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smashedapples brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 85 Designs von 27 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
RemoteBucket is a service that helps Adobe Flex Developers integrate emerging cloud based services. Our initial focus will be on integrating Amazon Web Services with Adobe Flex but will expand rapidly after our initial launch.
Our target audience is Adobe Flex Developers who want to quickly and easily integrate cloud based services into their applications.
We want to take the mystery out of cloud server deployments so that Flex Builders can focus on building their applications instead of managing cloud servers.
We're open to any appropriate themes and colors that convey in one glance that we're a company that Adobe Flex Builders use to integrate cloud based services into their applications.
Requirements : 1) Logo - must include RemoteBucket or RB. 2) PSD 3) Complimentary color pallette 4) Name of any fonts used in the logo.
Logo will be used to help market and brand our service for example our website, business cards, twitter profile etc, so subsequent psd must be scalable to a point.
Our name stems from 2 things
1) The popular Amazon AWS S3 "Buckets"
2) The Flex "Remote" Object tag used by flex developers to connect to server side services.
If you want to make variations on the popular Adobe CS3 Application logos we're ok with that as long as the logo doesn't violate any copyrights, obviously. We've talked about ways to piggy back CS3 application logos success w/o legal issues.
Keywords and themes: cloud based services, adobe flex applications, cloud-flex integration. Plug n play.
Our services will primarily be implemented in Adobe's MXML language so variations of <RemoteBucket/> or <RB/> would be instantly recognizable by our target audience. Instead of the hard < /> tags perhaps cloud themed alternatives? The cloud meme has been mined heavily across the internet so be careful not to make it cliche.
We're nice so please contact us for any help and Good Luck!
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Come and join our friendly and sociable sewing session. This is not a tutored session, so you will need to bring along something to work on. You are welcome to bring either hand or machine sewing, dressmaking, accessories or patchwork. Bring your own machine, or hire one of ours for £5.00.
Advance booking is not essential. You are welcome to just call in on the day.
There is some very limited parking available on site.
Tea, coffee, soft drinks and homemade cake are included. If you have any special dietary needs, please let us know, and we will do our very best to accommodate you.

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The floodgates were opened at the top of the UFC middleweight division last night after Anderson Silva stated his focus was no longer on the title he'd lost moments earlier to Chris Weidman. Without the perennial favorite in the picture, hope has been renewed for plenty of other fighters including Michael Bisping.
Bisping, who has come close to challenging for the championship before but never had an actual title-shot, went on Twitter last night and wasted no time in calling Weidman out.
"So you're the champ," wrote Bisping. "Defend it, fight me!"
Though Vitor Belfort is almost certainly up next for Weidman barring a change in heart from Silva, "The Count" could lay claim to the opportunity with a big win in his next bout. Bisping is currently shelved while recovering from a few injuries but is aiming for a match-up in Manchester later this year. He holds an overall record of 24-5 and was last seen scoring a decision win over Alan Belcher at UFC 159.


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On DZone.com there's a recent post from Evert Pot talking about some guidelines for generating XML including a brief PHP example.
Over the last little while I've come across quite a few XML feed generators written in PHP, with varying degrees of 'correctness'. Even though generating XML should be very simple, there's still quite a bit of pitfalls I feel every PHP or (insert your language)-developer should know about.
His suggestions for better XML include:
- You are better off using an XML library (like xmlwriter)
- Understand Unicode
- CDATA is never a solution
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leilasophie needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 59 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
Profession Obsessions- company name, do not print on design
I am a general dentist with a company to sell dental career related gifts. I need your help to get my ideas into an image.I would like the images to be original.
My target audience for this project is anyone in the dental profession but mainly I'd like the designs to be printed on a mug and given as a gift to administrative staff. I am picturing them on the desks of the receptionist at a dental office.
I am looking for:
a design that wraps around a mug that shows the four seasons (spring, summer, fall, winter) somehow all tied together with a tooth theme in there.
please use original images.
I would have to see the designs but I like fun cartoony design or a more elegant design. I am open to either.
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Friendly's owner Brian Myers says there was never any question he would rebuild after the fire that gutted his Middletown franchise last summer.
Friendly's owner Brian Myers says there was never any question he would rebuild after the fire that gutted his Middletown franchise last summer.
"We received a tremendous outpouring of support from the community and we really can't thank them enough," he said this week. "Now, we're just anxious to renew those relationships with the people we haven't seen in a while."
Myers will get his first opportunity to do just that when Friendly's officially re-opens for business at 7 a.m. on April 15, almost eight years to the day after the restaurant first opened in the Dove Run shopping center off East Main Street.
The 4,600-square-foot restaurant, which had to be completely rebuilt after the June 27 blaze, features a whole new décor unique to any Friendly's outside of New England.
"I've been working in Friendly's my whole life and this is the nicest looking one I've ever seen," said Myers, a New Jersey resident, who got his start as a 17-year-old dishwasher and today owns all six franchises in New Castle County. "Only 10 other Friendly's in the country have this interior package and it's the first one like this to be built from the ground up."
The re-opened Friendly's also will feature several new menu items unique to Middletown, including a Philly Cheesesteak, three types of 9" Slinky Dogs and fish tacos.
General manager Mike Myers, Brian's cousin, said the rebuilt franchise also will employee 95 people, nearly twice the 53 who worked at the restaurant before the fire.
"We have eight additional seats now and with the re-opening, we're hoping to be busier than what they were before," the Middletown resident said. "About 25 employees who worked for us before the fire and transferred to other Friendly's during the rebuilding will be coming back. We would have brought back all 53, but a lot of our staff went off to college or ended up getting other jobs."
Both men said they are still thankful their assistant manager Dominic Rice had the presence of mind to evacuate the four employees and six customers who were in the restaurant when the fire broke out last summer.
According to the state fire marshal's office, the blaze began about 3:30 p.m. when someone discarded a lit cigarette into the mulch outside the restaurant, sparking a fire that quickly spread up the southern side of the building before engulfing the entire restaurant.
"The biggest blessing was that no one was hurt," Mike Myers said. "But we were also very thankful in the aftermath to find out from people just how much a part of the community we had become."


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Held at US Sailing Center Miami, Coconut Grove Sailing Club, Miami Rowing Club and Shake-A-Leg, hundreds of sailors will kick start their Rio 2016 Olympic ambitions.
ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami will see the Nacra 17 make its first international appearance at a major regatta and seven teams have registered to sail the new mixed multihull.
The Nacra 17 entrants feature some exciting young talent coming through the ranks as well as experienced campaigners. Puerto Rican multihull legend Enrique Figueroa is the most experienced sailor in the fleet with an Olympic career that goes back to Seoul 1988 where he finished 13th. Further Olympic appearances came at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 and now, he's back.
Hopping on board with Figueroa is his wife, Carla Malatrasi and the pair will be aiming for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. "Even though the sport of sailing is a lot of fun, an Olympic campaign is serious business," said Figueroa. "Once you start racing the focus changes from easy going sailing to full regatta mode and that is when the tension begins.
"We have been sailing together since 1993; there is always tension when you race specially among couples. At high level regattas maybe a little more tension than usual but with so many years under our belts we have learned to separate the racing part from the couple's part. At the moment we are taking it one day at a time and trying to enjoy ourselves as much as we can."
The talented couple won Hobie 16 gold together at the 1994 IYRU World Sailing Championship in La Rochelle, France and have experience and know-how that cannot be matched in the fleet. With a new boat to play with Figueroa is enjoying the task at hand, "We have only sailed the boat for a few hours last weekend but had a great time. Learning the boat and developing team work on new equipment is always a challenge. Different controls on the boat, curved foils, weight distribution, etc are among the more challenging aspects of the new Olympic catamaran."
Among the Puerto Ricans competitors will be Canada's Luke Ramsey, who sailed in the Men's 470 at London 2012, and Nikola Girke, who jumps from the Women's RS:X into the multihull.
Young Americans Taylor Reiss and Matthew Whitehead sailed the SL16 together at the 2011 ISAF Youth Worlds in Zadar, Croatia finishing sixth and have made the jump up to the Nacra 17. Reiss will be sailing with Sarah Lihan, who represented USA in the Women's 470 at London 2012 whilst Whitehead will sail with 17-year-old Sarah Streater.
Other teams include former Women's Match Racer Elizabeth Kratzig Burnham who joins Jonathan Farrar (USA), Lindsay and Dalton Bergan (USA) and Sarah Newberry and John Casey (USA).
London 2012 Olympic Games Men's RS:X gold medallist Dorian Van Rijsselberge (NED) will be the favourite to take gold in the fleet of 22 in Miami. Just six months ago the Dutchman blitzed the Men's RS:X fleet on the Weymouth and Portland waters and looked unstoppable. After a short break van Rijsselberge is excited to get back into the swing of things, "Miami is a nice event to start the next four years. It has been in my calendar for years so it is good to come back and compete. My aim is to have a fun regatta with my friends after having not competed for half year."
Olympic experience features heavily in the fleet with the likes of Ricardo Santos (BRA), Zachary Plavsic (CAN), Ivan Pastor (ESP), David Mier y Teran (MEX) and Sebastian Wang-Hansen (NOR) all hopeful of closing the gap.
2012 Kona World Champion Adam Holm (SWE) and 2010 Youth Olympic Games silver medallist Michael Cheng (HKG), who both competed at the 2011 ISAF Youth Worlds, join the senior circuit and they will be aiming to impress.
Finland's Tuuli Petäjä recently won the Finnish athlete of the year award after her epic performance at London 2012 which saw her take a shock silver medal in the Women's RS:X fleet. Petaja will swap the gown for the wet suit in Miami as the Olympic cycle gets going once again. Joining her in the fleet is Olympic gold medallist Marina Alabau (ESP), 2010 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Blanca Manchon (ESP) and Bryony Shaw (GBR). All will be capable of mixing it up at the top.
Fresh from their victories at the 470 North American Championships Austria's Matthias Schmid and Florian Reichsteaedter and Lara Vadlau and Jolanta Ogar will compete in the Men's and Women's fleet at ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami.
Both crews took a stranglehold of the competition over the weekend on the same waters so will be familiar with their surroundings.
Out to go for gold in the Men's fleet are Canadian brothers Jacob and Graeme Chaplin-Saunders. The partnership got going in January 2011 with the ultimate goal of reaching Rio de Janeiro in 2016. London 2012 Olympian Stu Mcnay is set to team up with the experienced David Hughes which will make for a fantastic week of competition in the 11-boat fleet.
A strong Chinese contingent, including London 2012 Olympians Xiaoli Wang and Xufeng Huang, will test the Austrians in the Women's 470. Brazil will also be well represented with Fernanda Olivera and Ana Luiz Barbachan continuing their partnership and Renata Decnop and Isabel Swan teaming up for the first time.
With strong entry lists in the Laser, Laser Radial, 49er, 49erFX and Finn, it will be an exciting week of competition that gets underway on Monday 28 January with the Medal Races bringing the regatta to a close on 2 February.
View the full entry list here.
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It features the latest news and events from the sailing world together with features and info in an easy-to-use format.
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Jack Evans completed his third term as interim dean at UNC Kenan-Flagler on Jan. 31, 2014.
He joined UNC as an operations management professor in 1970, and was the Phillip Hettleman Professor of Operations when he retired from UNC Kenan-Flagler in 2010.
His teaching and research involved using analytical approaches to solve business decision problems and applying process improvement principles in product and service contexts. He was an examiner and senior examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award from 1989-93, and a judge from 1993-96. He served on the board of overseers for the Baldrige Award from 2001-03, and as chair for the last two years of that term.
Dr. Evans served as dean of UNC Kenan-Flagler from 1979-87. He was president of AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, and chaired a two-year project to redesign its accreditation process for business schools.
He served as executive director of Carolina North, coordinating the planning of this research campus for UNC-Chapel Hill, from 2006-2010; as UNC's interim vice chancellor for finance and administration from 1999-2000; and as UNC's faculty representative to the NCAA and Atlantic Coast Conference for 15 years.
Dr. Evans received the Hugh & Jane McColl Faculty Development Award in 1991 and the Roy W. Holsten Distinguished Service Award in 1996 from UNC Kenan-Flagler; the C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award in 2002, which recognizes unusual, meritorious or superior contributions by University staff; the General Alumni Association Faculty Service Award in 2005; the UNC Jefferson Award in 2010; and the UNC Kenan-Flagler Leadership Award in 2012.
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1. "Quite a scene". It's difficult without knowing a bit more of the context, but I would say that it means that the show was very spectacular, with bright lights, colourful costumes, and so on.
2. To try to "wrap the issue in the flag of China" is to try to involve Chinese national interests in the question. In other words, the supporters are saying that shark's fin soup is a Chinese national dish, and banning it would be a great blow to the interests and prestige of the country. It is regarded as being a rather unfair tactic in any debate.
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Munter Mule Combination Hitch TyingPass the rope into the carabiner. Twist the rope above into a loop and hook it onto the carabiner to take the load. Create two loops and then, around the climbing rope, tie a slip knot leaving a long loop. Use it to tie a Half Hitch to secure the knot.
Munter Mule Combination Hitch Details
The Munter: The Munter Hitch - (the Italian Hitch), 1 - 6 in the animation, allows controlled descent when rappelling (abseiling). The climbing rope passes through a locking carabiner, round the rope, and back through the carabiner. For controlled descent, the brake hand need only apply relatively little force on the free end.
The Mule: The Mule Hitch, 7 - 11 in the animation, is used to secure the Munter. Using a bight of the rope, a Slip Knot followed by a Half Hitch is tied around the standing end. This final Half Hitch is essential because the weight of the hanging rope might otherwise easily undo the Slip Knot. When loaded, the Mule knot tends to slide down tight against the Munter and can be somewhat difficult to undo.
Requirements: Use a carabiner large enough to allow the hitch to be inverted through the carabiner when pulled. The load end should pass first round the spine side (not the opening side) of the carabiner. Then during descent, the rope will not chafe against the lock with the risk of opening it.
Using Thin Rope: In an emergency, modern, high strength, thin rope can be used for the Munter. Additional turns should then be taken round the spine of the carabiner to reduce the strain as shown here. These extra turns are not necessary with 11mm climbing rope.
Advantages: The greatest advantage of the Munter is that it can be used with minimum equipment – just a locking carabiner.
Disadvantages: The Munter kinks the rope, imparts a twist to it during descent, and also makes the rope fuzzy if used often.
Alternatives for Tying-Off: These two pictures show two of the alternative methods for tying-off the Munter: Two Half Hitches, and the Overhand Knot.
The animation used the mule with a half hitch but the Overhand Knot is more common. Some climbers use three half hitches in preference to two.
Control Heavy Load Descent with Super Munter: When lowering a heavy load, an extra turn can be added to make the Super Munter. The added turn through the carabiner provides extra friction and, as a side benefit, prevents twisting of the rope.
Disclaimer: Any activity that involves ropes is potentially hazardous. Lives may be at risk - possibly your own. Considerable attention and effort have been made to ensure that these descriptions are accurate. However, many critical factors cannot be controlled, including: the choice of materials; the age, size, and condition of ropes; and the accuracy with which these descriptions have been followed. No responsibility is accepted for incidents arising from the use of this material.


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Inside ICRISAT's Seed Banks & Test Fields, Research Is Changing Farmers' Lives
Deep inside the ICRISAT campus just outside Hyderabad, there are two sub-zero rooms that house the seeds of 120,000 plants from over 100 countries and 120,000 chances to change poor farmers' lives. The rows of plastic containers and freeze-dried metallic packages resemble a huge and very cold medicine cabinet.
These seed banks, or genebanks, hold the keys to growing more productive, hardier, healthier food crops that could help feed the 9 billion people who will be living on Earth by 2050. Scientists use the collection to map characteristics that enable individual plants to withstand water shortages, pests, and disease, or increase yields and nutrient levels. Over 800 improved crop varieties have been developed from this seed bank and now grow in 79 countries.
ICRISAT is the international crop research institute for the semi-arid tropics and one of 15 CGIAR research centers. Scientist here work on sorghum, millet, chickpeas, pigeon peas, and ground nuts - the food crops that smallholder farmers from the driest parts of the world depend on for their survival.
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Here you will find the best of what Scandinavian design has to offer - everything from contemporary home decor to real classic and all time favourites from renowned Scandinavian designers. Choose from thousands of products from famous Scandinavian design brands including Georg Jensen, Ferm Living, Marimekko, Muuto, String furniture, Bloomingville and many more. At Scandinavian Design Center you can buy everything from carpets & rugs, lighting and Scandinavian design furniture to home accessories, wallpapers and the iconic Moomin mugs. Our assortment of products quite simply captures the very best of Scandi design.


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This week we're having to break out an Oscar Meyer eight-pack of Green Weenies to give away. First, the Keystone (Pipeline) Kops have attracted the notice of New York Times columnist Joe Nocera, who writes the following this week in "How Not To Solve Climate Change":
In fact, this should be a no-brainer for the president, for all the reasons I stated earlier, and one more: the strategy of activists like McKibben, Brune and Hansen, who have made the Keystone pipeline their line in the sand, is utterly boneheaded. . .
As Adam Brandt, an energy expert at Stanford University, pointed out to me recently, so long as the demand is there, energy producers are going to search for new supplies of fossil fuel — many of them using unconventional means like tar sands extraction. "With growing global demand, the economic pressure to develop unconventional resources is enormous and not going away," he said. "Can environmental groups expect to win a series of fights for decades to come, when the economic forces are aligned very strongly against them in each round?" The answer is obvious: no.
Second, anyone remember the bit in the Climategate emails scandal of 2009 about how scientists talked of keeping skeptics and dissidents out of peer reviewed journals, "even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is," as East Anglia ringleader Phil ("hide the decline") Jones put it? Well, it seems the editors of the journal Global Environmental Change are doing just that, bouncing Roger Pielke Jr. off its editorial board only halfway through his supposedly fixed term on the journal's masthead. What did Roger do to deserve this special attention? He had the temerity to criticize an article that had appeared in the journal recently. (The article he criticized is a real doozy, too.) So when the climateers say that skeptics (which Roger isn't, I always hasten to add—he just calls BS on sloppy and unfounded claims by the climateers, which they hate worse than skepticism) don't appear in peer-reviewed journals, we have one more bit of evidence how they assure this result. Roger is typically phlegmatic in his commentary:
I am of course happy to make way for other scientists to "gain the experience of editorial duties." However, if my critique of a GEC paper is in any way related to my removal from the editorial board, then the message being sent to those other scientists is pretty chilling. For my part, I value my academic freedom to offer critique as I see things far more than being allowed into certain clubs.
Finally, kudos to Lynn Dicks, an environmental researcher at Cambridge University, who writes in Nature this week to note how testimony she had given to a Parliamentary inquiry about the advisability of banning several insecticides might affect the decline in bee populations was distorted by—wait for it—the media:
The assertion that a ban on neonicotinoids in Europe will save bees from extinction is absurd. There are bee species around the world in genuine danger of extinction, such as the once-common rusty-patched bumblebee in the United States, which has vanished from 87% of its historic range since the early 1990s. Diseases, rather than pesticides, are suspected of driving that decline. And although there have been dramatic falls in the numbers of managed honey bee Apis mellifera colonies in some countries, it remains a widespread and common bee, not in imminent danger of extinction.
Well-meaning exaggeration is common. The Guardian, a pro-environment British newspaper, mangled my parliamentary evidence on moths and beetles to claim that three-quarters of all UK pollinator species, including bees, were in severe decline. . . As a scientist involved in this debate, I find this misinformation deeply frustrating.
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[Please note that the air order of the 7th (airs 11/29) and 8th (airs 12/6) episodes have swapped.]
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Season Eight - Episode Descriptions
Episode 7 - "Frank's Back in Business" (Airs November 29, 10:00 pm e/p) - With Charlie under his wing, Frank cleans up so he can get his hands dirty and help out his old company with one last big merger. While an unwritten rule of the bar gets the rest of the gang caught up in a case of mistaken identity. Written by Dave Chernin & John Chernin; directed by Richie Keen.


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Robert Fisk has surfaced just in time to render judgment on the election in Iraq: "What a bloody charade." The column reads like an over the top parody of the British journo who gave his name to the phenomenon of "fisking."
Fisk sees the Iraq election as a "fantasy" (why?), notes that the terrorists have not been defeated yet (though Fisk's reference to the "occupiers" suggests he supports them), and bizarrely summons the ghost of Vietnam:
The reality is that much of Iraq has become a free-fire zone (for reference, see under "Vietnam") and the Americans are conducting this secret war as efficiently and as ruthlessly as they conducted their earlier bombing campaign against Iraq between 1991 and 2003, an air raid a day, or two raids, or three. Then they were attacking Hussein's "military targets" in Iraq.
Fisk appears to have recovered fully from the famous beating he took in 2001. His column memorializing that event is "My beating by refugees is a symbol of the hatred and fury of this filthy war." That "filthy war" was of course the war that liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban. Fisk wrote regarding his beating:
I couldn't see for the blood pouring down my forehead and swamping my eyes. And even then, I understood. I couldn't blame them for what they were doing. In fact, if I were the Afghan refugees of Kila Abdullah, close to the Afghan-Pakistan border, I would have done just the same to Robert Fisk. Or any other Westerner I could find.
Is it wrong to wonder if Fisk might enjoy another such opportunity to express solidarity with his victimizers before he leaves Baghdad?


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Christina Repoley needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 44 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
Quaker Voluntary Service
We are a faith based (Quaker) nonprofit organization. We are a national network that provides young adults with service opportunities in areas of peace and social justice such as working to combat poverty, work with the homeless, education and anti-racism.
This is our organization's Vision Statement:
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Quaker Voluntary Service (QVS) fosters dynamic relationships of service, witness, and worship in a living Quaker faith. In a world oppressed by the powers of violence, domination, exclusion and fear, QVS empowers transformative partnerships in the work of liberation and justice. We seek to be a vessel for the renewal and transformation of relationships with God and with one another. We are called to wrestle, labor, and delight in our blessed diversity, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
People who are young, progressive, spiritual, social justice oriented.
We would be interested in a symbol like a helping hand, a house signifying community, a candle/light imagery, olive branch, etc (definitely not a cross). Quaker distinctive values include simplicity, peace, equality, and community and a logo reflecting any or all of those would be great.
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2010 Olympic Hockey Rosters
Didn't do them all, but here are the major ones (Canada, Russia, USA, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sweden)… if anyone sees reason to add a roster or two, let me know and I'll put them up. If anyone notes any changes, please let me know so I can update this.
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by Sue Ann Rybak
Lakshmi Atchison, a biology professor at Chestnut Hill College, believes in giving her students an "ah-ha" moment.
Atchison, who teaches a Biology of Cancer class, is in the process of obtaining a patent for a cancer cell model she designed.
"It all started with my passion for teaching," Atchison said. "Not only do I like to do a classroom lecture, I like to do a kind of show-and tell. I have to show my students. My approach is always very simple and yet it is a powerful message."
The students couldn't see the difference between normal red blood cells and different types of cancer cells under the microscope. Their response, according to Atchison, was always the same "this microscope doesn't work or there is nothing on the slide."
"I lost sleep," Atchison said. "I said I have to show them a model because seeing is believing."
But there were no red blood cell models, white blood cell models or cancer cell models. So, she went to Michael's craft store and bought colored glass beads in a variety of shapes and sizes and put them on a petri dish.
"Immediately students looked at it and said 'ah-ha,'" Atchison said. "Students went gaga over the model."
Currently, Atchison's cell model is being used to teach students on a national level.
"No one has done it," she said.
Atchison went to John Hopkins to visit the chief of hematology.
"He said in all my practice I have never seen a blood cell model," Atchison said. "So, people encouraged me to get a patent on it."
Atchison also recently published a booklet entitled "Eight Cancers That Can Affect College Age Students." Atchison also published a textbook about cancer biology and a cell and cancer laboratory manual several years ago because none existed.
"Atchison's approach is more about cancer awareness and having the information," said Lisa Mixon, media relations manager at Chestnut Hill College. "Many foundations and organizations use fear tactics to educate people about cancer. She wants people to say 'I can change this. I can make a difference.'"
"Leukemia is something that effects all ages – babies, teenagers and adults," Atchison said. "Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. It strikes one out of every three people. Cancer doesn't discriminate whether you are young or old, professor or student, doctor or patient."
Atchison hopes through education and cancer awareness to help prevent cancer and reduce the cancer burden on this country.
"About 1,500 people die per day from cancer," Atchison said. "It's a staggering number. Prevention is the best medicine."
Atchison's booklet uses acronyms to teach students helpful tips on preventing various types of cancer, such as Melanoma. Remember DRUM
- Don't sunbathe.
- Rays are harmful.
- Use sunscreen lotion.
- Melanoma is deadly.
Atchison said all freshmen entering college should know the eight cancers that can affect college age students: lung, leukemia, lymphoma, skin/melanoma, brain, testicular, and uterine and cervical.
"You can't tell a 80-year-old to stop smoking – it's too late," she added. "Many students think of cancer as a disease of the old – cancer affects everyone."
Next year Chestnut Hill College hopes to incorporate Atchison's booklet "Eight Cancers That Can Affect College Age Students" into its freshman seminar program.
"The booklet is simple but the information is very powerful," Atchison said.
Nicole Fernandes, a senior molecular biology major said Atchison created the Biology of Cancer course because there weren't any specific classes that teach about cancer. Fernandes said cancer affects one in three women and one in two men in the United States.
"She makes you understand how important it is to eat your vegetables," Fernandes said.
Fernandes said Atchison uses a variety of visual aids to guide students to that "ah-ha" moment.
"For instance for colon cancer, she showed us how Katie Couric went through the screening colonoscopy to check for polyps," Fernandes said. "Cancer is a really scary subject, but understanding the procedure and the techniques used to prevent cancer can help alleviate some of that fear."
Another way Atchison educates her students is by providing opportunities for them to speak to a professional in the field.
"One of her favorite things to do is to bring in an alumna of Chestnut Hill College to speak to her students," Fernandes said. "Right now, science is growing at such a rapid rate that our textbooks from last year are obsolete already. The experts working in the field are the ones who know what is going on in the profession now."
Fernandes said Atchison is a successful teacher because she really loves her students and has a passion for teaching.
Atchison said that to be a successful teacher, "you have to have the four P's – passion, patience, politeness and the power of knowledge."


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The game of poker is a family of card games which shares the
same betting systems and rules. There are three main variants but
all share the same patterns of essential game play. Poker rules are
really quite easy to understand and the basics can be picked up by
anyone in a short space of time.
Poker involves a group of players sitting around the poker table
with a certain amount of chips to place their bets. One player will
deal the cards to each player in turn and the game moves in a
clockwise rotation. If the game has forced bets involved, then the
first two players to the left of the dealer will place big blind
and small blind bets. These are compulsory poker rules bets which
grow larger as the game progresses.
The third player to the dealer's left will then start the betting
and it is up to the following players to call the bet. When a
player does call the bet he is simply matching the bet placed. The
player can also raise the initial bet and this has to be matched by
all the following players unless they fold. Play will then continue
as long as there are two players willing to carry on placing bets,
even when all the cards are dealt. The game will end when all
players call the bet and then the cards will be shown and the
winning hand will take the pot.
As you can see, poker rules are really quite straightforward in as
much as the cards are dealt and each player places a bet which is
either matched or raised by the other players. The option to fold
at any time is the poker player's prerogative, but any bets placed
before the fold will remain in the pot for the winner to take.
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Introduction to Our Center :
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a grant to Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers University to support a Center of Excellence focused on the development of new and improved medical countermeasures against high priority chemical threats. This Center is focusing on developing drugs to treat vesicant poisoning. Although vesicants have been studied for more than 80 years, the mechanisms mediating their actions remain unknown; moreover, to date, there are no effective medical countermeasures for exposure to these chemicals.
In collaborative studies with MRIGlobal and Battelle Memorial Institute, members of the Center have identified lead compounds against vesicants which are being optimized for IND-enabling studies. Studies are in progress evaluating the efficacy of these potential countermeasures in model systems. New drug formulations and methods of drug delivery are being optimized. In addition, Research and Development Projects are underway to identify specific mechanisms of action of these compounds and potential new targets for therapeutic intervention in three major vesicant targets: the eye, the skin and the lung. Investigators on these projects work closely with a Pharmacology and Drug Development Core and a Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutics Core with considerable expertise in drug development, providing insights to facilitate the development of countermeasures.
The research laboratories of each Core group are members of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), a facility jointly sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University. An active Training and Education Program directed at health care providers at Rutgers University, Rutgers University School of Public Health, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, The School of Health Sciences and Practice at New York Medical College and the Health Sciences Program at Lehigh University has been established.
The principal investigators include Dr. Jeffrey Laskin as the overall director of the Center; Dr. Donald Gerecke at Rutgers as co-director of the Center; Drs. Marion Gordon, Debra Laskin, and Patrick Sinko, also at Rutgers; Dr. Diane Heck at New York Medical College, Dr. Joshua Gray at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and Dr. Ned Heindel at Lehigh University. Investigators at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers are members of the Environmental Occupational and Health Sciences Institute.
Goals of the Counter Act Program:
Evaluate Higher Priority Chemical Threats
- Neurotoxic agents such as organophosphorus nerve "gases"
- Vesicating agents such as sulfur mustard
- Pulmonary agents such as chlorine gas
- Metabolic/cellular poisons such as cyanide
Scope of Research
- Mechanistic research to identify targets for therapeutic/diagnostic development
- Development of invitro and animal models for efficacy screening of therapeutics and diagnostic tools
- Efficacy screening of therapeutics/diagnostics using new and validated in vitro and animal models that are appropriate
- Advanced efficacy studies with appropriate animal models including non-human primates using Good Laboratory Practices (cGLP)
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Prison chaplain Robert Coogan, right, an American priest based in northern Mexico, accused Mexican security forces of committing sacrilege after they tore apart his chapel during a raid on Jan. 24. • Pope Benedict XVI warned U.S. bishops during their ad limina visit to Rome on Jan. 19 that "radical secularism" threatens the core values of U.S. culture. • Catholic Healthcare West announced a restructuring on Jan. 23 that will transform the hospital chain into Dignity Health, no longer an official ministry of the Catholic Church but "rooted in the Catholic tradition." • Bible League International is distributing thumbnail-sized microchips that contain entire theological libraries to Christians around the world who are persecuted for their faith. • Former Archbishop Robert F. Sanchez, a pioneer in Hispanic ministry who resigned in disgrace when several women accused him of having abused them as adults, died on Jan. 20 at age 77. • "They are destroying the hope of a united Nigeria," said Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Jos, referring to Boko Haram extremists after deadly attacks in the city of Kano on Jan. 20. • On Jan. 22 Archbishop José Guadalupe Martín Rabago of León called on organized crime groups to observe a cease-fire during Pope Benedict's March visit to Mexico.
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A College is an institution that offers post-secondary education through a range of degree or vocational programs. Although there are distinctions between the two, the term College in the United States is typically used to refer to both Colleges and Universities. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports that there are more than 4,700 post-secondary degree-granting institutions in the U.S.
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nucite needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 288 designs submitted by 47 freelance designers.
Please check the thread below for updates...
Bar.com is going through a major platform shift and will soon become your favorite destination for figuring out which bar or night club to head out to for the night. We are completely open to all suggestions, but this logo should be a fun yet professional design.
Bar.com is going through a major platform shift and aims to become your favorite site fr figuring out which bar or night club to attend within your home town. We are completely open to all suggestions, but it should be a fun yet professional design.
The logo should read 'Bar.com' and convey a message that it's all about helping people find the best place on any given night to head out for a drink with friends.
The design should be very eye catching, but not too "busy." Please read the wants and don't wants carefully. Also, please check the main contest thread for links to some of my favorite logos.
My favorite designs are those that incorporate a fun idea WITHIN the lettering of the logo. However, an awesome icon can do a great job of getting the point across too. So throw your best out here and we'll see what sticks.
IMPORTANT NOTE: We realize that many of the designers are trying to get their name out to the masses. Therefore, we will be making an offer to the winner of this contest. If you would like to give up your contest prize money, we will instead provide you or your company with credit for designing our logo within the Bar.com web site. Along with that, we would be happy to link to your web site (upon approval). This is by no means a requirement for this contest, but we want to provide designers this option. If you have any questions about this option, please ask them in the public thread for the contest.
- Crisp, clean design.
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- Out-of-the-box designs. We're searching for a true gem here.
- Vector-design. We will need all source files in all major formats. We need to hold the ability to alter colors at will and provide additional formatting at will.
- Gradients. If we want them, we'll add them ourselves.
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An outstanding accommodation option on Isla Mujeres. El Castillo Maya "The Mayan Castle" can now be up to 5 bedrooms, and sleep up to 12 guests. The loving care of the owners in the thoughtful design and details are evident throughout this special home. The roof top terrace with a palapa roofed area for shade, features a bar made from turquoise blue crystals, a dipping pool for cooling off and comfortable lounges for relaxing in front of the spectacular view. Solid hardwood staircase, custom stonework in the terrace flooring and local artwork are only a small part of the many unique amenities of El Castillo Maya.
This luxurious home now offers six options to discerning guests who are looking for the ultimate in island accommodation:
A Luxury Studio:
This large, separate studio has a kitchen, queen bed, couch, bathroom. Accommodates up to 2 guests
Two Bedroom House:
The ocean front house has a large living room, fully equipped kitchen, dining room and 2 bedrooms with queen beds.
Accommodates up to 4 guests
Master Suite:
The master suite is on the 2nd level and has a palapa covered terrace with hammock. It has a king bed, Jacuzzi tub with ocean view, kitchenette.
Accommodates up to 2 guests
Three Bedroom House:
The three bedroom house combines the house and the master suite.
Accommodates up to 6 guests
Four Bedroom House:
The four bedroom house is a combination of the house, master suite and luxury studio.
Accommodates up to 8 guests
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The five bedroom house is a combination of the house, master suite, luxury studio, and new Tortuga Suite.
Accommodates 10 to 12 guests
The ocean front El Castillo Maya is located in the popular air strip area of the island with beaches and downtown restaurants and shops close by. Parking is available on the property for golf carts or scooters. A large pool and patio area is shared by the house next door, Casa Azul del Caribe.
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Montana's Dan Brandborg was paying attention when experts said that, to improve the health of the economy, one should focus on the production of "value-added" products. This typically involves taking a plentiful inexpensive local resource and converting it into something more useful and, hence, more valuable.
Historically, in Montana "resource" meant timber or minerals, but Brandborg had his eye on something more environmentally benign than the blockish clearcuts near his cabin in southwestern Montana. His research told him that the most valuable and abundant resource in the "Big Sky Country" is—well, sky.
Today, Brandborg's business, Sunelco Inc. (the Sun Electric Company), sells solar electricity systems that enable hundreds of people around the country to take a plentiful resource—sunlight—and transform it into a highly useful product: electricity.
What's more, by selling solar panels, those slabs of silicon that convert sunshine into electricity, Sunelco has quickly become a prosperous example of the new wave of "green," or environmentally conscious, low-impact businesses that communities are seeking.
The principles of solar electricity, or photovoltaics ("PV" in industry shorthand) have been known for decades, but because of high costs and relatively low efficiency they didn't come into their own until the U.S. space program put them to work. The same qualities that made solar electricity attractive to NASA in the '60s—chiefly its flexibility and its reliability in extreme conditions—make it an attractive choice for people seeking self-sufficiency.
Sunelco's founder grew up in an environmentally aware family. Fascinated by the potential of solar energy, Brandborg worked two years in Maryland for Solarex, the nation's largest manufacturer of solar panels. Then he saw an opportunity to bring that experience out west.
"When I worked for Solarex all their sales were to the western United States, " he recalls, "so I thought, 'Why couldn't we do this from Montana?"' Soon he and his wife Becky were trying just that.
Setting out in the fall of 1985 with just $4,000 in start-up money, he put together a mail-order catalog and started designing and shipping PV systems to customers throughout the West.
Since then Sunelco's gross sales have doubled every year. Working at first from his small cabin up Tin Cup Creek, Brandborg soon expanded to a tiny office in nearby Darby, Montana. Now Sunelco has six full-time employees, kept busy answering the constantly ringing phones and designing, shipping, and sometimes aiding in erecting PV systems.
Their growth is due in part to the PV industry finally coming into its own and achieving a new level of sophistication. When Brandborg first began learning about solar panels there was a limited pool of people to talk to. "I read two good books on photovoltaics," Brandborg says of his education, "and in two years I knew more about it than most people in the industry, mostly because I played with it."
He still plays with it and his home on a tree-lined residential street in Hamilton is a model of what PV has become today. A fixed array of roof-mounted PV modules, invisible from the street, keep the batteries topped up. A heavily insulated refrigerator/freezer with a high-efficiency compressor shares kitchen space with the gas cooking range. Hot water is provided by a "Copper Cricket" solar hot water system, supplemented as necessary by a tankless gas water heater.
Brandborg, a "learn-it-by-living-it" solar junkie, monitors several more meters than are absolutely necessary in a normal house setup so that he can keep meticulous records of energy production and use. It's that hands-on knowledge that Brandborg finds valuable when helping customers.
Brandborg designs systems that will meet a customer's realistic demands, rather than trying to change or limit that demand. New installations are more complex but much more versatile. The standard components of a system include the solar panels, a bank of batteries, and an inverter which converts the 12/24-volt DC current from the batteries into the 110-volt AC on which most household appliances run.
Running a house on solar electric power involves a few compromises, most of which relate to energy storage. "I have to check the batteries periodically," homeowner Dick Fichtler reports, "and it doesn't have unlimited power. When we designed the system, we didn't anticipate some loads, like running the vacuum cleaner so often." Keeping track of the state of the charge in the batteries and topping them off with an alternative power source if necessary helps him avoid any problems with the PV system.
The key is to shift high-demand uses away from electricity to other resources whenever possible. Space heating, cooking, and even refrigeration can usually be accomplished with propane. All other electrical demands need to be as efficient as possible.
Although Sunelco is fielding an increasing number of inquiries from customers with access to power lines, PV systems aren't generally competitive with utility rates—yet. For now, the typical customer for a solar electric system is someone with a remote cabin or vacation home.
Home systems aren't the only use for solar electricity, though. Sunelco has helped ranchers take advantage of PV systems to pump water to their livestock in remote pastures and to provide the juice for electric fencing. Recreational vehicle owners are buying PV systems to run their lights and TVs, without the annoyance of a noisy generator or the cost of a hookup. Brandborg and his design team have even put together a PV package that was mounted on an oceangoing yacht.
While the demand for PV systems is increasing, it's still a relatively small market, and Brandborg doesn't foresee any dramatic price drops soon. Awareness, not price, is what he counts on to bring new customers to Sunelco. As evidence, he cites one study of Portland residents in which solar power was chosen by 86% of the respondents as their first choice for providing additional power in the future. Another recent nationwide poll showed that energy efficiency was more important to move-up home buyers than location or schools.
"People love solar," Brandborg smiles.
Because of that, the Brandborg's continue to cope with the surprising growth of their company. Photovoltaics were not a sure thing back in 1985, and since then the field has become crowded with other start-ups. But a "sure thing" isn't what drew Dan Brandborg into the business. It's simply what he wanted to do.
"We just got on a different road, and hoped it would bring people to us," he said, surrounded by solar panels awaiting shipment. "I had no idea it would end up like this."


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Bald Eagle Crashes Into Window at Oral Roberts University's Christ Chapel; Cheers Turn to Screams Amid Startling Accident
Students at Oral Roberts University went from hooting and hollering and chanting "USA!" to screaming in horror as a Bald Eagle let loose during a special chapel service crashed into a glass window and crumpled to the ground.
Instead of flying directly from its trainer who had let it loose from the back of the chapel to another handler standing on stage, the 13-year-old, seven-pound eagle named Lewis veered off course and made a crash landing.
Several videos shared online of the service shows the eagle soaring through the air over the heads of mesmerized students in the packed Christ Chapel at the Tulsa, Okla., university. Students had gathered at Christ Chapel on campus for a special service marking the start of the 2013 fall semester.
As one video shows, the Bald Eagle circles the room and some students chant "USA!" as others cheer on the bird of prey. Seconds later, the cheers and chants turn into high-pitched screams, and even cussing, as students watch in horror as the giant bird's flight is abruptly cut short.
Watch this 14-second clip of the Bald Eagle's crash at Oral Roberts University:
Despite the shocking footage, the Bald Eagle, the national bird and national animal of the United States, was uninjured. In fact, another video clip (shown below) show's the bird's flight, crash and then his handler Roger Wallace comformting him before scooping him up onto his arm.
"It was a bit shocking to see, but we're thankful the eagle is OK," Oral Roberts University spokeswoman Carissa Bratschun told Tulsa World.
Bratschun was puzzled by the Bald Eagle's failure to stick to the script. Lewis has been doing such performances for several years and even put in practice time at the chapel before the Aug. 21 service at ORU.
"It had practiced five or six times," the spokeswoman said. "When the time came, we're not sure what happened. It flew around the room and then hit a window."
Despite assurances of the Bald Eagle's well-being, viewers of the recorded accident have expressed outrage and made charges of animal abuse.
"Pretty much par for the course. Brainwashed Christians who are supposed to be stewards of the Earth, who by and large couldn't care less or believe in our destruction of the planet, abusing a bird for entertainment and then laughing when it flies into a window," read one comment on a video of the accident uploaded by Lucas Cherry.
Cherry, a Masters of Business student at Oral Roberts University, defended his school against criticism.
"Oral Roberts University is an excellent university and I am proud to be a part of it. This video was of no disrespect to ORU. The eagle was completely fine and was trained to fly in auditoriums," Cherry wrote. "He flew at the Cardinals stadium last night. He was rescued after an injury to his leg and would have died had it not been for the bird refuge who took him in and trained him."
Oral Roberts University is an non-denominational Christian liberal arts school with an enrollment of more than 3,100 students from the U.S. and abroad. The university was founded in 1963 by evangelist Oral Roberts (1918-2009).
Watch "Golden Eagle Day" at Oral Roberts University, a video clip in which university president Dr. William M. Wilson encourages students to be "eagles for Christ." The school's student athletes are known as the Golden Eagles. The full service and message, titled "Lessons From the Eagle," can be watched in full at video.oru.edu.


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The Program is aimed at encouraging the construction of energy efficient buildings that will reduce their operating expenses and increase their resale value.
By constructing an energy efficient building, you will reduce your energy consumption and by extension, the related costs.
Énergir will grant financial assistance of $1.50 per cubic metre of natural gas saved, up to a maximum of $275,000, for the construction of a new efficient building. In addition, Énergir covers up to $5,000 of the cost of an energy simulation for your new building.*
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KickButtComputers Signature Series Preview: Inspired by the American television shows Orange County Choppers and Monster Garage, a crew down in southern California has begun producing a quite extensive array of custom computer cases - dubbed the Signature Series. In this article today, we'll be offering some rare looks at their first "themed" chassis off their workbench along with other insights on how KickButtComputers is aiming at creating an entirely new genre of computer case modifications.
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The RAP tour showcases the best of Ontario snowmobiling in one remarkable circle tour Round Algonquin Park. Snowmobiling through OFSC Districts 6, 7 and 11, riders will experience incredible trails on an exciting mix of utility corridors, abandoned rail lines and old logging roads, plus sledding through the extensive forests of the rugged Canadian Shield. RAP will even take you on the only snowmobile trail through the world famous Algonquin Park!
RAP is perfect for…
RAP is a tour designed by snowmobilers for snowmobilers. So you can rest assured that you will be well taken care of.
RAP provides three levels of trail guides: the OFSC Provincial Snowmobile Trail Guide for big picture overview, the trail
guides of District 6, 7 and 11 for regional details and contacts and a special RAP guide so you can see your entire tour on
one pocket sized sheet. All trails on this tour are clearly marked with special RAP signage and major intersections have
"You Are Here" RAP signs.
Download the overview map showing all the tours... (PDF format)
It doesn't get any better than Ontario's RAP tour, so why take a chance with your precious snowmobiling vacation? You'll be grinning from ear to ear every day and head home with a head full of amazing memories. Best of all, you will want to Ride the RAP again and again. Check it out this winter!


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According to the market analysts at IDC, Windows Phone grew an astonishing 156 percent in the most recent quarter, far outstripping Android and iOS growth. But as I had long explained with the Mac, strong growth is easy when you start with almost nothing. So with Windows Phone's share of the overall market still quite tiny, the worry is that, like the Mac, it could remain so for good.
I wrote about the news aspect of this story earlier today in Android Now Over 80 Percent of All Smart Phones Sold. Here, I'd like to focus on Windows Phone and think a bit about what this means for Microsoft's smart phone platform.
The simplest way, perhaps, is to divide the information into "good" and "bad" news snippets.
Windows Phone market share roared to 156 percent growth, year-over-year, in Q3 2013, according to IDC. That far outstrips the unit growth of Android (51.3 percent) or iPhone (25.6 percent), meaning that Windows Phone gained ground on both.
Windows Phone still accounts for less than 4 percent of the overall market for smart phones. Android now controls 81 percent. And iPhone is down to 12.9 percent (from 25.6 in the year-ago quarter).
Windows Phone eliminated Blackberry as a possible third ecosystem for good, I think. Blackberry sales were just above 50 percent of Windows Phone sales.
Blackberry sales were just above 50 percent of Windows Phone sales? What the heck.
It's instructive, perhaps, to compare Windows Phone market share to Mac market share. This quarter, the Mac accounted for about 6 percent of all PCs sold, so it's roughly comparable to what Windows Phone has achieved in the smart phone market. That is, the smart phone market is much bigger than that of PCs, so 4 percent of that market is actually bigger than 6 percent of the PC market. Microsoft's hardware partners don't need to make as much per unit to turn this into a very healthy business.
Unlike Windows Phone, the Mac is a lucrative, high-margin business. That is, Apple makes an incommensurate amount on each Mac sold due to the firm's high margins, as customers perceive the devices—which are just regular PCs on the inside—as luxury items worthy of their high price tags. So while the Mac may account for a tiny percentage of overall PC sales, that business isn't just healthy, it's stellar.
Strong growth means that Windows Phone could continue closing the gap with the number two player, iPhone. (Indeed, as I noted in the news story linked above, Windows Phone is now just 9.3 percentage points behind Apple's entry, compared to 12.2 percent a year ago.)
Apple long crowed about how much faster Mac sales grew than the overall PC market. But the Mac still has only 6 percent market share overall. What if this happens to Windows Phone too? We'll be stuck with a low-volume, low-margin product line.
The point here is simple: Yes, we should take this week's news as a positive sign that Windows Phone is doing better than before. But I think we should also temper the enthusiasm with a more measured view of what this all really means. I wish Windows Phone great success. But this kind of momentum would need to continue for a long time before we saw a meaningful change in its fortunes.


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Saturday, March 25th:
1pm-2pm - SAC 305 "Why People Suck Ep. 3 - Revenge of the Suck"
Ghastly, RK Milholland, J. Rosenburg, Shin-Goji
2pm-3pm - SAC 306 "Fame, Fortune & Webcomics"
C. Rozakis, P. Karlsson, RK Milholland
5pm-6pm - SAC 306 "Autobiographical Comics"
G. Dean, RK Milholland
Sunday, March 26th:
2pm-3pm - Harr. 108 "The Daily Grind - Updating a Webcomic Regularly"
Mookie, RK Milholland, G. Dean, I&T Marks


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Early on the misty winter morning of December 16th, 1944, over 200,000 German troops launched Adolf Hitler's last bid to reverse the ebb in his fortunes that had begun when Allied troops landed in France on D-day. Seeking to drive to the English Channel coast and split the Allied armies as they had done in May 1940, the Germans struck in the Ardennes Forest, a seventy-five-mile stretch of the front characterized by dense woods and few roads, held by four inexperienced and battle-worn American divisions stationed there for rest and seasoning.
In this battle, German troops will be pushing on the town of Bastogne from three directions. Their orders are to first capture and secure all bridges before moving in and clearing out the Ardennes in preparation for their assault on the town. Allied forces will face supply shortages, Axis spies and a determined enemy. Their only hope is to delay the enemy push long enough for the skies to clear and Patton to arrive. That may mean destroying what precious few bridges remain in the area in order to slow the Nazi advance.
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CipherCloud Discovers Senorita Streisand Effect Is A Hateful Mistress
from the doing-it-wrong dept
Companies using DMCA claims as censorship typically fall into one of two categories. Either the company thinks it's somehow losing money over posted content, or they are looking to silence crticism. This is a story about the latter and how the attempt Streisand-apulted (this should undoubtedly be a word) CipherCloud into an internet frenzy over how the company achieves the encryption they purport to do.
For the purposes of background, CipherCloud runs an online service for encrypting any data that is stored in other cloud-based services, such as public email systems or CRM. It's essentially a promise to make your cloud data private. As adoption of cloud-based services continues to progress, this would seemingly be a valuable service to use, assuming it works as well as they claim. The problem is that the company doesn't get into many specifics over how they achieve any of this, leaving it to internet forums like StackExchange and their users to try and figure it out. That particular string covers a technical but important question raised by a forum member last August.
Last August, when someone posted a question about CipherCloud's service to StackExchange, a popular question and answer site for software developers. "How is CipherCloud doing homomorphic encryption?" the question read.
That's a geeky question, but an honest one. CipherCloud's service is designed to encrypt data stored in exiting online applications without hampering the way these applications operate, and that's not an easy thing to do. If you encrypt a collection of data, for instance, you may have trouble searching that data. One solution is a technique called "homomorphic encryption," which would let users manipulate encrypted data as if it wasn't encrypted — and that's what the question was getting at.The question received several answers, with the consensus being that the service likely was not doing homomorphic encryption, since that's a technology that isn't really ready for wider use as of yet. Instead, forum users posted a CipherCloud white paper, a corporate promotional video, and a presentation from a security conference by the company to try to figure out exactly what CipherCloud's service was doing. Most of them settled on the idea that deterministic encryption was being done instead. That technique is generally considered a weak form of encryption. And there the post sat for months. And months. Mostly unnoticed.
Until, that is, CipherCloud decided to see how badly they could shoot themselves in their own feet.
On Saturday, the company sent a DMCA takedown notice and defamation complaint to StackExchange. With its letter, CipherCloud complained that StackExchange users violated its intellectual property in posting its marketing materials to the site and that defamed its operation in misrepresenting the way its technology works. The users guessed that CipherCloud used something called deterministic encryption, a relatively weak form of security. The company said this is not the case, pointing out that one of the posters, Sid Shetye, is the CEO of CipherDb, a company that competes with CipherCloud in some ways.A couple things here. It's difficult to understand how a defamation case works when the forum posts made it clear they were simply speculating based on the marketing material at hand. That's not defamation. Secondly, the idea of sending a copyright takedown notice over marketing material may just be the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. The entire point of marketing is to spread it as far and wide as possible. Using the DMCA notice this way makes it clear that this isn't about copyright at all, but rather about silencing criticism or, in this case, speculation (which is worse, by the way).
And, finally, it's fun to note that this move will ultimately fail in both the legal realm and in purpose. The EFF has already weighed in, stating that it's clear that use of the marketing material fell under Fair Use and that the defamation claim is laughably without merit.
"I don't think there's a court in the country that would hold [the posters] liable for defamation," [Corynne McSherry of the EFF] says. And if CipherCloud did try to bring defamation charges against the users, she says, the company could be exposed to a potential counter suit under SLAPP laws, which are designed to prevent individuals or companies from using bogus lawsuits to silence critics.Of course, this previously little-heard-of forum and the questions it posed have now been splashed all over Reddit, Slashdot, Hacker News, and now here. All over a meritless DMCA notice for a forum half a year old. Well done, CipherCloud.
Filed Under: dmca, encryption, streisand effect
Companies: ciphercloud, stackexchange