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In 'Sound,' T.M. Wolf's experimental debut novel, dialogue that reads like musical notation
Writing dialogue is hard, but replicating the awkward pauses, short interjections, and false starts that occur in nearly every daily interaction—just the things most masters of dialogue strip away—can be even harder.
Sound, T.M. Wolf's debut novel, out this week from Faber & Faber, takes a formally inventive approach to evoking those spaces and stutters and ums and ers and likes that form the rhythms of everyday conversation. He sets the dialogue on the page as though it's musical notation. It's a bold choice on Wolf's part, and one that fits in neatly with his overall style, a densely written prose that creates an immersive sense of place. In the midst of all of this is a comparably conventional plot—a mid-twenties coming-of-age narrative laced with some traces of low-level criminal activity at the margins—but the stylistic risks that Wolf takes and his ability to create a vibrant sense of place more than compensate for the moments where the novel's central action feels mundane.
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"[A]s it turned out, the market for my eighteen-year-old self in Jersey—the one who knew his way around a marina, who could operate a winch and weatherwrap a boat—was better than the market for my twenty-four-year-old self anywhere else," writes Wolf, neatly establishing the position of narrator Cincy Stiles as the novel opens. Just after dropping out of graduate school, Cincy has returned to his Jersey Shore hometown, holing up with his friend Tom, a musician engaged in a project to record historically accurate covers of every song in a local bar's jukebox. (Wolf, who grew up on the Jersey Shore, recently graduated from Yale Law School, and has worked for a number of years as a music journalist—explaining his choice of musical notation and copious rap references through the novel.)
It's when the novel opens out, introducing the sights and sounds of the wider world, that the true allure of Sound becomes apparent. Like David Peace's GB84, Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves, or Zach Dodson's boring boring boring boring boring boring boring, Sound is a novel in which the arrangement of text on a page is as critical to understanding the novel as the words themselves. For the first few instances of dialogue in Sound, Wolf's approach can be a challenge to read, but that approach is ultimately rewarding both for the sense of location it imparts and the insights it provides into Cincy's mental state.
At times, Wolf uses the notation style to evoke barroom or car-stereo sounds: as the color commentary for a Yankees game or a Bruce Springsteen song drowns out Cincy's beloved hip-hop, the font indicating the last of these becomes smaller and smaller, or the text of the lyrics simply cuts off. It's an ingenious system, something like a Robert Altman film as seen through text alone.
Cincy's thoughts are sandwiched between the book's many lines of dialogue, each charted on a series of lines evoking a musical scale, with each speaker designated by a note, a choice of font, and a position on that scale. While that might seem overly clever as an idea, it's very effective in practice both in evoking the way people really speak without being boringly laden with indirection and interjection, and in conveying Cincy's sometimes-scattered state of mind. At times, flashbacks occur in the middle of conversations; at others, Cincy finds himself envisioning alternative outcomes to conversations and other personal interactions, a touch reminiscent of some of Richard Yates's fiction. The use of dialogue as an ambient element recalls the writings of ambient music scholar and critic David Toop, whose work draws a connection between immersion in sound and immersion in landscapes. In the larger context of the novel, this approach to dialogue mirrors Wolf's method of overwhelming the reader with images and sharp details.
Midway through the novel, Cincy travels up the Shore with Vera, a woman with whom he's begun a relationship. Their trip takes place over the course of a paragraph, winding up here:
[S]liding into Sea Bright, the beachside disappearing behind a story-high sea wall separated by the roadway and a narrow shoulder from the shore homes nestled on the sound side of the narrowest part of the island, barely a block and a half from the Atlantic, an inch high at best above sea level.
The level of specificity in Wolf's depiction of New Jersey's coastal towns is impressive (and can be overwhelming as it comes at the reader in cascades), whether summoning up the sights of a particular boardwalk at night or taking the reader through the daily activities and sights of the boatyard where Cincy works. All of which makes his decision to leave the town where this novel is set unnamed somewhat baffling. It has characteristics of numerous Shore towns, including Asbury Park and Margate City, but Wolf seems to have opted for a more conscious composite that coexists with existing spaces—a sort of Shore counterpart to Richard Price's Dempsy. Except that in this context, it feels more like a sort of ur-Shore Town; when one character gets a call from the "Jersey Shore Police Department," it comes off as stylization gone perhaps a step too far instead of a decisive argument for the uses of ambiguity.
The boatyard where Cincy works ends up being placed under surveillance by the local police, and Cincy and his coworker Tone get harassed by the cops with increasingly high tension. Wolf does include some well-done scenes of the massing wrongness in Cincy's work and life to convey his growing concern that the cops might be onto something, and that one of his coworkers might be up to something pretty bad. Yet the gathering sense of menace, the odor of corruption never seems to affect Cincy at his core, and he ultimately appears as little more than a spectator when the whole situation reaches its denouement.
Meanwhile, the course of Cincy's relationship with Vera, which starts beguilingly before becoming halting and finally reaching its own denouement in the novel's second half, also feels somewhat arbitrary—neither Cincy's nor Vera's romantic motivations or disappointments are satisfactorily explained. Fundamentally, the warning signs that accumulate in Cincy's failing relationship and his workplace seem linked, but the connection is left unexplored and Cincy seems a passive non-actor as the novel winds to its somewhat anticlimactic end around him.
Even with these frustrations, however, Sound makes for a bracing read. Wolf's talents at evoking a lived-in world—and the ways in which he puts Cincy on the fringes of that world—create a space to explore Shore life close to what it really is like (rather than, say, through the trashed-up window of reality television). And every once in a while Wolf will throw in a gorgeously-written naturalistic passage to balance his more experimental stylistic moves. For all that Wolf does to modify and play with the form in order to tell his story, he also has his storytelling basics down, making for a fine balance of innovation and tradition.


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After their demos caught the ear of David Kahne, the Grammy-winning producer (Paul McCartney, the Strokes, Regina Spektor) helped the quintet record their self-titled debut, which went gold in Australia. The Rubens' good fortune is now transcending borders, as they're on a U.S. tour opening for Grouplove, and their album lands stateside today (Sept. 10). To say their future looks bright would be an understatement.
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Sec. 31-286a. Insurance requirements for contractors on public works projects and renewals of state business licenses. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of any general statute, special act, charter or ordinance, neither the state, or its agents, nor any political subdivision of the state, or its agents, may enter into any contract on or after October 1, 1986, for the construction, remodeling, refinishing, refurbishing, rehabilitation, alteration or repair of any public works project before receiving from each of the other parties to such contract (1) sufficient evidence of compliance with the workers' compensation insurance and self-insurance requirements of subsection (b) of section 31-284, and (2) a current statement from the State Treasurer that, to the best of his knowledge and belief, as of the date of the statement, the particular party was not liable to the state for any workers' compensation payments made pursuant to section 31-355.
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When Bill McKibben said, "... the fossil fuel industry is prepared to cook humanity off the planet unless somebody stops it" his claim rested on the estimated reserves held, with the intention of extraction.
Cue the math: McKibben's roadshow takes aim at Big Oil
Leonardi Maugeri's new study, which validates McKibben's conclusions, rests on actual oil field construction and projects for near term development.
Carbon Tracker measured the total amount of carbon in fossil fuels in existing reserves (2,795 gigatons) and found them to be five times more than can be safely burned (565 gigatons). That is terrifying, although this does not tell us along what timeline those reserves will be pulled out of the ground.
Leonardi Maugeri published a study of actual oil industry development plans.
Maugeri conducted a unique field-by-field analysis of the major oil projects proposed and under construction in most of the world's oil producing zones.
When factoring in the decline in production from currently producing fields he concluded that by 2020 global oil production capacity could reach 110.6 million b/d...
Therefore, 79% of the oil production capacity being planned today for 2020 is over and above the safe level of global oil demand in that year.
... the amount of new oil production the industry is bringing online over the next eight years is exponentially more than we can afford to burn and stay under two degrees.
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In order to keep Earth within a 2°C rise, we have to actually reduce oil consumption from the current level. Even without the additional development plans, current policies are already in line to lock in by 2020 a 6°C rise.
... 6oC... is commonly considered to herald an unlivable planet.
If the planned increases are realized, by 2020 we'll be locked in to an eventual 8°C rise.
Finally, it should be noted that Maugeri's analysis of the industry's growth is by no means the most aggressive. Citigroup, for one, has a much more bullish scenario for the North American oil industry that has been widely cited, including by both U.S. Presidential campaigns.
I found the text of this article somewhat dense. Even the chart which "says it all" is not easy to read. Here's a summary of the main points.
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Having the will to get off oil isn't simple. It will require an enormous amount of rethinking, in every arena of life, starting with vehicles - an entire reinvention of world cultures. A reinvention of our self concepts too. But our only alternative is self destruction. Those of us who are capable of re-imagining civilization as sustainable must step up and speak out, lead the way.
Speaking of the will to get off oil, the Carbon Fee and Dividend approach is gaining support.
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I found the Citizens Climate Lobby site helpful, if you're a US citizen. They make it easy to send a letter to your congressman. I was able to send a letter to urge support for the End Polluter Welfare Act in a minute, even with a personalized message.
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One thing I have definitely noticed, while living in Japan is that even in the most vehicle-heavy prefecture, you can still manage most places without the use of a personal vehicle. I have lived here for three years--almost three and a half, now--and all of that time without my own car. Most times, I just ride my bike around. If I need to go out of town, I use trains. There are a few places where I need a car, so in those case, I carpool with friends.
Part of the problem in the US is that the way we build our cities, we section things off into zones: residential, business, industrial, and so on. Because of that, it makes reliance on bikes very difficult. I have a friend who recently returned to her home state from Japan. She has had a rough time trying to depend solely on her bike. She said it takes over an hour for her to get most places, in order to run errands.
The infrastructure for public transit in most states is lacking, as well. You might be able to use public transit and vanpools if you live near big cities, but you're pretty screwed if not. Telecomuting is a great alternative. It's not something that everyone can do, however.
I think some of the traffic bloat (and wasting of gas) could be relieved if businesses would stagger their workshifts more or offer 12-hour, 4 day shifts for those who wish to work them.
I agree, Jonathan and Nerdlass. The US has the wrong transportation infrastructure. We have no choice but to change at the national and community level, so individuals can make green choices.
Yeah exactly Ruth - "US has the wrong transportation infrastructure"
we would need to redo (and build) much of the entire infrastructure here for the public transportation to even be a possibility.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
An Elegant Evening ~
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I have no doubt that your evening at the gala will bring smiles to your face even into your older years. You both look just as exquisite as the gala, and though you two were giggling at your good fortune to be among such elite company, I imagine your youth, grace, and beauty turned quite a few heads! What a special night for a husband and wife-a an enchanting location, an orchestra, the dance, the wine, the art, and the two of you enjoying each other's company.
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Although the automotive world's eyes are on next week's Geneva auto show, the news is starting to trickle in for April's New York event.
Debuts are planned for the redesigned Buick Enclave, Hyundai Santa Fe, Nissan Altima and SRT Viper, which previously was known as a Dodge.
But all these vehicles seem so 20th Century.
Frankly, I think the Big Apple's attention grabber may just be a car that's also an airplane, and the company says it's been approved by the FAA and NHTSA. Essentially, it's a street-legal airplane.
The two-seat, single-engine car/plane, called the Transition Roadable Aircraft, was developed by Terrafugia (terra-FOO-gee-ah), a Woburn, Maryland, aerospace company. It will be the Transiton's first time on display at a car show. Videos of the Transition on the road and in flight are featured here. The company portrays the Transition as an easy-to-use mode of transportation on the highway and in the air.
After landing, the pilot pushes a button, the wings fold up, and the plane turns into a car that can be driven home and parked in the family garage. That's assuming the owner has 80 inches of clearance. Nothing has to be detached from the car/aircraft structure to roll into the garage or added before take off. It's a complete package, the company says.
The company says NHTSA granted the Transition an exemption last summer so it could be driven on the highway.
As a plane it falls under the FAA's light sport aircraft category, which allows would-be-pilots to become certified pilots in about 20 hours, the company said in a news release.
The Transition is powered by a 100-hp piston engine that runs on unleaded regular. It is expected to have a highway range of about 800 miles or a cruising range in the air of nearly 500 miles. It can cruise at 105 mph in the air.
A carbon fiber safety cage protects the pilot/driver and passenger. If the pilot faces uncertain weather, he or she can land at a small airport and drive to the destination.
The piston engine is connected to a continuously variable transmission that engages either the rear-wheel drive system or the propeller. The car/plane weighs 970 pounds and can carry 460 pounds of pilot, passenger and cargo combined, giving it a gross take off weight of 1,430 pounds, the company says.
Better start that diet if you want one.
How expensive is the Transition? It's about the cost of four Cadillac Escalades. The estimated selling price is $279,000 and orders are being accepted.
Dual-transportation cars have been around since amphibious vehicles emerged during World War II. There was the novelty Amphicar in the 1960s and, more recently, Gibbs Technologies has been developing an amphibious sports car/speedboat vehicle called the Aquada.
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Aus 40 Designs von 18 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Progressive/contemporary professional event firm looking for logo for use in print, online and embroidery items as well as business card design. Depth and texture desired on business card design.
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Looking for a logo that is professional and can be used in a number of formats from print, online and embroidery on items.
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University of Colorado officials have defended an arrangement that retains retiree Ric Porreca as the Boulder campus chief financial officer -- saying he is a vital administrator -- but CU system officials called for his firing in 2006 after the discovery of a deep budget shortfall in the athletic department.
Still, over the next three years leading up to his retirement, Porreca's salary increased 43 percent, from $228,416 to $327,110, according to a document that outlines the 100 top-paid CU-Boulder employees.
In the document, prepared for the regents at the request of Jim Geddes, R-Sedalia, a note shows that Porreca was given $36,000 a year in additional pay from 2007 to 2009. Explanations for his increasing pay included "merit," "additional job" and "retention."
The Camera has learned that Porreca, 53 -- who will be phased out of his job as senior vice chancellor and chief financial officer by July 1 -- was at risk of losing his job six years ago after then-CU President Hank Brown discovered an $8 million shortfall in the athletic department that went unreported to the Board of Regents.
Fiscal woes in athletic department
Brown, in an interview, said former CU Chancellor Bud Peterson and then-Provost Phil DiStefano came to the defense of Porreca in 2006.
"His immediate supervisors wanted to keep Ric and thought highly of him," Brown said Thursday. "I had expressed to Bud a great concern, but ultimately it was Bud's decision. I offered some advice to Bud, without making it a directive. Bud made his own decision, but I expressed my view."
The issue to dismiss Porreca was elevated to the Board of Regents during an executive session, but there wasn't a clear majority on the board to fire the chief financial officer, according to a source with knowledge of the conversation.
Brown said the $8 million shortfall in the athletic department had not previously been reported to the regents, and when he discovered it, he immediately reported it to the board.
"The issue was not just the shortfall, but that the board had not been acquainted with the problem," Brown said.
CU regents and campus officials in 2006 decided to loan the Boulder campus athletic department $8 million to help it recover from a major drop in football season-ticket sales, a coaching change after Gary Barnett was fired, stadium expansion costs and overstated fundraising projections.
Campus spokesman Bronson Hilliard declined to comment specifically on the 2006 discussion regarding Porreca's employment, but he said in general former Chancellor Peterson thought highly of Porreca and felt he needed his expertise.
Peterson and Brown worked out an agreement that clearly defined the chancellor's ability to handle matters on the Boulder campus, including personnel matters.
"There were a couple of times when Chancellor Peterson had to assert that," Hilliard said.
Porreca's pay increases leading up to retirement
Leading up to his retirement on Feb. 28, 2011, Porreca earned three separate $36,000 increases, according to the salary document given to the regents. The amount added to his salary appears to have been slightly less than that, or almost $99,000 over three years instead of $108,000, according to the report.
He returned to his post April 1, 2011, filling one of CU's 10 allotted positions that allow PERA retirees to work up to 140 days a year.
Porreca, who began with the university in 1982, is eligible to earn roughly $500,000 in combined CU salary and pension payments through PERA, Colorado's Public Employees' Retirement Association. PERA payments are determined by several factors, including the average of a retiree's highest three salaries, his or her age and years of employment.
PERA payments are private, but an eligibility chart shows Porreca will earn at least 68.2 percent of his highest average salary -- calculated over three years -- for the rest of his life.
Campus spokesman Hilliard denies that Porreca was given raises to increase his PERA payouts.
"We give raises at CU because of increased responsibilities, new management duties or merit," Hilliard said.
In some cases, Hilliard said, the university gives raises to retain employees if they have an offer in hand from another potential employer.
"Ric has been highly courted and sought-after in his role as CFO," Hilliard said.
Hilliard said Porreca has taken on additional responsibilities, for example, overseeing the Office of Admissions and the Office of Information Technology, as well as financial aid and registrar offices.
The university wanted to retain Porreca from his retirement to assist with the school's re-accreditation process in 2010, Hilliard said.
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BRISTOL — Volunteers packed more than a quarter-million meals last weekend in Bristol and Essex at the culmination of a drive to send aid to starving children. With Love From Vermont, a Christian charity that operates in Chittenden, Addison and Rutland counties, had been raising money for food packets specifically designed for the bodies of malnourished children.
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The Wooten Laboratory strives to support multidisciplinary basic and translational research to impact our understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. The Wooten Laboratory provides seed grants to support Brody School of Medicine faculty members for projects with new ideas in neurodegenerative disease research. The Wooten Laboratory provides a discussion forum, in the form of focus group meeting, to encourage research collaboration among faculties across different disciplines. The Wooten Laboratory participates in the community awareness of neurodegenerative diseases.
Any Brody School of Medicine faculty member may submit qualification materials to be considered for affiliation with the Wooten Laboratory. Affiliation will be for a two-year term. Affiliation is renewable for as many subsequent two-year terms based on the interest and productivity of the faculty member. Investigators who affiliate with the Wooten Lab will include that designation in published work as an added part of the academic attribution. For affiliated members, evaluations and recommendations will be provided on request to the appropriate academic unit(s) for promotion/tenure decisions. See the call for affiliation for details:
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The Beijing Diaries, Day 9 (Part I): Closing the 18th National Congress
November 23, 2012 in China, Travel by pacejmiller
November 14
Closing Ceremony
The 18th National Congress finally came to an end today, which was a welcome relief considering how exhausting it has been. It also marked the last time I would head over to the Great Hall of the People, where I first attended the glittering opening ceremony a week ago.
According to a notice posted on the media center website, the closing ceremony would take place at around 10:30am, and it advised reporters to get there a little earlier to go through the security check. Unlike some eager beavers who apparently got there at around 3am (I have no idea why), I took a leisurely stroll there from the hotel and arrived shortly before 10am and met with some other journalists in the waiting area (but not before I caught a glimpse of hometown legend Stan Grant, who currently works for CNN, walking up and down the Great Hall stairs doing his best Stan Grant impersonation!).
At precisely 10:30am we began to move in a massive group from the waiting room towards the main hall. For some reason, the crowded journey was very stop-start (mostly stop), and soon we found ourselves stuck in a long corridor with no movement whatsoever. And we remained like that for a good 30 minutes.
Eventually we moved again into the area outside the main hall, where we waited again for another 20 minutes. No explanations, just waiting. Naturally, we started getting restless and wondered what the hell was going on. It wasn't like the Communist Party to be so disorganised, having been spot on with the timing of every press conference up to that point. We started speculating — perhaps the mummified former leader Jiang Zemin had a stroke (I personally suspected it might have been a Weekend at Bernie's situation all along), or maybe future leader Xi Jinping wasn't "voted" into the Central Committee, sending his comrades into a tailspin.
Anyway, it wasn't long before they crushed the rumors by starting to let us in, and soon we were treated to a typical Communist Party charade where the new 205-member Central Committee unanimously passed resolutions to approve reports as well as amendments to the party constitution. It was hilarious watching them all raise their hands to vote in favour of the resolutions, and then watching them pretend to wait to see if there were any dissenting or forfeited votes.
In the end, following a hearty rendition of Internationale (the party's de facto anthem), outgoing party leader Hu Jintao ("exiting" is probably a better description considering Hu's personality is anything but "outgoing") officially declared the "successful" closing of the 18th National Congress. See you again in another five years.
For me, that was also the official end of my "live" reporter duties. There's the first plenum of the new Central Committee tomorrow where they will "vote" on the new Politburo Standing Committee (the highest and most powerful political body in the land) and introduce China's new generation of party leaders — but I can't attend that in person and must watch it from my hotel room on TV (as only one reporter from each news organization gets an invite and I of course wasn't that person), not that I am complaining because I've had enough of all the subway rides and long waits.
Coming up, my afternoon trip to the Great Wall of China!


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WEST COVINA – The city placed a West Covina Police officer on paid leave amid a criminal investigation into claims the officer raped a woman, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
A 41-year-old woman said West Covina Police Officer Hector Garay raped her on June 30 inside her West Covina apartment. This newspaper does not identify alleged victims of sex crimes.
Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Amy Hanson, an internal criminal investigator with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department confirmed a probe into the woman's allegations against Garay is underway.
Garay, 52, of Corona, did not discuss the allegations.
"I'm not going to comment," Garay said.
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore and Sgt. Scott Craig, the sheriff's department lead internal criminal investigator, deferred all questions to West Covina Police Chief Frank Wills.
Wills declined to discuss the specifics of the probe and didn't name the officer involved.
"The allegations, even if true, have nothing to do with on-duty conduct or matters in the scope of his employment," Wills said.
Wills said the alleged victim has a "long history" of making false allegations against West Covina Police officers.


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Uncommon Descent Contest Question 9 winner announcement:
StephenB, at 50, won, for the appended comment in response to the question: Is accidental origin of life a doctrine that holds back science?
The prize? A free copy of Steven Meyer's Signature in the Cell (Harper One, 2009).
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CanWatermark necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 16 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
Watermark Data Solutions Ltd.
We are a Vancouver Canada based high-tech startup looking to make our mark in the data privacy industry. We endeavor to create a business that provides a much-needed service while keeping within our environmental mandate of being carbon neutral and our zero-landfill policy.
Our target audience is any medium to large size corporation that has a significant amount of data which they would wish to keep secure. Examples of such clients include large law firms, insurance companies, medical groups, government agencies and other such entities. For our business to be successful, we need to present ourselves as being competent, professional and trust-worthy.
1. The design must convey the following central ideals: privacy, security, and environmentalism.
2. As this logo will be present on all forms of communication, it must be simple, elegant, and sharp without being overpowering.
3. The logo must have all elements reamain visible should it be scaled down for business cards but must also look sharp if we require scaling it up for use in marketing materials or for decals used on vehicles.
4. The design must be original. No clip art or stock images can be used.
5. The logo should include the word "Watermark" and should look good with and without the word being present.
6. The design should be convertable to a variety of promotional media including but not limited to shirts, business cards, golf balls, and decals.
7. The design should utilize either green or blue as a dominant colour.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
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PK may only be used for the intended purpose for which PK is being made available. Except as may be expressly set forth herein, You hereby agree not to modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from any Content. Except as may be expressly set forth herein, the Terms of Use only allow You to display, view, play, print, and download Content for Your own personal, informational, and noncommercial purposes. PK and the Content will remain the exclusive property of PerBlue or its licensors, vendors, agents or content providers unless otherwise expressly agreed. You will remove no copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices from material found on PK.
Modification of the Content or use of the Content for any purpose other than specified in the Terms of Use is a violation of PerBlue's legal rights. For purposes of these Terms of Use, the use of Content on any other website or networked computer environment is prohibited unless explicitly stated otherwise.
8. User Submissions
You hereby acknowledge and agree that PerBlue does not guarantee any confidentiality or anonymity with respect to any user submissions ("User Submissions") in all User editable sections of PK, including, but not limited to, the Game, the Websites including the Forum and Guide, personal messages, chats, profiles, and bug tracking systems. You will be solely responsible for your own User Submissions. You represent and warrant that: You own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize PerBlue to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all User Submissions and to enable inclusion and use of the User Submissions in the manner contemplated by PK and the Terms of Use.
You retain all of Your ownership rights in Your User Submissions. However, by submitting User Submissions to PK, You grant PerBlue a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sub-licensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, perform and otherwise to exercise all rights in and to the User Submissions in connection with PerBlue (and its successors' and affiliates') businesses, including for promoting and marketing PK, the Game (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels or platforms now known or hereinafter invented. Such license may also be exercised on behalf of PerBlue by third parties acting on PerBlue's behalf (e.g. technology partners, service providers and independent contractors). You also grant each other User a non-exclusive license to access Your User Submissions through PK, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such User Submissions as permitted through the functionality of PK and under these Terms of Use.
PerBlue reserves the right to remove or decline to post any User Submissions at any time, for any reason (or for no reason), without notice and at its sole discretion, including if it determines that the User Submissions are inappropriate or fail to comply with the Terms of Use. PERBLUE HAS NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY TO YOU OR ANY OTHER USER, THIRD PARTY OR ENTITY FOR PERFORMANCE OR NONPERFORMANCE OF ANY SCREENING OR REMOVAL ACTIVITIES. PerBlue is not responsible for the back-up of any of User Submissions or any lost data resulting from the use, operation or discontinuation of any aspect of PK. You are solely responsible for maintaining back-ups of Your User Submissions and any information generated or stored through the use of PK.
PerBlue is not responsible for any User Submission posted in connection with PK. You agree not to: publish, post, distribute, or otherwise disseminate any User Submission that is libelous, defamatory, that invades privacy, or is obscene, pornographic, abusive, harassing, or otherwise unlawful or objectionable or which infringes on any intellectual property or other rights of any entity or person; threaten, harass, stalk, abuse others, or otherwise cause distress or unwanted attention to any person; engage in any unlawful purpose, or use PK in a manner that is contrary to any law or regulation; promote or encourage any illegal activity; transmit advertising, promotional materials, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or make any commercial use of PK; impersonate another User, use another User's login, or violate the Terms of Use or the conduct agreements posted in the section labeled 'Your Conduct'.
9. Virtual Items
PK may also include virtual, in-game digital items ("Virtual Goods") including but not limited to virtual Food, that may be purchased from PerBlue for valid currency. (a) Regardless of the terminology used, Virtual Goods may never be redeemed for valid currency, goods or other items of monetary value from PerBlue or any other party. (b) Other than a limited, personal, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicenseable license to use the Virtual Goods in PK, you have no right or title in or to any such Virtual Goods appearing or originating in PK, or any other attributes associated with use of PK or stored within PK. (c) PerBlue has the absolute right to manage, regulate, control, modify and/or eliminate such Virtual Goods as it sees fit in its sole discretion, and PerBlue shall have no liability to you or anyone for the exercise of such rights. (d) Transfers of Virtual Goods are strictly prohibited except where explicitly authorized within PK. Outside of the Game, you may not buy or sell any Virtual Goods for "real world" money or otherwise exchange items for value. Any attempt to do so is in violation of these Terms and may result in a lifetime ban from PK and possible legal action. (e) You agree that all sales of Virtual Goods are final. No refunds will be given, except in our sole and absolute discretion. All Virtual Goods are forfeited if your account is terminated or suspended for your violation of these Terms of Use or any other misconduct, as determined by PerBlue in PerBlue's sole and absolute discretion, or if PerBlue discontinues providing PK. (f) You agree to not dispute or charge-back any payments for purchases that have been successfully credited to your account within PK or otherwise attempt to defraud PerBlue. Should PerBlue receive notice of any payment disputes or charge-backs for successfully completed purchases which have already been credited to Your account, You agree that Your account will be temporarily suspended until the payment dispute or charge-back is canceled. If the dispute or charge-back is not canceled in time, and the funds from the purchase are reversed by the payment processor, Your account will be indefinitely suspended until You re-pay said funds to PerBlue, in addition to any Fees charged to PerBlue by the payment processor for having reversed the transaction.
10. Platinum Membership Subscriptions
A User may also choose to subscribe to a monthly Platinum Membership subscription ("Subscription" or "Subscriptions") that may be purchased from PerBlue for valid currency. When purchasing a Subscription, the User must use a major credit card through Google Checkout or PayPal in order to register for the service.
Subscriptions that a User purchases from PerBlue through Google Checkout are one-time, non-renewing purchases, which will automatically expire after the length of time of the Subscription interval purchased has elapsed.
Subscriptions that a User purchases from PerBlue through PayPal can be purchased as either one-time non-renewing purchases or in automatically-renewing billing cycles. If purchased via the one-time non-renewing intervals, the Subscription will automatically expire after the length of time of the interval purchased has elapsed. If purchased via the automatically-renewing billing cycles, the Subscription will remain active on the User's account indefinitely, or until canceled by the User, and will automatically re-bill their PayPal account at the beginning of each new billing cycle.
A User can cancel the automatic renewal of their Subscription through PayPal at any time prior to its renewal date by clicking the 'cancel' button on their Profile in-game, or by visiting their profile from the Website, logging in with their PK account name and password, and then clicking the 'cancel' button.
By purchasing a Subscription you agree that a) all sales of Subscriptions are final. No refunds will be given, except in our sole and absolute discretion; b) PerBlue has the absolute right to manage, regulate, control, modify and/or eliminate such Subscriptions as it sees fit in its sole discretion, and PerBlue shall have no liability to you or anyone for the exercise of such rights; and c) any days of a Subscription that is already paid for and remaining on the account is forfeited if your account is terminated or suspended for any reason, in PerBlue's sole and absolute discretion, or if PerBlue discontinues providing PK.
11. Communications
Users who use the Parallel Kingdom Forum or send email to PerBlue staff are required to agree to the following additional terms and conditions that govern all communications on the Forum between the User, other Users, and/or PerBlue and the ownership of any such communications as consideration for the privilege of being permitted to contribute to the Forum:
You hereby acknowledge and agree that any notes, e-mails, online messages, bulletin board or chat room postings, ideas, suggestions, concepts, designs, or other material ("Material") You submit to any physical PerBlue company address, to any website owned or controlled by PerBlue, or to any e-mail addresses contained in or on those web sites (each a "PerBlue Location") and that You submit in your capacity as a User, in PerBlue's sole discretion, shall be the property of PerBlue.
When You submit any Material to a PerBlue Location, You acknowledge and agree that You are assigning all intellectual property rights in that Material to PerBlue and that the intellectual property rights to such Material will no longer belong to You. Upon Your assignment of Material to PerBlue, PerBlue has the right to use the Material for as long as it wants, in any way it chooses, including for commercial, promotional, and advertising purposes without any obligation (including any financial obligation) to You at any time. You waive and relinquish any rights, including "moral rights," that may exist in the Material to the furthest extent permissible by law and agree not to assert any rights over the Material.
You agree to treat any communication or information you receive from PerBlue, through PK posted by PerBlue, in PK in a private forum, through e-mail, or in PerBlue's bug tracking system as confidential ("Confidential Information") and refrain from sharing it with any third parties, including other Users and PerBlue competitors. Such Confidential Information may include without limitation, previews of designs or models for the Game, software, source code, bug reports, any information provided by PerBlue to beta testers, any information in tech support e-mails, private forum messages, private messages in the Game, and marketing information.
If You do not agree to these additional terms and conditions governing communication, you should not partake in correspondence with PerBlue and should not use the Forum.
12. User Interactions
PerBlue is not responsible for Your interactions with other Users, including playing, communicating, networking, any purchase or sale of goods, and/or any other interactions between You and other Users. All such interactions made using PK should be considered public. As with any web-based interaction, We suggest that You use caution and good judgment. PerBlue bears no liability for any loss or damage incurred as a result of any such interactions. If there is a dispute between You and another User or a third party, PerBlue is under no obligation to become involved. You release PerBlue and its officers, directors, employees, agents and contractors from any claims, demands and damages (whether direct, indirect, consequential, special, incidental, actual or statutory) of every kind and nature arising out of or in any way related to such disputes or interactions, PK and PerBlue.
13. Third Party Websites
PK may contain links to third-party websites that are not owned or controlled by PerBlue. All such links are provided solely as a convenience to You. PerBlue has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, products, services, policies, or practices of any third-party websites. PerBlue does not endorse, guarantee, or make any representations or warranties regarding any other websites. By using the PK, You expressly relieve PerBlue from any and all liability arising from Your use of any third-party website.
The Websites also include a tool that allows you to sign in using information from your account with a third party service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, OpenID, or LinkedIn. Please be aware that those third party services are unrelated to the Websites, and that your use of the third party services is subject to the terms and policies of those services. In some cases, the Websites may include certain embedded tools provided and controlled by third parties and governed by the terms and policies of the third parties. You should only use these third party tools if you agree to their respective terms and policies.
14. Advertising
PerBlue has the exclusive right to market, offer, sell and place advertisements and/or other promotional content or materials ("Advertisements") on or in connection with PK for its sole benefit. You will not, and will not allow any third party, directly or indirectly, to market, offer, sell and place Advertisements on or in connection with PK.
15. Termination and Modification
You may delete Your PK account at any time, for any reason, use
PerBlue may suspend or terminate Your account or Your use of PK at any time, without notice, for any reason or for no reason. If Your PK account is suspended or terminated, PerBlue also reserves the right to suspend or terminate Your use or access to any other PerBlue product. We may also block Your access to PK or any other PerBlue product in the event that: (a) You breach the Terms of Use; (b) We are unable to verify or authenticate any information You provide to us; or (c) We believe that Your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for You, Our Users, and/ or PerBlue. PerBlue also reserves the right to terminate or deactivate User accounts that are inactive for an extended period of time.
Effects of Termination.
Upon any such termination, Your rights to access and use PK shall automatically terminate. PerBlue has no obligation to delete, remove, or retain Your User Submissions or any Virtual Items, and they may remain active on PK. In addition, even if User Submissions or Virtual Items are deleted from active display on PK, they may be recorded and saved by PerBlue in its archives.
PerBlue may at any time modify the Game or Websites, any characters in the Game or Websites, or any physical characteristics of the Game or Websites at any time for any reason (or no reason) and without notice to You.
16. Digital Millennium Copyright Act
PerBlue respects the intellectual property of others and requires that You do the same. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"), the text of which may be found on the U.S. Copyright Office site at
, We will respond expeditiously to notices of alleged copyright infringement that are duly reported to Our Designated Copyright Agent identified in the notice below. We will disable and/or terminate the accounts of Users who are repeat infringers. If You believe Your content has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or Your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide Our designated Copyright Agent the following information:
A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material;
Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact You, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address;
A statement that You have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that You are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
PerBlue's designated Copyright Agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement is: Justin Beck
or mail to PO Box 1861 Madison, WI 53701. You acknowledge that if You fail to comply with all of the requirements of this Section, Your DMCA notice may not be valid.
We may give notice to Our Users of any infringement notice by means of a general notice on any of Our Websites, electronic mail to a User's e-mail address in Our records, or by written communication sent by first-class mail to a User's physical address in Our records. If You believe that Your User Submission that was removed (or to which access was disabled) is not infringing, or that You have the authorization from the copyright owner, the copyright owner's agent, or pursuant to the law, to post and use the content in Your User Submission, You may send a counter-notice containing the following information to the Copyright Agent:
Your physical or electronic signature;
Identification of the content that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the content appeared before it was removed or disabled;
A statement that You have a good faith belief that the content was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or a misidentification of the content; and
Your name, physical address and telephone number, and a statement that You consent to the jurisdiction of a Federal District Court for the judicial district in which Your physical address is located, or if Your physical address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which We may be found, and that You will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of allegedly infringing material or an agent of such person.
17. Your Representations and Warranties
You represent and warrant that: (a) You have obtained all consents, and possess all copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret and any other proprietary rights, or the necessary licenses thereto, to grant the licenses granted herein; (b) if necessary You have the written consent of each and every identifiable natural person in the User Submission to use such person's name and/or likeness in the manner contemplated by PK and the Terms of Use, and each such person has released You from any liability that may arise in relation to such use; (c) You have read, understood, agree with, and will abide by the terms of the Terms of Use; (d) the User Submission and PerBlue's use thereof as contemplated by these Terms of Use, including on and in PK, their promotion and re-distribution, will not violate, misappropriate or infringe any right of any third party, including any copyright, trademark, trade secret, privacy rights and rights of publicity; (e) You are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country; and (f) You are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
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The Terms of Use will be governed by the laws of the State of Wisconsin, without reference to its choice of laws. The exclusive jurisdiction and venue for any action under these Terms of Use shall be in the state and federal courts of Dane County, Wisconsin. You hereby accept the personal jurisdiction of such courts. You may not assign any rights granted to You or delegate any of Your duties hereunder and any attempt to do so is void and of no effect. PerBlue may assign its rights and delegate its duties under this Agreement in their entirety at any time, including in connection with a merger, reorganization, or sale of all, or substantially all, of its assets relating to this Agreement.
Nothing in this Agreement shall constitute a partnership or joint venture between You and PerBlue. PerBlue does not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to PK, and use of PK may be interfered with by numerous factors outside of Our control. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by You or others does not waive Our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. These terms of service set forth the entire understanding and agreement between us with respect to the subject matter hereof. Sections 4 (Disclaimers); 5 (Limitation of Liability); 6 (Indemnification); 7 (Content Ownership); 8 (User Submissions); 12 (User Interactions); 13 (Third Party Websites), 15 (Termination), 17 (Your Representations and Warranties), and; and 18 (General) shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement. Additionally any provision that was, by its nature, intended to survive termination of the Terms of Use will so survive. If any provision of the Terms of Use is invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the other provisions herein will remain in full force and effect.
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Mood disorders are a group of mental health problems. They are sometimes called affective disorders. These are the most common types:
What causes mood disorders in teens is not well known. Certain chemicals in the brain are responsible for positive moods. Other chemicals in the brain (neurotransmitters) control the brain chemicals that affect mood. Mood disorders may be caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. This can happen on its own or along with environmental factors, such as unexpected life events or long-lasting stress.
Mood disorders can run in families. Researchers believe that many factors are involved. The factors that produce the trait or condition are often both inherited and environmental. They involve a mix of genes from both parents. If a mother passes a mood disorder trait to her children, a daughter is more likely to have the disorder. If a father passes a mood disorder trait to his children, a son is more likely to have the disorder.
Anyone can feel sad or depressed at times. But mood disorders are more intense. They are harder to handle than normal feelings of sadness. Teens who have a parent or other relative with a mood disorder have a greater chance of also having a mood disorder. It is not definite that this will happen. But hard life events and stress can expose or exaggerate feelings of sadness or depression. This makes the feelings harder to manage.
Sometimes life's problems can cause depression. Tough situations for a teen include:
It can be hard for a teen to cope with these situations. These stressful life events can bring on feelings of sadness or depression. Or they can make a mood disorder harder to manage. It depends on your teen's coping skills and his or her ability to rebound from rough times.
Teens don't always have or show the same symptoms as adults. It is harder to spot mood disorders in children and teens. That's often because they are not always able to say how they feel.
Teens may show different symptoms. It depends on their age and the type of mood disorder. These are the most common symptoms:
In mood disorders, these feelings appear stronger than teens normally feel from time to time. It is also of concern if these feelings last over a period of time, or if they interfere with a teen's interest in being with friends or taking part in daily activities at home or school. Contact your teen's healthcare provider right away if your child expresses any thoughts of suicide.
Other signs of possible mood disorders in teens may include:
These symptoms may seem like other conditions or mental health problems. Make sure your teen sees his or her healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
A mental health expert often diagnoses a mood disorder after a mental health evaluation. He or she may also evaluate the family and talk with teachers and caregivers.
Treatment will depend on your teen's symptoms, age, and general health. It will also depend on how severe the condition is.
Mood disorders can often be treated. Treatment may include one or more of the following:
Teens with mood disorders are at risk for other problems. These include:
Experts don't know at this time how to prevent mood disorders in teens. But early detection and treatment are vital. They can ease symptoms and enhance your teen's normal growth and development. They can improve your teen's quality of life.
You play a key role in his or her treatment. Here are things you can do to help:
Call your healthcare provider right away if your teen:
Call 911 if your teen has suicidal thoughts, a suicide plan, and the means to carry out the plan.
Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your child's healthcare provider: