball past and present, honoring the success of one of GC's most decorated programs.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/GCSUBobcats and www.facebook.com/GCBobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – For the second year in a row and the third time in four years, the Tennessee Tech football team will venture into the Southeastern Conference for a game against an FBS opponent.
Coach Watson Brown's Golden Eagles will play at the University of Arkansas to open the 2010 season, with the game slated for Saturday, Sept. 4, in Fayetteville. The game will be played in Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium.
"We're excited about this game and another opportunity for our young men to play against an FBS opponent," said Golden Eagle head coach Watson Brown. "Each game we've played against that level of competition has been a learning experience, it has given our players a chance to face the very best competition we can face, and it gives each player memories they will take with them for the rest of their lives."
"These games are also very important financially for our football program and the Tennessee Tech Athletic Department," Brown said.
Tech played at the University of Georgia this season, a game that drew more than 92,000 fans to rank as the second-largest crowd to ever watch an OVC team play. In 2007, the Golden Eagles played before more than 85,000 at Auburn, which was the largest OVC attendance at the time.
Following a $110 million renovation in 2001, the Arkansas stadium increased its seating capacity from 51,000 to 72,000.
"We are delighted to announce this game and add it to our 2010 schedule," said TTU Director of Athletics Mark Wilson. "It has become a tradition for Tennessee Tech football to play these games against FBS opponents, and the game against Arkansas will continue that tradition."
"It's an experience that our players and our fans always enjoy," Wilson added. "Whether it's Auburn or Georgia or Arkansas, playing this caliber of opponent provides the team with a tremendous challenge and gives them some lasting memories, and it is also an important aspect of our financial picture."
The Arkansas Razorbacks improved to 7-4 on the 2009 season Saturday with a 42-21 win over Mississippi State, behind another sterling passing performance by record-setting sophomore quarterback Ryan Mallett. With the regular season finale at Baton Rouge against LSU and a bowl game invitation left, Mallett is expected to continue his assault on the Razorback passing records.
Starting time for the game at Arkansas has not been announced, pending next year's TV schedules.
The Golden Eagles closed the 2009 season with a 45-14 win over Murray State Saturday, allowing Tech to post a 6-5 record and claim second place in the Ohio Valley Conference with a 5-3 league record.
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Seventh annual Citywide Tailgate Party set Oct. 1
Organizers for the 2010 Citywide Tailgate Party and Competition are out to prove that "the ring's the thing" when the event celebrates the Mississippi State cowbell tradition in a few weeks.
Set 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 1 — the day before the Mississippi State Bulldogs takes on Alcorn State — the seventh annual event is sponsored by the Starkville Daily News with assistance from the Greater Starkville Development Partnership.
This year's Citywide Tailgate theme is "The Ring's the Thing: Respect the Bell."
"With the cowbell being a traditional spirit symbol for MSU and the fact that they are being rung legally at Davis Wade Stadium this year, we wanted a Tailgate theme that reflects the excitement over cowbell use and encourages people to follow the rules for ringing them," said SDN Editor Brian Hawkins, who coordinates the event.
As in years past, various awards will be given to winners in the Tailgate Party competition, which will be judged by local celebrity panels to be announced the week of the event. To avoid problems encountered in previous years with judges being able to reach all Tailgate sites in a timely manner, two judging panels will be scoring this year's event.
Participating businesses and organizations will be judged in the competition according to the following criteria:
• Appearance and street appeal of their tailgate site.
• Creativity in reflecting the theme.
• Food presentation.
Awards will be given to the first, second and third place overall winners, as well as overall awards for best use of theme, best tailgate food and overall spirit.
The first, second and third place winners will each receive vacation packages for two people. The packages are for three-day, two-night trips to one of more than 500 locations throughout the United States, and each includes a $100 Visa card for the winners' use.
All other winners will receive special recognition in the Oct. 2 edition of the Daily News.
Numerous photographs will be taken during the event, many of which will be selected for publication the Daily News and possible use in future GSDP publications.
All participating businesses and organizations will be listed in the Daily News as they elect to participate.
"How participating groups set up their tailgate sites is up to them. This event is about having a good time, showing support for our Bulldogs and offering an old-fashioned helping of Southern hospitality," Hawkins said.
Judging for the Tailgate Party competition will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Oct. 1 and continue until all participants have been visited by the judging panel. Judging will be conducted along specified routes that will be published in the Daily News that day, Hawkins said.
Because of high public interest in the Citywide Tailgate, participating teams are being asked ahead of time to set aside food for the judging teams to sample to ensure all teams get an equal opportunity for judging.
To enter the Tailgate Party, simply contact Hawkins by telephone at 323-1642 or by e-mail at email@example.com.
"All anyone has to do to enter the event is let us know they plan to participate and whether they want to be judged," Hawkins said. "In doing so, we can promote those organizations and businesses in the newspaper leading up to and the day of the Tailgate Party."
In years past, many of the Tailgate Party participants have been concentrated in the downtown Starkville area. The newspaper is again offering use of its west parking lot to any businesses, civic groups, churches or campus organizations who want to participate in the Tailgate Party and be a part of the downtown atmosphere.
Non-downtown groups who want to set up in the SDN parking lot can do so by letting Hawkins know when they sign up to participate. The deadline to register is 5 p.m. Sept. 30.


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Frans_d necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 40 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
koreashop.nl is an online supermarket with products you can find in supermarkets in Korea.
It is a Dutch-language website and is focused on Holland only.
Design our next logo and cash $200.
Adopted South-Koreans living in Holland.
75% of them are between 27 and 39 years old.
they are well educated
earn above average
male/female is about 50/50
They are fluent in Dutch and English but most of them only speak a few words Korean.
I strongly prefer a logo that gives you a warm feeling rather than a cold and hard corporate logo. Remember that this is a B2C website.
(korean) clip-art would be very much appreciated.
my old slogan used to be:
"De Koreaanse online supermarkt "
and of course this translates as: "The Korean online supermarket".
The Korean text in my old logo means the same.
hereby the text in Korean:
한국 수퍼마켓이 인터넷에 있습니다
Check my old logo here:
Hereby also 2 links to some Korean fonts if you want to use them:
As said before, my target group doesn't speak much Korean, but some Korean text helps giving the site a Korean look and feel so feel free to use it.
The logo will appear on the new website, business cards and other promotional material.
Some words that might describe the new logo:
traditional Korean
hanbok (traditional Korean dress)
Korean food
The new logo must:
clarify that it's an online supermarket
have an Korean/Asian look and feel
have "KoreaShop.nl" in the logo
I like the "K" and the "S" to be capitalized for better readability but this is not mandatory.
The name must be very well readable tough.
a little more info you will find in the attached file
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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The Ohio Department of Commerce is the State's chief regulatory agency.
Our mission is to assist businesses to operate lawfully so they can succeed as jobs-creators and we can safeguard Ohioans.
The Department of Commerce is self-supporting, through fees. We issue nearly 600,000 licenses, permits, registrations and certifications each year in various professions, industries and commercial enterprises.
The Department is made of up 8 Divisions. Through the divisions, we regulate banks and savings institutions, credit unions, mortgage lenders and consumer finance businesses; Securities professionals and products; real estate professionals and cable television. The Division of Liquor Control is a part of the Department of Commerce, as is the Division of the State Fire Marshal. We regulate the building industry and collect and hold Unclaimed Funds until we can return the money to its rightful owner.
The Department of Commerce is proud to provide excellent customer service. If you do not find what you are looking for on this site, please contact us, we would be happy to assist you.
Jacqueline T. Williams was appointed Director of the Ohio Department of Commerce by Governor John R. Kasich in April 2015. She serves as a member of the Governor's cabinet and is responsible for the overall leadership and direction of the Department of Commerce.
The Department of Commerce is one of the state's leading regulatory agencies. Williams has made providing exceptional customer service a top priority for the agency while promoting the growth, success, safety and soundness of businesses in real estate, industrial compliance, securities, financial institutions, liquor control, fire safety, and unclaimed funds.
Prior to her appointment as Director, Williams served as Chief of the Minority Business Development Division in the Ohio Development Services Agency. In that role, she was responsible for leading the state's efforts to develop, grow and sustain minority, women and disadvantaged business enterprises. She previously was Executive Director of the Ohio Liquor Control Commission.
Williams has also served as the Director of College Savings with the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. In that capacity, she worked with policymakers, opinion leaders and consumers to establish a national college savings agenda.
Prior to her time in Washington, Williams served for 10 years as Executive Director of the Ohio Tuition Trust Authority, where she repositioned the enterprise to grow assets in CollegeAdvantage, the state's 529 college savings plan, from $440 million to $6.5 billion and increased plan participation from 85,000 to 760,000. During her tenure, CollegeAdvantage was recognized by SavingforCollege.com and Morningstar as a Top 5 national college savings plan. Williams served two terms as Chair of the College Savings Plans Network and under her leadership, the network achieved tax free distribution for 529 plans. Williams has also served as Chief of Consumer Services at the Ohio Consumers Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer with the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation, where she oversaw marketing, human resources, training and communications.
Williams worked for AT&T in a number of national and global marketing capacities. She also was AT&T's Director of Public Relations, where she supported 24 business units with annual revenues exceeding $750 million
Williams earned both a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Arts from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has completed executive education at the Aspen Institute, WELD and with the Miami University Center for Entrepreneurial Education.
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Q. What is the role of the Department of Commerce?
A. The Ohio Department of Commerce is one of the state's chief regulatory agencies.
It enforces a variety of regulations that apply to:
Q. What is the Department's vision?
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Q. How is the Department funded?
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The mission for Computing and Information Technology is to provide the appropriate technological infrastructure to support teaching, research and service, and to provide high-quality, efficient, and effective technological support service to all academic and administrative functions at Winthrop University. There are 5 areas under the IT umbrella:
Computing and Information Technology departmental offices are open Monday through Friday 8:30am until 5:00pm on days when the university is open for business. The Technology Services Office, located in room 1 of McBryde Hall, is open Monday through Thursday 8:00am until 6:30pm, Fridays until 5:00pm, so students, faculty, and staff can turn in ID requests, account applications and scantron requests. During the summer schedule, the Technology Services Office is open Monday through Thursday 8:00am until 5:30pm, Fridays until 11:30am.
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Profile of Jenny Agutter
Date Of Birth:
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Place Of Birth:
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In Britain, Jenny Agutter is a respected stage actress; in America, she is remembered as the star of the fantasy films Logan's Run (1976) and An American Werewolf in London (1981). Agutter was still a teen when she appeared in the films The Railway Children (1970, as Roberta) and Walkabout (1971, directed by Nicholas Roeg). Her theater career grew apace; in 1974 she played Miranda in Shakespeare's The Tempest at the National Theater, opposite Sir John Gielgud as Prospero. In the mid-1970s she jumped to Hollywood, appearing as Michael York's love interest in the futuristic sci-fi movie Logan's Run (a film made famous by the brief appearance of Farrah Fawcett). Agutter also appeared in The Man in the Iron Mask (1976, TV, with Richard Chamberlain) and Equus (1977, with Richard Burton); finally she played the nurse in the black comedy An American Werewolf in London. She returned to the theater in the 1980s and 1990s, appearing with the Royal Shakespearian Company and elsewhere. In 2000 she starred in a new version of The Railway Children, this time in the grown-up role of Mother. She also appeared in the 2007 West End production of Equus in which Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe made his major stage debut.
Extra Credit
Agutter's 1984 book Snap features her photographs of London and Los Angeles… Agutter won an Emmy Award for the 1971 TV movie The Snow Goose… She married hotelier Johan Tham on 4 August 1990.
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