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flid2 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 93 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
I am an entrepreneur that is almost ready to launch a new web service to connect companies and organizations with temporary and part time workers. To start off it will be a search engine that allows employers to search for their perfect "temp" based on their criteria. I am looking to have a similar "simple" but "playful" feel to Google which has a very simple platform but a playful logo that changes with the occasion (Google examples: http://bit.ly/c8da2U ).
The main site is aimed at companies and organizations who regularly hire temp or part time workers. These companies can be large firms with clerical work, companies that exhibit at trade shows that need help in their booth, companies who hire seasonal professionals and others.
The site will also be friendly to the temp workers which are students, professionals looking for seasonal work and people looking for part time work.
I am looking for a very simple logo for a new website. The logo should be unique to the company and use negative space to create a unique image.
Some Examples of Logos that I like are:
Google – Very simple and distinct. The whole logo is just the name but if you look at the letter or the colors, you see Google right away.
FedEx – I Like the use of the letters and space to form the arrow between the "E" and the "X". Even if this font was common, the use of space would make this logo unique.
McDonalds – McDonald's "M" is recognizable from anywhere. Anyone who sees the "M" thinks of the company right away. They've also marketed the brand like crazy but the look is still very unique.
Some examples of "negative" space can be found at the following links:
The name of the site is "Temphunt" as in a "hunt" for "temp workers", where the "temp" is the worker/employee and the "hunter" is the employer. Feel free to play around with the "hunting for temps" idea and image but please stay away from guns and anything violent. I'd like to keep it playful.
I have attached a screen shot of the site as it is now. I am looking to place the logo above the search bar instead of the "looking to hire?". I would also like a slogan (or at least an option for one) underneath the logo. The working slogan is "Your Source for Temps" but could change. The colors should work with the current design but don't hesitate to submit alternate colors if you feel that they would work better.
Please DO NOT use stock photos or clipart.
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The data model of the ÚAP JMK was acquired as part of the "Study of the proposal and upkeeping of the current status of the monitored phenomena of the ÚAP of the South Moravian Region" from 2007 by AGERIS s.r.o. Its objective was to describe the basic methodological principles of developing the ÚAP from the provision of land-related data up to the creation of data as a background for analysing the spatial sustainable development.
The data model of the ÚAP JMK has been developed to facilitate the sharing and exchange of data between the providers or land-related data, the region and the individual municipalities with extended competence (ORP) in the South Moravian Region and it is continuously updated. It includes a logical and physical data model.
The legal consequences of using the JMK data model are covered by the copyright of the data model. Without the producer's consent, the study may not be used for other purposes than the development of land-use analytical data to the municipalities in the South Moravian Region. No factual modifications may be made in the study (in particular the data model) without the consent of OÚPSŘ JMK.
The index of the data providersis an open list of land data providers. Each provider is designated by a 4-figure code consisting of one letter and three digits. Furthermore, the ID No. and the ZÚJ codes are used to distinguish between the providers. The providers' index is continuously updated by the OÚPSŘ JMK.
This site publishes the current versions of the data model (logical and physical) and index of providers. Older versions of the data model are stored in an archive.

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City of Winnipeg Event Calendar
Please check back regularly for updates as events, including Schedules of Meetings, are subject to change.
Ad hoc committees, sub-committees and task forces are listed at the discretion of the respective chairperson and/or upon request of any member of Council.
Last update: June 18, 2018


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GAME has a shot at relevancy with the Christmas Tinner, cursed festive food in a can
Remember GAME – that shop we used to buy video games from?
Christmas headlines
Outside Xbox & Outside Xtra Top Amazon music charts with charity single
The amazing team at Outside Xbox and Outside Xtra are currently top of the Amazon music chart.
Fortnite: take a look at the new sword and a bunch of cool Xmas skins
Update: Epic Games has confirmed the ice sword is the next weapon to be added to Fortnite.
A very merry VG247 Christmas: wishlists and happy memories
Whatever you're celebrating this holiday season – and we hope at the very least it's "a day off" or "time and a half" – VG247 would like to share its non-denominational cheer with you.
MMO Winter Festivities: WoW, GW2, Lotro, SWTOR, Neverwinter, more
Plenty of MMOs are hosting holiday events or other sorts of festivities between now and the new year, so instead of creating a news post for each one, I thought I would round a few up for you instead. Get the list full of acronyms below.
Christmas 2011: We've called it
If you have a merrily on high, it's time for the ding dong. We're stopping the full-time news here, but we'll have any major stories and monthly retrospective features every day throughout the Christmas break.
Merry Christmas: You're nothing but a punk, says EA
EA's release a message of Christmas cheer to all of you. After the break. Is it time to start drinking yet?
Euro Vita out 2012, Sony being secretive over launch plans
Sony intends to skip the Christmas period with Vita in Europe, instead launching it in 2012, VG247 has learnt.
Rumour: iPhone 5 launch to clash with NGP release
Business Insider has reported that the next iteration of Apple's ubiquitous iPhone won't go into production until September 2011, meaning it may not be here until early 2012. That could ruin Christmas for a lot of people.
Christmas - we're (almost) calling it
Screw you guys.
Source: PSP2 to release Holiday 2011
Developers and publishers have been told that PSP2 will release at the end of next year, a British source familiar with the matter has told VG247.
Christmas: we're calling it
Before I descend into writing stories about some mad woman that called the police because her son was playing GTA in the middle of the night, I'm going to stop for Christmas.As you've no doubt noticed, our post-rate's dropped off steadily over December: Steph's taking a well-earned rest; Nathan's doing whatever it is Texan students […]
Rare 360 theme goes live on Live, postcard brings Rarey cheer
Rare's just popped its own Christmas theme up on Live. Yours for 240MSP. Get it here.If that wasn't enough Rare in your life, the developer's also released its Christmas card.This obviously means that Killer Instinct 3's in development. Merry bloody Christmas, Rare people. Have a good one.
Common Sense Media lists games to avoid buying for your kids
Common Sense Media has released its annual list of 10 games parents should avoid purchasing, wrapping, and setting under the tree this year.Titled "10 Cool Games That Are Uncool for Kids", the list offers "safe alternatives" for each title that is currently popular and not safe for children.Here it is: Assassin's Creed (Mirror's Edge) Borderlands […]
Microsoft: "Credit crunch means more quality family time this Christmas"
Bailiffs at the door? Repossession notices hidden from the wife at the back of the shed? The holes in little Billy's shoes impossible to disguise any more? Don't worry: buy an Xbox 360 and the global financial disaster will be a million miles away this Christmas.In what probably isn't the most tasteful press release in […]
Christmas latest
GAME has a shot at relevancy with the Christmas Tinner, cursed festive food in a can
Outside Xbox & Outside Xtra Top Amazon music charts with charity single
Fortnite: take a look at the new sword and a bunch of cool Xmas skins
MMO Winter Festivities: WoW, GW2, Lotro, SWTOR, Neverwinter, more
Rare 360 theme goes live on Live, postcard brings Rarey cheer
Common Sense Media lists games to avoid buying for your kids
Microsoft: "Credit crunch means more quality family time this Christmas"


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Connections Service is a recovery-focused program that provides supports and opportunities to adults living with mental illness such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or bipolar disorder, and who also experience substantial functional challenges in their day-to-day lives.
These supports and opportunities include:
- Improving life skills (cooking, shopping, budgeting, bus training, etc)
- Finding employment
- Taking part in education opportunities
- Making friends
- Providing treatment, medication and symptom monitoring
- Helping to find and maintain an apartment
- Working with your family and friends
- Getting involved in individual's community
- Promoting health and wellness
All services provided are tailored to meet the needs of the individuals and their families. They may be offer at the Connections site or in the community.
Location, hours and contact information
Connections Dartmouth
16 Portland Street
Dartmouth, NS B2Y 1G9
Tel: 902-464-3588 | Fax: 902-464-3566
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Connections Halifax
1221 Barrington Street
Halifax, NS B3J 1Y2
Tel: 902-473-7114 | Fax: 902-473-6259
Drop-In Hours: Times for participants to drop-in without scheduled appointments
Monday 9:00 am -3:00 pm
Tuesday 9:00 am-1:00 pm
Wednesday 1:00 pm -8:00 pm
Thursday 9:00 am -1:00 pm
Friday 9:00 am -3:00 pm
Programs and Appointments: Regular hours are for participants who have scheduled appointments or are attending a program
Monday 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Tuesday 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Wednesday 10:30 am - 8:00 pm
Thursday 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Friday 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Connections Sackville - Cobequid Community Health Centre
40 Freer Lane, Room 3193
Lower Sackville, NS B4C 0A2
Tel: 902-865-2472 | Fax: 902-865-6268
Daily: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Each Connections Service has a different schedule for Drop-In Programming. Please contact Connections Services for further information at 902 464-6024.
How do I get an appointment?
A referral from your doctor, psychiatrist, mental health clinician or community agency is required. The referral needs to be faxed to the Centralized Intake of Recovery and Integration Services at 902 464-6142.


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Global Retail Placemaking - What is the Role of Retail in Placemaking? December 2016
Placemaking is a much-discussed topic that—like "omnichannel," "the Internet of Things," and other ongoing trends—has become a talking point without necessarily having acquired an agreed-upon definition.
To help address this, we uncovered 22 examples of properties around the world which highlight the role that retail plays in establishing a place. Very simply, we found that placemaking is an effort to draw people to a place by creating compelling reasons for them to visit.


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Wild Sockeye Salmon Fillets
$20.50 Per Lb
Awesome wild sockeye salmon fillets – no doubt about it!
Is the BBQ ready? Is your chef's hat on? When it's seafood time, make St. Jean's Wild Pacific Sockeye Salmon filletsthe highlight of your next meal!
- Frozen Product: Ships separately from 'Dry' Products
NOTE: This is a frozen product and ships separately from 'Dry Products'. Shipping charges include frozen gel packs, packaging and styro cooler. Once ordered, you will be contacted by a St.Jean's Cannery representative to arrange a shipping date.
Retail Shipping
Products ship within 3 days from our warehouse.These shipping prices do not apply to Sport Fish orders. Please contact us toll free at 1-866-754-3191, email@example.com or visit here for more information on sport fish shipping rates.
|Canadian Non Perishable (Dry) Shipping Rates
|Standard (5-10 business days)
|Expedited (2-3 business days)
|Flat Rate for all of Canada
|USA Non Perishable (Dry) Shipping Rates
|Flat rate for all of United States excluding Alaska and Hawaii
|We will call you to schedule a shipping date
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For Alaska, Hawaii and International Shipping: Please call us toll free at 1-866-754-3191 for more information.
Returns and Refunds
If you are dissatisfied with your order for any reason, please contact us right away and we'll figure out the best way to straighten out the problem. You can return your unopened non-perishable retail items within 30 days for a prompt refund or exchange. Unfortunately, the original shipping charges are not refundable. Please mail your return in a prepaid, traceable package to:
St. Jean's Cannery and Smokehouse 242 Southside Drive Nanaimo, BC, Canada V9R 6Z5 Tel: 250-754-2185 Fax: 250-754-5923 Toll Free: 1-866-754-3191 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
If you have any questions or issues with your processed sport fish, we'd like to help you out right away; please contact us at 1-866-754-3191 or email@example.com.


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Back by popular demand, the pitter patter of little paws will be heard from coast-to-coast as pets both big and small make their way to Kimpton hotels nationwide to celebrate the return of Santa Paws.
On Dec. 8 and 9, participating hotels will transform their living room lobbies into an animal's winter paradise with Santa Paws, offering pet holiday treats (human treats too!) and photo opportunities with Santa. Kimpton encourages its furry, four-legged guests and their human companions to bring their own cameras and smart phones to snap posed pictures to their heart's content.
While dogs seem to delight in Santa Paws the most with wagging tails at the ready, Kimpton's Santa Paws is an inclusive and diverse event, welcoming all pets as long as they can fit through the front door. In addition, to help animals less fortunate, many of the weekend's events will benefit non-profit animal shelters and welfare organizations to spread some holiday cheer.
This year, the Santa Paws event will take place at Kimpton hotels in 21 cities from 2pm to 4pm on Saturday, Dec. 8 and Sunday, Dec. 9. In most cases, the event will happen on both days at the same location, however there are some exceptions. A complete list of participating hotels can be found below:
Alexis Hotel – Seattle, WA
Canary Hotel – Santa Barbara, CA
Cypress Hotel – Cupertino, CA
EPIC Hotel – Miami, FL
Ink48 Hotel – New York, NY -Only Saturday, December 8
70 park avenue – New York, NY (Only Sunday, December 9)
Hotel Allegro – Chicago, IL
Hotel La Jolla – La Jolla, CA
Hotel Lumen – Dallas, TX
Hotel Marlowe – Cambridge, MA
Hotel Monaco – Alexandria, VA
Hotel Monaco – Baltimore, MD – Only Saturday, December 8
Hotel Monaco – Denver, CO
Hotel Monaco – Portland, OR
Hotel Monaco – Salt Lake City, UT
Hotel Monaco – Washington, DC
Hotel Palomar – Philadelphia, PA
Hotel Palomar – Phoenix, AZ
Hotel Solamar – San Diego, CA
Prescott Hotel – San Francisco, CA
Surfcomber Hotel – Miami, FL
The Grand Hotel – Minneapolis, MI
Vero Beach Hotel & Spa – Vero Beach, FL
Cuddly best friends shouldn't have all of the fun! During Santa Paws weekend, as well as throughout the winter season, travelers can book the "Cocktails for a $1 More" promotion to delight in treats of their own. By paying only $1 more above the best available rate, guests enjoy two complimentary cocktails per night while staying at any Kimpton hotels.
To learn more about Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, visit www.KimptonHotels.com.
Tags: hotel, kimpton, pet-friendly. boutique


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Moravian Church
Moravian Church, Renewed Church of the Brethren, or Unitas Fratrum (yōōnē´täs frä´trŏŏm), an evangelical Christian communion whose adherents are sometimes called United Brethren or Herrnhuters. It originated (1457) near Kunwald, Bohemia, among some of the followers of John Huss and was originally known as the Church of the Brotherhood. A break between the new brotherhood and the Roman Church occurred in 1467, and persecution drove many of the Brethren out of Bohemia and Moravia into Poland, Austria, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. The Moravians established excellent schools and printing presses, but by the end of the Thirty Years War (1648), only a remnant of the original movement remained.
In 1722 a company of those still faithful to the teachings of the Brethren took refuge in Saxony, where they built a town, Herrnhut, reviving the elements of the original church and founding the Renewed Moravian Church (1727). The church's missionary endeavors soon extended to the West Indies, North and South America, Africa, and Asia, chiefly under the direction of August Gottlieb Spangenberg, who later became (1735) the founder of the Moravian Church in America. Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Lititz, Pa., were founded (c.1740) as Moravian settlements, and missionary work among Native Americans and white settlers was actively carried on.
In 1999 the U.S. church joined with several others in establishing full communion with the country's largest Lutheran denomination. During the late 20th cent. the church experienced increasing growth outside of its well-established communities. By 2000 church membership was about 50,000 in the United States and 700,000 worldwide, with about half of the worldwide total in Tanzania.
The Moravians emphasize conduct rather than doctrine, and their church is governed by provincial synods, the bishops having only spiritual and administrative authority. The music in Moravian churches is famous, especially the part-singing of the congregations.
See historical studies by E. Langton (1956) and J. T. Hamilton (1989); E. A. Sawyer, All about the Moravians (1990).


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People are heading to the gym
With the new year approaching, people often make resolutions, with one of the more popular ones being getting in shape.
Kelly Cannon, director of the Woodmen Community Center, said the center has seen an increase in membership
�This time of year people are setting new goals for the new year,� she said. �Usually people have weight loss goals so they come join the center and hopefully they can stick to it throughout the year.�
Cannon said in order to succeed, people need to do more than just want to exercise.
�It has to be a lifestyle change,� she said. �You can�t just say I�m going to do this for a couple of days. You have to change and modify everything in your life according to what you eat and exercise. It has to be a change in mindset and usually people who do that are successful in their goals.�
Blake Cates, a trainer at Gold's Gym in Kinston, said she has seen membership increase around 20 percent during the last few weeks.
�Everybody is getting geared up for 2014,� she said.
Cates said new members are assessed so trainers can help in creating workouts to best fit the member.
�We start with them where they are and then we work with them,� she said. �When we do physical training we track their progression every month as they work out.�
Hattie Strickland, of Dover, said she plans on working out more in 2014.
She said she consults with a nurse at North Carolina Health Smart along with her doctor to help get in better shape. She said she sticks to the same workout plan each time she hits the gym.
�I walk at least two miles, use a couple of the machines and then ride on the bike for a while,� she said.
Hannah Vermillion said she works out every day.
She uses the elliptical machines and participates in Extreme Fit at the Woodmen Center.
While other people may have a goal of slimming down, Brad Kornegay said he wants to bulk up and increase his muscle mass.
�It will take eating the right foods along with proper supplements,� he said.
He said he works out for an hour and a half five to six times a week.
Cates said although many people slack off from their resolution, it�s important to keep exercising if people want to achieve their goals.
�They key is being consistent and having someone to hold you accountable,� she said.
Noah Clark can be reached at 252-559-1073 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @nclark763.
Tips for staying in shape in 2014
1. Set specific, measureable, and manageable goals. Plan to start exercising for 15 minutes, three times a week. Another example is to weigh yourself weekly on the same day. Track your work by writing it down.
2. Use a variety of reminders. Schedule your exercise sessions on your calendar like any other appointment. Get gym clothes ready ahead of time and stationed at the door. Ask people to remind you.
3. Plan ahead for a non-food reward. Accomplishing one of your fitness goals? -- treat yourself to something special.
4. Get a good pair of workout shoes. Your feet are worth it and it is part of the stage of getting ready.
5. Find a buddy, a class, or a group. Evidence supports that going alone is not as successful as going buddy or joining a group class.
6. Start slowly. Most people try to do too much when they start exercising so break up your exercise into segments throughout the day. Never start with long workouts.
Source: Constance E. Hengel, Director, Community Programming and Development
Lenoir Memorial Hospital


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UCLA Bruins (33-3) vs. Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (29-6)
When: 9:40 p.m. ET
Where: Phoenix
UCLA Bruins
1. Worst Case Scenario already happened. When three of your top five players each have the worst offensive game of their UCLA career on the same night, and you still pull off the W, it's a pretty damn good sign. Against Texas A&M, Josh Shipp was scoreless for the first time since 2004, Luc Richard M'bah a Moute had eight turnovers and blew countless layups, and Russell Westbrook was out of control playing at 800 miles per hour. Still, Kevin Love and Darren Collison held it down and trademark Howlandesque lockdown defense over the last 10 minutes won the game. There's no way UCLA can play worse than that. All you Alfred Aboya groupies better start making San Antonio travel plans today.
2. Wild Accusations! Yeah, so over the past couple weeks, some whiny
vaginas people have claimed that UCLA has received favorable calls in the waning seconds of close games. These expert analysts accurately point out that the referees have been paid off by UCLA, and that they are favorable to the Bruins because John Wooden is recovering from an unfortunate fall, and a UCLA championship would be a feel-good story. While most UCLA fans have provided thoughtful rebuttals to these accusations, I'll just go ahead and admit that yes, we paid the referees off. That's really the only legitimate explanation. Expect calls to go our way throughout the remainder of the tournament. Sorry. Maybe your favorite team should have thought of that first.
3. No Joak. As I now live in Gainesville, let me be the first to congratulate the Florida Gators in making their third straight final four appearance. What a feat! Here in Titletown, USA, the atmosphere is electric! The weather is heating up, pool parties are in full swing, and scantily clad UF co-eds are expecting nothing less than back to back to back National Basketball Championships! Fortunately for UCLA fans, the Gators are not
on our side of the bracket in our tournament, so we will avoid the Billy D kryptonite that has destroyed us over the past two years. You can't spell NIT without Nick Calathes! — Trevor Gribble
1. Soapbox Moment. We've beaten Drake and San Diego to get to this point. Sounds like we're participating in The Waffle House Invitational over Christmas, rather than the NCAA tournament. I did find it odd that no one gave us a chance against Drake. And then I figured out why...we didn't participate in the ESPN Bracket Buster. You see, this is the only point of reference for the talking heads regarding mid-majors. Yet, the best mid-majors do not participate (West Coast Conference and Atlantic-10). WKU elected not to play along after two years ago drawing a home game against Northern Arizona. The Lumberjacks came to Kentucky on a February Saturday for an afternoon tilt, after playing a league (Big Sky) game on Thursday Night. Needless to say, there are no direct flights from Flagstaff to Bowling Green, KY. Well, we returned the game this season and it proved to be our worst loss of the season. What does all this mean for us against UCLA? Absolutely nothing, but hopefully it proves that the Bracketbuster is a sham event that does more harm than good for mid-majors.
2. Ellis Island, Kentucky. You might think that the WKU roster would be full of slow kids who need four picks to get a shot off. But you would be so wrong! We are doing our best to diversify the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Our backup point guard is named Orlando Mendez-Valdez. We have two players hailing from Africa (Desiree Gabou - Ivory Coast, Boris Siakam -Cameroon) and one from Asia (Japeth Aguilar - Philippines). Japeth was the only Filipino-born player in the NCAA this season. At WKU? Who'da thunk it?
3. Random Facts. Courtney Lee needs 16 points to become the all-time leading scorer in WKU history. Coach Darrin Horn and assistant Cypheus Bunton were a part of the last WKU team to reach the Sweet 16, in 1993. Another assistant, Scott Cherry, won a title as a player at North Carolina and was an assistant on George Mason's Final Four team. Although the Hilltoppers might have snuck up on you this season, we do have a solid basketball tradition. This will be our seventh appearance in the Sweet 16, advancing to the Final Four in 1971. UCLA has tradition too, a little bit, but it should be noted they have never defeated WKU. — Drew Hensley


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Whitney Duncan Seeks Prayers for Holly Bobo on One-Year Anniversary of Disappearance
One year ago today (April 13), Holly Bobo — the cousin of country singer Whitney Duncan — went missing from her home in Decatur County, Tenn. With very little still known about her disappearance, Duncan took to Twitter with a heavy heart to ask for prayers during what is obviously a very difficult day for her family.
"Some situations are so bad, u wonder what good will ever come from them? Gotta have faith! #PrayforHolly," she wrote. Later, she tweeted Bobo's favorite verse from the Bible, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
Only a few artifacts belonging to the now 21-year-old nursing student were found as evidence of the abduction, though more than a quarter of a million dollars in reward money has been offered for news that leads to Bobo's return. Her brother says he saw Holly being led into the woods by an unknown man on the morning April 13, 2011, as she was preparing to leave for school. Despite a vigorous search of the area, that's the last anyone saw of her.
In February, evidence was discovered which lead to a three-day search for Bobo near her home in Darden, Tenn. It's not clear what was found, but the search didn't lead to any arrests.
As a thank you for her fans' continued support, Duncan tweeted, "Thank u for all the prayers for Holly and our family today. Can't believe it's been a year. Seems so unreal still."


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#10 Christy Grisham
|Robinson, Texas (Robinson HS)
2008: Saw limited action due to injury.
2007: Pitched season-high six innings against Savannah State (Feb. 24), a 10-1 win. ...Season-high and staff high 14 strikeouts against Savannah State (Feb. 24). ...Finished regular season with 16 appearances. ...Started six games, threw one complete game against Savannah State (Feb. 24). ...Credited with one save. ...Struck out 32 batters in 35.1 innings.
High School: Four-year starter and letterwinner at Robinson High...Earned Texas All-State honors as a senior. ...Named District 17AAA MVP and 1st Team Super Centex in her last season. ...Invited to play in the Texas All-Star game for the North. ...As a junior, named District 17AAA Offensive MVP and Honorable Mention Super Centex. ...In her sophomore year, garnered Outstanding Pitcher of the Year and 2nd Team Super Centex honors...Named 2nd Team All-District 17AAA as a freshman. ...Played for the Spring Klein Hawks Gold coached by Dick Haskel. ...Also competed in volleyball, earning All-District honors as a sophomore. ...Regional qualifier in track as a freshman pole vaulter.
Personal: Majoring in Art. ...Hobbies include playing softball, hanging out with friends, shopping, and listening to music. ...Would like to one day go skydiving, but only one problem - she[apos]s afraid of heights. ...In high school, she was superstitious about always wearing a pink bow in her hair for every softball game. ...Her nickname is Christy or Waco...Believes the best thing about Lady Bisons softball is the girls - "they are amazing girls who bond really well and all have the same goals on and off the field". ...Most admires her parents because "they are just amazing people who give back and are great Christians - they are the perfect role models". ...Chose Lipscomb because "it seemed like a great school and had a good athletic program". ...Has one sister, Mandy (21), and one brother, Andy (15). ...Parents are Jamie and Don Grisham.


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"I was naive about the sexual liberation movement, and had never considered whether or not my decision to flaunt my sexuality on screen was a feminist act. I had never wondered whether fighting for the right to be both mother and sex worker was part of a greater fight for the rights of women around the world. I certainly had never given thought to whether my choice to be tied up, disciplined, and fucked by men and women on film contributed to sexual freedom.All I knew was that I alone was responsible for my body, my life, my sexuality, and my bills. It never crossed my mind that someone might tell me what I should or shouldn't do with my body or my sex".--Sinnamon Love, The Feminist Porn Book
As I talked about in my post on Jiz Lee's contribution to The Feminist Porn Book, I find that listening to folks who work in and produce porn to be one of the best ways to understand how so many of the arguments from anti-porn feminists just don't hold up. Once we listen to the folks who are actually doing this kind of work, it's easier to understand that this work can be inextricably intertwined with not only straight-up feminist work, but also social justice work around race, class, queerness and the like.
Sinnamon Love has been in the industry for almost twenty years and, as a black woman, she has the nuanced, complex insight into the industry that one would expect from somebody so experienced. Racism is rampant in porn (as it is in film, and society in general, of course), and Love gives us all sorts of insights into how her work from inside the system has helped to fight the good social justice fight around race, and in doing so she touches on how "feminism" sometimes needed to take a back seat because of the intense need to de-stigmatize black women's sexuality:
"I've set a goal to enjoy my work so that my fans will enjoy it as well. I find myself more concerned with the representation of black women's sexuality than making a statement only about my gender. Perhaps this is because so many people fight the good fight on behalf of (white) women and so few are fighting for black women like me. For example, there are countless examples of white women's sexualities portrayed in porn, but very limited images of African American women. And when you do see black women in porn, they are often stereotyped or demeaned."
As she began to better recognize the negative elements in her workplace, she began to fight them, utilizing feminist ideas and methods (for instance: she became a producer!). And, as was echoed in Jiz Lee's piece, agency is all-important as regards doing this kind of work:
"There is no doubt in my mind today that I am a feminist....[f]or me it is about agency. My black feminism is about helping women like me to be able to claim their sexuality in the face of decades of mis-education of African American women who were made to believe that they must choose between education, marriage, and family, or sexual freedom...I suppose, if I were to label who I am today, I would call myself a black feminist pornographer. Instead of accepting work merely to insure the bills get paid, I purposefully work for directors and companies that portray black female sexuality in ways that I feel are expansive, progressive, and interesting."I encourage y'all to read the entire piece in The Feminist Porn Book, as it is packed with so many insights that it was tough to pick the ones I wanted to talk about here. She covers 19 years in the industry in just a few pages! It's also a thoroughly "positive" piece, talking about the practical ways that Love has worked to change things in the industry.
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Better late than never: Red Sox rally in Chicago
Bradley laces go-ahead two-run double in 14th to end three-game skid
CHICAGO -- They aren't smashing the baseball these days, not even close to it. But the Red Sox found a new way to win on a game that started on Wednesday night and ended early Thursday morning.
Dustin Pedroia referred to it as smashmouth basball.
Backed by a 15-walk attack that included three sacrifice flies, the Red Sox were finally able to pull out a 6-4, 14-inning victory over the White Sox.
"Just trying to find a way to score," said Pedroia. "I mean, everyone's by the heater, trying to stay warm and getting some pine tar on your bat. Smashmouth baseball, you know?"
Jackie Bradley Jr.'s two-run double into the right-field corner that set up the win was the first extra-base hit for the Red Sox since the first inning. In fact, it was the only hit for Boston that left the infield over the final 13 innings.
"We're still grinding away," said manager John Farrell. "We didn't come out of our approach. We took base on balls when they were issued, which was a lot. Thankfully we walk away with a win."
By doing so, the Red Sox avoided their first four-game losing streak since 2012. It was a win that took five hours and 17 minutes.
When Boston finally produced the rally to go ahead for good, Chicago had run out of pitching.
White Sox manager Robin Ventura went to utility infielder Leury Garcia to start the top of the 14th.
It was Garcia's first pitching appearance in the Majors, and he actually started pretty well, retiring Grady Sizemore on a groundout and A.J. Pierzynski with a flyout to right.
Daniel Nava worked the righty for a walk, and so did Jonathan Herrera. With the count full, Bradley slapped the 82-mph offering from Garcia down the right-field line.
There were two words Bradley kept telling himself before his go-ahead hit.
"Stay back," Bradley said. "He was actually kind of funky, though. He was throwing a kind of rise ball. It was one of those things where I just wanted to make him throw strikes. He got behind 2-0, worked his way back. I just wanted to stay back, see it late and put a good swing on it."
The Red Sox were able to win the game because their pitching gave them a chance to.
Lefty Chris Capuano got eight huge outs to earn the win, allowing one hit while striking out three.
Burke Badenhop came on for the final out to earn his fourth career save. Craig Breslow (four outs), Junichi Tazawa (two-thirds of an inning) and Andrew Miller also didn't allow a run.
"I'll tell you what, our pitchers did a heck of a job tonight," said Farrell. "The bullpen once again came in with not a lot of margin for error."
Jonny Gomes gave the Red Sox a temporary lead in the top of the 11th, hitting a sacrifice fly to deep left that scored Pedroia, who went 2-for-6 and reached base four times.
That sac fly was made possible by Xander Bogaerts, who executed a strong takeout slide into second to eliminate the possibility of a double play on a grounder to first by David Ortiz.
Pedroia started the rally with a walk and Bogaerts was hit by a pitch.
But Edward Mujica, filling in as the closer for one more night while Koji Uehara recovers from right shoulder soreness, couldn't get the job done.
Jordan Danks led off the bottom of the 11th with a walk and stole second, sliding just in front of the tag by Bogaerts.
After a strikeout by Alejandro De Aza, Alexei Ramirez moved Danks to third on a fielder's-choice groundout.
Mujica was one strike away from the save, but Tyler Flowers belted his 2-2 pitch off the glove of Bogaerts and into center for an RBI single to tie the game.
"He gets ahead in the count to Danks to lead things off, then went to the split a few times," said Farrell. "Ends up putting him on base. It's a bang bang play on the stolen base, and once he moved to third, there was probably more of a willingness to try to force contact with his fastball, which he did. Unfortunately, it was just past the outstretched arm of Xander. Bottom line, is it's a win."
The Red Sox were down by a run entering the top of the ninth.
Down, 3-2, Pedroia and Bogaerts started the inning with walks against Maikel Cleto.
Ventura then went to closer Matt Lindstrom, who kept Ortiz in the ballpark with a flyout to left. Gomes then gave the Red Sox their first hit since the first inning with an infield bleeder down the third-base line.
Sizemore tied the game with a sacrifice fly to left.
"You have some things go against you, but I mean, that's just a part of the game," said Pedroia. "You've got to keep trying to fight and find a way to score and just keep playing. Guys grinded. It's crazy seeing a position player out there pitching. Long game."
Three of Boston's walks came in the eighth inning, when Pierzynski sliced Chicago's lead to 3-2 with -- what else? -- a sacrifice fly. It was the first time the Red Sox had 15 walks in a game since May 7, 1992, also a road game against the White Sox.
Clay Buchholz turned in a strong start, limiting the White Sox to six hits and two runs over six innings. He walked to and struck out six to give the Red Sox their 11th quality start in 15 games.
"It was a little bit of a grind the first couple of innings, but I felt pretty good," said Buchholz.
There was hope of an offensive revival in the early going as the Red Sox scored in the first inning for the first time all season.
In fact, the night started auspiciously for the visitors as Pedroia not only returned from his left wrist injury, but opened the game with a double into the corner in left. Bogaerts followed with an RBI single up the middle and Boston had a 1-0 lead.
Buchholz gave up an unearned run in the first, thanks to a throwing error by third baseman Ryan Roberts.
The game stayed in a 1-1 tie until the bottom of the sixth, when the red-hot Ramirez drilled a two-run homer over the wall in left.
On this night, the Red Sox would not get deflated.
"We're battling all the way through," said Farrell. "When they're putting tomorrow's probables up on the board, we know we're deep in the night, but it was a much-needed win on our part."


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Health never can be underestimated. Having been confined lately, that concept is even more appreciated. Comfort, the lack of stress and the need to allow time for recovery are important.
All three factors also are part of cattle management, so appropriate managerial reactions must be thought through. One concept often overlooked in good cow health is hair.
Cow comfort and stress are related to how a cow or calf is clothed. Many studies have been done on hair coat, but most are on how cattle survive in hot climates rather than cold. Regardless, hair in cold climates is important.
Notably, in northern climates, we all can appreciate those days when everything is covered with frost. What becomes obvious very quickly are those buildings that have adequate insulation and those that do not.
A heated building, with minimal or no insulation, will shed frost quickly because heat loss from the inside prevents frost from gathering on the roof. A quick look at rooftops and one can tell what homes are efficient to heat.
The same is true of the beef herd. Healthy cattle will tend to not have frost on their backs, even when the weather gets very cold. A well-fed cow produces a lot of heat, particularly when she is fed high-roughage feedstuffs.
However, as the weather gets colder, the frost eventually settles in. Well- insulated cows, just like well insulated homes, will look like walking frost balls. The hair protects the body from the devastating cold that confronts us all.
Inside, underneath that winter coat of hair, is a very warm, comfortable cow that really is not stressed at all by the cold outside. She doesn't need to depend on constant eating. Instead, she eats what she needs and returns to a protected, comfortable spot on the range where she quietly ruminates and waits for the warm days of spring.
That is in contrast to thin, poor-conditioned cattle that have not developed a good coat of hair. They are not comfortable, are stressed and forced to eat more feed to maintain body temperature.
We don't need fancy technology to understand if our cows are comfortable or stressed. The simple things in life often tell us the most and good managers know the signs.
How cattle respond to the cold is part of that equation. Cattle that don't respond need to be watched for and moved to the sale pen so they may be offered to someone who lives in a better- suited environment.
Sometime ago, one of our dogs, an Australian shepherd, caught an old antelope doe. Having caught up with the dog and reminding her that she should not be catching antelope, I prepared to release the doe.
What was interesting was the antelope's remarkable coat of hair. Not only did the hair protect her from the dog, it also became very obvious that there probably isn't a winter tough enough to freeze a well-fed antelope. Two layers thick, the outer and inner layers actually were interlocked and the fibers provided a solid, outside cover. The antelope depended on her coat for survival.
Cows are domestic animals that rely on human caretakers. As caretakers, we need to remain aware of the natural traits livestock have.
We tend and keep those traits front and center for our profit and for the benefit, comfort and well-being of the cattle. Hair may not seem like a big deal, but when it comes to the environment, it means survival.
See more comments by NDSU's Kris Ringwall at http://www.BeefTalk.com.


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In the wake of yesterday's decision by the District Attorney's Office not to bring criminal charges against the driver who killed 24-year-old Amélie Le Moullac as she cycled in the Folsom Street bike lanes on her way to work last August, her family will be holding a benefit concert this Friday (May 16) for Amélie's Angels, a charity created in her name to benefit needy schoolchildren in Haiti.
The concert by Amelie's mother, organist Jessie Jewitt, and other Bay Area musicians starts at 7:30pm in St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Palo Alto, featuring the Palo Alto Philharmonic and Conducter Geoffrey Pope. Amélie's friend and co-worker Steve Lynch, who told us the event will be both a memorial and a fundraiser, said he was disappointed by the DA's office decision not to bring charges in the case.
"I personally find this to be very upsetting, particularly given the way her investigation was handled, but the main reason I wanted to write you was to see if you would be interested in mentioning the benefit concert. It's something that we're trying to do to get her family some closure," Lynch told us.
As KQED reported yesterday, the DA's Office decided there was insufficicient evidence to bring an involuntary manslaughter charge against delivery truck driver Gilberto Alcantar, who turned right at Sixth Street across Le Moullac's path, killing her. The San Francisco Police Department had recommended criminal charges after initially conducting only a cursory investigation, an insult that was compounded by Sgt. Richard Ernst showing up and making insensitive, victim-blaming comments at a memorial event by cyclists at the scene of Le Moullac's death. Afterward, bike activists asked nearby businesses if they has surveillance video of the accident, finding video that police had neglected to seek that led investigators to conclude that Alcantar didn't have the right-of-way when he ran over Le Moullac.
The Board of Supervisors held hearings on how the SFPD conducts such investigations, and Police Chief Greg Suhr later apologized for Ernst's comments and the faulty investigation and pledged to conduct more thorough investigations when motorists kill cyclists, including looking at the three other similar fatalities last year. Alcantar was never even given a traffic citation in the deadly accident, but Le Moullac's family has filed a civil wrongful death lawsuit against Alcantar and the company he was driving for at the time, Daylight Foods.
Since the accident, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has created new bike lanes and other markings on Folsom Street to more clearly delineate how bikes and cars should merge as they approach intersections so as to avoid the illegal "right hook" turns that are so dangerous to cyclists.
In a public statement announcing Amélie's Angels and the benefit concert, Jewitt said, "Many people have asked me whether I was going to set up some type of fund or activity to improve the safety of SF streets for bicyclists. Although great improvements need to be made in this area, I leave it to advocates such as the Bicycle Coalition and other concerned individuals to petition for these changes. Amélie was not a cyclist. She was simply a young woman who thought that cycling to work would help the environment and would be a good form of exercise. In the days following her death, I felt her love so intensely, I knew I had to channel it into some activity that would directly enhance the lives of others."


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Georgia Governor Nathan Deal gave the keynote address at the Governor's Public Safety Awards (GPSA) ceremony held on Thursday, December 12 at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center (GPSTC) in Forsyth. Twenty-three outstanding public safety professionals, including Mike Patterson of the Dodge County Sheriff's Office, were recognized for acts of heroism and seven were commended for contributions to their profession. The recipients were given medallions and their names were added to the GPSA monument located inside the GPSTC.
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A team of researchers at Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and the University of Texas at Austin are working together to develop new statistical tools that can find clues about cancer that are hidden like needles in enormous haystacks of raw data.
"The motivation for this is all of these new high-throughput medical technologies that allow clinicians to produce tons of molecular data about cancer," says project lead Genevera Allen in a Rice U. release. Dr. Allen is an Assistant Professor at Rice University in the Departments of Statistics and the Electrical and Computer Engineering (by courtesy), and at Baylor College of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics-Neurology. She is also Rice's Dobelman Family Junior Chair of Statistics, and a member of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital.
"For example," Dr. Allen notes, "when a tumor is removed from a cancer patient, researchers can conduct genomic, proteomic and metabolomic scans that measure nearly every possible aspect of the tumor, including the number and location of genetic mutations and which genes are turned off and on. The end result is that for one tumor, you can have measurements on millions of variables."
This type of data exists — the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has compiled such profiles for thousands of cancer patients — but scientists don't yet have a way to use the data to defeat cancer.
Dr. Allen and her collaborators hope to change that, thanks to a new $1.3 million federal grant that will allow them to create a new statistical framework for integrated analysis of multiple sets of high-dimensional data measured on the same group of subjects.
"There are a couple of things that make this challenging," observes Dr. Allen, who is a principal investigator (PI) on the new grant, which was awarded jointly by the National Science Foundation and the NIH. "First, the data produced by these high-throughput technologies can be very different, so much so that you get into apples-to-oranges problems when you try in make comparisons. Second, for scientists to leverage all of this data and better understand the molecular basis of cancer, these varied 'omics' data sets need to be combined into a single multivariate statistical model."
For example, Dr. Allen explains in the Rice release that some tests, like gene-expression microarrays and methylation arrays, return "continuous data" — numbers with decimal places that represent the amounts of a particular protein or biomarker. Other tests, like RNA-sequencing, return "count data" — integers that indicate how often a biomarker shows up. And for yet other tests, the output is "binary data." An example of this would be a test for a specific mutation that produces a zero if the mutation does not occur and a one if it does.
"Right now, the state of the art for analyzing these millions of biomarkers would be to create one data matrix — think one Excel spreadsheet — where all the numbers are continuous and can be represented with bell-shaped curves," says Dr. Allen. "That's very limiting for two reasons. First, for all noncontinuous variables — like the binary value related to a specific mutation — this isn't useful. Second, we don't want to just analyze the mutation status by itself. It's likely that the mutation affects a bunch of these other variables, like epigenetic markers and which genes are turned on and off. Cancer is complex. It's the result of many things coming together in a particular way. Why should we analyze each of these variables separately when we've got all of this data?"
She notes that developing a framework where continuous and noncontinuous variables can be analyzed simultaneously won't be easy. For starters, most of the techniques that statisticians have developed for parallel analysis of three or more variables — a process called multivariate analysis — only work for continuous data.
"It is a multivariate problem, and that's how we're approaching it," Dr. Allen says. "But a proper multivariate distribution does not exist for this, so we have to create one mathematically."
To do this, Dr. Allen and her collaborators — grant co-PIs Zhandong Liu of BCM and Pradeep Ravikumar an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas, Austin — are creating a mathematical framework that will allow them to find the "conditional dependence relationships" between any two variables.
A member of the International Society of Computational Biology, Dr. Zhandong Liu develops bioinformatics approaches for analyzing high-throughput biological data produced by gene expression arrays, RNA-seq and genomic sequencing. His work integrates multiple data types in the interest of advancing our understanding of neurological diseases. Dr. Liu developed a graphical random walk (GRW)-based algorithm that can accurately predict pathway activity from microarray gene expression data. GRW uses gene-gene interaction data to construct a pathway signature in a manner analogous to particle-particle interactions described by Coulomb's law. By comparing GRW to other standard approaches, he has demonstrated that GRW can sensitively and specifically predict pathway activity across tissues, species, and platforms.The Liu lab's long-term goal is to develop computational models and algorithms in areas of genomics and computational biology. These tools will allow us to better understand the etiology of neurological diseases from computational and systems biology perspectives.
Dr. Ravikumar heads the Statistical Machine Learning Group at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas, Austin, and is the assistant director of an upcoming Center for Big DataAnalytics at UT Austin. He is also affiliated with the Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation, and the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. He was Program Chair for the Sixteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2013. His main area of research is in statistical machine learning. The core problem here is to infer conclusions from observations or data. The caveat is to do so reliably with limited computation and limited data. Of particular interest are modern settings where the dimensionality of data is high, and simultaneously achieving these twin objectives is difficult.
To illustrate how conditional dependence works, Dr. Allen suggests considering three variables related to childhood growth — age, IQ and shoe size. In a typical child, all three increase together.
"If we looked at a large dataset, we would see a relationship between IQ and shoe size," she says. "In reality, there's no direct relationship between shoe size and IQ. They happen to go up at the same time, but in reality, each of them is conditionally dependent upon age."
For cancer genes, where the relationships aren't as obvious, developing a mathematical technique to decipher conditional dependence could avoid the need to rule out such errors through years of expensive and time-consuming biological experiments.
Dr. Allen and her collaborators have already illustrated how to use the technique by producing a network model for a half-"million biomarkers related to a type of brain cancer called glioblastoma. The model acts as a sort of road map to guide researchers to the relationships that are most important in the data.
"All these lines tell us which genetic biomarkers are conditionally dependent upon one another," she says in reference to the myriad connections in the model. "These were all determined mathematically, but our collaborators will test some of these relationships experimentally and confirm that the connections exist."
Dr. Allen says the team's technique will also be useful for big data challenges that exist in fields ranging from retail marketing to national security.
"This is a very general mathematical framework," she said. "That's why I do math. It works for everything."
Collaboration and leadership in genetics and neuroscience have allowed faculty at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital to discover the underlying causes of dozens of neurological disorders.
Dr. Allen is also an assistant professor of pediatric neurology at BCM and a member of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children's Hospital that opened in December 2010. Dedicated to improving the lives of patients facing devastating neurological disorders, the NRI is a basic research institute committed to understanding the pathogenesis of neurological diseases with the ultimate goal of developing treatments.
The Texas Medical Center (TMC) is the largest in the world, and its institutions treat about 6 million patients each year. The 344,000 square foot silver-level LEED-certified NRI building, nestled in the heart of the TMC, relocates BCM and TCH researchers working on neurodevelopment and neurological diseases under one roof and provides space for us to recruit investigators with complementary areas of expertise. NRI also physically links BCM and TCH to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where University of Texas collaborators lend strength in developmental biology and epigenetics. Most importantly, NRI's location adjacent to the hospitals fosters relationships between the lab and the clinic, which are integral to the translational research enterprise.
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Well, the good news is that my twisted pelvis is no longer twisted. The bad news is that I also have a disc problem, so my restrictions continue.
This is how I spend the majority of my time:
The Pink Clouds socks are making progress:
A thunderstorm passed to the north of me a few days ago:
Here's my girls:
Miss Kish:
Here's Samantha with her poor stuffed bunny. The bunny spent almost a week outside before she brought it back inside:
Parker (the porker):
And, last but not least, shy Romeo:
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Fill in the blank: The best thing about where I live is _________________…
The best thing about where I live is the wide open spaces, the bright blue sky and sunshine nearly every day.
Create a new name for a deodorant (like "Flower Fresh" or "Shower Scent").
What the hell kind of question is this? Like many things, the names of deodorant are just silly. So, I'd go in the other direction and name a deodorant Public Jackass.
What was the last piece of software you installed onto your computer?
QIF to Excel to OFX Converter.
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If you were to receive a superlative award today beginning with the words "Most likely to…", what would the rest of the phrase say?
That's easy. Most likely to have spent the most time on her couch in the last month.
What two colors do you like to wear together?
Pink and grey. Yes, I'm still stuck in the 80's.
If you've made it through this long post, you are rewarded with a most undignified picture of Kishka:


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Tagged: 400th career baseball
9-25-09 PNC Park
Today's game may be my final batting practice of the season – I may only attend one more game, and it's a day game after a night game. You know what that means…
Meanwhile, I had been watching the weather, and decided that I would not attend tomorrows (Saturday's) game. It is a Skyblast date, and the chance of rain is 100%. That means no batting practice, large crowds, and an all around tougher time snagging balls. I would need to have a huge day – I wanted reach the 400 balls snagged in one year benchmark.
Chaos had broken out in Pittsburgh the night before due to the G20 summit. I was hoping that this would scare people away from coming out early to batting practice – even if the Pirates were giving away Bobbleheads to entice folks to watch a potential 100 loss team.
I was second in line at PNC Park, arriving an hour and a half early. Helicopters hovered over my head, regiments of soldiers passed on foot patrol
and there was even the cavalry passing by.
We were standing directly next to each other. Manny turned and lofted the ball at us. It was no contest. I had longer arms, and made the catch about a foot in front of the other guys glove. It was ball #6. I also think it may have been the only ball that Manny threw into the crowd in his time in left field.
Another few minutes passed by, and two
more balls rolled to the wall. I reeled up ball #7 with the glove trick, and did the same with ball #8. Randy Wolf was coming over to pick up ball #8, but realized that I had it covered with the glove trick, and let it go, turning back to left field.
The ballpark had only been opened for 25 minutes, and I had already snagged 8 balls. Could I challenge the Jabs/Pelescak PNC Park record of 14?
No, as things slowed way, way down. The Dodgers' batting practice approach reminded me of the Cardinals' in that the hit many balls to the opposite field.
I was getting frustrated. The place looked like this around 5:30:
Which is nice, but there were still some folks clogging up rows, making me readjust my routes to any ball that was potentially coming into the stands.
These people got in my way a few times:
And this guy was the worse, because he stayed in virtually the same spot, but kept moving up or down one row, so I had to keep checking on his location.
I try to always familiarize myself with my surroundings almost before every BP pitch so I don't crash into anyone or get blocked off from going for a ball.
In the last group, Ronny Belliard lofted a high fly ball that bounced on the warning track. I moved over a section and positioned myself perfectly to catch the high bounce. It was ball #9.
I only needed one more ball to complete my quest to get 400 balls. I had began the 2009 season with a goal of 300, but after reaching that last month on August 20th, I had made 400 a new goal for the season, to keep me motivated for the last five weeks of the season.
It was about 6:05ish, and batting practice was about to end in a few minutes. I was then faced with a tough decision. Stay in left field, which looked like this at 6:00….
or head over to center field to try and glove trick a ball that had rolled to the wall.
I decided to go give the ball a try. I rigged up the glove trick on the way over to center field, and non-chalantly made my way down to the front row. (I didn't want to draw attention from the ushers by sprinting in there).
I looked around at the Dodgers players. No one was in a hurry to come get the ball, which was directly below me at the base of the wall.
With that in mind, I lowered my glove down over the ball, and reeled in ball #10.
Ball #300 and #400 of 2009 had both come via the glove trick. Snagging 400 balls in a season is quite an accomplishment. I believe only Zack Hample, myself, and probably the Happy Youngster (who will likely do it soon) have snagged 400 or more regular season balls in one season.
After snagging the ball, I asked my friend Nick (who is closing in on 300 balls in one season) to snap my picture.
I then got 25 extra tickets scanned, and lugged the bobbleheads back to my car. Noticing a large crowd waiting to get in the stadium (due to all the extra security measures), I decided to leave and not stay for the game.
If I end the season on an even 400, that would be a pretty cool thing anyway.
Today's baseballs:
Sweet spots:
Game: 10 balls (3 hit, 2 thrown, 5 device)
Season: 400 balls (211 hit, 119 thrown, 70 device)
Games: 79 games (9 of which didn't have BP)
Average: 5.06 balls per game
Career: 566 balls
Streak: 94 consecutive games attended with at least 1 ball snagged.
Attendance: 19,452


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and bronze your cheesehead. LET'S GO!
THE CHICAGO CODE – 9:00PM (FOX) FOX promoted this show 5,982 times during the NFL playoffs, and now we'll find out if all that generous hyping will pay off. "The Chicago Code" comes from Shawn Ryan, who created "The Shield," and who presumably wanted to make this show as hard-edged as "The Shield" until studio execs were like, "No, no. You have to cut that scene where the dirty alderman shoots eight people while having sex with a stripper." A shame, frankly. However, this show has two things going for it: Jennifer Beals, who will hopefully wear a cutoff sweatshirt and do lots of welding at some point, and Delroy Lindo. If you've ever seen "Clockers," you know that Delroy Lindo is not to be trifled with. ANTICIPATION: LINDO!
REAGAN – 9:00PM (HBO) The Ronald Reagan 100th birthday extravaganza continues with this two-hour documentary about Dutch's life from filmmaker Andrew Jarecki. Included are interviews with the likes of James Baker, both Reagan sons, and Dan Rather. Dan Rather? Oh, I'm sure Reaganites will be delighted to hear he's a part of this. Anyway, spend two hours trying to get to know a man who, by many accounts, had absolutely no discernible personality or emotional depth of any kind. Should be fun! ANTICIPATION: GIPPER!
HOUSE – 8:00PM (FOX) Candice Bergen's story arc as Cuddy's mom, which has given this series a bit of new life, continues tonight when she becomes a real patient (never saw that coming) and House must bend some rules to care for her. Boundaries are crossed. Points of no return are passed. Miracle cures are found sometime within the last six minutes. ANTICIPATION: BERGEN!
THE BACHELOR – 8:00PM (FOX) Brad and the girls go to Costa Rica. And one of the girls sneaks into Brad's hotel room, but things don't go quite as planned. I assume that plan involved hanky panky and then lots of awkward glances afterward. ANTICIPATION: AY AY AY!
UNFORGIVEN – 9:00PM (CMT) The greatest movie Clint Eastwood has ever made. If you disagree, you are wrong. ANTICIPATION: MYSTIC RIVER HAD A CRUMMY ENDING!
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Tallinn University - Erasmus
Erasmus visual style has always been fun and colorful, but a bit outdated for now. Some publications needed to be redesigned, as well as a set of souvenirs, what university could give as a present to foreign students and partners.
Memorabilia had to give colorful impression of Erasmus and in some sense introducing Estonia as well. We chose ecological honey from Saaremaa, warm woolen mittens and recycled paper cup trays. We gave them Erasmus looks and brought them to life.
Client: Tallinn University
Contact: Maarja Lehtsaar, Bret Demant
Client: Tallinn University
Contact: Maarja Lehtsaar, Bret Demant


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Are there known sharp upper bounds (in terms of $k$ or $\omega(k)$, the number of distinct prime divisors of $k$) for sums of the form $\sum_{p \mid k} \frac{1}{p+1}$ for $k > 1$ subject to the constraint $\sum_{p \mid k} \frac{1}{p+1} < 1$? (This would be a special case of the general result of O. Izhboldin and L. Kurliandchik referenced in the comment.)
A related question: Suppose $(p_i)$ is a set of $n$ consecutive primes which minimizes $1 - \sum_{i = 1}^n \frac{1}{p_i+1} > 0$ for a given $n > 1$. Are there known bounds for $1 - \sum_{i = 1}^{n} \frac{1}{p_i + 1}$ from below in terms of $n$, e.g., $n^{-\delta n}$ for some fixed $\delta > 0$?


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Press Release: Watch Berkeley Candidates "Stump Speeches" on YouTube
Two-minute stump speeches by candidates for Berkeley Mayor, City Council Districts 2, 3 & 5 and School Board give voters a good sense of each candidate's views. Candidates for City Council Districts and Berkeley Unified School Board also discuss issues in half hour and hour "Election 2012" programs. Watch at any time on YouTube.com/lwvbae. On the site, scroll down to find the spot or program you want to watch.
"Election 2012" programs are also playing almost continuously on B-TV cable channel 33 in Berkeley every afternoon and evening--except during City Council and Board and Commission meetings. Exact schedules for the programs on Channel 33 are posted on their website at betv.org.
Spots and programs were produced by the League of Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany and Emeryville in cooperation with Berkeley Community Media and, for the School Board, the PTA Council.


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Cold air may yield March snowstorms in Northeast
An upcoming change for early March will bring a return of colder weather, but will it yield bigger storms for the northeastern United States?
Following record-challenging warmth during the middle of this week, alternating waves of cool and mild air will take turns through the end of February in the East.
Most of the storms that move through are likely to bring rain and little or no snow and ice to the mid-Atlantic for the last week of February. A combination of rain, ice and snow is likely in New England.
For this period as a whole, temperatures are projected to average 5-10 degrees Fahrenheit above normal.
However, as the calendar flips to March, significant changes are likely to take place in the jet stream pattern over North America.
"We will be watching for a southward dip in the jet stream over the Northeastern states during early March," according to AccuWeather Lead Long-Range Meteorologist Paul Pastelok.
A southward dip in the jet stream allows cold air to move across a region.
"A blocking pattern may also develop near Greenland which would cause the west-to-east motion of storm systems to slow down and for storms to track farther south in the eastern part of the U.S."
This atmospheric road block may allow cold air to hold its ground as storms approach.
"Temperatures are likely to average near normal in New England and perhaps slightly below normal in the mid-Atlantic during early March," Pastelok said.
"While the colder air slated for early March will not pack the punch of early January, it may get cold enough for more storms to come about with snow," according to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dale Mohler.
Temperatures during early January averaged 10-20 degrees below normal for much of the Northeast. However, it is important to understand what the average temperature is for the time of the year.
For example, the average high temperature in New York City is in the upper 30s during early January. The average high is in the middle 40s during early March, but trends to near 50 by the middle of the month.
Since the pattern favors stronger storms for the Atlantic coast, some precipitation events may be quite heavy and impacts could be substantial.
The key will be how far to the east or west the dip in the jet stream occurs.
If the dip is too far east, storms will track too far south and strengthen too far offshore to bring big snow to the Northeast, including the Interstate-95 corridor. Such a pattern would deliver mainly dry and cold conditions.
If the dip sets up over the Great Lakes, then storms may strengthen while approaching the Northeast, but warm air may flood in from the ocean, especially along the coast.
"For snow lovers in the I-95 Northeast corridor, you want some cold air but not so much to turn the storms away," according to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson.
Multiple storms are likely during the first half of March. The exact track of each storm may vary.
So, if one storm misses with heavy snow, another may not.
Otherwise, the clock is ticking for big snowstorms in the Northeast with the first official day of spring now only a month away. Spring officially arrives on March 20.
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Thai Temple Brunch Dispute Returns to Zoning Board
The nearly year-long zoning battle over Sunday brunch at the Berkeley Thai Temple may finally come to an end Thursday when members request a permit modification from the Berkeley Zoning Adjustments Board that would allow the temple to sell food weekly instead of only three times annually. This proposal has sparked much opposition from a group of neighbors.
Last April, when members of Wat Mangolakaratam—as the temple is formally known—approached city officials to construct a Buddhist pagoda on its premises at 1911 Russell St., some neighbors criticized the institution for running a commercial restaurant in the guise of a religious assembly.
Complaining that the Sunday festivities, which sometimes started as early as 5 a.m. but have now been pushed back to 8 a.m., were hampering their quality of life by bringing noise, trash, odor and congestion to the area, the neighbor group demanded that the event be shut down or at least moved to an alternative location.
Temple supporters defended the brunch service by explaining that taking donations from the public in exchange for food was an ancient custom in Thai culture—one that helped Buddhist monks to earn their living and funded Sunday school and performing arts on the building's premises for those who otherwise would never be able to afford them.
However, an inquiry by the city's Planning Department into the Thai temple's original use permit, dating back to 1993, revealed that the temple had violated its permit repeatedly, prompting the zoning board to turn to the Seeds Community Resolution Center to carry out mediation between the two parties to settle the dispute.
The temple's supporters rallied neighbors, community members and organizations in an effort to save the popular Sunday brunch, creating a website, www.savethethaitemple.com, and a Facebook group that lists more than 1,300 supporters as of Monday.
A report from city officials to the zoning board includes the results of the most recent mediation sessions, which took place on Jan. 10 and 29 and Feb. 4. The report says that representatives from the temple and three neighbors representing 16 households on Oregon Street were unable to come to any kind of resolution about the frequency of the Sunday brunch and the size of the crowds it attracts.
The mediation report notes that although the temple indicated that it would be cooking food inside a kitchen and installing an odor-absorption ventilation system and rubber matting to absorb the noise of pots and pans clanging, the neighbors were skeptical that these steps would do anything to alleviate the problem.
City officials said in their report that the proposed project would relocate the Sunday brunch from the rear of the property to a pavilion that would replace the current Buddha room adjacent to the South Berkeley Public Library, moving the activities farther away from the houses on Oregon Street.
It would also restrict the number of visitors to 200, who would be able to come in and buy food between 10 a.m and 1 p.m., and the temple would post additional signs around the block discouraging people from parking in driveways.
The temple also plans to build a "green wall" between the brunch spot and the neighboring houses, which they hope will act as a buffer on Sundays.


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You've read the tutorials and watched the online videos. You have a strong grasp of all of the ingredients that make up a successful Rails application. But ingredients don't just turn themselves into a meal. Chad Fowler's Rails Recipes is a collection of recipes that will take you step by step through the the most cutting edge Rails techniques, mixing the ingredients to create world-class web applications. Learn how to do it, and how to do it right.
(Note: this book was written for Rails 1.×. Most of the recipes are still appropriate for Rails 2, perhaps with some tweaking. Rails Recipes: Rails 3 Edition is a newer book, written for Rails 3.1.)


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The inn is a large, two-story building with a wooden sign out front painted to represent a silver dagger. It has recently been painted, and shows other signs of attempted repairs, but this is obviously an old building and the repairs are not expertly done. As you draw nearer, one of the wooden roof shingles comes loose with a gust of wind and slides down, falling to the ground in the overgrown grass.
You enter into a coat room of sorts with a dozen small wooden pegs on the walls. Two cloaks hang there. To your right, through a large doorway you see a common room. A tall, slender man with a bald head and intense gaze greets you as you enter.
"Hello, travelers! Ralmar Prath is the name. Welcome to the Silver Dagger and make yourselves comfortable. My lovely wife Miralda will be over shortly to take your orders. Might I suggest the spiced grouse? A local specialty," Ralmar says as he motions you forward, taking your wet cloaks and hanging them for you as you pass.
The common room is is, well common enough. The floor could use some polish and you see cracks in the walls. But it is dry and you settle in at a free table. You see two men seated at a nearby table, they look at you as you walk in but say nothing.
After a minute a short, stocky woman with graying hair comes over to take your order. "Greetings gentlemen..and ladies, I'm Miralda. You look like you've come a long way and could use some refreshment. What'll it be?"


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Actually, the point of the post was to get people to click on my Amazon link and buy the book. Try to keep up, okay?
Online training is more vigorous than brick and mortar training...
because you have a shorter period of time within which a lot of material needs to be absorbed.
And, most law school exams are open book.
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MWC 15 Special
One of the big disappointments in my Nokia Lumia 800 review was the missing DLNA support of the Lumia 800 because we all know that Nokia can do it better. Nevertheless, looks like Nokia also figured out that something was missing by now releasing a public Beta of "Play To for Windows Phone". With Play To, users can share their photos and videos from a Nokia Lumia Windows Phone with DLNA-capable devices over WLAN network, which can be a TV or just a Windows7 PC. Not yet supported is music sharing and streaming but Nokia already said on its blog, that a future release is going to support music sharing as well as Nokia plans to add a features which will allow the Lumia to act as a DLNA Media Server.
Nokia Play To for Windows Phone Beta is now available from the Microsoft Windows Phone Marketplace (link bellow) but only available for Nokia Windows Phones.
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En analyse af gevinster og omkostninger ved miljømærkningRahbek Pedersen, Esben; Neergaard, Peter; Andersen, Mette; Bech, Line; Olsson, Marie-Louise (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The overall objective of this project is to analyse how companies perceive the costs and benefits from environmental labelling. The project only covers two labels: - the Nordic 'Swan' and the European 'Flower'. The majority of the companies have to high or some extent achieved their objectives regarding the labels. Moreover, most companies believe that environmental labelling improves image. One third of the companies state that the benefits from labelling exceed the costs they have encountered. However, more than half of the companies do not feel that they have gained important advantages from environmental labelling, e.g. from additional sales and earnings. With regards to the costs, environmental labelling does not necessitate high investments in new technology, recruitments, education etc. In other words, the cost barriers are in general small and most companies are able to defray the costs of environmental labelling. In conclusion, most companies have at least to some extent achieved their goals, whereas the economic impacts from environmental labelling have so far been limited. This does not necessarily imply that environmental labelling is without importance. On the contrary, environmental labels hold a number of potentials that make them attractive to companies. However, the prospects of environmental labelling depend on the values, attitudes and behaviour of all relevant stakeholders. Based on the results from the project, we have listed a number of recommendations for the companies, the customers and the administrators, which might stimulate the future development of environmentally labelled goods and services: * Companies. Even though companies in general do not experience substantial advantages from environmental labelling, the labels might have a number of indirect effects, which might increase the companies' competitiveness in the long run. For instance, environmental labelling might improve the companies' image and serve as a door opener for Side 5 Miljømærker og effekter new markets. Furthermore, the costs of environmental labelling are very limited. However, companies also have to realise that environmental labelling is not a panacea, which automatically generates a number of positive impacts. * Customers. It is often concluded that customers care about the environment and are willing to pay a price premium for environmentalfriendly goods and services. However, this is not always the case. The results indicate that the customers' actual purchasing behaviour is not necessarily in accordance with 'green' purchasing policies. For instance, a number of companies have experienced that the public procurement practises are inconsistent with formal policies. Realising that the public sector is the driver of environmental labelling much has to be done in order to improve the public procurement: - e.g. through education, campaigns and political action. * Administrators. In general, companies are not pleased with the fee structure of the labelling schemes. They think it would be fairer to impose the fees on the companies who do not produce eco-labelled products. Moreover, when eco-labels in general do not increase profit of products and services, the fees inevitable become an impediment to the future growth of environmental labelling. In general, there is a need to align the fee structure as well as the administrative procedures to the actual costs and advantages of environmental labelling. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6288
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Trademark Fine Art Dave MacVicar 'Wind' 35 x 35 (ALI0867-C3535GG)
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This ready to hang, gallery-wrapped art piece features a black and white photograph of windmills in a field.Dave MacVicar is a Canadian photography who resides in Toronto, Canada. His traditional photographs were replaced by long exposure black and whit e images that covey a tranquil yet somewhat brooding feel. Dave is also been focusing on abstract architecture photographs in addition to his landscape and seascape work.
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Recent Accomplishments of Our Students and Alumni
Current students and alums
K. Megan Kerns, a 2009 master's degree graduate, has won the 2009 Outstanding Thesis Award for the University of Illinois Springfield. Kerns, who served as the Communication Department's graduate assistant from 2007-2009, is the first graduate student from Communication to win the prestigious award. Kerns will receive $500, and UIS will forward her thesis to the regional Outstanding Master's Thesis competition, sponsored by the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools.
For her thesis entitled "Does Hannah Montana really do homework?" Kerns conducted a content analysis on the portrayal of school in the popular Disney Channel series.
Greg Bishop, who received his undergraduate degree in 2009 and is studying in the Communication master's program, won an Illinois Broadcasters Association Silver Dome Award in July 2009. Bishop won for Best Use of New Media in the category of Medium Market Radio. He is a producer, director and editor at WMAY-AM Radio in addition to being a UIS student.
Two photography students, Sue Huskins and Andy Mitkos, had their works published in Photographer's Forum Best of College Photography. Huskins, a graduate student, was honored in 2008, while undergraduate Mitkos' work was featured in 2009.
Nick Bressan has been promoted to retail advertising supervisor at The State Journal-Register in Springfield. Nick earned his bachelor's degree in Communication in 2004. In his new position, Nick is overseeing retail advertising for both print and online editions.
Alumnus Michelle Burch Coleman, who received her undergraduate degree in 1997 and her graduate degree in 1999 from the UIS Communication Department, was promoted to associate professor at Clark State University in Ohio, where she is the head of the Communication Program. She also is publishing the second edition of her communication textbook.
Rikeesha Cannon Phelon has been named press secretary for Illinois Senate President John Cullerton. She received her master's in Communication in 2005.
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During my husband's recent physical, the physician noticed his groin lymph nodes were swollen. He is in general good health and feels fine. He had blood work done and everything came out normal. He was sent to an infectious disease doctor who told him that he definitely had lymphoma or leukemia and told him to get a bioposy, CT scan and specialized blood work. When we tried making appointments, the infectious disease doctor refused to do a precertification for the CT scan. When he went to the surgeon for the bioposy, the surgeon told him he would probably just watch the glands for a few months, but sent him for the CT scan since the other doctor recommended it. He had the CT scan done, and although we don't have the final report yet, a doctor looked at it and said it seems fine. We are concerned because the infectious disease doctor was so definite that it was lymphoma or leukemia. We would like to know what other reasons there are for swollen lymph nodes. My husband had a ultra sound and it ruled out a hernia. He does use pesticides a few times a year (we have a Christmas Tree farm) but he puts on special clothing and wears a mask. He is a contractor and is around chemicals and sawdust. We are afraid there may be something causing the swollen glands that the tests haven't picked up on and do not want to ignore the problem. Can you help? Thank you
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By By Andrew Drwiega from the Paris Air Show | June 19, 2011
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"We will build two S-97 prototypes with the first flying in under three and a half years," said Sikorsky President Jeff Pino, talking exclusively to Rotor & Wing on the eve of the Paris Air Show. Pino believes that Sikorsky, by investing in research and development now, is preparing for the future. He doesn't see the lack of government funding as a problem. More an opportunity as he believes that it is giving the company more freedom of scope in the development process: "We aren't worrying about mission equipment. We are holding space, weight and power, so when it is time—perhaps 18 months from now—we will start to figure out what mission equipment will be needed because the technology will have changed by then."
There are not only military benefits to the prototype development programs: "We are learning things with X2 and S-97 that we are backward deploying into products which will generationally look like the same, but will have benefits from that new technology." The process is 'comet' like; the tails trailing innovations that can be picked up and slotted into Sikorsky's existing portfolio where there is a good fit—while the R&D pushes further into the unknown.
For an expanded version of this story, see the August 2011 print edition of Rotor & Wing.


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Shenzhen YinTai Arts and Crafts co,.LTD has 10 years of hardware products, stamping, machining experience and have a mass production plant, equipment, technology strength and capacity. The establishment of departments complete departments: Engineering, stamping department, note paint department, printing department, and packaging size of the ten sectors, to achieve one-stop service, from its inception has been praised all parties and manufacturers.
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