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Hack Upon a Cause: Powered by XO Group, Inc.
Saturday, February 8, 2014 at 9:00 AM - Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 5:00 PM (EST)
Event Details
XO Group, Inc.
XO Group, Inc. is proud to announce Hack Upon a Cause: Powered by XO Group, Inc., a Hackathon with the goal of building sustainable technological solutions to better the lives of women around the world. Together we will be focused for 24 hours building web & mobile apps to help four amazing non profits solve a unique set of real world problems that women and teens encounter both locally and globally every day.
XO Group, Inc. is a global media and technology leader providing young women with the trusted information products and advice they need to guide them through the most transformative events of their lives. Collaborate with developers, designers, entrepreneurs and non-profits to impact the lives of women that need it the most.The participating non-profits include: Step Up Womens Network, Wish Upon A Wedding, New Course, and DayOne.
Non-profit organizations:
Step Up Women's Network
Wish Upon A Wedding
Wish Upon a Wedding provides weddings and vow renewals to couples facing terminal illness and serious life altering circumstances, regardless of sexual orientation. Our organization was created to celebrate the courage, determination and spirit of these couples by granting their deam wedding wishes. A design hack where you will enter into the XO Hacakthon design contest through 99Designs for free, bring the .PSD's to the event and have devs build their site on your design!
New Course
#1 – Asking women what they need
Create an app that allows women to feed in a survey and voice their opinion to let us know globally, regionally or nationally what their needs are. The app should help us have a better understanding of what women everwhere visions are, fears and the opportunities that they want.
#2 – Training, tools & knowledge
Development of an app for environmental practitioners, donors and even travelers.
#3 – Prioritizing areas for intervention.
Figure out how to mesh data sets like; environmental patterns, poverty numbers and women head of house holds in vulnerable communities and project things like human trafficking or other human rights abuses could be outstanding.
#4 – Awareness Raising
#1 – Relate: An application that allows users to track the progress of their relationship using 3 question quizzes. The user takes an initial quiz at sign-up on their relationship and their personal interests which informs future questions. Relationship status would be tracked in a way similar to dieting apps and warning signs of abuse would prompt a connection to resources.
#2 – Our Messages: A message preserving app that creates a timeline of imported messages including SMS, MMS, IMs, Emails and social networking between the user and a selected contact. The app can be used to preserve messages chronologically so couples, friends or family members could look at the "story" of their relationship through mobile communications. Dating violence survivors could use the tool to document threatening or unwanted contacts from their abuser.
Grand Prize:
- $5000
- 3 Months of communal membership in the Fueled Collective
- $500 in Heroku Credits
- 6 Months of the Firebase bonfire plan ($894 value)
- Acceptance into the Spring 2014 HACKcelerator
HACKcelerator is a global pre-accelerator program designed to help top hackathon teams turn their hacks into market ready products. If you win the Hack Upon a Cause: Powered by XO Group, Inc. Hackathon, you win our full support for whatever product you'd like to have us help you develop. You're in. We'll provide you the platform for connecting with amazing mentors and a series of events in Silicon Valley to connect with investors and media. This will be your shot at glory. Learn more on HACKcelerator program here.
1st Runner Up: $3000
2nd Runner Up: $1500
Firebase will also be awarding 3 months of their Bonfire plan to the best hack built with their API ($447 value)
"Most Helpful Hacker" will be awarded a Microsoft Windows 8 Tablet
|8:00AM - Doors open / setup
|8:00AM - Breakfast
|9:00AM - Doors open to attendees / Breakfast of Champions
|12:00PM - Lunch
|10:00AM - Welcome announcements & NPO's intro/presentations
|1:00PM - Hackathon ends / Submission due on hackathon.io
|11:00AM - Team pitches
|2:00PM - Judging / demos being
|12:00PM - Lunch
|4:00PM - Winners announced / Prizathon!
|1:00PM - Hackathon competition begins
|7:00PM - Dinner is served
|Hack through the night!
Hack Upon a Cause: Powered by XO Group, Inc. is an unparalleled opportunity to make new friends, connect with old ones, eat well, and most importantly, make a difference. There's a nominal $25 registration fee (all proceeds go to charity). Space is limited, so register today!
When & Where
XO Group, Inc.--24th floor
195 Broadway
New York,
Saturday, February 8, 2014 at 9:00 AM - Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 5:00 PM (EST)
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XO Group, Inc. (NYSE: XOXO), is a global media and technology leader devoted to weddings, pregnancy and everything in between, providing young women with the trusted information, products and advice they need to guide them through the most transformative events of their lives. Our family of premium brands began with the #1 wedding brand, The Knot, and has grown to include WeddingChannel.com, The Nest, The Bump and Ijie.com. XO Group is recognized by the industry for being innovative in all media – from the web to social media and mobile, magazines and books, and video – and our groundbreaking social platforms have ignited passionate communities across the world. XO Group has leveraged its customer loyalty into successful businesses in online sponsorship and advertising, registry services, ecommerce and publishing. The company is publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange (XOXO) and is headquartered in New York City. Follow XO Group on Twitter @xogroupinc.
AngelHack unites developers around the world in a massive hackathon where they can learn interesting developer tools, start new companies, and even win prizes and funding for their ideas. AngelHack Fall 2013 brings together 6000+ developers across 30 cities for the world's largest hackathon. The top teams worldwide will be entered in HACKccelerator and receive 6-8 weeks of expert mentorship before being flown to Silicon Valley to showcase their work to investors and media at AngelHack's Global Demo Day on January 24th, 2013. On average, 30% of finalists will find funding and move on to become groundbreaking startups.


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text: Environment What deteriorating air quality looks like around the world The World May 26, 2014 The Chinese government announced Monday that it plans to take more than five million vehicles off the road to improve air quality, including 330,000 cars in Beijing. This announcement comes only weeks after the World Health Organization announced that only 12 percent of cities reporting on air quality meet their standards for safe levels. With the help of our newsroom designers, we put together a list of places recently affected by deteriorating air quality and incidents of smog.


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Here's your mini kit assignment for the week:
- 5 patterned papers
- 5 solid papers
- 15 elements
Here's your mini kit assignment for the week:
I'm so glad to see this challenge! I missed the others. Thanks.
Great! Thank you for another great challenge!
Can't wait to see all the creations.
Cute. I'll be working on mine!!
awww Kim.. this is so pretty, i love the pandas.. super cute!
@ Kim - that's so cute!! I love pandas.
Here's my mini kit. Details on the kit and a quick layout are on my blog, if you're interested. Link below.
Sunday Morning Preview by zoenanai, on Flickr
Blog: http://mandyslovabledesigns.blogspot.com/2013/11/new-freebie-sunday-morning.html
Beautiful kits so far! @Kim: Cute pandas! Nice and brigth colors @Amanda: Beautiful papers! I love the colors you put together.
My part:
It's actually a bigger kit with more papers which I designed a couple of months ago but it had no elements. So it was hard to choose just 10 papers
@Amanda: Beautiful mini kit, I love the colors, thank you for sharing!
Thank you ladies.
@Nadia - I love the blue & burnt orange together on your papers. Great combo.
Amanda- I LOVE the colors in your kit!!
Thank you Andene.
What gorgeous kits, and a variety too!!! Thank you for sharing your creations!!!!
These are gorgeous ladies!!!! WoW
Hi Marisa, I have a couple of questions please? Are we allowed to use templates from PixelScrapper to make our papers, or must it all be from scratch our own? And the 2nd question, if we don't have a blog or website to keep the mini kit that we want to enter into the challenge, what alternative can you suggest maybe please? If we enter the challenge, should we find a place where members can download it from for free?
Aah this is so cute Kim, well done, love all the brightness about it ~ feel happy just looking at it
I have no idea if I'm doing this right, but I hope it all works... apologies in advance for incase something didn't go according to plan.
All the entries above are so nice, well done to all the ladies who took on the challenge, your kits are beautiful
As I have no blog or website, I managed to upload the kit for you to download from: http://dfiles.eu/files/8967r932p
Deposit Files download instructions:
Click on "Regular download" (if a pop up page opens, just immediately close it & you will be back on the original page),
Click "Download file in regular mode by browser" (it will do a countdown until next step),
Then enter the words you see in the box & press "continue",
Click Click "Download file in regular mode by browser" again and your download will start automatically.
File name: OhSoPretty.zip
File size: 66.46 MB and it would take about 5 minutes to download.
If the picture of the mini kit doesn't come up in the post here, you can view the kit at: http://i.imgur.com/Yv989gml.jpg
Thank you Marisa for giving us this challenge, it sure was fun doing it and I've been wanting to try something like this so much, so I am sitting with a huge big smile today, because "mission accomplished". But I take my hat of for designers and now I realize how much time, effort and hard work goes into creating paper or kits etc. So I truly respect what you and your team does and I appreciate it so much.
In my kit I used some templates from PixelScrapper, so all credit to you guys, thank you then I would also like to credit freevintagedigistamps.blogspot for the retro image on the kit label.
@Maddy: I saw your comment from my phone yesterday, but I can't see it anymore all I see is blank, That's weird!! Anyways!
Thank you so much for your kind words, glad you like my mini kit as many others, I enjoy making them for everyone
Great mini kit by the way, Have a wonderful day!
@Maddy: Looks great!
Very nice Maddy.
@ Maddy: beautiful! Thanks for joining us!
Just a tip maybe you know already: you can also use other sites download programs for example like dropbox or mediafire which are easy in use. 4shared is also used alot but it's not so easy and you have to have an acount to be able to download.
I managed to download your kit but the download was really slow, I don't know if that was just for that moment.
Ah thank you Nadia, I will look into the other sites. I must confess, I'm not so good with internet sett ups and it was more difficult to upload my kit, than to design it hahaha, but hopefully one of your suggested sites would work easier in future. Thank you so much for telling me about them
Very, very cute. Thank you.
Oh so very pretty. Thanks a bunch.
Oh wow! I haven't really peeked much into this forum, and I'm wishing I'd visited sooner. All of your mini-kits are beautiful!
Nadia - thank you for that tip about 4shared. That's what I use and I didn't realize that an account was necessary. I might switch to Mediafire soon.


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The Queen's Tea
Mother's Day weekend, we hosted our very first Queen's Tea. We invited all of our friends to join us for tea sandwiches, tea cakes, fresh fruit, hot and iced teas and great company. Of course, you had to show up in your finest hat, at least. Most women showed up in their best attire, from lace, to pearls and elbow length gloves. You can see in the pics below and if you are a fan of ours on Facebook then you can see the whole album, just how elegant everyone was dressed. It was a wonderful time.
There were about 25 ladies in all, dressed to impress. We played, Heads or Tails, gave away teapots and even crowned a Queen. Mrs. Judy Thorn, a local customer who practically lives at our shop, we feel like she's the closest to family we can get, was a much deserving queen. Well, and she just so happened to sit at the lucky spot. (We placed a "Queen" memo under a random plate for our winner). The Queen got to chose from a list of "specials" that she could share with her "court". Judy, a gracious Queen, let the ladies vote on what they wanted as their "special". They chose buy 5 fat quarters get 5 FREE. Not bad….
It was really a great time, those of you who missed it…We missed you! Hoping we get to do this again next year….I'm thinking, Yes!
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Autodesk, Inc. v. Dassault Systemes Solidworks Corp., 2009 WL 5218009 (N.D. Cal. December 31, 2009)
One of the issues in the case of Autodesk, Inc. v. Dassault Systemes Solidworks was whether Autodesk could claim trademark rights and the letters "DWG". The .dwg ("drawing") file extension is the native file format for Autodesk's flagship product AutoCAD.
Plaintiff Autodesk moved for summary judgment on the trademark issue. The defendant pointed out that the trademark laws do not permit one to claim exclusive rights in trademarks that are merely functional.
During the hearing on the motion, the court asked Autodesk's counsel to disavow any claim to trademark protection for the letters "DWG" when used for the file extension. Counsel did disavow such claim but held onto Autodesk's argument that the letters could serve as a word mark to be used on packaging and advertising and marketing materials.
The Court agreed and sided with Autodesk and included in its order language that expressly stated "anyone in the world is free to use .dwg as a file extension as far as Autodesk is concerned."
Autodesk filed a motion and asked the court to reconsider its holding, arguing that what Autodesk really meant when it disavowed the claim of exclusive rights was that anyone else could use the extension so long as the use was being made with Autodesk's proprietary technology, or was interoperable with that technology.
The court rejected this argument holding:
File extensions are functional, and functional uses cannot be trademarked. To rule otherwise would invite a clog on commerce, given the millions of software applications. The limited universe of extension permutations would soon be encumbered with claimants and squatters purporting to own exclusive rights to file extensions.
The court went on to say there would be no consumer confusion because,
[T]he primary purpose of a file extension is to tell the computer the type of the file it is handling. A computer is not a consumer. Its "reading" of the file extension is not in connection with a commercial transaction. It doesn't care who made the file format it is trying to read.
This isn't the first time the question of whether machine perception of information has been held to not give rise to trademark protection. An analogous situation is the 1-800 Contacts v. WhenU decision in which the Second Circuit held that WhenU did not "use" another company's trademarks within the meaning of the Lanham Act when it included trademarked terms in an unpublished directory that triggered delivery of contextually relevant advertising.


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Looks like Rodgers has his ankle heavily taped
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October 31, 2010 at 4:24 pm |
Hope he is okay.
The defense was amazing today. And given the number of injuries they have had, shutting down the Jets on the road is impressive. Huge kudos to Capers for making something happen.
Our offense just seems so out of sync which is concerning. Hopefully we can get that fixed for the Dallas game or during the bye week afterwards. Given how well the defense has been playing lately, if we could get the offense figured out this team be scary – and given the injury situation that is amazing.


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Tiger, An Image Consultant Tells You How to Make Your Public Address On Feb. 19!
The scandal-plagued golfer is going to have to take his outfit, his speech and even his body language into consideration when he attempts to regain the world's trust at his highly-anticipated press conference on Friday
In order to redeem his reputation in the wake of his infamous sex scandal, Tiger Woods is going to have to keep his first public appearance since Thanksgiving simple and focus on his golf career rather than his broken marriage, advises Los Angeles-based image expert Michael Sands.
Sands, whose previous clients include Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, has outlined Tiger's ideal comeback speech.
"All he should say is essentially, 'Thanks for coming. I just want to address some issues surrounding my comeback from a self-imposed retirement. I veered away from my wife. I have an illness for which I'm seeking treatment. This is what I plan to do at this date, at this golf course. I've been practicing. I'm ready to go. See you on the green,'" Sands tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively.
"What else could he say that would change everything?" Sands says, reiterating that Tiger, 34, shouldn't air his dirty laundry in public. "Nothing's going to change. It is what it is."
Something that Tiger does have control over is his choice in clothing, and Sands says he should definitely stay away from a formal suit and tie.
"I think he should be wearing one of his corporate sponsor's outfits," the media and image expert advises. "He's got to get back into the branding image. It's a big cash cow he doesn't want to lose."
As for the setting of the press conference, which will be held somewhere at the PGA headquarters — Tiger should be on, or near, a serene golf course with trees and a waterfall in the background, Sands says. "He should keep it simple and go back to his roots. Everyone knows what happened. There's no use beating a dead horse."
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Some of the novelties Tom Dixon showed during the Design Week in Milan at the famous Superstudio Più refer to the roots of the British designer, who made his name in the 1980s with rough, self-made, welded furniture.
The 'Screw Table', for example, sartorially combines an industrial look with high-class materials.
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U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team Weekly Update for May 14
Bill Kauffman, USAV Senior Manager of Communications, Phone: 719-228-6800, Email: email@example.com
USAV Facebook * @USA_Volleyball
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 14, 2013) - The current U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team Weekly update released on May 14 includes briefs on U.S. players.
WIN A COACHING SESSION WITH U.S. WOMEN'S STAFF AND PLAYERS: The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, including head coach Karch Kiraly and several members of the squad, will hold a special instruction event at the American Sports Centers in Anaheim on Sept. 7 from 1-3 p.m. The clinic, open to girls ages 13-18, will randomly select 18 individuals to attend the coaching session through an online contest. To enter for the chance to attend, click here.
WOMEN'S TEAM SERVING AS COACHING STAFF FOR STARLINGS ANAHEIM: The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team (WNT), which trains in Anaheim, Calif., as the official host city of USA Men's and Women's National Teams, is giving back to its 'home' community by being involved in the creation of the Starlings Anaheim program. The program commenced on May 6 as 69 wide-eyed youngsters from the Anaheim Union High School District came into the American Sports Centers to receive training from the U.S. Women's National Team players and coaching staff. The program will continue on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:30-6 p.m. Each player on the WNT is assigned to coach the 12-14 year-old-girls on either the Monday or Wednesday session to not only give back to the Anaheim community, but to teach the sport of volleyball to an eager group of young athletes who may not otherwise have the chance to be involved in club volleyball. "Anaheim Starlings has provided a special opportunity for myself and my teammates to share our skill set and experience with young girls in the surrounding area," Christa Harmotto, a middle blocker on the 2012 U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Team that won silver at the London Games, said. "It is a privilege to be a part of this USA program and the opportunity to be a part of this team is so much bigger than ourselves. Starlings has given us a way to share the gifts we have been given and platform they have provided. It is a blast seeing their faces light up after finally conquering something and fills my heart with joy. Thank you to the city of Anaheim for connecting us to the faces of Starlings." To read the full release, click here.
LARSON-BURBACH, BOWN WITH RUSSIA'S DINAMO KAZAN: Jordan Larson-Burbach (Hooper, Neb.) and Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.), who have each won an Olympic silver medal with the U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Team, helped lead Dinamo Kazan to its third consecutive Russia Super League title last week. After losing the opening match of the best-of-five final round series against second-seed Dinamo Moscow, top-seed Dinamo Kazan rebounded to win three consecutive matches in straight sets to win the league championship. On May 7, Kazan won 25-18, 25-22, 25-15 to even the series 1-1. Larson-Burbach contributed 17 points with 14 kills on 31 attacks, two blocks and an ace. Bown produced seven kills on 11 swings with three blocks for 10 points in the victory. For a photo gallery of the match, click here. Kazan took the series lead on May 11 with a 25-18, 25-22, 25-21 victory. Larson-Burbach turned in 11 points, while Bown added nine points in the victory. To view a photo gallery of the match, click here. Kazan did not let up in the fourth match of the series by posting a 25-14, 25-19, 25-21 victory to clinch the title on May 12. Larson-Burbach collected nine points in the three-set victory, while Bown chipped in six points. Larson added an 80 positive reception percent on 10 chances. To view the photo gallery from the final match, click here. "I feel very blessed to be a part of such a great club and so honored to be able to share the court with all my wonderful teammates!!" Larson-Burbach said. "Winning three championships in three years reflects both on our hard work our staff's hard work and the team unity we have built over the last three seasons. I could not be happier with my decision to stay next year and to hopefully continue this success and bring a champions league title back to Kazan!!"
SCOTT-ARRUDA, ALISHA GLASS WITH PUERTO RICO'S MAYAGUEZ: Danielle Scott-Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.), a five-time U.S. Olympic Volleyball Team selection and two-time Olympic silver medalist, and Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.), a setter for the U.S. Women's National Volleyball team, were mid-season acquisitions of Mayaguez in the Puerto Rico Super League and the moves paid off with a league championship after winning the best-of-seven final round series 4-0 over Corozal. After holding a 2-0 lead in the series, Mayaguez won the third match 25-17, 25-18, 26-28, 25-21 on May 5 to move to within one match of the league title. Scott-Arruda scored 16 points in the match, while Glass provided 34 assists and 13 digs. Shonda Cole, a past member of the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, added 13 points in the win. Kim Willoughby, who was a 2008 U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Team silver medalist, tallied 14 points for Corozal in the loss. Mayaguez ended the series on May 7 by edging Corozal 25-23, 25-21, 23-25, 20-25, 15-12 in a battle to the end. Scott-Arruda pocketed 14 points, while Glass was credited with 11 assists and 12 digs. Cole scored a match-high 26 points. Willoughby tallied 25 points in the loss. Cole was selected as the most valuable player for the final round of the playoffs. The championship marked Mayaguez's first league title since its formation 13 years ago. For a photo gallery of the title celebration, click here.
DAVIS WITH GERMANY'S DRESDNER SC: Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.), a two-time Olympic Games silver medalist as a libero with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, joined Dresdner SC late in the 2012-13 season. Trailing its best-of-five championship series with Schweriner SC 2-1 after the first three matches, Dresdner lost the fourth match 25-14, 19-25, 33-31, 25-22 on May 8 as Schweriner won the title. Davis provided a 68 positive reception percent on 19 chances as Dresdner recorded a 41 kill percent as a team.
FAUCETTE RECORDS FIRST MUSICAL SINGLE: Juliann Faucette (San Diego), a U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team opposite, recorded her first musical single titled "What I Need" while in Italy playing for Yamamay Busto Arsizio of the Italian Serie A league. She co-wrote the electro-house song that was produced by The Italian Job. "I am really excited to announce the release of my first recorded song," Faucette said through a web posting on her club team's web site. "Working with the music group The Italian Job has been such a pleasure and wonderful experience. To me, this was an opportunity of a lifetime, and I am so humbled that the group chose me to be their vocalist on the song "What I Need." In a few days I will start training with my National Team and this song will give me energy and enthusiasm on and off the court." To purchase the song on iTunes, visit https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/what-i-need-single/id646541006. Faucette had inspired volleyball crowds with her singing during the Italian Serie A season, highlighted by a rendition of Alicia Keys' "Girl on Fire" during a break in the league's all-star match. To view a video of her performance, click here.
THREE RED-BLUE SCRIMMAGES SET FOR MAY: The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team will compete in three Red-Blue intra-squad scrimmages on consecutive Friday nights in May. All three contests will be open to the public free of charge. The first scrimmage will take place May 17 at Santa Monica High School's North Gym in Santa Monica, Calif. The Red-Blue scrimmage series moves to Los Angeles where Windward School will host the match on May 24. Irvine Valley College will host the May 31 match in Irvine, Calif. All three matches will begin at 7 p.m. PT. U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team Head Coach Karch Kiraly plans to incorporate additional Red-Blue intra-squad scrimmages during the summer as a means to provide match-like competition for all athletes training and to build community relations with the Southern California area. The City of Anaheim serves as the official host city of the USA Men's and Women's National Teams.
U.S. WOMEN'S A2 PROGRAM ROSTER ANNOUNCED: USA Volleyball has announced its 48-player roster for the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Senior A2 Program that will train and compete this summer in Dallas. The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Senior A2 program is available to athletes with collegiate eligibility remaining for the 2013 season. This program is scheduled to take place in Dallas from June 25 to July 4 in conjunction with the USA Volleyball Girls' Junior National Championships. The program roster has athlete representation from 29 different universities with 12 schools having multiple selections. To read the full press release with the roster, click here.
USA VOLLEYBALL CUP BRINGS IN JAPAN TO FACE U.S WOMEN: The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team will renew a long-standing series with Japan this summer as the two teams take part in the inaugural USA Volleyball Cup with three matches scheduled for the Southern California market in July. The USA Volleyball Cup series opens July 10 in San Diego on the campus of UC San Diego, followed by a July 12 contest at the Walter Pyramid on the campus of Long Beach State University in Long Beach. The two teams conclude the series on July 13 at JSerra High School in San Juan Capistrano. All three matches have start times of 7 p.m. PT. "The USA Volleyball Cup is a fantastic event connecting our Women's National Team with the Southern California community in which we're based, and of course providing competition against one of the world's great teams," U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team Head Coach Karch Kiraly said. "To inaugurate this Cup, it is an honor that Japan has accepted to compete and renew a storied rivalry of tours across the United States and in Japan." General admission ticket prices are $20 for adults and $5 for youth ages 18-and-under for each match, online or at the door. Children 3-and-under will be admitted free. VIP tickets, which include pre- and post-match hospitality, VIP parking, special court-side reserved seating and a chance to meet Coach Kiraly and some of the U.S. Women, will be sold for $150. Tickets for all three events, which go on sale May 8 at 10 a.m. PT, can be purchased by going to www.usavolleyballcup.com. For the complete release, click here.
U.S. WOMEN OPEN SUMMER TRAINING BLOCK: The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team officially opened its summer training block on May 6 at the USA National Team Center located in Anaheim, Calif. The outside hitter group includes Kim Hill (Portland, Ore.), Regan Hood (Carrollton, Texas) , Alix Klineman (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Cassidy Lichtman (Poway, Calif.) and Kristin Richards Hildebrand (Orem, Utah). U.S. Women's National Team middle blockers include Rachael Adams (Cincinnati, Ohio), Lauren Gibbemeyer (St. Paul, Minn.), Christa Harmotto (Hopewell Township, Pa.), Jessica Jones (Naperville, Ill.), Lauren Paolini (Ann Arbor, Mich.). Setters in camp include Jenna Hagglund (West Chester, Ohio), Carli Lloyd (Bonsall, Calif.), Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.). Opposites currently training are Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Ohio) and Kelly Murphy (Wilmington, Ill.). Liberos Kayla Banwarth (Dubuque, Iowa) and Tama Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii) are in camp training as members of the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team. Additional members of the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team will return to training later this month and throughout the summer. Further, several athletes who completed their collegiate eligibility will be in the gym at various times during the summer as part of a tryout process to earn a spot on the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, while a select group of college seniors-to-be will be in the gym on a short-term basis to help acclimate to the team for a possible return to the team following their college careers.


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Projects Abroad's Grass-Roots Journalism Project, Voices of the World is Growing
Our international, community-focused journalism project, Voices of the World is gaining momentum. We have now established Voices of the World clubs in India, Romania, South Africa and Senegal, thus giving the chance to local young people to attend free workshops on journalism and publish their articles in our online publication – www.voices-of-the-world.org/.
Projects Abroad started the Voices of the World initiative at the end of 2010 in an attempt to make more of an impact on the local communities where we have volunteers working in journalism placements. Thus the idea to create free journalism clubs and an online platform for local young people to be published on was born.
Since then, we have had countless weekly workshops in the participating countries, attended by dozens of local participants and volunteers. We have attracted independent contributors from all over the world, who have visited our website and felt inspired to get involved. We have published a large number of articles on the website, written freely by young people, and containing their own uncensored opinions and concerns.
Participating in our clubs has given local young people a better understanding of the world, has helped them improve their English skills or their confidence, and has taught them the importance of expressing one's opinions freely, as Iulia Nistor in Romania has discovered: 'When I'm at school, I say what the teachers want me to say. Here, I can be myself'.
In some cases, the Voices of the World workshops have had a very concrete impact on the participants' future, as was the case for Courtney Taljaard in South Africa. In her mother's words: 'Courtney loved your workshops and gained so much from them. We will never know the true value of your academic reference for her acceptance to university, but it made a big difference in the end'.
We should not forget either the cultural exchange that our clubs facilitate between our international volunteers and the local aspiring journalists. Upon finishing a workshop for a group of students in India, our Australian volunteer James Lees, wrote: 'It was a pleasant surprise to meet a class of engineering students who are so passionate about the art of journalism and the media in their country. Their interest in the local community was truly inspiring and something many young Australians could learn from. My Voices of the World experience was a pleasant surprise and I look forward to participating in many more before my departure'.
It's great that many people are benefitting from this project, from the volunteers who get to experience more of their host countries through working alongside local young people, to the local people themselves who have the chance to gain new knowledge, skills and get published.
We do not intend to stop here; we plan on creating similar clubs in more countries, we are currently introducing new online features that will allow us to publish creative writing pieces and photo essays. In the future, we will work on a Video feature and we will also create a forum that will expand our initiative to cross-country debates on interesting topics. We believe it is very exciting to truly be a voice of the world.


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Hjerpe, Schulte Named 2013 Peace Prize Forum Scholars
Augustana today announced that juniors Alexandra (Allie) Hjerpe (Hutchinson, Minn.) and Mallory Schulte (Yankton, S.D.) have been named the 2013 Peace Prize Forum Scholars.
The Peace Prize Forum Scholars program is sponsored by the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, a consortium comprised of Augustana College, Augsburg College, Concordia College (Moorhead), Luther College, and St. Olaf College. Two students from each of the participating colleges will spend seven weeks at the University of Oslo's International Summer School deepening their understanding of issues related to peace, justice, democracy, and human rights.
Hjerpe, an English and Journalism major, currently serves as editor in chief of the Edda, the Augustana yearbook. She is a recipient of the Augustana College Distinguished Scholars Trustees Scholarship, is an active member of Sigma Tau Delta, Augustana's English Honors Society, and is a member of Civitas, the College's Honors Program.
Schulte, a Political Science/Government and International Affairs major, serves as president of the Augustana College Women's Association, and co-president of UBG's Culture and Fine Arts Committee. She is a recipient of the the Augustana College Distinguished Scholars Trustees Scholarship and was awarded the study abroad experience to Ireland. A member of Citivas, she is also involved in the Government and Math Clubs,
The two will be introduced at the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize Forum, set for March 8-10 at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minn. The theme for the 2013 Forum is "The Power of Ideas: People and Peace."
As Peace Prize Forum Scholars, Hjerpe and Schulte will embark on coursework that will include the causes of armed conflicts, peace building, peacemaking, humanitarian interventions and aid, peacekeeping operations, gender, civil society and nonviolence and peace movements. In conjunction with their studies, Peace Prize Scholars will also work on projects they will present at the 2013 Peace Prize Forum and at least two other venues throughout the upcoming year.
The Scholars will also visit a number of influential institutions including, The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Nobel Institute, Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights and the Nobel Peace Center.
Upon returning to their respective campuses, the 10 scholars will continue to communicate and find ways to build on the Oslo experience together. They will also be expected to play a leadership role in peace activities on their campuses, and assist with the upcoming Nobel Peace Prize Forum.


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Hadoop might be a popular tool for munching on unstructured data, but setting up and tuning the software requires a lot more expertise than many people have and it takes a lot of time, too. That makes it a perfect piece of software to put on a cloud, provided you can either generate your data there to begin with or pipe it over there once you gin it up.
If you want to run Hadoop on a cloud, you can either buy raw server and storage capacity on Amazon's EC2 cloud and set it up yourself or you can use the Elastic MapReduce service on Amazon's cloud. Another alternative is to spin up Hadoop services on Microsoft's Azure cloud, which is in tech preview and which is expected to be commercially available soon.
And starting today, if you are feeling lazy or just experimenting, you have another option. Skytap, the other cloud backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is preconfiguring Hadoop to run on its test and development cloud.
Skytap was founded in 2006 with the name Illumita (the same year that AWS debuted) and launched its cloud and new name in 2008. The company runs its Skytap Cloud in a Savvis co-location service managed by Savvis outside of Seattle. The reason why Skytap built its own cloud rather than just running it on Amazon Web Services is that, as the company has explained in the past, the snapshotting and storage features on the Amazon cloud are too slow for test and dev environments even if they are suitable for production environments.
The company's homegrown cloud control freak is not available commercially so you can run it in your own data center, but it is OEMed by services giant CSC, which slaps its brand on it and runs a test and development cloud services for its customers out of its own Chicago data center. The Skytap Cloud uses VMware's ESXi hypervisor to partition capacity.
Skytap has several hundred customers and does not provide the size of its cloud, but does say that since it went live, over 1.9 million virtual machines have been launched on the server, up from 1 million last April.
In the August 2011 release of the Skytap service, the company added self-service cloud orchestration and hub and spoke network configurations, and in the April 2012 release it added a new management interface - and also made it puke out reports to get beancounters off your back about the cost of services.
With today's announcement, Skytap has created server templates for the CDH4 Hadoop distribution from Cloudera, which debuted back in June 2012. Specifically, Skytap is running the Cloudera Enterprise Free edition of CDH4, which is enabled to scale up to 50 nodes (physical or virtual), plus the Cloudera Manager graphical Hadoop management tool.
The Cloudera CDH4 setup on the Skytap Cloud puts three virtualized servers together into a baby cluster. One template sets up the NameNode and other Hadoop management tools (Hive, Oozie, and ZooKeeper) on a virtual machine with two virtual CPUs and 2GB of memory and 40GB of virtual storage.
The other template creates a base compute node for the Hadoop cluster and its underlying Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). This Hadoop compute image has one virtual CPU, 1GB of virtual memory, and 40GB of disk capacity. The base cluster has one management node and two compute nodes, and you can add up to 48 more virtual nodes without invoking a license fee and support contract from Cloudera. You can also scale up the CPU, memory, and storage capacity on these images as your workload requires.
All of the virtual nodes in the Hadoop cluster run Canonical's Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS release, and Skytap's own SmartClient provides root access with a command line to all of the virtual Hadoop nodes.
If you want to develop and test applications on a Hadoop cluster that is larger than 50 nodes, or if you want to run workloads in production on Skytap, you have to get your own support contract from Cloudera. And if you don't need all of the nodes up and running all the time, you can turn off the server nodes and just keep their data on storage (which you have to pay for, of course) and then fire them back up when you need them. You can't do this with a real Hadoop cluster, of course.
Single cloud from a single vendor? That's so yesterday...
The biggest crime you can commit with a physical cluster is to not have work for it to do, and even if you turn it off, it is still un-utilized capital. That's why Amazon doesn't believe in private clouds and only believes in shared public clouds. (Well, except when it comes to its own data centers for running its online retail business, of course.)
Brett Goodwin, vice president of marketing at Skytap, says that the company is not making a commitment to offer templates for Hadoop distributions from MapR Technologies or Hortonworks, the two other big commercial disties that sell supported versions of the open source Apache Hadoop stack.
"Cloudera was the obvious choice because they are the number one distribution for Hadoop," says Goodwin. "We're going to roll this out and get a sense from customers [about] what else they might want."
Microsoft Azure has tapped Hortonworks for its Hadoop variant, and Amazon peddles the Elastic MapReduce service - running either kosher open source Apache Hadoop or the M3 or M5 variants of Hadoop from MapR. The latter M5 offers the ability to make HDFS look like (and makes it mountable by) Network File System clients.
The obvious thing for Skytap to do is to help programmers create dev and test environments for Hadoop and then do some kind of conversion of their apps so they can run either on raw EC2 clouds or on the Elastic MapReduce service over at Amazon Web Services. When El Reg brought this up, Goodwin did a little hemming and hawing, and while not making a commitment to officially run production workloads on Skytap, the company admits that some customers already do that and in the long run, this will be officially sanctioned for Hadoop and other workloads.
"Today, where we are seeing demand in for test and development, proof of concepts, and training," explains Goodwin. "We do believe that customers will want to move applications into production, and it will be important for Skytap to provide production environments. But make no mistake. We expect a multi-cloud, federated world. We don't think an application has to be run on a single cloud from a single vendor."
Skytap does anticipate that companies will create and test their Hadoop application on its eponymous cloud and then run the real workloads on internal physical Hadoop clusters, and in some cases, says Goodwin, customers will want to burst from their internal Hadoop clusters out to the Skytap cloud if they are running shy on internal capacity. This cloudbursting is enabled through Skytap's AutoNetworks multi-VPM networking software.
Of course, Bezos could always have Amazon Web Services buy Skytap and keep all of its goodies for itself. This is not just likely but probable if Skytap has better technology for DevOps than Amazon has created in-house for its AWS cloud. Such an acquisition could be relatively expensive, with Skytap raising $23m in three rounds of venture funding, including cash from Bezos Expeditions as well as Ignition Partners, Madrona Venture Group, Washington Research Group, and OpenView Venture Partners. No matter what, you can bet that Bezos doesn't want Skytap to fall into enemy hands – and AWS has a lot of enemies out there these days. ®


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Peripheral neuropathy is the most common type of
diabetic neuropathy. It occurs when diabetes damages
sensory nerves, which allow the brain to respond to sensations like pain,
touch, temperature, and vibration. Peripheral neuropathy may also damage the
motor nerves, which work with the muscles to control movement.
The effects and symptoms of peripheral neuropathy develop slowly over
months or years. The first symptom is usually a slight burning sensation in the
affected area. If blood sugar levels remain high over several years, the
burning sensation greatly increases and then slowly goes away. It is replaced
by a complete lack of feeling and sensation, or numbness, making the person
more likely to injure the affected area.
Although peripheral neuropathy can develop almost anywhere in the
body, it most often affects the feet and legs. Loss of the protective
sensation—the reduced ability to feel pain—in the feet may lead to the
formation of calluses and blisters, bone and joint problems, infection, and
foot ulcers. For instance, small, repetitive injuries to the foot, such as
those caused by a poorly fitting shoe, may lead to bigger problems simply
because the person is unaware of them. Reduced feeling in the feet can also
alter a person's step, leading to bone or joint problems.
If untreated, foot problems can become so severe that the foot or
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Pardon if I'm missing the obvious but I'm trying to add a custom image label to my app. By default when I add the img control it is populated with Sencha logo and is referenced as "resources/images/sencha.png". There's no "resources" directory in the project source tree so I'm assuming that this file is loaded remotely. Does that mean that I have to have a running webserver and specify my image source using "http://foo.com/resources/images/foo.png"? Is there a way to add a static image files to the project ans have these published as part of the deploy?


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Chemical industry executives face a growing range of workforce-related challenges, from the looming retirement of baby boomers to finding the right skills in a competitive labor market to retaining millennials.
Recent research sponsored by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and conducted by Accenture found that industry executives are well aware of these issues. At the same time, they see increasing potential for innovation and growth in the industry—and they recognize that building the right workforce will be key to realizing that potential.
It is clear that chemical companies will require more sophisticated skills on more fronts, greater workforce flexibility and constant increases in efficiency. To that end, company leaders need to develop innovative new approaches to finding, developing and retaining talent in order to sustain success and drive tomorrow's high performance.
Technical skills and digital technology aptitude (for everyday activities and operations) are one piece of the puzzle. Knowledge transfer between new and experienced employees is another. Plus, companies also need recruits with the right cultural fit, creativity and problem-solving mindset.
Retaining millennials is a critical challenge for the chemical industry. Furthermore, baby boomer retirements are coming faster than expected. These issues at opposite ends of the workforce spectrum are exacerbated by an overreliance on Generation X, the smallest portion of the US population that is key to replacing boomers, mentoring millennials and maintaining institutional knowledge.
Chemical industry executives see promise in using digital technology (e.g., artificial intelligence, data analytics, robots and wearables) to address workforce issues and believe that those who embrace these advancements will gain competitive advantage. However, adoption has been relatively slow.
Chemical companies are ready to take action to ensure they have the right future workforce—but first, a solid talent strategy is needed to lay the groundwork for success. Strategy development should involve HR as well as business unit leaders and the C-suite. Overall, the strategy should identify what needs to change and what skills and knowledge will be required.
Companies must ask themselves:
Armed with a powerful talent strategy, chemical companies can take action in the following ways:
Research methodology
To help chemical executives gain a better understanding of talent-related challenges, the ACC asked Accenture to conduct research on the workforce of the future. This work included one-on-one interviews with 10 senior leaders from North American chemical companies; extensive secondary research that drew on multiple data sources; and a survey of more than 500 North America-based chemical industry employees, including 100 C-level executives. The survey was executed in April and May 2016, and the findings were field-tested at the ACC Annual Meeting in June 2016.
Special thank you to Peter Cella, CEO-Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, and Inga Carus, Chairman-Carus Corporation, for their insight and guidance around this research effort. The ACC and Accenture would also like to thank all of the industry executives who shared their experience and insights on talent management, both during the research process, as well as at the ACC Annual Meeting in June 2016.


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In an interesting development in corporate governance norms in India, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has brought out 3 circulars (Circular 17/2011, 18/2011, 21/2011) titled "Green Initiative in the Corporate Governance".
These circulars allow companies to send out notices, annual reports, service of documents, auditors' report, balance sheets through an electronic medium and also permit electronic voting. Matters of security et al have been taken care of by importing provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000 thereby improving effectiveness with new and improved measures.
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By the time of the march, Baker was 57 and still living in France. She flew to Washington for the March and appeared for her remarks wearing her uniform from the French Resistance in World War II, a symbol of her lifelong activism. She was a risky and controversial choice. Baker was notorious in her day for her body-revealing costumes, but she also broke color lines, becoming the first African-American woman to star in a movie and the first to integrate a concert hall in the U.S. Perhaps because of this, Baker kept her remarks simple and explained who she was, directly:
When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place...Now I know that all you children don't know who Josephine Baker is, but you ask Grandma and Grandpa and they will tell you. You know what they will say. "Why, she was a devil."Then she brought it home, as it were, putting herself in the shoes of her American audience, and referencing her lifelong willingness to speak out against injustice:
You know, friends, that I do not lie to you when I tell you I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad. And when I get mad, you know that I open my big mouth. And then look out, 'cause when Josephine opens her mouth, they hear it all over the world.What can you learn from this famous speech?
- Play to the locals: In this case, that meant the U.S. as a whole. Baker stressed her American roots and experiences to connect with this massive audience.
- Be yourself: Baker, despite the controversy and notoriety swirling around her, uses her remarks to show us she is comfortable in her shoes--and to reveal many sides of herself. She wears a uniform instead of the costumes for which she was better known, talks about being an older woman but encouraging children, and gives a straightforward and simple account of her activism that anyone in the audience could follow and appreciate. It's authentic, and it works.
- Use the immediate: Baker's conclusion used that irresistible line, "I've just been handed a note..." In this case, she shared that the President of the United States had invited her to visit him at the White House. She said to the crowd: "I am greatly honored. But I must tell you that a colored woman—or, as you say it here in America, a black woman—is not going there. It is a woman. It is Josephine Baker."
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WOLFEBORO—Two seats are up in the Carroll County State Representative primary race for District 6, but both sides of the ballot are uncontested.
Democrats John R. White and Beverly G. Woods are running along with Republicans Christopher Ahlgren and Stephen Schmidt, all from Wolfeboro.
White, 78, joked his home address is in Wolfeboro if it weren't for "the quaint winter custom of plowing mailboxes to the Tuftonboro line." White retired from the Boston Globe after more than 33 years as an automotive editor and columnist and also served in the U.S. Army.
"The legislative leadership currently seems determined to take us backward at the expense of education, social services, infrastructure, and economic opportunity in order to preserve a perceived economic advantage for the privileged few," he said. "I do not believe that we can cut, shave and pare our way to prosperity; instead we must invest for the future and establish a rational means of paying into that future."
Woods, 56, is a musician and computer technician who serves as a member of the Wolfeboro Energy Committee.
"Some of the current directions of the New Hampshire Legislature are disastrous for our state. Voters need a choice. I am committed to working for the long-term benefit of all of our communities in whatever ways I can," she said.
Ahlgren, 51, serves on the state Parks Advisory Council and the Recreation and Economic Development Committee.
"When I first ran (in 2002) it was shortly after 9-11 occurred and I felt the need to serve," Ahlgren said. "Now after being involved for awhile, I believe that government needs to be contained and I am committed to reducing the scope of it."
Incumbent Schmidt, 66, retired from a 35-year career at Verizon Communications and has served as chairman of the North Plainfield, N.J., planning board and as well as the North Plainfield and Wolfeboro Lions Clubs, as both a member and a president.
"The biggest issue facing New Hampshire is jobs and creating a business and tax structure that encourages business to locate, maintain and grow here. As such, I strongly support the passage of 'Right to Work' legislation," he said. "My vision for New Hampshire is to maintain our (state) advantage and provide an environment that encourages our young to stay in state and our business to thrive."
Schmidt did not submit a photo for this article and there was no picture of him available in the Foster's archive.
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WOLFEBORO—Two seats are up in the Carroll County State Representative primary race for District 6, but both sides of the ballot are uncontested.


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Apple will be creating a software revamp for Apple TV on Sept. 18, according to reports.
If the date seems familiar it's because it's the same day that Apple will be releasing its iOS 7 mobile operation software, according to AllThingsD. The big feature is that Apple's AirPlay system will now allow users who bought items from the iTunes store to play them on other people's TVs directly from the cloud.This new development is likely because it's similar to how Google's Chromecast, an Apple rival, works.
So, why didn't anyone mention this new development at Tuesday's event? We think it's because Apple TV is still the afterthought in Apple's plans. Part of its magic is cutting-edge technology and devices, but a television -- well, that's something from a different era. However, for most people who are streaming programs, they're likely not even watching the program on a TV screen but on a tablet computer or phone.
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Apple will have to keep innovating in multimedia or risk being left behind as other tech companies begin to take the lead.


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Kicking it old Twilight Old School: Pieces of Flair
If you know me, and I think by now you do, you know that sometimes I like to start a blog "series" that I never remember to do for a second time. Today is one of those days. Except that I hope to remember to write a letter like this again because I had a lot of fun crafting this one. We're gonna KICK IT OLD SCHOOl, TWILIGHT-STYLE & bring back a topic, discussion or something fun from Twilight in the past. Today's topic: Pieces of Flair.
You know you had them- You thought it was cool. You just saw the movie. Or you just finished the books & you wanted to share with the world via your Facebook page that You were on TEAM EDWARD (or You were one of the proud
"WOLF GIRLS") and so what better way to do it? Pieces of Flair- yep, useless small "Buttons" you can barely read that you post on your Facebook wall, but then disappear 30 seconds later, never to be found again, but give you a good 15 seconds of pure joy & laughter before they're gone.
I did it. Moon did it. And we spent an embarrassingly amount of time looking up Twilight flair, laughing at it (and even creating some Flair of our own)
I completely forgot about this "Old School" Twilight activity- mostly because they disappeared from my wall & I had no idea where they went- until we got this email from LTT reader & friend allryans about the beginning of her Twi-obsession:
Nov 08
TheBFF: I just got your Pieces of Flair…hilarious.
Me: The Bookworms Against Twilight one? Yes, I'm sure [random mutual Twihard acquaintance] won't understand.
TheBFF: My favorite is the Narnia one.
Me: "I just read Twilight and now I can't get into Narnia – Susan Pevensie" HA
TheBFF: "I just read Twilight, so Voldemort wins. – Harry Potter"
Me: Those are the best.
TheBFF: I cannot bring myself to read those books.
Me: Ugh, anything that [random mutual Twihard acquaintance] likes that much has to be complete shit. Her favorite song is Jessie's Girl.
March 22, 2009
Me: [Good guy friend] told me he rented Twilight and LIKED it. I'm removing him from Facebook.
TheBFF: Deserved.
March 28, 2009
TheBFF: You're going to kill me. My sister rented Twilight tonight.
Me: Don't do it.
TheBFF: She wants to watch it.
Me: You're dead to me.
…. three hours later …
TheBFF: It really wasn't that bad.
Me: And the sparkles?
TheBFF: THAT was bad. But I like vampire movies. So it was good for me.
Me: DEFRIEND
April 7, 2009
Me: I have a confession to make, and you may never be my friend after this.
TheBFF: Doubtful.
Me: I have just spent the past 10 hours READING TWILIGHT (and I'm going back for more).
TheBFF: I do not believe you.
Me: I'm serious. [My husband] rented it this weekend, and I caved and watched it with him. Then when he went to work yesterday, I WATCHED IT AGAIN.
Me: THEN I went to WalMart and bought the book (and the dvd). OMG.
Me: I even went to WalMart so my regular bookstore lady wouldn't see me buying it, and I could hide it under a box of Capri-Suns.
TheBFF: YOU ARE [random mutual Twihard acquaintance] !!
Me: I hate myself.
Me: But God help me, I love Edward.
A week later, I was gorging on Rob interviews and lurking on LTT.
I still hate [random mutual Twihard acquaintance] though. Idiot. – allryans
Amazing. Do you know what else is amazing? I have 55 pieces of Useless Flair on Facebook – 35 of them are somehow related to Twilight. Yes, 63%. Yes I'm 27 years old. Yes, I am so very proud!!!!
Take a quick look at the amazingness that is my Twilight Flair:
How 2nd-hand embarrassed of me are you that all of those have been (hidden somewhere) on Facebook attached to ME for the past 2+ years?
And in case you're wondering what the 411 is on new Facebook Flair (since I last added some), here is a sampling:
Oh & don't worry- I sent Moon some great Robsten flair yesterday too, for old times sake!
Long live Twilight flair (of course I didn't delete a SINGLE piece!)
Do you have embarrassing "old school" Twilight flair or other images on your Facebook (or worse- MYSPACE) page!? Send us links!!! (PS: hate the new Facebook image layout? Hit F5 to view the old style (fn F5 on a mac!) and then right click, copy image link to link in comments!) Also like us on Facebook. DUH!
Our internet game is ridiculous: LTR, The Forum, Twitter, The Store
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In the top of the 9th inning Sunday night, the New York Yankees scored four runs to turn a 6-2 deficit into a 6-6 tie game.
In the middle of the rally were Chad Huffman, acquired off the waiver wire in May, and Colin Curtis, a 2006 Yankee draftee who made his major league debut this past week. I repeatedly contend that the Yankees 2006 draft will go down as the greatest draft class of all time.
Both outfielders, Huffman was brought up from Triple A two weeks ago, and Curtis was promoted for the inter-league games in National League parks where the DH is not used. Curtis has yet to start a game, but has appeared as the primary left-handed bat off the Yankee bench (at least when Jorge Posada is catching.)
Huffman came through last night with a big two-run single, and was followed by Curtis who hit the score tying ground ball to first base. Before plating the tying run, Curtis had a tremendous at bat, fouling off four two-strike pitches from Jonathan Broxton, one of baseball's hardest throwing closers.
Huffman and Curtis made their major league debuts this season, as has utility man Kevin Russo, and right-handed pitcher Ivan Nova. Two other players, OF Greg Golson and RHP Romulo Sanchez, had cups of coffee for other teams, but until this year, both had not played in the majors in basically two seasons.
The four Yankee position players all connected for their first major league hits this season, and have helped the Yankees win games this year. Nova and Sanchez were each brought up in May to give an overworked bullpen some fresh arms. In fact, Nova's promotion was to replace Sanchez.
That is four guys getting their first hits, and four guys making their major league debuts.
Joe Girardi has no issues in using his young players.
But this would not have happened if Joe Torre were still managing the Yankees. Torre was more of a veteran player type manager, continuously using veteran players, guys he trusted to do certain jobs. That is why Torre always used the same guys out of the bullpen. He didn't really trust certain players, especially youngsters.
That makes last night's game so ironic in that two rookies knocked in three runs in that last inning, helping to tie the game which Robinson Cano won with a two-run homer in the top of the 10th.
With the exception of Ivan Nova, probably all of the young players mentioned here will not have a impact during future seasons, but in 2010 they have all a little something to help win games for the Yankees.
The turnaround in organizational philosophy towards using their younger farm system talent is getting better all the time. Phil Hughes, Brett Gardner, Francisco Cervelli, David Robertson and Ramiro Pena have greatly contributed in recent seasons.
There are even more young players "down on the farm" who will continue to get their shots at the major leagues in a Yankee uniform.
And that is a good thing to see, as the precedent set by their predecessors has been quality, winning baseball.


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I have Asus 1225N and I've installed Ubuntu 12.10 but I have 2 major problems:
Sometimes when I restart the system after boot my touchpad and keyboard don't work and I must reset 3 or 4 times
When the system boot nothing, shows only purple screen without Ubuntu logo and sometimes stucks at this page and I must reboot the system 2 or 3 times.
I didn't find
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Cupertino, Calif. (January 19, 2012) – Ducati North America today announced 2011 motorcycle sales growth of 43 percent compared to 2010 and a record market share in all of it's territories: US, Canada and Mexico. This result established North America as Ducati's number one market for the first time ever.
Ducati Performance line of apparel and accessories also recorded significant growth with a 50 percent annual increase.
Ducati's growth was fueled by an expanding product line-up, including the award-winning Diavel and Multistrada. Voted "Best Cruiser of 2011" by several motorcycle magazines, the Diavel accomplishes its goal of capturing and attracting new customers to the brand. The Multistrada, voted "Best Open Street Bike" by Cycle World for the second year in a row, continues to prove its adventure touring capabilities with the successful completion of the historical La Carrera Panamericana race in Mexico along with its second win of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.
"Growth in the North American market is a top priority for Ducati. North America's outstanding performance significantly contributed to Ducati's global success in 2011, which has been a record year for us in terms of global sales, market share and profitability," said Cristiano Silei, Chief Executive Officer of Ducati North America. "This year the company made substantial investments in new product, key personnel and in the strength of our distribution network. These elements, combined with an array of extraordinary products, including our new Superbike, the 1199 Panigale, will continue to fuel our growth in 2012 and beyond."
In 2012, Ducati will refocus its efforts in the sportbike category with the first customer deliveries of the brand's newest flagship Superbike, the Ducati 1199 Panigale and the 848EVO Corse Special Edition. New additions to the Ducati line-up also include the Diavel AMG, the recently announced Diavel Cromo, as well as the highly anticipatedStreetfighter 848.
Ducati North America also announced the launch of a new retail identity initiative aimed at enhancing the Ducati customer experience.
"The introduction of the retail identity program demonstrates Ducati's commitment to its core brand values , wll, while building a complete and seamless shopping experience for customers," said Dominique Cheraki, General Manager of Ducati North America. "We are dedicated to a continual investment in the functional and emotional quality of our products, as well as the premium retail experience."


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by HUGH GILMORE
In Part 1 of this series I sought a theme to guide this year's reading. Rejecting the classics, or re-reading old favorites, I decided to read everything published by Europa Editions. Founded in 2006, Europa publishes English translations of European writers. Its books are sleek, pleasant to touch, offbeat, and wisely entertaining. It has published 90 authors so far and will publish its 100th title this May. I thought that number was doable in a year.
Reading only fiction for 12 months seemed as appetizing as a liquid diet. But I hoped it might pull me away from my typically crass cravings for adventure yarns and adrenalin-squeezing survival-after-disaster stories. And hence make me a better person and easier to live with.
Such a quest meant stockpiling a bunch of Europa Editions. I'd need to have five at hand at all times, with plans for more. But on New Year's Day I had only one Europa title, "The Jerusalem File" by Joel Stone, a detective story of marital disintegration with romance and politics embroiled in it. It turned out to be quite satisfyingly philosophical also. (How could it not? The author was born in Brooklyn! Who knew?)
I thought I'd probably finish "The Jerusalem File" on Jan. 3, but that was the day I promised to take my dear sister (Gilly Phipps, whom many of you know) down to the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine. Her first day of chemotherapy. It would be a long day and I knew that at some point Gilly would fall asleep and I'd go take a walk.
When the time came in mid-afternoon I stepped out to the sunshine and cool air and walked up to Penn Books at 3601 Walnut St. What could be better than an hour spent in a university bookstore?
I walked over to the fiction section, found the A's, and began looking for Europa Editions books. But that's not so easy with so many thousands of books. Leisurely browsing would take forever. I needed a system. Maybe I could form a "search image" of what a typical Europa book looked like so if there were any here, they'd practically leap off the shelf at me.
I took "The Jerusalem File" out of my shoulder bag and studied it, trying to absorb its "gestalt," as it were. Europa Editions books have a distinctive, branded look. And at the base of the spines of all their books stands their stylized logo, a stork.
(That's what I'd look for – like) indoor bird watching.
I probably missed a lot of good books, but once I started stork hunting, I moved quickly. In the B's I found Muriel Barbery's "The Elegance of the Hedgehog," but I'd read that last year. In the C's I made my first hit, Rebecca Connell's "The Art of Losing." Thank goodness – the process had become tedious already. With thousands of books ahead.
By the G's, my aching eyes were tired of being used as optical scanners, but I kept going. At the M & N's I had to step around a female employee who knelt beside a triangular, half-filled book cart. I said hello. She looked up. I told her what I was doing and asked if she knew an easier way of finding Europas. No, she didn't.
Thanks anyway, back to work. In a half-hour I'd finished and had found only three Europa books. I'd expected more. Surely, in a college bookstore … I went back to the young woman, now kneeling in the O's. I watched her for a few seconds. At first I'd thought that she'd been resupplying sold stock. Now I realized she held a list of books to pull.
"Are you filling orders?" I asked. (That's the way we used-book sellers think – why else would a bookstore remove brand new books?)
"No, these are going back to the publishers."
"How long have they been there?"
"It varies, but usually about three months."
I walked away. Holy cow, three months, and one of them had been Christmas break for the university. What a cruel world when you think about all the work and all the hopes and dreams an author puts into writing a book. Very discouraging.
The antidote to this downer would be to buy my wife, Janet, a gift book. I walked through the gift mugs, teddy bears, license plate holders, sweatshirts, and novelties to go upstairs to the Foreign Literature section. Up there, back in a sloppy corner, I found only a single shelf of French language books. "French for Dummies" and some dictionaries. That was all. I asked for help.
The two employees I talked to were equally stymied. Not a single work of literature in the French language. An old-timer was consulted. She said they stopped carrying foreign language literature about three years ago.
I walked away stunned. A university bookstore in a major American city – an Ivy League university that carried dozens of teddy bears and a hundred sweatshirts and mugs and not a single book in a language other than English!
I'm not sure why – maybe my sister's chemo, maybe the disappointment that always follows when you decide to buy someone you love a gift and then can't find it, maybe disgust that a university bookstore allots more than half its space to non-books, maybe the idea that the young woman with the book cart downstairs was enacting a version of "bring out your dead" – I don't know, but I put the books I'd labored to find back on the shelves and left the store. Darned if I'd give them my business that day.
I knew I was taking a risk. What if I woke up tomorrow morning without a Europa to read that night? That was a chance I'd just have to take. I aimed my steps toward a land where books are valued as something more than "inventory" – the used-book shops on campus.
To be continued.


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STONY BROOK, NY--(Marketwire - Dec 12, 2012) - Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (
Attendees are invited to hear Applied DNA Sciences CEO and President James A., Hayward speak on Thursday, December 13 at 3:15 PM. A recording of Dr. Hayward's presentation will be available on line beginning immediately after the presentation, at this link.
Individual meetings with Dr. Hayward and other APDN representatives may be arranged before or during the conference by contacting event organizers. Please see the Conference website for further information about one to one meetings.
The Conference is by invitation only, and runs from Wednesday, December 12 through December 13 in New York.
Highlighting the Defense Logistics Agency mandate requiring use of APDN DNA marking on certain parts provided to the military, the "Security Industry Monitor," published by event sponsor Imperial Capital, advised its investors that APDN "continues to be well-positioned in (the) potentially larger market (of microelectronic circuits)."
Dr. James A. Hayward commented,
"We are honored by the invitation to present at Imperial's prestigious Security Investors Conference. It is an opportunity to explain to investors our newest advances, in the military anti-counterfeiting sector, in cash in transit where we have recently expanded into Sweden, and with newer technologies such as our digitalDNA track and trace solution. We believe we will give investors a lot to think about."
About Applied DNA Sciences
APDN is a provider of botanical-DNA based security and authentication solutions that can help protect products, brands and intellectual property of companies, governments and consumers from theft, counterfeiting, fraud and diversion. SigNature® DNA and smartDNA, our principal anti-counterfeiting and product authentication solutions that essentially cannot be copied, provide a forensic chain of evidence and can be used to prosecute perpetrators.
The statements made by APDN may be forward-looking in nature. Forward-looking statements describe APDN's future plans, projections, strategies and expectations, and are based on assumptions and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of APDN. Actual results could differ materially from those projected due to our short operating history, limited financial resources, limited market acceptance, market competition and various other factors detailed from time to time in APDN's SEC reports and filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on December 8, 2011 and our subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. APDN undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date hereof to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.


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The man in charge of the UAW doesn't for a moment credit Delphi for the agreement worked out at the end of last week between the union, the auto parts supplier and General Motors. Nope, he's giving some mad praises to the General, saying this morning on a local Detroit radio station:
"If it weren't for [GM Money Man] Fritz Henderson and his team...then this agreement never would have come about..."
Aww, isn't that adorable to see Ron playing all nice and stuff with GM? Yes, we think so. But don't ask us what he said about Delphi — ooh, those two never get along!
Gettelfinger praises General Motors; blasts Delphi management over union deal [AP via Detroit News]
Gettelfinger Says UAW Needs To Give Cerberus-Backed Chrysler Some Cheddar Back; Delphi Loses $533 Million In First Quarter Of 2007; The Delphi Rhythm Method: Cerberus Pulls Out Early [internal]


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Dear Families,
The tragic news out of Connecticut today reminds us how precious life is and how we must do everything we can to ensure the safety of all of our children every day.
This afternoon we alerted our buildings to be extra vigilant regarding visitors in our schools to ensure the safety of all of our students and staff. Please know that we regularly review our security and safety measures and that every District building has a crisis plan in place. In light of this occurrence, all plans will be reviewed immediately to assess situations of this nature. The Troy School District works cooperatively with our local police and fire departments in the development of these crisis plans. Please be assured that the safety of our children and staff is a priority.
Please join us as we put the families impacted by today's tragedy in our thoughts and prayers.
Barbara Fowler