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Landscape Ecology at Penn State
Landscape Ecology at Penn State is a group of PhDs, graduate students, and undergrads who study processes of ecological change at large scales. We need a logo to "brand" our scientific contributions. It will be used at Penn State University, professional conferences, and in print advertisements for new personnel.
Landscape Ecology at Penn State (LEAPS) is an academic group of scientists led by Erica Smithwick, PhD. The group includes Post-Doctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates. We are ecologists housed in a Geography Department. Our interests are diverse - we study forests and the soils that support them but we are also interested in green infrastructure. We are interested in processes of change, such as fire and climate change and the role of people in managing ecosystems. We work in Pennsylvania, the Appalachian Mountains, the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (WY), Ghana, and South Africa.
Because our work is so diverse, we are looking for a logo to help other scientists recognize the combined productivity of our lab. We will use the logo on our website, which is primarily visited by other scientists with similar interests. We will also use the logo on powerpoint slides for conference presentations and for print advertisements for personnel.
We would like the logo to "say" that we are scientists. It should indicate that we work in a "green" or "environmental" field. The Ecological Society of America (http://www.esa.org) is probably the best match for a professional community for us, and thus might help in the brainstorming process. The International Association of Landscape Ecologists (http://www.landscape-ecology.org/) is another good match.
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The Diamond Sūtra and the Sūtra of Hui-Neng
Shambhala, 1990 - Buddhism - 168 pages
"The Diamond Sutra," composed in India in the fourth century CE, is one of the most treasured works of Buddhist literature and the oldest extant printed book in the world. It is known as the Diamond Sutra because its teaching is said to be like a diamond that cuts away all dualistic thought, releasing one from attachment to objects and bringing one to the further shore of enlightenment. "The Sutra of Hui-neng, "also known as the Platform Sutra, contains the autobiography of this pivotal figure in Zen history and some of the most profound passages in Zen literature. Hui-neng (638-713), the Sixth Patriarch of Zen in China, is often regarded as the true father of the Zen tradition. A poor illiterate woodcutter, he was said to have attained enlightenment upon hearing a recitation of "The Diamond Sutra." Taken together, these two scriptures present the central teachings of a major Buddhist tradition and are essential reading for all students of Buddhism.
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From the Sanskrit Vajrachche dikapranaparamit-sutra (Diamond Cutter Sutra), which belongs to the Maha-prajnaparamita (Perfection of Transcendental Wisdom). From the Northern canon of Buddhism. Nagarjuna lived in the 2nd century c.e., but probably this work is from the 4th c. Read full review
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IRVINE, Calif. – Bellator MMA kicked off its run on Spike TV with a highly technical and entertaining title fight, but given the depth of the featherweight division, Bellator Chairman and CEO Bjorn Rebney ruled out the possibility of an immediate rematch.
In Thursday's Season 8 opener, Bellator 85, Pat Curran (18-4 MMA, 8-1 BFC) successfully defended his featherweight title with a narrow split-decision victory over Patricio "Pitbull" Freire. The bout, which took place at Bren Events Center in Irvine, Calif., came down to the final round, where Curran finished strong to win the striking-heavy bout via 48-47, 47-48 and 48-47 scores.
This past year, Bellator announced a new championship-rematch clause that went into affect with the organization's move from MTV2 to Spike TV. When "called for," Rebney has the option to book immediate rematched rather than waiting for a defeated fighter to win another tournament to get a second title shot.
However, Freire won't get to benefit from the clause. Rebney told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) he simply doesn't want to hold up the division.
After all, Season 6 tournament winner Daniel Straus (21-4 MMA, 7-1 BFC) is already queued up for the next shot at Curran. Additionally, after a delay, finalists Rad Martinez (14-2 MMA, 4-0 BFC) and Shahbulat Shamhalaev (11-1-1 MMA, 2-0 BFC) are set to conclude their Season 7 tournament on Feb. 21 at Bellator 90, and the winner also will be in line for a title shot.
"At the end of the day, I think Daniel deserves his shot now without any type of delay," Rebney said. "Straus is that unknown commodity. Not that many people talk about Straus, but I literally think belongs in most people's Top 7 or 8 in the world. He's a really talented fighter and one of the biggest featherweights I've ever seen."
Then there's either Martinez or Shamhalaev after that, so the title is pretty much tied up through 2013.
But if there weren't a logjam in the division, would Rebney have considered Curran vs. Freire II?
"Absolutely," he said. "(Matchmaker) Sam (Caplan) and I and the team would sit down and consider it. Pat won the fight, but it would be one we'd look at and consider."
Curran also understands that challengers are stacking up, and he doesn't want to leave them waiting.
"I plan on getting back there as soon as possible," Curran said. "I don't want to to take too much time off because 2013 is going to be a busy year for me, and I plan on keeping the belt the whole time."
Rebney, though, said it's simply a good problem to have. After all, just a few years ago, top-level featherweights were few and far between in the organization.
"There was a time when 145 wasn't that strong of a division for us, and now look at it," he said.
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Destiny World Church
We are a non-traditional church in Metro Atlanta. Our congregation is primarily African American with some diversity. Our membership spans all income levels. Most of our members live in the suburbs and many are entrepreneurs. The majority of our members are age 40 and younger. We are community minded, evangelistic and known for our hospitality.
Our church has two locations: Atlanta and Austell. People who attend our services say they are exciting and energetic.
We have a logo but are looking for something different.
Our target audience are Christians and seekers: People who attend church regularly, people who don't attend at all and people who are looking for a church.
Should appeal to a multicultural, diverse audience.
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Edward W. Marx focuses on technology's power to transform the healthcare industry. As senior vice president and CIO at Texas Health Resources in Arlington, Marx has led numerous IT-enabled transformative initiatives aimed at improving patient health. Those projects include using social media to connect with the local community and implementing BI tools to deliver advanced clinical care.
Edward W. Marx focuses on technology's power to transform the healthcare industry. As senior vice president and CIO at Texas Health Resources in Arlington, Marx has led numerous IT-enabled transformative initiatives aimed at improving patient health. Those projects include using social media to connect with the local community and implementing BI tools to deliver advanced clinical care.
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Family: Married for 28 years, two adult children and one grandchild.
Hobbies: Dancing Argentine tango with his wife, competing in Ironman triathlons and participating as a member of the 2014 USA Duathlon team, which competes at the world championships this month in Spain.
Goal: To climb all of the Seven Summits. He has already climbed Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Elbrus in Russia and Aconcagua in Argentina.
Current reading list: The Blessed Life, by Robert Morris, Destiny Defied, by J.A. Marx (Edward's wife), and Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer.
Playlist: Techno-tango and '80s new wave.
"Everyone agrees there's a financial benefit, but at the end of the day, I know what we're doing is making the difference in someone's life. I can see by leveraging IT you can make a demonstrative difference," he says.
In January, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and HIMSS, a nonprofit group focused on healthcare IT, selected Marx as the recipient of the 2013 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award.
What do you think earned you recognition as CIO of the Year? My leadership and my transformation methodology and disruption of the status quo. I stress leadership a lot more than technology. I talk to people about wising up and claiming their title, because for most of us, that's senior vice president before chief information officer. So really lean on that senior vice president title. We do a lot of transformation here leveraging technology. And we do a lot of disruption here.
How do you measure IT's value in your organization? We do measure traditional financial ROI, just like any other company. We're very judicious about that.
But what stokes my fire is how do we measure clinical quality and patient safety and how, therefore, do we improve it. We have all these technology tools that we could leverage to improve quality and safety. Our performance is based on the measures of those.
One example: One of the biggest killers of patients that come into American hospitals today is pulmonary thromboembolism, or PTE. So we did some innovation and we reduced the incidence of PTE by 25%. We know because we measure this stuff. In a traditional hospital, if you think a patient is at risk for PTE, you put them on a certain protocol -- elevate their legs or take a particular drug. But in a paper process, you might not realize a patient is at risk.
Because we're automated with electronic health records, we built that into our order set. It's that sort of innovation that really enabled this transformation.
What is your biggest IT initiative right now? We don't have any IT initiatives. We have business initiatives that require IT, and one of those is population health. We're more about well-being, and we want to engage the communities before they need Texas Health. We're engaging our community in many ways, and population health requires a lot of IT.
Another area is patient engagement. That goes back to population health, but it's about mobility and connected health. Not too many people want to come to the hospital, so is there a way to deliver healthcare at a lower cost that's not in the hospital? We call it connected health. You should be able to do a lot more today with your local provider on your smartphone than you do. And we're trying to engage the clinician in the same way. Why go to the hospital if we can give them the data wherever they are so they can take immediate action?
The third area is predictive analytics. We should be able to take this data and make predictions around risks so I could get a call or text from my personal health record that says, "Come in in 30 days for another lab workout" or "Keep exercising."
What's next for your IT department? I think there are three areas. [One is] optimization. We implemented a lot of technology and we did pretty well, but as you get more experience and add new features, you have to make sure you optimize your investment. We come back through with another team after we've been doing it a couple of years and see what more we could be doing or what new features we could take advantage of. Another area is BI. We're going to get to prescriptive analytics, get very customized to the individual. And then the third area is the whole concept of innovation. We have to constantly challenge ourselves on how we can come up with a better way of doing things.
What can IT leaders in other industries learn from you and other healthcare CIOs? Once a year, I take my leadership team and I pick another company and we spend the entire day together. I've done this with Kimberly-Clark, RadioShack, Pier 1, 7-Eleven. And we learn from each other. I think what they can learn from healthcare IT is our focus on quality and testing. If we make a mistake, it can cost someone their life. In other [industries], it might mean cost overruns. So we take extraordinary steps to make sure there's high quality and lots of testing.
What does it take today for IT departments to ensure high customer satisfaction? I have three formulas. You have to have as much eye-to-eye communication as possible. They need to see me rounding with doctors and nurses on the floor, so they know I understand what they're doing. Another way is face to face. You have to know the strategy, where they want to go. And the final is peer to peer. Physician satisfaction is a key indicator to us, and our highest area of satisfaction for the physicians was IT at 94%. We're above 80% overall with everyone, and that's world-class according to Gartner.
What do you do as a CIO to develop leaders? We have a leadership academy. We take eight students a year, they get mentored by me or one of my direct reports and they learn business leadership. We're going to graduate our second class soon. We take advantage of Texas Health University, that's the typical HR-run training program. They do a great job here. And in addition to that, I bring in other organizations to help us because I believe in leadership development so badly that I'm willing to invest. And I push people hard to present. We do a lot of presentations around the country. It improves our brand, it helps our employees and there's nothing like being asked to teach to really solidify it in you as a leader.
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Evernote, the remember-everything productivity and note taking app that has been rocking the App Store since 2008, received a major overhaul for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad today. The 4.0 update brings a number of additions including a new homescreen with a more efficient snippet view, better note browsing and more!
If you haven't used Evernote yet we highly suggest giving it a try. There are so many ways of using Evernote to help get things done and improve your productivity that it would just be silly not to!
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LA JOLLA – Prior to Saturday night's game, Cal Poly Pomona coach Scott Davis said No. 15 Seattle Pacific is a strong contender for this season's Division II women's basketball title. The Falcons and Broncos played a close first half, but Seattle Pacific pulled away in the final 20 minutes to win 77-58 in the second day of the CCAA/GNAC Challenge, played at UC San Diego.
"The fight we showed tonight against an unbeaten team, and one that probably will be ranked in the top 10 this week pleases me," said Davis, whose team saw a two-game winning streak end. "Our execution needs to be better, but overall, we fought real well and didn't give in."
Junior Andrea Ohlssen led the Broncos, now 3-5 overall, with a career-high 21 points that included a 5-for-7 effort from the 3-point line. Senior Vanessa Dominguez put together her second successive positive night with 18 points and just missed a double-double with nine rebounds. Her efforts followed a 19-point effort in the Broncos' 68-62 win over Western Washington on Friday.
Cal Poly Pomona stayed with the unbeaten Falcons (9-0) and trailed just 30-28 at halftime on the strength of an 80-percent effort from the free throw line (4 of 5) and a 4-of-7 showing from the 3-point line.
Cal Poly Pomona's Natasha Reed hit three free throws in the first two minutes of the second half to tie the game at 31-31, but that tie would not last long as the Falcons would go on a 15-3 run over the next six minutes to pull away for good.
After Ohlssen and Dominguez, Reed was next in scoring with five points.
Kelsey Burns sparked the SPU surge with three 3-pointers over that span, the last of which put the Falcons up by a 46-34 score with 12:18 to go in the game.
"In the second half, their maturity and composure took over," Davis said. "For 25 minutes, we stood up and played awfully well. They're a pretty complete team."
Burns scored a team-high 17 points, 15 of which came in the second half, while Melissa Reich added 12 points and five rebounds. Jackie Hollands added 10 points and Beth Christensen posted nine points, six rebounds and six assists, giving her 14 assists in the tournament.
Two stats showed the difference in the game. The Falcons' bench outscored CPP – 43-9 – and their inside players owned a 26-12 scoring advantage in the paint.
The Broncos return to the court Friday night when they play host to CS Dominguez Hills. Tip-off is scheduled for 5:30 p.m.


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Remembered as orator, statesman, visionary, and wit, Winston Churchill—winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature—was as well known and respected in his own time for his writing.
Now, contemporary readers can revel in one of Churchill's neglected masterpieces, Thoughts and Adventures—originally published in 1932, during his "wilderness years." Reading this engaging book is like being invited to dinner at his country seat at Chartwell, where the soup was limpid, Pol Roger Champagne flowed, the pudding had a theme, and Churchill entertained lucky visitors with vivid conversation.
But Thoughts and Adventures is not simply a pleasure to read. More than any other book Churchill wrote, it conveys the extraordinary variety and depth of the statesman's mature thoughts on questions, both grave and gay, facing modern man. Even when he takes up subjects that seem small, Churchill shows the reader the contours of the largest human questions of our age.
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This building was the first structure to be built by the Philadelphia Textile Institute on the recently purchased (1946) Kolb estate. It was originally designed as a multipurpose building housing classrooms, laboratories and faculty offices; while also leaving space on the original estate for future development.
The façade was designed along a simplified modem style utilizing warm-hued brick, marble and cast stone. Although functional in character the building was designed to fit into its "rural setting". The original plans provided for a total of 90,000 square feet of floor space. Budgetary considerations were a major factor in determining the lack of architectural decoration but the architect was also interested in presenting a strictly functional design. The building was also to be a teaching example of the "modem textile plant". Architecturally, the only exceptions were the entrance lobby that was marble lined and floored with terrazzo, and the large expanses of plate glass utilized to provide a clear view of classrooms and laboratories from halls and instructor's offices. The rest of the interior was typical plant construction.
The ground floor was designed to provide accommodations for the Scholler Dye Laboratory, cotton and rayon finishing rooms, wool laboratory and worsted laboratory. Also located on this level was a fully equipped cafeteria, which could also serve as an auditorium and conference room. The first floor provided rooms for cotton and rayon processing, cotton picking, knitting, hand weaving, yam and spinning, beaming, drawing- in and facilities for rayon, cotton and wool weaving. The second floor housed the inorganic and organic chemistry laboratories, areas for qualitative and quantitative analysis, spectroscopy, microscopy, physics, physical testing, photographic darkroom, cloth analysis, balance department, jacquard weaving and card cutting. Because of the testing instrumentation, air-conditioning was installed on part of this floor.
The movement of heavy textile machinery was a major consideration in the overall interior layout. A large industrial elevator serviced all floors. Driveways were placed on either end of the building at the ground level so that the central hallways of all three floors were accessible. Each of these corridors ended with large overhead doors and were supplemented by the placement of a roof-top cathead installation on each side of the building. The building was named after Bertrand W. Hayward, who was the College Dean from 1947 to 1973. This building presently houses the School of Textiles and Materials Technology and the School of Science and Health.


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A Syrian rebel suicide bomber detonated a car full of explosives in front of a key government military intelligence office in the southern Syrian city of Sweida on Wednesday, killing a commander and about seven other officials working for Air Force Military Intelligence – one of the Assad regime's most critical institutions.
It was the latest of a rising trend of suicide assaults in Syria's two-and-a-half-year long civil war. At least 90 such attacks have taken place since the first one in Damascus in December 2011. Of those, 26 have been recorded in the last six months by analysts who track the activities of the al Qaida-affiliated rebel groups among the forces fighting to topple President Bashar Assad.
Suicide bombings have featured in other wars. But the tactic has distinguished itself in Syria because the groups employing it seem to be doing it far more selectively than in other recent conflicts, especially compared to the war in Iraq, according to analysts who have studied the data of both conflicts.
While pure terror attacks that kill primarily civilians are not unheard of – an attack in the Turkish border city of Reyhanli in May that killed more than 40 recently was claimed by the anti-Assad Islamic State of Iraq and Syria group (ISIS) – many of the suicide bombings in Syria have had a readily identifiable military target. Often that target has defied more traditional rebel efforts to overwhelm it.
The Iraq experience is an especially apt comparison because both of the al Qaida-affiliated groups fighting in Syria, ISIS and the Nusra Front, have their roots in Iraq's most radical Sunni Muslim group, al Qaida in Iraq. Analysts believe the more-targeted use of suicide bombings in Syria is the result of a reassessment of the al Qaida in Iraq philosophy that used suicide explosions to wreak widespread death and insecurity through the country's civilian population.
The reassessment is no doubt due in part to what happened in Iraq, where Sunni Muslim tribesmen eventually turned on al Qaida in Iraq and joined with American forces to defeat it, at least long enough for U.S. troops to withdraw. Much of the leadership of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and of the Nusra Front experienced that rejection in Iraq firsthand, and analysts say they appear eager not to repeat in the current conflict.
In many cases this has included pursuing less harsh forms of Islamic justice in the areas in which they operate, though members of ISIS, which has a large component of non-Syrian members, have begun to alienate more moderate Syrian Muslims with a zeal for enforcing the minutest of rules on a war-weary population.
Still, suicide bombings, which were a near daily occurrence during the harshest years of bloodshed in Iraq and killed thousands, are used much less frequently in Syria – and with much more directed effect, analysts say.
Charles Lister, an analyst with IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre, said there are two major differences to the way suicide bombers have been deployed in Syria, compared to Iraq.
"Firstly, suicide attacks have primarily been used in the form of militarily valuable initial incisions into well-guarded fixed targets, thereby providing a more conducive environment for ground forces," he recently wrote. "And secondly, a pre-eminent focus on using the tactic against military and occasionally government stationary targets has, particularly in the last six to nine months, reduced the incidence of such attacks inflicting high numbers of civilian casualties."
The two changes, Lister said, has made suicide bombings "a far more militarily efficient tactic that can contribute towards attacks involving multiple rebel groups against targets of significant importance."
Lister also noted that when rebels do strike seemingly civilian targets, they tend to ensure that only pro-government areas are hit, which tends to reduce the outcry from rebel supporters, "thereby avoiding the likelihood of the tactic negatively affecting the support for jihadist groups within sections of the anti-government civilian population."
Aymeen al Tamimi, a fellow at the Philadelphia-headquartered Middle East Forum, has been tracking the use of suicide bombings by ISIS and Nusra since the groups announced that both represented al Qaeda in the Syrian conflict. He said of the 14 ISIS-linked and 12 Nusra-claimed bombings from April to early October, the majority, although not all, appeared to follow a more focused strategy.
"To be sure in Syria neither Nusra nor ISIS is replicating the scale of indiscriminate suicide attacks in Iraq, where suicide bombers routinely try to target social gatherings and the like," he said. "The focus is still primarily on military targets and attempts to show that operations are not intended to target 'Muslim' civilians."
Prior to the April announcement that both Nusra and ISIS would remain separate but loyal to al Qaeda, there were at least 64 such operations, including the first large scale attack by Nusra in December 2011. In that operation, a series of car bombs – it remains unconfirmed if they were suicide bombers or remotely detonated – struck outside a majority military intelligence office building, killing and wounding scores of civilians and passersby.
By contrast, al Qaida and other Iraqi insurgent groups conducted more than 1,000 suicide attacks during the 2003-2010 American occupation, peaking at nearly 500 suicide attacks in 2007 alone. According to data collected by the Rand Corporation for a 2010 study, most of the Iraqi attacks were directed at U.S. military targets along with Iraqi security forces or allies of the occupation before shifting in 2005 towards hitting Shiite Muslim neighborhoods with an emphasis on maximizing civilian casualties as the war took on overt sectarian overtones.
Liwa al Islam, a Damascus-based group that has morphed into the umbrella organization Jaysh Islam or Army of Islam, claims a suicide bomber struck a critical meeting inside a highly secure government building in June, 2012, killing three top security officials of the regime, and reportedly badly wounding President Bashar Assad's brother, Maher, who is widely considered a key regime enforcer.
Although few details have emerged as to exactly how a radical Islamist carrying explosives entered a room filled with top security officials, both sides seem to agree it was a suicide bombing.
One Syrian media activist with strong ties to the rebels says the Iraqi approach – which continues to this day with dozens of civilians killed this month alone – baffles even Syrian jihadists who might otherwise be sympathetic to attacks on the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government.
"Martyr operations in Syria still bear the character of being against the Syrian regime and its fortified military areas," said Zakwan Hadid from Idlib, via Skype. "In Iraq, we just don't know why these operations are happening."
Zeeran Mohammad, a journalist from Hasaka in northeast Syria, fears the difference from Iraq won't last.
"The operations in Iraq are targeting sects and civilians in a greater way," he said via Skype. "They put as their targets the largest number of people, and therefore they find this in markets and mosques. In Syria, this has yet to happen. I believe the reason for this is because the war in Iraq has focused on sectarianism since the 90s between the Sunni and the Shiites, but in Syria this only appeared in the last two years."
But Mohammed says the new dominance of ISIS and Nusra on the battle field could make suicide bombings aimed at civilians more frequent as the Syrian conflict drags on.
"As the conflict continues more extreme groups will come along," he said.
The military value of suicide attackers was made clear this past summer at the Menagh Air Base in northern Syria. The base had defied rebel efforts to seize it for nearly a year as its holdout garrison continued to shell the surrounding rebel-held areas at will from behind heavily fortified defenses. Multiple rebel offensives by moderate rebels who'd pledged allegiance to the moderate Free Syrian Army failed.
Then the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria sent a unit of fighters to help the effort.
On Aug. 5, two suicide bombers, one reportedly a Saudi national, rammed an armored personnel carrier packed with explosives through the gate and into the command center before detonating their load. The blast destroyed much of the beleaguered garrison's defenses, and the base quickly fell. FSA officials openly thanked ISIS for its contribution to the battle and could be seen congratulating Chechen jihadists who'd helped with the assault in video posted on the Internet. There was little outcry from rebel backers uncomfortable with the presence of foreign jihadists in the ranks.


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Arash1 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 352 designs submitted by 105 freelance designers.
Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH (http://www.goldengirls.at)
Golden Girls is a group of directors and producers who have been active since 1990s in the areas of commercials/music videos, industrial and image films, cinema and TV film production as well as post-production. Over the last 10 years we have been able to establish for ourselves a firm position in the Austrian production landscape by virtue of our reliable continuity and versatility. Our strategy of adopting a vertical structure while retaining a high degree of pricing flexibility pricing due to compete in-house production facilities has ensured constant increase in profits as well as an outstanding reputation in the film industry. We are trained and experienced in all fields, from script-writing to editing, from sound to directing and from making coffee to seeing you home. Allthough the content of our work is soften very critical and deals with social issues and human right as well as globalization and dialogue of cultures, we still love to deal with this serious subject with a certain sence of irony and humor.
We are one of the few film production companies in Austria which can develop a project in-house from the initial concept to complete artistic realisation as well as full production and post-production work.
Cooperation in the cultural community is marked by a range of personal influences extending from natural sciences to pop culture, from journalism to auteur films.
People working professionaly in all fields of audiovisual creation and filmmaking and art.
We love the challenge of the unknown and meet our projects with fresh minds and free of rules. Otherwise, it would all look the same, wouldn't it? When we have spare time, we spend it with goofing around. We are trying to find the limits of what is possible in film. That's a lot of fun for us and also gives a lot of experience for your project.
We are looking for a logo for our company: Golden Girls Filmproduktion. The logo should be attractive, contemporary and modern, maybe humorous. It should be a Logo that is very good readable on the tv and cinema screen. It should be an eycatcher and work in color and black and white. It is also imortant that the Logo is suitable for beeing animated as an animation at the beginning of a movie. The logo should contain the word 'Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices" and a possible visual element that can be used as the visual of the brand.
We look forward to your designs.
If you need more information about us, just visit our website: http://www.goldengirls.at
the deadline to send us your logo is: 15th of October
The Golden Girls Filmproduktion Team
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A visibly upset Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spoke at a prayer vigil for the victims of a Thursday shooting that left 13 people injured in a city park.
"This is the real face of Chicago," said to an emotional crowd of community leaders and residents. "Last night is a reality of Chicago, but this is the real face of Chicago. And last night is too frequent and familiar for some children in Chicago. That has to come to an end."
Witnesses said several gunmen fired at least 20 shots at a group gathered at Cornell Square Park shortly before 10:15 p.m. The spray of bullets sent a mass of people to the ground on the basketball courts.
The victims included 10 males and three females, including 3-year-old Deonte Howard -- known as "Tay-man" -- who was shot in the jaw and listed in critical condition as of 3 a.m. The boy was with his mother. She was not injured, a police spokesman said.
The mayor talked about how the community was heartbroken over the shooting, and said he wished people could see what he saw while visiting the families of some of the victims.
"We cannot allow children in the city of Chicago, and we will not allow children in the city of Chicago, to have their youthfulness, their optimism, their hope taken from them," he said. "That's what gun violence does. That is wrong."
The Mayor was joined by Pastor Corey Brooks, who has acted a spokesman for Howard's family, and other community leaders.
Emanuel and Brooks emphasized that for a city to have its sense of civility, it must live by a "moral code," and not a "code of silence."
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said Friday an assault-style rifle with a high capacity magazine was used in the shooting, and that it appeared to be gang-related.
"The parks in the city of Chicago belong to the families of the city of Chicago, the streets of the city of Chicago belong to families of Chicago, the front stoops of our homes belong to the families of the city of Chicago," Emanuel said. "You go out there and enjoy our city because they do not own or belong or have no place for gangs. And assault weapons do not belong in our parks, they do not belong on our streets."
Emanuel asked that parents and families continue to go out into the community.
"You go back out onto those streets and you work, take care like a family and a community," he said. "If we do that, people will see the Chicago I see and the true character of what we are."