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Barbara Walters recovering from chickenpox
'View' host is still hospitalized after a fall.
Barbara Walters, still hospitalized after a fall 10 days ago, is also recovering from chickenpox.
"We want to give you an update on Barbara," Whoopi Goldberg said on The View this morning. "You all know that she fell and cut her head 10 days ago, and then was running a temperature, but it turns out it is all the result of a delayed childhood. Barbara has the chickenpox. She'd never had it as a child. So now she's been told to rest, she's not allowed any visitors. And we're telling you, Barbara, no scratching."
Walters fell, struck her head and sustained a cut that required stitches while attending a party at the British Embassy the weekend before the inauguration. Doctors elected to keep her in the hospital because of a slightly elevated temperature.
Last week, in a statement read on The View, Walters thanked "all the people who have called, written and been concerned about me".
"We love you. We miss you. We just don't want to hug you," Goldberg said in a message to Walters Monday on The View.


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Lauren Scruggs, the Dallas-area model who was severely injured when she walked into an airplane propeller last weekend, has looked in a mirror for the first time since the accident, msnbc.com is reporting.
Lauren used a mirror to look at her face for the first time, her dad said. And her response showed promising signs that her old "spunk" was back.
"She looked and she said, 'That's not that bad,'" he told reporters. "So that was really encouraging. You know what, and she still has her beautiful smile."
According to the Scruggs family's blog, the 23-year-old patient is asking for brussels sprouts and sweet potatoes today, but hasn't been able to eat them. Thursday, she walked again Thursday and talked about her dreams:
She walked again this morning, a little further than yesterday. After resting this afternoon, she woke up much more herself than we have yet to see, talking and laughing. (Sister) Brittany asked her if she had any dreams, and she told her, "I had a dream about big, beautiful flowers! And I said, thank you Lord, for letting me see such beautiful things!" Such a sweet blessing!
Today Scruggs, who lost her left hand in the accident, will have no visitors per doctors' orders. Maybe she's had a little too much excitement.
Wednesday, her parents, Jeff and Cheryl Scruggs, reported their daughter walked for the first time since Saturday's accident and said her left eye remains "non-responsive."


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The deputy involved in the incident is reportedly OK with no serious injuries.
Abraham Pearson, alias Derreck White, was allegedly armed with a knife when he showed up to the courthouse Monday morning. Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon told Local 4 that White's weapon may have been plastic -- possibly a comb -- and was not picked up by a metal detector.
He overpowered a deputy as he was shackled in the courtroom. He stole the deputy's keys and took his uniform. The deputy, Harrison Tolliver, suffered minor cuts and bruises and had several puncture wounds to his neck. He was treated and released from Detroit Receiving Hospital. He is in good condition.
White fled the building wearing the pants of a sheriff deputy's uniform, a white T-shirt and carrying a sheriff's shirt. Witnesses said they immediately knew he was not a Sheriff's deputy and realized something was horribly wrong. He has since changed his clothes -- but there is no word on what he is currently wearing.
Watch: Escaped Detroit prisoner's clothing found under SUV
-- Abraham Pearson, alias Derreck White. Pearson is described as 5 feet 6 inches tall and about 125 pounds. Police say he has a twin.
This photo shows White with long hair.
White was supposed to be sentenced on armed robbery and carjacking charges. White spent more than five years in prison for assault during an armed robbery and breaking and entering before being paroled in January 2012, officials said. He was locked up later that winter for a month for failing to report to his parole officer, and absconded again when he was released. In September 2012 he was arrested on carjacking, armed robbery and weapons charges and convicted in a non-jury trial, prison officials said. He was due to be sentenced for those crimes when he escaped. He will now be facing multiple other charges. Those are yet to be announced.
His lawyer, James Howarth, told NBC news he believes White has mental issues and wanted to mount an insanity defense, but two psychiatrists found him competent.
"In my initial conversation with him, he had no knowledge of the incident and talked about hallucinations," Howarth told NBC News. "He appeared not to be in any touch with reality whatsoever."
Howarth said White was offered a plea deal that would have given him the minimum sentence of nine years but turned it down. After being convicted, he was likely facing 15 years.
"I imagine it weighed pretty heavily on his head," Howarth said.
He encouraged his client to surrender.
The building was immediately put on lockdown but reopened just before 11 a.m.
A witness told Local 4 she saw the suspect drive away in a van.
---Detroit Police Chief James Craig
Detroit Police Chief James Craig has a call to action to anybody who may know White or could have spoken to him and know his whereabouts.
Authorities have found the 2000 gray Dodge Caravan van with the license plate BWZ 3916 that White escaped in.
It was recovered at Concord and Lafayette - which is near the entrance of Belle Isle. It was abandoned in a wooded area along that stretch of road. The Wayne County Sheriff's Department did bring in a canine unit to capture the scent of the suspect.
White is described as 5 feet 6 inches, 125 pounds, brown eyes and black hair with dreads. He's should be considered armed and dangerous.
---Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon
Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon said the guard who was overpowered was bringing three inmates into the courtroom. Napoleon said the 1-to-3 ratio was not an uncommon practice. He said the procedure will be reviewed. Napoleon said his biggest concern was how Derreck White smuggled his comb/weapon into the building.
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December 4 – 9, 2012, at the Times-Union Center's Moran Theater
The tour of the smash hit Broadway revival of WEST SIDE STORY is coming to Jacksonville! WEST SIDE STORY opens at the Times-Union Center's Moran Theater on Tuesday, December 4th and runs through Sunday, December 9th for 8 performances only! Tony Award-winning librettist Arthur Laurents' Broadway direction is recreated for the tour by David Saint, the Associate Director on Broadway. The original Jerome Robbins choreography is reproduced by Tony Award-nominee Joey McKneely (The Boy from Oz, The Life).
Tickets for West Side Story begin at $37.00 and are available at the Artist Series Box Office at (904) 632-3373 or online at artistseriesjax.org. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more by calling (904) 632-3228 or e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
WEST SIDE STORY tells the story of star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria as they struggle to rise above the hatred and intolerance that surrounds them. WEST SIDE STORY soars as the greatest love story of all time and remains as powerful, poignant and timely as ever. The Bernstein and Sondheim score is considered to be one of Broadway's finest and features such classics of the American musical theatre as Something's Coming, Tonight, America, I Feel Pretty and Somewhere.
The cast features Addison Reid Coe as Tony, MaryJoanna Grisso as Maria, Michelle Alves as Anita, Theo Lencicki as Riff and Andrés Acosta as Bernardo.
Also featured are Amber Ardolino as a Shark, Yesenia Ayala as a Shark, Lauren Cannon as Graziella, Konrad Case as Lt. Schrank, Blue Cervini as a Jet, Max Chucker as A-rab, Mark Deler as a Shark, Erika Hebron as a Swing, Dan Higgins as Diesel, Matthew Krob as Glad Hand, Greg London as Doc, Guy Mandia Jr as Action, Thomas Mothershed as Officer Krupke, Louie Napoleon as a Swing, Thaddeus Pearson as a Shark, Josh Pins as Baby John, Anthony Raimondi as a Swing, J. Nycole Ralph as Consuela, Tory Ramirez as a Shark, Bridget Riley as Anybodys, Ricardo Rique-Sanchez as Pepe, Arianna Rosario as a Shark, Carolina Sanchez as Rosalia, Michael Shultz as Big Deal, Jeff M. Smith as Snowboy, Tony Thomas as a Shark, Juan Torres-Falcon as Chino and Laura Volpacchio as a Swing.
What Critics Are Saying About the Show
The Associated Press says WEST SIDE STORY "remains Broadway's best dance-driven musical. Five decades have not dimmed the extraordinary choreography or the score that pulsates throughout." Variety says, "The true stars of WEST SIDE STORY are Jerome Robbins' graceful, endlessly expressive choreography and Leonard Bernstein's score, which still sounds bracingly modern a half-century after it was first heard. The music is a primal force." WEST SIDE STORY is written by three theatrical luminaries: two-time Tony Award winner Arthur Laurents (book) and multiple Tony and Grammy Award winners Leonard Bernstein (music) and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) in his Broadway debut. WEST SIDE STORY features scenic designs by James Youmans, costumes by Tony Award nominee David C. Woolard, lighting by Tony Award winner Howell Binkley and sound design by Peter McBoyle.
West Side Story Performance Schedule:
- Tuesday, December 4th at 7:30PM
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Koch Media owns publisher Deep Silver (Dead Island). It now owns both the Saints Row and Metro franchises, along with the studios that made them.
Fans have every right to be cautious about a management change, but while Koch said in a media release earlier today it "will roll out future plans for each franchise in the coming months", Deep Silver has since tweeted the following:
I mean, yeah, of course they'd say that. But in the absence of anything else, it's something for fans to hold on for while they await news of the future.


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Martin Feinstein necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 45 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
Big Cities, Small Business
I run a small consultancy in Cape Town, South Africa. We specialise in designing and implementing programmes, primarily for local and regional governments, that support entrepreneurship and small business development. Our clients, therefore, are people working in city and regional government who are responsible for developing the small business sector -- they will be the attendees at this conference.
Invitees to and participants in a two-day conference on encouraging entrepreneurship and small business development in South Africa's major cities. These cities have populations of between 3 and 8 million people and are on a par with cities anywhere in the world. These individuals are government professionals responsible for developing the small business sector, from micro-business to medium-sized businesses, across all sectors: IT, manufacturing, services, media, tourism etc.
A conference logo with the main title being Big Cities, Small Business. The key concept for the conference is getting these city government guys together (which doesn't happen normally) so they can share ideas, experiences and strategies to promote entrepreneurship in the city environment. How can cities actively promote business ideas, networking, collaboration, growth, job creation. This will be used on all conference materials, the website etc and the conference will hopefully become an annual event. Note that South African cities do not have lions and elephants walking around -- they are normal urban environments with first-world infrastructure.
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We've already been busy writing about the most compelling matchups of the upcoming season. Now, we get to find out when the games will occur.
The 2014 NFL schedule will be unveiled Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET, revealing the dates and times of every regular-season game in 2014. A breakdown of the home and away opponents for each team was released in December.
The schedule comes out one week later than last year, a byproduct of the league pushing the 2014 NFL Draft into May for the first time.
In conjunction with the announcement, NFL Network will show "NFL Total Access: Schedule Release '14," a three-hour program that will air Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET.
In the latest edition of the "Around The League Podcast," the guys talk Geno Smith's future in New York and pick the winners and losers of free agency.


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Can I write my own will ? Benson
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When looking to make a will, a question often asked is "can I write my own will?"
The simple answer is yes, a person is allowed to write their own will. Whether this is the best option is not so straightforward.
Often, the main motivation for writing your own will is cost. Will writing kits can be bought over the counter, or downloaded online, for very little money. However, for a number of reasons, these kits could end up costing you money.
These "do it yourself" wills might be completed incorrectly, some questions can be difficult to understand, or inadvertently missed, and your answers could be misinterpreted. All these things could lead to the will being contested, and would need the involvement of a solicitor.
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CHICAGO — U.S. life expectancy will fall dramatically in coming years because of obesity, a startling shift in a long-running trend toward longer lives, researchers contend in a report published Thursday.
By their calculations — disputed by skeptics as shaky and overly dire — within 50 years obesity likely will shorten the average life span of 77.6 years by at least two to five years. That's more than the impact of cancer or heart disease, said lead author S. Jay Olshansky, a longevity researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
This would reverse the mostly steady increase in American life expectancy that has occurred in the past two centuries and would have tremendous social and economic consequences that could even inadvertently help "save" Social Security, Olshansky and colleagues contend.
"We think today's younger generation will have shorter and less healthy lives than their parents for the first time in modern history unless we intervene," Olshansky said.
With obesity affecting at least 15 percent of U.S. school-age children, "it's not pie in the sky," Olshansky said. "The children who are extremely obese are already here."
The report appears in the New England Journal of Medicine. In an accompanying editorial, University of Pennsylvania demography expert Samuel H. Preston calls the projections "excessively gloomy."
Opposing forecasts, projecting a continued increase in U.S. longevity, assume that obesity will continue to worsen, but also account for medical advances, Preston said.
Still, failure to curb obesity "could impede the improvements in longevity that are otherwise in store," he said. Americans' current life expectancy already trails more than 20 other developed countries.
Sobering statistics
Dr. David Ludwig of Children's Hospital Boston, a study co-author, cited sobering obesity statistics:
- Two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese; one-third of adults qualify as obese.
- Up to 30 percent of U.S. children are overweight, and childhood obesity has more than doubled in the past 25 years.
- Childhood diabetes has increased 10-fold in the past 20 years.
"It's one thing for an adult of 45 or 55 to develop type 2 diabetes and then experience the life-threatening complications of that — kidney failure, heart attack, stroke — in their late 50s or 60s. But for a 4-year-old or 6-year-old who's obese to develop Type 2 diabetes at 14 or 16" raises the possibility of devastating complications before reaching age 30, Ludwig said. "It's really a staggering prospect."
While national attention is starting to focus on contributors to obesity, including the prevalence of fast-food, soft drinks in schools and cuts in physical education classes, "what we presently lack is a clear, comprehensive national vision for addressing the obesity epidemic," Ludwig said.
The calculations are a stark contrast with Social Security Administration forecasts for slow improvement in life expectancy, and with projections publicized in 2002 that said the maximum human life span will reach 100 in about six decades. In an interview, Olshansky said he hoped the new research would play a role in the current discussion about overhauling Social Security.
Report called 'very one-sided'
James Vaupel, director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, and a research scientist at Duke University, co-authored the 2002 forecast, based on data from developed nations including the United States.
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Vaupel called the new report "very one-sided" and said he doubts that obesity will negate the effects of other medical progress in improving mortality.
Emory University health policy expert Dr. Kenneth Thorpe said that while obesity is clearly damaging public health and driving up health care spending, rising rates aren't enough to resolve Social Security's woes. "That's too simplistic," he said.
Other life expectancy forecasts rely on past mortality trends; the Olshansky group used obesity prevalence data and previously published estimates of years of life lost from obesity.
They calculated in reverse, assessing the fall in death rates that would occur if all obese Americans had a normal weight. Their estimate shows that, if not for obesity, life expectancy at birth should be four to nine months higher than the record 77.6 years announced by the government last month. That slight gain translates into a loss that will worsen if current trends continue, the researchers said.
Richard Suzman, a researcher at the National Institute on Aging, which helped fund the study, said the projections are "possible, but I would say unlikely." He said the best approach is to estimate life expectancy using historical trends.
The Center for Consumer Freedom, an advocacy group for the restaurant and food industry, which argues the obesity problem has been exaggerated, said the paper should be discredited because co-author David Allison has done consulting for makers of weight-loss products.
Allison, a biostatistician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, noted that the journal mentions his financial ties. While the study methods are partly based on assumptions, they are also sound, Allison said.
Obesity researcher Dr. JoAnn Manson said she agrees with the paper's message, if not the methods.
"The calculations that were made may not be perfect," but the emphasis on obesity's dangers "should serve as a wake-up call for policy makers and the public health community," said Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital.
U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin said Wednesday that the report supports his efforts to have government regulation of junk food marketing to children.
If the dim life expectancy forecast doesn't demonstrate a need for action, "I don't know what will," the Iowa Democrat said.
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According to Google Trends, variations of the term "Cash For Clunkers" have been among the hottest searches this week. A quick search for the term shows automakers have taken notice.
According to Google PR, there's been a "650% increase in queries from June to July across the country" for various versions of the term. They wouldn't tell us how much money automakers and dealers have spent on searches, but a search reveals Toyota, GM, Hyundai, Mazda and other automakers are buying up ad space. Additionally, local dealerships are also doing targeted searches that lead to special sales pages.
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ROCKLEDGE, FL - The Health First Aging Institute's Center for Family Caregivers is offering a free half-day seminar called "A Day of Hope" on Thursday, July 26 from 10 am to 2 pm. The seminar was developed to help those who care for a family member with a chronic medical condition. Offered at The Center for Family Caregivers, 3661 S. Babcock St. in Melbourne, the informative and uplifting day will include the following sessions (lunch will be provided):
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LC just can't stop marketing herself, and now she's taking to the internet. Oh good — we have room to spare 'round here on the internet! She says, "In the following months, I'll be talking about what it takes to run a business, design a clothing line, write a book, run a website, and much more." Please, please say this means more Justin Bobby.
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lunedì 3 ottobre 2011
Let's Play: SuperTuxKart
Welcome to my first native Linux game comparison! Let's take a look to this free Mario Kart clone game: SuperTuxKart!
A hard choice... Or not?
Of course there's no hard choice this time. There are a native Linux client (one for each existing Linux distribution), a Windows client and a MAC OSX client, and since we're talking about Ubuntu, your choice is only one!
Talking about performances...
First of all, my hardware:
agp_aperture_size: 256
cpu: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
cpu_ghz: 2.40
distro: Ubuntu 11.04 natty
kernel: 2.6.38-10-generic
machine_bitness: 64
memory: 2007
soundcard: NVidia CK804 with ALC850 at irq 22
soundcard_driver: ALSA Version 1.0.23
videocard_direct: True
videocard_driver_version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 275.09.07
videocard_manufacturer: NVIDIA Corporation
videocard_ram: 256
videocard_type: GeForce 8600 GTS/PCI/SSE2
x_version: X.Org X Server 1.10.1
Alright, let's take a look to the (very few) differences of performances between Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit version, Chakra 2011.09 (edn) 32-bit version and Windows 7 64-bit version:
Well, i think you should have wondered that. Being a native linux client provided game, performances are perfect in every OS. Performances are great on Chakra even those high numbers.
Conclusion: the game runs GREAT on Ubuntu.
The process takes about 15 minutes (including download time).
The site at the beginning of the video is http://www.playdeb.net, a great site for native linux games.
Feel free to send me an email or leave a comment if you got some problems or if you just wanna ask me a question. I will always answer you!
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Book now for the free AJ Women in Architecture back to work seminar on Thursday 10 October - RSVP essential
Christina Seilern, founder of Studio Seilern, recent winner of The AJ Future Reception contest, will be taking part in the free event which will explore how to get your career back on track after maternity leave or a career break.
Susan Le Good, associate director at AHMM, and Peter Murray, director at Stanton Williams, will also be joining the panel.
Retaining talented women architects once they have children is a crucial issue for the profession, and the seminar, taking place on Thursday 10 October at 10am-midday in central London, will address the best ways of doing this.
Peter Murray will discuss successfully managing staff during life-changing events at a growing practice, while Le Good brings a practice-wide view of recruitment requirements for AHMM.
Other panellists include Hannah Lawson, The AJ's Emerging Woman Architect of the year 2012 and a director at John McAslan + Partners, who will be speaking about building a successful career after maternity leave.
Tamsyn Curley, director at Place Careers, will discuss flexible working as well as managing career breaks on your CV, and planning a successful return to work.
The discussion will be chaired by The AJ editor Christine Murray.
It will consider emerging trends in part-time and flexible working as well as managing a successful return to work. It will also look at childcare tips and pressure points, as well as building confidence during and after maternity leave or more extended career breaks.
The seminar will be of particular interest to employers wanting to learn more about best practice and retaining talented staff, women who have recently returned to practice - and women who are currently on maternity leave or about to go on leave.
According to the latest AJ Women in Architecture survey, 89 per cent of women respondents think having children puts women at a disadvantage in architecture, and 40 per cent of women have had difficulty resuming their career after having them.
To help change these statistics, book your place, here.
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Readers' comments (5)
The issues here go further than just maternity leave, as many staff need to take long periods of leave to become carers, to deal with family matters, or illness. What is needed is a sensible approach to retention of staff and a structured way of keeping in touch - and rebuilding lost confidence -perhaps through mentoring.
It makes good business sense to retain and support established staff members rather than replace them, as flexible support and encouragement from employers engenders staff loyalty. We need to talk about this more.
Jane Duncan RIBA Equality and Diversity Champion
I don't know why no one ever tends to remember the impact on men after having children. It is generally accepted that men would return to work after paternity leave; it seems unthinkable that they may want to work part-time as well as they may want to spend some time with their child! This scenario did happen to us, and we offered part-time and flexible working options to both our male and female staff.
I would like to add further to Rogers point. In some instances for those of us with a wife/partner with a successful career in the non architectural world, given the relatively low pay in our profession and high childcare costs, it wouldn't take much of a shift in the balance for it not to be worthwhile for the father to return to work as an architect, but instead look after the family and support the wife/partner in their role.
Men and employers looking to discuss childcare and flexible working are, of course, welcome to come along to the event. The seminar is part of the Women in Architecture programme because in our 2012 survey, 89% of the women surveyed said having children put them at a disadvantage in architecture, but just 34% of the men with children surveyed said it put them at a disadvantage.
Balancing the architectural world with a successful well paid wife and family put enormous pressure on men of our profession too.... on occasions its almost enough to put the pen down :-)
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Phase Consulting necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 208 diseños de 46 diseñadores freelance.
Phase Consulting are an IT Consulting and Project Management business that is in its start up phases.
We are looking for a logo to be the face of our business.
You can look at the 1st attempt at a web site at http://www.phaseconsulting.com.au now. The web site is going to be re-built using the new logo as the basis for the design theme.
Here is an overview of how I am rating this contest. If your work gets 3 or less stars it means your work is not what we are looking for.
1 Star - Wrong direction missing the mark.
2 Star - Has some elements we like.
3 Star - Getting closer, may need revisions or a different take on your design.
4 Star - Your design is being considered.
5 Star - You made the final cut!
NOTE: Please read my comments at the bottom of this page as the contest progresses.
General ideas, comments or new direction will be mentioned below and specific comments will be added to each designers page.
Phase Consulting
Desired Color Scheme: At the moment we have a preference for pale blue, light yellow and black, but happy to see what you can do with any colour as you are the professionals!
Desired Style: It's important to have a clean font that's easy to read. Must be professional and something that works well in print and web (both colour and B&W)
About Us: Phase Consulting are an IT Consulting and Project Management business that is in its start up phases.
We need a smart new logo to help represent our professional image. We are pretty open and flexible to what you think would look/work best.
The business founders are of a young age (24) and we would like to have a sort of young design feel but still with an emphasis on professionalism.
This logo will be used on our website (www.phaseconsulting.com.au - NB. this site is a template and will not be the final site we use. Colours and design will not be the same), letterheads, business cards and all business correspondence.
- A full colour design
- Must be B&W printable
- High res psd (lossless) format handed over at contest completion
- Illustrator file format
- Good for web and print as your logo will also feature on our stationery
- Smart and professional
- Clean design
- Can incporporate the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in the form of 4 arrows in a circular motion but this is not crucial
- Bold, straight-hitting design
- Nothing too simple
- Nothing over the top
- Nothing childish
- Nothing plain
- No PC initials in the artwork
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Is There a Harper and Trout Remix?
I want to hate Bryce Harper and Mike Trout. Maybe if they played for the Tigers I'd love them but two guys that young, that talented and that successful who aren't on my team? Honestly, I really want to dislike them.
With Trout it's a little harder because somehow he comes across as a good guy and great teammate despite only being 20 years old. Harper, it's a little easier because he's even younger, bro'ed out and he knows he's good. That kind of self-assuredness often comes off as cockiness and that makes it easier to hate someone.
Yeah, I really want to hate these guys, especially Harper, and I feel like I made an honest effort at it. Sadly, it kind of went like this:[youtube http://youtu.be/NY4xE9rAY8k]
I can't help it. I'm hooked.


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Real Estate: Lake Boca Raton luxury real estate includes spellbinding mansions with modern amenities inside and gorgeous views in every direction. Estates located alongside Lake Boca Raton enjoy immediate access to the water, and may park their vessels on their own private docks. Estates at Lake Boca Raton host palatial features, such as resort-style pools and spas, expansive living areas for entertaining, state-of-the-art appliances and much more.
Lifestyle: Residents of Lake Boca Raton enjoy the ultimate in luxury as they bask in their lakeside estates just steps from it all. They participate in nearby recreational activities like golfing, as the Boca Raton Golf Club is located directly alongside the lake. Lake Boca Raton is an ideal residence for water sports enthusiasts as the lake and ocean are located just steps from their back door. The various attractions of downtown Boca Raton are nearby as well, so residents may easily go shopping and dine at some of the region's finest establishments.
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There is a sign at the end of the road to Pahaoa. "LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINTS," it says, and there were two sets of footprints on the beach: mine, going out, and coming back. I climbed a rock, and sat on it. Hours passed, a whole afternoon, I realised later, in what seemed like minutes.
I took these photographs, hardly daring to hope that they would capture how it was at Pahaoa, on Friday afternoon, but they do. I came home with something better: a quiet mind.Read More


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Brooklyn's Bamboo Bikes
A community of people came together last year united by a common goal: to see if we could build our own bicycles out of bamboo. Different interests brought us together: the engineer and mastermind with a penchant for building things, the long-distance cyclist with a love of plants, the founder of New York's first bike messenger co-operative, the freelance writer with a flair for marketing, and myself—knowing nothing about building bikes to begin with, but as a jewelry maker, loving the craftsmanship dynamic.
It became clear that bamboo bikes could solve two very different problems, in two very different worlds. The first is in the U.S., where our lives are saturated with material goods, but insulated from the impacts of their production. Who made your new iPhone, and how did they do it? What materials did they use, and what is the environmental toll? Few people think about these things; our society doesn't make us.
Photo Essay :: What's it like to make your own bamboo bike?
The other problem is in the developing world, especially in countries throughout Africa, where people rely on bicycles as a primary form of transportation—but where the bicycles they buy are Chinese imports modeled on bikes used for smooth-road leisure riding. We started thinking about the possibility of people building their own bikes, more suited for use on rough roads, using locally grown bamboo. Instead of supporting Chinese industry, these workers could invest their earnings into their own communities, building them from the ground up.
The Bamboo Bike Studio was born, and is thriving today in Red Hook, Brooklyn where local DIY culture is alive and well. We had our first series of lessons throughout the summer: students come for a weekend, and walk away at the end of it with a bamboo bicycle that they built themselves. Our students have ranged from experienced cabinet makers to elementary school teachers; we've taught people who love working with their hands, and others who can't believe that they are. With every bike that leaves our workshop, we see a person who has made something to be proud of, something useful that he or she worked hard to create.
At the same time, in conjunction with Columbia University's Bamboo Bike Project, bamboo bicycle prototypes have already been sent abroad to Millenium Village cities in Ghana and Kenya. The feedback has been very promising, and we plan to allocate fifty percent of profits to help our technology be taken overseas.


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TechnoServe Launches Program to Boost Development of Central American and African Businesses
August 24, 2012
Some 560 small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will be able to develop their businesses through a new entrepreneurship development program, "Impulsa Tu Empresa (Boost Your Business), that TechnoServe plans to implement in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Burkina Faso in Africa.
|This post was originally published at NextBillion, where TechnoServe is a content partner.
Some 560 small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will be able to develop their businesses through a new entrepreneurship development program, Impulsa Tu Empresa (Boost Your Business), that TechnoServe plans to implement in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Burkina Faso in Africa.
The program, supported by the Argidius Foundation, is designed to give mentoring and business training for entrepreneurs. It will also include a business plan competition for new ideas and existing businesses. The program aims to assist businesses with annual sales between $500,000 and $2 million, particularly those that make products with added value as well as service businesses principally located in urban areas.
One of the objectives of the program is to support business ideas with high growth potential. The goal is to find businesses that can turn themselves into solid, stable, transparent, innovative enterprises capable of attracting investment for expansion.
Oscar Artiga, regional director for the program, said that the entrepreneurs selected to work with TechnoServe will receive direct advice from specialists who will support them in creating growth plans for their businesses. Other benefits of the program include helping the entrepreneurs find financing. Additionally, their performance will be monitored and business networks will be created with the assistance of the program. This will help these businesses improve their access to markets, broaden their sources of funding and develop marketing, accounting and cost strategies.
Artiga said the program is seeking corporate partners to support the growth of businesses with high potential.
"The role of private enterprise in this process is crucial, because it is business leaders that will work closely with the entrepreneurs, mentoring them, sharing knowledge, counseling them and helping them be more competitive," Artiga said.
In two years, the TechnoServe program seeks to create some $13 million in sales among the assisted businesses and contribute to the creation of 700 new jobs.
On the international level, TechnoServe has developed dozens of entrepreneurship programs that have helped create or expand businesses. TechnoServe currently has entrepreneurship programs across South America, Africa and Haiti.
How to apply
To join the program, entrepreneurs can visit www.impulsatuempresa.org to submit an application. Those interested can also email firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com.
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By Mark Lamport-Stokes
LOS ANGELES, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Twice Masters champion Bernhard Langer has visited them on a regular basis, as have fellow former world number ones Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh.
Without their help, players such as American journeyman Kris Blanks and Australian left-hander Greg Chalmers would have been forced to pull out of several tournaments in which they ended up faring well.
The people in question are the five physical therapists and four athletic trainers who ply their trade on a daily basis on the PGA Tour and its senior equivalent, the Champions Tour.
"Almost everybody on tour walks through our door at some point during the season," PGA Tour physical therapist Jeff Hendra told Reuters. "I always tell people we have three groups of golfers on tour.
"Our regulars come in every day regardless. Whether they have an injury, an ache or pain or if they are as healthy as they can be, they are in. And they are the guys that I love because they stay on top of things.
"They do what we call pre-hab. They do the work before they get injured. So when they do get injured, we know them very well, we know their bodies. We know how they move, where their restrictions are."
Hendra said the second group of players visited the state-of-the-art clinical trailer, which has become a permanent fixture at every PGA Tour event, only when they were injured while a handful very rarely made an appearance.
Without the help of Hendra and his co-workers, scores of players would almost certainly have been forced to withdraw from events because of back trouble, shoulder injuries, hand and knee problems or various other ailments over the past decade.
In many of these cases, however, physiotherapy treatment throughout the week of the tournament has come up trumps.
"Five or six years ago at the Players Championship, Bernhard Langer was struggling with some back pain and we treated him all week," Hendra recalled of Germany's former world number one.
"He came in on the Tuesday of that week saying, 'I don't know if I can play. I think I may have to withdraw.' But we treated him and he got progressively and significantly better as the week went along.
"In fact, Bernhard put himself in contention on the Sunday but then trailed off toward the end of the day."
Tour veteran Langer, who developed back problems at the age of 19 during an 18-month stint as a member of the German Air Force, tied for 15th at that Players Championship in 2008 despite closing with a 77.
Burly American Blanks, twice a runner-up on the PGA Tour without yet claiming a maiden title, played his first event on the U.S. circuit in more than six months at last week's Phoenix Open after battling a left shoulder injury.
"Kris had been out for a significant amount of time and was toying with the idea of surgery but we got him playing in Phoenix," Hendra said. "I think the last time I saw him was at the Canadian Open in July.
"At Q-school in December he was really struggling but my co-workers helped him along. He not only finished the six rounds, which is a grind, but played outstandingly and kept his card."
Blanks, who announced in August he would miss the rest of the season because of his shoulder problem, tied for fourth at the PGA Tour's qualifying tournament to regain his card for 2013.
Australian Chalmers, who in 2000 emulated Phil Mickelson, Mike Weir and Steve Flesch by becoming the fourth left-hander on the PGA Tour to win more than $1 million in a single season, is a regular visitor to the clinical and fitness trailers.
"I go in twice a day," said the 39-year-old. "I have some chronic issues, like most golfers. I've got one leg shorter than the other and all sorts of things that I need to get looked at.
"The staff work incredibly long hours ... and I love that you can go in there and get the same service week after week. You can get anything fixed from a blister to X-rays and MRIs referred onward from there.
"So you can get an awful lot done to help you stay in the game longer, and it's certainly done that for me."
Hendra is proud of his working environment in the PGA Tour's clinical trailer which includes three treatment tables, ultra-sound machines and electrical stimulation machines in an area of about 750 square feet.
"Any PT (physical therapist) clinic would be happy to have the equipment that we have," Hendra grinned. "But the main tool that all of us possess is ourselves, our hands. We are all manual therapists."
In a deal announced last week, eyewear retailer Visionworks now sponsors the player mobile health and fitness trailers on both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour.
The golf swing is hardly the most natural thing for the human body to perform, and it will come as no surprise that the most common complaint among players is back-related.
"Whether they are professional or amateur players, easily half of what we see is lower back pain and it can come from a joint or it can come from muscle," said Hendra.
"The golf swing is extremely unnatural for the body to perform, especially when it's performed 400 or 500 times a day. With that repetition, it's all transferred to the lower back.
"So we try to hammer home the importance of prehab and staying on top of things but it's entirely up to the player. We can only lead the horse to the water, we can't force him to drink." (Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes; Editing by Frank Pingue)


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Central Olympic mountain peaks. Credit: National Park Service.
Montage of life's diversity. Image Credit: University of Michigan.
Carol Cleland, professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
Cover of Charles Cockell's book, "Space on Earth."
Charles Cockell and Vladimir install dosimeters under gravel rocks, Devon Island, Canada, July 2001. Photo credit: ESA.
Termite mound. Termites thermoregulate their mounds, ensuring the sustainability of their environment.
"Scientists Debate Gaia," a collection of essays published by MIT press.
Gaia's Daisyworld concept. An imaginary world completely covered with the seeds of two types of flowers, white and black. The black flowers are better at absorbing light from the sun; the white flowers are better at reflecting light. In cooler conditions, the black flowers proliferate, and because they retain heat they eventually warm up the environment to a point where the ability to reflect heat becomes advantageous, allowing the white flowers to proliferate.
Photo of Earth by the Earth Observing System flagship Terra. A collection of satellite-based observations were stitched together into a seamless true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
The Lena River, 2,800 miles (4,400 km) long, is one of the largest rivers in the world. The Lena Delta Reserve is the most extensive protected wilderness area in Russia. It is an important refuge and breeding ground for many species of Siberian wildlife.This image was acquired by Landsat 7´ Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) sensor on February 27, 2000. This is a false-color composite image made using shortwave infrared, infrared, and red wavelengths. Image Credit: USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch.
The Earth´ atmospheric spectra, taken by the Ames Airborne Tracking Sunphotometer, AATS-14. Gases such as Oxygen (O2), Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Water Vapor (H2O) are indicated. Image Credit: NASA/Ames Sunphotometer-Satellite Team
"Dehors" (Outside) by Yves Tanguy. Tanguy's family came from the Finistère area of Brittany, and as a child he spent his summer holidays there. The prehistoric stone monuments left a strong impression on him, and they seem to reappear, as if in dream-like scenes, in his paintings. The artist's early career in the merchant navy may be relevant, as the scene suggests an underwater landscape. The strange symbols are similar to those found in the work of Miró, who often took the birth of the world as a subject for his paintings.
Spiral tubular structures formed in a chemical garden. The life-like appearance of the structures are formed by precipitation when salt crystals are added to a silicate solution. Photo Credit: Bill Newman, Indiana University.
The world as we know it may only be a three-dimensional pocket, a "brane," of a higher dimensional space. Though our brane restricts our motion to three dimensions, other dimensions still exist. (Photo credit: CRIMSON/Harvard University)
Cyanobacteria pool
Naegleria Cyst
ARMAN cell
ARMAN reconstruction
E coli Image
mycoplasm test 2007
phytoplankton by Flow Cytobot
Volvox carteri
Pleodorina Starrii
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Bog USGS
Ancient Blob
Amphimedon queenslandica
Amphimedon Image 2
bacteriophage T4
capsids of Bacteriophage T4
Bitter Springs Fossils
Panser Shark
Walking Bacteria
Earth Lion
Moss campion
HK Forest
colonized plant
maginfica feeding
maginfica closeup
Green sulfur bacteria
Devonian Ocean
ocean fossils
Recycle iron
Hawaiian Rail
Arctic Fox
sunflower pattern
Fibonacci Pattern
rappemonad cells
Skeletonema marinoi
female polar bear
Sea Squirt
Chysina aurigans and Chrysina limbata
Beetle analysis
Chyrsina aurigans
Nephila clavipes
Xanthoparmelia hypofusca
horsetail plant
spruce forest
European Beech
frog sleep
water boatman
bivalve mollusks
Neonothopanus gardneri
Neonothopanus gardneri 2
Slingshot bacteria
SAR11 strain HIMB4
Barley eibi1
Rhizoctonia solani
Fossilized hyphae
Schmidtea mediterranea
marine viruses
dolphin communication
leaping blenny
leaping blenny 2
coral sunscreen
Great Barrier Reef corals
Woolly rhino
capturing a bacterial cell
Arabidopsis plant
tuskfish carrying a clam
anammox culture
enzymes during electron transport
Whitetip Reef Shark
Mouse and DNA
E. coli growing
Arabidopsis seedlings
Undifferentiated Arabidopsis cells
Marked bees
Dictyostelium discoideum
Rotting logs
Dicty life cycle
Dicty prey
Dicty cell spores
Physcomitrella patens
Tens of millions of bases of DNA from a marine microbial community
UV-sensing UVR8
Mother of pearl
Paulinella chromatophora
Great Smoky Mountains
Acidifying oceans
Sea fan
Coral reef under threat
Electric Snail
Electric snail schematic
Bleached coral
Map of Intelligence
Emperor penguins
Emperor penguin colony
Emperor penguin chicks
Manta ray
Galerina marginata
Ion channels function
Cross section of a simulated ion channel
DNA mutation
Cell types
Ion channel illustration
Intestinal section
Human Microbiome Project
Pollen grains from Antarctica
Latimeria chalumnae
TextureCam of a stromatolite
Wood decayed by white rot
Amanita muscaria
Anabaena spp. and Microcystis aeruginosa
E coli with ancient genes
Iron pyrite
Artificial Jellyfish
Real jellyfish comparison
Jellyfish swim strokes
Sea stars
Methylococcus capsulatus
3 beta-hopanoids
Protist collage
Arctic Tern
Nervous system
Microbes seafloor
Nitrosopumilus maritmus
Bacteria population
Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Rhabdopleura compacta zooid
A Rhabdopleura compacta
Phytoplankton Micrograph
Mount McRae Shale formation drill core
Metallosphaera sedula
Mexican salamander
Cuttlefish eye
Figaro 2
Microorganisms responsible for marine AOM
Methane oxidation and sulfate respiration model
Human skin
Crab apple tree trunk
Bacteria, red cell walls
Grain weevils
A single vascular bundle from a transverse section of the mature stem
Sabal causiarum
Nodules of ancient soil
Nostochopis multicellular cyanobacterium
Multicellular cyanobacterium
The depletion of ATP in cells of the bacterium Escherichia coli
A dung beetle
Dung beetle
Northern versus southern passage to the Fraser River in British Columbia
Sockeye salmon migrate
Sockeye salmon
Infected SAR11
Banksia spinulosa
Western Australian Biogeographic Regions
Methanococcus maripaludis from NCBI
Painted turtle
Underside of a painted turtle
Bean plant treated with hydrogen sulfide (top)
Bean seeds treated with hydrogen sulfide
Suctorian ciliate covered with symbiotic bacteria, along with diatoms, and filaments on weathered and cracked microplastic debris.
This is a typical glass sponge community in the Eastern Weddell sea
Fish (Trematomus sp.)
Researchers found zooplankton biomass to nearly equal phytoplankton in the upper ocean
The MAREDAT atlas catalogues marine plankton including single-celled animals such as this foraminifera, Hastigerina digitata.
Interpretive view of Diskagma buttonii with exterior view, left, and cross section
Diatoms and dinoflagellates from Lake Chuzenji in Japan.
Mushroom Omphalotus nidiformis
Yellow tube sponge (Aplysina fistularis), the purple vase sponge (Niphates digitalis), the red encrusting sponge (Spiratrella coccinea) and the gray rope sponge (Callyspongia)
Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea flock
Machinery inside the chloroplasts
Fruit fly
Issus coleoptratus.
Researchers from Princeton University and the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich found that the wobble of the Earth on its axis controls the production of fertilizing nitrogen essential to the health of the ocean. The wobble, known as axial precession, causes an upwell of nitrogen-poor (but phosphorus-rich) water from the deep ocean roughly every 23,000 years. Blue-green algae such as Trichodesmium (above) feed on the phosphorous as they convert, or "fix," nitrogen in the air into a biologically active form that becomes part of the ocean's nitrogen cycle. (Image courtesy of the Center for Microbial Oceanography, University of Hawaii)
The reconstructed history of North Atlantic nitrogen fixation (black) is partly driven by the cyclic wobble of the Earth's axis of rotation (orange) and its effect on equatorial Atlantic upwelling.
A small carpenter bee.
Collared brown lemur (Eulemur fuvius collaris). Credit: Luke Dollar
A tiny jellyfish with green-glowing, fluorescent tentacles and red fluorescence in its body, owing to the chlorophyll in gobbled-up algae. Could we detect any evidence of intelligent signaling in such a creature if it were an alien species? Credit: Mikhail Matz, Islands in the Stream 2002, NOAA-OER
A termite mound photographed in Australia. Credit: Hansjoerg Morandell/Wikipedia
Giant honey bees, species Apis dorsata, photographed in India. The "waggle dance" of honeybees informs hivemates of the location of food. Credit: Bksimonb/Wikipedia
Georgia Tech assistant professor Kostas Konstantinidis (left) and former graduate student and study lead author Chengwei Luo examine E. coli cells. (Credit: Gary Meek)
Soil plots that were heated to simulate the rise in temperatures forecast by climate models. The radiators (top) warm the plots 2 degrees Celsius. (Credit: Mengting Yuan, U. of Oklahoma)
A Drosophila fly infected with fungus. Flies raised in space were unable to fight off fungal infections because defects in the immune system. Credit: Deborah Kimbrell/UC Davis photo
IceBridge Flight Over Baffin Island . Image Credit: NASA/Michael Studinger
This is Laflamme in his U of T Mississauga laboratory.Credit: Gareth Trickey
These are fossil remains of Ediacara biota.Credit: Courtesy of Marc Laflamme
These are digital images of trenches in a mineral made by networks of fungi. The circular feature in the picture on the right is a depression made by the formation of a terminal spore by a mycorrhizal fungus, which was linked to the roots of a maple tree under high CO2. Researcher Joe Quirk says: "These spores are characteristic of the ancient type of fungus that has associated with plant roots since plants first emerged onto the land over 400 million years ago. This is why the image is so exciting – it's good evidence this ancient fungus weathers minerals."The width of the trenches is approximately 5 micrometers and the diameter of the circular spore is about 55 micrometers (one micrometer is one-thousandth of a millimeter).Credit: Joe Quirk
The porcelain crab, or Petrolisthes cinctipes. Photo by Jonathon Stillman.
These porcelain crabs are at the beginning of their life cycle: a late-stage embryo (right) and a newly hatched larva (left). Photo by Jonathon Stillman.
Sea Anemone specime credit: Daly M, Rack F, Zook R (2013)
"Field" of Edwardsiella andrillae n. sp. in situ. Image captured by SCINI. Red dots are 10 cm apart. credit: Daly M, Rack F, Zook R (2013)
Artist's rendering of the landscape during end-Permian extinction. Image: José-Luis Olivares/MIT.
A photo of the permian triassic boundary at Meishan, China. This photo shows the limestone beds in between the volcanic ash beds that the researchers were able to date.Photo: Shuzhong Shen
This image shows a sea butterfly (Limacina helicina), a key Arctic sea snail. With the acidification expected in Arctic waters due to the increased concentration of CO2, populations of sea butterflies and other marine calcifying organisms can be severely threatened due to hampering of the calcification processes. Credit: Photo courtesy of Kevin Lee
Sea sponge Halichondria panicea was used in the experiment at the University of Southern Denmark. Credit: Daniel Mills/SDU
Sea sponge Halichondria panicea was used in the experiment at University of Southern Denmark. Credit: Daniel Mills/SDU
What Color Was Sinosauropteryx?
Varying Diversity in Melanosomes
Fuzzy Dino and Bird
Varying Diversity in Melanosomes (large)
The original graph of body size versus metabolic rate hand-drawn by Max Kleiber. Kleiber M. (1947)
Boris Vinatzer has developed a naming convention based on genome sequencing to enhance the way organisms are classified. Credit: Virginia Tech
Carolus Linnæus
Fruit flies have been the model for a study that has shown how climate change may affect insect distribution in the future. (Photo: Ary A. Hoffmann)
Periods of extreme heat and thus drought may be the cause of death for many insects. (Photo: COLOURBOX).
Stereoscopic micrograph of Ozobranchus jantseanus (dorsal view). O. jantseanus is a parasitic leech of freshwater turtles. Credit: Suzuki et al. 2014
'Ornate box turtle' Credit: Photo by G. Hammerson / University College London
How organics in the sediment interfere with the ocean's oxygen cycle and the presence of life. Credit: Courtesy: NASA Science Focus. Graphic adapted from Black Sea Sediments by Holger Lueschen.
Visualizations of the Messel lake and forest food webs: (left) lake food web, (right) forest food web. Spheres represent species and lines represent feeding links. Links that loop indicate cannibalism. The vertical axis corresponds to trophic level, with plants at the bottom level. Colors of nodes correspond to taxonomic affiliation of species. green = plants, algae, and diatoms; blue = bacteria, fungi, and detritus; yellow = invertebrates; orange = vertebrates. Images created by J.A. Dunne.
Bird and flower (Wikimedia)
Drosophila melanogaster. Credit: Photo by Indiana University
Professor Jonathan Payne holds up fossil brachiopods that are more than 400 million years old.Credit: Credit: John Todd
Professor Jonathan Payne holds up fossil brachiopods that are more than 400 million years old.Credit: Credit: John Todd
This image shows the dorsal view of Fuxianhuia protensa. The three-inch-long fossil was found in sediments dating from the Cambrian Period 520 million years ago in what today is the Yunnan province in China. Parts of the gut are visible as dark stains along the animal's midline.Credit: Xiaoya Ma
This image shows a schematic reconstruction of the animal, outlining the cardiovascular system in red, the brain and central nervous system in blue and the gut in green.Credit: Nicholas Strausfeld
This is an image of the animal's whole cardiovascular system.Credit: Xiaoya Ma
Carbon deposits that formed during the fossilization process outline the animal's whole circulatory system. (Photo: Xiaoya Ma)
This photo shows one of 36 bundles of acacia wood that sat on the deep seafloor for five years as part of Craig McClain's wood-fall experiment. The bundle is held together by a mesh bag that allows the tiny larvae of deep-sea clams and other animals to colonize the wood. Galatheid crabs crawl around the outside of the mesh while brisingid sea stars attach to the yellow rope that allows MBARI's submersibles to lift the wood without damaging it. Image: © 2012 MBARI
Researchers use the two manipulator arms on MBARI's remotely operated vehicle Doc Ricketts to collect a bundle of acacia wood 3,200 meters below the surface. The arm on the right has picked up the wood bundle by its yellow rope handle. This bundle will be placed inside the white collecting bag being held by the arm on the left. Image: © 2012 MBARI
Craig McClain, lead author of this study, collects small animals from a piece of wood that was left on the seafloor for several years. Note the large holes created by boring clams, which set the stage for later colonizers. Image: Kim Fulton-Bennett © 2013 MBARI
This photomontage shows some of the small animals that colonized bundles of acacia wood that sat on the deep seafloor, 3,200 meters below the surface, for five years (note penny for scale). The animals include boring clams (lower left), polychaete worms (upper left and lower right), snails and limpets (bottom), shrimp-like tanaids and amphipods (center), and a crinoid sea lily (middle right). Image: Craig McClain © 2012
This image was made by a high-resolution x-ray scan of the newly described 305-million-year-old harvestman fossil (Hastocularis argus).Credit: ©Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
Left: A high-resolution X-ray scan of the 305-million-year-old harvestman fossil (Hastocularis argus). Scale bar equals 4 millimeters. Top right: Side view of the new fossil, showing the profile of the body. The projections bearing the two sets of eyes are indicated with brackets. Scale bar equals 2 millimeters. Bottom right: Head-on view of the left side of the fossil. Red shading designates the location of the median eye and green shading designates the lateral eye. Scale bar equals 1 millimeter.Credit: ©Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
This figure shows the progressive developmental stages of modern harvestmen embryos with the expression of a gene that patterns outgrowths, like eye stalks (shown with black staining). In this particular species, adults only have a single pair of median eyes along the middle of the body. White arrowheads indicate domains associated with lateral eye fields, which never actually develop. Black arrowheads indicate the strong expression of the domains that will eventually form the median eyes.Credit: ©AMNH/P. Sharma
Saber-Toothed Cat from La Brea Tar Pits CollectionDr. O'Keefe and Dr. Meachen used over 200 La Brea fossils in their research.Credit: Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits


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Explainer: Five issues still facing the Gulf Coast post-Katrina
Five years after Katrina, much has been done to help bolster the Gulf Coast against devastation if another Katrina comes along. Still, problems remain, many tied to Mother Nature.
Wetlands erosion
Wetlands have been a crucial buffer to hurricanes, helping to slow down the impact of the storms. Louisiana State University Hurricane Center officials said during Katrina, wetlands reduced the storm's water speed from 7 feet per second to 3 feet per second.
But Louisiana's wetlands are disappearing for several reasons, including urban development, pipeline construction "natural subsidence" — meaning the land itself is sinking. When Katrina hit, Louisiana was already losing coastal wetlands at a rate of about 25 square miles a year, scientists say.
The Army Corps of Engineers is planning to divert freshwater and sediment from the Mississippi River to help give the wetlands new life. But that will take years.
Diminishing delta
Along with the problem of disappearing wetlands are the region's diminishing delta areas along the Gulf Coast.
According to a report in Nature Geoscience last summer, "if sediment loads to the delta remain at current levels — about 50 percent less than on an unobstructed river — more than 3,900 square miles (2.5 million acres) of land will be lost by 2100," writes Jessica Marshall of Discovery.com.
"What needs to be done is a massive program to redirect the river water below New Orleans, to allow the river to really reach the delta," Leonard Bahr, a coastal scientist formerly with the Louisiana governor's office, told Marshall in an interview.
A city continuing to sink
New Orleans is below sea level and continuing to sink. "Scientists say it's not only sinking, it's sliding ever so slowly into the Gulf of Mexico, the Associated Press reported in 2007.
According to a report in Geophysical Research Letters, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Geophysical Union, "the bedrock under heavily populated southeast Louisiana is breaking away at a glacial speed — at the pace fingernails grow," the AP said.
"If the land is shifting — even slightly — engineers may need to take that into consideration as they build new levees and draw lines across the coast to identify areas that should and shouldn't be protected."
The sinking, the study said, is being triggered by deep underground faults slipping under the enormous weight of sediment dumped by the Mississippi River. Some scientists believe the loss of land has been expedited by oil and gas extraction during the 20th century.
Since the 1930s, more than 2,000 square miles of Louisiana coast has been lost to sinking or erosion.
Living too close to shore
As coastal erosion continues, those residents who live near the shore may face a greater threat of flooding the next time a hurricane like Katrina or worse happens.
New Orleans' population is about 80 percent of what it was before Katrina, but the allure of living and being near the water is a strong one.
Levees and dams are fortresses, but not, as everyone knows, impervious. "Better planning on the floodplain and incentives for businesses to move to high ground" might be cheaper and wiser for all who live in flood-prone areas, William Simpkins, a hydrogeologist at Iowa State University, recently told LiveScience.com.
Will the levees hold?
The Army Corps of Engineers has spent more than $14 billion to fix and to upgrade New Orleans' levees, with a completion date of June 2011.
Right now, about half the work is finished, the corps says. And if a devastating hurricane happened tomorrow, "We'll be absolutely ready for it," said Army Corps of Engineers communications officer Wade Habshey, who is based in New Orleans. "What we have in place now can withstand a Katrina-level storm."
No one really wants to find out, of course. But another concern adds to the worries: Scientists agree that in the future, hurricanes are likely to be fewer but stronger in nature. Some say that is because of global warming; others dispute that.
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The title of Nikita Koloff's autobiography -- NIKITA: A Tale of the Ring and Redemption -- is a bit misleading, mainly because the "redemption" aspect never really shows up, at least in the way of typical wrestling redemptions over drugs or alcohol. It indirectly refers to his personal redemption when he became a devout Christian as was the focus of Koloff's previous book, Breaking the Chains.
While the book does focus on Koloff's wrestling career, it should not be considered an autobiography. Just to be clear, that is not a negative critique. Rather, Koloff's book should be considered "Pro Wrestling History 101." Koloff definitely comes from the George Santanaya philosophy that "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." For anybody with the slightest interest in professional wrestling from the territorial days up to the beginning of the Monday Night Wars, this is a definite read.
Teaming with author William Murdock, who penned Jack Brisco's book as well, Koloff goes into considerable detail discussing the history of professional wrestling, as well as the history of the NWA title belts, with explanations of how and why certain belts were defended. Given that NIKITA is published by Crowbar Press, which has published other wrestling autobiographies such as ASSASSIN: The Man Behind the Mask, and ATLAS: Too Much, Too Soon, the historical aspect no doubt gets a greater emphasis than at a traditional publishing house.
Ever since George Orwell's 1959 book, the year 1984 was considered a landmark year in Western history: the Cold War was fortunately coming to a close and a new professional wrestling era commonly known as "Hulkamania" began. That same year, Nelson Scott Simpson gave up his dream of playing professional football and became Nikita Koloff. He didn't do it partway, either -- he legally changed his name to Nikita Koloff, learned to speak Russian and had his birthplace listed as Lithuania on his child's birth certificate.
Koloff's gimmick was simple: he was the nephew of former WWE (then known as the WWWF) Champion "The Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff, who had come to America for the purpose of taking Ric Flair's NWA title back to Russia. Thus, "The Russian Nightmare" was born.
For a man who never considered a career in professional wrestling, he ended up with a career most wrestlers would be envious of.
A singles champion in the NWA, WCW and UWF, as well as a member of NWA two and three-man tag team champions, Koloff squared off against and with some of the most legendary names in pro wrestling including "Nature Boy" Ric Flair for the Heavyweight title, Magnum T.A. for the U.S. title and "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes for the tag team titles. (It was Rhodes' idea for the "Russian Nightmare" nickname, a spin on his "American Dream" moniker.)
For me, the most fascinating part about Koloff's life was everything he did before coming Nikita Koloff. Simpson went to high school and played sports with legendary wrestlers including Demolition's Smash (Barry Darsow), "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig and "Ravishing" Rick Rude. In college, Simpson was recruited alongside and played football with Road Warrior Animal, the man who ended up getting him into the wrestling business.
Koloff also does a great job of translating the wrestling vernacular for those who do not live pro wrestling. There is a great balance of explaining wrestling concepts to newcomers without making knowledgeable people feel like this is a dumbed-down book. Even seasoned pros in wrestling history can learn a few things from this book. I had never heard of a match going "Broadway" before reading this and picked up some interesting tidbits of knowledge about the Lou Thesz era of pro wrestling.
Like so many pro wrestlers before him, Koloff's career was cut short due to an in-ring injury. Rather than risk permanent damage, after eight years in the business, Nikita quietly retired from pro wrestling to focus on his religion and fitness training. Koloff joined forces with Lex Luger, a man Koloff personally spoon-fed while Luger was paralyzed, to create the Power Hour and Total Package Fitness, both religious and health seminars. Koloff also runs the Koloff for Christ Ministries.
NIKITA: A Tale of the Ring and Redemption is a fascinating read, just not exactly what I expected when I picked it up.
Matthew Asher hopes one day to have Nikita Koloff also consider him a prominent pro wrestling historian, like SLAM! Wrestling Producer Greg Oliver, who gets a couple of shoutouts in Nikita's book.


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Dear Campus Community:
On November 15, 2004, students at Portland State University will be receiving a new student identification card, the PSU OneCard via the mail. In addition to serving as the official student ID, the PSU OneCard also has the ability to act as a debit card and can be directly linked to financial aid disbursements.
The University administration continues to seek ways of improving services to students while at the same time lowering the costs of doing business. The University selected the PSU OneCard to give students greater flexibility in the disbursement of their financial aid and to streamline the costs associated with distribution of financial aid. The University followed an RFP (request for proposals) competitive process and the contract for this new identification card was awarded to Higher One, Inc.
The PSU OneCard gives students the choice of using the card as an ID only, or of activating the associated debit card functions called the OneAccount, an FDIC insured bank account. Choosing to activate the OneAccount will allow for financial aid to be directly deposited into the student's OneAccount. Other parties, such as parents, guardians, relatives or friends, can deposit funds into the OneAccount as well. Funds in the OneAccount can be accessed using the PSU OneCard at one of three Higher One ATM machines to be located on campus. If students activate the debit card features, they may use their PSU OneCard just as they would any other debit card (and just as with any other debit card there may be associated bank fees). In the future, it may be possible to have student payroll checks deposited to your PSU OneCard.
All students who receive financial aid must activate the PSU OneCard. At that time you will be asked to make one of three choices. 1) Financial aid payments deposited directly into the bank account of choice. 2) A paper check mailed to the address selected or 3) Financial aid deposited to your new OneAccount and PSU OneCard. Please remember that students are not required to open the associated OneAccount to receive financial aid.
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This week, PSU representatives will distribute additional information about the card on campus; I encourage all of you to learn more about the PSU OneCard and its benefits and to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions or concerns.
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Owen Contemporary is a premier fine art gallery in Santa Fe on Canyon Road. Nationally known for featuring the finest in contemporary abstract, landscape, and modern art.
Presenting the work of highly regarded artists working in New Mexico, the Southwest and the region, and from across the nation.
Our artists innovate in a variety of media creating original paintings and sculpture.


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Wilde Named CAA Golfer Of The Week
October 26, 2011
By ODU Athletics
By ODU Athletics
Oct. 26, 2011
RICHMOND, Va. (October 26, 2011) - Old Dominion's junior Thomas Wilde (Berkshire, England) collected CAA Men's Golfer of the Week honors after an eighth place finish at the ODU-Outerbanks Collegiate last week.
Wilde carded 74-71-70--215 (-1) at the par 72, 6,559-yard Kilmarlic Golf Course in Powell's Point, N.C. The junior was 15th going into the final round and shot 70 in the final round. He had 35 pars and posted a 4.08 par 4 scoring. As a team, the Monarchs finished in third place, behind Liberty and last year's NCAA runners-up Georgia.


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Parkour is a form of fitness that's made up of many skills, all of which combine to enable the practitioner to seem to fly through the air the way Michael "Frosti" Zernow can. Here he demonstrates the wall climb or top-out move.
What it does
It's an essential parkour training move — it's how you get yourself from hanging onto a wall to all the way to the top of it. Though it may look like just an upper body workout, you'll need to use your core. And the more you engage your legs, the easier it'll be.
How to do it
Find a high wall, and reach for the top of it with both arms. Once you've got a grip, place one foot on the side of the wall and haul yourself up. This move requires a lot of strength, but the more you practice and the more technique you develop, the easier it'll get.
How much
To start with, aim for three top-outs in a row without touching the ground with your feet. As you get more confident, see how many you can do in a 30-second block.