SOUTH AFRICA: S. African miners charged with murder of colleagues

AFP - Arrested Lonmin mine workers were on Thursday charged with the murder of 34 striking colleagues who were shot dead by South African police on August 16 during a strike over wages.

"The court today charged all the workers with murder, under the common purpose law," spokesman for the prosecutor's office Frank Lesenyego said.

Police opened fire on striking workers at the Marikana mine after a stand-off had already led to the death of 10 people including two police officers.

Following the shootings, 270 workers were arrested.

All the men were in custody and the state postponed the case until Thursday of next week to allow for further investigations.

Lesenyego said details of the murder charges would be revealed during the bail hearing.

One expert, however, questioned the charges.

"In charging the miners for the death of miners killed by the police, I don't see how common purpose doctrine could be used here," said Vincent Nmehille, a law professor at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Police have defended the shootings at the mine outside Rustenburg, northwest of Johannesburg, as self-defence.

The incident was the worst day of police violence in South Africa since the end of white-minority apartheid rule in 1994.

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Barnes & Noble continues British invasion, forges pacts with Argos, Blackwell's and Foyles

Barnes & Noble has continued its quest to stock the shelves of United Kingdom bookstores with Nooks, by adding Argos, Blackwell's and Foyles to the list of where you can get one. Those retailers will join John Lewis in carrying the Nook Simple Touch and its Glow Light-toting cousin, giving UK'ers nearly a thousand bricks and mortar sites to get one -- including bookstores at 55 colleges and universities. Those locations will join Barnes & Nobles recently launched online website in selling the e-readers -- but if you like to Touch before buying, the PR is after the break.

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Balancing investment with your Web site and Yellow Pages | City ...

Using Yellow Pages to Broaden Your Web Site?s Market

Successful Web sites often rely on a number of lead-generation tools to draw traffic. To truly reach all markets, experts recommend casting a wide net. This can be done through investing in various online resources, one of the fastest growing and proven being Internet Yellow Pages (IYP).

IYP offers advertisers dozens of localized search sites, as well as a national site, depending on the desired market. With several IYP ad types available, businesses can get creative with their campaign. Options include:

• Enhanced (sponsored) listing: With this option, the business?s information and logo are listed at the top of the listing box above the other free listings. Usually, visitors can click on the logo or a specific button to link to the business?s Web site.
• Banner ad: These advertisements appear somewhere outside of the listing box, often at the top of the Web page. They mainly serve as a branding tool and aren?t necessarily search-related like the listings. For instance, a pizzeria banner ad might appear on a page devoted to automobile shop listings. Sometimes they include animation, pop-ups and other attention-grabbing features.
• Listing with e-mail link: IYP offers the capability for consumers to immediately contact a business via an e-mail link on the listing. Not only does this feature open up the lines of communication with prospective buyers, but it also helps businesses measure which listing messages get direct results and which ones don?t.

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The benefits of tapping into Yellow Pages? online popularity show in the numbers. The latest call-tracking data reveals that:

• Yellow Pages sales return on investment (ROI) equals more than 27 to 1 for national display advertisers.
• Yellow Pages ROI equals nearly 13 to 1 for local display advertisers.
• Call volumes for a majority of Yellow Pages advertisers climbed. Specifically, some 60% of those who participated in a recent call tracking study reported increases.
• Yellow Pages advertisers that saw a spike in call volume showed an average 49% increase in leads.
• The median local Yellow Pages display ad delivers approximately 444 calls per year, totaling a price of $29 per call.
• The median national Yellow Pages display ad delivers 979 calls per year, totaling a price of $15 per call.
• When it comes to automotive, home and garden, health and beauty, and general services categories: People who use IYP (locally) individually spend 4 to 22% more than those using other search engines.
• Those who use IYP also individually spend 4 to 17% more for offline purchases in the drugstore, automotive, restaurants, and home and garden categories.

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The Payoff of Marketing with Internet Yellow Pages

Studies found that consumers who use IYP to track down a business are more likely to purchase than those surfing standard search engines. In fact, research indicates people logging onto IYP generally are focused on finding a specific service or product. Certain online marketing experts point out that IYP users seem farther along in the purchase decision cycle. Other benefits of promoting your Web site through IYP include:

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• Approximately 65 million people use IYPs each month to find products and services.
• Low risk ? Setting up an IYP account is fast with limited commitment.
• Geographically targeted on true shoppers ? IYP users can narrow their search down to a specific zip code with a few clicks of the keyboard. IYP sites appeal most to consumers ready to purchase a specific product/service.
• Ad placement & update flexibility ? IYP advertisers have the ability to quickly change promotional message, aligning it with consumer demand at the time. No close dates.
• Trackable leads make it simple to calculate ROI.

But what about people who turn to the printed Yellow Pages as the leading source for business information? An ad placed in the widely-used book, with your Web site?s URL and an online offer, works as an effective lead strategy. Many businesses use the printed version as a quick method to get in front of the traditional consumer. The ad steers the viewer to the Web site, which then educates the consumer on the actual products/ services available. Consumer psychology shows that multiple impressions help build trust and the perceived credibility of an operation.

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1. A Handful of Ideas For Scraping the Yellow Pages
2. Doorway pages are employed to boost the ranking of internet-pages in search outcomes
3. Landing Pages, And Why You Need to have Them!
4. Landing Pages, And Why You Need Them!
5. Facebook Fan Internet pages and Brand Visibility

Source: http://www.city-news.co.uk/balancing-investment-with-your-web-site-and-yellow-pages/

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Climateer Investing: "Dick Bove: Ignore Fiscal Cliff, Buy Stocks"

I'm not sure "ignore" is the term to use.
Perhaps "don't be blinded by" or "assign a lower weighting to".
Not "ignore".
From CNBC:

Investors appear unwilling to make big bets in either direction ahead of a hotly anticipated meeting of central bankers at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday.

Stocks have rallied in recent weeks on growing expectations for a third round of quantitative easing from the Fed, as well as possible action from the European Central Bank.

News from Jackson Hole could determine whether the summer rally that drove the S&P to four-year highs is sustainable or not.

According to widely followed bank analyst Dick Bove of Rochedale Securities if history is any indication, the Fed will make a move.

"The Fed provides seasonal easing this time of year," said Bove on CNBC's Kudlow & Company. "And they do it because of the holidays."...MORE

Well he's outed himself as a calendar freak.

Back when Eastern banks loaned money to their Midwestern country cousins who in turn lent it out to farmers until the autumn harvest, there was indeed a seasonal flow of funds.
These days not so much.
April 15th excepted.

Because our readers are intelligent, funny and good looking I won't belabor the point but must at least state it:
Any seasonality will disappear as more and more investors make their purchases earlier and earlier.

Anomalies do exist and some persist for years but this is simply because markets are both complex and chaotic systems. If there are excess returns it is simply because we haven't, for whatever reason, quantified the risks.
As far as I know the anomalies can't be arbitraged away so to speak of arbs in this context is nonsensical.
The best you can do is some variation of "Time Arbitrage" which isn't really an arb but is a real tool to be aware of.
For more on anomalies see CXO Advisory's search results for "Anomalies" should be a good start for anyone interested.

Source: http://climateerinvest.blogspot.com/2012/08/dick-bove-ignore-fiscal-cliff-buy-stocks.html

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Texas girl, 13, describes alleged sexual assaults

LIBERTY, Texas (AP) ? A 13-year-old Texas girl who authorities say was repeated sexually assaulted by 20 men and boys during a series of attacks two years ago cried Wednesday as a video of one of the encounters was played for jurors in the first case to go to trial.

The girl, testifying under a pseudonym, told the jury that 20-year-old defendant Eric McGowen and another man charged in the case took her to a house in Cleveland, a small Southeast Texas town where all the defendants and the girl lived, in October 2010. The girl, who was an 11-year-old at the time, said she was brought into what she described as the "baby room" in the house, and that several men or boys took turns having sex with her, including McGowen.

McGowen, one of 14 adults accused of having sex with the girl during a nearly three-month span, is charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child and faces up to life in prison if convicted.

Prosecutors played a few minutes of a video in which they say a third man charged in the case was sexually assaulting the girl. The girl testified that McGowen was in the room at the time. The girl cried as the video was played and several jurors turned away from it.

"Did the guys just take turns with you?" prosecutor Joe Warren asked.

"Yes sir," the girl said.

Prosecutors say the girl was assaulted on at least five occasions from mid-September through early December of 2010.

Eight of the 20 defendants accused in the case have pleaded guilty, including all six juveniles. A gag order has prevented prosecutors and defense attorneys from commenting about the case.

Authorities began investigating that December after one of the girl's friends told a teacher he watched a cellphone video of her being raped in an abandoned trailer.

The case sparked outrage in Cleveland, a community of roughly 9,000 residents 45 miles northeast of Houston. Some residents drew widespread condemnation for suggesting the girl was partly responsible because they say she wore makeup, looked older than her age and wasn't properly supervised by her parents.

The case also has been complicated by a belief among many in the predominantly black neighborhood where several of the suspects live that the arrests were racially motivated. All of the suspects are black, while the girl is Hispanic.

The trial is being held in nearby Liberty, the county seat.

On Tuesday, McGowen was dealt a setback when state District Judge Mark Morefield ruled that prosecutors could admit as evidence a videotaped police interview of McGowen in which he admitted he and eight other men took turns having sex with the girl, sometimes two at a time, the Houston Chronicle reported.

In the video, which was played in court without the jury present, McGowen initially denied ever touching the girl, but he later broke down and told investigators she performed oral sex on him. He said one of the others used a beer bottle on her, the paper reported.

Some of those present for the alleged attack made videos or took cellphone photos, McGowen said. Reporters weren't allowed in the courtroom when that footage was played.

McGowen's lawyer, Matthew Poston, sought unsuccessfully to have McGowen's statements to investigators deemed inadmissible, arguing that police had an arrest warrant for his client but hadn't served it when he was brought to the station for questioning, the paper reported.

Warren pointed out that McGowen was advised of his rights on video before he was questioned.

One of the two adults who pleaded guilty in the case received a 15-year prison term and the other is awaiting sentencing. The six juveniles each received 7-year prison terms that were suspended, putting them on probation for that amount of time.

Most of the adult defendants in the case face charges of aggravated sexual assault of a child, while four face a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/texas-girl-13-describes-alleged-sexual-assaults-154515966.html

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Common virus may lead to Type 2 diabetes | MNN - Mother Nature ...

Infection with a common virus may increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes in older adults, a new study from the Netherlands suggests.

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In the study, adults ages 85 and over who were infected with cytomegalovirus were about twice as likely to have Type 2 diabetes compared with those not infected.

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Cytomegalovirus is a type of herpes virus found in 50 to 80 percent of adults over age 40; most people experience no symptoms of the infection.

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The findings suggest that cytomegalovirus infection plays a role in the development of Type 2 diabetes in the elderly, the researchers said. However, the study found an association, not a cause-effect link.

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While the findings are interesting, researchers need studies that follow people forward in time to find out whether the virus could cause Type 2 diabetes, said Dr. Rifka Schulman, an endocrinologist at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y.

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In addition, because the study was conducted in elderly people, the findings may not apply to other populations, Schulman said.

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For now, well-established risk factors such as obesity, high blood pressure and lack of exercise should be considered the primary causes of Type 2 diabetes, she said.

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Linking diabetes and infection

Previous studies have linked cytomegalovirus and Type 1 diabetes, but studies looking at the virus and Type 2 diabetes have had inconsistent results. One previous study looked at a generally younger group of adults than the new study ? between ages 45 and 84 ? and found no link between cytomegalovirus infection and Type 2 diabetes.

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In the new study, the researcher analyzed information from 549 elderly adults in the Netherlands.

About 80 percent were infected with cytomegalovirus, and 15 percent had Type 2 diabetes.

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About 17 percent of those infected with cytomegalovirus had Type 2 diabetes, whereas 7.9 percent of those without the virus had diabetes.

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The findings held even after the researchers took into account factors that could affect the results, including participants' gender, income, education, smoking status and number of medications.

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Behind the link

The researchers speculated that cytomegalovirus may predispose people to diabetes by harming cells of the pancreas. The pancreas produces insulin, a hormone that is critical for getting sugar (glucose) into cells. Type 2 diabetes develops when the body becomes desensitized to insulin, and the pancreas cannot produce enough insulin to compensate.

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It's also possible that Type 2 diabetes impairs the immune system, and as a result, makes individuals vulnerable to cytomegalovirus infection. However, this explanation is not as likely, because people are often infected with cytomegalovirus in childhood, the researchers said.

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It may be that cytomegalovirus infection increases diabetes risk only after years of infection, which could explain why earlier studies in younger adults did not find a link, the researchers said.

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The study was published today (Aug. 27) in the journal Immunity and Ageing.

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Shia LaBeouf discusses his nudity in music video

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Just because Shia LaBeouf appears completely nude in the new Sigur Ros video and has said he's willing to perform real sex acts in Lars Von Trier's upcoming "The Nymphomaniac," that doesn't mean he's going through an exhibitionist phase.

The 26-year-old actor says he's "not choosing to be naked all the time" and that he "didn't get into (acting) to be a porn guy."

"We were just playing characters," he explains.

Still, the 8? -minute video for "Fjogur Piano" shows the "Transformers" star naked and caressing the bare breasts of his female co-star. He said people have been responding well to the video so he feels "quite confident" about his performance.

LaBeouf does not get naked in "Lawless," opening Wednesday, about a West Virginia moonshine business during the Prohibition era.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/shia-labeouf-discusses-nudity-music-video-153026940.html

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Student shot at Md. high school; suspect held

PERRY HALL, Md. (AP) ? A student was shot and critically wounded on the first day of classes at a Baltimore County high school Monday and police said a suspect was quickly taken into custody.

County police said the wounded Perry Hall High School student was flown to a hospital. The 17-year-old male student was in critical condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, a hospital spokeswoman said.

No one else was reported injured.

A male suspect was taken into custody after the shooting, police said. The suspect is a student, but police did not say where he attended school.

The school was evacuated, and students were being escorted to a nearby shopping center and middle school.

WJZ-TV showed video of a shirtless male with his hands behind his back being put into a police cruiser.

Perry Hall is a middle-class community along the Interstate 95 corridor, northeast of Baltimore city. The school is the largest in the county, with 2,200 students.

County Councilman David Marks, who lives next door to the school, said he had received dozens of phone calls and text messages from worried parents and residents.

"This is a very comfortable, very safe community, and it's an excellent high school," said Marks, who graduated from Perry Hall. "I think this is an aberration, but clearly one that is horrifying, particularly on the first day of school."

Television coverage showed scores of police cars surrounding the school and parked on neighborhood streets. A group of officers with weapons drawn staked out a corner of the building, one of them lying prone on the ground and appearing to cover a particular area of the campus. Hundreds of students streamed away from the school toward a nearby shopping center where they met their parents.

Two students who spoke with WBAL-TV described hearing a popping sound in the cafeteria and initially thinking someone was playing a prank. One student said she then saw the shooter with a gun near the vending machines and that a guidance counselor then got the suspect up against the machines and got the gun away from him. The students described some people running from the cafeteria, while others ducked under tables.

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Associated Press writer Ben Nuckols in Washington contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/student-shot-md-high-school-suspect-held-170805808.html

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Romneys practice speeches at school auditorium

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives at Brewster Academy for convention preparations on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 in Wolfeboro, N.H. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives at Brewster Academy for convention preparations on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 in Wolfeboro, N.H. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife Ann arrive at Brewster Academy for convention preparations on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 in Wolfeboro, N.H. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife Ann arrive at Brewster Academy for convention preparations on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 in Wolfeboro, N.H. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

WOLFEBORO, N.H. (AP) ? Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, spent Sunday evening at a local high school auditorium rehearsing their speeches to the Republican National Convention.

The Romney campaign said the presumptive nominee expected to continue preparing for his nomination acceptance speech on Monday. Romney was scheduled to speak Thursday night at the convention while his wife was to address the delegates on Tuesday night.

Both were using a teleprompter as part of their preparations. An electronic visual text isn't unusual for major speeches. Republicans have turned the mention of a teleprompter into a laugh line and a dig at President Barack Obama because of his routine use of the device.

Romney briefly addressed reporters near his New Hampshire lakeside vacation home as aides and party officials scrambled to reorganize the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., because of weather concerns. He had been silent on the developing weather conditions, aside from a Twitter message Saturday night.

When asked about the storm, Romney said: "I hope everybody's fine there. I'm concerned about the people that are going to be affected by it." He also predicted "a great convention."

The Gulf Coast was bracing for the possibility that Tropical Storm Isaac could become a dangerous hurricane. The storm has already pushed back the start of the convention by one day.

"We're 100 percent full steam ahead on Tuesday," said Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, expressing confidence the one-day delay would be the extent of the cancellations

Federal emergency officials on Sunday warned residents in Florida and the Gulf states to monitor storm condition and follow the directions of local officials. The storm raked the Florida Keys to the south of the convention city en route to a projected landfall along the Gulf Coast.

Associated Press

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Last rebel group signs deal with Central African Republic

BANGUI (Reuters) - Central African Republic's last armed rebel group signed a peace deal with the government on Saturday that was designed to end years of violence in the country.

"We picked up guns to fight the bad governance, corruption, nepotism and exclusion that characterised this regime, and we think that our message has been heard," Abdoulaye Issene Ramadan, leader of the CPJP rebel group, said in the capital Bangui. "Today we bury the hatchet."

Central African Republic has been plagued by years of misrule since independence from France in 1960 and President Francois Bozize, who came to power in a 2003 coup, had faced low-level insurgencies from 2005 to last year.

The four other main rebel groups signed peace deals with the government in 2008.

CPJP fighters, concentrated in the country's northwest, clashed with government troops until the middle of last year when a temporary ceasefire was agreed.

Central African Republic is rich in minerals but is among the world's least developed and most isolated countries. Investment in its mineral wealth has been hindered by the decades of instability.

Bozize won a new term last year in an election that was dismissed as fraudulent by the opposition.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/last-rebel-group-signs-deal-central-african-republic-082857832.html

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Storm Isaac hits Florida, threatens U.S. Gulf Coast

KEY WEST, Florida (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac lashed south Florida with winds and heavy rain on Sunday after battering the Caribbean, threatening to interrupt most U.S. offshore oil production in the Gulf of Mexico and disrupting plans for the Republican National Convention in Tampa.

Isaac is expected to strengthen to a Category 2 hurricane and hit the Gulf Coast somewhere between Florida and Louisiana at midweek - on or near the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina - the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in an advisory.

A hurricane warning was issued for the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, including New Orleans, which was devastated when Katrina struck the city on August 29, 2005, killing more than 1,800 people and causing billions of dollars of damage to the Gulf Coast.

In Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency and said 15 low-lying parishes outside New Orleans' newly built, $14.5 billion flood defense system would likely be under mandatory evacuation orders by Monday.

"There's really nothing that's going to stop this storm from forming and from strengthening," said Jindal, a seasoned crisis manager who has weathered such disasters as the 2010 BP oil spill.

On Mississippi's Gulf Coast, residents started stocking up on supplies and securing their homes. "It is packed. They are clearing the shelves," said Lindy Stewart after shopping at a Sam's Club in Gulfport. Stewart said she bought bread, lunch meat and other "stuff you need to survive a couple of days without power."

The Mississippi State Port Authority ordered the port of Gulfport cleared of all cargo vessels and cargo containers.

Isaac is forecast to become a hurricane either late Monday or Tuesday. The NHC said Isaac was expected to eventually intensify to a Category 2 hurricane with "extremely dangerous" sustained winds of 105 miles per hour as it swept up the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Forecasters are predicting a more westward track that could bring Isaac over the heart of the U.S. offshore oil patch, which produces about 23 percent of U.S. oil output and 7 percent of its natural gas output.

SHUTTING OIL PRODUCTION

Meteorologists at Weather Insight, an arm of Thomson Reuters, predict the storm will spur short-term shutdowns of 85 percent of the U.S. offshore oil production capacity and 68 percent of the natural gas output.

With the threat to offshore oil infrastructure and Louisiana refineries, U.S. crude oil prices traded up 75 cents to $96.90 a barrel in Asia trading early Monday.

Once ashore, the storm could wreak havoc on low-lying fuel refineries along the Gulf Coast that account for about 40 percent of U.S. refining capacity.

That could send gasoline prices spiking just ahead of the U.S. Labor Day holiday, analysts said. "It's going right in the heart of refinery row," Phil Flynn, an analyst with Price Futures Group in Chicago, said on Sunday.

London-based BP Plc, the biggest U.S. Gulf producer, said it was shutting production at all of its Gulf of Mexico oil and gas platforms and evacuating all workers on Sunday.

At 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) on Sunday, Isaac was about 40 miles southwest of Key West at the southernmost tip of the U.S. mainland, packing top sustained winds of 60 miles per hour, and churning southwest at 16 miles per hour.

Isaac was getting better organized and faced favorable conditions, increasing the possibility the storm could strengthen beyond a Category 2 hurricane, said NHC meteorologist David Zelinsky.

Tropical-force winds from the massive storm stretched across 400 miles, with rain bands extending even further, he added.

"It certainly is a large storm," he said, noting that wind gusts of 60 mph had been detected as far apart as Key West and Palm Beach.

The winds forced cancellations of hundreds of flights in and out of Miami, Fort Lauderdale and other south Florida airports. Miami Mayor Carlos Gimenez reported more than 500 cancellations affecting Miami International Airport alone.

More than half of the restaurants and other businesses were shuttered on Sunday in the tourist haven of Key West after many visitors heeded official warnings to head home early. Isaac began moving away from the Florida Keys on Sunday evening.

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION SCHEDULE DISRUPTED

Republicans, who will formally nominate former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney as their presidential candidate for the November election, will convene their four-day meeting on Monday as scheduled, then recess until Tuesday.

Tampa, located on Florida's west coast, still faces a threat of both winds and heavy rains from Isaac. But forecasters said a slight westward shift in the storm's track helped put Tampa out of harm's way.

In Haiti, Isaac added to the misery of more than 350,000 survivors of the 2010 earthquake still living in flimsy resettlement camps as water gushed into tents and corrugated plastic shacks ripped apart by the wind.

Authorities in the impoverished nation said on Sunday the storm had killed eight people, including three children.

In the Dominican Republic, officials said three people were missing, including the mayor of a town near Santo Domingo who was swept away as he tried to save another person from a flooded river.

No deaths or injuries were reported in Cuba, which got off lightly when the storm crossed its eastern flank instead of raking up the length of the island as originally predicted.

(Writing by Tom Brown,; Additional reporting by David Adams and Kevin Gray in Miami, Kathy Finn in New Orleans, Emily Le Coz in Tupelo, Matthew Robinson in New York, Kristen Hays in Houston, Jeff Franks and Nelson Acosta in Havana, Susana Ferreira in Port-au-Prince and Manuel Jimenez in Santo Domingo; Editing by David Adams and Philip Barbara)

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Spotted: Rihanna and Rob Kardashian!

Rihanna may view Chris Brown as the love of her life, but the singer considered Rob Kardashian the date of her Saturday this weekend, as photographic evidence points to the pair spending a whole lot of time together.

TMZ has posted pics of Kardashian and Rihanna go-karting and then partying last night at Playhouse in Hollywood.

There were actually rumors of a fling between this expected pair in February, but little has been heard about them as an item since.

Rob, in fact, is getting both hot and heavy with Rita Ora, as sources confirm the couple recently got each other's names tattooed on their hands.

So might Kardashian and Rihanna simply have been hanging out as friends? Of course. But what fun would that be to speculate about?!?

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How to Find Internet Marketing Success on Ebay

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Most internet marketers get their start by selling things on E-bay. What was once basically the internet?s biggest garage sale has now become the jumping off point for many an internet marketing career. If the lure of online marketing has been nagging at you, there really aren?t too many better ways to discover if it?s right for you than Ebay marketing. However, you have to realize there?s more to it than throwing up a list of hand-me-down clothes and crossing your fingers. Let?s continue and we?ll show you some cool tips that will help you work a bit smarter with Ebay marketing.

You really want to be very careful about what you decide on for your Ebay member name. A name like, ?toocute4u,? might be cute to you, but it?s not cute to prospective buyers. It?s best to select a name that?s associated with, or similar to, either your name or the name of your business. You?ll be taken much more seriously by Ebay buyers. Remember, this is the name that people will associate with you and your business. Imagine a few years from now, and you?re successful, if you chose some name that you think is cute or clever, it could be embarrassing to you later.

If you?re new it?s probably best if you stayed with selling items you?re familiar with, or know a lot about. You will find that your sales will be higher if you enjoy what you?re selling and know about it. Your working knowledge of your products will make you a better sales person especially when people ask questions. It is harder to sell something that you do not use or do not like.

Never hurts to keep tabs on what?s selling at a bargain, you never know what you can pick-up and resell at Ebay. Is a local business closing its doors and selling things at liquidation prices? This method can bring you multiples of the same product you can offer on Ebay. You can find great things at yard sales and even through online sales! Depending on what it is, you can certainly sometimes find people who want damaged items, or even broken goods. If you keep reminding yourself to look for deals, your mind will respond and start noticing them more often.

Earning money online doesn?t necessarily have to be hard. It?s true that very many marketers who are now doing very well first started marketing on Ebay. Nothing really beats it as a place to experiment and see if this business is right for you. If you like what you are doing with online auctions, and are having some success with them, it is possible that you could develop a full time internet marketing career!

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Debt crisis: live

Business investment fell by 1.5% in the quarter as fears over the Eurozone and a lack of access to funding weighs, while exports fell by 1.7% following the recent GBP strength and the lack of global aggregate demand. This paints a picture of an economy that is holding on grimly to some semblance of performance and that further headwinds from the Eurozone or elsewhere could be catastrophic.

Annalisa Piazza at Newedge Strategy adds that the picture still remains "very weak":

The expenditure breakdown shows a very sluggish picture for the UK economy, due to the combination of the slower business cycle and negative effects of the Jubilee liong weekend in early June.

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Looking at the main sectors, industrial activity fell by 0.9% q/q, partially affected by the closure of some plants during the long weekend in June. The services industry fell by a modest 0.1% q/q whilst the construction sector remained a major drag, falling by nearly 4%. part of the decline might be seen as an effect of bad weather conditions in June.

All in all, some one-off factors might explain part of the 0.5% decline in UK GDP. However, we still see a very weak picture in the details and no signs that the economy might recover any time soon.

09.46 Although the the second-quarter recession is shallower than initially feared, commentators point out that the overall picture is still none too rosy.

09.31 As expected, Britain's GDP has been revised up to a -0.5pc contraction in the second quarter, compared to the previous estimate of a 0.7pc shrink.

The contraction might have been less than previously feared, but it's still the biggest quarterly fall in GDP since the first quarter of 2009.

09.13 The timing of these talks between Merkel and Samaras appear to be a bit of a movable feast; it now appears they will kick off at 10.45 UK time.

Other political events happening today include a Spanish cabinet meeting and Italy's Mario Monti is also meeting with his cabinet to review their new plan to spur economic growth.

08.47 Even though Angela Merkel and Antonis Samaras are meeting for crisis talks today, we're not expecting any decisions to come out of the chinwag.

Earlier this week when the German chancellor visited the Molodvan capital, Chisinau, she said "we won't find solutions on Friday", reiterating that leaders must await a report being drawn up by the troika of Greece's international creditors.

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08.34 Even as Angela Merkel meets Antonis Samaras, the German government is reportedly calculating the economic cost of a Greek exit from the eurozone.

A special working group, led by deputy finance minister Thomas Steffen, is working on scenarios in the case that Greece is forced to withdraw from the 17-nation bloc, the Financial Times Deutschland reported today.

"Colleagues are making calculations about the financial consequences [of an exit] and are considering how a domino effect on other euro member states might be prevented," it quoted a finance industry source as saying.

The ten-member working group, which is made up of officials from various departments of the finance ministry, wanted to be fully prepared for a possible "negative scenario," the source added.

08.25 Antonis Samaras might be expected to ask Angela Merkel for more breathing space, but others are urging Greece to press ahead with tough reforms.

Klaus Regling, the head of the European Stability Facility - Europe's bailout fund, has said that Greece's future in the eurozone depends on Athens' ability to implement painful economic reforms. Giving a lecture in Singapore, he said:

Nobody wants to see Greece leave the euro area. It would be the most expensive solution for Greece and for other member states, and I also don't want to see Greece leave.

But it's also true that it depends on Greek action. They must implement the structural and fiscal adjustments they committed to undertake in exchange for receiving financial assistance.

They have to deliver, otherwise financial assistance could stop, not because we want it to stop but two sides of the bargain have to be in place.

08.15 On the subject of economic data, we're also expecting the latest estimate of Britain's GDP today. In July, figures showed that the UK economy contracted by 0.7pc in the three months to the end of June.

But, the Office for National Statistics is now expected to revise up its initial estimate of second-quarter GDP to -0.5pc in light of better-than-expected construction and industrial production figures.

08.10 The latest round of eurozone shuttle diplomacy comes against a backdrop of economic ill health. Disapponting data yesterday showed the downturn in the eurozone economy had extended into a seventh month, with the composite index coming in at 46.6 in August, compared to 46.5 in July. A number below 50 marks a contraction.

Services activity shrank to 47.5 from 47.9, marking a two-month low. Manufacturing output ticked up, however, rising to 44.6 from 43.4 in July.

Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit, commented:

The August Markit Eurozone Flash PMI reinforces the prevailing view of the economy dropping back into recession during the third quarter of 2012. Taken together, the July and August readings would historically be consistent with GDP falling by around 0.5%-0.6% quarter-on-quarter, so it would take a substantial bounce in September to change this outlook.

08.05 Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras is travelling to Berlin for talks today with Angela Merkel in an effort to gain some breathing space for his crisis-wracked country. The talks should start at around 11.45 UK time.

Their chinwag follows a meeting between Mrs Merkel and Francois Hollande yesterday, where the German chancellor urged Greece to stick to its reforms, saying:

It?s important to me that we all stand by our obligations and wait for the troika report and see what the result is. We and I will encourage Greece to pursue the path of reform that demands a lot from the people.

08.00 Good morning and welcome back to our live coverage of the European debt crisis.

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How Video Can Be The Game Changer For Internet Marketers

An Article By Dennis O?Brien

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oday, many people are looking for something they can in fact respond to instead of the most common guides and special reviews presently provided across the world-wide-web. At this moment, more than ever, you will find there?s a concern for the home business marketer to think of any unique technique to encourage consumers into the purchase of a specific solution.

Unquestionably the item which seems to be capable of is actually the video product. Video has become one of the biggest promotion tools around right now. On this particular point, we?re going to evaluate what you need and ways in which you go about making your very own video piece for the net. Many reasons exist why the video method is currently beginning to go above and beyond your penned word, and then listed below are actually basically a small sample of factors.

You will recognize that people interact far better to the things they view and hear, rather than whatever they can just read. Most people are more stimulated whenever they sit back and watch something that they will enjoy. Using a video presentation rather than the written and published word is an excellent method of conveying facts much more clearly and representing the product or service better.

Video Marketing Can Easily Outweigh Other Methods

Actually, for most people nowadays, the video strategy is easily the better solution when compared to the more standard options. But there is one particular dilemma that a lot of marketers seem to deal with whenever using this kind of choice, for the reason that it appears to be a challenging method to successfully make one.

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Nonetheless, so long as you possess the right knowledge in order to move forward, then this should not be a problem. Actually, developing a video product really should be as basic as baking a cake. But first ly, we need to check out the measures that will be essential in order to be able to produce a good quality video product.

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Pick a subject. It?s a good idea that you just select one which you?re definitely familiar with. Keep in mind, it must be both engaging and also helpful to all your future audience. Prepare an overview on what topic you?ll discuss. Also carry out any further analysis you require to help make certain that you?ve all the things available.

Tools You Need For Video Marketing

Get yourself a digital camcorder to be able to make the video presentation. You can then decide whether you want to add audio tracks during real time (while actually recording) or throughout the editing procedure. Should your video entails recording the computer?s desktop, you?ll need to get your own screen capture software application. You are able to download one via several sites, including techsmith.com where you?ll find Jing a free screen capture program.

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This enables you to record your computer screen in .avi format. In addition, the application allows you to record the sound in real time, or alternatively you can create a separate audio file through the Windows Sound Recorder and then synchronizing both formats at a later time. You will need to edit the video file by using a video editing software package which we?ll check out in greater detail in a later post.

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And of course what kit would be complete without my most favourite video marketing tool Talk Fusion which will allow you to send your video directly to those already on your list or sign up using one of their Opt In forms

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There are certainly a lot of these software packages you can purchase, but Windows XP features a free movie maker software application already. You can also find it by searching online. Should you elect to offer your video as a download to your audience, you?ll then have to turn the video file to a suitable format and compress its size.

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Having said that, if you want to physically give this online video to your audience, you will have to burn this on to a Dvd or Video CD then you deliver them. Once all of the above phases are actually completed, your video product is now in a position to be distributed or sent via Talk Fusion.

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NCAA Football Preview - West Virginia Mountaineers - WBIR-TV

NCAA Football Preview - West Virginia Mountaineers
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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - 2011 SEASON IN REVIEW: West Virginia won its first two games of the 2011 campaign rather easily, but a 37-31 triumph over Maryland wound up being closer than many expected. Still, at 3-0 the Mountaineers were feeling ...

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Identify regions for improvement. Whenever you take time to assess regions in your lifetime that happen to be within your manage and need boosting, you accept you are not excellent, so you give yourself authorization to modify. It also helps to create lower what you wish to improve and maintain it within a place in which you can?t assist but often view it.

Low self-esteem problems are typically component of a vicious circle. We all do not wish to highlight ourselves, so we slouch and slump our way into oblivion. Split this habit! Standing upright directly and exercising good posture jobs a confident image, shades muscle tissues, and raises our feeling of self-impression in a manner that is right away visible to ourselves as well as to others.

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Study: Coverage of Obama, Romney highly negative

News coverage of both major presidential candidates has been more negative this year than in almost any other recent election, with President Barack Obama cast as failing to lift the nation's limping economy and Republican Mitt Romney framed as a plutocrat and corporate raider, a study of campaign media coverage found.

The report by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism released Thursday examined coverage by 50 major media outlets over a 10-week period from the end of May to early August. It found that the "master narratives" about Obama and Romney have been equally unfavorable, with some 72 percent of stories about Obama being negative along with 71 percent of stories about Romney.

Project for Excellence Director Tom Rosenstiel said the reporting on both candidates seemed largely to be driven by each campaign's talking points rather than a more dispassionate assessment of who the candidates are and what they say they will do in the next four years.

"The media are more of an enabler and a conduit for partisan rhetoric than we've ever seen before," Rosenstiel said. "It's been happening steadily over time, and this year, it really jumped out at us as inexorable. And it helps explain why this campaign feels so negative."

The 2004 presidential contest ? Republican President George W. Bush ran for re-election against Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts ? was similarly negative, the report said. But Rosenstiel said the underlying reasons for the negativity this year are very different.

"The coverage in 2004 was really dominated by the controversy over Iraq. This year, the coverage is really a reflection of what the candidates and their surrogates are saying about each other every day," Rosenstiel said.

Among the findings in the study:

?The economy is overwhelmingly driving coverage of Obama, with most stories either portraying the president as unable to improve the nation's economic situation or suggesting that his policies had prevented it from getting worse. Stories with the more negative assessment outnumbered the more positive assessment by more than a 2-1 margin.

?Stories about Romney largely cast the former Massachusetts governor as a cold-eyed capitalist from his tenure at the private equity firm Bain Capital or as an elitist out of touch with the concerns of ordinary Americans.

?Stories about what each candidate says he wants to do as president ? Obama's assertion that he wants to help build the middle class and Romney's claim to have the experience to fix the economy ? are largely drowned out by negative reports.

?Voter perceptions are often at odds with the media narrative. A recent Pew poll found that 52 percent of voters said Obama was a person of good moral character, but that assessment represented just 1 percent of the coverage about him.

The study was based on an analysis of 1,772 assertions that appeared in more than 800 stories from major news outlets in radio, cable and network broadcast television, newspaper front pages and the most popular news websites in the country.

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Human lungs brush out intruders

ScienceDaily (Aug. 23, 2012) ? A runny nose and a wet cough caused by a cold or an allergy may not feel very good. But human airways rely on sticky mucus to expel foreign matter, including toxic and infectious agents, from the body.

Now, a study by Brian Button and colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, helps to explain how human airways clear such mucus out of the lungs. The findings may give researchers a better understanding of what goes wrong in many human lung diseases, such as cystic fibrosis (CF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma.

The researchers' report appears in the 24 August issue of the journal Science.

"The air we breathe isn't exactly clean, and we take in many dangerous elements with every breath," explains Michael Rubinstein, a co-author of the Science report. "We need a mechanism to remove all the junk we breathe in, and the way it's done is with a very sticky gel called mucus that catches these particles and removes them with the help of tiny cilia."

"The cilia are constantly beating, even while we sleep," he says. "In a coordinated fashion, they push mucus containing foreign objects out of the lungs, and we either swallow it or spit it out. These cilia even beat for a few hours after we die. If they stopped, we'd be flooded with mucus that provides a fertile breeding ground for bacteria."

Until now, most researchers have subscribed to a "gel-on-liquid" model of mucus clearance, in which a watery "periciliary" layer acts as a lubricant and separates mucus from epithelial cells that line human airways. But this old explanation fails to explain how mucus remains in its own distinct layer.

"We can't have a watery layer separating sticky mucus from our cells because there is an osmotic pressure in the mucus that causes it to expand in water," Rubinstein says. "So what is really keeping the mucus from sticking to our cells?"

The researchers used a combination of imaging techniques to observe a dense meshwork in the periciliary layer of human bronchial epithelial cell cultures. The brush-like layer consists of protective molecules that keep sticky mucus from reaching the cilia and epithelial cells, thus ensuring the normal flow of mucus.

Based on their findings, Button and the other researchers propose a "gel-on-brush" form of mucus clearance in which mucus moves atop a brush-like periciliary layer instead of a watery one. They suggest that this mechanism captures the physics of human mucus clearance more accurately.

"This layer -- this brush -- seems to be very important for the healthy functioning of human airways," according to Rubinstein. "It protects cells from sticky mucus, and it creates a second barrier of defense in case viruses or bacteria penetrate through the mucus. They would not penetrate through the brush layer because the brush is denser."

"We found that there is a specific condition, below which the brush is healthy and cells are happy," Rubinstein explains. "But above this ideal condition, in diseases like CF or COPD, the brush becomes compressed and actually prevents the normal cilia beating and healthy flow of mucus."

The researchers explain that, whenever the mucus layer gets too dense, it can crash through the periciliary brush, collapse the cilia and stick to the cell surface.

"The collapse of this brush is what can lead to immobile mucus and result in infection, inflammation and eventually the destruction of lung tissue and the loss of lung function," says Rubinstein. "But our new model should guide researchers to develop novel therapies to treat lung diseases and provide them with biomarkers to track the effectiveness of those therapies."

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Educational Choices: Home Education

Some parents choose to educate their children themselves, outside school. This may be their their first choice, because they want to take responsibility for the education themselves and allow their child to learn in a flexible,?individualized?way within a family setting. For others it is?a response to school not working for that child, sometimes due to bullying, special needs or?educational?issues needs.

Home educators are a diverse group with a range of reasons for choosing home education, and different backgrounds. You do not need to be a teacher to home educate.

Educational approaches:

Home education covers the widest range of approaches, from formal work, as used in schools, to informal learning. Some families use a structured adult-led curriculum and there are many different ones available, as well as lots of resources for the National Curriculum. Others are autonomous, with the child leading the education. Often this emphasises informal learning through play and conversation but may also include structured worksheets and courses. Many use elements of both approaches. The individualised nature of home education means that parents can tailor every child?s education by picking the approach that works for them at that time.

Home educated children can take formal qualifications, such as IGCSEs, GCSEs and A-Levels either through correspondence courses, as external candidates or at further education college.

Finding out more:

There are a number of national organisations that support home educators.

You local public library should also have books on explaining more about home education.

Getting started:

If your child is not at school yet, you do not have to inform anyone that you are home educating since education is a parental responsibility.

If you want to remove your child from school then you need to inform the school in writing, and they will inform your Local Authority.?The Local Authority has a duty to act if it thinks that a suitable education isn?t taking place, and you should respond to any enquires. Local authorities often prefer visits, but you may instead provide written information to satisfy their enquiries.

Many home educators start by joining one of the national organisations and using its local contact lists to meet other home educators. There are local support networks (try searching yahoo and google groups for one in your area) through which home educators pool resources and take part in a wide range of group activities and social events.? Talking to home educators is a great way to find out if home education is for your family and how others go about it.

References:

Elective Home Education Guidelines

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GW nears unveil of new logo - The GW Hatchet

Two years of work by two top-notch branding agencies will culminate Sunday when GW releases its new logo.

The University brought on FutureBrand and 160over90 ? companies that have headed up high-profile branding and marketing campaigns for clients like the London 2012 Olympics and Mercedes Benz, respectively ? to craft a new ?visual identity.? It will be revealed publicly for the first time at a showy celebration in University Yard, with free food, music, giveaways and a mobile studio that will record students? GW stories.

Within weeks, the University?s marketing brochures, websites, videos and advertisements will reflect the new image and message.

Associate Vice President for External Relations Sarah Baldassaro declined to comment on the details of the contracts ? including the cost ? related to the two agencies. She said the bill was footed primarily out of the Office of External Relations budget, and the pocket of a donor whose name was not disclosed. She also declined to release the price tag for the unveiling event and mobile studio.

Michigan State University paid 160over90 $478,000 for a similar rebranding campaign in 2010, according to its student newspaper, The State News.

Air Malta paid FutureBrand just over $501,000 in July for that the airline?s new logo, according to Malta Today and the Times of Malta, two of the country?s newspapers.

McCann Worldgroup, FutureBrand?s parent company, billed the U.S. Army $1 billion for its ?Army Strong? slogan and advertising campaign in 2006, according to USA Today.

At GW, FutureBrand was tasked with the big-picture design work. The company created the logo, developed the new color palette and selected a typeface from the sans serif family ? which includes fonts like Arial ? rather than a serif font like Times New Roman. In an initial litmus test, the firm interviewed students, faculty and staff on what they felt the University stands for.

Mark Thwaites, creative director at FutureBrand, said one-on-one conversations helped craft GW?s new brand.

?The crux of that work was defining the fact that it is in Washington D.C., but more than just being a pin on a map, it is really the epicenter of policy of the world, so we tried to bring a bigger story to that,? Thwaites said.

Once the team identified GW?s most unique features ? which he would not discuss ? Thwaites said they became the ?pillars? that will unify the new message across different media platforms and the University.

160over90 determined how to apply FutureBrand?s ideas to materials like the signs that deck Foggy Bottom?s streets to identify the campus and mark apparel and marketing materials.

The current logo, which features a solemn right-facing George Washington, is not easily replicated on online platforms ? a problem University officials have noted as messaging moves further into the digital world.

?[The old logo] tended to create a bit of a ransom-note type feel in application, so we really wanted to clean that up and bring a science to when you use the typography ? when you use certain colors and color palettes ? so we did all that,? Thwaites said.

John McGlasson, assistant director of visual design, created a new portrait of George Washington based on a bust created by Jean-Antoine Houdon, a French sculptor. The statue of George Washington in University Yard is a cast of that work.

The new portrait will feature a serif font and a sepia-toned George Washington facing forward with an upward tilt.

While the old logo was emblazoned with ?The George Washington University,? the new logo refers to the school?s shortened, colloquial name: GW.

The University quietly revealed the logo to a group of about 100 faculty and staff members in March. Vice President for External Relations Lorraine Voles said the audience had a generally positive reaction, with criticism like the boldness of its logos too extreme. She said the comments were taken into account as the design process continued through the summer.

The new brand will not change athletic gear or apparel, although members of the Department of Athletics and Recreation were on a 75-person feedback group made up of students, faculty and staff that met throughout the process.

It could take up to a year and a half for the full rollout of new marketing materials. Banners across campus and web tools will change immediately after the Aug. 26 event, but other materials such as brochures, business cards, apparel and advertisements will be phased in over time as offices restock their materials.

Source: http://www.gwhatchet.com/2012/08/23/gw-nears-unveil-of-new-logo/

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