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To celebrate the launch of their newest web app, NotifySnack, SnackTools is giving away three 1-year VIP memberships that will allow the winners to use NotifySnack (as well as other web tools in the SnackTools suite of web apps). A 1-year VIP membership is $168. Read this post to learn how you can win a free SnackTools VIP membership for one year.

** Update: Giveaway Period Has Ended **

About NotifySnack

NotifySnack is a powerful tool designed to create beautiful notification widgets for your website.

NotifySnack is great for saying "hello" to your visitors, promoting blog posts, getting subscribers, selling products, making announcements, driving traffic on pages with high conversion rates, and much more.

Being so highly customizable, it will integrate perfectly with the general feel of your web pages and grab the attention of your visitors without annoying them.

Some NotifySnack Features

• Lots of stylish and beautiful templates (and there are more templates being developed)
• Display multiple messages at once
• Integration with Twitter and your site’s RSS feed/s
• Mobile-ready
• No branding (if you’re a VIP member)

** Update: Giveaway Period Has Ended **

About SnackTools

SnackTools is a suite of web applications designed to simplify the way you create and publish rich media widgets on the Web. NotifySnack is the newest addition to the SnackTools web app suite.

Other web apps in SnackTools are:

• BannerSnack
• PhotoSnack
• PodSnack
• TubeSnack
• PollSnack
• FlipSnack
• SlideSnack
• FileSnack
• SnackWebsites

They have a points system for users who don’t want to buy subscriptions or users who would rather pay as they go.

Read more about the points system through the link below:

• http://www.snacktools.com/en/points.html

How to Win

For a chance to win a SnackTools VIP membership for one year, answer the question below in the comments of this post:

How would NotifySnack be useful to you?

Giveaway Details

This giveaway ends on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 after which the comments section on this post will be closed and you will no longer be able to leave a comment. Please leave a valid email address when filling out the comment form so that we can contact you if you’ve won. Please only comment once. The winners will be randomly selected using the same method as previous Six Revisions giveaways. The winners will be announced on a separate post and you’re advised to subscribe to our RSS feed so that you can be quickly notified when the winners announcement post has been published. Please note that comments are moderated and so your comment may not show up right away. Please also note that comments that do not follow the instructions on how to participate (described above) may not be published, or may be removed later on.

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The unimaginable happened in a Florida home this past Thursday evening.   Jeremy Bush was and his family were preparing for bed when a “deafening noise” erupted from within the confines of the house. 

Jeremy heard his brother, Jeff Bush, screaming from his room.  He ran to his aid, but upon entering Jeff’s room all he saw was a wide hole with Jeff’s mattress strewn at the bottom. 

Jeremy frantically scoured the hole in search for his brother who had been swallowed by the earth.  Police showed up shortly after, and forced Jeremy out of the hole, informing him that it was still collapsing.

Jeremy gave a tearful account of the heart-wrenching experience in recent footage.

The sinkhole now stretches 20 feet wide and 50 feet deep.  Such a shocking and unfamiliar tragedy has raised public interest into the cause of sinkholes.

In Florida alone it is claimed that thousands of sinkholes appear every year.

Courtesy of aids.gov

This is one of those great hold-your-breath moments…

Could we have found a cure to Aids?

The world is watching Mississippi as doctors reported on Sunday night that they cured a toddler born with HIV. 

The girl was born two and a half years ago to a mother who was unaware of her HIV status. She was immediately tested for HIV after being born prematurely, and was placed on an “aggressive treatment” plan within 30 hours. 

Though the test results showed positive, her virus had nearly disappeared.

The treatment continued off and on until she stopped receiving medication at eighteen months. Half a year later, she returned for a check-up and the virus was still untraceable.

This is not the first case of a functional cure — a middle-aged man from Berlin named Timothy Brown was cured of HIV when he received a bone-marrow transplant for leukemia. His donor who was genetically immune to the virus.

After the results are confirmed, the next step is for doctors to replicate the treatment. Approximately 3 million children currently live with HIV. Most of the 330,000 children born with HIV were born in poor countries, where only 60% of infected mothers receive prenatal treatment. 

In the words of Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health,

You could call this about as close to a cure, if not a cure, that we’ve seen.

Eun-Shim Nahm, PhD, RN, FAAN Associate Professor, OSAH Program Director, Nursing Informatics School of Nursing University of Maryland

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 12, 7:10 pm Location: ITE 456, UMBC

Abstract: The aim of the presentation is two-fold. In the first part, the domain of nursing informatics within health care informatics will be introduced. The unique roles and practices of informatics nurse specialists will be discussed within the framework of the recent national health information technology initiatives. In the second part, current trend in consumer health informatics and selected applications in practice and research will be discussed.

Brief Bio: Dr. Eun-Shim Nahm is an Associate Professor and the Program Director for the Nursing Informatics program at the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON). Her research focuses on the use of technology-based interventions to promote health and to manage chronic illnesses of older adults. She has conducted various studies in this field, including qualitative, measurement, theory testing, and usability studies, as well as randomized controlled trials. She has developed and successfully implemented multiple online health behavior interventions for adults aged 50 and older and their caregivers. Dr. Nahm is the recipient of multiple grant awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Her most recent R01 grant project, "Dissemination of a Theory-Based Bone Health Program in Online Communities," is supported by the National Institute of Nursing Research. She has published more than 35 peer reviewed journal articles and five book chapters in her area of expertise. She also has given numerous presentations at regional, national, and international scientific conferences. At the UMSON, Dr. Nahm teaches graduate level nursing informatics courses and doctoral-level research courses and has mentored many master's and doctoral students.

A new Washington Post poll, published this weekend, explores Marylanders’ views on Governor Martin O’Malley in the context of a potential future run for president. O’Malley received mediocre marks in some areas of the poll, which the authors note could be due to his work on polarizing issues, including same-sex marriage.

“He’s taken some very gutsy positions on some controversial issues,” said UMBC political science professor Thomas F. Schaller. “My suspicion is that’s poisoned the well and brought him down some.” read the full article at the Washington Post.

Charlotte Keniston, an imaging and digital arts (IMDA) graduate student, has been selected as a featured artist in Maryland Art Place’s upcoming project, THIRTY: 30 Creative Minds Under 30.

Find out more at Maryland Art Place’s website.

“THIRTY is a series of monthly talks featuring thirty emerging Baltimore artists under the age of thirty. All of the participants use a diverse range of creative practices, from visual art to performance, curatorial, community art, design, film, photography and technology to create visual experiences.”