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If you are not familiar with FTP/SFTP, these are just protocols for transferring files. The protocols are described in RFC 959 and this Internet draft. A protocol is just a set of rules for how to exchange messages and data between computers.
On a typical Linux server there will be a SSH deamon process that handles incoming SSH and SFTP requests. A deamon process is a Unix/Linux program that's always running. So, Filezilla running on your local machine talks to the deamon process/program running on your server to accomplish the file transfer.
Nowadays everyone uses SFTP, not the plain old FTP. That's because FTP sends your username and password in plain text, as well as the file itself, so that anyone sniffing IP packets can read them. With SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol), all of that is encrypted.
Before you can start transferring files, you need to tell FileZilla how to access your server. That includes providing the hostname, port number, and authentication credentials. Optionally you might want to set the starting directory on the server to a path where you do a lot of uploads and downloads.
Bring up FileZilla. If you don't have it, you can download it from here. Under File>Site Manager, Press "New Site" button, give it a name in the top left panel of the user interface. This name will be available to you later through the "Open Site Manager" pull down underneath the File menu (not in the File menu, look for the upside down arrow under it) in the main window. Next up is your host name which is typically your domain name. In my case, it's a subdomain because my domain is mapped to Blogger.
Host name: blog.cssbakery.com
Port: 22
Standard Port is 22 for SFTP - My port number is different but for you it will be 22 or some other number if your SSH server is set up on an another port number like mine.
For "Protocol", Choose SFTP - I don't think anybody's using FTP these days.
Logon Type will be Normal.
User: This will be your account name on your server.
And finally, your password.
You don't need to enter anything for the Account field.
Switch over to the Advanced tab to give it a starting directory
Default remote directory: /home/web/public_html/cssbakery.com/public/.... is what my path looks like for this blog.


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Six points of Window Style
Posted: 27 October 2015
There's something to be said for a well-framed view. Just as a frame might highlight a beautiful work of art, so your choice of window décor will impact on the view and importantly, let just the right amount of light in. We got chatting to Denise Sheppards from Finishing Touches to get a few pointers on what to consider when styling your window.

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2 -Room Apartment "Elisabeth" in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Reintalstraße 1
living room
living room with dining area
bed room
floor plan
The 2-room apartment, on the ground floor of a Bavarian style home, is located on a quiet side street. All shopping facilities, bus stop, railway station, ice skating rink, indoor- and outdoorswimming pool with sauna and fitness centre, tennis courts, hiking trails and cable railways are within walking distance. Its only 10 minutes walking distance to the centre of Garmisch with its pedestrian zone.
The nicely furnished apartment has a terrace to the south and a little pretty garden. The apartment has a living room with a studio couch which sleeps two persons, a bedroom with a double bed, a fully equipped kitchen with a dish washer and a bathroom with a bathtub and toilet.
The apartment is fully equipped for 4 adults + 1 child. Colour Cable TV,CD-player and radio are existent. In the basement you have the possibility to store your sport equipment, like bikes, skis and so on.
Children and pets are welcome! Pets € 7,00/day
The house "Lena" is next door and can be rented if more space is needed.
Rental prices per day incl. energy costs:
11.01. - 01.02. € 55,00
01.02 .- 11.04. € 60,00
11.04. - 01.07. € 50,00
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01.09. - 01.11. € 55,00
01.11. - 17.12. € 50,00
17.12. - 11.01. € 90,00
plus visitor tax
The prices are for 4 persons. Every additional person costs € 10,00 per day. End cleaning is included when guests stay a week or longer.
Please notice that reservations normally run from Saturday to Saturday. Christmas/New Year minimum rental 14 days. For other wishes please ask us.
We can provide you with bed linen, 1 large + 1 small towel (cleaning fee € 8,90 per set), a baby bed (€ 10,00) and a highchair (€ 5,00). Kitchen towels and cleaning material are in the apartment.
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text: Have you ever met that one guy? That one guy who once ruined your life? For Reese, the day he left was the happiest day of her life. No more humiliation. No more embarrassing moments. And no more Jace Hamilton. But what if he's coming back? And what if it's not just the moments that are catching up with her? What if yesterday is also making its comeback? And what if... there's more to the story than what she knows? Can yesterday be rewritten? From love to hate and hate to love, making memories like those of yesterday.


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Due to historical and cultural connections, hip-hop music in New Orleans, Louisiana and Dakar, Senegal, serve the similar functions of community empowerment, pride in identity, and political resistance in the face of oppression and marginalization, which on both sides of the Atlantic, has been carried out by the same force of European colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
Hip-hop did not originate in New Orleans, but rather, in the South Bronx in the 1970s, just shortly after the civil rights movement ended in 1965. Hip-hop reflected urban identities and cultures, and was "a way for marginalized young people in the United States in the early to mid-1970s to transform their circumstances in urban areas where governmental policies such as redlining and planned shrinkage were limiting their options and gang violence, in the wake of this systemic neglect and oppression, was diminishing their numbers," (Banks, 240).
Similarly, Senegalese hip-hop was born out of the need to establish an urban identity and advocate for community, when mainstream American and French rap started to be adapted and, "rap music in the gritty suburbs of Dakar took on a more localized identity replete with primarily Wolof lyrics about local issues" (Niang 175; Open Society Foundation, 2014). The adaptation of mainstream, commercial hip hop into a more locally oriented movement occurred in during a period of internal migration to the coastal city of Dakar. As space in the city became limited and expensive, poor people were forced to settle in suburbs around the city, such as Pikine and Guédiawaye, establishing their existence as peripheral and impoverished from the beginning. Housing, education, healthcare, and poverty continued to pose problems for the increasing population of Senegalese living in the suburbs and Structural Adjustment Programs implemented by the IMF that curbed public spending exacerbated these issues further. It is under these circumstances that hip-hop started to grow in the suburbs, "as a platform for young people to be politically engaged and socially active" (Gueye 2013; 22).
On opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, hip-hop developed as a platform for marginalized youth to express their identity and advocate for their communities, but what accounts for such a parallel in function and form of hip-hop? As celebrated African- American author, Toni Morrison has said, "what unifies hip-hop throughout the world is its emergence from 'the "others" within the empire'… who ring profound changes in the nation's discourse" (Perry, 291). Enslaved, oppressed, and discriminated against in the United States and other parts of the world, African American populations have arguably maintained and allowed for the evolution of certain cultural traditions, including musical traditions.
New Orleans is known for it's unique music and culture, but what many people don't realize is that most of that distinct New Orleans culture that attracts so many tourists comes from strong influence that African culture had in Louisiana, where, "by the end of the African slave trade to the colony in the early 1730s, Africans made up over half of the total population of the colony's largest settlement and capital, New Orleans." Specifically, the region of Senegambia accounted for roughly one-half of all the African captives brought to French Louisiana between 1719 and 1731" (Caron, 98). Why would a large slave population have such an effect on the overall culture of a city? As Gwendolyn Midlo Hall points out in her book, Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Century, "French Louisiana was not a stable society controlled by a culturally and socially cohesive white elite ruling a dominated, immobilized, fractionalized, and culturally obliterated slave population". The unique nature of the African population in comparison to the white Europeans in Louisiana, contributed to "an unusually cohesive and heavily Africanized culture in lower Louisiana: clearly, the most Africanized slave culture in the United States" (Hall, 161). The retention of African culture in New Orleans, included musical cultures, and many historians connect the birth of hip hop to the evolution of blues and jazz, both genres origins being traced back to New Orleans. In connection to the jazz tradition, "William Jelani Cobb identifies hip-hop as the "folklore of the twenty-first century" wherein MCs' narratives extend the blues tradition of story-telling such that hip-hop is now "so central to the development of the post-civil-rights generation of black people that it's nearly impossible to separate the music from our politics, economic realities, gains, and collective shortcomings" (674).
Although it is difficult to make direct connections between aspects of African culture and hip-hop, the orality of the rapping element of hip-hop is often connected to the practice of West African griots. West African griots served as "oral historians, praise-singers, musicians, genealogists, and storytellers. Best known as hereditary artisans of the spoken word…" (Tang, 79). The griot is "seen as a thing of the past, from which the modern griot has evolved over time, after crossing the Atlantic to the New World" (Tang, 81). It is common for American rappers to refer to themselves as "modern griots" and to connect themselves with aspects of African culture, as Afrika Bambaataa did when he said, "Although it [rap] has been in the Bronx, it goes back to Africa because it had chanting style of rappin' (Tang, 81).
African Americans in New Orleans, Louisiana and Africans in Dakar, Senegal, both live in societies and cities that have been shaped by colonization and the Transatlantic slave trade. Perhaps due to shared cultural aspects, or simply the paralleled experiences as members of a diaspora, New Orleans and Senegalese hip-hop both function as a form of political resistance and community empowerment for marginalized urban populations. In New Orleans, this has been exemplified by the strong response of the hip-hop community in criticism of the the neglect and racism that African Americans experienced in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2006. In Dakar, Senegal and the impoverished suburbs surrounding the city, prominent hip-hop artists use the powerful and easily accessible oral aspect of hip-hop to educate the population about the realities of Senegalese history and give youth, left behind by an irrelevant colonial education system, confidence and skills to have hope for the future.
In the years after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, hip hop became a tool for African Americans to express and establish their identity after being written off and alienated as refugees in the aftermath of one of the most destructive natural disasters in the United States. Although Hurricane Katrina was treated as an unprecedented disaster in the US, "the experience of massive upheaval and displacement in the face of natural disaster was not new for the African American community" (672). Faced with a heavier burden of "environmental and economic risks of natural disaster as underwritten by discriminatory housing, job distribution, and rescue efforts" and "literally called refugees by most politicians and the mass media in the first week after the hurricane, the displaced population was also figuratively construed as outside the norms of middle-class white citizenship- and indeed, a threat to it" (672). Decades of legal segregation, followed by de facto segregation and discrimination in New Orleans and the rest of the US has led to areas of concentrated poverty where African Americans are at higher environmental and economic risk.
The hip hop community, local as well as national responded to this representation of "anonymous black masses, poor and often dangerous", where "their apparent vulnerability became framed as a long-term drain on American resources and government spending" (672). In this climate, "post Katrina hip hop became a political strategy, giving voice to "those who are losing their own" is an attempt to lay claim to what Peter Nyers calls the "onto-political status of a speaking being," by which outsiders or aliens, defined by legal or other forms of social exclusion, may interrupt the dominant political – which is to say speaking – order, "not just to be heard, but to be recognized as a speaking being as such" (672). Bounce music is a form of hip hop that origination in New Orleans in the 1980s and "oriented toward dancing… with a heavy reliance on call-and-response with the audience, and simple lyrics" was transformed by the political climate post Katrina in a "radical politicization of a previously ludic form of music-making" (675-6). This can be exemplified by an excerpt from a song entitled "My FEMA People", by Mia X, who was a resident of the Seventh Ward: "Ride through my city Beirut. Iraq. Ride through my city I ride and cry all through the city Looking for the culture all through the city We were left for dead for vultures all through the city Its so much bigger than the weather" (676). New Orleans hip hop became an extremely localized form of political resistance to racial injustice and inequalities that had been created and entrenched through years of segregation and discrimination in the aftermath of American slavery.
In Dakar, Senegal on the Western Coast of the African continent, a little more than a decade after independence in 1960, hip-hop made it's way first to "youths who had access to imported records and film clips", "soon though, rap music in the gritty suburbs of Dakar took on a more localized identity replete with primarily Wolof lyrics about local issues" (Niang 175; Open Society Foundation, 2014). The adaptation of mainstream, commercial hip hop into a more locally oriented movement occurred in during a period of internal migration to the coastal city of Dakar. As space in the city became limited and expensive, poor people were forced to settle in suburbs around the city, such as Pikine and Guédiawaye, establishing their existence as peripheral and impoverished from the beginning. Housing, education, healthcare, and poverty continued to pose problems for the increasing population of Senegalese living in the suburbs and Structural Adjustment Programs implemented by the IMF that curbed public spending exacerbated these issues further. It is under these circumstances that hip-hop started to grow in the suburbs, "as a platform for young people to be politically engaged and socially active" (Gueye 2013; 22).
Community hip hop centers in the impoverished suburbs of Dakar provide marginalized young people, left behind by the colonial education system, with a safe, social community space where they are able to receive an alternative form of education and learn how to empower themselves and their communities. The leaders of these community hip hop centers, who are prominent Senegalese rappers, explain that the "forms of teaching are Western" and a continuation of colonization" (Talla, personal interview). The public education program used in Senegal is still the French colonial one, with all courses taught in French and lacking in Senegalese and African history. Paco, a staff member at Ghiphop, the community center in the suburb of Guédiawaye, highlighted the importance of learning about African history and teaching young people that "the history of Senegal does not start at the time of colonization" (Gueye, personal interview). Hip hop music in Senegal engages young people in an expression and understanding of their identity that is real and relevant to them, not their colonizer, through community spaces, but also through the music itself. An excerpt from a song called "Senegal" by Books ft, Keyti, can be translated from Wolof to say, "Let us teach our history in the schools again before it's forgotten. Let's teach the kids about our culture, our social structure, teach them about circumcision ceremonies and the knowledge that used to be shared. Let's relearn our practices, our own way of life because a lost society can never make it far…" (Melakh, personal interview).
In these suburbs, many of the young people who are part of the hip hop culture and who frequent community hip hop centers are there because they have dropped out of school. According to one student, he "was taught the history of France, Turkey, etc… I mostly learned about European history". He added, "it's not empowering me, it's not important" (Camara, personal interview). In acknowledging the harmful effects of a colonized education system, it is important to recognize that the goal isn't to stop learning about European cultures and the rest of the world, but just saying, "let's try to put ourselves in more (Melakh, personal interview). Hip hop, by engaging young people in their own history and culture, enables them to see themselves outside of the context of the French colonial legacy that implies to them that to be educated is to speak French, and even be French, since students learn about European and French culture in a European method.
The politically charged and revolutionary nature of Senegalese hip hop is exemplified by the group Keur Gui, consisting of two founding members of the political group Y'En a Marre, meaning "enough is enough" that was successfully used hip hop activism and guerilla street poetry to oppose the unconstitutional re-election of Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade. During an interlude between songs at a concert, the two rappers, Thiat and Kilifeu, spoke in French about the punishment that Guinea received from France when the country chose to be truly independent from their colonizer. The rappers went into specifics about how the French burned books, and took with them medicines, institutions, the systems of electricity and water, and gave money to an important Malinke[1] leader, explaining, "c'est ça, l'origine des problèmes Guinean entre Malinke et Pulaar"[2] (Keur Gui, concert). With many countries on the African continent being known for "l'instabilité du guerre ethnique"[3], hearing an explanation of ethnic conflict, that does not credit this issue as the fault of the African population is empowering, and further reveals how African history and the narrative of African history have been shaped by the hand of the colonizer.
Keur Gui also compares the experience of Senegal, describing Senghor telling France, "Je ne veux pas l'indépendance comme Guinea. Je veux une indépendance avec une dette à payer. Et aujourd'hui, on payer la dette coloniale jusqu'à maintenant"[4] They then engage the audience, asking several times, "Est-ce que vous êtes d'accord avec ça?"[5], met with a unified "No!", before beginning their next song that includes the line, "Fuck the system" (Keur Gui, concert). Keur Gui used a five minute interlude between songs to give a small history lesson that was not in the narrative of their colonizer, and then engaged the audience and the public, asking for their opinion, encouraging them to oppose the injustice described. Mostly young boys, but some girls as well, were standing and dancing right up against the stage and waving small Senegalese flags. They knew the words to the songs and actively shouted "No!" when asked their opinion on the debt created by their independence.
In former colonial Senegal, where young, poor students drop out of school because their cultural identities are not reflected or respected in the classroom, hip hop is there to empower and educate them through critical lyrical content and grassroots community organizational efforts. In New Orleans, local rappers used hip hop to empower themselves and their communities by speaking out about racial justice and equality. Hip hop's culture of resistance are utilized by community members on opposite sides of the Atlantic to counter oppression and injustice created by the same force of European colonialism and the Transatlantic slave trade.
[1] West African ethnic group
[2] "It's this, the origin of the Guinean problems between Malinke and Pulaar"; Pulaar is another West African ethnic group
[3] "Instability caused by ethnic conflict"
[4] "I don't want independence like Guinea. I want an independence with a debt to pay. And today, the colonial debt is paid, even right now"
[5] "Are you in agreement with that?
[…] did not see their own culture and history taught in schools, so they looked to hip-hop to see an empowering reflection of their cultural identities that wasn't filtered through colonial […]


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Eat! Berlin Gourmet Festival 2017 - One Of The Worlds Ten Best Fine Dining Festivals
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The time before Christmas is a time of annunciation: Gault&Millau announce who has earned how many points and toques. Guide Michelin announces the number of stars shining over its dearest chefs. And – last not least – we are proud to announce our very own festival program 2017.
Our magazine has become thicker and posher this time around: 60 pages with more than 40 events in 33 different restaurants and venues in Berlin. Fourteen stars shine bright over the sixth eat! berlin, 58 Toques are sitting atop the venerable heads of participating chefs. With about 7.000 visitors gracing eat! berlin in 2016, the city finally made its mark as a festival capital in the realm of culinary delights.
What started in 2011 with 400 visitors has proudly evolved into one of the ten best food festivals on the globe (according to the "Traveller's World" luxury travel magazine). The demand for tickets is at an all-time high. "Berlin can not only bear the fine art of living, it is actually quite fond of it", says festival impresario Bernhard Moser, "but what Berliners clearly dislike is showing-off and snobbery". A delicate balance between luxury and nonchalance is probably the reason why the first events have been sold-out within hours.
A glimpse at our program 2017: For our opening show on Friday, February 24 2017, three fantastic chefs, a Tatort superintendent, a designer/artist, a zoo veterinarian, a neurologist and one of Germany's finest humorists get together under the motto "Fierce and Dangerous".
The best German chef working abroad, will come home on Monday, February 27th: Heinz Beck normally takes care of his guests and three Michelin stars in Rome. During eat! berlin he will work his wonders in a relaxed way at Bosco Verde in Grunewald district. Sascha Stemberg, Michelin-decorated chef from Velbert, will join us for an evening on March 1st, opening a restaurant at Arminius-Markthalle.
Axel Bach and James Baron from the incredibly formidable luxury hotel Tannenhof am Arlberg are coming to the capital on March, 4th. They will go out on a luscious Lucullan limb at Weinbar Schwein. Even chef of the century Eckart Witzigmann will travel from Munich to Berlin to be part of this unique occasion.
Hans-Peter Wodarz will be your not-so-humble host at Olympiastadion where he will be celebrating the Brazilian Carnival with Marcelinho, Kolja Kleeberg and others. We are happy that Komische Oper Berlin is participating again and will even be offering its stage to the festival's organizers. Michelin-decorated Sonja Frühsammer, surrounded by the stage design from »Snowhite and the 77 Dwarfs«, will create seven dwarfish courses for a mere number of fourteen very exclusive guests.
Tim Raue will not only delight us with fierce food fabrications at our opening show, he has also devised his very own evening arranged around the splendor of Sicily, his second home. We also have to mention Mario Kotaska and Ralf Zacherl who will be part of eat! berlin and the Cordobar which once more will be cooking up something distinctly Austrian for 2017.
Our program is available at www.eat-berlin.de/programm2017.
Here is the link to the German press release http://www.lifepr.de/pressemitteilung/eat-berlin-ug-haftungsbeschraenkt/eat-berlin-Feinschmeckerfestival-2017/boxid/626002
With gourmet greetings,


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Logistics Admin (UAE Nationals Only)Full time PepsiCo
Job Description
UAE Nationals Only
We are looking for a competent Logistics Admin to be based in our Dubai HQ.
A great asset for a Logistics Admin is their communication and negotiation skills. The ideal candidate will have great record-keeping abilities and a customer-oriented approach.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Education – University Graduate preferably with a Business Degree.
- Experience – Up to 3 years in FMCG.
Key Accountabilities:
- Extract opening stock by location from system and update stock report with In transit, offloaded, blocked, and transferred quantities
- Extract and import the daily inventory in system
- Extract sales reports from system for all locations and update daily KPI report
- Extract from system and prepare stock requirements for the following week and update stock report
- Compile and update slow moving stock report from all locations
- Consolidate monthly KPI presentations for Logistics functions
- Admin work to support all functions within the department (filing, archiving, attendance tracking, invoice tracking and submission, PRs and POs approvals follow-up etc.)
- Track and maintain all contracts within the department to be ready for approvals by year-end.
- Front End Backup User for RoadNet tool.
The goal is to ensure the smooth operations of a variety of channels aiming for maximum efficiency.


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There's something about summer that feels so carefree. Be it summer break, warm weather, fierce sunlight, or even just a refreshing lemonade by the pool, the season has a way of letting things take their au naturel approach. Skin gets tanner, hair gets lighter and messier, and everything is effortless.
No matter where you are, or what you're doing this summer, there's no reason effortless can't equate to looking good all the time, right? Of course, with the heat waves that come with the summer months, the key is not to layer too much. This year, skin is in. Let your freckles peak through and bring out that radiance with a bit of highlighter, not to mention a bright lip to bring out those pearly whites.
Here, find our favorite beauty products to keep your look fresh and fun for your time in the sun.
1. Sunless Tanner
Comodynes Sunless Tanning Towelettes ($16) in 8-pack
Trying to keep yourself from too many UV rays this year? Make sure to have these celebrity-approved towelettes on hand for a natural glow.
2. Lip Balm
NYX #thisiseverything Lip Balm ($5)
3. Hairspray
Oribe Free Styler Working Hairspray ($42)
This stylist and editor-approved hairspray does all the work you need while also keeping your hair light and touchable. Summer waves, anyone?
4. Highlighter
Milk Holographic Stick ($28) in Supernova
Now is the time to let your holographic heart shine.
5. Bright Lipstick
MAC Lipstick/Fruity Juicy ($17) in Love at First Bite
Summer nights call for neon brights, so why not swipe on this bright pink when you're spending a night on the town?
6. Loose Powder
Hard Candy Sheer Envy Bake, Brighten & Set Powder ($6)
Dust this loose finishing powder to keep everything set without looking too heavy.
7. Dry Shampoo
Ouai Dry Shampoo Foam ($28)
Created by celebrity stylist Jen Atkin, this dry shampoo foam gently cleanses your strands without the need of water when you're in a quick pinch to get out the door!
8. Bronzer
Too Faced Beach Bunny Bronzer ($30)
What's a summer without some bronzer? This custom blend of shimmering shades is suitable for all skin tones.
9. Lip Tint
GlamGlow Poutmud Wet Lip Balm Tint ($19) in Sugar Plum
Take a dramatic color and tone it down for summer with this lip tint. With this extremely hydrating formula, your lips will thank you all summer.
What are your summer beauty must-haves? Let us know in the comments below!
[Images: Comodynes; NYX; Oribe; Ouai; Hard Candy; MAC Cosmetics; Sephora]


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Hello Readers. My project today is a casual jacket. It started as a vest that didn't get much use. To be honest, if my body is cold enough for a jacket, than my arms are cold too. I needed sleeves. I found this sweatshirt at a clothes swap. I didn't like the big logo on the chest. So, you can probably guess what I did next.
The vest has an interior draw string. It gives it a nice shape, it's not too heavy or bulky. I just needed to wear it more.
I attached the hood to the collar and made my stitches on top of the seam that was already there. The edges of the hood are raw, I just cut them off the sweatshirt and attached them to the vest. They won't fray.
I attached the arms, and again sewed along the seams on the armholes.
It was finished just in time for a cold, damp day. But what did I do with the body of the sweatshirt?
I refashioned it for K.C the Wonder Dog. I just sewed down the middle of the chest. I cut the pocket down and used it to cover what was left of the logo. I also cut out the belly.
He doesn't like to be cold and appreciated the sweatshirt but he wouldn't pose nice for the camera at all.
Thanks for reading this, now go make yourself something fabulous.


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Want a T-Shirt that expresses the correct attitude for the situation? Visit your nearest Wet Twilek store. We have T-Shirts with many different witty and sassy sayings to show your attitude.
We carry multiple color combinations and a wide variety of sizes for most common races.
And if you don't see what you want, we can have one custom made just for you!
Here are some samples:
Lum makes my clothes fall off
Real banthagirls ride longer than 8 seconds
I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter
You want me, you just don't know it yet!
Big blasters make me smile:)
Warning!: For external use only
It wasn't me!
These are not the breasts you're looking for
If you can read this, it's already too late. (in small print)
Haha! You can't see me! (on an camouflage shirt)
I TRIED to be good… but I got bored
Demolitions Expert – If you see me running, try to keep up (on back of shirt)


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10 Examples of Healthcare Advertising Done Right
If you're in the healthcare advertising field, you're used to swimming upstream. You work in a highly regulated environment with strict barriers constantly telling you "NO."
Navigating those barriers can seem like trying to follow highway detour signs through a city full of one-way streets. One wrong turn will put you in a precarious situation.
Having so many restrictions can put a damper on your creativity, forcing you to, in the end, throw your hands up in exasperation, approve a mediocre ad strategy, and call it a day.
Well, I'm here to tell you, "Yes."
Yes, you can navigate FDA rules while still having a robust healthcare advertising strategy.
Yes, you can be creative with healthcare ads.
Yes, you can deliver meaningful, impactful messages that a legal review team would pass with flying colors.
Below you'll find 10 of the most creative, clever healthcare advertising campaigns that healthcare providers and nonprofits have created in the past few years. On top of that, I'll also tell you how to make each strategy your own so you can have the same type of success.
Want to learn more about healthcare marketing and advertising? You may be interested in:
- 10 Healthcare Marketing Strategy Tips
- How to Increase Healthcare Leads with Inbound Marketing
- 12 Traits the Best Medical Websites Have in Common
- How to Get Your Medical Practice to the Top of Google
- Urgent Care Marketing Strategies Every Center Should Be Using
10 Creative Healthcare Advertising Campaigns that Hit the Mark
Below you'll find 10 examples of the most creative healthcare advertising campaigns.
1. Cochlear: "Does Love Last Forever? A Hearing Test in Disguise"
Cochlear's "Does Love Last Forever" ad tricked viewers into taking a hearing test—and won dozens of healthcare advertising awards for it.
They showed this video ad to Australian moviegoers before the main film. Based on the viewer's hearing ability, the outcome of the story changed. What is, in reality, a heartfelt story about love lasting through the ages flips into a sad story about love that withered over the years—if you're hearing impaired.
The tagline is "If you felt love was lost, you may be missing important moments in your life."
Straight, to the point, and experiential. It connects with consumers on a deep, personal level, and they are enabled to make health decisions based on that one ad. Perfect.
Make It Your Own:
A modern healthcare advertising strategy should focus on enabling a consumer to either make better decisions about healthcare or enable them to actually receive healthcare. If your strategy doesn't do either, go back to the drawing board.
2. National Jewish Health: "We Never Say Never®"
Testimonials are powerful drivers of new patients to any practice. Almost 72% of patients use online reviews as their first step in finding a new doctor, and 88% trust online reviews as much as a personal recommendation. Not only that, but enough, 48% of patients would go out of their insurance network for a doctor with great reviews.
Enter testimonial ads. Testimonial ads are exactly what they sound like: healthcare advertisements that feature a testimonial.
National Jewish Health turned a testimonial ad into a storytelling experience. Their "Never Say Never" campaign took patient stories and amplified the creativity level. It has gorgeous, eye-catching imagery, a to-the-point tagline, and inspires as well as informs.
Make It Your Own:
Tell your patient's stories as creatively as possible. Show how you helped. Let their story inspire others to want the same experience. With the right image, the right wording, and the right ad composition, you can say a lot with a little.
3. Oscar Healthcare
Oscar nailed this ad.
It uses bright colors, funny, engaging imagery, and a tagline that everybody gets.
It's a simple message that means a lot—in this one creative, they infer:
- Trust – You can trust Oscar to have your best interest in mind. Since you like your phone, they put their doctors there.
- Convenience – Trusting your healthcare to Oscar is convenient. Since you like their phone, they made their doctors available via phone.
- Technological capabilities – This isn't your grandma's healthcare. Oscar is forward-thinking and has jumped on board with the digital healthcare revolution. Since you like your phone, Oscar made sure their doctors were available on the device you love to use.
- Relatability – This ad is fun, modern, and not-too-serious, just like the modern healthcare consumer. By speaking their language and using relatable imagery, Oscar nails the whole "healthcare for the next generation" thing.
4. Banner Health Infographics
Everything about Banner Health's infographic campaign is a success.
What makes infographics so great is their ability to capture and retain reader attention using powerful imagery. They are able to break down complex concepts into digestible bites that people will remember—when people hear information, they're likely to remember only 10% of that information three days later. However, if a relevant image is paired with that same information, people retained 65% of the information three days later. Not only that, but Hubspot found that infographics are shared 3x more than any other visual content on social media.
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To get the best results from your infographics:
- Use bright colors – Use bold, powerful colors to attract attention, but don't get too crazy. While a colorful infographic is a best practice, having too many colors can create sensory overload and discourage users from engaging with the piece.
- Limit your text – The whole purpose of infographics is to limit boring text and communicate ideas through imagery. Use simplified language and easy-to-read fonts and sizes to communicate all facts and statistics.
- Choose creative imagery that tells a story – Images are a quick and easy way to grab initial attention—they're easy to process and will instantly tell users what your infographic is about. Your piece should feel like one unified design that tells a story, so all elements should be of a similar theme.
5. Froedtert Health
The average person sees thousands of advertisements a day, and most of us have developed a good filter for them. Rare is it that an ad will catch your attention, and those that do are the ones that will succeed. Take this ad from Froedtert. It's an optical illusion and one that makes you do a double-take.
Make It Your Own: What kind of interesting imagery can you create from your field of medicine? Change your perspective (or even your angle) and you might get a whole new view.
6. ZocDoc: "Unsick Day"
ZocDoc's Unsick Day was a creative healthcare ad campaign that broke the mold without really breaking the mold.
Everybody understands sick days at work. ZocDoc took this concept and flipped it on its head by attacking the cause of sick days—not enough preventative care. Thus, "Unsick Days" was born.
Make It Your Own:
Go against the grain by flipping a result of a medical issue you treat on its head to fight the cause of the condition.
7. Amwell
This ad example from Amwell is the definition of good, simplistic medical advertising. Without any words, it tells a story: The mother of a sick child needs medical advice, but doesn't want to leave her child's bedside. Amwell comes to the rescue with a virtual doctor's visit, and they lived happily ever after.
With just an image, Amwell communicates three key messages to sway patients:
- Convenience – 78% of consumers say they would receive virtual health services. The ad clearly communicates that you don't even have to leave your child's bedside to speak face-to-face with a doctor. Since convenience is one of the most important qualities patients look for in a doctor or healthcare provider, this is a box you need to check in any and every ad campaign.
- Trust – The woman on the phone is clearly displayed as a trustworthy doctor. She's mid-sentence, implying she's in the middle of telling this parent how to make their child feel better. It also subliminally nudges you toward the thought, "If this parent trusts their child to this doctor, I can, too."
- Care – This ad implies that Amwell cares about their patients. They care so much that they don't want you to leave your child's side, even for a minute. Any parent who's had a sick kid appreciates that kind of consideration.
Make It Your Own:
You don't need words on your ads to tell a story. The makeup, composition, and imagery you choose can do that for you. Be sure you're incorporating as much story-telling as you can in each and every ad creative.
8. MACMA: "Man Boobs for Boobs"
Every so often you'll find barriers to your healthcare advertising strategy. For example, social media platforms like Facebook didn't allow videos or images of breast exams because of—gasp—the nipple. This proved a problem for breast cancer nonprofits and causes wanting to build awareness while creating real-life ads.
To get around this, digital agency David Buenos Aires created a stick-it-to-the-man video for Argentina's Movimiento Ayuda Cáncer de Mama (Macma, also known as the Breast Cancer Awareness Movement in English) that substituted women's breasts with men's.
The ad went viral in hundreds of countries and was one of the most successful healthcare advertising campaigns in recent memory. It was funny, it was real, and it went around the restrictions to provide helpful humorous content.
Make It Your Own:
Have a restriction? Think like a rebel. Every teenager alive knows how to get around the rules while still obeying them—you can, too. Just tap into your inner wild child.
9. Hartford Healthcare GoHealth Urgent Care
Hartford Healthcare did a great job cramming a lot into a short time. It conveyed real-life urgent care scenarios people would find themselves in, featured their digitally-forward, convenient approach to booking urgent care appointments (a big pain point for many patients), and built trust in the center—all in under 30 seconds.
Convenience and trust are extremely high on any modern patient's "want" list for any medical facility. When you're creating healthcare advertisements, highlight the ways you make life more convenient for a patient. Show footage of someone actually using your website or app. Show how long it takes for someone to be seen. Find your "convenience leverage" and lean in.
10. John Muir Health
Human bodies are weird. They're weird and they're gross.
Despite the fact that every single member of humanity has known this since we evolved, it's always been taboo to talk about unpleasant bodily functions.
Millennials (and the more daring members of Gen-Z) did a big poo-poo on that tradition.
It's refreshing to see in public what you've been wondering about in private—even though many Americans are "liberated" from body shame, it's still embarrassing to pee when you sneeze and get poison oak in your nether regions. They're real problems that real people have on a daily basis.
What's one of the best ways to cure embarrassing situations? A sense of humor.
John Muir captured this with their ads. They gave you the real, the unexpected, the humorous, and the need-to-know. It's in-your-face reality, which is historically missing in medical advertisements of the past.
Make It Your Own: Don't be afraid to lean into the gritty, embarrassing parts of your medical practice. Being upfront and honest can break the ice and create a sense of inclusion. Hey, that's why Dr. Pimple-Popper is so famous.
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Quarterly Newsletter 01-TLX Technologies
July 14, 2020 – This quarterly newsletter is all about the use of latching technology in solenoids: what it is, how it works, which applications it's best suited for, and more.
July 14, 2020 – This quarterly newsletter is all about the use of latching technology in solenoids: what it is, how it works, which applications it's best suited for, and more.
March 31, 2020 – Market pressures, including start/stop technology, high compression ratios, and lightweighting, are combining to require products outside the performance envelope of extant copper contact starter solenoids. TLX designed contactors exceed the performance of extant copper contactors, increasing the life cycle and current handling of the starter solenoid, and can be extended to start/stop applications.
March 16, 2020 – Valve technology is improving EV cooling system performance, enabling rapid response to changing flow requirements and maintaining optimal temperatures
March 9, 2020 – Millions of products and systems are connected to the Internet, and access to the data generated by those products/systems is one of the most valuable assets of the 21st century. Understanding the value and risks of making OEM designs internet-enabled is critical for success and customer security.
February 26, 2020 – Solenoid technology has now advanced to allow for greater failsafe functionality. Integrating failsafe technology with electromagnetic components combines energy savings and safety into solenoid component design.
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March 29, 2017 – Releasing devices for fire suppression systems with high operating pressure
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Two goals in two second-half minutes saw Godalming Town fall to a 7th defeat in their last 11 matches as an in-form Uxbridge consigned the Gs to a miserable start to 2015.
A scrappy game offered few opportunities but it was the hosts who made the most of an improved performance after the break as Matt Woods' 12th goal of the season, swiftly followed by a second from Kevin Warner, left Andy Hunt's men 9 points off the last playoff place.
Godalming lined up with an unchanged team for the first time since August and they had the first shot of the game in the 6th minute when Will Hutton fired over from distance. At the other end Richard Ossai held a Lewis Cole effort but the match was being played mainly in the middle of the park, so it was damaging for the Gs when, after 25 minutes, George Short hobbled off with a groin injury.
Despite the lack of opportunities both sides had good chances to take the lead before the break. Godalming came closest in the 39th minute when Adam Cornell's flick played in Jack Mazzone and the Gs top-scorer rolled the ball past Paul McCarthy but his shot lacked pace and Mark Dennison was able to race back and clear it off the line. Just 2 minutes later the hosts had their best chance of the half, Jake Groves pacey cross being touched just wide of the far post by Woods.
The visitors could have taken the lead after the break with Darren Wheeler's free kick inviting a diverting foot. Antonio Simeone, who replaced the injured Short, got a faint touch but the ball glanced narrowly wide of the far post.
A strong Wheeler run resulted in Mazzone having a goal ruled out for offside but it was in fact the Reds who'd made the better start to the second half and Woods almost took advantage of an Ossai slip following Wayne Carter's free kick.
The deadlock was broken in the 69th minute when Groves' cross wasn't dealt with by the Gs defence who, in static mode, watched as Woods, seemingly with all the time in the world, calmly fired past Ossai.
The shell-shocked visitors were mere spectators in the 2 minutes between Woods strike and the second, decisive goal from Kevin Warner. The portly Carter whipped an excellent cross to the far post where the one-time AFC Wimbledon man sent a first time finish into the far corner.
Godalming had crumbled and failed to muster any chance which may have given hope of an unlikely comeback. Indeed, with 5 minutes to go they were indebted to Ossai for preventing a third goal as substitute Craig Tomkins chested down a long ball before stinging the Gs stopper's fingers.
Andy Hunt's men have now won just once in their last 12 matches and the defeat furthers the gap between them and the playoffs. The Gs could feasibly still reach them, 9 points is by no means an impossible tally to make up at this stage of the season, but a return to winning ways is crucial when they make the trip to second-bottom North Greenford United on Saturday.
Scorers: Woods 69', Warner 71'
Godalming Town XI: Ossai; Wales (Purdy 73'), Hutchings, Willment, Lloyd; Short (Simeone 25'); W. Hutton (Roberts 66'), Frith; Mazzone, Wheeler, Cornell.
Substitutes not used: C. Hutton, Brown.
Attendance: 131 (33 away).


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At their Dec. 17 meeting, Missouri City councilmembers authorized staff to continue the application process to utilize the Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG – DR) Hurricane Harvey infrastructure funding through the Texas General Land Office (GLO) in the amount of $954,306, and opened the 30-day comment period for citizen participation.
The grant funds are provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for recovery from Hurricane Harvey and is being disbursed through the GLO. City staff has notified GLO of the city's intent to use the CDBG – DR funds for the Cangelosi detention improvement project. The project is currently identified within the city's five-year Capital Improvement Program and is estimated to cost approximately $2 million to implement.
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'Syrian forces attack Turkish post in ceasefire zone'
Syrian regime has attacked a Turkish observation point in Syria's Idlib province, Turkey's Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Thursday.
Three Turkish soldiers were injured slightly in the attack, the statement said. Some of the facilities, equipment and materials were also partially damaged.
The attack came even after Turkey and Russia had agreed to turn Idlib into a zone of de-escalation in last September, thereby vowing to stop acts of aggression against each other.
"Some 35 mortars were fired from As Shariah region, controlled by the Syrian forces in the Idlib de-escalation zone. They targeted our observation point number 10, located on mount Zawiya," the statement said.
The statement further said that the Turkish government has taken necessary initiatives with Russia regarding the attack.
Even as Turkey and Russia had agreed to stop acts of aggression and convert Idlib into a de-escalation zone, the Syrian regime has consistently violated the terms of ceasefire. It has launched frequent attacks inside the de-escalation zone.
Syria has only just begun to emerge from a devastating conflict that began in early 2011, when the Bashar al-Assad regime cracked down on demonstrators with unexpected severity.


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Assistant District Governor Warrren McGergen, Chris Lew, Sheree Lineham, David Hammond and Laura Gilmour from Hearing Australia.
Visiting Rotarian's comments
Warren McGergen introduced Chris Lew as a former member of Rotaract. Chris informed the meeting that he wishes to set up a new Rotaract club, based at Dee Why, to be named Northern Beaches Rotaract. The club would meet and meet at Dee Why RSL on the 2
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Members would be in the 18 to 30 years age group.
Warren also urged members of Manly Rotary to seek to be awarded a District citation by undertaking two of a number of projects that would qualify the club as a possible winner.
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Laura Gilmour from Australian Hearing started by letting members know that in 2013 she had greatly enjoyed being on a RYLA course in 2013.
Laura's Powerpoint presentation covered the subject of loss of hearing, the signs to look out for as one's hearing deteriorates. Sixty per cent of sixty years olds are reckoned to be hard of hearing and seventy per cent by aged 70 years .
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"More fun than a barrel of monkeys."
Believe it or not 'platform-painter' is practically a genre in itself where the Amiga is concerned. There are literally, erm… several games out in the red and white checkered prairie of Boingsville that impinge on the existence of Konami's 1981 arcade coin-op, Amidar. Titles where the goal is to trundle across a 2D landscape or grid, re-decorating – or otherwise altering – the composition of the ledges you walk, run or roll across. While Mr Blobby is undoubtedly the pinnacle of exemplars, CarVup crosses the finish line a close second.
At its nucleus CarVup is a remake of Jaleco's 1985 coin-op title, City Connection; a game in which you're tasked with navigating through various locations around the globe, avoiding police, cats, and spikes, whilst re-painting the platforms white and collecting oil from the comfort of your '81 Honda City hatchback. Proving that product placement was nothing new when Zool took his first suck of a Chupa Chups lolly. Actually I have no idea if any money changed hands between Honda and Jaleco.
Maybe one of the developers just thought the City model would appeal to the same audience who embraced Herbie the VW Beetle (aka the Love Bug), so chose to adopt it sans any sponsorship deal.
In the original Japanese version you play as a blue-haired girl called Clarice (aka Kurarisu) whose objective is to track down her ideal man, and hand over her gift-wrapped heart… metaphorically speaking. Harbouring a plot sufficient to melt the Bechdel test, today the sexism battle cries would be loud enough to make Donald Trump's teeth rattle!
Possibly even back then; by the time the game was exported to North America, Clarice had morphed into an anonymous bloke called… "we'll hash out the finer details later", the developers probably thought, and then forgot.
In November 1990, following a six-month development cycle, Core Design's homage was unveiled. Although never officially associated with Jaleco's game, it's hard to imagine this wasn't the driving force. CarVup was coded by Rob Toone and illustrated by Terry Lloyd, while Matthew Simmonds (4Mat) is credited with composing the music. Even though there isn't any in the Amiga version, only sound effects. You have to play the Atari ST original to experience that; the trade-off is the absence of sound effects, so it's all swings and roundabouts.
Accordingly, Terry designed all the graphics with Atari bitmap editors; the sprites using Art Studio and DEGAS Elite (Design & Entertainment Graphic Arts System) for the title screens and backgrounds. He clearly knew his way around each – CarVup is as charmingly charismatic today as it was nearly three decades ago. Rather than duplicate the functional, straight-laced visuals of City Connection, Terry took inspiration from Rainbow Islands and Rodland, which explains why CarVup is so colourful, cutesy and endearingly eccentric.
I'm sure by now you'll have stopped to ask yourself why we should be so preoccupied with the hue and composition of platforms. How does the plot – if there is one – explain this incessant tinkering? Let's see if the manual can provide any clues…
"Cartoon World, a place normally overflowing with niceness is being done in by the bad guys. These nasty toons are led by the most horrible toon ever, Borgus Grim. He's run riot through the eight lands of Cartoon World and removed the goodness. Not only that but he has kidnapped your best buddies, filled the place with looney toons and then installed himself as an end of game adversary.
Thank goodness for Carl, a jolly friendly car. The only way Cartoon World can be saved is for Carl to visit all eight lands in Cartoon World, and drive all over the bad areas turning them into good. You know when an area has been turned good because the hollow platform is filled in."
Carl? Who's Carl? According to the box blurb and in-game story our 'Chugga-Boom' car is called Arnie. It appears to have been modelled on The Ant Hill Mob's vehicle as featured in The Perils of Penelope Pitstop… well, if you drove under a low bridge and it sliced the top clean off. So more like the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car then.
… or Benny the Cab from Roger Rabbit. Oh, it's like lots of famous cars. Take your pick.
Likewise, somewhere along the way our arch-nemesis, Borgus Grim, inexplicably became Captain Grim. You'll have to wait until you reach the finale to discover he's a kind of cross between a space hopper and a Cacodemon, the villainous levitating cyclops monster from the Doom series.
That, however, is a good way off yet. Before we encounter the game's one and only end-of-level guardian we have a tonne of platforms to paint, repair, clean or otherwise modify in some way. On the construction site level we must first replace all the rivets in the girders, then in the following level paint them red. Elsewhere we have to iron out the 'wrinkles' in similar girders, re-insert ribs in spine bones to conquer the Jurassic world, clean blood off platforms in the horror-themed level, and mow the grass in the garden stage.
Controls consist of pushing left or right to switch direction, fire to jump and the space bar to activate any special weapons acquired. If you hold down the fire button for a few seconds it's possible to jump higher than normal, eschewing the demand for pixel-perfect leaping.
Unusually for a platformer, Arnie continues travelling along his current path until you intervene by pushing the joystick in the opposite direction. Also automated is your response upon reaching the end of a platform; unless you jump just before hitting the edge, your car flips around 180 degrees and veers off towards the other side, much like one of those wall rebounding toy cars that were popular around the same time CarVup emerged.
You're allocated multiple lives, though Arnie has no energy bar to gradually deplete – one hit and it's goodnight Vienna. Exacerbating the situation he's up against the clock. Take too long to transform all the platforms and Turbo the flying demon rears his ugly mush to stalk you. He's the equivalent of the 'hurry up' menace in Rainbow Islands, Flood, Parasol Stars, and so on.
Also analogous to Rainbow Islands, you collect letters to spell words like BONUS and EXTRA to enter point-gathering bonus stages or accrue additional lives respectively. It probably won't come as much of a surprise to learn that it's raining fruit you catch during the baddie-less bonus stages.
Arnie (or whoever we are) begins the game unarmed, though can scavenge a number of useful power-ups. You can lob smart bombs with your retractable arm, take advantage of oil slicks, smoke screens, a gun, baddie-freezing snowflakes and a carrot metamorphosis gizmo that turns all aliens into big bonuses.
Each time we complete one of the 40 levels we're whisked away to the next by an especially cheerful helicopter. Plonked down on solid ground we're released to repeat the process with no new gameplay mechanics introduced to maintain a sense of progression and variety.
What does change between stages aside from the theme is the type of adversaries encountered, including a number of interesting Easter eggs in the guise of classic gaming and TV entities. You'll find Qbert in the wild west environment, Pacman ghosts on the horror level, Asteroid debris in the garden, and Space Invaders and Flintstones houses and cars in Jurassic land.
For added nostalgia, there are Rubik's cubes in toy land, though lucky for us we're not tasked with solving the puzzle. At school, I tended to approach the conundrum by leaving mine at home at the back of a dusty drawer, and instead doing something infinitely more productive. Like kicking a rolled-up pair of socks around the playground… we weren't allowed real footballs in junior school because the pitch was surrounded by windows, and naturally, they were made of glass.
Anyone remember Sticklebricks? You know, Lego's poor relation? Well, either way, you'll find some here.
If you're more of an Addams Family fan I'm sure you'll get a kick out of running into Thing. You'd think that would be handy in some way, only he kills you just the same as any other pest.
Far more off-the-wall, however, are the harpies flying around with their bare, naked boobies hanging out! I was shocked and appalled to the core to witness that in a kid's game. In fact, I'll be sure to write to the ombudsman of video gaming to lodge a formal complaint. 😉
Every so often we get to rescue one of our captive chums who rewards us with a cheesy grin and even cheesier thank you message. Only when they are all emancipated do we face their tormentor, who splits into several mini space hoppers upon defeat, before skulking off to lick its wounds.
Making the entire exercise pointless, the game loops back to the beginning following an exasperated cry of, "Ere what's goin on? Oh no, not again". While we come to terms with this inconvenient turn of events, a microphone on legs chases across the screen what appears to be a metallic plaster, also with legs. Confirming who was behind this Monty Python-esque madness, digitised pictures of the developers surface, and we're left to wonder, erm… well, lots of things really. It's hard to know where to start.
Obviously entirely derivative what with being a remake, CarVup still somehow manages to feel fresh, a break from the norm. Arnie's not entirely under our control, control system, and the additional challenge of having to reach every nook and cranny before progressing, certainly contribute to this perception. As long as you play only in short bursts and keep in mind CarVup is aimed at very young youngsters, it's a fun diversion from the torment of real-world commuting.


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The Wikileaks.org is back in focus after another massive publications of classified documents, and series of TV performances by the website's founder and editor in chief, Julian Assange. He promotes his business as "scientific journalism." The former criminal computer-hacker encourage whistle-blowers and other informants to leak secrets to the public website in the name of freedom of speech, and the principles of a free press.
"My greatest fear is that we will be too successful too fast and won't be able to do justice to the material."
Julian Assange
When I was a kid, we were taught that squealing on friends and neighbors was wrong. It was a very important lesson Norwegians learned under the German occupation during World War II when many peoples, and several resistance groups, lives depended on it.
Back in the late 90's, the director of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, (and my boss at the time), Einar Førde refused to run a governmental TV commercial that promoted the police's "tip-off-phone" for drug crimes.
Mr, Førde's argument was that encouraging people to squeal on each other, anonymously, could have more negative effects than benefits.
I believe he made a wise decision.
Einar Førde died in 2004, but left behind a big bundle of wisdom. Some it expressed in – now famous – quotes, like;
"The society isn't exactly characterized by common sense."
That's why the critics of Wikileak may have point; some things might not be suitable for publishing.
The Age of The Whistle-blower
Julian Assange, said yesterday that the organization is working through a "backlog" of further secret material and was expecting a "substantial increase in submissions" from whistle-blowers after one of the biggest leaks in US military history.
Speaking in London after his website published more than 92,000 classified military logs relating to the war in Afghanistan, Assange said that he hoped for an "age of the whistle-blower" in which more people would come forward with information they believed should be published.
Assange said that the site, which currently operates with a small dedicated team but has a network of about 800 volunteers, had a "backlog" of more material which only "just scratched the surface".
While he would not be drawn into commenting on the nature of the material, he said that the organization held "several million files" that "concern every country in the world with a population over 1 million".
He said the site had undergone a "publishing haitus" since December during a period of re-engineering.
Assange suggested a clear step-up of operations and said that there were difficulties in changing from a small to large organisation while ensuring it would still be able to work in a secure way.
"My greatest fear is that we will be too successful too fast and won't be able to do justice to the material," he said.
He also said that from past experience the organization was expecting more material to add to the backlog.
He told the audience that after the site leaked details of one incident that killed 51 people in Afghanistan, "we received substantial increase in submissions".
"Courage is contagious," he added. "Sources are encouraged by the opportunities they see in front of them."
He then added that a further 15,000 potentially sensitive reports had been excluded from today's leak and were being were being reviewed further. Some of this material would be released once it was deemed safe to do so, he said, adding that the majority of this material was threat reports and that it included more than 50 embassy cables.
Assange's plans will cause concern in government agencies, which argue that the site's leaks are "irresponsible" and pose a threat to military operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Assange, however, said that the site have applied "harm minimization" procedures before publishing material.
I guess they wouldn't have established a "harm minimization procedure" if they didn't think it would be needed.
Detained In Kuwait
If the "harm minimization procedures" will help 22 year old US Army Specialist, Bradley Manning, doesn't Assange say anything about.
The US soldier was arrested last month after the release of a classified video showing a 2007 helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff.
According to Wired Magazine is may also be Manning who have leaked the recent published documents on Afghanistan.
WikiLeaks released 90,000 classified documents about the war in Afghanistan, Sunday, and again the website ran on overload, as US officials fired massive accusation attack on the site for putting the nations security in danger.
Monday, the mysterious Julian Assange, who usually is almost as easy to get hold off as Osama bin-Laden, appeared on the Larry King Show on CNN, talking about the Afghanistan files:
Convicted Criminal
Julian Assange was once a physics and mathematics student, that turned into on of the worlds most famous computer hackers.
In the early 90's he was convicted of attacks on the US intelligence, and publishing a magazine which inspired crimes against the Commonwealth.
Wikileaks was founded in 2006. Julian Assange now sits on its nine-member advisory board, and have become a prominent media spokesman on its behalf.
This is how he's being characterized:
"One of the most intriguing people in the world"
"Internet's freedom fighter"
"Extremely cynical"
"Assange is serving our democracy and serving our rule of law precisely by challenging the secrecy regulations, which are not laws in most cases, in this country."
Wikileak have won a bunch of media awards, among others, the 2009 Amnesty International Media Award (New Media) and the 2008 Economist Index on Censorship Award.
Assange brags about that Wikileaks has released more classified documents than the rest of the world press combined, saying:
"That's not something I say as a way of saying how successful we are – rather, that shows you the parlous state of the rest of the media. How is it that a team of five people has managed to release to the public more suppressed information, at that level, than the rest of the world press combined? It's disgraceful."
It's certainly true that the financial press failed in front of the financial crises, and its true that the traditional medias more or less have abandon their role as news providers.
But Mr. Assange and Wikileaks are still walking on a thin line.
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Strategic Alliance to Help NZ Enterprise Grow
Wellington's start-up base Creative HQ and social enterprise supporters Ākina Foundation are excited to announce a strategic alliance to help New Zealand enterprise grow.
Creative HQ's Chief Executive Stefan Korn said the pair were professional organisations coming together to collaborate – to do things smarter.
"We both seek to deliver positive impact for New Zealand but do so through distinct missions. Ākina is focused on scaling social impact through social enterprise and Creative HQ on high growth innovation through commercial enterprise," says Korn.
"Bringing our organisations closer together, including our Wellington teams in the same physical location on Dixon Street, means we create opportunities for collaboration and improved efficiency," he added.
Ākina Chief Executive Alex Hannant agreed, stating: "In addition to sharing space, we will be able to share our networks and advance our practice, knowledge and skills. We are both about driving innovation, supporting entrepreneurship and building ventures – we can strengthen our services and improve our effectiveness by working with each other."
As organisations that receive Government support, Korn and Hannant say the alliance means avoiding potential wasted duplication and ensuring top value for money – plus delivering more opportunity for their corporate partners and investor networks too.
"This alliance is about us walking the talk of collaboration and leadership and being relevant to the challenges and opportunities in front of us. It's about disrupting silos and blending the worlds of social change and business growth for a stronger entreprenuerial ecosystem," says Hannant.
The partnership will focus on shared use of facilities and core services, boosting capacity by sharing practice and expertise, improving service delivery through mutual support on existing programmes, and exploring new opportunities to collaborate and innovate.
No changes to either organisation's names, respective boards or missions is proposed.
Creative HQ is a unit of the recently formed Wellington Regional Economic Development Agency (WREDA), and supported by Callaghan Innovation.
The Wellington Regional Economic Development Agency has been formed to combine and amplify the activities of Grow Wellington, Positively Wellington Tourism, Positively Wellington Venues, Creative HQ and the Major Events unit of Wellington City Council. The plan for integrating the team into one unit is currently under development.


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NEW YORK -- A recent episode of Showtime's hit series "Billions" depicted the Cayuga Nation's leaders as criminals and targeted its federal representative, a lawsuit filed yesterday in New York City alleges.
Clint Halftown, the nation's federal representative, and the nation sued the network and "Billions" creators -- Brian Koppelman, Andrew Ross Sorkin and David Levien -- for damages.
A Showtime spokeswoman declined to comment on the lawsuit.
Halftown and the nation take issue with a episode of the show's fourth season that aired in May, in a scheme unfolds to enlist the Cayugas in an effort to launch a mobile voting program, according to the lawsuit. The hit show, which portrays the seedy world of high finance, has an audience of millions.
The episode invented a female Cayuga council member, "Jane Halftown," and featured a scene with her in the room as an elections commissioner is bribed to greenlight the voting program. And it references a potentially illegal casino deal between the billionaires in the show and the Cayuga nation.
The lawsuit, filed by Syracuse firm Barclay Damon, alleges the show recklessly stereotyped the nation by using Halftown's name, falsely linking the tribe with casinos and depicting tribal leaders as engaging in criminal acts.
In fact, the Cayuga nation operates two bingo halls, not casinos. And the tribe's lawyers said they are concerned the inaccurate depiction of the tribe's business might hurt its application to the federal government to place its land in a trust.
"Critical to that (federal) review is a confirmation that the application accurately described the Nation's business operations," the lawsuit states. "Thus, a false statement regarding the nature and type of the Nation's gaming operations may be injurious, and perhaps even fatal, to that application."
If the federal government grants that application, the Cayugas would be free of most state regulations.
In addition, one of the show's protagonists refers to his connection with the Cayugas by calling them "my casino Indians," according to the lawsuit.
The episode, by invoking the actual name of the tribe and Halftown, amounted to a "deliberate and intentional resort to an offensive stereotype of Native Americans as irresponsible, corruptible, and even criminal, thereby exposing the Cayuga Nation and Mr. Halftown to public contempt, aversion, and disgrace."
The show credits present a standard disclaimer that all characters are fictional and that any resemblance to an actual person is coincidental.
The lawsuit seeks to prohibit the show from referencing the Cayuga nation again the series, and it is asking for damages for defamation and "misappropriation of likeness."
The show has been renewed for a fifth season.


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But it's more bad news for black workers
By Frederick H. Lowe
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to give President Barack Obama fast-track approval to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership after 13 Democrats joined with Republicans to Ok the deal.
The Senate voted 60 to 38 to give President Obama authority to complete Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement between the U.S. and 11 other countries. The vote took place after the U.S. House of Representatives also voted to give President Obama fast-track authority.
Thirteen Democrats from 10 states that lost 996,000 jobs due to trade deficits with China between 2001-2013 voted for the deal.
"States like Oregon, California, and Colorado were the among the hardest hit states in the country, but they are also host to Nike (Oregon), Lockheed-Martin (Colorado, and Apple, Google, Intel and other Goliaths of Silicon Valley," said Robert Scott, director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
The deal is considered a major victory for President Obama, but not for black workers.
Black workers will suffer, not prosper, because previous deals caused them to lose hundreds of thousands of well-paying manufacturing jobs due to currency manipulation and trade deficits.
A trade deficit occurs when a country's imports exceed its exports. Currency manipulation is more complicated. It occurs when a trade-surplus country with a strong currency, like China, buys other countries' currencies instead of purchasing exports from countries like the U.S., which has a big trade deficit with China. In both cases, U.S. jobs disappear while foreign countries make inexpensive goods and sell them here.
The Office of the United States Trade representative reported in 2013 America's trade deficit with China was $318.4 billion.
When China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, it cost black workers 281,100 high-paying manufacturing jobs from 2001 to 2011, said Scott, author of the 2013 research paper, "Trading away manufacturing advantage: China trade drives down U.S. wages and benefits and eliminates good jobs for U.S. workers."
Scott estimated that African Americans made up 25% of minorities displaced by trade with China, suffering wage losses in excess of $2.5 billion.
Scott called the 13 Democrats members of "Hall of Shame" for their vote. They are: Dianne Feinstein (California), Michael Bennett (Colorado) Tom Carper (Delaware), Chris Coons (Delaware), Bill Nelson (Florida), Claire McCaskill (Missouri), Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire), Heidi Heithamp (North Dakota), Ron Wyden (Oregon), Tim Kaine (Virginia), Mark Warner (Virginia), Maria Cantwell (Washington) and Patty Murray (Washington).
The legislation now goes to President Obama who is expected to sign it.
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