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The popular snack-food brand, Cheetos, is hosting a 10-week contest in which it will give 10 lucky winners a $10,000 cash prize, out of whom a grand champion will be chosen and awarded an additional $50,000. To earn all that cheddar, participants need to be on the lookout for shapes in their Cheetos the same way a child would look for shapes in the clouds. When one finds a noteworthy Cheeto, they are to upload a photo of it to www.cheetosmuseum.com where it will showcased in the community Cheetos gallery. According to www.simplemost.com, contestants can upload a maximum of 50 entries per day where they will be presented to a panel of judges and potentially be selected for to be a $10,000 recipient, and entered as a finalist for the $50,000 winner. $10,000 winners will be selected every Monday up until Aug. 15 when the company will announce the grand prize winner, according to www.simplemost.com The entries will be judged based on three categories, according to www.simplemost.com:1. Visual interest: “How unique is your Cheetos snack and how well does it match your description?”2. Buzz worthiness: “How buzz-worthy is your Cheetos snack, title and description?”3. Creativity: “How creative is your title and description of the snack?”The first $10,000 winner was announced June 30 on the Cheetos Facebook page via video, where one family can be seen brandishing a Cheeto which they say resembles the Statue of Liberty. Some other popular posts on the Cheetos museum website include animals, a human heart, and a half-foot long Cheetos twist which the uploader claims, “has been in our kitchen drawer for approximately 10 years.”Jordan Haider, a recent computer science graduate from Utah, recalled a Cheeto he felt would have been worthy of winning the competition, “I found a Cheeto in the summer of '09 that was a spitting image of a trumpet. It brought tears to my eyes when the time came to eat it. Having the knowledge I have now, I wish I could go back in time and vacuum seal said Cheeto, making me 10k.”When asked if knowledge of the contest would change his Cheeto consumption, Haider said, he would be “bathing in Cheetos from now until the end of the competition.”Cody Bench, a sophomore from Texas studying international cultural studies, offered this advice for fortune seekers: “Think in the perspective of a judge. They want to see something they haven’t seen before; don’t be a cheeseball about it.”Cheetos is also hosting a second competition at the same time, reminiscent to Willy Wonka and his golden tickets. Www.simplemost.com reported that Cheetos has placed ten different game pieces into bags of Cheetos, which Frito Lay said in a press release, “Represent specific Cheetos Museum shapes, hidden inside specially marked bags.” In that same release, the company announced, “The 10 lucky fans to uncover these pieces of art will win an ultimate family vacation worth $10,000 to one of the cities represented by the game pieces.”

BYU-Hawaii graphic design Professor Brandon Truscott's poster for his class's ART 333 Type Face Cards exhibit was one of 25 winners of Print Celebrates Design, a national design competition hosted by PRINT magazine. Truscott said he hopes beginners in the graphic design field will see his win as an example of opportunities available in the graphic design community. Print Celebrates Design is "a design competition for your cards, gifts & invitations," according to Amanda Aszman, who posted the winners on PRINT magazine's website. The judge for the competition was the creative director at Etsy, Randy J Hunt. Etsy is a peer-to-peer online market for hand-made goods. "Hunt founded design studio Citizen Scholar and wrote Product Design for the Web and designs prints. Prior to becoming creative director at Etsy, he was recognized as Print New Visual Artist in 2009," wrote Aszman. The winners’ work was revealed January 9th, 2015.Truscott said he hopes his recognition this will help not only students, but also those getting certificates or those who are interested in design "realize that they can be competitive at a national level even if they feel they are from a small place. Even though things we do in class start as small, simple projects, they can be a gateway, if you approach it correctly, to national recognition. Anyone, student or otherwise, can use something like this as an opportunity to open doors." "We often think, 'This is a tough world with all this competition,' but when I've met people, peers at conferences, they are just like you. They do the same things you do when they create stuff and are generally pretty friendly in sharing techniques," said Truscott. Every semester that Truscott teaches an ART 333 class, he said one of the topics is about script and hand letterings. His class designed typography chalk signs with a playing card theme and exhibited them in late October 2014. He designed the advertising poster for the exhibit as the ace of spades, which ultimately won in Print Celebrates Design. "I was looking at the backs of cards, and the fronts, through several different decks. I based the letter forms on two typefaces: Rand Holub's Gillot 291 became the basis of Intertype's Monterey. I modified every little thing as I drew it out," said Truscott. He said "I encourage my students to be active online. Opportunities are rapidly increasing in design." Many of those opportunities come because of digitization and the Internet. "You can get more exposure and connect with a greater audience. So, I submitted mine to be an example." There are 3 million visits annually to the public gallery on printmag.com. For a student that is just starting their career, an award like this can be very advantageous. "It is something you can put on your resume or be a talking point in an interview. Someone might see some of your work they like, click on it, and contact you. It's all about gaining exposure, which can lead to other things," said Truscott, who has personal experience with getting work through such exposure. "People regularly contact me through my website, and ask me to design things" such as book covers, retail display, logos, and T-shirts. uploaded 1/15/15

After 10 hours, Dr. Ronald Miller, associate professor of psychology, said he and his wife, Patricia, knew they wanted to be married. After 20 years and nine children, Miller said they still feel the same way.Raised as a devout atheist, Miller said he avoided the concept of religion until he met the missionaries in Washington, D.C. He had an experience with the Book of Mormon where he said he gained his own witness of God, Christ and the truthfulness of the LDS Church. He was baptized one week after the experience on Dec. 16, 1990. In December of 1991, in Washington, D.C., Miller accompanied his friend to a renaissance society party where he met Patricia. “When I first saw her, I thought she was married. She was in a silver ball gown, and I was dressed as a prince with a black cape.” After exchanging information, she agreed to go on a date starting at the D.C. Temple. Being a nonmember, she referred to the Temple as “Camelot.” Ronald was 21 and Patricia was 20.They met at 2 p.m., but Miller said, “It was such a great date, we kept on extending it.” They went to the Lincoln Memorial, a fancy restaurant, and danced in the National Gallery of Art. Said Miller, “If you take off your shoes, and you’re just in your socks, you can slide 30 feet. As long as you didn’t come near any of the paintings, the police wouldn’t do anything.”After a full day, they went to the temple and watched temple marriage videos. Patricia told Ronald as a teenager, she prayed asking Heavenly Father if she would ever meet her husband. After her prayer, she realized she would be able to know what she would feel like around her husband. To Miller on that first date she said, “I feel around you like I felt in that dream. I feel as if you’re my husband.” Miller asked, “So what does that mean?” She responded that it meant they should get married. The Millers were engaged on their first date. Miller explained, “When I sat in the car with her going down to D.C., within 15 minutes I started to feel the same Spirit that I felt that converted me to the church. I didn’t know who this woman was, or her last name, but I knew she was going to be my wife.”Miller recounted, “I didn’t tell her I was a member of the church. She went back to Northwestern University in Chicago, took the discussions, and called me saying she was going to get baptized. I told her ‘I’m a member of that church.’ She said it’s so good that you didn’t tell me because I probably would have been baptized because of you, but now I know it’s my own conversion.” Instead of getting married right away, the Millers each decided to serve missions. “As converts, we felt we wanted to be sealed, but also serve missions. My patriarchal blessing, particularly, indicated that I would serve a mission before marriage, while my wife’s said it was her choice to serve.”Ronald was called to serve a mission in Puerto Rico. He said he would write Patricia on preparation day and give recommendations on things to do in D.C. Patricia was called to Rome, Italy.After Ronald and Patricia returned from their missions, they both had a prompting to get married sooner, rather than later. Two weeks after Patricia came home, on Feb. 4, 1995, they eloped to the Dallas Texas Temple. They married jobless, homeless, and with the threat of their families disowning them. After changing the opinion of his angry grandmother (by explaining that she would be a great grandmother), she helped them find a place to live in Texas. They lived there until heading to BYU. Ronald was 24 and Patricia was 23.After recently celebrating their 20-year anniversary on Feb. 4, Ronald shared his insights about marriage. He said, “The most important thing you can do is marry your best friend. When you get married, what you really want is someone who will listen to you, someone who will love to hear your opinions, and spend time with you, and with whom you want to do the same.” He discussed why some people marry for looks and the consequences of such a reason. “If you marry for beauty, you’re buying into something that with every year you will be more disappointed with. If you latch onto things that don’t last, you’re happiness won’t last. If you latch onto things that are eternal, and that person has a testimony, then you have latched onto something that improves every year and you will feel as though your choice to marry him or her is so much better as time goes by.”Uploaded Feb. 19, 2015.