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All signs are pointing to veteran left-arm spinner Daniel Vettori playing his first test for New Zealand after a gap of ten months.

Elements of the Fish Bone chapel being 3D printed If you're an artist or designer interested in applying your creative skills to life sciences, chances are that you've heard about Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Awards, an international competition that invites artists and designers to submit proposals to a jury of experts and develop them in close collaboration with The Netherlands most prestigious Life Sciences research institutes. The outcome of the competition range from the outrageously bold (the now famous bulletproof skin) to the ambitiously eco-friendly. The winners of this year's edition of the competition are Charlotte Jarvis who recently talked to me about her Ergo Sum project, Howard Boland and Laura Cinti with The Living Mirror (more about this one soon, i hope) and Haseeb Ahmed who is planning to digitally fabricate a Fish Bone Chapel. The artist is teaming up with the Netherlands Toxico-Genomics Center and Prof. Jos Kleinjans to build an architectural structure which, as its name suggests, will be made of fish bones. The vertebrae vaults, scaled walls and beating circulation systems of this architecture are derived from enlarged 3D prints and the skeletal structure of fish exposed to mutagenic toxins. Haseeb is working with the zebra fish, an animal often used for genetic testing as it is technically not considered to be animals for the first 5 days of their life Ultimately however, the work also asks whether we can see past the dangerous connotations of mutation and regard it as a medium to generate new forms. Zebra Fish altered exposed to toxins Elements of the Fish Bone chapel being 3D printed The more i read about the project, the more curious i grew so i contacted Hasseb Ahmed who patiently answered my many questions: The Fish Bone Chapel draws a historical connection with the Capuchin Crypt located beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome. The crypt is decorated with the skeletal remains of 4,000 bodies believed to be Capuchin friars buried by their order, as a silent reminder of our own mortality. Hi Haseeb! Your project, The Fish Bone Chapel, 'is a hybrid building, existing of fish bones.' I'm sorry but i'll have to start with the most mundane question because i imagine a chapel to be rather big and i suspect your final prototype might not rise to ambitious heights. So how tall, how big can the chapel be? And will it adopt a shape that people associate with the one of a chapel? The Fish Bone Chapel is indeed the scale of a building. The goal has always been to create a spatial experience in which one can literally inhabit genomics research and in particular the mutations in Zebra Fish skeletons induced by exposure to toxins from embryo to adult. My work will be sited in the atrium of the the current depot of the Naturalis Museum and former Royal Museum for Natural History built in the early 1900's. This atrium already has a kind of pseudo-Dutch Protestant religious architecture complete with niches, vaulted ceilings, and chandeliers. However, instead of religious iconography it features iguanas, snails, and fish. My aim is to create works that build onto this architecture with arches of my own, ornaments, and chandeliers so that the space appears as though it was made to host the Fish Bone Chapel all along. My reference is the Capucine Bone Chapels of Southern Italy which use the bones of former Monks to construct architectural features. In my case it's Fish not Brothers. That was one concept of Life and Death given by Catholocism and I want to address the new intermediate stages of life and death brought about by Genomics research and its legal apparatus. Interesting enough the central 'altar piece' is at the base of a stairwell often drawn by M.C. Escher in his labyrinthine works and I will play up on this as well. The description of the project also mentions beating circulation systems which makes me think that the work will have some kind of life

A younger Kaiba Gionfriddo, with mom April. The child suffers from tracheobronchomalacia, a rare respiratory condition. (Credit: Video screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET) A 3D printer saved the life of a baby boy with a rare disease that kept him from breathing properly, doctors are reporting in the New England Journal of Medicine. The boy, Kaiba Gionfriddo of Ohio, had been diagnosed with severe tracheobronchomalacia, a rare respiratory condition that caused his airways to collapse, blocking the flow of air to his lungs daily. About 1 in 2,200 babies are born with the condition, but only 10 percent of them have cases as severe as Kaiba's, according to his doctors. The boy's parents, April and Brian, learned something was wrong when he was 6 weeks old and the infant turned blue while the family was out to eat. By the age of 2 months, Kaiba had to be intubated to breathe. Despite the breathing tube and a ventilator he also required, his breathing could not be maintained sufficiently. He needed to be resuscitated on a daily basis. "Quite a few doctors said he had a good chance of not leaving the hospital alive," April Gionfriddo, mother of the now 20-month old Kaiba, said in a ... [Read more]Related Links:Printable bionic ear sends hearing to the dogsThe Pirate Bay now offering banned 3D-printed gun filesPrint your photographs in 3DBeam your face onto a 3D-printed 'Star Trek' figurine3D-printed guns are inevitable

Emmanuel Sanders is still a Pittsburgh Steeler after the team matched his one-year, $2.5 million offer sheet from the New England Patriots. Sanders says talks are underway for a long-term deal.

My latest post is up over at GoLocalProv and is called “How White Providence Really Is.” I contrast the strong diversity of the city and some other urban core type places versus the extreme whiteness of the rest of the region. New England generally is lacking in diversity. Boston, for example, is by far the whitest tier one type city in America. I’ve got a chart on that as well. Here’s an excerpt: The city of Providence is a very diverse place. In fact, it’s over 62% minority, making it a so-called “minority majority” city. However, the city of Providence is only a very small part of the overall state and region. Metropolitan Providence is one of the whitest major regions in America. Looking at metro areas with more than one million people, Providence ranks third in the country for the total non-minority population. The percentage of the population that is “white only, non-hispanic” – Hispanic people can be of any race – is nearly 80%. Only Pittsburgh and Cincinnati are higher. …. Minority population growth actually bailed out the entire region. During that 11 year period metro Providence actually lost over 81,000 non-hispanic white residents. Without minority population growth, the region would have actually shrunk in population. A production of the Urbanophile, Telestrian is the fastest, easiest, and best way to access public data about cities and regions, with totally unique features like the ability to create thematic maps with no technical knowledge and easy to use place to place migration data. It's a great way to support the Urbanophile, but more importantly it can save you tons of time and deliver huge value and capabilities to you and your organization. Try Telestrian For 30 Days Free!

Is it time for Manchester United to move on from Wayne Rooney?You'll get varied answers on that, but you may be hard-pressed to find anyone—including the most hardcore Rooney fans—that would turn down the rumored transfer package that Paris Saint-Germain might be putting together to lure Rooney away from Old Trafford.From John Cross of the Mirror: Big-spending Paris Saint-Germain are prepared to put together a staggering £100 million deal to land Wayne Rooney. Manchester United striker Rooney has emerged as the French side's No. 1 target this summer, and their mega-rich Middle Eastern owners are prepared to pay him a staggering £15 million-a-year—after tax. That would put the England star, 27, on the same wages as PSG's current star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who is being tipped for a move back to Italy this summer just one season after moving from AC Milan. The new Ligue 1 champions would be willing to go to £40 million as a transfer fee, and hand Rooney a four-year contract to try to lure him away from the Old Trafford giants. I highly doubt Manchester United would ever get £40 million for Rooney again on the transfer market, especially if he sticks around and replicates his performance from this season.It's obvious he never took to a deeper-lying role with Robin van Persie manning the striker role, and with Shinji Kagawa waiting in the wings and capable of playing as an attacking midfielder behind RVP, Rooney is more expendable than he's been in years.To be fair, we don't know how new manager David Moyes will employ all of his new toys. Maybe he'll move Rooney further up the pitch and pair him with RVP in a two-striker set. Perhaps Rooney simply needs another season to adjust to a deeper-lying role. At his best, Rooney is both a scorer and a facilitator, and he has always liked to drop deeper into the play. If he can adjust to RVP being the focal point of the attack, perhaps a role as an attacking midfielder would be a natural evolution. Then again, perhaps Rooney won't want to play under Moyes again as he did in his Everton days, or perhaps Moyes would be fine with moving Rooney. After all, with that sort of cash, he may be able to secure the signatures of two of his ex-players at Everton, left-back Leighton Baines and midfielder Marouane Fellaini, who would be perfect additions for United.Plus, whether Rooney did in fact hand in a transfer request or the Red Devils are trying to push him out, this is now the second time in three years United has had Rooney drama. Last time, he ended up signing a new contract. This time, the Rooney era could come to an end. And with £40 million potentially lining the pockets of the Red Devils if it does, the Rooney era should come to an end.

England captain Alastair Cook hopes his side can get close the standard they achieved at Lord's, ahead of the second Test against New Zealand.

The 1972 Miami Dolphins celebrate every year because they went 17-0 back when football was played with like pleather helmets and shit. The New England Patriots went 16-0 and then Coug'd it in the Super Bowl like a bunch of idiots. I think that everyone kind of wants to see an NFL team go 19-0 and then on another level, nobody does because haha Patriots you dumbasses. People are gonna hate me for this series because they take life too seriously. Just relax, smoke this. Everything's gonna be okay. I don't control the universe, I'm not Andy Richter, and I possess no jinxes unless you buy me a Coke. But in all seriousness, Seattle is about to go 19-0. I'll outline the reasons as we countdown to the start of the season with five apiece for every game, starting today with the Carolina Panthers. A lot of people pegged the Panthers and as a possible playoff team in 2012 because Cam Newton put up a ridiculous show as a rookie and they were impossible to stop on the ground. Impossible unless you were the Seattle Seahawks, and they resoundingly shut down Cam't Newton and the Panthers to the tune of a 16-12 win that didn't have to be that close. The Panthers rebounded on the season though and not only did Ron Rivera save his job, but offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski got a new one, even if the Browns are actually a punishment. Carolina won their last four games of the year, and put up 122 points in those games against the Falcons, Chargers, Raiders, and Saints. Once again they'll be sleeper picks to make the playoffs thanks to Newton and a strong finish to last season. They won't get off to a fast start next year though because Seahawks. Here's why. 1. The Panthers hardly addressed their lack of receiving weapons outside of Steve Smith Did you know that Steve is short for Stevonne? Well Stevonne is going to need to do a lot of work to work my perfect seasonne. In this game last season, Smith had 4 catches for 40 yards, his second-least productive game of the season behind only a one-catch, 19-yard performance against the Broncos. We can already surmise that Richard Sherman gonna Richard Sherman, and if Seattle is beaten on defense the true Vandrook is often an annoying little weed like Titus Young, Jr. (Congrats on winning the battle, Titus. I'll just be sitting over here with the war.) So who on the Panthers is gonna come out of nowhere and destroy my hopes and dreams? Who indeed. Last year Brandon LaFell had 3 catches for 44 yards. Greg Olsen had 2 for 37. Louis "Charlie" Murphy had 1 for 5. I personally don't understand the Cam Newton hate for his play on the field. Maybe he's got a bad attitude, maybe he's a pain in the ass to coach, maybe he's Mayballine, but if all that shit is true and he still balls out like that then he's gonna be a pain in the ass if he ever matures. Over his last nine games, he had 14 TD and 4 INT with another 5 rushing touchdowns. He didn't have a sophomore slump that I saw, he got off to a slow start and then by the end of the year posted almost identical numbers while also hitting 8 yards per attempt. But his game against Seattle last year was possibly his worst game of the year. Because the Seahawks defense is good and the Panthers weapons are not. I still didn't believe it when I saw it just now, but the Panthers really didn't draft a wide receiver. They'll maintain Brandon LaFello Operator as the number two and yesteryears "fantasy sleeper" slept his way to the middle with 44 catches for 677 yards. Olsen was great (843 yards, 5 TD) but the Seahawks can focus on him more when a team like Carolina has so little else. Shall I call ESPN and alert them that David "Guetta" Gettis is, pardon my French DJ, gonna get another chance just one last time? Should I alert FOX Sports to keep a keen eye on Ted Ginn & Tonic, Jr and that that shit'll get you drunk? Perhaps I should show off my $5000 Armanti Edwards suit and tie combo for the ladies? Some sort of pun with D

One of two footballing brothers best known for their performance in the 1977 FA Cup Final with Manchester UnitedBrian Greenhoff, who has died suddenly at the age of 60, was one of two footballing brothers best remembered for their performance in the 1977 FA Cup Final, when with Manchester United they denied the then dominant Liverpool a historic treble. Older brother Jimmy scored the clinching goal, but the ball-playing defender Brian was man of the match.The two were born in Barnsley, Yorkshire. Brian followed Jimmy into the school team and the local and England schoolboy teams, but while Jimmy joined Don Revie's Leeds United, Brian was snapped up by Manchester United as a junior – he was one of Sir Matt Busby's last signings. It was 1968, the year that the United of Best, Law and Charlton won the European Cup, but, through injury and United's subsequent slump, glory did not come right away.Thingstook off for him only with the arrival of Tommy Docherty as manager. Till then Greenhoff had played in central midfield, but in 1973 his big opportunity arrived. Jim Holton, fixture of the United dressing room and idol of the fans, broke his leg playing against Sheffield Wednesday, and did it again while making a comeback in the reserves. In the ensuing emergency, Greenhoff was drafted into the centre of defence, and there he stayed.Greenhoff might not have been as rampaging and aggressive as Holton, who inspired the terrace chant "Six foot two, eyes of blue, Big Jim Holton's after you", but he was considerably more mobile, and although United were relegated in 1974, Greenhoff was that season's supporters' player of the year. He was a trier, enthusiastic and uncrushable, and was to develop into a crowd favourite as, blond locks flying, he set up the wing-heeled wide men Steve Coppell and Gordon Hill in counter-attack and formed a famous defensive partnership with the gifted Scotland international Martin Buchan.At the end of the 1974-75 season, Manchester United were promoted back to the top tier at the first attempt. Far from struggling to stay out of the First Division drop zone, they reached the 1976 FA Cup Final, though, in spite of being odds-on favourites, they lost to Second Division Southampton. "I was so disappointed that I didn't shake hands with a Southampton player," said Greenhoff later. "I couldn't even watch them receive the Cup." Instead, he went back to the team hotel and threw his losers' medal across the room, telling his wife that he would wait for a winners' medal next year.He was as good as his word. In the close season of 1976, Docherty signed Jimmy, a midfielder and by then a local hero at Stoke City. Within a year the brothers found themselves at Wembley together, confronting Liverpool in the 1977 final.At the time, managed by Bob Paisley and with a team sheet that included the names of Kevin Keegan, Steve Heighway, John Toshack, Emlyn Hughes, Tommy Smith and Ray Clemence, Liverpool were the supreme force in the English game, but United beat them 2-0 and Brian got his winners' medal. He was subsequently pictured strolling across Hyde Park with Docherty, Steve Coppell and a bottle of champagne.Then United sacked Docherty after his relationship with Mary, wife of the physio Laurie Brown, came to light. With the arrival of Dave Sexton, Greenhoff fell out of favour. In 1979, after 11 years, 271 appearances and 17 goals, he was sold to Leeds for £350,000.With that move down the ladder and after 18 England caps between 1976 and 1980, Brian's international career petered out. So, after 72 appearances and one goal in his three years with Leeds, did his time in the English game, though following stints in South Africa and Finland he made a fleeting comeback as a player-coach at Rochdale, where Jimmy was manager.The brothers' relationship suffered in the aftermath of Jimmy's dismissal in 1984, and, from having been seemingly inseparable, they fell out. It was, said Jimmy later, "a little family argument. It's the only o

This house, at 1209 East 71st Street - just north of Superior - has been on my radar for a long time. In fact, it was the subject of one of my very first stories here. Try to imagine the house as it was at the time it was built, 160 years ago. Remove the porch. The house would have sat on a rise, a couple of steps leading up to the front door. The windows on the front of the house, on the first floor, had a somewhat ornate trim, as did the front door. The windows, two over two, would have been flanked by shutters, perhaps in dark green, in contrast to the white of the house. The color scheme might have been something along the lines of the Clemen N. Jagger residence, now at Hale Farm and Village. The first floor windows on the front might have had panels underneath, like this structure, or they might have been triple-hung - what I do know is that the original window trim extended downward to a line even with the bottom of the doorframe. It was a simple structure, but with good proportions, on a relatively small (ten acre) lot. On the exterior, the house has plenty to tell us. The foundation, now covered with a layer of paint, bears the tool marks of the people who quarried and cut it. While most of the framing for the house was cut in a sawmill, the largest timbers were hewn by hand. One can be seen here, underneath a bit of trim.A closer look at the front of the house illustrates the flush siding - an uncommon detail. One can also see, in the paint, the outline of the trim that originally flanked the windows - a helpful piece of information for the party that chooses to fix up this house. This house plays a signficant role in illustrating the way this neighborhood changed and grew over time.William Lewis was born on 3 April 1809, in Westport St. Mary, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England. His wife, Mary Anne Ponting Lewis, was born 1814, also in England. In 1847, they immigrated to the United States with their four children: Thomas (born 1838); George (born 1840); Jane (born about 1842); and Edward (born about 1845). By 1850, they were farming in East Cleveland, Ohio. (Sources: Find a Grave records for William Lewis and Mary Anne Ponting Lewis, 1850 and 1860 US Census).In September, 1852, they purchased, for $500, a ten acre parcel facing Becker Avenue - now East 71st Street. (Cuyahoga County Recorder, AFN: 185312190004 ) The parcel extended eastward to what is now East 79th Street. The original property is shown in blue on this map - the location of the house, in green.Published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, 10 October 1897, page 4. Used courtesy of Cleveland Public Library.The seller was one Edward Lewis, also from Wiltshire, England. He had risen to prominence within the iron and steel industry by the time this portrait was made, in 1897. His relationship, if any, with William Lewis is unclear.At the price, it's plausible that the house had just been built - especially if Edward Lewis was a relative and was giving William a good deal. If not, the house was built soon after. The 1860 US Census lists two more children: William (born about 1848) (henceforth William, Jr.) and Benjamin (born about 1851). It's unclear why William, Jr. wasn't numerated in the 1850 census.William Lewis died July 30, 1854, at the age of 45. He was buried in Woodland Cemetery. I have not been able to locate any documentation as to the cause of death. (Find a Grave William Lewis.)View of the Ohio State Fair Grounds, 1856. A hand-colored print (1856) by Klauprech & Menzel. Used courtesy of the Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps.The family would have likely attended the 1856 Ohio State Fair, held just a mile and a quarter to the east.By 1858, there were neighbors on either side, both occupying similarly sized (and shaped) lots. The family remained at this house, and by 1860, the value of the property was listed as $4,000. Used courtesy of the National Archives, Ancestry.com, and Cleveland Public Library.Thomas Lewis and George Lewis both registered for th