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I just received my new AVS FPGA NES clone system from RetroUSB's Bunnyboy. This system differs from NES-on-a-chip hardware clones and RetroN5-style software emulation systems in that it is an FPGA-based hardware emulator. This gives it many of the advantages of a hardware clone (e.g., low latency, direct interaction with carts instead of dumping) with some of the benefits of a software emulator (e.g., firmware updates to add new features, etc.).
I won't rehash the info that's widely available elsewhere and will instead focus on things I haven't seen anyone talking about. But, just to get it out of the way, the graphics are perfect and the sound is just as crisp.
After facing a lot of compatibility issues with my original-run Analogue Nt and my Everdrive N8, the first thing I did was fire up my AVS+N8 to try some of the problematic games, namely Super Mario Bros. 2 USA and Ninja Gaiden 3. Both played just fine and I encountered no unexpected behavior.
Since the AVS doesn't do any expansion audio of its own--it just uses an analog-to-digital converter to pipe the audio from the cart or expansion device into the AVS A/V stream--it sounds as good or as bad as the original audio source. The N8's community mappers for Akumajou Densetsu and Gimmick! sound great, while the FDS expansion audio sounds...not so great.
There is also a screechy, sibilant thing accompanying certain sounds, but I suspect this will go away when I run the day 1 update. Speaking of which, it was harder than I expected to find the stuff needed to actually run the update. I didn't see any way to get them from directly RetroUSB.com's AVS page, which is where I would expect to find this sort of thing, but this post from NintendoAge has direct links:
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Let's get one thing out of the way up front. I'm not into antiques. Yeah, yeah, the GuyNo2Mobile is a 1961 Volkswagen and technically an antique, but it's modified enough that it probably ticks off antique purists. If I rub the purists the wrong way, that's a good thing, in my book.
My antique loathing pretty much carries over to the farm in a big way. Not a fan of antique tractors. Not a fan of antique equipment. Not a fan of antique buildings. I see the things that some people do with such buildings and equipment and a couple words come to mind right away. They usually include rat hole and money in some combination.
Case in point: barn restoration. There's a farm magazine that has a special feature on people who refurbish barns. You can get a grant to help you restore your barn to its original splendor. Or, as I see it, get a bigger bucket and bigger shovel to help you pour tons of money down a bigger rat hole. Next thing you know, you've spent twenty-five to fifty grand or more and you have a lovely facility capable of everything you need...if it happens to be 1946 and you've just graduated from an ox to a Clydesdale.
We had barns at both of our farms. The one at headquarters was where we milked cows until 8:35 on Thursday, November 4th, 1976. That's when we loaded #76 and #104 on the truck and got ourselves out of the dairy industry. The barn's usefulness began to go downhill from that point. It finally met up with destiny in the summer of 2000 when it collapsed.
The barn at my place was similar, but we never milked cows here. The small corner where the cattle were was pretty much the only useful portion of the barn, and even that was a reach. The roof was starting to get some pretty hefty craters in it. They hay mow was more or less pointless, since little square bales of hay fell out of favor years ago.
Meteorological and actuarial fate has not smiled on me, though. Windstorms come and go with incredibly high frequency, it seems. Other buildings blow away, but my barn would still stand. All I wanted was one loud crash, one loud thud and one big insurance check. It didn't seem to happen, so I went the next best route once we decided that the landscape needed to change.
I called a guy.
The first guy I called was here to look at the bunker silo project. He did fine work on it. While we were exploring that job initially, Guy No. 1 and I sort of casually pointed the other direction and said, "Hey, while you and your giant excavator thumb are here, what would it take to take down the barn, too?"
"Oh, no problem. I've done a few of them. They're not too bad," he said confidently.
Good answer, Thumbpy!
But wait, it got better. Thumbpy decided the best way to do it was to dig a big hole just south of the building site, move a few bunks from the perimeter of the feedlot, and then kinda drag big sections of the barn across the feedlot to the awaiting barn grave with his dozer and eventually have a bonfire when the hole was full. Once all the weenies and marshmallows were properly roasted, he'd push the dirt pile back in the hole and we'd get to farm over our latest Effigy Mound. We've done similar stuff with old farmhouses, buildings and even a one-room schoolhouse where GN1 went to kindergarten. (Not that I tweak, or pile on, or anything, but I have been known to say, "Guy No. 1 is soooo old, he went to a one-room school." I tend to leave out the part about it being only a few months of kindergarten while they built the new school in Ridgeway. Makes Guy No. 1 sound a bit more Depression-era.)
Seeing as how we were planning to chop silage off the adjoining field and wean calves a week or two later, this plan was going to work beautifully. The feedlot would be vacant for a couple weeks, so the logistics of jockeying cattle wouldn't be a problem. In fact, it would be great to get this done before the barn fell on a full house, so to speak. The barn would never leave the place, so we were free to burn it at will. There'd be destruction; there'd be fire; there'd be large machinery; there'd be everything a guy could want.
Then Thumbpy called one day. Small problem. He had to do an emergency project with his toys. It may take a month to get to my barn.
Huh. That's not good.
So I got out my phone and dialed up another contractor from a completely different project a few years before. I got in touch with Brent, the son who is in charge, and told of him of my desires. He'd stop by the next day to have a look. "It will work out great, because _______ (I think he said Skinny) just went by with (I'm not sure what he said, but I think it was a machine of some kind) on the way past your place."
How incredibly ironic and foreshadowing. This was late September, and my first thought was to quote one of the all-time best scenes in American cinema. It was the one where Barbara Billingsley says to the flight attendant in Airplane, "Oh, stewardess, I speak jive."
I was pretty sure Brent just told me Skinny went by wit de the thumb, but I don't speak jive like Mrs. Cleaver did, so I waited to talk to him in person.
Sure enough, Brent showed up and said that his crew was just a couple miles away with the excavator and they could stop by to do the barn on their way home in a couple days if that worked. They'd take it down with the excavator, load it in dump trucks and carry it to the hole so as not to drag nails across my building site.
Hmmm. A contractor wants to show up...on short notice...with better equipment...and a better plan...to do a job for which I have an incredibly tight deadline...and they've done good work for me before.
Well, okay then, I can be talked into it.
A couple days later, once the barn was a former shell of itself, I heard some chatter outside my office window around 7:00 in the morning. It was an excavator making its way down my driveway. My phone rang about two minutes later as I got my boots on and headed out the door. It was the infamous Skinny. He wanted to know where to dig.
Skinny, as it turns out, is an appropriate name. He's not a short, fat guy named Tiny, or a dwarf named Stretch. He's about six feet tall and maybe 130 pounds or so. Not a real chatty cuss, either. He makes me sound like a Type A. Heck, he almost makes GN1 sound Type A! Almost.
I showed Skinny where the hole would be. It didn't take long for him to get on that project in a hurry. Next thing you know, I had a hole not far into my field that was so deep, all you could see on the giant arm of his excavator was the R and the last E in John Deere as he reached into the hole for more dirt.
Then the dump trucks showed up. Real progress was about to be made.
Keep in mind, this was September 30th, so we were busy combining corn at the same time. To keep ourselves from being the lead story at our twice-yearly fire station meeting for township trustees where we review fire calls, we decided that we'd combine the field next to the hole. If we lit up the barn grave and the wind changed, we'd much rather see a bunch of cornstalk residue get lit up than a field of standing corn at $5 a bushel. I always refer to those fire station meetings as The Moron Report, because we frequently hear about some of the various incidents people get into that require a fire truck to get out of, especially when the singed party is short on common sense. For instance, my round baler fire two years ago was just days before The Moron Report. It made for an interesting meeting for yours truly. Fortunately, we'd recently completed the acquisition of a new fire truck, so I turned it into more of a rousing endorsement of our expenditure and a bit of a testimonial ad.
Skinny started by taking down the sides of the structure. Then he moved to the main part of the barn. All the while, I had cameras positioned nearby, hoping to catch the moment when the big thud would happen. I was also running between the barn site and the hole, because my job was to take the tractor and loader and push the contents of each dump truck further into the hole. As a safety measure, we took a couple bucket loads of dirt and made sort of a speed bump/backstop for the trucks. They'd back up to the hole, hit the backstop and then dump their load. That kept them from backing into the hole and making this yet another story about The Snake and its incredible bungee retrieval abilities.
Here's a link to the video of the final moments of the barn's life: www.youtube.com.
It had a good life. It's in a better place now. Since I was part of the crew taking it down, it felt like I was fulfilling my usual role as a pallbearer.
Always a pallbearer, never the ¼. Oops. Wrong quote. Whatever.
If you're thinking of getting rid of a barn or a building of any kind, I highly recommend the work of Skinny, the Barn Mortician. He'll put on a heckuva service for you and your loved ones. Oh, and he won't hog all the weenies and marshmallows at the bonfire afterwards.
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September 16, 2009, 11:53:20 AM »
Facing increasing pressure from Redbox and Netflix and its own debt problems, Blockbuster is planning to more than double the number of stores it will close by the end of next year, the company revealed in a regulatory filing today.
Struggling Blockbuster was previously looking to shutter 410 to 450 of its most unprofitable stores this year and next. A series of "accelerated closures" will bring that number to between 810 and 960, however.
I havent rented from blockbuster in 4 maybe 5 years. I do buy their used DVDs when they are 2 for twenty or 4 for twenty but thats it. I dont see how they can compete with netflix, redbox.... I rent from redbox and love it.
Do you rent from blockbuster?
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Nope. The Blockbuster we have here only has films from the past two years. They stock all that stuff on shelves on one side of the store, the rest is filled with racks of PS3 and XBox360 games. They have a bargain bin with some older films, but they're all Julia Roberts or Jet Li films (aarrgh!). We used to have "Jack Beanstalk" and "Channel 21" video stores run by cool stoner dudes, that had huge horror sections with all the great artistic VHS covers. I miss those days, especially as you could get hold of alot of films that are rareties now, or stumble upon trashy celluloid gems.
I don't rent stuff or watch stuff online either. I prefer to just buy films I like, buy on the basis of interest (generated mainly by a trailer on Youtube or on this site) and watch movies on a proper TV screen.
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The two Blockbusters in our town closed several years ago. I was only in there a few times, it was kind of nice for the new direct-to-video stuff. I (almost) never rent movies these days, I buy everything used from the sellers on Amazon. We rented from Red Box a few times, they just have the latest Hollywood releases and maybe one older DTV title. I think I hated every movie we got from them
I've never been interested in Netflix, I just hate any sort of monthly fee, even if it is a good deal.
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I refuse to rent from Blockbuster. Years ago I rented from them and used their late night drop box to return a movie. Well next thing I know is I get this nasty letter about how I have yet to return the movie and owe them a lot of late fee charges. So I go to the store and asked them what was going on. They at first tried to claim that I did not turn in the movie. When I pointed out I dropped it in the after hours return box, they opened it up and it was full. Sure enough the movie I rented was in there along with a few others who just happen to not fall into a plastic box inside the container. The staff apparently had just left them laying in there if they didn't make it into the box. The manager said he would take care of it and clear it up. About a month later, I get another letter with a threat to file criminal charges for theft and a lawsuit from them. I end up having to threaten to sue them to get them to admit they had the movie the whole time and it was because of their employees laziness and not my failure to return the film which is why there was the film was late. If they had just picked up the movie that hadn't fell into the plastic box inside the drop box, it would of been in the store. After that I refuse to spend a dime with them. So I welcome seeing Blockbuster's demise myself.
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Blockbuster has always been pretty crappy. A few years back they started to expand some areas, like foreign and cult, but it was too little to late. Their prices were ridiculous, their late fees were ridiculous, and somehow they managed to kill off most of the mom and pop video shops everywhere I've ever lived. Good riddance.
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I HATE Blockbusters selection and their policies, so I only rent from this local video store that has a way better selection.
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I rent from them online and have been somewhat satisfied. However, the home video rental market/red box rentals are killing their stores. That and what they charge for movie rentals. Last time I went to one of their stores it was around five bucks to rent one which I pretty much laughed at and walked out. Might as well buy the DVD at that point. It is sad however for people to potentially losing their jobs though.
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Meh, I'll be there to buy all their cheap, clearance DVD's when they go out of business.
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When I first walked into a Blockbuster around 1987-88, it was amazing. They were huge and had a much larger selection than any of the mom-and-pop video stores; I was blown away.
Over the years they got worse and worse. First there was the focus almost exclusively on new releases strategy; I understand that's all the majority of people want, but I'm in the minority. Then came the flap where they refused to stock movies with an NC-17 rating (even though they would stock unrated movies with equally explicit content). About that time I gave up on them and never went back. Don't miss it a bit.
I think they will hang around, just with a smaller market share.
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Blockbuster's lack of real selection turned me off from them years ago. I've never been back.
Obviously, my tastes run far from the usual mainstream. I remember years ago when you could go into a mom and pop store, or an independent chain, and they would have an astounding selection of weird stuff. It was great! I wish that I could remember the name of the independent chain that used to operate in the Washington, DC area. They had a deal where you could rent most movies for some crazy cheap price - like 7 movies, 7$, 7 days.
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Perhaps the lack of porn has something to do with it.
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Blockbuster's lack of real selection turned me off from them years ago. I've never been back.
Obviously, my tastes run far from the usual mainstream. I remember years ago when you could go into a mom and pop store, or an independent chain, and they would have an astounding selection of weird stuff. It was great! I wish that I could remember the name of the independent chain that used to operate in the Washington, DC area. They had a deal where you could rent most movies for some crazy cheap price - like 7 movies, 7$, 7 days.
Yeah, sounds like the local place by me. 4 movies, for 4 days, for $4. They also had rent 2 get 1 free on new releases. Eventually a Blockbuster moved in literally a block down the road and somehow pushed them out - despite having an inferior selection (the only advantage they had were more copies of the same new releases) and WAAAAAAY higher prices.
But I remember fondly biking down there and spending hours just looking at movies and renting tons of films. That's how I saw about 12 of the Bond films in a couple of weeks. The guy who ran the place was real cool once. I remember one time I realized I'd forgot my money (this was when I was like 12 or 13) and I asked him if he could just debit it as a late fee on my account and let me check the movie I wanted out, and he did it.
That was how I saw the Black Scorpion.
There's still one independent shop that's pretty good here in St. Louis. It's called Movies Unlimited, and they have a TON of very obscure films, mostly on VHS actually. Many are obviously bootlegs, but they're the type of films that are long out of print. They had Rapeman 1 and 2, something I NEVER expected to find in a US local video store. Also had a number of kung fu films not even on the IMDB, like a Chinese Zatoichi ripoff with a blind swordswoman.
Only problem is the place is like 15 or 20 miles away, so I have to rent like 6 movies for it to be worth the trip.
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I do not think it is that severe of a side topic. Blockbuster helped to kill off a large number of independent stores and chains that had wide selections. These days it seems that Netflix is eating it alive, and Netflix has a wide selection of titles. Another change is that I think many people buy the movie rather than renting it. Most online retailers have wide selections. Years ago, Amazon.com did not stock all of the cult and limited release DVDs. To get them I had to use some other retailers, like Movies Unlimited. Now, Amazon's selection is much, much more comprehensive.
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Anyone who has set foot in Shareen Vintage, a vast downtown warehouse space lined with endless racks of sparkly cocktail frocks, gauzy hippie robes and an eclectic mix of other garments, will hardly be surprised to learn that the shop's owner, Shareen Mitchell, is starring in a new reality show, "Dresscue Me," premiering Tuesday on Discovery's Planet Green channel.
Tall and blond with sculpted cheekbones and an imperious bearing that reflects her Seven Sisters education and thespian training, Mitchell also has a seventh sense for fashion. Not only is she consistently a few years ahead of the curve, she makes it her mission to match the right piece with the right girl. Her motivation is simple: "I don't like to give up," Mitchell says. "I like to win. I like to be the answer."
Unlike shops where salesgirls hover silently outside the fitting room should they be needed, or maybe disappear altogether, the Shareen approach is strictly hands-on. There are no dressing rooms -- hence the big chalkboard sign reading "No Boys Allowed!" And Mitchell and her staff stand by to pull selections from the racks, yank sticky zippers, find a belt or a sash and help women of all sizes safely wriggle into or out of something.
What's more, these vintage gems have been plucked by Mitchell from the mountains of old clothes at the rag factories where she sources 90% of her merchandise. Working fast and buying in bulk, she keeps her stock fresh and her prices low (nothing in the store costs more than $200).
"It's not a glamorous experience," says Mitchell about her weekly forages. "It's physical labor, the buying. If I'm not in a dumpster, I'm bending my body into a bin."
She pauses and laughs. "I think about my friend Evelyn [Ungvari], who owns Diavolina, and how she buys, and I think, how come I'm not sitting with my legs crossed at the end of a beautiful runway in Paris, just writing down very calmly the things I'd like to order? No, I had to pick the business where I'd be buying off the floor of these dark, dingy warehouses."
She shrugs. "But I love the dig. I love the find. I love the excitement of seeing something pretty show up."
Shareen's summer racks are filled with reworked halter dresses and "batwing" tops from her "Shareen Again" line, flowy floral "grunge" dresses, glamorous '70s gowns and acres of re-hemmed minis -- "because we're wearing skirts shorter today than ever before, including the Twiggy era," says Mitchell, dressed, as per her usual manner, in a chic black-and-cream silk shift whose indelible stains at the cuffs guarantee that nobody will try to buy it off her back.
A private section of the store for designers and stylists features silhouettes and details that Mitchell "guarantees" will be key in future seasons. "You're wearing mod clean today, but tomorrow you're going to want neon bright," she pronounces, gesturing toward dozens of Lilly Pulitzer-like smocks and rows of western ruffles, haute peasant pieces a la '70s YSL and a boarding school closet's worth of woolen kilts.
"The fact is," she continues, "all the designers are inspired by vintage, and if you look at the runways, it's all a slightly reworked version of something from before. There's only so many beautiful ways to dress a woman, and I can do that for everybody."
Mitchell arrived at her current career in a roundabout and sometimes painful way, working as an assistant at Mademoiselle and then Vogue after college at Smith, then scouting for Elite models before studying at the Actors Studio and building a successful film and TV career through the '90s. She appeared in the 1992 drama "American Heart" with Jeff Bridges and had a role on the Tony Danza police comedy "Hudson Street," among many others. But with the rise of reality television, she found herself out of work and had to babysit and clean friends' houses just to be able to afford to eat.
"I was heartbroken," Mitchell recalls. "I didn't remember what I was good at anymore, and I was too scared to even figure it out. I babysat for a year, and I cried every day."
In the summer of 2004, Mitchell returned to her first love, fashion, opening a small booth at the Melrose Trading Post that caused an immediate sensation with its impeccable selection of dresses at a time when jeans had saturated the market. Through some combination of luck, timing and vision, the booth became a permanent retail space. Celebrities including Kirsten Dunst, Katie Holmes and Ivanka Trump were regular clients, and Shareen Vintage became the best-known fashion secret in L.A.
Seven years later, Mitchell now owns a store in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood and still dresses Trump -- who stopped in on a recent L.A. trip, newly married and pregnant -- as well as other high-profile clients including Ashlee and Jessica Simpson and art world glamour girl Rosson Crow, who wore a stunning hot pink '80s taffeta dress from the store to last fall's MOCA gala.
The focus of "Dresscue Me," though, isn't about red carpets and bold-face names but the daily dramas of Mitchell and her employees (only two of whom survived the show) and the stories of the women who come through her door. There's a pregnant bride who needs a custom wedding dress, a military wife whose husband is returning from overseas and a tomboy who wants to look pretty at her family reunion.
"When I watch that show I can safely say I'm proud of it," says Mitchell, who insists she returned to TV reluctantly. "I didn't feel secure and confident. It took four fabulous gay men to bring me down," she jokes, referring to Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato and the team at World of Wonder, her producers.
She characterizes "Dresscue Me" as "funny, inspiring, educational and touching." And, she adds, "It turns out I'm a nut job." She bursts out laughing. "I am so arrogant, it is outrageous! But you know what? I can't help it. I will always fight for a woman, and if she doesn't look good in my opinion, she's not buying it."
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When removing disk openers for replacement or adjustment, the individual disks often wedge onto their spindles and refuse to come off after the nut has been removed from the spindle shaft. It's because spring tension, created by the contact area where the leading edges of the disks press together, "locks" them onto the spindles.
I've beat on them with my hand, flailed at both sides with a hammer, and tried to pry them loose with a pry bar. But that spring tension creates a locking force that makes simple removal into a briefly annoying challenge.
An air driven impact wrench or a battery-powered impact wrench is the answer. Removing a disk's nut with an impact wrench creates enough vibration to briefly release the spring tension so that once the nut is off, the disks slide easily off their spindles. If you've used a hand-wrench to remove disk openers and wrestled with getting the disks loose, buzzing off the nuts with an impact wrench is like magic, the way it loosens the disks so they slip off their spindle.
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I have decided to limit myself to 3 projects; Deskpet, Tiletoy and notebooks. I just built some notebooks, and my Tiletoy PCB is on the way (maybe more about that later), so I'd like to get back to Deskpet.
Deskpet is a project that I am working on to create a small robot to live on my desk as a pet. One of the things I have learned at work is that it is much harder to build something if you don't know exactly what it is supposed to do. So here goes; high level design goals for Deskpet:
- The major goal for the Deskpet is to construct a pet. It needs to live on my desk and generate an emotional attachment.
- Sufficient output to be "interesting" – If all it has is a pair of motors, I can make it dance, but it would be much easier to generate an emotional attachment if it has other methods of expressing itself.
- Sufficient input to be interactive – I want to be able to play with my pet, so it needs to be able to sense it's surroundings, toys and possibly me.
- Automatic recharge – If it is going to seem alive, I can't keep having to put it on the charger.
- Wireless communication and bootloading – This is going to require A LOT of firmware work on my part, so it ould be easiest if I could download new firmware without even toucing the 'bot.
- I will not be concerning myself with availablilty or cost of components with respect to eventually making kits available. This will be a project for me.
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Ad posting jobs have been an extremely popular and preferred method of earning money for over a decade now. About 9 years ago there was literally a surge of ad posting opportunities flooding the world wide web and everyone wanted to get involved. The problem was, it became so competitive among the business owners that it literally got shut down, starting with places promoting them like Clickbank and later spilled into Google search where many businesses were removed. The remaining were eaten up by "Black Hat" gurus trying to get the leftover spillage of traffic to their blogs by maiming their reputation. Therefore the entire thing went basically instinct by the year 2012. Many businesses suffered and business owners went broke. Not to mention the people who loved these jobs no longer could find them.
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So the question is, do they still exist?
Yes they do. What's changed? Well the other half that survived simply reopened under a different domain name and different keyword searches and are slowly creeping back up into the mainstream. These are highly requested job types that have managed to remain "Underground". Reason being is many work from home business owners, bloggers and affiliate marketers target these businesses because they are so extremely competitive. The only way to beat these rival businesses is to tell the public that ad posting job offers are all scams and write negative reviews. This in turn drives the "would be" traffic back to the competing site. This has been going on now for many years. But I am here to tell you that ad posting jobs do still exist and are fighting to keep their place on the web.
How Can We Keep These Jobs Available Without Being Further Targeted?
We need to continue to to voice the benefits of these jobs and the members who are being paid need to speak up and make it a priority to let everyone know. The problem is most people only like to post things on the web when they are complaints. A complaint has a 99.9% more chance getting posted online than a praise does. If we can make an effort to keep our neighbors informed of good money making opportunities with more validity to back it up we will not only be helping ourselves we will be helping each other.
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When posting things such as a payment proof or testimonial, you should have it come from a validated account such as a verified facebook page, Google page or youtube channel. These three things would be a great start.Together as a community we can make an effort to provide honest information that the greedy affiliate marketers, bloggers, and business owners can't destroy.
The internet has been taken over by greed and nowadays it's next to impossible to find any credible information on how to truly make money from home. Let's work together to take our internet back. Be smart enough to read the signs and red flags. It's not that hard to see when someone's is feeding you garbage to make a buck. The internet is supposed to be for informational purposes, not to tear eachother down.
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Mark Wahlberg Not Joining 'Transformers 4′ After All
Yesterday, the disturbing rumor hit the web: Mark Wahlberg was in talks with director Michael Bay to star in 'Transformers 4.' But today we have an update from Bay himself who clarifies the news and explains where the confusion came from.
Michael Bay took to his official website late last night to address the Mark Wahlberg/'Transformers 4′ rumors and had this to say about the news:
The Mark Wahlberg T4 rumor is just a rumor. Mark and I are talking about another film project.
Wahlberg and Bay recently wrapped filming on the upcoming crime-thriller 'Pain & Gain' and were reportedly eager to work together again. This led to the rumor that Bay and Wahlberg would be teaming on Bay's next directorial effort, 'Transformers 4.' But it turns out Bay has other irons in the fire that have yet to be revealed and that he would like Wahlberg to be involved. Hey, maybe he wants Wahlberg to star as Shredder in 'Ninja Turtles'… (We're just kidding.)
'Pain & Gain' hits theaters in April, 2013. Wahlberg is currently filming the Peter Berg Navy SEAL action film 'Lone Survivor' with Taylor Kitsch.
So what do you think? Are you glad Mark Wahlberg won't be involved in the next 'Transformers' film?


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I hate when i get too busy to post. In the headquarters of the San Francisco sex worker fest. Pre show work mode madness. I have had to miss out 2 cool fun festival events so far. Last night was the opening party and St. James Infirmary benefit. Tonight was the roaming Hookerfest projecting movies in various locations in SF. I got to see old friend/activists who all congregate around Scarlot Harlot..
I feel like I am on some crazy scavenger hunt like reality show (Work for P Diddy?) where everything that can go wrong will go wrong and you are left to make the best of what you have to work with and very very little time to get it done. Somehow, the DVD I burned for the my theatre show, burned all alias files instead of original files so I had to get my neighbor to give my friend, who happened to be traveling to SF the morning after I arrived for a non sex worker festival reason. With my harddrives in her car, heading past Magic Mountain, one hour outside of LA…her 21 year old friend's car…BREAKS DOWN! Because they were 21, they couldn't rent a car so I had to scramble on craigslist to find a rideshare ride to pick up the hard drive. Someone who does regular trips up and down the coast agreed to do it for $75. This meant I would have my harddrive in my hands by evening time. It was probably going to be okay, but I still made the driver of my drives text me every 3 hours just to make sure they hadn't crashed.
NO MORE BIG DISASTERS. I apparently survived judgment day. Too busy to put dry ice in my shoes but I thought it was a fun idea.
Overall, things during the week went smoothly. I came and did my first long theatre run of my solo show "Modern Day Asian Sex Slavery: the musical." I felt like it was a big success. Well, let me qualify that, it was a big success to me. Not a white middle class privileged version of success. I didn't have a line around the corner or 100s of people there. I didn't sell out shows or make lots of money. I did work very little to bring in the 15-20 heads that showed up to pay $15-20 each night for the Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival and that was a success to me (more a success of the festival and Carol Leigh's hard work). I saw LOTS of very important people in my life come out to support. I got a great editorial piece in the SF Weekly about it the night of the show. This was a huge success to me considering that even in sex worker savvy San Francisco, an Asian sex worker speaking directly about the perception of Asian sex work is still mostly absent in the media and mainstream communities. When Gavin Newsom orders raids on massage parlors, my Asian American SF State UC Berkeley City College sisters are actually nodding their heads in approval thinking that they are saving victims.
I had a political and artistic interpretation to communicate and I did that with a very targeted audience which was mostly empathetic to the cause. I'm positive that my show and working with me made an impact on two young interns at the CSC who happened to also be women of Asian descent, one just home from college to volunteer and learn! This definition of success is how I have always done my sex worker and artistic activism, because the mainstream definition has not always been an option for me and I have had to reshape it accordingly in order to keep having the motivation to believe that my work ALWAYS makes a difference in the lives of SOME people out there. It is how I motivate myself to continue to try. I don't do it for the money or because it is a popular cause, that's for sure.
This way of defining success comes from my time as a teacher with 'at risk' high school students. I had to find value in the short one on one, interpersonal relationships that I sometimes had with my students. There were many students that I would form a bond with and suddenly after 3 weeks or 2 months they would disappear. They may have dropped out, been shot, transferred to another school, kicked out, sent to juvenile detention, etc. Was your impact on this student successful? Yes. The social justice school of Education cohort that I was taught in would say yes. I still live in the neighborhood that I once taught in, and am now adult friends with several of my former students. To me, one of the marks of a good teacher is how much current and former students keep up with them outside of class. This is how I was mentored by the teachers models (professors) that I had. Social justice education/outreach is about interpersonal impact and often transient but significant teachable moments. White middle class education and success means getting a diploma and a "good" job.
I made this show a friendship test of sorts. This was a big artistic milestone in my life and my 35th birthday and you kind of needed to be there for this or say something about it, if we were really friends. I understand people are busy but it was a 4 day run and I at least expected a text message or Facebook message excuse. If I heard nothing, then I felt that the bond that I had with those that I had invited could not be that strong. I have been recently grappling with figuring out who my real friends and support network really were, since my asthma attack at Dinah Shore. I have been grappling with the meaning of Facebook friends and status updates, I have been arguing with the members of SWOP-LA. (which I recently cut all ties to).
I have begun taking St.Johns Wort (SJW) for "mood stabilizing" and it has really made extremely difficult and tense situations seem lucid and manageable. I am the newest victim to big Pharma because of the asthma medication that I need seems to think charging folks $180 for a months supply is fair. (considering millions of people need it in order to breathe, insurance does not cover it, and no generic version is available). I am resistant to being dependent on any prescription medications that are not herbal. My counselor suggested that I consider taking anti-depressant pharmaceuticals and I went as far as the intake appointment and paid $15 for it. It went nowhere because I was disqualified for being a counseling client elsewhere even though the place that I currently went had no psychiatric services available. Counselors and therapists are pseudo monogamous relationships. If you cheat on your mental health professional because you simply need more support, you need to keep it on the DL. The SJW caps I take most afternoons seem to be doing the trick. In the pits of my recent depression, I felt that not even cannabis was helping. I was willing to try new things, but hoped that I could try less harmful or expensive things first and they would work. SJW is supposed to inhibit the effectiveness of your other medications, particularly the ones that use your liver somehow. I noticed that my edibles did not fuck me up the way they used to! I noticed that my alcohol tolerance was MUCH higher. Mostly I noticed that the need to burst into tears or be apathetic or be overly self critical seemed to quiet down. The potency of the words of others and any criticism seemed to just glide past me, especially if I had already processed it to be false or unfounded.
Our minds and bodies are connected. My physical health is often determined by my mental health. My body cannot lie.
My kindergarten friend/prom date Jon did the spot light for me (he has stepped up to help with tech stuff at other musical productions of mine in high school too!) and my 9th grade boyfriend/FIRST sexual partner was there too! My sister and her partner came, my dad came out to TWO shows and lots other friends and fellow activists as well. A non English speaking Chinese man looking for a underground gambling hall also gave his $15 donation to see my show though he probably couldn't understand it! The new Center for Sex and Culture space was a squatted in unleased building used for Chinese born Chinese gambling circuits complete w/ a piss trough and brothel rooms! He was like a relic from the Gold Rush days offering his support for my revitalized legacy!
Eventually the show is going to portray Madam Ah Toy, the legendary Gold Rush era madam, the first Chinese/American whore revolutionary. This guy kind of reminded me that San Francisco's Chinese immigration history, including its history in "sex trafficking and slavery" includes the historical account of Madam Ah Toy, notorious and respected Chinese prostitute that somehow managed to have white privilege in ways that even other white women and even male Chinese (coolies) did not.


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Now all of us can be a part of supporting that effort. Don's started a crowdsourcing campaign to fund scholarships for participants who lack the means. Each of us can be a part of supporting the next great Maine idea or business by contributing today.
It will help folks like Joel Alex, a 2008 Colby grad, take his company Blue Ox Malthouse to the next level. Blue Ox is working to bring high-quality, craft malt processing of local and regional grains to Maine. You can learn more about Joel on MCED's blog. He's doing a great job, but knows the Top Gun Prep Program can help with going to the next step.
Supporting and growing Maine's entrepreneurship culture can only be successful if we all get involved and support it. So whether you can give five bucks or five hundred, I urge you to take a minute to lend your support.
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I just developed new game for BB Playbook and Z10 - Parkmaze:
ParkMaze is a fun little puzzle game in the NetWalk genre.
Rules of play:
Your goal is to connect all puzzles together.
Touch a puzzle for turning it in a counter-clockwise direction.
Connect all puzzles with as few turns as possible!
This game is available exclusively for Playbook now,
no Linux/Windows/Mac/Android platforms supported yet.
Z10 supported also.
Two editions available : Full and Mini:
Full : http://appworld.blackberry.com/webst...ntent/22953878
Mini : http://appworld.blackberry.com/webst...ntent/24615876
Free Mini verison has a small (5x6) map, without any ads, as designed for kids.
Full version has 4 levels, and designed for experienced players.
In upcoming release (not released yet):
- Animated clouds
- etc...
Screenshot for 1.3 (upcoming release):
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The planet continues to produce non-ordinary personages.
We regard here Al-Sayed al-Essawy, a 24-year-old Egyptian man who claims title to "strongest man in the world."
In June of this year, this man resolved to engage in a "steel-cage fight" with a lion.
After twenty minutes, there in the cage with the lion, al-Essawy declared "victory." During the "combat," the lion did not attempt to attack the strongman; no one was harmed.
Below, find some of al-Essawy's wisdom, uttered pre-fight.
The lion, naturally, does not speak.
God made me, and he made the lion, and he put us both on the same planet, which means the lion is fair game. Ethically, there should be no problem.
I have a whole series of shows planned in my head. I will pull an airplane with my teeth, and I will pull an airplane with my hair. I will also be run over by an airplane.
In between each of these acts, there will be lion battles.
I've taught children how to chew glass and pull cars with their teeth. I can raise a generation of supersoldiers. I've jumped from ten-story buildings and I've hanged myself many times.
I think it's time we start celebrating genuine talent.


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April 7, 2007
The Bisons split a double-header against Mercer University on Saturday, April 7, using strong pitching to win game one 7-2, before falling 5-4 in game two.
In game one, the Bisons used a four-run third to jump out to an early 4-0 lead. With one out, Kevin Gavigan doubled down the left field line. Ben Williams reached on an error to put runners on first and second for Allen Bolden who came through with an RBI single to center. Caleb Joseph followed with an RBI double, driving in Williams for the Bisons second run of the game. The next batter, Ryan Wilkins, singled to left, plating Bolden and Joseph to complete the scoring in the inning.
The Bears scored a run in both the fourth and fifth innings to pull within two, but a three run Bisons' eighth completed the game's scoring, giving the Bisons their third consecutive victory.
The top of the eighth was highlighted by a two-run pinch hit double off the bat of Andrew Nickerson. Branden Cadavid also added an RBI double in the inning.
Left-hander, Rex Brothers, earned the win to improve to 6-1 on the season. In eight innings, he gave up two runs, one earned, on four hits, while striking out 11.
Chris Burnett threw a scoreless ninth to close out the game.
Right-hander Taylor Merry, made his first start of the season in game two. After falling behind 1-0 after an inning, the Bisons bounced back with a run of their own in the second on an RBI single by Shane Simpkins.
The Bears pulled back ahead with two in the bottom of the inning and another run in the third for a 4-1 lead.
The Bisons began their comeback with two of their own in the fifth. Simpkins led off the innings with a triple to center. After Nickerson grounded out to the pitcher, Williams singled through the left side to bring the Bisons' within two. After Williams stole second, he advanced to third on a balk. Bolden followed with a single to second, scoring Williams to bring the score to 4-3.
Nickerson tied the game with a lead-off homer in the seventh, his first of the season.
However, the Bears got to Charles Williams, who had relieved Merry with two outs in the sixth, using a walk-off single in the ninth to win the game.
Williams recorded the loss to drop his record to 1-3.
The Bisons' are back in action when they return to Dugan Field to take on Tennessee Tech on Tuesday, April 10, in a game that is set to kick off at 6 p.m.


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Can A Cross-Dressing Camaro With A Twin-Turbo Ford Earn Respect In A Straight-Laced World?
Everyone has their own take on the same thing. One man's erotica is another man's ennui. What's cool to us may not be cool to you. Ron DeRaad's Ford-powered Camaro could well be the epitome of this paradox. It wasn't too long ago when the entirety of hot rodding was based on the almighty engine swap, you know, like putting a Chevy motor in the engine compartment of a Ford, for instance. We're thinking heavy about the Fox-body Mustang Vinnie "The Hitman" Kung defiled with a Chevy LS motor in the pages of this mag just last year. Love it or hate, you got to admire the cheek it took to even think about it.
DeRaad's got a bunch of cheek and stainless steel cojones, too. He didn't mess with some dime-a-dozen Mustang, no. He savaged a genuine piece of history and with a smile from ear to ear he pokes it up everybody's snoot, as if he's barking, "Yo, Camaro purists, rotate on a pole!"
Perhaps there was a thread of normalcy in the cars that the 41-year-old Ron has already waded through. There was that '89 Thunderbird SC, an '88 Saleen, and then a '93 LX. He's basically a Blue Oval freak. His blood runs blue. But his intentions and his aspirations are like all of ours-go fast, really fast, and damn the budget. He's got about $100K in this toy, but that's what happens when you won't do with anything less than the best stuff in the business-hallowed marks of Sonny Bryant, Carrillo, Canton, CP, AFR, Raceline, Incon, Fikse, Martz, Michelin, and Griggs. It's all in there.
You look down into that tidy, but somewhat busy engine bay to a slew of pipes, fittings, and tubes all neat and shiny, but you could easily pass up the Raceline/Canton dry-sump oiling system, the Incon 800TTi turbochargers, and the purpose-built cast-iron exhaust manifolds. Stuff that will likely still be intact when the world ends.
What you really don't notice is that the engine has been pushed back 4 inches, ostensibly to allow the Ron Davis-built cooling core and intercooler to be mounted behind the radiator support. No telling how much good this little rearrangement has done for the front-to-rear weight bias. For the road race ethic, something resembling a 50/50 split would be ideal, but just in case it isn't, the DeRaad-ical Camaro manages all the right lightweight, geometrically sublime, double-throwdown suspension parts abetted by some really fat-ass rubber on aircraft aluminum modular wheels…and enough jing in Ron's back pocket to make it so.
So how did DeRaad get here in the first place? "I always wanted to build a '68 Camaro, but I thought it would have an all-aluminum big-block. I was building a '93 LX Mustang with an Incon twin-turbo kit and an R302 Ford Motorsports block with all the good stuff. I decided to sell it. The first day it was on the block, a guy approached me. Since he lived local, we went to his house. In his garage sat a '68 Camaro RS. I lit up!" Ron explains.
"I asked if he was interested in a trade, with some cash my way. I was soon the owner of a '68 Camaro that was in need of a mechanical fix, but overall it was in great shape. In February of '02, I began its disassembly. When it was time to decide what powerplant I wanted to use, I looked at the twin-turbo 5.0-liter sitting on the engine stand and wondered if it would go between the rails. I did a test fit to see what I was in for. Surprisingly, it fit very well," he says.
Before he got any looser with the project, Ron called some savvy pals and put the big question to them: "Am I crazy…or could I have a lot of fun with this?" The sky boiled black. He looked heavenward and was smote by a terrible swift sword, and the answer to both questions was: "Yes, indeed." Then he was off in a swirl of tire smoke and turbos shrieking to blow his eardrums.
Since the impetus from that 302 is prodigious (750 hp at 7,200 rpm), Ron had Terry Davis and friends at the County Rod Shop in Camarillo warm up the chassis by replacing the entire suspension with pieces from the aftermarket. In front, the Martz Road Race Chassis clip was reinforced to take the 575 lb-ft of torque and wears 2-inch drop spindles. Griggs Racing coil springs (8 inches overall, 450 lb-in) are squeezed between the Martz tubular control arms and wheel movement is checked by QA1 adjustable shock absorbers. Body movement is controlled by a fat antisway bar. A 3,600-lb car needs hefty brakes, so Terry applied 13-inch SL6 Wilwoods. Then he laid in the front-mounted, power-assisted rack steering and applied the 10-wide Fikse Profil 5S hoops with rubber that's usually found on the back of most people's hot rods.
Davis tied the ends of the car together with Detroit Speed frame connectors to make ready for the Griggs Racing five-link suspension. County fabbed-in a Watts link to center the 9-inch axle housing, custom-built lower control arms, and ran a torque arm to the middle of the car. QA1 adjustable coilovers employ Griggs 250-lb-in springs that measure 12 inches in length. Wilwood 12-inch discs (with internal parking brake) fit neatly inside Fikse 12.5-wides that spin gigantor 335/30s. Davis instilled a large measure of preventative medicine and the ultimate in rigidity with a Competition Engineering 10-point 'cage.
Although Ron has spent countless hours in his garage designing, customizing, and assembling, he gives special thanks to CHE Precision, Inc. "Without their support, none of this would have been possible." While the machine work was processed by Ollie's in Van Nuys and the engine was assembled and tested at Dick Landy Industries in Northridge, he feels that CHE in cahoots with Wegner Motorsports are the real heroes in this story. Wegner (Markesan, Wisconsin) is entrenched in NASCAR, ARCA, and road race-oriented forms-an aura thoroughly appropriate for the theme of this car. Though the dry-sump system might appear as overkill, Ron says it was mandatory. The placement of the crossmember precluded the installation of a wet-sump pan and the dry-sump added good insurance for the expensive, high-revving 302.
If you think that the heads on Ron's mighty peanut aren't Nth degree, check out the details in the spec chart. Horsepower was developed strictly on 91-octane gasoline with 22 degrees timing under a 12-psi boost threshold. The way this engine's built, it'll easily absorb another 10-psi boost and likely produce 1,000 hp (so you add a splash of 110). Though the Camaro certainly wasn't built as a drag race car, it turns 11.60 at 127 on its hapless, no-bite street Michelins.
We're not sure, but maybe Ron's annihilator signals the return of side pipes. They evoke images of another time and fit his rendition perfectly. He began with Camaro units from the Summit catalog and went to town, fitting custom-made muffler inserts that neck down from 4-inch discharge tubes into 3-inch openings.
But this man does not drive without stabilizing influences of comfort and convenience. Ron equipped his gut ripper with all the amenities, including HVAC, power steering, and a moon-shot audio system (Clarion DRZ9255 CD player, Zapco 1000.4 amp, Hex-5000 crossover, 14 speakers, and the list goes on!) as installed by Phantom Electronics in Thousand Oaks. Ron: "I never thought I could hear such pure sound in a '68 Camaro." Those plush Corbeau LG1 seats were lowered 2 inches to accommodate his 6-foot-3 height requirement. Conejo Upholstery in Thousand Oaks installed custom fit carpeting to mesh nicely with the MOMO Mod.87 steering wheel. The unique Stack Dash (mostly-LED) instrument panel allows for all the street amenities along with a race-like pedigree, and is tended by the 18-circuit Painless wiring system.
The body is no less appreciated. County Rod Shop shaved the side marker lights, smoothed the firewall, and did the dashboard work before Courtesy Chevrolet in Thousand Oaks affixed the two-stage custom mix Mitsubishi Evo Bright Blue. Those minimal aerodynamic sideview mirrors are straight off a C5.
"I love to sit back at car shows in the crowd so no one knows it's mine and listen to the talk. I think it's great to hear both sides, Ford and Chevy lovers. The best comment to date? 'Boy, that's an attention whore, isn't it?' That was at Fun Ford Weekend," Ron says. Like we said, stainless steel cojones.
68 Chevrolet Rs Camaro
Ron DeRaad, 41 * Newbury Park, CA
Vehicle weight with driver: 3,600 lbs
Best ET: 11.6 at 127 mph (with street tires)
|302ci Ford (4.140 bore x 2.830 stroke)
|Ford Motorsports Windsor R302
|Compression ratio:
|Canton dry sump,
|Raceline three-stage pump
|Rotating assembly:
|Sonny Bryant 2.830-inch
|stroke crank, Carrillo H-beam rods,
|and CP 9.7:1 forged pistons
|Cylinder heads:
|AFR 185 aluminum, CHE Precision,
|Inc. NASCAR valveguides and seats,
|7-angle valve job, Teflon-coated intake ports,
|ceramic-coated exhaust ports
|and combustion chambers, custom-built
|and flowed by Wegner Automotive
|COMP (35-306-8) solid-lifter roller tappet,
|224/230 degrees duration at .050-inch,
|.566/.578-inch lift, Pete Jackson geardrive
|T&D Machine 1.70:1 shaft-mounted
|roller rocker arms, Wegner titanium 2.02-inch
|intake/steel 1.60-inch exhaust valves,
|hardened 3/8-inch pushrods, valvesprings,
|and CHE titanium retainers
|Edelbrock Air-Gap manifold,
|DFI Gen VII EFI, 75-lb/hr injectors,
|dual K&N Xtreme air cleaners
|Power adder:
|twin Incon 800TTi turbochargers,
|12-psi boost, external wastegates fabbed
|by Innovative Turbo, radiator and intercooler
|custom-built by Ron Davis
|Mallory Hyfire distributor,
|6AL box, Crane Fireball PS92,
|22 degrees total timing (under boost)
|Incon cast-iron turbo stands,
|custom-made side pipes
|and 3-inch muffler inserts by DeRaad
|Built by:
|Dick Landy Industries, Northridge, CA
|G-Force-built Tremec T56
|(2.48, 1.99, 1.35, 1.00, 0.83, 0.63:1),
|McLeod Twin Disc pressure plate assembly,
|MGW shifter
|Inland Empire aluminum,
|4-inch diameter, Strange 1350 yoke
|Rear axle:
|narrowed Currie 9-inch,
|31-spline axle shafts, Truetrac
|screw-type differential,
|3.70:1 ring-and-pinion
|Front suspension:
|modified Martz Chassis clip
|and custom spindles, Griggs Racing springs,
|QA1 adjustable shock absorbers, Detroit Speed
|frame connectors, antisway bar
|Rear suspension:
|Griggs five-link and springs,
|Watts link fabbed into chassis,
|torque arm, custom lower control arms,
|QA1 adjustable shock absorbers
|Wilwood SL6 13-inch disc, front;
|Wilwood 12-inch disc
|(with internal parking brake), rear
|Fikse Profil 5S 18×10, front;
|18×12.5, rear
|Michelin Pilot Sport 275/35ZR18, front;
|335/30ZR18, rear


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Washington, DC -- Jan. 9, 2012 -- The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) announced today the formation of a Higher Education Act Reauthorization Task Force. As the 2013 Higher Education Act expiration approaches, the Task Force will consult with NASFAA's membership and other important groups and agencies to develop recommendations to the NASFAA board on policy issues and specific statutory changes in the federal student aid programs and their delivery systems.
The Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965, as amended, authorizes the major federal student aid programs. These programs are to be reviewed and "reauthorized" by Congress every five years.
"NASFAA's Reauthorization Task Force has been reconvened at the request of policymakers, who recognize the important role financial aid practitioners have to play in helping craft federal aid policy," said NASFAA President Justin Draeger. "We are pleased to partner with lawmakers to help set policies that best serve students and address our nation's economic and workforce needs."
As laid out in the Task Force Charter, the group is charged with producing a set of proposals for the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act that --
"The NASFAA Reauthorization Task Force is constructed of members who represent the different sectors of NASFAA's membership," said Task Force Chair Bonnie Joerschke, Director of Financial Aid at the University of Georgia. "It will address items of concern and review and compile a set of proposals that will ultimately be presented to the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce and U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions."
Members of the NASFAA Reauthorization Task Force:
The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) is a nonprofit membership organization that represents nearly 20,000 financial aid professionals at 2,800 colleges, universities, and career schools across the country. Each year, financial aid professionals help more than 16 million students receive funding for post secondary education. Based in Washington, D.C., NASFAA is the only national association with a primary focus on student aid legislation, regulatory analysis, and training for financial aid administrators. For more information, visit www.nasfaa.org.