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MODA, University of Chicago's student-run fashion magazine -- yes, you read that right, University of Chicago has a fashion magazine -- isn't just any college fashion magazine. According to a recent Teen Vogue list, the university's 10-year-old fashion publication is actually one of the best college fashion magazines in the country.
In a list published last week comparing fashion magazines from schools like New York University, Columbia University, University of California-Berkeley and even nearby Northwestern University, Teen Vogue said that MODA's ability to mix shorter trend pieces with longer profiles that "capture the university's cerebral 'life of the mind' ethos'" is part of what makes the magazine stand apart from other college fashion publications.
MODA is part of a student organization at UChicago founded in 2003 that also includes a design program, trunk shows, a blog and an annual campus fashion show.
The magazine's editor-in-chief, 19-year-old sophomore Alexandra McInnis, said that at MODA, she and her staff of about 25 students believe fashion is not just about clothing, it's about ideas.
"UChicago is historically a huge powerhouse in terms of generating ideas, and our connection to the university really does affect the way we approach fashion," said McInnis, who hopes to use the magazine to overturn a stigma that fashion isn't a serious intellectual pursuit.
"We're trying to promote fashion as a worthy subcategory of the general fine arts world," she said. "I think fashion has the potential to do great at UChicago. We have people here who are very intelligent, very enthusiastic, and they're used to approaching issues from a lot of different perspectives. So I think fashion can really thrive here."
MODA can be read at modachicago.com or in print issues published three times a year, in line with University of Chicago's quarter system. The last print issue of the year will be available in the next few weeks.
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Designed by Thomas Mascall, the Touchtable features a large controller wheel that lets you mix records on the fly or scratch samples over what you're listening to. I especially love that you can link up two of these bad boys wirelessly for the full (well, miniature) DJ experience. Hooked up to a computer, it also functions as a MIDI device. It's just a concept for now, but if it ever gets built this little guy will put you just a smoke machine and glowsticks away from turning your cramped studio into a cramped SuperClub9000. [Yanko Design via Engadget]


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Two Things Advisors Should Remember About Emerging Market Volatility (Vanguard)
Investors and advisors should keep two things in mind when they think about emerging market volatility and ways to diversify their portfolios, according to Jim Rowley at Vanguard. "Number one is an emerging market should be a portion of a broadly-diversified and balanced portfolio and that the primary source of your diversification for that portfolio comes with fixed income and primarily investment-grade bonds."
"The second thing to think about is if you looked at emerging markets in particular, you know, sometimes we might hear about tendencies of moving out of broad emerging markets and maybe trying to mitigate risk by picking individual countries or smaller regions. And we'd like to warn that that might actually increase the risk in portfolios because individual countries or smaller subsets might actually have more sector concentration or they might have individual stocks that have a greater amount of risk or a greater amount of proportion in that index…"
How Advisors Should Approach Clients That Have Suddenly Come Into A Large Sum Of Money (The Wall Street Journal)
When people suddenly get a large sum of money for the first time it usually has an "emotional" impact, writes Cicily Maton, president of Aequus Wealth Management Resources, in a WSJ column. "Advisers should structure meetings in a way that lets such clients absorb the maximum amount of information," writes Maton. "Stay away from the straightforward, "You have a million dollars and here's how we will invest it."
"Instead, advisers should also do some kind of triage with recipients of sudden money. Find out what is on the client's mind in terms of the most important things to be done. The adviser might know that the client needs to set up an estate plan or open a new bank account. But if they're not on the same page in terms of the client's needs, these needs won't get accomplished. Have the client create a "bliss list" that prioritizes what they want to do with this new money.
…Next, the adviser should get an understanding with the client about not doing anything drastic with the money until they have a better grasp of their long-term financial picture."
Global Fund Managers See Skills Shortage (Reuters)
A study from State Street and research group FT Remark has found that global fund managers are facing a shortage of skilled labor, report Olivia Hardy and Yousra Elbagir at Reuters. The survey of 300 executives across Europe, Asia, and North America, found that 64% think there's a "capability gap" that acted as a setback. "There is recognition that clients are driving the needs of asset managers to move in a certain direction but the industry itself needs to evolve to be able to deliver that kind of product set," Andrew Wilson, Head of Asset Manager Solutions UK at State Street, told Reuters.
Here's What The World Stock Market Will Look Like In 2030 (Credit Suisse)
Credit Suisse expects the global stock market will hit $284.2 trillion by 2030. "The United States retains its ranking as the largest global equity market with a (nominal dollar) capitalization of USD 98 trillion, with a weight of 34.6% (representing a USD 74 trillion gain since 2014), while China advances ahead of both the UK and Japan to become the second largest equity market with a USD 54 trillion capitalization and a weight of 18.9% (representing a USD 50 trillion nominal gain from 2014)," wrote Credit Suisse analysts.
The Past Performance Of A Mutual Fund Is Not An Indicator Of Future Outcomes ... 96% Of The Time (Business Insider)
Mutual funds usually come with the disclosure that "past performance is not an indicator of future performance," yet many investors ignore this sage advice. Aye Soe, Director of Global Research & Design for S&P Dow Jones Indices, looked at the past performance of 687 actively managed domestic U.S. equity mutual funds and found that few manage to stay at the top.
"Out of the 687 funds that were in the top quartile as of March 2012, only 3.78% managed to stay there by the end of March 2014," according to Soe. "Further, 1.90% of the large-cap funds, 3.16% of the mid-cap funds and 4.11% of the small-cap funds remain in the top quartile." This means that past performance was not an indicator of future results 96.22% of the time.
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Ritter stays, Bennet goes, and other predictions for 2010
It's prediction time, so why not hear from a for-real New Year's baby with a "proven" track record?
I was born on New Year's Day in the year The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's, Time magazine named Lyndon Baines Johnson its person of the year (for the second time), and there were only 100 million phones in the United States.
So in addition to the fortuity of my birth date, I've got a little perspective.
My Baker's Dozen.
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Nobody likes to admit it, but gamers are different people when they're playing games. Those normally sweet and considerate boyfriends, girlfriends, housemates, sons and daughters are not so accommodating when the console's switched on. These are the worst things you can do when someone's playing a videogame. Innocuously, of course - setting fire to them or selling their cat on eBay is malicious. These are not.
7) Hog the TV
The television is a wonderful device. The modern iteration much more so. It's capable of displaying modern and classic cinema in eye-bursting explosions of HD colour and detail. It's able to relive your happiest memories in the presentation they deserve, via ultra-detailed, vibrant, 42 inch displays of your favourite photos. It makes it possible for you to explore any world or life that our most creative game developers can dream up, in detail so vivid that it's almost real.
Yes, the television really is a wonderful device alright. You'll note though, that amongst that list of activities we haven't mentioned actually watching TV. Because TV is 90% shite.
Above: The world should be more honest. Seriously, it would save time
Yet some people still watch it. Not just in the "Find the odd few good shows a year and watch them in a chunk" way. Some people actually default to watching regular, unfiltered pap on a daily basis, with little to no consideration for either the shows' quality or their own self-respect. Or the fact that they may be wasting the miracle of existence on a daily basis and will inevitably regret everything they've ever done (or not) when they lie upon their deathbed, tearfully ruing their decades of accursed stupidity.
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So it's incredibly galling when they demand the use of the TV when you're playing games. Because they're not using the TV. They're abusing the TV. What they're doing is like hiring a Michelin starred chef and making him cook £1 value bag burgers (50 of the buggers for a quid, and you can taste the cartilage in every bite!) on a clapped-out barbeque in the rain. And then feeding them to their dead dog.
6) Beat them at their own game
Even if we - gamers - fail at everything else in life, at least we know we'll always have games to be good at. Lovely games. Our comfort zone. We might have friends that are naturally gifted at sports or music or having sex. And they can occasionally make us experience feelings of inadequacy. But that's just how it goes. C'est la vie as they used to say down at the old Moulin Rouge. So one of the most heinous crimes a non-gamer can commit is to beat a gamer. At a game. ANY game.
Above: A typical gamer in his comfort zone savouring victory against a child. This is how it should be
You know the scenario. It's a family gathering and the Wii/Kinect/Move is getting some love. It starts out all laughs and giggles. But then mum/dad/gran/puny sibling actually starts winning. You try to act like you're not bothered. "Hahahaha. Honestly. I'm not bothered. It's just a game. Hahahaha." But your smile is slipping and you don't sound convincing. There's a dirty evil feeling in your gut and its eating all the rational thoughts from your brain like a big angry whale sucking up all the krill.
Above: After losing the first round of Carnival Games, Tommy could feel a Hulk moment coming on strong
Yes it's casual nonsense designed for plebs and works on an arbitrary scoring system that has no idea what actual genuine gaming skill looks like. But it's still a game. That's what we're good at. We're expected to win. We HAVE to win. Otherwise the delicate balance, the natural order, the yin and the yang, the light and the dark, the good and the bad and the ugly, it's all screwed. Everything we believe in. We might as well pack up and call it a day. Game F*cking Over.
Footnote: Losing to another gamer is not so bad. That's just fair dos like. Just as long as they don't beat us at something we consider to be 'our game' and it's the first time they've played it and they're not even playing properly. Then it can be annoying.


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CardCow necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 17 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
About the site: http://www.cardcow.com/
Pretty simple - We sell vintage postcards (and "stock" images of those
Adjectives would be: fun, interesting, historic, retro, vintage,
quirky, offbeat, nostalgic, classic
Ben & Jerry's is more what we're going for. Not western. Less Texas, more Vermont. Think dairy cows, not cattle.
I wasn't too concerned with actually having a postcard in the logo
itself, but it might work. I was more interested in branding the cow
We get a wide variety of customers ranging from serious collectors, to nostalgia buffs & historians, people buying gifts, advertising, graphic artists, etc.
Go for something more fun than serious. It needs to look professional, but not cliché.
The logo needs to have the text "CardCow.com" in it and be easy
to read. The tagline "Vintage Postcards & Collectibles" can probably
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The end deliverable should be a scalable vector format (Adobe Illustrator preferred).
I'm really not sure about colors - a B&W logo may be fine. I'd
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I'm open to any design ideas, but some thoughts I had were the following:
1. Something similar to the current logo. I just did that very
quickly several years ago when I launched the site, but a cow
silhouette like that could still look pretty nice. Maybe something a
little more "angular" like the white apes logo you did.
2. Something a little more cartoon-ish. Still a side profile of a
cow, but with its head turned grinning at you. I'm thinking something
like the Dead Milkmen, but more refined.
3. A more "round" logo - with just a cow's head/snout looking at you.
I really like this picture:
I think you could probably do some rounded text for a circular logo
around a cool cow head graphic that might look good.
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former New York police officer, in February had his convictions of obstructing of justice and civil rights violations in the Abner Louima torture case overturned. He was granted a new trial for the charge of violating Louima's civil rights—he allegedly held down Louima while another officer sodomized him with a broken broomstick. In July, a federal jury deadlocked on the civil rights charges but convicted Schwarz of perjury. Rather than face another trial on the civil rights charges, Schwarz in September agreed to a five-year sentence for the perjury charge and prosecutors dropped the other charges. In addition, Schwarz, his lawyers, and family are barred from ever speaking publicly about the case.


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"Do not take government money."
I have said this to every religious ministry who has given me a venue to speak ever since I came back to public office in 2002.
The only people who give you free money are people who love you, like your parents. The government does not love anybody.
Government money hooks you into government policies, including those that are anathema to you. Religious groups that take government money — and it does not matter which party is in power — will eventually face the requirement that they bend their knee to Caesar and kiss his ring.
I've seen leaders of whole Protestant denominations abandon things they have fought for like pro life in response to political pressure.
I remember a few years back reading that national Catholic Charities had received a huge grant from the federal Health and Human Services Department.
I was appalled.
I knew that this money would lead to demands that the Church compromise its teachings. Based on what I'd seen Protestant groups do, I assumed that the Catholic Church would accede to these demands. I thought the money would buy the Church's moral and prophetic voice, the way I'd seen it buy other religious voices.
I knew that you can not be true to Christ and take government money. You. Can. Not. Do. It.
You can not be an authentic Christian leader and toady to secular power. You. Can. Not. Do. It.
I wrote a post Saturday in which I talked about our personal allegiances; our friendships. I said that sooner or later, you have to chose. You cannot maintain deep intimate friendships with anti-God people and follow Jesus. You have to chose.
This is a parallel post addressed to religious leaders. My point is the same. You cannot base your efforts to bring the Kingdom of God on politics and supporting politicians and political parties. You cannot follow a political party and follow Christ.
You have to chose, and I don't mean sooner or later when the politically powerful rub your nose in the fact that you "belong" to them and demand that you abandon your beliefs for them. I mean from day one. You cannot bend the Gospels to fit the platforms and the behaviors of either political party and preach Christ.
You will either preach politics.
Or you will preach Christ.
But you cannot do both.
Many Catholic priests are just as guilty as their Protestant brethren of bending the Gospels to suit their politics. You find both Republican and Democrat apologists in their ranks.
They will spout Canon Law and attack good people who oppose the death penalty because, somehow, that isn't being "pro life" enough about abortion. Not, mind you, that the people they attack support abortion, but that they aren't focused on it to the exclusion of every other possible sin. Others will try to make us believe that ignoring abortion is the necessary price for concern for the poor.
This is bending the Gospels so they don't discomfit the politics of one political party or the other. It is not preaching Christ. Both types of priest lead people astray from following Christ and teach them to follow politicians, instead.
The Church itself, however, has been amazingly faithful.
It didn't take long for what went around to come back around concerning those federal grants. Before you could say three Hail Marys, the Church was embroiled in lawsuits and broadsides, demanding that it refer the women it was helping for abortions or lose the money.
"While the Catholic bishops were entitled to their beliefs, freedom of religion does not mean imposing religious doctrines on others with the use of taxpayer dollars," said Sarah Wunsch, an ACLU staff attorney.
She was referring to a lawsuit to end a federal grant to Catholic Charities for work aiding victims of human trafficking. A few months after this lawsuit, the federal Department of Health and Human Services revised its guidelines for human trafficking grants to require all recipients to refer for abortion.The Church could have done as so many others have and simply "wink-winked" its way through this. All it would take was a 3×5 card listing "abortion providers" tucked, ever so casually, into a pile of intake forms. Just touch your lips to the ring. It will be over quickly, and it won't hurt for long.
Besides, "it was the law."
That's what the Church could have done. It's what everyone else has done. It was the wide and easy way.
I'm sure the government coffers would have opened and rained down gold on the Bishop's heads if they had just done this. It would have been money, money, money for whatever they wanted.
But they said no. They took the narrow road, the hard way.
The price is that the federal government is now attacking the Church with broadsides like the HHS Mandate.
There is nothing in the Gospels that says you must first acquire a government grant to help the least of these. Following Christ's teachings means, among other things, that the Church must reach out to people like victims of human trafficking, regardless of what the government wants or does.
The Church has responded to this situation with a new ministry called Amistad.
"We lost a contract, but we've not gone away," said Nathalie Lummert, special-programs director at the USCCB's Office of Migrant and Refugee Services (MRS). "We're taking a decade of experience and now are rolling out a new program that brings communities directly into the fight against human trafficking."
I am so proud of my church for standing for the Gospels in the face of the federal government. I am just as proud of them for their concern for trafficked women and children.
The fact that the Catholic Church refuses to kiss Caesar's ring on the one hand, or abandon the least of these on the other is, in my opinion, the single best hope we have.
A National Catholic Register Article concerning Amistad says in part:
WASHINGTON — A new innovative weapon in the fight against human trafficking and sex slavery is coming this year from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, more than a year after abortion politics led the Obama administration to kill federal funding for the Church's top-rated outreach effort.
"We lost a contract, but we've not gone away," said Nathalie Lummert, special-programs director at the USCCB's Office of Migrant and Refugee Services (MRS). "We're taking a decade of experience and now are rolling out a new program that brings communities directly into the fight against human trafficking."
The new initiative of the U.S. bishops' Anti-Trafficking Program is "The Amistad Movement," an MRS program that puts the USCCB back in the fight against human trafficking in a major way.
Until 2011, the USCCB had directed a highly regarded, $15-million anti-trafficking program that networked victims with services offered by local interfaith groups, including the Salvation Army, Catholic Charities and Jewish Family Services, as well as secular nonprofits.
The USCCB program came to a sudden halt, however, when the Department of Health and Human Services announced that "strong preference" would be given to groups that would refer all victims to family-planning services, including "the full range of legally permissible gynecological and obstetric care." A Washington Post investigation revealed senior HHS political appointees threw out the strong recommendations of an independent review board to renew the USCCB's contract and disqualified the USCCB over its refusal to reimburse groups that referred victims for abortion and birth-control services.
Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/u.s.-bishops-bring-new-weapon-to-human-trafficking-fight?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NCRegisterDailyBlog+National+Catholic+Register#When:2013-01-28%2007:05:01#ixzz2JIFe2mvP


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Have you ever thought you were going to drink Sprite, only to find that your server had mistakenly refilled your glass with water? While water can be satisfying, if caught unaware, the sip can be strange and unnerving. Likewise, when you hand someone a savory cupcake, you have to warn them to not expect a sugar rush (although with my savory cupcakes, the onion on the top should be a bit of an indicator). Once savory cupcake tasters have clear expectations, they can settle in and enjoy a unique culinary experience.
My friend Danielle best described these fig, goat cheese, and grilled onion savory cupcakes as follows:
It tastes like dinner. You know how after you've had a good meal, you are left with a sweet satisfied feeling in your mouth? That's this cupcake.
The cupcakes were dense and biscuit-like, and while I chose to top them with a light spread of fig and goat cheese frosting, they would also be well received served naked (the cupcakes – not you) during a cocktail party.
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If it's not already clear to you, the savory cupcakes with fig, goat cheese, and onion were inspired by my Flavor Bible giveaway. Readers weighed in with their favorite flavor combinations. There were so many great entries, but I was most excited about entry number 38. Congrats, Anonymous, you've won!
I also promised that I would randomly select a winner. The random winner is:
I love the idea of anise and orange. I may have to try it soon!
Now, on to the recipe.
Fig, Goat Cheese, and Onion Cupcake Recipe
Fig, Goat Cheese, and Onion Cupcakes
- 2 C all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 C sugar
- 1/4 C grilled onions
- 1/4 C unsalted butter melted
- 1/4 C fig spread
- 1/2 C goat cheese
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, and baking soda and set aside.
- In a blender, liquefy eggs, sugar, grilled onions, butter, fig spread, and goat cheese.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until just integrated.
- Divide batter evenly between twelve cupcake liners.
- Bake for twenty-five minutes or until the tops bounce back when lightly touched.
Goat Cheese and Fig Frosting Recipe
Goat Cheese and Fig Frosting Recipe
- 1 tbsp unsalted butter room temperature
- 1/4 C goat cheese
- 3/4 C powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp fig spread
- Grilled onions optional
- Mix the butter and goat cheese until creamy.
- Mix in the powdered sugar until incorporated.
- Mix in the fig spread.
- Spread on cupcakes.
- Optionally, top with grilled onions.


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Homeschooler, Jacob Marks: museum resources valuable in science education
Jacob Marks made his first visit to the Bradbury Science Museum when he moved to Los Alamos with his family at the age of four. Jacob is a home-school student, so his mother Anita has made good use of the Bradbury in teaching him, and his siblings, science. They have attended the special monthly home school Museum Explorations, and Museum educators Liz Martineau and Gordon McDonough have provided Anita with personal training in how to teach her children science.
The Bradbury has been an especially important part of his development as a budding scientist, too. Liz and Gordon connected Jacob with LANL scientist Robb Hermes, as they both have an interest in ants. Last year, they worked with Jacob on his experiment to find the affect of artificial sweeteners on ants (they die from dehydration). Jacob won second place in the state science fair!
Jacob's enthusiasm for learning is contagious and very evident as he presents his knowledge and work on insects to preschool and kindergarten students and their parents. This summer he's serving as a Teen Explainer at a Friday Night @ the Museum, and in the fall he will likely give demonstrations on insects at the Museum's annual High-Tech Halloween.


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History of Coffee Chart, originally uploaded by sweetmarias.
I had to seam this image together, so I am not sure how legible it is. David Roche had it at the Roaster's Guild Retreat, and it's from a book but I am not sure which. Ukers? Interesting history of how coffee was disseminated through the world.


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Saturday Morning Market, Helsinki
Photograph, BDM, October 2006.
14 February 2010
Silent Sunday
Labels: Helsinki, Silent Sundays
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Two different points of view regarding natures beauty. One kills and preserves while the other records and preserves. An interesting photograph Brenda!
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September 19, 2013
Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American
Miami Heat star LeBron James married longtime girlfriend Savannah Brinson in San Diego on Saturday.
Sources close to the couple told the Associated Press that the wedding took place at the Grand Del Mar Hotel and included about 200 guests.
James and Brinson have yet to give out any details regarding their ceremony and so the sources spoke under anonymity. They had a three day celebration including the ceremony on Saturday and a brunch on Sunday
James and Brinson have been together since high school and have two sons.
James popped the big question just after midnight on Jan. 1, 2012 in Miami Beach.
The wedding included extreme security measures to keep the specific details from the press and public. Even guests were unclear of the exact details in the days leading up to the event.
The guests arrived with umbrellas to shield their identity and were taken to the wedding area, which was covered in tents.
Heat owner Micky Arison, coach Erik Spoelstra and many of James' teammates including Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh were on the guest list.
None of the guests released any details about the wedding Saturday and word is no cell phones were allowed during the ceremony.
Information from Eurweb.com and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Rice Krispies Makes Their Treats Accessible to All With Braille Stickers
The two best parts of school lunch when you're a kid are dessert - and finding a note from your parents in your lunch bag. A sugary treat is always great, but that secret written-down hug can bring a kid comfort during those hours when parents are far away. Rice Krispies Treats combined those ideas and made writable wrappers a while ago, but now the brand has partnered with the National Federation of the Blind to create their first-ever accessible "love notes" in the form of Braille stickers and re-recordable audio boxes for children who are blind and low-vision.
The heart-shaped "love notes" are stickers written in Braille that parents and family can stick on Rice Krispies treats that share eight supportive phrases, including "You've Got This" and" Love You Lots." For children who don't read Braille, the re-recordable audio box (which can hold a Rice Krispies Treat inside) can play a 10-second pre-recorded auditory message when opened and can be re-recorded over 1,000 times with intended messages of love and support.
"The National Federation of the Blind is committed to helping parents raise blind children prepared to be confident, happy and productive members of society," said Mark Riccobono, president of the National Federation of the Blind, in a press release. "As a father of three children, I know that love and support are critical to every child's success. We are delighted to partner with Rice Krispies Treats, which shares our commitment to inclusion and Braille literacy, to make sure blind students can get accessible 'Love Notes' in their lunch boxes this back-to-school season."
The Braille stickers and the audio box can be ordered online via the Rice Krispies website. "Inclusion is in our DNA, and is now shared through Rice Krispies Treats 'Love Notes.' Everyone is important, and we want each child to be able to feel loved, supported and acknowledged," said Jessica Waller, vice president of sales and co-chair of the Kapable Business/Employee Resource Group at Kellogg.
Parents everywhere should be able to pack as much love into their child's lunchbox as possible. Looking for more school lunch ideas? These are what school lunches look like around the world.


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Top 10 2010-A5-Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE LATEST VERSION. Please visit the OWASP Top 10 project page to find the latest edition.
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Top 10 Risks
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|Threat Agents
|Attack Vectors
|Security Weakness
|Technical Impact
|Business Impacts
| Exploitability
| Prevalence
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|Consider anyone who can trick your users into submitting a request to your website. Any website or other HTML feed that your users access could do this.
|Attacker creates forged HTTP requests and tricks a victim into submitting them via image tags, XSS, or numerous other techniques. If the user is authenticated, the attack succeeds.
| CSRF takes advantage of web applications that allow attackers to predict all the details of a particular action.
Since browsers send credentials like session cookies automatically, attackers can create malicious web pages which generate forged requests that are indistinguishable from legitimate ones.
Detection of CSRF flaws is fairly easy via penetration testing or code analysis.
|Attackers can cause victims to change any data the victim is allowed to change or perform any function the victim is authorized to use.
| Consider the business value of the affected data or application functions. Imagine not being sure if users intended to take these actions.
Consider the impact to your reputation.
Am I Vulnerable to CSRF?
The easiest way to check whether an application is vulnerable is to see if each link and form contains an unpredictable token for each user. Without such an unpredictable token, attackers can forge malicious requests. Focus on the links and forms that invoke state-changing functions, since those are the most important CSRF targets.
You should check multistep transactions, as they are not inherently immune. Attackers can easily forge a series of requests by using multiple tags or possibly JavaScript.
Note that session cookies, source IP addresses, and other information that is automatically sent by the browser doesn't count since this information is also included in forged requests.
OWASP's CSRF Tester tool can help generate test cases to demonstrate the dangers of CSRF flaws.
How Do I Prevent CSRF?
Preventing CSRF requires the inclusion of a unpredictable token in the body or URL of each HTTP request. Such tokens should at a minimum be unique per user session, but can also be unique per request.
- The preferred option is to include the unique token in a hidden field. This causes the value to be sent in the body of the HTTP request, avoiding its inclusion in the URL, which is subject to exposure.
- The unique token can also be included in the URL itself, or a URL parameter. However, such placement runs the risk that the URL will be exposed to an attacker, thus compromising the secret token.
OWASP's CSRF Guard can be used to automatically include such tokens in your Java EE, .NET, or PHP application. OWASP's ESAPI includes token generators and validators that developers can use to protect their transactions.
Example Attack Scenarios
The application allows a user to submit a state changing request that does not include anything secret. Like so:
- http://example.com/app/transferFunds?amount=1500&destinationAccount=4673243243
So, the attacker constructs a request that will transfer money from the victim's account to their account, and then embeds this attack in an image request or iframe stored on various sites under the attacker's control.
If the victim visits any of these sites while already authenticated to example.com, any forged requests will include the user's session info, inadvertently authorizing the request.
- OWASP CSRF Article
- OWASP CSRF Prevention Cheat Sheet
- OWASP CSRFGuard - CSRF Defense Tool
- ESAPI Project Home Page
- ESAPI HTTPUtilities Class with AntiCSRF Tokens
- OWASP Testing Guide: Chapter on CSRF Testing
- OWASP CSRFTester - CSRF Testing Tool
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Consensus Report
Prudent Practices in the Laboratory: Handling and Management of Chemical Hazards, Revised Edition (2011)Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology
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Reflecting recent scientific developments and new regulations, this report updates National Research Council guidelines that have served as an authoritative reference for the safe use of hazardous chemicals in laboratories for almost thirty years. The guidelines are used by laboratory personnel as well as regulatory agencies worldwide concerned with safety in the workplace and environmental protection. New topics covered in this update include: emergency planning, laboratory security, green chemistry, compatible chemical storage, and the handling of nanomaterials. Moreover, there is an expanded discussion of environmental health and safety systems.
Key Messages
- A key focus of Prudent Practices is the importance of establishing and nurturing a "culture of safety" -- an environment in which safe laboratory practice is standard. Since the last edition of the guidelines, significant progress toward this goal has been made.
- This edition of Prudent Practices includes a new section on emergency planning to provide guidance on managing emergencies ranging from power outages to floods or intentional malicious acts.
- Prudent Practices provides advice on four phases of emergency preparations to ensure the laboratory is ready for an emergency event. These are mitigation -- efforts to minimize the likelihood that an incident will occur and to limit the effects of an incident that does occur; preparedness -- the process of developing plans for managing an emergency and taking action to ensure that the laboratory is ready to handle an emergency; and response -- efforts to manage the emergency as it occurs; and recovery -- actions taken to restore the laboratory and affected areas so that the laboratory may function safely.
- This edition of Prudent Practices includes the first discussion of laboratory security, offering several security plans and advice for training laboratory members. A laboratory security system helps to mitigate risks including the theft of chemicals which could be sold, or used to manufacture weapons or illicit substances; threats from activist groups; or the accidental release of or exposure to hazardous materials.
- Principles of green chemistry -- the philosophy of designing experiments, products, and processes to reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances, and minimize accidents, injuries, and exposures to personnel -- are considered for the first time in this update to Prudent Practices.
- Prudent Practices provides a list of general storage considerations, such as storing volatile toxic or odoriferous chemicals in ventilated cabinets and ensuring shelves have a lip to prevent containers from sliding off. In addition, this update to Prudent Practices provides a detailed classification system for the storage of chemicals to help laboratory personnel easily identify which chemicals can be safely stored near each other.
- This update to Prudent Practices provides guidelines for working with nanoparticles, reflecting the growing use of these materials in chemical research, including information on planning and assessing the hazards of nanomaterial work, grading the risk of working with nanomaterials, and suggestions to make sure the working environment protects laboratory personnel from exposure to nanoparticles.
- Prudent Practices includes an expanded section on improving environmental health and safety performance by providing guidance on integrating environmental health and safety management within an overall laboratory management system to control health and safety risks in a systematic, proactive manner.


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Apps to classify and find data
Data classification may seem like an arcane art, but a growing set of information classification and management products make sorting through your company's data easier than ever. These tools provide the foundation for litigation discovery, cost reduction, record management and retention, archiving, deduplication and usage control.
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archiving, deduplication and usage control.
The problem of controlling and managing the ever-growing volume of data living on a company's file shares is unrelenting. Companies need to find ways to reduce the overall cost of storing data, but must often keep it for longer periods of time to adhere to new regulations and requirements. Adding to the problem are more stringent privacy laws and court-ordered mandates to quickly find and produce specific files adrift in a vast sea of unstructured data.
|Data classification product sampler
|Click here for a Data classification product sampler (PDF).
New data classification tools, which work below the file-system attribute level, crack open files and extract their content to allow complex searches, reporting, lifecycle management and legal retention based on policies. All of the products described on the following pages provide data classification and reporting, although their functionality differs widely (see "Data classification product sampler," PDF file). Most are relatively new products that are still in early release cycles with expansive roadmaps.
Unstructured data
Unlike information stored in well-defined application databases, or in semistructured e-mail servers and document management systems, the file shares in most companies are a dumping ground for more than 400 types of file formats. As corporations control the data in ERP apps and e-mail servers, users are increasingly using Microsoft Office apps to store their personal productivity files, which are often critical to the business' day-to-day operation. This leads companies to provide higher levels of service for this data at an ever-increasing cost. Unfortunately, this data may be everything from pictures of the grandkids to highly confidential customer documents containing private information.
The problem is that this data is stored in a user-defined fashion that's rarely controlled, searchable or organized in any meaningful way. A company must therefore find a way to separate mission-critical data from data that requires less costly service levels without adversely affecting productivity. Equally critical is the need to identify older data, duplicate copies of data and orphaned data that's no longer needed and can be deleted. Finally, when the need to find, protect or destroy specific pieces of information arises because of litigation or new regulations, how do you quickly respond to these demands? The short answer is to classify data, ideally with automated, user-friendly tools.
The primary purpose of information classification and management (ICM) tools is to provide intelligence about the files residing in file shares or share drives. These files may reside on individual Unix/Linux or Windows servers connected to SAN or DAS, in NAS filers or serviced by NAS blades inside a SAN chassis. Historically, management tools for file systems focused on the file attributes from the file systems themselves. ICM tools discover the file attributes of a file system, but their power and functionally comes from their ability to actually read the contents of a file and search for specific patterns (like Social Security or credit card numbers) or, in some cases, to create a complete index of all text in the document (including numeric information).
They create a repository of meta data by "crawling" a file system or reading a data stream and capturing the file attributes and/or the content of each file. They don't actually store the file in the repository, but instead store the data as individual attributes or entire full-text indexes. The initial process for all but two of the tools described in this article is fairly slow (they may have to read millions of documents); however, after the initial crawl, they all have the ability to do incremental crawls on a periodic basis, which run faster with less impact on the file system. The repositories are then searched to produce reports or take actions on the file. In general, the size of a repository will run from 3% to 15% of the total amount of storage being classified, depending on the type of files and the amount of data kept in the repository (file attributes, specific patterns or full text).
|Refining reports
While all the products described in this article provide canned reports, data classification exercises often produce reports that have thousands, or even millions, of lines that may need further refinement and data manipulation to be useful for your data management tasks. To better understand and analyze a report's trends, you'll probably need to consolidate, filter and manipulate the report's data.
In most cases, using a relational database is the best method for analyzing and reporting the data. Even if your information and classification management (ICM) product creates reports, the size of the data set or limitations of the report generator will often require summarizing or filtering the data for decision making. Most of the tools don't allow much flexibility in output (graphs, tables, etc.). Spreadsheets can be appropriate for small datasets or for creating specific reports, but databases are generally the best repositories because of their ability to filter and sort data based on specific queries and extracts. All of the ICM products described in this article can output their data in either comma-separated values (CSV) or XML formats, which can easily be imported into databases or spreadsheets.
Reporting on classification
Some offerings have canned reports for file aging, file type, file ownership and so on, with detailed and summary levels, and the ability to chart and graph data (see "Refining reports," at right). Most have graphical report engines that allow you to design custom reports by clicking on search patterns or entering regular/Boolean expressions as you would do with an Internet search engine. Some ICM tools go beyond basic classification and search capabilities and can manage, archive, retain, deduplicate or delete data; the long-term roadmaps of all ICM products include plans to introduce new features in this area. Most of the tools come from small independent vendors, although a few have established strong OEM partnerships or are looking to do so.
The list of data classification tools in this article isn't exhaustive; the products discussed were chosen because they're recognized as market leaders by users and analysts, or because their functionality is unique and compelling. Many new vendors have entered this space in the last six months, and some with existing file-attribute classification tools are adding content capability.
Abrevity Inc.
Abrevity offers two data classification products, FileData Classifier and FileData Manager. They generally share the same functionality, but FileData Classifier, targeted at the small- to medium-sized business (SMB), has a 3TB limit and can't be combined with Abrevity's database module. The products have broad capabilities, including tagging, migration, discovery and copy. Abrevity has done a good job of finding other vendors to partner with to offer greater functionality. This includes a partnership with Intellisophic Inc. to provide vertical industry regulatory lexicons and taxonomic content. The firm recently announced a fully integrated SMB-focused archiving appliance with disk and tape capability using QStar Technologies Inc.'s hierarchical storage management and Breece Hill LLC's disk and tape storage appliance, which gives it an integrated data management solution that includes tape. In addition, the products can perform specialized database and laboratory classifications that are offered as advanced upgrade modules.
While it hasn't made the kinds of inroads with larger storage OEMs that some of the other vendors have, Abrevity's focus on partnerships for technology, as well as sales and integration, allows it to offer a strong solution for the SMB market and department/group deployments in enterprises. It has the lowest entry price point by virtue of offering its product as software in small increments with modular extensions, rather than as a fully integrated offering or appliance. In that respect, it may offer a good way to get your feet wet with data classification. However, its lack of larger OEM partnerships and its SMB focus may not make it the right choice for larger enterprises.
Index Engines Inc.
Index Engines differentiates itself from all the other vendors cited here because of its focus on performance and scalability. It's the only vendor that can process data at "wire speed," and its appliances for SANs, LANs and tape drives can reside inline between a SAN target and a backup server. The products scale to handle a very large environment of multiple servers and geographical locations managed through a single interface. Products can also classify data on tapes and provide retrieval from tape media. Index Engines doesn't provide canned actions for migration, retention, litigation hold and so on, but it does have a published open API that allows storage vendors and end users to integrate other products with its search and reporting engine.
If speed and flexibility are your primary requirements, and you can create your own integrated data management routines, Index Engines may be a good choice. Its offerings are designed for users with a technical focus. The products can best be described as toolboxes; to use them you'll need to write your own programs to their APIs to perform actions on your data, or wait for some of its OEM relationships to bear fruit. Its products outperform the other vendors when installed inline, but for a full-featured data management suite that queries data at rest, this may not be the product for you.
Kazeon Systems Inc.
While not the oldest of the surveyed vendors, Kazeon is the best known of the ICM tools vendors. It has established a strong OEM relationship with Network Appliance (NetApp) Inc., which is reselling Kazeon products under its brand name. Kazeon has the most units in production environments, and is aggressively working on new features and functionality. Its IS1200 platform, which runs on a modified Linux kernel on Dell servers, is available as a rack-mountable appliance that can be clustered for greater speed and capacity. Kazeon offers a broad cross-section of functionality, including predefined reports and searches, active data migration capability, Google desktop integration and support for EMC Corp. Centera retention storage.
IS1200 is a general-purpose offering designed to appeal to a broad range of requirements and vertical markets. Its integration with primary storage vendors and Google, and its partnership with NetApp, means it will most likely remain a viable choice. Even though it was the first data classification tool to market, its functionality in some key areas is just now catching up with the competition; its report generators and lexicons are far behind some other ICM tools in terms of capability and ease of use. The appliance model also means that its entry-level price is high, and some users have expressed concern about not being able to choose their own Linux versions or hardware platforms.
Scentric Inc.
Scentric's Destiny is a relatively new offering that's primarily integrated with Microsoft's Windows OS to provide native access to CIFS file systems and Microsoft Exchange. The reporting engine has extended graphical and charting functionality, which makes for a near dashboard-like experience out of the box. Destiny runs on Windows hosts, and can be installed on existing servers in the storage environment.
Scentric has separated the classification and catalog (repository) components so they can be hosted separately. Destiny includes a fairly extensive predefined library of classification rules for storage management and compliance. The user interface for policy action based on classification rules is well thought out and is a point-and-click experience.
Scentric has integrated with several archive and content-addressed storage platforms, making copying and retaining data for specific periods a quick and seamless exercise. Packaging its functionality as a set of software components allows for greater flexibility in deployment. At this time, Scentric's product is a Microsoft-focused offering; if you have a lot of Unix-based NFS data in addition to your Microsoft CIFS data, it may not be the right vendor for your needs. Scentric has some customers evaluating its product, but hasn't sold any licenses yet; the lack of reference sites, as well as an untested support model, is something potential buyers should consider.
StoredIQ Inc.
StoredIQ is the veteran player of this group. Originally known as Deepfile, it began as an SRM offering for unstructured data in 2001. It's since been transformed into a full-featured ICM product. Originally targeting the healthcare compliance space, it has an extensive offering of predefined classification rules for verticals like healthcare and financial services, as well as more generic functions like human resources and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
StoredIQ's ICM 5000 product ships as an appliance in a rack-mounted configuration on blades with integrated storage. It runs on Fedora Linux with a PostgreSQL database for the repository. It has a strong partner relationship with EMC and is fully integrated into the Centera platform. This gives it well-integrated data-retention policy management with advanced features like single-instance storage. It has recently added support for NetApp data movement, which offers even greater flexibility. Of all the vendors mentioned here, its canned libraries are the most extensive, including complex linguistics to avoid false positives and find data in context.
While not marketed as vigorously as some of its competitors, StoredIQ offers a mature and ready-to-use product for a variety of data management tasks. Its platform is delivered as a fully integrated appliance with disks. This constrains the amount of data the appliance can handle and doesn't allow you to store meta data on a secure file-system target. Currently, its product doesn't allow multiple devices to be managed from a common interface, although that capability is on its roadmap. Its integrated model, while high on ease of use and functionality, doesn't allow the flexibility of a software solution and keeps entry-level costs somewhat higher.
|Considerations for choosing an information and classification management vendor
Attaching policies to classified data
Cost pressures and demand for longer, more controlled retention and access to file-system information are forcing companies to look at data classification tools. Products vary in features and performance, but all extract file attributes and content from file systems and store data in repositories for reporting, policy enforcement and data archiving. These tools can be the foundation of many activities, including litigation discovery, cost reduction, record management and retention, archiving and data deduplication. While the tools provide base functionality, an effective solution will include business processes, user education and well-defined policies.
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"South Asia in the Spotlight: Afghanistan at a Crossroads" is the title of a lecture to be presented Wednesday, Dec. 12, on campus.
Robin Raphel, who served as the U.S. State Department's first assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs from 1993 to 1997, will speak at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Raphel was U.S. ambassador to Tunisia from 1997 until September 2000, when she was named senior vice president at the National Defense University. She began her career with the federal government in 1974 as an economic analyst for the CIA. She subsequently held positions with the U.S. Agency for International Development in Pakistan, in the State Department's Office of Investment Affairs, with the assistant secretary of state for Near East and South Asian affairs and with the undersecretary of state for political affairs. In 1984 she was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in London where she covered the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia and Africa. She also has served as a political counselor at U.S. embassies in South Africa and India.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs' Office of External Affairs.


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Ayn Rand wrote some pretty bad books once upon a time and there central theme was that of a Objectiveist utopia built on science and reason and eventually the poor dumb unwashed masses would come begging for their smart people who left them.
I fear that if this "dream" was realized a very different event would take place, the theists would hunt them down and destroy them as infidels.
I would however love to take part in such an experiment as starting a Atheistic Commune some where far away from society as we know it. I dream of being in nature and living off the land, using solar energy, just living out of my RV. I however fear I would need like minded folk to help me out however and that's were the commune part comes in.
Do you think something like this would be sustainable or possible in this, the year of our Freedom 236?
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I would seriously consider jointing such an experiment, but I'm not a leader, so would wait until others took the lead.
The quickest way to get a dystopia is by trying to form a utopia.
no, and frankly the idea seems foolish, at least to me. we have a society, and we should continue to seek a proper place in it. 99% of the time we do so without quarrel. someday we will be accepted within traditional society.
Considering the rise of the fundamentalist movement as epitomized by Santorum I would be hesitant to agree. I actually think there is a fundamental split coming to our society which is going to divide traditionalist and progressive mindsets in a very real and physical way. There are plenty of states in the current United States that would be happy to secede and create their own little theocratic country. There is definitely a sudden upsurge of religion based laws making their ways up the voting chain from the ultrasound laws in Alabama and Virginia to the attempts at mandating creationism/intelligent design in school to things like the "don't say gay bill" in Tennessee.
If you combine these trends with the rise of Islam then you have to admit there is a very real possibility of a very big upswing in religion versus a downtrend in science and reason. The fact that non-religious believers is on the rise in some countries is very much counterbalanced by th rise of metaphysical nonsense in the rest of the world.
I have noticed and thought these things too. There is a lot of emotional brewing, and it will not go on forever. To think that our ideas will be excepted seems like a longshot. This is religion we're talking about.
I am definitely interested in a society based where atheism is a crucial focal point. I am not interested in the living of the land, abandoning technology kind of society.
I spend a lot of time working on a atheistic space civilization concept (I am actually in the middle of writing a book about it). However, you can't build a society simply based on atheism because atheism isn't a social system. It can be a focus of a social system, but can't be THE social system. I do believe, based on ecological and societal concerns, that there is a coming collapse of the social systems which cover the planet at the moment. History shows us that cultures fall back into primitive and traditional systems when faced with large scale catastrophe. The odds are that the coming environmental and resource challenges will drive people back to religion instead of away from it. It is, after all, much easier to avoid responsibility, blame other people (sinners) for problems and wait for god to provide the answers.
Bradley mentioned a society "built on science and reason". That's why I was interested. I would also not want to abandon technology.
Sounds good to me.
I have thought the same thing. This world is a scary place, even the US and I see it getting a lot worse before it gets better. The last place I want to be is in a heavily populated area filled with irrational people. I have just recently joined this site and have never had any other atheists in my life, but I wouldn't want to do something like that alone.
Atheism is the lack of a belief. It is not any set of beliefs in particular. I fail to see the connection between atheism and some scientific utopia, or how it is even possible to create a society where atheism is the focal point. If you meant a society where government does not have as many religious constituents, such a place already exist: it's called Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Atheism doesn't really have anything to do with green energy, and religion isn't necessarily opposed to it either.
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Quote:Hey Andy -- you erased the wrong post though man! You SHOULD have erased the one where you suggested that Chen Zen should have studied kata. -John
Quote:Difference between WC chain punching and JKD straight blastis the alternate steps forward. IN WC they keep to a single stance lead leg stays forward, not much momentum. Straight blast you are actually walking in ad bulldosing the target off balance. Once he is off balance and falls out of range, then you switch to boxers punch.
Quote:Straight blast is not the be all of punching or ending fights, it's just a tool for the moment.
Quote:Quote:It's feasable. Its a good setup to the RNC. You must be able to anticipate the forwadr movement of the opponent. Perhaps if you studied kata the answers to your problems on this thread might be answered.
Quote:It's feasable. Its a good setup to the RNC. You must be able to anticipate the forwadr movement of the opponent.
Quote:lost me buddy, what? What about the straight blast?
Quote:Quote:lost me buddy, what? What about the straight blast? Ok I think I might have at some time seen fighters in the UFC using the straight blast. I will look for the DVD and the fighters names.It would appear as though one was seemingly running forward while punching. Does that sound right?
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Rovio Entertainment, creator of Angry Birds, and multi-platinum selling and Grammy Award-winning band Green Day have teamed up to launch a new musical episode for Angry Birds Friends. The episode features 10 never-before-seen themed levels, as well as all new bad pig characters inspired by band members Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool.
Helsinki, Finland — 20th August, 2012 — Rovio Entertainment, creator of Angry Birds, and multi-platinum selling and Grammy Award-winning band Green Day have teamed up to launch a new musical episode for Angry Birds Friends. The episode features 10 never-before-seen themed levels, as well as all new bad pig characters inspired by band members Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool. Fans can also access specially created content, including Green Day's latest single "Oh Love", and an exclusive song "Troublemaker." This unique collaboration is the first of its kind for Rovio and offers an innovative blend of music, video, and gameplay. Updates for the Green Day episode, coming later this fall, will provide even more exclusive content and levels.
"We're all fans of Angry Birds," said Armstrong. "It's such an addictive game that when we first started playing it we couldn't stop. Go Team Green!"
"We are beyond excited," commented Rovio CMO and Mighty Eagle Peter Vesterbacka. "Two amazing brands working together on a one-of-a-kind collaboration — we can't wait for our fans to explore this new Green Day world."
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Rovio is an industry-changing entertainment media company headquartered in Finland, and the creator of the globally successful Angry Birds franchise. Angry Birds, a casual puzzle game, became an international phenomenon within a few months of its release, and is now the number one paid app of all time. Following this success in mobile gaming, Angry Birds has expanded rapidly in entertainment, publishing, and licensing to become a beloved international brand. www.rovio.com
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GREEN DAY - vocalist/guitarist BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tré Cool – were kids from working-class backgrounds who came of age in the underground punk scene in Berkeley. Even though they had released two records prior (1039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and Kerplunk), they announced their arrival with 1994's Dookie, a dynamic blast of exuberant punk-pop that sold 15 million copies and earned the band its first Grammy® Award for Best Alternative Music Performance. Over the years, Green Day continued to top the charts with their subsequent studio albums Insomniac, Nimrod and Warning, while entertaining millions of fans with their frenetic live shows. But it was their landmark 2004 album American Idiot that launched Green Day into the stratosphere. American Idiot debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, earned seven Grammy® nominations (winning two, including Best Rock Album), and raised the bar for modern rock and roll. In 2009, Green Day released 21st Century Breakdown, which won a 2010 Grammy® Award for Best Rock Album. It spawned two hit singles: the gold "Know Your Enemy," which was the first song ever to top Billboard's Rock, Alternative, and Mainstream Rock charts simultaneously, and the double-platinum "21 Guns," which earned them three 2009 MTV Video Music Awards including Best Rock Video. Green Day also took home an American Music Award for Favorite Alternative Rock Music Artist. Later that year, Green Day collaborated with Tony Award winning director of Spring Awakening, Michael Mayer, for the stage musical of American Idiot. The play bowed at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in September 2009 and set attendance records during its limited engagement. The play went on to Broadway and ran for a year at the St. James Theatre and won two Tony Awards. Their highly anticipated album Green Day ¡Uno!, the first in a trilogy of new releases, will bow this fall followed by Green Day ¡Dos! And Green Day ¡Tré!. For more about the band, visit www.greenday.com.
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The checks are out the door and the classes are being scheduled! The military spouse scholarships recipients from 2013 are busy planning, prepping and furthering their education. In 2013, the National Military Family Association spouse scholarship program awarded $274,500 to 254 military spouses. Our scholarship recipients are all military spouses representing the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Some are spouses of wounded veterans, some are surviving spouses, and others are spouses of active duty service members, guardsmen, or reservists.
The Association is honored to recognize and award military spouses and assist in giving them an opportunity to reach their educational goals. As one spouse puts it, "Military families face unique challenges regarding education, I personally moved from one city to another and began to piece together our lives in a new area, as well as put together educational plans for myself."
Along with the general scholarships awarded to spouses seeking higher education, this year marks the first year we offered scholarships to students seeking a mental health career. To qualify for our Mental Health Career scholarship the applicants must have completed, at a minimum, a Master's Degree in Psychology, Psychiatry, Counseling or Social Work, and need to be seeking clinical supervision hours as a requirement for their clinical licensure.
More than 70 applicants have applied for the Mental Health Career scholarship, which has remained open as we build our support efforts within the Mental Health field. Many of the spouses seeking a career in Mental Health have expressed intentions of paying it forward to the military community by using their education and experiences to counsel military families. "Without a doubt, this scholarship will play a key role in helping me reach my career goal of serving wounded warriors and their families as a licensed clinical psychologist."
See what other spouses are saying about the benefit of these scholarships in their lives.
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IBM Japan - Mailbag of Interesting Reactions
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My coverage of Japan's earthquake and tsunami got some interesting reactions. This includes my blog posts [Earthquakes in Japan] and [Japan and Northern Pacific - Three Months Free].
Hana Hu from Digitimes has a great summary on [how the Japan earthquake will affect the four major Hard Disk Drive (HDD) manufacturers] that supply IBM and other storage vendors.
A reader from New Zealand expressed concern some corporate bloggers were [using the earthquake for marketing]. He lost someone close to him in Christchurch, and is unable to reach a friend living in Japan, so I am sorry for his loss. I plan to be in Australia and New Zealand to teach a Top Gun class May 15-27, so hopefully I will be able to meet him in person when I am down there.
Several readers sent me Felix Salmon's [Don't Donate Money to Japan] counter-argument. Here is an excerpt:
"Earmarking funds is a really good way of hobbling relief organizations and ensuring that they have to leave large piles of money unspent in one place while facing urgent needs in other places. ... Meanwhile, the smaller and less visible emergencies where NGOs can do the most good are left unfunded.
Another reader mentioned that the last surviving American WW-II vet died the same week. WTF? IBM and Japan have been allies for quite a while now, and there is no reason to bring up past wars except to compare the scope and magnitude of the cleanup effort. (Update: Frank Buckles was the last surviving WW-I vet, but also served in WW-II).
Many readers felt that charity begins at home, and there are plenty of worthy causes right here in the USA to donate to instead. Inspired by last year's movie [Waiting for Superman], my girlfriend started a project called [Centers for My Super Stars] for her first grade class on DonorsChoose.org. For those not familiar with this website, DonorsChoose.org uses the cloud to connect school teachers in need of supplies with rich people to donate funds towards these projects. If you want to contribute to her project, [donate here].
Lastly, readers pointed me to Frank Deford, who said this on [his weekly spot on National Public Radio]:
"And speaking of class, there just happens to be a baseball team in Sendai, Japan. The Golden Eagles. Their stadium was severely damaged from the earthquake. Wouldn't you think some of them lug nuts who run American baseball would bring the Golden Eagles and their opponents over to the United States when the Japanese season starts -- play some games over here and raise money to help the Japanese? Wouldn't you think they could just once stop that national pastime stuff and help the international pastime?"
As you can see, different readers have different opinions on this. We are all on this world together, and both our economy and our ecology are more interconnected than you might think. Let's build a smarter planet.
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