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Biden: US Remains Open to Direct Talks With Iran
(WASHINGTON) -- Vice President Joseph Biden says the White House remains open to direct talks with Iran over its nuclear enrichment program, but the U.S. would refuse to engage Tehran until its government and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei demonstrated they were "serious" about moving forward.
Speaking at a security conference in Munich, Germany Saturday, the vice president said the administration had been clear it "would be prepared" to meet for one-on-one negotiations between the states, outside the multilateral meetings that have not convened for major talks since June.
"We would not make it a secret that we were doing that," Biden said. "We would let our partners know if that occasion presented itself. That offer stands, but it must be real and tangible, and there has to be an agenda that they're prepared to speak to. We are not just prepared to do it for the exercise."
Any thawing of the chill between Tehran and Washington suffered another setback last month when Iran announced it would accelerate enrichment of uranium that could be used in fuel reactors as well as nuclear warheads. The decision came ahead of six-power talks expected to resume soon, although the State Department said Iranian leadership has continually changed their preconditions and dates.
Also this week, Iran claimed to have launched a rocket carrying a monkey into space. While analysts have cast serious doubt over the veracity of the claim, it dovetailed with continued international concern the country's "space program" was being used as a testing bed for ballistic missile technology.
Biden said it wasn't too late to work within the confines of the multilateral discussions with the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany.
"There is still time, there is still space for diplomacy, backed by pressure, to succeed," he told the conference. "The ball is in the government of Iran's court, and it's well past time for Tehran to adopt a serious, good-faith approach to negotiations with the P5-plus-1."
In December, Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi told state-run media that his government was also open to bilateral discussions, but that approval would ultimately come from the ayatollah. The minister is at the Munich convention and is expected to make remarks Sunday, although there is no meeting scheduled between the two leaders.
This position on bilateral talks is not a new stance for the Obama administration. But last October the New York Times reported the White House had taken it a step further, with the U.S. and Iran agreeing, in principle, to one-on-one discussions. Citing anonymous members of the Obama administration, the paper said Iran had insisted on delaying negotiation until after the U.S. presidential election in November.
At the time, the White House denied the Times' report that any such agreement had been met.
While the six-power discussions have gained little traction since the summer, international trade sanctions on Tehran continue to cut into its oil and financial infrastructure.
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School Official Accused of Accessing Student's Facebook Page
(SEATTLE) -- The parents of an Everett, Wash., middle school student are furious after they said a school administrator forced their daughter to log onto her Facebook page so he could investigate a cyber bullying case.
Samantha Negrete, a student at North Middle School, told her parents last Thursday she had been called to the front office and was ordered by her assistant principal to log on to her Facebook account so he could access her friends' private pages.
"There was no right for anybody to come in and ask her to open up her personal information to obtain any information about anybody else. That's just something you cannot do," said Samantha's mother, Connie Becerra.
"He proceeded to sit down and go through students' pages and opened up numerous kids' Facebooks and was looking at pictures and postings," she said.
A student was later called to the office and suspended for what the assistant principal saw, Samantha's parents told ABC News' Seattle affiliate KOMO-TV.
Everett Public Schools is investigating the incident, according to a district spokeswoman.
"What we do know is the bullying took place and the technicalities of how that was uncovered are part of the investigative process," spokeswoman Mary Waggoner said.
The American Civil Liberties Union said it will also conduct an investigation to determine whether Negrete's rights were violated.
"Schools can't search students' private belongings or their private communication. That student's private communication is private," an ACLU spokesperson said.
Copyright 2013 ABC News Radio

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- Alameda Country Social Service Agency's Social Services Integrated Reporting System (SSIRS) had an ROI of 631% and a payback of 2 months
- Memphis Police Department's Blue CRUSH (Criminal Reduction Utilizing Statistical History) had an ROI of 863% and a payback of 2.7 months
The SSIRS system helped Alameda County reduce overpayments to non-compliant citizens, improve their win rates when claimants appealed discontinuation of benefits, and improved caseworker productivity. The system is essentially a Business Intelligence solution giving the caseworkers access to information about their clients, with dashboard and drill down capabilities. It also provides the caseworkers and managers with immediate information on "how am I doing?". Providing caseworkers with information on their clients' work participation rate and other performance metrics was key to improving the performance of the social service agency. The solution combined Cognos Business Intelligence, Infosphere Identity Insight, and an Infosphere warehouse to hold all the data. Identity Insight helps the caseworkers track the relationships between the various clients (e.g., parent/child) that may impact services offered. Here is a video where Don Edwards, Assistant Agency Director, talks about the solution: YouTube Video
The Blue CRUSH solution helped the Memphis Police Department (MPD) to identify crime "hot spots" and then target these areas for increased attention. As a result, MPD has reduced violent crime without additional staffing. The solution uses IBM SPSS Predictive Analytics software to analyze crime data pertaining to type of criminal offense, time of day, day of week, location, and the weather. The solution was developed with the assistance of the University of Memphis Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Memphis Police Department received a National award from Nucleus Research for this solution. They were one of only ten companies and governmental agencies to receive the Nucleus Research ROI award. Out of 350 technology projects that were submitted, the Memphis Police Department was one of only two governmental agencies to receive an award. The other governmental agency was the US State Department.
More information about Analytics, including our Fall Analytics Seminar Series, can be found at www.ibm.com/ASCdc
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My sweet babboo gives me The Big O and I am his slave for a week.
by THE REAL JULIA December 27, 2005
Nickname of basketball legend Oscar Robertson.
There has never been a basketball player more versatile than The Big O.
by IcebergSlim78 March 13, 2009
an animated show about a giant megadeus (mech), the Big O, and it's Dominus (pilot), Roger Smith.
The Big O airs at 1:30 am on Adult Swim
by Paradigm City March 17, 2005
Did you see "the big o" on inauguration day?
by Nick-names January 23, 2009
when several females perform cunninglus to eachother whilst luying in a circle therefore allowing everyone to experience the great pleasures of the tongue
by Nomad Mouncif January 29, 2009
The semi-official, fresh-from-marketing nickname for Omaha, Nebraska. Latest in a number of slogans designed to give Omaha an "image", this one seems to have stuck, the fact that it has not enhanced Omaha's image one jot notwithstanding. Most commonly used in "buy the big O"; i.e., keep your dollars in the local economy.
by regular_gonzalez October 28, 2005
Montreal slang for the Olympic Stadium, where the Expos baseball team and Allouettes football teams have played at various times. Also home to a large and extremely well done natural history museum. Now vacant, except for large expositions such as the Home Show. Charactorized on the Montreal skyline by the slanted concrete tower with a finicular railway running up to the top. aka: The Big Toilet Built for the 1976 Summer Olympics, but the tower was not finished until some time in the late 80's Meant to be the first stadium with a fully retractable roof, it was not fully functional until the early 90's, but the parachute and cable design proved too unreliable.
U2 will be performing at the Big O this evening.
We should've demolished the Big Toilet years ago, before it became the white elephant it is today. We're still paying for it, all these years later!
We should've demolished the Big Toilet years ago, before it became the white elephant it is today. We're still paying for it, all these years later!
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Update: Screenwriter Labs & Writers Colonies/
Hmmm.... Is the Facebook community more activist, participatory, and just generally helpful than the blogging world? These comments came in on my FB page via my inquiry here on behalf of a filmmaker about other labs & colonies.
Producer Jack Lechner pointed out:
The colonies aren't labs -- they're just places to write. There's no mentoring or criticism involved, although colonists sometimes present their new work to each other.
Cornelia Ravenal made a comment that:
Waiting to be accepted by one of the more prestigious labs often takes 2 or 3 tries, as in years. Best guidance to get started immediately is John Truby's book THE ANATOMY OF STORY: 22 STEPS TO BECOMING A MASTER STORYTELLER or his genre CDs. In fact, anything he offers at http://www.truby.com is useful.
Filmmaker Rodney Evens added:
Hi Ted- I just finished the Binger FilmLab's Director's Coaching Programme which was fantastic (http://www.facebook.com/l/;www.binger.nl). They also have a screenplay development program as well which is 6 months.
I can also recommend Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Hambidge, the Vermont Studio Center and the Edward Albee colony (in Montauk during the summer). I have also heard good things about The Millay Colony, Ucross, Djerassi and Blue Mountain Center but haven't been to those. Chateau de La Napoule in the south of France is great and people have also said good things about Sacatar in Brazil. http://www.facebook.com/l/;resartis.org is a good website for international residencies and here is a book for domestic places:
I write a lot at art colonies and residency programs and find it very helpful to get away from the distractions of everyday life. They definitely work for me.
Jade Wu these additional Screenwriting Labs & Colonies recommendations:
Film Independent (LA) - many projects graduate to production and festivals(LA Film Fest and Spirit Awards)
IFP Narrative Lab (NY) - a younger program, but has helped projects move to the next level and most have played the festival circuit
BlueCat Seminars (throughout U.S. cities) - the contest is run by Gordy Hoffman (Love Liza) and has garnered reputable status. Didn't do the seminars, but I placed as Semi-finalist - no cigar in the reality scheme of things, but I was thrilled nevertheless. Ballast won a BlueCat Award.
Disney/ABC Writing Fellowship (and they pay you to learn). I was a Fellow in the Daytime Drama Series Writing Program.
Marilyn Horowitz, whose on FB, is a great teacher/mentor. She's teaches at NYU, in addition to her own seminars (private/group/online).
The answer really depends on what this filmmaker expects/wants out of a lab and where he/she falls on the writing level scale. "Learning how to write" and "developing a screenplay" are very different goals.
Screenwriter Caitlin McCarthy (and TFF blog contributor) said:
The Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriters Lab is amazing. They accept six people each year. I participated in their inaugural lab in 2007 with Joy Lusco Kecken and Michael Lucker as my mentors. I can't think of any other screenwriting labs out there, other than what's been posted. This is why more labs are needed in the industry for up-and-coming screenwriters who want to develop their craft and find mentors. Without labs, budding writers are on their own. MacDowell and Yaddo won't accept budding writers, from my experience. They seem to want more established artists with at least one produced work. The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts is supposed to be more "budding writer" friendly, but I've never applied to it, so I don't know how it really is. The San Francisco Film Society has a Djerassi/SFFS Screenwriting Fellowship which provides a one-month residency for emerging or established screenwriters in the Santa Cruz Mountains. But it doesn't provide mentors like the labs. More labs, please!!! The fact that no one can rattle off a list of labs here speaks volumes. The film industry as a whole is not actively trying to mentor new talent. The question is WHY? So no one new can break in unless by some miracle these days? Makes you wonder....


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About McCall Pattern Company
The McCall Pattern Company founded in 1870, is a privately-owned, worldwide company that designs, manufactures, markets, distributes and sells sewing patterns and instructions for women's, men's and children's fashions, accessories, costumes, crafts and home decor, under the brand names of Butterick, McCall's and Vogue Patterns. In addition, The McCall Pattern Company publishes and distributes in-store catalogs for the three pattern brands, and consumer magazine Vogue Patterns.
Wallies, a division of The McCall Pattern Company designs, manufactures, markets, distributes and sells wallpaper cutouts, murals, and chalkboard products.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT heavyweight crew competed in its final competition of the fall season, the Foot of the Charles, on a chilly November Saturday. Tech entered one varsity 8 boat and two varsity 4 boats in the annual event.
Starting the day off bright and early in a race that included lightweight, heavyweight and novice rowers was the MIT 8 boat, coming in 11th place with its time of 14:47.8. Boston University's A boat completed the course the fastest with a time of 12:56.0. Tech finished a full minute ahead of Boston College's B boat in 15:49.7.
To end the day, the two MIT varsity 4 boats took to the water, with the B boat completing the event in 20th place out of 33 boats in 14:54.0. They were soon followed by the A boat in 24th with a time of 15:11.4. Harvard's B boat came in first place with a 13:27.4 and had their own A boat come in second in 13:32.4.
Tech will return to the water in April of 2014 for the spring season.
Varsity 4+ "A" c. Janelle Mansfield 4. Matthew Miklasevich 3. Erik Pearson 2. Matthew Connelly 1. Daniel Dalton
Varsity 4+ "B" c. Alexander Feldstein 4. Nathan Colgan 3. Steven Gerasimoff 2. Aaron Baumgarten 1. Alexander Nelson


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Here's me and my friend Stinky doing what we usually do... A whole lot of nothing. I tweaked it a bit in photoshop, I confess. Put us in the same frame, flipped Stinky, centered the pupils (so they're looking at the viewer, and not vapidly off into space) and turned Stinky's smile into a frown. It's ok. I wish the fat chick head wasn't so disproportionate to the body, but what're you gonna do?


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NOTE: A major stairway on this route was replaced in early 2013. This posting shows the old stairway; for pictures of the new stairway plus several additional pictures along this route, click here.
This is another tour of Seattle stairs that is hugely influenced by the relationship of Lake Washington and the bluffs above it. Here, up in the northwest corner of the lake, the neighborhood of Cedar Park spills over the bluff down to the water. While Lake City Way is an important auto route up and over Lake Washington, there's not a lot of reason for your average car-driving Seattleite to venture here, between Lake City Way and Lake Washington. The streets aren't as dense or numerous as elsewhere, and further progress is blocked by the lake. But, for us adventurous urban hikers, this provides the perfect opportunity to explore a completely charming spot we probably wouldn't see otherwise.
The walk starts out with vistas of northern Lake Washington from a long, steep stairway. Then there's a set of half-hidden stairs meandering toward the lake, interrupted in the middle by a pathway running down a quiet, shallow ravine. You'll spend some time lakeside, walking along the incomparable Burke-Gilman Trail - one of the finest rail-trails in the nation. You'll leave the trail to head back up the bluff and check out the rest of the scenic neighborhood. If time is a limiting factor, the book details an optional route that keeps the stairs, but shortens the neighborhood exploration.
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Don't Be Skeptical...Protect Yourself
Cell phone radiation and the healths affects associated with cell phone use are Real.
Studies have shown that cell phones have been associated with a wide range of health problems including: headaches, pressure or tingling in the head, earaches, fatigue, brain tumours, DNA damage and even changes in the brain's electrical activity
A Look at the Effects of Cell Phone Radiation and Wireless Technology Over the Past 30 Years
It is useful to be aware of new health research regarding cell phone usage and cell phone radiation. The first cell phone call was made in 1985 and that phone cost $5,000 and weighed about 9 pounds. The change in size, weight and cost of devices today has probably led to over 50% of the human race owning a mobile device, the fastest growing technology on the planet.
Joel Moskowitz (@berkeleyprc) of the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, US, says: "This is the largest technological experiment in the history of our species, with potential health risks we still know next to nothing about." This view is shared by Denis Henshaw, professor of human radiation effects at Bristol University, UK, who said: "Vast numbers of people are using cell phones and this could be a time bomb of health problems."
However, over the last 20 years there has been numerous official reports on the safety of cell phones and other wireless technologies, which some concluded that these devices and cell phone radiation pose a significant risk to health, while others concluded that there were no health risks.
Nevertheless, a group of scientists got together in the mid-2000s, calling themselves the BioInitiative Working Group. This group, which largely consisted of wireless radiation researchers, has written a harsh reply as feedback to the reports claiming that posed no health risks. The reply lists a wide range of health effects scientists at the European Commission have unfortunately either ignored or dismissed.
Here Are Some of the Contributory Comments
Cancer is the obvious start. An early concern with mobile technology was clusters of the disease around those living near phone masts. One study in Israel found a 4.5-fold increase in cancers of all kinds in the immediate vicinity of a mast (Int. J. Cancer Prev., 2004). In 2009, a Korean team of researchers carried out a pool analysis of the results of 23 studies, which involved almost 38,000 subjects.
A significant positive association was found in the studies over the past 20 years that were blinded (researchers didn't know who were cell phone users and who weren't). They found a "harmful effect" between cells and tumours of the brain, head and neck (J. Clin. Oncol., 2009).
A French study carried out in 2014 by the National Institute of Health and Medical Research found almost three times more gliomas in long-term heavy cell phone users (in some cases this stretched to six times more).
Japanese researchers found more than a threefold extra risk of acoustic neuromas in people using cell phones for more than 20 more than twenty minutes a day for five years.
The most compelling evidence though comes from a Swedish team of cancer experts whose research stretches back 15 years. The results clearly demonstrate "a consistent association between long-term use of cell phone and cordless phones and glioma and acoustic neuroma". Overall, they found that using a cell phone for more than a decade significantly increases the risk of a malignant tumour by almost two times with an analogue cell phone and by nearly four times with a digital phone. Interestingly, the risks were even higher for people who had started using mobiles as teenagers.
In a separate study by the same Swedish team, they found more than seven times the risk among people using a cell phone more than 20 years and 6.5 times the risk for long-term users of cordless phones. As expected, most of the gliomas and acoustic neuromas were on the same side of the head, which was usually exposed to the phone. In the 2013 official report on the medical evidence for brain tumors, the International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that radiation from cell phones is "possibly carcinogenic to humans".
Breast cancer is an interesting health risk to link to a cell phone. Studies linking phones to this type of cancer are weak. However, there is strong anecdotal evidence that cell phones carried in women's bras can directly affect the breast tissue and cause cancer.
In September 2014, Californian oncologists reported four similar case histories of young women who had developed breast cancer in precisely the areas where they normally carried their smartphones. What shocked the doctors was that these women were aged 21 to 39 and had no family history or other risk factors relating to cancer. All their cancers "had striking similarity, all tumours were hormone positive… (with) an extensive intraductal component and… near-identical morphology." (CaseRepMed., 2013).
Cell phones and brain tumors
Studies by five independent research groups regarding cell phones and brain tumors have revealed significantly increased risks of a benign tumour of the cranial nerve supplying the ear. This grows slowly and must be removed in a major operation that can result in permanent facial paralysis. Other risks found were cancer of the glial cells (including neurons) of the nervous system and cancer of the meninges, the membrane covering the brain and spinal cord.
"There are 25,000 brain tumor cases in India's Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states, and most of them are attributed to excessive use of cell phones, as per a recent medical survey". Girish Kumar said that World Health Organization warned of increasing risk of cell phone brain tumor and cancer cases caused by the use of cell phones and location of cell towers in residential areas.


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32 players boarded 2 busses at 9:30 a.m. for the 1-hour, 5-minute journey south to Bradenton and the start of the Grapefruit League season this afternoon.
The other 32 players were in uniform at the same hour for a workout at Bright House Field: bunting for pitchers, pitchers' fielding practice, affectionately known as PFP, batting practice and more bunting.
There was a familiar #12 shagging fly balls in left field during BP: Mickey Morandini. The former Phillies second baseman (1900-97; 2000) is making his debut as a guest instructor for the next 15 days. He'll spend time in the big league camp and then move to the minor league camp next door at Carpenter Field for a few days next week.
Charlie Manual and Joe Maddon were saluted at last night's Governor's Baseball Banquet at Tropicana Field. The banquet tables were set up on the artificial turf in right field. Two Phillies tables were about 20 feet from where Chase Utley's two-run homer landed in Game # 1 of the World Series. "Kind of got us started," beamed Charlie.
When Charlie spoke, he mentioned it was much quieter than the last time he was in the domed stadium. "I'm glad you left your cowbells at home," he laughed.
Camp Notes
First Clearwater game is tomorrow, 1:05 against the Blue Jays . . . Don't forget, you can listen to spring training games on the internet (keep the volume low so your boss doesn't get upset) . . . Clearwater Mayor Frank Hibbard will throw out the first ball . . . Philly radio station WIP will be on the air live from Bright House Field the next three days: 5:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. tomorrow and Friday and 8:00 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Saturday. Angelo Cataldi, Rhea Hughes and Joe Waechter are here.
Blog Ranking
Todd Zolecki's blog, The Zo Zone, moved into second place among MLBlogs for the period of Feb. 17-23. Great to see that fans have welcomed Todd with such enthusiasm.
Todd first posted today at 10:29 a.m. from the Press Box in Bradenton. More will come from him later.
Special Ceremony
Infielder John Kennedy, the first African-American to wear a Phillies uniform (1957), died in 1998. His remains lay in an unmarked grave in historic Evergreen Cemetery in Jacksonville.
Florida State Senator Tony Hill (Jacksonville) and Dr. Wes Singletary, a historian, led a drive to have a marker placed at the grave site. Scott Harward of Ocala Marble and Granite constructed and donated the marker which was dedicated yesterday morning. Tazena Kennedy, Kennedy's daughter, joined the commemoration.
Jacksonville is Brett Myers' hometown. His dad, Phil, represented the Phillies at the event. Phil presented Tazena with a Phillies jersey (Kennedy, 8) on behalf of Brett.
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Thanks for telling us about John Kennedy and the Phillies:) A nice story in light of the Phillies' awful history as one of the last (the last?) to desegregate in baseball.


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Here are the latest official Church statements concerning the New.FamilySearch proxy baptism issue:
Date: March 9, 2012Another letter over the signatures of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints contained the following clarification:
To: Family History Consultants, Family History Center Directors, and Staff
From: Family History Department
Subject: Policies for Submitting Names for Temple Ordinances
Recently, the First Presidency of the Church reiterated the policies, first stated in 1995, concerning the submitting of names for proxy temple ordinances. As both a user of the system (new.familysearch.org) where temple ordinances are cleared and submitted and as a leader in family history, you should help users follow these policies. You will find the policy letter below this e-mail.
In a related Church News article, Brother Dennis C. Brimhall, managing director of the Family History Department, reported that "the searching out of our family and preparing the names for the work to be done in the temple is . . . a responsibility, but it is also a privilege. That privilege is extended to the members by those who hold the keys to [do] the work. The[se] keys . . . are held by the First Presidency of the Church" (Sarah Jane Weaver, "Family History—Church Asks Members to Understand Policies," Church News, Mar. 1, 2012). (Click here to see the article.) The First Presidency set these policies. Accordingly, the Conditions of Use for users of new.familysearch.org and familysearch.org require compliance to the policies before you can submit names to the temple.
As a family history consultant, family history center director, or staff member, many times you are the first person whom members go to for guidance and direction. It is imperative that you understand these policies and are able to articulate what they mean and that you teach compliance to them. Noncompliance could mean the loss of privileges to use new.familysearch.org.
Over the next few months a series of e-mail communications will be sent to all registered users of new.familysearch.org reminding them of these policies.
- Our preeminent obligation is to seek out and identify our own ancestors. Those whose names are submitted for proxy temple ordinances should be related to the submitter.
- Without exception, Church member must not submit for proxy temple ordinances any names from unauthorized groups, such as celebrities and Jewish Holocaust victims. If members do so, they may forfeit their New FamilySearch privileges. Other corrective action may also be taken.
- Members are encouraged to participate in FamilySearch indexing which is vital to family history and temple work.
By the way, the approach, outlined in the notices above, is not a new policy. It has been in effect for years. In addition to the policy concerning not doing ordinances for restricted groups of people, the policy has also been in effect for years that it is necessary to contact the closest living relative of a deceased person who died within the last 95 years to obtain permission to do ordinances. Recently that time limit was extended to those who died up to 110 years from the present. Unfortunately, that policy requiring permission is frequently ignored by those who have to read and specifically agree to the limitations before the proxy ordinances are approved. It is not just the famous or certain other groups of individuals who are affected by the violations of this policy. There are those who have access to New.FamilySearch.org that are apparently related to everyone by claiming descent from Adam and feel justified in submitting names for ordinances for anyone they find on the program even though they cannot demonstrate a relationship to the deceased, have not attempted to contact living relatives and submit the names even if the ordinance work has previously been performed.
It is also apparent that some of those who criticize this behavior of a few irresponsible people are more interested in attacking the Church in the media than they are in addressing the issues and assisting in a solution. Gaining access to a program, such as New.FamilySearch.org, that is intended to be used for a specific religious purpose by fraudulently using someone's account either with or without permission, is also morally reprehensible.


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What's an album gotta do to get your attention?
The abundance of a cappella albums released each year has made it difficult for groups to distinguish themselves from the noise. It's hard to believe that there was a time that competence in collegiate a cappella was notable. For listeners, the increase in releases and quality is certainly welcome but can be overwhelming.
Pulse, the latest release from the Cornell Chordials, has no problem being heard above the noise. The Chordials have further developed the percussive arranging style they first experimented with in their 2009 hit "Ramalama (Bang Bang)" and the result is often brilliant and always interesting. I can hardly believe this came from a college group because it is so polished, inventive, and mature. From the wild "What's A Girl Gotta Do" to the sultry "Touch" to the atmospheric "Cosmic Love", there's a lot to love on this album.
You've never heard a cappella like "What's A Girl Gotta Do", originally by electronic dance music duo Basement Jaxx. I mean, seriously. Just listen to the original. What kind of people would hear this and think a cappella? I've played this track for all my a cappella friends and reactions have spanned from fascination to disgust. But regardless of your opinion, this is a track worth talking about.
"Touch" is phenomenal. They nail the sultry feel, the solo is killer, and the arrangement supports the lyrics of the song. At the end of the sparse first verse, they swell into an appropriately big and sultry groove on the first line of the chorus, "'Cause I come alive with your touch". It's one of the best moments of the album.
I've been listening to "Cosmic Love" on repeat all week. It's stimulating. The track transports me to a rich musical world that I don't want to leave. It somehow manages to be both energetic and introspective. If Sylvester Stallone directed (and starred) in a Siddhartha biopic, this song would play during the meditation montage as he becomes the Buddha. Listen to this track and be enlightened.
Not coincidentally, the three weakest tracks, "Rolling In The Deep", "The Other Side", and "Skipping Stone", all lack the signature percussive style that pervades the rest of the album.
Did you know that the chord changes at the beginning of "Rolling In The Deep" are syncopated? I had never noticed this, but the Chordials forced me to with their hard attacks in the opening. The syncopation works in the original because it's just a lightly strumming guitar. But it's hard for 15 singers on "jen" and "dum" to sound light. And the Chordials actually accent the chord change. So instead of being light and subtle, the syncopation is abrasive. Without Adele on the lead, more of my attention moves to the lackluster backs. And though the arrangement is an accurate transcription, their execution fails to effectively recreate the original. Does the world really need another uninspired cover of "Rolling In The Deep"?
I can't help but compare "The Other Side" to the other version to come out of Ithaca, New York last year, off Ithacappella's album Off The Hook. Ithacappella's is the superior version and it is epic. The one here suffers from lackluster VP and a disappointing female soloist. It sits lower in her voice and lacks all the intensity of a high tenor. High tenor solos sung by girls in the original key are usually disappointing, as is the case here.
You wouldn't know it from this arrangement, but Janelle Monáe's "Sincerely, Jane" features trumpets, trombones, and French horns. The song begins with pizzicato bass and timpani, and this sound is effectively recreated by the Chordials' basses with the syllable "din". They use this syllable for the rest of the song, but eight bars into the solo of the original, trombone is added to the bass to give it some serious punch. Fatter bass sounds, perhaps some growly, nasal "bah dat dow"s, would have added a lot. The VP is also barely present. As is, the chorus lacks all the intensity and unique character of the original.
Understanding the lyrics of "Sincerely, Jane" is a struggle, but it doesn't matter because Carolyn Rodgers' solo is so good and the success of her solo is not dependent upon understanding the lyrics. It's ironic that Carolyn's own delivery as a lead is rounded to the point that you can hardly hear the consonants when her arranging style is so percussive. I wish this dichotomy between the way the lead voice is shaped sonically and the way the backs are shaped had been explored further in other tracks because the effect is compelling.
The diction when the Chordials quote "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" in "Skipping Stone" is silly. I can tell that they practiced putting a big "t" on the end of "chariot" and the result is distracting and not natural, not to mention stylistically inappropriate.
The same problem exists with syllables that distract me and take me out of the song. The goal for diction and syllables is the same- to be clear and natural. It is right when you are not aware of it. When it gets out of the way and allows the music to take center stage. It is ineffective when it steals your focus away from the music. In the second half of the chorus in "Sincerely, Jane", the sopranos sing what is originally a fast string part on "shek uh ding ah shot..." (approximately). The result sounds nothing like strings and is distracting. Syllables should not draw attention to themselves.
A huge part of this album's success is the brilliantly diverse song choice that also includes the soulful "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone" and the Latin-influenced "Smile For The Paparazzi". These are perfect choices that highlight the strengths of the Chordials' arranging style and sound.
Listen to this album with your a cappella friends. I guarantee it will spark an interesting discussion. Even when its wild ideas don't work, Pulse is more interesting than 98% of what's out there. Combine that with the Chordials' unique percussive and texturally rich arranging style and a maturity of sound rarely found at the collegiate level and you have one hell of an album.
About the writer:
Patrick Hockberger is a RARB reviewer and a student at Northwestern University studying music composition and vocal performance. He is music director of the Northwestern Undertones.


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Nov 21, 2011
Rebecca Millock and the Crimson won its 10th Ivy League title in 2011, finishing the season 12-5-1 overall (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard women's soccer seniors Melanie Baskind, Lindsey Kowal and Rebecca Millock have been selected to play at the 2011 NEWISA Senior Bowl. The game is tentatively scheduled for Sunday Dec., 4 at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass. The contest is slated to begin at 11 a.m.
A co-captain, Baskind, a senior midfielder/forward from Framingham, Mass., was the unanimous choice as the Ivy League Player of the Year. She also garnered All-Ivy first-team accolades after tying for the Ivy League lead with 24 points, eight goals and eight assists. A two-time Academic All-Ivy choice and a three-time Academic All-District honoree, as well as an Academic All-America selection in 2010, Baskind received All-Ivy honors in each of her four seasons in Cambridge.
A nominee for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award this fall, Baskind concluded her career ranked tied for sixth in program history with 79 career points, is sixth with 25 assists and stands seventh with 27 goals.
Kowal, also a co-captain of the Crimson, who hails from East Meadow, N.Y., played all 18 games at defense this fall. A four-time All-Ivy League honoree, Kowal handed out four assists this season, ranking third on the team in helpers.
Millock, also a defender, played in all 18 games for Harvard, helping the Crimson enjoy a 10-game unbeaten streak to close the regular season. A native of Loudonville, N.Y., Millock was an All-Ivy League selection this fall.


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ODU-Outerbanks Collegiate Begins Sunday
By ODU Athletics
Oct. 21, 2011
NORFOLK, VA--The second annual ODU/Outerbanks Collegiate Golf Tournament begins, Sunday, Oct. 23rd with an 18-team field at the par 72, 6535 yard Kilmarlic Golf Course in Powells Point, NC.
The Monarchs will be joined by Georgia, last year's NCAA Championship runner-up, Delaware, Drexel, Elon, George Mason, Hartford, James Madison, Liberty, Longwood, Louisville, Maryland, Radford, Richmond, St. Joseph's, Towson, William and Mary and Winthrop.
Thus far this Fall, ODU placed second at the Joe Agee Invitational as sophomore John Dawson (Chesapeake, VA.) tied for seventh and sophomore James Brockington (Oxfordshire, England) tied for 10th. The Monarchs also finished fourth at Maryland's tournament led by Neil Henderson's (North Berwick, Scotland) eighth place finish, and Dawson's 12th place finish.
James Madison's Chris Wellde was CAA Co-Player of the Week after a playoff at the Barnabas Health intercollegiate to help the Dukes to first place. The senior shot 71-73 for 144 on the Fiddler's Elbow Country Club. Earlier this month William and Mary's Jeremy Wells was the CAA Golfer of the Week after a second place finish at the Joe Agee Invitational.
National runners-up, and current 15th ranked Georgia Bulldogs placed second in Adams Cup led by junior Bryden MacPherson who notched a career high with his runner-up effort as he finished at 10-under 206, including a 4-under 68 in the final round. The University of Hartford is led by senior Matt Smith who has five top eight finishes thus far this Fall. Smith tied for fourth at the Battle at the Tetons and fifth at the Hartford Hawks Invitational with a 72.07 stroke average thus far. Longwood has won two tournaments thus far led by Austin Gray, the Joe Agee Tournament medalist and Ross Sumner. Both have 72.0 stroke averages this fall.
In last year's tournament, Richmond finished second, followed by Liberty, Louisville and Radford.
Tee times begin at 8:30 a.m. on both the 1st and 10th tees. You can follow the scoring action live on www.golfstat.com.


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Bay Area players taken in NFL draft:
Name, School Pos. Ht. Wt. NFL team Rd/pick
Zach Ertz, Stanford TE 6-5 249 Philadelphia 2nd/35
Comment: Consensus All-American will play big role in new coach Chip Kelly's attack
Kiko Alonso, Oregon ILB 6-3 238 Buffalo 2nd/46
Comment: Coach Doug Marrone likes Los Gatos native as run stopper or in pass coverage
Keenan Allen, Cal WR 6-2 206 San Diego 3rd/76
Comment: New G.M. Tom Telesco "excited" by Allen's ability to play wide or in slot
Brian Schwenke, Cal C 6-3 314 Tennessee 4th/107
Comment: Rebuilding O-line, Titans told Schwenke that he has chance to start as rookie
David Bahktiari, Colorado OT 6-4 299 Green Bay 4th/109
Comment: Peninsula native to provide depth on O-line that's allowed 202 sacks past 5 years
Levine Toilolo, Stanford TE 6-8 260 Atlanta 4th/133
Comment: Excited to learn pro game under future Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez
Stepfan Taylor, Stanford RB 5-9 214 Arizona 5th/140
Comment: Tough, versatile player is good fit for Cardinals and new coach Bruce Arians
Steve Williams, Cal CB 5-9 181 San Diego 5th/145
Comment: Williams' speed gives him opportunity to be nickel back for Chargers
David Quessenberry, SJSU OT 6-5 302 Houston 6th/176
Comment: Texans have depth at right tackle, so Quessenberry could be moved to guard
Marc Anthony, Cal CB 5-11 196 Baltimore 7th/247
Comment: Seven spots from Mr. Irrelevant, Anthony hopes to stick with Super Bowl champs


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There was a collective yawn when the original trailer for Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willi's cop comedy was released, but the new version -- loaded with dirty words -- is a marked improvement.
The expectations for this movie, the first one that Kevin Smith has directed from someone else's script, have been a rollercoaster ride. There was great hope when on-location pics of Morgan dressed as a cellphone riding a bicycle through the streets of Queens first surfaced.
Warning: adult language
There was a downturn when it was learned that the title had been changed from "A Couple of Dicks" (get it?) to "Cop Out," which felt like, well a cop out.
Things really got bad when the trailer landed. You know you've got trouble when the funniest thing in your movie is Sean William Scott repeating everything Tracy Morgan says.
But this new profanity-laced trailer has restored hope that while "Cop Out" may not be an opening night must-see, it could certainly help you work your way through a hangover some Saturday in the not-too-distant future.


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A Natural Arsenal for Prostate Cancer PreventionDecember 2013
By Michael Downey
17. Pomegranate
Use of pomegranate (Punica granatum L. var. spinosa ) juice, peel, and oil has been shown to possess anticancer activities, including interference with tumor cell proliferation, cell cycle, invasiveness, and angiogenesis.129 Apoptosis was implicated as a mechanism for this interference with prostate cancer cell proliferation in a laboratory study in which researchers found that pomegranate extract increases expression of a protein that promotes cancer cell death, while decreasing expression of a protein that inhibits cancer cell death.130 Later, in a 2012 study, scientists found that the in vitro cytotoxic activity of an extract of pomegranate against prostate cancer cells was dose-dependent—and they also suggested that this antiproliferative effect followed an apoptosis-dependent pathway.131
Further clarifying pomegranate's effects against prostate cancer cells, scientists found evidence of induced beneficial gene expression—inhibiting pro-inflammatory, DNA-related protein nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kB)132 and downregulating production of cancer-stimulating androgen receptors in prostate cells.133 The suggested dosage for prostate cancer prevention is 80-120 milligrams daily (of punicalagins), and for adjuvant cancer therapy, 280-375 milligrams daily (of punicalagins), with or without food.
18. Saw Palmetto
Saw palmetto (Serenoa repens or Sabal serrulata) is now one of the most widely used phytotherapies for BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia) in the US,134,135 a condition characterized by an enlarged prostate gland. However, evidence has been emerging that saw palmetto also has biological activity in prostate cancer cells and may defend against prostate cancer.136 For instance, a saw palmetto extract was shown to inhibit the activity of 5-alpha-reductase,137 an enzyme that converts testosterone to the most potent androgen and that is involved in the pathway of prostate cancer. Saw palmetto also appears to have anti-inflammatory properties and—crucially—a tendency to promote apoptosis in prostate cancer cells.138,139
In one study, researchers described how they used saw palmetto extract to slow the growth of prostate cancer cells in vitro. This growth-inhibitory effect was more potent on prostate cancer cells than on other cancer cell lines on which they tested saw palmetto.140 One new mechanism identified by this group of scientists was the saw palmetto-induced reduction in the expression of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in prostate cancer cells. Cancer cells often use COX-2 as biological fuel to hyperproliferate, and as the researchers presenting this report concluded, "We hypothesize that COX-2 inhibition induced by saw palmetto berry extract may provide an important basis for potential chemopreventative action." 140 A typical suggested dose of saw palmetto is 320 milligrams daily.
19. Resveratrol
By working through over a dozen anticancer mechanisms and selectively targeting cancer cells, resveratrol inhibits prostate cancer at multiple stages of development.141 This potent compound, found in grapes and other plants, was first isolated in 1940 and is now viewed as a potential defense against this disease.141-143 In a study that examined the effect of various polyphenols on different types of prostate cancer cells, scientists concluded that resveratrol was the most potent against advanced prostate cancer cells.144
Resveratrol has the ability to modulate the activity of estrogen and testosterone at both the cellular (receptor) and molecular (genetic) levels.145-147 In fact, after examining its effects on hormone-responsive genes in prostate cancer cells, researchers concluded that, "Resveratrol may be a useful chemopreventive/chemotherapeutic agent for prostate cancer."147 Also, resveratrol reverses increases in PSA in cancer cells.147,148 For example, in one study, four days of resveratrol treatment resulted in an 80% reduction in PSA levels in prostate cancer cells.148 Resveratrol also modulates growth factors, protects DNA, blocks cancer-causing chemicals and radiation, and fights free radicals and inflammation.149,150 The same anticancer gene activated by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) demonstrates enhanced expression by resveratrol.151
Using a DNA microarray—a scientific research tool that simultaneously examines how particular phytocompounds affect thousands of genes—scientists found that resveratrol exerts a striking effect on cancer-related genes. Among other things, resveratrol activates tumor suppressor genes, other genes that destroy cancer cells, and genes that control the cell cycle—while suppressing genes that allow cancer cells to communicate with one another.152 This ability to get inside cancer cells and activate or deactivate genes is a powerful weapon against cancer growth—especially since resveratrol exerts its effects without toxicity.145 Many resveratrol supplements on the market are diluted. For pure resveratrol, the suggested dosage is 20-250 milligrams a day, taken with or without food.
20. Supplemental Lignans
Many different plant sources provide rich sources of lignans—and this may partially explain why men who eat healthier diets enjoy sharply reduced rates of prostate cancer.153,154 Lignan molecules are involved in plant defense mechanisms.154 But experimental evidence suggests that dietary lignans also offer humans significant protection against tumors in a variety of organs—including tumors of the prostate.155-158 In fact, researchers found that men with higher blood levels of lignans have the lowest incidence of prostate cancer.10 Bacteria in the intestines convert dietary and supplemental lignans into mammalian lignan compounds called enterolactones, which enter the bloodstream.159
Findings from human, animal, and in vitro studies indicate that enterolactones protect against hormone-dependent cancers.160-162 Tyrosine kinases are activated in metastatic prostate cancer cells, and enterolactones help to inhibit the tyrosine kinase enzyme.163 Enterolactones have been shown to inhibit 5-alpha-reductase, an enzyme that converts testosterone to a more potent androgen.164 Anti-angiogenesis effects and cancer-cell apoptosis were found to be enhanced by enterolactones in animal models of hormone-related cancers, including prostate cancer.165,166 Enterolactone also functions via several mechanisms to reduce estrogen input to cells and has been shown in a number of studies to be a factor in the development of benign prostate enlargement and prostate cancer.162,167-170
A dosage of 20-50 milligrams daily of lignans is suggested to defend against prostate cancer. For adjuvant prostate cancer support, 75-125 milligrams daily is suggested.
21. Vitamin K
The anti-tumor potential of vitamin K has been a part of scientific research since 1947.171 Researchers have observed tumor cell destruction in prostate cancer patients following supplementation with a combination of vitamin C and vitamin K3, the synthetic form of vitamin K.172 (This same combination was later developed into the prostate cancer drug Apatone®, which has shown similar results.173)
Subsequently, a study that followed 11,319 men for an average of 8.6 years found that those with the highest intake of vitamin K2 were 63% less likely to develop advanced prostate cancer.174 The same research team found no effect on prostate cancer from vitamin K1 supplementation. Optimum prostate cancer prevention dosages for vitamin K2 are not known, but typically suggested daily dosages are 1,000 micrograms for the menaquinone-4 form of K2 (MK-4) and 200 micrograms for the menaquinone-7 (MK-7) form.
22. Beta-Sitosterol
A plant fat and phytosterol known as beta-sito-sterol, used in several European prostate drugs, has been found to block the growth of prostate cancer cells. A study on an androgen-dependent line of prostate cancer cells showed that beta-sitosterol decreased cancer cell growth by 24% and increased apoptosis four-fold.175 These findings correlated with a 50% increase in production of ceramide,175 an important cell membrane component believed to induce apopotosis.176
In another study, an androgen-dependent line of human prostate cancer cells (PC-3 cell line) was implanted in mice, and scientists compared both the in vivo and in vitro effects of a 2% mixture of beta-sitosterol with those of a 2% mixture of cholesterol on these cells. Compared to controls, beta-sitosterol, as well as another phytosterol known as campesterol, inhibited growth of the prostate cancer cells by 70% and 14%, respectively.177 By contrast, the cholesterol mixture increased cell growth by 18%. Various other parameters were also measured.
For example, the phytosterol mixtures inhibited the invasion of the prostate cancer cells into Matrigel-coated membranes—a measure of cancer invasiveness—by 78%, compared to controls, while the cholesterol mixture increased invasiveness by 43%.177 Also, migration of the prostate tumor cells through 8-micron pore membranes—a measure of tumor motility—was reduced by 60-93% when they were in the phytosterol mixtures, but it was increased by 67% when in the cholesterol.177 In a measure of adhesiveness and ability to form tumor clumps, phytosterol supplementation reduced the binding of these cancer cells to laminin by 15-38% and to fibronectin by 23%, while cholesterol increased cell-binding to type IV collagen by 36%.177 The research team concluded that—indirectly in vivo as a dietary supplement, and directly in vitro in tissue culture media—phytosterols inhibited the growth and metastasis of these (PC-3) prostate cancer cells. Beta-sitosterol, however, was determined to be much more effective than campesterol in offering this protection in most parameters assessed.177
In later research on the mechanism involved, scientists determined that phytosterols such as beta-sito-sterol may induce the inhibition of tumor growth by stimulating apoptosis and arresting cells at different locations in the cell cycle, and that this may involve alterations in reactive oxygen species and production of prostaglandin.178 A suggested phytosterol dosage is 169 milligrams twice daily with or without food.
23. Apigenin
In studies on human cancer cells, scientists observed that the vegetable extract apigenin inhibits angiogenesisand cell proliferation.179-181 These effects were confirmed in an animal experiment in which scientists transplanted an androgen-dependent line of human prostate cancer cells into mice bred to serve as a model for tumor growth conditions.182 A liquid suspension containing either apigenin or placebo was given to the mice daily, via a gastric tube, for eight or ten weeks. Administering apigenin to mice—beginning either two weeks before, or two weeks after, inoculation with the cells—inhibited the volume of prostate cancer cells in a dose-dependent manner by as much as 59% and 53%, respectively.182 Induction of apoptosis in the tumor xenografts was observed. In the same study, exposure of prostate cancer cells to apigenin in a culture for as little as 24 hours appeared to inhibit cell cycle progression by nearly 69%.182
Scientists believe these effects may result from apigenin's modulation of the IGF (insulin-like growth factors) axis, which plays signaling roles in cell proliferation and cell death.183 Later research demonstrated that apigenin also inhibits motility and invasiveness of prostate carcinoma cells.184 The importance of supplementation for prostate protection is reflected in the fact that Americans typically consume only 13 milligrams of flavonoids (including flavones like apigenin) daily,183 however a suggested apigenin preventive dosage is 25-50 milligrams daily, and adjuvant dosage for prostate cancer patients may exceed 100 milligrams daily.
24. Ginger (Zingiber officinale)
A study reported in 2013 demonstrated that ginger phytochemicals work synergistically to inhibit the proliferation of human prostate cancer cells (PC-3 cell line).185 In past research, ginger showed anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antiproliferative activities, suggesting a promising role as a chemopreventive agent.186,187 Then, a 2012 study became the first report to clearly demonstrate the anticancer activity of orally taken, whole ginger extract for the therapeutic management of prostate cancer.187 This breakthrough research found that ginger resulted in growth inhibition, cell-cycle arrest, and induced caspase-dependent intrinsic apoptosis in prostate cancer cells.187 In vivo studies by this team showed that—without any detectable toxicity—ginger significantly inhibited tumor growth in xenografts of a line of prostate cancer cells (PC3) subcutaneously implanted in nude mice.187
Specifically, the scientific team orally fed a solution containing ginger extract to the tumor-implanted mice for eight weeks. Daily measurements of tumor volume were performed. Tumors in control mice that received a placebo solution showed unrestricted growth. But tumors in mice that received the ginger extract solution showed a time-dependent inhibition of growth over the eight-week period. Remarkably, the tumor burden in the ginger group was reduced by about 56% after just eight weeks of feeding.187 Tumor tissue from ginger extract-treated mice showed a reduced proliferation index and "widespread apoptosis" compared with controls.187 Ginger treatment was well tolerated, and the test mice maintained normal weight gain and showed no signs of discomfort during the treatment regimen. Most importantly, orally taken ginger extract did not exert any detectable toxicity in normal, rapidly dividing tissues such as the gut and bone marrow.
Although further research is urgently needed, this study suggests that ginger extract has anticancer effects against human prostate cancer cells. No dosage for this purpose has been determined, but the study team performed allometric scaling calculations to extrapolate the mice dosage to humans. The human equivalent dose of ginger extract was found to be approximately 567 milligrams daily for a 154-pound (70 kilogram) human adult.187,188 This may be viewed as an adjuvant therapy dosage, and an appropriate preventive dosage would be significantly less.
25. Inositol Hexaphosphate (IP6)
Inositol hexaphosphate, or IP6, is a phytochemical found in cereals, soy, legumes, and other fiber-rich foods.189 Building on earlier in vitro research showing that IP6 strongly inhibits growth and induces differentiation of human prostate cancer cells (PC-3 cells),190 scientists designed an animal study. They injected mice with a line of human prostate cancer cells (DU145 cells) and then gave them either normal drinking water or water that included 1% or 2% IP6 for 12 weeks. The hormone-refractory (castration-resistant) prostate cancer growth was reduced 47% in the 1% IP6-solution mice and reduced 66% in the 2% IP6-solution mice, compared to littermates without the IP6-enriched drinking water diet.191
Then, in 2013, scientists designed an IP6 experiment on TRAMP mice, which are genetically modified to develop metastatic prostate cancer.192 For 24 weeks, mice with prostate cancer were given drinking water that was 0%, 1%, 2%, or 4% IP6. The study team periodically conducted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests on each mouse prostate to assess prostate volume and tumor vascularity. The animals that received higher concentrations of IP6 showed a "profound" reduction in prostate tumor size, due in part to the compound's antiangiogenic effect (the ability of the compound to reduce new blood vessel formation).192 The researchers discovered a decrease in a glucose transporter protein, known as GLUT-4, in the prostates of IP6-treated mice, and observed that IP6 decreased glucose metabolism and membrane phospholipid synthesis—meaning there was substantial energy deprivation with the tumor itself. This demonstrates "a practical and translational potential of IP6 treatment in suppressing growth and progression of prostate cancer in humans."192


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Reports from Fiji, 1998
We've just posted a story and some photos about our passage to Fiji and arrival in Savu Savu. Click here.
We went to Fiji on a fast track to sail in the Musket Cove Regatta. Click here to read about our fun visit to Malolo Lailai
After racing at Musket Cove, we set off on a tour of Fiji. Click here to see where we went.
Watching nightly fires burning on the hills of Fiji's sugar farming district disturbed us, and the fires themselves became symbolic of the racial divisions in Fiji, read the essay, here.
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ACLS Provider Class
This two-day class is designed for health care providers who direct or participate in the management of cardiovascular emergencies.
Wednesday, Dec. 18, 9 am to 4:30 pm
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Presented by Sharp Cardiac Training Center
This two-day American Heart Association (AHA) class is designed for health care providers who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies.
Students are required to manage the 10 core ACLS cases:
- Five types of prearrest emergencies (bradycardia, stable bradycardia, stable tachycardia, unstable tachycardia and acute coronary syndromes)
- Four types of cardiac arrest (simple VF/VT, complex VF/VT, PEA and asystole)
- Respiratory emergency
- Stroke
Upon successful completion of the class, students will receive an email the next business day with instructions on claiming their two-year Course Completion eCard through the AHA's website. Paper cards will no longer be distributed at the class.
Registration for this class is required. Walk-ins will not be accepted. If you do not receive an email confirming your enrollment, please call 1-800-82-SHARP (1-800-827-4277).
What people are saying about our ACLS Provider Course:
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- Print the online completion certificate. The certificate is valid for 60 days from the date of purhcase.
- Bring your completion certificate to your ACLS class and complete the skills assessment there.
- Upon successful completion of the assessment, you will receive an email the next business day with instructions on claiming your two-year Course Completion eCard through the AHA's website. Paper cards will no longer be distributed at the class.
Classes may be cancelled due to low enrollment. If a class is cancelled, you will be notified by phone two days before the class and will have the opportunity to attend another date or receive a full refund of the registration fee.
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- Sharp Cardiac Training Center ACLS Supplemental Study Guide
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The AHA requires each student have access to a current textbook for this course before, during and after the class.
If you are not a Sharp employee and do not have a current AHA textbook for this course, you can purchase a copy of the 2015 AHA Provider Student Manual in advance through the American Heart Association eBookstore at ebooks.heart.org (Product Code 15-3100). Please note that the cost of the textbook is a separate charge paid directly to the AHA and is not included in your class fee.
If you are a Sharp HealthCare employee, you can borrow a copy of the 2015 AHA Student Manual at class or in advance from one of our library locations. Library locations will be sent to employees in a separate email after registration.
A lunch break will be provided and you may bring your own food.
Sharp HealthCare does not offer CME units for ACLS classes.
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Client Review
Thank you so much for organising such a wonderful trip for me and my friends. We had a wonderful and unforgettable experience, thanks to you.My friends also join me in appreciation of you and Marvellous. The trip was completely hassle free and everything g worked out as planned. You were very helpful thru the planning and booking stage and completely unflappable during the customisation of the trip, despite my many questions to you and of course, inadverently contacting you a couple of times with my queries, on your off days.. Please convey my thanks to everyone on your team for planning a perfect trip for us.the Tour guide provided to us, Feda, was par excellence and made the trip also very enjoyable. I would also like to thank a colleague of yours, Mr. Mahmood, who accompanied us throughout our time in Cairo. He has a very happy disposition and was allways willing to offer any assistance or advice when neede
I will certainly recommend Marvellous Egypt to any of my friends who plan on a Egypt tour in the future.
DAY 1 - Saturday OR Monday OR Wednesday - Cairo - Arrival
Our team welcomes you upon arrival at Cairo Airport with a sign bearing your name and that of the agency. Then you will be transferred by private A/C vehicle to your hotel. Check in at hotel. Overnight in hotel.
Meal: none
DAY 2 - Cairo
Breakfast at hotel and check out. Morning, our tour guide and private A/C minibus will pick you up at your hotel. Enjoy an excursion to visit the legendary majestic The Three Pyramids, which are considered one of the Old Seven Wonders, erected by Cheops, Chephren, and Mykerionos. the famous pyramids: Cheops (the largest built circa 2650 BC. JC.), one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world and the only one that has stood the test of time. It was for over 40 centuries the highest monument erected by the man with a height of 146 meters. When you finish exploring the Great Pyramids our next stop is a visit to the Sphinx monument; guarding the royal burial chambers and temple of Cheops. It is a mythical statue with the body of a lion & human head. The tour also includes a visit to the Valley Temple, which belongs to the Pyramid of Chephren. Following by Visit the necropolis of Sakkara, used as a cemetery for thousands of years, and still hides many secrets in the desert sand. The Pyramid at Sakkara is one of the oldest stone structures in the world. It was built during the Third Dynasty (about 2630 BC) for King Djoser and its construction was overseen by his vizier Imhotep. The night, transfer to Train Station for catch the Sleeper train in direction of Aswan. Dinner and Overnight in train.
Meal: Breakfast and dinner
DAY 3 - Aswan – Nile Cruise (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)
Breakfast in train. Morning, arrival at Aswan Railway, welcome by our team then you will be transferred by private A/C minibus to your ship for a three nights cruise. Check in and Lunch on board. Visit Philae temple, this very harmonious architecture is dedicated to the worship of the goddess Isis. Visit the High Dam at Aswan was built from 1960 to 1971, measuring 780m long, to protect Egypt against the annual flooding of the Nile and Lake Nasser created. The water power generates electricity for most of Egypt. Then visit the Unfinished Obelisk, located in a granite quarry Rose that was used in the construction of temples. Dinner and overnight on board.
Meal: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
DAY 4 - Kom Ombo/Edfu – Nile Cruise
Breakfast on board. Sailing to Kom Ombo. Visit the Temple of Kom Ombo, the majestic river Nile, whose characteristic is to be dedicated to two divinities: Sobek (with head of crocodile) and Horus (falcon-headed). Sailing to Edfu. Lunch on board. Take Carriage and Visit the Temple of Edfu, the Holy City of Horus and the temple built in his honor. This temple with impressive dimensions is the best preserved of Egypt. Dinner and overnight on board.
Meal: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
DAY 5 - Luxor – Nile Cruise
Breakfast on board. Morning, Visit the necropolis of Thebes, on the left bank of the Nile. Discovery Valley of the Kings, where most of the pharaohs of the XVIII to the XX dynasty were made bury. Continuation to the two colossi of Memnon, the towering statues are all that remain of the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III. Then Visit the Temple of Hatshepsut (Deir El Bahari), unique in its structure, to ancient Egypt dug directly into the rock, reach superhuman dimensions.. Lunch on board. Afternoon, Visit the Temple of Karnak, dedicated to the glory of the god Amun, the temple probably the most grandiose of all Egypt. Continue your visit by Luxor Temple, built by Amenhotep III, known by its size and its large number of silent pillars. It connected by a paved alley of sphinxes of 3 kilometers at Karnak Temple. Dinner and overnight on board.
Meal: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
DAY 6 - Luxor – End of Cruise / Cairo / Alexandria / Cairo
Breakfast on board. Transfer to Luxor Airport to catch flight go to Cairo. Flight Luxor/Cairo. Arrival at Cairo, welcome and Travel to Alexandria by road (approx. 3h). Visit the catacombs of Kom el-Shuqafa, an ancient Roman necropolis, whose family tomb is a fine example of the fusion of art and architecture, Egyptian and Greco-Roman. You will continue with Pompey's Pillar, a column of granite 25 feet high built in honor of the Emperor Diocletian, who freed the besieged city and brought food to the starving inhabitants. Then visit the Roman Amphitheatre (Kom El Dikka), potentially the best preserved Roman site in Egypt. This site includes the ruins of a Roman street and homes. Then you will visit the famous library of Alexandria. Unlike the ancient architecture found throughout Egypt, the building design is a monument to Norwegian outstanding design. Then Visit the Citadel, fort of Qayet Bay, built in the fifteenth century near the place of the famous lighthouse of Alexandria. After visit, back to Cairo. Overnight at hotel.
Meal: Breakfast
DAY 7 - Cairo
Breakfast at hotel. Morning, our tour guide and private A/C minibus will pick you up at your hotel. Enjoy an excursion to Visit the Citadel of Salah El Din, with in its enclosure the mosque of Mohamed Ali. The citadel was built on the hills in 1183 AD Moqattam overlooking the whole city was a point of defense against the Crusaders. Salah El Din appointed to be the governor of Egypt after the death of the sultan of Damascus, Noor-el-Din. Then, Visit the National Museum of Antiquities including the treasures range from the prehistoric age to the Roman period. You will see among others the famous treasure of Tutankhamen. It houses over 250,000 pieces, is one of the largest museums in the world. It allows visitors to discover the history of ancient Egypt through five millennia. Overnight in hotel.
Meal: Breakfast
DAY 8 - Cairo - Departure
Breakfast at hotel and transfer to Cairo International Airport for take your departure flight.
Meal: Breakfast
NB: The itinerary may change in sequence according to local requirements but all visits will be done. During Nile Cruise, time of sailing may be amended in sequence without prior notice due to navigational circumstances and security restrictions. Marvelous Egypt Travel is not liable for these changes.
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Information about the Prices:
• Prices are ESTIMATED and quoted in Dollar per person , they are valid until 30 September 2017 (Excluding Peak periods, Christmas , New Year and Easter holidays).
• Special rate for groups: The more you are, the lower the price!
• Single rate is not valid for a "Solo" traveler
• These prices are valid for minimum 2 travellers.
This Price Includes:
√ Meet and Assist by our representative at Airport & Train Station
√ Transfer in private air-conditioned vehicle with Professional driver as mentioned on itinerary
√ Accommodation 3 Nights in Hotel (3-stars*) at Cairo, room with air-condition and private bathroom, including breakfast & dinner .
√ Accommodation 3 nights in Nile Cruise Boat (5-stars standard*), cabin with air-condition and private bathroom, in Full Board (Breakfast, Lunch and dinner + Coffee Break at 5.00pm)
√ Accomodation 1 night in First Class (*) Sleeper train, Cairo/Aswan, cabin with breakfast and dinner served on board (Possibility to upgrade to Egyptair Domestic Flight upon request)
√ Domestic flight Tickets, Eco Class: Luxor/Cairo
√ Transportation in private vehicle: Cairo/Alexandria/Cairo
√ Pick Up service from your hotel & return every day of visit
√ Transportation in private air-conditioned vehicle with Professional driver
√ Private English-Speaking Tour guide (other languages are available upon request)
√ Main Entrance Fees of all mentioned Sites
√ For your safety: trip under authorization of the Egyptian Government
√ All taxes & service charge
(*Egyptian standard)
This Price Excludes:
× International Flights
× Entry Visa
× Optional and extra activities
× Any meal not mentioned on itinerary, Beverages and any personal spend
× Tips are not includes & not compulsory and are left at your own appreciation


text: Quantum mechanics provides a useful description of nature at the atomic and subatomic scale, but it also manifests itself in phenomena at macroscopic scales, including lasers, clouds of ultra-cold atoms, superfluids, and superconductivity. Among these phenomena, the recent discovery of new kinds of high-temperature superconducting materials holds the promise of many practical applications—but there is still no theory about how these materials work. See how researchers are approaching this problem from two different directions: a "top-down" approach, closely examining the materials themselves, and a "bottom-up" approach, looking at model systems that mimic the quantum interactions of the superconducting electrons inside the materials.


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On June 3 last Michael N. Chetkovich retired
from Deloitte Haskins & Sells, the firm with which
he had been associated for twenty-six years and
led as managing partner for the past eight years.
His rise within the firm was paralleled by
recognition on the part of his professional peers
of his abilities and accomplishments. In October
1976 Mike was named chairman of the American
Institute of CPAs. Long interested in the
international aspects of the accounting
profession, he was chosen to be the AICPA
representative to the International Coordination
Committee for the Accountancy Profession when
that group was formed in 1972.
In June of last year Mike was honored by the
University of California at Berkeley School of
Business Administration, his alma mater, which
presented him with the Centennial Award. This
award is given only once every hundred years by
each of the various schools of the university to
outstanding alumni. Only a short time ago it was
announced that Mike, who with his wife Alice will
be returning in the fall to his native California,
has been appointed to a Regents Professorship
for the winter term at the University of California.
The appointment, considered one of the most
prestigious at the school, is awarded to distinguished
practitioners in various fields.
In addition, in June Mike was presented with an
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by Pace
University in New York City, and was named to
receive the 1977 award of the Alpha Kappa Psi
Effective July 1, he became a member of the
Board of Directors of the American Reinsurance
Company of New York City.
In April the firm's Policy Committee presented
Mike with a resolution approved and signed by all
members of the committee. It might be fair to say
that the resolution, reproduced on the facing
page, says more about Michael Chetkovich and
how he is seen in the eyes of his friends and
peers than any amount of biographical data.


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Linux 3.1 Released
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Linux 3.1 has been released. The changes include support for the OpenRISC opensource CPU, performance improvements to the writeback throttling, some speedups in the slab allocator, a new iSCSI implementation, support for Near-Field Communication chips used to enable mobile payments, bad block management in the generic software RAID layer, a new "cpupowerutils" userspace utility for power management, filesystem barriers enabled by default in Ext3, Wii Controller support and new drivers and many small improvements. Here's the full changelog.


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Female comedians: Books shine light on funny women as comedy conversation evolves
It's easy to take funny women for granted, considering how many of them compete for our attention.
Consider former "Saturday Night Live" cast member and "Bridesmaids" writer-star Kristen Wiig, who shook up Hollywood with her blockbusting, all-female comedy flick. Then there are stand-up bottom-feeders like Kathy Griffin and Joan Rivers. Critically acclaimed, female-fronted shows like Tina Fey's "30 Rock" or Lena Dunham's "Girls." Comic takes on current events from Wanda Sykes and Joy Behar.And of course, Chelsea Handler and Ellen DeGeneres, who watch over their multimedia empires from their daily talk shows.
So instead of rehashing the specious argument about whether or not women are as funny as men -- anyone who wonders about that clearly hasn't watched or read anything in decades -- a pair of new books are celebrating the history of women in American comedy.
But with real obstacles still in place for many female stand-ups, it's a tricky balance of acknowledging reality while looking past comedy's less-evolved corners toward a more equitable horizon.
More to prove?
"Women do have a lot more to prove, and I've definitely been approached by people after shows who say, 'You're really funny -- for a girl,' " said Kristin Rand, a comic who hosts the monthly "Delusions of Randeur" stand-up showcase at Denver's Beauty Bar.
"But I don't think about it a terribly large amount of the time. I really just focus on being a performer and being funny more than having to fight to overcome something."
That's largely the approach taken by the books, Yael Kohen's "We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy" (Sarah Crichton Books) and Darryl and Tuezdae Littleton's "Comediennes: Laugh Be a Lady" (Applause Books) -- both published in October.
Instead of rebutting Christopher Hitchens' infamous 2007 Vanity Fair essay "Why Women Aren't Funny," these new books mostly profile the dozens of funny women who have played an integral role in American pop culture. And however well-intentioned, they don't always get it right.
"We Killed," for example, fares best when sticking to the oral history of legends like Phyllis Diller, or contemporary comics such as Janeane Garofalo and Margaret Cho. But the commentary, while accurate, often feels like padding.
"Women have always been funny," writes Kohen. "It's just that every success is called an exception and every failure an example of the rule."
The far-less-polished but no-less-earnest "Comediennes" breaks out each performer with mini-profiles that run chronologically, from the early days of Gracie Allen and Mae West to Loni Love and Sarah Silverman. It's light on insight and heavy on generalizations, but its intent is the same: to rally around American female comics of the past century.
Still, separating female comics into their own books -- or even calling them "comediennes," a term that many of them hate -- is a risk when most stand-ups just want to get past this stale, circular conversation.
How can we celebrate their contributions and still evolve beyond the "noncontroversy that will not die," as New York journalist and comic recently Gaby Dunn put it?
Just funny
There's no one answer, of course. Marginalized groups, however defined, have often been forced to toe the line between rah-rah solidarity and cultural integration. For better or worse, we see the world in categories, and there just happen to be more visible male comedians than female.
But the soul-searching has a purpose. Stand-up comedy is both hotter and more niche than it's ever been, so the recent focus on women can be seen as logical extensions of comedy's renewed vitality and reach.
And according to some female stand-ups, things really are getting better.
"There are some hurdles that a guy's not going to experience, but overall I feel really good about women comics in Denver," said comedian Heather Snow, who formerly ran the female-centric "Ladies Laugh-In" showcase at Beauty Bar. "I don't know if my show necessarily did it or if it's just the girls working hard, but there are so many shows now in Denver with multiple women in them."
Snow, who recently made her national debut on TV Guide Network's "Standup in Stillettos" show, counts local comics Nancy Norton, Nora Lynch, Christie Buchele, Jen Koscheka and Stephanie McHugh among her favorites. And Rand, the host of Beauty Bar's current stand-up night, is part of the all-female sketch troupe LadyFace, which kicks off two weekends of holiday shows at the Spark Theater on Thursday.
Perhaps then, an answer lies in a careful mix appreciation and forward motion, keeping the past sacrifices of female comics in mind while looking past gender when it's time to appreciate the jokes.
"The more you talk about that, the more it's existent," Chelsea Handler told The Denver Post last year. "I don't buy it at all. I work my ass off, and there's tons of results for it."
As Handler and others have said, it's often guys who are obsessed with the topic in the first place. Handler regularly provides opportunities for female comics and writers on her "Chelsea Lately" show, but doesn't hire based on any sort of gender quota.
"I think women comics are the last to say, "I'm a funny womanor I'm a funny female comic," said Fortune Feimster, a "Chelsea Lately" writer-performer who headlined Comedy Works South over the weekend. "We're not the ones always bringing it up. I want to move forward to the point where it's not even an issue or topic. I'm also a gay comic, but I don't even want to be considered 'funny for a gay comic.' I just want to be funny."
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A man accused of murdering an Alaska woman and at least seven other people has taken his own life, according to police. KTUU's Rhonda McBride reports.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A confessed serial killer awaiting trial for the kidnapping death of an Anchorage teenager was found dead in his jail cell Sunday in an apparent suicide, law enforcement officials said.
Israel Keyes had admitted to abducting and killing 18-year-old Samantha Koenig, who disappeared in February from an espresso stand in Anchorage, officials said at a news conference Sunday.
Keyes also admitted to killing a Vermont couple, Bill and Lorraine Currier, in June 2011, and up to five more people whom he did not name, prosecutors said.
Keyes revealed his past crimes in dozens of hours of interviews conducted after he was arrested for Koenig's death, officials said.
"He did tell us that he had killed other people and that there were bodies of up to four other people in Washington state, as well as a body disposed of in New York state," Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Feldis said after the press conference.
There may be even more murder victims, Feldis said.
Keyes also admitted to two bank robberies, one of them committed in Texas after Koenig's murder, Feldis said.
FBI officials said they considered Keyes to be a serial killer, NBC station KTUU reported.
"We've developed information that he was responsible for multiple additional victims. To our knowledge there are no other victims here in Alaska. They're all in the Lower 48," FBI Special Agent Mary Rook told the station.
"We do know he traveled extensively and he didn't always stay where he landed. He would land in one airport, rent a car and drive hundreds of miles," she added.
Alaska barista Samantha Koenig, 18, was abducted after she closed up a coffee stand in Anchorage.
Father of abducted barista, 18, pleads for her return
The FBI told the station that it had spoken with its behavioral analysts in Quantico, Virginia, to get insight into Keyes' personality.
"He was very, very sensitive to his reputation," Anchorage Police Chief Mark Mew said, according to KTUU. "As odd as that sounds, we had to keep things extremely quiet in order to keep him talking with us."
Details about the cause of Keyes' death were not released, but a spokeswoman for the Alaska State Troopers said he was alone in his cell and that foul play was not suspected.
Texas arrest in case of abducted 18-year-old Alaska barista
Sunday's news conference was the first public release of many details about a case that has transfixed Anchorage residents.
Koenig's disappearance from the coffee stand in February triggered a city-wide search and a reward fund. Keyes was arrested in Texas after using a debit card linked to Koenig.
Investigators found Koenig's body in early April in an iced-over lake north of Anchorage. Officials said Sunday that Keyes' initial confession led them to that location, and that he had admitted using a chainsaw to cut a hole in the ice to dump her body in the lake.
Body in icy lake is missing Alaska barista, police say
Koenig's body is the only one of Keyes' victims that has been found, officials said Sunday.
Although Keyes told investigators that he placed the Curriers' bodies in an abandoned Vermont house, that house was demolished and searchers were unable to find the victims' remains at the site, officials said.
Law enforcement officials described Keyes as methodical and a frequent traveler, able to conceal his actions and dispose of his victims' bodies without easy discovery.
Keyes, 34, was a self-employed carpenter and Army veteran who had been stationed at Fort Lewis in Washington state. He moved to Anchorage in 2007. He also had a house and property in Constable, New York.
He had been scheduled for trial in March on federal charges, and faced a possible death penalty.
The investigation into Keyes' crimes - some of which date back 14 years - will continue, a process that could take years, officials said.
"Mr. Keyes never showed no remorse for his actions," Feldis told KTUU.
Michelle Tasker, a spokeswoman for the Koenig family, told KTUU Sunday that news of Keyes' apparent suicide was not the outcome they wanted.
"We would've obviously liked for him to have gone in front of a jury of his peers and answer for what he's been accused of doing," said Tasker. "He did an injustice again to Samantha."
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Phil Dunphy Brings the Bing
The next time you're planning a vacation, ask yourself, "What Would Dunphy Do?" Ty Burrell, the actor that plays Phil Dunphy the "coolest" clueless father on ABC's Modern Family, is the voice of a new commercial for Microsoft's Bing. The spot, called "Adventures with Bing: The Big Apple," depicts a man planning his entire trip from Los Angeles to New York — booking flights, restaurants and attractions — using only the search engine.


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susansierra necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 81 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
The Millionaire Affair - Webinar Series
**please check below for new updated information**
The use of water in the logo might work well as many money terms refer to water...cash flow, currency, stream etc.
We're Sue and Steve from http://sueandsteveshow.com - a videoblog about using the law of attraction to make your life better with video and social media.
This logo is for an upcoming webinar series that we're hosting called The Millionaire Affair.
This will be the 4th contest we've run. All previous contests have ended with a winner being chosen (and paid). We've even awarded a second prize a couple times. We will check entries often and leave a LOT of feedback all the way through the contest.
The logo should be fun (not serious). I'd really like a cool icon that could be used on its own at times (on the corner of videos, for instance)
PS I'm happy to answer any questions you may have - and will answer them quickly!
The Millionaire Affair is for people who are looking for more time, more energy, more money and more fun in their life. They are likely 30+ and might be stuck in a job (and life) that isn't fulfilling.
**UPDATE - The use of water in the logo might work well as many money terms refer to water...cash flow, currency, stream etc.
A fun, upbeat, inspiring logo that will invite our audience to sign up for the Millionaire Affair - a series of webinars with some of the world's top thought leaders - inspiring people like Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay, Jack Canfield and Neale Donald Walsh.
All speakers will be interviewed by us and will discuss what goes on in the minds of millionaires.
The logo shouldn't be just about money...it's about a better life and feeling good. Look at our current logo (attached below) - this will give you an idea of the style we like.
The Millionaire Affair logo doesn't necessarily have to match the Sue and Steve Show logo, but it should complement it as they may often be used on the same page.
This logo will be used on the Millionaire Affair website, in emails and a small version on our videos.
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text: The masters need a field magician powerful enough to battle the likes of evil lyn, marzo, skelator, and Damon. And that Character should be Tarrak. From the depths of the original comic, he fits this bill perfectly. I dont remember if he ever had some sort of staff or weapon in those comics, but since not alot has been fleshed out on him then we can create an awesome backstory behind him.