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Travel the World on Ice Skates With These 6 Amazing Spots
Have you ever imagined yourself ice skating across the country? Well, in some locations, you can pretty much do just that. There are some unique spots across the globe where fields of smooth ice seem to go on forever. You can skate across vast lakes, down beautiful rivers, as well as frozen canals. Here are some of the best spots where you can get your skate on this winter.
Rideau Canal
Ottawa, Canada
The Rideau Canal, located in downtown Ottawa, freezes over thick every winter. What this annual event means to the city's residents and tourists is a five-mile-long skating track. A trip down the canal, billed as "the world's largest skating rink," is a spectacular way to see Ottawa. There are plenty of rest stops along the way, where you can get a hot drink or a bite to eat while you warm your hands and feet for the next leg of the journey.
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Sentier d'hiver River Trail
Winnipeg, Canada
Pull on your long underwear and put on your earmuffs. It's downright freezing on the Sentier d'hiver Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail (sentier d'hiver meaning "river trail" in French). If you come prepared for low temperatures, you'll be amply rewarded for braving the elements. This frozen river clocks in with Guinness World Records as the longest naturally frozen skating trail in the world. You won't be disappointed with more than six miles of icy river to carve your blades into.
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The Netherlands
Yes, the Netherlands. The whole darn country. The Dutch are famous for their extensive canal networks, and when the canals freeze over, the Royal Netherlands Skating Union takes full advantage of that fact. You can skate from village to village while passing by some truly beautiful and inspiring scenery. This is tour skating at its finest. The canals don't freeze every year, so check winter weather conditions before planning your trip.
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Evergreen Lake
Evergreen Lake, just a short distance away from Denver, CO, offers up an outdoor skating paradise. The Evergreen Lake House provides skate rentals, as well as a large common room with a great big fireplace, where you can get nice and toasty in between runs across the ice. Sunset Magazine named this 40-acre lake one of the top 10 skating rinks in the country.
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Centennial Lakes Park
Edina, MN
Come winter, skate your heart out on this 10-acre lake, situated in the center of Centennial Lakes Park. The park, located in Edina, MN, is only a short jaunt away from bustling Minneapolis. If you want to enjoy outdoor skating in the Twin Cities region this winter, you can't go wrong with this frozen lake. It's surrounded by plenty of warming houses, which provide fireplaces both inside and out, as well as lots of snacks to give you some extra fuel for another spin around the ice.
Lake Mälaren
If you really want to skate across an incredible distance, why not venture on up to Scandinavia, and Sweden's Lake Mälaren. Every February, a race is held between Uppsala and Stockholm. For those of you who think you're in good enough shape, you can tackle almost 50 miles of track, and skirt across the ice at top speeds. So much for a relaxing afternoon drawing figure eights with your blades across the local ice rink.
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Afternoon sex, affairs can be part of life on the road
New website lets people book boutique hotel rooms in New York City for a few hours for an afternoon tryst.
Robert C., a New York City banker, is divorced with children. So is his girlfriend. Which means that finding the right time and place to get intimate can get complicated.
Recently, Robert whisked her off to the trendy Flatiron Hotel in Manhattan for an afternoon romantic rendezvous. It cost him $145 to rent the room for a few hours in the middle of the day.
Robert, who asked that his full name not be used because of the personal nature of his experience, found the room on a new website called Dayuse-hotels.com that lets people book boutique hotel rooms in New York City for a few hours midday. "How about a naughty nap in a sexy hotel with your sex partner?" the website playfully asks.
"It was perfect," Robert says. "This was an opportunity to spend some time together."
The website, out in time for Valentine's Day, throws out into the open what many business travelers — and businessmen and women — have likely been doing for years: slipping off to a hotel for an afternoon tryst.
"This is a business that all hotels have, but a lot of people keep it hush-hush," says Yannis Moati, regional manager for Dayuse-hotels.com, which made its debut in France in 2010 before arriving here six months ago.
The travel industry has always been an avid promoter of romance. A new U.S. Travel Association survey of 1,100 U.S. adults found that 72% of them believe traveling inspires romance. The industry group, not surprisingly, recommended that lovers give each other a trip this Valentine's Day rather than chocolates.
READ MORE: Travel can improve couples' sex life, survey says
But sometimes, there's an illicit nature to romance on the road. Being on the road has long been associated with different "road rules" that open the way to infidelity or random hook-ups. Think of the 2009 film Up in the Air, starring George Clooney and Vera Farmiga, about two people who carry on an affair while traveling for work.
Although there's no definitive data on how many business travelers get into romantic entanglements on the road, therapists and relationship analysts say it happens frequently among single people and married ones. They can be one-night stands or long affairs. They can be with co-workers, friends or strangers.
Gail Saltz, an associate professor of psychiatry at the New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill-Cornell School of Medicine, says people take on different personas when they're on the road. When alcohol is flowing at a hotel bar, many travelers let their guards down.
"There's the feeling that you have a different identity when you travel," she says.
Whatever the circumstances, romances can potentially have damaging consequences if they involve infidelity.
"Why are people cheating on the road all the time? It's safe, they can't get caught, nobody will see them, and they get the opportunity to basically alleviate the guilt on an airplane ride or car ride home," says David Wygant, a relationship expert and coach in Marina Del Rey, Calif.
Opportunity knocks
Akie Davis knew it was wrong but he began cheating on his wife while traveling for work because it was easy.
"A lot of times, when the company pays for you to go to these exclusive places with great scenery, you're away from everything," says Davis, 42, of Houston. "You kind of wish your spouse was there. And they're not."
A co-worker and former girlfriend was there instead of his wife on one particular work trip. One thing led to another, he says, and the two ended up together. Their affair lasted a year, and their liaisons only took place when they were on the road.
Now divorced and author of Black Man's Version To Exhale, he recalls regretting each time he cheated on his then-wife.
"I felt shame. I was embarrassed," he says. "It was a very guilty feeling, especially when I had to come back home knowing about the infidelity."
He is now engaged to another woman. He still travels for work, but he does not cheat on his fiancée. "It wasn't worth it," he says of his affair.
Guilt can be one consequence of having an affair while traveling, but Jane Greer, a relationship expert and author of What About Me? Stop Selfishness From Ruining Your Relationship, says another danger is that you end up hurting the person you had the tryst with.
"You may consider it a one-night thing and a light-hearted casual thing, but then the person you're with is more invested in it, and then you've really got a messy situation," she says.
An even messier situation would arise if you brought home a sexually transmitted disease, Wygant says.
"Cheaters tend to not be very careful," he says. "They love the risk. It's a thrill to them."
If that happens, you can probably expect your spouse or partner to find out about the infidelity. "There's the end of the relationship," Wygant says.
Even single people run into dangers when they hook up on the road, Saltz says. "We're sort of living in this hook-up culture," she says. But "for many people, divorcing sex and their feelings is easier said than done."
If the romantic encounter involves co-workers, there could be legal implications.
Anthony Oncidi, partner and co-head of the California Labor and Employment Law Group at law firm Proskauer in Los Angeles, says if the relationship involves a supervisor and subordinate, a break-up could be fraught with problems. The two could stop communicating, and their work could suffer. Other employees could also claim that the person involved with the supervisor is getting preferential treatment.
Even when two employees are on equal levels, one can claim that the other is harassing him or her.
For that reason, Oncidi says, many companies have non-fraternization policies preventing or at least discouraging office romances.
"The rules regarding non-fraternization and non-dating follow employees on the road," he says. "When you are traveling for business, you are dragging the workplace with you wherever the travel takes you."
But there's not much companies can do if an employee wants to have an affair on the road. It only becomes the company's business when it involves another employee and there are potential liability issues, he says.
Not just a romantic afternoon
Dayuse-hotels.com originated in Paris, appropriately nicknamed the City of Love.
Moati says demand was strong for people who wanted a hotel for hours at a time. While many couples were renting rooms to get away from their kids and revive their relationships, there were many other clients who weren't checking in for sexual interludes, he says.
Many clients were businessmen in transit who needed a room for a meeting or to rest before a flight. Others were suburban mothers who wanted to shop and pamper themselves for a day.
"For five or six hours of usage, you get a clean room in a good hotel that's WiFi-enabled," he says, of the half-price deals.
The service expanded to other European cities, then to New York. In three years, bookings have gone from 60 a month to more than 300 a day in eight countries. The plan is to take it to other U.S. cities.
Moati says Dayuse-hotels.com is targeting a higher-end clientele with three-star-and-above boutique hotels. So far, 18 New York City hotels have signed up, including the MAve NYC Hotel in the Flatiron District and the Hotel Belleclaire in the Upper West Side.
Hotels like the idea because they can make extra money during the hotel's downtime.
Benjamin Kaller, director of revenue at the Flatiron Hotel, says the hotel is getting more requests for day-use reservations. The guests check in at 11 a.m. and have to leave either by 4 p.m. or 6 p.m. "It's a great additional stream of revenue you can make use of," he says.
He says most seem to be business travelers coming in from a red-eye flight or looking for a place to have a conference call. But he doesn't really know, he says, because none of the hotel employees are allowed to pry. "We don't really question guests when they come in," he says.
Antonio Gabriel, a New York photographer, has rented rooms through the website twice for photo shoots. "I can use it as a place to regroup and do some work," he says.
With Valentine's Day coming up, he says he doesn't think it would be a bad idea to reserve a room for something other than work.
"It's a pretty cool idea," he says. "You start your day and around noon, you have lunch and you say, 'Hell, I want to have a room for a couple of hours.' Why not?"
Convincing yourself
Therapists and relationship experts say many travelers who have affairs on the road rationalize it by arguing that if it happens in a hotel or in another time zone, it's almost like it didn't happen at all.
"Cheaters can rationalize anything, as long as they can scientifically prove that it didn't happen in their brain," Wygant, the dating coach, says.
It's not just men who feel more sexually liberated when they travel.
"It's still more common for men to have affairs, but women are better at lying about them," says Christina Steinorth, a licensed psychotherapist in Santa Barbara, Calif., and author of Cue Cards for Life: Thoughtful Tips for Better Relationships.
Steinorth says fessing up is usually the best policy and doesn't necessarily mean the relationship is doomed.
"I think if you don't, your partner is staying with you under false pretenses," she says. "In all other areas of our life, we are given 'informed consent.' We're informed of all the downsides and possibilities of downsides. Relationships should be no different."
Not all romances on the road end up in a trail of tears, or involve lying.
Gigi Griffis, 28, a single social-media strategist traveling the world, met a local resident while visiting Thun, a town in Switzerland. The two spent several days hiking together. She extended her trip by a few days. She eventually had to leave, but they keep in touch via e-mail.
"I had a few days of being very sad," she says. "But also of telling myself that having that experience was worth a little sadness."

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'Everything we stand for': New York officialdom reacts to the conflict in Gaza and Israel
As of this writing, 274 rockets have struck Israel since yesterday, according to a spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces, while Israel has launched a series of attacks on targets in Gaza.
The conflict is somewhat surreal, since "Both the Israeli army and Hamas are posting updates on their attacks in real time."
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The online accounts of the conflict from both sides have graduated from saber-rattling and an IDF boast about the assassination of a Hamas leader to graphic appeals for international sympathy in the form of accounts and pictures of innocent casualties.
The Palestinian death toll is currently reported at 11. Three Israelis have been killed so far.
Within New York officialdom, traditionally the foremost (non-evangenlical) bastion of support for Israel in America, the response has been characteristically unequivocal.
Rep. Jerry Nadler, whose district in Manhattan and Brooklyn has a huge number of Jewish voters, called the attack by Hama "barbaric" and said, "These attacks are entirely without justification and amount to murderous provocations by a terrorist regime which refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist, and which refuses to work toward a peaceful coexistence for both sides."
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio agreed.
"The State of Israel has every right to defend its people. These indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli civilians represent an affront to everything we stand for as New Yorkers and Americans."
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn wrote on Twitter, "I stand by Israel & support its actions to root out terrorism & protect its borders."
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer said he wanted the United Nations to "immediately take a strong position against those unprovoked attacks."
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was in Israel in 2009 when Sderot was hit with rockets, used today's violence to call attention to the ties between New York and Israel.
"As sirens sounded in Tel Aviv just now and residents scrambled for shelter, many New Yorkers were immediately transported back to the worst days of first Gulf War, when the fear of missiles landing in Israel's largest city turned into reality."
Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American Democratic operative based in Brooklyn, took issue with Bloomberg's comments.
"Mike Bloomberg needs to continue to be the mayor of all New Yorkers with the understanding that he represents one of the largest Palestinian communities in the United States," she said.


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Top weather stories
Environment Canada released the annual Top Ten Weather Storieson Thursday, December 22, 2011. The list chronicles the weather events that made headlines and captivated Canadians from coast to coast. This annual ranking of the most notable weather events was started in 1996 and is compiled and selected by David Phillips, Senior Climatologist and Canada's foremost weather guru. The top stories are based on such factors as the severity of the event, the impact it had on Canadians, the extent of the area that was affected, and the economic repercussions.


text: > hardware platform to choose. One is Intel nocona , the other is AMD > Opteron. > > Can anybody send me some articles related to : > > 1. performance difference between those two platforms on 32-bit > computing; > 2. performance difference between those two platforms on 64-bit > computing; this question doesn't make sense. the performance differences between P4 and K8 architectures have less to do with which mode they're in than Intel and AMD's very different approaches. Intel uses a shared-FSB, so processors share/compete for memory bandwidth. AMD attaches memory directly to CPUs, and provides a fast, point-to-point link between CPUs (no bus, really). so AMD is slightly NUMA, for instance, though even remote memory is very fast and AMD unambiguously spanks Intel in that domain (especially for more CPUs.) of course, if your code is in-cache, this is irrelevant. there are some other differences, such as details of cache size/latency/etc, pipeline length, etc. AMD spanks Intel for traditional (x87) FP performance, but Intel seems to usually be slightly ahead on MMX/SSE/etc stuff. most of these factors seem minor enough that they could easily be epiphenomena (of the fact that Intel agressively tunes their own compiler, for instance.) I find that AMD and Intel hold themselves fairly close in performance, if you normalize by price (and ignore outliers). so much so that power dissipation becomes quite relevant in choosing... regards, mark hahn.


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Angel of Mercy
PREVIOUSLY CALLED "Ashes and Dust" SPOILER WARNING!! DISCLAIMER WARNING (i only own the main character and her family...... mineminemine) A visitor comes to Forks. She's strange and not like the others, but what if something happened between her and Jacob, something that never should have. What if her past was entwined with Edward's? What if that gets between Bella's and Edward's relationship? And what if it starts a war between the vampires and werewolves so big that it might never end?
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My name is Astheroshe Saunière, and this is my story. I have been a vampire for nearly 1,500 years. I am a vegetarian just like the rest of my coven. The entire coven is made up of 13 other vampires besides myself, no one knows about us except the Volturi. The youngest is 997 years old, and that's Tori. Unfortunately after a very tragic accident 5 years ago, under the order of the Volturi, I'm not allowed to be part of that coven anymore. I have roamed the world ever since. Now I'm in deep trouble and the lives of my love and my family are in my hands.
Chapter 1
" SHE'S A WHAT?!" Jacob was bewildered while I just stood to the side afraid of his reaction.
"I don't believe it. It's impossible. Nothing like this has ever happened," Sam said. He was just as surprised.... and very pissed.
" She's telling the truth," everyone turned to look at me as I spoke up. I've been silent through the whole conversation up until now.
1 week earlier (APOV)
" Hey how are you doing," I was talking to Tori since the Volturi never said I couldn't.
"Ok, I guess," I answered.
"Where are you now?"
" Um, you know I really have no idea. I think it's northwest Washington. It's really rainy here so I don't care."
"All right I gotta go, I'll call you in a week."
" Sure, love ya," Tori was like my sister and best friend.
" You too. Bye"
"Who are you?" I whirled to try and locate the voice behind me. It was another vampire, apparently a vegetarian. She had long blonde hair and a very sour look on her face.
"What's it to ya? What are you the local vampire police or something?" I replied with as much acid in my voice as possible. I knew I was going to hate her just from the little exchange we had.
" Are you a vegetarian?" I heard another voice to my left. When I turned there was another vampire.
"Yes." This one had a calm welcome look on his face and something told me to trust him.
" What is your name?"
" I'm Astheroshe Saunière"
" Hello Astheroshe, my name is Carlisle Cullen and this is Rosalie Hale"
"Are you the only two in this area?"
"No the rest of the family is at home." Home, I liked the sound of that. " Please come with us so I can introduce you"
" Thank you"
"Please follow us"
We arrived at their house in a matter of seconds. It was big, white, and very beautiful. When I walked in the first thing I noticed was that there was a human inside. How strange. Who is this human?
"Esme, Jasper, Emmet, Alice, Edward, Bella, please come downstairs, we have a visitor," Carlisle called down the family.
All of a sudden five pairs of liquid gold and a pair of brown eyes stared at me with curiosity. The human was a girl with brown hair and she was standing next to a vampire about a head taller than her with bronze hair. He seemed so familiar somehow I've seen him before, I'm sure of it. Carlisle introduced each member of the family for me. Esme was his mate. Then there was Jasper and Alice, Rosalie and Emmet, somehow I knew that those two were together, and Bella and Edward. That's it I know who he was, Edward Masen, his family was one of the richest in the city. I wonder if he was a vampire or human when we met. Does he even remember me? I hope not.
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China's freshwater dolphin driven to extinction
After surviving 20 million years, China's goddess of the river is driven to extinction By Clifford Coonan in Beijing Published: 18 December 2006 For 20 million years, the white-fin dolphin, or baiji, swam China's longest river, the Yangtze. But a few years of breakneck development, overfishing and a massive increase in shipping have reduced sightings … Continue reading China's freshwater dolphin driven to extinction
Whale Vomit
Please Let It Be Whale Vomit, Not Just Sea Junk Photo: Gordon M. Grant for The New York Times If conserving the creatures that live in the ocean doesn't appeal to you (or more likely, someone else you know) on the basis of biodiversity, cancer cures, tourism dollars or aesthetic value, maybe COLD HARD CASH … Continue reading Whale Vomit
Rapid Bleaching Assessment Protocol announced for Caribbean tropical corals
The Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment Program (AGRRA) has announced a new rapid assessment protocol for assessing bleaching impacts on Caribbean tropical corals (dubbed BLAGARRA). The ability to quickly assess large areas is essential in monitoring the effects of mass bleaching events (immediate and delayed coral mortality, recovery, etc.). This protocol is well suited … Continue reading Rapid Bleaching Assessment Protocol announced for Caribbean tropical corals
The day Boris Worm's study got media spotlight, so many friends contacted me and asked, "What do you think of the projected fisheries collapse in 2048? Is it true?" I always wanted to say that it's not the year that matters. 2048? 2047? 2049? It doesn't matter. The moral of the story is that biodiversity … Continue reading
Putting a Price Tag on Carbon
The New York Times came out with an article today addressing the cost benefits of reducing carbon emissions sooner rather than later, and how climate change is as much an economic problem as it is an environmental problem. One of the interesting things the article states is that by using current technology carbon emissions could … Continue reading Putting a Price Tag on Carbon
Dissecting the deep sea coral language in H.R. 5946 – the meat and bones (mesoglea and septa)
Deep sea corals are happy today The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006 (as amended to H.R. 5946) was passed by Congress on December 9 at 1:25 A.M. Two provisions of this legislation specifically address deep sea corals (sections 105 and 408): Section 105 authorizes (via discretionary authority) the Regional Fishery Management … Continue reading Dissecting the deep sea coral language in H.R. 5946 – the meat and bones (mesoglea and septa)
Ocean Acidification…the greatest ocean threat.
Elizabeth Kolbert wrote a very informative article on ocean acidifcation in the Nov 20, 2006 issue of the New Yorker titled "The Darkening Sea…What carbon emissions are doing to the ocean". Climate change skeptics do not dispute the fact that the oceans are becoming more acidic because we are burning ever increasing quantities of fossil … Continue reading Ocean Acidification…the greatest ocean threat.
Next up for extinction, the Vaquita?
Another marine mammal appears on the brink of extinction, the Vaquita. This tiny (1.5 m) charismatic porpoise is endemic to the north-western corner of the Gulf of California, Mexico. It is estimated that there are less than 600 left in the wild. Who's to blame? Recent research published in Mammal Review points the finger at … Continue reading Next up for extinction, the Vaquita?
Large charismatic marine megafauna thought to be extinct, who's next?
Say goodbye to the poor Baiji Dolphin Last sited in 1997, the poor Baiji Dolphin is expected to be extinct. The Bajii is (or was) a nearly blind finless freshwater white dolphin which apparently has scumbed to Chinas relentless economic growth. On Dec 6 the Wall Street Journal (paper edition) reported the results of a … Continue reading Large charismatic marine megafauna thought to be extinct, who's next?
Deep sea corals – One step back, two steps forward?
The deep water coral Madrepora oculata, from the Straits of Florida (image courtesy Reed 2006) Dec. 7th was a cold dark day for deep cold-water corals, as the UNGA formally adopted its resolution negotiated last month in New York through the UN Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (UNICPOLOS). … Continue reading Deep sea corals – One step back, two steps forward?


text: Lulu is still a kitten. When Martin died, Alfie became somewhat depressed. He'd lost his best buddy. I couldn't quite face getting another dog but I knew that Alfie liked cats. So I got him a kitten. Alfie perked right up! They chase each other, and play, and pretend-fight, and the house is very lively again.


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NetApp flogs NetCache to Blue Coat
Sadly not a Pontins entertainment monkey
Blue Coat is to acquire NetApp's NetCache business in a mixed cash and stock deal. The two firms have signed an asset purchase agreement which should be rubber-stamped within 90 days.
NetCache products are for web content delivery and security. NetApp wants to focus on its burgeoning core business in data storage.
NetApp SVP of emerging products said Jay Kidd: "This divestiture allows us to sharpen our focus on data management solutions and services for the enterprise data center. Over the long term, our NetCache customers will be better served working with a supplier who has a broader offering in the content delivery market."
Blue Coat CEO Brian Nesmith said: "The acquisition of the NetCache business is a critical component of delivering on our vision of secure and accelerated delivery of applications and content to users."
NetApp said its NetCache staff would either switch to different product ranges within the firm, or be offered positions at Blue Coat.®
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wdpowell needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 148 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
We need labels for our products, all made with olive leaf. We want a new, more elegant/professional logo designed as well.
We want several versions of a label for different products: Capsules, lotion, soap, tea, and tincture. I'd like to make this contest be for two versions, a 2"X4" verticle layout, and a 2"X4" Horizontal layout. See http://www.olivus.us for product descriptions.
The Horizontal label should be for our capsule product (olc-100). The verticle label should be for the lotion (o-ss).
I have seen many good olive themed designs on past contests here. Just search for a contest with keyword "olive" or look at contest #5951, #6767, #4781, #9212
The prize is for a logo and these two lables with the understanding that additional versions will be purchased for the other products for $50/each. If $50 is not acceptable let me know prior to choosing a winner what your fee will be.
Formats need are: .png .jpg and editable in Fireworks or Photoshop, and Freehand. Images & Color in CMYK format.
- Logo:
- Olive leaves are a must in the logo.
- Olives (the fruit) are optional, but a creative way of making the O in Olivus an olive is good. Or olive brach w/olives.
- Looking for something professional, clean, and somewhat elegant. We have a dove as part of the logo now. It could stay or go (be creative and we will give feedback)._________________________________________________
- Capsule Label:
- Include logo
- Product Name: Organic Olive Leaf Capsules
- Quantity: 100 Vegitarian Capsules
- Product Code: olc-100
- website: http://www.Olivus.com
- Phone No: (888) OLIVUS1 (654-8871)
- Address: PO Box 5928, Concord, CA 94524
- Benefits: see http://www.olivus.us/olive-leaf-nat…-p-11.html
- AntOxidant Free-Radical Scavenger
- Natural Anti-Pathogen fights cold, flu, virus, bacteria, fungus, and more
- Immune system support
- Helps lower blood pressure and cholesterol
- Below benefits include FDA disclosure: These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnos, prevent, or treat disease or illness.
- Nutrition facts Box:Serving Size: 1 capsule - 550mg
- Ingrediants per serving: Organic Olive leaf - 550mg
- This product contains no corn, wheat, sugar, animal products, and/or preservatives.
- Suggested Use: as a dietary supplement, take 1-3 capsules daily or as directed by your healthcare professional.
- Phrase: Store in cool, dry place
- Phrase: Keep out of reach of children. ________________________________________________
- Lotion Label:
- include logo
- Product Name: Silken Skin
- Tag Line: Olive Leaf Extract Face & Body Lotion
- Benefits:see http://www.olivus.us/silken-skin-ol…-p-22.html description.
- Nurishes your skin
- No oily after-feel
- Gentle for sensitive skin
- High Antioxidant skin protection slows the aging process
- Include: Phone, address, website
- Include product code: o-ss
- Include bottle size: 8 fl. oz./236 ml.
- Include a panel for useage info, ingredients_________________________________________________
I can email current labels if needed, but I prefer not to have them influence your design because we want something brand new.
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The prostate gland is located underneath the bladder and is about the size of a chestnut.
In this cut section, you can see that part of the urethra is encased within the prostate gland. As a man ages, the prostate typically enlarges in size in a process called benign hypertrophy, which means that the gland got larger without becoming cancerous.
The enlarged prostate crowds its anatomical neighbors, particularly the urethra, causing it to narrow. The narrowed urethra results in several of the symptoms of benign prostatic hypertrophy, or BPH. Symptoms may include a slowed or delayed start in urination, the need to urinate frequently during the night, difficulty in emptying the bladder, a strong, sudden urge to urinate, and incontinence. Less than half of all men with BPH have symptoms of the disease, or their symptoms are minor and do not restrict their life style.
BPH is a normal physiological process of aging and treatment options are available. The choice of the appropriate treatment is based on the severity of the symptoms, the extent to which they affect lifestyle, and the presence of other medical conditions. Men with BPH should consult with their physician yearly to monitor the progression of the symptoms and decide the best course of treatment as needed.
Review Date 8/26/2017
Updated by: Jennifer Sobol, DO, urologist with the Michigan Institute of Urology, West Bloomfield, MI. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, Brenda Conaway, Editorial Director, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.


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Yesterday I finally had the chance to check out Lego's booth in the [email protected] section of CES. They're previewing the newest version of their robotics platform, Mindstorms EV3, for show attendees. After I finally managed to elbow my way to the front of their packed booth, I was able to get the details on their newest product. The latest evolution of Mindstorms has been developed over three years and delivers a more powerful and hackable intelligent brick, new sensors, new components, and a programming software update.
At the core of the platform is the intelligent brick, which is powered by an ARM9 robotic processor and runs Linux. It will now allow for on-brick programming, Bluetooth, iOS connectivity, and WiFi (through USB ports). They're open sourcing the on-board Linux package, so the unit should be more hackable than ever. Lego is also releasing a new IR seeker sensor, a beacon sensor, and an improved color sensor, which is demoed above by a rep from the company. The platform is even backwards compatible with the older NXT components. If you're eager to get your hands on a kit, you'll have to be patient. They expect to be shipping by the end of 2013.


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Happy Birthday to your Mom! Good to see you back. I've been missing your blog updates. :)
Thank you, Wendy and Kathryn...I will definitely pass on your well wishes. I'm not "officially" back...just couldn't pass up a post on this big event!