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Hands OnSetting Up Scholarship FundsScholarship funds are a very common form of philanthropy. Here are answers to some of the basic and often-asked questions about them. The scholarship fund is one of the most idiosyncratic forms of philanthropy. Theres a one in Michigan just for golf caddies, and another in Hawaii for students who finish the Hawaii Marathon. There is a scholarship for left-handers, and one for women of good moral character who dont smoke tobacco. Though it seems simple to give students money to pay for tuition or books or other things that are essential to a good education, there are some pitfalls to be aware of when it comes to taxes, accountability, compliance, and monitoring. (See "Scholarship Fund Resources," below.) A would-be donor can take a number of routes to set up a scholarship fundestablish a private foundation, go through a community foundation or other public charity, or even sponsor it through a club or trade association. A corporate donor can use its own corporate funds or establish a fund through the corporate foundation. Though each option has its own special problems, some considerations apply to all of them. Following are answers to some frequently asked questions donors have on the subject. How much money do we need to start a scholarship fund? If were talking endowed scholarship fund, the blunt fact is that it simply doesnt make sense to start a scholarship fund with less than $25,000. Malcolm Peel, executive director of the Community Foundation of Greater Lorain County in Ohio, says: "If you have a smaller fund and want to make the scholarship renewable, you are pretty well eliminating new applicants for two, three, four years." "You are really only looking at a $500 grant from $25,000," says Cynthia Schnack, a certified financial planner and director of marketing and development at the Hawaii Community Foundation, which administers about 60 scholarship funds. One option for donors is to offer scholarships through a community foundation or other intermediary. The biggest intermediaries are the National Merit Scholarship Corporation and the Citizens Scholarship Foundation of America. Its possible to outsource all or part of the administration of a scholarship program. (More on this below). Who gets the scholarship checkthe student or the institution? Donors are sometimes attracted to the idea of giving money to the student rather than the school. But this arrangement is fairly rare. "Private foundations cannot give directly to a student without complying with some very stringent IRS rules," says Judith T. Burrows, director of the student aid program at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. "The IRS requires tracking of how the funds are spent"meaning that the foundation, if it funds the individual and not the organization, must collect receipts from the student. And, because some of the scholarship grant money is taxable, students are shocked to find they owe taxes on anything besides tuition, books, room and board, and certain kinds of supplies. How do we establish criteria? The founding scholarship document, often called the trust document, is the place that sets forth the eligibility and selection criteria. It also describes the awards duration and provisions for renewal. Community foundations that handle a lot of scholarships strongly recommend the trust document be as flexible as possible. For example, instead of suggesting the student maintain a specific grade point average, a donor might specify an acceptable range. (See "A Menu for Flexible Scholarship Criteria," below, for how one foundation does this.) Flexibility is especially important when a donor wants to target a scholarship to members of an ethnic minority group. In some states, the constitutionality of gender- and race-conscious scholarships has been called into question, though state university scholarship programs are the only programs affected thus far. (For more details on this, seeFN&Cs "Scholarships and the Race-Based Cases," November/December 1997). Consider the burden of verification. The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation was approached by a donor who wanted to give a scholarship to students of Flemish descent. The foundation was advised by its counsel that this would be legitimate. Then came the question of how to check the specifics of each applicants family tree. "We told the donor that we could handle the trust as long as he did not require that we do some sort of genealogical check," Burrows says. "We were not going to discriminate between someone who claims to be one-sixty-fourth Flemish and another who claims to be one-fourth Flemish." And flexibility regarding the amount of each award is helpful, too. The amount does not have to be fixed or spelled out precisely in the trust document. Its often better simply to specify the size of the award pool. This way, when tuition goes up, or if there are fewer or more qualified students, the fund can decide on an ad hoc basis how much to give to how many students. What do advisory committees do? It is quite common for scholarship funds to set up committees to select recipients and set policies. "Donors often want to put a lot of restrictions on their money," says Lynn Haff, program officer for scholarships at the Hawaii Community Foundation. "We recommend using an advisory committee that can draft up some guidelines. These would be approved by our board and our legal counsel as necessary, and they could be changed in the future." For example, instead of setting up a scholarship specifically for medical students and nurses studying in the field of pediatrics, the foundation would encourage the donor to target students specializing in health care. The advisory committee could further tweak the guidelines to emphasize pediatrics without committing the money to pediatrics forever. The Santa Barbara Foundation administers eight scholarship funds and a student loan program. The 15 members of their student aid committee, including local college representatives, high school counselors and administrators, and the superintendent of schools, all volunteer their time. They meet once a month to review student applications, select the scholarship recipients, and set policies. How do we get the word out about the scholarship? There has always been a large number of national publications that list scholarships and how to get them. And now there are many Internet-based resources where students can look for leads to scholarship funds. Foundations with scholarships say these listings do indeed get the word out, but they recommend exercising some caution about what will reach the appropriate applicant pool. If a given scholarship funds only locally, for example, a good strategy might be to get listed in statewide directories but not national ones. In other words, sometimes its important to think about how notto spread the word. For example, the George M. Pullman Educational Foundation gives scholarships only to residents of Illinoiss Cook County, and to lineal descendants of people who attended the Pullman Free School of Manual Training. So the foundation publicizes the scholarship through a network of local high schools and the alumni associations newsletter. Many locally oriented foundations say they rely heavily on word-of-mouth and networks with local schools. Some community foundations publish a "one-stop-shopping" booklet of all the scholarship funds they administer, making it relatively simple for a student to apply for several scholarships on one simple form. What must we do to satisfy the IRS? IRS rules are designed to make sure that scholarship programs benefit a broad charitable class of beneficiaries, and that the process is nondiscriminatory. You cant set up a foundation to give a scholarship to a member of your family, or restrict your eligibility requirements so that only your favorite neighborhood kid qualifies. The penalty for noncompliance could be a hefty excise tax or a loss of tax-exempt status. An individual donors choice of whether to put scholarship funds in a community foundation or a private foundation will be influenced by tax issues, such as deductibility and payout requirements, and other considerations that vary according to donor preference. Corporate foundations, however,have to follow a special set of guidelines. Many corporate foundations offer scholarships for children of company employees, but such a scholarship program must have the disinterested purpose of enabling these students to obtain an education solely for their personal benefit, and not for the benefit of the employer. The committee that selects the scholarship recipients must be totally independent and separate from the employer. The scholarship cannot be rescinded if the students parent leaves the company. A company that wants to support promising students with the intention of recruiting them, or that wants to give its employees tuition reimbursement, is free to do so from corporate fundsbut not through the foundationand write off the cost as a business expense. What about staffing vs. outsourcing a scholarship program? Many foundations, especially private corporate foundations, use third-party agencies to handle all aspects of the scholarship program. Marilyn Rundell, vice president of Citizens Scholarship Foundation of America, says that 80 percent of the 600 scholarship programs it administers are for children of employees of the sponsoring company or corporate foundation. She explains that selection of recipients must be made by a committee made up of individuals independent from the private foundation and corporation concerned. Many corporate donors use intermediaries to assure neutrality and lend credibility to the program in the eyes of employees. "The second reason," she says, "is that by using outside agencies, these companies and foundations do not have to learn how to administer scholarships." (See "Management by Outside Agencies," below.) Other foundations immerse themselves completely, even getting involved in the students personal lives. Project Choice, a project of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, is a high school dropout prevention program that offers low-income students scholarships for full college tuition, fees, room and board, books and other essential supplies. In return, the students and their families sign a written contract to graduate on time, remain drug-free and stay out of trouble with the law. Once in college, the only requirement is that they maintain a 2.0 grade point average. The foundation ended up adding support services to help the students and their families keep on track because the staff found the attention of caring adults was a stronger motivator for the kids than was the free tuition, says Lynn Leonard. The Kauffman project staff stay in close touch with the students once they get into college, making sure they are reimbursed for supplies as they need them and arranging for mentoring and tutoring if they need it. Leonard admits that administering such a program is complex and time-consuming. Nevertheless, she says, "You get so connected to the kids. I have seen kids that I enrolled in ninth grade go all the way through college. Its a labor of love."
Some colleges and universities will actually reduce the aid package offered to a student when the student receives funds from a private scholarship. Some donors are surprised to learn that some of the best-endowed institutionsincluding Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Princetonhave the strictest aid displacement policies. Ann Fergemann administered the Kalamazoo Foundations scholarship program for eight years and is now donor relations officer at the foundation. She says, "I know its going to be a difficult sell when I have to tell the donor that of the $1,000 in aid, $500 is going to help the student directly and $500 is going to reduce the grant that is awarded by the educational institution." But Judith Burrows, director of the student aid program at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, says that people should look at the issue in a different light. "In fact, the Yales and Harvards are trying to do as much as possible to allow those with fewer resources to get to those institutions. Harvard has a need-met policy, which means that they will meet every students need through aid, work-study and loans. But they reduce their aid package, on a prorated basis, after the first $500 of an outside scholarship award comes in. So, for example, on a $1,000 award they would reduce the students loan obligation by 40 percent of the remaining $500. Now, that grant aid that was replaced didnt go back into the pockets of Harvardit helped another needy student go to Harvard." Fergemann says most of the students who receive scholarships from the Kalamazoo Foundation go to colleges where every dollar works for them. But even in the relatively few cases where the school does replace part of its own funding with outside aid, she says she can usually present the situation to donors "in a positive way," and she adds, "If we can be less concerned about our turf and all work together, its really the young people who benefit." Still, some donors, like the George M. Pullman Educational Foundation in Chicago, will not make awards to certain schools that practice aid displacement. "The position of the trustees is this," says Executive Director James Soderstrom. "We have to turn away youngsters every year. It doesnt make senseto our organizationto give a youngster an award if it is going to be displaced." This position has irked some financial aid directors, who say it ultimately denies high-achieving youngsters a chance to get recognition, since the foundations scholarships have considerable prestige. Soderstrom replies, "Theres some truth in that. But we just dont think its fair to take a kid with a need-met package at a university and turn away other kids who need money desperately. We are getting more and more poor kids coming in with unmet need packages." To be sure a that student will benefit from every dollar of aid, some funders suggest a different strategy: offer to repay a students loan after graduation. Instead of awarding $500 renewable for four years, give $2,000 to a student upon graduation. Clever, but still debatable: Soderstrom personally believes that loan payoff grants are not the best solution. "Good financial aid is timely. Its real dollars at the time they are needed. Among working-class families the aversion to borrowing is very strongtheyve seen their neighbors cars repossessed. A scholarship in hand the year that you are going off to college has avery different meaningpsychologically than a promise that maybe the funds will be coming four years from now, after the tuition is spent." A Menu of Flexible Scholarship Criteria The Kalamazoo Community Foundation, which administers 40 scholarship and loan funds, suggests to donors a combination of the following as possible eligibility criteria:
Kalamazoos guidelines then list the selection criteria that are found in programs the foundation already administers:
Management by Outside Agencies There are several options for foundations interested in outsourcing some or all of a scholarship program. There are several vendors offering scholarship services, toosome for profit, some nonprofitand following are a few of them:
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With less than a month until Election Day, the honors are coming in for Mayor Margie Rice, who is retiring in December.
The Westminster City Council Wednesday approved a proposal to rename the theater located at the Westminster Rose Center the Margie L. Rice Theater. A plaque above the theater entrance displaying the new name will be installed.
"I want to honor Mayor Rice for her commitment to the community and to the center," said Mayor Pro Tem Tri Ta, who initiated the proposal. "She is dedicated to the Rose Center and has been a good public servant."
Rice has been a longtime advocate for and patron of the Rose Center and particularly its theater. She has been a member of the Rose Center Foundation's board of directors since 2005. The annual Mayor's Ball is held at the Rose Center and has raised over $400,000 for the center over the years.
Councilmember Tyler Diep supported Ta's proposal despite previous clashes with Rice over funding for the Rose Center.
"You have given a lot to the center and without you it wouldn't exist," Diep said to Rice. "It's a small token to name the theater in your honor, and I will vote for it.
Irma Hernandez, vice-president of the Rose Center Foundation, wrote a letter asking the council to postpone the vote. Changing the name would cost too much money and would take away current name recognition, Hernandez wrote.
However, Hernandez's letter addressed the issue of changing the name of the entire Westminster Rose Center, not just the theater. Ta's proposal asked for only a change to the theater name, currently known as the Rose Center Theater.
The center itself will remain the Westminster Rose Center. No current signs will be changed and only the plaque will be added.
Although the vote was about Rice directly, she did not have to leave the room during the discussion or the vote because there was no financial issue. Elected officials are not allowed to take part in discussions or votes concerning their own salaries or bonuses.
Rice and Councilmember Andy Quach abstained from voting. Quach said he supported the name change but felt the proposal as written caused confusion.
Councilmember Frank Fry, who is also retiring in December, was hospitalized Tuesday and could not attend the meeting.
The Westminster Rose Center offers banquet space for social and corporate events. The theater, run by artistic director Tim Nelson, produces both professional and student musicals throughout the year.

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Reintroduction of Rhino in the Serengeti
With its sturdy build, menacing horn and impenetrable hide, it is hard to imagine that the fate of the rhinoceros – one of the iconic Big Five – hangs in such a delicate balance. Over the past several decades, the rhino population in the Serengeti ecosystem has suffered greatly due to poaching, with rhino numbers decreasing from 1,000 to less than 70 individuals.
In an effort to save the rhinos from extinction, seven Eastern Black Rhino were transported from East Africa in 1961 to a private reserve in South Africa. The rhinos thrived in this protected area with their numbers quadrupling during their long-term visit.
In an extraordinary conservation effort, 32 rhino – descendants of the seven transplants – will be reintroduced to the Serengeti over the next two years. Last month, the first five were flown into the Seronera area and received a warm Tanzanian welcome.
In order to protect the newly introduced rhinos, radio-transmitters will be implanted in their horns and they will be guarded around the clock by specially-trained rangers, the Serengeti Rhino Protection Unit (SRPU).
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June 30, 2010 at 3:34 pm
WONDERFUL NEWS….now if we can just stop the road….maybe the rhinos can sway the developers.
August 21, 2010 at 5:01 am
What an awesome sight! I have never yet seen the Simja Moru Kopjes rhinos out when in the Serengeti ….
And for those not yet convinced: Minister, that road through the Serengeti really is a bad idea! What about a true accountable and transparant ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT? Any EIA would turn this down 300%!!!
May 30, 2011 at 1:24 pm
I will be in the northern serengeti [kogatende] area this coming september. Is it true there is a possibility of seeing black rhino in that area or east to bologonja? I would appreciate any information in regards to rhino location. Thank you in advance. Carl Nehring
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HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad Metro Rail Project, plagued with initial hiccups, is poised to be the costliest urban rail service in India with each day's delay in commencement of construction work adding Rs 5 crore to the escalating project cost, now estimated at Rs 15,957 crore.
Going by the calculations of Hyderabad Metro Rail limited (HMRL), the fare would be the most expensive in the country. The reason: escalation of project cost because of the tardy pace of work.


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This Just In from Google Trends: Orgies May Be More American than Apple Pie!
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This morning, I had a good chuckle as I read over the Washington Post Style section where I found an article that caught my attention. It seems that an attorney in Florida used Google Trends to aide in his client's defense argument. Really? Wow.
The story goes like this… A Pensacola man, Clinton Raymond McCowen, was charged with obscenity and was set to stand trial on July 1 in Pensacola. But his attorney, Lawrence Walters, came up with a rather interesting defense. Apparently, obscenity laws rely on the concept of "community standards" — basically whether or not the community of Pensacola would find the material obscene.
So Attorney Walters decided to use Google Trends to determine popular keyword trends in the Pensacola area. His team was able to show, for example, that "orgies" were more searched than "apple pie" or "boating". I loved the way the reporter, Monica Hesse, put it — "Orgies: More American than apple pie."
The defense strategy didn't see the inside of a courtroom, however, as McCowen, also charged with racketeering and prostitution, agreed to a three to five year prison sentence. But it does make you wonder… how accepted would a Google Trends defense be — especially since there's a good bit of healthy debate out there about its accuracy? If Google won't give us exact numbers for advertising purposes, why would it do so in Google Trends? I have my doubts at its full accuracy.
And if it isn't accurate, how could it be used in something as important as a person's prosecution or defense? And furthermore, do your web searches reflect your morals? Or the morals of a whole community? It at least poses some interesting questions.
That's all for now — I have to get my depraved self back to searching Google for porn.


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Kind of a nice house, huh?
Nicki and Mike traveled from their home in Chicago to Western Pennsylvania (where Nicki has roots) for their wedding. They chose the barn at Fallingwater and I must say that everything about the day was beautiful. It was a thrill to photograph at Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece – an experience made all the better by being there for such lovely people. Plus, I got to work with my dear friend and fine photographer, Jasmine Goldband.
Nicki got ready upstairs at the farmhouse next to the barn:
Mike got ready downstairs (photo by Jasmine):
First look:
Then it was off to Fallingwater for portraits. Nicki wore the coolest, handmade designer dress:
Everybody loves a lover:)
The weather was perfect for an outside wedding:
Nicki and Mike share a private moment in the farmhouse just after the ceremony:
Guests lined up to pelt them with flower petals as they walked up the path to the cocktail hour:
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First dance:
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The guests had to sing if they wanted Nicki and Mike to kiss!
This guy really knew how to toast!
Mike's granddaughter out on the dance floor:
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Gamification: does it make business more fun, or is it just exploitationware?
Game elements could be a method of self-improvement, but may in fact be a tool for control.
By James Vincent Published 21 November 2012 14:13Touted as a software update to fix a bug in human motivation, packaged into a salvo of talking points for the "insight industry", gamification has been marketed as a miracle cure; a cheap and wholesome tonic to galvanise the listless and uninspired. But since then, it seems to have gone the same way as all hucksterism, and left us with a product whose only real fans are those making money from it.
It may be that marketing will be the only real sector to benefit from gamification, despite the initial excitement about how game mechanisms might help in the classroom or office. Both environments were thought of as ripe for adaptation: they already included features such as a roster of players (students or workers), a series of challenges (tests or work-assessments), and tiered reward systems (grades or salaries).
People like Seth Priebatsch (a founder of social gaming site SCVNGR, whose goal is to "build the game layer on top of the world") argue that schools are already just poorly executed games, ones for which we must strengthen the "rules" in order to properly motivate the players.
But studies have shown that the type of prizes that games award – mainly externalised prizes like trophies and XP – can actually be harmful to individuals' intrinsic motivation (the pleasure we feel when doing something is its own reward). External rewards signal to individuals that the task is undesirable in and of itself. Otherwise, why offer a prize at all?
These are not new observations, and they don't only apply in the classroom. The work of psychologists Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan (as popularised in Dan Pink's book Drive) has shown that it is not rewards that are the most powerful motivation for employees, but feelings of "autonomy, mastery and purpose". A 2011 paper by Krystle Jiang titled "The Dangers of Gamification" (pdf) makes similar points, also noting that in the workplace "extrinsic motivators" are found to decrease the capacity for innovation and creativity. Google's famous "20 per cent time" is a great example of how to fight this. The company allows employees to spend one day a week focusing on their pet-projects, with the results including some of Google's most successful ventures like Gmail and AdSense.
These examples show that gamification's attempts to revivify the classroom or workplace are really just working from – or more often ignoring - established observations of behavioural psychology. The newcomer has simply got the marketing makeovers necessary to be sold as an innovation. As Danah Boyd, a senior Microsoft researcher, has said:
[Gamification is] a modern-day form of manipulation. And like all cognitive manipulation, it can help people and it can hurt people. And we will see both.
But while gamification is of little use in the workplace or classroom, the "modern-day manipulation" has been put to far greater effect by advertisers. P.J. Rey, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, has positioned gamification as a technique of capitalism which "expands capitalist production into new contexts". Rey suggests that gamification allows capitalism to appropriate our time for leisure and play as a new arena from which to extract value.
On the whole it seems that as consumers, we're too canny for this – we soon learn to ignore new styles of advertising after their novelty has worn off. Who now even registers the appearance pop-up adverts on the internet? Most of us swat them away like flies.
Although gamification promises to deal with this problem by actively engaging the consumer, the profits of companies that have relied on it to sell their product seem unsustainable. Stock in games company Zynga (the creator of mouse-clicker FarmVille) has fallen 75 per cent since its December IPO (£) whilst GroupOn (a company that used game-mechanisms such as countdown timers and bonuses for inviting friends to encourage sales), has had comparable losses despite recent investment.
The problem with gamification seems to be one of hype. The games-designer and critic Ian Bogost has attacked the concept on similar lines, arguing that it is the rhetoric and marketing of gamification that has given it power.
Bogost observes that when we use the language of "ify-ing" something we are indicating that we will put that thing it in a particular state (eg, to beautify or humidify something). The term "gamification" thus promises a transformative process that has measureable and predictable results, whereas the reality is very different: the mechanisms that make games engaging and enjoyable cannot be transferred to just any situation.
So what's left? Well, actually, quite a lot.
Although gamification may be unusable in some scenarios and just plain annoying in others, there are still times where it can make a difference. The site FoldIt is one example. Users participate in biochemical research by folding proteins, a process that helps us to understand their structures better. FoldIt works because it already involved game-like elements (the puzzle solving of folding proteins) as well as intrinsic rewards (the feeling you've helped improve medicine). It was a big success, with the sites users solving in 10 days a problem that had stumped scientists for 15 years. The gamification simply put those challenges and rewards in a more approachable context.
Elsewhere, the frameworks behind gamification have been more helpful. Zynga honed its addictive products through repetitive A/B testing: changing a single element in infrastructure for one group of users with another group as a control, and then seeing which version is more attractive. Memrise, an online education tool based around flashcards, does exactly the same. Using its records of when users stop visiting the site, Memrise tweaks its layout and system of reminders to encourage long-term engagement, ideally helping individuals around the world to learn better.
Gamification may prove to be nothing more than some advertising consultant's meal-ticket, but this doesn't mean that the systems that have made it possible are without their uses. It's right to be sceptical about any fad that promises to "fix" a problem as massive or complex as motivating people, but gamification doesn't have to be the whole solution – it can just be part of a process instead.
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"gamification has been marketed as a miracle cure; a cheap and wholesome tonic to galvanise the listless and uninspired"
Only by those who either don't understand it or are just trying to make quick money. The rest of us understand that it is far more complex than that and that it requires time and careful planning!
"But studies have shown that the type of prizes that games award – mainly externalised prizes like trophies and XP"
This shows a total lack of understanding of what games actually are. You are talking about the most basic layer that some people in gamification promote as the premier parts of games. Games are far more than just trophies and XP - other wise we would not have been playing them for so many decades.
You are taking the most famous examples of gamification and people involved in it and trying to say that all gamification is about is Points, Badges and Ladders - nothing else. This is short-sighted and really incorrect.


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- 1.0 overall
Less than one year with them and I give up!
By Bob James, posted: Dec 1Just one horrible experience after another. I was extremely patient with them. Their customer service is like dealing with a programed computer that has no sense of humor nor a real command of the English language. My phone number was lost, then found. I was constantly dropped from their service even though I was on an automatic payment plan. My phone decided it would either be a voice or data phone but not both. After days, I was able to receive voice but lost the data side. Net10 offered to send me a new phone and when I received the box I found out that I had to send them the my phone first!!!!!!!!! WTF! The voice side went out after another couple of months. T-Moble here I come. F.U. Net10!!!!!!!!!!!!! STAAAAAAY AWAAAAAAAY from these guys! - 1.0 overall
Hate net10
By Doriane Dalery, posted: Nov 16I've been with net10 for over 6 months now, services and customers services is horrible. I've been on the phone with them for the last week because they keep deactivate my fiances phone number because someone pretend to be my fiance and ask them to transfer the phone number. They don't even check the informations and process the transfer. I had to buy 2 new sim cards because they won't send me one, to reactivate my fiance number and they keep deactivated it. I am so PISSED at them. I'm trying now to get the phone number reactivated so I can leave net10. I am really really mad about this. And of course every month I have to call them because they won't have the peyment go thru... To be an honest person, this net10 service SUCKS!!!! - 1.3 overall
By jphong07, posted: Nov 12I've had Net10 for a little of one month and I thought it was horrible. Service and customer service was both really bad. First of their gigabyte allowed is low and they shut off my data for a 2 days saying I used it too much! I pay for it,they did this a couple of times.! Customer service kept transfering me, wasn't long before I left. Never again Thank God I found a carrier I am happy with, I pay only $49 for unlimited talk text & 4G data no contract Here's the link if anyone is interested. http://omg49.sharesolavei.com - 1.0 overall
rip off!!!!!
By Chris Xyooj Lauj, posted: Nov 11been with net10 for around 6 month. Yesterday I have to reactivate my service again due to customer representative didn't process my payment thru. Use the phone service for conference and Skype. Today my service was deactivate because of that usage. I was told by customer representative that my only option is to rebuy a sim-card and service...Its a rip off just with in 24 hrs of service. Will not recommend net10 for anyone, and not worth paying a penny for the service. - 1.0 overall
They took my 3077 minutes
By Marvin Springer, posted: Oct 18Inactived me (their fault). When I was FINALLY actived they did not put my 3077 minutes, back. They were sorry though...me too. Worst customer ever. RUN,RUN far away. 3077 MINUTES!!! - 1.0 overall
By Miriam van der Waal, posted: Oct 9Thought Net10 was ok and good value until I had a problem with my phone's internet. Customer service is terrible. Spent over 5 hours with different representatives trying to resolve the issue. Was transferred through to recorded messages, given fake confirmation numbers and receipts for calls. I can not describe how appalling the service was, stay away, not worth the hassle. - 2.3 overall
By Robert Harris, posted: Sep 24When changing phones they don't seem able to let you keep your old phone #. It is wise to keep a written records of contacts. So that you can inform all of your contacts the # changes or you will lose old friends forever - 5.0 overall
Both reps i spoke with have the best cust. service skills ive had contact with!!
By Tonia Martin, posted: Sep 21I would like to thank both customer service reps for their wonderful attitude and patience with me. I didn't realize all the services that are available. This is the first time I have been to the web site!!!! But the reps were from Columbia and I suggest a raise or promotion!!! THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP!!!!!! - 1.3 overall
Nightmare Customer Service
By Chris Poile, posted: Sep 19Hands down the worst customer service I have ever received and that's really saying something. The customer service reps have actually lied to me twice about a refund to my account, giving me fake confirmation numbers that cant be verified when I call back for a follow up. It's been 2 weeks and still no refund in sight. This is the 2nd time I have been double charged. Have already switched to another carrier. Do not sign up with the losers they do not care about your business. - 1.3 overall
Poor customer Service
By Paul Moore, posted: Sep 17I woke up to a deactivated Net10 cell phone this morning. After talking with two Customer Service Reps and a Manager, I got a supposed explanation. A month ago my original Net10 phone stopped working. I ordered a replacement phone and activated it as instructed. I was not instructed to reactivate my plan, and, because of this, my service expired this morning. Net10 happily reactivated my phone for a $45 monthly unlimited plan. Before this I had been paying $30 monthly under a promo plan. When I asked about reinstating my promo rate, I was told that the promo was tied to the phone. I was told that when the phone died, the plan died. I was told that the plan was only for that phone, which was a blatant lie. When I got the promo rate I was able to get any phone. This was a chance to increase my rate by 50% and they took it. They told me that I have no recourse but to accept the new rate or leave with my 30 day old Net10 phone. Net10 never said that my promo rate was tied to a specific phone. Net10 never told me at phone activation that I would have to reactivate my service plan and forfeit my promo rate. Net10 never told me that they were going to deactivate my service this morning. I missed at least 8 work related calls. They only gave me employees who barely spoke English, and, who acted as if they could barely understand me. The first opportunity that I get, I am switching to a different company.


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I love the way you designed her hairstyle. Very dynamic and I think also purposeful as line of action.
Reminds a bit of Botticelli's Birth of Venus (Adobe Illustrator logo).
I love the way you designed her hairstyle. Very dynamic and I think also purposeful as line of action.
Reminds a bit of Botticelli's Birth of Venus (Adobe Illustrator logo).
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Looking good. I would just make sure that thr upper lip is sticking out farther than the bottom lip. Something a lot of people miss.
That hair is great!! gives the pose a lot of strenght (even though she hasn't arms yet )
How on earth are you going to do the shockwave violin????
Yes... frozen fingers in mexico, where I live we have a cozy -3° at nights, nothing compared with antartican temperatures, but it's too cold for me
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I know you had to, that is one thin I appreciate about you.
This is what I was trying to say, I did a quick Photoshop of the pic you posted.
moni your doing a terrific job. im glad your having fun with your zbrushing. im also glad that i have finally forgiven myself. it was hard but i was able to do it. im learning a ton from you and id like to ask if you want to start on a clean slate. im much better now that i have been talking to my hometown buddies about this and they knew i was in the wrong so i thank them too. let me know what your decision is. later moni. i cant wait to see your model finished.
"To see a world in a grain of sand..." -William Blake
That boot is killer! And i mean that in the best way possible. I think the super-high stilletto is really sexy. Jealous of your hard surface abilities. I love the dynamic hair too; I hope mine ends up working like that.
I agree with the comments about the lips, but it looks like you've got ideas for the makeup that are going to make it look different than the sculpt. I'm interested in seeing how that turns out.
Good luck!
Thank you for the kind compliment
But what do you mean with "render" ^^?
I didn´t render it so far...
Or is there another meaning for the word ???
Thank you for the kind compliment I´m happy to hear you like what I´ve done so far (except the lips.. I agree with you..I don´t like them)
I feel ressured that you do do like the green
No enraged Mantis Man
Thank you for the kind compliment
Overbite....? Yes!!! you´re right
Thank you for the kind compliment captkiro and thanks for the input regarding the lips
Thank you for the kind compliment spimmy
Thank you for the kind compliment
You are right too... I´ll correct the lips.
Thank you for the kind compliment MINTY
Thank you for the kind compliment and the input concerning the hair.
I know what you mean but while I sculpted it I tought it would look like the hair is blown forward because of the wind.
But I´ll check that.
Thanks again.
Thank you for the kind compliment
Thank you for the kind compliment
I didn´t know the Adobe Logo so far
but I know it now
Thank you for the kind compliment and the advice
I really missed that too
-3°? It´s been much colder here the last days... -20°
I´m definitely living in the wrong country
Oh and the violine...ummm... I don´t know how I´ll make it LOL
Thank you for the compliment
Thank you for the new explanation and the ref pic
Now I know what you mean
Well...meanwhile I think I´m going to curve the calves area..
but I think I won´t change something on the front...
because I wanted this steep high-heel look.
Thanks again
Thank you for the kind compliment herekitty
Glad to hear you like it.
Hard surface abilities well...that´s way easier for me than everything else
Thank you for viewing my thread!
I wish you good luck too
The reason why I´m posting today without a new update: I have a question..
New problem
I´ve tried to start correcting the lips... but my topology is so bad that my mesh gets ripped apart then.
I´m not able to sculpt in that area.. and I´ve already reached the maximum of polys which my sytem can handle... -about 4.200.000
What I´v tried to do -> edit existing topology...
I found that page with a really good tutorial
I´ve already edited an existing topology in the beginnig of this contest.
but I didn´t know how a good topology should look at that time
And here´s my problem:
It doesn´t work now
The Zsphere doesn´t disapear..
and on the top on the right side it looks like that
I don´t know what´s the problem..I think I´m making a mistake, or
maybe this is the reason:
Unfortunately I deleted the lower subdivs of my model last week
and on top of that I overwrote the file.
I think I did..I´ve just recognized it yet
And I can´t do the whole work again.
Total Polys of my actual lowest subdiv lvl (74.480)
I´m thankful for any advice
Last edited by Moni-Poroni; 01-23-09 at 06:45 PM. Reason: loads of typing errors..as always ^^
Sorry to hear that dude, it was going so well too. Hope you find out what happened.
Moni, one option to get more resolution would be to chop up your model into different subtools where the costume breaks it naturally, and have the costume elements be subtools that cover the seams. Judging by your concept it looks like you could to this at the breast area or the hips? Just an idea.
ach du scheiße...äh ich meine...oh ****
first of all you have to reconstruct the lower subdevisions. I told you how to do this...
after that you only have to go to a mid devision of your object. than smooth the mouth area a bit to relax the mesh. and finally reproject higher subdevisions in folder "geometry"
I would try this... good luck
Yes, to get your lower levels use "reconstruct subdiv" that's in the geometry palette. If that doesn't work it means that you have to enable UVs in the texture palette (the one inside the Tool palette).
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You can reconstruct your lowest level in the geometry pallete just like maxinkuk told ya. I have never seen this before. Can you give a step by step screen shot of what you are doing? Need more info.
Be careful about splitting up your face into subtools. Remember when you divide the seams will move. If you are going to go this route make sure to turn smooth off in the geometry palette.
yeah Max and Pitch are right, reconstruct subdivisions works great, you can slide topology around your mesh too with the nudge tool if you need to tweak your edge flow a little.
..........im not even going to say a thing of why you didnt acknowledge my compliment when i was being nice. thanks moni.
"To see a world in a grain of sand..." -William Blake
Paul...Ok...I´ll give you a step by step screen shot..
But it´ll take a moment..
You´ve never seen this before? Seems like this weird things only happen to me..
Reconstruct doesn´t work...
But I´ll make a screen shot too (maybe I´m making mistakes)


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Sixth International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications,16-18 August, 2005. Publication Date: 16-18 Aug. 2005,pp.212-217. ISBN: 0-7695-2358-7 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICCIMA.2005.22 Available from http://0-ieeexplore.ieee.org.ditlib.dit.ie/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1540727&isnumber=32901
This paper discuses mobile phone (cell phone) and wireless applications for linking patients who manage their healthcare outside the hospital using point of care testing (POCT) to hospital information systems (HIS). Certain medical conditions require patients to manage their healthcare by performing on themselves POC testing and act faithfully on the result. This raises quality control issue, as these POC samples and testing procedures are not independently overseen by professional hospital staff. In hospitals, samples taken by clinicians are validated by hi-tech computerised validation systems to ensure plausibility, before physicians rely on them. Patients in the home must often use results from these POCT to determine medication dosage or to monitor their condition. Thus, there is a need to implement a system of result validation, either locally or by the hospital validation system itself for people testing with POCT devices.
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This was a birthday gift for my granddaughter. She just turned 4 and this carriage is just the right size for her "baby." I personally loved the look of it because...Read complete review
This was a birthday gift for my granddaughter. She just turned 4 and this carriage is just the right size for her "baby." I personally loved the look of it because it looks like a real pram...just shrunken down to kid size. Her new baby doll fits perfectly in it. It appears to be well-made and durable. I think she will have many happy walks with her "baby"
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By Sandy
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Comments about Badger Basket Toys English Style 3-in-1 Doll Pram, Carrier, and Stroller for 24 inch Dolls:
Wonderful stroller easy set up my 18 month loves it. Only thing is that the wheels do not turn so makes it a tad hard you have to lift and turn the pram. No biggy.
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The stroller was for my granddaughter.......and it appears to be quite well made, and SHE was very happy with it!
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Great toy for the price.
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Granddaughter loves this and plays with it all the time.
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Good toy
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I got it for my 3 y.old daughter's birthday. She loves to play with it a lot. Talking about quality, not the best. Basket does not stay on very well, hood always lifts up from the back. But I still will buy this product, for this money, it's worth it
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Purchased for my 23 month old daughter and she loves it. I'd never put my own child in a Graco, Chicco, Maclaren, Corolle, Joovy, or the other brands that also make toy strollers so this was a very nice find as I will never give any of those companies any of my money for their recall ridden junk. The stroller is very sturdy and well made....much better than an actual Graco. The pram was slightly difficult to figure out how to attach but since then it's very easy. The latches that lock the stroller upright are very solid and appear to be nearly impossible to accidently fold down during play unlike the $8.99 piece of junk umbrella stroller sold at the store that unfolds just looking at it. The best thing about this stroller is that it has soft QUIET rubber wheels unlike the hard plastic wheels on the junk sold at the store. If you have hard wood floors you will really appreciate this stroller. The pram is currently being used as a "crib" as my daughter is not tall enough to see over the top of it. She enjoys pushing her baby dolls around, swapping them in and out, and putting them down for their naps in the pram. She also gets a kick out of pointing to the Mutsy Urban Rider Joey she rides in and saying 'Daddy' and pointing to her Badger and saying 'MINE'. The quality of this stroller is amazing and the deal at TRU was awesome as I've seen this stroller on other sites for $60+. Don't waste your money on the junk sold at the store.
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I bought this for my niece for Christmas and she absolutely loves it! It is much bigger than I thought it would be which is good because she can use it for many years!!!
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My daughter loves this pram. It's even nicer than it looked in the pictures.
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Lobster report cards
Question: Why do lobster report cards run calendar year (January to December) instead of from the beginning of the season to the end (October to March)? It seems it would be less labor-intensive and more accurate to receive landing data once a year rather than twice a year, and you wouldn't be charging fishermen double to be able to fish the full season.
Answer: Lobster report cards run calendar year because they have been linked to fishing licenses, which have always run calendar year. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is not "charging double" because a report card purchased in early January can be used for the last 2-1/2 months of one lobster season, and the first three months of the next lobster season.
However, your question is timely. The Fish and Game Commission is considering changing lobster report cards to run through the season beginning in October with the 2013-14 lobster season. This is possible with the recent implementation of the Automated License Data System. Under the proposal, the new deadline for the return of seasonal lobster report cards would be April 30. Anyone who fails to return or is late returning his or her report card by the deadline will be charged a $20 non-return fee when purchasing a lobster report card for the following season. Details and full language of the regulation change proposal are posted at fgc.ca.gov/regulations/2013. If you'd like to provide comments to the Fish and Game Commission, the deadline is March 5 and you can do so by email at fgc.ca.gov/contact.
One of the main reasons for the institution of a report card was to determine the number of sport fishermen who target lobster and the number of lobsters that are being taken. Nearly 30,000 lobster report cards were sold each year from 2008 to 2011, and more than 37,000 cards were sold in 2012. By contrast, there are about 150 active commercial lobster fishermen. CDFW is mandated by state law to manage the lobster resource, which includes both the commercial and recreational lobster fisheries.
CDFW is currently developing a Lobster Fishery Management Plan. Details are at dfg.ca.gov/marine/lobsterfmp.
For lobster report card data summaries, visit http://bit.ly/XGZnth.
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Question: I work for a Southern California county lake and saw a new rig that is being sold in stores known as the "Alabama rig." It consists of a setup where you can clip three to five lures onto a swivel-type attachment to make it appear like a school of bait fish. I try to stay current with the state freshwater regulations so I can keep fishermen informed as well. I remember seeing in the current state freshwater regulations that there is a maximum two-hook setup per line. Are these "rigs" legal to use? I would greatly appreciate your answer.
—Matt T.
Answer: Yes, an Alabama rig may be used, but only when modified to use no more than three hooks. When the Alabama rig is configured to comply with California law, many call it a California rig. See a previous entry on Alabama rigs from this column at http://bit.ly/Wfsd1F.
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Question: Unless laws change by the time the season opens, will I be able to hunt deer in California with a .223-caliber AR 15?
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Answer: Fish and Game hunting laws authorize using any firearm rifle using centerfire cartridges for taking deer, as long as the firearm is otherwise legal to possess in California. Although the caliber is legal, the .223 round is considered by most big game hunters to be too small for the take of deer.
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Answer: Yes and no. If those birds or mammals are found in the wild in California, the sale or purchase of those animals, and/or their parts, is prohibited (Fish and Game Code, section 3039). If the items you have are made from species of deer not found in California (e.g., white-tailed deer, caribou, reindeer, etc.), then you may sell them. Only black-tail and mule deer occur naturally in California. However, shed antlers or antlers taken from domestically reared animals that have been manufactured into products or handcraft items, or that have been cut into blocks or units which are to be handcrafted, may be purchased or sold.
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Taking fooding to another universe! Chef/owner Grant Achatz comes to your table after your 20-course sampling menu to awe diners with the intriciate, detail-oriented dessert. Before I die, I will make my way to Chicago to bask in the aura of the Jackson Pollock of food.
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