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Ape Shall Never DesignApril 12, 2004
Cameron Adams recently posted a link to Adam Greenfield's old ALA article, The Bathing Ape Has No Clothes. I remember well when it was first published two years ago; it has made a tremendous impact on my work since.
While the article is on the older side (I haven't seen a Bathing Ape shirt in quite some time) it has aged well. The issues raised haven't been discussed nearly as deeply as Greenfield wished, and I see arguments on today's weblogs that echo Adam's concern. 'The Bathing Ape…' draws clear lines between those who are designers, and those who are something else. Greenfield labels them 'Stylists' and I'd call that an apt label.
When I started reading the design portals around 2000 something bothered me, and I could never put my finger on why. The sites linked were all very pretty, and very artsy, but aside from functioning as someone's personal portfolio, they didn't do much. Many of them aimed to create a false mystique by using random words and imagery that, when scrutinzed, didn't amount to much meaning or even coherency.
Don't misunderstand me — there was very good work being produced, and most of it was technically astounding and very good looking. But this design work suffered a fundamental problem for me that didn't seem to ever be properly addressed. I could never find much justification for a lot of it to exist. It was there simply to be there, and to demonstrate the talent of the designer.
But that's what a portfolio is all about, in most cases, so was this really a problem? To those looking to advance their careers, not in the least. The work was for a target audience (creative directors, those in charge of hiring) and that the general public couldn't find use in it wasn't something to lose sleep over.
In fact, this is a clear example of successful design — work done for a well-defined target audience, with a specific purpose.
The problem then, which Greenfield has highlighted with breathtaking insight as he compares Nigo's work to that done for British Rail, is when this way of working spills over into design projects that have a totally different target audience. The focus of 'design' is lost, the project ends up becoming a stylistic dream but a usability nightmare.
Design is about assessing a series of visual problems, coming up with the best solution. It's about applying the solution in a way that also lends itself to visual interest. It's about making use of imagery, type, and colour to convey a message. It's about making people feel something. It's about communication.
But that doesn't preclude the function of what's being designed. (This is no form vs. function debate, which has been going on since three years before design itself was invented.) Quite simply, if you're a web designer, you end up designing usability whether you acknowledge it or not (and, unfortunately, whether you're good at it or not). The function of a site or application is increasingly a problem that a designer finds necessary to solve. This is no surprise to those of us doing it, and aligns nicely with Greenfield's point.
It's difficult to face continued dismissal that a designer is either a Picasso or a house painter without acknowledging that there is a far more useful application of design. There are plenty of people making good money as both house painters and Picassos; perhaps even the majority of designers are one or the other. But we're not all easily categorizable into those groupings.
As Jeff Veen stated in his SXSW panel, "Accessibility is for everyone!":
…when Web design is practiced as a craft, and not a consolation, accessibility comes for free.
The same statement can be made for usability, as can be made for content, as can be made for code integrity, as can be made for information architecture, as can be made for design. There are those of us who approach web design as a holistic strategy, and concentrate not just on how a site looks, or what it says, or how it functions. We look at a project from top to bottom, understanding the inter-relatedness of each element along the way, and assess its proper place in the site as a whole.
What is web design? This is. Nothing less.
(For even more classic ALA reading, hit up Curt Cloninger's "Usability experts are from Mars, graphic designers are from Venus".)
Reader Comments
Right on - the web is littered with corpses of corporate sites full of design ideas that were deemed "hip" or "cool" back in the age (say, 3 years ago) but which failed to meet the ultimate purpose of the site -be useful- for its users. Make them get what they wanted from it, in short. What many failed to understand -clients and designers alike- was that, when dealing with sites that are conceived with a service in mind such as corporate sites and virtual storefronts, design (and clear, accesibility-oriented design, while we're at it) is a means to an end, not the end in itself. This is the very same case of uber-coolness that killed boo.com, arguably the most infamous case of a site choking on its own coolness factor.
Something that contributed to making matters worse, IMHO, was how the image of usability guru Jakob Nielsen was highly caricacturized and misinterpreted beyond recognition in the design portal circles. True, Nielsen has some responsibility on this due to his draconian, black-or-white concepts of web design and usability, but a lot of common sense hidden between the lines was lost in the widespread demonization of the man as the arch-enemy of all what was deemed "good" web design.
Nowadays we do know better and have come to admit that, despite all of his radicalisms, Nielsen had some valid points to consider. People like Steve Krug, the folks at 37Signals and many others made them clearer to understand and showed how could you be "cool" and respectful of user's needs at the same time. That, together with an industry that, I want to think, has matured and learned from its past mistakes, should finally bring us to a much-needed balance that can only be a good thing.
Your right on, but I think it applies to much more than just the design of webpages, it applies to the overall design of computers in general. To summerize the late Douglas Adams. The day computers are usable is the day we take them for granite so much that we buy them like we would a pencil, all know how to use them perfectly, and wouldn't care if we lost them.
thank you dave!
How does this post relate to mezzoblue which, as has been pointed out in commentary you linked to, is a mishmash of microscopic fonts, hidden and inconsistent functionality, unselectable rendered text, and weird controls? Is this the portfolio site that doesn't need to be usable? Or do you disagree with the critique you linked. which seemed spot on?
I think that the web is going to be like this for a while. I think this has a lot to do with the immaturity of the web as a medium. People are really learning how their tools, and a lot of people don't understand the consequences of what their tools do.
Remember back in the early days of web standards evangelism? People didn't realise the problems table-based layouts were causing. I was certainly guilty of thinking "Uh well it looks good so it's grand".
I think a lot of people are like that when it comes to other important aspects of website creation. Things like: usability, accessability, good copy. They either don't realise the harm, or don't realise the importance.
I've seen a lot of portfolio sites that lack the functionality of zombo.com :)
Among the several things my business card says I do, one of them is "web design." Sadly, though, I'm _not_ much of a stylist, and have only minor artistic ability. Hell, take a look:
What people do find useful, and have paid me for, is to think about how people use websites, and how their content can be viewed on different devices, and how they will grow and fit into the Web of the future. For the art, I sometimes have to pay people. So am I really a designer? I don't know.
But no one's objected to the business card so far.
Well Matt Chaput, since you've asked, yes indeed. This post applies to mezzoblue as much as any other site.
Let's examine your points one by one then.
1) "Mishmash of microscopic fonts" – well last time I checked, your browser had the ability to resize fonts, and no matter which browser you're using, I've made efforts to allow that ability to function (read: no pixel-unit fonts). But of course, I've been involved in far too many arguments with those who have decided they shouldn't actually have to *use* that function so I added a second style sheet which is accessible via your browser's style switcher, or if it doesn't have one of those, the buttons on the top right. So I've designed more than one solution around your problem with my font size, you just need meet me in the middle and exert the minimal effort it takes to click a button. Please feel free to do so.
2) "hidden and inconsistent functionality" – what's hidden? That part I don't understand, unless you expect an entire site map on the home page. Inconsistent? This site's design has been evolving for more than a year as various functionality has been added and dropped. Keeping a moving target completely consistent is a high target to shoot for. If I scrapped it all and did it over would I do things differently? Yes. Are there bits and pieces now outdated after a year's growth? Yes. Should I take it all down until I'm willing to commit to an absolutely perfect design? Not a chance.
3) "unselectable rendered text" – text, by the way, that also happens to be well-kerned and nicely anti-aliased. This one is just a judgement call based on one's priorities. I feel proper typography trumps the ability to select a single word. It's not that hard to type 'link-ups' now, is it? Were we talking about paragraphs upon paragraphs I'd concede your point. We're not though.
4) "Weird controls" – see points two and three.
Now, Matt Chaput, please do an accessibility critique, a code integrity critique, and a visual design critique to follow up your usability critique, because otherwise you've only focussed on one discipline out of many, and missed my entire point.
Web Design is about weighing everything equally, and coming up with a solution that works. No site is perfect; all sites will have their own unique shortcomings. That's what happens when you have to balance so many seemingly conflicting ideals and come up with a happy middle ground.
Dave, you saved me having to defend your site! I was a little put off by the "usability analysis" link you posted a couple weeks ago; it was not very well thought out and focused only on one aspect of the site, as you said.
It's all about balancing many different priorities - don't tell me as a designer that all my typography has to be done in plain text with whatever paltry selection of fonts I can assume shipped with your system.
If usability proponents are going to continue to insist that usable must mean ugly (and I have yet to see a "usability guru" site that actually caught my eye graphically), we are going to be at an impasse.
I have decided to compromise in one direction (e.g. using standard fonts for typography in paragaph text, marking up my code well so that any device can access it, using font-sizes that are resizeable even though I know the page will be ugly if they get to be too large, etc.), and Matt, you need to give a bit in the other direction. Let me use image replacement for headers and short text, let me use graphics on my site, let me set my text size to small by default.
If we all come halfway on our pet issues, the web will benefit. If we stick to our guns and refuse to compromise at all, designers will continue to scoff at usability and usability folks will continue to mock those of us with a more artistic bent.
I'm not chiming in to back up Matt here. But, I do think that there is a "graphic design" bias that affects a lot of the ALA standards oriented web crowd. I appreciate Dave's post and I think most of the designers really try to approach design projects as a holistic effort drawing on multiple disciplines. But to quote Dave:
Design is about assessing a series of visual problems, coming up with the best solution. It's about applying the solution in a way that also lends itself to visual interest. It's about making use of imagery, type, and colour to convey a message. It's about making people feel something. It's about communication.
Design, I'm not sure if he meant graphic or web design, is about "assessing a series of visual problems." In my opionion that point of view taints the web design process. Which to me should be start with looking at how the people who use the web site to be designed conceptualize it and do/want/can interact with it. The information design of the site comes first and then graphic design comes in to address the framework that has been developed.
To quote Dave again:
There are those of us who approach web design as a holistic strategy, and concentrate not just on how a site looks, or what it says, or how it functions.
I think that is great and it makes web design a lot better to approach it with a holistic strategy. However, I don't think that the "graphic design" or "usability" bias is going to eliminated until people start discussing the process behind succcessful effective web design. It's not enough to acknowledge and appreciate the disciplines involved, there needs to be a look at the sequence of events in which they are called into play to interact in the process of designing a website.
"I do think that there is a 'graphic design' bias that affects a lot of the ALA standards oriented web crowd."
We're graphic designers, maybe? That might be the reason.
"I'm not sure if he meant graphic or web design"
Graphic in that case, though it wasn't clear. (by the way, it's really wierding me out how comments on here are more frequently referring to me in the third person… still my site, yeah?)
"which to me should be start with looking at how the people who use the web site to be designed conceptualize it and do/want/can interact with it. The information design of the site comes first and then graphic design comes in to address the framework that has been developed."
I'm not entirely at odds with you on this one. In fact, for 5 years it's how I've started my design process. The key here is that effectively I *am* the information designer in this case. Holistic approach, once again. Budgets, along with results, may vary.
"However, I don't think that the 'graphic design'? or 'usability' bias is going to eliminated until people start discussing the process behind succcessful effective web design."
I feel obliged to point out that that's exactly what this community has been doing for the past few years, thanks to our respective weblogs and online mags. Go read Asterisk, Superfluous Banter, Signal vs. Noise, Digital Web, Boxes and Arrows, or innumerable others. I read 'em too. We all have subtlely different focuses; that's hardly a bad thing.
Hi Dave!
I thought I would set aside a little time tonight to comment on this article because I feel it marks what will be a growing debate among CSS designers.
Greenfield's article started out quite reasoned and gave a good account of the factors that led to the punk movement. I was also happy to see him question whether we may have overstepped a boundary. However, the article later turned into a bashing of those who he consider's stylists.
I found this to be a rather disturbing direction for an otherwise well reasoned article. One interesting point I came across was when he compared Neville Brody AND David Carson. Interestingly, both Carson and Brody knew each other quite well and have collaborated on presentations about the state of graphic design. One would think that these two designers must have had respect for each others work in order collaborate, no?
I was a little puzzled by his dismissal of Carson's work because, as a designer, Carson demonstrates a technical mastery that very few achieve (perhaps the author does not recognize the technical nature of Carson's work?). I would be careful to so easily dismiss such work if I could not create at that level myself.
The relationship Carson explores is between, most notably, the visual language of typography and human emotion. Over the years, his work (for me anyway) consistently demonstrates a profound understanding of emotional connection in the audience/demograph for which he designed. No, I would not say that he took into account the factors Greenfield shows an interest in. I would not go so far to say that Carson would consider these factors if he was given an assignment to design a railway's logo.
Most of us can agree that Paul Rand is a rare gem in the design world. The hotly debated UPS logo, for instance, is a near perfect balance of symbolism and utilitarian functionalism. Minimalism is a term I tend not to associate with design because the minimalist movement of the 20th century dealt with an emotional connection that was rare to find beforehand - they were not necessarily concerned with function (unless you consider emotional connection to be the function of a piece).
Here is a question, when designing the logo for the British Railway, did the designers attempt to, through the language of the logo, question the fast-paced nature of modern life? To the historian, the logo might represent the pains our society took to preserve this lifestyle. Perhaps far into the future, such logos will be purposely DESIGNED to be difficult to read from a distance in order to remind us that we needn't be in such a hurry when going from place to place.
Form always tells a complex narrative and powerful design doesn't necessarily follow one movement or another. To realize the beauty of all these works is to be introduced to a full narrative of our time.
Our commercialized society demands that designers imitate real movements in order to sell their products. Why does McDonalds use graffit to market their services? Graffiti has been an attempt for people to say something about their lives and society, but when these images are juxtaposed with a corporate logo, what does it say? McDonalds is saying, "We want you to accept us." - This is a profound statement, as far as I am concerned.
The people who design for these entites are also making statements through their work. They are giving us a clear glimpse into their direction. Is this a direction we want to go?
Shepard Fairey, through his work, is speaking out against this direction of designers. His visual narratives, however, are complex and not always following the sort of functionalism about which Greenfield speaks.
The reductionist (who I consider Greenfield to be) would cut a clear distinction between art and design while the holist would deny any significant distinction between the two. I believe that many factors need to be weighed before such distinctions should be made.
Here is an interesting discussion…is Joshua Davis an artist? Most don't consider him to be. I find much of it to be a very experimental visual exploration without a very clear statement or meaning. This genre of work will evolve in the future and we will begin to see similar works that demonstrate a very impressive articulation of meaning. Might Davis's understanding of his work develop into this? We may see.
I am not worried about either artists or designers who do not understand principals of semantics. They may develop such an understanding and they may not. I am always, however, glad to see them trying their best.
"We're graphic designers, maybe? That might be the reason."
I know. It's not a bad thing. I think that this group has the most provocative and interesting set of sites on the Internet.
"Budgets, along with results, may vary."
That's a good point, and perhaps I've just been exposed to process on the low budget end. Even there though I think there is room for web designers to encourage their clients to incorporate more aspects of testing and an iterative design process into the workflow. I recently shopped around and found that a "waterfall" process that doesn't evaluate progress throughout is very common.
I do/did read at least a few of the sites you mentioned. I even contacted and individual behind the site in one case to inquire about contracting them. I wanted to know if they would incorporate usability testing into the process. I was told, "We don't do usability testing."
"I feel obliged to point out that that's exactly what this community has been doing for the past few years, thanks to our respective weblogs and online mags."
I disagree with you here. I have read tons of fascinating stuff about css, html, accessibility, usability, information design. I rarely encounter something about the process that ties them all together.
Finally, I'm not trying to fault your site or many of the other quality design blogs out there. I just think that process needs to be addressed more.
I should add the whole bit about usability. Dave, you bring up a good point about usability. More research needs to be available to the public. We need to keep developing stategies for overcoming some of the web's greatest usability challenges.
One area I believe has recieved far too little attention is in hypertext literature - the interactive and nonlinear narrative. Where are commission do such projects?
In saying this, however, I do not believe that we should not discount the web as an exploratory medium. All these elements need to thrive as they all play a role, to varying degrees, in all of our projects.
The last thing I want to see killed on the web are the web-specific arts. Articles like Greenfield's have a tendency to fuel the disregard toward such projects. This is dangerous. It is a diverse community and we all need to recognize its needs.
"Design" and "designers" employed in this kind of context and under such light actually appears to me a LOT more like "engineering" and "engineers". You're building a solution to a problem, everybody has to like it, if not it doesn't fly. One of the major concerns in engineering design is ALSO esthetics, but not MAINLY, and that I think is something seem to have trouble understanding. A site can be as nice as you want for the eye, if you can't FIND anything or make it DO anything, it's useless.
I know "designers", at least the artsy-fartsy type, probably won't like being labeled as engineers, but the fact is, we all are in some respect. And whether you like it or not, creating a usable product for a target audience while taking into account technical concerns is generally called engineering, because designers don't have to worry themselves with these technical concerns. Engineers do.
Daedlus, this appears to be another simplistic dichotimization in ignorance of the field's breadth. I especially enjoy how you establish the characterization of a stylist as "artsy-fartsy."
Even mezzoblue has come under attack from such "usability purists" as noted earlier in the discussion. Dave's work has been, and continues to be an inspiration for what is possible with CSS design.
The medium must cater to a wide diversity of needs. I suppose we could call these engineering issues. Why do people resort to using image files when they want greater typographic control? What technologies can be developed to accomodate these needs? We cannot just pretend these needs don't exist or disregard them as "artsy-fartsy."
Is usability an important concern? It depends upon the project. Sometimes a plain UL isn't quite enought to make a significant connection, but in other places, the "hidden navigation" commonly seen on flash sites can get quite annoying when you are trying to look up information.
I am assuming that you are speaking of information databases that are used on a daily basis. In order for people to find the information they need, one would need to do a little research of what the user base's needs are, then perform tests to ensure that the end product actually meets those needs. I have designed sites that don't need much graphic treatement and would like to learn to produce sites that excel at these tasks. These are valid concerns, and I suppose most valid concerns are laced with reactionism.
I have difficulty understanding the fragmentation. In my post I tried to point out this fragmentation and why such developments are dangerous. This website is quite interesting because it brings people from both worlds into one space.
Wonderful entry Dave, I love the mentions of it being a holistic process.
"There are those of us who approach web design as a holistic strategy, and concentrate not just on how a site looks, or what it says, or how it functions. We look at a project from top to bottom, understanding the inter-relatedness of each element along the way, and assess its proper place in the site as a whole."
Absolutely spot on, too many people get too caught up in one aspect of web design, like flashy graphics or search engine ranking, without realising you need a bit of everything.
Thats the main ethos we try and get across at www.cre8asiteforums.com and is the subject of a bit of a rant on my own site at www.camaban.co.uk/rant_holistic.php from a little while ago. I'm very pleased you've brought the idea to attention of your audience.
Among all the good points made her, one caught my attention:
-12- *The process that ties everything together* �?? *needs to be addressed more*.
The process itself seems to be hard to find something substantial written about - on the web - and everywhere else.
Bits and pieces pop up everywhere, and that�??s good, but they look isolated. Just as I think Dave is trying to point out (and are doing something about).
Do people really read all the bits and pieces and SEE that they ALL have to be included in web-designs? Personally I think most are happy just to have found that small part needed to solve their own problems for today only, and they may even *sell* them as solutions far beyond what can be solved by using them. *One problem at the time, please* seems to be the norm.
I wish I could add something really constructive here, but even after close to 25 years of "human interfacing" in software (and hardware), I still cannot describe the process itself. The closest I come to a description is: *do not leave anything out of the equation*. Now I am using that process on the web, and it is starting to work here also (a slow process it is - sigh).
It takes me at least twice as long as others to produce results in the first place, because I am not satisfied with just solving the problems. I have to understand them also. I have to understand *why* and *what for* and put that into the equation as well, and I am not avoiding anything. It takes time �?? and that seems to be the problem. Don�??t people see that the time it takes to learn, is time saved forever after? Of course, one cannot stop learning if that is to be true.
Sorry, but I am not a good teacher. The only thing I can bring up at any turn is something like: *this is not it �?? this is just a small part of it*. Not much, but that is about as much as I can put in writing about the process of putting all the bits together.
I hope that I can add something more substantial at another crossroad. At least *the process* is on the agenda. That is good.
I wasn't simplifying at all. Engineering is a VERY broad term. Merriam Webster defines it as: "the design and manufacture of complex products" [Section 2b - m-w.com]
By making a "design" for the web, you are in effect manufacturing a product. This product is usually supposed to be a whole that answers to a wide range of criteria, as in quality, portability, esthetics, usuability, usefulness of content, and a LOT of other things. A "100%" artist or stylist CANNOT fulfill all of these criteria, simply by definition. He can try, but he isn't a designer, he's a stylist, his job is to make things look good and be semi-useful, his job ISN'T to make things "portable" or "accessible" or any of those other complex things. His job is to make a nice, high-quality product for a target audience and do a damn good job at it. An engineers job in this respect is slightly different.
I didn't encompass the entire stylist comunity into the "artsy-fartsy" class, if you read closely you'll notice that I said "especially the artsy-fartsy" ones. That, in effect, implies that there ARE some that are not artsy-fartsy.
What I was saying is that NOBODY is 100% artist in our field, unless you work for a magazine or something of the sort where there is actually heavy task-division. But for non-corporate projects, such as mezzoblue, ALA, or half the website on the internet, this task division does not exist. And the fact is, if you wrote a webpage which is accessible and portable, like it or not, you ARE an engineer. You aren't some sort of "über-web stylist", although you might also be that, but you are primarily an engineer. Making things portable and accessible signifies that you understand the underlying construct of the web, how it works, and how you can make it work for you. It's not a bad thing. It's just a fact many people often overlook.
The web isn't a medium by which we were supposed to make great works of art. The web is there for information first, esthetics last. Forget that, and you loose all sense of purpose.
[If you don't believe me, look how, why and where it started ->http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa091598.htm
I liked the Douglas Adams quote about computers/pencils.
I think it takes a long time for usability (to that extent) of any product (real or virtual) to develop.
As an example. Staff at Xerox Parc, Microsoft and Apple spent 1000's of man hours between them developing user interfaces for windows type environments. They spent long hours asking questions about the minutest details of, for example, the simple drop down box (or combo box). Things like: should the user click once to show the items, then click a second time to make them disappear, or should it disappear after a set amount of time and if so, how long should it wait before it does so? What happens when you mouse over it, but don't click. Should that behaviour remain the same when you mouse over, but the items are visible? Even making the buttons have a 3d appearance so that the button actually looked like it was being pressed when you clicked it (real time feedback to make the user feel like they are doing something). Also, they would consider whether the mouse icon changes over particular items or not, and many other questions.
Each change/addition would be tested and re-tested on users and their feedback would be taken into acount, the model would then be changed and tested again.
We now have the humble drop-down box, which even a newcomer to computers can learn to use after one or two clicks (almost as good as a pencil).
I have yet to see anything that serves the same purpose, that has been designed in a better way. I have seen a lot of sites that have their own dropdowns, ie they have a selectable list with a scrollbar, but they ignore a large amount of the functionality of the standard windows/osx/x-windows scrollbars.
I think it's OK to experiment (and a lot of the portfolio sites are doing that) but good experiments need feedback. A lot of the "cool" sites try out new interfaces, but don't test them to see how effective they are, whether users find them easy to use etc…
Anyway, good discussion. This topic needs to be visited and re-visited all the time, to try and improve the user experience on the web.
Quoth Zeldman:
"Design is not just about surface appearance; it is also about smooth, easy, intuitive usability. If you can't eject a disk from a non-booting computer without invoking a non-intuitive (non-guessable) keyboard or mouse sequence that you've committed to memory after reading about it in a user forum (because the company that makes the product doesn't tell you about it) that is not smooth, easy, intuitive usability. Therefore it is bad design, even if the product's visual design is inspired, inspiring, and award-winning."
Whch is more or less exactly what I wanted to say. If your ultra-pretty site is impossible to use then it's bad design. If you repeatedly create atrtractive but unusable sites then you're a bad web designer. That doesn't mean you're not talented, it just means that you don't work well in this medium.
The fliip side is that good visual design can make a site a pleasure to use in a way that Nielsen-esque usabilty alone cannot. In this sense, web design is more like architecture than graphic design.
As a graphic designer with a formal education in product design, I can wholeheartedly agree with you. I guess the web was in its infancy a few years ago, is rapidly growing up now and will hopefully become a self confident and promise-delivering adult in the next few years.
For all the designers out there who do not at once have a clue how to put Dave's point into practice, I have a small reading tip:
Norman Potter, "What is a designer?", 4th edition. (ISBN 0-906259-16-2, Hyphen Press, 2002). See http://www.hyphenpress.co.uk/titles/what_is_a_designer/synopsis.html
This is one designers' bible in the good sense of the word. Buy with confidence.
Regarding process, I recommend the following:
MTIV: Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer:
Making the Web Work: Designing Effective Web Applications:
Val Casey's Notes on Process:
and last, but definitely not least, is this archival classic from MetaGrrrl:
Dave, thanks for the oldie-but-goodie link. I had never read this article and now the schock of revelation has dawned upon me. (say it Cecil B. DeMille-like).
The question had been nagging me for a long time but I had not found exactly *what* question and *why* it was nagging me, although on a subconscious level I thought there was something wrong with, for example, flashy 'design' websites, which obviously were beautiful but not really usable.
That's it. Stylist is not Designer. Right on.
The stylist vs. designer dichotomy is being taken a little too far, I think, at the expense of good stylists.
Granted, Bathing Ape was a frivolous and extreme example of a styled product that solved no problem. But plenty of stylists approach their work as a set of problems to solve- certainly more nebulous than web accessibility but still in need of solutions.
To get away from the Bathing Ape example, think for a minute about the work Vaughan Oliver and Nigel Grierson did for various Pixies albums. These guys (stylists) faced the challenge of visually communicating the essence of the Pixies' music, and their work was an inarguable success.
The fascinating thing about the Pixies was the way their music seemed to be set in some strange-but-familiar alternate universe, progressively becoming less sweaty and claustrophobic as time went on. Nearly every album's artwork reflected this evolving vibe.
Dave, you've certainly gone out of your way to argue for a holistic approach that incorporates aesthetics as well as practical concerns. I know you're not trying to understate the significance of style as part of the total package.
But don't discount the fact that a good stylist, within his sphere, approaches his work with many of the same rational, empirical tactics that you use in the design process. A good stylist, whether David Carson, Vaughan Oliver, or Pablo Picasso, sets out to solve a problem according to certain rules and within certain parameters.
They deserve better than to be grouped, even implicitly, with the Bathing Ape approach to frivolous ornamentation.


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1. Keep your EFMP updated at ALL TIMES. If it is outdated it can delay or prevent your PCS. Whether you need to update or be dropped from the EFMP program, please see the EFMP Coordinator at your MTF (Military Treatment Facility). This process can be very lengthy.
2. Your orders do not come from HRC. Your HRC AECP assignment manager will put you on assignment in EDAS, and when the assignment hits the CAP Cycle, your Military Personnel Division (MPD) will print your orders based on the assignment instructions. Your MPD (Reassignments Section) is at your current location.
3. Enlisted personnel do not receive RFOs (Request for Orders), and you will be considered enlisted until you are commissioned at the end of your training. After commissioning, you will receive an RFO for your first assignment as an officer, but your assignment to school will be accomplished through assignment instructions in EDAS.
4. Call your HRC AECP Assignment Manager directly with any PCS questions.
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I saw this recipe in an Eat Better America email and had to stop myself from running downstairs and whipping it up right then. {It was about 11:30pm. Not a good time to bake, in my opinion.} A few days later I was reading it over thinking, this would be so much better if I… {insert one of the changes I made here.} I can never seem to just follow a recipe. In this case though it worked out really, really well because these turned out incredible!!
You know those Jam Thumbprint cookies that are so good but you never make because they take f.o.r.e.v.e.r?! These are better. Much better. That and they take less than 10 minutes of prep to get into the oven. Easy! I also love that they're healthified! I used that as justification to eat them for breakfast. They're also a great afternoon snack. Yum!
Berry Oatmeal Bars
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
Heat oven to 350°F. Line 8-inch square pan with foil. In large bowl, mix flours, sugar, butter and egg with electric mixer on low speed until crumbly.
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SUV Deals: December 2012
Many great SUV deals are available in December. Several automakers are already looking ahead to redesigned models next year, creating great deals on today's vehicles to round out the year. And some brands are fighting hard to meet sales goals, leading to steep savings. Some of the best deals on our favorite SUVs are listed below, giving shoppers a leg up as they set out to buy a new vehicle this month.
Ford Expedition
Shoppers looking for a full-size SUV should consider the Ford Expedition for a great deal in December. For cash buyers, Ford is offering up to $5,000 back on all 2012 models - a strong deal for an SUV that starts at $37,000 with shipping. Shoppers looking to finance also get a great deal, as Ford is offering the SUV with zero percent interest for up to 60 months. That offer is supplemented with $2,000 cash back, making it even more attractive. For shoppers who would rather have a 2013, Ford is offering 0.9 percent interest for 48 months or, for cash buyers, up to $2,000 back.
Find the Ford Expedition for sale
Honda Pilot
The midsize Honda Pilot offers both lease deals and low interest rates in December. For shoppers looking to lease the 2013 Pilot, Honda is offering rates as low as $299 per month for 36 months after $2,499 at lease signing. That figure climbs to $349 per month with $3,199 down for an upscale Pilot EX. For drivers who would rather put nothing down, Honda offers zero-down leases with payments starting from $349 per month for a 2012 Pilot LX, or $360 per month for a 2013 Pilot EX. Shoppers interested in financing a Pilot can also take advantage of deals in December, with interest rates starting at just 0.9 percent for up to 60 months.
Kia Sorento
Several deals are available this month on the midsize Kia Sorento. For shoppers looking to finance, Kia is offering zero percent interest for up to 36 months plus $1,000 cash back for qualified buyers. Cash buyers will also get a deal, as Kia is offering up to $1,500 back on all Sorento models through December. And for shoppers interested in a good lease deal, Kia is offering a well-equipped, four-cylinder Sorento LX for 39 months with payments starting $239 after $1,999 at lease signing. Like other Kia models, there's also a cash back bonus of up to $1,250 for drivers trading in a competitive model or another Kia.
Toyota RAV4
With an all-new RAV4 on the way, Toyota is offering deals on the current model to begin clearing out dealer stock. For shoppers interested in financing, Toyota is offering zero percent interest for up to 60 months on all trim levels. Those looking to buy a RAV4 with cash can get up to $750 back - a deal that also applies to all trims. And for drivers who want to lease a 2012 RAV4, Toyota is offering 36-month terms starting at just $189 per month after $2,599 at lease signing. That offer even includes $500 cash back, giving drivers a further reason to consider the compact SUV.
Volkswagen Tiguan
Volkswagen's compact Tiguan offers lease and finance deals in December. The best lease deal is for a 2013 Tiguan S, which starts at $279 per month for 42 months with zero down at lease signing. Shoppers taking advantage of that offer will also benefit from a free first payment. For drivers who would rather finance the Tiguan, Volkswagen is offering zero percent interest to qualified buyers. That offer is good for up to 36 months, and also includes Volkswagen's larger Touareg SUV for drivers looking for a bit more room than the Tiguan offers.
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Kia Soul
Kia's unique Soul is available with two enticing offers in December. For shoppers looking to finance the hatchback, Kia is offering 1.9 percent interest for up to 36 months. That allows buyers to keep interest payments low, creating an incentive to finance. Shoppers looking to lease a Soul can also get a deal this month. According to Kia, a well-equipped base-level Soul with an automatic starts at $179 per month for 39 months after $1,999 at lease signing. Kia also offers $500 cash back to all active or retired members of the US military, giving veterans an extra reason to buy.
What it means to you: December SUV deals means shoppers are likely to get a new model at a great price this month.


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Armstrong Atlantic State will play Belmont Abbey at 7:30 p.m. today in the first round of the NCAA Division II Southeast Volleyball Regional at Armstrong.
The Pirates, the Peach Belt Conference champions, are the top seed. Belmont Abbey is the eighth seed.
The tournament starts at noon with No. 3 seed Flagler playing No. 6 seed Newberry. At 2:30 p.m., No. 2 Wingate will play No. 7 Lenoir-Rhyne, and at 5 p.m., No. 4 Tusculum will face No. 5 Lincoln Memorial.
If Armstrong wins, the Pirates would play at 7:30 p.m. Friday against the Tusculum-Lincoln Memorial winner. The other winners would play at 5 p.m.
The championship game is set for 5 p.m. Saturday.
The tournament winner will earn a berth in the NCAA D-II Elite Eight.
Bridge Run
Expo on Friday
The annual Enmark Savannah River Bridge Run is Saturday morning, with some changes in place for Friday.
The Expo is 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday at the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center. The usual location, inside the Savannah Civic Center, is not available.
That means the packet pick-up is at the trade and convention center, with race director Robert Espinoza encouraging participants to collect packets Friday for themselves, family members and friends.
For those waiting until Saturday, the pickup for the 5K and Double Pump is 6:30-7:45 a.m. at the trade and convention center before the 8:15 race start. The 10K packets can be picked up from 6:30-8:45 a.m. below an awning outside the civic center before the 10K's 9 a.m. start in front of the Chatham County Court House.
For more information, contact Fleet Feet Sports of Savannah at 912-355-3527 or visit SavannahRiverBridgeRun.com.
Trolley service will go on as normal from the civic center to the 5K and Double Pump start line on Hutchinson Island. The trolleys do not stop at the trade and convention center, so those still needing packets will have to walk there from the trolley, or drive cars and use the free parking lot.
The event is expected to reach its 6,500-person capacity. Online registration at active.com closed at midnight Wednesday. The entry fee is $35 through today, $40 at the Expo. There is no race-day registration. There is an additional $5 charge for the Double Pump (combined 5K-10K participants).


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Gentlemen, if your bangs are so long that you look like an English sheep dog and your lady's roots are starting to make you think that grey is her natural color — rejoice. Jackie is back.
The city of Cedar Key underwent a change of leadership last Friday night and by the looks of it, the change will be good.
Stone crab season runs from Oct. 15 to May 15, 2012, and local crabbers have been setting out their traps. Buy your stone crab claws locally or at any number of local restaurants.
Seafood Festival goes swimingly for Sharks
The Cedar Key Lighthouse on Seahorse Key is situated on the top of a steep hill looking out over the Gulf of Mexico with a view that is nothing short of breathtaking. The lighthouse is only open to the public three days during the year: the Saturday following July 4 and the two days of the annual Cedar Key Seafood Festival. The weather this past Saturday was beautiful; the short boat trip to the island quite pleasant.
This weekend's 42nd Annual Seafood Festival attracted the usual group of vendors set up down Second Street and most went home with a lot less stock than they came with.
Over the years, both residents and visitors alike, have lined the streets at festival time for the parades; and the parades never fail to please. It's not just the Mardi Gras-style beads that are tossed by the ton but judging by the looks on the little kid's faces, the candy does not disappoint either.
"...And bring a flannel shirt." Those were the words of Anne's son earlier this week.
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Have you breastfed a baby past the one year mark?
If so, a new study in Pediatrics, which found an association between breastfeeding for a year or more and iron deficiency, might have you a bit alarmed.* We thought it deserved a closer look.
In this study, researchers examined 1,647 healthy Canadian children between 2008 and 2011 when the children were on average 3 years of age, in order to see if there was an association between how long they were breastfed and the likelihood of iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia.
They did indeed find an association, measuring about 5% for each additional month of breastfeeding, and a cumulative probability of iron deficiency of 70% for children breastfed for a year or more compared to those breastfed for less than a year. Other factors associated with low iron were younger age, higher birth, and higher daily consumption of cow's milk.
Their conclusion: "Increased total breastfeeding duration is associated with decreased iron stores, a clinically important association warranting additional investigation."
So let's take a closer look.
I asked Dr. Lori Feldman-Winter for her thoughts on this study. Dr. Feldman-Winter is Division Head of Adolescent Medicine at Cooper University Hospital, Professor of Pediatrics, and Executive Committee member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Breastfeeding. Readers of our Booby Traps series will remember that she has championed the AAP's pediatric residency curriculum on breastfeeding. She has also been very engaged on behalf of the Section on Breastfeeding in the debate over iron supplementation for breastfed babies.
She described this study as "problematic on many levels:"
My first point is that while they recorded and defined exclusive breastfeeding, they chose to analyze duration of any breastfeeding, regardless of how exclusive, and they only had 14% exclusive at 6 months. This leave lots of room to say that diets with mainly formula feeding are perhaps linked to iron deficiency, or if the supplementation was juice or cows' milk then certainly this would increase the risk.
My next point is to challenge the theory that changes in ferritin in fact lead to problems with iron status. They demonstrate nicely that the iron status rebounds and that there was NO anemia. Thus, perhaps with prolonged breastfeeding there is value in stimulating hematopoiesis.
Additionally, it is not clear to me what the actual values of ferritin were, they only published changes in values, and one assumes this is change for normal range, but it's not clear.
Other confounding variables not included were mode of delivery or complications with delivery, and addressing issues of timing of cord clamping. It is also not clear if they asked about and controlled for intake of iron supplements.
And as always, it's important to look for industry ties in research. One of the nine authors disclosed that he is a consultant to several pharmaceutical companies that make iron supplements and (though this is not stated in the disclosure) either currently or until recently produced infant formula. It's worth noting that, like the image for this post shows, some iron drops are made by formula companies.
This study is the latest in a long-running debate about iron supplementation for breastfed babies which has recently become more heated.
In 2010 the AAP began recommending iron supplementation for exclusively breastfed babies starting at 4 months of age. That recommendation was quite controversial, and the AAP Section on Breastfeeding submitted a letter (co-authored by Dr. Feldman-Winter) challenging this recommendation when it was released. You can read more about the research basis for the AAP recommendation, the Section on Breastfeeding's response here.
The letter states, "Given that research has shown potential harm in infant growth and morbidity when iron supplementation is provided to iron-sufficient infants one wonders if universal iron supplementation will be deleterious to the population of developing infants who are breastfeeding exclusively." Their alternative to universal iron supplementation: Delayed cord clamping at birth and screening for at risk babies at 6 months.
The subsequent 2012 AAP breastfeeding policy states only that "supplementation or oral iron drops before 6 months may be needed to support iron stores." But based on how the pendulum keeps swinging on this issue, this most recent study may lead to some re-evaluation of that recommendation.
This is all quite confusing to health care providers, let alone parents, and each new turn of events in this story seems to muddy the waters further. We can only hope that close examination of the evidence and consultation with knowledgeable and breastfeeding-supportive providers will guide us to make the best decisions for our children.
What's your experience been like with iron supplementation for your breastfed baby?
*This discussion is provided for educational purposes, and does not substitute for medical advice provided by your health care providers. Please consult them for care suited to your individual needs.


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With Park's Tool Roll you'll be able to easily fix minor mechanicals on the road and trail. It includes Park's I-Beam Mini-Tool with 3, 4, 5, and 6mm Allen wrenches, a socket 8mm Allen and regular screwdriver. You also get Park's Pocket Protector Micro Pump that fits all valves and sports a flip-out handle for easy pumping. Plus you get a glueless patch kit, tire levers, an emergency tire boot and a high-pressure gauge. And, all the tools fit neatly in the roll-up nylon case, which then fits in your pack or pocket.
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If Detroit can get Rodney Stuckey to impersonate Allen Iverson, the Bulls need Luol Deng to morph into Luol Deng circa May 2007.
With Iverson sidelined for all but 3 minutes, 16 seconds of the second half because of a strained left groin and missing all seven shots, Stuckey burned several Bulls defenders en route to a career-high 40 points Tuesday night at the Palace of Auburn Hills.
Perhaps more troubling than the Bulls' 104-98 loss to the Pistons is Deng's continued lack of impact. The forgotten forward scored just six points on 2-for-7 shooting, one game after sitting for the final 17 minutes.
Deng is averaging 13.5 points on 43.7 percent shooting, both his lowest totals since his rookie season in 2004-05. He has failed to reach double figures in three of his last four games.
"Luol's trying to find himself," coach Vinny Del Negro said. "He has to keep hustling and find ways to impact the game. We're trying to get him involved with certain play sets.
"When he's aggressive and after it defensively, he's a big plus for us. We need him to play well for us to have a chance."
Whether Deng is the victim of an offensive scheme designed to keep the middle open for rookie Derrick Rose or struggling to find rhythm because of shots Rose and Ben Gordon are taking, he clearly has been relegated to a stationary jump shooter and a non-primary option.
Deng, who stayed active with 11 rebounds, declined to discuss that dynamic, merely saying he feels fine physically.
The Bulls feel otherwise spiritually after whiffing on their fourth attempt since Dec. 12 to reach .500.
Rose fouled out for the first time in his career with 10 points and five assists. Gordon also fouled out after scoring 10 of his 18 points in the fourth. So did Andres Nocioni after scoring 18 points.
Foul trouble is as much a trend as poor starts as the Bulls found themselves trailing 17-4 before some might have realized Joakim Noah replaced Aaron Gray at center. That start featured several ridiculously easy interior Pistons baskets and little Bulls movement on offense.
"We have to get smarter," a clearly agitated Del Negro said. "We dig ourselves too big of holes on the road and spend a lot of energy trying to get back in the game. We have to have more of a physical mind-set."
The Bulls, led by Larry Hughes' 19 points, flashed a pulse after halftime, ripping off a 12-0 run with Nocioni scoring five. But Rose picked up his fourth foul less than two minutes in and sat. And Detroit responded with a 10-0 run as Stuckey scored seven.
"I kept thinking about [foul trouble] on the court," said Rose, who played a season-low 20:43.
The Bulls clawed back to trail 92-86 as Gordon scored on three straight possessions. But Richard Hamilton hit with a three-pointer with 5:12 left and Hughes missed an open three.
Tyrus Thomas, in a huge game, and Lindsey Hunter hit late three-pointers to add mild drama. Like Deng's performance this season, though, it wasn't enough.


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Internship Resource Page
Welcome to the ICS internship resource page. We created this as a tool for you to use in the exciting but sometimes intimidating process of finding an internship. Our hope is that with these helpful resources the process will be an enjoyable one for you. Have fun!
Find your dream internship
The Application Process
Hear what previous interns have to saySupervisor evaluation forms
Find your dream internship
Sometimes it's hard to even know where to start looking for an internship. We have a few resources here that will help you get started. A good place to start is just looking through advertised intern positions and seeing what stands out to you/interests you.
*If there is a particular organization you are interested in, contact them directly about serving in the capacity of an intern for them. Don't limit yourself to advertised positions. Use InterAction (website above) to take a closer look at countless organizations.
*Check with your denomination's (or another denomination's) international ministries department - many offer or will arrange for an internship with one of their cross-cultural workers. An example would be Global Venture, the international ministries department of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. They offer a number of different internship positions and will work with you personally to find the right fit.
*Use your network to find internships. Here at Nyack there are plenty of people whose parents, relatives and friends work around the world. Many would love to have a dedicated intern to serve under them for a summer or semester.
Internship Board
Here you can find a listing of specific internship positions that are open right now. Check back, as the list will be periodically updated.
World Vision NYC
Research and Communications Intern for Team World Vision
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The Application Process
Once you have determined which internships you would like to apply for, the Application Process can be a rather daunting task. This page makes use of Nyack's Career Services and offers quality instruction and advice on how to best make that internship a reality. Be sure to check for what a specific internship requires of you for this process, because the particulars may vary somewhat.
Writing a Resume/Cover Letter
Optimal Resume is a comprehensive web-based tool to help you create, present and manage your resumes!
Hear what previous interns have to say
Courtney Roberts interned with World Vision from October 2008- May 2009. She worked as a Research and Communications Intern fro Team World Vision, a program of World Vision that equips runners to fundraise and run races to meet crucial needs such as providing clean water wells in Zambia. She is now in the process of applying for a full time job with World Vision.
Advice from Courtney:
· Don't sell yourself short. While it is important to be realistic about your skills and abilities, don't be afraid to apply for that internship that seems more challenging. You'll be amazed at the skills you will develop in time. I have no experience in the communications field but I was able to grow and excel in that area thanks to my internship, which has made me more well-rounded and is helping me in my job search.
· Think long term. If there is an organization you could see yourself working for in the future, INTERN WITH THEM. Finding entry-level jobs in the nonprofit/development/international relations field is not easy. Often the only way to get yourself in there is by working for free as an intern first. While you may think it's too early to start planning ahead like that, it will REALLY pay off in the end.
· Don't settle. There are great internships out there. You don't have to settle for one that will take advantage of your free labor and have you filing papers behind a desk for months. While you'll inevitably end up doing some of this grunt work, it shouldn't be the only experience you gain. Make sure whoever you decide to intern for will nurture your growth and development as a person and not just use you for your filing abilities.
· Don't wait until the last minute to start your internship search. That is just a BAD idea and you'll hate yourself for it. The best way to make this a stress-free process is to leave yourself plenty of time to walk through it.
Jonathan Raber worked as a Reception & Placement Casework Assistant Intern for the International Rescue Committee during the fall semester of 2008. He worked at headquarters in New York City where he was involved in helping refugees from all over the world as they arrive in the United States and enter into the resettlement process. Working for the IRC has further developed his understanding of the global situation as he pursues working in international development operations.
Advice from Jonathan:
- View this whole process of obtaining and working at an internship as an opportunity to learn. Soon enough you'll be going through the same process, only for a real job! This is a great 'trial run' for you, as you learn the ropes of the real world. Ask questions and listen carefully.
- Make connections. Before you get an internship, talk to the professors in related fields to learn from them and find out if they have any connections for you. In your internship setting, be sure to connect with people who are highly involved in your fields of interest.
Supervisor Evaluation Forms
At the beginning of your internship you will need to print this form for your supervisor to evaluate your performance. Completed evaluation forms will be submitted to the chairman of the Intercultural Studies Department.


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A woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted while on a two-month cancer awareness mission says she remains frightened but isn't going to let the attack slow her down.
"This isn't easy. I don't want to talk about details, but it did happen to me," Jenn Gibbons said Tuesday via telephone.
Gibbons is trying to become the first person to solo-row the entire 1,500-mile perimeter of Lake Michigan in an effort to show the role exercise plays in the fight against breast cancer.
But on Sunday, while in an area south of Gulliver along Lake Michigan in Mueller Township, Schoolcraft County, Mich., she says a man boarded her boat and assaulted her.
Police believe Gibbons' attacker traveled a significant distance, perhaps following her on the Internet.
"This entire trip has really open and honest about the obstacles, and I think that's kind of been a two-way street with the people that have been following my trip," said Gibbons, who is the head coach with the Recovery on Water charity.
She vowed to continue blogging about her journey and is determined to finish it in Chicago, but now as an advocate for victims of sexual assault.
"This is an experience that changes my trip. Because I need to be safer. But it doesn't mean that it has to become such an overwhelming aspect of what I'm doing that I can't go on," she said. "I'm absolutely going to continue and continue to share."
She admits she's scared, but said that's not unusual.
"I get scared everyday," she said. "I get scared by six-foot waves."
Police on Tuesday released a composite sketch of the man they say attacked Gibbons.
"The suspect is described as a white male in his 30s, approximately 5'8" to 6' tall, with a fair amount of facial stubble hair, but not a full beard nor mustache. The man has light eyes, an average to athletic build and shorter well-kept hair. He was wearing a grayish green t-shirt, jean shorts and tennis shoes," read a statement from the Michigan State Police.
Authorities said they're also looking for a bright yellow Jeep Wrangler with a smiley face on the spare tire cover.
Gibbons spoke out about this incident to NBC Chicago and on her Facebook page in an effort to raise awareness about this incident. For that reason, NBC Chicago has decided to name her, despite the fact that she is a victim of sexual assault.
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Biggest turnover: Dem Congressman Tom Perriello is voted out of office November 2, and Republican Robert Hurt is the 5th District representative-elect.
Biggest pricetag: President Barack Obama's visit to campaign for Perriello cost the city and county at least $38,000, Rachana Dixit reports in the Daily Progress. Perriello's campaign says it will cover those costs.
Worst agony on I-64: Traffic backs up seven miles November 7 when a westbound tractor trailer overturns.
Worst car crash: Samantha Brackett, 22, dies in a single-car accident November 5 shortly after 5pm on Three Notch'd Road in Crozet. Brackett, who was not wearing a seatbelt, is partially ejected from the car and an infant with her has minor injuries.
Worst hit by drought: The USDA declares 59 counties in Virginia, including Albemarle and surrounding Nelson, Greene, Louisa, Fluvanna, and Buckingham, natural disaster areas resulting from the lack of rain and excessive heat. Farmers and ranchers are eligible for low-interest emergency loans.
Worst place to try to bum a smoke: Martha Jefferson Hospital announces it will no longer hire employees who puff or use nicotine, and they'll have to undergo drug tests to assure they fit into the hospital's tobacco-free initiative. NBC29 has the story.
Worst belly slicing: Cevi Jamar Wede, 33, gets nine months in jail for leaving a four-inch gash in his uncle's gut with a pirate-like cutlass in Waynesboro last spring, the News Virginian reports.
Worst armed robbery: A masked man comes into the Grady Avenue Quik Mart November 4, gets the money, then sprays something into the faces of two clerks, who are taken to Martha Jefferson. The suspect is described as a black male between 6' and 6'2", weighing 250 pounds, NBC29 reports.
Most popular defense strategy: Accused robber and convicted 1998 Shell clerk killer Carlton William Arnold asks for another lawyer November 8 for the charges he faces for allegedly grabbing a UVA student in September, taking her under Beta Bridge, touching her, and taking money. The Progress reports that prosecutor Claude Worrell says the request is a tactic to delay the case so the victim, who lives in another country, won't be able to testify. Alleged girlfriend-burner Cordrick Lewis Dade in Greene County also requests a new attorney–- after he pleads guilty to setting Yolanda Chambers on fire March 22.
Longest child porn sentence: Former Greene County man Gary Lee Rimmer, 56, gets 66 months November 8 for his 2006 online relationship with a 13-year-old girl in Florida. Rimmer pretended to be a 20-year-old, and sent the girl sexual items, and images of the girl wearing his gifts were found on his computer.
Latest Albemarle school bus accident: Four children and the bus driver are taken to the hospital November 5 after a collision on Whitewood Road near Hydraulic. According to the Newsplex, a Honda Accord wagon pulled out in front the bus headed to Jack Jouett Middle School.
Most delinquent: Leading the list of those owing back taxes are Patricia Kluge and Halsey Minor, Henry Graff reports for NBC29. Kluge, whose winery is set to be auctioned off December 8, owes Albemarle County $86,000 in real estate taxes, and Minor owes Charlottesville almost $63K.
Best review: The New York Times praises John Casey's "beautiful, elegiac new novel," Compass Rose, a continuation of his novel Spartina.
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TCORS Grant Brings Behavior and Health Research Funding Total to $34.7 Million
- 09-19-2013
- By Jennifer Nachbur
In a single week, the efforts and expertise of University of Vermont (UVM) Professor of Psychiatry Stephen T. Higgins, Ph.D., and colleagues at the College of Medicine have attracted an unprecedented $34.7 million in federal funding to support behavior and health research at the University. The latest boost to UVM's new Vermont Center on Behavior and Health – supported by an $11.5 million National Institutes of Health Institutional Development Award Center of Biomedical Research Excellence grant announced September 16 – is a prestigious five-year, $19.5 million Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science (TCORS) award from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Higgins has also received notification of a five-year, $3.7 million NIH grant for another smoking-related study, titled "Financial Incentives for Smoking Cessation Among Disadvantaged Pregnant Women."
The FDA and NIH formed an interagency partnership to fund TCORS – a new, first-of-its-kind regulatory science tobacco program, which is designed to generate research to inform the regulation of tobacco products to protect public health. Despite decades of work to reduce tobacco use, it continues to be the leading cause of preventable death and disease, with cigarette smoking alone responsible for more than 440,000 premature deaths in the U.S. annually. UVM is one of 14 institutions nationwide to obtain this prestigious award.
Using designated funds from FDA, TCORS will be coordinated by NIH's Office of Disease Prevention, directed by David M. Murray, Ph.D., and administered by three NIH institutes – the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
The TCORS program brings together investigators from across the country to aid in the development and evaluation of tobacco product regulations. Each TCORS application identified a targeted research goal. Taken together, the TCORS sites will increase knowledge across the full spectrum of basic and applied research on tobacco and addiction. The program also provides young investigators with training opportunities to ensure the development of the next generation of tobacco regulatory scientists.
The TCORS will reside within UVM's new Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, which serves as a foundation for the UVM Neuroscience, Behavior and Health Initiative. Higgins, who serves as director of the recently-announced Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, and is a nationally recognized expert in addiction, contingency management and behavioral economics, will direct the UVM TCORS. John Hughes, M.D., UVM professor of psychiatry and an international expert in smoking cessation research, will serve as the TCORS associate director. In addition, internationally recognized collaborators and consultants from Brown University (Jennifer Tidey, Ph.D.), Johns Hopkins University (Maxine L. Stitzer, Ph.D.), University of Minnesota (Dorothy Hatsukami, Ph.D.), and University of Pittsburgh (Eric Donny, Ph.D.), will support the UVM Center's research. The TCORS will reside within the Vermont Center of Behavior and Health at UVM, which serves as a foundation for the University's Neuroscience, Behavior and Health Initiative.
The TCORS grant marks the first P50 award to be received at the University of Vermont. According to the NIH, P50 grants – which are categorized as "specialized center" grants – are usually developed in response to an announcement of the programmatic needs of an Institute or Division and centers receiving this funding may serve as regional or national resources for special research purposes. "The University of Vermont has a long history and extensive expertise in the field of changing unhealthy behaviors like smoking and drug addiction in vulnerable populations," says Higgins. "We are honored to be a recipient of this prestigious TCORS award and look forward to exploring the impact of tobacco addiction from multiple perspectives, including behavioral, cardiovascular, pulmonary, women's reproductive health."
Comprising scientists with expertise in fields including epidemiology, behavior, biology, medicine, economics, chemistry, toxicology, addictions, public health, communications, and marketing, the TCORS program is the centerpiece of the FDA/NIH collaboration to foster research relevant to tobacco regulatory science. New research from TCORS will help inform and assess the impact of FDA's prior, ongoing and potential future tobacco regulatory activities implemented by CTP under the direction of Mitch Zeller, J.D. In addition, the TCORS investigators will have the flexibility and capacity to begin new research to address issues raised in today's rapidly evolving tobacco marketplace.
The TCORS awards represent a significant investment in federal tobacco regulatory science, including $53 million in the first year and a potential total of more than $273 million over the next five years. TCORS funding may not exceed $4 million in total costs per year per center, and an investigator could request a project period of up to five years.
Designed to generate vital research in seven core areas, as well as ensure innovation in the field, the research supported by this initiative will provide scientific evidence within the following seven FDA tobacco-related research interest areas: diversity of tobacco products; reducing addiction; reducing toxicity and carcinogenicity; adverse health consequences; communications; marketing of tobacco products; and economics and policies.
In addition, TCORS sites are required to train the next generation of tobacco regulatory scientists, a charge that Higgins and colleagues say will be central to the Vermont TCORS mission. For nearly a quarter-century, UVM has maintained a well-regarded NIH-supported predoctoral and postdoctoral training program in addictions research under the direction of Higgins, with assistance from Hughes, and Associate Professors of Psychiatry Sarah Heil, Ph.D., and Stacey Sigmon, Ph.D. In collaboration with Tidey and Stitzer at Brown and Johns Hopkins University, the TCORS investigators will be able to double the size of this training program, dedicating half of the new positions to tobacco research.
Heil, Sigmon, and Diann Gaalema, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, will lead the multi-site clinical trials at the core of the UVM TCORS.
According to Sigmon, "The multidisciplinary Vermont TCORS will provide the FDA with critically important scientific support essential to its regulatory responsibilities, new knowledge on reducing the addictiveness of tobacco products and associated adverse health consequences in vulnerable populations, and the next generation of well-prepared scientists to carry on this important public health mission."
The other 13 TCORS have been awarded to investigators at: American Heart Association, Dallas, Tx.; University of Maryland, College Park, Md.; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.; Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga.; University of California-San Francisco; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; Penn State University Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pa.; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif.; University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, Tx.; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
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Overview: (Please Read)
As many of you venture into a pervasive computing environment, it will not be long before
you will be faced with a situation where forensics will be needed. This is an upcoming, and
in my opinion, will be the hottest area of security. If youre one to chase the big bucks and
you want to stay in the technology track, then this is the route for you. Otherwise, go off
and write documentation for all of the new regulations. That too is hot and returning hefty salaries.
Im going to step you through the process of dissecting a malcode sample using tools and
techniques that are commonly used by forensic teams. Keep in mind that at the time of
this writing there are no set standards in forensics. This means that you may find other
forensic teams doing things differently but rest assured that the techniques Im about to
show you are used by the top minds in the discipline, including myself.
Throughout this tutorial, all operations will be done in a 6 gig Windows 2000 professional
VM environment. The OS is fully patched and there are no antivirus scanners or firewalls
running (A virgin installation). The VM does have network connectivity and the network it
sits on is VLANed into a network segment that only has internet access upon manual
activation. There are no routes to production or other lab environments. In other words, its
in complete isolation from areas where it could cause harm.
Typically you want to use a VM instance to conduct your initial testing of the code or any
other host that you can reformat or otherwise abuse for the purposes of analysis without
affecting production hosts/environments. I use VMs because when a problem crops up I
can simply regenerate a fresh image in seconds instead of hours if I had to do a fresh
install. The point here is to have a controlled throw away environment to conduct your
This tutorial is limited to one very small part of forensics. If this tutorial proves valuable
based on feedback, I will move on to other situations/techniques such as scraping data
from a hard drive to establish what users have done on the host including attempts to
remove traces of their activities, what disposable media was used on the host, etc.
Network forensics is another area I can touch on but would require me to write a book to be
One last thing. Because I dont want to attach images and such to the thread, Ive decided
to describe what I can without screenshots. I will insert text where I can but things should be relatively clear. If not, PM me
and I will put together a screen shot library for you.
Our Malcode: hax0r.exe
You find a piece of malcode on a host. No antivirus company knows what it is and you want
more information about it.
TIP: Norman Sandbox: http://sandbox.norman.no/live_4.html Is a place where
malcode is run in a sandbox and the results are returned to you. I use this for quick and
dirty analysis. All you do is upload a sample and it maps out what the malcode does. This
can be very helpful in a zero day scenario. As we will see, this method may not always
work for you.
Lets begin by doing a tool inventory. Whenever youre going to do an examination of code,
youre going to need a few base tools.
a) A good hex editor. I use OllyDbg (Free) or if you have a few thousand dollars, SoftICE will
be an excellent selection.
b) A Strings program. Strings.exe on Win32 is not native. Youll have to grab a third party
tool such as strings.exe (command line) or BinText (Win32 GUI). Both are free and do the
same thing.
c) A Win32 Portable EXE identifier. A key part of analysis will be to identify what packer was
used to compress an EXE. If you cannot identify the packer, youll be forced to actually run
the malcode to see what it does. This isnt necessarily a problem but for this tutorial, were
going to want to identify the packer. I use PEiD for identification. Again, a free tool found
here: http://peid.has.it/
d) Once we ID the packer, well need to unpack it. UnFSG and Procdump will be needed for
this case. Both are free.
e) A program to monitor changes to your environment. I use install watch pro. http://www.epsilonsquared.com/installwatch.htm
TIP: There are hundreds of PE packers out there. You may not always be able to unpack
them and will be forced to try to run the malcode to see what it does. For a list of PE
packers, see: http://www.exetools.com/compressors.htm. Note that the site also
has a bunch of unpackers as well. Depending upon successful identification of the packer,
you may be able to use one of them to unpack the malcode.
OK, so here we go.
1) Using strings.exe, I first determine if the exe is compressed with a Win32 packer. Typically, you will see
short bursts of 4 or so random characters and maybe a line or two of
text if it is packaged/encrypted. Once youve seen a few packaged exe files youll quickly be
able to tell when an exe is packaged or not. Even if you fail to do so, OllyDBG will throw a
warning up if it detects that the exe is packaged/encrypted.
First lets look at an example of a non packaged exe: sid2user.exe. This is totally random. I
chose it simply because I had it in the same folder as my strings executable.
As you can see, strings can be helpful in identifying potential help or avenues ofCode:c:\temp\strings.exe sid2user.exe string::outofrange Borland C++ - Copyright 19 Evgenii Rudnyi (C) All rig Chemistry Department, Mosc 119899 Moscow, Russia, htt email@example.com This utility is freeware a distribute it. Optionally, you may send me a bottle o Disclaimer of warranty: This utility is supplied a express or implied, includ merchantability and of fit no liability for damages d the use of this utility. The goal of the utility is sid2user [\\computer_name] where computer_name is opt sid2user 5 32 544 By default, the search sta could not allocate SID Name is Domain is Type of SID is SidTypeUser SidTypeGroup SidTypeDomain SidTypeAlias SidTypeWellKnownGroup SidTypeDeletedAccount SidTypeInvalid SidTypeUnknown LookupSidName failed - no <notype> **BCCxh1 __GetExceptDLLinfo Stack Overflow! Error 0 Invalid function number No such file or directory Path not found Too many open files Permission denied Bad file number C:\temp>
investigation against standard output statements. Notice lots of plain text and system error
And now, here is what a packaged exe looks like: hax0r.exe.
So as you can see, spotting a packaged exe is pretty easy. Now we have to figure out whatCode:c:\temp>strings.exe hax0r.exe .text .idata hvGz) f?m+1 $;9C8 K(~C, [k{XA0CI-tz n4?z+ QIY QP@XY =n p>+ Q1,$]Yu C:\temp>
the exe is packed with. Lets open hax0r.exe in PEiD and see what it has to say.
NOTE: This is where a screen shot would be nice but instead, I will give you simple steps to
Code:1) Open PEiD 2) Browse to the hax0r.exe file 3) Look at the bottom of the dialog box to see the packager. In our case, it shows FSG, which is a acronym for Fast, Simple, Good. There is other info returned about the file such as entry point, offset, first bytes, etc. These values are important but will not play heavily in this tutorial.
TIP: Evil mean haxors will repackage their malcode with different packers as soon as they
discover that anti virus companies have a signature out for it. It is not uncommon to see
the same malcode show up with 20 or 30 different hash values. This is done to beat AV
OK, so we now know that our hax0r.exe malcode is packed with FSG. It is useless to us
until we unpack it. This is where UnFSG comes in.
OK, so now we have a good unpacked copy right? Wrong. During the unpack, damage isCode:1) Open UnFSG 2) Select the file to UnFSG 3) Tell it where to write the file.
done to the PE headers and tables and we need to fix that before going forward. Procdump
will do this for you.
NOTE: There is a command line and GUI version of this tool. The commands vary slightly onCode:1) Open procdump 2) Select the file to fix 3) Select a place to write the file.
OK, we now have a unpacked malcode executable that we can run. OH NO! The malcode is
password protected. What ever will I do?
TIP: Sometimes malcode is password protected so that only the C&C master can run it.
This is the case in our example. Also, some malcode is very advanced and can detect when
its being run in a hex editor such as OllyDBG and will crash the system. Be aware of this
because its not your PC or software, its done by design of the malcode author.
OK folks, time to break open this malcode to find the embedded password. Incidentally, the
technique Im about to show you is close to that used when stripping license info out of
commercial software. Please dont abuse this knowledge.
Anyway, thats how you can easily discover passwords in any kind of password protectedCode:1) In the OllyDBG main window, select F9 or select debug-run from the main menu. 2) The malcode executes and we see a Enter password prompt at the command prompt. Since we know that Enter password was displayed, we can now go to the OllyDBG stack history window and search for this term. This window is in the bottom right of the display. 3) A reference to the string was found at 0x00304052A71. Double click this value and you be taken to this address in the main thread window. 4) Set a breakpoint (this is as much art as it is science at times) about ten lines below which is where it will break right before the password is entered. To do this simply right click the line and choose, set break point. It will then turn red. 5) Now, go to the command prompt and enter any old password. Ill enter dummy and press enter. 6) Press F7 a few times to step through some instructions. Keep an eye on the Examination of registers window in the top right side of the display. Soon you will see: EAX 0012FB6D ASCII j00arenotl33t ESI 0012FB8C ASCII dummy Examination of the registers have yielded the password comparison and shows that the password to the malcode is j00arenotl33t.
application. Be aware that malcode writers do not want you to do this so they will go to
great length to keep you from unpacking their malcode.
I now turn on a free application called install watch pro. This will trace everything that the
malcode does in my environment. To use this app, install it, open it and simply start
the record session process. Its a GUI tool and is VERY simple. Once you turn on the
record feature (which is simply a snapshot of the current system) you open the malcode
from within the install watch pro interface. I then records everything and exports it in
several formats for your enjoyment.
I now examine the output from install watch pro. I see several references in there that
execute netcat shell commands. BINGO.
OK, so what I see is that my malcode is a password protected NetCat shell that shovels a
terminal back to the attacker. This is a very simple example of a malcode payload. There
are many out there that obviously do much more complex things. This is for educational
purposes to get the mechanics down for performing the actual analysis.
Anyway, I hope you found this informative. Again, if feedback is good, I will do other
forensic tutorials. As always, comments good or bad are always welcome.


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The Relax-it
Added Aug 27, 2009
by ashchaser
Nashville, Tenne...
Last semester in my design class we were told for the final project that we had to create, develop, and market a product that serves two basic, yet unrelated purposes. At first my group planned on developing a rainjacket that turned into a pillow, yet after much research we decided to switch to a more fashion forward jacket that turned into a pillow, and after much pattern searching, fabric searching, getting 5 people to agree on something, and 2 days straight of myself and another girl sewing like madwomen, we had the RELAX-IT!
This jacket is chic, light, and still warm with its candy apple red color and houndstooth lining, reminiscent of fall, especially with the lights wooden buttons bordering the front and back bottom. The main focus of this product was to market to the on-the-go girl, whether that be on a flight, a road-trip, a weekend festival, or a chilly fall afternoon, wear it as a cute jacket and when you get tired just fold, fold, and flip it inside out! It was very easy to assemble, considering I had never made a jacket, lined anything, or worked with a serger, yet the end product was a hit!
Once our presentation on the Relax-it was underway, there were countless ooh's and aah's as we showed the versatility, style, and comfort that were all contained in this one piece, and thankfully there was an A in my future!
Material Notes
Outside of jacket is twill canvas, lined with cotton houndstooth. Pilllow constructed of yellow twill canvas, wooden buttons, and quilting fluff to give that extra plush feel.
Related Techniques
- For
- Women
- Garment Type
- Jacket/Blazer
- Style
- Casual, Classic, Evening Wear, Geek, Mod, Other
- Material
- Cotton, Other, Polyester
- Amy Yang
My other sewing partner.
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Nov 17, 2009, 08.58 PMby petitmoutonbleu
love the colours!!!!! absolutely fun!
Oct 23, 2009, 04.37 PMby strickmeise
It's great, I love that combination of red and black &white houndstooth!
Oct 14, 2009, 02.02 PMby mischi
Brilliant idea and beautiful finished project!
Sep 9, 2009, 09.34 PMby mmmcheeseburgers
amazing! what a perfect coat to have while traveling – or any day really
Sep 4, 2009, 04.54 AMby michelleiswell
FUN. Double fun. Cut, color, shape… very well thought out and constructed.
Sep 2, 2009, 06.19 PMby jwisdom
i want this.
Aug 31, 2009, 12.17 PMby bekaem
Yes, an A! if you hadn't got it already i'd write to your school now to make them give you one!
Aug 29, 2009, 12.07 AMby joboenvogue
The idea is fantastic (although quite out there!) but that's what fashion is all about. The red and houndstooth lining is divine.
Aug 28, 2009, 03.47 AMby enviouscupcake
this is very awesome!
Aug 28, 2009, 01.27 AMby calicocouture
Amazing! Not only is it a cute jacket, it's multi functional. =D I love it.
Aug 28, 2009, 12.24 AMby spontique
Please ignore "get it " in my previous.
Aug 28, 2009, 12.21 AMby spontique
Everything about this is happy. However, we all know how hard you two had to work to get it create this. Fantastic job.
Aug 28, 2009, 12.08 AMby marloncosta
Very cool jacked! Beautiful design plus dual functionality! Brilliant!!!
Aug 27, 2009, 11.37 PMby hstorm799
So very cool and unique! Will you be posting a pattern or a how-to?
Aug 27, 2009, 11.15 PMby just-fee
Wow! Amazing bit of sewing and how very innovative. Well done on something that has a dual function yet mantains a sense of style!!
Aug 27, 2009, 10.22 PMby pinup
bloody brilliant! gorgeous shape, love the contrast of the dogtooth with the red!
Aug 27, 2009, 10.18 PMby ink
Great job ladies! You should be proud! Very architectural. I love the colours and the cut!
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Another strong field anticipated for this weekend's Top Gun wrestling tournament.
No St. Paris Graham or Lakewood St. Edward at Alliance High School's 28th annual Top Gun Tournament?
No problem. Not when you have Clovis, Perry and Claymont in the field.
Clovis, the first California team to participate at Top Gun, is ranked fourth in the nation by InterMatwrestle.com's Josh Lowe. That's one rung higher than Graham, which dominated at Top Gun for six years before leaving after 2012. Clovis boasts the nation's No. 1 heavyweight in Nick Nevills, a Penn State recruit.
Then there is Perry and Claymont. Claymont edged Perry for the title at Top Gun in 2013. But the Panthers, ranked eighth nationally by InterMat, already have defeated both 28th-ranked Claymont and 21st-ranked St. Edward to win the Medina Invitational Tournament.
Not that Federal League teams Lake, Hoover and Jackson are going into Top Gun intimidated. The Polar Bears recently wrestled both Perry and Blair Academy, the nation's best team. Both Hoover and Lake have wrestled the Mustangs and Panthers.
"We saw Perry and Claymont at the (Medina Invitational Tournament)," Hoover first-year coach Nick Gamble said.
"Our kids have seen those guys; they wrestled with them."
What Gamble would like to see this weekend is a Vikings wrestler step up on the big stage. Last year, it was senior heavyweight Jim Hammontree, who banged his way into the finals.
"You want them to beat somebody they are not supposed to beat," Gamble said. "Every year going in, there's a guy that's not supposed to get beat. They have a chance to make a name for themselves."
At 15th and 16th, respectively, at Medina last month, Hoover and Jackson were well back of the Panthers and runner-up Mustangs. But at last year's Top Gun, the Vikings had six placers and were seventh as a team, a spot behind Lake, which had four placers.
The Blue Streaks, who wrestled Hoover on Thursday night, are coming off Saturday's 40-31 dual loss to Claymont in which the teams split 14 matches.
"With them, Perry and Clovis, it's a tough field," Lake coach Mike Mattingly said. "We'd like to be in there right behind them, or maybe let them beat each other up and slip in ahead of someone.
"But we just want our kids to try and improve. They're not afraid to work hard. If you win some matches at Top Gun, it's good because you are going to run into some of these upper-level guys down the road at district and state."
There will be plenty of those guys on the mats.
With seven nationally-ranked wrestlers and three nationally-ranked teams, the Top Gun is as stacked as ever with talent.
Perry brings three nationally-ranked wrestlers to Alliance, and Claymont has two. For the Panthers, 2012 state champion Jose Rodriguez is third at 113, Casey Sparkman 14th in the 152 class and Tony Dailey is 13th at 160.
Dailey won the 152 championship at Top Gun last year.
Claymont's ranked wrestlers are lightweights Tyler Warner and Dustin Warner. Tyler Warner is second at 106. He won an individual state championship as a freshman last year, though he finished second at Top Gun.
Dustin Warner is ranked 12th at 113, where he is the tournament's defending champion. Seniors Cody Burcher (126) and Matt Dennis (170) also won Top Gun titles last year.


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and Time of Meeting
Notice is Hereby Given That:
- Documentation used in determining the District's appropriations limit for the fiscal year July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013 will be available for public review on and after May 21, 2012 at the Office of the District Secretary, Twenty-third Floor, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, California.
- At its regularly scheduled meeting on Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. in the Board Room, 344-20th Street, Third floor, Oakland, CA 94612, the Board of Directors will address the District's appropriations limit for fiscal year 2012. Any person may appear thereat and be heard regarding this matter.
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The activites below took place during the Winter 2002 semester as part of a joint program
between the Math Club @ WMU and the mathematics honors society Pi Mu Epsilon.
Unless otherwise stated, events were held in the Alavi Commons Room on the 6th floor of Everett Tower.
Our chapter was established in 1988. Before a chapter can be established at an institution,
the PME National Council requires clear evidence of an ongoing history of student mathematical activity outside the classroom,
and adequate support for these activities.
We were the fifth chapter to be established in Michigan,
and hence were assigned the fifth letter of Greek alphabet: epsilon.
Thus, our official name is:
The Michigan Epsilon Chapter
of Pi Mu Epsilon
Some information about previous semesters is incomplete. We ask anyone with photos, documents, or details about
missing events to inform us using our Contact Information.