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When two 16-year-olds died in a fiery Montgomery County car crash last March, their demise might have been used as an object lesson for teenage lawlessness. On Tuesday, their deaths became part of a larger, troubling statistic.
Teenagers are dying in car crashes at a much higher rate, particularly 16- and 17-year-olds. Their death rate jumped 19 percent nationwide, with 240 killed in the first six months of last year, according to a report by the Governors Highway Safety Association.
"The numbers are small but important, since we know teen drivers kill other teens and other road users," said Jonathan Adkins, deputy executive directory of the GHSA. "States, the federal government and the private sector target a lot of attention and money to these young drivers, so it is logical to examine how they are doing."
In the Montgomery County crash, a 14-year-old also died and an 18-year-old was injured as the teenagers fled police pursuit at 100 mph in a stolen car on southbound Connecticut Avenue on March 23.
News that teenage deaths rose last year appears to foreshadow data showing that overall highway deaths increased in 2012, reversing several years of decline that were credited to vehicle and highway safety improvements and crackdowns on drunken and distracted driving.
Preliminary statistics showed a 7.1 percent overall jump in the first nine months of 2012, the biggest increase over that time span since federal officials began collecting traffic death data in 1975. Although numbers for the year overall are expected to reflect a similar increase, federal officials point out that they are a comparison with 2011, when deaths reached their lowest level in more than 60 years.
"We are still at a much better place than we were 10 or even five years earlier," said Allan Williams, the traffic safety researcher who did the study. "However, the goal is to strive toward zero deaths, so our aim would be that these deaths should go down every year."
Williams said the increase in teen fatalities comes because the positive effect of state graduated-licensing laws has leveled off. Graduated licensing, which is used in the District and in most states including Maryland and Virginia, puts restrictions on such things as the number of passengers a teenager can carry and nighttime driving while driving skills develop.
The GHSA report showed that in the first half of 2012, deaths of 16-year-old drivers increased to 107 from 86, or 24 percent, while the number for 17-year-old drivers rose to 130 from 116, or 15 percent, a cumulative increase of 19 percent.


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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Chased - pencil sketch Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Work in Progress View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Chased - pencil sketch" laslaukmemberMember #Joined: 30 May 2000Posts: 107Location: Finland Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2001 9:27 am I wanted to practise perspective by doing this. I like how it turned out, even though the fellow running away is too small. And the hair of the girl is a bit too rigid, I suppose.. Anyway, I'm just too tired to fix anything right now. I would like to add decent shadows and lighting, but I'll see if I have the interest to continue this one. My problem really is I'm very bad at finishing anything, I do have loads of sketches though All comments welcome. Back to top LightmemberMember #Joined: 01 Dec 2000Posts: 528Location: NC, USA Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2001 6:51 pm Good sketch. Try to break it down into light and shade now. Back to top WrathmemberMember #Joined: 02 Aug 2000Posts: 66Location: Tullahoma, TN Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2001 10:15 pm Great sketch, man! I really like the perspective. One thing that I would suggest is working on the female's balance because it looks like she's about to fall down the stairs because her weight is so far forward. Just bring her center of balance back a bit and you'll be set! Back to top feebsaintmemberMember #Joined: 09 Jan 2001Posts: 353Location: West Valley City, Utah, USA Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2001 11:22 pm ...also... Perspective books have relatively simple methods of measuring out things properly... like your small fellow in the background. This is a great start. I'd suggest, instead of improving on this one, move on to a new one, and hone your approach. As a point of possible interest... I used to hate perspective... now I absolutely love it. ------------------ ~-Mike May-~ mikespencil.com "I Draw Stuff" [This message has been edited by feebsaint (edited January 10, 2001).] Back to top DanmemberMember #Joined: 24 Sep 2000Posts: 224Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2001 1:56 pm just reintitle it, "Girl About to Break her Leg" perspective is one of my favorites because it combines my to favorite subjects, math and art. But the annoying part is that they keep reteaching it in school. I think I knew almost all of the rules of perspective in grade 6 or 7. For the next couple years I would be retaught 1 point, 2 point and the infamous 3 point as though I didn't know any of it. Now I am in grade nine and we're learning it again. Both in Art class and in tech class. I pretty much know more about it than the teacher. Sigh Back to top laslaukmemberMember #Joined: 30 May 2000Posts: 107Location: Finland Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2001 7:35 am Light: That's exactly what I wanted to do next. That is going to be difficult for me, since I have very little experience about rendering. Maybe I will do a quick sketch from this one and try to render the quick one first. Because I've got this feeling that I'm going to mess up the rendering at least on the first try. feebsaint: I like perspective too, I've been drawing mere objects for a long time, and one day I realised my drawings never had backgrounds. And that was because I didn't know about perspective enough and the bad background usually would have ruined the picture. So I borrowed this book from the library a couple of months ago and I'm really interested about the subject. Wrath: I agree that the girl is about to jump the whole staircase down with one leap, and probably will end up in a wheelchair. But I think that's what makes this picture interesting, it somehow describes the rage that the girl has. She really sees only the guy trying to escape and is going to kill him right now no matter the cost. I'm afraid the change of balance would make this picture less enthustiastic, more like "we're just running around the blocks, until either of us gets tired". Dan: Well, that's good for you. You should talk to your teachers and skip the lessons, I'm sure they're not idiots. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Work in Progress All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


text: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:11:17PM -0500, Robert G. Brown's all... > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Ken Chase wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:25:31PM +0100, KNT's all... > > > I'm only interested in calculating it theoretical (simple: on paper, no > > > computers used). Because it's needed for me to esteminate the power of a > > > non-existent cluster. I thought that the difference between > > > 'theoretical' and 'practical' will be obvious. My mistake. > > > > > > About 'power': I don't know an apropriate word in english for "computer > > > mathematical calculation ability" ;). > > > > The difference between 'fastest speed for single job execution' and > > 'number of jobs throughput per month' call for quite different cluster > > configurations for the money. > > > > Realistically I believe most people require the latter, but for some reason > > (bragging rights? impressing lay people?) the former is always sought > > after. Anyone care to comment? > > My only modifications of this are that you might add "per dollar spent" > and refer to "total work done" rather than number of jobs per se. Some > people might run only a single job per month, but be very interested in > the size or total amount of work that job could get done by some other > measure. As I said - 'for the money'. Its all about money, which is my primary critique of almost all cluster models discussed on the list here. Few people ever mention the actual per dollar cost, _AS IF_ they were working for the nuke stewardship project (well, some of them are.. but which? :), the DEA or colombian drug cartels (cmon, fess up, youz!). > Without the connection of money and cost benefit analysis, of course one > gets the fastest possible nodes and so forth. It's only when one looks > at the amount of work one can get done for your fixed budget that one > suddenly realizes that one can buy a very nice complete 2.4 GHz P4 > compute node for what one pays for a 3.0 GHz P4 CPU alone. Or you can get n nodes with myrinet or some other HSI (high speed interconnect) or you can get 2n or more nodes without HSI (in our case we got 2.8n in our own quote, and the vs competing quote for a cluster we offered 4x as many nodes as their HSI -- they were proposing all HA gear. I suppose you have to do that if you have so few nodes :). > CBA is the key to happy cluster design. Spend your money getting what > you need to get the most work done in the least amount of time, for your > budget. Now you're going to talk about power and cooling to run these things. Gosh, what are you, some sort of unapologetic REALIST?! BEGONE from our list! :) > Unless, of course, you are backed by the full buying power of the U.S. > Government, in which case you get whatever you damn well please...:-) See above. Its not just a CBA, its designing a cluster for whats its going to be used for. If you design it for one person to get their single job done in 1 hour, its only going to be good at that. n nodes gets the single job done in time t. If you have 2 jobs, its time 2 t. 10 jobs 10t. What if you managed to get 3n nodes for the same money by avoiding HSIs and went GBE? Now your jobs run in time 1.5t because it doesnt scale as well. To run 10 jobs takes 10 x 1.5t = 15 t on n nodes. But you have 3n nodes for the money. So your jobs take 15/3 t = 5 t. Your cluster has twice the 'thoughput' of the HSI cluster. Its not 'as fast' at single jobs, but it sure gets things done quick when more than 1 job is runnign (in this case 10 jobs was my baseline, running 3 at a time). Obviously the pathalogical case is to not get ANY HSI and put all the money into nodes. Run all jobs on single nodes. This gives 100% efficiency across the whole cluster, but is a pain in the ass to manage jobs. However, gigabit is around and its 1/10th the cost per node of HSI. It doesnt scale as well (ironically mitigating the need for huge fabric GBE switches - you can stick to cheap 12 and 16 port GBE, if you need switches at all), but it can scale (depending on what you're doing) relatively usefully for small numbers of nodes. So on a 100 node cluster you might find it a pain to run 100 jobs and manage them all for the sake of 'efficiency and throughput' but if you add GBE to the equation, you've increased the cost by 10% but you can now run things on several nodes at a time (again, depending on how parallelizable what you're runinng is and how sensitive it is to latency). So now you manage 8 or 12 or 15 jobs at a time, not 100. And you have more total throughput than if you had bought HSI gear. There may of course be some cutoff values which HSI performs above - you may see no slowdown at all on HSI gear with your particular computational model, but pathologically bad scaling on GBE. It really depends on your computational algorithms and amount of message passing, as always. However, for most things, HSI is subject to the same scaling concerns as GBE, its not a panacea. Its how much you want to pay to be able to get 50% total scaling efficiency running on 16 or 20 nodes instead of merely 8. ===== Im curious, when people see really poor scaling on their clusters (HSI or GBE or 100BT, doesnt matter) at like 16 or 32 or more nodes (Im thinking CHARMM and Gromacs here), what do you do with the extra cpu? Just let it float away unused? Do you use it? Do you run other jobs on them at the same time? Do you nice those jobs to 19? Do you see your cache being thrashed by this, as well as the scaling characteristics of your mesh degrade very steeply? /kc > rgb > > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ > Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 > Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 > Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu > > > -- Ken Chase, math at velocet.ca * Velocet Communications Inc. * Toronto, CANADA


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Letter to our Android backers, customers, and supporters
Dear Android user,
I want to take this opportunity to apologize for the abruptness of the November 13th Kickstarter announcement, to explain the background, and to update you on what we are doing to honor our commitment to provide Android users with the complete COOKOO watch experience.
At the onset of the COOKOO watch project, new Android phones claiming support for Bluetooth 4.0 were being announced and all indications were that these phones would fully support the Bluetooth Low Energy standard and that the APIs provided would be sufficient for app implementers. Our research supported this as the Bluetooth 4.0 chip vendor's APIs and libraries were already available and seemingly provided the tools needed for successful implementations.
The team has been working since June on the Android app, and while we encountered several challenges resulting from both incomplete and varied Bluetooth 4.0 implementations on multiple phone platforms, we were optimistic that a suitable Android solution was both feasible and imminent.
All of these implementations, however, were based-on the BlueZ Bluetooth 4.0 stack that was common to all Android platforms prior to Android 4.2.
The Android 4.2 release announced on November 13th came without the traditional BlueZ Bluetooth 4.0 stack support in favor of a new Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 solution . This came as a total surprise to the entire Bluetooth community. While this announcement promises a universal long-term Bluetooth 4.0 solution for Android, it means that our work will need to be redone for the newly released platform. Furthermore, the initial release did not include support for Bluetooth Low Energy:
"Android 4.2 introduces a new Bluetooth stack optimized for use with Android devices. The new Bluetooth stack developed in collaboration between Google and Broadcom replaces the stack based on BlueZ and provides improved compatibility and reliability." – developer.android.com
We are anxiously awaiting updates to Android that expose the new Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy functionality promised in this Android release. More information on Bluetooth 4.0 in Android may be found in some of the Samsung , HTC , and Android blogs on the subject.
In the hopes of clarifying to our backers and customers alike the efforts that we have made towards a universal Android solution and to finding short-term phone-specific workarounds for underlying Android issues, I have included a detailed sequence of events after my signature.
Should you have any further questions or are developer who wishes to get involved, please email us at email@example.com and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Our hope is that by reaching out to the developer community we can work together to find the workarounds to support one or more of the existing phone platforms, and once the Android platform supports it, accelerate the development and release of the universal Android COOKOO watch experience.
For those Kickstarter backers who wish to delay the receipt of their watch until an Android solution is released, please email us by November 25th at firstname.lastname@example.com and we will hang on to your rewards and ship them at that time.
Thank you for your continued support as we work towards both a short-term and universal long-term Android solution.
We remain committed to providing the complete COOKOO watch experience for Android as soon as the Android platform supports it.
Peter Hauser
ConnecteDevice Limited
http://www.bluez.org http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=s721534
http://developer.samsung.com/forum/board/thread/view.do?boardName=GeneralB&messageId=157757 http://olesitune.mine.nu/blelogg/?p=212
Khaalid McMillan on
Rooted app PLZ!
San San Roselyn on
Android user, rooted google nexus. Received the watch and it is now just a dummy watch. if this is NEVER gonna work with android. How will we be compensated?
dereksin on
Hi Peter. Please give updates to us, the Android users. Also, as a backer, I have left a message on connectedevice helpdesk at Wed, Dec 12. Still, no response from your side and it is already 24 DEC 2012 now! Also, I still haven't received the Cookoo watch.
- I am still waiting the watch, hope that x'mas present miracle will appear
- Disappointed for not receiving the Cookoo watch before x'mas
- Disappointed for not releasing your API for our rooted Android users and not giving updates to Android users for weeks.
- Disappointed that I see the watch selling around in Hong Kong CitySuper now, but I am watching the Cookoo through the 'window' and can do nothing.
Please, give us updates. Thanks very much for your hard work.
Andrew Bohinick on
I just got my watch in the mail. I have a andriod phone (2 of them to be exact) and I want to wear it and looking at your update I might not be able to use it with android because of a firmware update? I need to know what the word is please.
X to the M on
Android Android Android Android, Peter, what about you know, all your Android backers? UPDATE PLEASE
Stephen Piercey on
Peter, I think it's about time you open up your API information and give the Android community the current work on the "root only" app.
With that I'm sure we can work this out ourselves and actually get some use out of our currently non-connected watches.
Eric J WinstonSuperbackeron
Peter I would love to get an update on Android. I think you owe it to us as we have all been very patient. I have the galaxy note 2. If it is realistically not going to happen for a few months I would like to discuss a refund. I fully support the project and understand when issues come up. I think we all do. I also think we deserve updates on a very regular basis so that we know you have not forgotten us thanks
Michael Downey on
I know things have been busy, but any updates? I'm trying to decide if I should open the watch I received yesterday or give it as a gift to someone using the iOS platform. It's not entirely clear if this physical watch will eventually work on Android.
Peter Hauser Creator on
@Stephen - at this time we see no reason why our watch wouldn't work on either platform, however, given the recent changes (see November 13th post and above follow-up) we do not yet know what interoperability challenges may be introduced by the new (still to be released) Android Bluetooth 4.0 implementation.
Stephen Piercey on
So you're saying we should maybe delay shipping because we might need a firmware update that we cannot do ourselves? But there is no need to delay shipping?
It would be good to know one way or another. If you ship a watch that requires a firmware update for Android and we cannot do that update ourselves then you are plainly using false advertising for this product.
Even if you are shipping to an iOS user, if you suspect that the watch cannot also connect to a Android device(given the proper 4.0 spec) without a firmware update then you should really consider delaying all shipments.
Peter Hauser Creator on
@Raghucares - thank you - my weekend was mostly occupied with work but I like what I do :). You do not have to delay your watch shipping until the app is ready. If you wish to receive the watch in advance of the Android app's release, just let us know by filing a ticket at support.connectedevice.com. Be sure to include your full email address so that we can cross-reference your reward.
raghucares on
hey Peter,
Hope you had a fun weekend. Do I have to delay my watch shipping till the app is ready or can i get watch and wait for the android app?
Peter Hauser Creator on
@XMalina - thanks for raising our attention to any inconsistencies on the website. Regarding the battery life - can you point to where we state "not needing to have its batteries replaced for a year"? I believe that we have consistently stated that the battery lasts for "up to a year" in the past, but if not, please help us find where we have stated otherwise and we will correct the messaging.
@All - actual battery life is dependent upon the number of alerts received, frequency of disconnection/reconnection events, etc. Users should expect to replace the battery once a year and some users may need to replace their batteries more than once.
X to the M on
Peter, please alter your website to reflect the facts of your product: If you do not, you are opening yourself up to very large legal liabilities.
Also, please report on the updated battery life of the watch since it is currently advertised as not needing to have its batteries replaced for a year.
Peter Hauser Creator on
@Benton - you should be good to go when Google updates the 4.2 with Bluetooth 4.0 support and releases the new API to developers so that we can adapt the app for Android 4.2 support.
Benton Cambridge on
i just got the nexus 4 with android 4.2 so i should be good to go... right??
Peter Hauser Creator on
@Jeremy - at this time we do not anticipate that a FW update will be needed in order to overcome Android challenges - however, we cannot guarantee this and therefore are giving our backers and customers the option to wait until the Android version is released if they wish to.
@Filon - we apologize if your email wasn't responded-to promptly. We are experiencing a very high volume of emails, requests, and and messages since our update on November 13th and since we started contacting our backers to confirm reward details prior to shipment. We appreciate your patience as we work through the logistics in an effort to get watches out to backers before the holidays.
Craig Myers on
Is there a list of Android phones it should work for?
LowSky on
As an Android user I'm perplexed by the problem. The biggest problem is even with Android 4.2 being released it doesn't help many current phones with Bluetooth 4.0 as many, like the Samsung Galaxy S3 will not have Android 4.2 for quite some time, maybe never unless someone roots and installs a newer ROM themselves. Even when 4.2 is readily available many phones will be released with older software as their teams developed for months using the older release.
This is why I have a huge problem. I went into this expect a fully working product. Now I'm told if I get my watch on time it might need a firmware update to work with Android, and that firmware update cannot be done by me. Or I can wait a bit longer and maybe things will work but only if my phone has Android 4.2 or a rooted phone, which realistically means I need it rooted regardless as most phones will not get a 4.2 update anytime soon other than the Nexus devices. Lets face it the challenge presented to us doesn't really give a full reason of the problem at hand, and maybe it could be addressed by the community and not just a few paid developers.
Peter Hauser Creator on
@Kristian - unfortunately not. The watch requires disassembly in order to update the firmware which can only be done by specially trained staff with the appropriate tools.
@Christian (and others) thanks for the support and suggestions on how to best manage our Android user-base.
Kristian Aasgård on
Is it possible to update the firmware ourselves? What if we have ordered more than one watch, do we have to ship all at the same time?
Christian Herzler on
Thanks for this honest update. Lets work on a solution together:
Start a survey to ask all Android Backers if they've rooted their phones or would root it to enable the BT 4.0 features. I think no one will be mad if you ask them....
Peter Hauser Creator on
@Android users - as we have not yet seen the newly announced Android Bluetooth 4.0 solution there is an outside chance that a firmware update will be needed in order to support yet to be released Android products. We are offering Android users the option for us to hang-on to rewards until we have confirmed interoperability.
@ Rooted phone users - thank you for supporting this option. We will definitely reconsider given all we have learned in the past month and post another update once we have determined our best course of action.
@Karl - if your phone and Kindle fire are 12 months old, please double-check that they do in-fact support Bluetooth 4.0 as only Bluetooth 4.0 HW enabled phones can communicate with the COOKOO watch and keyfob.
Regan Davis on
Is it safer to request delay of the watch? Is there a chance that this android solution would require a phase 2 version of the watch?
Kristian Aasgård on
A version for rooted phones would absolutely be better than no support. I'd rather root my Galaxy S3 than buy a Nexus. I was backing Cookoo as I wanted it as an accessory for my S3. Not buying a new phone as accessory for the clock.
Karl on
Good point on the earlier versions - I responded by saying that I wanted to delay release, I'm changing my view... I've got a 12 month old HTC and a Kindle Fire UK version - neither are relevant to the andriod issues. Is it not possible to release an update?
Still looking forward to my cookoo
Eric J WinstonSuperbackeron
Peter thanks for the honest update. I know you guys are working hard and know we all support you and want the best product you can get us. Good luck and hopefully we will be seeing an Android app soon.
Todd Lampone on
I would root my phone for this.
Stephen Piercey on
I agree with some of the previous comments. Why is releasing an early root only app an unacceptable short term solution? As it stands this app will probably only work on the newest nexus phones (galaxy and 4) since they will be the only ones that will run 4.2 anytime soon. And as it turns out those phones are very easily root-able.
Now I understand that it is not a final solution and work should not be finished until there is a version in the play store. But for the meantime I see no reason to hold back the root only app.
Fredrik Cedric Blomqvist on
Thanks a lot for the update and it is at least something that you are working on it. Though I can't deny that this was a let down, for me and the rest of the 73% of people who use Android in this world...
Robert Foster on
Thank you for the update. It really shows you do care about the Android users. Honestly if there is an interim solution of allowing rooted users I for one would be ok with that. I know a large chunk of Android users are rooted. From what I'm reading though only phones on 4.2 and higher will be compatible with this solution. Is that correct? That is really going to narrow us down to...well just nexus flavors for now. I'm up for a new phone on Verizon, and the last thing I want to do is think about getting a galaxy nexus. Guess I'll just wait for now. :(
Marc Scala on
Thank you Peter for your very thorough and well stated update. I'm confident that things will work out in time. I for one will be taking my reward when available. I'm excited about the product and all that is to come. Regards, Marc Scala
Omni Consumer ProductsSuperbackeron
Thanks for the update and background. It helps to understand the challenges you're dealing with and how some of these things are totally out of your control. I wish some of the other projects that I'm backing dealing with similar issues addressed what's happening as thoroughly as you - at least now I understand what's going on. Good luck and good work! :)
Jason Moore on
I'd echo Varun Nangia - I'd be more than satisfied with a solution that requires root since my phone is already rooted.
Varun Nangia on
Thank you for this exceedingly useful update. My question to you is this: a number of us do run our phones rooted. Would you be willing to host the APK outside of the Play Store for those of us who do want to run it? Consider it an early beta.


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Jan. 26, 2014
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (seminoles.com) – The help of a strong supporting cast gave the No. 24/25 Florida State women's basketball team a big lift on Sunday afternoon as it defeated Virginia Tech, 70-54, in an ACC tilt at the Donald L. Tucker Center.
Freshman forward Ivey Slaughter contributed 12 points and 12 boards in what was her eighth double-double of the season, while sophomore guard Emiah Bingley came off the bench to deliver 13 points – all in the first half – to help build a sizeable lead early that the Hokies (10-9, 0-6) were never able to overcome.
The Seminoles (15-5, 3-4) snapped their four-game losing streak by allowing their defense to help create their offense, forcing 25 Virginia Tech turnovers that helped lead to 22 points. It was Florida State's largest amount of turnovers forced in conference play and its fourth-most forced this season.
"I thought our communication was much better on the defensive end today and it allowed us to get out in passing lanes, "FSU head coach Sue Semrau said. "For both 'Tasha and Brittany (Brown) to come up with five steals each was big in helping us get our transition going. We felt like our back was against the wall and they practiced that way, and that helped make a difference in today's game."
FSU senior forward Natasha Howard erupted for 15 points in the second half and finished with 17 points and a career-high tying five steals. Throughout the game, Virginia Tech pinched two defenders on Howard and allowed players like Slaughter to get wider lanes to the hoop as well as take advantage of the offensive glass.
Slaughter gave the 'Noles a giant spark early with her aggression to the cup. The fearless freshman is averaging 8.5 rebounds this season and is on pace to average the highest amount of rebounds by a freshman at FSU since former player Lorraine Rimson averaged 8.7 boards in her first year in 1983-84.
Bingley did not attempt a shot in the second half, but her 13 points in the first half was a shot in the arm for FSU. She is shooting 12-of-31 from long range this season (38.7 percent), and is only two games removed from nailing a team-best five 3-pointers at Virginia.
Senior point guard Cheetah Delgado assisted the 'Noles tremendously with a strong all-around game. The floor leader recorded nine points on 4-of-6 shooting, dished out nine assists and only committed two turnovers with the ball in her hands for much of the 39 minutes she played. The Nancy Lieberman Award Watch List candidate tied her season low for turnovers, committing just two against Michigan State and Prairie View A&M earlier this season.
Redshirt junior Lauren Coleman provided a lift off the bench, recording her fourth game in which she made multiple 3-point field goals. The resident of Lawrenceville, Ga., hit two from long range and gave good energy in her 13 minutes of action. Freshman Brittany Brown made her presence felt defensively, tying her career high with five steals.
Virginia Tech made 20-of-46 (43.5 percent) from the field but was just 3-of-14 (21.4 percent) from 3-point range. FSU shot 40.6 percent from the floor but used six 3-pointers to its advantage, its second-most in conference play behind seven three's at Virginia. While both teams finished even on the glass with 35 rebounds apiece, FSU held Virginia Tech senior forward Uju Ugoka to just one offensive rebound, tying her season low.
Ugoka would finish with a game-high 22 points and 10 rebounds, but committed eight turnovers. Guard Monet Tellier added 14 points on 4-of-7 shooting.
Virginia Tech began to creep back into the game trailing 49-33 with 14:14 remaining. Ugoka was aggressive in taking the ball to the hole, scoring 16 points on 8-of-12 shooting to help the Hokies fight back. However, FSU did not allow the Hokies to cut into the deficit much over the next few minutes, using a three-point play by Howard underneath to put the 'Noles on top 57-39 with 11:20 remaining.
Howard would play a huge role in the second half, using three "and-1's" to quell any chances of a Virginia Tech comeback. Howard sparked a late 7-0 run that allowed FSU to stretch its lead to 70-52 with 1:13 remaining, highlighted by five points from her during the run.
The 'Noles took a 42-20 halftime lead into the locker room on a buzzer-beating half-court shot from Delgado, who also had a half-court buzzer-beater in last year's ACC Tournament semifinals against Duke. It was FSU's largest halftime lead in ACC play, as it was bolstered by the play of Slaughter and Bingley while generating 15 Virginia Tech turnovers.
Bingley was hot from the outside in the first half, hitting her first three-point attempts and finishing the first 20 minutes with 13 points off the bench on 5-of-6 shooting. Slaughter contributed to FSU's big edge in points off turnovers (14-6) and second-chance points (10-4), garnering 12 points and nine rebounds at the half.
The 'Noles out-shot Virginia Tech in the first half, shooting 46 percent compared to 40 percent by the Hokies. FSU forced 15 turnovers, halfway toward its season high of 28 turnovers forced against Prairie View A&M on Nov. 17.
Florida State forced Virginia Tech into six turnovers on its first seven possessions, generating seven points off turnovers to take an early 15-7 lead with 14:17 left. Morgan Jones helped FSU with four points early on a couple pull-up jumpers, and Slaughter contributed on the glass and in the scoring column with five early points and five boards.
Slaughter continued to dominate the boards, garnering 12 points and nine rebounds as FSU took a 24-13 lead with 7:53 remaining in the first half. She had nine of FSU's first 11 rebounds in the game and continued to give the 'Noles second-chance opportunities on the offensive glass, as FSU held an early 8-0 advantage in the specialty category.
FSU gets back on the road with an important conference matchup at Wake Forest on Sunday, Feb. 2, at 2 p.m.
For more information on Florida State women's basketball, follow the Seminoles on Twitter at @FSU_WBasketball and like their official Facebook page (Facebook.com/FSUWomensBasketball).


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Less than three weeks after laying eyes on what is now our 440 Sea Ray, we were cruising the Gulf Shore of Florida with the dolphins in our wake, all thanks to the good people at South Shore Marie. This reconditioned 2007 Sundancer is in such pristine condition you would think it is brand new. From our initial contact with Tom and Mike, the process proceeded like clockwork. From financing, to documentation, to arranging transportation from Huron to Naples, to going so far as to having the boat's lead service technician meet us at the dock to launch her and "show us the ropes" (literally and figuratively), South Shore Marine handled everything. They exceeded every one of our expectations at every turn. providing, hands-down, the best customer service either of us have ever experienced.
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SIOUX FALLS - A Minnesota company is looking to spread up to 19,000 tons a year of byproduct from the John Morrell hog processing plant in Sioux Falls in farm fields around South Dakota.
The dried, treated wastewater byproduct currently goes to the landfill.
The Argus Leader reports that the Minnehaha County planning commission will take up a conditional-use permit application from Austin, Minn.-based Environmental Land Management on Monday.
The county planning staff is recommending the permit be denied.
ELM director of business development Michael Klema says the company will need conditional-use permits in Lincoln and Minnehaha counties before it can seek solid waste permits from the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
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Sporting Kansas City Claims 2012 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup After Penalty Shootout Victory Against Three-Time Defending Champion Seattle Sounders FC
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (Aug. 8, 2012) – For the first time in 15 years, the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup required a penalty kick shootout to determine a winner. After a 1-1 draw that lasted through 90 minutes of regulation and 30 minutes of overtime, Sporting Kansas City prevailed with a 3-2 shootout victory against three-time defending U.S. Open Cup champion Seattle Sounders FC on Wednesday in front of a crowd of 18,873 at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park.
Paulo Nagamura's penalty kick proved to be the game-winner in the fifth round after each team had twice failed to convert. Seattle forward Eddie Johnson had a chance to equalize but skied his shot over the crossbar after Sporting goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen displayed an assortment of chatter and movement to try to disrupt his effort. Kansas City earned its first title since 2004, when the formerly named Kansas City Wizards won the Open Cup.
Kei Kamara and Matt Besler tallied the other two penalties in the shootout for Sporting. Kamara also had the game's first goal in regulation in the 84 th minute, only to see the lead erased two minutes later by Seattle defender Zach Scott.
The shootout was the first since the Dallas Burn won the 1997 U.S. Open Cup against D.C. United in penalties at Carroll Stadium in Indianapolis. The Burn and D.C. United played to a scoreless draw through regulation, and Dallas topped D.C. 5-3 in the shootout.
Wednesday's match saw the end of a phenomenal U.S. Open Cup run by the Seattle Sounders, which had won the three previous tournaments and had dominated most of this year's field heading into the final. Seattle was in search of an unprecedented fourth straight crown.
The start of the match was delayed approximately 40 minutes because of rain, lightning and hail. When play got underway, it was Sporting Kansas City that generated the better scoring chances within the game's first 20 minutes. In the 24th minute, Kamara took a shot from about 25 yards that had Seattle goalkeeper Michael Gspurning beat, but his effort caromed off the crossbar.
The Sounders' first shot on goal nearly found the back of the net when Mauro Rosales delivered a 30th-minute corner kick into the box to a leaping Johnson. He rose above the Sporting defense and headed the ball toward goal, but Nielsen dove to his left for the clutch save. Johnson attacked again in the 35th minute, making a strong turn as he received the ball in the midfield and sped past the Kansas City defense before firing a shot just wide left of the goal.
Sporting's Seth Sinovic took a deep chance outside the box in the 38th minute, a left-footed strike that came close to finding the upper left corner of the frame that hit the outside netting. The Sporting Kansas City faithful prematurely thought it was a goal with a small burst of confetti flying near the end line.
With Seattle and Kansas City combining for only five shots and three on goal in the second half, the two worn-out MLS sides clearly struggled to create consistent scoring chances in regulation.
Both teams finally broke through on the score sheet in a short time frame. Sporting gave its home crowd a 1-0 lead in the 84th minute as Kamara capitalized on a penalty kick after Seattle's defense was called for a handball in the box. Kamara placed his shot just inside the right post as Gspurning guessed the opposite direction.
Kansas City's lead was short-lived as Seattle responded on a set piece opportunity in the 86th minute. Rosales took a free kick that he sent into the box and Scott found a gap in the Sporting defense, rising for the header and redirecting it perfectly into the left corner of the net. Nielsen did not have a chance to react and the scored remained level after 90 minutes.
Kamara made things interesting in second-half stoppage time with a superb right-footed strike that just missed the mark, and Sporting and Seattle could not wrap things up in regulation.
In the two 15-minute overtime sessions, Sporting managed one shot on goal while Seattle could not muster a genuine opportunity. Seattle defender Patrick Ianni picked up his second yellow card and was sent off in the 118th minute, but that had little bearing as Kansas City and Seattle decided the title winner through penalty kicks.
The shootout had its share of ebbs and flows, with Seattle carrying a 2-1 lead after hitting its first two attempts from Brad Evans and Burch. Gspurning came close to turning away Kamara's opening attempt, then saved Espinoza's strike.
Besler tied the shootout at 2-2, and the next three attempts either went over the crossbar or were saved. Seattle's Alonso powered his shot over, then Sporting's Graham Zusi tried a chip that also missed the target. Nielsen saved Tiffert's attempt and the two sides stayed at 2-2 through a combined eight shot attempts.
The turning point of the shootout was Nagamura's penalty. Nagamura, who played most of the game with a big gash above his left cheek from a collision with Seattle's Alex Caskey, took his penalty kick toward the right side of the net and Gspurning turned it aside. However, the official ruled that Gspurning was off his line too early and Nagamura was awarded a second chance.
Nagamura took his next opportunity with a bit more conviction, this time to the left, and buried it for a 3-2 lead that would deliver Sporting the U.S. Open Cup crown.
- Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Match Report -
Sporting Kansas City vs. Seattle Sounders FC
Date: Aug. 8, 2012
Competition: 2012 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final
Venue: LIVESTRONG Sporting Park
Kickoff: 8 p.m. CT
Attendance: 18,873
Weather: 77 degrees, clear
Scoring Summary: 1 2 OT1 OT2 F
SKC – Kei Kamara (penalty) 84th minute
SEA – Zach Scott (Mauro Rosales) 86
Penalty Summary:
SKC: Kamara (goal), Espinoza (saved), Besler (goal), Zusi (miss), Nagamura (goal)
SEA: Evans (goal), Burch (goal), Alonso (miss), Tiffert (saved), Johnson (miss)
Sporting Kansas City wins 3-2 on PKs
SKC: 1-Jimmy Nielsen (capt.); 7-Chance Myers, 13-Lawrence Olum, 5-Matt Besler, 16-Seth Sinovic (2-Michael Harrington, 100); 6-Paulo Nagamura, 55-Julio Cesar, 15-Roger Espinoza, 8-Graham Zusi; 9-Teal Bunbury (17-C.J. Sapong, 89), 23-Kei Kamara
Subs not used: 18-Eric Kronberg, 22-Soony Saad, 25-Neven Markovic, 37-Jacob Peterson, 88-Michael Thomas
Head coach: Peter Vermes
1-Michael Gspurning; 20-Zach Scott, 34-Jhon Kennedy Hurtado, 4-Patrick Ianni, 12-Leonardo Gonzalez; 10-Mauro Rosales (capt.), 6-Osvaldo Alonso, 25-Andy
Rose (13-Christian Tiffert, 69), 27-Alex Caskey (3-Brad Evans, 69); 17-Fredy Montero (8-Marc Burch, 106), 7-Eddie Johnson
Subs not used: 11-Steve Zakuani, 13-Christian Tiffert, 26-Sammy Ochoa, 31-Jeff Parke, 33-Andrew Weber
Head coach: Sigi Schmid
Statistical Summary: SKC / SEA
Shots: 14 / 7
Shots on Goal: 6 / 2
Saves: 1 / 5
Corner Kicks: 3 / 3
Fouls: 18 / 15
Offside: 0 / 2
Misconduct Summary:
SEA – Osvaldo Alonso (caution) 4th minute
SEA – Mauro Rosales (caution) 57
SEA – Patrick Ianni (caution) 73
SEA – Zach Scott (caution) 93
SEA – Patrick Ianni (caution) 118
SEA – Patrick Ianni (sent off) 118
Referee: Ricardo Salazar
Assistant Referee 1: Corey Rockwell
Assistant Referee 2: Peter Manikowski
Fourth Official: Michael Kennedy
Budweiser Man of the Match:
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People most often experience a painful sore throat with swollen tonsils and white patches on the back of the throat. Mono will also typically cause fever, headache, feeling tired, swollen glands in the neck, and not feeling hungry.
There is no medicine to cure mono. Since mono is caused by a virus, antibiotics are not effective. Your immune system will help you to recover.
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Although mono is contagious, it is not spread as easily as some other viruses, such as the common cold. The mono virus is found in saliva and mucus. It is usually passed from one person to another through kissing, although it may rarely be passed in other ways, such as coughing. Signs of mono usually develop 4-7 weeks after you're exposed to the virus. Studies have shown the roommates of mono patients rarely acquire the disease because the virus is an agent of low contagiousness. However, it is still wise during acute illness to avoid kissing, sharing food, drinks or eating utensils.
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And what's the price tag on these courses offered by professors from such top universities as Stanford, Harvard and Duke?
We explain the growing business behind MOOCs, how they could affect the business of higher education in this country and around the world–and how they could impact the wallets (and debts) of future students.
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Before we dive into how the industry behind MOOCs developed, we'd like to clarify that MOOCs aren't just regular online courses, which have been around for a while. Traditional online courses are like regular college classes: You have to pay tuition to take them, but you get credit and a small class size in return. MOOCs, on the other hand, are usually free, don't offer credit and have unlimited class sizes, which means that professors can't personally respond to students.
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- Coursera This is the largest of the MOOCS, and was founded last January by two other Stanford computer professors, Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng. It has 33 university partners, including Stanford, Duke, Columbia and Brown. Students can earn certificates of completion, but academic credit is only available to students who take an enhanced version of a course offered at the University of Washington.
- edX A non-profit venture funded by Harvard and MIT, edX only has two other partners–the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Texas system. This fall, 370,000 students enrolled in its first official courses.
- Udacity This math- and computer science-focused "21st-century university" designs and produces its own courses, with help from companies like Google and Microsoft, and is funded by venture capital money. The company prides itself on choosing instructors who are good teachers, even if they are not known for their research. Students in one Udacity class, Introduction to Computer Science, can get credit through the Global Campus of Colorado State University.
What Does This Mean for Higher Education?
Simply put, MOOCs are set to disrupt the education business. Over the last year, as student loan debt levels reached record highs, polls showed that dissatisfaction with higher education and its costs was also high. (If you have student loans, learn about the top student loan mistakes.) The average total cost of a bachelor's degree now exceeds $100,000, and a 2011 Pew Research survey showed that nearly 60% of Americans say that the country's colleges and universities do not offer "good value for the money [students] and their families spend."
READ: The 20-Something Crunch: High Debt, Low Employment
And this could have a big effect on the economy, given the size of the education market: A quarter of the American population is enrolled in some kind of school, and government expenditures on it alone exceed $800 billion, not including private education costs. Plus, student loan debt has been a drag on the economic recovery as indebted graduates delay major life expenses on homes, cars and even further education.
The fact that MOOCs are free is precisely why they appeal to people like Doug MacKenzie, a 34-year-old Philadelphia firefighter who took an introductory sociology class on Coursera. "I've always wanted to go into a degree program, but the problem is that I don't have the money," MacKenzie told The New York Times.
But just how MOOCs disrupt the business of higher education is a big question mark. Here are some potential ways, based on a report by Moody's Investor Service:
- Less prestigious colleges could have a hard time attracting students who may not feel the degree is worth the price.
- Top universities seem unconcerned about diluting their brand, and they are likely to gain even more in prestige, allowing them to still attract students to their campuses.
- MOOCs are likely to increase competition among for-profit colleges, which have long dominated distance education.
- The business model of education could radically change. While the current model has been increasingly higher tuition, MOOCs are offering an arguably equivalent education for nothing.
- Moody's concludes that MOOCs could make education cheaper for families, and increase access to higher-quality education.
Tom Katsouleas, dean of Duke's engineering school, surmised in a Forbes article that MOOCs pose the greatest threat to master's programs: "In our visits to corporate partners like Apple and Cisco, it was clear that most top engineers and executives are using MOOCs for their lifelong learning in a way that some used to use corporate sponsored masters programs. Although universities provide individual and team project-based learning that are still difficult to replicate online, a masters education can be taken anywhere."
MOOCs could also shake up the workplace. At this point, most employers view completion of a MOOC on a job applicant's résumé as an advantage–as long as the individual also has a college degree. But analysts expect that some education companies may soon begin offering MOOC-like courses to corporations.
The Future of MOOCs
Because MOOCs are rapidly taking off, a number of major players in the education space are trying to figure out what the future looks like–and that involves tackling some of the major unresolved issues of MOOCs:
- Credit Should (or could) students in MOOCs earn credit? In mid-November, the American Council on Education and Coursera announced a pilot program to look at whether some MOOCs resemble conventional college classes enough to offer their students credit.
- Revenue How exactly do companies offering MOOCs plan to make money? In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Coursera founder Daphne Koller said that the company's expenses include producing the courses, hosting and disseminating them and also developing the platform for the courses. She added the company is considering charging for certificates of completion or giving employers access to the records of students of their courses.
- Cheating To catch potential cheaters, Udacity and edX are offering proctored exams. Other professors are defining plagiarism to their students, many of whom are foreign and don't understand the American concept of plagiarism.
- Grading It's a pretty daunting task to grade thousands of papers, so for work that can't be auto-graded, Coursera is developing a peer grading system: Each assignment is reviewed by five other students in the class, and each student in turn grades assignments by five other people. The company is also developing software that will rate the graders to weed out inaccurate graders.
If these issues get resolved, attending college on a campus could become a thing of the past, and students may instead garner credits from MOOCs offered by different companies. Future employers could also be paying for the costs of an education, if MOOCs remain free to students and companies offering MOOCs instead generate revenue from employers willing to pay for the records of job applicants who have taken MOOCs.
And all these developments could mean that crushing student loan debt might become a thing of the past.


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Luckily, the second dish I made was an Undisputed Winner. FATTOUSH. Have you ever had fattoush? If not, you MUST. It is so absolutely perfect, I am left wondering "How is this possible?" None of us could get enough of it - and yet somehow I made such an enormous salad, that there was still enough left over for lunch the next day. I love the simplicity, the freshness, the brightness from the lemon and the sumac, the crisp lettuce and peppers... Plus, I even found Purslane at the farmers market - for increased authenticity, brightness and flavor. Basically, I am in love with Fattoush, and I want to marry it. I basically use the recipe from The New Book of Middle Eastern Food.
I also made a batch of Sumac Tofu to go with dinner. I love dicing up the tofus and mixing them in with the fattoush (less authentic, to be sure!). This sumac tofu isn't the most wondrous tofu you've ever made in your whole life - but it IS yummy, and it's super quick and super easy. No 3 hours of marinating followed by 40 minutes of baking. So it's a great recipe to have around for that reason. All in all, this was a totally delicious dinner - full of flavors and nutrition and colors and textures. Warm, fresh, stewed, grilled, and chopped - so many foodie experiences all in one lovely meal. Plus... sharing it with my parents made the whole thing all the more wonderful!


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- Sri Lanka attacks: British dad's tribute to 'amazing' family
- Brexit: Cross-party talks to resume
- Prince Louis: Catherine's pictures mark first birthday
- Greta Thunberg: Teen tells UK politicians 'listen to climate scientists'
- Lyra McKee killing: 'New IRA admits responsibility'
- Campaign to tackle 'botched' cosmetic procedures
- More than half of British firms 'report cyber-attacks in 2019'
- 'I feel refreshed': Brits embrace multiple careers
- Wigan hit-and-run: Murder arrest after mother dies
- New aircraft rises 'like a balloon'
- UK weather: Hottest Easter Monday on record
- Marsden Moor fire 'started by barbecue'
- 'Dark kitchens': Are they the future of takeaways?
- Deaf boy finds his voice after brain implant surgery
- The enthusiasts bringing classic cars back from the dead
- Disposable nappy recycling: How soiled nappies can be reused
- Alopecia: I lost my hair aged one
- How making bars of soap 'started my life again'
- Thunberg: 'Climate fight will never stop'
- BBC Breakfast
- Newspaper headlines: 'A nation broken' by bombings
- Extinction Rebellion: How might ministers win over the protesters?
- 'We're judged for being black'
- Autistic football fan on 'sensory overload' of match day
- Your next new car will try to stop you speeding
- Does your dinner come from a "dark kitchen"?
- Have the poorest councils had the biggest cuts?
- My lifelong obsession with 'resurrecting' classic cars
- Earth Day: How to be more eco-friendly in everyday life
- The breast cancer surgeon who got breast cancer
- 'New breed' of influencers changed the game
- An alternative way to capture childhood on your phone
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Software Engineering (B.S.S.E)
The Computer Science Department offers the B.S. degree in Computer Science and the B.S. degree in Software Engineering. Both are based on a solid foundation of mathematics, including calculus, linear algebra, and discrete mathematics. These programs of study are designed to offer students opportunities to prepare for an industrial, business, or governmental career in a rapidly changing profession and to prepare for graduate study in a field in which further education is strongly recommended. The two programs have the same basis in core computer science, including the analysis of algorithms and data structures, modern programming methodologies, and the study of operating systems. The Computer Science program continues with courses in advanced data structures, programming languages, telecommunications networks, and automata theory, while the Software Engineering program include courses in requirements engineering, software validation and testing, and software architecture, culminating in a challenging project course in which students must demonstrate use of software engineering techniques. Both programs offer a rich choice of elective studies, including courses in artificial intelligence, computer graphics, databases, and compiler design.
The school offers a "fast track" B.S./M.S. option; see Fast Track Baccalaureate/Master's Degree Program.
Mission of the Department of Computer Science
The mission of the Department of Computer Science is to prepare undergraduate and graduate students for productive careers in industry, academia, and government by providing an outstanding environment for teaching, learning, and research in the theory and applications of computing. The Department places high priority on establishing and maintaining innovative research programs to enhance its education quality and make it an important regional, national, and international resource center for discovering, integrating, and applying new knowledge and technologies.
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The focus of the Software Engineering degree is to provide world class education in modern software engineering. The overall goals of the Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering Program are:
Educational Objectives of the Software Engineering Program
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May! I met May via Twitter and she is just the sweetest person!
The box was so cutely decorated! She knows how much I love (as well as many others out there) Hello Kitty.
The box was filled to the brim!
Yummy sweets! The panda ones are so cute and are absolutely delicious! May, are they Japanese candy? I showed it to Wuzzyangel and we both haven't seen it here before.
A ton of masks and e.l.f. makeup remover wipes. I haven't masked in a while and I really need to do so. Love masks!
Hand and foot exfoliator and wet swabs. I really do need to exfoliate my feet! It will come in handy.
A washing mitt and makeup sponge.
A Hello Kitty 2012 calendar! It's so cute!
A very cute polka dotted makeup case. This was also filled to the brim!
Revlon Lip Butter in Sweet Tart--this was on my wish list! Beautiful purple nail polish, Q10 cream, hand lotion, a Dolly Wink Eyebrow pencil--or was it an eyeliner. Sorry, everything is at my office and I'm at home typing this and a cute stuffed charm.
I'll have to admit that I opened this up last week. Sheila gave me permission since she knew that I would be so busy on Valentine's Day that I probably wouldn't have a chance to open it up until really late, if at all. All of the panda candies are eaten and the other goodies will be finished up soon too. I can't wait to try everything that was in the box.
Thank you again May for the wonderful Secret Valentine gift. You were so generous! It's been great getting to know you on Twitter. I'll see you there again soon.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 180 diseños de 41 diseñadores freelance.
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We are an upbeat, exciting, and growing church community that is passionate about God, loves people, and desires to meet the needs of those in our city. We desire to be real and relevant to those in our city. We want to be examples of love and compassion. We are a Southern Baptist church that is non-traditional. We are contermporary, young, energetic, and community minded.
General audience. Primarily 25-50 yrs old. Although we desire anyone in the community, young, old, multi-generational, multi-ethnic, from any background culturally, socially, or spiritually. All are welcome and are our target.
We desire a logo that is solid/professional but fresh and not too trendy. Our church is located on a hill next to a main highway. The church is visible from a distance of a mile or so in both directions as you travel. The design could incorporate a hill element but it is not mandatory.
We would like something that really pops but at the same time would stand the test of time
We are not set on any specific colors. Earth tones are nice but not manditory. We also need a logo that will print well in black and white. Multiple logos in varying colors might be nice.
This logo will be used for all of our visible campaigns, including web, print, advertising, etc.
Our mission statement is: pursue.love.reach
It is not neccessary that this be in the logo, just a reference.
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When Deb Freitag applied for a credit card so she could replace her roof, her leaky refrigerator and her old dishwasher, she was offered a $1,000 line of credit, not the $5,000 she needed.
When Mark Ryan finally scraped together more than enough to buy a home, he found that the mortgage a bank promised him earlier in the year was no longer available.
In a land where TV blares no-money-down pitches and everything from homes to furniture to college education is bought with borrowed money, the crisis on Wall Street is causing the credit market to seize up. On Main Street, this means fewer loans and smaller loans at higher rates -- when they are available at all.
No one is quite sure how bad it will get, especially with the fate of the proposed $700 billion government bailout unknown. But people's inability to borrow has potentially dire effects, since consumer spending accounts for two-thirds of U.S. economic activity.
"If not fixed fairly soon, we may find that individuals and smaller businesses have much higher costs for borrowing -- or in the worst case are unable to borrow at all," said David Stowell, finance professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
Freitag, a 43-year-old freelance writer in Cincinnati, was surprised when she tried to get a credit card from home improvement chain Lowe's Cos. this month. She got the skimpy $1,000 credit line bumped up to $2,000 after she complained, but even that was not enough.
Freitag calculated that her purchases would add up to almost $9,000, including the $6,000 for her roof, which was damaged in a wind storm this month. Now she will have to take out a consumer loan, which has bad consequences: Merely searching for the loan could hurt her credit rating, and she will have to start paying it back right away.
"These are needs," said Freitag, whose husband recently lost his job in corporate video production. "I am not going out and buying a designer kitchen."
Ryan, 37, a social worker in New York City, can finally afford a home in one of the most expensive housing markets. But he cannot get a mortgage.
Swiftly pre-approved by his bank for a loan last February, he went back this month after finding the apartment he wanted. But he was told he had to fill out a 17-page application to get re-approved -- even though he had since added $50,000 to his bank account. While he waited for approval that ultimately never came, the apartment was sold out from under him.
"As a first-time home buyer, in a way conditions couldn't get any better," he said. "If you can get your mortgage, rates are going down to the point where average people can afford them. But with the banks so paranoid, it's just tough getting one."
Home buyers are not the only ones hard-pressed to get a loan. Calvin Parker, 39, a mechanic, was shopping for car parts in Harrisburg, Pa., to keep his 1997 Dodge Caravan going until he can meet the daunting terms for a new car.
"They want too much down," he said. "And the interest rates are too high. I believe I wouldn't be able to get a loan without paying $1,500 to $2,000 down."
Oona Rokyta felt the credit squeeze in her education loans. The 27-year-old publicist consolidated her four student loans -- one for each year of college -- in late August. She paid an average of 9 percent on them but wanted them redone as a single loan, in part to benefit her parents by removing them as co-signers.
The intention was good but the math worked out against her: Wells Fargo & Co. offered her an 11.75 percent interest rate and wanted the new loan paid back within seven years rather than the standard 15. Those changes boosted her monthly payment to $502 a month, from $301.
"I feel like I've been punished for maintaining good credit," she said.
Some mortgage brokers say there is still no problem for qualified borrowers.
And Ron Kelly, manager of the appliance and electronics department at a Sears in Wausau, Wis., said it was business as usual at his store: "It hasn't affected people applying for credit cards that I have seen. We haven't changed anything."
Shelton Head, a 60-year-old resident of Glendale, Ariz., pulled into a Phoenix strip mall Friday destined for a coin shop with a blue velvet box full of 1942, 1943 and 1945 silver dollars.
Unemployed, he said he has tried several times in recent months to get a loan but was rejected every time for not having sufficient income. Now he needed money for gas and groceries.
He left the coin shop 15 minutes later with $65.
It's a bad time to land a loan
When Deb Freitag applied for a credit card so she could replace her roof, her leaky refrigerator and her old dishwasher, she was offered a $1,000 line of credit, not the $5,000 she needed.


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What is this blog post about? Well the last month or so, I've been pretty busy investigating two new massive sites on the web and the internet social scene.
Instagram Iphone App (not on Android) with close to 20 million active users in only 11 months.
Pinterest.com with an Alexa Ranking of only 110."Pinterest is social media's rising star — and now has the traffic stats to prove it." Great Article About Pinterest traffic From Mashable here http://mashable.com/2012/02/01/pinterest-traffic-study/
What is Pinterest Exactly? Well its hard to describe, because functionally its a simple plain old Social Bookmarking site, that uses images instead of links. Nothing to special there right? Well, no.. But this new system and layout they have produced utilises Twitter like trending capabilities within their layout. So within their Categories of content, you only really get to see the quality content rise to the top.. And Quality Galore is there to be found.
Adding the social component to Social Bookmarking has transformed this system into a thing of real beauty.I follow people who I know, when they or others like sites, images, this all influences the availability of me to find this content. The more people like it, they higher up it is displayed for people. So the cream really does rise to the surface.
You can browse the categories of content supplied to the site via users, you only get to see the best of the best in these categories. This being the case, you get to see some pretty awesome content. Considering the amount of traffic taken away from Facebook and Google as noted in Mashable, this new platform really is going to change the way the web is displayed over Time. Note in this blog post.. I had to add that image to the top of this blog post. Why? So people can pin it.. and it looks relatively attractive. Before I didn't have to worry about that, but now I do, If I want some Pinterest Loving 🙂 Additionally I had to add the Pinterest Pin plugin to make it easy for you to Pin my blog Post:)
Speaking of WordPress plugins, Here is the plugin I used to add "My" Pinterst content in the column to the right. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pinterest-rss-widget/screenshots/ Very simple to install, in under 5 mins and very flexible in how you want to display your pins etc.
Something very fascinating about Pinterest is that this social site is the only one I know of that has a much larger female following than males. As I remember and I cannot remember the link its like 60% females to 40% males. So a great place to market to females, if that is you have some pretty awesome quality content, that Pinterest is now inspiring from people and companies.
While we are here sharing the love, here's some links to some very cool articles about pinterest and marketing.
- http://hospitalera.com/why-you-should-use-pinterest/
- http://www.harrisfellman.com/modern-day-pin-up-girls/
- http://www.musingsofahousewife.com/2012/01/pinterest-for-bloggers.html
If you have a website that displays pretty awesome content, right beside the "Like" button that should be on your page already, you now need a Pin Button right beside it, so you make it very easy for people to Pin your beautiful stuff.
Here is the link to get your pin button details. http://pinterest.com/about/goodies/
Here is an example of a beautiful page. Why do I think its beautiful, because of its brilliant layout and the ease to which it allows its viewers to comment about, and to share their pretty and cool content. Its a great layout to copy for your site. http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/iphone-slr-adapter .
Instagram is a pretty amazing Iphone only App. Their USP you would think, is the amazing filters in their app to make pretty much any of your photos look brilliant. But No, that's not the case. There are many Iphone photo apps out there, that do different things to your photos, but Instagram is the only one out there, that has added the Social Network Component to it. E.G. Allowing you to follow cool people, and be followed. Plus the use of HashTags!!! This has really transformed this social network. One amazing example of the use of hashtags here:
- Moby: To release his new album, Moby built a website that displays Instagram photos on a world map. Users are encouraged to upload photos of their hometowns at night and tag them #destroyed, and the photos automatically show up on Moby's website: http://destroyed.moby.com/
- Source: http://help.instagram.com/customer/portal/articles/95808-getting-started-with-the-instagram-api
If that isn't cool I don't know what is LOL 🙂
You can display your Instagram Images on your blog using this very simple and easy to install Instagram Word Press Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pin-it-on-pinterest/ . Additionally, you can display Instagram photo content by you guessed it, Hashtags, which means the possibilities are endless what you can use these for. Most likely need a WordPress Dev to install this one though. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ep-hashimage/
There isn't all that much information out there about Instagram at present, I had to dig and explore it all myself as no info was thrown out at me via social media like most content is. So I decided to throw it out there socially for everyone now.
Here's a case study. Some Awesome young Entrepreneurs on Instagram.
Some Young Ladies absolutely Killing it on Instagram. Check out there profile page!
Yep, that's 72,196 followers on Instagram. Plus you see their domain name right there, if you tap on it, it takes you directly to their website where they are selling their clothing range. Plus they have a Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/SaboSkirt I do not know these people, but I just love what they are doing online.
They are marketing their products via awesome photos from Instagram. Instagram offers this clothing company a platform that,
1. Makes their products look Awesome (Via the brilliant photo filters available).
2. Offers them a market place to display their wares. Why? because its all about Quality. This company displays quality and people love it. How much of this converts to sales? I do not know, but I can guarantee you, they are generating a lot more sales than before Instagram existed.
On January 29 I posted an image of their profile here https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150515778481482&set=a.403563776481.180069.706761481&type=1 And they had 63,503 followers, so in 11 days, they have gained exactly 8693 new followers.. Pretty amazing stats!
One thing I did notice, is this company is not on Pinterest? why I do not know, though I think their products may well do as well on Pinterest as Instagram, both sites equally rely on quality and as noted earlier, Pinterest has a majority female audience, so I think the SaboSkirt Brand would do exceptionally well in Pinterest. If anyone reading this knows people in this company, send them this article.
Here is an excellent interview with the founder of Instagram.
Before posting this article I had to add the Pin Plugin to this blog, so people reading this can obviously Pin it. This is the link for it. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pin-it-on-pinterest/ So you can add it to your own blogs.
Massive changes happening on the web right now. Great time to be alive.
Me being me, I've been investigating these new products from an Internet Marketer Developers perspective, obviously and I can tell you I am right now developing two vastly different products so we can all benefit financially from these new changes, these two products are both related to Pinterest and vastly different from each other though compliment each other wonderfully. Pinterest is all about traffic as noted via @Mashable. Any new site that is taking on Google and Facebook traffic wise is something we really need to focus on right now. If your not in there working it, your competitors will be.
Interestingly, after my investigations and playing around in there, Ive got close to 200 followers already without trying at all and one of my boards called Seo-Software URL here http://pinterest.com/peterdrew/seo-software/ as you can see already has over 400 followers which is neat, considering I've done very little.. in 2 to 3 months I can guarantee you my Seo-Software board on Pinterest will have over 10,000 followers.
In a week's time I'll be leaving a comment on this post, sharing how much traffic this post gets from the Pinterest domain as referral traffic, from people pinning this article and from my posting it in my Seo-Software Board. I will also share how many "Re Pins" this article gets, a Re Pin, is when a person on Pinterest likes the Pin so much they re pin it on one of their own boards for safe keeping.
So please "Like" this article or leave a comment below, so you'll be notified when I update this article with the referral information etc. Similarly if you think your friends on Facebook would enjoy this information here, Please "Like" or comment.
Love to hear your feedback.
P.S If you'd like to find out more about the two new products I'm developing right now, please leave your name and email address below, so I can contact you with more information about these new products that …… can't say to much now. but to say, they are both pretty awesome 🙂 If I don't mind saying so myself!