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Issue OverviewStorage magazine - July 2013 Vol. 12 No. 5
Our research shows solid-state technology usage is skyrocketing, with more than a third of data storage shops using flash now. Dennis Martin, a leading expert on solid-state storage, describes how companies can use the still costly storage to their best advantage, citing specific implementations to support a variety of applications.
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Following a legislative committee meeting Sunday, the Shura Council is inclined to approve a proposal submitted to it by Ihab al-Kharrat, chairperson of the human rights committee, to divide electoral constituencies according to the number of voters, not population.
The Cairo Administrative Court had ruled earlier this month to suspend the parliamentary elections slated for 22 April on the grounds that the council, which is dominated by an Islamist majority, did not send the elections law back to the Supreme Constitutional Court after the court requested certain amendments to it.
The new Constitution grants the Supreme Constitutional Court prior supervision of laws governing presidential and legislative elections, as well as those for local councils, to determine their constitutionality.
But Shura Council members are trying pass new legislation to evade suspicion of unconstitutionality for the next House of Representatives that would nominate a prime minister jointly with the president. They fear it would be dissolved by court order, as happened to the previous house in 2012.
The council is aware of the 10 reservations about the election law that the Supreme Constitutional Court relayed to it, but it did not fully commit to those reservations, nor did it send the law back to the court to endorse it.
One such reservation was that the division of the electoral constituencies did not provide a fair representation of the population and the governorates.
Observers say the allocation of parliamentary seats is seriously flawed. For instance, while Ismailia has a population of 1.08 million and Suez just 576,000, both governorates have six seats in Parliament.
But the Shura Council and the government believe that dividing the constituencies according to the number of voters — which is 54 million out of 92 million Egyptians — does not contradict the Constitution.
Sobhi Saleh, leading Freedom and Justice Party figure and legislative committee chairperson, said it was the Supreme Constitutional Court that divided the constituencies based on the number of registered voters.
Administrative Development Ministry representative Ahmed Kamal said the margin of error in Kharrats proposal is 7 percent, which is better than the 9 percent found in the challenged elections law, because the voters database is derived from maps, not addresses.
Also, dividing the constituencies according to population may require a demarcation of the governorates boundaries to ensure that the seats equally and significantly represent all governorates, which the council finds to be a difficult task.
Opposition groups criticized the Shura Council for hastily passing an elections law that violates the Constitution, which is why most liberal and leftist parties have decided to boycott the upcoming elections.
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Message Of Allah/God From Al Quran For All Mankind of His Earth. Assalam O Alaikum to All Mankind/Peace Be Upon To all Mankind, because all people of this earth of Allah/God is the children of Adam pbuh and all Mankind is the people of Allah/God not few of them, according to Quran when anyone born in this world so then Allah breath His spirit not few of them. As a Muslim I am doing my duty as per my believe. And I am going to tell truth from Quran as a Muslim, and whatever I am saying its from Quran not from my willing or any other books. So before to talk about the book of Allah we have to say Ayozobillah Hi Minshaitan nir rajim. Because this is the instruction of Allah. See Surah Al Nahal 16 Ayat No. 98. Born to death Alla/God is watching us, not only watching Allah/God knows that whatever in our mind and in our heart or what we are thinking, nothing hide from Allah born to death, because we all has spirit of Allah. So what ever I m saying its on base on few Auaats. See Surah Al Majadilah 58 Ayat No. 7 and Surah Hood 11 Ayats 5 & 6. Anyone in this World whatever they are King or president or any positions or related to any relations and they are saying that I AM MUSLIM, so that's means they agreement to Allah for accept, admit and submit to follow Allah's instructions/hidayats which is only in final Book of Allah Al Quran and also promise to Allah that they convey His Message from Quran to others without to hide any thing and without to add any thing as it is and that's it, as a Muslim we have to follow Allah's instructions which is only in Quran. All positions and relations according to Quran is temporary in this temporary World. As a Muslim we believe in the day of judgment and that day only Allah will be the King and the Master and the Owner of that day, and that day Allah will not going to ask about our positions or relations. He will going to ask only about His book Al Quran. Allah is not going to forgive to any one only because of any one King or president or any positions or related to any relations. He will ask about our amaal/practice from Quran. And that day the people who living in palaces and they never leave there palaces and the people who working on streets whole day in more then 100 degree temperature all those people in one place and one category. No one can help each other. Allah will ask one by one individually. So any one saying Muslim ourself in this world, so no one exempt from Allah's instructions/hidayat, as a Muslim we have to follow Allah's instructions which is only in Quran. So any Muslim is doing any act or anything or saying anything against Quran the message of Allah so its means they are not following there agreement. If we work with FBI or KGB so we have to follow principles, rules and instructions. So as a Muslim we have to follow Quran but whole Quran not only few parts of Quran according to our willing, willing is prohibited in Islam and if we follow only few parts of Quran so it's like we make pieces of Quran and according to Quran kuffar did in the past. See Surah Al Hijr Ayats 90 & 91. We have to do exact whatever Allah telling to do in Quran. We can hide any thing from FBI or any agency, but from Allah nothing hide from birth to death. Because birth to death Allah is watching us and not only watching us He also knows that what is in our mind and in our heart and Allah knows that whatever we are thinking. And all is in Quran. Whatever I am saying I do have a Daleel/references from Quran. Quran is the Book of Allah, Allah create Quran, Quran is the message of Allah for all mankind in His earth. Quran is the Book of truth, peace, happiness and health. The only Book shows us right path to Allah. I am talking about the Book of Allah Al Quran, so there is some principles, rules, and instructions from Allah if anyone talking about the Book of Allah Al Quran. Allah not give permission to any one even His all messengers to say any thing about Allah's deen Islam without daleel/reference from Quran. See Surah Al Hajj Ayats 8,9 and 10, See Surah Al Momin Surah 4 and Surah 56. There is more ayats but I mentioned few of them. According to Quran only shaitaan talking without daleel/reference for misguide to people and this is his duty. As a Muslim we have to do our duties and our responsibilities the one Allah telling in His Book Al Quran, we are Muslim so we have to do our duties not shaitaan duties. According to Quran and this is our believe that all people in this earth is the children of Adam p.b.u.h. And those who accept, agree and submit to follow Allah's instructions which is only in Quran and also promise to Allah to convey His message from Quran to others without hide and without add anything from our willing to others as it is and that's its, so Allah named those people Muslim, And Allah saying in Quran that Muslim should one Group. If any Muslim in this world whatever they king or president or any positions or related to any relations they are not doing responsibilities as a Muslim so its means they unfaithful to Allah, another word they lying to Allah. We are Muslim it's means we agreement with Allah to accept,admit and submit to follow the book of Allah Al Quran and this the only book revealed on Mohammed pbuh and because of this agreement we got Quran. So after to get the book of Allah we are not following His book and we follow our willing so for those Allah give one example and Allah saying to tell to those who is saying Muslim our self and they following there willing. See Surah Araf 7 Ayats 175,176 & 177. So please stop following people because according to Quran mostly people on this earth is misguided people so if we listen to them so they misguide to us because they following there willing. See Surah Al Anaam Ayats No. 116 & 117. In Quran Allah saying follow Quran or only the people who following only Quran. Allah not mentioned any other book to follow. Because Quran has all previous books details. Zaboor revealed on Dawood pbuh, Toarait revealed on Mossa pbuh and in Toarait details of Zaboor, Injeel revealed on Essa pbuh and in Injeel details of Zaboor and Toarait and the Final complete book of Allah Al Quran revealed on last messenger Mohammed pbuh and Quran has all previous books details. And Quran also has details of instructions/wahi revealed on all messengers from Adam pbuh to last messenger Mohammed pbuh. So we should know the value of the final book of Allah Al Quran. And during to revealed instructions/wahi and all books all messengers of Allah face lot of problems, difficulties, pains, abused and lot more. No one has patience like them in this world because we use to live in easy life. So because of all messengers struggle we got Quran. That's why Allah saying in Quran that do same respect to all messengers, and we got the book of message of Allah for all mankind , guidance for all mankind because of all messengers struggle. So from Adam pbuh to Mohammed pbuh it's very long period. There is no substitute of this final book of Allah. We have to respect every single word of this book. But we are not respect this book of Allah because we get Quran from any where. But we should know the value of this book that how to all messengers struggle. They face lot of difficulties. And as a Muslim we believe in the day of judgment and that day only Allah will be the owner and King of that day but no one else in this temporary world. Not any king or president of any country but only Allah. I love and respect this Book of Allah the message of Allah Al Quran. If any king or any president of any country is come to my house and they offer those position beside Quran so hundred percent I refused them. If anyone brought all treasure of world and they offer me beside Quran so hundred percent I refused them. If any one related to any relation in this world tell me to leave this book of Allah so I leave any relation but not the book of Allah Al Quran. Because when I leave this temporary world the time of death the time of transfer/intiqal to the day of judgment I never chance to take any positions,any treasure or any relation. But the only thing we have chance to take our Amaal/practice from Quran. Because we are here for get ready to the day of judgment. We all here to leave this world. From Adam pbuh till now lot of people is gone and its continue till the day of judgment. No one can live for ever. Only Allah live forever and He never die and never sleep. No one can tell that when, where, how, what place, what date or what time we have to leave this world. If some one die so its not that sad but the sad thing if anyone die without to get the purpose because Allah send to us in this temporary world and they live after the day of judgment and they never die. Please think about that. One women keep one child nine months with care and pain and then she birth child with pain and according to Quran that if any one born in this earth so Allah breath His spirit to them. And then woman take care of this child for good health and good study for future and then they die, for what? What reason? Actually we are not die we are transfer/intiqal for face to Allah on the day of judgment. And then our actual life start and we live forever and we never die. And that day only two path to Allah will send to us according to our Amaal/ practice from Quran and one path go to the hell the place of fire and other one is go to heaven the place of peace. And those path is one way, there is no any third path or there is no chance to come back and do some good Amaal from Quran. We have time to decide that which path we need to go, but we have to decide before to time of leave before to time of death, because the time of death or when we face to Allah the day of judgment Allah will not forgive us. We have time but how long, no one knows that. So anyone in this world saying Muslim our self, we have to wake up and open ours eyes of our heart. If not so according to Quran we will blind on the day of judgment. So please Muslim, Be A Muslim of Allah. And please don't focus on me, focus on the message of Allah. May be when any one read my comments I already left the world. Any way no reason to focus on people. People here to leave this world and Allah live forever and we all face to only Allah the day of judgment but no one else. So don't focus on me. I give one example there some where one speaker and speaker is not good name brand like Bose or Sony or Yamaha, it's very cheap brand and old but still working so focus on message not focus on speaker. According to Quran Allah saying that Muslim should one group but we have lot of groups/firqas like Sunni, Shia, Wahabi, Ahmadi, Deobandi, barhalvi, hanfi, Shafi, and lot more and they hate each others fight each others killing each others and saying kafir each others because they are not following Quran. If they understand and follow Quran so impossible they consider with any group/firqa. In Islam no concept those groups. In Quran thee is no concept of 72 groups/firqas. As a follower of Quran we should one group and we have to say only Mudlim. Allah not except those Names. According to Quran if anyone consider with any firqa it's not the part of Islam. Please don't play with Deen e Allah. It's not joke. Amendments, additions and deletions is no permission in religion of Allah. If any one belong to any of those groups/firqas so please stop saying Muslim our self. We know the result of firqa. The only reason the conditions of Muslims in the world because they away from Quran. We have to stop saying Sunni, Shia, Wahabi, deobandi, barhalvi, hanfi, Shafi, Ahmadi, and lot more. Or stop to say Muslim. Because if any one saying Muslim so it's big responsibility. This is agreement with Allah to accept and submit to follow the book of Allah Al Quran and also promise to Allah convey His message to others which is only in Quran as it is without hide any thing and without add any thing and that's it. According to Quran Muslim should one group, there is no concept of 72 groups/firqas. People create there own thing according to there willing and willing is prohibited in Deen e Islam. We have to do exact whatever Allah telling to do in His only final book Al Quran the only book revealed on Mohammed pbuh. We have to fight our willing and follow Allah's instructions which is only in Quran and we know that how to we got this book if Allah, we got the book of Allah because struggle of all messengers of Allah from Adam pbuh to Mohammed pbuh. So Allah start sending His instructions/hidayat from Adam pbuh and He finalize His book of instruction/hidayat on Mohammed pbuh. So as a Muslim we should know the value of the book of Allah Al Quran. There is no comparison or no substitute of the book of Allah Al Quran. ALLAH O AKBAR. Allah is not give permission to create or write any book our own hand and amendments, deletions or additions no permission in religion of Allah. See Surah Al Baqarah Ayats 77 to 82. The only reason we have lot of groups/firqas and we hate each others fight each others killing each others because we away from Quran and because of this Allah punish us. See Surah Al Anaam Ayat No. 65. It's impossible that any one understand and following Quran and they consider with this kind of groups/firqas. Because according to Quran no concept of those groups/firqas in Islam and if any Muslim belong to any of those groups/firqas so it's not belong religion of Allah. So until to we stop doing lots of things against Quran the one Allah prohibited for us so we never get peace and we never get mercy and help from Allah. Only elections, selections, collections or donations is not the solution of our problems. The only thing we need is mercy and help from Allah. And the only way to get mercy and help from Allah that as a Muslim as a agreement with Allah we have to follow the only book of Allah Al Quran and stop to follow our willing, others willing, family culture, country culture, school of thoughts or people or other books. The only book Al Quran Allah revealed on Mohammed pbuh. And in Quran Allah give permission to follow Quran or the only person who follower of only Quran. Allah asking in Quran that if any one help Me so then I will help them. And the only way to help to Allah that as a Muslim as per agreement with Allah we have to follow Quran and convey His message to others as it is and that's it. And the only permission Allah give His all messengers that just tell My message to others and that's it, Allah will take decision between us because only Allah knows that who is right and who is wrong. This duty of Allah that He forgive or punish to anyone. Our duty just convey Allah message to others and that's it. We have no right to hate to anyone or punish to any one or kill to any one or take decision about anyone that's who is right who is wrong. Quran is the book of Allah so only He has right to take any action about any one. We don't have to show attitude/takabbur. We just followers and just followers. Remember Iblees was angel, because of attitude/takabbur he become shaitaan/devil. So please don't act like shaitaan. And please if anyone Muslim so don't take any decision for others if they doing wrong but just tell about the message of Allah to them. So if any one is Sunni, Shia, Wahabi, deobandi, barhalvi, hanfi, Shafi, Ahmadi, ahl e hadis, ahl e sunnat or any one so please don't torture them don't kill them they all people of Allah, this is duty of Allah to take any decision for them on the day of judgment, as a Muslim our believe on the day of judgment so why we take decision before that day we have to wait for that day. We are act likes firoon and we know that what happened with him, his dead body still in museum in Egypt for us to take lesson/ibrat. But because of we away from Quran so shaitaan is controlling us, we are under control of shaitaan. Shaitaan using us against Allah and His book Al Quran and this is his duty and he is doing his duty very well. Are we doing our duties and our responsibilities as a Muslim the one Allah telling to do in His book Al Quran? We always focus on others, blaming to others, we have to stop focusing others and start focus our self that what we are doing. The day of judgment Allah is not going to ask about others, even Allah not ask about our parents or our children. Every one face to Allah one by one individually. We are here in this temporary world for the get ready final exam on the day of judgment and that day only Allah will be the Master and King of that day but no one else and He also provide His book through His all messengers struggle, Allah start sending His instructions/Hidayats from Adam pbuh and He complete and finalize His book of complete guidance, the book of complete instructions/Hidayats which is in only one book Al Quran and this book has a lots of tests, lessons and practice we have to do. And the day of judgment Allah will going to ask only about His book Al Quran. So if we are not getting ready and not study from Quran so we know the result. Absolutely the result is fail. And then Allah will send to us in the place of fire and we live forever our there and never die. That day the day our final exam the day Allah will take decision between us and He will send us in the hell the place of fire or in the heaven according to our Amaal/ practice from His book Al Quran. And Quran telling every thing that's what right and what wrong, what good and what bad, what we have to do and what not, what else Allah prohibited to us, what halal and what haram, every single thing is in Quran. No one has right to do any amendments, additions or deletions in the book of Allah, no never even no one has right to add any single word. In Surah Al Baqarah 2 Allah sent His punishment/Azab for those who changed one word to another word. Allah named us Muslim so we should say just Muslim, why we create our own names like Sunni, Shia, Wahabi, deobandi, berhalvi, hanfi, Shafi, Ahmadi, ahl e sunnat, ahl e hadis, and lot more, why we have to many groups/firqas, no concept of 72 groups/firqas in religion of Allah. There is any daleel/reference in Quran about those things? Can any Alim or Mufti or any Islamic Scholar has a daleel/reference from Quran? We build to many Mosques with difernt groups/firqas, any one has a daleel/reference from Quran? Did Allah give this permission to all those things to any of His messengers from Adam pbuh to Mohammed pbuh? All those things create misunderstanding and fitna/violence between people and this is the act of shaitaan and we doing all those thing because we away from Quran and we are under control of shaitaan and only way to safe from shaitaan that we just start follow Quran so with the help of Allah we safe from shaitaan. But if anyone consider any of those groups/firqas so no one has right to say anything or hate to them or punish to them or kill to them even if any one belong to any religion or any country or any language or any culture. Because according to Quran if any one born in this earth so Allah breath His spirit to them. So how come we kill to some one? But as a Muslim we just convey Allah message to them from His book Al Quran and that's it. May be Allah give any of those hidayat. All people of the earth is the children of Adam pbuh. All mankind of this earth is the people of Allah Not for few of them. Quran is the book of Allah it's not the book of any human or only for Muslim, Allah create Hid book Al Quran not any human or any Muslim create the book of Allah Al Quran, Quran is the message of Allah is not the message of any human or any Muslim and Allah message for all mankind of His earth, not for only Muslim, Allah inviting to anyone in this earth to get right path to Allah. See Surah Al Baqara Ayat No. 62. There is more Ayats in Quran. Quran is not the property of any human or any country or any Muslim, only Allah is the owner of His book Al Quran. I'm not belong to any kind of groups or any organization or any firqa at all. I don't need any kind of help or favor or any donation, I don't have link with any one in this earth, I'm working for Allah myself with the help of Allah and Allah is much enough for me because Allah is the king of this earth and the day of judgement, He will give me the rewards in this earth and the day of judgment. I'm not expect any thing from any one in this earth. I have to do my responsibilities as a Muslim and I will exposed truth, the actual message of Allah for peace from the only final book of peace the book of truth Al Quran to the world InshaAllah/if God will with the help of Allah. I have link with only Allah through His book Al Quran. And I'm not doing any thing unique, I'm not special, in Quran Allah inviting to any one in His earth to link/Rabta with Allah through His book Al Quran, but we don't have time, because we have lot of activities to do like making groups/firqas, create our own names, hate each others, fight each others, kill to each others, reading lot of others books, create violence/fasad in the earth of Allah, all those things to do the one Allah prohibited for us. Because we are away from Quran and we following people according to our willing, following many others books, but if we start understand and following Quran so we don't have a time to do all other activities, because our whole life is not enough to this one book of Allah, because the book start from Adam pbuh and final on Mohammed pbuh so how to we understand this book of Allah Al Quran in our this short life. Quran is the book of Allah is not the book of human, no one can teach or give understanding of the book of Allah. According to Quran only Allah can teach us His book and only with the help of Allah we can understand the book of Allah Al Quran. And if Allah help to any one to teach His book Al Quran, so this is the easiest book of the World and our whole life is not enough to understand Al Quran, without to help of Allah we can't understand His book our whole life and this is my 18 years experience. I hundred percent focus on only Quran and now Quran is the easiest book world for me. I don't care anyone believe me or not or like or dislike my comments, Allah is enough to knows that what I'm doing. I don't need any vote from any one in this temporary world, we all here to leave this world, all I'm doing to get only one vote from Allah to face to Allah on the day of judgment, because only Allah will be the master, king and the owner that day but no one else. ALLAH O AKBAR ALLAH O AKBAR AND ONLY ALLAH O AKBAR. No one greater then Allah. This is temporary World our actual life start after the day of judgment. So I'm trying to happy to only Allah for live with happiness and peace forever after the day of judgment. So please O Muslims stop following people or any other book, just start focus on only Quran. In religion I don't have believe in anyone in this world even my brothers or relatives, I do love with respect to all mankind but in religion no one greater then Allah. I found big different between people and the book of Allah Al Quran, like east and west, Allah telling to go East but people going West so how to I follow people. I don't want live forever in the place of fire. It's easy to decide that where we want to live forever after the day of judgment but before to time of leave this world before to time of death, please Muslim wake up and stop following people. I got peace, happiness, spiritually health and lot more it's hard to tell. It's hard to choose right path because shaitaan is in our way but if we fight to our wiling and exact to do whatever Allah telling to do so help from Allah we can safe from shaitaan otherwise hard to safe from shaitaan and according to Quran shaitaan in jinn or in any human. See Surah Al Nas 114. May be mostly people don't like my comments but believe me I'm doing for favor of Muslim and for peace in this world and for favor of al mankind. I'm not belong to any kind of groups or any organization or any firqa, I'm not against to anyone, I don't have any thing negative for anyone, no one force me to do that. But as a Muslim I have to follow Allah's instructions/hukm e Allah from Quran only, otherwise I have to stop saying Muslim our self. Quran is the book of truth, every single word of Quran is base on truth as per Allah instruction/hukm I have to exposed truth and actual message of Allah to the world, whatever its goes against to me or my family or my Parents or anyone in this world, anyway I have to tell truth of Quran. And I will exposed Quran to the world so world knows actual message of Allah because people showing bad impression of book of Allah. Allah with me and I fear to Allah only, no one else in this world.Like(1) Abusive Comment(0)


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Optimal Auctions
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This paper questions and examines the validity and future of interactive network performance. The history of research in the area is described as well as experiments with our own system. Our custom-built networked framework, known as GIGAPOPR, transfers high-quality audio, video and MIDI data over a network connection to enable live musical performances to occur in two or more distinct locations. One of our first sensor-augmented Indian instruments, The Electronic Dholak (EDholak) is a multi-player networked percussion controller that is modelled after the traditional Indian Dholak. The EDholaks trigger sound, including samples and physical models, and visualisation, using our custom-built networked visualisation software, known as veldt.


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Alex Tarling starting using the Mappiness app to track his happiness along with other contextual data. Over time the ritual of having to ask himself, "How happy am I?" three times a day started to get him thinking about how he thought about his own happiness and what that meant to him. In this talk, presented at the 2014 Quantified Self Europe Conference, Alex talks about his experience, some of the data he gathered, and how a slight change in attitude has increased his self-rating of happiness over time.
You can also view the slides here.
What did you do?
I tracked my own experience of happiness several times per day, along with location, what I was doing and who I was with.
How did you do it?
I used the Mappiness app to track my rating of happiness and other contextual data such as what I was doing and who I was with. –
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I can't measure my own happiness without affecting it, one way or another. Happiness is a conscious cognitive assessment of feelings, beliefs and behaviours that tends to be a habitual pattern of thinking.
Given that it's a mental habit, it is possible to make an intentional choice to change it. As Abraham Lincoln said, "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Today's gallery image is from the co-organizer of the Chicago QS Meetup group, Mark Moschel. Mark has been experimenting with various methods of self-tracking and has even built a neat SMS-based tracking tool called Ask Me Every. You can read more about his tracking and work at the wonderful Experimentable blog.
This visualization shows 3 months of my happiness data. After reviewing it two years ago, it showed me that I was unhappy when traveling for work and, shortly after, I quit my job.
Be sure to check out the other amazing visualizations in our ongoing QS Gallery. If you have a visualization you'd like to share, just let us know!
How can I lead a happier life? I'm sure this is something we've all asked ourselves. Maybe it was during a turn through doldrums or maybe you asked yourself how you could sustain your happiness during a moment of joy. Whatever the case happiness, and by extension mood tracking, has been at the forefront of engaging in a Quantified Self practice for many individuals.
Konstanin Augemberg is no exception. A statistician by trade, Konstantin has been involved with numerous self-tracking projects in order to "empirically demonstrate that any aspect of my everyday life can be quantified and logged on a regular basis, and that the knowledge from these numbers can be used to help me live better." In February Konstanin presented the methods and results of his ongoing Hacking Happiness project at the New York City QS Meetup (read on for a full description):
In talking with many toolmakers, I find myself constantly surprised by how different people approach the same, and seemingly simple, issue with very different perspectives. A few months ago I wrote about Mood Panda which went from private to community. In contrast, Michael Forrest's Happiness has evolved from shared to private. I also find Michael's experimentation with the look of his app both beautiful and fascinating.
Q: How do you describe Happiness? What is it?
Forrest: Happiness is an iOS mood tracking app. You get randomized reminders to record your mood, and then can view this data graphically and as a journal. The idea is that by using this app, you'll be able to make better decisions in your life.
Q: What's the back story? What led to it?
Forrest: I've always been inspired by technology's potential to solve old problems in new ways. I was looking for novel ways to solve mental health problems without resorting to pharmaceutical hacks like antidepressants. I came across Daniel Gilbert's TED talk "Why Are We Happy?" and read his book where he talks about the marked differences between what we think will make us happy versus what will actually make us happy.. My idea was that even if we can't make good predictions about how we'll feel in the future, we can at least start gathering accurate data about our past and use that to reflect on the present moment. I first built a Facebook app, and then moved to the iPhone.
Q: What impact has it had? What have you heard from users?
Forrest: I've sold a few copies without doing a great deal of marketing – people seem to discover it on their own. The feedback I have had has been amazing – when it helps people, it is helping them with a fundamental aspect of their life so it didn't seem beyond the bounds of reason when one user told me it was the 'single best reason for owning an iPhone'. I have seen an increase in uptake since I put this page together http://goodtohear.co.uk/happiness – people are finally starting to see the point of it and I've been getting useful feedback about details of the UI and so on. I'm still really only starting out though.
Q: What makes it different, sets it apart?
Forrest: I know my app isn't the only way to track your mood, but I want it to be the best way to do so. A lot of decisions have gone into this seemingly simple app.
Single focus: I have deliberately avoided trying to track any other information because happiness has an infinite variety of possible influences that I would never presume to be able to predict for any particular user.
Design: It was important to me that I give the app a personality of its own. Finding a look that wouldn't interfere with the user's mood (or annoy them) but still had some personality was not trivial. Initially I drew from artists like Kandinsky and Miro (see here) for the style but over time realised that a journal was a more appropriate look. I have avoided smiley faces in the latest and came up with a very tactile way to report mood from a blank canvas – I don't want the app to influence the user's mood in any way at the reporting stage by suggesting anything (but it should still look good!).
Exploration: The charts in Happiness have evolved a lot over time. My original designs were largely tag cloud based. As I personally accumulated entries (I have over 700 reports in my database!) I realised that time-based reporting would become increasingly important. After a lot of trial and error I settled on a monthly reporting cycle. I also made the graphs simple by moving away from multicoloured heatmaps to simple areas filled with red or green. The algorithms used to calculate these areas need to be complex enough to find patterns but self-evident enough that when users look at the reports these seem to match their input. Details of the reports give the tool different usage styles. Simply by numbering my ranked taggings I've now started setting myself challenges (e.g. move "Music" from #2 in my life to #1!). There's also something interesting about getting a blank slate each month to see if you can do better than last month.
Price: Happiness isn't a free app, and this is a conscious decision. I want users to feel invested immediately since you don't get instant gratification. The price will always stay around this level while I continue to add value to the app in a multitude of ways.
Privacy: A big benefit of making this app as a native iPhone app is that the data can be stored locally. I want users to feel they can be 100% honest when writing in their diary. There's even a passcode lock feature to make sure people definitely can't get in, even if your phone is unlocked.
Q: What are you doing next? How do you see Happiness evolving?
Forrest: Soon I'll be releasing an iPad version of the app that will sync data via iCloud, and enable larger, more in-depth views of the data. I've done some fun experiments around bringing in information and media from users' social networks which really helps contextualise the more private comments. I like the idea of people being able to share their mood maps as artworks so I have some ideas around this – making this possible without necessarily revealing details to the world.
Q: Anything else you'd like to say?
Forrest: I'm working as a one-man-team on this project. I love that it's possible to achieve so much on my own but I'd also prefer to be working more collaboratively. I'm looking into clinical trials, and enabling others to build their own visualizations. Happiness is such a fertile subject that I've barely scratched the surface of what is possible with this tool. So if anybody feels inspired by what I've done so far and can see opportunities to work together, get in touch.
Product: Happiness
Website: http://goodtohear.co.uk/happiness
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This is the 15th post in the "Toolmaker Talks" series. The QS blog features intrepid self-quantifiers and their stories: what did they do? how did they do it? and what have they learned? In Toolmaker Talks we hear from QS enablers, those observing this QS activity and developing self-quantifying tools: what needs have they observed? what tools have they developed in response? and what have they learned from users' experiences? If you are a "toolmaker" and want to participate in this series, contact Rajiv Mehta at email@example.com.
James Norris asks the Singapore QS audience, "Do you remember your first kiss?" In the 16 years since his first kiss at age 13, James calculated that he has had 1,500 "firsts." For the past three years, he has been tracking his goals, according to how happy, fulfilled, and productive he feels every day. In the video below, he shares what he learned about his goals, how his personal advisory board works, and tips for maximizing different areas of life. (Filmed by the Singapore QS Show&Tell meetup group.)
James Norris – Singapore QS – Life by the numbers from Ciaran Lyons on Vimeo.
About three years ago, Gary Wolf wrote a detailed post on Measuring Mood — some tools are complicated enough to get you grouchy! Gallup goes through a lot of trouble to gauge the US happiness level on a daily basis. Others take a simple approach, such as Eric Kennedy's recent talk at the Seattle QS meetup on Tracking Happiness.
Ross Larter believes an emphasis on simplicity and community (especially of people who you don't know elsewhere) has been key to broad acceptance of his happiness-tracking MoodPanda.
Q: How do you describe MoodPanda? What is it?
Larter: MoodPanda.com is a mood tracking website and iphone app. Tracking is very simple: you rate your happiness on a 0-10 scale, and optionally add a brief twitter-like comment on what's influencing your mood.
MoodPanda is also a large community of friendly people, sharing their moods, celebrating each others' happiness, and supporting each other when they're down.
People post many times a day – some tracking their mood from the moment they wake to the point their head hits the pillow at night! We organize people's posts into their personal mood diary where they can view it many different ways: graphically, as a mood feed, broken down by metrics and even location based on a map.
Q: What's the back story? What led to it?
Larter: MoodPanda got started in a pub in Bristol, England. A friend was asking people round the table how their day was and somebody replied with a 10/10. My response was if today was the best day ever what happens if tomorrow is the same as today but then something else amazing happens (I think it included the "pussy cat dolls"), and we chatted for a while on this. The next day I started thinking about the question and told Jake (Co-Founder) about the idea and it went from there. We both work in software development so building the site was not an issue.
We are on MoodPanda version 3 at the moment. For the first 2 versions of the site we built it to track just your own mood. It was only once we added commenting and "hugs" to the current version that we realised that people wanted the interaction with each other. This is when our user based really started to grow.
Q: What impact has it had? What have you heard from users?
Larter: Since the iPhone app has gone live it is growing quickly with many thousands of new user every month, over 60% now come from the Apple app store. We're seeing about 1000 active user ratings a day. Hugs are a very popular feature. Panda users give out hundreds a day.
One thing we've learned is that there seems to be a strong demand for a place online where people can share their feelings with others who don't know them in "real life", people who won't judge them. We see this in the data: only about 35% of mood ratings are passed through to Facebook and only 2% to Twitter. And we've heard this directly from users who have posted that its nice to talk to people that are interested in mood and wellbeing and don't judge them.
Feedback from users has been fantastic, and in some cases very heartwarming. We've even had users tell us that they've "lived with years of hurt until they discovered MoodPanda".
We've now got so many users in the UK that our mood map is pretty representative. Our UK live mood map was quite similar to the UK Government official one from last year. We also put together a nice infographic of all of our data from 2011.
We are always trying out new ideas, and some have not been well received. We had done some complicated graphs and visualization in the past, and we've learned that keeping it simple is the key to moodpanda.
I also never quite realised how much time is needed after all the technical work is done. I spend a ton of time talking on the radio, public speaking, blogging, twittering, etc. about MoodPanda.
Q: What makes it different, sets it apart?
Larter: What makes MoodPanda stand apart are its simplicity and community. Other mood tracking apps are very clinical and can often be intimidating to people first trying to track their mood. We keep it simple: rate your happiness from 0-10 and, if you want, say a few words about what is influencing your mood. The design and ethos of MoodPanda has been carefully cultivated to create a friendly, open and easy first step into happiness tracking.
The large community of "moody pandas" is the other major feature, as other mood tracking apps (like our first 2 versions) are private. We of course have users who want to remain private, but 92% of our users are posting as part of of the community. We have people giving "panda hugs" and commenting with help and advice constantly in the site and genuine caring friendships are being formed constantly. We're working hard to understand what helps this community aspect of MoodPanda and build on it.
Q: What are you doing next? How do you see MoodPanda evolving?
Larter: We recently started tracking hashtags so we could do stats on the sentiment of people's comments that linked to the mood ratings. We've found that #coffee, #friends, and #food are associated with more happiness, and #sick and #work with less. We're wondering whether we will learn whether some brands are strongly associated with mood (for example whether new #coke is good or bad) in ways that you can't learn from normal brand sentiment tools.
We are working on the android app, and we've got a lot of ideas in the development pipeline involving more community features and technologies like an API.
Jake and I still have to go to work at our day jobs, but MoodPanda is a project that we both care deeply about. We've set a budget of $100 a month to spend on MoodPanda, so we do everything ourselves and get as creative as we can.
Q: Anything else you'd like to say?
Larter: Just a big thanks to you guys and girls at quantified self, its nice to talk to others that are as excited and interested in QS, if people continue to use moodpanda it to make themselves happier, we know we have done a good job!
Product: MoodPanda
Website: http://moodpanda.com
Platform: web, iPhone
Price: free
This is the ninth post in the "Toolmaker Talks" series. The QS blog features intrepid self-quantifiers and their stories: what did they do? how did they do it? and what have they learned? In Toolmaker Talks we hear from QS enablers, those observing this QS activity and developing self-quantifying tools: what needs have they observed? what tools have they developed in response? and what have they learned from users' experiences? If you are a "toolmaker" and want to participate in this series, contact Rajiv Mehta at firstname.lastname@example.com
Erik Kennedy wanted to automate his happiness, so he started recording mood-changing events every day to find out what really made him happy or unhappy. After gathering 330 events, he categorized them and discovered that friendships and work were making him most frequently happy, while sickness and girl trouble were on the less happy side. Erik shares his thoughtful takeaways in the video below, including the lesson that the recipe for happiness does not have many ingredients. (Filmed by the Seattle QS Show&Tell meetup group.)
George Lawton studies happiness, and how to have more of it. In the video below, he talks about emotional feedback tools, his research on how to incrementally increase happiness, and how he tried to change his mood by changing his facial expressions. George also discusses mirror meditation as a way to increase emotional well-being, engages the audience with healthy laughter, and mentions his next project, on love. (Filmed at the Bay Area Quantified Self meetup held at Adaptive Path).
George Lawton – Cultivating Happiness from Gary Wolf on Vimeo.
A reader over at my blog shared the NYT article Wandering Mind Is a Sign of Unhappiness, which reports on research by Killingsworth and Gilbert showing some surprises about distractedness. (My take: First, the least surprising result may be that the world's happiest activity is reproduction. Second, almost half of the time we are not focused on what we're doing, and this makes us unhappier.) The timing of this report is perfect given Ian's recent Self-Tracking Tools post, where he talks about the Track Your Happiness project that the scientists used, along with supporting mobile apps and tools. The study is well-reported, so I'll riff on it from two perspectives: How do we combine the results with self-experimentation to be happier? and What are the wider implications for citizen science and an experiment-driven life?
Here is a guest post by Matthew Cornell, who gave a presentation last week at The Boston Quantified Self Meetup Group #3 in Cambridge, MA. From Matthew:
Here is a guest post by Matthew Cornell, who gave a presentation last week at The Boston Quantified Self Meetup Group #3 in Cambridge, MA.
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These slides are loosely based on my essay on the field of self-tracking and what's missing: The Experiment-Driven Life. (You might also like my earlier post Attention Data Hounds: What Personal Data Are You Tracking?, which includes An Incomplete Summary of Personal Informatics.)
In it I explain what I think is missing from the self-tracking data movement, why it needs to be part of a personal scientific method, how it makes you happier, and a little about our edison ™ Experimenter's journal tool to help live everything in life as an experiment.
Give it a look and let me know what you think! It's my first take, and I'm developing the ideas as I write my book, "Think, Try, Learn: A scientific method for discovering happiness." Care to join in?


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23andMe may have had a bigger impact on society than I previously thought, and that's probably because of the famed search engine founder that's backing the venture.
23andMe may have had a bigger impact on society than I previously thought, and that's probably because of the famed search engine founder that's backing the venture.
Live Gamer has officially launched today with $24 million in venture funding from Charles River Ventures, Kodiak Venture Partners, and Pequot Ventures. The site is set up to be a legitimate marketplace for trading virtual goods--land, services, characters, etc. Targeting MMOGs and their loyal players, it's a wonder eBay was so determined to miss out on this opportunity.
After launching its service, a round of funding, and some partnerships with other platforms and services, fix8 is gearing up to offer a new website that features simplified software downloads and new video and avatar options. For those of you that are already wary and skeptical of downloads, you'll either be somewhat relieved or indifferent about Fix8's new software download.
Practically hours after we complained about Pownce not having true mobile support, they surprise us and introduce just that over at mobile.pownce.com (or, shorter, m.pownce.com). It's a very hush-hush launch consisting of little more than a Pownce post by Kevin Rose, and it's described by Pownce's Daniel Burka as super-alpha. So - I thought - time for me to fire up my trusty Sony Ericsson P1i, armed with the latest version of Opera Mini, and see how this thing works.
Google has extended their Sitemaps to include support for videos, which means your videos will be more easily indexed by Google's Video search. In practice, this means that webmasters will now be able to create a new Sitemap in which they can specify all videos (and metadata that goes with them) on the site. One of the benefits of this, for example, is that Google will be able to generate a thumbnail of your video and place it in the search results.
Once you've got your system going, you can't just sit on your laurels, you need to keep making it more and more enticing for users to keep heading back to you. Sure, some folks just go for making the site prettier, but nothing beats added content or functionality. Some go further than others, but even the little things can be a nicety. Here's our list of the best upgrades of 2007.
Animoto now has downloads. The service that launched a few months ago as a tool for automatically creating compelling videos based on your submitted images and music, now gives you the option of downloading your videos in MP4 video format for Macs or PCs. The additional service is still free. By allowing users to download their videos, Animoto is broadening the way in which content can be experienced and shared.
Social network Bebo has launched a platform full of resources on wellbeing, mental health and social care, called Be Well. It's available to all Bebo users, providing them with expert advice and information from 12 partner organizations, such as Samaritans, Beat and Mencap. "We recognise that our community socializes online and appreciates easy access to support services from within Bebo which may not be as readily accessible in the real world.
Ticketmaster has signed a deal with the NFL to launch a new web site for after market ticket sales. StubHub, which was purchased by eBay for more than $300 million earlier this year, is the leader in the market, which allows fans to sell their tickets to each other online. Meanwhile, Ticketmaster already offers individual sites for 18 NFL teams where fans can resell their tickets, but the idea here is that a centralized location for ticket exchanges endorsed by the league will help drive sales.
Authorize.net, the online payment service, has chosen FreshBooks as part of its toolbox package it began to offer early this year. The Merchant Toolbox, launched in February, has the goal of providing merchants with additional tools to run more aspects of their businesses, beyond accepting online payments. As most services that deal in this financial end have done, Authorize.net has begun to expand its core offerings to make running an online business more central to its own service.
I am proud to announce the first west coast MashMeet: MashMeet LA! The event will be held at Boe in the Crescent Hotel (Beverly Hills). This will also be your first chance to meet Pete Cashmore himself at a MashMeet. Also, a big thanks to Andrew Warner, host of LA's successful Mixergy events, for helping to organize the event. The Date and Time: Thursday, January 24th from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM.
Internet Explorer users, your Facebook toolbar has finally arrived. Facebook launched a browser toolbar for Firefox last year, but has not yet made available an official toolbar for IE, which, despite what you might like to believe, still owns the majority of the Web browser market. Thus, some third-party developers have built My FB Toolbar, a toolbar with much the same capabilities as the official one from Facebook for Firefox.
Google News has added some search features that make it much easier to track down an article, especially one you are trying to remember from a few days ago. The improved "advanced search" feature allows you to enter in both your search term and a partial source name, and will offer suggestions as you type for potential sources.
MashMeet NYC is tonight! As a reminder, we've teamed up with the New York Web 2.0 Meetup for this event, which means there are over 250 people registered to attend. It should be a great holiday party for the NY Web community. In addition, we're going to have a film crew present that will be interviewing startups and other attendees, thanks to Stephanie Frasco of Ask Frasco and For Your Imagination Studios.
Joe Wilcox, who makes a living covering Microsoft, has not surprisingly concluded that for web-based office tools like Google Docs: "the channel strategies aren't working. Awareness is poor and very few consumers use the services. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer can sleep easy tonight." To his credit, Wilcox bases his analysis on a study that shows that 94 percent of US consumers have never tried a web-based Office alternative.
The New York Times' Bits blog put out a hit piece on eBay today, enumerating a problem that isn't reflected by the company's bottom line at all, but is supported by the anecdotal evidence of two people: Ina Steiner and Scot Wingo. I checked in with two people who spend all day talking to those who sell on eBay: Ina Steiner, of AuctionBytes, a newsletter for online sellers, and Scot Wingo, the chief executive of Chanel Advisor, a firm that helps big companies sell through eBay and other sites.
Amazon has partnered up with a new startup with a business model that looks good on a high level, but may be very difficult to implement. Sellaband asks the users to become investors in up and coming artists and bands, in return for a stake in the band. $10 will get you a one five thousandth stake, and you get to keep some of the profits once the band makes it big. So you'd better do your part to help promote.
The top 3 nominees in the "Mainstream or Large Social Networks" category were a bit surprising, though, given our large following in the UK and our diverse set of blog partners for the awards, it's not too shocking to see two big international names on the list. Here's a quick look at the nominees: Bebo: Often recognized as the third most popular social network behind MySpace and Facebook, Bebo claims more than 40 million members worldwide.
The Davos Question; it is yet another spinoff of the YouTube-CNN debates, in a way. Ed Sanders of the YouTube Europe team today announced on the Official Google Blog the involvement that YouTube will be playing in this year's World Economic Forum. The forum takes place in Davos, Switzerland, is billed as a conference on "how to make the world a better place," though with a charter like that, it is hard to understand why it has always been protested against so heartily.
Two new features from Match.com are aimed at getting new users to sign up for the service. One is targeted at the shy crowd, and one is targeted at the outgoing crowd--Facebook. The Little Black Book feature lets Match.com users find other Facebook members that also have an account on Match.com. From the looks of it, this appears to be a Facebook application that shows Facebook users with Match.com accounts.
More features have been revealed for the upcoming Netvibes Ginger as the company begins beta testing today, and some of them look pretty interesting. As you may remember, Ginger is Netvibes' set of Social APIs, aimed at making the personalized start page a more social experience. See initial coverage here, and additional coverage here.
Shoeboxed is one of those web-based tools that helps you organize your life--namely your finances. With a provided email address for you to submit your online transaction receipts, newsletters, updates, etc., Shoeboxed tracks and organizes your expenses accordingly. See initial coverage here. Now there's a new tool from Shoeboxed, that will take a portion of its service into the offline world.
Snoopr is a bookmarking tool that lets you add items for deals on products across the web and in physical locations. The site's take on helping you save money while shopping online is to leverage the power of the community to help you find the deals. The site has launched its second version of Snoopr today, with a few new features. The trophy case is interesting because it displays items that users have purchased, and tracks the amount of money that user has saved as a result of getting a good deal.
QuickJump, the extensive blogging network for coverage of all things concerning online and console games, is being auctioned off for a cool $5 million as its minimum bid. The high auction price is largely due to QuickJump's extensive network, which includes niche blogging sites for Nintendo, MMORPGs, Gadgets, PC Gaming, XBox 360, and many more. These will all be included for the auction. According to SitesFS, QuickJump's owner has reported $60,000 in monthly revenue for its network.
SheKnows is continuing to build up its network with its second acquisition in two months; LovingYou, a network for marriage and relationships, is the latest addition to the SheKnows family. Having just bought Soaps.com last month, SheKnows is ramping up its content reach through acquisitions and not partnerships.
Perhaps you've noticed that we've been keeping an eye on advertising trends and how they relate to online and social networking potential. It's clear that advertising is expected to generally increase in the online sector, even at a slower pace in some areas, and the trend is the same specifically for the automobile industry.
The acquisition of European online trading site Tradus has been expected for some time now, but the acquisition price from South Africa-based Naspers, has in fact paid more than what reports forecast over the weekend. At $36.32 per share, Naspers valued Tradus at nearly $2 billion, which is 26.7% higher than the average share price during Naspers' most recent half-year, according to Paid Content.
Ustream.TV issued a major announcement today - they've secured angel round funding from Band of Angels and Western Technology Investors for an undisclosed amount, as well as funding from a "leading Japanese investor" and an "very prominent Dallas-area billionaire." In case you've never given a second thought to UStream, now's the time to stand up and pay attention.
eBay's been around for some time now, and it's managed to remain dominant in online commerce. But the company overall has undergone some drastic changes in an effort to stay on top--acquisitions, stakes in other companies, a slew of independent classifieds sites.
Lycos Network Europe is the latest to sign wunderloop for its targeted ad solutions. The European portal will be using wunderloop to target and manage the company's online advertising. Wunderloop will be implementing its custom option for Lycos' German, British, French and Danish markets. The financial details of this exclusive partnership have not been disclosed.


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Michelle "Adolf" McGee and Jamie Jungers, Jesse James and Tiger's skanarellas, are trying to extend their 15 minutes by hosting a TV show "Celebrity Cheaters." The classy ladies are gonna try to catch celebs creepin'. Pop the hood.
Jon Gosselin is Choppin' Down Octomom for a New Reality Show…
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A collection of drabbles, vignettes and short stories about how Seto Kaiba is not cuddly. Challenge fanfic from the LJ community 10snuggles. SetoxJounouchi
Seto Kaiba Does Not Cuddle
By LilyChan
Chapter Thirteen
A First
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
It was the last day of school. The two had started to go steady earlier that week. Seto was still very unsure of starting a homosexual relationship that was so open. Jou told him that if he trusted him, he promised things will be okay. So far, it had been heaven for the two. They had gave each other glances every so often during class, especially when no one was paying attention to either.
The brunet didn't want to be near his friends, thus Jou understood. It was disappointing at first that he still didn't consider Yuugi and the others his friends, but that was alright since he still was able to hang out with them as long as they didn't intervene with their relationship.
"Finally, you can see why Kaiba has a 10ft pole up his ass!" joked Honda. Jou laughed along with the rest of his friends while Yuugi just sighed.
Even though it took some time for Seto even set aside his pride to admit that he had some attraction to the blond, Jou appreciated all the little things. He sighed as he recalled the memory of when he saw Kaiba in his most vulnerable state - sleeping.
It had been extremely warm that day and Jou decided to pay a visit to his secret area that he goes to in the park. He wanted to take a short nap before he would go to work as the waiter at the local diner, but to his surprise, he saw something he honestly didn't expect.
Seto Kaiba sleeping.
He didn't know how to take it. He walked closer to him to see how he looked whilst sleeping and he was surprised, once again, to see him sleeping with a slight smile. He was officially scared and decided to go ahead and arrive early.
For the rest of the day, all he could see when he closed his eyes was Kaiba's face when he slept. He didn't expect Kaiba to be there, much less sleeping.
Now that he had gotten together with him, though, Jou realized that the brunet had trusted the blond (whether he realized it or not) enough to let him to see him slumber.
"I don't know why," Kaiba said, bringing the blond back to earth, "but I feel like sleeping every time I lie in your lap."
Jou laughed nervously, not ever wanting to admit he had caught him sleeping that day.
"I guess your bad habits are finally rubbing off on me, mutt." He said as he turned and shifted to get comfortable.
He smiled and rubbed his head. "I guess so, Moneybags."


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Pepperoni Pizza-Topped Potatoes
Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 potato, 1/2 cup topping, and 1/4 cup cheese)
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 374
- Calories from fat: 24%
- Fat: 9.9g
- Saturated fat: 4.1g
- Monounsaturated fat: 3.8g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1.3g
- Protein: 17.1g
- Carbohydrate: 55.4g
- Fiber: 5.3g
- Cholesterol: 37mg
- Iron: 4.1mg
- Sodium: 556mg
- Calcium: 227mg
- 4 baking potatoes (about 1 1/2 pounds)
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 cup diced green bell pepper
- 1 teaspoon bottled minced garlic
- 2/3 cup bottled pizza sauce
- 1/2 cup turkey pepperoni slices, cut in half (about 2 ounces)
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 1 cup chopped tomato
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 cup (4 ounces) preshredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- Pierce the potatoes with a fork, and arrange in a circle on paper towels in microwave oven. Microwave at high for 16 minutes or until done, rearranging potatoes after 8 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes.
- While the potatoes cook, heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion, bell pepper, and garlic; stir-fry 5 minutes. Add pizza sauce, pepperoni, and red pepper; reduce heat, and simmer 3 minutes. Stir in tomato and water; simmer 3 minutes.
- Split potatoes open with fork; fluff pulp. Spoon pepperoni mixture evenly over potatoes. Top with cheese.
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July 20, 2010
With two events being held simultaneously on the PGA TOUR and another on Nationwide Tour soil last week, former Gateway Pro Tour players now playing the big circuits had their pick of where they could make an impact at the top of the leaderboard.
Well, with touted Alum, Sean O'Hair, coming in with a solid T7 performance at the Old Course in the 150th Open Championship (and former player, Jeff Overton, barely missing a top-10, with his T11 effort), six former Gateway Pro Tour players notching top-10s at the Reno-Tahoe Open, and Alum, Tommy Gainey, winning the Chiquita Classic on the Nationwide Tour, last week was an utter home run for Gateway Pro Tour graduates.
Starting with O'Hair's gutsy — or should we say, gusty — tied-for-low-American performance on the wind swept links of St. Andrews, the former Desert Series member is quietly putting together a impressive June-July combo of T12/T12/T11/T7 in some pretty big tournaments; that is, if you consider the Memorial, U.S. Open, AT&T National and British Open high profile events. Add in another T12 in late May at the HP Byron Nelson and a T4 at the season-opening SBS Championship, and O'Hair's $1.45 million in '10 earnings and current 36th place standing in the FedEx Cup say he's more than primed to continue a great year.
Can anyone say Ryder Cup? O'Hair currently stands at 19th on the points list, but the 2009 President's Cup team member is definitely heading on the right track to add his name on this year's Ryder Cup roster as well.
Now on to that little nugget of six former Gateway Tour players tearing it up at the Reno-Tahoe Open: The opposite-field event to the Open Championship impressively fielded Alumni John Merrick (T3), Kevin Stadler (T5), Martin Flores (T10), Paul Stankowski (T10), Bill Lunde (T10) and Robert Garrigus (T10) into the top 10. Granted, the high-country tournament just on the other side of Reno may have been overshadowed by that old school major being contested across the pond, but the solid play from the large contingent of Gateway Pro Alumni had our attention last week, nevertheless.
As did the final Alumni congratulatory note we're excited to dish out to one of our longtime friends: Tommy Gainey winning his second Nationwide Tour event of the season, and second in four starts. The colorful former Gateway Pro Tour member — more affectionately and well-known as " Tommy Two Gloves" — is not only a two-time winner on the Nationwide Tour this year now by winning last week's Chiquita Classic after his Melwood Prince George's County Open in June, but because of another runner-up finish and solo third earlier in the year, not to mention a few other solid made cuts, Gainey has accrued over $300,000 in earnings, which makes the man who wears two golf gloves number one on the money list. Looks like Tommy is headed back for another shot at the PGA TOUR next year, and this time with some serious credentials behind him.
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In February 2011, USP launched a pilot Technical Assistance Program (TAP) to provide developing countries with tools and training to increase their capacity to test the quality of medicines provided for their citizens.
Typically, USP and other pharmacopeias sell reference and documentary standards to pharmaceutical manufacturers and quality control laboratories around the world for testing purposes. Constrained by limited resources, the national laboratories in developing countries may resort to using unreliable or outdated standards, and/or may not be equipped to offer their analysts the scientific training required to appropriately analyze medicines. As such, these laboratories may not obtain accurate results when they test questionable samples—a serious gap in quality assurance that can lead to severe health outcomes for patients, including prolonged disease and death. TAP aims to make such measures unnecessary, because it provides USP standards at no cost to participants.
Specifically, TAP equips countries with a comprehensive package of
- Pharmaceutical reference standards (very pure physical samples used as reference chemicals to test medicines)
- Documentary standards (written specifications)
- Technical training (on topics such as HPLC and other analytical methods and the effective use of standards)
Countries in the pilot are Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Egypt—all of whom have committed to improving public health through the activities of their medicine quality control laboratories. Many of these countries have been working with USP's Promoting the Quality of Medicines (PQM) program, funded by USAID, which collaborates with local authorities to detect and remove substandard and counterfeit medicines from the market through technical support and public awareness outreach. TAP aims to complement and reinforce this work, although it is managed separately.
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At the end of the pilot period, USP and the participating labs will assess progress in such areas as number and variety of drug samples tested; number of substandard or counterfeit drugs detected; and improved access to quality medicines. If the pilot is successful, the program may be renewed or expanded with the initial participants and extended to other countries.
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Gov. Nathan Deals will likely ask the Georgia General Assembly to pass legislation that will control what district attorneys in the state's judicial circuits can or can't do with seized funds. Apparently the governor no longer feels they can be trusted with all the loot they seize following the successful prosecution of criminals. The apple spoiling the whole bunch in this case is Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard, criticized in recent weeks for how he spent forefeited dough. Some of the expenditures he lists are arguably allowable. For example, it should be OK for a district attorney to upgrade his home security system with seized funds. He or she should be able to protect themselves and their families from prosecuted criminals bent on payback. There's the recent slaying of a district attorney in Texas to remind everyone just how dangerous the job of chief prosecutor can be. Then there are the questionable expenditures, including ones that appear, at first glance, downright wrong. They include expensive dinners and tickets to events unrelated to the job of prosecutor. Now, Gov. Deal wants to rein in questionable spending, and who can blame him? Dollars and assets seized from criminals should be reinvested in the criminal justice system. That includes paying the salaries of prosecutors or investigators and donating to police or community projects designed to combat crime. It can even include youth organizations that provide preteens or teens positive experiences. What it should not be used for are expensive photo shoots of oneself or gifts for relatives. Most of the district attorneys across the state no doubt utilize forfeitures properly, on fighting crime. Budget cuts and trials that an cost hundreds of thousands of dollars give those dedicated to their job little other choice. They take their duty and obligation to the law-abiding public to heart. Then there are those whose actions set new laws in motion.