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Vincent T. video's are so fun to watch and learn by...love his big smile when he takes out the finished bake! What a great bakerman! Saved in favorites :) I wish for him to have his own bakery someday!
to watch !
these look so yummy, can't even think about the pale immitations from Safeway, which while good, are usually underbaked, and no where near as crispy as those looked to be.
Am just going to have to try making some for myself! YUM!
And he's sporting a goatee!
Gosh, he's amazing!
Hope Pat stops by to see the sheeter porn. ;-)
Thanks - makes me happy just watching him.
That man is ORGANIZED!!
Thank you so much for posting this video!
The shaping demonstrations are fantastic, the baked goods are gorgeous, and I really want a sheeter.
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How come no one is commenting about that roller machine?!? That thing is freakin cool.
it was a reapeat for me. But yes the sheeter is really cool. Just ask Proth5 she wants one! LOL So do I, it sure would make the croissants easier to roll out, but hey, mine didn't turn out too bad, just not great for a first try.
I have my thoughts on a home version that I want to see if I can't make, it won't be as fancy or neat as that one, but it will roll the dough and that is the thing right?
He must be making from all those eggs he cracks, but its nothing like any pastry cream filling I've seen a recipe for, since all of those only use the egg yolks!
I want it, I hate separating eggs! Besides it looks so much richer than anyother I've seen either!


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Kent State Student Gets an Experience of a Lifetime at the Super Bowl
Kent State University's TeleProductions crew and satellite truck provided support capabilities for the BBC's live broadcast of the Super Bowl in New Orleans. Senior electronic media production major Dan LeBeau was part of the TeleProductions crew at the Super Bowl. Other crew members included Jeff Bentley, Dan Tonneli, Bill Kennedy and Jason Forbes.
LeBeau was responsible for setting up the equipment. He took all of the necessary equipment up to the booth and provided expertise on how to use it to the BBC crew members. LeBeau needed to make sure everything ran well in the Super Dome itself.
"Almost everybody in this industry wants to be involved in a Super Bowl production," LeBeau says. "I think it's only natural that TeleProductions is bringing a student employee along for the Super Bowl. It certainly shows the level of commitment that the staff has for student training, and it highlights the level of trust that they have in my abilities."
PM TV hired the TeleProductions' satellite truck for the BBC's use. They went through a long negotiation process to ensure the equipment met all of the requirements in order to have a successful broadcast. This type of production is unlike anything TeleProductions has done in the past.
"The real champions of the show are our outstanding technical crew," says Bentley, executive producer of Kent State Sports Network. "Our client, the BBC, was very particular about what they wanted. Our crew was able to be creative and solve the critical needs they requested."
The TeleProductions crew made their way down to New Orleans on Jan. 30. Upon arriving at the site, they set the truck up to begin broadcasting the game. The set-up for the game took about three days.
The day of the Super Bowl, the crew had a final production meeting and went through the final set-up. The crew had to make sure the audio and equipment was set up the way the BBC crew wanted. The crew partnered with a director, tech, graphic, audio and talent from the BBC.
"Our crew was awesome and our client was very happy with our efforts," says Bentley. "We are continually trying to establish new clients, and this gives us the opportunity to increase our visibility and reputation as a capable and reliable production and satellite provider."
LeBeau says it was fun working on this large of a scale.
"Working with their crew was great," LeBeau says. "They work with some different technology than we work with. Seeing what they used gave us a different perspective than we are used to. I am very proud of what our crew did. I think we have come a very long way since our crew got this truck. This really shows what we are capable of. I think it should be a big point of pride for our university and our department."
"TeleProductions' involvement with the Super Bowl is a testament to its reputation and the extremely high level of professionalism, performance detail and overall capability of the team. We view this as an important validation," says Mark Bussey, director of technology at TeleProductions.


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By Liam Jackson and Andrea Messer, Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK – In the future, nurses may more accurately detect and alleviate symptoms of delirium in persons with dementia, thanks to a five-year, $2.7-million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research.
The project, led by Donna Fick, professor of nursing, Penn State, seeks to improve nurses' assessment skills and reduce the use of drugs to treat delirium and dementia.
Delirium and dementia have similar symptoms — decline in cognitive abilities such as memory, attention, and problem solving — but they have radically different causes and treatments. Dementia is a chronic, progressive condition that increases with age. Delirium, in contrast, is an acute condition that has a rapid onset and results from insults to the body, such as dehydration, infection, or a drug side effect.
"Delirium is reversible, preventable and treatable," said Fick.
About 40 percent of patients with dementia also develop bouts of delirium, a condition known as "Delirium Superimposed on Dementia" or DSD. The condition substantially worsens outcomes in a population who are already burdened by functional decline, said Fick.
Sorting through the various types of cognitive decline is not easy, according to Fick. Unfortunately, some doctors and nurses automatically opt for a drug treatment, which can lead to further problems including falls or worsened delirium.
Fick's solution is a multifaceted training approach that she will implement and test in three hospitals: one in urban Tennessee and two in rural Pennsylvania. She and her colleagues will integrate electronic medical records as one component of the training. They are testing an approach that provides decision-making support and integrates reminders to check for specific symptoms. This approach is already used to assess the risk of falling and the integrity of the skin.
The project will establish a nursing opinion leader on the staff who will encourage evidence-based practices to treat delirium and dementia. These leaders will also be reliable information sources for nurses.
The training incorporates a weekly feedback session for nurses and the use of video, in person presentations, articles, case studies, on-line presentations — narrated power point — for continuing education.
In addition to assessing whether the training helps nurses distinguish between delirium and dementia and choose non-drug treatment options, the study will assess how effectively the approach improves patients' health.
In past research, Fick found that nurses are common initiators of drug treatments, so educating nurses is the most efficient way to address the medication issues. A survey she conducted on nurses who deal with dementia and delirium patients showed that 32 percent of nurses would call a physician to ask for medication in a patient with DSD before trying other non-drug approaches to the problem.
"Not recognizing and treating these conditions efficiently can result in people being put in nursing homes quicker, higher health care costs, and in the worst-case scenario early death," said Fick.
Other researchers on the project include Ann Kolanowski, the Elouise Ross Eberly Professor in the School of Nursing, and Dee McGonigle, associate professor of nursing and information sciences and technology, Penn State; Sharon Inouye, the Milton and Shirley F. Levy Family Chair in Alzheimer's Disease and professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; Lorraine Mion, Independence Foundation professor of nursing, Vanderbilt University; Jennifer Waller, associate professor of biostatics, Medical College of Georgia; and Malaz A. Boustani, associate professor, Indiana University Center for Aging Research.


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Weber Shandwick today was named to Advertising Age's Agency A-List, the annual ranking of the nation's best advertising and marketing firms. For the second year in a row, Weber Shandwick is the only public relations firm to be recognised on the Agency A-List. Advertising Age affirmed, "Public relations agencies don't typically take the lead on digital or creative services or come up with risky ideas. But Weber Shandwick…isn't just any PR agency."
Advertising Age pointed to Weber Shandwick's leadership in driving the transformation of the industry, highlighting the firm's award-winning content publishing offering, Mediaco, as a strong digital growth driver, as well as successful investments in data and analytics, and the debut of the firm's full-service advertising boutique, Sawmill. The firm was also recognised for its double-digit growth in 2014, on top of double-digit growth the previous year, in addition to the firm's success in maintaining 100 percent of its top 30 clients, winning new assignments from more than half of those top clients, and being named advertising, digital and social agency of record for major clients in 2014. Read more in Ad Age's full write-up here.
"The Advertising Age A-List represents the industry's most innovative and successful ad agencies, the shops that are moving the industry forward," said Matt Quinn, executive editor of Advertising Age. "That was especially true this year, when many honourees transformed themselves by broadening their capabilities and becoming more strategic partners to their clients."
"We've ventured beyond traditional lines to integrate social, digital, content, publishing, advertising, PR and public affairs into solutions that drive business results for our clients," said Andy Polansky, Chief Executive Officer, Weber Shandwick. "We are so proud of our exceptionally collaborative team around the world who bring our "engaging, always." vision to life every day in the work we do and the way we work with each other. This is a tribute to them and our incredible client partners."
The A-List recognition comes on the heels of several industry honours earned by Weber Shandwick, including being named The Holmes Report's 2014 Global Agency of the Year, as well as being named a Best Place to Work by Ad Age in 2014 and PRWeek in 2013 and 2014.
The firm continues to deepen its capabilities in public relations and across the marketing services industry, adding to its strong legacy of innovation in the digital era. This includes Mediaco, the firm's award-winning content publishing and distribution offering that delivers a comprehensive and consultative approach to brands as media; Mediaco Publish, a custom content management system (CMS) developed by the firm's content technology unit specifically for brand content operations; GoLive, the firm's real-time production and live-streaming capability that incorporates live storytelling, broadcast quality-production and social distribution; and firebell, the firm's award-winning, proprietary application that allows clients to participate in real-time online crisis simulation drills in a secure, off the-internet environment.
The Advertising Age Agency A-List has been celebrating the best agencies in the advertising and marketing business since the mid-1970s. Ad Age editors make their selections based on elements including creativity, financial performance, innovation and the ability to build clients' businesses. The franchise expanded in recent years to honour a broader range of shops and reflect changes in the marketing and media business.


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American Myth
Jackie Greene'sophomore release is quite different from his debut according to the artist. "Sweet Somewhere Bound" was a solo effort and the songs reflected that in both spirit and arrangement. "American Myth" emerges as a band effort with songs that allow all the players to contribute their individual talents to Greene's American-life-style themed songs. In addition to Greene's work on sterling guitar, dobro, piano, organ and harmonica is Elvis Costello's Rhythm section - bassist Davey Fragher and drummer Pete Thomas. Also contributing to the release is guitarists Val McCallum and Greg Leisz and Tex-Mex accordionist Joel Guzman. At the producing helm is the multi-talented Steve Berlin of Los Lobos fame who also adds percussion, vibes and mellotron playing to his list of duties. Each songs offers an immediacy that comes from recording the songs live to tape and using analog gear for ambience. What Greene was after in the recording was the sound of the classic records he grew up admiring - Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Muddy Water and Leadbelly. He's succeeded in leaping from folk balladeer to bona fide rocker without losing the delicacy of his lyrical folk roots. Greene says, "These songs are all intended to paint a picture of Amercia, in a sort of a non-specific way. The characters in the songs are all American: the waitress with the tattoo, the mayor kissing babies, the drag queen, the sailors, the socialite." Driving the songs is Greene's evocative vocals and vivid imagery, whether he's belting out the rollicking single, "I'm So Gone" or delivering the beautifully sweet "Love Song; 2:00 AM."


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Our FLGS here in Dover, Ohio is probably no different than a lot of FLGS. There's an overwhelming presence of Magic the Gathering and a splash of D&D5th. Last week, my gaming group unanimously decided to play at the store, for several reasons - some out of a lack of old school representation, others to attracting new players. We played last night and were surprised at the amount of interest our gaming attracted. We have a new player, and possibly several more to join us in the continuation of our descent into the Barrowmaze.
SW proved easier for brand new players to grasp and before long, they were playing like old hands.


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ONE OF THE reasons I became a geologist was the maps. I will never have enough walls in my house for all the beautiful geologic maps I'd love to hang. But these maps are also full of information about the surface of the Earth, with hints of what is below and what came before. There are colors for different ages of rocks, patterns for different kinds of rock, and lines for faults, elevation and boundaries between rock layers.
One of the best things I ever got to do in school was make geologic maps. There are compasses, hand lenses, rock hammers, measuring staffs and colored pencils involved. You get to go out, find the rocks, determine what formation they belong to, which direction those formations extend and how steeply their layers are sloping. You get to draw all that information on the map, and then color it in. It's really fun and also challenging, and very satisfying.
Some of the most memorable geologic maps I've seen have been of national parks. Maybe that's because the parks are one of the few places where you will easily be able to find, and buy, a geologic map of the place you are in at that moment. It also doesn't hurt that these maps reflect the landscapes they depict, and the landscapes are usually pretty amazing in the national parks.
In this post, I've used some of my favorite maps of national parks to explain the basics of how geologic maps work, and how to read them.
Arches National Park
Utah is lousy with beautiful national parks. Thanks to the uplift of the Colorado Plateau on which the state sits, many layers of relatively easily eroded sedimentary rocks, and sparse desert vegetation, the landscape of bare rock is beautifully layered and carved into canyons, cliffs, and many crazy shapes including natural arches. Arches National Park is in the southeastern part of Utah at the upper edge of a swath of land extending to the state's southwestern corner that also contains (from east to west) Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks.
The geologic map of the area is dominated by shades of green because most of the rocks at the surface are Triassic, which means they were formed between about 200 million and 250 million years ago and are part of the Mesozoic era. Rocks of this age are often represented by various greens.
To the left is a snippet of this map's explanation, which is a description of all the rock formations and units found on the map. Everywhere on the map that you see the colors in the explanation, you'll find the corresponding formations on the ground. Each geologic time period has its own color scheme (though there is not complete agreement among geologists about which colors belong to which period). For example, the oldest rocks on the planet were formed during the Precambrian era (from around 540 million years to more than 4 billion years ago), and are usually represented in shades of red and pink.
Each colored area on the map also has a a letter symbol, which you can see in the explanation boxes, though they'll be hard to see at the scale of the map above. Follow the link below to open a higher-resolution version, and you'll see more of these details. All the Triassic-age formations have a Tr preceding the first letter of the formation name. You may have noticed that the Navajo Sandstone has a J in front of the Tr. This because it spans the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic time periods.
The descriptions of each formation should be enough for a geologist to be able to identify those formations in the Arches area. Many of these formations are found all over the intermountain west, and their specific characteristics – such as grain size, thickness and color – vary in other locations. The Navajo sandstone, for example, can also be found in parts of Nevada, Arizona and Colorado.
Some geologic maps include what are called cross sections, such as the one included below the Arches map at the top of the post. This is an interpretation of what a vertical slice of the crust below the surface looks like. Geologists use clues on the surface, such as the angle the rock layers are sloping (known as the dip) and thickness of the layers, to guess what lies beneath. The location of the cross section is shown on the map with a line drawn between the capital letters A and A'. (You can see the whole cross-section line on the full-resolution map.)
Yellowstone National Park
Some of the colored areas on geologic maps are overlain by patterns, including dots, stripes, triangles, grids and many more. These patterns are used to distinguish different rock types, and different rock formations of the same age.
In the examples below from Yellowstone National Park, two formations of the same age (Triassic) are the same color, but the volcanic rocks have a pattern made out of the letter V, and the Pinyon Conglomerate has dots. The Heart Lake Conglomerate also has dots, but was deposited in the most recent geologic period, known as the Quaternary (from 2.6 million years ago to the present), which is usually colored in tan and yellow shades.
Gneiss and schist are types of metamorphic rocks and have a mixed pattern, while the sedimentary formations at the far right have subtle diagonal stripes. All these patterns help geologists read the map and understand the geology.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Geologic maps of volcanoes are often really beautiful because they show a bunch of different lava flows of different ages, and therefore different colors, radiating from the volcano's vent. Hawaii's Big Island has the added bonus of multiple vents.
It's easy to see in this map that geologic maps are built on top of topographic maps. The topo lines represent different elevations, and each topo line tracks a single elevation. On Hawaii, which is a mountain, most of the topo lines make parallel rings of rising elevation around the island.
The image above is a bare topo map of the southeastern part of the island. The boundary of the strangely shaped national park is outlined by a black dashed line highlighted in yellow.
Grand Canyon National Park
If you've only seen one geologic map in your life (before today), it may have been this one. The geologic map of Grand Canyon National Park is a really good map. The canyon was formed when the river carved through layers and layers of sedimentary rock that had been laid down long before. Because the layers haven't been disturbed too much by tectonic forces bending and tilting them, they are still basically horizontal. This makes for an appealing pattern of different colors tracing the same spidery pattern.
Boundaries between rock formations are marked by thin black lines (as opposed to the thicker black lines that designate faults). You can see that those boundary lines run pretty much right along the faint topographic lines on the base layer of the map. As you move through the colors from the outside of the pattern to the inside, you are moving down the sides of the canyon wall, and into older and older rock.
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
This park covers more territory than many European countries, with 13.2 million acres of rugged, wild terrain filled with glaciers, mountains, bears, moose and eagles. Most of the park can only be reached by plane, which means it is an excellent place to get away from everyone.
Like much of Alaska, the geology of this park is a complicated mash-up of large chunks of crust known as terranes that came from different places and were thrust together. Thrust faults are the result of one chunk of crust being pushed up on top of another, and they are represented on geologic maps as a think black line with black triangular teeth on the side that has been thrust up.
Normal faults, where the ground on one side of the fault is sliding down relative to the ground on the other side, are marked with black lines that become dotted where the fault can't be seen at the surface. Strike slip faults look the same, but have arrows on either side of the line to show that the crust on one side of the fault is sliding horizontally relative to the crust on the other side.
This map's legend has some other neat symbols for dikes, calderas, ash, glaciers, and historical glacier extents.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The amount of detail in this map gives it a different, more dense look than the other maps in this gallery. It may look messy, but every one of those little specks and dots is a piece of geologic information. In the close-up piece of the map to the right, you can see that many of the little marks are lines with a number next to them. These are strike and dip symbols that geologists use to indicate which way a layer of rock is extending into the crust below.
Sedimentary rocks are laid down horizontally, but are often later tilted by tectonic forces. When geologists find a sedimentary layer, they use a special compass that has a leveling bubble and what's called an inclinometer, to find the maximum angle of the layer's dip. The numbers next to the little lines are dip measurements, and the dip direction is indicated by a little tick mark on the side of the line. The line represents the strike, which runs parallel to the dip direction. Using these measurements, geologists can get a picture of what is going on under the surface to help them make cross sections like the one above.
In the example to the right, you can see that most of the strikes are running diagonally up and to the right. The dip measurements in the beige area are indicating the layers are dipping down to the left of the strike. But in the blue area to the left, the beds are dipping the opposite way. In between the two areas, you'll see there's a thrust fault that has pushed the blue formation on top of the beige formation.
Bryce Canyon National Park
Like Arches National Park, much of the landscape in this park was carved by wind and water erosion over time. Bryce's famously crazy looking spires, known as hoodoos, were also eroded by a process known as frost wedging, where water trapped in cracks in the rock freezes, expands and pushes the crack open further, eventually breaking off chunks of rock.
In the map above you can also see another major geologic feature. The sharp boundary between the rocks colored in green and blue on the right side of the map, and the brown and pink rocks to the left is a branch of the Paunsaugunt fault. This normal fault has moved older rocks on the right side up and juxtaposed them against younger rocks on the left. This is easier to visualize with the bit of cross section expanded below.
You may notice that some of the yellow areas on the map seem to run right across the fault without being affected. These are sediments that were deposited after the most recent motion on the fault occurred.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
I've never been to this Texas national park, which sits just under the border with New Mexico. But this map can tell something about how it looks. The topo lines in the grey area at the top of the map show that there are some steep-sided canyons. By looking at the descriptions of those formations in the explanation (you can see this on the high-resolution map, link below), I know that those rocks are actually grey and black in person.
It's also easy to see a fault zone running through the middle of the map. All the lines running nearly parallel from the upper left down to the middle of the map are normal faults. You can see what effect these faults have had on the terrain by looking at the cross sections below.
Olympic National Park
The Olympic peninsula is a classic example of what geologists call a subduction complex. Long ago, the ocean plate was forced under the North American plate in a process called subduction. As the plate was subducted, some of the sea floor sediments, seamounts and ocean crust were scraped off the top and shoved up against the continent.
This jumbled pile of rocks accumulated into what is known as an accretionary wedge. Eventually this wedge was pushed up onto the continent to form the peninsula. This history helps explain the somewhat chaotic look of the map. A close-up of the formations in the expanded bit of the map below looks even more messed up.
The Pacific plate is still being subducted beneath the Pacific Northwest today. Heating of the subducted plate is what fuels the region's volcanoes, including Mount St. Helens.


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Baruch College and IBM Announce Winners of
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$8,500 in Prize Money and Resources to Help Students
Launch Their Own Business
Rolando Franco, Executive IT Architect with IBM (left) congratulates Dwight Peters, a Baruch undergraduate Entrepreneurship major, who won first place in the SmartPitch Challenge, hosted by Baruch College and IBM.
NEW YORK, NY- June 7, 2013 -- Student entrepreneurs from New York City colleges and universities made their final pitches in hopes of becoming the winner of the 11th Annual SmartPitch Challenge. The Top 10 teams made their presentations on June 6 and the winner was Dwight Peters, an undergraduate Baruch College Entrepreneurship major who founded CrowdCases.com, a company that manufactures custom designed, limited edition iPhone and Samsung Galaxy cases to support nonprofit organizations fundraising for their causes.
Alon Hillel-Tuch, founder of Rockethub and one of the judges, said the competition this year was extremely close, with the top winners scoring only .04 points from each other. "A lot of the companies were really good at focusing on serving that local angle," he said.
SmartPitch is a partnership of the CUNY Institute for Virtual Enterprise (IVE), the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship at Baruch College and IBM.�The SmartPitch Challenge, which began Feb. 1, required student teams to participate in a series of workshops, mentor working groups and business plan development meetings that included the creation of 30-second video pitches about their proposed business. Baruch professors and industry professionals worked with teams to polish their business concepts and plans, gain access to resources, and receive support and advice.
The top 10 teams were invited to present their elevator pitches during the final event held on June 6 at the CUNY Center on East 42nd Street. The panel of judges included Eric Apse, a partner of IBM Venture Capital Group; Monica Dean, Director of Baruch's Field Center for Entrepreneurship; Dale Grant, President of Grant Associates Inc, a national workforce development company; Cristian Ossa, Angel Investor and co-founder of GiftCertificates.com; and Alon Hillel-Tuch, founder of Rockethub, an international crowd-funding service that lets entrepreneurs connect with their target audience.
The Top 5 winners received $8,500 (collectively) in prize money and were invited to participate in a virtual business incubator that provides resources to help launch their businesses. The incubator includes: a two-day entrepreneurship boot camp, incubator space, expert IBM mentorships, an opportunity to fundraise through Rockethub, access to the entrepreneurship network in virtual and real space, and access to stipends and angel investors. The top 5 winners were selected based on their business plan, creativity and ability to meet the need of consumers.
The TOP 5 WINNERS ARE:
1ST PLACE (awarded $5,000)
CrowdCases.com: a B2B style company founded by Baruch undergraduate Entrepreneurship major Dwight Peters, of Co-op City in the Bronx, that manufactures custom designed, limited edition iPhone and Samsung Galaxy cases. Each week, designers can submit their custom designs to support a nonprofit organization fundraising for a cause. The winning design (voted on through social media) will receive a cash prize and will get their design manufactured. CrowdCases donates $7 for each iPhone or Galaxy case sold to the nonprofit organization. To date, 300 designers have signed up and he is accepting applications for nonprofit organizations. The site plans to expand to include case designs for kindle and other tablet cases.
2nd PLACE (awarded $2,500)
Sohha Savory Yogurt: Made from a family recipe featuring sea salt, cultures and the highest quality milk rich in omega-3 fatty acids, this Greek yogurt is savory in taste and offers an alternative to other popular high-sugar Greek yogurts. It does not contain any genetically modified ingredients. Baruch MBA student John Fout plans to combine the yogurt with vegetables and other savory toppings like spices and nuts, as is popular in Mediterranean countries, and introduce this to the U.S. market. Sohha Greek Yogurt is made from a yogurt plant in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. It is available in local farmers markets in Park Slope, Bushwick, and Morningside Heights. Fout plans to distribute the yogurt to specialty stores in NYC or for purchase via mobile app for next day delivery in New York City.
3rd PLACE (awarded $1,000)
GetKosher.com: a user-friendly website founded by Baruch undergraduate finance student Morris Sued that makes it fast and easy to get delivery from kosher restaurants. Initially launched in Brooklyn, GetKosher.com offers service from 30 Midwood, Brooklyn area kosher restaurants. Launched six months ago, GetKosher.com has received approximately 500 orders and has received wide promotion through social media and blogs. The website offers restaurants a more cost effective delivery service and a more reliable way of ordering kosher food for the general public. Morris plans to expand to Queens, the Five Towns area and Manhattan. By offering its own delivery service, GetKosher.com will also be able to sell its own products, such as beverages and snacks.
4th PLACE (receives access to the virtual business incubator)
Coufsa: Baruch undergraduate finance major Eli Attias, from Lawrence, Long Island, created Coufsa, a service that will partner with shipping companies such as Fedex or UPS to offer retailers a way to advertise and offer coupons utilizing the blank spaces on packages sent to a targeted list of consumers by zipcode. Coufsa will offer an integrated and online system where advertisers will be able to check, scan, and print the advertisements that are most relevant to the consumer in that zipcode. The shippers will then be able to check where the packages are going, which retailer sent the package, and which advertisement was put on. Advertisers will pay Coufsa, and Coufsa will pay the shippers on a per package basis. �Coufsa's goal is to have advertisers in every zip code connect with retailers from across the country.
5th PLACE (receives access to the virtual business incubator)
Outdoor Project: Started by Ronald Zorrilla, a Baruch undergraduate finance major of College Point, Queens, Outdoor Project is a 501c (3) nonprofit organization that will partner with the NYC public school system, as well as religious and cultural institutions to offer children between 3rd -8th grade experiences in the great outdoors. The organization already has existing partnerships with the National Park Service and Alley Pond Environmental Center. The organization offers two programs: NYC Explorers, which creates new park stewards by involving NYC youth to care for their local parks, and Urban Trailblazers, which offers hike experiences or camping trips to Northeast forests. The program will be offered to cultural and religious organizations for a fee. The goal is to promote a healthy, active lifestyle and help children learn more about their environment. The organization will focus on NYC youth whose families are below the poverty line.
The CUNY Institute for Virtual Enterprise (IVE) was a pioneer when it launched a social networking platform to provide virtual mentoring and resources for student entrepreneurs in 2007. To learn more about the SmartPitch Challenge, visit http://www.ive.cuny.edu/index.php.
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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Removing the magic
The "magic-removal" branch aims to make several sweeping changes to the Django codebase, removing warts that Django has accumulated over the years. Most changes involve the database API and removing some of its unneeded magic, and other changes involve improving the framework's simplicity and usability.
These changes will be integrated into the next Django release, 0.92.
This document explains the changes in the branch.
How to get the branch
Play with it! The branch is available via Subversion at http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/magic-removal .
Database changes you'll need to make
Rename core database tables
We've renamed a bunch of the code Django tables. To upgrade, execute this SQL in your database:
ALTER TABLE auth_groups RENAME TO auth_group; ALTER TABLE auth_groups_permissions RENAME TO auth_group_permissions; ALTER TABLE auth_messages RENAME TO auth_message; ALTER TABLE auth_permissions RENAME TO auth_permission; ALTER TABLE auth_users RENAME TO auth_user; ALTER TABLE auth_users_groups RENAME TO auth_user_groups; ALTER TABLE auth_users_user_permissions RENAME TO auth_user_user_permissions; ALTER TABLE content_types RENAME TO django_content_type; ALTER TABLE core_sessions RENAME TO django_session; ALTER TABLE django_flatpages RENAME TO django_flatpage; ALTER TABLE django_flatpages_sites RENAME TO django_flatpage_sites; ALTER TABLE django_redirects RENAME TO django_redirect; ALTER TABLE packages RENAME TO django_package; ALTER TABLE sites RENAME TO django_site;
Database table-naming scheme has been changed
Database table names formerly were created by joining the app_label and module_name. Example:
Because there's no longer any pluralization, database table names are now formed by joining the app_label and model name (singular). Example:
As always, this behavior can be overridden on a per-model basis by specifying the
db_table attribute in
class Meta in your model.
To upgrade, you'll either have to explicitly set
db_table in your models or rename your database tables to fit the new naming scheme Django expects.
Code changes you'll need to make
Model class and Field classes renamed/relocated
Change your models to import from
django.db.models instead of
from django.db import models class Person(models.Model): first_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30) last_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30)
Interact directly with model classes, not with magic modules
Import the model class directly from the module in which it was defined. No more
django.models.* magic.
from myproject.people.models import Person p = Person(first_name='John', last_name='Smith') p.save()
Namespace simplification
See NamespaceSimplification for details.
Changes to model syntax
class METAshould now be
class Meta. The latter is easier on the eyes.
module_nameis no longer a valid parameter to
class Meta.
Moved admin options to 'class Admin'
Instead of
admin=meta.Admin in the
class META, all admin options are in an inner
class Admin.
class Person(meta.Model): first_name = meta.CharField(maxlength=30) last_name = meta.CharField(maxlength=30) class META: admin = meta.Admin( list_display = ('first_name', 'last_name') )
class Person(models.Model): first_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30) last_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30) class Admin: list_display = ('first_name', 'last_name')
Model methods no longer automatically have access to datetime and db modules
Formerly, each model method magically had access to the
datetime module and to the variable
db, which represents the current database connection. Now, those have to be imported explicitly.
def some_method(self): print datetime.datetime.now() cursor = db.cursor() cursor.execute("UPDATE something;")
import datetime from django.db import connection # ... def some_method(self): print datetime.datetime.now() cursor = connection.cursor() cursor.execute("UPDATE something;")
Access table-level DB API functions via model classes, not with magic modules
All "table-level" functions -- ways of retrieving records tablewide rather than performing instance-specific tasks -- are now accessed via a model class's
objects attribute. They aren't direct methods of a model instance object because we want to keep the "table-wide" and "row-specific" namespaces separate.
from myproject.people.models import Person p_list = Person.objects.get_list() p = Person.objects.get_object()
This doesn't work from an instance.
p = Person.objects.get_object(pk=1) p.objects.get_list() # Raises AttributeError
Override default manager name ("objects")
If a model already has an
objects attribute, you'll need to specify an alternate name for the magic
class Person(models.Model): first_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30) last_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30) objects = models.TextField() people = models.Manager() p = Person(first_name='Mary', last_name='Jones', objects='Hello there.') p.save() p.objects == 'Hello there.' Person.people.get_list()
Custom managers, and multiple managers
You can create as many managers as you want. When necessary (such as on the admin), Django will use the first one defined, in order.
If you define at least one custom manager, it will not get the default "objects" manager.
class Person(models.Model): first_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30) last_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30) people = models.Manager() fun_people = SomeOtherManager()
Added a more powerful way of overriding model methods, removed hard-coded _pre_save(), _post_save(), etc.
Proper subclassing of methods now works, so you can subclass the automatic
save() and
delete() methods. This removes the need for the
_pre_delete() and
_post_delete() hooks -- all of which have been removed. Example:
class Person(models.Model): first_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30) last_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30) def save(self): self.do_something() super(Person, self).save() # Call the "real" save() method. self.do_something_else()
You can even skip saving (as requested in #1014).
class Person(models.Model): first_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30) last_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30) def save(self): if datetime.date.today() > datetime.date(2005, 1, 1): super(Person, self).save() # Call the "real" save() method. else: # Don't save. pass
Database connection relocated/renamed
For any code that uses the raw database connection, use
django.db.connection instead of
from django.core.db import db cursor = db.cursor()
from django.db import connection cursor = connection.cursor()
Backend-specific functions, if you should need them, are available at
from django.core import db db.quote_name('foo')
from django.db import backend backend.quote_name('foo')
Also, the various backend functionality has been split into three separate modules for each backend --
creation.py and
introspection.py. This is purely for performance and memory savings, so that basic, everyday Django usage doesn't have to load the introspective functionality into memory.
Renamed DoesNotExist exception
Instead of
people.PersonDoesNotExist, it's
from django.models.myapp import people try: people.get_object(pk=1) except people.PersonDoesNotExist: print "Not there"
from path.to.myapp.models import Person try: Person.objects.get_object(pk=1) except Person.DoesNotExist: print "Not there"
Moved admin URLconf to shorten its path
You'll need to change your URLconf to
include the new location.
- Old:
- New:
get_object_or_404 and get_list_or_404 now take model classes, not modules
get_object_or_404(polls, pk=1)
get_object_or_404(Poll, pk=1)
Moved "auth" and "core" models to django.contrib
See http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/276d071a74543448/7d4b1c40c2d53393
- Old:
- New:
- Old:
- New:
- Old:
- New:
- Old:
- New:
django.contrib.contenttypes.models("Packages" will most likely be removed in the future.)
Moved Session model and middleware from core to django.contrib
The location of the session middleware has changed.
- Old:
- New:
Make sure to update your
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting, if you're using sessions.
Also, the
Session model has moved from django/models/core.py to django/contrib/sessions/models.py. If you're accessing the
Session model for some reason, note that location change.
Changed the parameters you pass to generic views
Because there's no longer a concept of
module_name, the "info_dicts" passed to generic views no longer accept
"app_label" and
"module_name". Instead, pass the parameter
"model", which should be your model class.
These examples assume models live in
info_dict = { 'app_label': 'blog', 'module_name': 'entries' }
from myproject.blog.models import Entry info_dict = { 'model': Entry }
Changed template names in generic views
Because there's no longer a concept of
module_name, generic views no longer create templates based on the
module_name. Wherever they used
module_name, they now use
model_name, a lowercase version of the model name.
Note that
app_label remains the same.
These examples assume models live in
- Old:
- New:
Moved settings into an instance
To make it easier to switch settings in situations where you would need multiple different settings - for example when trying to use multiple django projects within one server context or when using Django apps within a bigger WSGI scenario - the settings were moved out of a dedicated module
django.conf.settings into an instance in the
django.conf module. So now you need to import the
settings object and reference settings as attributes of that instance.
Wrappers around the Django machinery can make use of this by exchanging the settings instance with a proxy instance that delegates attribute access to a per-thread or per-location global.
- Old:
from django.conf.settings import LANGUAGE_CODE
- New:
from django.conf import settings
Removed SilentVariableFailure exception
Old behavior: Any exception that subclasses
django.core.template.SilentVariableFailure fails silently in the template system.
New behavior: Any exception that has a
silent_variable_failure attribute fails silently in the template system.
django.core.template.SilentVariableFailure no longer exists.
New functionality you can start using
Models support properties
Unlike before, properties are supported on models.
from django.db import models class Person(models.Model): first_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30) last_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30) def _get_full_name(self): return "%s %s" % (self.first_name, self.last_name) full_name = property(_get_full_name)
You can override table-level functions
You can override any table-level functions, such as
get_list() or
get_object(). Do this by creating a custom
models.Manager subclass and passing it to your model.
from django.db import models class PersonManager(models.Manager): def get_list(self, **kwargs): # Changes get_list() to hard-code a limit=10. kwargs['limit'] = 10 return models.Manager.get_list(self, **kwargs) # Call the "real" get_list() method. class Person(models.Model): first_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30) last_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30) objects = PersonManager()
If a manager needs to access its associated class, it should use
self.klass. Example:
class PersonManager(models.Manager): def get_fun_person(self): try: return self.get_object(fun__exact=True) except self.klass.DoesNotExist: print "Doesn't exist."
Stuff that still needs to be done
Automatic manipulators
Status: Mostly done, with some quirks left
from django.models.myapp import people m1 = people.AddManipulator() m2 = people.ChangeManipulator(3)
from path.to.myapp.models import Person m1 = Person.AddManipulator() m2 = Person.ChangeManipulator(3)
Change subclassing syntax
Status: Not done yet
Database lookup API changes
Status: Not done yet
See DescriptorFields, rjwittams' proposal on the API changes.


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NakedSword Originals presents an international adventure with some of the most gorgeous men in porn, including porn legend Francois Sagat. Filmed on location, Paris Perfect is an entertaining French farce that's fun to watch even between the fucking.
After his vain, arrogant porn star boyfriend (Trenton Ducati) uses him for one last fuck and coldly dumps him, Colton Grey decides to take his revenge with a stolen frequent flyer card. Colton, whose innocent-looking blue eyes belie his inner con artist, buys two tickets to Paris for that night. After listening to his friend Johnny V complain about work, Colton talks Johnny into quitting his job and joining him in Paris.
Fresh off the plane in the City of Lights, Colton and Johnny are unable to get a hotel room without an ID to go with the frequent flyer card. Colton seizes the moment when Theo Ford finds them standing on a corner and mistakes Colton for Mr. Ferrand, a rich Frenchman. Theo is a little confused that his long-lost employer is speaking English with no French accent, but he offers to take Colton and Johnny to the penthouse.
Somehow Johnny has already arranged to hook up with a local (Francois Sagat). Against Colton's protests, Johnny says he'll catch up with him in a couple of hours. When Johnny shows up at Francois' place, neither of them speak the other's language, but that doesn't matter because this is only about two hard cocks and two hungry holes. They're both tops, so Francois flips a coin and determines who fucks who first. Words are unnecessary. Francois fucks Johnny in standing doggy position, with Johnny pushing his muscular ass back against Francois' thrusts. Then Francois lies down on a table and takes a pounding from Johnny, his face displaying obvious ecstasy. This scene is as hot as you'd want it to be, with a lot of chemistry and passion between Johnny and Francois.
Meanwhile, Theo brings Colton to a swanky penthouse, where he has made a plate of escargot, Mr. Ferrand's favorite dish. A Spanish hit man, Dani Robles, has followed them and wants to collect a debt. Theo offers himself up as collateral, and Colton listens in confusion from the bedroom as the tall, sexy, handsome butler fucks the dark, lean, bearded hit man on the living room floor. At least he gets to throw out the escargot while Theo isn't looking.
Johnny steps outside Francois' front door and his phone gets stolen immediately. Alone and phoneless in a foreign city, he doesn't know where to meet Colton. After a long quest to find a pay phone, he overhears another American (the iconic drag queen Sister Roma, who is NakedSword's "art director and overall ambassador") talking on the phone in English. He asks to borrow her phone so he can call Colton, waking him from a crazy dream.
As soon as Colton hangs up the phone he sees a cute guy in briefs standing over the bed, glaring down at him. It's British twunk Gabriel Cross, Ferrand's previous lover, who thinks that Ferrand has dumped him for Colton because Ferrand wants to fuck his own doppelganger. Colton likes what he sees and decides that they should fuck in Ferrand's bed. These two are ideally matched, physically. They're both pretty, they look hot together, and both of them are fantastic flip-fuckers. Afterward, they fall asleep and only wake up when Johnny shows up, followed quickly by the real Ferrand.
This awkward situation has a convenient solution, though, that concludes with Colton, Johnny, and Theo satisfying Dani and his fellow Spanish hit man, Deni Vega, in a five-man orgy that brings the movie to a stunning conclusion!
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The NC Department of Public Instruction recently released report cards measuring the proficiency of each school system -- based on end-of-year test scores, safety provisions, attendance and other factors. How is Cleveland County Schools doing?
Want to see the report card? To view Cleveland County Schools' report card, visit http://www.ncreportcards.org.
Cleveland County Schools ranks better than the state average in math and reading in all grades three through eight, according to a state report on school system proficiency.
The NC Department of Public Instruction recently released report cards measuring the proficiency of each school system -- based on end-of-year test scores, safety provisions, attendance and other factors.
Report card results are divided and graded by categories, including elementary, middle and high school groups.
The reports are intended to help school systems better prepare students for college and the workforce.
Here's more on how Cleveland County Schools stacked up.
Where is the system performing well?
�We are doing very well in a lot of areas,� said Superintendent Bruce Boyles. �Grades third through eight are above the state averages, but we have a lot of work to do with high school performances.�
The county's high schools, however, posted 80 percent academic growth, where the state average was only 60 percent.
�Our number of suspensions are declining and we are connecting technology and learning better with our students,� Boyles also said. �We have more fully licensed, highly qualified and nationally board certified teachers.�
What are targets for improvement?
The biggest issue Boyles wants to fix is the dropout rate in Cleveland County Schools. Though an average of 125 more students have been graduating in the past five years, several hundred have dropped out, he said.
Boyles said a key for Cleveland County Schools moving forward is keeping class sizes small.
�I�m pleased to see our class sizes at or below the state class size,� Boyles said. �I hope to stay supporting smaller class rooms and put money toward classrooms to keep them smaller."
Though Boyles was pleased with Cleveland County Schools' report card, there is always room for improvement, he said.
�I never want to think our goals have been fully satisfied. There will always be areas we need to work on,� he said. �My vision is to be one of the top performing districts in the state.�
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Or in this case, perhaps a de-dum-tum-tsccch rim shot would be more appopriate.
Here we are. The WORST Movie released in 2011. There's a lot of stinkers. Hollywood will do anything to make a buck. But in these cases, they crossed the line. These movies were laughable attempts at making a "quality" product, they reaked like rotting fish. I wouldnt wish them on you under any cuircumstances.
Your nominees are: "Abduction", "Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son", "The Change Up", "Immortals", "Jack and Jill", "Just Go With It", "New Year's Eve", "Priest", "The Roommate", and "Season of the Witch".
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