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charm ux needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 580 designs submitted by 185 freelance designers.
Tweetspinner.com is a leading Twitter-based application which helps businesses and individuals maximize their Twitter time. We help users with sophisticated CRM (Customer Relationship Management) tools to find new followers (and purge old ones), with powerful scheduled tweet functionality, and much more.
Businesses and power Twitterers.
Please check out our Web site at http://tweetspinner.com (it is NOT necessary to use the current design/colors of our site, as we plan for site redesign, too).
The logo should read horizontally so we can include it in a small top bar (although it can "expand" outside of the top bar). It should ideally be legible on light and dark backgrounds... (the dark background version can be reversed out.)
It should include both a small non-text mark which we can use as our Twitter profile image (currently we use a sun), as well as the "tweetspinner" text. The theme of the non-text mark could be literal (in terms of the "spinner" part) or figurative (such as something which suggests connecting with customers/friends) or something different. It would be nice to see design options which are markedly different than other options other designs have already offered.
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Bringing home a new puppy is much like bringing an infant into your home for the first time. A new atmosphere for your new puppy will not only be intriguing and spark interest, it can also be damaging and harmful to his health and the condition of your home. Check out some of the latest tips and tools you can use to ensure that you and your house are ready when you're bringing home a puppy for the first time.
Simple Steps to Getting Your Home Ready for Your New Puppy
Electrical Cords & Wires
With their vast source of energy and playful disposition, puppies find pleasure in chewing, eating, and pulling various household objects, especially dangerous wiring and cords throughout your home. Viewing these objects much like large chew toys, new puppies will tug and chew through these cords, causing a possible jolt of electricity or sparking a fire. In order to secure wires found along your home, it may be necessary to purchase a cord conceal kit in which cords are placed in a protective cover and pulled tight along the baseboards of the wall, out of the grasp of your precious pup. Other cable covers have sharp slits and can be rough on your hands, but this unique Cable Management system comes with a cable-grip tool that clips around all the wires. Just slide the cable-grip tool, complete with all your cables attached, through the Cable Management Kit all in one swift movement.
Garbage & Discards
Rambunctious and nosy pups will investigate their new surroundings, often sticking their nose where it does not belong, literally. Their intrigue, coupled with their elite sense of smell, makes trash cans and garbage bags a playground of scraps and goodies. Unfortunately, however, these "goodies" often include ingredients that can harm and shock their sensitive systems, such as chocolate wrappers, chicken bones, and coffee grounds. Whether you place your garbage under the kitchen cabinet or beside the garage, make sure it remains locked and out of reach of young pups. Make sure you hide your trash out of the way with an Outdoor Trash Receptacle with a hinged lid that can be locked closed.
Hazardous Materials & Chemicals
Cleaning detergents, paints, antifreeze, medications, and even plants should be considered when bringing home a puppy for the first time. Various common household and outdoor plants, such as daffodils, rhododendrons, and hydrangea can pose a harmful threat to a puppy's digestive system. If ingested, these plants could cause serious injury, including stomach upset, convulsions, or even death. To create a puppy-friendly environment, it may be helpful to view the world from a dog's perspective on the carpet. This way you can clearly see all the "toys" at his paws.
One way to help keep your puppy away from hazardous areas is to use Dog Gates, that are available in a variety of styles and sizes. Dog Gates are available with (or without) pass-thru doors so you and your cat can still go into areas that are "out-of-bounds" for your dog.
Outdoor Pools & Open Areas
Because your backyard is the central hub of family activity during the summer, it is important to safeguard this area when bringing home a new puppy. Young puppies, often clumsy and uncoordinated, may jump or fall into an unattended pool. If you cannot fence in your pool, try investing in an outdoor playpen for your dog so that he too can enjoy the fresh summer air. Additionally, check all fencing for any possible escape routes and place children's toys out of his reach. When playing with your puppy in the pool, make sure you train him to use a pet water ramp to exit the water, that way if he ever ventures in alone, he'll have a way to climb out.
To give your new puppy a spot of his own to relax, purchase an Indoor/Outdoor Dog Bed that will keep your puppy cool while he lounges around outside waiting for you to finish your outdoor chores.
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When your new puppy comes home, chances are he's going to bark a lot until he gets used to his new surroundings. Add a cute Outdoor Bark Control Birdhouse to your outdoor decor, and when it detects barking, the birdhouse sends out a safe, high-pitched sound that will irritate your dog. Although you might want your puppy to bark at strangers when they approach your house, chances are you might not want him barking at every single person who passes by. If that's the case, simply set an Indoor Bark Control unit on a nearby table or shelf and it will automatically activate when your puppy barks within a 25-ft range.
Many dog trainers will tell you that crate training is ideal for a balanced, stable dog. Sleeping in a crate can help a dog to feel safe and secure and you will find that over time, your puppy will actually prefer the safe feeling of being nestled in a crate oversleeping wide open on the floor. Dog crates come in a variety of sizes and styles and some will even expand as your dog grows. Although dog crates are vitally important to helping your dog feel balanced, they can unfortunately make your room look un-balanced and just plain ugly. The innovative Dog Crate End Table is made of solid wood with a Chestnut finish. The Dog Crate End Table can be set up next to a sofa or a bed and will blend in beautifully into your home's decor.
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Jackie Siegel strolls through the 90,000-square foot Orlando house that she and her timeshare resort-mogul husband David are building, which will feature a bowling alley, an ice/roller rink, two tennis courts and 10 kitchens. "This is the staircase I would come up," she says, near the sort of stairs a Disney princess would use. "If I was going to visit the children."
Sadly, this extravagantly rich couple and their eight children do not know what's ahead. In director Lauren Greenfield's tremendous documentary packed with terrific details, greed is not good. It is a slow, self-inflicted wound whose pain hits hard and fast once the economy drops out and people who made their money in the wrong industries suddenly hold giant bags with dollar signs and nothing in them.
No, the Siegels don't have Scrooge McDuck-esque dollar-sign bags, but the comparison fits. They have seemingly every other indulgence available to those with funds and an imagination. When the money runs out and most of the in-house help must be laid off, the kids are forced to go from private to public school, and there aren't enough hands to clean up after all their cute dogs. Nothing sucks the sparkle out of a mansion like urine and poop on the floor.
Though both 74-year-old David and 43-year-old Jackie—a former model and Mrs. Florida who may be a trophy wife but stands by her man in the hard times—came from modest upbringings, "The Queen of Versailles" depicts successful people carelessly infatuated with the rewards of their own success. And seemingly oblivious to the fact that they don't interact with their kids at all or have a happy family. David's a workaholic who treats his adult son like only a professional colleague; Jackie, whose clothes struggle to contain fake breasts she clearly prefers to let breathe, showcases certain hints of her humble Midwestern upbringing but also demonstrates why David says being married to her is "like having another child."
Greenfield's storytelling command doesn't point and laugh at the excess. She merely marvels at the accumulating ironies, including David, whose parents lost much of their money in Vegas, struggling to maintain his centerpiece Vegas property in spite of family members' and investors' wishes. "We're busting at the seams," Jackie says about the 26,000-square foot house the family seeks to replace, without considering whether they'll grow tired and confined by the new, bigger-than-the-White-House space too. It takes one of their kids to point out that everyone grows accustomed to everything, even a lifestyle that seems ideal and perpetually awesome.
This real-life tragedy astounds and fascinates with anecdotes (the Siegels' limo driver used to be a millionaire but went broke) and constant, iconic demonstrations of excess run amok. At one point, Jackie and her daughter question if their pet lizard has died and shudder when discovering him face down in his cage. Says another Siegel kid: "I didn't even know we had a lizard."
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Kintzi needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Be At Media
Be At Media is a digital media production house. We offer creative software solutions ranging from web services to audio production software. Our company spirit is young and enthusiastic.
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- The logo should be simple and smooth but it should still have enough small details.
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- One possible positioning could be "be at" on first row and "MEDIA" on second row?
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Governments at both ends of the migration cycle increasingly recognize the value that diaspora populations bring to development efforts and are seeking ways to magnify the human capital and financial resources that emigrants and their descendants contribute to development in their countries of origin. Beyond the remittances they generate, diaspora members fulfill a key development role in their countries of origin: as major direct investors in critical and emerging industries, generous philanthropists and first movers in the growth of important sectors such as tourism, and in the development of human capital.
A growing body of evidence suggests that diasporas play a critical role in supporting sustainable development by transferring resources, knowledge, and ideas back to their home countries, and in integrating their countries of origin into the global economy.
This book explores how developing-country governments have institutionalized ties with emigrants and their descendents. It offers an unprecedented taxonomy of 45 diaspora-engaging institutions found in 30 developing countries, exploring their activities and objectives. It also provides important practitioner insights from Mali, Mexico, and the Philippines.
This report explores the need for nations to adjust their thinking and policy toward attracting the coveted elite class of highly skilled global talent as emerging and middle-income countries increasingly attempt to woo back their nationals and engage their diaspora to help move their economy forward.
China and India are major players in international migration. Both countries have very large populations that will continue to grow in the coming years. The available pool of potential migrants from China and India will remain high although population size and density (known as demographic variability) will change from year to year in both countries.
This brief takes a look at hometown associations (HTAs)—immigrant organizations based on a common hometown—and their often overlooked function as integration intermediaries in their country of destination.
This report examines the ways in which governments can make the emerging global mobility system work better for European migrant-receiving countries, their developing-country partners, and the migrants themselves.
This volume finds that while emigration may be beneficial in some cases, unhindered high-skilled emigration, particularly in the case of sub-Saharan Africa, can have disastrous consequences. The author, Arno Tanner, recommends specific policies where carefully targeted development measures could be used to mitigate the negative consequences of brain drain.
This report analyzes the impact of established diaspora on the reduction of poverty in their countries of origin. It examines their contributions beyond individual remittances, in the dimensions of foreign direct investment, market development, technology transfer, philanthropy, tourism, political contributions, and the more intangible flows of knowledge, new attitudes, and cultural influence.


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This Month in HIV: Crystal Methamphetamine and HIV/AIDS
August 2007
This is Bonnie Goldman, editorial director of The Body. I'd like to welcome you to This Month in HIV. Today we're going to look at the intersection of methamphetamine and HIV. Many researchers are discovering that methamphetamine use is causing the rate of HIV to triple in some communities. However, meth use isn't just a problem because it's an HIV risk factor. Meth use has also become a major issue among people who already have HIV. Research suggests a growing number of HIV-positive people in the United States are using or addicted to meth. One community that has been particularly hard hit by this drug is the gay community, and we will be talking about this with today's panelists.
In terms of meth's effect on HIV and HIV medications, there are far more questions than answers at this point. However, meth use -- just like any other drug addiction -- can cause people to neglect their HIV medications and their general health, possibly causing drug resistance and accelerating HIV progression.
So how do we, in the HIV community, begin to address the meth epidemic? What do we need to know? We brought together three people to help shed some light on this topic.
Our first guest is Luciano Colonna. Luciano is the executive director of the Harm Reduction Project, which co-sponsored the 1st National Conference on Methamphetamine, HIV, and Hepatitis. Welcome, Luciano.
Luciano Colonna: Thank you.
Our next guest is Phil Hendricks, coordinator of the Crystal Meth Program at AIDS Project Los Angeles. The program provides counseling and support for crystal meth users and their friends, lovers and family members. Phil specializes in risk reduction education for high-risk gay and bisexual men. Welcome, Phil.
Phil Hendricks: Thank you.
Our final guest is Mark S. King. Mark has been living with HIV since 1985. He has been an AIDS activist, writer and community organization leader since the early 1980s in Los Angeles. He advocates for prevention education and addresses other critical issues for people living with HIV. Mark is an award winning writer, and several of his articles are available at The Body. [Click here to read his articles on The Body.] Mark also has been recovering from an addiction to methamphetamine for the last four years. However, during his recovery, he has had relapses. He has now been clean for more than 30 days. Welcome, Mark.
Mark S. King: Thank you, Bonnie.
Mark, I wanted to start with you. Can you tell us how you became involved with crystal and why you found it so addictive?
Mark S. King: Wow. Sure. It's kind of two-fold. One is: My personal experience as somebody who used recreational drugs. Much like many people in the gay community, I certainly had drug abuse problems in the 1980s with cocaine, but what happened for me, I believe, in the 1990s is my work in HIV as a community person was kind of coming to a close and I was exhausted and I was -- this may sound like a bit of rationalization here -- but I was emotionally looking for a way out, I was looking for some sort of escape. At about that time, meth was really taking hold on the party scene. Whereas previously it was other recreational drugs, crystal meth was starting to creep into that scene as well as onto the dance floor, etc.
What year was this?
What happened is probably a route that a lot of gay men see. Crystal meth use didn't stay on the dance floor. It came over into my sexual life, into my friends, into my home. Over the course of several years, it pretty much took it's time, but certainly by 2001 and 2002, I was an actively, regularly-using crystal meth addict who had gone from snorting it to smoking it to injecting it.
Where was this taking place, in Atlanta?
Mark S. King: In Atlanta and, after my move, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Really when I moved to Fort Lauderdale and I left the AIDS community work behind -- I needed to go somewhere where nobody knew me and people stopped questioning me about my AIDS work, where I could just be a drug addict. Because by that time the real insanity of drug abuse, and the way it affects your thinking and priorities had set in. I wanted to be in Florida where nobody knew me, where I could be free to have all of the sex, unprotected by the way, and drugs that I wanted.
How prevalent was meth in Fort Lauderdale?
Mark S. King: Absolutely prevalent. You're talking to a drug addict who was seeking it out, but I think that even those who have a more objective view -- probably your other panelists -- would probably agree that it had really taken root. If you were a single, sexually active gay man, the chances that you had done meth, or at least been around those who were ... I only knew people who were doing crystal meth. Socially and sexually, those were the only people that I sought out. Crystal meth and sex were synonymous to me, so I wouldn't pursue one without the other.
Tell me about the sexual identity part. Why was that so attractive to you?
"I had been repressing my sexuality for so long, so much during the AIDS crisis. We were scared to have sex for a while and then we were being so extremely cautious about sex for so long. I wanted to escape that. I wanted to escape the boundaries of all of that."
-- Mark S. King
Mark S. King: I think it was attractive to me: A) Because I had been repressing my sexuality for so long, so much during the AIDS crisis. We were scared to have sex for a while and then we were being so extremely cautious about sex for so long. I wanted to escape that. I wanted to escape the boundaries of all of that. I don't say that was good thinking [laughs], in any respect. But again this became a lot of my drug addict thinking, "Get me away from all of those restrictions. Let me just run free."
Crystal meth, one of its attractions is that it has a reputation for unleashing wild abandon in terms of your sexuality. It has the reputation of keeping you up for days. People go on marathon sex binges when they are using crystal meth that can go on for days and days, partially because it keeps you awake, partially because I think there's a group psychology going on in that community that it's a sex drug. Whether or not it actually does that in your brain, I'm not qualified to say, but it certainly has that reputation. It sort of gives you that feeling that you are sexually invincible. You just go on and on and on and put yourself in increasingly high-risk situations. So high risk that barebacking is the baseline activity. I don't recall in the last several years of my active drug using condoms ever being discussed or present. They were a complete non-issue and beyond that sharing needles, coming inside another person, all of those, as high risk as you can get. As a matter of fact, I believe for me at least, and certainly for drug addicts that I know, the fetishing of the drug and the fetishing of the virus itself and the risks that you are taking are very much a part of that culture.
When you say fetishing, what do you mean specifically?
Mark S. King: What I mean is the fact that my sexual fantasies and those of the people that I was hanging around with were inseparable from our use of the drug. For the last several years, I never did crystal meth unless I was naked, for instance. It wasn't something I was doing on dance floors. I long ago abandoned going to night clubs. If I went out at all it was to a sex club, where I would be doing crystal meth. So there is a fetish involved where you are meeting up with another drug addict and the subject of crystal meth and how we are going to do it -- "Do you have needles?" -- those sorts of topics, were as sexually exciting as speaking of any particular sex act we could name. They were, again, completely synonymous.
Phil, does this sound very familiar to you in terms of your work at APLA [AIDS Project Los Angeles]?
We see all kinds of different populations, from different ethnicities to different socio-economic classes, also getting involved in crystal. It really seems to be hitting everybody regardless of who they are.
People interact with the drug differently. People who are sharing needles and having high-risk sex are definitely one of our target populations that we are trying to work with and minimize the risk. There are also people using it for work. There are people using it for creative outlet. People using it for managing being homeless. There are all kinds of different reasons people use it. It's not solely sexual for all the people we are seeing.
How addictive is it? Can you just use it once or twice or three times, like alcohol?
Phil Hendricks: Well, with addiction, the definition of addiction implies that it is someone using a substance multiple times. There are a lot of campaigns out that say that you cannot even risk using it once. But [using meth] once kind of opens the doors and lets people realize what crystal can do. Addiction is built around repetition of something over and over.
As far as on the scale of drugs, crystal meth is probably in the same class as cocaine, but it's not as severe [an addiction] as alcohol or heroin. Both of those have potentially fatal detoxes, whereas the cravings for crystal will last for a long, long period of time. The mental addiction and the physical addiction aren't as severe [in crystal meth] as some other drugs. But it's very drawing and very addictive for a large percentage of people, above most other drugs.
Luciano, we had talked about this last week when I contacted you. You were telling me that methamphetamine is the number one drug in the world in terms of abuse.
Luciano Colonna: I'd really like to comment on what Phil just said. It was really nice to hear his response to the question.
"Meth is not the most abused drug within the MSM community. Alcohol is actually the most abused drug."
-- Luciano Colonna
As far as seizures go and treatment goes, after cannabis, yes, amphetamine, methamphetamine is the most used drug in the world.
I'd like to comment on its use in the gay community. I think there's a lot of hyperbole in the media around its use in the gay community. It's certainly a bad drug, meaning that it causes a lot of bad things, certainly. We just heard that. It causes a lot of damage, especially after you use it for a while. And I think it causes a lot of pleasure for people who use it. However, it also causes a lot of damage because it's not only used alone. It's often used in conjunction with other drugs, and in the gay community it's also often used in conjunction with alcohol. I think individuals in the MSM [men who have sex with men] community should look at the role that alcohol plays in the gay community, continues to play in the gay community, along with methamphetamine and the impact it has on HIV, meaning alcohol. I think we should discuss that more. When we look at methamphetamine, methamphetamine use is actually declining. Meth is not the most abused drug within the MSM community. Alcohol is actually the most abused drug.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Gingerbread Bars
2 cups all-purpose flour, divided
2 teaspoons ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon fresh grated nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
10 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar, divided
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup molasses
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a medium bowl, add flour - scoop out 2 tablespoons of the flour and place into a small bowl to reserve for layer.
Into the flour, whisk in ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, baking soda and salt.
In a large mixing bowl, beat together butter, brown sugar and 6 tablespoons granulated sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until combined after each. Mix in vanilla and molasses. Add dry ingredients and mix just until combined.
Scoop batter into a 10" x 15" baking pan coated with cooking spray, spreading the top smooth with an off-set spatula. Sift reserved 2 tablespoons flour evenly over batter, then sprinkle with remaining 2 tablespoons sugar.
Place into the oven and bake until the bars are golden brown and a toothpick placed into the center comes out mostly clean with a few moist crumbs attached, about 20 to 24 minutes. Remove and place pan on a wire rack to cool completely before cutting.
Makes about 24 to 32 bars.
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- Anonymous6/24/2009 08:09:00 PM
any idea how these would be with whole wheat flour? They look wonderful and I can smell them right through the computer screen!ReplyDelete
Anon - I would start out using combo of both flours and see how it handles that first.ReplyDelete
Hey Joe! I made these bars and they were AMAZING. Possibly the best gingerbread bars I have ever tasted in my life. I drizzled them in white chocolate for an elegant touch but also kept the flour/sugar topping. It was so yummy. :)ReplyDelete
Alexandra - Awesome! Thank you for the feedback!ReplyDelete
These are my favorite gingerbread bars! I prefer them to cookies, and make them several times a year. Enjoying one right now with coffee, and thought I'd let you know how much we love them. Well done!ReplyDelete
Tracey - Thank you for bringing this back up... I forgot how good these were!ReplyDelete


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Far too many arts graduates with loads of talent find themselves working at lackluster jobs, while their dream is to make their living as artists. Unfortunately, as most art students will agree, a freshly-inked arts diploma is not a guaranteed ticket to a flourishing career in the arts. RBC and Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (NSCAD) have come up with a creative solution. It basically involves bridging the gap between the academic and entrepreneurial world of the arts through an innovative partnership.
The RBC NSCAD Emerging Artists Project supports three distinct and high-profile projects: the Graduation Catalogue, the Graduation Exhibition and Art Exchange, an off-campus gallery in the nearby RBC Dominion Securities office in Halifax, NS.
So much of student life at NSCAD is focused on creating art. The lessons learned through the RBC Emerging Artists Project, however, help them develop into successful professional artists through exposure to the business side of the equation.
The partnership between NSCAD and RBC works on so many levels, from raising the profile of the students in the community and providing them with a professional self-marketing tool in the Graduate Catalogue to building key business skills - so essential to their future success as working artists.
For Tom Froese, BDes '09, designing the 2008 Graduation Catalogue was the first real-world project over which he had full creative control. "I was able to flex all my design muscles and grow new ones, as I had to be art director, production artist, photographer, project manager, strategist and event planner, all at the same time."


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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The M.S. Conspiracy
A HoseMaster of Wine Pulp Fiction Classic
Chapter 10 Queer Patterns
When you're a dick you can get put in some pretty crappy places. I wasn't that surprised that Tiny knew about the paper in my pooper, Tiny makes a living knowing everything, but when had it been put there without my knowing? It had to have been recently; I'd only just given myself my monthly prostate exam--I was a quart low, must be in need of a ring job. The only time that made sense was after Fugly the midget knocked me out in the Les Mars Hotel. But had Fugly done it? It was the nearest cavity for him, sure, but he'd have had to undo my pants, lower my Depends, slip off the fishnet stockings, remove my sheer black nylon panties, push aside my thong, insert the note, then put it all back before I came to. And midgets have a notorious fear of Depends, for obvious reasons.
I carefully unfolded the note that had previously been residing in my ex-wives' Divorce Lawyers Hospitality Suite. It contained a simple message. I'd halfway hoped for a fortune, you know, like "Hey, it's dark in here," or "If you can read this you're following too close." But all it said was, "Here's your M.S. certificate, Shithead!" I wondered what that was about. And then suddenly I knew.
I left Tiny still scrounging for foie gras in the Cyrus dumpster and headed over to the Healdsburg Coroner's Office where Lorna and Veronica's sister should be dressing up the slabs by now. Healdsburg doesn't see a lot of murders, not usually anyway, yet the town has a Medical Examiner. Medical Examiner isn't her full-time job, by day she's a butcher at Big John's market. Stuffs a mean pork loin. Her name is Avril Cadavril.
Avril was getting ready to examine Veronica's sister. Maybe it's me, but drawing those lines all over her and labeling the different cuts seemed a little cold. I will admit, the chuck looked pretty good though, worth way more than two bucks.
"Hello, Avril, is that the girl from the Hotel Healdsburg?"
"Yup," Avril responded. I'd sort of forgotten how unattractive Avril was. Two hundred pounds of sausage stuffed into one casing. But years of being a butcher, having more blood on your hands than Donald Rumsfeld, will take their toll. But, I guess, she knew the steaks when she took the job.
"Have you checked her anus yet?" This is what life comes down to. The joy of childhood turns to the acne-covered ache of adolescence followed by the uncertainties and badly chosen sexual adventures of young adulthood which finally lead to following a real passion--wine; you follow that passion to a small town in wine country thinking you'll finally realize part of your dreams and you end up an illustrated meat dummy with a dick standing over you asking, "Have you checked her anus yet?" God's great plan.
"No, Hosemaster, I haven't. You're the only asshole I've looked at all day."
I slipped on a pair of surgical gloves, quickly put my hands to my ears, fingers splayed, and said in my best Bullwinkle voice, "Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!" and gently explored Veronica's sister's Alaskan pipeline. Sure enough, there was a slip of paper.
"Well," I said to Avril, "look what I found."
"Inspected by No. 28?" Hey, it was a butcher joke.
"Not exactly. But, you know, Avril, I'm just trying to help you not be so behind in your work." The paper read exactly like the one that had been put into my Wine Spectator office, "Here's your M.S. certificate, shithead!"
"What do you suppose that means?" Avril asked me.
"Don't know, babe, but I'll do the suppositorying around here, if you don't mind. Where's the other woman's body, the one from Les Mars?"
"Sure," said Avril, "now I guess women are from Les Mars and men are from Anus. She's over here."
Avril walked over to an adjacent gurney and removed the white sheet that was covering Lorna like she was a Forest Lawn toreador and I was an adoring crowd. "Did you check her anus?"
This is what life comes down to. The wonder of childhood turns to the weekly beatings of adolescence followed by the wearing of women's undergarments in young adulthood which finally lead to discovering the joy of substance abuse--wine; you follow that passion to a hick town in wine country only to end up covered in a white tablecloth on a gurney with a dick standing over you asking, "Did you check her anus?" Praise the Lord.
I already knew the answer by the way Avril was staring at me, like she was a brand new shoe and I was a great big turd. I carefully turned Lorna on her side and began to check her Nigerian hijacker runway. As I felt around for the expected Surprise in Every Backdoor Box, the door to the morgue suddenly opened, and when I looked over my shoulder to see who it was I was shocked to see Veronica and Jessica bursting in. Thank goodness they hadn't arrived a few minutes sooner when I was paying a booty call on Veronica's sister.
"What the hell do you think you're doing, Hoseprober?"
"Looking for clues, Jessica. I think I've found something."
"What? Your breath mints?"
"No, Chief," I said as I removed the expected slip of paper from Lorna's Year End Review of Wines, "this." I unfolded the note. But, to my surprise, it didn't say "Here's your M.S. Certificate, shithead." The look on my face got Jessica's attention. I'd gone as white as a picture of wine judges.
I handed the paper to Jessica. "'You're next, HoseMaster,'" she read, "'unless you keep your nose out of strange bungholes.' What's this about, Hosepucker?"
I was about to tell her when Veronica screamed. I hadn't heard a scream like that since the last time I'd has sex with Avril. A loud, piercing, girly scream. Avril looked at me. She remembered when I'd screamed like that.
"What, Veronica," Jessica asked, grabbing Veronica by her shoulders and holding her tightly to her chest, turning her head away from the gorgeous dead girls, "what is it?"
Veronica was crying maniacally, gasping for breath, but she managed to point at Lorna, lying there so peacefully, my bad fortune cookie, my Pez dispenser of Death, and say, "She's my sister!"
7 comments:
This isn't exactly news, but we've learned once again that the Hosemaster is one "bad ass" detective!
- January 13, 2010 at 5:18 PM
- Puff Daddy said...
I think I liked this story more when corks were coming out of attractive asses rather than tasting notes coming out of fat asses.
You are getting too close to home.
- January 13, 2010 at 6:10 PM
- Arthur said...
Is there a metaphor here that tasting notes are something critics pull out of the terminal ends of their digestive tracts?
- January 13, 2010 at 8:25 PM
- D J R-S said...
By Jove! I think he's GOT it!
- January 13, 2010 at 9:11 PM
- nitrile exam gloves said...
I found your blog on Google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
- January 13, 2010 at 11:05 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Rut Roe...I see a rant coming. Hey new guy, let me be the first to welome you to Ron's little circus but here's a little tip...The HoseMaster gets all snippy with flat out expressions of adoration. He tends to respond much better, (or as better as he gets) when you like break his bawls a little, and return often to "pretend" not to give a rat's ass what he has to say. Just a tip from one of the lifers on this wild hose ride.
He knows more than most, rarely shares it and is one of the best writers on the Internets...well, that was not much by way of a compliment but still, oh and...funny as hell. I LOL, (Don't do that either by the way) every goddman post.
Ha! Not only am I, "stealing" your readers I am now playing hostess taking one for the new team member...take that!
- January 14, 2010 at 12:15 AM
- Ron Washam said...
Hey Gang,
I gracelessly painted myself into a nasty little corner in the previous chapter so I tried to get myself out of it with this chapter so I can move on. I am not dictating the storyline here, my evil little HoseMaster subconscious takes me whatever dark places, dark and smelly, it wants. As for metaphors, Arthur, well, I guess...
Mr. Gloves, thanks for joining us. Don't let our long-running inside jokes fluster you. But Samantha is right, this is something of a circus. But say whatever you want, whenever you want. Everybody else does. Ain't democracy grand?
My Gorgeous Samantha,
Snippy? Only if you're referring to circumcisions.
You make a lovely hostess. And I'm not the best writer on the Internet. I'm not even the best writer on my blog.
I adore you!
- January 14, 2010 at 9:09 AM


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Today, national economic policy making is largely concerned with the problems of unemployment and inflation. More precisely, it is their simultaneous combination in nearly all Western economies which preoccupies policy makers. As these problems grow worse, the stakes rise higher. We know that either severe unemployment or sustained inflation, let alone both together, can be expected to have the most serious consequences for liberal democracy.Almost four decades ago, during America s worst economic period since the Great Depression, I wrote the words above in the first edition of this book (1976). Now, in 2012, one is tempted to quote the inimitable Yogi Berra: this is deja vu all over again.
Thus, the questions arise: Will the perennial global monetary crisis and the century-old age of inflation be underway forty years from now? Will the global economy have succumbed to national rivalries, mercantilism, currency wars, financial disorder and entropy? Or, will monetary order have been restored by the leading nations of the world in their own self-interest? The passage of almost forty years has not changed my mind; there is a necessary and sufficient solution to the problem of financial disorder. My conviction has only grown deeper that American and world prosperity depend on monetary reform, Federal Reserve reform, and restoration of international monetary order. American public and private finances have been sustained during the past generation by running down the immense capital laid up for us by centuries of frugal, enterprising forbearers. This liquidation of national capital for current, unrestrained, consumption may have a long, but finite life. The endgame is financial reform or national bankruptcy. National bankruptcy or its equivalent (systemic currency depreciation) is not inevitable. Monetary reform, led by America, is still plausible, especially because monetary reform has again become a national political issue.
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I chose the Event flyer. Then I was prompted to fill in a Title:
You can see the flexibility of your choices. I opted to add a video to my online flyer. When you click on the flyer below - you can scroll through my whole flyer with the scrolling tab on the right side.
Here are some other examples of flyers that I was able to embed from the SMORE website.
I see SMORE as a great way to embed flyers on your blogs and webpages; as well as, mass emailing a flyer to people. When you finish your flyer, you are given an option to share by emailing, tweeting, posting on Face Book, etc. What other ways do you see using SMORE?
Please note: I wish R. J. Palacio was returning to the valley, but I just made up the flyer that she was returning to use pictures and video that I already had access to!


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Hazing is strictly forbidden by Wofford College and is a
violation of South Carolina state law.
Hazing is defined as any action taken or situation planned or created,
on or off campus, that is demeaning to an individual; produces mental,
emotional, or physical discomfort, embarrassment, harassment or ridicule; or
which threatens or endangers the health, safety, and will being of any person,
regardless of whether that person is a member of a group or a team, whether new
or not, and regardless of that person's willingness to participate.
Activities and situations considered hazing include but are
not limited to:
If you are still unsure, ask yourself
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a day, call 864-597-2222 or fill out the Campus Safety silent
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IU East faculty available to provide insight on North Korea
Indiana University East has faculty available to discuss the ongoing developments in North Korea and its continuous threats of possible military action against South Korea and the U.S.
Ann Kim is an assistant professor of fine arts in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. She lived in South Korea before moving at the age of 13. Her parents continue to live in South Korea.
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Remember 1959? You were just 9 years old, with not a care in the world (except maybe nuclear winter). You spread the Sunday paper out across the living room floor of your suburban Chicago home, and excitedly flipped to the funny pages. Closer Than We Think! Your favorite!
What fantastical promise from the future did Mr. Radebaugh have for you this week? Cars that run on sunshine? Tomatoes as big as Verne Gagne's head? Underseas highways to the land of godless commies? No, something even more ridiculous! A home library of electronic media! What a weird futuristic world that would be! Gosh golly, what will they think of next!
Some unusual inventions for home entertainment and education will be yours in the future, such as the "television recorder" that RCA's David Sarnoff described recently.
With this device, when a worthwhile program comes over the air while you are away from home, or even while you're watching it, you'll be able to preserve both the picture and sound on tape for replaying at any time. Westinghouse's Gwilym Price expects such tapes to reproduce shows in three dimensions and color on screens as shallow as a picture.
Another pushbutton development will be projection of microfilm books on the ceiling or wall in large type. To increase their impact on students, an electronic voice may accompany the visual passages.
Eternal thanks to my Closer Than We Think pusher Tom Z., without whom I would be living in a cold, dark world of black and white comic strips.
Previously on Paleo-Future:
- Movies Will Replace Textbooks (1922)
- Thinks We'll Do Our Reading on Screen (1923)
- Closer Than We Think! (1958-1963)
- Glenn T. Seaborg's 1989 (1964)
- Learning in 1999 A.D. (1967)
- RCA's Two Thousand (1969)
- Media Room of the Future (1979)


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RALEIGH, NC (NEWS RELEASE) — United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today DANIEL P. OSTBY, 41, was sentenced by United State District Judge Terrence W. Boyle to 72 months imprisonment, 5 years supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $200 special assessment and $1,255,209.27 restitution.
On December 7, 2011, OSTBY pled guilty to wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343, and money laundering, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956(a)(1)((A)(i).
According to the Criminal Information filed on October 28, 2011, OSTBY and his co-defendant, Curt Vanderzee, formed DC Development of North Carolina, LLC, which held itself out as providing construction services. OSTBY and Vanderzee developed a scheme to "flip" houses, in which they would buy real property, improve the property by building on it, and then quickly sell the property for a profit. OSTBY also solicited friends and acquaintances to go into business with him by telling them they could "flip" houses and make $20,000.00 to $40,000.00 per property. Over 17 business-LLC's were formed with family members and acquaintances.
The investigation revealed that once the businesses were established, OSTBY took the business partners to an individual who "specialized" in obtaining credit for start up businesses. Once the business credit cards were obtained, cash advances were taken and used to open a business LLC bank account. OSTBY told the business partners that they could draw a monthly salary, and pay personal expenses with the account to help build up their credit. The money used to pay for those items were either credit card withdrawals or lines of credit obtained at various banks since the businesses had no source of income.
From 2007 to January, 2009, OSTBY and Vanderzee charged over $1,025,000.00 on the business credit cards, which were all linked to various businesses either owned by OSTBY and/or Vanderzee or linked to other businesses to which they had some financial interest. Once the money was received, they would funnel the money back to the businesses bank accounts and then use the money to pay their monthly salaries, personal expenses, the minimum monthly credit card payments, and in many instances fund the down payments of lots and properties being purchased. Additionally, OSTBY and Vanderzee submitted mortgage applications to purchase real estate, which had
misrepresentations of their employment, monthly income, and assets. The financial institutions, relying on the information submitted, approved the applications, and either mailed or wired the funds to the closing real estate attorney's bank account. It is estimated that OSTBY and Vanderzee committed over $3.7 million in mail and wire fraud.
Investigation of this case was conducted by the Internal Revenue Service and the United States Secret Service. Assistant United States Attorney Felice McConnell Corpening is serving as prosecutor for the government.


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Oct. 2, 2007
The Schedule
Match No. 9
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
No. 12 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos vs. No. 25 UC Irvine Anteaters
Harder Stadium
Kickoff 8:00 p.m.
Match No. 10
Saturday, October 6, 2007
No. 12 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos vs. Cal State Fullerton Titans
Harder Stadium
Kickoff 7:00 p.m.
Gauchos Make Statement In Big West Opener
The defending Big West champions sent a message to the rest of the league with a convincing 4-0 win at UC Davis in their lone match last week. Chris Pontius scored what would become the game-winner in the 35th minute, finishing a deflection that bounced off the Aggie keeper for the early 1-0 advantage. Eric Avila continued his hot streak offensively with a goal in the 59th minute, Jon Curry followed with his first goal of the season in the 77th, and Martin Hedevag added another for good measure with two seconds left to play as UCSB avenged last season's 1-0 defeat at Aggie Field. Santa Barbara and Davis each recorded 15 shots in the match, but the Gauchos were the ones doing all the finishing in last Saturday's conference opener. After winning four of its last six matches, UCSB enters play this week with a 4-2-2 overall record and a 1-0-0 mark against league competition.
UCSB On the Air and Web
UCSB fans can catch the Gauchos' showdown with No. 25 UC Irvine by tuning in to KCSB 91.9 in Santa Barbara. After following UCSB during its championship run in 2006, Chris "Hoffy" Hoffman and Alex "No H" Pavlovic are back for more this season and will be calling the action live from Harder Stadium Wednesday night. The Gaucho faithful can also listen to the two hardest working guys in student radio online by logging on to www.kcsb.org.
Welcome Back, FSC
Wednesday's match with 25th-ranked and Big West rival UC Irvine will be televised nationally by the Fox Soccer Channel. For the second year in a row FSC will broadcast a game at Harder Stadium live as part of its 20-game "live and exclusive NSCAA College Match of the Week" package. To accomodate television, the Gauchos and Anteaters will kickoff at 8:00 p.m., instead of the regular 7:00 p.m. start time for most UCSB home games. Last season Santa Barbara hosted No. 7 UCLA with the cameras rolling in what became a national championship preview Oct. 5. The Bruins won 3-1.
Scouting the Anteaters
UCSB hosts UC Irvine Wednesday in the Gauchos' Big West Conference home opener. The mid-week contest marks the 42nd meeting between the two schools with Santa Barbara leading the all-time series 27-11-3. In the first meeting between the rivals last season, Nick Perera scored twice to lead UCSB to a 2-0 victory over UCI on Oct. 7 at Hader Stadium. The Anteaters then returned the favor, defeating the Gauchos 2-0 at their place as Matt Murphy and Brad Evans found the net Nov. 1. Irvine was the only team to defeat Santa Barbara in its final 12 matches of 2006, as the Gauchos went on to win the national championship.
UCI enters its Big West Conference opener Wednesday after posting an overall record of 5-1-2 in non-conference play to start the season. The Anteaters, who have been ranked as high as No. 25 so far in 2007, tied San Diego State 0-0 Saturday. Irvine returns a total of 14 letterwinners and five starters from last year's squad that went 13-4-3 overall and finished second in the Big West standings behind UCSB at 6-3-1.
The Anteaters have outscored their opponents 14-6 to start the season and rank second in the Big West in terms of goals scored. Junior midfielder Matt Murphy paces the UC Irvine offense with a team-high five goals and one assist for 11 points, while freshman forwards Spencer Thompson and Amani Walker have each scored two goals apiece. Rookie Pat Barton has been the man between the posts, starting seven Anteater contests and brings a 0.80 goals against average with 26 saves and three shutouts into tonight's match.
Scouting the Titans
After its bout with UC Irvine, UCSB will welcome Cal State Fullerton to Harder Stadium on Saturday. The Gauchos and Titans will square off for the 44th time in a series in which Fullerton holds a narrow 22-20-2 advantage all-time. Nick Perera scored in the 106th minute to lift Santa Barbara to a 2-1 double overtime win in the first meeting last year Sept. 21 in Fullerton and Tyler Rosenlund netted the game's only goal in a 1-0 Gaucho win Oct. 21 at Harder Stadium.
CSUF enters the second week of Big West play with an overall record of 4-4-0 and a 0-1-0 conference mark after falling 1-0 to Cal Poly Saturday. The Titans, who will host Cal State Northridge Wednesday night, return 13 players and eight starters from their 2006 squad that finished fifth in the Big West at 3-7 and went 7-11-1 overall.
The Titans have been outscored 14-8 by their opponents through eight games but do lead the Big West with 34 saves. Senior midfielder Skyler Thuresson leads the team with two goals and is followed by six players with one each. Senior defender German Moreno holds the team lead in assists with two. Fellow fourth year Brent Douglas has started four games in goal and owns a 3-1-0 record with 13 saves, three shutouts, and a GAA of 0.31.
National Poll Watch
UCSB's 4-0 win at UC Davis, a victory over a team that had already won five times and gone unbeaten in six straight, translated into a climb in the national polls for the second week in a row. Santa Barbara moved up in the weekly NSCAA/adidas coaches poll for the first time in three weeks and enters the second week of Big West play with a ranking of No. 18, up two spots from last week's No. 20. In the media polls, the Gauchos' climb continued, as they moved up one spot from No. 13 to No. 12 in the current College Soccer News Top 30. UCSB's biggest change from last week came in the latest Soccer America Top 25, as the team climbed from the No. 15 spot last week to No. 12 this week. Lastly, UCSB slipped one spot in the the SoccerTimes Top 25, falling to No. 16 after securing the No. 15 slot last week to round out the polls.
Offense Continues to Roll
The Santa Barbara offense found its form with a 5-1 win over visiting Columbia Sept. 21 and the Gauchos had another outstanding performance Saturday against UC Davis. With the 4-0 win, UCSB has now scored 10 goals in its last three games after totaling just seven in the first five matches to start the season. The Gauchos rank second in the Big West with 17 goals and an average of 2.12 goals per game in 2007. Additionally, UCSB continued to get offensive production from multiple sources as four different players accounted for the team's four goals in the win over the Aggies. The defending national champions have scored 17 goals with a total of nine Gauchos finding the net.
Don't Forget the D
While the offense turned UCSB's conference opener at UC Davis into a laugher, the defense deserves just as much recognition. 2007 M.A.C. Hermann Trophy candidate Andy Iro and the Gaucho defense recorded the team's second shutout of the season and first away from Harder Stadium, holding down an Aggie team that had scored 23 goals entering the match -- more than any other squad in the Big West -- scoreless for 90 minutes. And although Davis was able to fire off 15 shots in the match, only three of those were on frame and the Aggies never really had a quality scoring opportunity. After the Gauchos recorded 12 shutouts on the way to a national championship in 2006, head coach Tim Vom Steeg has to be pleased with what he saw from his defense last week.
Leader of the Pack
Junior midfielder Chris Pontius continued his outstanding play last week, scoring a goal against the Aggies to maintain his unlikely status as the Gauchos' leading scorer in 2007. The Yorba Linda, Calif. native punched in the rebound off Davis goalkeeper Brian Wickers at the 34:39 mark for the 1-0 lead and the eventual game-winner in UCSB's 4-0 win. The goal was his team-leading fourth of 2007 for nine points and was also his second game-winner of the season, which is also tops on the squad. Pontius, who entered the season with just four goals in 43 career games in the blue and gold, ranks third in the Big West in terms of goals scored. A striker at Servite High School, Pontius has been extremely valuable for the Gauchos over the last three years, playing primarily in the midfield but also filling in on the backline and up front from time to time. He is one of the most versatile players on the Santa Barbara roster and there is no denying -- now, more than ever with his newfound offensive prowess -- how critical Pontius is to the Gauchos' success.
Avi Being Avi
Another player that has been getting the job done offensively recently has been junior midfielder Eric Avila. The Preseason All-American scored his third goal of the season Saturday at UC Davis and has now found the net in three of UCSB's last five matches. The San Diego native gave the Gauchos a 2-0 lead 13 minutes into the second half when he beat the Aggie keeper one-on-one for the score at the 58:56 mark. Avila is second on the squad with three goals and now has a total of 14 for his career as Gaucho -- the most of any of the 28 players on UCSB's current roster. Santa Barbara is 3-0 this season when Avila has scored. He also has two assists for eight total points, which ranks sixth in the Big West, and leads the conference with 31 shots through eight games this season. Avila earned All-Big West First Team distinction in 2006 after leading the team with eight goals to go with five assists for 21 points.
Freshman Fortitude
Among the five Gauchos that have scored two or more goals this season, freshman defender Martin Hedevag is definitely the biggest surprise. The native of Gothenburg, Sweden has appeared in six games off the bench for UCSB in 2007 and, along with Tino Nuñez and fellow newcomer Ciaran O'Brien, ranks third on the squad with two goals. Hedevag scored his first-career goal as a Gaucho in Santa Barbara's 5-1 thrashing of Columbia Sept. 21, finishing a cross from Jon Curry on his first touch of the game in th 76th minute. He put the finishing touches on another Santa Barbara victory last week, collecting a feed from Tony Chinakwe for the Gauchos' fourth and final goal at the 89:58 mark against UC Davis.
Iro, Avila Named to Hermann Award Watch List
Senior defender Andy Iro and junior midfielder Eric Avila were recently named to the 2007 M.A.C. Hermann Trophy Watch List, marking the first time in program history that two Gauchos were selected for the prestigious list that will eventually determine the NCAA Division I Player of the Year. The defending national champions are one of only two schools in the nation that had multiple players named to the Watch List, joining senior goalkeeper Matt Allen and junior forward Byron Dacy of Creighton. UCSB has now had a total of four players named to the list after Iro received the honor in 2006 and former teammate Tyler Rosenlund was selected in 2005. The winner of the M.A.C.'s Hermann Trophy will be determined by a panel of NSCAA Division I member coaches. A list of 15 semifinalists will be announced in November, and three finalists will be named in early December in conjunction with the NCAA Division I College Cup. The final three will be invited to the Missouri Athletic Club on Friday, January 11, 2008 and the winner will be announced during a nationally-televised news conference that evening.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 42 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
ACM CHI 2012 Conference
An annual conference focused on human-computer interaction, including user interface design and HCI research.
This is an annual conference that uses a new logo each year; prior logos can be seen at chi2011.org; chi2010.org; chi2009.org; etc.
Each year also has a theme, usually provided as optionally attached to the logo (beside or below) -- this year's theme is "It's the Experience!" -- theme is meant to focus on both the importance of user experience in human-computer interaction and on the experience of attending the conference (we'll be having more interactive opportunities this year).
Conference location is Austin, Texas
Conference dates are May 5-10, 2012
It would be nice to have places where the location and date can be incorporated in use (you'll see that some years this has been done, others not, depending on how they fit with the logo).
Logo is used pre-conference on website, flyers, give-aways, to attract participants, and at the conference for branding throughout (powerpoints, signs, T-shirts, etc.).
Attendance is about 2500 people; about 1/3 of them are students. Balance is about 30% female. Mix of academic, industry, government. About 2/3 from North America; about 25% from Europe; smaller numbers from Asia, South Africa, Brazil. Part of the community includes interaction designers. (Larger numbers are in research, usability practice, etc.) Community likes to think of itself as "with it".
Sponsoring organization is ACM SIGCHI. SIGCHI logo can be seen at http://www.sigchi.org; ACM logo can be seen at http://www.acm.org.
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The Center for Public Health Genomics (CPHG) was established within the University of Virginia School of Medicine in January 2007. The primary mission of CPHG is to address questions in public health, biology and medicine by developing and applying state-of-the-art genetic, genomic and computational approaches to human data and samples and manipulation of model organisms.
Dr. Stephen Rich, Director, leads researchers who represent a broad array of expertise that are central to the CPHG. Faculty research includes the genetics of human, mouse and translational medical genetics; mathematical, statistical and computer methods for analyzing genomes; theoretical and evolutionary genetics; and genome-wide studies by sequencing, transcriptional and translational analysis, polymorphism detection and identification of complex network interactions. The CPHG faculty has primary appointments in different academic departments within the University of Virginia School of Medicine, with laboratories located in the CPHG. The CPHG includes affiliated faculty whose laboratories are in other departments across the University. The CPHG structure facilitates and encourages multidisciplinary collaboration among faculty which is essential to the advancement of knowledge in public health genomics.
Graduate research in the CPHG is based in programs through colleges (including the School of Medicine and the College of Arts and Sciences) within existing graduate programs. Graduate students identify CPHG mentors and conduct research in CPHG faculty laboratories. This research leads to degrees in disciplines that are typically multidisciplinary. The majority of graduate students in the biomedical sciences are supported in the first year by funding from the Dean of the School of Medicine, and in years following by training grants. The CPHG supports two seminar series that run throughout fall and spring semesters, the weekly Genome Sciences Seminar Series and the semi-monthly CPHG Research in Progress (RIP). All graduate students are expected to attend these seminars as well as seminars appropriate to their areas of research.
The Future
One of the primary challenges we face today is translation of genomic and complex biological information into appropriate processes for early detection and intervention to reduce risk (or prevent) human disease, thereby improving the public's health. Public health genomics is a multi-disciplinary field that focuses on the effective and responsible translation of genetic information and technology for the benefit of population health. A major focus of our work translates genomic discoveries to appropriate population level assessments, policies and disease prevention programs. Advances in genomics will change the application of public health by focusing interventions on individuals and groups who will benefit the most from behavioral modifications, drug therapies, and other forms of interventions, and will become a fundamental tool of public health and medical science in the 21st century.


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Typical 2007 football game Steelers college anything. When theirs ground to gain. They blow it.
Typical 2007 football game Steelers college anything. When theirs ground to gain. They blow it.
there was a reason we got mahan on the cheap, and with no struggle from the bucs, it's because he ****ing sucks at life
"SA, it's more than a FEVER it's an ADDICTION" -BlacknGold Bleeder
Well its hard to single Mahan when the entire Oline sucks....lol Not one of them is worth a damn......
Plus Koop, I swore Cowher was out their coaching tonight....Thats what it seemed like just there wasn't any spit or emotion....lol
Plus Ben locks in to many times still on 1 WR.....lol Oh and Hines Ward isn't a factor on this team anymore....Its clear he is second fiddle to Holmes and the TEs.........
i single him out, cause he was the one that low snapped the ball and by the time ben got the handle on it mahans man was on him and that's what caused the fumble
"SA, it's more than a FEVER it's an ADDICTION" -BlacknGold Bleeder
The Steelers defense sucked last night!
1. Yes, Mahan sucks. I've thought so since preseason, when the only thing I noticed him do was that one bad snap. The guy sucks at snapping the ball, and that's his main job as a Center!
2. No, it didn't look like Cowher was coaching out there. If Cowher had been coaching, we would have run the damn ball down the throats of the worst run D in the league, instead of trying to be too cute with our passing game and those retarded draws and fake handoffs that anyone could see coming a mile away.
3. I blame the D's collapse on my computer! Or, more specifically, that ESPN thing at the top of the screen! My computer at home always ****s up trying to load that ESPN thing. We sucked in the 1st half while I was downstairs watching the game, then at halftime I went upstairs and got on the computer and we came back, and then RIGHT before that last Denver drive, my computer froze trying to load the damn ESPN thing. Damn you ESPN! Taking away our good luck charm!!!
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CurdBee API - Developers
The CurdBee REST API allows users to integrate the CurdBee software with existing systems to streamline processes. CurdBee is an online billing software for small businesses and freelancers to simplify invoicing needs. It allows users to send professional invoices, estimates online and get paid. The API uses RESTful calls and responses are formatted in either XML or JSON.


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Jul 18th Helsinki DC: Multiple nodes down
There was a short power outage at Helsinki DC.
We are sorting this out now and getting servers back online.
EDIT: All nodes online, no issues noted. Please contact support if any questions etc.
May 4th Helsinki DC network maintenance **UPDATE 2**
There might be intermitten outages on networking today as we are working on some upgrades.
Expected downtime is short
UPDATE 05/05/2017 14:52 GMT: Some of the maintenance was moved for today. May have short downtimes upto 30minutes.
UPDATE 05/05/2017 17:58 GMT: Maintenance done.
Mar 25th Debian 8: OpenVPN & NzbDrone fixed
OpenVPN now installs, configures and runs on Debian 8 based servers.
NzbDrone installation issues has been fixed for Deb8 based servers now.
Usual rolling updates are taking in place. If you want your server to skip ahead on queue, please contact support.
Mar 15th Helsinki DC Brownout.
We had a brownout couple hours back at the Helsinki DC. A number of servers crashed as a result.We are working to bring all downed servers back online right now, and checking servers as we go.This is the first brownout in our history of having our own datacenter. There is a small storm on going and that might have caused distribution issues, but ... Read More »
Feb 2nd Have an French dedicated server or MDS and it's down?
Please contact support immediately. Especially if you have not received an e-mail so far. There is an emergency relating to these services, and we are handling it as quickly as we possibly can and sorting things out.Affected services are following series if your server is located in France and setup/upgraded/migraded to in the past 2 years: MDS ... Read More »
Dec 11th Bitcoin discount increased
The bitcoin discount has been increased to 5% from 3%.We have noticed a sharp increase in transaction fees, and we want to give savings of the transaction fee directly to the user! The overall transaction cost has increased more than 20% in the past couple of years. In other words, it is very very expensive to handle transactions other than ... Read More »
Oct 1st Debian 8 aka Jessie
We have several servers now running Debian 8.As expected there was several regression in moving to Debian 8, mostly regarding maintaining servers. Otherwise all but OpenVPN has been resolved. OpenVPN is currently not working on the first Debian 8 systems, but will be fixed soon as the remainder of maintenance related aspects have been sorted ... Read More »
Sep 15th Bonus disk quota wiki page updated
If this concerns you, please read the updated page which clarifies the terms and rules of the system.
Aug 20th SSD Stock Status: Drives are in order
We are waiting for delivery of new drives, ETA to have stock available again is within 3 weeks. Best Case scenario 1 week.
Jul 14th SSD Base traffic amounts increased
SSD series traffic limits has been increased significantly.
These will be enabled for all existing users automatically over time.
We also introduced 100G option.


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The Delaware Sports Writers and Broadcasters Association will hold its 65th annual banquet on February 17th at the Sheraton Wilmington South Hotel, New Castle
65th DSBA BANQUET TO FEATURE NEW AWARD
The Delaware Sportswriters and Broadcasters Association will honor the state's top athletic performers at its 65th annual banquet, to be held at noon on Presidents Day, February 17, at the Sheraton Wilmington South Hotel, 365 Airport Road, New Castle.
As in past years, the banquet will honor the winner of the John J. Brady Award as Delaware's Outstanding Athlete of 2013, the state's Coach of the Year, the state's Team of the Year and the winner of the Herm Reitzes Award for public service.
New this year is the Buddy Hurlock Award, created in honor of the late long-time high school sportswriter in Delaware, to honor a Delaware athlete who has overcome obstacles to become an athletic performer and inspire others.
Tickets are available at $30 at http://www.delasports.org/


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This is the third year that Andy Warren and myself are hosting a networking dinner in Seattle, just before the PASS Summit. If you are new to the Summit, or just interested in meeting some new people, we hope you'll join us on Monday, Nov 5, at Gordon Biersch, located in the Pacific Place mall on Pine St. It's just a couple blocks from the Convention Center.
We don't have anything formal planned, just a time and place for people to swing by, shake hands, introduce themselves and talk about what they do, or why they came, or just life in general. It's a casual event that is just (barely) organized so you have a chance to meet other attendees on an off night.
If you don't have plans and want to attend, come on by. Please register so we have an idea of the number of people coming.
It's BYOD/BYOF (buy your own xxx), but there's no fee to attend.
I'll be at SQL in the City - Seattle 2012 during the day, another free event, and then I'll come by afterwards.


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Prince Ea vs Wax - Get Busy From L.A. To St. Louis
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NEW YORK, Thailand, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. Catholic bishops threatened legal action if the Obama administration doesn't change a policy that Catholic entities cover birth control in health plans.
Anthony Picarello, general counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Tuesday if the administration wants to "allay concerns, they need to change the policy," CNN reported.
"Nothing less will do," Picarello told CNN. "The bishops aren't going to stop until this is fixed and that means pursuing every legal means [available] to them to fix it."
Churches are exempt from the policy, which is effective Aug.1, and religious institutions opposing contraception have been given a year's extension to comply.
Meanwhile, White House press secretary Jay Carney tried to alleviate worries, saying the administration would use the transition period "to see if the implementation of the policy can be done in a way that allays some of those concerns."
Carney said during the media briefing Tuesday President Obama's focus is trying to balance the ability of employees of Catholic affiliated employers to get contraception while respecting religious beliefs and convictions.
"We understand the religious concerns here. That is why this balance was sought," Carney said during the regular media briefing. "That's why the process going forward includes a transition period where this discussion will continue to see if there can be ways found that ensure that women get access to these preventive services and that those services are covered -- as they will be for all other women -- and that also takes into account these religious concerns."
Carney said there were exemptions for churches and houses of worship, where it was more a matter of hiring people of like faith, rather than larger institutions, such as hospitals or universities, where "you are going to have folks of all faiths."
The rule, Carney stressed, doesn't require an individual or institution to provide contraception, but requires "coverage for women who work there of different faiths, or of any faith."
Supporters of the provision said they'll go against the church and back the rights of employees at Catholic entities to have birth control and other services paid for by their employers.
"The Catholic hierarchy seems to be playing a cynical game of chicken and they don't seem to care that the health and well-being of millions of American woman are what's at stake here," National Abortion Rights Action League President Andrea Miller told WCBS-TV, New York.
WCBS said it was told U.S. bishops were considering a march on Washington, bringing in people from across the country to protest the law.


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Apple's and Motorola's Slip-Slidey Patent Scrap
Feb 20, 2012 5:00 AM PT
A regional court in Munich, Germany, has ruled that most of Motorola Mobility's smartphone products infringe on Apple's slide-to-unlock image patent.
Users of Apple's iOS devices slide a virtual button across the screen in order to "unlock" the device -- in other words, wake it up and make it ready to accept other input. It's meant to prevent so-called pocket dials on the device's touch-sensitive screen. Users also have the option to use a four-digit PIN for added security.
However, it seems Motorola's use of the slide-to-unlock idea was too similar to Apple's. The court ruled on three implementations -- two on smartphones and the third on the Xoom tablet.
Motorola won over the tablet's implementation. This is similar to the Samsung Galaxy Note's implementation, wherein the user swipes from inside a circle to another, bigger circle outside, patent consultant Florian Mueller said.
"We are going to appeal," Motorola spokesperson Christa Smith told MacNewsWorld.
Apple is expected to contest the Munich court's ruling on the Xoom, Mueller suggested.
Cupertino did not respond to our request for comment for this story.
A Patent Ruling in Old Munchen
Apple's patent "covers gestures along a predefined, displayed path," Mueller told MacNewsWorld.
The reasoning of the court is straightforward, said Carl Howe, a vice president at the Yankee Group. "Apple's claims in its patent were both specific and defensible in terms of its being an Apple invention," he told MacNewsWorld. "As such, Apple is entitled to determine who gets to use this technology and who doesn't."
The Munich court's ruling is a permanent injunction that Apple can enforce at its own risk against a bond, Mueller said. However, it won't impact Motorola much because that company will only have to modify its products to continue selling them in Germany.
Going Through Changes
Motorola is already planning to make a modification. The ruling "concerns a software feature related to phone unlocking in select Motorola devices sold in Germany" and the company "has implemented a new design for the feature," the company's Smith said.
However, she declined to discuss this new feature further.
The change might involve implementing the slide-to-unlock circle in the Xoom across Motorola products impacted by the ruling, Mueller opined.
This "would be a relatively minor patch changing from the infringing method to the non-infringing method," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told MacNewsWorld. "As things go, this is more annoying than damaging."
However, the change may not be of as much use as Motorola might think because Cupertino "has a point if it says that moving outside a circle is also a gesture that follows a predefined path," Mueller pointed out.
Further, changing to the slide-to-unlock circle used in the Xoom tablet may degrade the user experience on Motorola smartphones, Mueller suggested. Among this approach's drawbacks is that it is not very intuitive, he said.
Fallout, Boy!
The ruling will make slide-to-unlock "a distinctive differentiating feature between Apple products and Android ones," Carl Howe, a vice president at the Yankee Group, told MacNewsWorld.
"Apple gets to use swipe to unlock, while everyone else won't," Howe explained. "And because this is one of the first things anyone does with a tablet, it will likely become a signature difference."
Apple's also using its slide-to-unlock patent in lawsuits against the other two major Android device makers -- Samsung and HTC, Mueller said. "Whenever they decide to sue a fourth Android device maker, there's a good chance that slide-to-unlock will be part of the dispute again."
Amazon Steps Into the Slide Zone?
It's possible that Amazon might be the next target of an Apple slide-to-unlock lawsuit.
"The Amazon Kindle Fire also uses this potentially infringing straight [side to side] slide method [that's patented by Apple]," Enderle pointed out. "This suggests there may be some additional issues between Apple and Amazon coming"
Apple may feel the need to turn its guns on Amazon because of the Kindle Fire's strong showing. Strong sales drove the Kindle Fire from zero percent of the global media tablet market in Q3, 2011 to 14 percent in Q4, IHS iSuppli found. Meanwhile, the iPad's share fell from 57 percent to 39 percent in that period.
[Late Apple CEO] Steve Jobs' "final orders to his legal department and executive team were to kill Android," Enderle said. "They will use every angle they can find to carry out those orders."
Google Gets Up and Goes
Earlier this month, the U.S. Patent Office published a patent application from Google for input to a locked computing device.
This will let Google offer Android OEMs two new methods for unlocking their devices, according to Patently Apple said.
One method uses voice recognition; the other uses a two-icon approach where the user drags the cursor from a command-related icon on the device's screen to an unlock icon elsewhere on the screen. This will unlock the device and then trigger the command.
"I don't know how Google will make use of this technology, but what I can say is that this doesn't change anything about Google's liability for infringement of Apple's slide-to-unlock patent," Mueller said. "By implementing patent A, you can infringe patent B, and in that case you need permission from both right holders."
The change will probably be less intuitive than Apple's method, Enderle speculated.
However, the Yankee Group's Howe is more appreciative of Google's new gesture technologies as outlined in the patent,.
"To its credit, Google has innovated by employing different gestures with Android in anticipation of [Apple's] patent being upheld," Howe said. "In many ways, this is what patents were meant to do -- require inventors to come up with new, not-previously-used solutions to problems; it's an example of patents working as they were meant to, something that's been in short supply lately."


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When AP reporter Julhas Alam arrived at the burned-out building in Bangladesh, he was determined to find out what brands were being made in the clothing factory, where a fire had swept through and killed 122.
He bided his time. Then, when all other media were gone, he politely asked a policeman if he and an AP photographer could go inside. For two hours that day in December, Alam sifted through boxes and pored over order books and clothes left on sewing machines as workers fled. What he found reverberated around the world, and continues to prompt reform: children's clothes, hooded sweatshirts, shorts and sweaters bearing the names of some of the best-known Western brands.
The story received worldwide attention, breaking even as holiday gift shoppers were out buying many of the same brand names. The companies involved reported that they had either stopped doing business with the factory earlier or didn't know their clothes were being made there. Since then, many have stepped up vigilance on their chain of manufacturing.
We tell you this story because it deftly illustrates AP's unique strengths: the global footprint to cover news wherever it happens; the local reporter with a deep understanding of his territory and the right connections; the worldwide network of bureaus and editors to hone coverage and plumb it for relevance. In short, AP produces news that very few organizations in the world can, but that everyone needs.
Last year, we focused on strengthening our ability to provide critical news and services to our members and customers – from broadening our reach and rolling out efficient new delivery platforms to harnessing the power of mobile business models and reinforcing AP's financial health. We enter 2013 stronger, and with a plan to help our current customers compete better than ever and to garner new ones, whether in untapped locations or uncharted business terrain. Our goal is to be nothing less than the global news leader.
We expanded our reach in critical areas last year: opening a bureau in North Korea, making AP the only Western news organization with a full-time multimedia office there, while also establishing a cross-format bureau in Eastern Europe to create competitive advantage in an underserved area.
Our initiative to convert all AP video and video infrastructure to high definition was completed on time and under budget, with AP video fully HD for both the 2012 London Summer Games and the U.S. presidential election. We also built new delivery platforms for the businesses where we see greatest growth potential for AP: video and images. One of them, AP Video Hub, was designed specifically to provide digital publishers and news sites easy-to-access self-serve video, whether breaking news, 24/7 live streaming or archival footage. It proved to be an immediate success.
Like our geographic reach, AP's footprint in mobile news continues to grow. AP Mobile, one of the highest-rated news apps in the iTunes store, hit the 12 million download mark last year, its popularity evident with 97 percent of visitors returning regularly. We also launched deep content verticals we are calling Digital News Experiences that let our newspaper and broadcast members easily integrate AP coverage into their own branded sites and drive advertising revenue. The vertical pegged to the Summer Games last year attracted major national advertisers. This year, microsites will cover motor sports, football and basketball. With hundreds of AP members signed up, we believe these verticals are an important model for digital growth.
From Syria to every U.S. statehouse, we deepened our determination to provide the news our customers need most, and can most trust. In the U.S., local and state reporters drilled into issues of high impact for our members, using databases and freedom of information law to report on corruption, questionable judgment, broken systems and hidden agendas.
In Syria, where the story is often too dangerous to report firsthand, enterprising AP staff developed a system to verify user-generated content, putting us ahead of the competition in video coverage. AP photographers captured some of the most compelling images of the conflict, winning, among other prizes, first place in the Pictures of the Year International award for Manu Brabo's heart-wrenching shot of a Syrian father cradling his bloodied, dead son. In all, AP photographers won an unparalleled eight first prizes in the global competition.
We strengthened our financial health last year as well. Total revenue was $622.2 million, and the company grew EBITDA for the first time in five years. Our bank debt peaked in August and we ended the year with debt at about half of the peak. We feel confident that bank borrowings will be fully repaid by early next year. You can find our full financials here.
As we have since our founding nearly 170 years ago, AP continued to lead the fight for open government. In 2012, we filed more than 50 Freedom of Information Act appeals on behalf of members, ourselves or other parties.
We also continued to fight the case against misappropriation of our news. In a sweeping victory for AP, for those who produce original news and for the public that relies on it, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled in AP's favor in a suit against Meltwater News, an electronic clipping service, for taking and reselling AP news without a license.
In the coming year, we will take a comprehensive look at our news licensing business to identify new targets for growth, and to make sure that our news resources are positioned in the most competitive way. For members and customers this will mean content and solutions that help them succeed. For news consumers the world over, it means more of what AP does best: news they must know and can trust. We look forward to telling you about it in next year's annual report.
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