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"We are thrilled to have RevMark™ and their donations as part of our Habitat For Humanity here in Tennessee"
Garwood, New Jersey (PRWEB) May 04, 2016
RevMark™, The QuickDraw Marker, announced today that Joe Gannascoli (Vito from the Sopranos) will be their new spokesman. Together they will be exhibiting RevMark, The QuickDraw Marker in booth #8660 at The National Hardware Show in Las Vegas May 4th-6th. "I am amazed by this product and can't wait for the Vegas Show" says Gannascoli of the Sopranos.
Developed by a contractor, the RevMark™ has a patented reverse clip cap that attaches to your belt or slides into your pocket. There is no more searching for your marker, losing your cap, putting down your project to open your marker or using your teeth to take off the cap. With one hand you can take off the cap, make your mark and slide it back in place right at your side. The RevMark is manufactured by Pen Company of America in Garwood, NJ http://www.pencoamerica.com.
RevMark™ is now a proud supporter of Habitat for Humanity. By donating markers to the workers on numerous building sites across the country, RevMark™ is establishing the brand as one that is not only innovative, but committed to making a difference. "We are thrilled to have RevMark™ and their donations as part of our Habitat For Humanity here in Tennessee" said a volunteer of Habitat. In addition to contributing to Habitat for Humanity, RevMark™ had a prominent presence in the ARCA series and NASCAR and Race Weekend at the 2016 Daytona 500. RevMark™ sponsored 4 cars in the ARCA Series as well as sponsored the Lira Motorsports NASCAR Camping World Truck.
About the National Hardware Show
The National Hardware Show celebrates a rich history spanning 71 years of serving the home improvement marketplace. From its early beginnings in New York during the post-World War II housing boom and eventual move to Chicago in the 1970s, to today's current location in Las Vegas, the National Hardware Show continually evolves through the industry's involvement, commitment and passion to improving America's quality of life through their homes. Today, the National Hardware Show is the place for global manufacturers, associations, organizations and the media to unveil their new products, ideas and insight to a broad spectrum of home improvement resellers. For more information on the National Hardware Show, visit http://www.nationalhardwareshow.com.
About Pen Company of America
Pen Company of America is run by the Shea family, with all products molded, assembled and decorated in their Garwood, NJ facility. The Shea family has been manufacturing writing instruments in the United States since 1924. With over 100 million pen and marker components produced annually, PCA products are sold into multiple industries including government, advertising specialties, medical supply distributors, retail outlets and much more.
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You see, I teach a lot of freshmen, first year college students. As in, they were just in high school in May, and then show up in my college class in August.
So I'm thinking now about how I can better help the freshmen I teach in Intro to Education understand the difference in expectations for their learning from high school to college. Because if I'm going to expect them to be dramatically different learners than they were in high school, they need to understand the difference.
We (college faculty) sometimes say things like, "You aren't in high school anymore!" I think this is meant to inspire/shock/encourage/scare freshmen into understanding that there is a significant difference in expectation for the level of work that is expected for learning in college. Specifically, they need to be more self-directed, and listen closely, and think deeply, and synthesize things without someone necessarily laying out bite-sized pieces in a tidy trail of thinking.
And, really, this is what I want from my college students. They aren't in high school anymore. The work should be substantially more demanding. They will have to learn to approach learning differently--perhaps dramatically differently than they did in high school.
In the "Message to My Freshman Students" I've linked above, the author goes out of his way to make it clear that he believes that college students have to become acculturated to their new environment, very much like integrating into "another country, one with different culture and values." And I agree with that sentiment. But I am also thinking about my role in helping them make this transition.
I mean, really...when they come into my classroom at the end of August, they are expected to suddenly, immediately exhibit this new way of thinking, right? When just three months ago, they had to ask permission to use the bathroom. Talk about a shift in culture!
So, my question to you all...how can I help my first-year students make a good, healthy, mindful transition into the expectations of "college learning?" How do we welcome these immigrants into a new culture?
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By Joan Porter
A heartbreaking letter dated March 1916 enclosing a diamond ring found by a dealer in a Victorian chest of drawers he bought at a recent IACF Shepton Mallet fair has sparked an intriguing search.
The hunt is on to find the identity of George, the writer, and Eileen, the recipient. His letter was found in a locked drawer. Written in pencil on now faded paper, he tells Eileen that he is enclosing his grandmother's ring "as a promise to you that I will come back and one day marry you".


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|me in my junior year of college
Anyway, anybody (local) going to Hennesey's tonight? If you are, would you have a beer for me and touch the Vic's sign too? Thanks!
Debbie's "The Best You Ever Did Taste" Cornbread
1 cup flour
1 cup yellow cornmeal
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons baking powder
1 (15 ounce) can creamed corn
4-6 ounces chopped green chilies (from a can)
1 cup butter (that's right, ONE CUP! guess it should be called corncake, not bread)
1 1/8 cup sugar (again, corncake.)
1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
1/2 cup shredded monterey jack cheese
4 eggs
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
Preheat oven and a 12 inch cast iron skillet at 300 degrees.
Mix flour, cornmeal, salt, baking powder and set aside. Melt butter and combine with sugar, corn, and chilies. Mix to combine. Add eggs, one at a time, and mix until well blended. Add cheeses and fold in flour mixture until mixed well. (Lumps are okay.) Remove skillet from oven and evenly coat with oil. Pour in batter. Bake 1 hour or until done.
Now you are asking yourselves "Why is she posting this recipe here? Makes no sense." But that's where you'd be wrong. Because baking this bread IS what I'm doing the night before Thanksgiving. And actually I should be making it the night before the night before Thanksgiving. Or even the night before that, because this really should sit out for a few days before using it to make the most incredibly scrumptious sausage-cornbread stuffing you ever did taste. I'll be posting that recipe on Friday for Pretty Mommy's Holiday Recipe Exchange. You can make it for that other holiday, you know, the one we've all already started indulging in.


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Seasonal-Come stay in this second floor Veranda Barrington model condo with a great view of the 14th hole within Heritage Oaks Golf and Country Club. Well appointed, Wi-Fi, cable television, flat screen televisions in living room and bedrooms. Gated, private golf course community. Five heated pools, fitness center, tennis, restaurants. Heritage Oaks Golf and Country Club has a mandatory registration membership transfer fee of $200 (November through April) or $50 (May through October), upon arrival they will set up a reserve with you of $500 (charged to your credit card) for you to utilize all the amenities of Heritage Oaks. Membership entitles the guest to use the golf course, driving range, tennis, swimming pools, fitness center, restaurant, social and other facilities of the country club. Additional Golf fees apply.
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text: James H. Roughton Jr., 60, 6507 Merriewood Drive, Orlando, died Monday. Born in Kinston, Ala., he moved to Orlando from St. Petersburg in 1980. He was a retired manager of field engineering for a business equipment manufacturer and a member of Hiawassa Bible Chapel. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. Survivors: wife, Hazel; son, James H. III, Orlando; daughters, Susan R. Mikell, McComb, Miss., Brenda R. Englade, Pearl River, La., Dana R. Williams, St. Petersburg; sisters, Betty Johnson, Columbus, Ga., Jynean Baker, Gambrills, Md.; brother, William A., Columbus; 10 grandchildren. Woodlawn Funeral Home, Orlando.


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I first had the idea of setting up a youth employment charity in 2008, and it all seemed so simple then. I wanted to harness the success of Britain's creative industries to help get young people off the dole and into work. As the economy collapsed, I was inspired by the cultural projects of the Roosevelt-era that helped the early careers of a generation of American artists. I hoped that by putting young people into creative jobs, we might find the next generation of Jackson Pollocks, Saul Bellows and Orson Welleses. Give me another 10 years and I will tell you whether we have succeeded.
In a small charity like ours, it is easy to get distracted from the job you set out to do in the first place. When survival depends on chasing the next contract or donation or grant, a kind of charitable mission creep can sometimes set in. This is a particular problem for specialist welfare-to-work charities, which can end up chasing so-called outcome payments, for getting people into jobs, at the expense of their core principles. It demands a steely discipline to keep to that founding vision, but also a degree of flexibility to ensure that you are still helping people make their lives better. We specialise in getting people into jobs in theatres, arts centres and film companies, but what happens when we meet someone at a jobcentre who desperately wants to work in childcare? The answer, of course, is that we find them a job in childcare.
In these difficult times we have been forced to diversify and I am proud of our work to end the practice of unpaid internships in the arts and of setting up the first apprenticeships in MPs offices through our Parliamentary Academy scheme.
But creating jobs in the creative industries is what we are passionate about – and making those jobs available to as wide a talent pool as possible. Earlier this month we heard that we would be working on the Arts Council's £15m Creative Employment Programme, which will put 6,500 trainees, apprentices and paid interns into work over the next two years. In collaboration with the sector skills council, Creative and Cultural Skills, we will be running the Creative Academy, a series of regional workshops and networking events for the young people involved to prepare them for working life. We hope to hold our first event in the North East in autumn, followed by the other regions over the course of the next year.
We are also delighted that the scheme has adopted our fair access principle, which commits organisations to good employment practices, including paying all interns. We advocate paying at least the national minimum wage and the living wage where possible. This is an important example of how pioneering the arts can be and, if it works, there is no reason the fair access principle couldn't be built into all government procurement. In future, no arts organisation that employs unpaid interns should receive Arts Council money and the same should apply to all government contractors.
The Creative Employment Programme demonstrates how enlightened public-sector institutions working closely with arts organisations, charities, local councils and private-sector employers can confront a real social problem and provide new ways to tackle it.
The real test, as ever, will come with the delivery of the scheme. But if enough employers sign up, the Creative Employment Programme will provide a challenging alternative model of work creation for any future government to consider.
Martin Bright is the founder of The Creative Society, thecreativesociety.co.uk


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Mum, don't look so surprised! Avert your gaze, as this entry is about you.
More than a year ago, I began to write this blog. Only many months ago did I tell you about it. It was a shock to both of us – me writing and you reading it. Ironically, I have no words to properly describe your influence on me.
Only to say, I could not be sharing these thoughts openly…about you…without your support!
Happy Mother's Day! Love your Big son.
p.s. Sorry about the picture. You are bigger than life, though.
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Contributed by the Design Theory and Methodology Committee of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN. Manuscript received June 4, 2014; final manuscript received March 23, 2015; published online June 8, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Irem Y. Tumer.
The purpose of this study is to begin to explore which function identification methods work best for specific tasks. We use a three-level within-subject study (n = 78) to compare three strategies for identifying functions: energy-flow, top-down, and enumeration. These are tested in a product dissection task with student engineers who have minimal prior experience. Participants were asked to dissect a hair dryer, power drill, and toy dart gun and generate function trees to describe how these work. The function trees were evaluated with several metrics including the total number of functions generated, the number of syntactical errors, and the number of unique (relevant and nonredundant) functions. We found no statistical, practical, or qualitative difference between the trees produced by each method. This suggests that the cognitive load for this task for novices is high enough to obscure any real differences between methods. We also found some generalized findings through surveys that the most difficult aspects of using functional decomposition include identifying functions, choosing function verbs, and drawing the diagram. Together, this may also mean that for novice engineers, the method does not matter as much as core concepts such as identifying functions and structuring function diagrams. This also indicates that any function identification method may be used as a baseline for comparison between novices in future studies.
A hair dryer, power drill, and toy dart gun
The pair of GDs (AGD and MGD) is still lower for the flatter trees even when one of the two is the same
The pair of GD metrics (AGD and MGD) is lower for the flat tree than for the bushy tree, even when the number of tree levels is the same. This approach is also robust to nonhierarchy diagrams.
These three function trees are digitized submissions of raw data collected from three participants. All three of these trees are for the toy dart gun, but each tree is generated using a different function identification strategy.
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I don't always venture to Jamaica Plain, but when I do, we brunch! Our friends who live in JP showed us this adorable local spot called Canary Square. Here we dined on traditional American food, over wooden tables and surrounded by brick walls and chalkboards. They even have Sunday Movie Nights, which sound so fun!
My scrambled egg plate was delicious, though they were overly generous with the salt on the potatoes - especially since I always top mine off with salt-filled ketchup anyway!
The burger was good too, though again you can see how much salt they put on the fries! Next time we might ask to hold off on that extra salt.
Some may find one drawback of Canary Square to be the noise level. It's a family neighborhood, so don't be surprised by children running around and jumping on nearby benches. If you can get past that and some excess salt on your potatoes, you'll be in for a treat!


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News >> Browse Articles >> Federal Agencies
White House Push to Reduce Contractors At Odds With Expanding Role of Agencies
OMB Director Peter Orszag
Robert Brodsky | Government Executive Magazine
November 12, 2009
Within his first few months in office, President Obama signed the largest economic recovery package in a generation, significantly boosted government assistance to banks and auto manufacturers, and augmented the role of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. No matter your political affiliation, it is undeniable that these policies have expanded the missions of federal agencies, and by proxy, those of government contractors. History has shown that when the responsibilities of the federal government intensify — from the growth of Medicare to the creation of the Homeland Security Department — agencies must turn to the private sector for assistance. The result has been a steady uptick in procurement spending.
But the administration is vowing to buck that trend. In July, the Office of Management and Budget unveiled a bold vision for reshaping, and ultimately reducing, government's dependence on contractors. The guidance, authored by OMB Director Peter R. Orszag, calls for agencies to save 7 percent from their baseline contract spending — 3.5 percent in fiscal 2010 and another 3.5 percent the year after.
Agencies also must reduce by 10 percent their use of high-risk procurements, including sole-source, cost-reimbursement and time-and- materials contracts. OMB expects these reforms to save $40 billion annually.
While Orszag offered ideas for maximizing savings — consolidated purchasing, better market analysis and enhanced upfront planning — agencies are left to determine the best approach. "We are telling them that it's the time to be innovative and to take some smart risks with trying to do things a bit differently to get better performance," says Jeff Liebman, executive associate director at OMB.
Skeptics see the administration's metrics as unequivocally arbitrary and its goals as unrealistic. "When you say you are going to cut contractors it means one of two things: you are either increasing the size of the government in terms of personnel, or you are going to provide less services," says Steven L. Schooner, associate professor of law and co-director of the government procurement law program at The George Washington University Law School. "And, neither one is an option right now."
In the November issue of Government Executive, Robert Brodsky explores the administration's moves toward contracting cuts. Click here to read the full story.


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Electroencephalography/Event Related Potentials (EEG/ERP) Laboratory
ERP Head lab: Shahrzad Mazhari, MD (psychiatrist); PhD
Research manager: Ali Mohammad Pourrahimi; PhD
The KNRC ERP lab was established in 2011 and has continued its activities till now. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) are a non-invasive method of measuring brain activity during cognitive processing. The transient electric potential shifts (so-called ERP components) are time-locked to the stimulus onset (e.g., the presentation of a word, a sound, or an image). Each component reflects brain activation associated with one or more mental operations. In contrast to behavioral measures such as error rates and response times, ERPs are characterized by simultaneous multi-dimensional online measures of polarity (negative or positive potentials), amplitude, latency, and scalp distribution. Therefore, ERPs can be used to distinguish and identify psychological and neural sub-processes involved in complex cognitive, motor, or perceptual tasks.
We focus on the use of ERPs in several research areas, including: 1) Attention, memory, language, and executive control 2) Schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders 3) Multiple Sclerosis
Selected Recent Publications:
1. Vafaii, P., Mazhari, S., Pourrahimi, AM., Nakhaee, N. Hemispheric differences for visual P3 amplitude in patients with schizophrenia. Neuropsychitry, 2016, 308-313.
2. Pourrahimi, AM., Mazhari, S., Shabani, M., Tabrizi, YM., Sheibani V. Numerical distance effect in patients with schizophrenia. Neuroscience letters. 2016; 617:1-5.
3. Mazhari, S., Moghadas Tabrizi, Y., Ghafari-Nejad, A. Neural Evidence for Compromised Mental Imagery in Individuals With Chronic Schizophrenia. Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 2015; 27(2): 127-132.
4. Pourrahimi AM, Mazhari S, Shabani M, Sheibani V. An evidence for lack of pseudoneglect in patients with schizophrenia: An ERP study. Neuroscience Letters, 2014, 561:96-100.
5. Mazhari S, Moghadas Tabrizi Y. Abnormalities of mental rotation of hands associated with speed of information processing and executive function in chronic schizophrenic patients. Psychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences, 2014, 68, 410-417.
6. Tabrizi YM, Mazhari S, Nazari MA, Zangiabadi N, Sheibani V, Azarang S. Compromised motor imagery ability in individuals with multiplesclerosis and mild physical disability: An ERP study. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2013و 115 (9): 1738-1744.


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For our most recent project, we learned about a French artist named
He was a painter who also created artwork using a technique called
"carving in color".
Matisse perfected this idea of cutting and layering painted papers into interesting compositions in his later years.
We based our project on the painting of his shown below called
The Beasts of the Sea.
The Beasts of the Sea
Henri Matisse
Like Matisse, we started our project by painting many sheets of white paper in a variety of bright, bold colors.
Next, we each cut smaller SQUARES and RECTANGLES from the painted paper and glued them onto a tall piece of white paper. We OVERLAPPED the shapes carefully leaving a BORDER of white around all sides.
Then, we cut out some "silly shapes" (shapes from our imagination that have no names) from the painted paper and layered them onto our colorful squares and rectangles.
We saved our smallest silly shapes for finishing touches on the last (top) layer.
We had to be very careful while gluing so the wet glue didn't "lift" the paint from the paper.
We had to make sure we were layering colors different from those we had already used.
The finished pieces have a beautiful long shape
and are most colorful!
In addition to the sampling of individual paintings shown below, each class also painted a larger than life Matisse style mural which hang from the ceiling near the teacher's mailboxes.
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CHATHAM, NJ - The School District of the Chathams has sent out a notification to inform parents that a second case of Pertussis, more commonly known as "Whooping Cough" has been contracted by a student at Chatham High School.
The first case of the highly contagious "Whooping Cough" had been reported by Dr. LaSusa at the Chatham Board of Education meeting on Sept. 12.
A portion of the letter sent out by Superintendent Dr. Michael LaSusa is published below:
Dear Parent/Guardian:
I am writing to make you aware that we have had a second confirmed case of pertussis (whooping cough) identified in one of our students at Chatham High School. This student, who was fully immunized, is receiving appropriate antibiotic treatment. We bring this to your attention so that you may take extra precautions on behalf of your children and the rest of our community--closely monitoring the health of your children and seeking medical treatment for persistent coughing and other symptoms that are detailed in this letter.
The fall is a time when colds and allergies result in the development of symptoms which could be considered typical for this season. In light of the information we received about the presence of pertussis in our community, we join our local health department in asking for your extra vigilance in seeking medical attention for lingering coughs, which might otherwise seem to be "normal" for this time of year. Pertussis can be a serious threat to the health and safety of the community, most notably infants and young children.
We appreciate your assistance in containing its spread through careful monitoring of your child's health, by close medical supervision and by keeping sick students home. Pertussis is a highly contagious disease that is spread through the air by a cough or a sneeze. Pertussis begins with cold symptoms and a cough, which become much worse over 1-2 weeks. Symptoms usually include a long series of coughing fits followed by a whooping noise. However, older children, adults and very young infants may not develop the whoop.
There is generally only a slight fever. People with pertussis may have a series of severe coughing fits followed immediately by vomiting, turning blue, or difficulty catching breath. The cough is often worse at night, and cough medicines usually do not help alleviate the cough. If your child has been around someone with pertussis, s/he might become sick with the disease. This is especially true if your child is not up-to-date with his/her pertussis vaccine shots. Even if your child's shots are up-to-date, s/he might still get pertussis. If your child has been in contact with someone with pertussis, antibiotics prescribed by your doctor may prevent him/her from becoming ill. If your child is already sick, giving antibiotics early can help your child get well faster and lower the chances of spreading the disease to others.


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Released: 2007
Country: USA
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2006 full length release from the improvising guitar duo of Roberto and Maurizio Opalia, recorded at MCIAA's Alien Zone, located in a remote region of the Western Alps, Piemonte, Italy.
"For MCIAA to make art means to risk daring the unknown, daring the listener himself to excel his own limits of perception of the work of art in music, without losing anything of their unique and unmistakable style. [...] Recorded in their secret recording-space up on the Western Alps of Piedmont, Italy, during the trespassing from dusk to the beginning of the night, the work lives of the same dark magic of the Wagnerian post-romantic ouvertures, suspended between the deepest silence and the most deflagrating sonic attack. Light/Darkness, noise/silence, permeated by Roberto Opalio's suffering vocal tunes, which defines and underlines the edge of the work. After the cacophonic and free implosion of the nucleus of the initials 30 minutes, 25 minutes of painful silence follow, sounding like the last whisper before the final end: angels' chorus and ectoplasmatic presences float on Maurizio Opalio's crystal-clear guitar strings. It's the Cosmic Blues of the III Millennium which penetrates into the soul, leaving indelible signs."-Important Records
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Baruch College Students Participate in
Target Corporation Case Study Competition
NEW YORK, NY- December 11, 2013 - A group of Baruch College students applied their marketing knowledge and creativity to earn $2,000 from the Target Corporation as part of the Target Case Study Competition during the 2013-2014 fall semester. The winners were announced December 9.
Students from the marketing class co-taught by Adjunct Professors Barry Soloff and Anthony Perrotto were given the opportunity to participate in the competition, which is presented to various colleges throughout the United States. This is the second time Baruch has participated in the competition. The winning team members are: Yejee Lee, Junior, Marketing major; Zun Phyu, Junior, Marketing major; Elena Popovski, Senior, Marketing Management major; Kareem Thompson, Senior, Corporate Communication major; Camille Venturina, Senior, Marketing Management major; and Chad Vincent, Junior, Digital Marketing major.
Minneapolis-based Target Corporation serves guests at more than 1,700 stores in 49 states nationwide. Since 1946, the corporation has given 5 percent of its income to communities through grants and a variety of programs like Take Charge of Education. Today, that giving equals more than $3 million a week, largely directed towards supporting education. As part of this, they donate to colleges throughout the country and offer selected ones the opportunity to participate in the nationwide Target Case Study Competition.
Each college that chooses to participate in the case study selects one case to work on during the semester. As one of the most culturally diverse colleges in the United States, it was decided that Baruch would work on a case focusing on connecting with multicultural shoppers.
The case objectives were to better understand the larger than average size and rapidly growing multicultural shopper segment and propose marketing strategies (product, advertising and marketing communications, etc.). The challenge focused on how to better attract and "delight" the multi-cultural segment so that they view Target as the best U.S. retailer to execute multi-cultural merchandising initiatives.
The students were broken up into teams to prepare for the competition by attending a kickoff meeting with Target executives; store visits to the Brooklyn/Barclay Center; analysis and preparation for presentation; and question and answer with Target executives. All 13 teams made semi-final presentations about the case study, and the top four teams presented to Target executives.
"The target competition allowed me to challenge myself and gain real experience," said Kareem Thompson, a senior. "This was so much fun I was able to think outside the box and use my creativity. I had a great time working with my team. We all worked extremely hard and I am proud of our accomplishment."
"The Target case study was a great opportunity to showcase our ideas and provide ways to help target alleviate its current struggle," said Vanessa Aguilar, a senior Marketing Management major, minoring in Communications. "As a student, the feeling that your ideas were thought as feasible, achievable and innovative is a great achievement in itself."
About Baruch College:
Baruch College is a senior college in the City University of New York (CUNY) with a total enrollment of more than 17,000 students, who represent 160 countries and speak more than 100 languages. Ranked among the top 15% of U.S. colleges and the No. 5 public regional university, Baruch College is regularly recognized as among the most ethnically diverse colleges in the country. As a public institution with a tradition of academic excellence, Baruch College offers accessibility and opportunity for students from every corner of New York City and from around the world. For more about Baruch College, go to http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/.
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AKA a better way to choose your advisers
Every few years or so, I need a bit of building work done on my house. I know I can't do it myself so I call in an expert. I might be spending significant amounts and I have to live with the results, so I want to choose wisely. How do I go about doing this?
I'll probably google what I want doing, find someone who looks professional and experienced, and has examples of doing similar work well (ideally with client testimonies that I can see or follow up). I'll ask them to pop round, get their views on what I'm planning, see if they can suggest any improvements and ask them for a quote.
What I don't do is send out a 100 question RfP asking them about their company history and their approach to plastering walls, score their answers, ask them to send through a PowerPoint presentation and interview them (I might meet the MD but not the guys who will actually be doing the work – they'd never be let near a client until they've signed up).
I'll assume anyone I see can technically do the job – what I'm really looking for is evidence of how they can assess my requirements, deal there and then with my queries and suggest better ways of doing it. So long as the fees seem reasonable, they've got the job.
And yet…is my situation really that different to when Trustees are looking for new advisors?
OK, I accept my analogy is not perfect. As a Trustee I'm looking for someone for the long term, not a short term project. Perhaps a better analogy is finding a builder to go on a retainer for my portfolio of buy to let properties (I wish). So I do need to know we can work together and there is a good cultural fit and level of trust between us.
However, I do still have a real concern that the tried and tested approach is failing everyone, and that Trustees are not ending up with the best advisers for their situation. There are a number of reasons for saying this:
So what might an alternative approach entail? My suggestions include:
I honestly think this approach adds no more time for Trustees, and probably involves less time overall. I can tell you the bidders will be weeping with joy at being able to genuinely show what they can do for you. To be clear, there is still a role for independent advisers to help identify candidates, check the hygiene factors of the firms involved and sit in on the discussion if required – in fact, that may keep the presenters "honest". And you will probably get more out of their involvement as a result.
Builders and actuaries – we're just the same really!


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Former Clark County Commissioner, State Senator Speak Out In Favor Of Laughlin Incorporation
CARSON CITY – Supporters of making Laughlin the state's newest incorporated city have sent out YouTube messages favoring the move by former Clark County Commissioner Bruce Woodbury and state Sen. Joe Hardy, R-Boulder City.
Early voting is under way for the June 12 primary, which includes the incorporation question for the community on the Colorado River 90 miles south of Las Vegas.
In his YouTube message, Woodbury said Clark County oversight of the area just doesn't work being so many miles away. The county's existing small cities, Boulder City and Mesquite, are both doing well with quality services and low taxes, he said.
"There will be plenty of time after the vote to work things out with the county and the state on revenues and the transfer of services," he said.
In his message, Hardy said Laughlin voters have nothing to fear in supporting incorporation.
"You lose nothing by voting yes, as before the Legislature will allow the incorporation to occur, it will have to be assured that the new city will not only just survive, but have the potential to thrive," he said.
In sending out the messages of support to Laughlin voters, Dave Floodman, an incorporation proponent and president of the Laughlin Economic Development Corporation, said opponents are using "fear and innuendo" to win support for their position.
"Please make sure that your families, friends, and neighbors understand that there is no risk in voting 'yes,' " he said. "The only risk is to bloated county government spending and the ineffective administration of our community."
Incorporation opponents could not immediately be reached for comment.
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This simply means doing therapy while in a relaxed, hypnotic state, to help create new positive responses. At the simplest level, this can involve suggestion work, anchoring peak performance states,and rehearsing desired outcomes. and is highly effective for stopping smoking, exam nerves, relaxed childbirth, fear of flying, weight loss, pain control, driving nerves etc.Other approaches can involve hypno-healing, parts integration to deal with inner conflict, and investigating the reason for a certain behaviour.
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Hinge is the new dating app at your fingertips. Is it the anti-Tinder, or is it just more of the same?
When something claims to be the new anything, it sends up a red flag. Once in a technological blue moon, however, something comes along that just might be better than the original. Remember when Facebook was the new MySpace?
Meet Hinge, the new dating app that's just launched in Sydney. Like Tinder, it imports your data from Facebook and employs the familiar swipe right for yes, left for no functionality, but it has a few key updates on the format. (Try Hinge for yourself here.)
What's new in Hinge that Tinder doesn't have?
- Hinge shows your potential date's occupation, location, and mutual Facebook friends. This data is taken straight from your Facebook account, so if your location is set to 'Sydney', Hinge will display Sydney, regardless of whether your match is five minutes away or fifty. Occupation is intriguing – like it or not, it's a factor on how we read people and size up potential dates, so knowing someone's place of employment generates more trust than Tinder. Displaying your mutual Facebook friends? Good, bad, or just plain awkward, depending on who the mutual friend is. Moving on.
- You can select tags to tell the world who you are, and match you to potential dates. Tags range from mundane interests like Foodie or World traveler, move to practical in Smoker or Vegan, and then hit downright bizarre at Zombie Survivalist and Secret Agent. I decide I'm definitely a Secret Agent.
- You can list ideal date spots, in case you're on to a winner. And if you match with someone with similar first date ideas to you, Hinge will helpfully suggest it – "You're both up for drinks!". Being up-front about your ideal scenario is also another way to judge and/or match with people. Drinks sounds like an excellent first date plan, brunch might be too much commitment for a first date, and a trip to the museum screams of pretentious wank.
All of this makes one thing very clear: Hinge is for dating, not hook-ups.
That's pretty obvious from the get-go. While Tinder claims to have 350 million swipes per day, it's viewed by the general public as a game. It's why "We met on Tinder" relationship stories get such a reaction – no one really believed it would happen.
Let's take a quick look at Tinder and Hinge:
The good:
- Easy to use. Tinder's functionality is superior to most other apps on the marketplace, let alone dating apps. And regardless of what other apps copy it, the swipe left / swipe right will always be Tinder's.
- Number of users. Tinder doesn't reveal user count, but it's safe to say it's in the millions. If looking for love is a numbers game, Tinder wins in sheer volume alone.
- It shows you mutual Facebook friends and likes. Bonus points if you like lots of the same things and have a few, cool mutual friends. Less so when your only match in common is a Facebook page you liked three years ago as a favour and have since forgotten about.
- You can upload new photos to your profile. Currently, this feature isn't available on Hinge.
- Dick pics. It's your number one place on the internet to get personalised dick pics from complete strangers. (If you haven't realised this is satire, please GTFO.)
The good:
- Hinge learns what you (and others) like, and uses that information to suggest better matches. They use a matching algorithm to find out if you tend to like fellow animal lovers, or if professionals working in the city prefer a first date to be drinks instead of coffee. Creepy? Clever? You decide.
- You can undo accidental passes. Passed on someone you meant to say yes to? Hinge lets you undo your mistake, a service Tinder currently charges for as part of it's Tinder Plus service.
- You can see degrees of connection, and you'll always be matched by one Facebook friend. Hinge takes the traditional concept of meeting new people through mutual friends into the mobile world. In order to even stumble across someone's profile on Hinge, you must have at least one mutual Facebook friend. You'll even be able to see your third degrees of separation – that is, which of your friends are friends with their friends.
- You have more ways to filter people before you make a match. Not interested in dating someone still at university? Don't swipe right. You don't have to muddle your way through an awkward conversation before you find out the 28-year-old cutie is actually on five-year unemployment streak, and only in Sydney till tomorrow.
The bad:
- Tinder is a game to most people. Tinder even invites you to "keep playing". Swiping left and right on potential hookups is a fun way to cure boredom, but there must be a huge percentage of people who never take it any further than that.
- It's Tinder. How many relationships do you know that began with "It started on Tinder"? Exactly. There are exceptions to the rule of course, but they make up the minority.
- There are very few ways to filter someone before you match. You'll make a snap second judgement based on a person's profile picture, and maybe a few more judgements based on the rest of their photos. If you're looking for love, you'll be wading through dozens of sub-par conversations first.
- Jason Derulo. He will keep popping up like a bad cold. You can match to hear his new track, or swipe left to delete. I have a theory that if you swipe right once, you won't see his face again, so better to get it over with.
The bad:
- Smaller sea, less fish. Not only does Hinge have far less users than Tinder, but the absolute requirement of at least one mutual friend severely limits your dating pool. I exhausted my list of potential matches in less than three minutes.
- "Servers are busy!" While researching this article, I came across this message a number of times. At the time of writing, the app had just launched in Sydney (with the launch party tonight), so the number of users in Sydney should be at a minimum. This doesn't bode well, but hopefully will be resolved soon.
- The existential crisis that comes with choosing tags. Does health nut count if you're an aspiring health nut? Does simply enjoying going to new restaurants really make me a foodie? And do I have what it takes to be a secret agent?
- Unable to load extra images. Hinge claims to display your last 25 Facebook profile pictures. For me, it's only showing 16. But this is a dog-eat-dog dating world, and if your best pictures were actually Instagrams, then there's no way to change that.
The question is: what are you looking for?
This is basically what it boils down to: Tinder is for hookups, Hinge is for dating. It makes perfect sense that the world of online dating becomes mobile-centric, because everything is going mobile.
We demand information at our fingertips – dating included.
A quick and dirty Hinge vs Tinder
- Most users? Tinder, hands down.
- Highest quality of users? Hinge, probably. At least your matches are likely to be living in the city full time, and therefore more likely to pursue a relationship.
- Functionality of app? Tinder, by a small margin.
- More likely to get a relationship out of a match? Hinge.
- Stickiness? Tinder doesn't release stats, but Hinge says that 85% of people who download Hinge are still active a week later, and 75% a month later.
What do you think of Hinge's use of tags?
The theory goes that Hinge's tags (full list below) are used to better match you to potential partners. The system falls down, however, when you realise that it's infallible. Suppose you swipe left on a number of people purely based on their photo, but by an unlucky coincidence they all happen to be animal lovers. What happens when Hinge starts thinking you simply hate animal lovers? How many awesome people with dogs you can walk together will you be missing out on?
Maybe Hinge should allow users to filter based on interests they don't want. Smoking, for example. Or worse: vegans.
Hinge's tags: identify yourself to the world
- Foodie
- Wine lover
- Beer snob
- World traveler
- Early bird
- Night owl
- Card shark
- Musician
- Illusionist
- Shutterbug
- Theatre goer
- Writer
- Artist
- Film fanatic
- History buff
- Science nerd
- Bookworm
- Country clubber
- After partier
- Dance machine
- Leisure diver
- Sports fan
- Rc league all-star
- Lawn game-champion
- Marathoner
- Cyclist
- Beach bum
- Ski bum
- Adrenaline junkie
- Sailor
- Outdoor adventure
- Zombie survivalist
- Road tripper
- Political junkie
- Satirical news fan
- Armed services member
- Health nut
- Animal lover
- Tree hugger
- Goody two-shoes
- Joker
- Smoker
- Midnight toker
- Overachiever
- Yogi
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
- Die-hard carnivore
- Conflicted omnivore
- Secret agent
Can Hinge capture the interests of a young market?
Sure, meeting people online has lost the stigma that plagued it five years ago, and when Tinder launched in 2012 it shook the whole game up. Suddenly it was cool to have Tinder, instead of a shameful secret.
Hinge actually launched prior to Tinder in 2011 as a web-app. The mobile app was launched in 2013, and a year later raised $12 million in funding to take it to the next level. It's now launched in 38 cities across the globe. Sydney is their first foray into the Australian market, but you can bet it'll be making it's way to Melbourne and more in the near future.
"As long as we can own the dating market for people between the age of X and Y, who are single, there will always be a pool of people," said founder Justin McCloud to Wired. Perhaps by including places of employment, their X and Y will be people who've grown up from Tinder but aren't ready to sign up to OK Cupid. We'll wait and see.
Want to start using Hinge now?
Download it here for free and start swiping to your heart's content.


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The Mega-Merger EditionSlate Money discusses the acquisition of Keurig Green Mountain, Yahoo's struggles, and the merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont.
Death of a Salesman. Of Lots of Them, Actually.The troubling disappearance of salesmen and how it helps explain America's economic woes.
America's Hidden Welfare ProgramSocial Security's disability insurance is expensive, destructive, and out of control.
The Republican Spending AddictionEven if the GOP believed in its Pledge to America, it wouldn't touch the biggest parts of the federal budget.


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Those good people at Friction TV sent us this video of Saturday night's drinking party on the tube. Our Nice Liz's experience was "safe and fun". This footage shows another side to the evening.
We didn't even make it onto the tube because we were tardy and the stations were shut by the time we rocked up with a bottle of wine and our party frocks. Were you there? What was your experience?


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University of Wisconsin officials scrambled Friday to respond to an apparent growing breakout of norovirus on and near campus.
Though the official tally remains at 63 cases — all within the 1,100-person Sellery Hall — the virus seems to have spread to several Greek houses and off-campus apartment buildings, including Statesider apartments.
"There may be some scattered cases … in off-campus housing and a couple of other Lakeshore dorms," said University Health Services spokesperson Mary Makarushka. "But there are no cases that are as clearly linked as the ones in Sellery."
The virus is commonly mistaken as the stomach flu, and symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting, headaches and nausea.
After about 60 members of the Delta Gamma Sorority and nearly a dozen members of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity reported symptoms similar to norovirus, UHS epidemiologist Craig Roberts created an online survey that was forwarded to all Greek members.
All Greeks who have experienced symptoms similar to norovirus are being asked to take the survey. Roberts will then compile the results, which will be treated as confidential medical information.
"He will be gathering that data, and it will give us more information on how widespread this outbreak was and how many of these cases fit the description of norovirus," Makarushka said.
UHS will also be able to conclude if the outbreak actually is norovirus, as has been suspected for about a week.
Delta Gamma President Christine Binkley said in a statement Friday that most of the 60 members who got sick were residents of the Langdon house, though many lived in UW residence halls, where the virus began.
"By the end of the week girls started to feel better," Binkley said. "We did a full sanitation of the house three times concentrating on the kitchen, bathrooms, hallways and common living spaces."
Norovirus can be highly contagious in confined areas and is usually passed through stool-to-mouth contact.
In an e-mail to students Friday, UHS informed students of the apparent outbreak and recommended they use soap and water to wash their hands after using the bathroom and before each meal.
Students who get sick are encouraged to stay hydrated by drinking clear liquids, and if they need medical care, to contact UHS at (608) 265-5600.
Infected students are asked to stay away from work and school to avoid spreading the virus, inform their roommates they are sick and clean their bathrooms frequently with a diluted solution of bleach.
"It's just all about sanitation, the hand-washing, the cleanliness," said Sarah Van Orman, executive director of UHS. "That's really the only way to stop it, and it's really important people just keep that in mind."
Several other schools have been battling norovirus outbreaks this semester, including Georgetown University, the University of Southern California, the University of Arizona and Hope College in Holland, Mich.


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A couple of weeks ago I did a Doggy Party. You may (or may not know) in my "other" life I am a dog trainer. I owned Obedience 101 (hence my email) for 36 years and trained clients and group classes in basic obedience, agility, pack hiking and Rally O. Loved every minute of it. When my mother needed more care, I had to give up some of my things and that was one of them. I still have a few client/friends that I do stuff for. And Doggy Parties is one of the things we all enjoy!
Here are some photos from the party.
DiNozzo was the only one I had there and he is the brown basset boy. There were two schnauzers, two shelties, a couple of mixes and a chihuahua. Chloe the Birthday Girl is the white poodle with the pink toe nails! She turned 10! I did her first one at year 1 nine years ago! Oh My!
Chloe the Poodle's Birthday Party
Thursday, June 19, 2014
It's My Party.......And I'll Bark If I Want To
Posted by QuiltSwissy at 6/19/2014 06:24:00 PM
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How fun. Well naturally I think DiNozzo is the handsomest!ReplyDelete
Looks like a good time had by all. To bad they couldn't be off leash. What a great job being a pet photographer! He looks like he loves it and why wouldn't he :-)ReplyDelete
That Chihuahua looked like a real character! All the dogs looked like they were enjoying themselves.ReplyDelete
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Hi guys,
I have been thinking a lot and debating with some of the members and although response was not optimistic i decided to post a question after all.
Is there any Maglite modders still left interested in incan multi-level regulator?
There is possibility to light up those regulators again but there should be at least interest for them.
I have spoke with Alan and due to minimal or no interest and other obligations, he packed remaining regulators (bits and pieces) in a dark place. Other projects took him away from this piece of incan history.
Basically he could rebuild them, partially, final assembly should be done by end user. If there would be enough people (do not know what number, should be confirmed by Alan) then maybe full assembly and calibration could be done by him (also need to confirm with Alan).
This is just a feeler to see if there is any interest at all, at least to talk him into finishing remaining regulators left or to stop harassing this nice guy.
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Lassiter has three tasks that the investigators must perform to shut the Eye of Yith. The Oracles (three large mirrors on platforms around the room) must be aligned, the Aperture (the hole in the ceiling to another place) must be properly adjusted and the Chant of Closure must be spoken. Lassiter tells them to speak the Chant last as it will attract the Evil Wind. Julius, Inspector Weigand and Rose climb up to the platforms to adjust the oracles and Jehiel Lugo leaps out from behind the large mirror and cuts Rose horribly with a knife. Julius shoots and hits Lugo who is snarling that this find will be his and his alone. The wind swells rapidly after the gunshot. Weigand draws his service revolver and finishes him off, the wind building even more, a strange piping cry heard distantly. Lugo falls to the floor with a loud thump. The blind Lassiter tells them to hurry!
Julius slides the adjustment on the Yaumweh and closes the Aperture down to the correct setting and the rest of the group aligns the Oracles. Martha intones the Chant of Closure (hastily scribbling in some corrections on Lassiter's pronounciation). The wind is roaring at this point but with a blinding, pure white light the Eye of Yith closes. Refusing to leave the wounded Lassiter behind, the party makes its way back up to the light. Julius, falling behind slightly catches a glimpse of something horrific. A giant, unblinking black eye surrounded by tentacles and a cancerous miasma of flesh. Julius feels the eye upon him. Knowing him.
Scrambling out of the obelisk and back up the rig gunshots break out from the camp. Merrick Helmsley, the master's student, has apparently gone insane and begun executing the villagers whose hum has descended in tone. Holding Rose back as she attempts to go to the man, Inspector Weigand peppers the man with a shotgun round dropping him soundly. Dr. Miguez, the Honduran doctor in a coma, has awakened with murderous intent and has begun killing as well though he appears to be held in a stupor. Julius, rattled from his experiences under the Earth, unloads his 1911 into the man. Dr. Miguez does not rise again. They find Dr. Jessica Burnham still cataloguing artifacts. She has clearly taken leave of her senses. Professor Summerfield continues having his double vision of himself writing frantically in Yithian.
Quickly harvesting a fresh eyeball from a recently dead village child, Professor Summerfield begins the ritual to bring them back through time. They arrive, somewhat unexpectedly, on the evening of August 20th, 1921. They can see, across the water, the Caribbean Queen still afloat. Remembering a date mentioned in Professor Smith's Suicide note Julius rushes to the Navy Pier where he meets the enigmatic Albert Walters. He seems genuinely happy to see the group and says it is the last task he must perform before he rests. Julius asks him his task and he replies that he is a shepherd. When queried about the black bird (the Antenna) and why Albert gave it to Julius, Walters responds that it was so Azh' Ghith, the Yith intelligence split between the three original players, could communicate with its peers, the other Great Masters. The Purple Flame was a device used by the Adherents to erase memory but it was also a device used to assay minds that could be useful to the Yith. It was used on children at the Foundation to recruit them as human calculators for the Yith. The machine was also used on Grace to erase her memories. Azh' Ghith returned home through the open Aperture in the Antechamber of the Eye in Honduras. The stars burned into the backs of Grace, Julius, Professor Smith and (slightly later) Richard Monteith were marks from a machine the Ignotus was using to detect Yith minds within the people at the Caribbean Queen. The Ignotus discovered (through the time travels of Dominic Channing) that the Reaping was going to happen and they sought to capture one of the newly arrived Yith to extract the secrets of the universe from it. Through the sabotaging of Robert Wiedman, the columns on the boat were inscribed with sigils (written in Yithian) that would trap the Yith once they arrived. Underestimating their power, some Yith escaped, Azh' Ghith split itself into three pieces and hid in different people to confound the Ignotus and a final intelligence was found in Jane Seymour, the lady who accosted Julius on that fateful night. The Ignotus were going to use this knowledge to allow their dark god, a being called the Reacher, that resides (and burns constantly) under Tremont. With the knowledge they gain they will free the Reacher and the world will end. Albert Walters asks them to prevent this by travelling to Braunschweig, Germany on February 23rd, 1912. They agree and he sends them there. The travel is much less painful.
Arriving in the bitter cold (Walters was nice enough to give them all jackets), they make their way up to the large mansion on the hill. Making their way toward the house, Rose and Julius spot someone moving off in the forest. Rose moves to investigate and the man is Dominic Channing, apparently looped back to watch himself begin a journey he is already upon. He runs off into the forest and disappears. Entering the mansion it is a virtual madhouse. A group of people watch a person convulsing on the floor. There is a large table brimming with drinks that contain various amounts of hallucinogens. A very young Vera Channing is here (currently using her maiden name, Vera Monaghan), convinced that she will marry Dominic (her intuition is correct). She seems much happier in this time then in 1921. They make their way into the Gallery for the maiden voyage of Mr. Channing. In an effort to make a distraction, Professor Summerfield grabs the swirling liquid in a glass phylactery carried by Mr. Channing and begins trying to chant himself through time. He blurs like a painting left out in the rain and disappears. Heavily narcotized, the crowd thinks it's all part of the show and claps. Martha breaks out the fragment of mirror in which she saw movement way back at the Coffin affair. Using it in conjunction with a large mirror, she sees inhuman eyes peering at her from all the corners of the room. Before she can scream they pull her into the mirror and away…
Julius returns to his .45 and during the multiple distractions fires it into the back of Dominic Channing's skull. The entire scene blurs and Julius wakes up to a knock at his door. It is Jane Seymour, again asking for a ride into Chicago. He excuses himself to go get dressed. He remembers a strange and terrible dream that he had. Rose is reading from one of her books when a scream from down the street draws her attention to the window. Professor Summerfield is perusing old texts and documenting his thoughts when he hears a scream as well. Martha and Graham are gleefully leaving a lovely dinner when people pointing up at the sky run past them.
Looking up into the sky they see the stars going out in great numbers leaving behind an impenetrable darkness. It is, they all realize, a giant, unblinking eye that signals the death of all mankind. Despite the horror of the event they all survive to perish slowly in the ashes that follow. Summerfield flits through time, writing furiously in his journal (the Codex he recovered) in Yithian telling his past self to not go through time, to not close the Eye of the Yith and to not kill Dominic Channing. He screams as he realizes his hands are not those of a human. Prior to leaving a time the Yith close the eye down for a later time. It is very much like shutting off the lights when you leave a room. And usually when they leave an apocalypse follows their mass migration.
The Yith have organized this series of events to thwart the Ignotus. THEY are the Great Race. THEY are the ones who will determine when the world shall end. THEY reign supreme over all things that crawl, walk and scuttle upon the earth.
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As Hoppa said, we know it's alpha. These things happen.StilleVande said:
[...]. Sorry everyone, won't happen again.Programmer, designer, artist.0
Okay, it seems as though Minecraft FTB Infinity and Starbound has won!
I have made both gameservers, and they should be accessible now.
Starbound server can be connected via:
starbound.stillevande.com port 21025
Minecraft FTB Infinity Server can be connected to via:
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humm could log into the minecraft server but could not get off the roof and could not break the fence so all i could do was look at the world
can confirm its minecraft looking0
cool thx will now try to break the world muhaha
ops i said that out loud0
well only on one day and my base was looted
it funny in a game were there are almost no limits people still need to take you stuff
i was on the minecraft server not the TUG one0
Hey Stille. Let us how when the server updates for v0.8.7 Unless I'm making the wrong assumption and its already working fine?Programmer, designer, artist.0
Oops, was playing inDev. I think update will be out in the next day or two.Programmer, designer, artist.0
Okay, we've gotten it down to the point in which we believe we know what causes the crashes.
If a player logs out/crashes while having a container open, the cells around him are unloaded... some containers attempt to close as if they had multiple people interacting with them.
This causes an exception, crashing the server.
Players, if you log into the server, open up a chest, and it crashes the server, DELETE THE CHEST, and then use the give command to give back what was lost.
Scripts is working on a hotfix to patch the issue.0
Good to hear!Programmer, designer, artist.0
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Scripts and the NK Team has done several hotfixes to my dedicated server, due to the errors it was throwing in the console.
It looks like they have everything fixed!
That being said, we need the players to come in and put a pounding on the server this week, to see if it will crash again.
We need your help players...... time to put your helmet on.0
Scripts REGISTERED, Developers Posts: 41 DeveloperWe literally have the bug surrounded and we're daring it to crash, haha. You guys are awesome for helping us extend our search to find this tricky bug.Let's make something awesome together.
Follow me! @Scriptslol0
tug.stillevande.com is down atm and it's been down for a while, what server can we go to play mp for the time being while its offline? any help would be greatly appreciated.0
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ohhhhhh nooo. I'm sorry. I forgot about this. Was digging a way out but haven't quite finished it yet. Let me get that.Programmer, designer, artist.0
Hit Enter, type "/debugging" without the quotes and hit Enter again. Double-tap the spacebar and then hold it down to float up and out of the hole!
To stop flying and exit debugging mode, double-tap space again, then hit Enter and type "/debugging" without the quotes again."I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."0
On the plus side we now have a small cave system.Programmer, designer, artist.0
Hey, just a heads up, someone's been stealing my work benches. I'm on my third leather bound one now. Since i don't often have much play time lately, Ive just been basically spending my time making these work benches which sets my building back a lot... alas.
It honestly takes an effort now, to pick one up so it isnt' accidental.
You should definitely play the secret squirrel game now.Programmer, designer, artist.0
yep, most likely will have to! *chuckles*
Of course, we may have a server reset since this is a new patch.
couple resets ago I had a very interesting base.
A Hollow log half buried in a hillside with heavy grown infront made for my entrance. I dug into the hillside and then fanned outwards in many a tunnel. It was kinda fun, I may try that again.0
What mp servers are online right now? Any plans on a server selection list? I love playing this game with other people but when trying to connect to tug.stillevande.com it tells me engine version mismatch.0


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judging from Iraq and Afghanistan we haven't learned a damn thing! Still farting around being all political while good men die! Pisses me off!
- Wed Mar 30, 04:14:00 PM
- Momma Fargo said...
Nice post, Coffey! I feel for all of them and thank you for your service. Lots of love from me to all Vietnam Vets!
- Wed Mar 30, 06:01:00 PM
- Janie Junebug said...
For me, The Wall is the saddest place in the world.
- Wed Mar 30, 10:21:00 PM
- Jason and Michelle said...
The veterans cemetery by my parents house had a huge ceremony. it was packed.
- Thu Mar 31, 07:39:00 AM
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Hey Coffey. Just a heads up. When you see a Facebook request from someone that's not it, it's really me. Sent you a message and a request because after all you are Bob's twin brother once removed. Initials will be AB. Don't ask me why I'm incognito on FB yet not on my blog. Makes no sense to me either.
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Done, Rita. The mystery continues.
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thanks for it. Cool! Koni
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I've already written before in this series that I was a pretty horrible dancer until I learned to let go. In the context of that previous post, "letting go" meant being willing to take risks, both physically and emotionally; but for the sake of this post, I'd like to add a different lesson — that "letting go" within dance also meant a certain pouring out of the arabesque, the leap, and the turn from somewhere deep in the heart.
I've sensed this pouring out in other dancers by the look in their eyes. When a dancer's body lifts into an attitude, when her arms extend, when her head tilts — her eyes shine with longing, her soul infinitely extends. The best dancers I've known are ones that dance not just to perform but to communicate this hope, peace, and beauty through the arms, the poise, the grace.
Laurel Anspach, my dance teacher, once said that all of life was to be an expression instead of a performance. As a grad school student, I wear so many performances daily: that of the good grad student who did do all the reading. That of a teacher who is not frustrated by her own shortcomings. And — when I'm abroad — that of a European urbanite who is trying desperately to ensure that she can properly use the bus and order coffee instead of betraying that she really is the daughter of an American farmer, a million miles from home.
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Prepare for a high-flying steampunk adventure in this all-new Sci-Fi / Fantasy series about a pair of talented inventors called, the TINKERS. Set in an alternate history timeline that picks up in the late nineteenth century, the world of the Tinkers is one of smog, acid rain, fog, steam, over-population, bland food, booming economic growth, scientific achievement and unbridled capitalism. The story follows the lives of the Tinkers, a father/daughter engineering duo, who have achieved a level of notoriety as inventors in their native San Francisco of the Northwest American territory. When a wealthy and eccentric expatriate, now residing in British controlled Hong Kong, named Lady Cushing engages their services to build a device from the incomplete plans left behind by her late father, also an inventor and gentleman explorer, they are thrust headlong into a world of intrigue, lies, deceit, greed, and eminent danger in which the balance of worldly power rests unaware, alternately in both the calloused hands of Sho Tinker and the gloved hands of Lady Cushing.
1st Season Overview
The wealthy and eccentric adventure-seeker, Lady Cushing, attempts to complete the life's work of her late father and older brothers, with the help of a well-known father and daughter team of inventors called, the Tinkers. This innovation however threatens the status quo and for that there are repercussions.
The corrupt energy utilities of Western America, most notably the Ministry of Water & Power and the Gasworks, have each dispatched their agents in an effort to thwart the Tinkers and Lady Cushing. Her well-equipped entourage, lead by the courageous Captain Alexandra Victoria Brian Pelham, intervenes but Lord Blackwelder has a plan to maintain his dictatorship over the American nation's valuable and extensive power resources. With an energy war on the verge of erupting, an additional obstacle surfaces, provided courtesy of the notorious masked criminal, Jawbreaker, who runs interference at all parties, by playing both sides in this emerging battle for power and the wealth that typically accompanies it.
Now when you say Web Series…
The Web Series is planned to consist of 14 first-season 'Webisodes'.
TINKER aims to expand the boundaries of Steampunk science fiction by further transforming it from what many know as just an aesthetic to evolving it into a multi-ethnic, culture- exploring, collection of stories that does for Steampunk what Star Trek did for science fiction back in the sixties.
This includes: mature themes, exotic locations, sub-plots, drama and action, always making the effort to keep true to the 'punk' in Steampunk by going outside currently established 'rules' of the genre, and fusing the diverse talents of several industries into a new kind of steam-powered animal. Even if you don't actively follow the subculture of Steampunk, there is still something here for you.
TINKER will feature stylish Victorian era-inspired wardrobe, lavish sets (both practical and digital), custom props, unusual locations and just enough technology to make Jules Verne and H.G. Wells proud.
STEAMPUNK PARTNERS plans to distribute the show initially on the Web. The episodes would be available on both the TINKER Web site: www.TinkerSteampunkSeries.com as well as on Vimeo. Regardless of the different outlets that will eventually carry the episodes, the individual, first-run programs would always be free to view on the Web site. Collections of episodes or seasons would be available on Blu-Ray for purchase at a later date.
If funded when would the Pilot launch?
Pre-production for the Web Series is currently under development by CONTAINMENT FIELD at their North Hollywood, CA studio, under the instruction of STEAMPUNK PARTNERS, the licensee of the original intellectual property. Principal digital cinematography for the Pilot if funded would commence in February 2014 and would go live March 2014.
Meet some of our diverse cast
Sho Tinker, a legendary mechanic and inventor played by JOHNNIE SAIKO
Kimi Tinker, a genius tomboy & gun enthusiast played by ERIKA MARIKO OLSEN
Lady Cushing, a wealthy eccentric (Young & Present Day) played by TABITHA MARSDEN & JULIENNE DAVIS
Keane (Tommy Mack), Miss Wei (Chewie Mon), Alexandra V.B. Pelham, Captain of the Dragonfly (Katie Hotchkiss), Ajax Wallace, Dragonfly Radio Man (Al Snow), Dr. Londonderry, The Dragonfly's Doctor (Cheo Jackson), Phoenix Jones, The Dragonfly's Cook (Fawn "Phoenix" Tran), George Buzzle, Dragonfly Bosun (Travanti Waller), Ginger Bacon, Dragonfly Chief Engineer (Ryan Burke), Armatrading, Dragonfly Tail Gunner (Roger Edwards), Anton Breit, Dragonfly Engineer's Mate (Del Zamora).
Lord Blackwelder, The Minister of Water & Power Played by AZMYTH KAMINSKI
Countess Vandermeer/Jawbreaker, wine heiress with a secret / Jawbreaker, master criminal and costumed super villain. Played by MADISON GREY
Carnelian (Natasha Benko), Hesperia, (Stephanie Danielson), Mr. Kite (Patrick McCarthy), Mr. Henderson (Darren Kendrick), Eldine Herzhaft (Katarina Leigh Waters), Lala Deák (Angie Gega), Mr. Fitch (Sam Lock), Lord Martin Morgan (Martin Borg), Lady Catherine Morgan (Tempast Wolf), Delphine Severin (Chanel Ryan). Other Parties:
The Stranger (Matthew Brenher), Finn Farold (Ross Johnson), Guild Girl: Cherry aka The Geisha (Candace Kita), Ylang Ylang: "The Candlestick Maker" (Elle Sonnet), Amaryllis (Emily Lawrence), Elmira Perkins (Strix), Guild Girl: Flordelis aka The Librarian (Jessica Sonneborn), Admiral Tilden (Barry Ratcliffe), The Quartermaster (John Mawson), Jack Cheese (Garret Fox), Cong (Eugene Choy), Guild Girl: Fineas aka The Whip (Kat Sheridan).
Want to know more about the other character's of TINKER? Check out their story Bios, and meet the full confirmed Cast.
More media & daily updates can be found on our Facebook Page, Youtube, Twitter, and Instagram. Our Email List features only the most important updates.
Creative Team
- Creator/Show Runner/Executive Producer/Head Writer - Michael Taglianetti
- Co-Visual FX Supervisor/CG Supervisor/VFX Art Director - Paul M. Smith
- Series Director of Photography/Co-Visual FX Supervisor - David Hardberger
- Series Post Production Supervisor/Series Supervising Editor - Russell Denove
- Special Mechanical F/X Supervisor - Johnnie Saiko
- Series Producers - Paul M. Smith, Arthur L. Belokonov, Don Allen, Chanel Ryan, Corena Gibson, Tempast Wulf
- Episode Directors - Tibor Szakaly & Sean Williams
- Director of Social Media & Crowdfunding: Lucid Luminos
- Fan Club Coordinator - Emily Green
- Music Supervisor - Lucid Luminos
- SF Historical Adviser - Aaron Almanza of the SF Steampunks Works
Models, Miniatures and Specialty Props
Will be created in-house and/or provided by:
McCune Design, Founded by the legendary Oscar winning Grant McCune of Star Wars fame, their past work has included: Cabin in the Woods, Iron Man 2, Serenity, Spider-Man 2, Minority Report, X2: X-Men United, Robocop 3, and more!
Dale Mathis, master sculpture & multimedia artist.
More to be announced!
We will release a soundtrack of musicians featured in the Tinker pilot and planned 1st Season episodes. The music will be as diverse as the Tinker's travels taking the audience on journey's of beauty, adventure, classical, the darkness of a corrupt system, and of course just plain fun! As this Kickstarter is for the Pilot. The remaining music of TINKER and the soundtrack will be funded by a PledgeMusic campaign following our Kickstarter campaign. A double disk featuring the original score on disk 1 and bands tracks on disk 2. Our bands are steampunk themed, or steampunk fans themselves that want you to hear their vision of our steampunk inspired world.
Featured in our Kickstarter fundraising videos are:
3 Piece from Southern California known for their sonically massive choruses, and constrained electronic verses. Inspired mainly by film rather than music.
Birdeatsbaby Orchestral rock quartet from Brighton/London, UK. Birdeatsbaby are far from your average rock band. Incorporating a varied collection of influences, the band combine piano-lead power-pop with orchestral and melodic rock, resulting in something that sounds hauntingly original and delicate.
Other Artist's on board Tinker are:
Good Co, Violet, Savi0r, Chamber of Echoes, Arcane Dimension, Psyche Corporation, Marquis of Vaudeville, Shovelman, Arthur A. Belekonov, Lolita Dark.
Some of the wardrobe, jewelry & accessories in TINKER will be by: Aneroc (Corena Gibson), Generations of Art, The Blonde Swan, Steampunk Obscura, Nonconformity, Dr. Brassy Steamington, Kelly's Heroes, Wonderland Corsets, Silver Leaf Costumes, and Hades Footwear.
Where will your hard earned money be going, and why do we need your support?
Some of you might be thinking we have talent involved that has worked on big movies why do we need your money, we must be rich right? While we wish we were rich, we aren't. Times are tough for creatives, and those big names don't come free, no matter how much they love our project.
Our minimum project goal of $10,000.00 will cover: Pre-production, Production, Sound, Musical Score, Initial Original Music for the Soundtrack, Wardrobe, Props, Sets, and all other essentials to create our Pilot. Without your support TINKER will develop at a crawl.
If we raise funds beyond our goal, then the next expense is the all important Marketing. After that will come more production value on the pilot, then the next priority will be the episodes planned for the first season, and even more production value by bolstering the current budget in all areas, all only possible with your support!
Bare minimum once we have our high quality Pilot other opportunities to sustain, and continue the series will be available to us. Aside from the soundtrack, it is our preference to not rely on crowdfunding after this initial kick start. We will try our best to utilize alternatives, or in the least greatly reduce the funding we need from future crowdfunding until the series develops a strong following.
We support the http://kickingitforward.org/ movement!
Choose your flavor of the TINKER Pilot:
HD Digital Download, DVD, Blu-Ray DVD Combo, or the Deluxe Collector's Edition Blu-Ray / DVD Combo! Deluxe Collector's Edition features behind the scenes documentaries "Behind the Gears" hosted by Elle Sonnet.
TINKER Gear Logo T-Shirt (Available in Men's Premium Fitted Sizes: Small, Med, Large, XL, XXL [add $2] in Colors: Black, Dark Chocolate, Military Green - Woman's Perfect Tee Sizes: Small, Med, Large, XL, XXL [add $2] - In Colors: Black, Dark Chocolate, Warm Grey)
TINKER Soundtrack Artist CDs:
Shiny things!
Sculpted works!
Close up Shoe 1, Close up Shoe 2, Close up Shoe 3.
3D Models!
Our creative team has also thought up many other fun "rewards" for you to receive for supporting TINKER as our special thank you! Some of which have been contributed by our collaborators.
More rewards viewable & larger images ->HERE<-
If you're feeling generous please remember you can request more than one reward if you've Pledged the total amount equal to them.
Risks and challenges
There are always challenges to producing a series, no matter how well funded or experienced you are, however we have a strong team with many years of experience, who know their various crafts quite well. Our diverse cast members are not only actively involved in the world of film and science fiction, but in the worlds of Music, all things Geek and of course, all things Steampunk! TINKER's track is well laid, we just need funding to get this train rolling!Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
Questions about this project? Check out the FAQ
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Dir: George Mihalka (Les Boys IV, Pinball Summer)
Cast: Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck, Keith Knight, Cynthia Dale, Don Francks, Peter Cowper
Canada, 1981
Seen: Jan 25, 2009 (original version) & Feb 21, 2009 (with deleted scenes)
Reason to see: It was one of the picks for February for the Final Girl Film Club. I chose it over the newly released with 9 or so extra seconds edition of Friday the 13th (1980).
I have no idea what compelled me to watch the original film instead of just going for the straight up uncut version. Perhaps because it is a film I likely would have seen in its original version, but hadn't, so thought original than uncut would be a more authentic experience.
The film is a lot of fun, I think what I appreciated the most about it was how Canadian it felt. Not in an artsy fartsy way, but how it felt like regular folk at their regular jobs who have fun after work and plan for parties on holidays. Yes, I'm sure this happens worldwide but there was certainly a homey quality that made it extra charming. That is until all hell breaks loose! It is a slasher movie after all, and it has all the classic elements required: creepy backstory, young people messing around, a 'nice town' and of course a menacing baddie in a crazy outfit and claustrophobic location. Seriously, whoever thought of using a mine as a location is a genius. And the miner mask? Jeepers, gives me the creeps!
The effects ranged from a few "what is that?" to "ewwwwwwww I know what that is!" but were always impressive, especially considering it's from 1981. The uncut version certainly gave you 'more'. More blood, more guts, more effect, more impaling, more everything for any scene that ended in someones demise. My only beef with that was watching it on DVD the quality of the image from the regular to the delete scenes was extremely obvious as it when from crystal clear to grainy. But! It made it clear to tell it was the extra footage and that it was going to get beyond bloody.
It was my intention to see this at the January screening at the Bloor which would have been a 35mm print uncut for the very first time presented by Rue Morgue, and even had director George Mihalka in attendance! I was so excited. But, as it turns out it was a freaking cold day (January in Toronto can be like that), so I decided to call it quits. A blessing in disguise as that night the entire West End of the city fell under a blackout, including the theatre. So, I snagged the DVD from Best Buy of all places and watched from the comfort of home. Twice.
Warnings: Not for the faint of heart.
Shannon's Overall View:
I enjoyed it
I'd watch it again
I'd recommend for fans of classic slasher films
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