If you live in Clay County and are looking for the "new you," the Fleming Island Extreme Makeover contest may be just the ticket.

The idea is the brainchild of Kimber Newton, owner of the Fleming Island Tanning Salon, and brings a number of professionals together in an effort to help one person make long-lasting health and beauty changes.

"This is not just a pretty makeover for someone who just wants to get their hair and nails done," Newton said. "We want someone who is really looking to make lifestyle changes."

The makeover will take place over 30 days, starting April 1, Newton said. It will include five days a week of training at a gym, nutritional education, teeth whitening, hair styling and makeup, nails and tanning services. The winner will be driven in a limo to attend a coming-out party, outfitted in a dress and jewelry supplied by a boutique.

Law firms: Even generalists get very specific

Few local firms specialized in patent law when C. Earl Hovey and Roy Hamilton opened their practice downtown in 1929, only four weeks before the stock market crash.</p><p>More than 75 years later, <strong>Hovey Williams </strong>is still handling patents, copyrights and other cases in the expanding field of intellectual property law.</p><p>Many of the area's largest firms engage in general law practice, with staff attorneys who develop expertise in corporate finance, health care, employment and other specialties.</p><p>Kansas City-based <strong>Stinson Morrison Hecker </strong>recently created a climate change practice group to address increasing interest at the state and federal levels on climate change legislation.</p><p>Other practices focus on specific industries, such as banking or construction, and provide services for both corporations and individuals.</p><p>But only a handful of greater Kansas City's larger firms concentrate in only one area of legal practice.</p><p><strong>Gilmore & Bell </strong>in Kansas City focuses exclusively on public finance, serving as counsel for municipal transactions and economic development projects.</p><p><strong>Franke Schultz & Mullen </strong>in Kansas City limits its practice to civil litigation, primarily defending cases for large insurers, including <strong>AIG</strong>, <strong>Mutual Doctors Mutual </strong>and <strong>Lloyd's of London</strong>.</p><p>The field is virtually recession-proof, because when people are injured they're going to file claims and lawsuits for money regardless of the economy, said John Schultz, a founder and partner.</p><p>An increasing number of law firms are adding intellectual property as a specialty.</p><p>The field continues to grow because companies are seeking more patents for new inventions, especially in the high-tech areas of electronics, chemistry and biology.</p><p>Hovey attorneys have to understand a variety of technical subspecialties to converse effectively with their inventor clients, which include <strong>Garmin</strong><strong>International </strong>and <strong>Bushnell Outdoor Products</strong>, said Tom Luebbering, a partner at Hovey.</p><p>“We're able to focus on this work only and offer some expertise that a client may not find elsewhere,” he said.

Concentration camps in America: The consequences of 40 years of fear

More realistically, an increase in street and campus protests against the Iraq War, similar to those of the '60s, could easily lead to the imposition of martial law in the Unites States as an extension of the War on Terrorism. Or, as the current recession deepens into a depression with wide spread unemployment, hunger and civil unrest, martial law could be imposed and military work camps established. Irrespective of how it plays out, every scenario involves mass preventative detentions, without trial, by the military and requires federal confinement facilities.

More US exhibitors sign up for Bahrain's first international holistic lifestyle expo

Following the positive press coverage in the United States of the visit of US President George W. Bush to the Kingdom of Bahrain in January 2008, more American retailers, manufacturers and leaders in the natural, organic and healthy products industries, have been encouraged to participate in the First Bahrain International Natural Health Products and Green Expo (BINHPGE). .

Huskies shove aside biggest bully

Thirteen minutes remained in the game when the officials stopped Artem Wallace from shooting the second of two free throws. At first, it appeared a humanitarian gesture, taking the object of self-torture away from a player who had missed all but seven free-throw attempts this season.

The crowd was barely halfway through the ritual chorus of boos when, instead of doing their usual all-thumbs act after being dissed and distracted, the Washington Huskies executed a perfect inbounds play that gave Justin Dentmon an open 1-foot jumper that he made easily.

Channel 4 News at 25: Lindsey Hilsum

They were shooting randomly at passers by, because they didn't want anyone to drive down the street but had not put up signs saying it was closed off. Our fixer, Mohammed, suddenly said, "I can hear crying." He went across the road to see what had happened.