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Brian NYC needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 94 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
The New York City Gay Men's Chorus (NYCGMC) is a NYC institution and a globally recognized arts organization. HARMONY is the new annual gala fundraiser benefiting the NYCGMC. The NYCGMC has a mission of fighting homophobia and promoting acceptance through the power of song. In conjunction with our 30th anniversary season, we are premiering a new gala event called HARMONY. This event replaces our previous event titled "Out on Stage." The idea is to center the event around our primary mission, with a particular focus on song.
We are targeting the affluent LGBT community, and supporters of the LGBT community, in the NYC metro area. As a point of reference, ticket prices to the gala will range from $150 - $250. Within that community, we are targeting those that are philanthropic, support the arts, support the LGBT community and enjoy attending musical/Broadway events.
The goal is to have a logo that will represent this gala event most effectively - hopefully a logo that will be easily recognized and remembered and will stand the test of time. While we are launching HARMONY in conjunction with our 30th anniversary, the event itself will be our annual gala fundraiser for years to come so "30" should not be incorporated in the design. The NYCGMC website is at http://www.nycgmc.org. We will be updating our overall brand in the coming year so there is not a need to work within our current brand standards. However, on the events page of the website you can see the posters of our upcoming concerts which will give you an idea of the current direction of our creative materials. Again, please be creative - we are looking for new ideas! We will also need a logo that will translate appropriate for various collateral materials (posters, invitations, web, etc.) Some of the key words to consider when designing would be clean, elegant and upscale.
If you visit http://www.apple.com/trailers - I like the title font/design/layouts for Beastly, Clash of the Titans, Knight and Day and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Just a few potential thoughts/ideas.
Additionally, I will need the logo in high-resolution CMYK format (.jpg, .eps an .pdf).
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BusinessBroker necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 216 diseños de 76 diseñadores freelance.
We need a new logo/brand for our firm.
eBusinessBroker.com is an Internet business brokerage firm. We sell established internet businesses around the world. We have an office in the US, one in the European Union and one in Switzerland.
Some things I like...
- I kind of like the metal look of the existing logo, but that is definitely not necessary and we honestly would like to see something new
- I like coat of arms, but not necessary
- I like the idea of maybe buildings (i.e.: http://ebusinesbroker.com/img/logos…roker.gif)
- I like the idea of flags being in the logo to represent the countries we are in (US, UK/EU, CH) or do business in (US, CA, NZ, AU, CH, All European Union countries, IN, CN)
- I love European logos - they tend to be clean especially ScandinavianThe above are simply ideas. Feel free to use one or more or use none of them and come up with your own. We're looking for some creativity.
Our new site will be created around this new logo and will utilize many web 2.0 functions and styling.
- a catchy logo
- modern/contemporary styling
- vector format that can be opened/modified in Illustrator or extremely high resolution raster format
- we're open to color schemes
- a logo that conveys trust and professionalism
- a cartoonish looking logo
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jujudellago needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 112 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
Fresh appealing logo design for an online magazine dedicated to electronic music.
We are really impessed by the quality of the submitted designs, with all these implementations of our need for a logo with 6 dots.
but so now we are curious to see if we could have turned the contest in another way: keep our old logo as a base and just freshen it up...
it was designed in 97, we lived with it for so long that we are totally bored to see it... as much as we are so much used to see it.... it had that quality of being so easily regognizable on the party flyers.....
So I guess we'll pick between the most original and appealing new way of writing hexadance with 6 dots, and a simple refresh of the old one...
we really hope we don't ask too much for what we can offer in this contest, but we can assure we'll add credits to the designer who'll be picked on our website, and possibly have a lot more graphic design needs in the future (flyers, pages layouts, icons, etc...) so this could be the begining of a beautifull collaboration !
Hexadance is an online magazine created in 1997, we talk about electronic music, that includes party feedbacks, music reviews, party agenda, photo reports & many more.
Our current website is totally outdated, and will be soon replaced by a new one using leading edge technologies (ajax and so on...)
Our development team is very motivated, but lacks of graphic design inspiration, that's why we need you !
we really regret to be on such a tight budget, but a good proposal from you could lead to much more interresting proposals
our first logo (1997-2007)
our second logo (2007-now)
- fresh modern logo
- I think everyone request the same thing here... web 2.0 if it means anything ;)
- the logo must include somehow the 6 dots used in our first logo- using 2 colours- one being black (or dark grey)
- and other colour of your choice (green, purple, blue.. your pick) this colour must be usable as text colour on a white background
- the logo will be mostly used in colours, but must also be printable as a shape
- as a variant, the same logo with the text "www.hexadance.com"
- must be easily readable, as the logo might be printed on small sizes on party fliers (1-2 inch)
- the best thing our developer could create was this new logo it fills all our needs (colour, shape, 6 dots...) but we simply don't like it enough for out new website
- vectorial format (as we will need to print it sometimes)
- a cut & paste from another logo (we already tried to take the flickr letters, putting the last "e" in pink)
- a design based on glossy or reflection effect only
- too much details (headphones, cd players,... )
- anything old fashionned...
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Missing toddler Alouette Day-Moreno-Baltierra
Brace yourself: this story will boggle your mind. A 17-month-old California girl who allegedly vanished two months ago was found alive in Kentucky. Wonderful news, right? Yes. Except there's more to this tangled case than meets the eye.
The toddler, Alouette Day-Moreno-Baltierra, is not, as you'd expect, back safely in her mother's arms. Instead, she's with Child Protective Services. Why? Because her mom -- who reported the baby missing in October -- may be involved in her daughter's "disappearance," according to police.
And apparently so is a woman claiming to be her maternal grandmother, Maria Baltierra-Dejesus. Cops found the 62-year-old "suspicious woman" pushing the little girl in her stroller Thursday in a University of Kentucky parking lot. The child was reportedly wearing only light clothing and no shoes, hat, or mittens despite below-freezing weather.
But that's not even the worst of it ...
Alouette was suffering from the first signs of frostbite -- not surprising considering the ridiculous way she was dressed -- but it looks like she's going to be okay. Baltierra-Dejesus, who officers said gave them a fake name at first but eventually told them she was the child's grandmother, acted dodgy about what she was doing with the baby and why she was there.
She had Alouette's birth certificate, but there still seems to be doubt as to whether she is who she claims to be (though the latest reports say cops confirmed that she is the toddler's grandma). Baltierra-Dejesus, who is from New York, has been charged with child endangerment and custodial interference.
You'd think this poor baby's mom Dominique Baltierra would want to protect her daughter -- and maybe, in some twisted way, she does -- but she, too, may be caught up in this bizarre thing somehow. After filing the missing child report in October and saying she didn't know where her daughter and mother were, she tried to retract it a day later. It's not clear why. Was she afraid of her mother (if it is, in fact, her mother) or trying to cover for her? Did she want the child taken away from her because she couldn't handle her? Were the two after ransom money or attention?
Even more strange are details that Baltierra-Dejesus was being supported financially by her family while she was on the run with the baby and tried to flee to France or Holland.
It's anybody's guess right now what the deal is here, but hopefully the investigation will yield some solid answers. And hopefully, authorities will either reunite beautiful little Alouette with one or both of her parents if they aren't involved in her disappearance -- or find a loving home for her, one where she's taken good care of by people who truly want what's best for her.
What do you think is the real story here?
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The Sports Doctor/Common athletic injuries
A large majority of athletes go through the overuse syndrome of injury during their career. Many injuries occur when an individual is fatigued or one's glycogen is depleted. Ten very common athletic injuries are as follows:
Shin Splints: Inflammation of the muscle. The most common areas are the front and inside muscles of the leg, tendon (tendonitis) or bone covering the lower leg (periostis), where the muscle attaches to the bone.
Achilles Tendonitis: An inflammation of the large tendon in the back of the lower leg.
Pronated Flat Feet: This is an inherited foot type, a mechanical weakness that can lead to ankle, knee, hip and lower back pains.
Pain Ball of Feet: Most common location of pain is under the head of the second metatarsal bone behind the second toe area, and under the first metatarsal head (sesamoid or accessory bone area) just behind the bottom surface of the big toe.
Stress Fractures: These can occur elsewhere other than the long bones of the foot.
Ankle Problems: Generalized swelling and sprains are most common.
Knee Problems: The majority of knee problems are due to dynamic imbalances in the foot and weakness in muscles such as the quadriceps muscles.
Heel Spurs: This spur is formed by tissue pulling the bones as the foot pronates (inward rotation).
General Foot Problems: Bunions and hammertoes. Bunions can occur either on the outside of the big toe joint or outside of the little toe joint. Hammertoes, contracted or claw-like toes, usually occur as a result of imbalances of bone structures or muscles making the toe stick up higher than normal.
Dr. Robert Weiss lives in Westport and has a sports-podiatry practice in Darien. He is a former marathon runner and was a member of the Medical Advisory Committee of the 1984 and the 1988 Olympic Trials.


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By Katherine Dillinger, CNN • Published 13th December 2012
When I lived in Austin, Texas, every "Lord of the Rings" movie release was a cause for celebration among a certain group of friends. We saw new releases and DVD versions as soon as we could, a tradition that brought us great joy and hours of entertainment. Now, the first "Hobbit" movie is coming out this weekend, but I live in Atlanta. What's a geek to do?
For this one, the answer is to fly back to Austin for 24 hours to see the movie with my friends at the legendary Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. Thanks to air miles, I'm doing it for about $15.
My decision has earned funny looks and awkward conversational pauses, but I'm excited about my "vacation concentrate": no wasting time with filler, just 24 hours of fun.
"You'd be surprised how long a one- or two-day vacation feels if you really get away and go somewhere different," said Travelocity blogger Courtney Scott. "I went to Milan on a long weekend (three full days) last winter because I found a fantastic flight deal, and I came back renewed and recharged!"
Events like movies or ballgames are often the impetus behind these quick trips. Mary DeVore of Seminole, Florida, traveled to Albany, New York, and Foxborough , Massachusetts, to see Bruce Springsteen in concert. She also took 24 hours to see the Eagles in Foxborough.
Mary Devore of Seminole, Florida, has done quick trips to see the Eagles and Bruce Springsteen in concert.
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"The strange thing is that I am really not a concert junkie or anything," she said. "I just feel that these guys and groups that I grew up listening to are aging and I want to be able to see them live when I can. Hoping the Rolling Stones go on one more tour -- you can bet I will fly somewhere for that!"
Anne Bresler of Novi, Michigan, and her husband took a one-day trip to New York last month to catch the superpopular Broadway show "Book of Mormon."
"We bought the tickets and figured we'd plan the full trip later," she said. "When we got around to getting our flights, we realized that it would be easier to just go in and out in one day."
Not to mention cheaper: "With hotel rooms at $300 to $400 for the holiday season, it was much cheaper to just do one day. We got to go to brunch at our favorite restaurant in the city, explored the Microsoft store in Times Square (my husband is a tech nerd) and then saw the show."
One-day trips aren't all fun and games, though. The smaller travel window means more risk of chaos or outright cancellation if there are any problems.
Ashley Stanley of Melbourne, Florida, got 50-yard-line tickets to a New England Patriots game from her husband one year, but a massive winter storm nearly ended the celebration. Their plane was the only one to make it out of Atlanta, but they arrived too late for the car service to the game.
Stanley says she and her husband made it for the second half "by going the trains, planes and automobiles route and got yelled at by some oaf who had taken our seats for not being a 'real fan' for showing up late. After about eight hours of travel just to get to this game!"
Scott says flexibility is the key to a quick trip. "For example, returning on a Sunday from a weekend getaway will typically cost you more than returning on a Monday or Tuesday."
Stanley offers advice that works for just about every traveler, no matter how long the trip: "I just can't get stressed about it. If we make it, wonderful. If we don't, it's a story. The main thing for me is to persevere with humor, to be nice to everyone who's helping you and realize that it's often out of your control."
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Opinion: Is the U.S. Abandoning Egypt?
Washington Institute for Near East Policy fellow Eric Trager on why cutting U.S. aid to Cairo isn't in our long-term interests. Photos: Getty Images
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... I ... welcome to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel ... this reports Tuesday about the possibility of halting U S aid to Egypt prompting this reply from the White House and I quote ... the report so we are halting all military says the stage of our faults ... we will announce the future of our assistance relationship with Egypt in the coming days ... that is the president made clear it U N J a ... bad assistance relationship will continue as from NSC spokesperson ... Kaitlyn came ... the dot Washington Institute for Near PA near East policy fellow Eric Trager here ... to talk about these conflicting message is Eric what is going on here when your sources telling you ... about the future of US aid to this ... important country in the Middle East ... well it's pretty clear that the operative word in that White House statement is the word all which is to say that not all able because of a substantial portion ... might be a morning hearing is that of all non essential aid which the administration is the finding as a bit StockViews for border security or counterterrorism will be caught as informed emphasize that is in fact the dance majority in a bit will be cut because border security and counterterrorism age tends to be pretty narrow ... but the other part of this story that that's very import of the size to the ministrations really manage this week very very poorly people on the hill don't know exactly what's going on the Egyptian ambassador to defense attache haven't really heard definitively what the administration's policy is ... in a frankly feels like another moment it's the administration is taking action but not really clarifying what it intends for that action Eric you spend a lot of time in Egypt the new and with many of the leaders ... of the Muslim Brotherhood in and other political figures ... what message does that send to them how how they've received ... this kind of waffle in from the White House ... well you know for the Muslim Brotherhood this could be taken as a sign that there is some hope the continuing their de stabilizing protests though quite frankly the Brotherhood is likely to continue protesting anyway ... the real impact that this will have in Egypt is that many Egyptians will look at this ... as the United States effectively abandoning them remember that this past week on Sunday Monday human major violence in Egypt the terrorist attacks in an RPG was fired by cyanide based jihad is in Cairo they made their way to Cairo ... at a satellite dish a wealthy neighborhood so Egyptians are very much on eggs they feel that they are that they're being subject to a new campaign of domestic terrorism and that you have the White House I'll withdrawing its aid from the ocean military who many Egyptians are backing so it's gonna send a very very bad signal to Egyptians about American intentions well if if the United States with Ryan's that aid in its presence in Cairo ... doesn't that give an opening to somebody like Vladimir Putin to come and ... and make a power play for influences ... welcoming the surly the kind of thing that that Egyptian generals like to say they need to do the like to make it is the American is replaceable ... I think that in their cage is replace hole in the long run but they sure are on the sexy given the kind of hard for prudent to step in and replace United States because much of US aid is spent on spare parts for Americans systems and the addition military doesn't want to rush to put in all likelihood is no one tried to salvage its relation United States that requires United States making realistic ... and possible demands ... of the Egyptian military and if the demand is the notation ago she was the party that adjuster move from power that's not a real estate demand ... well it's a very shaky situation really keep a close eye on at ... Washington Institute for near policy fellow Eric Trager ... thank you so much for joining us ... thanks for having me


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Penn State Football Notebook: Zordich Underutilized in Past, Mauti Says
Earlier this week, Matt McGloin was critical of the previous coaching staff for not giving wide receiver Allen Robinson the chance he deserved last season.
Saturday, after Mike Zordich racked up 114 all-purpose yards, senior linebacker Mike Mauti said his roommate was underutilized in his first three seasons.
"To say that would be an understatement," Mauti said. "Watch his high school highlight tape, that's all you can really say because he hasn't gotten many opportunities here in the past four years. He's been up in the coaches' ears for four years, and he just hasn't had an opportunity."
Sam Ficken Kicks Aside Criticism Post-Virginia Debacle
Sam Ficken has put the missed field goals and bungled extra points well behind him.
Facing the media for the first time since missing four field goals in a one-point loss to Virginia on Sept. 8, Ficken said that even if he did receive any death threats, he wasn't paying any attention to the criticism that came his way.
"You kind of roll with the punches I guess," said Ficken, who connected on all three extra points and a 21-yard field goal Saturday against Temple. "I did miss four kicks. I understand fans being pretty upset, but you gotta move forward. You can't really say anything about them being negative about me."
Ficken started kicking late in his high school career and started seeing specialist Todd Van Keppel before his junior year. After the Virginia game, Van Keppel called Ficken and told him he was lifting his head up. It's been Ficken's focus ever since, and he said he had missed only a couple of kicks in the two weeks of practice since the game. He also said the entire field goal operation was not in sync, but "that falls back on me, I gotta make those kicks either way."
John Butler primarily works with Ficken on his technique, including pointing his plant foot at his target, an area O'Brien said needed work. Mac McWhorter, the team's offensive line coach, handles the rest of the field goal unit.
Former kickers such as Kevin Kelly and Robbie Gould, who went through his own tough times at Penn State before becoming one of the best kickers in the NFL, reached out to Ficken to lift his spirits. And, Ficken's gotten a kick out of the student body cheering his makes in warm-ups and in games, no matter the distance.
"It was an extra point and they were acting like it was a 60-yard field goal," Ficken said. "I thought it was kind of funny."
Bill Belton Drops Hint on Twitter that He'll Return at Illinois
Penn State may be getting a much-needed lift at the running back position heading into the Big Ten season.
Bill Belton took to Twitter to issue post-win kudos to his teammates, then hinted that he should finally be over the ankle sprain that sidelined him since Sept. 1.
"Time for Illinois. Guess who's backkkk," tweeted Belton, who rushed for 53 yards on 13 carries against Ohio and caught three passes for 16 yards and a touchdown.
Belton's return would come at a pivotal time. Mike Zordich left the game in the fourth quarter with a bruised left knee. It's not considered a serious injury, and Zordich did not sound concerned after the game.
"I would say he'd probably spit on it and be all right," Penn State coach Bill O'Brien said.
Penn State has survived without its top tailback coming out of preseason practice, and O'Brien said after the game that he would stick with a committee-like system — one that would include Belton — for the immediate future.
Saturday, Zach Zwinak (94 rush yards, 12 receiving yards) made his case to be included in that group.
"We'll have a rotation there and hopefully one of them will get hot," O'Brien said. "And that's what we'll do. But Billy will get back in rotation as soon as he gets healthy."
O'Brien: 'We Took a Step Back' with Penalties
Penn State had nine penalties for 100 yards Saturday, the most penalty yardage since it had 100 yards against Louisiana Tech on Sept. 9, 2000.
One penalty that stood out was a holding call that negated an Alex Kenney catch-and-run in the first quarter of a scoreless game that would've put Penn State within the Temple 5.
"I was disappointed in that on our end," O'Brien said. "We have got to do a better job on that. We had lineman penalties, holding calls and offensive pass interference."
Howle Returns
Ty Howle returned to the field after he suffered a torn pectoral muscle early in the summer.
Howle started the second offensive series at left guard and was the snapper for extra points and field goals.
Injury Notes:
Defensive end Sean Stanley did not play because of back spasms, he said after the game. Stanley was held out for precautionary reasons so that he can play in next week's Big Ten opener at Illinois (noon kick).
Joining Stanley on the sideline were running backs Belton (ankle) Curtis Dukes (thigh) and Derek Day (shoulder), left tackle Donovan Smith (ankle), linebacker Nyeem Wartman (knee) and defensive end Pete Massaro (knee, shoulder)
Nate Mink covers Penn State football and news for StateCollege.com. He's on Twitter as @MinkNate.
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The City of Costa Mesa will show its pride for Olympians who hail from its town.
A banner for Olympians Misty-May Treanor, April Ross and Sharon Day will be on display near City Hall during the Olympics, which begin Friday.
"Costa Mesa is proud of Sharon Day, April Ross,Misty May-Treanor," are the words at the top of the banner. At the bottom, it reads "Bring home the Gold."
Photos of each athlete are placed within three of the five Olympic rings.
A British flag is colored in the middle with "London 2012" on it.
Day, the former Costa Mesa High standout, will compete in the heptathlon. Day was living and training in San Luis Obispo before leaving for London, but her background and childhood were based in Costa Mesa, where her family continues to live.
May-Treanor and Ross, both competing in women's beach volleyball with different partners, grew up in Costa Mesa and starred at Newport Harbor High. May-Treanor, seeking her third straight gold medal with partner Kerri Walsh, recently resided in Long Beach. Her father, Butch, a former Olympian, still lives in Costa Mesa.
Ross, who plays with Jennifer Kessy, resides in Costa Mesa.
"Costa Mesa takes tremendous pride in its hometown athletes, and this is especially true during the Olympics when the eyes of the world are on them," said Tom Hatch, the city's CEO.
One of the most helpful websites for schedules of sports and events at the Olympics can be found at http://www.nbcolympics.com.
Also a great way to follow the local Olympic athletes is on Twitter. Day, Ross and May-Treanor have Twitter accounts.
Charlie Buckingham, a former Newport Harbor High sailing standout, is not competing at the Olympics, but he is involved as a coach in London.
Buckingham, who starred at Georgetown University, is also on Twitter and he has a blog at charliebuckingham.com.
One of his more recent posts was titled, "Switching sides …" It details his position as coach for Lasers sailor Cy Thompson from the Virgin Islands.
Buckingham and Thompson had been training together prior to the Olympics and Buckingham stayed on as his coach as they went to London.
Buckingham's time as a sailor in the Olympics will most likely come in 2016 in Brazil.
USC senior star quarterback Matt Barkley (Newport Beach), the Trojans' first three-time captain, is expected to be a Heisman Trophy candidate in his final season. Barkley and the Trojans are ready with a hi-tech campaign.
A mobile application called "Project Tro7an," will be available to download for fans and media starting in mid-August, as reported by Chris Hutson of cbssports.com. The app will be free for Android or iPhone users and will allow media and postseason awards voters to follow Barkley, as well as other Trojans honors candidates by providing statistics, biographical information and highlight videos.
"It's the 21st century. It's 2012," Barkley told Hutson. "Everyone has a smart phone or mobile device. Instead of a blog or website, we wanted to put everything at people's fingertips."
Barkley had input into formatting the app, as did two teammates.
The Mendes Bros. Art of Jiu Jitsu Academy in Costa Mesa presents, "Jiu Jitsu Family Day," on Saturday.
There will be a free anti-bully class 9-10 a.m. and a free women's self-defense session from 10 to 11 a.m.
Afterward there will be an introduction to the De La Riva Guard, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., that will cost $60.
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SAN JOSE — Sharks forward Tomas Hertl, out since mid-December with ligament damage in his right knee, has received medical clearance from doctors and will play in Friday's game against the Colorado Avalanche.
Hertl skated on the third line with James Sheppard and Tommy Wingels on Friday morning, and couldn't hide his excitement as he prepared to play his first NHL game in four months.
"I'm very happy, before playoff. I hope it's all good, knee is OK," Hertl said. "I hope I'm ready to play and ready to play in the playoff."
Sharks coach Todd McLellan said he will be conservative in how he plays Hertl as he gauges his conditioning and his timing on the ice.
"I'd like in this situation tonight to play four lines, just to roll them and make sure everybody gets an opportunity to play." McLellan said. "I'd like Tomas to experience all of the moments that he might regularly experience, whether that's a little bit of time on the power play if we happen to get a power play.
"Again, it's going to be a shift-by-shift analysis and see how he feels."
Hertl has not played since Dec. 19 in a knee-on-knee collision with Los Angeles Kings captain Dustin Brown. Hertl had surgery Dec. 31 to repair his right posterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments, but has made steady progress in recent weeks as he skated with the team in practice.
Before the injury, Hertl was skating regularly on a line with captain Joe Thornton and Brent Burns. He was considered a Calder Trophy candidate for Rookie of the Year with 25 points in 35 games, and may have played for the Czech Republic at the Sochi Olympics.
"It's a great story. A lot of guys probably would have been done for the entire postseason. But Tomas worked extremely hard, he's a great kid," Thornton said. "I think all of the guys in here are very, very happy to see him back. We're really pulling for him to have a good postseason."
It wasn't lost on Hertl that the Sharks' first-round series will be against the Kings.
"It's funny because my last game was L.A. and first game (with) L.A. is very close," Hertl said. "I hope first round is win. I don't need to score. I want to just play in the first round. Now it's important."
Getting Hertl back provides a huge boost to the Sharks as they attempt to play with some consistency before the start of the playoffs. San Jose is 3-4-2 since March 22.
McLellan said Marc-Edouard Vlasic will not play Friday against Colorado. Alex Stalock will start for the Sharks in net.
For more on the Sharks, see the Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks. Follow Curtis Pashelka on Twitter at twitter.com/CurtisPashelka.


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Kate McCann (Ambassador for Missing People) and Gerry McCann (Professor of Cardiology at Leicester University) both of Rothley, Leicestershire, have committed some of the worst crimes against a child in recent British history - and the UK Government and Police are letting them get away with it.
FACT: The Portuguese Supreme Court have deemed them NOT INNOCENT in the death of their child, Madeleine Beth McCann, and of concealing her corpse and faking her abduction. Kate and Gerry McCann KNOW that Madeleine is dead. They have NEVER searched for her, and the money they have taken from kind-hearted members of the public for pretending to search for her is FRAUDULENT. The Fund is FRAUDULENT.
FACT: Kate and Gerry McCann never co-operated with the Portuguese Police investigation. Kate refused to answer police questions. They, and their friends, refused to take part in an official reconstruction of the night they pretended Madeleine was abducted.
FACT: British sniffer dogs alerted to places and items concerned with the McCanns - and importantly to no other places or items. The alerts allow a short and tragic story to be told. Behind the sofa, on Kate's trousers, on cuddlecat, to a shelf in the parents' bedroom, where a blue tennis bag had been photographed, then in the boot of the car, and on the key fob. The sequence is not difficult to follow!
FACT: The Last Photo was not taken on Thursday 3rd May as the McCann's claim.
FACT: Kate and Gerry McCann accepted public donations that was intended to search for Madeleine but, instead, used it on legal fees for suing people who do not believe them. They took legal action against former Portuguese Police Inspector, Gonçalo Amaral, for eight years, forcing him to get divorced so they could seize his assets, breaking up his family of young children, making him homeless - legal action they ultimately LOST.
FACT: They have used YOUR money for paying their own mortgage.
FACT: Kate and Gerry McCann have lied to the POLICE in both countries, changed their fabricated stories in statements, have misled the UK media by planting false stories via their government-appointed spokesman, CLARENCE MITCHELL.
FACT: Kate and Gerry McCann are NOT INNOCENT of covering up the death of their own child in order to avoid an autopsy on Madeleine's body. Therefore, they are GUILTY of perverting the course of justice.
FACT: The UK government and Police are allowing this to happen by interfering in the Portuguese Police investigation.
Links: Dr Gerry McCann and Dr David Payne suspected of paedophilia http://thegaspersstatement.blogspot.co.uk/
A report by Chief Inspector Tavares de Almeida to the Coordinator of the Criminal Investigation http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/TAVARES_ALMEIDA.htm
Retired Police Superintendent, PeterMac's FREE e-book: 'What really happened to Madeleine McCann?'
Now, for the sake of justice for Madeleine Beth McCann, aged three, ask yourselves WHY this is being allowed to happen.
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Devin C. Maddox has been promoted to partner at Tressler LLP. She concentrates her litigation practice in the areas of insurance coverage and employment law. She serves as national coverage counsel to her insurer clients, representing them in complex coverage disputes involving directors and officers, professional and commercial liability. She analyzes insurance contracts, underwriting intent and case law to proactively advise her clients on minimizing exposure and risk of litigation. She also provides counseling and litigation services to clients involving all aspects of employment, ranging from breach of contract to discrimination claims. Maddox earned her Bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her law degree from The John Marshall Law School. She joined Tressler as an associate in 2004.
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(Reuters) - The Cleveland Indians claimed an American League wild card berth, while the Tampa Bay Rays and Texas Rangers extended the season for one more game by finishing in a tie for the league's second wild card spot on Sunday.
Cleveland capped a 10-game, season-ending winning streak with a 5-1 victory over the Minnesota Twins that gave them a 92-70 record and ensured they would host the AL wild card playoff game on Wednesday.
"Think I'm kind of speechless right now," said Indians first baseman Nick Swisher, who got Cleveland started with a two-run homer in the first inning.
"From 94 losses to 92 wins," he added about the team's turnaround from a 68-94 mark in 2012. "I'm so proud to be part of this."
Their opponent was still undecided as Sunday wins by the Rays and Rangers kept them deadlocked with 91-71 records and set up a do-or-die tiebreaker in Texas on Monday.
Tampa Bay scored six runs in the first inning and then held on to defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-6, while the Rangers snapped a 2-2 tie in the sixth on their way to beating the Los Angeles Angels 6-2.
Texas, which rebounded from a 5-15 September swoon by finishing with seven straight wins, was expected to start rookie left-hander Martin Perez against Tampa Bay's 2012 Cy Young winner David Price.
The Rays have been knocked out of the playoffs in their last two postseason appearances by the Rangers.
"We have something to prove in Texas," slugging third baseman Evan Longoria said.
The winner of Monday's Rays-Rangers duel will advance to Wednesday's one-game, wild card playoff in Cleveland to determine the fourth team for the American League Division Series, which will start on Friday. The Boston Red Sox, Oakland A's and Detroit Tigers are already in as division winners.
In the National League, the Pittsburgh Pirates (94-68) will host the Cincinnati Reds (90-72) at PNC Park on Tuesday in their wild card contest after completing a three-game sweep of their final regular season series in Cincinnati.
The best-of-five NL Division Series, which features division champions Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers, will begin on Thursday.
The East champions Boston Red Sox closed the season at 97-65 for the best mark in the American League and will have home field advantage throughout the playoffs. They will host the wild card entry in the Division Series.
West winners Oakland (96-66) will host the 2012 American League pennant winning Tigers (93-69) in a rematch of last year's first round, which was claimed in five games by Central Division champions Detroit.
The St. Louis Cardinals clinched home-field in the National League after blanking the Chicago Cubs 4-0 for their sixth win in a row to improve to 97-65 and will host the wild card entry.
West champions Los Angeles Dodgers (92-70) will travel to Atlanta to meet the East Division-winning Braves (96-66) in the other Division Series match-up.
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lucidinthe sky wrote:Do you believe in a multiverse?
The answer is simple: In exactly one half of the existing universes I believe, in the other half, I don't.
But seriously, how do we even know that the universe we experience exists? We think that everything we experience with our 5 senses is absolute, but our universe must be created by our brains. To a worm, the inside of an apple is the universe.
I dont think anyone thinks our experiences are absolute, but I think the universe does exist because if it didnt, we wouldnt be able to experience it would we? I dont think the actual universe is created by our brains, but the experience of it is, thats becoming pretty much general knowledge now.


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Please post any ideas you have about OpenWetWare software development here.
Features and priorities
This is the list of prioritized features that came out of the 3-8-06 meeting. They're listed in the order in which George is going to be working on them. Also included are the folks George needs to talk to in order to nail down exactly how the feature is going to work.
Priority 1
- Bulk image upload (Austin)
- Better support for "scientific" markup ie formulae etc (?)
- Easier user account creation (Sri, Jason)
- Ability to make categories invisible (?)
- "Cite this page" support
- Austin 14:45, 2 May 2006 (EDT): I've installed http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cite/SpecialCite.php now that we're running MW 1.6. Each page in the toolbox now has a cite this page link (actually only pages in the main namespace).
- Improvements to current support for turning wiki pages into static pages (Austin)
Priority 2
- User-defined sidebar
Priority 3
- More data conversion tools
- Semantic Mediawiki integration
- Support for tagging
- Using "tags" (similar to sites such as delicious or flikr) so end-users could help categorize protocols with minimal effort. This idea was suggested by Ishan.
Proposed implementation
In thinking about this issue some more, I think Austin might be right. We may want to initially try to use Categories as tags and see how that works. It seems like the easiest thing to do as it requires no new functionality in MediaWiki. It seems that the easiest way to enforce this is to only have a single layer of categories and no subcategories. We could also avoid tags like E. coli protocol. For example, the page Preparing electrocompetent cells would get tagged with Category:Escherichia coli and Category:Protocol so that it would fall under both categories. This would enable users to collect together pages in different groupings. Someone viewing the category Escherichia coli would see equipment pages, protocol pages, material pages, and information pages. I think for our purposes, this might be a more useful application of categories. This would also have the advantage that some pages whose categorization is ambiguous could be labelled with multiple tags. For example, Miniprep could be tagged with Category:DNA and Category:Escherichia coli and Category:Protocol.
Some useful categories off the top of my head (please edit)
- OpenWetWare
- for community related pages
- Protocol
- Equipment
- Material
- In vivo
- In vitro
- In silico
- Protein
- Escherichia coli
- and one for every other species
- Reference
- For information resources like listings of online tools and the genotypes pages.
- Mimulus
- and one for every research area (like Synthetic Biology)
- Course
- to indicate class-related pages
- to indicate pages related to a certain course
- note that BE.109 should not be a subcategory of course because there might be pages that are useful for BE.109 and thus tagged as BE.109 that are not actually true Course pages.
- Organization
- to indicate pages that are maintained by a certain organization
- and one for every other institution
- Wittrup
- and one for every other lab
- Microfluidics
- Flow cytometry
- Microscopy
- Measurement
- would something like this be useful for collating measurement methodologies? I'm not sure
- Safety
- Quality/data management categories (to dynamically generate to-do lists)
- Needs attention
- Needs formatting
- Needs content
- Needs categorization
- Great page
Later, if this scheme proves useful and maintainable, we could consider trying to customizing the mediawiki software further by renaming Categories to Tags.
Such an approach may also help the generation of tailored Special:Recentchanges pages.
I really like this idea, though I am concerned about the implementation and usefulness to the user. Just for clarification I'm going to call what you've descibed above "categories" and make a distinction between that and "tags." In tagging a user has a set of labels that are specific to them, so they can create a categorization scheme that is most useful to them personally. For instance, I may want to tag only the e.coli protocols I actualy use as "E.Coli" and then I can click on that tag and bring up my personal list of favorite e.coli protocols. just to be clear, this is different from categorizing in that I only bring up things I have labeled, not every protocol categorized as "E.Coli". The reason I like this better is that I think it will be more useful to the user, and as a result, the user will be more inclined to bother categorizing things (in other words, I think it scales better).
OK, so tags may be more useful to the user, but what about generating protocol pages for the larger community to browse through? Its clear how the categories scheme allows dynamic generation of protocols pages, i.e. if Category = E.Coli and Category = Protocol then include a link in the E.coli protocols page. Well, tags enable something similar (and perhaps better), they can aggregate all the tags associated with a page and look at the most popular tag and assign the page under that label on the main protocols page. Or more complicated things like creating heirarchical categories simply by clustering the tags on pages, see Flikr's biology clusters as an example. The big downside to using tags in my opinion is that it will require some serious changes to the software to implement them in a way that is convenient for the user. --JK
Also, it's worth noting that since each article has its own URL, we could do this in the framework of existing tagging sites such as del.icio.us -- could at least be a way to easily explore if this whole thing is useful anyway.
There has been a some discussion about implementing tags for wikipedia, so maybe we could get some development help?
- I like the tag idea a lot but until we find a nice way of implementing it within OWW, I think the usefulness of categories merits implementing them.--BC 17:49, 22 February 2006 (EST)
Semantic MediaWiki extension seems to accomplish a lot of this:
--Ilya 13:31, 26 April 2006 (EDT)
- Discussion boards similar to these found on the Fluwiki site. Actually, there are a number of cool things on the Fluwiki site that might be worth implementing:
- Better RSS feeds
- Easily changeable site viewing options.
- Multiple image upload (or upload of a directory of images).
- This would be very desirable. There are some posts on the mediawiki message boards saying that this is on the list of things to do so maybe this could be done in collaboration with the mediawiki community?
- Tailored Special:Recentchanges viewing so that you could look at all the recent changes associated with a particular namespace like BE.109 or Synthetic Biology or the Mimulus Community. It helps new users track those changes that they care about more easily.
- Ilya 01:06, 2 May 2006 (EDT): WikiMedia announced software development ideas for the Google Summer of Code 2006.
- Bookmarklets --Ilya 16:00, 5 February 2007 (EST) (via John)
- Wildcard search --Ilya 13:26, 6 February 2007 (EST) (via John)


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Weapon summoning clarity pls
Allo, this is a question for anyone who plays pls, we just started a PL 6 campaign and this is our 1st try at the game. With regards to the weapon summoning ability in the ultimate powers book, there are 3 examples of how to "make" different ranged attacks with different effects, grenades,a ranged,stun,sleep effect, and an armour-piercing submachine gun. Now i understand the array and how it works, i'm just not sure how many points i can put into each different gun effect, i know i get 1 type, then pay alternate power feats for more gun/ranged effects, but the point cost for each i can make is what i don't understand, like can i make a poisoned,homing sniper rifle, a vampiric,incurable katana, it's the cost of the feats and the item i don't understand, if this makes no sense, i will try to re-write the post, but pls someone respond, ty
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Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins to Play Iggy Pop in CBGB Movie
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins will portray punk legend Iggy Pop in the upcoming film based on the legendary New York club CBGB. Actors have also been cast to play Patti Smith, Dee Dee Ramone and Richard Hell.
The Hollywood Reporter says Hawkins will play the part of Iggy Pop in his prime, but no word yet on how significant his role will be. This will be the stickman's first big movie role, as he's only been involved in Foo Fighters videos and their documentary, 'Back and Forth.'
Other actors involved in the project include 'The Borgias' actress Mickey Sumner as Patti Smith and 'The Big Bang Theory' star Johnny Galecki, who will give his take on manager Terry Ork. Steven Schub will portray Dee Dee Ramone and join Joel David Moore and Julian Acosta, who are playing Joey and Johnny Ramone, and Evan Alex Cole ('She's Out of My League' and 'As the World Turns') has been cast as punk style icon Richard Hell. Alan Rickman will star as Hilly Kristal, the owner of CBGB.
Production on the film will begin on June 25 in Savannah, Ga., with some shooting to take place in New York shortly after. Lisa Kristal Burgman, daughter of Hilly Kristal (and the one who controls her late father's estate), will serve as co-producer of the film, despite protests from her brother Dana.
CBGB was a rock venue institution in Manhattan that got its start hosting country, bluegrass and blues artists. That soon turned to new wave and punk acts when it became tough for Kristal to book the original types of groups he intended to bring in. Bands like the Ramones, the Misfits, the Patti Smith Group, Blondie, the Talking Heads and more have played in the legendary venue. CBGB closed in 2006 after a legal dispute with Kristal's landlords. The owner died a year later from lung cancer.


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Courtesy of Dave Meltzer at Wrestle Observer/Figure Four Online
Both companies will be run as separate organizations. Zuffa has purchased the ownership of the company from Scott Coker, Silicon Valley Sports & Entertainment (parent company of the HP Pavilion and San Jose Sharks) but Coker will remain in charge and be given a budget to run the organization. All contracts with Strikeforce remain in tact. All shows on the books will take place. No change in schedule as they will remain on Showtime.
Of course there is an inevtability about this, and if you've followed Zuffa/Pride, UFC/WEC and all the other pro wrestling stories throughout history like this, they all end the same way, as will this, althouigh due to existing contracts, it may take years to happen.
No interpromotional matches. UFC fighters only fighting in UFC. Strikeforce fighters only fighting in Strikeforce. However, when Strikeforce contracts expire, if UFC wants certain fighters, they would likely be in UFC. Strikeforce could also be a place to put fighters who the company thinks has potential but are better off not in UFC this early in their career (a perfect example of this would be a Matt Riddle type if this deal was in place when he got started).
White probably won't be at the Strikeforce events, but other UFC officials likely would be. UFC will be making some tweaks in the Strikeforce business but overall it's a business as usual attitude.
UFC will promote Strikeforce shows on its television and PPVs.
Strikeforce will continue to promote women's fights as long as the contracts for fighters are there. Whether that remains long-term, who knows. White said he still doesn't believe there is enough depth of talent to have women's divisions.
Zuffa now has acquired the Strikeforce tape library, which would also include the Elite XC tape library.
UFC can now promote at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, even though that will be remain the home base for Strikeforce.
The up side from a business standpoint is with Sengoku and Dream going down, Zuffa pretty much controls the major league aspect of the sport and fighters have far less negotiating leverage when it comes to deals. They can control fighter contracts efficiently as well as control the direction of the sport adding Showtime, and perhaps, CBS, to deals under their umbrella. It gives them more events to showcase more fighters, which has both good and bad aspects to it.
A negative is that Zuffa will now be promoting Strikeforce, meaning the fighters in that organization should get more visibility. That sounds good, and it is, but it also means instead of seven world champions, we now have 14, and that also is two different champions in five different classes. There will be an inevitable public demand for fights, and they would eventually happen when contracts expire if the public wants them bad enough, but the one thing UFC has been great about is not diluting the value of its championships. Boxing has killed the value of its titles, as has wrestling. With 14 world champions, time will tell if this becomes a negative.


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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — I flew to the Dominican Republic Wednesday to follow Food for the Poor and the inauguration of the philanthropic group's 20-pond tilapia farm in Puerto Plato.
After checking into our hotel, we were whisked off for a quick meal and I settled into my room to begin writing my first blog entry about the trip. However, this proved to be too optimistic. A technological snafu with the Internet connection caused a delay and I eventually wrote this post after 1 a.m. using the hotel's computer.
I think we'll get it straight in time to bring word from a local bishop and the prospect of feeding the poor and creating industry for a region that has been plagued with great poverty.
So, I'll keep you posted, provided that we have a good link …


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by Pete Mazzaccaro
Editors of newspapers and websites everywhere probably hear the question more than any other: "How could you publish that?"
As a general rule, it's the first volley by an angry reader who has been mortally offended by something he or she has just read. Often the offending piece is a letter or an opinion. And almost always, defending publication of the piece to someone who has been offended by it is really tough if not impossible.
These discussions quickly become faith-based. Both the reader and the editor believe in their conclusions – the reader in having the right to be offended and the editor in having the right to publish the offending piece – and are not easily going to back down.
I recently found myself in just this situation. The particulars are not as important as the general issue. A reader was incensed by statements made in an opinion piece. The writer's conclusions were wrong. The writer wasn't making logical sense. The whole piece was just a big lie. I should never have published the piece, the reader said. In fact I should retract the whole thing.
Now it's probably worth mentioning something that I think many readers don't understand. When an editor publishes a piece, it does not mean the editor agrees with its contents (Fox News and Al Gore's network excepted). It means only that the editor finds the arguments within compelling and/or timely.
Editor's want debate in the pages. Strong opinion and debate is what keeps an opinion page lively. If readers are not driven to respond, you'll quickly have an opinion page that's as lifeless as computer manual.
Because of that, I regularly run opinions I don't agree with. I run opinions that I think are are hyperbolic. I run opinions that I think are loony. But they are opinions. Which brings me to my next point. Opinions writers should not misstate facts, but they are allowed to draw their own conclusions no matter how wrong those conclusions appear to be.
This is where defending the offending opinion can get tricky. How do you explain the fine points of opinion to a reader who was so maddened by the piece that it compelled him to burn all his copies of your publication in his backyard?
That reader isn't interested in the fact that you want to keep your opinion page lively. He wants an explanation as to how such falsehoods could appear in print. He will quickly point out D. Patrick Moynihan's axiom on opinions: "You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts."
And this is true. There is such a thing as a wrong opinion. You can't, for example, believe that the world is flat and be right at the same time. But those sorts of statements aren't generally the kind that offend.
What often offends people, what readers take exception to time and again, are statements of opinion that express causal relationships with which the reader simply doesn't agree. We see this in politics all the time, where there are two views and those who hold one particular view believe those who don't aren't just "of a different opinion" but dead wrong.
There are those who believe the Constitution protects gay marriage. And there are those who don't. By printing those last 16 words, I'm sure I'll provoke response by advocates of either side.
The thing is this: There is definitely subjective truth. And there are definitely people who will purposefully bend and ignore subjective truth to work an agenda. But I think we're often wrong if we jump to the conclusion that opinions we don't agree with are purposefully doing just that. I think we've all become so skeptical that it is the first conclusion we come to.
I, for one, am pretty sure I disagree with nearly everything Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum says. But I think he really believes what he says. He's drawn conclusions from experience and facts that are in direct opposition with the conclusions I've drawn from some of the same things.
Yes, debate and argument can be exhausting. And it's not fun to read things you don't agree with. Happens to me every day. Yet having these debates are important. Reading opinions we don't agree with is important. Progress is built by arguing about these things until we do finally begin to agree on things that we allbeleive are true, like: Women should be allowed to vote and work (right Rick?).
So I am sorry I if offend from time to time with opinions published here in the Local. But offending you is not my intention. Only by debating these things in the open can we get anywhere at all. That is exactly what a paper, or any other forum anywhere, should be doing. Anything else just isn't worth it.


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As we reported earlier, Apple has announced that sometime today we will finally see the much anticipated iOS 4.2 update for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad and what's more -- Apple TV should be getting 4.2 today as well.
What everyone is anticipating is the use of AirPlay, which was probably a big selling point for most buyers of the new Apple TV. Now any iOS 4.2 equipped device will be able to send videos, audio, and photos to their big TV screen.
VoiceOver is also making its way to Apple TV with this update and can be turned on in the accessibility menu. This new feature will read menu items to users and can also read information like episode/movie descriptions to users as well.
Keep an eye out for Apple TV 4.2 today while you are anxiously awaiting iOS 4.2 for your other devices. Let us know when you see it and how AirPlay and VoiceOver are working out for you in the comments section below. And if you need help or just want to chat, head on over to our Apple TV Forum!
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Kimowen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 158 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
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women who want funky, personal jewelry, and women who want unique & upscale photo sessions where we will create works of art they treasure forever.
5 petal daisy, no clip art. we need to use the logo also as a watermark on photographs. and we need to build on the logo to make jewelry displays... in other words, we will design actual metal displays that hold the jewelry based on the logo. i uploaded a few pics of jewelry so you can get an idea of our designs, and i uploaded a hand made logo that replaces the o in creations with a 5 petaled flower. you can see the font we love, so give us something similar but better!
logo needs to contain the words: k.rae creations and k.rae creations photography (which also needs to be used as a watermark)
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The rules:
- No advertising
- No politics
- No religion
- No personal attack
Do you think they are fair or unfair? :)
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Do you agree with the Off topic rules?
Here is where you discuss everything under the sun, just keep it clean.
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Do you agree with the Off topic rules?
The rules:
- No advertising
- No politics
- No religion
- No personal attack
Do you think they are fair or unfair? :)
Last edited by JCOAdmin on Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re:Do you agree with the Off topic rules?
The only one I agree with is the No personal attack one.

Re: Re:Do you agree with the Off topic rules?
the only one I agree with is cotton :-P.
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Hmmm, I'm not sure fair is the right word.
How about realistic.
Agree with No Advertising, I agree that this is not a proselyting site, but are you saying "No bashing specific religions or God"? I'm unclear on the religion one.
Absolutely agree with NO personal attack, but we should be able to agree or disagree.
I believe we should say:
"JUST KEEP IT CIVILIZED" that covers a very large range.

re:FAIR VS UNFAIR
But the problem is that there are some people who post who can't seem to keep it civilized. Discussions quickly degenerate into name-calling and general flame wars. Its happened so many times now that I don't even bother opening many of the threads anymore.

I think what they mean is that they don't want to talk about anything that has to do with religion or God whether it is bashing or not.

Re: RE:FAIR VS UNFAIR
I agree with the no personal attack: name-calling, hostility, derogatory comments, or just plain mean-spiritedness. Such comments are uncalled for and inappropriate both to the one who has left the comment and to the source of the personal attack.
I DO believe in positive constructive criticism though. For example: you should rethink that, did you really mean that, or I disagree. I did realize that one of my past posts was so silly after I got comments that said that. I took the post off (it was beyond silly, and kinda embarrassing.)

Edited by: Cheryl Anna at: 6/23/04 8:46 pm

Set up a Jesussheep and Twiggy Board
Hi, I think they deserve a board to themselves. Then, if I go on I know what to expect. But maybe I exaggerate... they seem to agree with each other on censorship.

I have no problem with religion and politics, so long as they aren't on the Jim boards. I do believe advertising is a no-no . I also believe personal attacks should be limited to witty and constructive commentary...like my own of course.

You can say no personal attacks but you dont edit the words of Jesus Christ. You dont try to stop us who love him from talking about it! The wrath of God will pull on you if you do so!

Re: no
I actually think they're fair. I don't like talking about Politics or religion as I think there's a time and place for that. So I've stayed away from this forum, thinking that's all there would be. But now that I see the rules, I feel more comfortable in coming into this forum.

Re:Do you agree with the Off topic rules?
Only 6 Votes?!?!

There are more than 6 people that come on this board. Come on people vote!

Re: Re:Do you agree with the Off topic rules?
I think having rules for an off topic forum is stupid. I knew this was coming and I think they did too. so why stop it?

but then again, I hate rules. rules suck. so my opinion shouldn't really count.

Our lord
I could care less about talking about Politics. But you dont tell me to shut up. you also dont tell jesus christ to shut up. keep in mind that relegion is a big part of everyones life. And anyone who does not believe in god is an idiot( The bible even says so)

Re: Our lord
I've read many of your posts and now I gotta say something. It's alarming to me how intolerant you are. Your intolerance and your attitude is dangerous. You don't seem to have gotten the sense and heart of the bible. It's definitely not knowing it by heart and taking everything it says literally. This is wrong. I studied religion and I know that things said in the bible CAN'T be taken literally because of historical reasons. If you got the bible right, you wouldn't be so intolerant. Your thinking is not what God wants. And please don't try to convert everyone here. That's a behaviour of sects. Accept that people can be happy and good when they don't believe in God. Not in everyone's life God is so allover as in yours and that's good. And please don't answer this post by telling me what the bible says...
"Whatever makes you feel good when you sit down and do it,
is what you should be chasing in your life." - Jim Carrey

Re: Our lord
NADINE! YOU'RE BACK! email me! I want to talk to you! also, I agree with you on everything you said. Well said!

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thanks!

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Higher Education Achievement Report
HEAR - Higher Education Achievement Report
Accessing your HEAR
The HEAR provides a single electronic source of information recording your achievement. It details activities beyond the traditional transcript or degree result. It can be accessed by students whilst studying on the degree programme or after completion and graduation
The HEAR applies to UCL undergraduate students who enrolled for the first time in the 2011-2012 academic session and thereafter. Students who enrolled on their degree prior to September 2011 should continue to use the Transcripts system. Please refer to the Who will receive a HEAR?' section below for further details.
UCL was established in 1826 in order to open up education in England for the first time to students of any race, class or religion. UCL is a world-class, research-led, multi-faculty university, consciously and deliberately global and wide-ranging in its reach and ambition. Student achievements are evidence of engagement with one of the most prominent issues of our time: citizenship.
A Higher Education Achievement Report, (HEAR), sets out what an undergraduate student has achieved during their period of enrolment at UCL in a verified format. It incorporates the traditional transcript but also acknowledges achievements a student has made. It is available in an electronic format only.
The purpose of the HEAR is to provide more information about individual student achievement and is intended to help students' potential employers, other Universities or any other third party authorised by the student, to gain more insight into programmes of study, modules passed and other verified activity individual students have achieved. Although students are not obliged to share any of the information, it is envisaged that the HEAR will enhance employability or further education opportunities because it provides more verified information about them.
The HEAR is a national requirement. It includes the model developed by the
European Commission, Council of Europe and UNESCO/CEPES for a diploma supplement. The HEAR provides a description of the
nature, level and context of a programme. As well as verifying academic results
it also records non-degree related achievements that have been verified by
UCL. These include:
- being an officer of a Club or Society
- voluntary activity that has been recognised by the Voluntary Services Unit as being significant enough for inclusion in a HEAR.
- completed Language Centre modules that do not form part of a student's degree programme.
Details about non-degree activities that are eligible for inclusion on a HEAR are set out in the section entitled Non-degree related student achievements.
UCL participated in a national steering group managed by the Centre for Recording Achievement and agreed to participate in the first tranche of institutions providing HEARs from the 2011-12 academic session onwards. All other higher education institutions that did not participate in the pilot are expected to provide HEARs from the 2012-2013 academic session.
Who is eligible?
All undergraduate students who enrolled for the first time in the 2011-2012 academic session or thereafter will be eligible to receive a HEAR with the exception of students registered on the following programmes:
- Intercalated degrees
- Affiliate programmes
- School of Pharmacy programme Certificate in Medicines Management for Pharmacy Technicians programme
Students who enrolled for the first time in 2012-2013 or
thereafter on undergraduate School of Pharmacy programmes (with the exception
of Cert Medicines Management for Pharmacy Technicians) are eligible to receive
a HEAR.
Students who enrolled for the first time in 2015-2016 on undergraduate Institute of Education programmes are eligible to receive the HEAR.
All undergraduate students who first registered before the 2011-2012 and postgraduate students will continue to receive a paper transcript with their degree certificates. Affiliate students will continue to receive a transcript from the Examinations Office.
Format of a HEAR
The HEAR is a national requirement and the layout and format has been prescribed at a national level by the HEAR National Steering Group. This layout and format has been copyrighted. It is to be provided as an electronic document. The service UCL are using to provide students with a HEAR is Gradintel, part of the Tribal Group and the suppliers of UCL's student information system (Portico).
The overarching format and data fields of UCL's HEAR transcripts have been agreed by UCL's Education Committee and are non-editable. The inclusion of most of the non-degree related achievements can be controlled by students. Further details about this are provided in the section entitled Non-degree related student achievements
Access to the HEAR
Students who are eligible to receive a HEAR will access them via Gradintel's website. HEARs are provided in electronic format and cannot be printed by students.
Access and use of Gradintel services is free for students. Students who wish to share their HEAR with third parties such as prospective employers, other higher education institutions or any other third party can do so by issuing them with a secure token. Third parties, who have a token issued by students, may view the verified HEAR and print a copy, but it should be noted that the printed version is no longer a verified record by UCL.
UCL has no access to any information posted by individual students to the Gradintel website.
UCL will publish interim HEARs on Gradintel's site twice a year in August and October. In both cases, publication relates to the previous academic session. Students will be made aware that HEARs are available by the Examinations Section, Registry and Academic Services.
HEARs will record academic achievements (results) and verified non-degree achievements. Each publication will overwrite any previously published HEAR. When a student leaves UCL upon graduation, or for any other reason, a final version will be published.
On an exceptional basis UCL will provide a paper copy of a HEAR transcript. Certified printed copies of the HEAR are available upon request.
Gradintel provides other services and students who are currently not eligible for a HEAR can register
directly with Gradintel. These services are also free for students. However UCL
will not be uploading academic and non-degree related achievements for these
Non-degree related student achievements
The following activities have been approved for inclusion on HEAR transcripts by the Programme and Module Approval Steering Group on behalf of the Education Committee:
|Verified by:
UCLU Colours
UCLU Officers of Clubs and Societies
Officers of Departmental/Divisional Clubs and Societies
Voluntary activities verified as significant by the Voluntary Services Unit
Voluntary activities verified as significant by Museums and Collections
|Student Reviewer for Internal Quality Review
Student Ambassadors/Mentors
Other Activities verified as significant by Outreach
Activities verified as significant by the Careers Service
Completed Language Centre courses not undertaken as part of a degree programme
Departmental/Divisional Prizes
|Deans List and Academic Medals
Scholarships received for merit and for merit and need
Global Citizenship
Global Citizenship
Email Global Citizenship
UCL Advances
|UCL Advances
By default all recognised achievements that have been verified by UCL will be published on the HEAR.
With the exception of prizes and scholarships received for merit or for merit and need, students will be given two opportunities a year to review their non-degree related achievements and to flag any that they do not wish to be published. This facility will be available twice a year until the final version of the HEAR is published.
All other information on the HEAR cannot be edited.
UCL will email students to review their non-degree related achievements and will give a reasonable window of time in which to do this If students take no action, all of their verified achievements will be published.
Students who do not want a prize or scholarship to appear on their HEAR must reject the award from the outset.
Students who have any questions about their non-degree achievements recorded on a HEAR should contact the unit or service that verifies the activity. For example, in the case of a Departmental/Divisional prize query, students should contact the relevant Department/Division directly. For a query relating to Union Colours, students should contact UCLU.
Students who do not see their UCLU achievements listed should firstly respond to the Union email requesting their permission to share this information with UCL. The achievements will then be listed when the HEAR is re-published in the first week of October.
1. What is a HEAR?
A HEAR is a Higher Education Achievement Report that provides verified information about students' academic and significant non-degree related achievements.
2. What does a HEAR look like?
Click here to view an example of a HEAR.
3. What is Gradintel?
Gradintel is a service UCL is using to publish your HEAR electronically and allows you to share your HEAR with others such as potential employers or other universities. More information is available from gradintel.com.
4. Why have Gradintel accounts been set up?
UCL is working in partnership with Gradintel, part of the Tribal Group who supply UCL's student records database, to produce HEARs. HEARs are virtual documents that can be accessed whilst students are still studying at UCL and when they have left.
5. Why is it necessary to register with Gradintel?
You need to register with Gradintel so that you have a secure way of accessing your HEAR.
6. How can HEARs be shared with third parties?
You can issue a token to third parties and specify how many times it can be viewed. More information about this is available from gradintel.com.
7. How much does it cost?
Gradintel's services, including access to the HEAR, are free for students.
8. Why is my HEAR not on Gradintel?
The first HEARs will be published in August 2012 for
undergraduate students who enrolled for the first time in 2011. These students
will have HEARs published in August 2012 except for:
- MB,BS students
- Intercalated BSc students
- School of Pharmacy students
- Affiliate students
9. Why are HEARs not published for all UCL students who first enrolled in 2011?
The HEAR is a national requirement for undergraduate
students only except for:
- MB,BS students
- Intercalated BSc students
- School of Pharmacy students
- Affiliate students
HEARs are designed to give potential employers and other
universities more insight into programme contents and individual student
achievements that have been verified by UCL. HEARs must be implemented for all
undergraduate students (except those noted above) who first enrol in September
2011; UCL is implementing the HEAR a year earlier than required.
Because MB, BS/intercalated BSc transcripts need to comply
with GMC requirements which include details about clinical placements and
voluntary achievements, students on these programmes will not have HEARs.
Further consultation is taking place regarding the School of Pharmacy undergraduate students. Affiliate students will continue to receive transcripts from the Study Abroad Office.
10. Why are there no HEARs for undergraduate students who enrolled in 2010 or earlier?
Non degree activity is only being verified from 2011/2012 onwards. UCL is unable to verify earlier activity. Therefore, undergraduate students who enrolled for the first time in 2010 or earlier will continue to receive transcripts with their degree certificates.
11. Why are postgraduate students not getting HEARs?
The national requirement for the provision of HEARs is for undergraduate students only. However, consideration is being given to providing HEARs for postgraduate students at a later date. Postgraduate students will continue to receive transcripts with their degree certificates.
12. Who do I contact if the academic achievements, such as (examination/assessment results), are not accurate?
If you think that the information about your academic achievements are incorrect, you should contact your department/division in the first instance.
13. Who do I contact if the non-degree related achievements are not accurate, including missing achievements?
If you think that the information about your non-degree related achievements are incorrect, you should contact the verifying body in the first instance; for example, contact the UCLU for a query relating to a sports colour or the Voluntary Services Unit for a query relating to voluntary work.
14. What non-degree related achievements will be included in a HEAR?
The Programme and Module Approval Steering Group, acting on behalf of the Education Committee, reviews non-degree related activities and approves inclusion in a HEAR according to a set of guiding principles such as a minimum number of hours or recognition of a significant office holder. A list of the verified activities can be accessed here.
15. How often will HEARs be published?
HEARs will be published in August and October each year and will provide you with all achievements that have been verified up to that point. You will be above to view interim HEARs from August 2012 onwards. If you wish, you can share your HEAR with third parties using the token system on Gradintel.
16. What happens to HEARs when I leave UCL?
When you graduate, or leave UCL for any other reason, a final version of your HEAR will be published in the month of October following your departure. From then on, you will be able to access your HEAR on Gradintel.
17. Must I accept all of the information published on a HEAR?
Your academic achievements, such as (examination/assessment results) will be published on a HEAR by UCL. Any queries relating to this information should be directed to your department/division in the first instance.
All non-degree related achievements will be published on a HEAR by default. However, you will have two opportunities in June and September to remove any non-degree related achievements you do not want to appear on their HEAR on Portico. You will be given this opportunity for each session that you are enrolled with UCL. Any previously removed achievements can be re-instated when the opportunity arises to do so.
However, this facility is not available for prizes. If you do not want prizes to be published on their HEAR, you must reject the prize from the outset.
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