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 UFC Primer: 118 things to know about the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Online companion to the Boton Globes special section ran on Thursday August 26, 2010. The UFC 118 will take place at Boston's TD Garden Sat. Aug. 28.
 Catoctin Quaker camp is a 50 year old adventure summer camp in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland. This website, created for a senior thesis at the New College of Florida, features over one hundred short stories edited from longer oral history interviews with members of the camp community. An interactive map also presents stories about specific sites around the camp.
 The Carrie Furnace was closed and abandoned more than two decades ago, but it remains as a stark reminder of what earned the Pittsburgh region a special place in American history. This is an interactive look at the huge, rusting facility.
 In the five years since Hurricane Katrina (quickly followed by Hurricane Rita) ravaged the Gulf Coast, USA TODAY has written extensively about the rebuilding efforts there. In this project, we try to sum up where we stand, half a decade after the storms hit. Has life there changed forever? Are people coming back? Although this is neither the first - nor the last - look at the lasting effects on the Gulf Coast, we hope this multimedia project helps answer those and other questions.
 Since it opened in 2007, Pinellas Hope has grown into Pinellas County's primary way station for the homeless. Spread out on 13 acres in an isolated, industrial area near Pinellas Park, it is run by Catholic Charities and receives more than $1 million in public funding each year.
It holds about 300 people at capacity and roughly 800 pass through a year. That's large by shelter standards,but only puts a dent in Pinellas County's overall homeless population, estimated at 7,000. Nicknamed "Tent City" by residents, it offers centralized services: Laundry, computers, telephones, GED classes, medical check ups and caseworkers who guide residents through the ropes. But admission comes with a price. No alcohol, no drugs, no families, though couples are allowed.
 Ask a question...share the response. The USA TODAY voices project is simply a modern way to capture and share your thoughts on an important question.
USA TODAY video journalists ask a question in cities and at events across America and use the video to get the conversation started. Each video lives on a page that allows you to comment, Tweet or record a response of your own.
So, browse through the questions we have asked, or suggest your own. If you find one you're passionate about, share your voice with the rest of the USA...today.
 Continuous annual federal budget deficits have led to a big increase in the nation's overall debt. Explore this interactive to see historical revenue, spending and cumulative debt; debt per person; debt as a percentage of GDP; and America's debt levels compared with other countries.
 Census 2010: What is reapportionment?
The periodic reallotment of U.S. congressional seats is a mystery to many. Find out what the process is all about.
 An look inside: The case that began with a stepfather's anguished 911 call on April 10, 2008, in Portsmouth ended Feb. 18 when Robert Lee Barnes was sentenced for sexually assaulting and stabbing to death his 16-year-old friend, Meghan Landowski.
 Video tour and 360 look at the newest of the Virginia-class attack submarines.
 On June 25, 1950, North Korean troops stormed south, launching a war that would last until 1953. The men who fought there will never forget. Hear the stories of local vets (SE Virginia, Hampton Roads) in this video interactive. Read about some milestones and a story about 21-months in a POW camp.
 An interactive tour of the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure. If you choose to take our Wizarding World challenge, you will be tested with a series of questions worthy of O.W.L. accreditation. As you answer the questions you will be granted a sneak peak at the new attractions - photos, video and highlights for the real HP fan just dying to dive in to Hogwarts.
So go on, dust off your wands, conjure your best spells and see how well you measure up. But beware! We're not entirely sure what will happen should you fail.
 Earthquake Kids - Children and their Rights in a Devastated Haiti shows how the children - who make up 40% of the country's population - were affected by the tragedy. Many became orphans, while others were removed from their families and taken illegally overseas.
Sanitary conditions and access to health care and education - which were already precarious - are now even more volatile. The images, recorded by NGOs and UN agencies operating in Haiti, reveal shocking scenes of the desperate situation faced by the population in the early days following the earthquake.
In this web documentary, you will see a devastated Haiti - putting at stake the future and the rights of its children.
 Who are the main players in China's real-estate market? Who are he people affected by the rising prices? And what is China's government doing to prevent what they perceive as a asset bubble from bursting.
Explore China's booming real-estate market and the government's latest policies through graphics, analysis and video stories.
 The Augsburg Display Cabinet-the Getty Museum's 17th-century "cabinet of curiosities" on is both a work of art and an early prototype of museums. With dozens of compartments to store collectibles, this remarkable object unfolds in myriad ways to reveal surprising treats for the eye. This interactive allows gallery and online visitors to explore its many doors and drawers, admiring tiny oil paintings, wood carvings, and precious inlaid materials decorating its surfaces-much like the voyage of exploration and discovery experienced in a museum visit.
 This project is part of a series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Pittsburgh Pirates' 1960 World Series victory over the New York Yankees. This chapter explores Forbes Field, the city's famous ballpark. The series will continue through October.
 A three part project looking at donacions received and in use in Chile after the Feb. 27th earthquake. Part one looks at the quantity of donations that Chile has received as opposed to the need in the rebuilding effort with an interactive graphic. The second part shows that part of the relief effort with a video looking at people working to help provide help. The third part is two panoramas showing a a field hospital donated by the Cuban government.
 In the early 1900s, at a time when most waterfront cities had ports and industrial plants, a crusading editor named W.L. Straub pressed this city to make its waterfront a public park.
Today, 100 years later, St. Petersburg has the third largest waterfront park in North America behind only Chicago and Vancouver. A spiky skyline has taken shape with six new condo towers rising in the last decade alone.
So we wondered, with so many new skyscrapers and such varied architectural styles, did we do a good job of framing the unique waterfront park that Straub and other city pioneers left us?
 A story about the Copenhagen Marathon that turned out quit differently, than intended.
Originally a straight forward one-day production, but when the main character didn't show up for the appointed interview, we decided - instead of ditching the story altogether - to experiment with the narrative.
This is the result. Without the usual gloss of a BFC story - just the narrative.
 The Florida panther is in worse shape than ever. Although there are now 100 of them, thanks to a bold genetic experiment in 1995, the panthers are crowded into a smaller area than ever. Officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have never blocked any development that wipes out panther habitat, even manipulating numbers and using flawed science to justify saying yes to projects. As a result, genetic defects and other problems are now cropping up, leading to predictions that the state animal is just a dead cat walking.
 Fremont County, Colorado : 36000 souls, 14 prisons, 7731 inmates. Welcome to the Prison industry. Prison Valley is a interactive documentary about a community that chose inmates as income.
 Forgotten during the last decade by information technologies, Africa lives today the digital revolution at full speed. Few years ago, the use of fixed phone was the privilege of a small rich minority. Today in the streets of Bamako or Dakar, the use of mobile phone have revolutionized the lives of african people. The internet users are becoming more numerous in Internet cafes in Bamako or Dakar.
Africascopie is a crowdsourced report in Mali and Senegal. The two journalists was helped by african bloggers and internet users.
 Two-year-old Darisabel Baez was beaten to death one day in 2008. In her final moments, men and women tried to ease her pain, then sought justice. Still haunted, they say we must never forget.
 This interactive presents two prominent sculptures at the heart of Aztec cosmology. Guided viewing encourages viewers to delight in the specific iconography of the objects, and brief text offers a deeper appreciation and understanding of the layered meanings of Aztec thought and culture.
 This is an older interactive from 2008, typical of the quick-turn around projects (approximately 3 work days) I developed for the LANG Publishing Group. The Interactive concerns wastewater treatment in metropolitan Los Angeles.
 For teenagers at a school for troubled girls, etiquette classes open another world. A job at the mall. A first dress and high heels. The courage to look in the mirror. The girls had grown up poor, lost their parents to drugs and jail and God knows what. They emerged from childhood uncouth and unrefined. Most had never eaten at a nice restaurant, set a table or put on makeup. Not one of them had ever walked in heels.
 Interactive diagrams look at the faulty pedal system found in several Toyota models
 A county-by-county look at where the recession is hitting the hardest
 A look back at the Apollo 11 mission with video graphics, 3d and maps.
 Fashion Designer Zahra Saeed
 Families dealing with autism.
 What's happened to the Antarctic silverfish, which has gone missing from much of its range along the Antarctic coast? How has this disappearance affected the Adelie penguin, one of the silverfish's primary consumers in the food chain? Are both of these events connected to the effects of global warming on animals? Dr. Joseph Torres, a University of South Florida marine biologist, is leading a team of scientists intent on answering these questions. The investigative mission is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
 Virtually all players agree there is no coordinated vision in setting priorities for federal transportation projects. That vacuum has led to a tidal wave of earmarks by Congress. Quite naturally real estate developers and other interests make great efforts to influence which projects get funded. This map shows where more than 100 real estate interests spent roughly $5.5 million in 2009 lobbying on transportation projects. Built using Flash, jQuery and the Google Maps Flash API.
 The St. Petersburg Times commissioned independent testing of samples of kid-friendly apple juice boxes. That testing found levels of arsenic in some samples that surpass the Food and Drug Administration's "level of concern" for heavy metals in juices. Federal officials have said they found no reason for parents to worry, but some scientists say the results are worrisome. How concerned should you be? You be the judge. The Times paid for the testing of two samples each of eight national brands, plus two samples from a local company that supplies public schools throughout the Tampa Bay area.
 Jodi Beckwith has always wanted to be Peter Pan.
Stefan Cohen hadnâ€t even considered the role of Hook. After a last minute decision at the auditions the two, who are married, along with their two children are appearing in a production of the famous musical. A behind the scenes look at how the family manages to survive the six-weeks of rehearsal.
 One wily monkey's ability to elude trappers for more than a year as it traipsed across the Tampa Bay area is drawing legions of curious spectators and adoring fans. Authorities have tried luring him into traps with fruit, grabbing him as he scrambles a few feet away and twice shot him with tranquilizer darts. All to no avail. The monkey can cover vast distances quickly, which explains why it has been seen in three counties and covered hundreds of miles in a year. It is shy and not considered a threat to humans. Still, it's a wild animal and could attack if it feels threatened, officials warn. Trappers are trying to capture the monkey mostly for its own protection.
 In 1945, newspaper publisher Arthur Kasherman was gunned down on a snowy street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Was he a crusader for justice, or a low-life who angered the underworld once too many? Watch the video, read the stories, see the crime scene photos and maybe you'll solve a 65-year-old murder mystery.
 An interactive showing the epicenter and aftershocks of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake, including updated photos from the days following the earthquake
 An in-depth interactive on the March 7 Iraqi parliamentary election
 An interactive comparison of apologies by Tiger Woods and other celebrities and political figures over the past few years
 Follow everyday life as experienced by young men and women from Havana and Miami over three months. In Havana, revolution is no longer what it used to be. In Miami, most Cubans have become Americans. Times have changed and new hopes and aspirations fuel the future of a new generation.
 The graphic breaks down the sectors lobbying on health care reform in Congress in 2009. Graphs are dynamically generated from data loaded from XML. Two seperate versions were also created to embed on other sites and on Facebook.
 The Tampa Museum of Art is a new art museum in Tampa, Florida. It is designed by Stanley Saitowitz, a San Francisco architect who has designed distinctive architecture in San Francisco and other cities. The Tampa museum's opening shows feature art by Henri Matisse. Prints, paintings and sculpture by Matisse are included. The Tampa Museum of Art also will have contemporary art from the Margulies Collection, photographs by late 20th-century photographer Garry Winogrand, 20th century paintings by famous modern artists and Greek and Roman antiquities. The lobby's showpiece is an 800-pound mobile by Alexander Calder, the only art displayed on the ground floor.
 Meet the men and women of the Beacon House (Virginia Beach, Va.), a clubhouse for people living with brain injuries. For most, a moment in time was enough to alter their lives forever. Hear their stories and learn about their injuries. Full story and interactive
 Leonardo da Vinci wasn't just interested in anything. Da Vinci was fascinated with everything. The human body and nature. Physics and mechanics. Military engineering. Music. He wrote fables and was a philosopher. Now da Vinci's thoughts, sketches and words come to life in this interactive exhibit, one of the largest ever shown at MOSI. Look inside the mind of a genius in this interactive exhibit that will appeal to adults and children.
 News21 reporter Anna York traveled to Newtok, Alaska, to see how the rising sea threatens an American culture. Accompanied by photographer Phil Daquila, her story explores villagers losing their way of life -- and their land. The project received an NPPA monthly award and has been featured on 32 Gannett Web sites, on their climate change special reports. This project is supported by the Carnegie Corp. and Knight Foundation.
 Streetlight is a web documentary about street children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The story documents the work carried out by the Danish-Ethiopian NGO Hope For Children and it is presented in full screen Flash. The Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa is home to thousands of migrant workers - many of them children - who have been brought in from rural areas to work as slaves, especially in prostitution and in the weaving industry. Ethiopia deals with a variety of serious social-economic problems and many foreign NGOs and missionaries therefore operate in the country.
 This Valentine's Day, we've found lots to love about the Tampa Bay area. Not only have we found romantic restaurants for dining out in Tampa Bay on Valentine's Day, we've dug deeper and found couples in love, stolen kisses, movie couples and our favorite love songs. We're wrapping them all up like a box of Valentine's Day chocolates as a last-minute Valentine's gift to you.
 This tax calculator will give you a rough idea of your federal tax bill - and where your tax money went - from 1940 through 2010. Caveats: The calculator is for a taxpayer who files individually, uses the standard deduction instead of itemizing, and has one exemption. The calculator also figures your Social Security and Medicare taxes, which are capped according to your salary.
 Over three days, KPCC investigates allegations of inmate mistreatment at the California Institution for Men in Chino following a bloody 11-hour riot Aug. 8, 2009. The riot left some 200 men injured. It took authorities until sunrise to contain the violence.
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