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On Saturday, Israel graduated from its murderous bombing raids on Gaza to sending soldiers into the locked-down territory. "For the first time since the start of Operation Cast Lead, IDF ground troops entered the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening, exchanging fire with Hamas gunmen," reports the Jerusalem Post. "The IDF said that a large amount of troops from the Armored Corps, Engineering Corps and Infantry Corps entered the territory with the purpose of destroying Hamas infrastructure… The IDF warned that terrorists using civilians as human shields would bear full responsibility for their fate."
|Al Jazeera report on the second week of Israel's bombing of the Gaza Strip.
Earlier in the day, Israel dropped leaflets over the sprawling open-air prison where 1.4 million Palestinians live, most on less than two dollars a day. "Leaflets signed by the commander of the Israeli military were dropped over northern Gaza on Saturday morning, warning residents to 'leave the area immediately' to ensure their safety," reports CNN.
CNN did not note that this is at best a sadistic joke because the "residents," or gulag inmates, have nowhere to go to escape the onslaught as the whole of Gaza is a free-fire zone. In essence, the leaflet is a flaccid attempt to make an excuse for the slaughter that will soon take place. Israel will claim it had warned the "residents" of Gaza, so they cannot be held responsible for the mass murder that is about to take place.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak admitted as much when he declared the bombardment of Gaza is "war to the bitter end."
"Due to the terrorist actions undertaken by terrorist elements from the region of your residences against the state of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces are compelled to respond immediately in the region of your residences. For your safety, you are ordered to leave the area immediately," the leaflets say.
In fact, the state of Israel, run by fanatical nationalists, considers all Palestinian Arabs as little more than terrorists. In 1969, Golda Meir, the prime minister of Israel, declared there "is no such thing as a Palestinian people." Instead of a people, the state of Israel considers the Palestinians a motley assemblage of terrorists who are to be slaughtered, not negotiated with.
On December 30, four leading Israeli rabbis sanctioned the high-tech murder of the civilian population of Gaza. "The ruling seems to give a free hand to Israeli commanders to attack Gaza's civilian population and persuade those troops who have reservations to kill civilians due to humanitarian considerations," reported Press TV. "The rabbis argued that the army should announce that it would bomb any civilian community from which a rocket is fired to force the local residents into confronting those who fire rockets or mortars at Israeli targets."
In other words, the Palestinians are not allowed to defend themselves against saturation bombing and invasion.
As usual, the excuse provided for this barbarism is that Hamas fired first with their puny rockets.
"Conscientious Israelis acknowledge that the Hamas rockets rationale is fraudulent," Dennis Rahkonen wrote on January 1. "Israeli apologists have presented absurd propaganda about those devices…. At any point during the past six decades, Israel could have had peace, simply by assenting to the great moral imperative of our time, namely the Palestinians' right to their own, unitary, sovereign homeland."
Conscientious Israelis, however, seem to be in short supply. According to a Haaretz-Dialog poll released on January 1, "52 percent of respondents favor continuing the air campaign. Nineteen percent say the Israeli army should send in troops on the ground." Only 19 percent of Israelis say the government should negotiate an immediate cease-fire, reports VOA News. Moreover, the indiscriminate bombing campaign has provided Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with a popularity boost. More than half of Israelis are satisfied with Barak's performance compared to just 34 percent six months ago.
Meanwhile, in the United States, those who naively believed the election of Obama would change the situation are discouraged. Obama's selection of "Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff, have raised doubts that much will change," reports Reuters. "The Arab world was largely enthusiastic about Obama's election victory in November, in the belief that a fresh face in the White House must be better than outgoing President George W. Bush, who invaded Iraq and gave strong support to Israel." Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Institute's Middle East Center in Beirut, noted that Obama "will not put large amounts of pressure on the Israelis" and "will not force Israel (into concessions)."
In fact, support for Israel's genocidal actions against the Palestinians is part of the ongoing globalist "divide and conquer" strategy designed to sow discord among Muslims and bring Islam into disrepute, as Peter Meyer notes. Hamas is part of this "clash of civilizations" campaign, a fact unrealized by most Palestinians.
Hamas was founded in 1987 by the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood."The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of Moslem Brotherhood in Palestine. Moslem Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization which constitutes the largest Islamic movement in modern times," states the Hamas Charter (see How Britain Helps Hamas And The Muslim Brotherhood).
At its core the Muslim Brotherhood consists of "secretive bankers and financiers who stand behind the curtain, the members of the old Arab, Turkish, or Persian families whose genealogy places them in the oligarchical elite, with smooth business and intelligence associations to the European black nobility and, especially, to the British oligarchy," writes Robert Dreyfuss. "By allying with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Anglo-Americans are not merely buying into a terrorists-for-hire racket; they are partners in a powerful and worldwide financial empire that extends from numbered Swiss bank accounts to offshore havens in Dubai, Kuwait and Hong Kong."
Hamas' ludicrously ineffective and crude rocket attacks on Israel are designed to villainize the Israeli intelligence spawned terrorist group. As exit polls conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Public Opinion during the election revealed, Fatah received 42 percent of the vote and Hamas 35 percent. "Palestinian pollsters were at a loss to explain the discrepancy between the exit polls and the result," the Associated Press reported at the time. "The concern is that the victory by Hamas means there will be an all-out Palestinian war with Israel since Hamas will not only control its own forces but will also yield authority over the 50,000 police that belong to the Palestinian Authority. Hamas does not recognize the State of Israel and is sworn to its destruction," writes J. Adams (see previous link).
Israel's attack on the Gaza Strip is but another chapter in the global elite's "clash of civilizations" agenda, the ultimate result being the establishment of a world government under the dictatorial control of the banking elite. Israel, of course, has its own agenda, but it is merely a subset of a larger globalist plan. It was, after all, Baron Edmond de Rothschild who nurtured Zionism in the 1880s. Between 1884 and 1934, Rothschild donated about $6 million, an enormous sum at the time, to the project that ultimately resulted in the creation of the state of Israel.
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UBS AG, Switzerland's biggest bank, may be fined more than US$1-billion by U.S. and U.K. regulators for trying to rig global interest rates, more than double the amount levied against Barclays Plc, according to a person familiar with the probe.
The fines from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.K. Financial Services Authority and the U.S. Department of Justice may be announced as early as next week, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the information isn't public. The final figures are still being negotiated and could change, three people familiar with the probes said.
Global authorities are investigating claims that more than a dozen banks altered submissions used to set benchmarks such as the London interbank offered rate to profit from bets on interest-rate derivatives or make the lenders' finances appear healthier. Barclays, the U.K.'s second-biggest bank, agreed to pay 290-million pounds ($467.9-million) in June to resolve the U.S. and U.K. Libor probes.
UBS spokeswoman Karina Byrne in New York declined to comment on the potential penalties. Officials from the CFTC, FSA, Swiss regulator Finma and the DOJ also declined to comment.
The fine will likely be the largest against any bank levied by the U.S. and U.K. authorities in the Libor probes, the person said. The CFTC's portion of the fine against UBS may exceed the entire fine against Barclays. The fine, which was expected to be announced this week, has been delayed as the DOJ works out a deferred prosecution agreement, one of the people said.
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Finma, may also penalize the Zurich-based bank and force it to disgorge profits, one of the people said.
UBS declined 1.1% to 15.08 francs in Swiss trading, after falling as much as 1.9%. The stock has gained 35% this year.
UBS was fined 29.7-million pounds last month by the FSA and told by the Swiss regulator it may have to increase capital levels for operational risks after a $2.3-billion loss from unauthorized trading by Kweku Adoboli. The former trader in UBS's London office was sentenced to seven years in jail on Nov. 20 for fraud in relation to the loss, the largest from unauthorized trading in British history.
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More than 25 people left UBS after the lender's own internal probe into rate manipulation, another person familiar with the matter said last month.
Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc is in talks to settle with U.S. and U.K. authorities over Libor, a person familiar with the matter said earlier this year. The fine is also likely to be more than Barclays and less than the amount levied against UBS.
U.K. prosecutors made their first arrests in the criminal Libor investigation on Dec. 11. Thomas Hayes, a former trader at UBS and Citigroup Inc., and two men who worked at the brokerage RP Martin Holdings Ltd. were questioned, people familiar with the case said.
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office, which is conducting a criminal probe in parallel with the U.S. Department of Justice's fraud division, has focused on e-mails between traders at UBS and other banks.
UBS has received conditional immunity from antitrust authorities including the Canadian Competition Bureau, the Swiss Competition Commission and the DOJ for being among the first companies to report their own wrongdoing and cooperate.
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UBS, the world's second-largest manager of money for the wealthy, had struggled to map out a strategy for the investment bank since suffering $57-billion in subprime-related losses during the financial crisis. The Adoboli losses led to the departure of Chief Executive Officer Oswald Gruebel, 69, in September 2011 and hastened a review that led to the decision to eliminate 10,000 jobs over three years and dismantle portions of the investment bank.
Libor, a benchmark for more than $300-trillion of financial products worldwide, is derived from a survey of banks conducted each day on behalf of the British Bankers' Association in London. Lenders are asked how much it would cost them to borrow from one another for 15 different periods, from overnight to one year, in currencies including dollars, euros, yen and Swiss francs.
The Swiss antitrust regulator granted UBS conditional immunity in its investigation into manipulation of the Yen Libor, Tibor and Swiss franc Libor rates. The DOJ granted similar immunity as part of its probes into Yen Libor and Euroyen Tibor.

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As I mentioned in an earlier post, continued inconsistency with my iron game has led me to decide to give "Stack and Tilt" a try (for those unfamiliar with S&T, read more here). Before deciding to go down this path, I read as much as I could about S&T, including a number of comments online. Although I was interested and encouraged by what I read, I was never able to locate a "diary" or anything which chronicled a S&T newbie's trials and tribulations in attempting to change their swing. Therefore, in addition to dedicating myself to seeing if I could solve my iron problems via the S&T, I also decided that I would chronicle my ups and downs (and hopefully progress) with the S&T on my blog.
Now that the introduction is complete, let's get right down to business....
The primary problems with my iron game are:
- Consistently hit behind the ball, and never strike a descending blow.
- Lack of distance from my irons relative to my swing speed (e.g. 8 iron 130 yards, 6 iron 155 yards).
- Poor / Inconsistent Weight Transfer


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I first went to Belimbingsari Village for a funeral. The father of two of DINARI Foundation's staff, Gede Mustika and his sister Yulia, had suffered a stroke and died shortly thereafter. A rented van transported the staff from DINARI's headquarters, and the mood seemed surprisingly cheerful during the three-hour trip to West Bali. I was reminded of school field trips as people passed around puffed-corn snacks and jokingly reclined their seats into their neighbors' laps.
At the Christian service, Gede Mustika and Yulia wore white shirts, colorful sarongs and kains, sashes tied at the waist. At times, Yulia wept silently, but Gede Mustika remained solemn and composed. DINARI's staff referred to him as Pak Gede, a title of respect given when he became manager of DINARI's branch office in Melaya, the town just south of Belimbingsari.
Pak Gede and Yulia grew up in Belimbingsari, as had three quarters of DINARI's staff. For many, the funeral trip had been a homecoming.
Belimbingsari is the only exclusively Christian village in Bali. A narrow paved street runs through the community with dirt roads branching off of it. The three hundred inhabitants live in small, well-maintained houses with close-cropped grass lawns in front. The homes are separated by groves of tall coconut trees. People's dogs roam the street and lie listlessly on the warm asphalt. Seventy years ago, Belimbingsari was a jungle.
In 1939, the Hindu majority in Bali's capital of Denpasar banished newly converted Christians to the remote wilderness of West Bali. I was told that tigers inhabited the jungle, and it was assumed that the exiles would not survive.
Fifty people settled in Belimbingsari. They cut down trees to make roads and farmland, and they harvested coconuts. They built homes, and the tigers did not attack.
Their children inherited the land and prospered, becoming successful farmers and opening hotels and other businesses around Melaya. This second generation could afford to send their children, including many of DINARI's staff, to universities in Denpasar and Jakarta. Pak Alit, DINARI's executive director, told me that his father sent him and all his siblings to university with the income from selling coconuts.
Pak Alit did not return to Belimbingsari after earning his degree as an agricultural engineer. He settled outside of Denpasar where DINARI was founded in 1992. Seven years later, he hired four new employees, including Pak Gede, and opened the Melaya branch to begin offering agricultural loans and technical training to cow and pig breeders.
Before joining DINARI, Pak Gede and many others from Belimbingsari had worked in the tourism industry. Several lost their jobs after the 2002 bombings. Zeruya, now one of the supervisors for DINARI's loan officers, sold crackers to food stalls from his motorbike before Pak Gede offered him a job in 2005. DINARI's work in West Bali steadily increased, and the staff grew to twenty as the client base ballooned into the thousands.
Zeruya told me it had been difficult for him when he left his village previously to find work. He was happy to again be close to his parents, and he thought Belimbingsari was a good place to raise his two daughters.
"They can run everywhere," he said. "Not like in Denpasar."
But there is no university in Melaya, and he expects his children will obtain their higher education in Bali's capital.
"There is no choice," he said.
Nearly two months after the funeral, I returned to West Bali to interview DINARI's clients. In Belimbingsari, I stayed in the guesthouse at DINARI's Business Development Services Center, where clients received training about animal husbandry and furniture making.
I ate my dinner in Melaya as there were no food stalls in Belimbingsari, and one night I chatted with the couple who ran a restaurant. The husband had grown up in Belimbingsari and initially opened his establishment in the village, but he moved to Melaya to attract more customers.
"There are only old people living there," he said. "And dogs." He laughed. "Watch out for the dogs!"
Many of DINARI's staff in Melaya asked me if I minded staying alone in the guesthouse. Zeruya teased me that he saw strangers lurking there. To me, Belimbingsari felt a bit like a retirement community, but people spoke about it as if it were a ghost town.
I told everyone, sincerely, that I really liked Belimbingsari. The pace was slower. With no other motorbikes in sight, I found myself singing Walking in Memphis during my morning commute. People smiled and waved to me from their lawns. At the guesthouse, mango trees bore fruit as big as footballs. A convenience store owner delighted when I told her my name was Lander, not landung, the Balinese word for "tall." She invited me to stay at her house for my (theoretical) honeymoon.
I admittedly did get a little spooked driving back at night. The coconut trees loomed over the road and threw big shadows from the street lights, making me feel like I was in tiger territory. My chest tightened as I passed under the imposing gate being built at the village entrance.
According to Zeruya, all Balinese villages with sufficient funds erected gates to welcome visitors. But this gate appeared to have been lifted from a medieval fortress. In 2000, when riots on the nearby island of Lombok targeted Chinese-Christians, a mob of Muslims gathered outside Belimbingsari, threatening to attack the community. A rice farmer from the village cut down trees to make a blockade near the location of the gate. He then crouched behind another felled log further back, a hundred Molotov cocktails at the ready.
Although Islam is a minority religion in Bali, half of Melaya's population practiced it. Most came from the island of Java hoping to find work. They boarded ferries and crossed the narrow Bali Strait to the port of Gilimanuk, fifteen kilometers northwest of Melaya. According to the rice farmer, some Muslims resented Christians for their business successes.
The mob at the gate eventually dispersed after Hindus came to protect the villagers. Despite Belimbingsari's origin, I was told that Hindi people and Christians were now on good terms.
Many of DINARI's clients were Muslim. They chatted amicably with Zeruya and the other staff members and did not appear resentful in any way. One store owner did seem bitter, but her animosity was directed at her estranged husband, not DINARI. The man had run off with another woman and Rp. 10 million from a government bank loan.
I asked this store owner and other clients about their dreams for the future. When I had posed the same question to borrowers from Denpasar, many of whom were also Muslim, they told me they hoped to move back to Java where they had family and owned land and homes.
The clients in Melaya hesitated at first to answer, but when Zeruya persisted, they responded that they wanted to improve their living situation. If they rented, they hoped to buy a house. If they were already home owners, they wanted to renovate the kitchen, tile the floor or plaster the walls. They had no intention of leaving Bali.
Recently, DINARI entered a partnership with the Indonesian branch of Habitat for Humanity. The two organizations set the ambitious goal of constructing five thousand homes in West Bali over the next five years.
The project is called Rumah Tumbuh, or "Growing Home." Habitat for Humanity provides no-interest loans to DINARI, which then offers construction financing to existing clients. Initially, borrowers in a community each receive Rp. three million ($250). Using local materials, the people help each other to build "core homes" approximately thirty square meters in size and new outhouses. If a homeowner saves money in the future and qualifies for additional loans, he or she can build out additional rooms. It is hoped that each home will "grow" to 108 square meters, at which point the house can connect to the bathroom.
As DINARI helped its clients around Melaya put down roots in their communities, I wondered about the future of Belimbingsari. Zeruya did not seem overly concerned. Many of the staff already owned land in the village and planned to retire there. I was told that the place got hopping during Easter and Christmas, and I was invited to come back for the Christmas Day service.
I plan to tour Bali by motorbike for a few weeks after my Kiva tenure, and hopefully I can plan my route to be in West Bali on Christmas Day. If I arrive the night before and no one is stirring, I plan to gun my Yamahawg under the new gate until the engine growls like a big cat.
Ferdinand, DINARI's Kiva coordinator and my friend and shepherd in Bali
This is my last post as an active Kiva Fellow. Writing about my experiences has proven one of the most rewarding and enjoyable aspects of my tenure, and I am sincerely grateful to those of you who have read my posts and offered such thoughtful comments. My future is presently unsettled, but I hope that I can continue to have world adventures, find inspiring stories and share them with people like you. I encourage you one more time to watch for new loans from the DINARI Foundation: http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&partner_id=82&status=fundRaising&sortBy=New+to+Old&_tpg=fb/>


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Ready for chemical alternatives assessment? The IC2 can help
In January the Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse (IC2), and participating members published a new guide to chemical alternatives assessment. The IC2 Alternatives Assessment Guide is the product of 20 months of effort by the IC2's members and an extensive stakeholder-engagement process. This Guide is a tremendous resource for pollution prevention practitioners.
How does alternatives assessment relate to pollution prevention? There are many answers to this question, but the bottom line can be summarized in two words: regrettable substitution.
Example: The dirty truth about dry cleaning
One example that illustrates this challenge centers on chlorinated dry-cleaning solvents such perchloroethylene ("perc"). The human and environmental health issues related to perc increasingly have been recognized and many states have implemented programs to help dry cleaners transition away from perc.
A drop-in substitute, n-propyl bromide (nPB, also called 1-bromopropane), is a brominated solvent adopted in the 1990s as a substitute for trichloroethylene (TCE) in vapor degreasing and first marketed as a dry-cleaning solvent in 2006 (PDF). At that time, some people thought nPB might be a safer alternative to perc.
Unfortunately, evidence of nPB's deleterious human and environmental health effects has mounted. These include reproductive/developmental toxicity; neurotoxicity; possible if not probable carcinogenicity; and aquatic toxicity.
In 2012, the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute conducted an assessment of seven alternatives to perc and found nPB to be the least safe. Recently, the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act (TURA) Administrative Council voted to add nPB to its Higher Hazard Substances list. Today, nPB hardly looks like a safer alternative to perc. In cases like this, proactive alternatives assessment can help, to prevent substituting one undesirable process chemical or ingredient for another.
Why we need alternatives assessment
Alternatives assessment largely grew out of toxics use reduction programs and P2. Like P2, AA reflects a changing mindset. Those of us who grew up in the long shadow of DDT, PCBs, asbestos, chlorofluorocarbons and other infamous toxics that were marketed as promising and safe are not so apt to assume that a given chemical carries low inherent hazard. That even useful chemicals may possess previously unrecognized hazard traits has entered the public consciousness.
AA is not merely a new perspective. It emphasizes rigorous evaluation of all options on the basis of their inherent hazard, in addition to performance and cost.
In California, the Safer Consumer Products regulations, which took effect in October, will require manufacturers to assess alternatives to specified chemicals of concern and make the results publicly available (although they may be redacted to protect confidential business information).
Recently, California identified the use of the chlorinated flame retardant tris (1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate in children's foam-padded sleeping products as a priority chemical and is proposing to require manufacturers to evaluate alternatives to TDCPP for this product category. The resulting AAs presumably would question this functional use of flame retardants, not merely the choice of chemical. Asking "Is it necessary?" is a key step in alternatives assessment, as it is in most pollution prevention opportunity assessments.
Companies at the forefront of sustainability have used AA to help satisfy consumer demands; maintain their leadership in the face of an expanding definition of product quality; anticipate and mitigate regulatory and market risk; and reduce costs related to managing hazardous chemicals.
Hewlett-Packard has received considerable attention in recent years for its use of AA and the GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals as it endeavors to eliminate polyvinyl chloride, phthalates, brominated flame retardants, bisphenol A, perfluorinated compounds and other chemicals of high concern from its products. HP Senior Scientist Paul Mazurkiewicz says of the company's actions, "It only makes sense to replace materials with alternatives that are better with respect to EH&S."
Beyond leaders such as HP, it is difficult to know how many companies already employ AA. One complication is the lack of a standard (e.g., ISO) methodology for AA, as there are for other assessment processes such as life cycle assessment (ISO 14040).
Furthermore, businesses are often reluctant to disclose their internal processes. Consequently, we do not know how widely AA is being applied or whether companies are using similar approaches.
How to learn more about AA
At present, tallying the definitions, protocols and guides to AA is like trying to hit a moving target. An OECD 2013 AA meta-review concluded that the many definitions of AA are more alike than different. While some explicitly refer to chemicals alternatives assessment and others do not, most focus on hazard.
Whether one prefers the term alternatives assessment or chemical alternatives assessment, AA is a practical response to growing concerns about chemical hazards, increasing interest in transparency, and a recognition of the data gaps and uncertainty that remain.
The OECD AA meta-review identified several needs: harmonization of approaches; better data gathering and quality; heightened transparency and sharing of information; and improved accessibility to tools and guidance.
The IC2's AA Guide attempts to address some of these gaps. It is designed to help harmonize states' approaches to conducting AAs. The IC2 recognizes the benefits of consistency, as well as the fact that one approach will not work in all situations. Therefore, the Guide describes three approaches to conducting an AA. These frameworks allow the AA practitioner to decide whether it is more appropriate to evaluate different attributes (e.g., hazard, performance, cost and availability, life cycle impacts, social impacts) sequentially, simultaneously or in combination. They are able to select the framework most applicable to their situation. Even so, the AA Guide cannot encompass all scenarios, nor is it the last word.
The IC2 also has developed the Chemical Hazard Assessment Database, which makes it easier for AA and P2 practitioners to locate existing chemical hazard assessments. This resource currently includes 33 assessments, with more to come in the near future. Our collaboration with non-governmental organizations, consultants and businesses makes these efforts possible.
Alternatives assessment is in its adolescence. It is growing rapidly and is not yet mature. Consequently, many stakeholders are working to shape AA, for a great deal is at stake. P2 practitioners have much to offer in guiding this emerging discipline.
I encourage you to roll up your sleeves and get involved. If good AAs of perc as a dry-cleaning solvent had been available 10 years ago, fewer cleaning operations might today be facing a regrettable substitution and might have made a switch to a safer alternative, such as wet cleaning.
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The 6th IEF conference will address the theme "New Ventures and the Creative Trajectory: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity in Business". This event is a collaborative venture between the Riga International School for Economics and Business Administration, in Latvia, the University of Essex Southend, and the OECD LEED Programme.
This conference aims to provide a platform for researchers, policy makers and practitioners to engage in discussion and debate on issues relating to the flow of creative ideas, resources and knowledge between firms, in and across regions and international environments, resulting in the generation of opportunities for new venture creation, growth based on creative talent, creative communities of interest, innovative firms and entrepreneurial locations.
Registration is open. You can download the programme of the conference from this link.
For more information, please contact Ms Kristine Guseva or Ms Sujun Zhang.
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There are many beneficial compounds contained in cannabis, including CBD. CBD can have a positive impact on your health. One of the various ways that it is used it to treat different skin conditions, like acne and eczema. It has shown great potential for assisting people who suffer them these condition, even when other treatments are unable to help.
Maybe one of the main reasons why so many people find chronic skin conditions so frustrating is due to the fact that a majority of pharmaceutical treatments have a tendency to focus on treating the symptoms instead of the root cause that is causing the symptoms in the first place. They might also cause some side effects that are undesirable, and the side effects may continue increase as you keep using the product over time.
That does not occur with CBD, since it offers a plant-based and all natural option. Once you understand the science backing it, you will soon realize the potential it has for finally providing you with the relief you really need.
How To Select The Oil That Is Best For Your Needs
Like with so many other natural products, no regulations have been put into place to test the potency or quality of these products. The labeling of these products is also not regulated the way they are for pharmaceutical drugs. Therefore, it is critically important to conduct research ahead of time and select the company that with provide you with the highest quality of pure CBD oil.
It is best to cut pure CBD oil with organic coconut oil. The mixture can be applied to your skin easily and provide you with beneficial effects that can only be offered by cannabis. Some CBD oil product options also might include other beneficial ingredients as well. The best thing to do is only select ones from a reputable company in order to get the most from what this incredible product can provide to you.
Many people who decide to use CBD oil use it for treating contact dermatitis. This kind of problem might be due to a reaction when coming into contact with an allergen, or coming into contact with a chemical, like a detergent, that irritates your skin. It isn't a really serious condition, however at times the reaction can be unpleasant and severe.
More recently, CBD has been utilized for another skin condition called psoriasis that may be even more serious than dermatitis. The condition is often misunderstood, and scientists still aren't sure what the cause of the problem is. They are unsure how to treat it, so they tend to prescribe a cream that is intended for suppressing the immune system and for treating the symptoms. Due to its anti-inflammatory properties, CBD oil might go well beyond what pharmaceutical drugs are able to do for you and provide you with the relief that you need.
Another very common issue is acne. During the teenage years it occurs more frequently, but adults suffer with it also. In fact, 15% of acne sufferers are adults and some suffer from it chronically. There are numerous washes, creams and pills that might help with suppressing acne symptoms, but CBD might provide beneficial relief that offers permanent treatment for this issue rather than just a temporary solution.
CBD not only is a potentially beneficial skin treatment, but it may also provide beneficial effects for individuals who suffer from various other conditions as well. Some benefits that are offered by CBD include helping with depression and anxiety, benefiting individuals who have neurodegenerative disorders, fighting cancer cells and tumors, reducing inflammation, combating psychotic disorders, reducing seizures and reducing nausea. So it is a promising treatment for a wide range of health conditions.
Recently, the legal use of cannabis for the purposes of medical treatment also had made it possible for using CBD oil in a number of those states as well. It is currently legal in 16 states. However, it is mainly imported from countries outside of the United States. No matter where it happens to come from, as long as it is high quality, CBD oil can benefit your skin problems and your overall health.
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The requirements for voting are simple and clear: You must be a United States citizen, you must be 18, incarcerated felons cannot vote.
Pennsylvania accepts absentee ballots following certain criteria. There is no early voting. Pennsylvania had a voter ID law but it was struck down in 2014. The General Assembly continues to have countless bills introduced and sponsored by special interest and civil liberty groups that are intended to fundamentally change voter access and election outcomes under the guise of "voting reform." These groups are pushing hard to redistrict (aka gerrymander) and centralize votes as well promote no excuse absentee ballots and early voting.
Voter registration is free and accessible to every 18 year old citizen from numerous federal, state, and local venues as well partisan groups. Pennsylvania currently respects local municipalities' right to hold local elections by registered voters. The Butler County Bureau of Elections has on its website voter requirements, poll locations, and other relevant voter information. I get the impression that too many of these groups want to confuse and complicate this process so that the average voter's rights gets lost in a bureaucratic web of regulations. Every item on their agenda raises questions.
On early voting: How do we ensure the integrity of the individual vote?
No excuse" absentee voting opens the door to early voting and questionable accountability.
"Regional Voting Centers" deny the local municipalities of the 10th Amendment right and individual citizens their 9th Amendment right.
By introducing more convoluted regulations into the voting process we are weakening the integrity, character, and accountability of a 241-year-old concept that has stood the test of time.


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SIFE team wins regional competition
DALLAS - The Students in Free Enterprise Team from Wayland Baptist University will be competing May 23-25 in the 2004 SIFE USA National Exposition in Kansas City, Mo. after winning the regional competition in Dallas recently.
The WBU team will be among more than 180 teams from across the nation competing for the national championship and the chance to represent the United States at the SIFE World Cup in Barcelona, Spain.
At regional competition, the team was judged best at teaching people of all ages the principles of free enterprise. Wayland's SIFE not only taught free enterprise, but team members also made a difference in the Plainview community by developing projects to meet specific needs of community members. Some of those projects included computer literacy training and job interview readiness for adults and basic business skills for elementary school students.
In addition to the competition, Wayland SIFE students will have the opportunity at nationals to interview for jobs and internships during a two-day Career Opportunity Fair with representatives from hundreds of companies.
SIFE is a non-profit organization active on more than 1,600 college and university campuses in 40 countries. In partnership with local and area businesses, SIFE provides students the opportunity to develop leadership, teamwork and communication skills through learning, practicing and teaching the principles of free enterprise.


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After a year off the Team Movie wagon, Rome jump back aboard with their anticipated follow up to No Correct Way.
The Shred Remains looks to pick up where NCW left off, by which we mean a banging mix of urban shred, backcountry gnarl and park riding that'll have you hustling to strap in asap. Check it out.
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Rome is making a movie. The team is hard at work on Rome's third full-length film: The Shred Remains. So much goes into making a snowboard movie these days; there are so many adventures that go on behind the scenes that sometimes the making of the movie tends to be just as good a story as the final project.
Everyone involved in The Shred Remains has a lot of experience making snowboard films, so this time around we figured we'd let you in on the ride. This blog will be your ticket to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the new Rome film. Wanna know where Lucas heads to when he's cruising at Baker? How about what tunes MFR is rocking while she's driving? Or how early the crew is leaving in the mornings, or how late they are returning? Curious just how many speeding tickets we get, what kinds of cameras we're using, or how many flat tires and seized sleds we got? Wanna see funny photos from LNP, what new porn Eiki is checking out, or just where in the world Bjorn is? Wanna see some shred photos? We can't promise you we'll show you everything… hell, that's what the final movie is for, but we can promise you an inside look at the life and times of the Rome crew while they do what they do best.
So tune in here, bookmark us, and get ready to go on a ride for the next year and a half as we chase snow around the globe to bring you The Shred Remains in September 2011. And to let you know we're serious about letting you into our project, we decided to leak a little bit of footage to show you just what we've been up to. Welcome and we hope you enjoy!
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The self-proclaimed "America's Toughest Sheriff" is joining forces this weekend with action movie star Steven Seagal to train volunteer armed posse members to defend Phoenix-area schools against gunmen.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced the controversial plan in the wake of the December Newtown, Conn., school shooting that left 27 people dead, including the gunman and 20 first-graders.
The exercise is planned for Saturday at a closed school site in suburban Fountain Hills outside Phoenix where sheriff's SWAT members will act as shooters and 25 teenagers will play the part of students during mock scenarios involving up to three gunmen.
Seagal, best known for his roles in movies such as "Above the Law" and "Under Siege," will lead training on hand-to-hand defense tactics, among other techniques, drawing from his expertise in martial arts, according to a sheriff's office news release.
Arpaio's office didn't respond to requests for comment Friday, and Seagal representatives also did not return telephone messages from The Associated Press.
When faced with criticism in January about the school posse plan, Arpaio snapped back: "Why would people complain about my posse being in front of schools to act as prevention?"
He boldly announced the plan on the grounds of an elementary school, saying at the time he wanted the patrols publicized.
"I want everyone to know about it for the deterrence effect," Arpaio said, adding that no taxpayer money would be spent on the patrols and volunteers will be supervised over the radio or telephone by actual deputies.
Arizona Democratic House Minority Leader Chad Campbell called the plan to use Seagal as an instructor "ludicrous."
"Steve Seagal is an actor. That's it. Why don't we also have Clint Eastwood and Chuck Norris and Bruce Willis come out and train them too while we're at it," Campbell said.
Campbell has been a vocal critic of Arpaio's school posse protection plan, complaining that using untrained, armed civilians to protect students is a bad idea and likely will only make the facilities more dangerous.
"He's making a mockery out of it. You're having a movie actor train people how to protect schools?" Campbell said.
Randy Parraz, president of Citizens for a Better Arizona, also a longtime Arpaio critic, said it's unfortunate the sheriff, known nationally for his tough stance on illegal immigration, is using the "wake of a tragedy like Newtown" to grab headlines.
"We'd like to think he would take something like this much more seriously," said Parraz, who added that his group planned to be at Saturday's event with petitions to recall Arpaio.
The patrols were launched at 59 schools in January throughout unincorporated areas and communities that pay Arpaio's agency for police services. The sheriff announced this week he needs more members to continue the patrols, calling for 1,000 additional citizens to step up and volunteer.
Current posse members already are used to bolster the sheriff's office force by providing police protection at malls during the holidays, directing traffic and transporting people to jail.
Arpaio even sent one group of posse members to Hawaii to conduct an examination into the authenticity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate.
Joselyn Wells, a mother of three children at a school in suburban Phoenix, where Arpaio's posse has begun patrolling, said she was excited to hear about the initiative.
"A lot of people sit around and watch these things happen, watch key signs and no one wants to do anything about it," she said when Arpaio announced the plan. "Nobody wants conflict, nobody wants to be out in the limelight. And he doesn't care. He wants to do the right thing."
Andrew Sanchez, however, a town council member in Guadalupe, said he wants nothing to do with posse members patrolling schools in his community, which spends about $1.2 million annually for Maricopa County sheriff's patrols.
"We are paying him to have certified deputies here, not to bring a circus and not to use our town as a political platform," Sanchez has said.
The volunteers, dressed in uniforms and driving patrol vehicles, some authorized to carry guns after training, won't go onto school grounds unless they spot danger, but will instead patrol around the facilities, Arpaio said.
Seagal is already a volunteer posse member in Maricopa County, and has been deputized with sheriff's offices in New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana, where a film crew followed the actor on ride-alongs with Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies for the reality TV show "Steven Seagal: Lawman."
Arpaio says other notable people also have joined his more than 3,000-strong volunteer armed posse, including "The Incredible Hulk" star Lou Ferrigno and actor Peter Lupus of TV's "Mission: Impossible."


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What you say online can have serious consequences. Especially if you incite a riot ... then one happens. Just ask Philip Scott Burgess.
The 22-year-old British man was given a three-year jail sentence after he pleaded guilty to "publishing written material to stir up racial hatred while encouraging or assisting the commission of a riot," thenextweb.com reports.
"Message to all — we need to start riot'n we need to put Manchester on the map," Burgess posted to his Facebook profile. "First lets riot king street Manchester, haha."
Sure, people write this kind of stuff all the time. But Burgees chose to do it Aug. 9, the same day as the London riots. This brings into question whether writing the post itself would have been enough to sentence Burgess. Or, did it take the post paired with actual rioting to draw law enforcement's attention? Either way, police said they gave fair warning.
"At the time of the disorder, we made a public pledge to our communities that we would pursue not just those involved in looting, violence or arson, but those who used social networking sites to stir up trouble and encourage others to get involved," Assistant Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said.
So before your next post, think it through. The police might be able to use it against you later.


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I received the following press release from Elissa Powell, the Co-Director of GRIP. I am excited about this new genealogy institute and the courses they are offering. It is a great addition to the genealogy education community.
February 2, 2012
Registration for the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) will begin on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at Noon (Eastern Time). The four course coordinators have proven popular at institutes and conferences. Thomas W. Jones, Ph.D., CG, CGL, will coordinate the "Advanced Research Methods" that he also offers at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. John Humphrey, CG, will offer his "German Genealogical Research" course that he presented at the Institute for Genealogy and Historical Research at Samford University last year. Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, and D. Joshua Taylor have created new courses for GRIP in which they will each teach in both. These are "Intermediate Genealogy: Tools for Digging Deeper" and "Beneath the Home Page: Problem Solving with Online Repositories."
The courses are expected to fill quickly and waiting lists will be created when they do. In addition to the daytime courses, students may attend evening lectures which will also be open to the public. Two of the four evening lectures will be sponsored by the Great Lakes Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists, and by the North Hills Genealogists of Pittsburgh.
GRIP courses provide a week-long intensive educational opportunity for hands-on learning in a community atmosphere. For more information please see www.GRIPitt.org where you may subscribe to email notifications.
Elissa PowellCo-Director, GRIP


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Mega Millions Numbers for $297 Million Jackpot Drawn
The numbers for Friday night's Mega Millions with a $297 million jackpot have been drawn.
Friday night's numbers are: 11,29,44,63, 64 and the Mega Ball is 3. The Megaplier is 3.
The multi-state lottery has not had a winner in 18 drawings going back to October 1. Friday's jackpot had a cash value of $158.9 million.
If there's no winner on Friday the jackpot will grow to $344 million for next Tuesday, according to Judith Drucker, spokesperson for the New Jersey Lottery.
Players have a 1 in 258,890,850 chance of hitting all five numbers and the gold Mega Ball to claim the jackpot but New Jersey has been a very lucky state for jackpot winners in the Powerball and Mega Millions games.
Angel Guallpa-Mayancela of Orange claimed a jackpot of $89 million in January, Giuseppe "Joe" Garofalo of Tinton Falls won a $99 million jackpot in May while Darryl and Judy Smith of Mays Landing also won a $30 million jackpot in May.
Those winnings were overshadowed by the larger jackpots for Powerball also sold in New Jersey this year. Two of three winning Powerball tickets for a $411 million jackpot in August were sold to the "Ocean's 16″ group of Ocean County employees who pooled their money to purchase a ticket and Mario Scarnici of Monmouth Junction.
Pedro Quezada of Passaic won a $338 million Powerball jackpot in March but has since run into legal issueswith a former girlfriend who claims she should be awarded part of the jackpot since they have been in a relationship for 10 years, have a child together and are business partners in a Passaic grocery store.
Mega Millions made several rule changes in October to allow for higher, faster growing jackpots without raising the ticket price. The changes were also aimed at giving more players the opportunity to win prizes.
"As of the last draw, we had over 1.8 million people in New Jersey alone winning more than $4.48 million," Drucker said. "The goal of spreading out the wealth, and really getting a lot of excitement going throughout the community, is happening."
Tickets for Mega Millions are sold in 43 states and the District of Columbia including New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Be the first to know what Friday's Mega Millions numbers are by texting NEWS to 89000.
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Hi Martin,
There is quite a difference in low end between an 11m Enduro and a 12m Hyperlink. The Hyperlink has more projected area so it is closer to the lowend of the 14m EnduroV2. Add to that the small packing size and weight and it will work out a lot better for traveling with than a 15m Tube kite.


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Home » Products » KVM-OVER-IP Switches » Dominion® KX II-101
The Raritan Dominion KX II-101 is a single port, KVM-over-IP switch that provides the secure BIOS level IP access and control of a full-featured KVM-over-IP switch in an inexpensive, portable, non-blocking, palm-size package.
It's perfect for branch offices, development and test labs, and non-traditional environments like: Retail/point-of-sale displays, signage and kiosks; or temporary applications for conventions, construction, medical, and military applications.
Palm-size and portable, it can also be mounted on the side of a rack, making it ideal for small, remote locations with limited space.
LAN, WAN, Internet, mobile & dial-up access, allowing up to 8 remote admins BIOS-level access to troubleshoot, reconfigure, reboot and power cycle servers remotely.
Comes equipped with virtual media to enable remote tasks such as software installation, remote booting and diagnostics, using a variety of CD, DVD, USB, internal and remote drives and images.
When used with Raritan's CommandCenter Secure Gateway, scales to accommodate hundreds of users and thousands of devices, and switch power equipment on or off with a single click.
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Power up, power down or power cycle servers connected to optional Raritan PX iPDUs. A single click allows you to re-boot a hung or crashed server.
The Dominion KXII-101 is equipped with a multifunction serial port for local administration, remote power control or optional modem for out-of-band access.
Remotely access digital applications on remote servers up to and including 1920x1080 HD video resolution, and advanced color calibration.


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Updated 2016
If paradise had a seminar on keeping it real, the result would be Mauritius. Tropical yet grounded, this island off the eastern coast of Madagascar gets the travelers that aren't star-struck by the luxury resorts of Seychelles yet still want to be dazzled by white sand beaches and water a very bright, very clear, blue.
Mauritius has been passed around between the Dutch, French and British and each has left their own mark on the island, whether it's from introducing certain animal or plant life, leaving some of their own people, or killing off the dodo bird.
What to do
When Arab sailors discovered Mauritius, the island was covered in a thick forest only limited by the beach. A thriving ecosystem still exists and tours of nature reserves and rainforests are still popular among the local backpackers that come to the island.
The north east portion of the island is considered the tourist center both for its attractions and the concentration of restaurants and nightlife. Search out the Balaclava Ruins before lunch and mountain bike or hike the Labourdonnais Orchards in the afternoon. A wide variety of tropical fruit trees and exotic flowers will be your reward.
Read: Mauritius: An Exquisite Land in Paradise.
Getting there
Route your trip through South Africa, Zimbabwe, Britain, Austria or India. All have flights landing in Mauritius.
Read: Paradise Lost & Found: Mauritius.
Where to stay
Mauritius is full of five star resorts and luxury hotels, but compared to Seychelles, the hotels are a bargain. For budget hotels, the Beachcomber hotels are a good bet or La Maison d'Ete.
There is also quite a collection of hostels available for a tropical kind of place. If you're looking for recommendations for a certain type of hostel, check out the message boards.


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Quote Tom:
It seems to me that people who are so dependent on a tool like Artisteer to create the web design and programming for their clients wouldn't just lash out about the responsive web design. Considering they are doing 80-90 percent of your job, you should be happy. Artisteer is great but if you truly want to offer responsive web design then go learn one of the grid systems and do it yourself. Otherwise, be happy that you get such a great tool for less than $100.
Just my personal opinion.
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Well, it would help me alot to know how to make an artisteer website be responsive enough to be viewed on a smart phone...even if it meant changing some of the coding.
Many templates/themes nowadays are being made responsive... i was hoping Artisteer would do the same. Maybe they have but at this point I need some instructions along with the beta version to make it work.
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I actually have started converting the artisteer files into responsive layouts. The beauty of artisteer is that it always created the same code as in what the containers are called.
Heres' a great tutorial about how you can convert themes in general:
Here you can see one I have converted but it's still in work.
I was working on a cheat sheet of the steps to convert it to make it faster. Unfortunately, I'm not a programmer otherwise I would convert it into a plug-in
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Common, man, under Options for whole theme, do you have Responsive
Web Design option? If not, download this version: http://www.artisteer.com/?p=affr&redirect_url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.artisteer.com%2fmedia%2fp4%2ffiles%2fArtisteer.184.108.40.206066.exe
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How to make Joomla template created with Artisteer 4.x responsive:
1. When exporting template be sure you selected YES for responsive design.
2. Open file script.responsive.js with Notepad (can be found in the root of exported .zip)
3. At the beginning change values to "true" instead of "false", to look like this:
var responsiveDesign = {
isResponsive: true,
isDesktop: true,
isTablet: true,
isPhone: true,
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Due to the pandemic, CUB's in-person events have been postponed. But we are still serving you. Please check CUBHelpCenter.com to see a full list of CUB's free services during this crisis.
Thinking about going solar? Residents throughout Cook, Kane, DuPage, and Will counties have an opportunity to participate in Solarize Chicagoland, a grassroots program combining volume purchasing with community education to make solar more accessible and affordable.
Regardless of where you live in the counties, you can participate in any of the free informational Solar Power Hours. You'll learn about the basics of solar, its financial implications for a household, and how the solar group buy program works. After the session, get a free, no-obligation site assessment from the competitively selected installer. You have until September 30, 2019, to decide whether to get solar through the program.
Click here to sign up for updates! or visit: http://www.SolarizeChicagoland.com to learn more.
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As reported on BBC 1's The One Show on 15th Sept (the item is at 17' 55") new research from Professor Rami Abboud at Dundee University has shown that a change in running style will help reduce stress injuries and wear on your joints.
Denise and I were watching the US Open Tennis men's final between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic when we heard commentator Leif Shiras quote Henry Ford.
Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad has, at the age of 64, become the first person to swim the 112 miles from Cuba to Florida without the aid of a shark cage. Setting off from Hemmingway Marina in Cuba on Saturday 31st of August she reached Key West, Florida after a swim of 53 hours.
At the age of 100, French cyclist Robert Marchand has set a new age-group world record for the fastest 100 kilometres on the track. The new time stands at 4 hours 17 minutes 27 seconds and was set at the Tete-d'Or Velodrome in Lyons, France. The time has been ratified by the French National Cycling Federation.
At 68 years old, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, dubbed the World's Greatest Living Explorer, is about to embark on his latest venture. He will lead a 14-month expedition
On 26th August 2012 at Penticton, British Columbia, Canada Sister Madonna Buder became the oldest person ever to complete an Ironman triathlon, at the age of 82,
At 98, Sapporo Cho-ochi lives his life like a man with plenty of time ahead of him.
This 72-year-old Swedish woman shows once again that age is no barrier. Even if you don't speak Swedish...
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The three seed Gators face No. 15 seed Florida Gulf Coast at 9:57 p.m. Friday in Arlington, Texas on TBS in the NCAA Tournament South Region semifinal.
The three seed Gators face No. 15 seed Florida Gulf Coast at 9:57 p.m. Friday in Arlington, Texas, on TBS in the NCAA Tournament South Region semifinal.
The Eagles are the lowest-seeded team to make the Sweet 16.
A scouting report on Florida Gulf Coast University:
City: Fort Myers
Record: 26-10
Coach: Andy Enfield (41-27 in two seasons at FGCU)
Tournament record: 2-0, after defeating second-seeded Georgetown 78-68 on Friday and No. 7 San Diego State, 81-71, on Sunday.
Last tournament appearance: Never. Florida Gulf Coast is in its second year of Division I basketball.
Bid: Atlantic Sun Conference champion.
Key players: Guard Sherwood Brown (15.3 ppg, 6.4 rpg); G Brett Comer (6.3 assists per game, 16th nationally); Bernard Thompson is fourth in the country in steals at 2.7 a game.
Best win: 63-51 vs. Miami, which is also in the Sweet 16.
Worst loss: Swept by Lipscomb, 87-78 and 84-74
Breaking it down: Gulf Coast is 18th in the nation in steals.The Eagles have outscored foes by 162 in the first half, 72 in the second and been outscored by 15 in overtime. The Eagles have won seven straight games. FGC struggles protecting the ball, averaging 14.6 turnovers a game (274th in the nation) and is 180th nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (0.96). The Eagles are also a poor free-throw shooting team, ranking 225th at 67.7 percent. FGC scores at a solid rate, but ranks 179th in scoring defense at 66.7 points allowed per game. FGC is battle tested. In addition to Miami, the Eagles played Duke, Iowa State and VCU, but lost to those three teams. Of note: Have own rap song and video, "Dunk City." Coach Andy Enfield served as a Florida State assistant from 2006-11.


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Software Company necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 122 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
Software Company
We are a pretty well known software company from Amsterdam. Right now our business name is: VBVB Business Solutions (http://www.vbvbbs.nl) which we are going to change to: 'Software Company' soon.
Because of that we had our logo redesigned on 99designs. And now we're ready for the next stip: our stationary.
What do we do?
Our company is specialized in consulting in financial software, CRM software and online research software. We are pretty big in the creative and non-profit sector in Amsterdam. So that's the descisionmakers we want to reach (without loosing our professional image).
We take a company to the next (software) level in order to help them grow their business. That's what we're good in. And we want to show this ambition in our stationary design.
We want to have a clean and different image compared to our (mostly boring) competitors.
Our buyers can choose from a lot of potential suppliers. Most of them are 'standard Web1.0 IT-companies' with boring names and boring logo's.
We would like to provide them a refreshing alternative to choose from.
There are two steriotype buyers, mainly from the creative sector in Amsterdam:
1. The financial professional (or CFO) who is looking for new financial (bookkeeping) software for the company. He/she is typically 45 years old and cost driven. He has to be sure that the solution (and partner) he chooses are the right choice for the company.
2. The entrepreneur or owner. 35 years old. Sees the advantages that IT-solutions can bring for his company. He is typically a buyer that looks further then only the financial part. So upselling to him is easier as short term costs are less important compared to the long term savings he will have.
We are looking for a Clean and open design based on our already (on 99designs) designed logo.
You are free to play a little with the text under our logo ('software company' and 'expert in business software') but have to leave the total look n feel and the SC-icon in tact.
Please only use the three colors of our logo and black and make use of enough white space in your designs.
You may use images for the folder and leaflet/whitepaper design. But please stay away from 'standard business men' and too obvious stockphoto's.
We need:
1. Business card
2. Letterhead design (header and footer to use in Word template)
3. With compliment cards
4. Address (return) stickers
5. An A4 leaflet/whitepaper template
6. An A4 folder for quotes and info
And at the end we need a new website based on these designs...
We try to provide feedback as soon as possible, but at least once every day.
As soon as we have received the first entry which gives us the right feeling we will make this contest guaranteed.
The first design with a 5 star rating will win the contest. If at the end there will be a couple of equals we'll vote for a winner.
Thanks for your entries!
Tim Kieft