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Breaking Through to the Light
Chuck S. Frizzell 10/10/2009 11:49:03 AMI'd like to get some feedback on this. Let me know if you think I made the right choice. Thanks #1190524
M.Christine Duncan 10/15/2009 2:24:49 PMI think you definitely made the right choice to keep your wide open aperture since your lighting provided perfect definition for you already!
Kate Jackson 10/16/2009 3:23:30 AMAt my photographic society the judges never seem to like you to leave the sun in the shot in situations like this. I do tend to agree with them that here the focus should be on the tree. A wonderful tree. Love the clouds too. I think the picture lies in the tree and if you crop out the sun at the top but leave the rays in we will not then be wondering what the main subject of the shot is. #8041760
Chuck S. Frizzell 10/16/2009 10:51:01 AMKate, I argued that same point with myself. But in the end, thought it added interest to the picture. Now I'm having second thoughts. Thank you very much for the comment. #8043261
Chuck S. Frizzell 10/16/2009 11:19:20 AMHere's the crop. #8043301
Kate Jackson 10/17/2009 2:39:51 AMPersonally I do prefer it without the sun. I know we are still wandering up to those lovely rays but mostly we are concentrating on the tree which is very expertly exposed. #8044631
Chuck S. Frizzell 10/17/2009 11:10:14 AMThank you Kate, for the wonderful advice. #8045656
Dianna Murphy 10/19/2009 6:47:17 PMWow great work, the light is superb. #8051370
Chuck S. Frizzell 10/19/2009 7:08:48 PMThank's Dianna. #8051419
Lyn Darlington 11/16/2011 2:56:15 PMCongrats on your finalist! #9808803
The Judges at BetterPhoto.com 11/16/2011 6:52:52 PMGreat move with the speedlight. Really transforms the scene. #9810563
JO ANN CLEVELAND 11/17/2011 4:44:48 PMBig Congratulations on this awesome Gold 2nd Place Winner Chuck ...fantastic!!!
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Katherine Kuhn 11/17/2011 5:40:31 PMCongratulations on your beautiful winner! #9815054
David M. Montero 11/18/2011 12:28:23 PMFantastic shot. Great work Chuck. Congratulations on scoring gold! #9816965
Chuck S. Frizzell 11/18/2011 6:51:29 PMWow, what an honor, Thanks everyone. #9817725
Merna L. Nobile 11/18/2011 9:18:47 PMCongratulations!
Chuck S. Frizzell 11/18/2011 11:38:21 PMWhat a wonderfully nice comment Merna, thank you! #9818175
f/13 - 1/250 sec - ISO 200, (1) SB800 to the left of the shot, fired remotely (to compensate for the bright sun in the background, and add fill) Only contrast and slight sharpness were adjusted in photoshop (Nothing was added to the picture). I went with a higher aperture so that the lower clouds at the horizon were clear, I'd hoped that this would add depth, and create a more dramatic lead-in from the foreground rocks. My first thought was to lower the aperture to blur the background, and give the tree more emphasis. After thinking about it I'm glad I shot it the way I did. I didn't have much time at each location, so quick decisions were a must. This was taken in Arizona (Montazuma's Well). One of the stops along the 15 States, and 5700 miles I photographed in 2 weeks.
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Yelich lifts Marlins in 10 after late lead gets away
MIAMI -- On the eve of Christian Yelich Bobblehead Day at Marlins Park, the 22-year-old left fielder showed fans why he's so valuable to the Marlins.
With a runner on third and just one out in the 10th inning, Yelich hit a single over the glove of second baseman Ramon Santiago, lifting the Marlins to a 2-1 win over the Reds on Saturday night.View Full Game Coverage
MIAMI -- On the eve of Christian Yelich Bobblehead Day at Marlins Park, the 22-year-old left fielder showed fans why he's so valuable to the Marlins.
With a runner on third and just one out in the 10th inning, Yelich hit a single over the glove of second baseman Ramon Santiago, lifting the Marlins to a 2-1 win over the Reds on Saturday night.View Full Game Coverage
The Marlins, who walked off for the ninth time this season, made Yelich the target of their celebratory water flinging. And when he was interviewed at his locker, he had stripped off his jersey and was still soaked through.
"For us to get a win tonight and get back on track is important. Obviously we've had a couple tough nights the last couple days," said Yelich, who scored the Marlins' other run in the third inning. "It's just cool to get a walk-off hit, get the guys a win."
And although Nathan Eovaldi didn't factor into the decision, Miami was in position to win after the starter finally turned the page on his recent struggles, allowing only two hits in seven-plus innings.
Eovaldi gave up 18 runs over 16 1/3 innings in his previous three starts. In his most recent outing against the Nationals on Monday, he yielded five earned runs on six hits, but was saved from his seventh loss of the season by the Marlins' late-inning heroics.
He turned in what was arguably his best start of the season on Saturday. The righty needed just nine pitches to get through a perfect first inning, and then ended up scattering only three baserunners through the next three frames.
What allowed him to get back to throwing like the Eovaldi from earlier this season -- the pitcher who struck out 69 batters and recorded 10 quality starts across his first 13 outings -- was his control of his offspeed pitches. Between starts, Eovaldi worked with pitching coach Chuck Hernandez on extending his stride, which he said kept him in line.
"I felt [my offspeed pitches] were a lot more consistent tonight, being sharp," Eovaldi said. "I was able to work ahead in counts and threw all my offspeed pitches over the plate for strikes and good swing-miss pitches."
He said he hadn't felt this good in a start since he threw seven innings of four-hit, one-run ball against the D-backs on July 9. The difference between that Arizona start and the one on Saturday was his command of the fastball, which allowed him to strike out six batters, the most he's recorded since he fanned eight Cubs on June 6.
"You could tell he was a man on a mission. He carved through their lineup pretty good," manager Mike Redmond said. "That's the stuff that we know he has. It's really just about consistency."
Before Ramon Santiago led off the eighth with a lined single to right field, Eovaldi retired 11 batters in a row and was still hitting the upper-90s on the radar gun. In fact, Santiago's hit came on a 98-mph fastball.
But that was the last batter Eovaldi faced, as Redmond took the righty out of the game after 97 pitches. Eovaldi was charged with a run when Santiago scored the tying run on a Billy Hamilton single to left field off reliever Bryan Morris.
Morris got out of the inning with a strikeout of Todd Frazier, but he was seen in the dugout throwing his glove against the wall. In his last outing on Thursday, the reliever allowed three inherited runners to score in the Marlins' 3-1 loss to the Reds.
"Mo, man, Mo, he's had a couple of soft hits go against him, plays [too], but he's got such good stuff," Redmond said. "Hopefully we can get him back in there tomorrow in that same situation."
Jeff Mathis -- who was at the center of the controversy of Thursday's game, when he was ruled to have blocked the plate, allowing the tying run to score -- was in a way able to redeem himself by leading off the 10th with a double and scoring the game-winning run. Pinch-hitter Reed Johnson bunted Mathis over to third before Yelich drove in the catcher, giving the Marlins a chance to gain a split of the four-game series on Sunday.
"To get a win in that fashion and come back on those guys who have been grinding too [is good]," Mathis said. "They grinded and tied it back up. ... It's just a good game all the way around."
Maria Torres is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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While the Phoenix Suns have been garnering local and national headlines for being one of the biggest surprises in the NBA this season, there's another Valley basketball team that has shocked its fair share of people, too.
In their first year as a Division I program, the Grand Canyon Antelopes have been one of the big surprises of the Western Athletic Conference. The 'Lopes are currently 12-11 and tied for second place in conference play at 7-3 with six games remaining.
One of the amazing things about that record is that it's been reached after GCU's top player, Demetrius Walker, was dismissed from the squad.
"We had an unfortunate incident halfway through the year, I had to kick off my best player and my starting point guard," first-year head coach Dan Majerle told Doug and Wolf as part of Newsmakers Week on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM Wednesday. "Two guys I really liked, but they weren't getting it done and they weren't doing the right things.
"It was a really tough decision, because at the time, we had five scholarship players and some walk-ons."
Walker had averaged nearly 17 points per contest in GCU's first nine games and point guard Jeff Lowery had played in all 31 games for the 'Lopes a season ago.
"I was going into games with absolutely no bench, just walk-on guys, so it was a tough decision," Majerle said. "I told our team, 'it's not about me, it's not about you, it's about Grand Canyon University and it's about this program for years to come and you guys are the building block for what we're doing.'
"When we're in the NCAA Tournament four years from now, you guys can look back on this and say you were part of this and you built this on your hard work and your values and what you were about and how you represented GCU."
The message has been received loud and clear by the players still on the roster. Since the dismissals of Walker and Lowery, GCU has gone 7-5 under Majerle, who has a message for potential fans in the Valley.
"It's exciting," he said. "You'll love our kids and how hard they play. If you haven't been on campus, check it out — it's a hidden gem at 35th Avenue and Camelback.
"To go in that arena with our sound system and our 80-student pep band with the boards and the things it's got going on — and then just watch our kids play. We will play extremely hard, we play a great style of basketball. Next year, we're going to have some really good teams in for some home games. I promise you, if you come to a GCU game, you won't be disappointed and you'll be back."


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Advertising tune – cheerful, positive, playful music!
To write it, I used these instruments: acoustic guitar, ukulele, acoustic bass, flute, piano, percussion and male voices.
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27 July 2011
Owner: Gregory M Wansha Sr
Location: Rochester NY
Vehicle: 09 Honda Fit
What Events have you competed in?
None yet
What will be your next performance modification/upgrade?
Carbon fiber hood, brakes, APEXi afc neo, custom sub box
"All Show', "All Go" or Both, Why?
A lil bit of both
Any Shout Outs?
First and foremost GOD, My loving and understanding wife, Adam P Other friends and family


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by LesLes - 6/13/2012 7:50 PM
Wilder, solddate, clifford.cao I am in awe of what you have written. You are superb, and it means I really appreciate the kind things some of you have said about the small initial bit I wrote.
But enough of that!
Solddate, did you a definite idea for a costume challenge or was it a more general asking for idea? I'm not too happy with my redesign of Power Girl's uniform, it's a bit too extreme. Harley, and Clifford.cao, are right when they say "a proper costume change
should [have] enough 'a your old uniforms remainin' to remind everyone of who you once were". So, I'm really eager to hear better ideas :)
by solddate - 6/13/2012 8:37 PM
LesLes - It was basically a broad challenge for anyone to design a costume for the story, for any heroine. Granted the scenario of the story, particularly
right now, may not allow for immediate application, but as I said they'll be plenty of opportunity when we move to the new targets. They can write it into the story themselves, or pass a description onto here I guess.
To be honest, I really enjoyed your Power Girl design, particularly for the description & application, which has made me want to go back and add proper detail to my dressing of Canary. Only criticism I might find is you may have forgotten about her cape...
However, even if you're not 100% satisfied with Power Girl's costume change, there's plenty more heoine's to redeisgn and I'm not gonna deny Zee-Zee's costume is Harley's best work. But I'm happy to exchange ideas.
P.S. Thanks for the good words, btw. I second it for both Wilder and Clifford.cao, throw 'em back at you for getting this ball rolling. Cheers.
by clifford.cao - 6/14/2012 10:00 AM
I'm kinda with LesLes here. Karen's costume change did strike me as a little too... extreme. That, and I kinda have trouble envisioning it properly.
Then again, I've still got zero ideas for a costume change myself, so what the hell do I know?
by solddate - 6/14/2012 10:34 AM
You know enough Cliff, namely you're opinion. I can see you're point about envisioning it (pun), but I was impressed by
LesLes' detail and I was able to pin down an image 'cos of that. While I agree that the suit contains more Harley than Power Girl, I think Karen's love for Harley (as
LesLes put) is similar to Harley's for the Joker. So, for Harley to change Power Girl so much, like the Joker did to her, is rather appropriate to me. Plus, the design's fitiing of a Power Slut, no?
(Btw, I've added in the cape in my latest post, so I hope I'm not treading on any toes there)
As for help with ideas:
by solddate - 6/14/2012 10:41 AM
Oh, and don't forget to apply the clown face paint! It's does final brush strokes that paint the picture! You don't hafta limit yourself to white with red or black eyes & lips, if you can imagine a Harley themed facial design, then do it! For example,
playing card symbols on the eyes rather than painted on domino masks.
by solddate - 6/14/2012 11:44 AM
Clifford.cao - *blinks eyes in disbelief after reading last post* Okay, didn't see that coming... Alright, alright, I agree this is what makes the internet fun and a lil' bit scary. Just to warn you though, if I'm writing for characters like that, I'm
writing them as Arkham psychoes with those characters as themes/bases for their psychosis and powers. 'Cos no way am I straight writing Spongebob straight into Batman, capiche?
(Btw, good to see another abridged fan, although I prefer "To duel with the Devil in the pale moonlight!")
by ESchorcho - 6/14/2012 7:10 PM
I just want to compliment LesLes on the costume change that was written for Power Slut. I don't think it's too extreme, and even if it is, wouldn't Harley being the mad-woman she is go to the extreme?
I also love the harlequin-esque makeup that is going on with all the transformations. Any idea on doing something with the corrupted heroines' hair as well?
by solddate - 6/15/2012 6:00 AM
ESchorcho - I'll let others answer your first Q, 'cos I already agree with you.
Also, I'm with you on the facepaint, it was one of the things I loved imagining about LesLes' design for Zee-Zee, that's why I put it in my Sugah design and added it to Power Slut.
I can see what you mean about the hair, I'm actually struggling to decide to imagine Harley herself with her natural blonde or her divide of red & black from current comics. I don't think
every heroine's hair should be dyed, I know I didn't describe Canary's, but when I imagine her blonde locks with her new look, it finishes the design for me. However, dying the Huney's hair red or white (it's already pretty black) would be a great idea,
and same goes for any other design. *nudge* Have a go yourself, you might just like it.
by ESchorcho - 6/16/2012 10:24 AM
I realize addventures can go anywhere the writer wants, but I'm noticing that everyone writing on this story seems pretty much in-sync with where it is going. So my question is do the costume changes have to reflect the heroine's original costume or can
it go in a more unique direction?


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launched 145 companies – for a lot less money than you would think. By Max Chafkin http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090601/the-start-up-guru-y-combinators-paul-graham.html Of all the things that Paul Graham hates about running a start-up -- and there's not a whole lot about it that he likes -- the customers bug him the most. Everyone has a problem with your product, and people are constantly calling to complain about things you cannot possibly fix. Then there is the fact that you are doing everything for the first time, which creates a crippling sense of uncertainty, as well as a persistent fear that a single bad decision could doom the whole enterprise. There are squabbles with co-founders and combative negotiations with investors and that gut-wrenching period when you realize that success isn't going to come quickly or easily -- Graham calls it the Trough of Sorrow. Graham's start-up days are more than a full decade behind him, but he can't help recalling them with a shudder. "It's like talking to someone who went to war," Graham says. "It sucks to run a start-up." It's odd to hear Graham speak this way, because he now oversees what is perhaps the most ambitious campaign of start-up creation ever attempted. His company, Y Combinator, is a hybrid venture capital fund and business school that invests in, advises, and, literally, feeds 40 or so early-stage businesses a year. Investments are small – less than $25,000 per company – but Graham supplements the money with smart advice, introductions to later-stage investors, technical help, and a sense of community. The model has produced many promising companies, a few sizable acquisitions, and copycat funds in cities across the country and around the world. Why is Graham, an avowed start-up hater, doing this? Because for all the pain, he believes that founding a company is the most efficient way to create wealth -- for investors, for founders, for society at large -- and because he thinks he can make starting a company a lot less painful. "There's this classic pattern that has happened over and over again throughout history in which something is made one at a time, very expensively and unreliably by hand, and then someone comes along and figures out how to make large numbers of them cheaply and reliably," Graham says. "We're pulling this kind of transformation with venture funding. We're mass-producing the start-up." Graham is 44 years old and possesses the combination, often encountered in entrepreneurs, of extreme intelligence and a hint of arrogance. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science and has several years of formal training as a visual artist. Before starting Y Combinator, he founded Viaweb, a dot-com software company that helped retailers sell online; it was acquired by Yahoo in 1998 for $49 million. After leaving Yahoo, Graham won renown as an essayist, the creator of a new programming language, and the guy who invented spam filtering as we know it. Today, he funds more start-ups in a single year than a typical venture capitalist backs in a decade. These exploits have made Graham something of a folk hero to a generation of ambitious techies, who debate his essays, read his books, and pitch him start-ups by the hundreds. But that's not to say that only tech entrepreneurs and the professionals who invest in them should pay attention to what Graham is doing. "Everything is becoming software," Graham argues. "Saying there are too many software companies in 2009 would be like saying that there were too many companies related to words after Gutenberg invented the printing press." In fact, Y Combinator is rewriting the rules of starting a business in almost any industry -- making the case for companies that are smaller, cheaper, and faster -- at a time when credit availability is plummeting and venture capital investment is lower than it has been in more than a decade. For aspiring business owners, this is a very good thing. Falling bandwidth costs, improvements in opensource software, and the emergence of cloud computing have made it much cheaper to get a company off the ground. But it wasn't clear just how cheap it had become until Graham launched Y Combinator, in 2005. His plan was to gather together a group of smart kids, give them just enough money to keep them in instant noodles and Wi-Fi, and help them bring their ideas from napkins to fully formed companies. (A "y combinator" is a mathematical function that makes other functions, just as Y Combinator is a company that makes other companies.) The program was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but has since moved to Silicon Valley, where Graham hosts two groups of about 20 start-ups a year, in January and in June, for three months at a time. It's too early to say for sure how successful Y Combinator will become. Early-stage investors expect a return within five to 10 years; if Y Combinator has indeed financed the next Google, it could be a decade before anybody knows. Still, the results so far are impressive. Of the 145 companies Graham has funded, seven have been acquired and two have merged with other Y Combinator start-ups. Just 27 -- less than 20 percent of the total number -- have failed, and the rest continue to operate. A quick survey of start-up activity in Silicon Valley yields dozens of Graham's offspring -- red-hot Web 2.0 companies such as Scribd, Xobni, and Loopt. Meanwhile, funds modeled on Y Combinator have sprung up in a dozen cities, including Boulder, New York City; London; and Greenville, South Carolina. Y Combinator can already claim credit for creating about 500 jobs, a number that will probably grow rapidly as the start-ups, most of which are less than two years old, mature. This success has made a session at Y Combinator a hot ticket for anybody with dreams of launching something big. "I would have given up almost
anything to work with Paul," says Sam Odio. In December, the 24-year-old entrepreneur packed up all his possessions and drove west to claim a $10,000 investment in his new venture, Divvyshot. Three months later, Divvyshot had a product -- a photo-sharing website for groups of people -- and Odio presented his company at Y Combinator's Demo Day, a two-day event held at the end of each class at which start-ups pitch angel investors and VCs. When Graham started Y Combinator, most of the investors at Demo Day were old friends from Yahoo and Viaweb. Now, Demo Day draws representatives from the top U.S. venture capital firms. "Y Combinator is transformative," says the venture capitalist and blogger Fred Wilson, whose New York City–based firm, Union Square Ventures, has made investments in Twitter and two Y Combinator companies, Disqus and Heyzap. Wilson says Graham's model takes some of the risk out of starting a company. "Paul gives these kids money, but he also gives them a methodology and a value system," he says. "I don't mean this in a negative way, but Y Combinator is more like a cult than a venture capital fund. And Paul is the cult leader." On a chilly Tuesday night in early April, the members of Y Combinator's winter class gather for their final meal together. Demo Day has already passed, and the evening has taken on a somewhat celebratory quality, which means that a few founders have decided that they can afford to indulge in a mug of beer. Most are staying sober so they can squeeze in a few hours of work after the meal. Some are simply underage. Because Graham works mostly at home -- he and his wife, Jessica Livingston, are the only full-time employees -- Y Combinator's headquarters isn't much to look at. There's a small private space where Graham holds "office hours" -- short weekly meetings with founders -- and a large, brightly lit dining room in which everyone gathers once a week for dinner. The space is painted orange, and its walls are covered with spiky soundproofing foam to keep the volume down. An enormous wooden table spans the length of the room. When I arrive, I find Graham standing in the parking lot, chatting with a group of young people. I introduce myself, and he looks back blankly. "What's your story about again?" he asks. Graham tends to have an air of impatience, as if even a momentary distraction is too much to bear. He keeps meetings short and makes investment decisions based on a single 10-minute interview. Before I have a chance to answer his question, he grabs the shoulder of the nearest twenty-something and, as he steers me inside, introduces us. "You should give Max a demo," Graham says. The entrepreneur is Alex Polvi, a recent graduate of Oregon State University who wears horn-rimmed glasses and has an unkempt mass of curly dark hair. His start-up, Cloudkick, helps companies manage cloudcomputing servers. "We've built a unified interface for working with different providers," Polvi says, looking at me with the satisfied expression of someone who has just made a great deal of sense. Before I fully understand what he's talking about, two more entrepreneurs sidle up, each eagerly awaiting a chance to pitch me. That Polvi's elevator pitch is a little rough is no accident. Graham encourages founders to spend all their energy on product development, not on PR. In most cases, companies are expected to release a finished version of something -- whether it be an iPhone app or a photo-sharing widget -- before the three-month program is over. That's an incredibly short amount of time for a two- or three-person team. It requires that founders work more or less around the clock while ignoring pedestrian concerns like cash flow or hygiene. The dinners provide a welcome respite from the frantic pace. Tonight's feast consists of mountains of white rice and a ketchup-hued chili served out of several large electric Crock-Pots. The founders eat standing up or hunched over laptop screens. A quick scan of the Y Combinator pantry, which includes six gallon-size cans of pinto beans, seven large cans of sloppy joe sauce, and a copious amount of canned tomatoes, confirms that the meal is typical. "Goop on rice -- the same every week," Graham says with a smile, as he shovels the stuff into his mouth. He used to cook the meals himself but recently ceded that duty to a professional cook. Cheap meals are, in a strange way, part of Y Combinator's formula for start-up success. Graham wants founders to spend as little money as possible. Live cheaply enough, he believes, and you can become cashflow positive without going on a lot of sales calls or spending too much time talking to investors. Graham calls this "ramen profitability" and says it allows companies to say no to bad investment terms and forces them to think about long-term viability. It also ensures that most Y Combinator founders are in their 20s -- or, for the few who happen to be older, that they are capable of living in dormlike conditions. "That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset," says Sam Altman, founder of Loopt, a graduate of Y Combinator's first class. "The start-ups that do well are the ones that are working all the time." Like many software entrepreneurs, Graham has been writing code since his teenage years, but he also has a range of interests not common among computer geeks. He was an aspiring short-story writer as a high school student and majored in philosophy at Cornell as an undergraduate. After deciding that he found philosophy incomprehensible, Graham landed in a computer science Ph.D. program at Harvard. He excelled as a programmer, but about halfway through graduate school, he started taking classes in Harvard's art department. After receiving his doctorate, he enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design with a plan to become a painter. He took classes at RISD that summer and in the fall enrolled at Florence's Accademia di Belle Arti, a nearly 500-year-old art school founded during the Renaissance. When I suggest to Graham that
this was a weird life plan for someone with a computer science degree from Harvard, he says simply, "I never cared about the official rules." Like many recent graduates who adopt this pose, Graham quickly ran out of money. The following year, he dropped out of school and went to work as a software engineer at a Boston start-up. From 1991 to 1995, he bounced among art school, temporary software-development jobs, and long periods spent painting. "I was doing this thing where I would consult for a while and then run out of money and be in a panic," he says. Eventually, he decided it was time to make some real money. Graham teamed up with a friend he had met at Harvard, a brilliant hacker named Robert Morris, who is notorious for crippling the Internet in 1988 by accidentally deploying a computer worm. Their idea was to build software for retailers. "Netscape was about to do this big IPO, and they had a huge PR campaign," Graham remembers. "Netscape was saying that people were going to buy and sell a lot of stuff online. So we thought, OK, we'll write software for people to buy and sell things online." In the fall of 1995, Graham and Morris raised $10,000 from a friend named Julian Weber, a corporate lawyer who was married to one of Graham's painting teachers. They used the money to buy a Web server and then started writing code. "It was one scary moment after another," Graham says. "We didn't know what a term sheet meant or what a valuation was or that companies had boards of directors. All of those things just seemed like words we'd read in a newspaper." By the end of the year, Viaweb had a product, and Graham started calling on potential customers, offering to set up and manage their online stores for a fee of $100 to $300 a month. He was a lousy salesman but managed to persuade a few retailers to try it out. Because Viaweb was a software program that ran inside a Web browser -- hence the name -- Graham was able to continually respond to customer feedback. "We learned quickly by paying attention to the users," Graham says. By Christmas of 1996, Viaweb had 70 clients, including Rolling Stone and International Male. A year later, the number had quintupled, and Yahoo came calling. In 1998, Viaweb accepted a $49 million buyout offer. "Viaweb was the prototype for the kind of company we fund now," says Graham. "The reason we know that it's possible to start a start-up with about $10,000 and someone to help with the paperwork is because that's exactly what we had." Graham worked at Yahoo for a year and a half and seems to have suffered through every minute of it. "Running a start-up is like being punched in the face repeatedly," he says. "But working for a large company is like being water boarded." After leaving Yahoo, Graham spent most of his time writing essays about technology and business and developing a new programming language. His best work was collected in a book, published in 2004, called Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas From the Computer Age. "Everything around us is turning into computers," he writes in the preface. "So if you want to understand where we are, and where we're going, it will help if you understand what's going on inside the heads of hackers." In March 2005, Graham was invited by the Harvard Computer Society, an undergraduate group, to talk about starting a company. "I told them to raise money from angel investors, preferably people who have started start-ups themselves," he says. After delivering that line, he glanced at the audience and noticed that everyone was looking at him expectantly. Fearing a deluge of bad business plans from bright-eyed Harvard students, he quickly added, "Not me." Later that day, while having coffee with some of the students, he remembered that if he hadn't been able to find his own angel investors, Viaweb never would have gotten off the ground. He decided it might be worth seeing what these kids could come up with. Y Combinator began as an experiment in angel investing, conducted during the summer of 2005. Graham recruited Morris, Livingston, and a Viaweb employee named Trevor Blackwell to join him. The pitch was straightforward: $6,000 for a company with one founder, $12,000 if the company had two founders, and $18,000 if the company had three. In exchange, Y Combinator would get roughly 6 percent in common stock. (Exact ownership stakes vary. The most Y Combinator has taken is 10 percent; the least is 1.4 percent.) Graham promoted the program with an essay that he posted on his website and that quickly found its way to many college students' e-mail inboxes. "We give you enough money to live on for a summer, as with a regular summer job," he wrote. "But instead of working for an existing company, you'll be working for your own; instead of showing up at some office building at 9 a.m., you can work when and where you like; and instead of salary, the money you get will be seed funding." Graham received 227 applications, mostly from computer science students, and he invested in eight startups. Half went on to raise additional funding, and two turned down acquisition offers. Graham knew that most of the companies would probably die, but he also believed he was onto something. For example, Loopt, which develops software for cell phones that allows users to see where their friends are, managed to raise $13 million from two Sand Hill Road firms. Another company in the first batch, Reddit, operates a social news website similar to Digg. It was acquired by Condé Nast just a year and a half after its founding and before it had hired any full-time employees. Though the price was not disclosed, reports have pegged it at anywhere from $10 million to $13 million, which means that Y Combinator generated a sizable return, as much as 25 times its initial investment.
Reddit is a good example of what happens to a Y Combinator company when most things go right. But few Y Combinator start-ups enjoy such a straight line to success. That, in part, explains why Graham encourages companies to release products quickly. Doing so, he says, is the best way to turn a bad idea into a good one. "As long as you pay attention to your users, you can change a bad idea," he says. Case in point: Justin.tv. The wildly popular online video site now attracts 41 million viewers a month. But it has its roots in a failed start-up called Kiko. The company, a part of Y Combinator's first class, began with a plan to do for online calendars what Google's Gmail had done for e-mail. Things went well at first, but then Google decided to do for calendars what it had done for e-mail, making Kiko suddenly irrelevant. Co-founders Justin Kan and Emmett Shear bailed out and sold the company on eBay for $258,000. Graham lost money on the idea but nonetheless decided to back Kan and Shear's next venture, a bizarre take on reality television. Kan attached a video camera to his head, wore a backpack stuffed with cell-phone modems, and broadcast his life 24 hours a day. The idea was that Justin.tv would produce similar programs and sell equipment to aspiring reality stars. "I thought it was insanely weird," Graham recalls. Kan's life attracted a few thousand fans and reams of press. But Kan soon noticed that instead of broadcasting from hat-cams, some users were interested in more traditional types of broadcasting. "People were e-mailing us saying, 'I want to broadcast a bike race or a talk show or a concert,' " Kan says. "We were like, 'OK.' " Kan stopped wearing the camera and focused on building a live video platform. This kind of meandering path, Graham says, is encouraged at Y Combinator. "A lot of great companies started with different ideas," Graham says, noting that Steve Jobs's first plan for Apple was to sell do-ityourself plans for building computers. "You need to listen to your users, figure out what they want, and do that." When founders are accepted into Y Combinator, they are given a gray T-shirt that says, "Make something people want." When a company sells, the founders get a black shirt that says, "I made something people want." Despite having spent five years painting, Graham long ago put away his brushes. None of his work is on display in his home in Palo Alto, and he's none too eager to talk about matters of technique or style. But one thing painting taught him was the value of living frugally. "It taught me how to do cheap in a cool way," Graham says. Artists, Graham discovered, don't pretend to be rich; they live in sparsely decorated lofts and wear cool vintage clothes. "A start-up is that philosophy applied to business," he says. Graham loves saying things like this. Investing in 145 start-ups so far -- and interviewing nearly 1,300 founders -- has taught him a lot. He has learned that start-ups with four or more founders tend to be less successful than those founded by smaller teams. "I think these people are afraid to do a start-up," he says. Another insight: If ownership stakes for founders are unequal, the start-up will probably get torn apart by infighting. "In theory," Graham says, "we ought to get to the point where we can just look at a start-up and be able to tell if it will succeed or fail." Twenty-seven more companies will join Y Combinator in June, the program's biggest class yet. Earlier this year, Sequoia Capital, the venture capital firm that backed Google, agreed to give Graham $2 million to put to work. Graham hopes to use the money to expand Y Combinator, to fund 60 companies or more every year. I ask Graham why he is so intent on growing. Why does the world need so many little software companies? He looks at me as if I'm insane. "Imagine that instead of starting Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin had taken jobs in some research lab," he says. "They would have written a little piece of an operating system that might not even get used and maybe some boring academic papers. Think of how much more they did for the world as start-up founders." As the interview ends, we go inside his house and start to say our goodbyes. But before I can leave, Graham has something new to show me. It's a software program called EtherPad -- developed, of course, by a Y Combinator company. The program lets writers collaborate on a single document simultaneously. He thinks I might be able to use it back at Inc.'s offices. "But what you really should do is start a start-up," he says. He stops and thinks for a moment. "You know what? You should do a news website for finance. You could be like Bloomberg, but you'd be just one person." His mind is going faster than his mouth. "What about Blogberg as a name? Is Blogberg.com taken?" Before I have a chance to respond, he flips open his MacBook to check, using a clever domain-name search tool developed by another Y Combinator founder, Beau Hartshorne. "Damn," he says. The name is already registered. "Do you know anyone who can program?" "Not really," I reply. "Maybe someone from school?" I recall that a number of founders have warned me that Graham has the habit of throwing out business ideas at a rapid clip, without really thinking through what he's saying. Still, says Kan, "you always come away feeling energized. You could be working on the most boring piece of software, and you talk to Paul and you think, Man, I'm excited to go back to work." Indeed, there's something exhilarating about Graham's optimism, especially at a time when so many oncegreat companies are sitting on the verge of bankruptcy. Graham believes, deeply, that start-ups are the answer to the world's problems; that they are easy to make if you are determined enough and cheap enough; and that it's getting a lot easier to start one. We shake hands, and I leave, with a sudden desire to make something.


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^ Both yes and no.
In the example we're talking about --
1) Rich person moves to Singapore and brings their money with them
2) Rich person spends $1 (or maybe like $1,000) on a robot dog
Then, that $1 or $1,000 flows through the economy as previously predicated. There's no net loss to Singapore because that $1 or $1,000 of spending wasn't taken out of the economy somewhere else. If it becomes a taxation debate then that's another issue completely and depends on the Keynsian multiplier and the "Rich Person" marginal propensity to consume or basically after-tax income elasticity.
Re: Charity -- don't get me wrong, I believe in charities and donate to them regularly in surprising sums because I get the author's first point (basically the world isn't fair and circumstances matter) -- but it doesn't "trickle-down" or to the extent that it does not employ people at multiple levels of the supply chain, the more apt description is that it "trickles down" less rather than none-at-all.
(EDIT: Well, that and I didn't make the assumption on whether that contribution to charity would've otherwise been spent in the economy would have otherwise had a large trickle-down effect vs. it going through the charity system could therefore be viewed as comparatively negative vis-a-vis the alternatives, but let's just assume that anyone that donates money to charity would've otherwise not spent it as it is most likely completely discretionary anyways)
|2013-05-22, 12:02
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But what's the difference between a rich person buying a robot dog for themselves, and buying it for an orphan in an act of charity? Isn't it the same? Doesn't it, in fact, employ more people (because charities employ people too)?
|2013-05-22, 12:07
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|2013-05-22, 12:40
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Basically if charities didn't accept robot dogs but only accepted like canned goods or actual cash. Then it would basically it boil down to the fact that money is being directed to one "supply chain" versus another, which I mentioned before. And as we all know, charity involves .. well, charity. There are volunteers and many parts of the chain that are "not for profit" and therefore are not "earning an income" which is basically what this hole discussion is about. Charities are designed to (but often fail at) basically getting the "donation" from the top and handing it to those "in need" at the bottom at the least cost. Which is great from a social standpoint.
Business however, is conducted, at "least cost" but balanced with "profit maximization" which means that everyone along the chain should be earning wages, profits, etc. So basically in the "supply chain" where money is spent rather than donated, every individual is there because they "want to make money" and "have things they want to spend money on" which is part of the money velocity effect of trickle down.
tl;dr (but in slightly more nuanced language) -- They would be the same if and only if the same sort of consumption could be done privately or via a charity and would not induce/reduce future behaviour. Basically if the multiplier of each $ being thrown down each particular path was the same. The initial statements however are not true in reality as the historical multiplier for each $ donated to charities is low as that money is typically not immediately spent (charities fund-raise typically for the long-term and build up charitable trusts to earn interest) and volunteers for the charities don't earn wages that they would then need to spend immediately for their own basic needs (trickle down trickle down).
|2013-05-22, 13:08
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The Comet has Come
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
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Basically "tickle down" is the idea of putting more money into the economy at all levels and has nothing to do with social needs. The idea being that the money invested from the top generates either product or income the farther it goes towards the consumer, so that the comsumer and workers will be able to put money into the system again so profit can be maintained at all levels.
Charity provides goods and services to those that need it, but the "profit" is limited. If the food stuffs are purchased with donated funds, then the market gets those profits, but if the supermarket donated the food directly, it is at best a tax write off. No profit is made. No one in the system gains money, and therefore no one spends money to add to the economy.
Is that sort of what you are getting at willx?
|2013-05-22, 13:28
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^ Mostly.
The main points of clarification are:
1) "Social need" can be a contentious term. We're talking about something silly like "robot dogs" but it doesn't need to be conspicuous consumption, it could be simply like .. a lawnmower. The idea that the market has produced a good that there is demand for argues there was a "social need" for it.
2) The idea that near or close to the consumer isn't the primary concern as there is typically ancillary business beyond simply the depth of the supply chain. Direct to customers still generates ancillary business and produces cheaper products for consumers. It's about profit and wages.
3) My point on charities was about profit, yes, but also wages. Again, volunteers don't earn wages and don't need to spend them. An average worker will spend >80% of their wages on essentials making sure that money stays in the economy.
|2013-05-22, 13:36
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Charities are non-profit, but that doesn't mean people work for free. I worked for a non-profit for a while. I was paid for my time. I was in maintenance, so my job was keeping the place running and such. For a local charity event I think I might have been the only person there getting paid (overtime) for being there...while wearing a "Volunteer" shirt (as requested by my superiors). I technically volunteered to work that day, but was getting overtime for it.
|2013-05-22, 21:38
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Le fou, c'est moi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Age: 29
And there are a ton of people working for Walmart collecting welfare.
Look, will, you claim finance as your domain, *I* claim nonprofit (just for a bit; I'll give it back). I'm in the field. You're wrong. That's not how it works. Not anymore.
People do strategic philanthropy, impact investing, long term projects (nonprofits fight very, very hard to try to turn donors away from the "operating ratio" myth). They are *not* soup kitchens wasting away giving people fish [well, smart soup kitchens have sustainability strategies]. They teach them to fish, they incubate projects that may become awesome new innovations on fishing rods that will never survive the short term business without that protective wing (in that sense they're venture capitalism, except they don't really expect money back so call it venture philanthropy). And maybe they work on environmental advocacy so the river doesn't get polluted to shit and all the fish die and the fishermen starve.
There are all sorts of revenue streams for nonprofits beyond charity anyway, some of them quite creative [remember the distinction that nonprofits are *not* bound to not collect revenue from clients for services provided; they just can't pay that off to shareholders]. Take Goodwill; they're taking donations of things that would (usually) end up in a landfill or donated in the old model rather ineffectively; instead, they created a massive retail operation that is actually just a front to fund their real purpose: get people back to work. The retail business became a machine that basically funded a sophisticated welfare system, in a sense, which allow a portion of the disadvantaged populations of the United States -- the so-called poor that the Market often finds difficult to profit from -- and aim for the really important economic value of getting them back into the market proper. Incredible economic role, you could even think of it crudely as a "sweeper." Governments used to play that role, even if not too effectively. Funny thing, market radicals fucked that gig up.
And that volunteer stuff? Volunteers *produce.* At least in the GDP sense. They do not add to consumption, but that's just fine, we have more than enough consumption, and hopefully their "production," though that's hard to define with the nonsense added to GDP like lawyering services and all, will through some magical process benefit the most needy, right where every dollar goes back to consumption instead of staying up in endowments, investments, unused savings, or outsourced financial wizardry where the US government will be lucky to see a dime.
The thing you're right is that there are endowments which have the money "sit there" earning interest and paying out, say, 5% per year or less. Except that kind money is not in most direct services nonprofits (those spend just about every coin they get, probably much more effectively than many businesses given the impact of money at the economic level of their clients). They are usually in Foundations -- donors -- or universities and hospitals -- huge institutions with a particular interest in very long term sustainability. Otherwise nonprofits are far too pressured by the immense needs of their clients (caused by the tragic failures of the dear Market) that they often, to their own detriment, have to cannibalize reserves during economic downturns to handle both the decline in giving and the massive increase in constituent needs.
You want people to stop being "ignorant" of finance, fine, I ask you in return to throw that charity nonsense out the window. The US nonprofit sector -- largest in the world by far -- is not that.
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|2013-05-23, 05:00
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|2013-05-23, 09:03
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Age: 35
My point was if money was directed to charity in lieu of private consumption it would have a comparative negative impact on trickle-down economics and that was that. If goods or assets that are otherwise not being used get donated, that's different. If donations did not proportionately reduce consumption, that's different. I also never claimed that volunteers did not produce - yes, volunteers produce, so do normal workers - but volunteers do not earn wages that flow back through into the economy.
I make no claim on knowing the non-profit sector inside out, nor do I feel anything in particular about the trade-off between private consumption and charitable donations, I was just pointing out the misunderstanding demonstrated by the author about economic concepts.
EDIT: People still seem to be inferring personal statements from this -- highlighting for further emphasis
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Why do something in the first or second inning if you can put it off until the fifth, sixth, seventh or even the ninth inning?
That seems to be the motto for the Lipscomb Lady Bisons, a.k.a. the "Comeback Kids". Saturday at Draper Diamond at Smith Stadium the Lady Bisons came back in both the seventh and eighth innings to tie the first game against Jacksonville. But they didn't stop there. They rallied one more time in the ninth with a three-run homer by Brittany Elmore for the 10-7 win.
In game two the Lady Bisons used seven runs in the fifth inning to ice an 11-0 win. Brianne Welch's first career grand slam ended the game early due to the run rule.
"This team always believes that it can win no matter what point we are in," Lipscomb coach Kristin Ryman said. "I don't think this team ever believes we are out of a game and that is a great feeling as a coach.
"But we talked to them between games about not relying on digging deep late in a game and finding a way to get big hits. We had bases loaded twice early in game one (first and second innings) and didn't score. I would like to see them find ways to score those runs early and take some of the pressure off and set a tone."
The two teams meet again Sunday at 2 p.m. to close out the Atlantic Sun series. Fans are encouraged to check lipscombsports.com in case of a time change due to the expected rainy weather.
The Lady Bisons are 23-4 overall, 6-2 in the A-Sun. Jacksonville slips to 11-14 overall, 3-5 in the conference.
Big hitters
Ryman likes the offensive power the team displays up and down the lineup
"We have a lot of big hitters," Ryman said. "I think anytime you have a good amount of home run-type hitters you are never out of a game. We have speed and power.
"We have a lineup that has been strong top to bottom throughout the year. Opponents don't necessarily want to face us when they are ahead going into the seventh inning. We have proven enough this year that we can come back."
In game two Welch drove in two runs with a single in the fourth to left field. With the grand slam, her fourth round-tripper of the season, she brought in a career high six runs. Welch's two hits were a game high.
"Brianne just continues to do what she does," Ryman said. "We continue to throw praise her way, but she deserves it right now.
"She continues to get key hits. If that had not been a home run it would have been enough to score a couple of runs which would have been enough to end the game. The fact that she really got ahold of one was cool for her."
Elmore's walk-off home run over the right field fence in the first game was her first home run of the season. Elmore drove in a game-high three runs.
Elmore, Kristen Sturdivant and Rena' Cothron each had three hits in game one. Sturdivant hit a two-run blast over the left field fence as part of the three-run eighth. Cothron connected for a two-run double to right center to spark the three-run inning.
"Kristen's hit was huge with two outs and our backs against the wall," Ryman said. "Kristen went up looking for a pitch she could drive and she got it.
"Brianne has shown her power. Rena' and Brittany both had really good offensive days. When you are getting extra base hits and some power out of the No. 1, No.7 and No. 9 hitters you are in a pretty good spot especially when the middle part of the order does what they can do."
Working in the circle
Left-hander Ashley Anderson threw 7.2 innings in game one, allowing 11 hits and seven runs, all earned. She struck out five and walked two.
Right-hander Tanner Sanders, 8-2, relieved in the eighth and closed out the game with one strikeout, two walks and one hit in 1.1 innings for the win.
"We thought it was a good time to make a move and we went with Tanner," Ryman said. "It was good to see her come in and have a good outing in relief. She came into a key situation in the game and shut them down."
Heather Parker, 6-2, earned the shutout with two hits, two walks and five strikeouts.
"It was a really good performance from Heather," Ryman said. "Early in the game when she had a couple of runners on she worked out of it and kept the momentum going.
"She found ways to get ahead. She wasn't walking many batters. Anytime you can do that you put yourself in a good situation."
Ryman constantly reminds her players not to rest on their laurels.
"We have to come out Sunday and know that Jacksonville is going to continue to fight," Ryman said. "They are going to come out and do everything they can to get one win. We have to stay focused."


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Rated 5 out of 5 by MrsThickNSexy from PERFECT FIT BEAUTIFUL DRESS!! THIS DRESS FITS AMAZING, FLATTERS UR SHAPE IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES, COMFORTABLE & UR ABLE TO DRESS IT DOWN WITH A PAIR OF CUTE FLATS OR DRESS IT UP W/ SOME WEDGES & ACCESSORIES. WINNING!
Date published: 2013-09-07
Rated 5 out of 5 by Glamourgurl12 from Sexy Maxi! Wore this dress on South Beach and received so many compliments! My boyfriend couldn't keep his hands off of me! The color is the perfect shade of green. Like the other reviewer I'm usually a size small but the XS fits just fine.
Date published: 2013-04-16
Rated 5 out of 5 by genp71 from Beautiful This dress looks a lot better in person than pic, both color and fit. I usually wear small at bebe but i tried this in xs and it was fine. it looks a lot sexier than the other bebe maxi dresses.
Date published: 2013-04-12


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Lahore: Critics might be calling for his head after Pakistan`s mauling in the just-concluded limited overs matches against England in the UAE, but captain Misbah-ul-Haq said he is in no mood to quit his post.
Misbah said he was surprised to see such a hue and cry being made back home after just one bad series.
"I am surprised at these calls being made for changes in the team. People forget that this very team has been doing well for the last one year. One bad series does not mean you press the panic button," Misbah told reporters after returning home.
"It (the captaincy) is the board`s decision, but I am not going to take any hasty decisions. I am fit and I am enjoying my game," he said about the calls being made for his ouster as Pakistan`s ODI and Twenty20 skipper.
The suggestions were made after Pakistan were thrashed in both the ODI and Twenty20 series by England, but Misbah said England were the deserving winners in the limited overs series.
"We were on top in the Test series and won it handsomely because our bowlers were in top form. In the one-day series their bowlers came good. Both sides struggled in the batting department because of the slow nature of pitches on offer in Dubai and Abu Dhabi," Misbah observed.
He said he was against pressing the panic button just after one bad series.
"Yes, definitely we need to work on our weaknesses, especially our batting and I am sure we will come back strong in the Asia Cup," Misbah said.
"But I don`t support big changes in the team because these players have been doing well for the country for the last one year."
The senior batsman also said that the expected appointment of Australian Dav Whatmore as Pakistan`s head coach before the Asia Cup will have a good effect on the team.
"Whatmore has a great track record and he has done well with the Sri Lankan and Bangladesh teams in the past. So he comes with a strong background. He can do a lot with this team," Misbah said.
Meanwhile, a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official has said that there would be no conditioning camp for the team before the Asia Cup and the players would be given a short break ahead of the tournament.
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Balqon Corp., a developer and manufacturer of zero-emissions heavy-duty electric vehicles, has signed an exclusive lithium battery distribution agreement with Winston Battery Ltd. and raised $5 million in a private equity placement, according to a news release.
Balqon completed the $5 million private placement of its common stock and warrants to purchase common stock on Dec. 14. The investor in the private placement was Seven One Ltd. Balqon filed a report on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Dec. 17 that provides further details of the transactions.
On Dec. 14, Balqon also entered in to a distribution agreement with Seven One Ltd. under which Balqon was appointed the exclusive distributor in the United States for lithium iron phosphate batteries and high voltage charging systems manufactured by Winston Battery Ltd.
Seven One Limited holds worldwide distribution rights with respect to the high-capacity lithium iron phosphate batteries and high voltage charging systems manufactured by Winston Battery Ltd. Both Seven One Ltd. and Winston Battery Ltd. are Shenzhen, China-based companies that are headed by leading battery technology scientist, inventor and entrepreneur Winston Chung.
"We have used batteries manufactured by Winston Battery along with our proprietary battery management systems since 2009, and have been highly impressed by their performance," said Balwinder Samra, president and CEO of Balqon. "We believe this new distributor relationship and Seven One Limited's substantial investment in our company will enhance our product offerings and allow us to jointly explore a number of growing market opportunities within the stationary backup power and energy storage markets."
In November, Balqon and Winston Battery Ltd. jointly showcased their drive systems and battery technologies at the The World Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exposition (EVS 25) organized by the World Electric Vehicle Association in China. The EVS 25 is recognized as the premier event for academic, government and industry professionals involved in electric drive technologies.
At the EVS 25, Balqon and Winston Battery Ltd. demonstrated the world's first all-electric recreational vehicle with a range of aproximately 120 miles on a single charge. The 45-foot RV was manufactured by MVP RV Inc. of Riverside, Calif., in which Chung is a major investor. Using Winston Battery's advanced charging technology in Balqon's battery management system, the RV can be fully charged within 20 minutes as compared to eight hours using traditional methods.
"Working together with the Balqon team to develop the world's first all-electric powered RV in record time revealed other opportunities we can jointly address across our respective continents using our complimentary expertise and experience," said Chung. "We believe our synergistic portfolios of battery and vehicle drive control technologies will enable us to enter new developing electric vehicle markets, and provide Balqon a path to diversify from its market niche of heavy-duty electric vehicles."
The issuance of securities in the private placement described above was not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). Therefore, the securities may not be reoffered or resold by the investor absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
About Balqon Corp.
Headquartered in Harbor City, Calif., Balqon is a leading developer of heavy-duty electric trucks, tractors and electric drive systems. The company uses its proprietary flux vector control technology to design propulsion systems for 10- to 50-ton capacity vehicles and material handling equipment. Balqon's product line of tow tractors built on Autocar LLC chassis are designed to transport containers at ports, marine terminals, rail yards, warehouses, intermodal facilities, military bases and mail facilities. For more information about Balqon, visit www.balqon.com.
About Winston Battery Limited
Headquartered in Shenzhen, China, Winston Battery (formerly Thunder Sky Batteries) produces batteries for electric bikes, electric motorcycles, electric automobiles and hybrid vehicles, and is currently the only company in the world engaged in mass production of rechargeable storage batteries for micro- and e-busses. The company's extensive patented battery and recharging technologies include a unique system for rapid charging (less than half an hour) and the ability to produce high capacity up to 700 Ah batteries. Winston Battery's proprietary technology and manufacturing methods ensures its cost of production and market price is considerably lower than its competitors. Some of the world's largest automotive companies, including Daimler Benz, Fiat, BMW and Citroen, as well as Nokia, are currently evaluating its technology.
Founded in the People's Republic of China in 1998, Winston Battery is a high-tech manufacturer employing two production lines with annual capacity of 60 million Ah. At the end of 2009, Winston Battery launched an additional fully automated battery production line with the capacity of 100 million Ah annually. The company currently has assets exceeding $4 billion.
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Winston Battery Limited was one of the first companies in the world to successfully replace PVDF binders in the production of high capacity lithium-ion batteries. The chemistry of these cells is Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4), or LFP. The main advantage of LFP batteries is that they do not have the volatile thermal issues that Li-ion batteries have, making LFP batteries much safer then Li-ion. The other advantage is that they have very high cycle life, up to 2000 cycles compared with Sealed Lead Acid (SLA) batteries that have a cycle life of about 400 cycles. This means that LFP cells can last five times longer then SLA batteries. Given the better cycle life, LFP batteries can be considerably less expensive to use than SLA batteries.


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Baby Heartbeat Monitor is the pregnancy app that turns your iPhone into a baby heartbeat listener allowing you to hear, record and share the sound of your baby's tiny heartbeat with family and friends. A wonderful way to share the experience with your partner and enhance the bond with your baby.
You can hear your baby's heartbeat from as early as week 20. The baby is still very small at this stage, for best results it is recommended to use the Baby Heartbeat Monitor app from week 25 of pregnancy.
Baby Heartbeat Monitor uses only your iPhone's microphone to capture the sound of your baby's heartbeat, making it safe to use during pregnancy for both you and your baby. Simply place your iPhone on your belly, and open the app to start listening and recording. No need for cold ultrasound gels like with fetal dopplers.
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Lately I've been very excited about knitting, not hand knitting but machine knitting. I'm a bit impatient character and an idea about making a knit dress knitting by hand feels quite frightening. Machine knitting is more to my liking, because you can knit pattern pieces fast (if there isn't any problems, which case is very rare…) and the most time consuming part is steaming the pieces flat and sewing them together.
I wanted to make my dress timeless, comfortable and fitting, so I could wear it many years. The pale blue color was a safe choice too, because I don't seem to stop liking it :-)
We have already much snow here and I have apparently hit a snow drift during my shoot, haha.
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Dec 22, 2012, 02.48 PMby catofdrurylane
Love the dress! I'm getting a second hand knitting machine really soon. What pattern did you use, the dress looks really cute, love the colour!
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Dec 22, 2012, 09.47 PMby pampula
Thank you! Great that you're having own machine! I made the pattern myself by using my measurements and some knit pattern drafting instructions at our school, and made the stitch calculations based on a modelpatch. Hope you find some pattern or instructions on how to make one:)
Dec 22, 2012, 12.37 PMby janene
Really pretty colour and dress :-)
Dec 22, 2012, 10.53 AMby Vicki Williams
Inspiring. YOU look fantastic in this fantastic dress.
Dec 21, 2012, 12.09 PMby Ruffles Gazebo
wow incredible! when i move i want to get a knitting machine! how cool that is!
Dec 20, 2012, 05.54 PMby Mary Athey
Fab dress and the photos are lovely. I so want it to snow here . The dress is just gorgeous on you x
Dec 20, 2012, 12.23 PMby groovymama
So lovely.
Dec 20, 2012, 12.11 PMby kah
really beautiful.
Dec 20, 2012, 11.18 AMby mokosha
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Dec 20, 2012, 11.09 AMby schnui
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Dolmen of El Portillo de Eneriz. Artajona
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This route covers some of the places in the old Kingdom of Navarre. Fortresses, castles and palaces bear witness to its historic importance, while the farm produce (vegetables from the rich fertile plain; wines from Valdorba, Olite and Artajone) offer the visitor the chance to sample its splendid gastronomy.
This is a great place for a weekend break, starting in the town of Tafalla. The old quarter has some fine civil architecture with buildings such as the palaces of the Marquis of Feria (neoclassical, 18th century) and Los Mencos, counts of Guenduláin (17th-18th centuries), as well as the church of Santa María (16th-18th centuries). We then take the road for ten kilometres to the medieval town of San Martín de Unx, home to the church of San Martín de Tours, which is Romanesque in origin but subsequently renovated. Eight kilometres away we come to Ujué, a medieval town dominated by the Romanesque church-fortress of Santa María la Real. We leave the Sierra de Ujué mountains and return the banks of the Aragón River, about 25 kilometres further on along the road towards Carcastillo. Two kilometres away stands the Cistercian monastery of La Oliva, a Romanesque walled site (late 12th century) with rooms, cloister and courtyards in different styles: Cistercian proto-Gothic, Gothic and Baroque (18th century). Twelve kilometres on we come to the walled site of Rada, a medieval village abandoned in the 15th century, where we can visit the ruins (12th-13th centuries) of the castle, a tower, the wall and the church of San Nicolás, next to some current archaeological excavations. Continuing on along the same road for four kilometres we come to Caparroso, where we take the turning for Tafalla. After ten kilometres, a turn-off leads to the Laguna de Pitillas nature reserve, the largest wetland area in Navarre. The ornithological observatory is the ideal setting for bird watching. To continue on our route we return to the Pitillas turn-off and after five kilometres we come to the village of Olite, dominated by the royal palace, the old residence of the monarchs of Navarre. The 'old palace' –today a Parador hotel– is the remnants of the old 13th-century proto-Gothic palace. The church of Santa María la Real (old chapel) was also built at that time. The Gothic 'new palace' (14th-15th centuries) is one of the most important examples of medieval Gothic civil architecture in Spain. In Olite the church of San Pedro (13th-14th centuries) is also worth visiting. This town can be seen at its best in July and August during its Classical Theatre Festival and the Olite Medieval Festival. The Olite Vine and Wine Exhibition Centre in Navarre is an opportunity to learn more about the wine-producing region we are visiting on our trip, a part of the wines of Navarre Designation of Origin. Visitors in September can take part in the Wine Harvest Festival. We recommend extending this route with two other side trips where there are also wineries to visit. One is on the way to Artajona (11 kilometres from Tafalla), to visit 'Cerco de Artajona', a medieval walled site (11th-14th centuries) and the Gothic church of San Saturnino (13th century). Only four kilometres on we can see the archaeological site of the Dolmens of Portillo de Enériz and the Farangortea Mine dating from the Copper Age (3rd millennium B.C.). Another interesting trip is to the region of Valdorba, a land of excellent wines, Romanesque churches and chapels, all within 5-20 kilometres of Tafalla. The churches of San Juan Bautista (Eristain), San Martín de Tours (Orísoain) and La Asunción (Olleta), and the chapels of San Pedro ad Vincula (Echano) and El Cristo (Catalain) are all well worth a visit.
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By CHARLOTTE HSU
Published September 27, 2012
"OMG, I think they just spawned on me!"
That was the title of a September blog entry by UB's Buffalo Undersea Reef Research laboratory (BURR), which sent five UB investigators to the Florida Keys this month to study an underwater mating ritual: coral spawning.
Mary Alice Coffroth, professor of geology, led the research trip. She explains that corals—which are animals—reproduce by releasing bundles of egg and sperm into the surrounding sea. The goal of the visit to Florida was to collect these bundles and raise young coral for use in scientific studies."OMG, I think they just spawned on me!"
Among other topics, Coffroth's research team examines how an algal symbiont in the genus Symbiodinium facilitates the establishment of coral reefs.
"It is a symbiosis between corals and a single-celled dinoflagellate alga, Symbiodinium, that allows the corals to grow into these massive structures," Coffroth says. "Most corals acquire their symbionts anew each generation, and my lab is investigating the early ontogeny of this symbiosis."
The BURR lab's coral spawning blog , created by BURR member Rachel Mellas, provides an intimate look at the corals' mating process and at the research team's daily life in Florida. The scientists carried out their work at the Alligator and Looe Key reefs off the Florida coast, where schools of tropical fish dart through turquoise waters.
Gathering and rearing the coral was a massive undertaking, and the BURR scientists were joined by more than 20 volunteers from South Florida that assisted in all aspects of work.
The Sept. 13 blog entry captures the team's excitement at finally witnessing coral spawning:
"We were relieved to see that it was actually happening! In preparation for a synchronized release of their egg-sperm bundles, coral polyps will move these pinkish balls into their mouth causing the polyps to swell and the egg-sperm bundles to be visible in the polyp mouth. Setting gives us about a 15-20 minute window to get our dive and snorkel teams into the water and to get ready to collect before the spawning begins.
"An amazing phenomenon is that the rest of the organisms on the reef seem to know what is coming and come out of their usual hiding place. When the spawning begins, these organisms take advantage of the extra food in the water as well and we can actually feel them on our hands, face and any exposed skin. We saw brittle stars, mysid shrimps and many fish active on the reef that night. We waited patiently with the rest of the reef community until, almost all at once, around 11:15 p.m., all of the Montastrea faveolata colonies released these bundles into the water where they slowly float to the surface (or into our collecting jars)."
Unfortunately—as often is the case with fieldwork—the research mission did not go as hoped. Though the scientists obtained some coral and sperm samples for research, none of the young coral the team raised survived. Shelby McIlroy, Coffroth's graduate student, will travel to Curacao at the start of October to try and catch the coral spawn there so the BURR lab can continue its experiments.
The coral spawning fieldwork supports a number of BURR projects, such as research scientist Anke Kleuter's investigation into why the coral species Montastrea faveolata is compatible with some algal symbionts, but not others.
McIlroy, a PhD candidate, is studying the benefits to the coral of having one symbiont type versus another. She is looking at growth, survivorship and temperature sensitivity of young M. faveolata corals with different types Symbiodinium. This line of inquiry will help scientists understand and predict how reefs will fare in warming oceans. And master's student DJ Valint is studying whether certain species of adult corals pass their algal symbionts along to their offspring in the egg-and-sperm bundles.
"Why study reefs? Reefs are important apart from their intrinsic beauty and high biodiversity," Coffroth says. "There are important economic reasons to care about coral reefs. Coral reefs can be a rich source of natural products with important pharmaceutical applications. They are also an important barrier against shoreline erosion. Coral reefs support commercial and recreational fisheries, and they are one of the primary attractions for millions of snorkelers and recreational scuba divers."


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Atlas of Creation
Harun Yahya's Work Revealing "the Fact of Creation"
This giant format, 904-page book containing the pictures of hundreds of living fossils that refute the theory of evolution gives the most satisfying information about the theory's collapse.
The hologram images on its cover, its high-quality paper, and some 1500 colored pictures, photographs and documents, give it an unrivaled appearance.
With its printing technology, wide-ranging contents and 28 by 38 centimeters giant format, Harun Yahya's "Atlas of Creation" is totally unique.
This book is also available in Turkish, German, Chinese, French İtalian, Spanish, Japanese, Urdu, Arabic and Indonesian.
The Giant Work That Has Inspired Reactions from All Over the World:
The Atlas of Creation
In addition to its impressive and splendid appearance, this giant work, containing the very highest quality photographs, is noteworthy for the way it provides proofs of Allah's sublime creation and sets out the invalidity of the theory of evolution with its scientific content.
The enormous impact of this book all over the world reveals the scale of its global impact. It has had, in the words of the foreign press, "the effect of an ideological earthquake" in all the countries it has reached.
The Atlas of Creation has initiated a real enlightenment in Europe. The people of Europe, indoctrinated by Darwinist and materialist propaganda for the last century and a half, have begun to see that the theory of evolution is of no scientific worth and is kept in the spotlight out of ideological concerns. The first 3 volumes of the anticipated 7-volume series have been a means whereby Darwinism has collapsed and the entire world is now rapidly coming round to accepting that reality.
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Age: 100 million years
Period: Cretaceous
Location: Myanmar
Fossils in amber are important examples of the kinds of forest life that existed tens of millions of years ago. Research into amber specimens provides information about not only the life forms preserved in them, but also about their habitats and other living things in their ecosystem. This 100 million year old fossil shows how ant-like stone beetle have remained unchanged despite the passage of so much time.
Age: 38-23 million years
Period: Oligocene
Location: Lyby, Denmark
The fossil record is perhaps the most important evidence that demolishes the theory of evolution"s claims. Fossils reveal that life forms on Earth have never undergone even the slightest change and have never developed into one another. Examining the fossil record, one can clearly see that living things are exactly the same today as they were hundreds of millions of years ago—in other words, that they never underwent evolution, but were created by Allah. The Atlas of Creation provides its readers with a closer examination of a variety of such fossil specimens revealing this fact.
The Atlas of Creation in the World Press
USA, Science, 16 February 2007:
"It is the most gorgeous-looking attack on evolution seen on a long time."
France, Le Figaro, 2 February 2007:
"Islamic creationism on the offensive in France"
Ireland, Irish Independent, 9 March 2007:
"Harun Yahya's Atlas of Creation from Global Publishing, is quite the most spectacular so far this year."
USA, The New York Times, 17 July 2007:
"The Atlas of Creation is probably the largest and most beautiful creationist challenge yet to Darwin's theory, which Mr. Yahya calls a feeble and perverted ideology contradicted by the Koran."
Switzerland, Le Courrier, 29 October 2007:
"Harun Yahya Who Has Consigned Darwin's Theory To Waste Bin"
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text: The white and pure dove soars to us right from the Bible. In her beak a branch of olive tree, and she brings with her the good essences, that spread peace and friendship among humanity, all over the world. She is the good messenger, and grace to her, the firmament lightly comes down and meets the earth, and the earth dreams of the heaven and the men dream they fly, and when they will wake up, peace will be here.