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Editor's Note: The following is a reprint from a profile article from the National Association of Hunting Clubs web site. We thought this might help you get to know Tom a little better.
NAHC member Tom Wiley works in the hunting industry as the Principal of a sales rep agency (Professional Marketing Inc.) and as a member of the New Product Development and Sales Team for Wildgame Innovations.
Many years ago, Tom was working the graveyard shift as a nurse at the Oktibbeha County Hospital when he had a 4 a.m. epiphany. He picked up a piece of left over surgical tubing and thought, "I bet this would make a good duck call." Thus, the Flextone Game Call was born.
Tom turned a spare bedroom into a workshop and began making duck calls from this tubing. The first Flextone calls were made in that spare bedroom in late 1997.
Everyone who heard the calls was impressed at how the flexible tubing produced a truer, more natural sound by more accurately mimicking the soft, flexible tissue of an animal's neck and tongue. Tom later began to sell the calls to local stores and trade shows. Sales grew rapidly, and Tom was forced to quit his job as a nurse to keep up with demand. He established Wiley Outdoor Products, LLC in 1998.
Tom began to develop more calls. He created a deer call out of flexible tubing, which has become his best selling product to date. The deer call's flexible call body allows the user to change tones by simply squeezing the call at various, labeled pressure points. Also, the call is silent if accidentally coming into contact with the user's gun or bow.
Tom received a patent on flexible game calls in August of 2000. His new call is named Buck Rage Plus, the combination of calls includes an All-In-One deer call and a Snort-Wheeze call, both combined on a lanyard.
The brand has gone from just a few calls to over 100 products, and has grown from duck calls only to calls and gear for all types of hunting and is currently owned and managed by Wildgame Innovations of Broussard LA.
Tom is married and has 2 boys ages 2 and 4. He currently resides in Starkville, MS.
The following article is written by Tom:
TEN THINGS IN TEN YEARS- Lessons Learned in the Hunting Industry
1- Give it a shot.
You will not succeed if you never try. During college, I was presented with a few opportunities, but I didn't take advantage of them. I was scared to lose the little money that I had. Guess what…that little bit of money got spent anyway and on things that I would have been better off without.
After college and a few missed opportunities, I found myself working as a registered nurse in the emergency room of Oktibbeha County Hospital. While working the night shift I came up with the idea of making game calls from flexible surgical tubing. This time I wasn't going to let an opportunity pass me by, so I gave this idea my best shot.
2- People will recognize and support a good idea.
The advantages of making game calls from soft flexible tubing are not always immediately recognized, but once you think about the anatomical design of an animal's vocalization system- hard cartilage voice box and the soft flexible tissue of the neck and mouth- a light bulb goes off, and people say, "Wow that really makes sense."
Not only does the design give you a more natural sound by being more anatomically correct, the design also allows the user to control volume and tone by squeezing the call in various locations. For example, the Flextone Buck Rage Plus will make all known whitetail vocalizations simply by squeezing the marked areas of the call while you blow. It was definitely the design that got Flextone Game Calls off of the ground.
3- Accept help
I learned pretty quickly that I needed help, and I was fortunate when some good folks offered some great help.
Looking back, I am amazed at how naïve I was. Heck, I was pretty sure I was fixing to make millions selling flexible duck calls even though I had no idea what I was doing.
The first support I got was from my college friend who provided me with some start-up money and a tiny space to build calls.
Next, I met someone who will remain a lifelong friend. He had some serious marketing savvy and too much time on his hands. If he hadn't volunteered his time to me, Flextone game calls would have been nothing but a short lived "neat idea."
I also learned I was not going to be able to make enough calls with a modified key copying machine and tubing cutters to make a living in the industry. That was about the time that I met the owner of Consolidated Plastics, an injection molding company in Bloomfield, MO.
I am thankful for all of the people that have helped along the way, from my wife to many friends that have put together thousands of calls (usually for nothing more than pizza and beer).
Later, I met some good folks with a desire to invest in Flextone. It was their help, along with the hard work of friends and co-workers that propelled Flextone to the next level.
4- I was wrong when I thought I was the one in control.
I was having a little success doing what I wanted to do: traveling, hunting, selling calls, partying, and thinking that I was steering the ship, but I was going in all the wrong directions. Eventually, I ran aground, but luckily I did not sink. I let God have control and he righted the ship.
5- Hunting is my passion, making hunting videos is not the same.
It seems odd to people when I complain about filming hunting trips, but it's harder to make good TV than people think. In fact, about the only way to ruin a great day in the duck blind, deer stand, or the turkey woods is to get bad video. A camera malfunction can turn a once in a lifetime hunt into a day you would rather forget. Props to those in the industry that have the patience to make good TV.
6- Working in an industry you love is still work.
It's a tough, competitive industry- you have to fight for every success. There are only a few pegs in each sporting goods store for each category of products, and there are many people and companies that want those pegs. Sometimes I have to remind myself why I got in the hunting industry and make an effort not to let the business get in the way of my passion for hunting.
7- Prioritize.
I once thought that if I made enough money everything would be fine. Now I have two young boys and my eyes are beginning to open. If I put God first, family second, and work third- everything really will be fine.
8- Wearing too many hats will make you loose your head.
Managing a small company that's trying to operate like a larger company means everyone has to fill many roles and wear lots of hats. Switching from the product development hat to the production hat, the quality control hat, the marketing hat, the sales hat, the customer service hat and even the janitor hat, can really make your head spin.
9- Choose the hat that fits you best.
In March of 2007 I took off a few hats. Flextone brand game calls was sold to Wildgame Innovations, LLC., and I joined the Wildgame Team in an effort to take Flextone to an all new level. Wildgame has already proven that they can successfully develop and market great products. You only have to take one look at their flagship products such as Acorn Rage, Acorn Rage Infused, and Acorn Rage Feeder Fat to see this.
I look forward to seeing Flextone game calls highlighted on the Wildgame Nation TV show every Saturday afternoon on the Outdoor Channel. I am also excited to get rid of a few hats. It is the sales process that I have found to be my favorite part of the hunting business, and I have recently created Professional Marketing Inc., a rep agency and as a result, I will get to remain in contact with the many friends I have made within the industry.
Now when I put on my salesman's hat I will continue to sell Flextone game calls, but I will also get to add some other great products to the mix. I am now the Nikon Sport Optics rep for Mississippi and Alabama as well, so I will also be out showing what makes Nikon the "Trusted Name in Optics."
10- I don't even know what all I don't know.
When I look back I realize how little I knew when I got into this industry. I have a feeling that ten years from now I will look back and realize how little I know now. There is one thing, however, that I'm sure of – I have been very lucky and blessed.
Learn more about Flextone Calls and Wildgame Innovations at www.wildgameinnovations.com and www.wileyoutdoorproducts.com.


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Tamar is an associate with the firm's wills and estates group. As part of her practice, Tamar assists clients with Wills, powers of attorney, trusts, and estate litigation. Her estate litigation practice is broad, with files including those from will challenges to guardianship applications. Tamar is also a lawyer supervisor for Pro Bono Students Canada – Wills Project for students at both UofT law and Osgoode.
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A recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Re Milne) may affect the Wills of clients who have used multiple Wills to reduce probate fees. If you have Primary and Secondary Wills in place, this court decision may put that planning in jeopardy...
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Will Interpretation: Drafting to Avoid Ambiguity, presented at the 21st Annual Estates and Trusts Summit (co-authored with Eric Hoffstein)
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Chronic Venous Insufficiency
This text belongs to a more general article about venous diseases of the lower extremities, which can be found here.
Chronic venous insufficiency is a term used for situation where the leg veins are unable to properly fulfill their function, i.e. to divert blood from the lower extremities.
To understand venous insufficiency, it is necessary to mention the anatomy of the venous system of the lower extremities. The venous blood is drained by two venous systems – the superficial and deep veins. The deep system is able to transport larger amount of blood and it is connected to the surface system with connecting veins. The veins of the lower limbs are equipped with one-way flaps that allow the blood to flow in only one direction (out o the limbs). The connecting veins have also valves that allow one-way blood flow from the superficial venous system to the deep veins and not in the opposite direction. In addition to the valves, the proper blood flow is ensured by the local muscle pump. Contractions of local muscles compress the veins and push the blood in the right direction.
Chronic venous insufficiency means that the above-mentioned system stopped working properly. The majority of cases are related to decreased strength of venous walls and impaired function of the valves. The consequence is blood stasis in the leg veins and emergence of further complications. The chronic venous insufficiency occurs gradually during life. Increased risk is in female sex as women tend to have impaired function of venous valves and decreased strength of venous walls. Other risk factors include obesity, hormonal factors (pregnancy) and jobs with long sitting and standing. Restricted movement impairs the function of local muscle pump and worsens the blood outflow. Chronic venous insufficiency may more easily occur in veins that have been previously affected by deep vein thrombosis.
Venous insufficiency is initially not visibly expressed. The affected person may feel subjective symptoms such as feeling of heavy legs, leg pain and local muscle cramps. Blood stasis may overload the superficial venous system, which may dilate and form visible venous varices. Similar condition occurs when the valves connecting the superficial and deep venous system do not work properly and allow the blood flow from the deep system into superficial.
As chronic venous insufficiency gradually deteriorates, the legs begin to swell and the color of shanks changes by deposition of dark pigment. The viability of the tissues is decreased and so is their healing ability. When the affected leg is injured, the wounds do not heal properly and there is a risk of leg ulcers.
The condition may be prevented by weight reduction, physical exercise and avoidance of long standing or sitting. When sitting, it is advisable to have the lower extremities in elevated position to support the local blood flow. Effective form of prevention is wearing elastic stockings.
In addition to the mentioned preventive measures, there are drugs that improve venous strength and elasticity. These medications are known as venotonics and they can be prescribed as a support therapy. Treatment of complications can be found in related texts.
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- T. Tabassum, G. J Ross - Earthquake Forecasting in Southern California with Combined Complete Foreshock Data, under review
- J. Pitkin, G. J. Ross, I. Manolopoulou - Bayesian Hierarchal Modelling of Spare Count Processes in Retail Analytics, under review
- A. Kolev, G. J Ross - Inference for ETAS Models With Non-Poissonian Mainshock Arrival Times, under review
- G. J. Ross , D. Markwick - The dirichletprocess Package for Fitting Complex Bayesian Nonparametric Models in R, under review
- D. Markwick, G. J. Ross, - Hierarchal Bayesian Modeling of Nonstationary Extreme Values Using the Hawkes Process, under review
- G. J. Ross - Bayesian Estimation of the ETAS Model for Earthquake Occurrences, under review
- G. J. Ross - Tracking the Evolution of Literary Style Via Dirichlet-Multinoimal Change Point Regression, under review
- K. Stavrianki, G. J. Ross, P. Sammonds - Are Earthquake Magnitudes Correlated? Study Cases in California, under review
- A. Tsiolou, C. Galasso, G. J. Ross, F. Zareian - Engineering Proxies, Statistical Hypothesis Testing and Information Theory Measures for the Validation of Ground Motion Simulations, under review
- G. J. Ross - Time Dynamics of Heavy-Tailed Risk in Financial Markets, under review
- G. J. Ross - Bayesian Process Control via Sequential Monte Carlo Sampling, under review
- J. Pitkin, G. J. Ross, I. Manolopoulou - Dirichlet Process Mixture of Order Statistic Sequences With Applications to Retail Analytics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, 2018
- G. J. Ross , T. Jones - Understanding Heavy Tailed Dynamics in Human Behavior, Physical Review E, 2015
- G. J. Ross - Dynamic Multifactor Clustering of Financial Networks, Physical Review E, 2014
- G. J. Ross - Sequential Change Detection in the Presence of Unknown Parameters, Statistics and Computing, 2014
- G. J. Ross - Modelling Financial Volatility in the Presence of Abrupt Changes, Physica A - Statistical Mechanics and Applications, 2013
- G. J. Ross, D. K. Tasoulis, N. M. Adams - Sequential Monitoring of a Bernoulli Sequence when the Pre-change Parameter is Unknown, Computational Statistics, 2013
- G. J. Ross, N. M. Adams - Two Nonparametric Control Charts for Detecting Arbitrary Distribution Changes, Journal of Quality Technology, 2012
- G. J. Ross, D. K. Tasoulis, N. M. Adams, D. J. Hand - Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Charts for Detecting Concept Drift, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2012
- G. J. Ross, D. K. Tasoulis, N. M. Adams - Nonparametric Monitoring of Data Streams for Changes in Location and Scale, Technometrics, 2011
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- E. Mariconti, J. Onaolapo, G. J. Ross, G. Stringhini - What's Your Major Threat? On the Differences Between the Network Behavior of Targeted and Commodity Malware, AReS, 2016
- A. Pyrgelis, E De Cristofaro, G. J. Ross - Privacy-Friendly Mobility Analytics using Aggregate Location Data, ACM SIGSPATIAL, 2016
- G. J. Ross, D. K. Tasoulis, N. M. Adams, D. J. Hand - Online Annotation and Prediction for Regime Switching Data Streams, Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2009
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Employment obligations or holiday plans of any kind are not acceptable reasons for
absence from any test/examination.
The final exam will be held in the University examination period. All material covered in the lectures and tutorial program is examinable. Further information on the content of the final exam will be provided towards the end of session.
The final exam will consist of problem solving questions. This exam will ask you to think creatively about how you could apply the mathematical concepts and methods you have learned during the entire course to particular problems.
Students must submit a hard copy of their assignment. You will have one week to
complete it. The hard copy is to be submitted at the beginning of the tutorial. Do not
use plastic sheets or binders. Simply staple the pages together. Your name and ID
should be on the cover page.
Late Submission of Assignment
If you fail to submit your assignment before the deadline you will be given a mark of zero. Any student, who for reasons of serious illness or misadventure cannot submit before the submission deadline, will need full and convincing documentation of that illness, specifically a valid medical certificate which covers the period prior to the submission deadline.
Employment obligations or holiday plans of any kind are not acceptable reasons for failing to submit an assignment.
Feedback on student performance from formative and summative assessment tasks will be provided to students in a timely manner. Assessment tasks completed within the teaching period of a course, other than a final assessment, will be assessed and students provided with feedback, with or without a provisional result, within 10 working days of submission, under normal circumstances. Feedback on continuous assessment tasks (e.g. laboratory and studio-based, workplace-based, weekly quizzes) will be provided prior to the midpoint of the course.
You can apply for special consideration when illness or other circumstances beyond your control, interfere with your assessment performance (to apply see Special Consideration on the UNSW Current Students page). Special Consideration is primarily intended to provide you with an extra opportunity to demonstrate the level of performance of which you are capable.
Special Consideration applications will be assessed centrally by the Case Review Team within Student Lifecycle. The Case Review team will update the online application with the outcome and add any relevant comments.
Please note the following:
Further information on Business School policy and procedure, as well as supplementary exam dates for the current term, can be found under "Special Consideration" on the Policies and Support page.
The Business School is actively monitoring student learning and quality of the student experience in all its programs. A random selection of completed assessment tasks may be used for quality assurance, such as to determine the extent to which program learning goals are being achieved. The information is required for accreditation purposes, and aggregated findings will be used to inform changes aimed at improving the quality of Business School programs. All material used for such processes will be treated as confidential.
The website for this course is on UNSW Moodle.
The Required Textbook for this course is:
Students may also find the following textbook useful for some parts of the course:
Feedback is regularly sought from students and continual improvements are made based on this feedback. At the end of this course, you will be asked to complete the myExperience survey, which provides a key source of student evaluative feedback. Your input into this quality enhancement process is extremely valuable in assisting us to meet the needs of our students and provide an effective and enriching learning experience. The results of all surveys are carefully considered and do lead to action towards enhancing educational quality.
The School of Economics strives to be responsive to student feedback. If you would like more information on how the design of this course and changes made to it over time have taken students' needs and preferences into account, please contact the Director of Education at the School of Economics.
Equilibrium Analysis, Linear Models and Matrix Algebra
C & W Chapters 3, 4 and 5
Comparative Statics and Differentiation
C & W Chapters 6 and 7
Differentiation and Comparative Statics of General Function Models
C & W Chapters 7 and 8
Comparative Statics (cont'd) and Optimization
C & W Chapter 9
Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
C & W Chapter 10
Multi Variable Optimization
C & W Chapter 11
Optimization with Equality Constraints
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Economic Dynamics and First-Order Differential Equations
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Information about UNSW Business School protocols, University policies, student responsibilities and education quality and support.
The Business School places knowledge and capabilities at the core of its curriculum via seven Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs). These PLOs are systematically embedded and developed across the duration of all coursework programs in the Business School.
PLOs embody the knowledge, skills and capabilities that are taught, practised and assessed within each Business School program. They articulate what you should know and be able to do upon successful completion of your degree.
Upon graduation, you should have a high level of specialised business knowledge and capacity for responsible business thinking, underpinned by ethical professional practice. You should be able to harness, manage and communicate business information effectively and work collaboratively with others. You should be an experienced problem-solver and critical thinker, with a global perspective, cultural competence and the potential for innovative leadership.
All UNSW programs and courses are designed to assess the attainment of program and/or course level learning outcomes, as required by the
UNSW Assessment Design Procedure. It is important that you become familiar with the Business School PLOs, as they constitute the framework which informs and shapes the components and assessments of the courses within your program of study.
PLO 1: Business knowledge
Students will make informed and effective selection and application of knowledge in a discipline or profession, in the contexts of local and global business.
PLO 2: Problem solving
Students will define and address business problems, and propose effective evidence-based solutions, through the application of rigorous analysis and critical thinking.
PLO 3: Business communication
Students will harness, manage and communicate business information effectively using multiple forms of communication across different channels.
PLO 4: Teamwork
Students will interact and collaborate effectively with others to achieve a common business purpose or fulfil a common business project, and reflect critically on the process and the outcomes.
PLO 5: Responsible business practice
Students will develop and be committed to responsible business thinking and approaches, which are underpinned by ethical professional practice and sustainability considerations.
PLO 6: Global and cultural competence
Students will be aware of business systems in the wider world and actively committed to recognise and respect the cultural norms, beliefs and values of others, and will apply this knowledge to interact, communicate and work effectively in diverse environments.
PLO 7: Leadership development
Students will develop the capacity to take initiative, encourage forward thinking and bring about innovation, while effectively influencing others to achieve desired results.
These PLOs relate to undergraduate and postgraduate coursework programs. Separate PLOs for honours and postgraduate research programs are included under 'Related Documents'.
Business School
course outlines provide detailed information for students on how the course learning outcomes, learning activities, and assessment/s contribute to the development of Program Learning Outcomes.
The Business School PLOs also incorporate
UNSW graduate capabilities, a set of generic abilities and skills that all students are expected to achieve by graduation. These capabilities articulate the University's institutional values, as well as future employer expectations.
While our programs are designed to provide coverage of all PLOs and graduate capabilities, they also provide you with a great deal of choice and flexibility. The Business School strongly advises you to choose a range of courses that assist your development against the seven PLOs and four graduate capabilities, and to keep a record of your achievements as part of your portfolio. You can use a portfolio as evidence in employment applications as well as a reference for work or further study. For support with selecting your courses contact the UNSW Business School
Student Centre.
Academic Integrity is honest and responsible scholarship. This form of ethical scholarship is highly valued at UNSW. Terms like Academic Integrity, misconduct, referencing, conventions, plagiarism, academic practices, citations and evidence based learning are all considered basic concepts that successful university students understand. Learning how to communicate original ideas, refer sources, work independently, and report results accurately and honestly are skills that you will be able to carry beyond your studies.
The definition of academic misconduct is broad. It covers practices such as cheating, copying and using another person's work without appropriate acknowledgement. Incidents of academic misconduct may have serious consequences for students.
UNSW regards plagiarism as a form of academic misconduct. UNSW has very strict rules regarding plagiarism. Plagiarism at UNSW is using the words or ideas of others and passing them off as your own. All Schools in the Business School have a Student Ethics Officer who will investigate incidents of plagiarism and may result in a student's name being placed on the Plagiarism and Student Misconduct Registers.
Below are examples of plagiarism including self-plagiarism:
Inappropriate Paraphrasing: Changing a few words and phrases while mostly retaining the original structure and/or progression of ideas of the original, and information without acknowledgement. This also applies in presentations where someone paraphrases another's ideas or words without credit and to piecing together quotes and paraphrases into a new whole, without appropriate referencing.
Collusion: Presenting work as independent work when it has been produced in whole or part in collusion with other people. Collusion includes:
Collusion should not be confused with academic collaboration (i.e., shared contribution towards a group task).
Inappropriate Citation: Citing sources which have not been read, without acknowledging the 'secondary' source from which knowledge of them has been obtained.
Self-Plagiarism: 'Self-plagiarism' occurs where an author republishes their own previously written work and presents it as new findings without referencing the earlier work, either in its entirety or partially. Self-plagiarism is also referred to as 'recycling', 'duplication', or 'multiple submissions of research findings' without disclosure. In the student context, self-plagiarism includes re-using parts of, or all of, a body of work that has already been submitted for assessment without proper citation.
To see if you understand plagiarism, do this short quiz: https://student.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism-quiz
The University also regards cheating as a form of academic misconduct. Cheating is knowingly submitting the work of others as their own and includes contract cheating (work produced by an external agent or third party that is submitted under the pretences of being a student's original piece of work). Cheating is not acceptable at UNSW.
If you need to revise or clarify any terms associated with academic integrity you should explore the 'Working with Academic Integrity' self-paced lessons available at: https://student.unsw.edu.au/aim.
For UNSW policies, penalties, and information to help you avoid plagiarism see: https://student.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism as well as the guidelines in the online ELISE tutorials for all new UNSW students: http://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/elise. For information on student conduct see: https://student.unsw.edu.au/conduct.
For information on how to acknowledge your sources and reference correctly, see: https://student.unsw.edu.au/referencing. If you are unsure what referencing style to use in this course, you should ask the lecturer in charge.
Students are expected to be familiar with and adhere to university policies in relation to class attendance and general conduct and behaviour, including maintaining a safe, respectful environment; and to understand their obligations in relation to workload, assessment and keeping informed.
Information and policies on these topics can be found on the 'Managing your Program' website.
It is expected that you will spend at least ten to twelve hours per week studying for a course except for Summer Term courses which have a minimum weekly workload of twenty to twenty four hours. This time should be made up of reading, research, working on exercises and problems, online activities and attending classes. In periods where you need to complete assignments or prepare for examinations, the workload may be greater. Over-commitment has been a cause of failure for many students. You should take the required workload into account when planning how to balance study with employment and other activities.
We strongly encourage you to connect with your Moodle course websites in the first week of semester. Local and international research indicates that students who engage early and often with their course website are more likely to pass their course.
View more information on expected workload
Your regular and punctual attendance at lectures and seminars or in online learning activities is expected in this course. The Business School reserves the right to refuse final assessment to those students who attend less than 80% of scheduled classes where attendance and participation is required as part of the learning process (e.g., tutorials, flipped classroom sessions, seminars, labs, etc.).
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You are expected to conduct yourself with consideration and respect for the needs of your fellow students and teaching staff. Conduct which unduly disrupts or interferes with a class, such as ringing or talking on mobile phones, is not acceptable and students may be asked to leave the class.
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UNSW Policy requires each person to work safely and responsibly, in order to avoid personal injury and to protect the safety of others.
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You should take note of all announcements made in lectures, tutorials or on the course web site. From time to time, the University will send important announcements to your university e-mail address without providing you with a paper copy. You will be deemed to have received this information. It is also your responsibility to keep the University informed of all changes to your contact details.
The University and the Business School provide a wide range of support services and resources for students, including:
Business School EQS Consultation ProgramThe Consultation Program offers academic writing, literacy and numeracy consultations, study skills, exam preparation for Business students. Services include workshops, online resources, individual and group consultations.Level 1, Room 1035, Quadrangle firstname.lastname@example.com 9385 4508
Business School Student CentreThe Business School Student Centre provides advice and direction on all aspects of admission, enrolment and graduation.Level 1, Room 1028 in the Quadrangle Building02 9385 3189
UNSW Learning CentreThe UNSW Learning Centre provides academic skills support services, including workshops and resources, for all UNSW students. See their website for details.Lower Ground Floor, North Wing Chancellery email@example.com 9385 2060
Educational Support ServiceEducational Support Advisors work with all students to promote the development of skills needed to succeed at university, whilst also providing personal support throughout the process. Check their website to request an appointment or to register in the Academic Success Program.John Goodsell Building, Ground firstname.lastname@example.com 9385 4734
Library services and facilities for studentsThe UNSW Library offers a range of collections, services and facilities both on-campus and online.Main Library, F21.02 9385 2650
Moodle eLearning SupportMoodle is the University's learning management system. You should ensure that you log into Moodle email@example.com 9385 3331
UNSW ITUNSW IT provides support and services for students such as password access, email services, wireless services and technical support.UNSW Library Annexe (Ground floor).firstname.lastname@example.com 9385 1333
Disability Support ServicesUNSW Disability Support Services provides assistance to students who are trying to manage the demands of university as well as a health condition, learning disability or who have personal circumstances that are having an impact on their studies. Disability Advisers can arrange to put in place services and educational adjustments to make things more manageable so that students are able to complete their course requirements. To receive educational adjustments for disability support, students must first register with Disability Services.Ground Floor, John Goodsell email@example.com 9385 4734
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My Turkey Turners (Ike and Tina)
If you ever need to shred some pork quicker than a fork, use your turkey turners. You know, those giant forks that only get used once a century? They work just as well as those
pork pulling unitaskers
and they make what used to be a unitasker into a multitasker. Right? Right.
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is still my favorite, I've had to make my own kombucha here in The County of Orange. When I'm not making my own I either have done without or have tried one of the varieties available outside of the SF Bay Area. The other day I tried this MASTER BREW stuff. It's good. It's real good.
If you ever want to mess with your dinner guests' heads (and who doesn't?), plate some green beans to look like phony characters from a language other than English and make up some b.s. meaning for them like "the way of the rooster is boring" or the nonsense of your choice.
Just some guacamole. Move along.
This thing. You know when you're short on time and you have some ingredients that need to be used and you try that thing that pops into your head? Sometimes it turns out like this. It was ugly, but it tasted good. Eggs, goat cheese, cherry tomatoes ... how bad could it be? Right?
Fennel will assimilate your garden. Resistance is tiring.
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It's nice out. I'm off to have wine and cheese in the sun. That's all of this for now. Ciao, bacca!
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The Ivy Bridge Preview: Core i7 3770K Testedby Anand Lal Shimpi on March 6, 2012 8:16 PM EST
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Although not the best indication of overall system performance, the SYSMark suites do give us a good idea of lighter workloads than we're used to testing. SYSMark 2007 is a better indication of low thread count performance, although 2012 isn't tremendously better in that regard.
As the SYSMark suites aren't particularly thread heavy, there's little advantage to the 6-core Sandy Bridge E CPUs. The 3770K however manages to slot in above all of the other Sandy Bridge parts at between 5 - 20% faster than the 2600K. The biggest advantages show up in either the lightly threaded tests or in the FP heavy benchmarks. Given what we know about Ivy's enhancements, this is exactly what we'd expect.
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sabot00 - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - linkHow long will Intel keep its HD Graphics increases? Reply
MonkeyPaw - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - linkI don't understand the logic of selling a high end CPU with the best IGP. Seems like anyone running an it isn't going to stick with the IGP for games, and if they aren't gaming, then what good is that high-end GPU? Maybe the entire "Core i" line should use the HD 4000. Reply
Flunk - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - linkBecause the low end chips are just die-harvested high end chips it makes sense. No reason to disable it so they leave it on.
And some people do actually use high end processors with IGPs. It's fairly easy to get one from a major OEM. It's stupid but most people don't know any better. Reply
aahkam - Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - linkFunny comments I saw.
What's wrong even if the High End CPU that comes with IGP?
Is High End CPU = Gaming Machine CPU? If that is your logic, you're a rich but shallow boy!
I do lots of Video Editing and Transcoding, I need High End CPU but None of the High End GPU beats Quick Sync in Transcoding in terms of Quality and Speed. Reply
dqniel - Friday, April 6, 2012 - link"and if they aren't gaming, then what good is that high-end GPU?"
I feel like you missed that part. He's not saying that only gamers use high-end CPUs. He's saying that gamers using a high-end CPU won't care about the high-end iGPU because they won't use it. Also, non-gamers who need a high-end CPU generally won't see the benefits of the included high-end iGPU. So, he proposes that the better niche for the high-end iGPU would be on the more affordable CPUs, because then budget-minded gamers could buy an affordable CPU that has a relatively powerful iGPU integrated into it. Reply
defter - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - linkThis is a mid-range CPU, not high-end one.
High desktop CPUs (i7 3800-3900) don't have IGP. Reply
KoolAidMan1 - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - linkIt is because laptops continue to get slimmer and slimmer. Getting good GPU performance without the compromises on the chassis that a dedicated GPU would force is the point. Reply
Tormeh - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - linkThis.
My next laptop will have processor graphics for the sake of battery life and size, and whoever has the best graphics gets my money. Reply
bznotins - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - linkSeconded. Reply
aguilpa1 - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - linkIf the 4000HD is on the level of lets say a 560m I would not hesitate to get a laptop with no dedicated graphics but if it isn't I'm still going to go for the dedicated. Reply


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Every June when the Seton Hill WPF summer residency coincides with the WPF Alumni Retreat, we have more than one hundred authors on that beautiful campus. So of course, there is always a massive booksigning on the weekend at the Barnes and Noble in Greensburg, PA.
The signing this year included authors like Michael A. Arnzen, Shelley Bates, Sally Bosco, Mike Brendan, Tobias Buckell, Christe M. Callabro, Lawrence C. Connolly, A. G. Devitt, Alexa Grave, Anne Harris,, W. H. Horner, Scott A. Johnson, Lee Tobin McClain, Rhonda Mason, Heidi Ruby Miller, Jason Jack Miller, Donna Munroe, and Patrick Picciarelli. Many apologies if I forgot anyone.
Shelley Bates, Sally Bosco, and Heidi Ruby Miller
W. H. Horner brought some great promotional pins (like the one I'm wearing in the previous picture) for the Sails and Sorcery: Tales of Nautical Fantasy anthology coming out next month and the debut of FE Comics in December with The Fracture, a comic by Chun Lee and Diana Dru Botsford.
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Photo by Bill Kearney Cafeine Wynwood Lounge's interior bar.
Meanwhile, over the causeway the Wynwood and downtown scenes are proving you don't need D-list celebrities and French doormen to find success. White Room, Vagabond and Electric Pickle usually have long lines on any given night, while newcomer Bardot has to turn people away in order stay within fire code.
But it's the newest crop of venues that has us feeling that the area is finally coming into its own. First up is Cafeina Wynwood Lounge (297 NW 23rd Street, Miami), located on the fringes of Wynwood. The gorgeously decorated lounge-meets-art-gallery could rival any South Beach establishment. With its indoor and outdoor spaces it reminds us a bit of Karu & Y, except the latter was a monstrosity of a venue that couldn't pull in enough bodies. Cafeina on the other hand is modest in size,
but big enough that the amount of bathrooms -- two private bathrooms, one for each gender -- is criminally inappropriate. Actually, I've been told Cafeina has additional bathrooms that are accessible through the garden.
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Bar's exterior.
Instead, the venue has vastly improved on PS14's ghastly decor. Gone is the rundown and deary look replaced by murals done by local artist Freegums. The exciting thing about Bar is that every two months a new local artist will come in and revamp the space, which ought to keep the place buzzing.
The lazily named venue is brought to you by Aaron Bondaroff and Al Moran, the same duo responsible for Allapattah gallery O.H.W.O.W. Actually, we give them some credit, the actual name of the venue isn't so much "Bar" per se as it is a black rectangular shape -- but we guess "black rectangular shape" isn't such a great name either.
If you need more incentive to check the space out, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone returns to Miami January 22 to play at the venue, which is hardly a block away from Ice Palace, where he performed previously for NADA Art Fair's opening party in 2008.


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Here are the major things that I touched in the last few months:
We have continued to use LibreOffice for almost all of our employees, and after a few point releases upgraded to version 4.2 The filters continue to improve, and stability is improving too. We don't often get reports of hard crashes. We're down to mostly questions of how to use features, and from time to time issues with imports of the various and different OOXML formats. What's interesting about LibreOffice is that as the years go by, younger employees are less impassioned for using Microsoft Office. There seems to be a greater acceptance in just working with different software packages. I think this might be rooted in the fact that every phone or tablet you pick up has different software and at a certain point you realize they can all help you reach the same destination. Many thousands of documents are touched each day and work is getting done -- with no license costs!
We changed over to the SIFR theme Citywide, which are all monochrome. More and more software packages are moving in this direction it seems, and now LO better matches their appearance.
The Alfresco connector works great in LO and we have been testing that as well with success and considering deployment options. Alfresco is still in a test mode, and not widely used beyond IT employees.
A few weeks ago we received a new monster server (described below), and it's been tradition for me to break in these machines for a short period of time by allowing them to be used to better open source projects. We loaded Linux on this server and put it on the Internet for the LibreOffice developers. They used it to do their stress test of various problem documents and test the filters into the different file formats. Always nice to help as we can.
In Firefox 26 a patch was merged that basically broke honoring umask for downloaded files. This was a really bad bug for us and made it impossible to upgrade. On multi-user servers it's important the files honor the permissions we want -- to make it easier for users to share files. We finally ended up putting out a few dollars to pay for a few hours of work to get a patch written and integrated and it's working like a champ once again. We were able to install and deploy Firefox 31. The only problem we had with the upgrade was related to changes in the way that bookmarks are retained and work, and once this was understood we made changes on the server and it's working as expected. Firefox 31 also contains new monochrome artwork which better fits into our consistent desktop look and feel.
Support Portal
Our internally developed support portal software application has advanced further and was fitted with a new monochrome theme. I have been changing certain aspects of how user information displays to make it easier to understand the device used to connect to our network. BYOD tablets and laptops are not supported by our staff, and now we can clearly see they are using a personal device.
Federico was awesome to help me understand how to use pygtkChart from within glade/python to finally use *real* charts. This has been a huge help and reduced the lines of code greatly.
The support portal has been fetching information from our Linux servers regarding user counts, load, disk and memory stats. With the help with our internal Windows Admins, we're now fetching from MS Windows servers too. This helps us greatly by alerting us when we reach certain thresholds. Very awesome.
GNOME Desktop To New Hardware
We are moving our production GNOME desktop to new physical hardware. After some discussions and reviewing work loads, we decided for now to stay with GNOME 2. The older server was cloned and was finally moved to the new hardware. The server is 100% solid state drives with 80 hyperthreaded cores. This increased capacity was needed for the next project:
Moving From Remote X to NX Technology
Using remote X has been a wonderful thing for us the last 20 years with our thin clients, but new requirements from end users are changing that landscape. Roaming desktops are the top most requested feature, and we have decided to move from X to NX and run sessions fully stateless and server based. We have been working closely with the fine folks at Nomachine to implement in our enterprise using version 4.2. We're not quite there yet, but getting very close. The short summary status:
-- Workstations with NX
We have two workstation thin client models and I have been able to get the NX client running on both. Logging in and resuming sessions is very stable. Our older HP thin client is struggling a bit with some Flash content, and I'm working with NoMachine on some optimizations to try and allow these devices to finish their duty cycle. All other aspects are working very quickly on thin clients using the NX protocol. I'm typing this blog from the oldest workstation and response is quick and crisp. NX is especially noticed in Firefox when scrolling through pages. Certain pages are starting to get slower over remote X -- NX will be a nice upgrade in that regard.
-- Tablets with NX
The iPad client was finally released, and I have been testing this along with Nomachine for Android with good results. The ability to interact with software not designed for "Touch" is better than expected and our users are very excited. I rolled out a few pilot tablets just yesterday and have already gotten good feedback.
So a very brief update. I have a few more blogs that I want to post in the coming days regarding specifics of these projects in the hopes they assist others. Next up, is how we are solving the issue of allow users to configure their own personal tablets without IT intervention.


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Funny Games (1998)
Critic Consensus: Violent images and blunt audience provocation make up this nihilistic experiment from one of cinema's more difficult filmmakers.
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The film outstays its welcome and is more than a little too knowing in its manipulation of standard audience expectations for the genre.
Brilliant, radical, provocative, it's a masterpiece that is at times barely watchable.
The emotions of the victims are clear and complex -- their conflicts dominate our experience of the narrative as powerfully as all the devices telling us to look elsewhere for the movie's themes.
The basic puzzle is why this sophisticated director chose this tired formula.
This beautifully acted and paced German variant of Cape Fear ... is tricked out with a number of Brechtian devices to catch audiences in a voyeuristic trance.
Yet we, as the audience, are invited to participate in their amoral game, and soon we have to question our own feelings, lest they stray too close to the vicious antagonists we are rooting against.
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A brilliant narrative exercise that cleverly plays with the conventions of mainstream Cinema to create a cruel and merciless experience for the viewers, who are forced to face their own taste for (and obsession with) violence and is refused any sort of catharsis or relief.
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Home invasion films are nothing new, and there have been quite a few films in the last few years that really have reinvigorated the genre, most notable You're Next and The Strangers. But Michael Haneke's 1997 film Funny Games ranks among one of the finest genre films and it's a brilliantly crafted picture, one that steadily builds up the tension and takes you on a nightmarish journey through hell. The cast are great in their roles and there is enough tension on-screen to grab your attention from beginning to end. What makes this such a twisted viewing is the fact that the villains are unrelenting and are truly menacing. The film is unflinching in its brutality, and Haneke's direction brilliantly conveys the dire situation that the characters go through. In terms of a horror film, Funny Games succeeds on many levels, and it's one that definitely goes for the human psyche and in doing so makes feel uncomfortable throughout the film. Like I said, home invasion films are not new, but when done right, they tend to succeed at being a truly disturbing and memorable horror film. That is the case with Funny Games, this film will stay with you long after you've seen it, and if you enjoy a well crafted, disturbing piece of horror, then this film is for you. The film has everything you'd expect from a good horror film and if you're a diehard horror fan, you definitely should give this one a viewing. With a great story, terrific acting and directing, Funny Games is an accomplished horror film that stands out among the genre as one of the best home invasion films ever made.
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A charming small Chinese earthenware figure of a seated woman, dating from the Tang Dynasty. The woman, with elaborate hair style, is seated and eating from a bowl which she is holding. An interesting, more intimate, figure than the more typical standing court ladies from the Tang Dynasty. Height 9.5cm (3.7")
Provenance: by repute, from Khalil Rizk, The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York.
Date: Tang Dynasty (618-906)
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Does harsh winter leave your lips all chapped? Here is one balm that fixes that dry lip, like it wasn't ever there. The Organic Harvest Green Apple lip therapy balm is just that, plus an added benefit of it being Au naturale and free of harmful chemicals.
Packaging: A hard plastic outer shell with a twist and lock cap, inside which is the half ball of balm that is easy to apply.
Active Ingredients: Organic certified lanolin, Peppermint oil, BHT, Vitamin E and food grade mint flavor.
Price: INR 199/- for 10g
Availability: Very few cities have the Organic Harvest Exclusive stores, but it is available in few Supermarkets (more info on their website). Although, available with most of the e-retailers including Flipkart, eBay, Bigbasket, Amazon and OrganicShop.in
Claims: No added colours, Free of Paraben, PABA, Mineral oil and Animal Ingredients
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For those of you not illiterate in three separate languages, we got a new artificial Christmas tree this year. Today was the day to put it up!
Yes, we need to get that ornament at the very top a bit more straight as seen from this side.
From this side it looks much better.
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John Green, author of "The Fault in Our Stars," poses during an interview in New York on Monday, June 2, 2014. The book has been adapted into a feature film starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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It's the first of Green's best-selling books to go Hollywood after he was won over by the script's dedication to his characters in the clutches of adolescence. Oh, and it didn't hurt that one of the producers was a huge Liverpool soccer club fan like Green.Already a rock star among young readers, mostly of the teen girl variety, the Orlando, Florida-raised Green, the guy who looks straight out of central casting as Unassuming Writer, now walks red carpets, clowns on morning TV and banters with new BFF Nat Wolff and the movie's other young stars, Shailene Woodley and newcomer Ansel Elgort.So, can Green hold on to his mojo?Green doesn't love that term.Green was an early YouTuber.Until now, Green's off-the-page life has been exclusively small screen.This year, Green made Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people.


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