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Welcome to Wabash College and to Career Services! Your WabashWorks account is now open and ready to use. WabashWorks is the platform we use to post jobs and internships (including ESH positions on campus). The system also houses our Alumni Mentor Network, a calendar of all our events, and much more. We'll go over it with you when you get to campus.
In the meantime, if you'd like to apply for an ESH position, you'll want to get your profile set up in the system and start preparing (then uploading) your resume. ESH positions will begin to be posted on August 1.
Your username is the same as the first part of your email address (without the @wabash) and your password is wabash.
Login by clicking on the WabashWorks button on this page http://www.wabash.edu/careers/
· Login (if you have problems, email Angie Bridwell, firstname.lastname@example.com).
· Complete your Profile (you'll be prompted to do so). For now, use your High School GPA, do not leave it blank as the system will assume it's a 0.0.
· Begin creating your resume. You'll find our Job, Internship, Graduate School Guide, which contains our resume guide and examples in WabashWorks, Click on the Resource Page link, below the picture, on the WabashWorks homepage, then scroll down to Guides. Hint: when prepping your resume, go EXACTLY by examples in the Guide for best results.
· Once you have your resume completed, save it on your computer, then go to Documents, then Upload Documents. If you have trouble uploading, save it as a .rtf file, then upload. Still problems? Email Angie.
· Some ESH positions ask for a cover letter. There are examples in the Guide.
· Scroll down the Wabash Works homepage to One Click Searches in the middle of the page (Note: do NOT click on the Jobs/Internships tab on the top toolbar). Select ESH Jobs.
· Click on the jobs that are of interest, and read the position description(s), requirements thoroughly. Follow the instructions exactly.
· When you're ready to apply (your resume and, if requested, cover letter are uploaded) click on the Apply button and follow the instructions
· IMPORTANT: You can upload as many versions of your resume and letters as you like in the system. Make sure the one you submit for each position matches what they're seeking.
· Apply for as many ESH positions as you like – we would strongly encourage you to apply for more than one – these are competitive opportunities.
If you have any questions regarding ESH, contact Steve Barnes at email@example.com
One last note: we have 17 Peer Career Advisors in Career Services, students trained to help you. You will be meeting your assigned PCA at orientation, who will give you much more information about WabashWorks and our other services. We look forward to working with you. Again, welcome to Wabash College!


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Luis F Ahumada needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 102 designs submitted by 31 freelance designers.
Thrive Capital
I am a 30 year old professional in the investment management field. I am well educated - attended ivy league university for my MBA.
Currently, I am starting up my own private hedge fund to manage money for wealthy individuals.
The company's culture will be open and egalitarian. Fairness above all is our motto. Also, success can be achieved in a win-win manner. It doesn't have to be at the expense of others.
Wealthy individual investors - think successful business men / woman.
I am looking for an image / brand that is conservative, yet young and exciting. As my subtitle states the reason I chose Thrive Capital is because I wanted a name that evokes life, prosperity and success. The investment management field is extremely competitive so I want to let my prospective investors know that I will strive for excellence and succeed.
I don't want to seem arrogant or pretentious. Some successful hedge funds have created their image around mythical creatures (e.g. Cereberus Capital named after the 3 headed dog that guards the gates of hell). Obviously their intent is to create an intimidating image to communicate they will be on the offensive and guarding their clients money.
I want to achieve quite the opposite. I want to convey virtue & grace. Even though investing is eat or be eaten - I rather have a brand that promotes coopetition instead of competition.
I have been researching other mythical creatures and really liked what the Chinese Phoenix represented - just an idea.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.

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The above two cards were made using the newest clear stamps set called CHINESE Dolls by Hero Arts. It is a 2009 Spring Release! The first card was made by Jennifer McGuire and the second by Lisa Spangler. What do you think?
The below card was made by Kug hee Yim using another new 2009 Spring stamp set: WORLD Dolls Clear stamp set by Hero Arts.
Be sure to check out this limited Edition wood mounted Rubber Stamp set also from the Spring 2009 Catalog! It is called ASIAN DOLLS. The first card is by Shari Caroll and the second by Kug hee Yim.
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Awesome Stuff: Little Devices That Help You Out
from the make-it-work deptFor this week's "Awesome Stuff" post I wasn't necessarily planning a "theme," but it seemed to mostly work out as one anyway: it's about three "little" devices that enable you to do more, by changing the way we deal with information in one way or another. This is a pretty exciting space in general, and it's cool to see projects popping up that explore certain areas that make you wonder why no one had done this before -- and then you realize that what's being done wasn't really possible until the tech caught up.
- First up, we've got the Automatic Link, a tiny device that plugs into your car's dataport and provides data directly to your smartphone. They even make it into a bit of a game, with a weekly "drive score" that helps you drive smarter to save gas. It has a number of other features as well, including automatically dialing 911 if it senses a serious car accident, and also a car locator feature, so you can always find your car via your smartphone in case you forgot where you parked or if you're sharing your car with someone else.
This is another one that's not on Kickstarter, though it feels like it should be, but rather they're just taking pre-orders directly off their site, for $69.95 (and no service fees).
- Next up, we've got the HeatMeter, which is a creatively designed device to measure and track the heating usage in your home. There are tons of electricity meters on the market to measure how you use electricity, but heating is a different realm altogether. Most of the attempts to deal with this have been focused on various smart thermostats like the Nest, but the Heatmeter goes right to the source, by attaching to the outside of your furnace or boiler with magnets, and then its sensors actually can detect when the flame turns on and off, sending this bit of info over your home WiFi system to your phone. And, of course, you can track a bunch of info via your smartphone.
- Finally, we move away from those kinds of sensors to the myIDkey device for tracking all your passwords. This is a little USB dongle that combines voice activation, fingerprint scanning and secure access to all your passwords (it'll even generate secure ones for you). Oh yeah, and it works with your mobile devices via Bluetooth as well. And, if you lose the device, you can quickly deactivate it over the web -- and you can resync a new one via its online storage. The device has an OLED display that will show you the password once you've proven that you're you, and it can include a bit of additional info as well.
Filed Under: awesome stuff, biometric, car computers, driving, heating, id, passwords, sensors
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Measuring and Mismeasuring Discrimination against Visible Minority Immigrants: The Role of Work Experience
There are two methods for estimating the earnings disadvantage of groups: the residual difference method and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. Each method infers disadvantage from differences in earnings of visible minority immigrants and other Canadians, after controls for human capital and job characteristics. We: i) summarize the logic of these methods; ii) critically examine the character of the experience measures used in most of the research; iii) apply the residual difference method to the Workplace and Employee Survey to show how a more thorough approach to the measurement of work experience modifies estimates of earnings disadvantage.
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Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag Trailer: Mulitplayer Mayhem
As expected, Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag will feature a multiplayer mode, and this latest trailer for the Caribbean-set sequel gives us the rundown on what to expect.
Like previous entries, there'll be a host of colorful characters to play as in the multiplayer, though obviously there will be a decidedly pirate-y bent to each player's persona. Many of the sneak attack kills are as violent as ever, and the old strategies of trickery and deception are back in full force.
The multiplayer mode for Assassin's Creed has been surprisingly fun since its addition in Brotherhood, and Ubisoft has managed to keep the mode fresh and fun over the past two entries. With Assassin's Creed 4, we'll have to see what twists are in store, but this trailer has us excited to step in the Animus once more to take down our friends when Black Flag arrives on Oct. 29 for Xbox 360, PC, Wii U and PlayStation 3. The PlayStation 4 will get it on Nov. 15, with the Xbox One joining the action on Nov. 22.


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Euphoria- While not in an Eclipse state, you have a 12/24% chance to double the Solar or Lunar energy generated by your Wrath or Starfire when they deal damage. When you reach a Solar or Lunar eclipse, you instantly are restored 6/12% of your total mana. If you read my post a couple of weeks ago, then you probably remember I did not have good things to say about Euphoria. The old talent did nothing to improve DPS. Also, the Eclipse Power it provided was very low compared to the power provided by spells that it had little impact on the number of spells cast. This change fixes both of those problems.
First, the fact that it doesn't proc when you have Eclipse is a pretty big bonus. It in sures that Euphoria is always a positive bonus. Other wise the Euphoria procs that happen while Eclipse is down are just cancelled out by the ones that proc during Eclipse.
Second, the amount of Eclipse Power generated has a real impact. If it procs on any spell cast before your last one it reduces the number of casts you need to make to proc Eclipse. That is not something you could say about the old version.
When I plugged this new Euphoria into my simulator it increased the uptime of Eclipse from 55.90% to 60.07%. That's pretty huge since Eclipse is the primary driver of our DPS. The only reservation I have about it is that it no longer procs off of Crits. It's not really a bad thing that it has a flat 24% chance to proc, but I like the extra crit scaling it would provide for us. I'm a little worried that talents like Ignite and Lava Flows will allow other classes to scale better then us at the higher levels of gear. Then again, Blizzard can always make adjustments later.
These changes were not documented by MMO Champion (I'm sure they would be hard to find by data mining), but they are important none the less.
- Eclipse no longer decays out of combat.
- The Eclipse buff now lasts until you reach 0 energy, and no longer has a 45 second time limit. You can go afk and you will still have eclipse when you come back.
- Starfire and Wrath will move the Eclipse bar in only one direction after you proc Eclipse, but will go both directions after you go out of combat. For example, Wrath will not generate Lunar energy after you proc lunar Eclipse. Starsurge is bugged. Sometimes it gives "smart" energy. Other times it does not.
The only problem I see is that it will be tempting for some people to try and store up power before a boss fight. It should work well on farm content, but will be impractical for progression content when it would really matter.
The third one kills the strategies of procing the same Eclipse back to back. Ghostcrawler hinted at it a couple of months ago. Plus, we have several talents and a set bonus that make it advantagous to proc Eclipse quickly. So it's not a surprise, but this officially kills the hold Eclipse strategies.
New Talents:
Dreamstate (Tier 5) *New* - When you cast your Innervate on yourself, you regain an additional 10/30% of your total mana over its duration.This an old name but a completely new talent. It's not a bad talent but I'm having a hard time figuring out where it fits. In raiding, it could be great if we end up having mana issues, but I'm not convinced that will be the case. In soloing/leveling, it's much easier just to sit down and drink. In PvP, it could be great because you are much more likely to innervate yourself in a PvP situation. However, I'm told that Innervate is also dispellable which makes innervating yourself a possibly useless activity.
At this point I would leave it out of my talent build, but I think it is a nice talent.
Sunfire (Tier 5) *New* - While in Solar Eclipse, your Moonfire spell will morph into Sunfire.It sounds cool, but I was a little confused when I first read the discription of this talent. I wasn't quite sure how it would work. Could you have both Moonfire and Sunfire on the boss? If Moonfire was on the boss and I procced Solar Eclipse would the Moonfire on the boss already convert to Sunfire?
I did a little testing. Moonfire and Sunfire are the same exact spell that does the same damage as far as I can tell. It is impossible to have both Moonfire and Sunfire on the boss, because they over write each other. If you cast Moonfire right before Solar procs then it stays Moonfire after Solar procs. If you cast Sunfire right before you lose Solar it stays Sunfire and buffed by Solar Eclipse after you lose the Solar Eclipse. If you have the Glyph of Starfire equipped then Starfire will extend Sunfire but it's impractical given the nature of Eclipse. In short, Moonfire and Sunfire are the same exact DoT except that Sunfire is a nature version that is cast during Solar Eclipse and is buffed by Solar Eclilpse.
It sounds pretty cool. I wonder if it will be possible to keep Moonfire/Sunfire buffed by Eclipse close to 100% of the time.
Shooting Stars (Tier 3) *New* - You have a 2/4% chance when you deal damage with your Moonfire or Insect Swarm to instantly reset the cooldown of your Starsurge and reduce its cast time by 100%. Lasts 8 sec.I like the idea of this talent. It feels like a moonkin version of Hot Streak. Starsurge is a great DPS spell because it has a much higher spell power coefficient then it's cast time would indicate, so the more often you can cast it the better. It also makes Starsurge instant cast. So you can use it on the move.
The main question I have here is will it proc enough? A 4% chance sounds very low, but then a gain we have two dots that will be ticking fairly quickly. I estimate that it should proc once every 30 - 40 seconds. That doesn't sound to bad, but I will have to put it in simulator to see how it affects DPS.
Overgrowth (Tier 2) *New* - Your Entangling Roots and Nature's Grasp have a 50/100% chance to also root all enemies within 8 yards of the targetAs a raider, this is just a situational talent. I would love to have it for Dreamwalker in ICC. It might be ok for the Val'kyr phases on Lich King in a pinch as well, but I don't see it be a standard part of my build. Could be a great anti-melee talent for moonkin in PvP.
Revamped Talents:
I already went over Euphoria above, but some other talents got an overhaul as well.
Nature's Torment- You gain 5/10/15% spell haste after you cast Moonfire or Insect Swarm, lasting 15 sec. This effect has 1 minute cooldown. When you gain Lunar or Solar Eclipse, the cooldown of Nature's Torment is instantly reset.Nature's Grace was redone and renamed Nature's Torment. This is a very interesting talent, and I'm not sure how I feel about it just yet. Overall, it feels like a good thing, but it raises a lot of questions. We are not going to proc Eclipse every 15 seconds so it will have more down time then the current Nature's Grace does, so what is the best way to optimize it. Would it be worth it to clip a DoT right after you proc Eclipse? How will Moonfire and Insect Swarm interact with a temporary haste buff? How frequently will it be wasted on movement mechanics in boss fights?
The only thing I know for sure is that it improves how we scale with Haste Rating. The quicker we cast, the more frequently we will proc Eclipse, and the greater uptime Nature's Torment will have. This might make up for the fact that Euphoria doesn't proc on Crits anymore.
Genesis - no longer increases the damage done by your periodic spells and increases the duration of your Moonfire and Insect Swarm by 6 sec instead.I'm not sure what impact this change will have on moonkin DPS. Trading 6% damage for 6 additional seconds is pretty hard to compare on the fly, but my first impression is good. If I had to guess, I would think the extra cooldowns saved with the new Genesis more then make up for 6% damage lost. Also on the plus side, longer DoTs are easier to manage and anything that makes a rotation easier is generally a good thing in my book. At 12 seconds both Moonfire and Insect Swarm felt very short.
Other Changes:
•Starsurge now generates 15 Solar or Lunar Energy, up from 10With all the new talents I'm glad to see that they got rid of one, and Lunar Guidance was a good choice in my opinion. It be came pretty weak when it boosted Starsurge by only 6 power. The only thing I am surprised about is that Starsurge only gives 15 power now instead of 16. One point isn't a huge deal, but it caught me a little off guard.
•Lunar Guidance is gone.
•Wild Mushroom now becomes visible after 6 sec, up from 4 sec. Base damage increased by 400% (from 269-304 to 1300-1573 damage)I've only gotten to play with Wild Mushroom on a premade toon, but they did feel very weak. The premade's gear is horrible, but the mushrooms were only hitting for 350 damage or so. I'm glad to see they've gotten buffed.
•Wild Mushroom: Detonate no longer costs mana, now has a 10 sec cooldown, and affects target within 10 yards, down from 15 yards.
•Earth and Moon now increases spell damage taken by 8%, down from 13%.I think this was just a tool tip error. Ebon Plague and Bane of Elements were already at 8%, so it is not surprising that Earth and Moon is brought in line with them. The only thing I wish is that Earth and Moon could be spread as an AoE just as Ebon Plague and Bane of Elements can.


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eet -- Way to change enlightenment .cfg files
I've got recently this mail from enlightenment mailing list:
you have to use "eet" command line utility, it is the tool that reads .src and turns then into .cfg if you check out Makefile (and Makefile.am).
eet -l e.cfg # list all keys, usually just "config" eet -d e.cfg config e.src # writes human readable values to file e.src $EDITOR e.src # change whatever you like eet -e e.cfg config e.src 1 # compile human readable values to binary form and use compression
If you find that useful and want to help, please create a wiki page with your new knowledge.
interesting illume cfg files
|NOTE: After any change you must delete directory /home/root/.e/e/config/asu to force configuration reload
|WARNING: All your changes to illume configuration (usually not so many) will be lost
|NOTE: Maybe it's possible to edit directly files in you home directory, I don't know
Add this in group 'group "E_Config_Gadcon"' after block named " illume-bluetooth" (ASU 2008.12 line 431) to enable Wrench tool (but most of configuration dialogs are not defined in .edj files..)
group "clients" list { group "E_Config_Gadcon_Client" struct { value "name" string: "illume-cfg"; value "id" string: "illume-cfg"; value "geom.pos" int: 0; value "geom.size" int: 32; value "geom.res" int: 472; value "geom.pos_x" double: 0.0000000000000000000000000; value "geom.pos_y" double: 0.0000000000000000000000000; value "geom.size_w" double: 0.0000000000000000000000000; value "geom.size_h" double: 0.0000000000000000000000000; value "state_info.seq" int: 1; value "state_info.flags" int: 1; value "style" string: "plain"; value "autoscroll" uchar: 0; value "resizable" uchar: 0; } }
To switch illume from qtopia predictive keyboard to illume keyboard REPLACE
value "kbd.use_internal" int: 0; value "kbd.dict" string: "English_(US).dic";
value "kbd.use_internal" int: 0;
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Chicago, Illinois
March 14-16, 2013
Website: dml2013.dmlhub.net/
Twitter: twitter.com/dmlconference
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DMLResearchHub
Conference Chair Craig Watkins Introduces DML2013 Theme
Conference Chair:
Craig Watkins (University of Texas, at Austin)
Conference Committee:
Sasha Costanza-Chock (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Susan Crawford (Cardozo Law School)
Nigel Jacob (City of Boston)
Ellen Middaugh (Mills College)
Nicole Mirra (Amino Watts College Preparatory Academy)
Nishant Shah (Centre for Internet and Society)
The DML2013 Conference proposal system is now open and full proposals will be due on November 6, 2012 (5 pm PST). To propose a panel, participants will be required to register with Fastapps fastapps.dmlhub.net, the submission system at the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub. Participants will be able to edit their proposals up until the final deadline.…


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With the comfort and security of a raised deck saloon, everyone - the pilot included - can shelter from the elements while still enjoying 360 degree views.
The sailing performance is excellent with the same rig as the Vancouver 38 but with a self tacking staysail for convenience.
The Vancouver 38 Pilot is not a motor sailer but a powerful sailing yacht built for long distance cruising.
Mainsail 28 m² (300 sq ft)
Yankee 45 m² (480 sq ft)
Staysail 10 m² (105 sq ft)
The interior volume for a 38 footer is vast, with three double sleeping cabins - all large, two heads compartments - and a large galley with space for every modern convenience.
It can be finished in a choice of timbers and tailored to the owner's exact requirements. There are spaces to fit any manner of optional equipment including generator, watermaker, fridge and freezer.


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The 2013-14 scholastic soccer seasons continue at three area schools, with action on both the boys' and girls' sides.
At La Jolla High, the Vikings recently sat with a 1-4-1 record under head coach Josh Conner.
According to Conner, key players to date have included senior forward Edgar Salamanca, junior defender James Penner and sophomore midfielder George West.
"This year is a rebuilding year for the program," Conner said. "The team has a lot of talented players and potential for success in the conference. Our goals this year are to improve on last year's record and establish ourselves as a competitor for the Western League title."
Meanwhile, the Lady Vikings under head coach Kristen Jones stood at 4-3-2 after recent play.
According to Jones, the team is well balanced, with Phoebe Riley and Lillian Raffetto leading the way. After nine games, nine players had scored goals.
"La Jolla High soccer is back this year with something to prove," Jones said. "We have a great combination of young energy and strong determined leadership. We are still trying to find our groove but we will be the team late in the season that no one wants to play. This group has the talent and potential to win it all."
Over at The Bishop's School, the Lady Knights under head coach Brian Quinn, were 3-0-2 in the Coastal League as of recent play.
At that time, the team's two leading scorers were Sarah Chase and Lucy Rickerson. According to Quinn, both have been dangerous in every game and are the team's go-to players.
Helping them in the forward department have been Barret Kearney and Gabi Smith, while great defensive performances have come via Evan Rossin, Vanessa Walther-Meade, Sabrina Straus and Sera Stotelmyre.
Quinn also noted the excellent play of freshman goalkeeper Jasmyn Gordon, along with strong midfield performances from Chi Chi Chang, Rhiann Holman and Serina Curtis.
"The team graduated nine seniors last year, so we have a very talented core of freshmen players that include Julia Ralph, Rachel Hong and Annika Kjos," Quinn said.
On the boys' side under head coach Malcolm Tovey, Bishop's sported a recent record of 6-1-3, the only setback coming to Cathedral Catholic.
According to Tovey, the defense has been led to date by captains Matt Healey and Chris Aleyn. Meanwhile, Grant Brutton had recorded three game-winning goals from more than 25 yards out while also being dominant in the center of the field.
The Knights have won games despite injuries to Ian Caples, Charlie de le Llama, Matt Mamood and Daniel Cohen.
At La Jolla Country Day School, girls' head coach Dave Jenkins and his Lady Torreys have battled with rebuilding after graduating a number of seniors from last season's squad.
Key players to date have included senior captain Arielle Schechtman (four-year starter, committed to UCLA next school year), along with juniors Lindsay Gatto and Juju Dessert, who have battled illness and injuries to date.
"Our goals for the season are to get healthy, have our injured players return and continue to improve the second half of our league season," Jenkins said.


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- About us
- Blogs
- Funding/Donations
- Challenges
- Chapters
- Papers
- Projects
- Code of Conduct
- Google SoC
- Recent posts
- Security Workshops
1. Changes in the structure of your organization.
There were no changes in the structure of the organization for 2011
2. List current chapter members and their activities
- Mark Ryan Talabis
- Anton Chuvakin
- Jason Martin
- Jeremy Nommensen
- Darryl Higa (contributor)
- Vince Hoang (contributor)
- Dwayne Yuen (contributor)
- James Occhman (contributor)
1. List current technologies deployed.
No new technologies but we did have one significant improvement this year. We were able to get support from one of the biggest managed security services in Hawaii. They now contribute anonymized attack data (date, time, attacker IP and some signature information of attacks) from across all the networks that they monitor across Hawaii. This gives us a huge database of attack data wherein we can crunch statistics. We have been given 7 months of initial data.
2. Activity timeline: Highlight attacks, compromises, and interesting information collected.
Below is a breakdown of the anonymized attack data that we currently have:
Aug 2010 - 7582 attack sessions
Sep 2010 - 15774 attack sessions
Oct 2010 - 13461 attack sessions
Nov 2010 - 19237 attack sessions
Dec 2010 - 34241 attack sessions
Jan 2010 - 26493 attack sessions
Feb 2010 - 9892 attack sessions
Mar 2010 (currently processing)
Apr 2010 (currently processing)
May 2010 (currently processing)
Jun 2010 (currently processing)
More about the actual trends in the findings section.
1. List any new tools, projects or ideas you are currently researching or developing.
Our chapter focuses on crunching attack data rather than tools and infrastructure. What we are focusing on right now is to creating a database (hopefully shareable to the community) to hold all the attack data that we receive that we can easily query and create a standard set of statistical items that we can report on regularly.
2. List tools you enhanced during the last year
We did not enhance any tools during the last year.
3. Would you like to integrate this with any other tools, or you looking for help or collaboration with others in testing or developing the tool?
Unfortunately, we don't focus much on tools but if someone wants to collaborate on a database that would be great. We use a community MySQL version right now but if we can somehow move everything to a more robust database that would be great.
4. Explain what kind of help or tools or collaboration you are interested in.
Same as above. More on data collection, data analysis, and statistics. Not really much on tools.
1. Highlight any unique findings, attacks, tools, or methods.
We mainly look at trends but some of our contributors (Darrly and Vince) provide attack research here:
We also have a mailing list that provides the same information to the Hawaii infosec community.
2. Any trends seen in the past year?
We are still working on standardizing our trends database but here are some initial trends we are picking up based on a 7 month data:
Top 10 Countries Attacker Source
China - 70779 attack sessions
Taiwan - 15744 attack sessions
Turkey - 5399 attack sessions
Republic of Korea - 15744 attack sessions
Mexico - 4285 attack sessions
Brazil - 4055 attack sessions
Russian Federation - 3769 attack sessions
Canada - 3739 attack sessions
Peru - 2673 attack sessions
Germany - 2051 attack sessions
Note: We removed the US because I feel they are false positives but I'm looking into it.
Some interesting notes on Attacker Source over time:
a. Overall, China and Taiwan are fairly consistent throughout the 6 month period. Also US too but I think a lot of US ones are false positives.
b. Overall, Russia and Korea are next. Not as consistent but occurs in the top 20% in most months
c. August 2010 appears to have a spike in South American countries: Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. There was a spike in Canada, India and UK too this month. Actually a lot of spikes in other countries. Not sure why. But August seems to be a busy month. The only thing I could think of was DEFCON was around this time. (ok blame Defcon for everything!)
d. September 2010 was relatively quiet.
e. October 2010 was status quo as well
f. November 2010 had a weird spike.. of all places the British Virgin Islands. Also noted minor increase from attacks from Italy.
g. December 2010 had a huge spike from China. There was also a sudden increase in HongKong and Taiwan is consistently high. Not sure but around this time there was a lot of news from Wikileaks insinuating that China was to blame for hacking Google.
h. January 2011 had a spike in France, Germany, and to a lesser degree Spain. These countries are pretty close to each other. Something must be going on but I can't find any news about them.
i. February 2011 still had a residual spike of Germany and Spain but tapering off it seems.
Attacks by Days of the Week:
2 - 39718
3 - 32342
7 - 30155
4 - 30081
6 - 23115
1 - 20320
5 - 18387
Note: Looks like attackers are most active in the early part of the week. =)
Top 10 Hours of Attack (HST)
20 - 13467
3 - 12861
8 - 12034
11 - 11600
13 - 9729
9 - 9439
4 - 9328
10 - 9176
5 - 8945
Note: Might be useful if we correlate which hours correspond with which attacker country source for better context. We can actually break this down per country (e.g. what time which country attacks most of the time)
Top 10 Days of the Month
23 - 12922
3 - 12108
25 - 10414
7 - 10244
31 - 8775
30 - 8578
14 - 8420
18 - 8264
8 - 8021
24 - 7791
Note: Not really sure what value this gives but since we can get it... =)
3. What are you using for data analysis?
We are using a MySQL database and Excel.
4. What is working well, and what is missing, what data analysis functionality would you like to see developed?
Maybe if we can upgrade to MS-SQL or Oracle, our queries might go faster.
1. Are you working on or did you publish any papers or presentations, such as KYE or academic papers? If yes, please provide a description and link (if possible)
a. I am currently under contract to write a security book for Syngress. Expected publication date is April 2012
b. Presented in FBI/INFRAGARD regarding Stuxnet (they were the one who initially requested us to do this)
c. Presented in ISSA regarding Stuxnet
d. Presented in ISACA regarding Stuxnet (yep auditors wanted to know about malware too) =)
As you can see, our Stuxnet deconstruction was a pretty popular talk. Ever since we presented for INFRAGARD, we got so many requests to present it again. I actually got a lot of help from the guys in the mailing list who pointed me to really good resources. I also got the binaries from the mailing list. Really helpful.
2. Are you looking for any data or people to help with your papers?
Does the Honeynet Project "endorse" books? Though I think the topic that I am writing is a little bit far off our area. I'm writing something about information security risk assessments. =)
3. Where did you present honeypot-related material? ( selected publications )
a. INFRAGARD
b. ISSA
c. ISACA
1. Which of your goals did you meet for the past year?
We finally managed to get a constant source of data because of the data feed from the Managed Security Services company that is contributing attack information to us. This is a really big thing for us since our chapter really focuses on data analysis and trending rather than infrastructure.
2. Goals for the next year.
We are hoping to get our database running smoothly, finalize our statistics so we have standard items to trend. For example, our next steps here is to identify attacker IPs that are common to different attack targets (organizations), what IPs attack during a long duration, which IPs have sudden spikes in activities, etc. Also we would like to visualize the data. Maybe nice looking graphs and heat maps and then share it publicly.
None at the moment.


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Until very recently, I never realised they did a studio version of "Reaching Out". I actually really like it.
Not even on the B list...
Wikipedia wrote:Rock Therapy was a 1996 one-off project consisting of Queen guitarist Brian May, Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, plus a number of guest vocalists including Sam Brown, Andy Fairweather-Low, Paul Rodgers and Lulu. This was a 3-track charity CD issued in aid of the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre, which helps special needs children to communicate through the medium of music.
The song "Reaching Out" peaked at number 126 on the UK charts.[1] Queen + Paul Rodgers performed the song live during their 2005–2006 tour, and released four recordings: one on their 2005 double live album, Return of the Champions,[2] one on the single "Reaching Out/Tie Your Mother Down",[3] and two as download-only tracks.[4] The live version was sampled in 2009 by Eminem for the track "Beautiful" from his album Relapse.
Not even on the B list...
WeeMann wrote:They didn't - it's the charity single from 1996:
Kes wrote:That's probably because it wasn't a massive hit.
Not many people know that Soft Cell's Tainted Love was a cover. Marc Bolan's girlfriend Gloria Jones had a minor hit with it in America. The fact that it had been a hit elsewhere seems to surprise people.
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A visibly emotional Thomas M. Menino fought back tears today as he cut the ribbon on a new playground named for him in Charlestown and reflected on the twilight of his two-decade reign as mayor of Boston.
"It's a day before Election Day, the eve of a new mayor being elected, and I've been mayor for 20 years," he said, speaking slowly and quietly. "I have a lot of thoughts about this city, and I just want to make sure the city moves forward. It's just a tough day, a tough day."
Menino was surrounded by children in wheelchairs, City Hall aides, and corporate chieftains as he presided over the opening of Thomas M. Menino Park, a colorful playground outside Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital that was designed to be accessible to children with special needs.
Listening to the joyful shrieks of boys and girls playing on the swings behind him, Menino paused during the ceremony. "That's music," he said.
"That's what's its about – the young people," he added. "And that's what my whole career has been about."
Menino pointed out that he spent several weeks at Spaulding late last year as he recovered from a battery of ailments, including a compression fracture in his vertebrae, an infection, and Type 2 diabetes. Among those in the audience was Menino's nurse at Spaulding.
"So I know this place pretty well," the mayor said. "And I see the miracles that are performed here every day. And when I saw this land available I said, 'Wow. I always wanted to do a playground like this.' And it's happening now."
Menino has carefully avoided wading into the race to replace him. He has not said if he will vote Tuesday for either Councilor at Large John R. Connolly or state Representative Martin J. Walsh. The choice of a new mayor, he said, is not his to make.
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82, of Emporia, Kan., and natively of Macomb
Richard Lee "Dick" Mesecher, 82, of Emporia, Kan., passed away on Sunday, Nov. 11, at Newman Regional Hospital.
He was born Jan. 14, 1930, in Macomb, Ill., to Clarence (Buss) and Helen Mesecher.
He attended school in Good Hope. He married Ella Fay Bassham in 1951; they later divorced.
They have six children: Cheryl Diedrich of Poteet, Texas, Diana (Steve) Hirt of Columbia, Mo., Gayle (Dave) Barta of Hoyt, Kan., Richard (Debbie) Mesecher of Topeka, Kan., Monty Mesecher (deceased) and Greg (Liz) Mesecher of St. Louis, Mo. In 1977, he married Anita Ellison, who survives. Dick was an electrician for many years before retiring in 1992 from Kansas Power and Light. He loved to travel and especially loved spending time in Branson.
Dick was preceded in death by his parents, Clarence and Helen Mesecher, son Monty Mesecher, grandson Joel David Barta, brother Donald Mesecher and brother-in-law Tom Randolph.
He is survived by wife Anita; children Cheryl, Diana, Gayle, Checker and Greg; step-children Kathleen Waymire, Terry (Debbie) McCord and Barbara Alsamarri Suzanne Garrett; brothers and sisters Shirley Randolph, Barbara (Skip) Stringer, Beverly Stoke (companion Bill Joseph) and Jerry (Doris) Mesecher; sister-in-law Frankie Mesecher; 21 grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren; and 13 nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, Nov. 15, at Charter Funeral Home in Emporia, Kan. Memorial contributions can be made to the American Legion in Emporia, Kan.


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Denver tunes in State of the Union
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Tuesday night's State of the Union address was widely watched in Denver, on broadcast and cable.
KUSA-Channel 9 drew the largest audience (the same was true for NBC nationally). A total of 128,701 Denver adults, age 25-54, tuned in one of four commercial stations that carried the broadcast.
Channel 9 averaged a 3.6 rating and 9.3 share of the viewing audience.
Channel 4 averaged a 1.8 rating and 4.7 share.
Channel 7 averaged a 1.6 rating and 4.2 share.
Channel 31 averaged a .8 rating and 2.2 share.
PBS, including RMPBS-Channel 6, provided a new twist: crowd-sourced translations of the speech as part of a new open media project in partnership with Mozilla, the Participatory Culture Foundation and funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Additionally, 65,975 adult Denver viewers watched via cable.
Fox News led in the cable numbers locally, with an average 1.6 rating.
MSNBC followed with a 1.3 rating.
CNN trailed with a 1.1.
The estimated total adult 25-54 audience in the Denver market was 128,056 for broadcast and 65,975 for cable — for a estimated total of 194,031 Denver viewers.


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This is my new blog as you already noticed. To give it a good headstart I want to invite you to my Saturday Sketch Night.
What's that ?
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Just send a screenshot of your character to email@example.com, give me a direct message or mention with a picture attached at @evasburg on Twitter or post a link to your screenshot in the comments of this post.
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Chum wrote:Beast Mode wrote:Chum wrote:GoldenStJayhawk wrote:Monta for Iguodala. Straight up.
The Sixers get a big time scorer, which they need, and the W's get the 3 that they covet. Everyone is happy.
I like it.
I also like AR + Biedrins for Iguodala
Monta for Mayo + Thabeet
PG - Curry
SG - Mayo
SF - Iguodala
PF - Udoh
C - Thabeet
Thabeet is far from a starting caliber Center.... that front court would combine for about 12 points a game
I don't agree. Thabeet needs to develop a lot more but I want him in there for his sheer size, shot blocking and rebounding. Get a coach that knows how to teach and preach defense and Thabeet/Udoh would be scary as hell.
This also gives you D on the perimeter.... And a shitton of scoring.
Theres a reason he got 3 PPG for the Memphis Grizzlies... Thabeet isn't ready. Neither is Udoh. That would be one of if not the worst front courts in the NBA.


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As millions of hopeful Americans line up to buy winning Powerball lottery tickets for the $320 million prize today, one former Mega Millions winner who banked $190 million and then vanished from her small town and the public eye is still trying to come to terms with her winnings.
Holly Lahti won the $190 million Mega Millions jackpot in January, 2011, a moment that most lottery players hope will be the happiest of their lives. Within days, however, a mug shot of Lahti sporting a black eye and bruises, along with a mug shot of her estranged husband, Joshua, had become the image the world associated with America's newest millionaire.
Lahti, who worked at a bank in her small hometown of Rathdrum, Idaho, went into hiding. She gave no public statements about the lottery winnings, quit her job, asked the media not to contact her, disconnected her phone numbers, and eventually moved from Rathdrum without a trace.
Brad Wilde, who managed the convenience store in Post Falls, Idaho, where Lahti bought her winning ticket, said that she and her husband had left town and no one knew where they went. Wilde told ABC News earlier this year that he had heard Lahti moved to Hawaii and her husband to California to go to college, though he wasn't sure he believed either of the rumors.
Workers at Lahti's former employer, Inland Northwest Bank in Post Falls, told ABC that Lahti had quit and no longer lived nearby.
Lahti and her husband had both been arrested for battery in 2003, though the charges were later dropped. Joshua Lahti had been arrested more than a dozen times on drug, battery, and alcohol charges. At the time of the lottery drawing, the two were separated but still legally married.
Now, Lahti has begun to adjust to life as a lottery-winning millionaire.
In May, the mother of two attended a fundraiser at her former place of employment, Inland Northwest Bank in Post Falls. She refused to be interviewed by the local newspaper, which called the event Lahti's first public appearance since winning the jackpot.
"Privacy is still her big concern and, as a result, I don't ask any questions that would violate that privacy," bank employee Ron Jacobson told the local newspaper, the Coeur D'Alene Press. "I did tell her that she looked and sounded happier and less stressed than the last time we spoke."
Lahti agreed to help out at the Relay for Life cancer fundraiser and match all of the donations collected by her former co-workers. Suzanna Spencer, a branch manager at the bank, said that Lahti was still friendly and nice when she popped back up after a year-and-a-half in hiding.
"She is an avid dog lover and adopted a wonderful lab mix that is now one of the loves of her life," Spencer told the newspaper. "Her goal has been to get settled down before her girls' high school years. She has a good head on her shoulders and has gotten things lined up in her life."
Messages to Lahti and attempts to contact her have not been returned.
Lahti's story may serve as a cautionary tale to lottery hopefuls buying tickets to today's drawing of the Powerball jackpot. A flood of media scrutiny, requests for monetary hand-outs, and publicity typically floods winners of the major lottery games.


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Name: Stella (4)
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Stella wanted a POLKA DOT theme. Once I found an outfit, I based the color palette around it and planned the invite, food, cake, decor and favors.
FOOD: Anything round I could find. Melons cut in round shapes and stacked large to small. Tomatoes, Carrots, Cucumbers, Grapes, Blueberries in round clear containers.
CAKE: I ordered Cake Pops for the kids and made a three layer vanilla cake with blue frosting with tissue puff skewers on top, a circle punched number four, and circle sprinkles for the bottom edge.
DECOR: I made a wall of balloons to create a small background of color, circle danglers to hang with washi tape from the ceiling, a tassel with ribbon, fabric and tissue paper for the 36" balloon, and simple yellow tulips. Bamboo forks with colorful plates, mini milk bottles and dot straws all in a large round yellow tin for the beverage. I made some yarn pom pom garlands and tissue pom poms for decor around the house.
PARTY FAVORS: Craft bags filled with dot candy, a dumdum wrapped in dot fabric and tied with twine, some blue foil wrapped chocolate balls and some purple sixlets. Sealed with some washi tape and a circle punched "thanks for coming" sticker.
My daughter really wanted to paint at her party. She loves crafts so I got some wood letters, the first letter for each child invited. I spray painted them white and got a variety of colors from the color palette and circle sponge applicators and let them create their own letter art. Of course, aprons were a must ;)
Thanks Victoria! Readers, find Victoria at Victorious Archive.
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Give your love the gift of love with lot of hearts this year! Happy baking using this almond heart cookies recipe.
It's February and romance is in the air.
Yes, Valentine's Day is around the corner, and I am sure many of you are thinking of recipe ideas to surprise your sweetheart.
As many of you know, food is the surefire way to get to your love's heart, make the stomach happy and your love will be forever yours.
As I was reading through the February issue of Martha Stewart Living, two recipes caught my eyes.
One is this beautiful and wonderful almond-eye heart cookies, in the beautiful and oh-so-romantic love shape.
They are dusted with powdered sugar and I just wanted to eat them, or wished that someone would actually bake these for me, and then wrapped them nicely in a box, with ribbon and a card that says "I Love You."
Anyway, I don't think I am getting that but I am sure your loved ones will be very delighted if you make these almond heart cookies specially for your sweetheart.
To plan your Valentine's day ahead, you can actually make these cookies 3 days in advance before V day.
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Wow, what a week for customer services. First we had the now-infamous Vincent Ferrari call to AOL. Then we noticed a press release on E-consultancy that painted a bleak picture of online customer services among retail companies.
Vince wanted to cancel his account and having heard "the nightmare stories" decided to record his phone call to AOL Member Services. Some 21 frustrating minutes later he finally managed to achieve his goal… not entirely helpful.
International fame followed after the AOL tape went viral – the combination of Digg and the New York Times channelled 700,000 visitors to Vince's site in rapid succession, forcing him to temporarily remove the recording (still offline).
If you didn't hear it you can watch him being interviewed about his AOL experience on TV via YouTube – the interview has excerpts from the cancellation call. Too funny, unless you're an AOL executive…
Back in 2000 when I 'cancelled' an old AOL account they continued to bill me for months, thereafter claiming that I needed a cancellation number before they'd stop taking money from me. Amazingly they're still at it, despite being warned in the past from Elliot 'comingtogetcha' Spitzer about their anti-consumer behaviour, according to Consumerist.
Consumerist also has a bunch of hilariously bleak internal memos that were sent to the customer retention team in the wake of this PR catastrophe to boost morale, etc. I wonder what user-centric Google makes of it all. Google of course invested a billion bucks into AOL last year, for a 5% stake.
Given that AOL's customer retention initiatives are so sucky, who else can we look to for some nuggets of best practice wisdom?
online retailers, it seems. Not according to research published earlier this week by Transversal.
Here are some of the more terrifying facts and figures that were released…
The average retailer can only answer five out of the ten most often asked questions online
One online grocer took almost 100 hours to reply to an email
Grocery and fashion companies were the slowest at answering emails, taking 23 hours on average
The fastest replies came from online music and bookstores, which still took 8 hours on average
One in four replies did not bother to answer the original question
Less than 10% of online retail companies have invested in customer service tools
It gets worse. Transversal compared the results from the ill-equipped online retail sector and found that despite the shocking performance, retail actually fared better than (in order) utilities, banking, telecoms, consumer electronics, travel and insurance. None of those sectors could answer any more than 5 out of 10 of the most frequently asked questions on the website. Ugh! Rubbish!
Folks, you know that we really need to lose this weird view of the internet being a channel purely for customer acquisition (which it is, but it is way more than that…). We also need to understand that online customer services should not be filed under 'customer retention'. It might work a little bit like that offline, but online many consumers want answers to questions before becoming your customers. Think of it as pre-customer service.
Online, intelligent / accessible / comprehensive customer services tools play a huge role in acquiring new customers – people need to be able to easily find out about delivery options and costs, returns policies, payment options, and so on. If they can't quickly find what they're looking for they will most likely move on.
I know customer services software doesn't sound particularly sexy to the marketing department (which often controls the biggest share of web budget, and often leads web strategy), but when you realise that without these tools you are losing prospective customers to your dastardly competitors, you start to see their value / sex appeal. And yes, you guessed it, they are good for encouraging repeat business too…
'Customer experience' is everything these days (if you have an offline presence then please add the obligatory 'multichannel' prefix to that phrase). Multichannel customer experience means being able to manage and fulfil consumer expectations, regardless of the channel that the consumer chooses to interact with your brand. Being able to service a customer on the high street is one thing, but you need to match that level of service online, as best you can (or better).
One interesting fact about online customer service tools is that they can also help your offline staff. Call centre-based customer service reps can use knowledgebase tools and intelligent FAQs to help them quickly find the right answers for customers, like they would with an intranet. Think about these side benefits when you're making the business case for an investment into these tools.
And think about AOL's major faux pas too, because chances are your website also has a customer service problem. AOL deserves this sort of bad PR, but if it had an easy mechanism for cancelling accounts then none of this would have happened.
It could happen to you…
Related reading:
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In the spring of 2011 Bill Collins rushed home from Rice University to do an internet search on his computer. The subject was as foreign to him as the name sounded – Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS).
Collins was developing symptoms for weeks but with no answers. This was his first clue he was given into what might be happening.
After a quick internet search the words he will always remember stood out on his home computer screen – "seek medical attention immediately."
Collins has continued to defy logic throughout his career as a masters track and field athlete. How can a 61-year-old sprinter be in such physically superior shape and running times as fast as many high school athletes? But he now faced his greatest challenge yet.
Collins was becoming incredibly weak, had lost a large amount of weight, along with his appetite, and developed a tingling sensation in his toes. His symptoms perplexed doctors. It eventually brought him to Rice University and onto the massage table of a close family friend.
"She started massaging me and said immediately, 'you don't have any muscles left,'" Collins recalls. "At that moment she wrote down the name GBS. I went home to look it up and it said to seek medical attention immediately. I went in and they started running tests and I started treatment the next morning."
Collins began therapy to work the GBS out of his system. GBS is a rare disorder that attacks the nervous system and, if not treated properly, can cause life-threatening complications and possible paralysis.
Unable to leave his hospital bed for five days, he prayed just to walk again. A lean 160 pounds to begin with, Collins shed 41 pounds through the course of his treatments and rehabilitation. He estimated 85 percent of his muscles were gone.
At that point, the thought of returning to masters track and field, where he had made so many close friends, set so many world records and won so many races, was the furthest thing from his mind. The idea of returning to the track as early as the spring of 2012 for the USA Masters Indoor Championships and World Masters Indoor Championships was laughable.
"When I looked at the results from the (2011) World Masters Outdoor Championships that I missed, and based on what the doctors had told me, I was forecasting I wouldn't run at that level again until 2015," he said.
But just as he did so many times before, Collins quickly began defying the odds. His recovery began slowly with no impact training and only sessions in the pool. He began to grow stronger once again and the familiar toned muscles began to reappear.
When the calendar turned to begin the new year, Collins still hadn't been able to do any workouts on the track. The USA Masters Indoor Championships were just over two months away. Through the encouragement of his son on his rapid recovery, Collins made his first trip back to the track in early January.
"I started out very slow," he said. "I was able to pedal around the track to run a two-minute 400m. It triggered in my mind that things were going to be okay. This outcome has been more than I ever could have hoped for."
But he still had a long ways to get his 400m time down to around 56 seconds to be competitive in his age group. However, everything continued to fall into place.
He entered to run the M60 division in the 60m, 200m, 400m and 4x200m at the USA Masters Indoor Championships March 15-17 in Bloomington, Ind., with the goal of traveling to Jyvaskyla, Finland, for the World Masters Indoor Championships April 3-8.
After four wins at the USA Championships, three gold medals at the World Championships and a pair of world records, it is safe to say Collins had a successful return to the track.
It brought tears to his eyes when he set his age-group world record in the 60m in Bloomington.
"You don't know how many lives you have touched until something like that happens," he said. "Every masters athlete I knew was calling and writing and emailing. That's what masters is all about. I have won a lot of titles, set a lot of records and won a lot of championships, but it doesn't come close to that.
"The recovery that I had was almost unheard of. People I have talked to, some have ended up in hospice homes and some are paralyzed. I am truly blessed. To have a normal, active lifestyle and to be back on the track is amazing."
And all seemed right with masters track and field to have Collins, who is competing at the masters level for the 21st year, back and setting records. He shows no signs of slowing down.
He will return to compete in next weekend's Penn Relays in the 100m and the 4x100m and 4x400m relays with the Houston Elite relay teams. A regular at the Penn Relays since his high school days, Collins has won a total of 33 events at the storied competition.
Collins is still unsure how long he will continue to compete. He has been approached about racing in the M75 division at the Penn Relays, which wouldn't happen for Collins until 2026. While he remains uncertain if he will compete for that long, few would put it past him.


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The most feared holiday phrase?
"Some assembly required."
Those three little words are uttered in incredulous exasperation frequently this time of year, from homeowners trying to install complicated decorations to parents struggling to get a toy put together by Christmas morning.
But a simpler kind of assembly is gaining fans as the holidays approach, aided by Pinterest and the do-it-yourself movement.
"The old cookie exchange felt kind of tired, so last year we got together and made jar gifts, and we're doing it again," said Maggie Melin. "It's very satisfying."
Melin, 35, and two friends-since-college gathered around her Brooklyn Park dining room table last December to measure, sift and layer ingredients into jars to create homemade gifts. Each of the friends brought ingredients for two finished products. At the end of the day on the assembly line, they had laughed, chatted and completed a half-dozen presents, all decorated and ready to be given away.
"We're broke," said Melin.
"But thoughtful," put in her friend Beth Beardsley, 39, of Rockford.
"And crafty!" added Margaret Mahowald, 35, of Minnetonka.
In the hunt for fresh ideas for jar gifts for this year, the trio gathered at a recent "Gifts From the Kitchen" workshop at the Ridgedale Library. The free seminar, offered a half-dozen times this fall by the Hennepin County Library, filled up fast.
"It's food-focused, but it isn't cooking," said class leader Mary Jo Rasmussen. A co-owner of Urban Relish, she and her partner usually offer cooking classes in private homes.
"Not everyone is ready to brew their own kombucha or put up their own preserves," she said. "The less experienced fear they will contaminate what they're making because they don't have the equipment or skill to do it right. This is easy and safe. Assembling is low-tech. Just wash your hands and start measuring."
Rasmussen put together four hands-on stations for participants to try. They could layer ingredients for a holiday soup mix using red and green lentils, mix up a taco spice blend or blend Mexican hot chocolate. One inedible product was included — an indulgent milk bath, featuring powdered milk, epsom salts and fragrant essential oils.
Many, many options
Pinterest is loaded with hundreds of jar gift recipes and almost as many ideas about decorating finished products, with instructions on how to paint the jars, etch the glass and emboss the lids — to say nothing of the tags, tops and labels.
"There's interest in things made from scratch, because they're authentic," said Mary Meehan, consumer analyst with Minneapolis-based Panoramix Global.
"But people are busy and they don't always have the know-how, but they still have the urge. So if they can't make furniture, they can buy it at Ikea and put it together. People who don't have time to cook add ingredients to a cake mix to make it their own. It's homemade — but not really. Foodies might turn their noses up at that, but I don't. I'm all for engaging with what we consume."
The library event jump-started Karen Hanson, 31, of Plymouth. She said she came to the class because after eying virtual craft projects on Pinterest and pinning scads of them, she's ready to actually make something.
"Seems like I once heard about someone who didn't sterilize what they were canning and they poisoned people," she said as she measured ingredients into a jar. "This is my kind of do-it-yourself."
Kevyn Burger is a freelance writer and a newscaster at BringMeTheNews.com.


text: WASDE: Corn Carryover Holds Steady April 8, 2011 02:35 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By AgWeb.com Editors Email COARSE GRAINS: U.S. corn ending stocks are unchanged this month as a projected increase in corn use for ethanol is offset by a reduction in expected feed and residual use. Corn used to produce ethanol is raised 50 million bushels as strong blender incentives and positive ethanol producer margins continue to encourage expansion in ethanol production and use. Rising gasoline prices have pulled ethanol prices higher helping to offset increases in corn feedstock costs for ethanol producers. U.S. corn feed and residual use is lowered 50 million bushels as increased prospects for 2011 SRW wheat production and higher year-to-year corn plantings in the South reduce expected corn feed and residual disappearance during the second half of the 2010/11 corn marketing year. SRW wheat plantings are up sharply year-to-year with the March 31 Prospective Plantings report further increasing acreage in the SRW wheat states. A weighted average of early April crop conditions in the SRW states shows the highest percent of the crop in good-toexcellent condition in 5 years. Winter wheat conditions are especially favorable in Arkansas and North Carolina where wheat feeding is an alternative for poultry and hog producers. Cash and futures prices for SRW wheat have recently dropped below those for corn on a pound-forpound basis creating opportunities for wheat to replace higher priced corn in feeding rations. Prospects for early new-crop corn usage ahead of September 1 are also increased with the largest intended southern corn plantings since 2007 and high expected summer corn prices. Other 2010/11 U.S. feed grain changes this month include higher feed and residual use and higher food, seed, and industrial use for sorghum which boost expected domestic usage 15 million bushels. Sorghum exports, however, are projected 10 million bushels lower. Oats imports are raised slightly and feed and residual use is projected lowered leaving ending stocks up 18 million bushels. Price ranges for all the feed grains are narrowed 5 cents per bushel on each end. The season-average corn price is projected at $5.20 to $5.60 per bushel. Global coarse grain supplies for 2010/11 are projected 6.3 million tons higher this month with a 1.8-million-ton increase in beginning stocks and a 4.5-million-ton increase in production. Higher corn and barley beginning stocks in Iran account for most of the increase in carryin. Nearly half of the increase in coarse grain production reflects upward revisions to sorghum production in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries. Increases in millet production for countries in this same region add 1.4 million tons to global coarse grain output. Global corn production is raised 1.2 million tons with the biggest increases for Brazil, Uganda, and Paraguay. Production for Brazil is raised 2 million tons with higher reported area and yields for their primary summer crop and an increase in reported plantings for their winter crop. A 0.5-million-ton increase for Uganda corn is part of a number of revisions for African countries this month. Production for Paraguay is raised 0.4 million tons as favorable growing season weather boosted yields. Production is lowered 1.3 million tons for Indonesia and 0.5 million tons each for Egypt and South Africa.Global 2010/11 corn trade is up slightly this month with imports raised 0.9 million tons for Indonesia and 0.5 million tons for China. The increase in expected China imports reflects the short-term decline in world corn prices in mid-March that created a buying opportunity for Chinese importers. No official confirmation of such purchases has yet been made. Corn imports are lowered 0.4 million tons for Canada based on the slow pace of U.S. shipments to date. Corn exports are raised 1.5 million tons for Brazil and 0.3 million tons for Paraguay with increased production and supplies in both countries. Exports are lowered 0.5 million tons each for South Africa and Thailand. Global corn consumption is increased 3.1 million tons with increases in feeding for China, Brazil, and Thailand, and increased food, seed, and industrial use for China and for several African countries where corn is a food staple. Projected global corn ending stocks are lowered 0.7 million tons. Back to news


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VladPan brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 56 Designs von 11 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Online car rental company needs a logo that will help with brand recognition. Something that stands out, at the same time fits in with the site and over all feel of the company.
UPDATE 1: please put the logo on the site which can be found at http://www.rentooy.com
UPDATE 2: please take a look at this contest, these are the types we are looking for. If you need to expand the top banner of the site to fit that in please feel free to do so.
take a look at these types of designs thats what we are looking for.
UPDATE 3: you are not required to use car objects when making the logo design it can be abstract objects that fit with the rentooy brand name.
More updates to come.
This website allows people to rent out their own cars to make money.also allowing for other people to rent better cars at a lower rate thanthe big Hertz companies.
We want to see a verity of entries these include having the logo on the site, by itself, or on some stationary.
stay away from crazy colors, we are looking for more creativity, this includes having a logo apart from the name and incorporating the logo with the name of the company.
- web 2.0 feel
- glossy
- creative
- crisp
- artistic
- professional/corporate
- use other aspects besides cars in design
- want to see a verity of logos, ones with cars ones with out.
- crazy colors
- too cartoon
- black and white
- crazy/wacky font
Finden Sie heraus, wie ein Designwettbewerb funktioniert, oder lernen Sie mehr über unsere Logo-Design-Angebote.


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Joslin Lays Foundation for Improved Eye Treatment
Dr. Lloyd Paul Aiello
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
If left untreated, about a quarter of people with diabetes eventually lose some of their vision from diabetic macular edema—a condition in which leaking blood vessels cause swelling in the center of the retina. While laser treatments based on work pioneered at Joslin in the 1960s have helped to minimize this damage, injecting a drug called ranibizumab can be more effective, according to results from a major clinical study by the Diabetes Retinopathy Clinical Research Network (DRCR.net) announced today. Joslin scientists were leaders both in the basic research that led to the study and in the establishment of DRCR.net.
"The study shows that this medication therapy is substantially better than our current standard laser treatment alone for this condition, which affects hundreds of thousands of people worldwide," says Lloyd Paul Aiello, M.D., Ph.D., director of Joslin's Beetham Eye Institute. "Treatment with the medication as performed in the study results in more vision improvement and less vision loss than current laser therapy alone, and it doesn't increase eye pressure or cataracts."
"This will be a major benefit for patients with diabetic eye disease," adds Dr. Aiello, who is also Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. "Laser for diabetic macular edema has been the gold standard treatment for the past 25 years. Now, we have an even better therapy for these patients."
The drug, marketed as Lucentis, targets a molecule called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a key player in the growth of blood vessels.
Working with George L. King, M.D., Joslin's Chief Scientific Officer and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Aiello made a string of major discoveries about the role of VEGF in the eye. These Joslin scientists were the lead authors in a New England Journal of Medicine paper that showed that expression of VEGF is heightened in patients with diabetic eye disease, and in other reports demonstrated that this molecule can be blocked with subsequent reduction of retinopathy in animals and that an anti-VEGF drug can reverse visual loss in a patient.
Dr. Aiello also was the inaugural chair of the DRCR.net, the premier network for doing clinical trials for diabetic eye disease in this country. About one-third of all retinal specialists in this country participate in DRCR.net, which is funded by the National Eye Institute, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and other groups.
In the other major form of diabetic eye disease, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, blood vessels grow in wrong places on the retina. Laser therapy provides excellent results for this condition, preventing severe visual loss in more than 95% of patients. This new clinical study wasn't designed to examine the effectiveness of ranibizumab for these patients, but other data suggest that it might be helpful in their treatment as well. Further studies are underway to assess the benefit of this therapy for patients with diabetic eye conditions other than those evaluated in this study, says Dr. Aiello.
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Olde Tymes buys Gracie Mae's Kitchen
Norwich restaurant will be the new home for popular Griswold bakery
Norwich - Gracie Mae's Kitchen of Griswold, a popular bakery of homemade pies, cookies and coffee cakes, has moved to Olde Tymes Restaurant on West Main Street starting today.
Olde Tymes owner Rodney Green announced that he purchased the bakery and its kitchen equipment from founder and owner Jennifer Chominski on Sunday and reopened the bakery Tuesday at Olde Tymes. Chominski will remain with the business for a time to teach the recipes and production techniques for her popular fruit and pudding pies and other baked desserts.
Two Gracie Mae's Kitchen employees also have been hired to remain with the company, Green said. He hopes to expand their hours to fulltime. The move will more than triple the capacity of Gracie Mae's Kitchen, Green said, adding that Chominski was forced to turn down business during the busy Thanksgiving holiday season for lack of capacity in her small rented kitchen in Griswold.
"It's a great product," Green said. "We will get our feet wet over the next few weeks, and by the holiday season, we'll have the space geared up. And by next season, we'll be able to do four times what she did last year."
Green hopes to expand Gracie Mae's Kitchen to New London, Waterford, Salem, Lisbon and Bozrah as well as many area farmers' markets.
Chominski, of Uncasville, said she has been running the bakery business for five years and her personal obligations made it so she couldn't keep up with the growing business. She said Olde Tymes is a "perfect fit" for the old-fashioned, homemade baked goods of Gracie Mae's Kitchen.
The bakery name comes from the middle names of two of Chominski's nieces.
Chominski said she will stay with the business "as long as Rodney needs me," and will help set up a Facebook page and will help train Olde Tymes staff to make the goods.
"It's my baby," she said. "It's something my mother and I built from scratch."
Green said he learned of Gracie Mae's struggles from Norwich Community Development President Robert Mills at a May meeting of the Greater Norwich Area Chamber of Commerce. Mills suggested Green contact Chominski and try to work out an agreement to save the bakery and move it to Norwich.
"We've been thinking about the bakery business for the past few years, but we never had employees with experiences in it, and never had the time to explore it," Green said.
Mills was pleased the deal worked out and credited Green's enthusiasm for the new venture.
He said NCDC Project Manager Jackie Roy had been working with Chominski to find her space in Norwich to no avail. Chominski was considering closing the business.
"I knew Rodney is a serial entrepreneur always willing to try stuff," Mills said, "and he was all over it."
"I give Rodney all the credit in the world for not letting it lie there. He just jumps on stuff."
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biomed hero needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 54 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Biomed Heroes
Biomed Heros is dedicated to creating a community for idea and information exchange between clinical engineers. Our objective is provide tools to help "biomeds" deliver value to their organizations and get recognized for it.
Biomedical engineers are an underpaid, under-appreciated group that maintains all of the equipment in hospitals that are used to diagnose and treat patients. They are constantly complaining that they do not get the recognition (or operating budget) that they deserve, and they frequently refer to themselves as unsung heroes. BiomedHeroes.com will provide a place for biomeds to exchange ideas and, hopefully, purchase materials and software tools that can help them transform their operations into a well-recognized and respected profit center in the hospital (it has happened in a few places with forward thinking leaders). Here are few links that will help you get to know the audience:
The logo should be fun, but professional. It should be something that the biomed would be proud to were on a shirt, but should not be overly dramatic.
Biomed Heroes is a long name. It probably should be incorporated into the logo. However, some kind of tag would be cool. For example, the main email for the company is firstname.lastname@example.com. Perhaps" I am 1" could be incorporated into the design. That said, I am not wedded to this and dont really care if it gets used.
We would like something contemporary and technical looking -- like something you would see for a young technology company, like Skype. Also see attached PPT file which has some samples that I thought had potential.
We want to avoid stuff like this:
Please feel free to experiment with colors!
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Ostracods (formally called Ostracoda) take their name from the Greek 'ostrakon', which means 'a shell', and refers to the bi-valved carapace that is characteristic of these tiny crustaceans, which resemble water fleas. They had evolved by the early Cambrian, about 545 million years ago, and are found commonly as fossils. Ostracods are still living today in all aquatic habitats from the deep sea to small temporary ponds.
Ostracods are small animals belonging to the phylum Crustacea. Most are between 0.5 and 1.5 millimetres long, but a few (e.g. Gigantocypris, right) grow to about 25 millimetres.
Unlike most crustaceans, ostracods are not segmented, so that the head and body merge into one. They usually have seven pairs of limbs,or appendages, which are adapted for locomotion (swimming or crawling), grasping, cleaning the carapace, feeding, or as sensory organs. Some ostracods have eyes, others are blind, and all have setae (minute hairs) which protude through the pores and are used for sensory purposes.
Some ostracods are bioluminescent; in other words they glow in the dark. It is said that during the Second World War, Japanese soldiers and sailors would keep cultures of these ostracods in bowls so that they could use the light to read their map and instruments.
Podocopids vary considerably in shape, have an arched dorsal margin and a complex hinge. Their adductor muscle scars are often arranged in a simple vertical row of four. Most living ostracods belong to this group.


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Dennis.mcphee necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 135 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
House and Land Mildura. http://www.houseandlandmildura.com.au
This new entity has been derived as an annex to our core business practice, which is New Home Consulting ( Under the existing banner of "Build Your Dream Home", in a regional area in Victoria Our specialty is identifying and tailoring specific New home packages that are in sync with each clients individual needs, goals and objectives. By this we firstly identify the clients financial feasibility based on their level of wants and desires to ascertain an expected price scope. Then we specifically seek a range of options or land, together with house designs to merge their desires with their dollars.
What has been identified with our research is that when people start to seek initial information about a new building project,they look at established house & land packages within the market in an attempt to guage what they will get for their money.
Hence, this web presence has been designed to capture those people expressing interest in building, to be able to offer them a sample and range of pre-determined House & land packages, but also, to offer them many additional tools and resources that will assist the cleints to guide their own project towards a reality.
New Home Building Market. This includes first, second, third home builders, of all types. New home for a young couple, growing family homes, empty nesters, investors and project developers. Having said this, the core strength of our cleints are typically second home builders, in a more mature finacncial position, where they can afford to be a little more extravagant with their chooses and selections. Our core face to face client initially is predominately female, although in regards to net research I woul dexpect we need to appeal to both.
Many people spend thousands of dollars, getting house plans drawn up to never build the home, or they become disillusioned with too many choices and options, that it is difficult to find some direction.
We offer our clients a price scope based on their preferences and selections, without having a specific parcel of land or a house design. e.g. Based on an acquistion of a 650 - 700m2 allotment on the est side of Mildura, with a 220m2 4 bedroom home with 2 living areas, 2 bathrooms & 2 garages, with your selections of floor coverings air conditioning, cooking appliances and facade styling implications we can expect a price range of $310,000 to $320,000.
This is a brand new entity which will have a web presence. It is designed to be an information portal as a first port of call, to anyone considering the building of a new home. At this stage we are focused on our local region being Mildura (North West Victoria), although could see the expansion to other areas, and hence would like to expand this in due course.
This site will have House & Land Cost Expectations, a range of New Home House & Land Packages, Testimonials from past clients, a gallery of past work. associations with preferred builders, comparison support information relating buying established to building new, details about the "first Home Owners Grant", Make yourself more attractive to the financial lenders.
It is a holistic approach, an informative nurturing process to remove the fear and frustration of building, giving the client the facts to enable them to confidently and securely advance their dreams of building to reality.
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Terror Train
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
A group of college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong several years prior, are menaced by a masked killer as they throw a New Year's Eve costume party on-board a train.
The early Eighties is now regarded as the Golden Age of the American slasher film. From 1978 to about 1985, cinemas were saturated with gory flicks featuring masked psychos stalking nubile teenagers in lonely locations, gruesomely killing them off one by one. The popularity of these movies was ignited by John Carpenter's Halloween, and their rigid template was confirmed by Friday the 13th. Each successive title layered on the violence, gore and nudity, neglecting to realise that what made Carpenter's film so effective was its use of suspense and the anticipation of violence.
Terror Train was one of the first slashers to cash in on Halloween's success. It epitomises the sub-genre, sticking to its conventions as tightly as Jamie Lee Curtis clinging to a knife for dear life. Everything associated with the sub-genre is present and correct. A masked killer avenging a past 'misdeed'. Check. A group of teens in an isolated location. Check. Ineffective authority/adult figures. Check. Teens indulging in drugs/alcohol/premarital sex. Check. Characters splitting up to look for other characters/investigate strange noises. Check. Knives and other sharp (phallic) implements as murder weapons (killers in slashers prefer the thrill of the chase and the intimacy of killing victims up close and personal with a knife). Check. Jamie Lee Curtis as the chaste heroine, or to use slasher terminology; Final Girl. Check, check, check.
Despite its unwavering adherence to convention, Terror Train really benefits from taut direction by Spottiswoode, who wrings every drop of menace and suspense from the confined space of the singular location. With its long, dark, shadowy corridors, there's nowhere for the imperilled teens to run and hide as they're picked off one by one aboard the increasingly creepy, claustrophobic train. The isolation of the setting is perfectly invoked by shots of the train hurtling through the icy night, its shrill whistle sounding like a petrified scream. A symphonic score and moody cinematography lend it an old fashioned feel and enhance the spooky atmosphere, and there's even a little social commentary evident in the various lamentations by certain characters on the demise of rail travel. As the ageing conductor Carne, Western movie veteran Ben Johnson brings a certain gravitas and dignity to his role. Equally sympathetic is Jamie Lee Curtis as Alana, a smart and resourceful teen who constantly despairs at the endless hijinks of her friends. Like most slashers, Terror Train's depiction of the American frat/sorority lifestyle isn't especially sympathetic.
While it may boast atmosphere and tension by the bucket load, Terror Train is also riddled with plot holes. Just how does the killer move around on the train when logic dictates he can only go backwards or forwards? Perhaps the various costumes - which in themselves are effectively creepy - enable him to move around undetected, or perhaps, as one immensely eerie shot indicates, he uses the exterior and the roof of the train. Terror Train also suffers a little in the pacing department. At times it's rather uneven, and proceedings are especially bogged down during the scenes with a smarmy David Copperfield as a magician charged with entertaining the revellers. Once the bodies begin to pile up though, events gradually build to a satisfyingly suspenseful climax which pits Curtis against the sadistic, axe-wielding killer dressed as a gnarled old monk.
With its inspired setting, Terror Train just about manages to set itself apart from the glut of early Eighties slasher movies, but only just. It's still a hugely enjoyable thrill-ride though, particularly for fans of the subgenre; and personally speaking, it's one of my favourite slashers. All aboard!