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James & Mirjam necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 64 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
We are passionate about healthy living through natural resources. Our ionized water filtration system enables the body to more efficiently absorb nutrients, and our Univera products provide advanced, concentrated nutrients to promote optimum health and well being.
The benefits of ionization focus on three issues: Acidosis, Dehydration, and Free Radical Damage. Alkaline Ionized Water fosters good health by maintaining the body's delicate pH balance, provides energy, more effective hydration of the body, flushes harmful acidic waste from the body, and is a natural supply of powerful antioxidants. It also provides a rich source of extra oxygen to every cell, aids in filtering harmful impurities, and best of all, is silky smooth and refreshing to the taste!
Univera's advanced nutrition is supported by genomics and protiomics research of nutrition.
We take the science behind our solutions seriously!
Our target audience is anyone who is concerned about their health, who wants to do what it takes to get the most out of their body!
The logo must have the company name, MJ Biologic.
Take into account the info in our "overview" section above, and make it look great!
Other than that, we can't wait to see what the creative pool here comes up with.
Thanks for helping us out, and good luck!
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LimoWreck necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 54 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
Native American small business-owner based in Washington, DC. We are launching a new website that allows customers to order delicious seafood served hot right to their door. We are currently recruiting our fleet of delivery drivers and key suppliers but need to design our logo and brand.
Our service will target an existing market (take-out seafood) but with a new twist - home delivery. Our customers are all ages.
TaxiCrab is a new eCommerce site (launch July 2010). We deliver hot, Maryland crabs to our customers home/businesses. Order via telephone, website, Facebook or using mobile phone. We need a professionally designed logo that conveys our featured product, the Maryland Blue Crab, a fast service and the mobile nature of TaxiCrab.
Design brand should incorporate (some if not all) of the following by importance:
1. The Maryland Blue Crab whose shape is instantly recognizable (see below) and whose color is actually RED when steamed (like a lobster).
2. Maryland crabs are best served extremely hot. This is by far the way our customers prefer to eat maryland crabs - HOT!
3. Fast, friendly delivery drivers - we need to design a brand that is friendly and professional at the same time.
4. Another famous aspect of eating crabs in Maryland is the famous "brown paper bag" that is used by all local suppliers to keep them hot. When a customer first opens the large brown paper bag the steam rises up indicating they are hot and ready to eat.
5. An essential tool when eating crabs is the famous wooden mallet
6. Focused on the state of Maryland perhaps use of it's famous flag.
Our logo will be featured on our web site but also in all marketing and merchandising (tee shirts and delivery driver signage)
use of attached iStock file (optional)
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Building Business from the Ground Up
Darcy Densmore grew up helping her father and brother around their carpentry shop. She attended the local vocational college and earned her carpentry certificate in 2000. Then she began work for a construction company, building everything from cabinets to houses.
But Darcy wanted to be an entrepreneur. With the help of family and friends who built a workshop next to her house, she opened Triple D Cabinets. Sales grew in the first six months, but Darcy found that without more workspace, she could not handle enough projects to turn a profit.
At that point, Darcy approached the Arkansas Women's Business Development Center, a partner in Asset Builders, a project managed by the Southern Good Faith Fund. The fund serves low-income individuals in Arkansas and the Mississippi Delta who want to save money to build a business and improve their financial skills. Darcy's goal was to add a painting and finishing room to her workshop without taking out a loan.
While saving in her Individual Development Account, Darcy took the program's six-part economic skills training, where she got smart about handling and accumulating money. "I learned ways to get more value for your money," Darcy said. "After taking the class, I watched our family spending more carefully. It also helped me to shop wisely when buying materials and supplies for my business."
Darcy saved $120 per month. "I added the $120 into our family budget, and the money designated for the IDA was treated like any other bill," she reported.
In January 2004, Darcy reached her goal: she used her savings and match funds to add another room to her workshop. Darcy noted, "Before I had the additional space, I could not start on the next job until the last one was done. Without the support of the IDA, it would have taken about twice as long to save the money for the additional workspace."
From a net loss in 2002 to a net profit of $12,807 in 2003, Darcy's business continues to thrive. She hired two part-time subcontractors, and projected comparable profits for 2004.
"It's nice to have a business that my kids could choose to take over when I retire."


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Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson says a lot of things. Some of them interesting, others regrettable. As with most humans! This, about piracy, is one of the former.
I've always found it interesting that it's usually independent developers, those whose livelihoods are most closely associated with the success of their games, that are always the most pragmatic when it comes to piracy. And it's the executives at big corporations, many steps removed from development and forced to appease ignorant shareholders, that are the ones championing measures like DRM.
Notch: "If someone copies your game a trillion times, you won't have a single lost sale" [PC Gamer]


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gloss_scl necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 55 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
We are developing a free website (myrentalfinder.com) where individuals and families can find housing (rooms, apartments, houses, space) as well as post available housing. This will be the ultimate housing marketplace where those looking for housing can enter their "need housing" criteria and those having housing can post their "have housing" criteria.
My Rental Finder Website
Our website will be launching soon. As mentioned in the summary, we are looking to create a housing marketplace website where people can search for housing and post available housing. Information will be stored in a database and matches (on both sides) will be displayed as results to the user. We will also capture user information. We are looking for the following:
- Web 2.0
- Clean, simple , modern design
- Search engine friendly
- Clear navigation and usable
Similar sites
ihomeconnect.com – we like this site and the way search results are displayed but it is a little busy and we are not sure we like the search on the home page
roommates.com – not crazy about the first page but the rest is OK
PLEASE READ THE BRIEF CAREFULLY, thanks!
We're looking to build a 5 page (descriptions of each page below) housing marketplace website. We would like a clean, functional site. Looking for a visually appealing site in terms of colors and fonts.
• Web 2.0 style
• simple and intuitive navigation
• We don't have a logo yet – If you want to create a simple logo as part of the design that would be great
Looking for the following pages
1. Index Page
2. Find a Home Page (Search)
3. User Registration Page
4. Housing available setup Page
5. Search results Page
• Accepted File Formats
• Design only psd, fonts, PNGs,GIFs, or JPGs for the images
Future Opportunities:
Even if you don't win this contest we are still interested in quality designers for future projects. We will exchange contact information with 4 and 5 star entrants for the potential to work on future projects.
** Priced for design only, if you can provide coded please let us know and we will adjust the prize **
• Unique design
• 2 or 3-column layout
• Clean, crisp design (not cartoony, not too loud)
• focus on intuitive and simple usability
• Crawable - focus on search engine friendliness (links and text instead of buttons/pictures, no Flash, etc.
• Non cluttered website
• Menu should be text links and not gif images
Some technical requirements, please read carefully:
• Unique site / Original design concept
• Web 1.0
• Flash dependant
• No templates
• Unoriginal design
• Cluttered design and bad usability


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"We were going to try to rebuild, because we just didn't feel we could count on the attendance supporting the level we had to get to spend to get better to beat Minnesota. So that's where we started out," Reinsdorf said, referring to their 2010 attendance figure — 2,194,378, the lowest since 2004. "But what we didn't want to do was just lower the payroll, which would have been easy, without doing it in a way that gave us hope for the future. Which meant the players that we were going to have to let go were going to have to bring something back for us as we build for the future."
Free agents Paul Konerko and A.J. Pierzynski would have yielded two Draft picks after being offered arbitration and signing elsewhere, but even first-round picks never are certainties.
"Then, as we looked at the rest of the players that we could move, without getting into particulars, it didn't look like we could get enough back, so all we would end up doing was having a worse team with a low payroll," Reinsdorf said. "We would make money, but we wouldn't be building for the future.
"I didn't mind taking a step back, because we've done it before, but I didn't want to take a step back without feeling really good that that step back was going to help us going forward. We just could not see where the players we would have remaining were going to bring us the talent we needed to get better in 2012.
Sounds like no GM would offer good talent for the White Sox players.
Brent Ballantini has more. Here's Reinsdorf on the Ozzie to the Marlins "trade":
"There wasn't going to be a trade," he said. "The Marlins approached us about wanting to talk to Ozzie. OK. We couldn't trade Ozzie—he has a contract to manage the White Sox. [If he asked] we could let him out of his contract—I love Ozzie, but if Ozzie didn't want to be here, I would consider letting him out of his contract. But not for nothing."
With the understanding that talks would only move forward at a cost, Reinsdorf tapped into his excellent negotiating skills and turned up the heat on South Florida.
"I said to the Marlins, 'If you want to talk to him, we have to agree on what we get if he decides to leave,'" Reinsdorf said. "We couldn't agree on that. If we had been able to agree, Ozzie probably still wouldn't have left. We couldn't have traded him—and we would have tried to keep him. I would have gone to Ozzie and said, 'OK, the Marlins want to talk to you and we've given them permission to talk to you, but I hope to God you don't leave.' It would have been his decision, not our decision."


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Classes began at the College of Court Reporting in September 1984. The college was granted authorization by the Indiana Board for Proprietary Education (BPE) on January 1, 1985. It was granted approval to award an Associate of Applied Science degree in Court Reporting by the same board on August 14, 1985. The school was incorporated by the State of Indiana September 3, 1985. Kay Moody is founder; Jeff Moody, the corporation president and owner.
The College of Court Reporting was granted approval for the day program by the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA) November 1, 1987, and became NCRA's first online certified program in the spring of 2006. The college is also a member in good standing with the Indiana Shorthand Reporters Association (ISRA).
The College of Court Reporting first became accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) to award Certificates and Occupational Associate Degrees in September 1989. The court reporting program was granted approval by ACICS May 23, 2001, to be delivered through online distance education. ACICS is identified as a nationally recognized accrediting agency by the U.S. Department of Education under the provisions of Public Law 82-550 and subsequent legislation, which requires the evaluation of such agencies and issuance of an official list by the Department. The college is approved by the U.S. Department of Education to offer Stafford Loans (GSL), Pell Grants, and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (SEOG) for those who qualify.
The career of judicial court reporter is as rewarding as it is demanding. Court reporters are responsible for a verbatim record of many different types of proceedings, including trials, depositions, and government hearings. The judicial court reporting educational program is organized to educate students for realtime judicial court reporting careers. CCR students learn a realtime translation theory and software that is suitable for broadcast captioning and CART, and they have the foundation to continue in these exciting careers with additional training.
The recommended courses of study outlined in this bulletin are designed to help students develop the skills and acquire the professional knowledge required of the competent and skilled technician in a variety of fields. Students who complete these programs develop skill and accuracy in keyboarding, computerized machine shorthand technology, office procedures, computers and word processing, medical transcription, and court reporting procedures.
The application of court reporting skills and technology may be used to assist those who are deaf and hard-of-hearing. Students may receive a certificate in voice captioning in four semesters, a diploma in court reporting in five semesters, and/or an associate degree in court reporting in seven semesters.


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wee beastie silver and gold locket ring by Nick Hubbard: F
- Out of stock. Available to order
The silver band of this wonderful ring has been engraved with the words wee beastie. On top of the ring sits a sweet silver door, topped with a gold hoop. Open the door and you will find a tiny gold mouse. The perfect quirky gift for someone with a soft spot for wee beasties!
Material: silver, 9ct yellow gold.
Size: Locket - W: 1cm; Band - W: 4mm
Item code: NH111
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In 1993, Cathey Break R.N.B.S. became one of the first medical specialists to take cosmetic tattooing out of the tattoo parlors and salons and put it into a medical environment.
Her philosophy is that permanent cosmetics should ONLY be applied by a licensed medical specialist in a medical setting, using state of the art computerized anesthesia for a completely pain free procedure.
Cathey Break has applied over 15,000 successful procedures with a 90% referral rate.


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Gemma-Louise is a Belfast based politics graduate who thinks of shopping as a sport.
With that in mind, she set up the blog That Belfast Girl to tell everyone why she's a lover of food, fashion and everything in between. And to highlight some of the fun and fabulous things to do in her hometown of Belfast.
"On a lazy day in Belfast (where my own porridge isn't cutting it!), I will always head to Arizona on the Lisburn Road. The staff there is so lovely and welcoming, plus they make a mean chocolate croissant! If I was nursing a sore head from one too many vinos at the weekend, Brights on Belfast's High Street for an Ulster Fry or sausage soda would be my port of call!
Afterwards I would probably then have a nosey around my favourite shops in Victoria Square and then pop round the corner to Arthur Street. This is my favourite street in Belfast – it has a Paperchase, Jigsaw, Jack Wills and Cath Kidson!
Since I am already on Arthur Street, I'd nip in to the massive Avoca for lunch. I recommend their raspberry and white chocolate scones! Or if I was in a hurry, I'd nip across the road and get a Boojum burrito to take away.
For evening activities, I would probably go to House of Zen in St Anne's Square for dinner. The big booths for groups feel so private and the food is delicious. They also sell fantastic cocktails!
I would finish my night by hitting up the night-club of the Merchant Hotel, Ollies. They always play great tunes and you always bump into someone you haven't seen in ages!"
Read more about Gemma-Louise and Belfast on her blog That Belfast Girl.
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Jan van Sol (16th century)
Jan van Sol, of Danzig, West Prussia, came to Brussels, Belgium, in 1550, and visited Viglius van Aytta, chief president of the (Spanish-Catholic) Privy Council, and suggested a policy of combating Anabaptism, in which he would assist by checking that the newborn children were baptized and that no one in the Netherlands be allowed to move to another town unless provided with a certificate issued by the priest of his home church. If this project had been adopted, Mennonitism would have had a hard struggle, but Viglius distrusted van Sol. So he was put on trial. Van Sol was found to have at his disposal valuable information about the Mennonites. The Court of Holland, whose advice had been asked, opposed the project, fearing that it might seriously injure Dutch trade. So van Sol's plan miscarried. Moreover Jan van Sol proved not to be very reliable. It was revealed that he had lived at Dordrecht, Dutch province of South Holland, where he had kept an inn. In 1530 he fled to Danzig, Prussia, for safety because of his many debts. At Danzig, where he called himself Johann (Jan) Solius, he had a prosperous business. In 1536 he left Danzig and bought the "Robitten" estate near Bardeyn in East Prussia. For a time he seems to have been a Melchiorite and even perhaps a member of the Danzig congregation. He later returned to Danzig and to Holland to win converts, and was apparently successful. But he had little influence among the Mennonites, who considered him untrustworthy. By 1550 he was no longer a Mennonite. He may have spent his last years from about 1556 in the territory of Preussisch-Holland. Mannhardt's assumption that he was a physician is probably untenable.
Allen, H. van. "Documenten betreffende Jan van Sol en zijn voorstel tot vervolging van de Wederdopers." Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis, n.s. 24 (The Hague, 1931): 205-236.
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1917): 136-138.
Mannhardt, H. G. Die Danziger Mennonitengemeinde. Danzig, 1919: 39-41.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Jan van Sol (16th century)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 5 Jun 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Jan_van_Sol_(16th_century)&oldid=132493.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1957). Jan van Sol (16th century). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 5 June 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Jan_van_Sol_(16th_century)&oldid=132493.
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Summer foods: Okra love it or hate it
Virginia Willis, Special to CNN | 8/14/2013, 12:10 p.m.
CNN In this series for the Southern Foodways Alliance, I am examining iconic Southern foods that so completely belong to summer that if you haven't relished them before Labor Day, you should consider yourself deprived of the entire season. My plan is to share a little history and a few recipes that I hope you will enjoy.
This week, it's all about okra.
Ok, I know, I know. Stop. You either love okra or you absolutely hate it, and you've already decided to click away. Stay. Please, please stay. I've got this, really, I do. Okra is the new asparagus. Seriously. I'm certain of it.
I'm an official okra missionary. I am here to convert—and I can even help you past the slime. Coincidentally, I've recently written an entire book about okra for The University of North Carolina Press series called "Savor the South" that will be out in spring 2014. Other ingredients that are featured in the series include tomatoes, buttermilk, pecans and sweet potatoes. The deal is, I asked for this crazy, argumentative topic. I chose okra over bourbon! And, through this blog post for SFA you have a sneak peak at what I've learned becoming one with okra.
This is what I know: Okra is a controversial vegetable. It is as much a part of Southern cuisine as collard greens and fried chicken. But in the Southern kitchen, it is far more controversial. Folks love okra or they hate it. No one -- veritably no one -- is in the middle.
I also know this: Okra lovers passionately love okra in all manners of all shapes and forms. Boiled, fried, steamed, grilled, broiled, pickled, whole, sliced and julienned. I love it raw in a salad. You name it, okra lovers love okra. Those who hate it think it's slimy, gooey and gummy. Some even go as far to call it "mucilaginous ick."
In my opinion, they haven't met the right okra.
According to The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, African slaves brought okra across the Atlantic Ocean during the slave trading era. Little is known about the early history and distribution of okra, but it is thought to have originated in equatorial Africa. It eventually made its way into Northern Africa, the Mediterranean and India before its journey across the Atlantic to the New World.
Okra is a main component in gumbo. There are two main considerations for the etymology of the word "gumbo." The first suggests that in Bantu, the language family of Southern Africa, which includes Swahili, okra is called ngumbo, and this is where gumbo originates. The second is that "gumbo" is believed to be a corruption of the Portuguese corruption, quingombo, or the word quillobo, native name for the plant in the Congo and Angola.
Okra is not, however, solely found in the American South or in Africa. The ancient routes by which okra was taken from central Africa to Egypt to the eastern Mediterranean and to India is not certain, but we do know that okra is found in abundance in three major areas today -- East Africa, India and Southeast Asia. It is also found in pockets in the Caribbean, as well as in South America.


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OMG, Iron Man pics! Anton Yelchin joins the Fright Night remake, a Juno star joins Bekmambetov's alien-invasion film, and Wil Wheaton joins Eureka. Major hints for Joss Whedon's horror film! And Lost, Doctor Who, Elm Street, Caesar and Resident Evil.
Iron Man 2:
Here are some more promo pics, some of which are definitely new. [SpoilerTV-Movies]
Fright Night:
Anton Yelchin, aka Kyle Reese and Chekov, is in talks to star in this remake of the 1985 movie about a guy who's convinced his neighbor is a vampire. Craig Gillespie (Lars And The Real Girl) is directing and Marti Noxon (Buffy) wrote the script. [Heat Vision Blog]
Caesar/Planet Of The Apes:
This Planet Of The Apes prequel is just starting work, says special effects/creature design wiz Aaron Sims. There may be another director in place, but it's not Tim Burton — not surprisingly. And Sims says he's looking at a lot of "chimpanzees and apes." [MTV]
The Darkest Hour:
This alien invasion film, which we just reported Timur Bekmambetov may direct, will star Juno's Olivia Thirlby as a trust fund girl who teams up with others to defeat the aliens. She's part of a group of Americans who are touring Russia when the aliens attack. [Hollywood Reporter]
Nightmare On Elm Street:
Here's a new trailer.
And an early review includes a description of how this movie begins:
It's a dark and stormy night outside of the Springwood Diner, where Dean (Kellan Lutz) sits alone in a booth. (Twilighters will be delighted at Lutz's solo scene... until they remember how everyone not named Nancy Thompson ended up in the original.) The strapping Dean looks fairly miserable; he's been chugging coffee nonstop in an effort not to fall asleep. A waitress walks by, ignoring him, and Dean gets up to investigate only to find the entire diner empty. He walks through the darkened kitchen, a dark and dreamlike scene where the flaming stove indicates Dean's reality has turned into a nightmare. Behind him, Freddy's claw hand appears. Dean turns as Freddy lunges — and suddenly he wakes up, still sitting in the diner. He looks down to find his hand bleeding where Freddy just cut him; as his friend Kris (Katie Cassidy) enters, Dean hides his hand.
He tells her he hasn't slept in three days and insists his dreams are real; Dean seems to be one of the first teens to realize what's going on, but he sounds crazy trying to explain it all to Kris. He accidentally spills coffee on her and she excuses herself to clean it up, leaving Dean idly playing with a steak knife on the table. He falls asleep, and Freddy attacks. Kris returns to see Dean struggling with himself, holding the knife to his own throat, and then... bad news, Twilighters.
Cowboys & Aliens:
Director Jon Favreau is already hard at work on this feature, and he promises some cool casting news "soon." [MTV]
Cabin In The Woods:
Co-star Amy Acker let slip that Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's movie is a creature feature, with "lots of scary monsters." [Sci Fi Wire]
Resident Evil: Afterlife:
Paul W.S. Anderson is hoping there'll be more films after this one. And he promises the character of Chris Redfield (Wentworth Miller) will be true to the video games: military fatigues, sword and all. Kim Coates plays a former Hollywood producer and friend of Alice's who has a "conflict of interest" with Alice's war against Umbrella. The two fight, and Alice kicks the gun out of Coates' hand. Also, Alice's clones clash through a plate-glass window and do a "needle dive" 50 storeys through the Umbrella headquarters. And Ali Larter fights the Axe Man. Also, Anderson says this movie makes a "conceptual jump" similar to the jump from Terminator to Terminator 2. [IGN]
Doctor Who:
Here are a ton more pics from episode two, "The Beast Below." [Den Of Geek]
Here are a couple of new pics of a cool propaganda poster from the alternate universe. [SpoilerTV]
Here's another promo for Thursday night's episode. [Fringe Television]
And here's what happens in the April 22 episode, when the shapeshifters make a comeback:
When two teenagers on a date turn up "dead" at an abandoned warehouse with the three puncture wounds to the soft palate – a trademark of the shape-shifters – the Fringe team investigates the evidence as well as the motives of mastermind Newton. Upon discovering a shape-shifting embryo, Walter returns to the lab to conduct further analysis, and Olivia and Peter head to Massive Dynamic for answers. Meanwhile, Peter reveals a family secret to Olivia as Walter struggles to recall what Newton knows about "building a door."
Wil Wheaton will guest star in episode 4x03, "All The Rage," as "the brilliant Dr. Isaac Parrish, head of the Non-Lethal Weapons Lab at Global Dynamics," according to a press release. "Parrish's dry wit and superior attitude make him a thorn in Fargo's side — with potentially disastrous consequences." [UPI]
James Callis' new character, who's had a lot of his own flashforwards, knows a great deal about Olivia's future, so he's very important to her as well as to the investigation. Bad news is, though, that he's a really bad guy who makes D. Gibbons look like a cream puff. [TV Guide]
And here's what happens in the pivotal April 22 episode, when I guess it's finally March 15:
"The Garden of Forking Paths" - The clock is ticking on Demetri's life as Mark and his team go in search of his whereabouts; terror suspect Alda Herzog promises to give Zoey intel on where Demetri is - but at a price; and Olivia learns the identity of the person who sent her the text message informing her that Mark was drinking in his flashforward.
Laura Vandervoort says Lisa's part gets a lot more "meaty" in the next few weeks, and she steps out of Anna's shadow. She's next in line to be queen, so she has a lot on her shoulders. And her relationship with Tyler gets a lot more interesting coming up. [Fancast]
Some stuff coming up will rock Father Jack's foundation, says actor Joel Gretz. He will have to step up and be less passive. And he talks about the big upcoming death:
It was very sad to read it because it's always a shock to an actor, particularly when you're on a show with such energy, you don't want to leave. But it was done so beautifully, the day that person had the last scene, how it was done, makeup, hair, everybody was sobbing. I was there — I wasn't in that scene — I was watching. Everybody was crying, it was so beautifully touching.
Now that Chuck's a killer, it brings him to his next step of his evolution, both good and bad. But Chuck still won't be comfortable with guns and will go out of his way to avoid using them. [TV Guide]
Stargate Universe:
Here are some promo pics for episode 12, "Divided." [SpoilerTV]
Speaking of SGU, Alaina Huffman will be back for the season finale, "Salvation," as the Black Canary aka Dinah Lance. [KryptonSite]
In episode 6x12, "Everybody Loves Hugo," here's what happens: ""Everybody Loves Hugo" - Hurley agonizes over what the group should do next, and Locke is curious about the new arrival to his camp." And here are some pics. [TV Overmind]
So why isn't Zoe intimidated by Widmore? Actor Sheila Kelley explains:
I think she's a different breed than what he's used to, and I think that's why she's so interesting to him. She doesn't cow to anybody. She's pretty driven, and she's driven toward a goal, and she believes that she'll find what she's looking for. Come hell or high water, the island be damned, she'll find what she's looking for. I don't think that anyone's gonna scare her.
And it sounds like Zoe survives until almost the end, since she just finished shooting. [NY Mag]
Jack, Kate and Sawyer were among the characters involved in a sequence being filmed, where the Losties climb down bamboo ladders to the cave. (With the names in it, I guess.) [SpoilersLost]
Additional reporting by Mary Ratliff.


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The caribou population in Canada's vast Northwest Territories is falling rapidly and the increasingly warm climate could slow the animals' chances of recovery, a wildlife specialist said Friday.
OTTAWA -- The caribou population in Canada's vast Northwest Territories is falling rapidly and the increasingly warm climate could slow the animals' chances of recovery, a wildlife specialist said Friday.
Herds of barren-ground caribou -- which for centuries have been a crucial source of food and furs for local aboriginals -- have dropped by between 40 and 86 percent over the last 10 years. The largest single herd fell from 472,000 animals in 1986 to 128,000 in 2006 and is still declining.
"The level of concern is very high in the Northwest Territories," said Ray Case of the territories' environment and natural resources ministry.
Case -- blaming natural factors such as varying climate, insect levels, the amount of food available, and the number of predators -- said the caribou population had traditionally risen and fallen over a 30-year cycle.
But he told Reuters that warmer winters and easier access for hunters to the ranges that the caribou cover make it harder to say what will happen to the herds in years to come.
"That doesn't suggest global warming is driving this but certainly there is concern that things are changing ... we do have some uncertainty about what the future holds as far as climate and as far as human activity," he said.
Case spoke by telephone from Inuvik, in the Mackenzie River Delta, where politicians, wildlife officials and aboriginals were attending a four-day summit on the caribou herds.
"If they experience a number of years with very low calf production and calf survival the herds can decline quite quickly. They can also increase quite quickly," he said.
Over the past few years hunters have been allowed to kill a an average of 11,000 animals annually, a number that Case said would have to be reduced.
He also expressed concern about modern forms of transport that allow hunters to reach once inaccessible areas where in the past the caribou would have taken refuge while herd levels gradually recovered.
"They can't hide from us any more. People can either go by ice road or snowmobile or aircraft and actually find the caribou and continue to harvest ... we need to be cautious about how we manage the future," Case said.
Animal rights activists say they are concerned about increased mining and oil extraction on calving grounds in Canada's mineral-rich northern region. Case said this did not seem to be a major factor in the territories.
"There has been some drilling, some seismic activity on some of the ranges but over the period that this decline occurred the activity has been very low," Case said.
"There hasn't been activity on all of the ranges yet all of the caribou herds have shown a similar decline."
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Aims of the Scottish Pottery Society
The Scottish Pottery Society (SPS) was formed in 1972 to encourage research into the history and products of the Scottish pottery industry. The industry lasted for about two hundred years from 1748. Glasgow was by far the biggest centre but Kirkcaldy and Bo'ness were also important and there were major potteries in Greenock and Alloa. East Lothian had an early start as a major centre but all except some stoneware potteries disappeared at a fairly early date.
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The Society is organised as separate branches with an overall central Council. At present there are two branches which meet in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Each branch has monthly meetings from September to May. These take the form of lectures, discussions and displays of pottery. The Council generally organises the actions of the Society and supervises publications. Members join one particular branch but are free to attend meetings (apart from AGMs) at both.
From time to time the Society organises or otherwise helps with exhibitions of pottery. Venues have included Perth, Kirkcaldy, Edinburgh, Stirling, Bo'ness, Milngavie, Kirkintilloch, Helensburgh, Cumnock and Glasgow.
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GFOA is always on the lookout for news items that will be useful for finance professionals, research that might help you do your job better, and legal and regulatory updates you need to know about. Check the GFOA news page for the updates and any relevant GFOA announcements, and see the GFOA Newsletter archive for back issues of our weekly electronic newsletter.
GFOA Letter to House of Representatives Opposes Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act
The GFOA, along with several other national associations representing local governments, sent a letter to the House of Representatives urging members to vote no on the passage of the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act, HR 3086. If enacted, the bill would permanently preempt state and local governments authority to assess taxes on Internet access and would specifically remove that authority from ten states that are currently permitted under current law to assess such taxes. The full House will consider the GFOA-opposed legislation during the week of July 14, 2014.
GFOA Alert: The SEC MCDC Initiative and Issuers
The information contained in this document was developed to educate members about the SEC MCDC Initiative and should not be construed as legal advice.
Congressional Budget Office Finds Excessive Costs to States and Localities from Internet Tax Moratorium
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act (H.R. 3086), if enacted, would cost states and localities several hundred million dollars a year. The bill would permanently preempt state and local governments authority to assess taxes on Internet access and would specifically remove that authority from ten states that are currently permitted under current law to assess such taxes. The House Judiciary Committee recently approved H.R.
Detroit Adapts to New Realities of Metro Revolution
In the midst of all the bad news about Detroit, it appears that the city also has quite a bit going for it.
Transportation Upgrades Linked to Economic Growth
Best in class public transportation systems provide cities with extensive benefits, according to the Smart Cities Council.
House Judiciary Committee Approves State and Local Tax Preemption Legislation
The House Judiciary approved the GFOA-opposed Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act, H.R. 3086, which would permanently preempt state and local governments authority to assess taxes on Internet access and pave the way for other industries to argue that they too deserve special protections from state and local taxation.
The City of Junction City, Oregon, wins the Cash Basis Award
"The GFOA Award Program for Small Government Cash Basis Reports is happy to announce a first-time winner of the award - the City of Junction City, Oregon. Receiving this award demonstrates the exceptional dedication that the City of Junction City has to transparency, accountability, and financial reporting on a modified cash basis. All staff involved in attaining this distinction for the city should be commended for their accomplishment.
GFOA Joins Associations on SEC Pension Obligation Disclosure Letter
The GFOA joined with 10 other national associations representing state and local governments and retirement systems on a letter to Securities and Exchange Commissioner Daniel Gallagher to express serious concern over remarks he made to regulators criticizing state and local governments pension disclosures and commitment to transparency.
ITFA final letter to Judiciary and full house
On behalf of local governments across the nation, our organizations want to express our opposition to H.R. 3086, the "Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA)." Instead, as the expiration date for the current moratorium on taxing Internet access approaches, and Congress considers changes to ITFA, our organizations recommend a shorter-term extension of ITFA, as a sensible solution that respects state and local taxing authority. In addition, any extension must maintain both the long-standing grandfather provisions that preserve existing state and local revenues, as well as certain general business taxes that were not intended to be part of the moratorium.
GFOA Opposes Permanent Extension of Internet Tax Freedom Act
The GFOA joined with other national associations representing local governments on a letter to the House of Representatives strongly opposing HR 3086, the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act, and urging members to do the same. The letter maintains that the bill would cost states and localities millions of dollars in revenue in the coming years, as more services that are subject to traditional taxation transition to the Internet.
GFOA Accepting Applications for Standing Committee Membership Apply Now!
Applications to become a GFOA standing committee member are being accepted through July 18. GFOA's seven standing committees meet twice each year and develop best practices, advisories and policy statements for the approval of the Executive Board and membership
SEC Seeks Further Enforcement of Municipal Securities Issuers through Self Reporting
On March 10, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commissions Enforcement Division (the SEC) announced the Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation (MCDC) Initiative to provide issuers and underwriters the opportunity to self-report instances of material misstatements in bond offering documents regarding the issuers prior compliance with its continuing disclosure obligations. The deadline for self-reporting under the MCDC Initiative is September 10, 2014
Public Pension Plan Investment Returns Exceed Assumptions
A pension plans actuarial assumption is an assumption the plan makes, based on demographic and economic information, about the investment return the plan is likely to make over future years. Public-sector pension fund investment return assumptions have been the focus of growing attention in recent years, with critics saying the current low interest rates and volatile investment markets require pension funds to take on too much investment risk to achieve their assumed rate of return.
2014 President and Incoming President Address
Below are links to view the GFOA President's Address and the GFOA Incoming President's Address at the 2014 Annual Conference in Minneapolis.
IRS Ruling Imposes New ACA Penalty
A recent IRS ruling will likely discourage employers that had planned to end their health-care obligations by sending employees to the exchanges.
Improving Online Civic Engagement
Online civic engagement tools can increase public trust in their governments, but only if they avoid common crowd-sourcing problems such as outsider influence when individuals from outside of the jurisdiction try to overly influence the forum. The Alliance for Innovation suggests best practices that can help with this issue.
Paper Proposes Mileage Fees to Solve Road Funding Problems
A new paper from the University of Michigan suggests that the state could solve its road funding problems by being one of the first states in the nation to move to a system where motorists pay a fee based on the number of miles they drive. Mileage fees aim to allocate transportation infrastructure costs based on the number of miles driven, the time of day, the route taken, and the weight of the vehicle, rather than increasing fuel taxes.
GFOA Joins Amicus Brief on Fair Labor Standards Act
The GFOA will join with other local government associations on a brief prepared by the State and Local Legal Center in a matter related to the interpretation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. In the case of Integrity Staffing Solutions v. Busk, the Supreme Court will decide whether to uphold a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that hourly employees must be paid for time spent in security screenings under the FLSA.
GFOA Members Encouraged to Oppose Permanent Extension of Internet Tax Freedom Act
The House of Representatives is considering a permanent extension of the Internet Tax Freedom Act (H.R. 3086), with action likely to be taken on the bill in the next few weeks. The GFOA strongly opposes this measure because it would cost states and localities millions of dollars in revenue in the coming years, as more services that are subject to traditional taxation move to the Internet.
Many Public Pension Plans Still Recovering from Economic Downturn
The Center for State and Local Government Excellence 2014 report of state and local government pension funding finds that many plans are still recovering from the effects of the economic downturn.
Report Provides Information and Comparisons on Capital Budgeting
The recent Capital Budgeting in the States Report from the National Association of State Budget Officers provides state-by-state comparisons on the ways budget officers develop and implement capital spending plans, including how states make decisions to invest in new facilities or maintain old ones; ways states distinguish infrastructure spending from day to day operating expenses; criteria for project financing strategies and options for funding infrastructure; and efforts to mitigate fis
Using Technology to Increase Organizational Effectiveness
Resilient Communities, Efficient Governments, a recent report from Hyland and GovLoop, presents techniques for preparing organizations for significant, disruptive events using tools that are designed to improve service delivery and cost-effectiveness every other day of the year. In this way, planning and preparation becomes less about disaster recovery and more about delivering better services to the community, no matter the conditions.
Factoring in the Effect of Economic, Fiscal, and Financial Shocks on Public Pension Funding
Assessing the Affordability of State Debt, a working paper from the New England Public Policy Center at the Boston Federal Reserve, challenges the common perception that state and local governments deliberately decreased public pension fund contributions as a backdoor way to run deficits from 2001 to 2010, and finds that public pension sponsors actually increased contributions during that time.
GASB Issues Exposure Draft on Fair Value Measurement and Application
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board issued for public comment a proposed statement addressing accounting and financial reporting issues related to fair value measurements. The Exposure Draft, Fair Value Measurement and Application, describes how fair value should be defined and measured, what assets and liabilities should be measured at fair value, and what information about fair value should be disclosed in the notes to the financial statements. Stakeholders are encouraged to review the proposals and provide comments by August 15, 2014.
Public Pension Finances Improving
Strong investment returns and better funding are contributing to a rebound for public pension finances, Bloomberg reported.


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I was thinking Jamiroquai could do a video where they are lost in a computer circuit board maze!
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Like Tron ?
It couldn't be worst that Blues Skies & WKR video (with all the respect i have for the best band of everytime )
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Dunno something cool like a woman is crying all day and then gets rescued from her pain by a nice guy
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September 7, 2010
On Tuesday, September 7, JCPA President Steve Gutow joined in Washington, DC with religious leaders from across the country to attend an emergency summit in response to rising anti-Muslim sentiment. The summit was hosted by the Islamic Society of North America and included Rabbi David Saperstein of the Religious Action Center, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, Michael Kinnaman of the National Council of Churches, and Rev. Rich Cizik of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good. The statement they released is below.
Religious Leaders Denounce Anti-Muslim Bigotry and Call for Respect for America's Tradition of Religious Liberty
As religious leaders in this great country, we have come together in our nation's capital to denounce categorically the derision, misinformation and outright bigotry being directed against America's Muslim community. We bear a sacred responsibility to honor America's varied faith traditions and to promote a culture of mutual respect and the assurance of religious freedom for all. In advance of the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, we announce a new era of interfaith cooperation.
As Jews, Christians, and Muslims, we are grateful to live in this democracy whose Constitution guarantees religious liberty for all. Our freedom to worship in congregations of our own choosing, to give witness to our moral convictions in the public square, and to maintain institutions that carry out our respective missions—all of these are bedrock American freedoms that must be vigorously guarded and defended lest they be placed at peril. The United States of America has been a beacon to the world in defending the rights of religious minorities, yet it is also sadly true that at times in our history particular groups have been singled out for unjust discrimination and have been made the object of scorn and animosity by those who have either misconstrued or intentionally distorted the vision of our founders.
In recent weeks, we have become alarmed by the anti-Muslim frenzy that has been generated over the plans to build an Islamic community center and mosque at the Park 51 site near Ground Zero in New York City. We recognize that the vicinity around the former World Trade Center, where 2,752 innocent lives were cruelly murdered on 9/11, remains an open wound in our country, especially for those who lost loved ones. Persons of conscience have taken different positions on the wisdom of the location of this project, even if the legal right to build on the site appears to be unassailable. Our concern here is not to debate the Park 51 project anew, but rather to respond to the atmosphere of fear and contempt for fellow Americans of the Muslim faith that the controversy has generated.
We are profoundly distressed and deeply saddened by the incidents of violence committed against Muslims in our community, and by the desecration of Islamic houses of worship. We stand by the principle that to attack any religion in the United States is to do violence to the religious freedom of all Americans. The threatened burning of copies of the Holy Qu'ran this Saturday is a particularly egregious offense that demands the strongest possible condemnation by all who value civility in public life and seek to honor the sacred memory of those who lost their lives on September 11. As religious leaders, we are appalled by such disrespect for a sacred text that for centuries has shaped many of the great cultures of our world, and that continues to give spiritual comfort to more than a billion Muslims today.
We are committed to building a future in which religious differences no longer lead to hostility or division between communities. Rather, we believe that such diversity can serve to enrich our public discourse about the great moral challenges that face our nation and our planet. On the basis of our shared reflection, we insist that no religion should be judged on the words or actions of those who seek to pervert it through acts of violence; that politicians and members of the media are never justified in exploiting religious differences as a wedge to advance political agendas or ideologies; that bearing false witness against the neighbor—something condemned by all three of our religious traditions—is inflicting particular harm on the followers of Islam, a world religion that has lately been mischaracterized by some as a "cult."
We call for a new day in America when speaking the truth about one another will embrace a renewed commitment to mutual learning among religions. Leaders of local congregations have a special responsibility to teach with accuracy, fairness and respect about other faith traditions. The partnerships that have developed in recent years between synagogues and churches, mosques and synagogues, and churches and mosques should provide a foundation for new forms of collaboration in interfaith education, inter-congregational visitations, and service programs that redress social ills like homelessness and drug abuse. What we can accomplish together is, in very many instances, far more than we can achieve working in isolation from one another. The good results of a more extensive collaboration between religious congregations and national agencies will undoubtedly help to heal our culture, which continues to suffer from the open wound of 9/11.
We work together on the basis of deeply held and widely shared values, each supported by the sacred texts of our respective traditions. We acknowledge with gratitude the dialogues between our scholars and religious authorities that have helped us to identify a common understanding of the divine command to love one's neighbor. Judaism, Christianity and Islam all see an intimate link between faithfulness to God and love of neighbor; a neighbor who in many instances is the stranger in our midst. We are united in our conviction that by witnessing together in celebration of human dignity and religious freedom; by working together for interfaith understanding across communities and generations; and by cooperating with each other in works of justice and mercy for the benefit of society, all of us will demonstrate our faithfulness to our deepest spiritual commitments.
We are convinced that spiritual leaders representing the various faiths in the United States have a moral responsibility to stand together and to denounce categorically derision, misinformation or outright bigotry directed against any religious group in this country. Silence is not an option. Only by taking this stand, can spiritual leaders fulfill the highest calling of our respective faiths, and thereby help to create a safer and stronger America for all of our people.


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Phone, tablet rip-offs on transit surge
(02-11) 14:58 PST San Francisco -- Riders beware - thefts on public transportation have surged recently and officials want people to unglue their eyes from their electronic screens or risk becoming a victim.
On Muni, larceny has jumped 83 percent, with 161 reports of items stolen from passengers from October through December compared with 88 reports during the same time in 2011. Robberies increased by nearly 39 percent, as 82 were reported in the last quarter of 2012.
"Almost everyone you talk to in San Francisco these days either experienced something like this where a smartphone or tablet was robbed, or they know someone who's experienced it," said Supervisor Scott Wiener, who called a hearing Thursday at City Hall about the problem.
A recent Pew Research Center study shows that about half of Americans now own smartphones or tablets, a figure Wiener said is probably higher in the tech-friendly Bay Area. Those pricey gadgets are turning out to be tempting targets for thieves looking for easy money, safety officials say.
"The types of robberies have changed from the standard 'give me your wallet' or purse snatches to electronic device theft," said Officer Ken Dam, a crime analyst for BART police. "People don't carry as much cash as they used to, and when they carry an iPhone 5, that can be sold for $400."
'Apple picking'
The Municipal Transportation Agency reported 399 cell phones thefts at or near Muni stops in 2012, and police said that half of all robberies in the city last year involved electronic devices. On BART, overall theft levels have stayed steady, but there has been a dramatic spike in stolen electronics. In 2012, 333 electronics were stolen compared with 206 in 2011 and 165 in 2010.
Dam said the most commonly stolen items are expensive Apple products. Targeting iPhones and iPads has gotten so popular among criminals that it's even earned a nickname - "Apple picking."
"Those seem to be the target because they have a good street resale value," Dam said.
During Thursday's hearing, MTA Cmdr. Mikail Ali said police have seven plainclothes officers on a Muni task force who monitor the most problematic lines, and a seven-officer Muni response team that answers to robberies and other incidents. He also said that during the America's Cup events last year, Muni drivers recognized some of the two dozen MTA-documented professional pickpockets and made extra announcements to tourists to be aware of their surroundings.
But for now, the focus will remain on educating riders. More than 2,000 signs with slogans like "Be smart with your smartphone" went up last year, and Muni security chief Lea Militello said she hopes they will make riders using their iPad next to a bus or train door think twice.
"These crimes that occur on our transit system are really crimes of opportunity," she said.
On BART, messages about preventing cell phone theft have been added to the digital displays, and a surveillance video was released to the media and the public of a "grab and go" theft of a cell phone to increase awareness of the problem.
"We recommend people use their phone sparingly and especially be aware when the train doors are opening," Dam said. "Sometimes all it takes is to look up and look around."
Personal experience
Supervisor David Campos said he recently met with 200 people in Bernal Heights who were concerned about phone theft. He said he was nearly robbed several years ago after he stepped off a bus while talking on his iPhone and attacked from behind.
"From my own personal experience I think there are things individuals can do to make ourselves safer in terms of being aware of our surroundings," he said.
A legislative solution to the problem may not be in the cards, Wiener said in an interview, because action is already being taken on a national level. A database preventing stolen smartphones from being reactivated is supposed to be in place by Nov. 30, according to CTIA, an organization representing the wireless communications industry.
Coordination is key
"Locally, I think the most effective thing we can do is keep coordinating with police and MTA and their efforts to educate people and aggressively go after those criminals," Wiener said.
Ali said anyone who is the victim of a theft and left phone-less while on Muni should tell the driver, who will call for a police response. But his advice for preventing a thief from snatching one's electronic device is simple.
"Put it in your pocket," he said.
Neal J. Riley is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @realdealneal


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Stalking the elusive Architeuthis dux
Deep-sea biologist Edith Widder was working on a ship positioned off Japan's Ogasawara Islands when Wen-Sung Chung asked her to step into the lab to see something.
Cameras followed her as she got up. This was not unusual, since the Japan Broadcasting Commission (NHK) and the Discovery Channel were funding the expedition, which was being conducted from a research yacht named Alucia leased from a billionaire hedge fund owner.
Chung was nonchalant, so it didn't occur to Widder that she was about to see the culmination of a quest that has driven ocean explorers for more than a century. She thought maybe it was going to be video of a cool shark.
The purpose of the expedition was to capture footage of the enigmatic giant squid in its natural habitat.
The animal can grow to 10.5 metres or longer, and its eye is as big as your head. But it lives about 300 metres below the surface and deeper, and it had only been glimpsed a few times at the surface and photographed alive once.
Widder is a world expert on bioluminescence, the light that countless marine animals use to communicate, especially in the dark world of the deep sea. For years she's been studying how the deep's bizarre inhabitants use the light.
Some animals use it to lure a mate, others a meal. And she suspects that certain jellyfish pulse with bioluminescence when they are getting attacked. It's a last-ditch attempt that works sort of like a burglar alarm to bring in something even bigger to attack the attacker.
Widder has spent months of her life underwater, at times piloting submersibles. For years, she has argued that scientists were getting at best a tilted view of the wonders of the deep sea.
By going down with robotic vehicles or in submersibles with lights blazing, she and others have reasoned, they were scaring lots of good stuff away. Deep-sea animals barely see any light, so a typical submersible dive is the equivalent of coming into a darkened theatre and shining a spotlight at the audience. Everything bolts.
Years ago, on a shoestring budget, she and her team built a deployable system that included a low-light camera and dim red lights, which most deep dwellers can't detect. (Their eyes are tuned to blue wavelengths, which travel farther through water.)
Then she added bait. The system, called Eye-in-the-Sea, is fitted with a device that mimics the ring of blue lights fired in a marquee pattern by certain jellyfish - the ones she thinks do the burglar alarm trick. She deployed the system for the first time in the Gulf of Mexico. Just 86 seconds later, a large squid darted into view; it was a species new to science.
Widder brought a more advanced version of that system, dubbed Medusa, aboard the Alucia. She hoped the secret weapon would attract a giant squid. They hung it about 700 metres down from a surface buoy and left it running for hours.
Watch the Pulsing Deep-Sea Lights of Bioluminescence
The giant squid has been the stuff of legend for about as long as people have sailed across oceans. Aristotle and Pliny the Elder described what may have been giant squid, which occasionally wash ashore or end up in fishermen's nets, and the species is thought to be the origin of the Norwegian kraken myth.
Countless groups in past decades have tried to manufacture giant squid encounters, investing millions, getting all the best advice from the experts, only to come back as failed crusaders.
One of the other scientists aboard the Alucia, Tsunemi Kubodera of Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science, has been hunting giant squid in these waters for years. He managed to capture some still images of one giant squid and video of another after it was caught and brought to the surface.
But none of that could compare to video of the animal alive in the deep, a view that would finally allow scientists to begin to understand the mysterious animal.
The expedition has not released expense figures, but it must have cost millions. When Chung, a graduate student at the University of Queensland, brought Widder into the lab and started fast-forwarding through the video, the scientists were already a week into a six-week expedition with nothing significant to show. Producer-types were growing tense.
As Chung skipped through footage, Widder finally saw it. The tips of three huge tentacles crept up out of the lower right corner of the screen, then undulated in front of the camera and showed off impressive rows of suckers. "I was just blown away," says Widder, "I must have said, 'Oh, my God!' about five times." She didn't fully trust that they had "captured" a giant until Steve O'Shea, a marine biologist from New Zealand, and Kubodera confirmed it was, in fact, the elusive Architeuthis dux. On the Discovery documentary you see Kubodera's face light up, then, "Oh, you've done it." Widder yells, "Yes!"
The expedition leaders didn't tell the crew what had happened at first, because they were headed to port for the July 4 (US Independence Day) and feared that too much drinking and talking might lead to a breach of the news they hoped to keep secret until they could get documentaries out.
NHK and Discovery couldn't have asked for a more dramatic story to unfold over the coming days if they had trained giant squid and given them a script. Medusa had a total of five encounters with the giants, and each time they showed just a little more leg.
Several days after the first encounter, a squid came into full view, arms waving, attacking Medusa. Widder says the sighting supports her burglar-alarm hypothesis - the squid didn't go after the eJelly that was producing a mock alarm signal, but the big thing close to it.
"This is further proof we've been exploring the oceans the wrong way," says Widder. Clyde Roper of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and a veteran of multiple giant squid hunts himself, says that Widder's focus on bioluminescence makes sense, especially considering that the giant squid has the largest eyes of any known animal.
"Why else would they have such huge eyes? To me it's undeniably because they are using them to pick up bioluminescence," he says. He agrees that the eJelly was almost certainly the key to the success. "I think that was critical to the whole scene."


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Beginning any moment now we will start migrating the Linkbucks forums to their new home. Forum downtime should be minimal.
Beginning any moment now we will start migrating the Linkbucks forums to their new home. Forum downtime should be minimal.
DNS changes are propagating and your computers should switch over to our new forums web server soon. Thus concludes our whirlwind of a migration.
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Okay two questions. What's with the registrar paste? That's just spewing with crypticness. Two, whose the lady?
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I also somehow wound up with my girlfriends Wells Fargo Platinum Visa ...
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