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Will Burrard-Lucas needed a new wordpress theme design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 64 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
Earth Shots - http://www.earthshots.org
I am a photographer who runs a variety of photography related websites. If this project goes well then there is scope for further work in the future.
I am aiming to make Earth Shots a highly prestigious online photography contests appealing to professional nature and travel photographers around the world.
Earth Shots was established almost 4 years ago and in this time has featured some incredible photographs. The site has attracted over 5 million visitors but is now in need of a more professional design to help take it to the next level.
I am targeting enthusiast and professional photographers and people who enjoy seeing inspiring travel and nature photography (i.e. a similar demographic to National Geographic). I want photographers to feel that winning photo of the day on Earth Shots is highly prestigious (almost like appearing on the pages of National Geographic magazine) and a good way for them to get their work in front of a large audience.
The primary focus of the site needs to be:
1. Giving the photos maximum impact.
2. Leading people to subscribe to our feeds, email, twitter & facebook page.
3. Generating advertising revenue in order to fund prizes.
4. Encouraging photographers to submit their photographs to the contest.
Earth Shots is built on Wordpress. Essentially each photo of the day is like a new wordpress blog post. Please look at http://www.earthshots.org/ to get a feel for the current site.
Specific requirements:
- I want prominent subscription options to a daily feed via rss & email, a weekly feed via rss & email plus "follow us on twitter" and "like our facebook page" on the homepage and photo view pages.
- I need areas for placing adverts, I was thinking a 728x90 banner at the top and a sidebar that is wide enough to take a 300px or 336px wide ad in the future.
- I would like the total theme width to be 990px wide.
- I am looking for a homepage design that shows the current photo of the day and around a week's worth of recent winners.
- On the individual post pages I want sharing links for twitter, facebook and stumble upon. I also want thumbnails showing winning photos "on this day" in previous years. Plus post pages need to show a photo caption, photographer information and comments.
- I would like the archive pages redesigned perhaps with a calendar format for showing previous winning photos.


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Gary Teplis necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 317 diseños de 54 diseñadores freelance.
Teplis Travel
A Top 50 Corporate Travel Company needs a new logo to rebrand the company. Big corporations book all their Airline Tickets, Rental Cars and Hotel Rooms through Teplis Travel, either on the phone or online. We also develop sophisticated reporting packages to track all of their travel. We are family owned, but have grown to be one of the largest in the country. Now we need to give more of a Global, Exciting, Dynamic, Professional, Cutting Edge, Hi-Tech Image, but also Personable. View existing, old logo at http://www.teplis.com This website will also change completely so don't match this site. Personal Service, Technology and Price are some of the most important elements of our Industry. Efficient Travel for the corporate traveller.
CEO's, CFO's, Presidents, their assistants, Travel Coordinators, business travelers, vacation travelers and all travelers. But primarily top executives, assistants and corporate travelers who want to streamline their travel.
Feel free to experiment with colors and make the logo bold and memorable. Also, you can Update the Current Logo OR Design a completely New One. There is alot of opportunity to use the 'T' in Teplis, or just start from scratch. No cartoons, but something creative and professional that stands out. You can use Planes, a globe, etc... but be Original. And it would be nice to subtly imply sustainable and ecofreindly travel if possible. (not a necessity)
Below are a couple of competing corporate travel websites and their logos. Im not recommending them, just providing examples;
Our technical requirements;
Bitmap Versions - Full Color
Color Variations (in vector format):
Full Color/Original (Gradient Okay)
Black/White (No Gradient)
Black/White Reverse (No Gradient)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo - submissions should be creations of the designer, free of licensing issues.
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Clemson Tigers (24-9) vs. Villanova Wildcats (20-12)
When: Friday, 9:40 p.m.
Where: Tampa
1. "Clempson," as some locals refer to it, resides in the city of Clemson in the northwestern region of South Carolina known as "The Upstate." It was opened in 1893 as a military academy exclusively for Caucasian males, serving as one of the rare instances of racial discrimination in the South. The school later abandoned its military curriculum and started its rich tradition of admitting hot, bangable women that would make your penis explode in 1955. Notable Clemson alumni include tabloid television anchor Nancy O'Dell and noted statesman/multiculturalist Strom Thurmond, for which the university's Strom Thurmond Institute is named ... I think.
2. The HNIC.Head coach Oliver Purnell came to Clemson from Dayton in 2003, where he had led the Flyers to two NCAA berths in four years. He has served seven times as an assistant to the US Men's National Team. He also won an NCAA Division II title with Old Dominion as a player in 1975. Oh, and he blogs, albeit infrequently. Clemson also has an assistant coach named Shaka Smart. It's worth passing along.
3. Weak Down The Stretch.The Tigers won their first 18 games of the 2006-07 season, but shit the bed in conference play and had to settle for a 1-seed in the NIT (they lost in the championship game of that tournament). Although Clemson boasts a better mark in the ACC this season, they've suffered losses against Florida State, Charlotte, Ole Miss, and Miami, none of whom are currently ranked. The Tigers also took North Carolina to OT twice, but lost both times.
And Some Actual Player Info...A slogan commonly seen on car decals promoting the aforementioned fuckability of the female student body reads, "Clemson Girls, Best In The World." Ballers Junior K.C. Rivers, senior Cliff Hammonds, and spohomore Trevor Booker have been the best in the world for the Tigers, having started every games this season through March 1. Hammonds leads the team in points, assists, steals, and minutes. —Monday Morning Punter
1. I Got A Name. As if it wasn't rare enough to find one young African-American with the name Corey, Coach Wright went out and found two: freshman guards Corey Stokes and Corey Fisher, both McDonald's All-Americans in high school. Each has shown tremendous promise in their limited time on the court (Stokes is an 89percent free-throw shooter, and Fisher is third on the team in points and steals per game). Not since the days of Mssrs. Feldman and Haim has such untapped, dual-Corey-based potential lay waiting to be sprung upon an unsuspecting America.
2. Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels). Whereas most college athletic programs are content to limit their scandals to recruiting violations and date rape, Villanova's athletes strive to achieve a more genteel form of notoriety. And so, enter the phone cards. On two separate occasions, in 1996 and 2002, Villanova students were busted for unauthorized use of calling cards (a violation of an NCAA rule prohibiting extra benefits to student athletes), the latter incident resulting in a suspension of twelve players on the active roster which carried over into the 2003-04 season.
3. New York's Not My Home. Jay Wright's first coaching gig was at Hofstra University, which offered him a rich recruiting environment among the private schools and public playgrounds of New York City and Northern New Jersey. He continued to scout for players in that area even after landing the head coaching position at Villanova. In 2004 Wright recruited Kyle Lowry, a scrappy guard from Cardinal Dougherty High School in Philly. While a significant portion of the current underclassmen still hail from Brooklyn, the Bronx and North Jersey, local players such as Reggie Redding and Shane Clark show that Wright is now willing to seek talent further south along the Northeast Corridor. — Chamomiles Davis
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It was a Giants lovefest in San Francisco Wednesday.
The streets of San Francisco were alive with orange and black as Giants fans from across the entire Bay Area flocked to the City's 49-square-miles to celebrate a group of misfits and castoffs who are now World Champions.
Some fans got there before dawn, initiating the rowdiness.
The 2010 World Series winners took the same route the 1958 New York Giants took when the franchise moved to the West Coast. That was a team which included Willie Mays. And to the thrill of the crowd on TV, on the streets and on line Mays was one of the few who were able to make a second trek in person atop a classic convertible.
The players were carried on the iconic-classic cable cars with their names on placards on top. Fans erupted in their wildest cheers, once the guys with the baseball gloves started making their way down Market Street. Closer Brian Wilson took to walking most of the route on foot. He abandoned his cable car in order to get up close and personal with the fans behind the barricades.
Many of the Giants held Bud Light cans toasting their victory with some suds.
The parade began at 11 a.m. Most estimates had the crowd at hundreds of thousands.
The parade ended with a City Hall presentation by the newly elected Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, along with a few speeches by members of the team.
Once the parade portion ended, and the players and dignitaries had climbed onto the stage at City Hall Plaza, the crowd showed its exuberance, if not impatience, by breaking down the barricades.
The start of the ceremony was delayed as police re-established the barriers. Meanwhile, Steve Perry and Journey were fired up over the speakers with "Don't Stop Believing" -- music soothing the savage championship crowd, as it were.
The ceremony was delayed for about 10 minutes.
Giants fans who didn't get up before dawn were faced with huge lines at train stations encircling San Francisco. Just one last moment of torture ahead of cheering on their team.


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The partnership with Clark University also provides UPCS with valuable teaching and professional development resources through the Adam Institute for Urban Teaching and School Practice and the Jacob Hiatt Center for Urban Education. The school serves as a clinical training site for the University's Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) program, with six or so teacher interns working alongside UPCS master faculty for the full academic year. Most UPCS staff members are graduates of the program. UPCS classrooms are often the site for "Teacher Rounds" for M.A.T. teacher interns. UPCS teachers often contribute to courses in the M.A.T. program in other ways as well. Many serve with college faculty on curriculum teams in each discipline to improve instruction through careful analysis of data, student work, and classroom practice.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fast, efficient mobile payments could be a huge boon to business but companies must ensure customer data is safe and provide users with recourse in case of fraudulent or incorrect billing, the Federal Trade Commission said in a report on Friday.
The commission also urged every company in the mobile payment chain to track payments so customers know who to contact if there is an error; to tell customers what data is collected and why; and allow customers to block all third-party charges.
As the world goes increasingly mobile, payment companies are getting into the act. Mobile service providers allow consumers to put charges on mobile bills while credit card companies like MasterCard are moving toward offering a digital payment services.
Google has also moved the mobile payment space with its "wallet" offering.
This lays the groundwork for a huge increase in mobile payments but that growth could lag because 42 percent of people surveyed cited security as the primary reason that they refrain from making mobile payments.
To allay these and other concerns, the FTC recommended that mobile payment service providers clearly convey to customers what they can and cannot do in terms of removing incorrect charges.
For example, charges placed on credit cards would be protected in the same way that charges made with plastic are protected. But other mobile payments, such as those based on preloaded debit cards, may not.
"Companies should develop clear policies regarding fraudulent and unauthorized charges and clearly convey these policies to consumers," the FTC said in its 17-page report.
The FTC also urged every company in the mobile payment chain to track payments in order to make it easier for consumers to fight back if they find unauthorized charges like music downloads, voicemail, ringtones and online news "crammed" onto their mobile bill.
"Cramming" costs consumers $2 billion a year, according to a Senate inquiry completed in 2011.
Mobile carriers should be able to allow consumers to block all third-party charges and explain how to dispute unauthorized charges, the FTC said in its report.
The FTC also urged all companies in the mobile data chain — from app sellers to telecommunications companies — to encrypt the entire payment chain and take other steps to ensure that consumers' data cannot be hacked and used to steal from them.
"The reputation of the industry as a whole may suffer if consumers believe lax security practices are the norm," the FTC said.
The FTC urged companies offering mobile payments to tell consumers what data is being collected and how it is being used.
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- Cooktown. In the 1800s, Cooktown was the main port for the North Queensland gold fields. Local hospital records, which are very useful for family history, give information about people from all walks of life, including miners, sailors and railway workers. Many had spent time in other parts of Australia and in New Guinea and New Zealand. I have indexed Cooktown Hospital admission registers and some local petitions and school records.
- Croydon. Another North Queensland mining town for which I have indexed hospital admission registers. During the 1880s, 70% of those admitted to Croydon hospital were born in Britain or Ireland, and about 15% were born in Australia's southern states, especially the Victorian goldfields. Some residents of Croydon moved to Western Australia when gold was discovered there. The index to Croydon Hospital admissions is now online, with Archives source location numbers.
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CAIRO (AP) — Mob-led sexual assaults targeting Egypt's female protesters could increase if perpetrators are not punished, an international rights group warned on Wednesday.
Amnesty International said statements from victims show that the assaults follow a "clear pattern," where mobs of men encircle the victims, assault them with weapons and hands and then try to undress them.
Amnesty's warning followed a statement from the U.N. human rights office, which last week said that about 25 women were reportedly sexually assaulted — in some cases with extraordinary violence — in Cairo's Tahrir Square during recent demonstrations against Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
The square was the center of the 2011 uprising that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak. It has been the scene of a number of assaults against women — both protesters and journalists — in the aftermath of the uprising and a place where women have been stripped, groped and raped at demonstrations.
The U.N. agency demanded that Egyptian authorities take steps to bring the perpetrators to justice. Amnesty also urged prompt action.
"Horrific, violent attacks on women, including rape in the vicinity of Tahrir Square, demonstrate that it's now crucial President Morsi takes drastic steps to end this culture of impunity and gender-based discrimination," said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui of the London-based group.
Amnesty cited a report by a local anti-harassment group, which said that a total of 19 violent attacks against women took place on Jan. 25 alone — the day Egyptians staged a huge demonstration in Cairo to mark the second anniversary of the uprising that ousted Mubarak.
Activists have called the incidents the worst in years, describing them as the darkest stain on the country's opposition street movement.
One particular attack on a woman on Jan. 25 has stood out: A mob of men on Cairo's Tahrir Square raped a 19-year-old woman with a sharp object, cutting her genitals in an attack that forced her to undergo emergency surgery.
Also Wednesday, some 2,000 people rallied in downtown Cairo, chanting against Morsi's Islamist government for not doing anything to protect women demonstrators. Some at the rally raised banners reading: "Those silent against the harassers are devils."


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Dictionary of the Stupid Generation
In Jane Bussman's The Worst Date Ever (which you MUST read if you haven't already) she calls it The Golden Age of Stupid, a generation of twats and toffs with no discernable personality, skill, or, for that matter, ability to communicate.
This is the generation that is currently raping the word DIVA.
And VH1 is contributing to it.
As you know, VH1 has resurrected VH1 Divas. Included among the new list is Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, Adele, Leona Lewis…
And JailBait Miley Cyrus.
Whitney Houston is a VH1 Diva. Celine Dion too. Mariah Carey of course. A now Miley Cyrus.
The Stupid Generation.
The VH1 Divas show went down last night. JailBait performed with Sheryl Crow. You'll note, she's added a flash of tongue to her beat-me mouth that makes it extra, extra annoying.
But you see how the hick will always find its way onto the red carpet?
This dress comes from Arlene's Emporium for Cougars and Ladies With Fake Nails. This dress is being worn by a 16 year old, complemented by tacky ass bumpkin fishnets. This 16 year old looks like she's 35 twice divorced.
Yay for the Stupid Generation.
Photos from Wenn.com


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Tonight on Impact Wrestling: The road to Bound For Glory rolls on with a big challenge coming from Aces & Eights. Also on the show, a new Television Champion is decided and in the main event, Austin Aries and Jeff Hardy team to face Bobby Roode and Bully Ray. Should be a good one!
Tonight's show emanates LIVE! from the Impact Zone in Orlando. "The Professor" Mike Tenay and The Tazz are our hosts.
Hulk Hogan is out to start the show. He says he's been distracted by Aces & Eights but it's time to get back down to business. He notes it's Championship Thursday and the Television Title is at stake because Devon is locked up in contract negotiations with upper management. He said he'll pick two men out of a group of Samoa Joe, Garett Bischoff, Magnus and Mr. Anderson.
He moves on to talking about James Storm and Bobby Roode. He says they'll face each other in a street fight at Bound For Glory and none other than MMA star King Mo will be the special enforcer.
He moves on to Aces & Eights and notes he'll be heading to their clubhouse tonight and he's going in for a fight, even if it means he's going to it alone. As he says this, none other than Sting makes his way down the ramp. Hogan jokes that he just borrowed Sting's bat. Sting says his bat is Hogan's bat.
Sting says he has Hogan's back and the two of them are going to visit Aces & Eights together, so let's go get another bat.
Match #1 - Kurt Angle (Pittsburgh, Pa.) vs. Chavo Guerrero (El Paso, Texas) vs. Christopher Daniels (Los Angeles, Calif.)
A rather nice triple-threat match to start things off here. Angle and Guerrero team up on Daniels early. Things get stirred up on the outside, though, and all six men end up in the ring.
We're back and find out that all three non-wrestling partners have been ejected from ringside. Angle quickly goes on a rampage with German suplexes for everyone, but Guerrero is able to clothesline him out of the ring. All three men in now. Angle wants an Angle Slam but Guerrero counters. Daniels shoves Guerrero into Angle and then sneaks in an STO on Guerrero and is able to get the pin before Angle can break it up.
Winner via pinfall: Christopher Daniels
Hulk Hogan eliminates Magnus from TV title contention and Brooke Hogan books Tara in a match next as punishment for her actions last week.
Match #2 - No. 1 Contender's Match - Tara (Louisville, Ky.) vs. ODB (Minneapolis, Minn.)
ODB in control. She hits the Bronco Buster on Tara and then Eric Young jumps in the ring and asks for one himself. That doesn't go over well. ODB in total control here. She hits the fallaway slam and then sends Tara over the top and to the floor. Tara comes up holding her knee. ODB goes over and goes after her. She throws Tara in the ring and Tara throws off her knee brace. After several moments, ODB goes over and asks if she's OK and offers to help her up. This was fatal mistake. One small package later and Tara in the top contender.
Winner via pinfall: Tara
Among other things, Hulk Hogan announces Samoa Joe will meet Mr. Anderson for the TV title. Garett Bischoff is not pleased at all.
Match #3 - TNA Television Championship - Samoa Joe (Isle of Samoa) vs. Mr. Anderson (Green Bay, Wisc.)
The two engage in a back-and-forth knockdown, drag-out battle. Joe is able to lock in the Coquina Clutch but Anderson is fighting it. Joe turns it around and flattens Anderson out by turning on his back. As Anderson reaches out for the ropes, Joe grabs that arm, locks it down and flips to his back. Anderson is fading. Earl Hebner raises the arm, gets no response and calls for the bell.
Winner via submission and NEW TNA Television Champion: Samoa Joe
With the win, Joe becomes a TNA Grand Slam Champion.
Hogan and Sting are backstage talking when they are approached by a production assistant who says Bruce Prichard needs them to sign some documents. She pepper sprays them and they are then abducted by Aces & Eights.
It's time for the Gut Check review. Al Snow, Bruce Prichard and Taz are in the ring to look at Evan Markopoulos. Taz says he thinks Markopoulos has a lot to learn and he wants it to do it under this brand, so he says yes. Prichard is in the bad guy role and says no, saying he needs more time. Now Markopoulos has the chance to kick-out to impress Al Snow. Snow says he thinks Markopoulos has the talent to be a star, but he's 18, he's not ready, so his answer is no.
So that makes for the second Gut Check failure.
Hogan are Sting are in Aces & Eights clubhouse. They say they have a proposition for Hogan. They say they've learned to like Hogan and Sting. But now they want them to pick two of their toughest guys to face two members of Aces & Eights at Bound For Glory. And if Aces & Eights wins, they get full access. If Team TNA wins, they go away. And until then, Joseph Park stays with them.
Match #4 - Bobby Roode (Toronto, Ontario) & Bully Ray (New York City) vs. Jeff Hardy (Cameron, NC) & Austin Aries (Minneapolis, Minn.)
After a hot start by Hardy and Aries, Roode and Ray take over and have isolated Hardy. Hardy hits a jawbreaker and then a modified Twist of Fate on Roode and both men are down. Both men make tags and Aries goes to work with forearms. Aries hits the ropes and Roode knees him in the back. Aries goes after him but Ray knees Aries through the ropes to the floor, where Roode throws him into the steel steps.
Now it's Aries who is isolated. Aries starts to fire up and could tag Hardy but chooses not to, instead going after the freshly-tagged Roode. Aries locks in the Last Chancery but Ray breaks it up. Hardy comes in and runs right into a big boot from Ray. Ray wants a big lariat on Aries but he ducks and Ray hits Roode. Corner dropkicks for both men and Aries crushes Roode with the suicide dive and then a missile dropkick for Ray.
Roode comes back and wants the PerfectPlex but Aries counters out and hits the brainbuster. As Aries backs up, Hardy slap tags himself into the match, hits the Swanton and gets the win.
Winners via pinfall; Jeff Hardy & Austin Aries
Backstage, Aces & Eights drop Sting and Hogan off and Sting wants to be one of the two men involved in the match at BFG.
Matt Bishop can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Please include your name and hometown. Click here to follow Matt on Twitter. Should be a good one!.


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When Mr Sato isn't eating whoppers with a thousand pieces of cheese, he's eating whoppers with a thousand strips of bacon. And when he's not doing that, he's patiently lining up for video games.
Last night, he did just that: He lined up in Shibuya for Dragon Quest X, dressed as a DQ Slime (even though, I'd say he looks more like Doraemon!). While Mr Sato wasn't first in line, he was second and got to appear on stage and give Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii a high five.
Rocket News documented his line sitting odyssey, complete with a pizza dinner. Yum.


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So it was revealed (not surprisingly) last week that Game of Thrones is the most-pirated TV show of the year. But which country is behind the majority of the pirating?
Statistics from TorrentFreak show that Australia tops the list of Game of Thrones downloads, with Aussies making up 10.1% of all downloads (based on one episode).
One of the reasons for this may be the international delay in screening, with Aussies having to wait a week between the US screening and their own.
In terms of cities, London takes the lead when it comes to Game of Thrones downloading, followed by Sydney and Melbourne in the second and third spots.
So what's makes Game of Thrones so popular on BitTorrent sites?
The show is only available to HBO subscribers in the US, which means a large amount of Americans (which ranks second on the most downloads list) turn to torrents to get their Thrones fix.
In most other countries, such as Australia and the United Kingdom, the show is also only available for viewing on pay TV channels.
In some ways, it's HBO's fault for the high number of Game of Thrones downloads, due to the fast they are trying to keep the series "exclusive" (even Netflix was unable to buy the rights to the series).
Top 10 countries:
Australia 10.1%
United States 9.7%
Canada 7.7%
United Kingdom 7.6%
The Netherlands 4.4%
Norway 3.7%
Spain 3.2%
Poland 3.0%
Greece 2.8%
Philippines 2.7%
Top 10 cities:
London 3.0%
Sydney 3.0%
Melbourne 2.9%
Amsterdam 2.2%
Athens 2.2%
Perth 1.8%
Istanbul 1.6%
Brisbane 1.5%
Budapest 1.3%
Madrid 1.3%
Source: Torrentfreak


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RIO DE JANEIRO, April 11 (UPI) -- A joint venture to produce M-scan airborne radar technologies and products to Brazil is to be negotiated by Selex ES and AEL Sistemas S.A.
Selex is an Italian company, while AEL Sistemas is a Brazilian subsidiary of Israel's Elbit Systems Ltd.
The companies, in a news release at the LAAD defense and security exhibition in Brazil, said the Memorandum of Understanding to be signed will include in-country maintenance of Embraer's KC-390 aircraft, for which Selex is supply its Gabbiano T-20 surveillance radar, and for unmanned aerial systems.
"This Joint Venture will bring cutting-edge technology value to Brazil and will enhance AEL's positioning as an MRO center of excellence in the territory," Shlomo Erez president of AEL said. "Selex ES is a very important player with a distinctive strength in radars and complex systems. We are confident that in the future we will be able to co-operate in many areas, extending the scope of this Joint Venture to the wider Selex ES portfolio."
Added Fabrizio Giulianini, chief executive officer of Selex ES: "This collaboration will strengthen our presence in Brazil where we are keen to further transfer valuable technologies and create a basis for solid co-development activities."


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It's been a good few weeks for Team Sky's Ian Stannard. Last month crowned British national road race champion – the jersey will make its debut in the Tour de Pologne, which starts today – the 25-year-old has also been named in the Olympic road race team that will seek to help Mark Cavendish secure Great Britain's first gold medal of London 2012. In an exclusive interview, we got his thoughts on the Olympics, the national championships and much, much more.
On 8 September 2008, a young cyclist slipped into an early break in Stage 4 of the Tour of Britain, which had begun in Milton Keynes, the town where he grew up. That escape was soon reeled in, but later in the stage, the 21-year-old attacked again, this time on his own, and spent 50 miles at the head of the race, alone. He'd be swept up before the finish in Newbury, where CSC's Matt Goss won the sprint, but Ian Stannard, riding that day for Team Great Britain, had announced himself to the British public. He would go on to finish third overall.
Less than four years on, the Chelmsford-born rider is widely recognised as one of the hardest workers in the peloton, tirelessly putting in the kilometres on behalf of his Team Sky colleagues at races such as the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix, the Vuelta and the Giro d'Italia, as well as being part of the British team that helped Mark Cavendish win the rainbow jersey in Copenhagen last September.
There have been personal milestones, too; a podium place last year in Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, where he finished third in appalling conditions, a maiden pro win in taking a stage of the Tour of Austria, fourth place in Paris-Tours, both of those results achieved in 2011 and, a little more than a fortnight ago, that national championship victory in Ampleforth, quickly followed by confirmation of his place at the Olympics.
It's been a rapid rise through the ranks of the sport, and one that has seen Stannard tipped as a future Classics winner, but he attributes his progress to something that will surprise no-one familiar with his gritty, determined, riding style.
"I just got my head down, got on with it and worked as hard as I can, and the results have come," he reveals. "I've got a bit of a reputation as you said as a domestique, so I just keep working at it and see how it goes."
At times, when he's shown on TV at the front of the peloton, perhaps riding to keep a break in check on a day when Mark Cavendish is targeting the sprint, it almost seems as though the Team Sky rider could be out for a training ride until the camera pans away and you see 180 or so riders following him. We put it to Stannard that it must sometimes make for lonely work.
"At the end of the day it's a job to be done so you have to do it," he says. "In the Giro this year, I didn't see anyone for the first few days because I was always had the head of the race, either setting the tempo or being involved in it somehow, I didn't really know apart from the ten guys who were around me who else was in the race. So it can be a bit lonely, but you've just got to get on with it, haven't you?"
Getting on with it is something Stannard does supremely well, but it's also a self-effacing understatement of the effort he puts in for his team mates, epitomised this year at Paris-Roubaix where he led the pursuit of an ultimately uncatchable Tom Boonen, with Sky's Juan Antonio Flecha and Mat Hayman going on to finish fourth and eighth, respectively. That race, plus the Tour of Flanders, were Stannard's two highlights of the Spring Classics season
"I think the new Flanders route was pretty interesting, it was great to race, it brought some big crowds out," he explains, "but I think for me I really enjoy racing Paris-Roubaix and there's something great about that race."
It's a view a number of riders share, not least the now retired Roger Hammond who came so close to winning in 2004 when he finished third behind Magnus Backstedt and who secured several other top ten placings in the race that became almost an obsession for him.
Like Hammond and others, Stannard has an appreciation of the history of races such as Flanders or Roubaix that is so often an essential part of the cycling DNA of those who go on to add their names to the list of winners, and certainly his showing in the Classics in the past couple of years has led to many fans believing that he can go on to write his name into those races' history too.
"I believe I can achieve it and I really want to achieve it but I've got a long way to go before I get anywhere near that," he maintains, adding, "You've really got to learn the races and study them and almost become one with them, so yes, I've got a long way to go.
"So for now, I just ride for the team and learn it and help them out as much as I can, we've got some really strong guys in our team."
His immediate priority, however, is the Tour de Pologne, which gets under way today, and where he rides alongside Flecha, Hayman, the Colombian pair Sergio Henao and Rigoberto Urán, Lars-Petter Nordhaug, and fellow British riders Alex Dowsett and Ben Swift.
"It's my last race before the Olympics so I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in there and seeing how it's going," says Stannard, but that's not the only reason he's keen to get on the road – "it's also my first race in the national jersey so that's also pretty exciting," he adds.
Of Team Sky's plans for the week-long tour, he states: "We've got a few climbers going there, it's not a mountainous race, but there's one day that is really tough, lots of ups and downs, so hopefully they can shine there and we'll do everything to support them.
"There's a few sprint type days as well and I think Swifty is going to be up for them, so that will be about supporting him, then I think there is one day where there is the possibility of a breakaway going because that's how the race is laid out, so hopefully I can try and get away there and see what I can do myself," he adds.
Stannard becomes the third Team Sky rider in as many years to wear the national champions' jersey, following Geraint Thomas in 2010/11 and Bradley Wiggins for the past 12 months. On both those previous occasions, the team got a clean sweep of the podium, Stannard himself finishing third last year, this year Raleigh's Russell Hampton finished third after getting in a break with the eventual winner and Alex Dowsett, before the new champion rode off alone to victory.
In part, Team Sky's dominance is due to the form honed by its riders as a result of the level they are racing at week-in, week-out, which men from the top domestic teams are always going to struggle to match, but it's evident that it's also a badge of honour for the British ProTeam to have one of its number wearing the national champion's jersey at some of the sport's biggest races.
"It's supposed to be an individual that wins it and we just look to get as many guys to the front as we can," says Stannard. "We've probably done that every year to look at having the jersey in the team rather than one specific rider, we just ride hard and it breaks it down, and in the last three years there's only been Sky riders left, so that's been good."
The white jersey with its red and blue bands won't be the only addition to Stannard's racing wardrobe this month; there will also be an appointment at Team GB's Olympic preparation facility at Loughborough to pick up the Stella McCartney-designed kit he and his team mates will wear a fortnight Saturday in the Olympic road race.
"I'm looking forward to getting that kit," he admits. "It's really great and it will be quite a special kit to get hold of. I'll be wearing it with pride."
The new kit, a departure from the red white and blue that Stannard wore as he helped Cavendish win the rainbow jersey last autumn, isn't the only difference between that race and the one in the Olympics; smaller teams make the task of managing the race far more difficult than was the case in Denmark, when Great Britain had a team of eight.
"Obviously you've only got five riders there and one of them is going for the win, so that only leaves four riders to control the race," he says. "It's not easy, it's going to be very, very hard, and it's a long distance as well. So you've got to hope that other nations like Germany with Greipel will have the same interests.
"We can't ride it in the fashion that we did at Copenhagen, that's for sure, we've got to be a bit more clever about it and ride really smart, I think," Stannard goes on. "With the course as well, it's quite selective and the race will break itself down a bit and hopefully we can help influence it in the way we want it to go."
An added complication is that as in the world championships, but unlike in the Classics or the Grand Tours, race radios aren't allowed, but despite his likely role as one of the riders who will set the tempo to keep any breaks in check, Stannard does not believe that poses too much of a problem.
"We've all raced at a high level and we all know how to do it, you still get time checks and stuff, but you obviously don't let that break go as far as you would maybe with radios, and you're not always 100 per cent sure who is in it, whereas with radios the director would tell you who's there.
"So it's more difficult but it doesn't change the racing a huge amount, it's just about talking to each other, staying close together, and being around each other so you can make decisions a lot more easily," he adds.
Beyond the Olympics, there remain other targets for the season, as Stannard explains.
"I've got the Tour of Britain, I think, and then beyond that Paris-Bourges and Paris-Tours at the end of the year as well."
Last year, Stannard finished fourth in the latter, and he says: "It would be nice to do a repeat performance of that or maybe even go better, and with the Tour of Britain, I haven't raced it for a long time because I've done the Vuelta instead.
"So I'm looking forward to racing in front of home crowds, which is always nice, especially with the jersey now, and I got third in it in 2008, so it would be good if I could improve on that, definitely."
While Stannard is reaping the rewards from the hard work he puts into his sport, what little downtime he has is mainly spent resting at his home in Manchester, a location popular with riders not only because of the city being home to British Cycling, but also because of the easy access to hilly terrain for training.
"It kind of takes up a hell of a lot of time, being a professional bike rider," he reflects when asked what he does away from the bike. "It's about chilling out and not doing too much, a lot of it is making sure you recover from your training sessions so you can train again the next day, there's a lot of sitting around and not doing a huge amount. So I don't have time to do much, whether it's going out for something to eat or going the cinema, watching movies," he confesses.
Speaking after a weekend on which Chris Froome won a Tour de France stage on La Planche des Belles Filles and Bradley Wiggins moved into the maillot jaune, but ahead of the pair's dominant performance in yesterday's individual time trial, Stannard unsurprisingly agrees that spirits are running pretty high within Team Sky at the moment.
"I think for the whole year the team's being going really well, we had two really good camps in December and January where everyone really knuckled down and worked hard and it's inspired the momentum for the whole year.
"Obviously Brad's been working really hard to start achieving what he has and it's great to see him in that yellow jersey now at the Tour, and knowing how much work he's put into it makes it even better."
It's may be an old sporting cliché that nothing breeds success like success, but in this case it's an entirely valid one.
"There's a real buzz around the team and I think once you start winning it kind of snowballs along," he points out.
But success is also built on hard work, and by that measure Stannard has made every bit as important a contribution to Team Sky's progress as have more lauded colleagues such as Wiggins, Thomas, Edvald Boasson Hagen and, from this season, Cavendish.
We can't be alone in feeling that it won't be too long before he is joining them in taking to the podium in his own right more regularly, and we suspect that like Thomas and Wiggins before him, he'll do the national jersey proud.
Simon has been news editor at road.cc since 2009, reporting on 10 editions and counting of pro cycling's biggest races such as the Tour de France, stories on issues including infrastructure and campaigning, and interviewing some of the biggest names in cycling. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, his background has proved invaluable in reporting on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, and the bike industry. He splits his time between London and Cambridge, and loves taking his miniature schnauzer Elodie on adventures in the basket of her Elephant Bike.


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Life was good. I had a loving relationship, and I was months away from graduating from my dream college. I was even accepted into an honors program and was busy writing a thesis paper. I was excelling in my studies and had found out I was also accepted to grad school. Then, in January, as I was in the middle of the winter quarter, I began having difficulty breathing and didn't feel well. It got to the point that one of my professors told me I looked frighteningly pale.
I decided to go to see a doctor. I was told I had pneumonia and was given medication. Unfortunately, the medicine didn't work and I got worse. I then ended up in the ER. I was immediately admitted, and spent three days in the hospital. While there, a doctor asked if she could test me for HIV since the pneumonia I had was common for HIV-infected people. I was so shocked, and couldn't believe what was happening. HIV was the furthest thing from my mind as to what could've been wrong with me.
Day one occurred the night I was released from the hospital. A doctor told me I tested positive. As the doctor spoke, I lost my hearing and vision as I went into intense shock.
After that, I was told to get retested to be sure. I did so at my university's health clinic. I tested positive again. I was told I had had PCP [Pneumocystis pneumonia] and my HIV viral load was nearing 200,000 and my CD4 count was dangerously low. I could not wrap my head around what I was being told, and the nurse (who was brought to tears by my despair) sent me to see a mental health specialist because I told her I didn't want to live with this. That day was the worst day of my life thus far.
While a handful of friends know what has happened to me, most do not. I feel such shame and self-hatred, and I fear being open about this because of the stigma attached to HIV. It is so hard not expressing the grief I feel and nobody except possibly others who live with HIV can understand the feelings I am battling. Somehow, I finished the quarter with high grades even though I had fallen behind in all of my coursework and was severely depressed.
Since then, I have been trying desperately to finish this last quarter at school, and graduate with my head held high. My boyfriend (now ex-boyfriend) also just decided it would be best if we broke up. Within three months, I got seriously sick, I found out I have HIV, my favorite professor passed away from cancer, I lost my boyfriend, and I had suicidal thoughts nearly every day. Unfortunately, I haven't met many people with HIV, nor have I been able to find a support group, or even a case manager. Adding to all of this positive news, I just found out that the medication I have been taking for HIV is not working.
Needless to say, my life is a mess and the future that was once so clear seems so blurred and uncertain. I am simply looking to my graduation day, and trying to overcome the depression I have been fighting since my day one.
I am left wondering: Will I be okay? Will my health recover? Will I survive everything I am dealing with? Lastly, will I spend my life alone? I fear, because of my diagnosis, I will never meet a man who will love me.
Although I do not have concrete answers to those questions, I have to believe everything is going to be okay. I am getting through this with help from my mental health specialist, my friends who know about my diagnosis, my parents, and even a few of my professors. Knowing that I have grad school next year helps me get through this as well. It is something to look forward to. More than anything, I hope my story reaches another person who may go through something very similar.
Being a student, finding out you have HIV and not having campus support makes you feel alone, even though you are not. Please reach out. Reach out to me if you need to. When I can get over myself and all of my current despair, I want to be there for someone like you who will go through your day one and the aftermath. Although I often feel alone, we are not.
Want to share your own "Day One With HIV" story of finding out your diagnosis? Write out your story (1,000 words or fewer, please!), or film a YouTube video, and email it to email@example.com. In the coming months, we'll be posting readers' "Day One" stories here in our HIV/AIDS Resource Center for the Newly Diagnosed. Read other stories in this series.


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enflexion necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 221 diseños de 46 diseñadores freelance.
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Easter Bikeability training with Cycle Chilterns
Easter Bikeability training with Cycle Chilterns
This Easter, Cycle Chilterns will be offering a number of free Bikeability sessions to children across the Chilterns. Following the same popular format of our sessions last summer, the training will take place over a week with two-hour sessions each day.
On Monday, the children will go through Bikeability Level 1, learning basic control and signalling movements in a safe environment away from cars and traffic. Children aged 10 years or over can then carry on to Bikeability Level 2.
The Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday sessions will be Bikeability Level 2 and give participants a real cycling experience. Children are taught how to deal with traffic on short journeys, road positioning and negotiating junctions as well as other real-world skills.
The final day is a chance to show off their new-found knowledge on a ride with parents (and also a good way for parents to brush up on their long-forgotten cycling proficiency training, and pick up some new hints and tips for riding in modern day traffic in their local area.)
Feedback received from children and parents participating in our 2013 training reported a noticeable confidence boost in their children while riding their bikes on the road, as well as a general increase in the amount of riding they were doing. Read the feedback and survey results case study.
When & Where:
Monday 7 – Friday 11 April 2014: Woodside School, Amersham, Bucks
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Text Messaging Intervention to Improve Retention in Care and Virologic Suppression in an Urban HIV-Infected Population (Connect4Care)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01917994
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 7, 2013
Last Update Posted : February 8, 2017
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Retention in care and virologic suppression are the key final steps of the HIV treatment cascade. Poor or intermittent retention has been associated with later initiation of antiretroviral therapy, virologic failure, and death. Regular HIV care has also been associated with a decrease in HIV transmission risk behavior. Despite the proven health and prevention benefits of consistent HIV care, only 40-50% of those infected with HIV in the United States are estimated to meet current retention in care standards and even fewer - only about 25% - are estimated to be virologically suppressed.
The Behavioral Model for Vulnerable Populations provides a useful framework for understanding broad areas that may impact adherence to care and treatment. Individual-level domains include vulnerable (e.g., depression, stigma), enabling (e.g., social support, positive affect), and need (e.g., co-morbidities) factors, and structural domains include, for example, features or the clinic and the provider-patient relationship.
Short message service (SMS) technology represents a new and exciting tool to help retain HIV-infected patients in care and treatment. SMS interventions have been deployed successfully in support of antiretroviral adherence and virologic suppression in sub-Saharan Africa, where two randomized trials have showed clear benefits. A pilot study conducted in our clinic suggests that use of SMS messages to promote adherence to care and treatment in the urban HIV-infected poor is both feasible and acceptable.
The investigators believe that combining SMS technology with content-specific messages designed to impact factors highlighted in the Behavioral Model for Vulnerable Populations can improve retention in care and virologic suppression for an urban public hospital population living with HIV, thus the investigators propose the following specific aims.
Specific Aim 1: Determine whether a behavioral theory-based SMS intervention improves virologic suppression [primary outcome] and retention in care [secondary outcome] for a vulnerable urban HIV-infected population through a randomized trial of this technology compared to SMS appointment reminders alone. Retention in care will also be analyzed as a mediator of virologic suppression. Exploratory outcomes include time to virologic suppression, sustained virologic suppression, emergency department utilization and antiretroviral adherence, as well as levels of depression, positive affect, social support and empowerment.
Specific Aim 2: Examine patient experiences with the SMS intervention, focusing specifically on: 1) satisfaction with this technology; 2) identifying barriers to and facilitators of patient use of this technology, and; 3) the preferred frequency and content of intervention messages.
Specific Aim 3: Conduct cost and cost-effectiveness analyses of the SMS intervention.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Patient Adherence Mobile Technology
|Behavioral: Text Messages Behavioral: Appointment Reminders
|Not Applicable
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|230 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Health Services Research
|Official Title:
|Seek Test Treat Retain Strategies Leveraging Mobile Health Technologies
|Actual Study Start Date :
|August 2013
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2016
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 2016
Experimental: Text Messages + Appointment Reminders
Participants in the intervention arm will receive supportive, informational, or motivational text messages three times a week for one year in addition to text message reminders about HIV primary care appointments.
Behavioral: Text Messages
The intervention consists of supportive, informational, and motivational text messages three times a week targeting the following domains: promoting a sense of connectedness to the clinic, fostering social support, building empowerment, ameliorating negative affect, cultivating positive affect, and promoting healthy behaviors and adherence to antiretroviral medication.
Behavioral: Appointment Reminders
Active Comparator: Appointment Reminders
Participants in the control arm will receive text messages reminding them of HIV primary care appointments 48 hours before the scheduled appointment.
Behavioral: Appointment Reminders
- Viral Load [ Time Frame: 12 month ]
- Missed Visit Proportion [ Time Frame: 12 month ]Number of missed or "no show" visits divided by number of scheduled appointments
- Appointment Adherence [ Time Frame: 12 month ]Each participant's proportion of kept appts divided by scheduled appts (mean of the proportions)
- Visit Constancy [ Time Frame: 12 month ]At least one kept visit in each six-month period
- Attended All Scheduled Visits [ Time Frame: 12 month ]Attended all scheduled visits
- Time to Virologic Suppression [ Time Frame: 12 month ]
- Sustained virologic suppression [ Time Frame: 12 month ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-infected
- Age 18 or over
- English-speaking
- Able to give informed consent
- Have a cell phone and willing to send/receive up to 25 text messages/month
- Detectable viral load plus either 1) new to clinic (no more than 2 primary care visits) or 2) history of poor retention (one missed visit or lack of six-month visit constancy in the past year)
Exclusion Criteria:
- HIV-uninfected
- Under age 18
- Monolingual speaker of a language other than English
- Unable to give informed consent
- Undetectable viral load
- Perfect appointment adherence
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01917994
|United States, California
|San Francisco General Hospital Positive Health Program
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94110
|Principal Investigator:
|Katerina Christopoulos, MD
|University of California, San Francisco
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|University of California, San Francisco
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01917994 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01DA032057 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|August 7, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|February 8, 2017
|Last Verified:
|February 2017


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SANDWICH - Like one of our recent summer-like days, a new exhibit of contemporary landscape paintings makes you want to linger.
Kicking off the 2017 season at Heritage Museums & Gardens in Sandwich, "Painted Landscapes: Contemporary Views" is a vibrant, eclectic show by 49 artists from across the country.
"It's meant to surprise people, to challenge the expectations of what is a landscape, what is beautiful, what is interesting," said curator Lauren Della Monica, a New York art consultant.
These artists are part of a grand tradition of American landscape painting, starting with the idealized scenes of the 19th century Hudson River School painters. In acknowledgement of precedents, the exhibit begins with paintings of Maine islands by Edward Hopper and Marsden Hartley, trees by Alex Katz, and skyscrapers by Charles Sheeler.
"All the contemporary artists work with the benefit of what these artists did," Della Monica said.
In fact, Jim Holland literally pays homage to Hopper by painting Hopper's white cottage on a Cape Cod bluff in the style of the artist.
By organizing the works into six groups, Della Monica creates a perspective that guides, but doesn't limit, the viewer. The themes are History & Inspiration, Place, Structure & Landscape, The Tree, and The Act of Painting. Within each, there are realistic, impressionistic and abstract works, urban and rural scenes, and aerial, long distance and close-up views.
"Many of the artists have a reverence for nature and ecology and show it in subtle and varied ways," she said.
In the impressionistic painting "Gowanus Canal" by Derek Buckner, clouds radiant in the setting sun and water tinted by the light frame a gritty scene in Brooklyn.
"Most of us would never think of this as a place to ponder, it has so much life," Della Monica said.
In contrast "Narrow Waters" by Michael Gregory is the sort of landscape that inspires fantasies. On the banks of a strip of water, the bright red roofs of a home are dwarfed by lush green mountains swathed in white fog.
In "Blue Wave," Paul Resika transforms the ocean and a lighthouse on a brilliantly sunny day into geometric shapes.
In "Summer Haze," Lisa Breslow evocatively created the quietness of a neighborhood in the shadow of skyscrapers on a warm day, as a lone distant figure crosses the street. There's a similar sense of peace in "Current" by Randall Exon, where a man in the foreground stands in the bow of his canoe, seemingly lost in thought as he looks at the calm water and surrounding low hills.
In dramatically different styles, two portraits of trees command attention. "Cypress Pacific Coast" by Sam Cady is a large photo-like close-up of the top trunk and foliage of a windblown tree.
"The tree is not attractive, but it's has had a long life and has a story," Della Monica said. "It's almost like a monument."
And "Petit Lake, Idaho" by William Betts appears to be a pointillism portrayal of a forest, but is actually a mirror drilled with a computer generated pattern of holes filled with white paint.
"You can see yourself in the mirror so it puts you into that place," Della Monica said.
Appearing like a collage, "Morning" by John Funt is an abstract portrayal of receding rust and green mountains.
"The beautiful varieties of shadings are like minerals with gradations of colors," she said.
In two paintings, the artists' aerial perspective offers an interesting scene. "Square Crowd" by David Kapp shows a crowd of indistinct people walking in a city crosswalk, while "Slice/Houses" by Eileen David is a strip of distinct homes rising along a steep San Francisco street.
To encourage engagement and conversation, each painting is accompanied by a tweet created by museum staff and several encourage viewers to take a selfie with the landscape as background. Take a photo next to the "The Road Home" by T. Allen Lawson and imagine where it takes you.
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WHAT: Painted Landscapes: Contemporary Views
WHERE: Heritage Museums & Gardens, 67 Grove St., Sandwich
WHEN: Through Oct. 9, daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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Strokes are the leading cause of adult disability in the United States and the third leading cause of death. A stroke can be the result of a lack of blood flow caused by a blood clot or a hemorrhage. Without oxygen, brain cells become damaged or die so the affected area of the brain becomes unable to function. Risk factors for stroke include: high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, smoking, and atrial fibrillation (heart abnormality). High blood pressure is by far the biggest risk factor for stroke.
Aiding Stroke Recovery
The results of stroke can affect patients physically, mentally, and/or emotionally, and vary widely. Disability corresponds to areas of the brain that have been damaged. For most stroke patients, recovery involves a combination of physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology, andit's important to take advantage of all of these services.
Medical care is often focused on preventing another stroke and most often utilizes anti-coagulant therapy with warfarin (Coumadin) or anti-platelet therapy with aspirin, ticlopidine (Ticlid) , or clopidogrel (Plavix). These drugs are designed to prevent blood clots from forming and lodging in the brain, which could produce another stroke. These drugs are not, of course, used in cases where the stroke was caused by a hemorrhage.
Precautions with Coumadin
Coumadin works by blocking the action of vitamin K. Since green leafy vegetables and green tea contain high levels of vitamin K, you should avoid these foods while taking Coumadin, or at least don't increase your consumption of them. Physicians monitor the effects of Coumadin using a test known as the International Normalized Ratio (INR) and will adjust the dosage up or down as needed. In addition to foods that are high in vitamin K, other natural substances that may interact with Coumadin include:
Natural Recovery
From a natural perspective, Ginkgo biloba extract is key to stroke recovery. It increases blood flow to the brain, boosts energy within nerve cells, and favorably affects blood thickness. The recommended dosage is 240—320 mg daily (less if you take Coumadin).
Several supplements can help prevent blood clots, including omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants, flavonoids, grape seed and pine bark extracts, and garlic. Fish oil (up to 3,000 mg per day EPA + DHA) and flavonoid-rich extracts appear to be able to be used safely in combination with aspirin and other platelet inhibitors. However, using multiple natural antiplatelet agents at the same time may increase bleeding tendencies when combined with antiplatelet drugs (including Plavix and Ticlid).
Two forms of choline have shown promise in aiding stroke recovery: citicoline (CDP-choline) and glycerophosphocholine (GPC). In one six-month trial that followed 2,044 stroke patients, GPC was found to significantly help the recovery more than 95 percent of participants—without side effects. Choose one of the following: citicoline: 1,000—2,000 mg daily or GPC 600—1,200 mg daily. There are no known interactions between citicoline or GPC and Coumadin or anti-platelet drugs.
Lastly, there's nattokinase, a protein-digesting enzyme that has potent "clot busting" properties. It has shown significant potential in improving stroke recovery. Typical dosage is 100—200 mg daily. Nattokinase should be used with caution for those taking Coumadin or antiplatelet drugs.
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Wigan Athletic v Everton: Match Preview
Wigan Athletic v Everton
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Saturday, February 4; 15:00
Team News
Midfielder Mohamed Diame is available again for Wigan Athletic after returning from the Africa Cup of Nations.
Hugo Rodallega and David Jones are in line for starts, but Antolin Alcaraz's groin injury could keep him out.
Deadline day signing's Nikica Jelavic and Steven Pienaar could both start for Everton, but a host of injuries, to the likes of Phil Jagielka and Jack Rodwell, leaves David Moyes' squad on the thin side.
Moyes hopes deadline day duo shine
Everton manager David Moyes is expecting big things from his new signings during the final part of the season.
Often frugal during the transfer window, Moyes brought four new additions in January, with Steven Pienaar and Nikica Jelavic the latest to join the Goodison Park ranks.
Protests from supporters, as well as falling attendances had contributed to a difficult start to the season, with The Toffees in 10th, buy Moyes hopes the new signings can be the catalyst for a return of the good times on Merseyside.
"I needed a lift," said Moyes.
"I felt that I was letting people down. I felt I was disappointing the supporters with how we have been playing and the selections that I was putting out.
"I had tried every selection possible but we have done something about it. We have got more confidence and it has been up to me to lift the players.
"What the last few days have shown me is that our belief has not left the building. We have got a spring in our step again.
"We have got to build on the win over Manchester City with more performances like that."
The plight if their weekend opponents Wigan however, is far more perilous, with The Latics rock bottom of the Premier League and without a home league win since August.
However, according to manager Roberto Martinez, whose side beat the drop last season on the final day of the campaign, Wigan can be optimistic.
"The position we are in is an easier position than anyone else," said Martinez.
"We've played Spurs and Manchester City twice so we've only got two games left against top-four sides.
"We have nothing to lose from now on. We feel strongly that we control our own destiny, even though we are bottom.
"We have the quality and the experience to survive."News Now - Sport News


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Sport Careers Agency client Graham Alexander has been appointed as the new manager of Salford City.
Alexander has signed a four-year deal with next season's National League newcomers after having previous stints as manager of Fleetwood Town and Scunthorpe United.
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Kesha in Billboard: 'I Know I Can Sing'
Kesha arrived on the scene as a brat, but beyond her gloriously troublemaking, Auto-tuned rapping about drinking and messing around 'til the sun comes up, she established herself as a record-breaking artist. But with her new album 'Warrior,' her one goal was for people to hear that she can sing her you-know-what off.
The label came up with tons of strategies for pricing and positioning 'Warrior' as Kesha began the promotional run with 'Die Young.' But we know you really want to know how Kesha approached her high expectation-loaded new album: She made the edgy and artistically daring choice not to retread her past. She turned her back on the tricked out, studio-treated vocals that she established her voice with and brought in guitars.
"I got really sick of people saying that I couldn't sing, because I can do very few things confidently in my life, and one of them is that I can sing," she said.
Kesha almost turned 'Warrior' into a rock album since she was tired of being called "processed." She pulled back on that plan when she started seeing the reviews saying she could sing. So she did her job. With 'Die Young,' the first single from 'Warrior' embedding itself in the brains of her animals and radio programmers, Kesha is proving that she is not a fluke.
She is back after a much needed-break, which makes RCA happy. Why? Well, her label needed her and her sales figures and projections to make their bottom line.
"I had the label breathing down my neck to come back and make a new record, and I kind of had to tell everybody to f— off for a month," the no-holds-barred singer told Billboard. It was time for Kesha to take a minute off. Heck, she earned it.
She continued, "I needed to get my head back on straight and sleep in the dirt for a little while. And then I came back and have literally been working on my record ever since."
Her A&R rep Rani Hancock sung her praises, saying, "She has an amazing voice and having been out on the road like she has, her voice has opened up from what it was previously. She really can sing her a– off. I think that she had a bad reputation, and her bad reputation was not justified."
That bad rep has been eradicated by No. 1 singles, top-selling digital downloads and hit songs that she co-writes. Kesha is no joke nor is she a flash in the pan, although she may enjoy flashing her boobies for shock, which is why we love her unconditionally.
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ALOHA BEEF: Nearly all the beef consumed in Hawaii arrives from the mainland, while Hawaiian cattle ranchers ship 40,000 live cattle each year to the mainland.
ISLANDS HOME-GROWN: Interest in locally grown food and grass-fed beef has now caught on in Hawaii, but the opportunity comes as crushing drought has made it difficult to keep enough cattle in Hawaii to meet demand.
LEI OF THE LAND: Slaughterhouses elsewhere process beef more efficiently than smaller ones in Hawaii, and it's cheaper to send cattle to the mainland to be fattened than to bring in feed for calves after they're weaned.


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A state prison inmate heading to a work site in Baker was killed Friday morning when the van he was riding in was hit and flipped into a ditch, according to police.
CRESTVIEW � A state prison inmate heading to a work site in Baker was killed Friday morning when the van he was riding in was hit and overturned, according to police.
Lawrence Houze, 50, was riding in a 1996 Dodge van driven by 59-year-old corrections officer Glenn Tatum on P.J. Adams Parkway with five other inmates at about 6:30 a.m.
Joshua Meseke, 30, of Crestview, tried to turn left in a 1999 Honda Accord onto P.J. Adams from Villacrest Drive, but hit the Florida Department of Corrections van�s passenger door, said Crestview police Lt. Eddie Lehneis.
The van rolled about three times, hit a guard rail and stopped on the shoulder of the road, according to a police news release.
Houze was ejected from the vehicle, Lehneis said. Police were investigating Friday afternoon whether the van�s occupants were wearing seat belts, he said.
A news release issued earlier by the Florida Department of Corrections said all the occupants were wearing seat belts.
Police also were investigating where the van�s passengers were sitting, Lehneis said.
Police closed P.J. Adams between State Road 85 and Ashley Drive until about 1:45 p.m., Lehneis said.
Corrections Officer Glenn Tatum, 59, was driving the van. He and the other inmates were treated and released from North Okaloosa Medical Center, according to the Department of Corrections.
Meseke was not hurt, Lehneis said.
Houze was housed at the Okaloosa Work Camp at Okaloosa Correctional Institution south of Crestview. He was arrested in Escambia County for cocaine possession in January 2012, according to the Department of Corrections� website. He was scheduled to be released in August 2014.


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