The afterglow that comes to those who have enjoyed a meal from GRYLT is definitely part of the experience. Consuming healthy food should leave one feeling satisfied yet still fit, and it is in that regard that GRYLT's three Oahu locations (Ala Moana Center, Kahala Mall and Kailua Shopping Center) have thrived since opening.
Restaurant founders Allen and Mayu Farinas's vision was to emphasize fresh and natural foods, especially here in the islands, where freshly caught ahi tuna and recently harvested rich greens are easily procured.
The task of preparing such fare is in the able hands of GRYLT's corporate executive chef Jose Arias.
Raised in New York, where he got his start as a chef, he moved on to Alaska and finally to Hawaii, where he thought he could best promote wellness and sustainability by way of utilizing ingredients found in the area.
Furthermore, the eatery's offerings are made more accessible through catering.
GRYLT is prepared to take the workload from the party-giver, and is able to cater for groups as small as 10 to the multitudes found at a wedding reception.
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Among the items favored by those catering through GRYLT are its handcrafted sandwich wraps, soups, salads, garden vegetable medleys, and steak and chicken.


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The birthplace of the modern ballpoint pens and the legendary Rubik's cube invites you on a fascinating tour of Budapest. Turn on the web camera Hungary online and see the main local attractions, which are concentrated in the capital. Elegant streets of Budapest, full of architectural monuments and various museums. An informal symbol of this charming city is the impressive Parliament building, which was built in the beginning of this century. Elegant bridges connect three historical district, divided by the Danube: Buda, pest and obudu. Thanks to live video broadcasts you can enjoy the original sculptures, magnificent palaces and grandiose fountains of Budapest.
For Russian tourists, Hungary is an attractive mild climate and first-class SPA-resorts built in close proximity to numerous thermal springs. Medicinal baths, which are abundant in the "pearl of the Danube", year-round demand from those wishing to rejuvenate in a natural way. The best place for a family holiday – the surroundings of lake Balaton, which is the largest in Central Europe.
Web camera in real-time broadcasts of the Big Reformed Church in Debrecen, Hungary. Has the biggest bell among all Hungarian Protestant churches.
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The view from this webcam opens at the Debrecen University is the largest educational institution in Debrecen and one of the leading universities in Hungary.
The view from this webcam is open for Park Nagyerdo in Debrecen, Hungary. Thermal Park Naderde located in the Northern part of Debrecen is a major year-round Spa resort, known far beyond the borders of Hungary.
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Latest Research Explores a Measure of Smell
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Fragrances – promising mystery, intrigue and forbidden thrills – are blended by master perfumers, their recipes kept secret. In a new study on the sense of smell, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have managed to strip much of the mystery from even complex blends of odorants, not by uncovering their secret ingredients, but by recording and mapping how they are perceived. The scientists can now predict how any complex odorant will smell from its molecular structure alone. This study may not only revolutionise the closed world of perfumery, but eventually lead to the ability to digitise and reproduce smells on command. The proposed framework for odours, created by neurobiologists, computer scientists, and a master-perfumer, and funded by a European initiative for Future Emerging Technologies (FET-OPEN), was published in Nature.
'The challenge of plotting smells in an organised and logical manner was first proposed by Alexander Graham Bell over 100 years ago,' says Professor Noam Sobel of the Institute's Neurobiology Department. Bell threw down the gauntlet: 'We have very many different kinds of smells, all the way from the odour of violets and roses up to asafoetida. But until you can measure their likenesses and differences you can have no science of odour.' This challenge had remained unresolved until now.
This century-old challenge indeed highlighted the difficulty in fitting odours into a logical system: There are millions of odour receptors in our noses, consisting hundreds of different subtypes, each shaped to detect particular molecular features. Our brains potentially perceive millions of smells in which these single molecules are mixed and blended at varying intensities. Thus, mapping this information has been a challenge. But Sobel and his colleagues, led by graduate student Aharon Ravia and Dr Kobi Snitz, found there is an underlying order to odours. They reached this conclusion by adopting Bell's concept – namely to describe not the smells themselves, but rather the relationships between smells as they are perceived.
In a series of experiments, the team presented volunteer participants with pairs of smells and asked them to rate these smells on how similar the two seemed to one another, ranking the pairs on a similarity scale ranging from 'identical' to 'extremely different'. In the initial experiment, the team created 14 aromatic blends, each made of about 10 molecular components, and presented them two at a time to nearly 200 volunteers, so that by the end of the experiment each volunteer had evaluated 95 pairs.
To translate the resulting database of thousands of reported perceptual similarity ratings into a useful layout, the team refined a physicochemical measure they had previously developed. In this calculation, each odorant is represented by a single vector that combines 21 physical measures (polarity, molecular weight, etc.). To compare two odorants, each represented by a vector, the angle between the vectors is taken to reflect the perceptual similarity between them. A pair of odorants with a low angle distance between them are predicted similar, those with high angle distance between them are predicted differently.
To test this model, the team first applied it to data collected by others, primarily a large study in odour discrimination by Bushdid and colleagues from the lab of Professor Leslie Vosshall at the Rockefeller Institute in New York. The Weizmann team found that their model and measurements accurately predicted the Bushdid results: Odorants with low angle distance between them were hard to discriminate; odours with high angle distance between them were easy to discriminate. Encouraged by the model accurately predicting data collected by others, the team continued to test for themselves.
The team concocted new scents and invited a fresh group of volunteers to smell them, again using their method to predict how this set of participants would rate the pairs – at first 14 new blends and then, in the next experiment, 100 blends. The model performed exceptionally well. In fact, the results were in the same ballpark as those for colour perception – sensory information that is grounded in well-defined parameters. This was especially surprising considering each individual likely has a unique complement of smell receptor subtypes, which can vary by as much as 30% across individuals.
Because the 'smell map' or 'metric; predicts the similarity of any two odorants, it can also be used to predict how an odorant will ultimately smell. For example, any novel odorant that is within 0.05 radians or less from a banana will smell exactly like a banana. As the novel odorant gains distance from banana, it will smell banana-ish, and beyond a certain distance, it will stop resembling a banana.
The team is now developing a web-based tool. This set of tools not only predicts how a novel odorant will smell, but can also synthesise odorants by design. For example, one can take any perfume with a known set of ingredients, and using the map and metric, generate a new perfume with no components in common with the original perfume, but with exactly the same smell. Such creations in color vision, namely non-overlapping spectral compositions that generate the same perceived colour, are called colour metamers, and here the team generated olfactory metamers.
The study's findings are a significant step toward realizing a vision of Prof. David Harel of the Computer and Applied Mathematics Department, who also serves as Vice President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and who was a co-author of the study: Enabling computers to digitize and reproduce smells. In addition, of course, to being able to add a realistic flower or sea aromas to your vacation pictures on social media, giving computers the ability to interpret odours in the way that humans do could have an impact on environmental monitoring and the biomedical and food industries, to name a few. Still, master perfumer Christophe Laudamiel, who is also a co-author of the study, remarks that he is not concerned for his profession just yet.
Sobel concludes: '100 years ago, Alexander Graham Bell posed a challenge. We have now answered it: The distance between rose and violet is 0.202 radians (they are remotely similar), the distance between violet and asafoetida is 0.5 radians (they are very different), and the difference between rose and asafoetida is 0.565 radians (they are even more different). We have converted odour percepts into numbers, and this should indeed advance the science of odour.'
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The liver is a vital organ. It performs many functions. It affects all types of metabolism. In this regard, the violation of her work adversely affects the entire body. Knowing this, many became interested in cleansing the liver and gallbladder at home.
What are we going to clear from? What is it for? What are effective ways to clean the liver? Who needs this procedure? Can it hurt? Arrange everything on the shelves.
A lot is said today about the theory of slagging of the organism. Moreover, it is imposed through advertising. What is the point?
The liver is a filter. It neutralizes all harmful metabolic products, hormones. Thanks to this we live. Even if there was a poisoning, as far as the possibility of it allows, the liver neutralizes the poison from the last of its functional forces until it becomes inadequate. It neutralizes and removes all so-called slags.
Everyone wants to be healthy quickly and immediately, using as little effort as possible and preferably with a maximum of one pill. Let's see if this can be achieved. Liver cleansing occurs due to elimination of "bad" substances with bile. Also involved in this means, helping the hepatocytes to neutralize the harmful products that are formed in the liver or come from the blood. The first are cholagogue agents, the second is hepatic protectors. Now let's see how to clean the liver at home quickly and efficiently.
Choleretic drugs can be of plant and synthetic origin. This group of drugs increases the formation and excretion of bile into the duodenum.
How do bile production stimulants work?
Increase the formation of bile by liver cells.
By binding to receptors in the small intestine, they increase bile synthesis.
They have a diluting effect on bile, stimulating the flow of water and electrolytes into the bile ducts.
Increase the speed of bile flow through the capillaries leading it.
How to clean the liver from toxins toxins at home using choleretic drugs? Apply several tools.
Allohol - contains bile acids, garlic extract, nettle leaves, activated carbon. In addition to enhancing the formation of bile in the liver, it increases the secretion of intestinal juices and intestinal peristalsis. The course of its reception 3-4 weeks repeated 3 times a year.
Nikodin has anti-inflammatory, choleretic and antibacterial effects. Course 2-3 weeks.
Herbal remedies used to improve liver function. They contain dandelion, immortelle, dogrose, peppermint, cumin, yarrow, chicory, celandine. Their effect is due to the presence in the composition of essential oils, resins, flavonoids, vitamins. All of them increase the secretion of bile, increase its fluidity, destroy microbes and reduce the inflammatory effect and spasm of the biliary tract.
They dilute the bile and contribute to its better discharge into the duodenum. Mineral waters take half a cup before a meal up to 4 times a day if well tolerated. They should not be used in acute diseases of the digestive system, kidney, urolithiasis, gallstone disease.
What other cleaning methods are there for choleretic drugs?
Sorbitol and xylitol affect intestinal receptors, stimulating the release of bile from the gallbladder. They are used in the form of 10% solutions of 50 –100 milliliters 3 times daily before meals for 1 to 3 months. The drugs have a laxative effect and have a positive effect on fat metabolism.
One of the fastest ways to clean the liver is to take a 20–25% solution of magnesium sulfate on an empty stomach, 1 tablespoon for 10 days.
Olimetin reduces the tone of the gallbladder and pathways, improves the passage of bile. Capsules contain vegetable oils: olive, peppermint. Reception is carried out 3 times a day before meals 1-2 months in order to prevent cholelithiasis. It is contraindicated in peptic ulcer, hepatitis.
What else can clean the liver at home? The next group of methods is based on taking hepatoprotectors.
This group of drugs increases the resistance of the liver to harmful effects, enhances the process of removing toxins and metabolic products of the liver from the blood, restores liver cells. Many of them contain milk thistle.
One of the most famous representatives of this group is Essentiale. It includes vital phospholipids, unsaturated fatty acids and vitamins. The drug improves the metabolism of fats. The duration of admission can reach up to 3 months or more, depending on the state of the liver.
Karsil - is made on the basis of milk thistle fruits. It is used in acute and chronic hepatitis, including the toxic nature, cirrhosis of the liver. The drug neutralizes free radicals, increases protein synthesis, normalizes the exchange of phospholipids. The course of treatment depends on the purpose of the appointment.
Hepa-Mertz consists of the amino acid ornithine, which is involved in the synthesis of urea. Not used for severe renal failure.
Heptral in addition to the reducing effect on the liver has antioxidant activity and improves the passage of bile.
LIV-52 is a complex drug. Its structure includes: an extract of a grass of a yarrow, blackcurrant and other herbs. It is used for liver diseases, as well as to improve digestion and increase appetite. It has a carminative effect.
All of these methods will be useful when used correctly. Herbal remedies are softer and more harmless, perhaps, their long-term use, but only on the recommendation of a doctor.
How to clean the liver at home from stones? This group of drugs dissolves cholesterol stones in the gallbladder and hepatic ducts. They reduce cholesterol in the bile and increase the content of bile acids in it.
The method is used only for owners of cholesterol stones (there are still bilirubin and mixed), as well as if they are small. Most stones are mixed. In the latter case, the method is ineffective (allows you to dissolve the cholesterol component and reduce the size of the stones, but will not get rid of them) or does not work at all. The group of solvent solvents includes: Henofalk, Ursosan, and others. They are appointed for a long time for 3 months or more.
In order to fully understand how to properly clean the liver at home, it is necessary to determine the category of people to whom the procedure will be useful, except for those with liver disease and biliary system.
People with metabolic disorders. The presence of overweight, urolithiasis, diabetes mellitus, gout testifies to it. When there is at least one of the listed diseases and conditions, the risk of formation of stones in the gallbladder is high. To prevent this, preventive cleaning procedures are prescribed. Be sure that when it is carried out it is necessary to observe an appropriate diet, otherwise the effect will be very insignificant.
In diabetes mellitus, fatty hepatosis often develops. Hepatoprotectors significantly slow down its formation.
If there is a genetic predisposition to both metabolic disorders and gallstone disease.
Abuse of alcohol and other toxic agents.
Any intoxication not related to liver disease.
Now it should be clear how to clean the liver at home quickly and efficiently. Before you start cleaning, it is important to determine whether it will be useful in a particular case. Then choose the appropriate method not independently, but with the participation of the doctor and taking into account the state of health, contraindications to the procedure. A herbal therapist can develop a program for receiving various groups of herbal remedies and monitor the client's well-being.
The cleaning effect will be noticeable by blood tests for liver tests, ultrasound. However, in the early stages of ultrasound cleaning, the device may not show positive dynamics, because the changes begin at the molecular level. Ultrasound should not be done more often 1 time per year with minor changes in the structure of the liver. The speed of purification is different for everyone.
It is important to remember that the organism is not a machine, but a living system, on which it is necessary to act very carefully.


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Q: How to change the subscript/index value in an associative array? Is it possible to change the subscript/index value of an existing element in an associative array?
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  type a_arr is table of varchar2(20) index by pls_integer;
  tb1 a_arr;
 begin
  tb1(1) := 'aaaa';
  tb1(2) := 'bbbb';
  tb1(3) := 'cccc';
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In the above associative array tb1, is it possible to change the subscript value from 1 to 10 (ie from tb1(1) to tb1(10)) without deleting or creating a new element in the table?

A: It is unclear what are you trying to do. Here's basic general example. The output is 'aaaa' 10 times. You can add some logic in between. For example, if i = 3 then tbl_val:= 'bbbb' or smth lk this. You can also parameterise the start and/or end loop boundaries if you create a procedure for example.
DECLARE
  type a_arr is table of varchar2(20) index by pls_integer;
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Area Shuls to Participate In OU Community Fair
By Judy Berger | November 14, 2019
Stamford's Congregation Agudath Sholom. (Credit: Congregation Agudath Sholom)
Mount Kisco Hebrew Congregation. (Credit: Mount Kisco Hebrew Congregation)
Congregation Anshe Shalom in South New Rochelle. (Credit: Congregation Anshe Shalom)
On Sunday, November 24, four local Modern Orthodox communities will join 59 others at the seventh Annual OU Jewish Community Home & Job Relocation Fair at Manhattan's Metropolitan Pavilion. The fair provides information and resources for those considering relocating. All four will tout their locations' proximity to the entire metro area, with Jewish Day Schools, eruvim, mikvaot, kosher restaurants and kosher shopping nearby.
This is the first time Congregation Anshe Shalom of South New Rochelle will be participating.
"We wanted to get the word out that there's an affordable, warm and conveniently located Orthodox community on the south side of New Rochelle." shul member Alan Penn said. "A lot of people haven't heard about us yet. We're looking to put South New Rochelle on the map as a serious option for families who love the conveniences and opportunities in New York, but want a smaller, warmer 'out of town' type community. Last year alone saw double-digit growth among our young professionals. We're excited to see how the OU Fair will help us maintain and increase this growth."
Similarly, Fleetwood, a section of Mount Vernon in southern Westchester, is also a 30-minute ride into Grand Central Station. The Fleetwood Synagogue, a five-minute walk from the station, will be participating in the fair for the fourth time. The Fleetwood Synagogue offers Shabbat youth groups, daily minyanim and weekly classes that have attracted many young families who have joined the community recently.
"Participating in the fair is a great way to increase our membership," Rabbi Daniel Rosenfelt said. "It is another way to get our name out there. At the fair, you meet with almost 100 couples who might not know we are a valid option. We meet singles and families who are looking for their next move, many looking for their first home." Fleetwood recently welcomed its first kosher eatery, which is steps away from the shul, under Rabbi Rosenfelt's hashgacha.
Mount Kisco Hebrew Congregation's growing community is an hour by train from New York City, and the train station is seconds away from the shul.
"Mount Kisco is located in beautiful northern Westchester and is surrounded by stunning countryside and fabulous hiking," Rabbi Dov Greer said. "Our shul has been around for over 100 years and underwent a renaissance during the 1990s when the whole shul was refurbished and enlarged. Subsequently, an eruv was constructed that encompasses much of Mount Kisco. We are a diverse group and enjoy the communal feel that the shul engenders. The kehilla strives that everyone, regardless of religious background or education, feels welcome and that its programming meets the needs of all members." This is the second community fair for Mount Kisco.
The Stamford community will participate in the fair for the sixth time.
"The effort is a community-based project, with the Young Israel, Agudath Sholom and Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy participating," member Michael Feldstein said. "Ten years ago, we initiated a community growth initiative. We felt that Stamford had all the features Orthodox families look for in a community; however, we needed to get on people's radar screens and make them aware that Stamford is as viable a suburban community to relocate to as others in Long Island, New Jersey and Westchester. Twenty new families, whose first contact with us was the OU Fair, have moved here."
Additional information about the fair can be found at https://www.ou.org/fair/
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We all know what a bad logo looks like, but could you design the worst logo?
The team from the design agency, Fuzzco, have created a contest encouraging you to undertake that challenge, with the chance for your worst work to be judged by some big name designers including Michael Bierut, Jessica Hische and Armin Vit.
To learn more about the project Ian interviews Helen Rice and Colin Pinegar from Fuzzco, a Creative Agency in Charleston, Seattle and New York.
Helen Rice & Colin Pinegar Interview Transcript
Ian Paget: I came across you guys through a challenge posted online. I normally ignore logo challenges, but this one was different. Rather than seeking the best logo, you've been looking for the worst. And I've not seen a project like this before, so I thought I'd get you guys on to discover more about this. So as a starting question, what is the, How Low Can Your Logo project, all about?
Colin Pinegar: Yeah. How Low Can Your Logo is a contest to essentially see who can make the worst logo for a fictional company. We called SMORTS, which stands for Simple Marketing Online Responsive Tech Solutions. So we made up this ridiculous corporation and are asking people to essentially just have at it and design as terrible a logo as possible for them.
Helen Rice: Yeah. And what better way than to crowdsource a bad logo.
Ian Paget: Yeah. Crowdsourcing a bad logo. Ironic really, isn't it?
So why are you guys doing this? Because it seems like a really big thing that you put together and you've obviously invested a lot of time. So I can imagine that there's a number of reasons, but I'd love to find out a little bit more about what they are.
Colin Pinegar: Okay. Well I think one of the reasons, you already kind of touched on it, is that we spend our all our days trying to design the best logo and think of things from that aesthetic viewpoint when I'm sometimes a good creative exercise might be to start with something ugly. I mean we've all seen ugly logos out there, but it also takes a bit of skill and a bit of talent to create an ugly logo. I found that out when trying to create my own entry and then comparing it to the ones I've seen other designers and people submit. Just like how, I mean there's still good ideas embedded within an ugly logo. And so I think it's turned out to be kind of this absurd art experiment, but also like, I don't know, just like cool creative exercise for designers to take the other route and enter the logo creation process from kind of the back door, I guess you could say.
Ian Paget: Yeah. Well, I know the moment that I heard about this, my first reaction was, oh that's a bit silly. And then the moment I started to think about it, it's like actually, what would make a really bad logo and it turned into quite an interesting thought exercise for basically thinking about what makes something really good and then flipping it over.
Before we go into what makes a bad logo and what makes a good logo, are there any other reasons for doing this? Because I can see that you've got sponsors on board, you've got some incredible judges on board as well. I mean Michael Bierut for starters, you've got Armin Vit involved. Is there other benefits to it? I know it's fascinating to find out what makes a really bad logo, but is it for press purposes or to attract opportunities, kind of like this this podcast now, is that the reason for that? Is there some strategy behind releasing a challenge like this?
Helen Rice: Yeah, I think like a lot of things that Fuzzco does, we follow our interests and everything doesn't necessarily have a solid purpose. The purpose almost reveals itself as we create the thing and push it into the world. And in this case, with the interesting time that we're living through with the coronavirus, it almost has given people an outlet for distraction and a way to sort of let themselves go in a very healthy environment.
Ian Paget: Yeah. It is really just a bit of fun and a piece of art and it's one of the first challenges around logo design I've seen where you don't really need to worry too much about what you're doing because the whole point of the exercise is to create something that's quite bad, so that's a really nice way to look at it. Something I would love to find out how you went about getting huge name judges, were they already people that you was in contact with and you could just get in touch and pull them on or how did you go about getting so many fairly high profile judges to get involved in I guess a project that could be deemed as not that serious?
Helen Rice: We actually put this contest on 10 years ago in 2010. And at the time, our panel of judges included, I can't remember everybody, but Jessica Hische and Armin Vit were part of that panel. And when we decided to reprise the contest this year, we decided to reach out to them again. We love working with them in the past and Jessica actually, when we approached them, we asked, who else do you think might be interested in judging? And Jessica mentioned that Michael would be fun to approach, which I was very excited about because I've always loved him. He's such a design idol.
So yeah, we reached out to a handful of people whose work we loved or whose perspective we loved and everybody was really excited about it. And we've got some amazing sponsors as well who've donated some of their goods, which you'll see on the prize page. But yeah, we feel very lucky in having such an enthusiastic response to the contest.
Ian Paget: And I can see Colin, you obviously had a lot of fun when it came around to building the website because the website is also, it's bad but it's good. You found a nice balance between the two. I know I found some nice little Easter eggs in there, like the burger.
Colin Pinegar: Yeah, the hamburger menu.
Ian Paget: Yeah. Do you want to talk a little bit about the website as well?
Colin Pinegar: Yeah, I think we wanted the website to be kind of the first exercise in this sort of towing the line between bad, but good. And obviously a lot of thought went into it and then a lot of thought went into kind of how to make it a little bit harder to use or a little bit, I feel like it's kind of rife with cliches as well as like bad UI moments, but hopefully users find it all to be kind of fun and like you said, there's a lot of little Easter eggs hidden throughout. I think my favourite is probably the creative brief is like a keynote. It just downloads a keynote presentation, which is just like terrible user experience. But the keynote has a lot of fun jokes in it and stuff. So we wanted just to be thoughtful about how bad it could be. And I think it turned out to be really fun.
Helen Rice: One of my favourite ideas that went into the website was the button that moves and that's hard to click, the button that takes…
Colin Pinegar: Yeah, it obscures the type and just kind of moves around.
Helen Rice: And then there was a really genius idea that Colin had, we tried to embody SMORTS and the client Chauncey Peppertooth, and we created this Pinterest board. And if you go there, you'll notice that there were two boards actually created for logo inspiration. Almost like they forgot that they had started one and they started another one and the one just has the, the Nike swoosh, which…
Ian Paget: I know going through the website, there's points where I've seen stuff that's really bad and it's like, oh, I known clients do that. It's all so cliche, if you're a graphic designer, it's just so funny to go through and I think only graphic designers would get it. I think you've done that really well and based on the goal of doing something a little bit fun during the current global situation, it's just a lighthearted bit of fun that graphic designers will enjoy and, and find fun and something that we don't need to take too seriously. So I think what you've done is you clearly achieved that goal.
Colin Pinegar: Thank you.
Ian Paget: I think it'd be worth going into what makes a bad logo. So I don't know how we can go about doing this, whether we do break it down into what makes a good logo and the reverse of that. But you've had quite a lot of entries so far and you've obviously put a lot of thought into this yourself. So what would you say makes a bad logo?
Colin Pinegar: Well, I feel like every day I'm surprised by a new entry and just how bad the logos can get. Actually, I listened to an episode of your podcast about what makes a logo effective or what makes a logo good or successful. And I feel like the easy answer is just to know the rules and then break all of them in the most extreme way possible. Complexity I think is a big element of a lot of the entries. We're seeing a lot of terrible, terrible colour combinations and of course typography. And then there's a lot of, I think maybe 10 or 11 people have submitted kind of SMORTS with that gradient square, like the old gap logo. People are trying to reference known bad logos.
But yeah, I think the long answer would be that it's all kind of relative, even looking at reputable designers now, a lot or are leaning towards logos that could maybe 10 years ago have fallen into an ugly logo bin but I feel like depending on the space that the logo is for or the depending on, I loved how you mentioned the Guns N' Roses logo in your podcasts on successful logos because for a tech company or for a food brand like that, that logo would be terrible. But it really worked for Guns N' Roses because you only see it on tee shirts and album covers. So it was successful in its own way. And so I think one thing I like about this site is that it's giving bad logos a space to be successful I guess in a way. It's creating this weird space where we're asking to make a good logo, but the way you do that is making it bad. Which is kind of ironic.
Ian Paget: The one thing I found quite interesting with that particular episode you mentioned, I went through eight principles that I thought made a successful logo. And I've had people in… someone shared this in the logo community and we've had quite a few people posting their ideas, that they quickly put together, and there's a few I look at them and think it's bad, but it's still scalable, so it's still ticking some of the boxes as to what would make something successful, but they're still bad. So it'd be really interesting to see what Michael and Jessica and all the other judges ultimately pick as the worst logo. Will they pick the actual worst or where they pick something that's a little bit fun or how did it go 10 years ago? Was actually the worst possible logo there that ended up being picked by the judges or was there some something more to it? Was there something good about that ugly as well?
Helen Rice: There was nothing good about that. I believe we did a combination of popular votes and then the judges picked from a certain selection of those voted most popular. Yeah. And the logo, it was actually pretty distasteful in a lot of different ways.
Colin Pinegar: Yeah. You'll notice we do not show the old logo on the site. We have like a broken image.
Ian Paget: Yeah. I saw that.
Colin Pinegar: For that very reason it was not… no, we didn't want to reference it at all. It actually made us change kind of the judging structure for this contest I think. And we've been heavily filtering out any inappropriate or distasteful logos this time.
Helen Rice: Yeah. And I'm very encouraged to see so many logos that are bad but that someone really was thoughtful about and there's a lot of them where I feel like people were exploring trends in design where in some cases they might, like aspects of the logos that might be considered good, but the way that they were used or just applied in some way makes them obviously bad. It's really interesting seeing how similar, how we've all kind of decided what bad is in a way.
Ian Paget: Very much so. Well I really do look forward to seeing what ends up game being picked and just for fun, I don't know if you guys have already thought about this, but you should do tee shirts and merchandise that people can buy and maybe it can go to some charity or something. I think that'd be fun to do because it would be a funny joke that only graphic designers would get.
Helen Rice: We actually have totes on the way. They're going to be dropped off later this week.
Ian Paget: It's really exciting. So we've briefly spoken about what makes a bad logo. And I think for listeners, pretty much everyone that's listening are graphic designers and they should hopefully be able to recognise something that's ugly as hell. And I know you've already referenced that episode, which does run through characteristics, but I'd love to hear it from someone else's perspective. What do you feel makes a logo good?
Colin Pinegar: Yeah that's a good question. I think I agree with probably all of the points you made on that episode. But I think what I like, and maybe I've learned this by looking at the, How Low Can You Logo submissions, but one thing I really have enjoyed and something I've noticed about the logos that I like, which are always surprisingly hard to recall. I think I live in a world where I'm maybe too pessimistic about the design that I see. You know, I don't know if that happens to other designers as well, but I think that, and you did mention this a little on that episode, but the idea of within the logo I think is maybe the most powerful element to me.
I feel like, because we referenced this earlier, but like the idea of crowdsourcing and the idea of just the internet, you see logos constantly and people designing logos constantly. I feel like in a way almost everything's been done, but there are times where, if you can get that idea and execute it well, I think that that can create the best type of logo. Just the concept around the logo I think is really important.
Helen Rice: I think so much of what makes a logo good to me is kind of thinking about or understanding where it's going to live. So I'm personally drawn to very minimal aesthetic beautiful typefaces that are applied to whatever product or service that they belong to in a way that elevates and not clutters that experience. But then again, to riff on what Colin said, any logo where there is some underlying concept that is beautifully embodied in the design is also really rises above.
Ian Paget: Of those eight principles. I said the absolute key one, and Colin, you or both you referenced it, is execution. That's the key thing because you can have a really great idea and you can pick the most appropriate typeface for the project and you can make all these amazing choices that make the recipe to something that could be really good, but if it's just not put together and not executed well, it's the one thing that turns something that could have been very good to something that's deemed as bad.
I think it'd be fun to spend the rest of the time we have going through some process stuff because every agency, every designer approaches branding projects in a different way. And I always like to hear that stuff. And I know listeners do too, just because it's hearing a different perspective on, on the process always. You always get something out of it. So would you mind running through, how would you guys typically work on a branding project when a client comes to you?
Helen Rice: Oh sure. Yeah. So we have our initial calls with clients and I think on those calls, we start immediately diving into what is they want to do and kind of offering value in kind of helping them steer the ideas and what we're going to work on together. So a lot of the early work is determining what the project is. And then once we firm up that list of deliverables, we move into design, we bring together the project team that's going to work best for that specific project.
Ian Paget: So Helen, are you focused more on lead generation and getting in prospects and the sales side of it or do you have a team that's doing that for you?
Helen Rice: That is Josh mainly. And then our partner in Seattle, Ann, does a lot of that work as well. The director of the New York office, Carly, is also a part of those meetings. It's a united front. We, depending on what the project is, different folks will take over those conversations. So it's very much distributed amongst the team.
Ian Paget: Mm-hmm (affirmative). So I guess you pull the team together and obviously Colin, you're responsible for the graphic design side of things.
Colin Pinegar: Yeah.
Ian Paget: So I guess you do all the sales side and then once it's all gone ahead and kicked off it then gets passed over to the appropriate team?
Helen Rice: Most of the time what happens is the team that sold the project will stick around and work on it, because there was so much that we learned in those initial conversations, we carry that knowledge and kind of enthusiasm for the project forward into the work. And so I'll stick around or Josh will stick around or whoever sold the project will stick around as creative director or account director just to make sure everything's moving along.
Ian Paget: So do you have separate account managers? Because I've worked with agencies where they would be the sales team, then they would pass over to an account manager. The account manager would run the project, but then they would work with graphic designers, developers, whoever, they pull all that stuff together. Do you run that same general model?
Helen Rice: We don't. We're pretty small. The whole company is about 15 people. And what we like to do is we want the smaller teams where the directors, the people leading the projects and the people selling the projects stick around throughout the life of the project. And so it really helps us create consistency for the client as well as I think the best work comes from a consistent team. So yeah, it's very much the same people who you get introduced to on day one are likely going to be there on the last day.
Ian Paget: And then I guess once you've got that, then how does that process run? So the project kicks off, what happens then?
Colin Pinegar: So first we will have a kickoff with the client. Typically, it's pretty short. We've had a chance already to read the brief. We ask them whatever questions we might have and kind of get their story from their perspective, which is always helpful to hear. And then typically we start out like the first thing we show the client, the first work we show after the kickoff, we kind of go back, get to work and we start out by just showing concept sketches. Usually it is literally just pencil on paper trying to kind of think through as many ideas or hooks for the identity that we can and sketch them down on a paper, put them in a Google slides deck and explain them in words. And then that's what we present to the client.
Helen Rice: Yeah, it's important to us to kind of really focus on the concept first without any hint of design. So we really keep, the sketch and actual pencil sketch is very important because it doesn't distract from the concept. There's no colours to look at, there's no line weight to think about. And so really it's what is the concept that's going to be best in the logo. And then we do sketch, we do kind of mess around with how that logo may be constructed in a very vague way. And then once that concept's selected, we go into high fidelity mocks.
Ian Paget: It's interesting sharing sketches. I personally don't have the confidence to share a sketch. I'd prefer to put it together so that the client can visualise it. I don't know if you would be willing to, but would you be willing to share an example that I can put it in the show notes?
Helen Rice: Yeah. Totally.
Colin Pinegar: Sure.
Ian Paget: I think that'd be really cool because it'd be good to see the type of thing that you guys are sharing and yeah, it's useful because like I said, not many people work in this way that I'm aware of, so it'd be good to see how you are actually approaching that side of things.
Colin Pinegar: Yeah, and I think it requires a lot of explanation to the client. We have to really almost sell them on the idea of seeing something so low fidelity. But I feel like it's produced some good work. I've, I really loved sketching and being able to just kind of come up with ideas without having to chase the entire, or think of the entire aesthetic, lay it out aesthetically before showing the client just because I feel like I can cover more ground and also, I don't know, I just think better with my hand so maybe it's not for everyone, but I feel like I really have really loved the sketch process.
Helen Rice: It's also for us to be collaborative with the client and really bring them along in the process to feel like we're giving them a chance to have a voice in the process versus taking time out to go away and then coming back with something that is going to be a big surprise to them. We're really taking them with us on the journey.
Colin Pinegar: Yeah, that's a good point too. It gives us an opportunity to bring them in sooner than we would have had we kind of fleshed them out further.
Ian Paget: How many sketches are you showing?
Colin Pinegar: It varies by project, but I think a lot of times we'll internally come up with like, I don't know, a couple dozen ideas and then narrow it down. We don't want to be overwhelming, but sometimes we'll show as much as 10 or more I think. Any that we think are good or that could be something the client is interested in.
Ian Paget: And then I guess at that stage you mentioned about not really needing to worry too much about the aesthetics. Are you selling us, trying to present some kind of story or all of the general idea behind what you're putting together?
Colin Pinegar: Exactly. Yeah, we'll think of the conceptual basis of the identity and how that might play out aesthetically, but usually just trying to convey the story of the new identity or just what kind of approach we might take to designing the entire system.
Helen Rice: Yeah. Often we'll have our favourites and try to defend and steer.
Ian Paget: Yeah, I understand. Yeah. I do that a lot myself. I think it's doing your job properly when you do present multiple options to steer in one direction, I think that's important to do.
Helen Rice: Absolutely.
Ian Paget: Okay, so you present the sketches. What happens at that point? Is it just a case of them picking one and you proceed and you vectorise the artwork?
Colin Pinegar: No, a lot of times it'll be, after they pick the concept because very little aesthetics were taken in to consideration, we will then kind of explore further, as far as what type of aesthetic leanings they have. We should say we also show examples of other work. Sometimes it's our work, sometimes it's mood board type slides just to help understand where they want to fit within their space or within the entire aesthetic spectrum. And then based on those selections from the mood board and the concept they've chosen from the sketch, we can then kind of piece things together and execute the concept that was shown on the sketch in the aesthetic direction that we've kind of collaboratively decided upon.
Ian Paget: And then I guess at that point it is a case of finalising it. The clients proceed with one of the options and then you go from there?
Colin Pinegar: Yeah, exactly. I think sometimes after the sketch round, we still will have two or three rounds of revisions of course trying to land it as early as possible. But yeah, just client involvement I think plays a big part in the process the whole way through and getting their feedback is kind of integral to getting the identity system right.
Helen Rice: Yeah. And we always like to show, if we're creating a logo, we always like to show that logo in context. So mocking it up on applications like collateral and a website homepage and if there's a product involved, mocking that up to a certain degree just so you get a sense of how that logo lives in different places.
Ian Paget: Amazing. Now I don't know if you guys are okay for time. Are you okay if I ask one last quick question and then I'll wrap up the interview.
Helen Rice: Sure.
Ian Paget: Okay. So I'm looking on your website. One big thing I noticed looking through your blogs, you these annual company retreats, and I know this is a question that's not related to design, but I just thought this is really cool that an agency does this. So what's the idea behind these annual company retreats? It sounds incredible.
Helen Rice: Again, we're just such a tight knit group and we all really enjoy each other and yeah it's just so nice to get because we do work on different coasts and in different cities. It's nice to get everybody together at least once a year and have just free time just to hang out and really get to know each other. I think that time gives us all edge, a chance to kind of more better empathise with people on the team. There's some people that not everyone works with every day and so it's just fun.
Ian Paget: Yeah, it sounds like a really cool way to pull the whole team together because like I said, prior to this interview, I wasn't familiar so much with how you guys work, but to know that a lot of the team are all in different places. I know myself the importance of that friendship and that bond is so important. The difference between working with someone that you've only ever met online versus someone that you've had a drink and lunch and you spent some time speaking to it makes a massive difference. So I can appreciate that. That's great for morale, but also just general day to day communication and collaboration between the team.
Helen Rice: Yeah, Exactly.
Colin Pinegar:
Yeah. They're so much fun.
Ian Paget: Yeah, it sounds amazing. I think that's a good point to wrap up the interview. So Helen and Colin, thank you so much for coming on the podcast.
Helen Rice: Thanks for having us. That was fun.
Colin Pinegar: Yeah, it's been great. Thanks a lot.


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Las ventas de automóviles locales crecieron más del doble de la media nacional en noviembre
Salespeople Chris Weber, left; Renee Maholm, middle; and Joe Killiany, right, walk the lot at Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram of North Olmsted last month. Chrysler sales more than doubled in November in Northeast Ohio.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Auto sales jumped more than 37 percent in Northeast Ohio in November, more than double the 17 percent growth rate seen nationally.
Chrysler led the charge with sales more than doubling from miserable numbers from November 2009, data from the Greater Cleveland Automobile Dealers Association shows. The association tracks 19 counties in Northeast Ohio.
"This is the third straight month that we have seen strong double-digit growth in sales," GCADA President Lou Vitantonio said. "All signs point to an uptick in sales through the end of the year."
Chrysler's numbers were led by its Jeep brand. Research company AutoViewonline.com data showed sales of the Jeep Patriot small sport utility vehicle more than quadrupled in the seven counties in and around Cleveland. Sales of the newly redesigned Jeep Grand Cherokee nearly tripled.
Kevin Walsh, sales manager for the Brunswick Auto Mart that sells Chrysler's brands as well as Toyota and Subaru, said a new lease deal on the Patriot got that vehicle off the ground in November. For the Chrysler brand, the Town & Country minivan did well, he said.
"That's really hot now. They have some good incentives on that now because the 2011 [minivan] is out soon," Walsh said.
The local sales gains far outstrip what Chrysler achieved nationally. Earlier this month, the company said sales were up 16 percent, slightly behind the overall industry's 17 percent gain.
Another company outperforming locally was Hyundai and its Kia subsidiary. Hyundai sales were up 87 percent in Northeast Ohio, nearly double the amazing 46 percent sales growth posted nationally. Hyundai has been shattering sales records locally for nearly three years.
Last year, through the first 11 months of the year, Hyundai was the sixth largest automaker in this region, far behind both Honda and Chrysler. This year, Hyundai has passed by Chrysler and is a close No. 5 behind Honda. If Honda's sales growth continues on the path it's been through most of this year, Hyundai could be No. 4 locally within a few months.
At General Motors, Cadillac sales more than doubled, the company's Buick and GMC brands both grew faster than the overall Northeast Ohio market. But the company's Chevrolet brand grew only 29 percent, a bit behind Northeast Ohio's breakneck pace for November.
GM did manage to outsell Ford in November. The automaker used to consistently beat No. 2 Ford, but Ford took the lead last year as GM restructured itself in bankruptcy.
Ford is still leading GM in sales for the full year, but GM is close enough to overtake its rival if it has a great December. Ford's sales were up 41 percent in November as strong sales of Ford and Lincoln vehicles overcame weak numbers at the Mercury brand that Ford is in the process of shutting down.
Toyota was been the biggest loser in Northeast Ohio in November. A year ago in November, the company sold nearly 16 percent of all cars purchased in this region. Last month, that was down to a little more than 11 percent.
It was the only major automaker to post a decline in November with sales down about 2 percent. During an exceptional month for auto sales in the region, GM was second from the bottom with a 29 percent rise in sales.
The local figures for Toyota are pretty close to the 3 percent decline the company had nationally in November. The automaker that built its reputation on quality and reliability has been stung by multiple costly recalls this year, the latest coming Monday for the newly redesigned 2011 Sienna minivan. Toyota recalled nearly 100,000 minivans for a problem with a switch on the parking brake.
Walsh said Toyota continued to struggle in November, but it did have some hit vehicles. In Brunswick, he said the Rav4 SUV has been particularly popular.


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The State of the Race: A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
by Sasha Stone
in BEST PICTURE, featured, The State of the Race
The time has come to humbly admit that some of us may have been wrong about Star Wars: The Force Awakens. First, by not seeing how fast it would overtake the record-breaking top spot at the box office, passing Titanic and then Avatar with no signs of slowing down. Second, by thinking it wasn't good enough to get into the Best Picture race. It doesn't matter if it's good enough as long as people like it enough. The AFI Top Ten mention, along with the ACE Eddie nomination this morning (which knocked out Spotlight and Carol, among others) proves that it's plenty good enough to plenty of important people, especially with groups now weighing whose voters number in the thousands as opposed to hundreds.
In terms of The Force Awakens' trajectory, we have to flip backwards to the post we made about the Academy looking at a record-breaking year for ratings if Star Wars gets in — as well as if The Martian, another wildly popular movie, gets in. Not to mention the suspense over whether or not Leonardo DiCaprio might finally win the Oscar. These factors will help propel the Oscar race into the public consciousness in a way not seen since …
The thing about Star Wars is that so far no one has been able to really calculate or predict where it's going. It is an unpredictable culture quake that combines 40 years of deeply embedded branding with a generation who know nothing but branding — and doesn't seem willing or interested in fighting it — you have at last the perfect formula for the perfect hit for 2016 audiences. Women included. People of color included. Old people included. Young people included. Branding? All the way. This is the same philosophy behind the success of fast food. In fact, people really don't want to be challenged, and neither do they want too many choices. Life is hard and confusing. There is too much information flying at us from all directions at all times. Movies with mass appeal are TOO EXPENSIVE to make. Getting what you want and what you paid for is the name of the game at the movies now. Just give me my money's worth. Star Wars not only fulfills that requirement, it makes movie goers feel like they're coming home to something familiar. An old way of life, perhaps, in another reality where life is far from complex and terrible.
It's time to seriously factor IN The Force Awakens as a Best Picture contender and not as a number 10, but as a number 9. Expecting it to fill the "last slot" that has never yet been occupied under the current system means the movie probably doesn't get in, unless this is a freak first year where there are 10 nominees. Don't make me explain it again. Don't be surprised if JJ Abrams name shows up on the DGA nominations on January 12. All's I'm saying.
Now, onto Spotlight's editing problem. There have been films from way back in the 1980s that won Best Picture without an ACE Eddie nomination. Films that really fit the model for what Spotlight is: a small, probing, intimate character drama about something important. Films like Ordinary People, Terms of Endearment, Midnight Cowboy, Kramer vs. Kramer, and a few more. There are some instances where the editing of a movie is less crucial to its impact, and Spotlight's omission from ACE's list is likely only because other films had more impressive editing that stood out (i.e., more noticeable). What matters more to movies like Spotlight are the actors and the writers and the directors. That is the theory, anyway.
You have to ask, though, why hasn't there been a film to win Best Picture without an ACE nod since Driving Miss Daisy did it in 1989? Well, for one thing, there is more heat and discussion around the Oscar race. A consensus now tends to build among the big guilds as the various groups mirror one another. Even in a year like this one, with so many tech-heavy films in the race, that Sicario beat Spotlight for a nomination in editing is something to pay very close attention to. This is the same something that should have been noted when Spotlight did not win the audience award at Toronto and Room did. While Spotlight has barely squeaked by in tightly contentious rivalries at the Los Angeles Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics, it isn't really sweeping the critics the way Mad Max or Carol have. Thus, it has long been expected to be a favorite with the industry. That is why the ACE omission is a big deal. It has to be one or the other.
When people say, "it didn't matter when Birdman missed an editing nomination," they forget that the Academy's editing branch is only a few hundred. The ACE membership is 6,000. That is the biggest block of voters Spotlight has faced thus far. The SAG Awards nominating committee was only 2,000. Ditto Ben Affleck missing out on a nomination from the Academy's director branch comprising around 400, versus if he had missed a DGA nomination chosen by 14,500.
The other thing hurting Spotlight is that its director, Tom McCarthy, isn't landing critics wins with any regularity at all. While this might not seem like much on its own, when you add in the ACE omission and the audience award loss in Toronto, you start to wonder. No film so far has ever won Best Picture after winning both at the LA Film Critics and National Society yet also losing Best Director with both groups. That means Spotlight now has to make history twice, which it can do, provided voters have a strong reason to vote for it.
Again, that doesn't mean Spotlight can't win — it just means there HAS to be a good reason to vote for it. It can't be a winner by default. There has to be a reason that unites people to say "YES, this is the ONE," as they did with Birdman and The King's Speech, and The Hurt Locker and on and on it goes. I'm not seeing that with Spotlight the way one ordinarily does. Two things need to happen. The first: voters need a good reason to choose Spotlight over all of the other magnificent films in the game this year. They need a reason to vote for it over Mad Max, over The Martian, over The Big Short, over Star Wars, over Carol. What is the motivation to chose Spotlight beyond "Nobody hates it?" Whatever that reason is could propel the film towards a win.
The second thing that needs to happen is that Spotlight needs to win the Producers Guild. That's the tough one. It can lose the DGA and still win Best Picture. But it can't lose the PGA because that is a preferential ballot with ten nominees that most closely aligns with the Academy's ballot. The Producers Guild is the one to watch. Can it win there? It might. But so far we're not seeing broad guild support voting it in as a winner yet. With so many good movies in the race, votes could be split up all over the place with Spotlight STILL the only film anyone can agree upon is best.
Meanwhile, I am the only one, as far I can tell, touting the chances of The Big Short. "They call me Chicken Little. They call me Bubble Boy." It's probably too good to win Best Picture, let's face it, BUT it is the film that has both the SAG Awards Ensemble and ACE nods — the two biggest guild votes by far have chosen to nominate The Big Short. In my eyes, that puts it slightly ahead of Spotlight in terms of frontrunner status, though I'm not quite ready to push it to the top of my list just yet. It has to get a DGA nomination for Adam McKay, which will be essential to its win. The Big Short's only drawback, in terms of precedent and stats, is that it's a late breaker. No film since Million Dollar Baby has won BP when it skipped the top festivals and debuted after October. Then again, it was seen by many industry people in early November, which isn't that late of a breaker.
As far as stats goes, that one is the least threatening.
Late breaker stat: 11 years running.
SAG Awards Ensemble stat: One film in 20 years has won Best Picture without a SAG Awards Ensemble nomination
ACE Eddie stat: 26 years — not since 1989 has a film won Best Picture without an ACE nomination
These factors seem to give The Big Short a slight edge. The other thing it has in its favor is that it's timely in an election year when there is so much anger being reignited toward the Wall Street meltdown. It's also a flourish of dynamic directing and features very showy acting. I don't know if The Big Short wins and Spotlight doesn't. I don't know anything about anything. I'm just noting for the record my observations as we go through this year. It's also important to remember that this is such a good year there isn't a stinker in the bunch. They're all great great movies and any one of them winning is a good thing.
Fun fact: The last time Star Wars was nominated for Best Picture, Annie Hall, a comedy, won. It was also a year that was strong on films featuring pivotal roles for women. The Big Short is being categorized by every guild as a Comedy.
Before the Producers Guild announcement tomorrow, let's take a look at our charts:
The Producers Guild has about 4,500 members. They have a ten nominee ballot and use the preferential system. They are the only big guild to use the preferential ballot. Last year, three of the darkest films that made PGA didn't make Oscar – Nightcrawler, Foxcatcher and Gone Girl. That matters when predicting the Oscars, but not the PGA.
Here are the ten films I predict will be on their list:
Alts. Sicario, Brooklyn, Inside Out
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X-37B OTV-2 eller USA-226 var den andra rymdflygningen av en X-37B, av USA:s flygvapen. Man ville inte avslöja vad farkosten ska användas till, utan meddelade bara att man testar ny teknologi. Uppskjutningen skedde den 5 mars 2011, med en Atlas V-raket från Cape Canaveral Air Force Station i Florida. Farkosten landade på Vandenberg Air Force Base i Kalifornien den 16 juni 2012.

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A stubby screwdriver for removing group screws and shower screens. A tool every cafe should have.
Integrated mesh membrane with non stick coating makes this La Marzocco shower screen a must have part for your La Marzocco.
This replacement shower screen is for Wega and La Cimbali machines.
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Omega Watches at the Critics' Choice Awards
BY Paul Altieri
Among the number of fantastic Omega watches that were spotted at this year's Golden Globes, it's hard to top the "semi-vintage" solid rose gold Omega Speedmaster that was seen on the wrist of Daniel Craig. But in the all-important run-up to the Oscars on Feb. 9 – the Super Bowl of celebrity endorsements, if you will – smaller awards shows provide watchmakers with an opportunity to show how well their pieces play on the red carpet.
Omega made a decent showing at the 25th Annual Critics' Choice Awards, broadcast live on The CW Network from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, and hosted by acclaimed film, television, and stage star Taye Diggs. While Diggs himself wasn't wearing one of the many Omega watches spotted at the event, a number of other A-listers were.
What Omega watches were Hollywood's A-listers were wearing at the Critics Choice Awards?
Omega Watches at the 25th Annual Critics' Choice Awards
Chief among them is the brand's key female celebrity ambassador, Nicole Kidman. At the Golden Globes, Kidman wore an 18K yellow gold bracelet-style timepiece from 1957, which came from the vast archives of Omega watches. At the Critic's Choice ceremony she wore another archival jewelry piece, this one silver in color and adorned with diamonds and dating to back to 1953. Kidman was nominated for Best Actress in a Drama Series for Big Little Lies. She was accompanied by two male Omega enthusiasts, both of whom were nominated in the Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category for This Is Us: Sterling K. Brown and Justin Hartley.
Nicole Kidman wore a vintage Omega jewelry watch from 1953.
Brown, who eschewed black tie for a dark brown tailored suit with a patterned shirt and tie, wore an Omega De Ville Tresor, echoing the one worn by Chris Evans at the Golden Globes. The elegant gold watch, among the dressier Omega watches currently in production, had an elegant, minimalist white dial and a brown alligator strap.
Sterling K. Brown wore an Omega De Ville Tresor.
Hartley's watch was more in-line with Omega's sports watch history: a Speedmaster "Dark Side of the Moon". The blacked-out version of the iconic Moonwatch featured rose gold highlights and a black alligator strap. Hartley paired it with a three-piece tuxedo-style suit worn sans tie. While none of the Omega-wearers took home trophies on awards night, they certainly looked like winners.
*All images courtesy of Omega.
Justin Hartley wore an Omega Speedmaster Dark Side of the Moon.
About Paul Altieri
Paul is the company's Founder and CEO. He is responsible for all the day to day activities from purchasing, receiving, marketing and sales. Paul is a graduate of Boston College 1979 and resides in California with his family.


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package org.sprintapi.api.http.servlet;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.mortbay.jetty.testing.HttpTester;
import org.mortbay.jetty.testing.ServletTester;
import org.sprintapi.api.http.servlet.todo.TodoAppServlet;

public class TestDeleteItem {

	ServletTester tester;

	@Before
	public void init() throws Exception {
		tester = new ServletTester();
		tester.setContextPath("/context");
		tester.addServlet(TodoAppServlet.class, "/*");
		tester.start();
	}

	@Test
	public void testDeleteNAItem() throws IOException, Exception {

		HttpTester request = new HttpTester();
		request.setMethod("DELETE");
		request.setURI("/context/2323");
		request.setVersion("HTTP/1.1");
		request.setHeader("Host", "tester");

		String responses = tester.getResponses(request.generate());

		HttpTester response = new HttpTester();
		response.parse(responses);

		assertEquals(404,response.getStatus());
	}

	@Test
	public void testDeleteItem() throws IOException, Exception {

		HttpTester cRequest = new HttpTester();
		cRequest.setMethod("POST");
		cRequest.setURI("/context/");
		cRequest.setVersion("HTTP/1.1");
		cRequest.setHeader("Host", "tester");
		cRequest.setHeader("Accept", "text/html, */*; q=0.5");
		cRequest.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/plain");
		cRequest.setContent("Test Item");

		String cResponses = tester.getResponses(cRequest.generate());
		HttpTester cResponse = new HttpTester();
		cResponse.parse(cResponses);

		assertEquals(201,cResponse.getStatus());
		assertNotNull("HTTP Location header is missing", cResponse.getHeader("Location"));

		HttpTester request = new HttpTester();
		request.setMethod("DELETE");
		request.setURI(cResponse.getHeader("Location"));
		request.setVersion("HTTP/1.1");
		request.setHeader("Host", "tester");

		String responses = tester.getResponses(request.generate());

		HttpTester response = new HttpTester();
		response.parse(responses);

		assertEquals(204,response.getStatus());
		assertNull(response.getContent());
	}

	@After
	public void destroy() throws Exception {
		tester.stop();
	}
}

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Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources
Georgetown University seeks a strategic, dynamic leader to join its senior management team as the Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources. Located at the heart of the campus, the Georgetown University Library welcomes one million visitors annually. Over one hundred librarians and staff provide innovative services and sustain collections of over 3.5 million volumes, which are available to the University's 15,000 faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students. A member of the Association of Research Libraries and the Washington Research Libraries Consortium, Georgetown University Library embodies the University's mission as a "student-centered research university."The Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources provides leadership and direction for the division that includes the departments of Collections, Research, and Instruction; Copyright and Scholarly Communications; the Special Collections Research Center; the Blommer Science Library; and the Woodstock Theological Library.
Reporting to the Deputy University Librarian and as a member of the Library's Executive Committee and Leadership Council, the Associate University Librarian shares in the responsibilities for decision-making, resource management, strategic direction and development of policies for the library operations and services within a collaborative, team-oriented environment. As indicated, s/he represents the University Librarian and the Library within the University and in local, regional, and national associations and consortia.
Masters of Library Science or MIS and second subject Master's degree required. Doctorate preferred.
Minimum of eight years of progressively responsible administrative experience in providing services related to research, teaching and learning and scholarly communication. Successful record of management and administration of a large staff, along with the ability to articulate vision, set direction, and accomplish initiatives in rapidly changing environments. Established expertise in managing library materials budgets and developing scholarly, special, and circulating collections.
Demonstrated deep knowledge of trends and issues affecting academic research libraries, along with understanding of and enthusiasm for the role of the library in the research, teaching, and learning mission of the university. Evidence of leadership and active involvement in the library profession. Proven commitment to scholarship is critical to interact intellectually with members of a University community renowned for its excellence.
The successful candidate must demonstrate exceptional interpersonal skills and excellence in oral and written communications, as well as the ability to interact collegially and effectively with all constituencies, from faculty, staff, and students to alumni, donors and members of the wider community.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Those received by September 22, 2014 will be assured of consideration.


There really is nothing to beat a reliable and excellent system for providing healthcare to a lot of folks. However issues here are being heard in legislative bodies in the national capital and how they are affected by changes in government, some states remain committed to excellent services in this regard. There are also many places whose healthcare systems are undergoing changes and problems.
For most people, having a statewide network providing with excellent services is often a boon. Folks in one state for instance find Massachusetts health a very efficient and beneficial system that has their welfare in mind. The state has a very enlightened one that remains untouched or unaffected by the furor surrounding healthcare issues in many states.
The process has been built up over the years of providing excellent medical care and related services to its public. The folks in Massachusetts of course realize how their network is really something to appreciate. Again, it is enlightened and is even something that could be compared to social services found in European states with great systems that make many things free for their people.
You need to be enrolled in Mass Health, and this will secure you several significant perks that you could access at any time. There are things given to children in a medical security plan and there is assistance to families. Plenty of health plans are available and often are great supplements to HMOs and PPOs.
Unlike the European systems, the folks here are charged the relevant fees or premiums. However, subsidies considerably lower prices in many instances. Also, the prevailing spirit is American in the sense that people are given the freedom of choice to either work things out for themselves or seek assistance from the state. This balances out to a system that is flexible and versatile.
Democracy in this state is a truly respected and appreciated concept, and the Mass Health system is a product of this democracy. This means that is was legislated out of common consensus and while helpful it is not a handout or dole system that makes people produce less or even think less for themselves. The most relevant thing here is provided to those who have certain disabilities or unfortunate circumstances.
However there are common items available for all, from discounts on meds to information and healthcare processing. Assistance is also given those who need some items or documents for their medical insurance. It really works when you study it well, although there will be disadvantages along with the advantages.
One disadvantage is that resources are not able to address all the vital concerns of its public. The government parcels out the most necessary things so that coverage is given the most important needs. It is not tasked to provide everything to anyone, although the worst cases are given some priorities in this regard.
You could contact a rep in MassHealth online and ask for all the details you need. There are hotlines for fraud and consumer protection and this means you could report business or medical malpractice where you have the misfortune of meeting it. Massachusetts state government remains firmly on the side of its constituents in this and other things.


I've decided to split this trip report into two. There's just too much magic to cram into one report without having it extremely long. Here is the first part and the second will follow a few days after! All the photos for both days can be found on Flickr. Also if you missed the previous day trip report you can always catch up!
To help you get into the mood I've went and got some music that pertains to today's trip report! I think you'll enjoy it.
Our wake up call was for 5AM and it wasn't exactly the easiest to wake up, but with the excitement of being in Walt Disney World for New Years was more than enough to get us out of bed! Since it was so early the food court at POP Century wasn't open. Got to the bus stop around 6AM and we weren't the first ones there surprisingly! There were a few more people just ahead of us who had the exact same thinking as us. The first bus came around 6:20am and there were maybe a handful of people on the bus and it was still dark.
Arrived at the Magic Kingdom around 6:40AM. While waiting at the turnstiles to get in the family that was right in front of us was chosen as the family for the rope drop ceremony. They looked pretty excited. I would be too if we were picked to open the park on the last day of 2011. Once they allowed us through the turnstiles we got a nice spot to watch the rope drop ceremony.
Took a very nice Panorama of the the entrance to the Magic Kingdom. Turned out pretty good since there weren't that many people there just yet.
Then it was time for rope drop….
Once the park was officially opened you could see the rush of people heading for all the attractions. We didn't participate in the stampede down Main Street to Tomorrowland. Instead we veered to the right and got ourselves a locker to put all our supplies in (change of clothes, tylenol, batteries, snacks, etc). There was no way we were going to carry two bags full of supplies for the entire day and we knew the lockers would be all taken rather quickly.
After that we headed on over to Tomorrowland and grabbed a Fast Pass for Space Mountain (which was already for 10am at this point) and hopped into standby. Nothing like a fast paced attraction at 7:30am to get the blood flowing. Next it was off to Peter Pan's Flight where the standby was only 15mins (the lowest you'd see it all day) then the Haunted Mansion. We were getting many of the attractions done early because it was obvious the wait times were going to be insane later in the day.
On our way to Splash Mountain we passed Donald and decided to get our photo taken with him. He took one look at my Chip Lanyard and he immediately crossed his arms and was tapping his foot. Then he preceded to point his finger at me to indicate he wasn't a fan. For the photo he made sure to flip the lanyard around so it wouldn't be visible in the photo.
Once Donald was finished shaming me for having my Chip Lanyard we made it over to Splash Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain (also grabbed Fast Passes). It still wasn't too busy by this point but you could tell it was getting more and more crowded.
Made the mistake of venturing over to Main Street USA to grab something to eat for breakfast. Casey's Corner is where we decided to eat. There was not a table in sight, so we improvised and used one of the garbage cans as our table. This is the only place I'd trust using a garbage can as a table to eat.
To allow our food to settle we walked through the shops on Main Street, then it was back over to Fantasyland to ride Dumbo (since it was closing soon for the expansion). Got to get a good ariel view of the new expansion. Then it was off to the Hall of Presidents to get out of the ever-growing crowd.
We did have a dinner reservation at the Liberty Tree Tavern but the time conflicted with all the shows we wanted to watch. Since this was our last chance to see the Christmas shows we decided to cancel our reservation. The cast member told us that they had actually overbooked for that evening and it would have been extremely crowded.
Since we were in Frontierland and it was about an hour before Mickey's Once Upon a Christmastime Parade we grabbed a spot since tons of people were already claiming all the excellent viewing sections. I loved the fact that Duffy was on the first float with Mickey and Minnie! He's been getting a lot of exposure lately and I cannot complain!
After Santa Clause made his appearance we followed him all the way to Cinderella's Castle (also didn't have a choice since the traffic was flowing that way). Since we were in the area we grabbed a spot for Celebrate the Season in front of Cinderella's Castle.
Celebrate the Season with Mickey and Friends!
Decided to do a few more attractions before grabbing a snack. People Mover, Splash Mountain, and Big Thunder Mountain were on the hit list. When we were getting off Splash Mountain the entire area was a huge traffic jam, there were literally people on every square inch of available space. Also at this time Cast Members began handing out hats and horns for New Years. For the rest of the day that's all you could hear were horns going off in every corner of the park and a sea of black hats everywhere you looked.
Finally after a good 15mins we made it to the Dole Whip location and got ourselves some sweet Dole Whip. No trip is complete without at least one visit. Since the park is at capacity by this point it was very rare to find a place to sit. We found a "door step" a few doors down from the Dole Whip. It was nice and tucked away from everyone. After consuming the delicious dole whip, I actually was able to have a 30mins nap sitting there against the wall. It was well needed and completely recharged my batteries for the rest of the day!
By this point in the day the park is clearly at capacity and no matter where you go it's a wait and wall to wall people. If you've been to Tokyo Disneyland or visited Walt Disney World during this time, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
It was decided to find a spot for the next few shows along Main Street. We were basically forced into a spot near the end of Main Street. Which was fine with us, decided to stake our claim and stay there for the next three hours. We met two nice families from Arkansas and Texas. The family from Texas were there as a Christmas present, they gave the present to the kids on Christmas morning then drove all the way to Orlando that day. What a great present!
With the massive crowd level you are bound to run into rude guests. There were a ton of people pushing us and the two families so they could fit in, it's one thing to try and fit one or two people but when you're family of ten want to fit into an already filled spot, that's not going to fit. Not much you can do but be polite to them and simply tell them they can't fit.
While in our spot we got to see four, yes four shows!
Cinderella's Christmas Wish is the show they put on after sunset to light up the castle in icicles. Mickey and his friends make Cinderella's wish come true!
The Main Street Electrical Parade needs no introduction and was just as bright and fun as ever!
Don't worry it's not midnight yet!
The Magic, Memories, and You is the same show as usual but they add a bit of Christmas flair near the end.
That's a lot of colours.
Holiday Wishes was my favourite out of these group of shows we got to watch. It's not just Wishes with some Christmas mixed into it, they do a completely different show.
That's the end of part one. If you wish to view the rest of the photos for this day please head over to my Flickr. Make sure to check back in a few days for part two where we ring in 2012!