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Under the supervision of the Assistant Department Director (Building maintenance section) and working closely with the other employees of the maintenance section, the building technician will be responsible for:
- Maintenance and repairs (carpentry, plumbing, heating, electrical systems, furnace and boilers) of all KRG's buildings in Nunavik, equipment and houses;
- Maintenance and repairs of control systems involved in building automation;
- Assisting in developing a preventive maintenance schedule program for all KRG's buildings;
- Be able to detect all problems and to repair furnaces and boilers;
- Doing other related duties as requested by his supervisor.
The selected candidate must:
- Possess a post-secondary diploma of one the following: building mechanic, electricity, fuel heating system and control systems;
- Have a good knowledge of maintenance of HVAC systems;
- Have a minimum of five (5) years relevant experience;
- Have a valid driver's license;
- Be bilingual: Inuktitut-English, Inuktitut-French or English-French;
- Practical computer knowledge;
• Be reliable, autonomous, possess a great sense of initiative and communication skills and be willing to travel in all Nunavik.
- Work schedule and place of work: 6-3 rotation schedule: 6 weeks working in the Northern Villages, followed by 3 weeks paid leave (52.5 hours weekly);
- Work schedule and place of work: 4-2 rotation schedule: 4 weeks working in the Northern Villages, followed by 2 weeks paid leave (52.5 hours weekly);
Place of work: Nunavik (Quebec)
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Please submit your résumé in English before 5:00 p.m., on September 20, 2013, to:
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Hacking Tools
Raw Text Editing Using Notepad
If you noticed so far, all of these programs are pretty lightweight. Hackers must use tools that are readily available at all times, and leave a light memory footprint. We've covered remote connection with Microsoft's Telnet, stealing IP addresses with Ping, and general hacking with the best hacking program available, Sub7. But what if you need to manipulate something on a system that you hack into? Or if you need to program a virus? Are you going to use something as big as Word?
That is an acceptable way to do it, but if you want to do it fast, Windows Notepad is the way to go. Along with most hacking tools, Microsoft Windows XP also incorporates Notepad as their basic text editor. It's available on just about any Windows system, and is more than enough for general file manipulation. The best thing about Notepad is that you can program ANYTHING with it. This entire site's HTML programming was written in Notepad. This might be hard to believe, but it is true.
Using Notepad
By now you should know what a text editor is and what it does. Notepad is not only small, but extremely fast. Using the keyboard you can perform daunting tasks in half a second. These are called key combinations, and hackers use them with different programs. Using the keyboard, you can perform some of these actions:
- CTL + S - Save the document
- CTL + O - Open a document
- CTL + Z - Undo changes
- CTL + R - Redo undone changes
- CTL + C - Copy
- CTL + X - Cut
- CTL + P - Paste
Going Further with Notepad
This is just a basic overview of what notepad is capable of. You are able to edit any file or program, code a virus into it, steal things from it, and so on. For more in-depth information, see the official site, Notepad.org, for file formats, installation, and other useful information.

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A little while later, the girls brought me curried cous cous with peas and black pepper, along with a grilled panini made with peppers, tomato slices, fresh basil, rosemary and soy cheese. These kids even took mom's special food preferences into account! The food was delicious. But the gift that stood out for me, was how much thought went into the menu... my children really know me and consciously prepared foods they knew I would love.
It didn't end there. Squeak then made me a home-baked Mother's Day cake which she decorated herself. She clearly put so much heart and soul into her lettering... which made the cake all the sweeter for me. Did you catch the photo of last year's cake? Take a peek HERE.
Next, CHAMPAGNE with a splash of Pom liqueur and cranberry juice! It was DIVINE! Then... the big reveal. These crazy kids conspired and arranged to get me a new Coach purse. This is a big deal. Not just because it's Coach and they knew I'd love it. But because (and I quote) "it's big enough for your calendar and all your swag, so you always have everything you need, with you." They knew I'd been carrying at least two bags with me, everywhere I went. No more. :)
Then Squeak made dinner. Her brother requested more panini sandwiches, so they were once again on the menu. But the main event was a super indulgent entree I love but only allow myself a couple times each year: rigatoni with alfredo sauce, garlic, peas, freshly chopped parsley and plenty of cracked black pepper. The kids washed and dried the dishes and they kept my champagne glass full!
The most fun, hands down, happened while dinner was cooking. My son cranked up the music and we all sang and danced to The Killers in the kitchen! The music was way too loud, we were way too wild and the fun level was way high! Windows were open and I'm sure the neighbors heard, but you know what? So what?!
At the end of the day, my thoughts were clear and I was ready to open my heart and express myself to the kids. Here's what I told them:


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- At 1:28 p.m., 38-year-old Ganesan Kanagarajan of Sidney, Neb. was in a rollover accident after losing control of his 2003 Toyota Camry on Highway 113. Kanagarajan was driving southbound approaching mile marker 15 when his Camry drifted off the right side of the road, re-entered the roadway after 79 feet and began to rotate clockwise. It entered a broadside skid after 130 feet and ran off the right side of the roadway, rolling one and a half times after 72 feet and coming to rest on its top in a grassy field. No one was injured in the accident and no alcohol or drugs were suspected.


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Today would have marked Chesley Bonestell's 128th birthday.
Throughout the 1930s Bonestell worked as both an architect and a movie matte painter on high profile projects ranging from New York's Chrysler building and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, to Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and George Pal's War of the Worlds. But it is astronomical art where Bonestell is best known and revered.


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Republican gubernatorial candidate Andrew Thomas is taking his campaign to rid Arizona of the "gay lobby," "liberal judges" and illegal immigrants to the airwaves.
Thomas' 30-second ad began airing today. The ad says Thomas is "the only candidate who has stopped illegal immigration, stood up to the gay lobby, and opposed liberal judges."
"When I enforced the law, illegal immigrants fled this state," Thomas says. "Now, they stay -- and protest!. Other candidates say they'll secure the border, but talk is cheap."
He continues, "I stopped illegal immigration before. As governor, I'll do it again -- this time, for good."
MORE: Complete coverage of Arizona elections
Thomas served as Maricopa County's top prosecutor from 2005 through 2010. He was disbarred two years later after a panel determined he acted unethically when he pressed failed investigations into judges and county officials. He has qualified for more than $750,000 in public funding for his gubernatorial bid.
Thomas is in a six-way race for the Republican Party's nomination for governor. He trails in the polls behind state Treasurer Doug Ducey, former GoDaddy executive Christine Jones and former Mesa Mayor Scott Smith.
Thomas made his name in politics by pushing immigration control at the state and county levels. His political downfall came after he was accused of using his prosecutorial powers while in office for political purposes.
A disciplinary panel found clear and convincing evidence of ethical misconduct that merited disbarment from legal practice.
Among the most serious findings were that he and his former prosecutors pressed unwarranted criminal charges, obtained indictments, filed a federal racketeering lawsuit and initiated investigations against his political enemies and those of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio from 2006 to 2010.


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JägerMonkey: the "halfway" point
JägerMonkey has reached a halfway point: we've closed about half the performance gap between our baseline performance (with no tracing) and the competition. You can see this on arewefastyet.com, a site David Anderson created to track our progress. Thanks also to the anonymous contributor who gave us an improved page design.
So far. That improvement represents about 6-8 weeks of work. Major performance improvements we did during that time:
- Polymorphic inline caching (PICs) for object property access. We actually had a pretty good system for optimizing properties before, the property cache. But the property cache requires calls to C++ functions, taking us off the super-fast native jit code. PICs are similar to the property cache, but are more amenable to jit code.
- More compiler "fast paths". There are two basic ways to implement an operation in a compiler like JM: either calling out to a C++ "stub function", or inline with the jit code in a "fast path". We added fast paths for more operations, so we can potentially run about 80% of the operations in the SunSpider/v8 benchmarks in pure jit code. (We're aiming for 95-99%.)
- Register allocation and local optimizations. We've enhanced the compiler so that it uses machine registers more efficiently, trying to hold values in registers and reuse them instead of always loading from and storing to memory.
- Improving global variables. This one is still in progress, but we've already posted some perf wins from it. We're completely overhauling the way global variable accesses are resolved and compiled to make them the fastest they can be in a JM-style system.
I want to add that we've referred to JSC (WebKit's JS engine) and V8 frequently. We've been striving to build on what's been figured out already rather than rediscovering everything. In particular, we took a lot of the design ideas for PICs and globals from JSC, and some more design ideas for PICs and the concept for register allocation from V8. So, credit and thanks to the JSC and V8 teams and their open source efforts.
Next. We have a ton of work left to do, and it's not easily summarized, so I'll just mention some highlights.
The new values are planned to be 128 bits, with a full 64-bit payload. Thus, floating-point numbers can be stored directly in the value. Also, the tag bits are off to the side so they don't have to be added or removed with bit operations.
Strings and regular expressions are also scheduled to get some attention soon.
Finally, we are going to teach the debug API (behind Firebug and Venkman) to debug compiled JavaScript. So, with JägerMonkey, it will be possible to run a debugger but still run JS fast.
Final thought. The other big piece of work starting now is to get JägerMonkey to work inside the browser. You can build a browser with JM today, but you probably won't get too far before crashing. Fixing that is next on my list.
Posted: May 10th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Comment from Harsh
Time: May 10, 2010, 5:50 pm
Maybe a stupid question but, Is "Register allocation and local optimizations" the same as a Register-based bytecode?
Comment from Boris
Time: May 10, 2010, 7:46 pm
Harsh, not quite. The bytecode is still a stack machine, but the register allocator in JM does some optimization to avoid writing back to the stack on every op.
Comment from bastiaan
Time: May 11, 2010, 12:56 am
"JägerMonkey has reached a halfway point: we've closed about half the performance gap between our baseline performance (with no tracing) and the competition."
It is probably worth mentioning that this competition includes SpiderMonkey's (tracing) JIT mode.
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Comment from nominolo
Time: May 11, 2010, 3:51 am
Did you consider using NaN-tagging instead of fat values? NaN-tagging is successfully being used by LuaJIT 2 and is able to represent all objects in 64bits (including Doubles). The idea is to use redundancies in the floating point representation and make tagged values look like NaNs. I'm not sure how portable this is, though. I suppose the main limitation is that tagged values cannot be 64 bit wide (e.g., pointers), which puts some constraints on the memory allocator.
On a different note, according to one of the papers on TraceMonkey, traces get aborted on memory allocation. The reasoning was that allocation was very expensive. This may be true for non-moving garbage collectors, but most modern GCs support simple bump-allocation — allocation simply means incrementing the heap pointer by the requested size. Has anything changed in that area?
Comment from Edward Kmett
Time: May 11, 2010, 4:16 am
@nominolo: actually you can fit a pointer in just fine: set the 12 msbs to 1 and store the pointer in that '1-extended form' supported by x86-64 rather than 0-extended. I've tagged pointers, ints, floats, and a dozen other primitive value-types using this technique just fine.
In general I agree, NaN-tagged values work a heck of a lot better for cache-locality, etc. than 128 bit wide values.
Comment from bharuch
Time: May 11, 2010, 5:51 am
I'm not sure I'm reading are we fast yet correctly. The JIT + Jaeger mode still seems approximately same (moz method + tracing line), and has not closed the gap with v8 / SS on desktop (ARM shows nice improvements). When will the jaeger monkey work improve the total JS performance vis-a-vis V8/apple on SS or V8. It seems I'm missing a few piece in understanding the big picture of this work.
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Time: May 11, 2010, 7:41 am
Can you elaborate on which '1-extended form' you are referring to with pointers encoded with 12 most significant bits set to 1?
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Time: May 11, 2010, 10:27 am
nominolo: I'm not sure what you mean. Traces don't get aborted on memory allocation, though they do get aborted on out-of-memory (we cannot GC while on trace yet, bug 516832 will help).
re: value tagging, we did quite a bit of measurement here and found that the important thing was not boxing doubles. Luke could give more detail, I recommend seeing the bug (549143) and a preceding one with synthetic measurements (539123).
Comment from dmandelin
Time: May 11, 2010, 12:50 pm
@nominolo: We did some pilot studies on different value formats, including NaN-boxing. We didn't see big differences between NaN-boxing and 128-bit values. 128-bit values seemed to make it faster to enter and exit traces, which we figured would help JM work together with tracing better.
@bharuch: We don't yet know why Trace+Jaeger isn't faster than just Trace. For now, we're focused on getting JM as good as it can be. After that, we can see what Trace+Jaeger does and retune how tracing is activated to try make it better.
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Time: May 11, 2010, 3:19 pm
@David Anderson
Ah, sorry, I confused that with another paper by Andreas Gal. ("Incremental Dynamic Code Generation with Trace Trees", TR, 2006)
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Time: July 1, 2010, 3:18 am
The other big piece of work starting now is to get JägerMonkey to work inside the browser. You can build a browser with JM today, but you probably won't get too far before crashing. Fixing that is next on my list.
Can't wait to see a fix for this!
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Am having some trouble with the SkyDrive download process and hoping you can help me.
Following the standard SkyDrive API & examples, I've set up a page that browses the SkyDrive folder structure, lets User click on a file, prompt to download, and it all works correctly.
Where I'm having trouble is when the file downloaded is large, I get the OutOfMemoryException thrown at around the 100Mb mark.
Dennis speaks on this problem here http://dotnet.dzone.com/articles/2-things-you-should-consider but it relates to a direct URL download, not via the SkyDrive architecture.
I've tried extracting the URL from SkyDrive and doing the direct download that way but haven't had any success.
Here is the code I'm using - the "item" object is of type SkyDriveItem, having iterated through a folders content and selected this file.
LiveConnectClient downloadClient = new LiveConnectClient(App.Session);
downloadClient.DownloadCompleted += new EventHandler<LiveDownloadCompletedEventArgs>(downloadClient_DownloadCompleted);
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This will work fine when the file isn't too large, but as mentioned, select a big file (>100Mb) and it dies with the OutOfMemory exception.
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Thinking about festival from distribution side
We read with dismay the article in the Cape Gazette of April 29 regarding the coming demise of the Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival in its present form by 2015. For 17 years this event has provided thousands of people, both local and visitors, with meaningful and educational films from around the world. It is entertainment certainly, but entertainment with value.
Other letters to the Gazette have described the importance of the Festival from an aesthetic standpoint, an economic standpoint, and an educational standpoint; we, however, approach this from a different perspective, that of the distribution side of the process.
We are able to attend other film festivals and can report a different story. In Palm Springs, California, for example, two theater operators, Regal Cinema and Camelot Theaters, turn over a significant number of theaters or all of their theaters to the non-profit Palm Springs Film Society for a minimum of ten days to show festival films exclusively. In Philadelphia, Landmark Theaters turn over at least half of their Ritz Theaters to the non-profit Philadelphia Film Society. Film distributors accept this arrangement because they know the value of these festivals for their business. Acceptance at film festivals for films is a mark of success and achievement for film producers and distributors alike.
Over the years the Derrickson family has been generous and cooperative in the case of the Rehoboth Film Society's festival. We understand the changes in the business models in the film distribution business and urge the Midway Theater owners to talk to their distributors to enable the festival access to theaters for the brief period of the five-day festival in November. We also urge the Rehoboth/Dewey Chamber of Commerce and hospitality and food service organizations that profit from the festival to work with the Theaters at Midway management to keep this treasure alive and well.
The Rehoboth Beach International Film Festival can be saved!
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Consumers can't see the food inside many packages they buy at the grocery store. That makes it hard to know if the food is fresh.
Except for infant formula and some baby food, product dating is not required by federal law. It is voluntarily done by the food manufacturer to help the grocer know how long to display a food and help the consumer make the best choice for food quality.
Wasted food
According to a survey by the Food Marketing Institute, such confusion leads nine out of 10 Americans to needlessly throw away food. The survey found 90 percent of Americans "at least occasionally throw food away prematurely because they mistakenly interpret the date label to mean their food is unsafe" — and 25 percent say they always discard food on or before that date.
The researchers blame "a lack of binding federal standards, and the resultant state and local variability in date labeling rules" for the inconsistency in date-labeling practices."
In 2012, one national study estimated that 40 percent of the country's food supply goes uneaten. The cost of that wasted food is about $165 billion, including $900 million in "expired" food. A family of four, the study found, spends an average of $455 a year on food it doesn't eat.
The researchers recommend making "sell by" dates invisible to the consumer, and have the food industry establish a standard, uniform labeling system.
Types of dating
There are three types of dates on a food that is purchased.
If the package says "Sell By," be sure to purchase the food before the date listed. The "sell by" date tells the grocer how long to display the food. The food should remain good for a period of time once you get it home.
The "Best if Used By" is not a purchase or safety date. The date stamped after that term is the date the food should be used by for best flavor or quality.
A "Use-By" date is the last date recommended for peak quality of the product.
All three terms are guides to help a purchaser determine the quality of the food. The food can be safe and of good quality after any of the three above open-dating terms are used.
Storage times
It is important that food be stored properly on the shelf or at 40 degrees Fahrenheit or below in the refrigerator.
To give an idea of how long a person can store fresh foods at home after a purchase, poultry, ground meat and ground poultry and sausage should be stored only one to two days. Fresh beef, veal, lamb and pork can be stored three to five days. Eggs can be stored three to five weeks after purchase.
Processed foods sealed at the plant can be stored longer.
Cooked sausage or poultry can be stored three to four days unopened after purchase and then three to four days after opening. Bacon, hot dogs and luncheon meats can be stored two weeks unopened after purchase.
Once opened, bacon and hot dogs should be used within one week and luncheon meat should be used in three to five days.
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So I have been working on a Clojure tutorial and it's pretty fun so far. Unfortunately, every time I close my REPL out, I lose all of the
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So, to save time in the future, is it possible to have the Clojure REPL save everything I've typed to a file so I can dig out what I need for future uses?


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Economic Confidence Languishes Near 2014 Lows; 62% Don't See It "Getting Better"
Gallup's U.S. Economic Confidence Index dropped slightly to -17 for the week ending August 10th, hovering just off the lows of 2014 as only 38% of Americans believe the economy is "getting better." Perhaps even more concerning, given record high stock prices and cycle low unemployment rates, only 19% of Americans said the economy is "excellent" or "good," - the lowest in 5 months. Gallup concludes, generally speaking, Americans remain more negative than positive about the economy, but are less negative than they were in the first few years after the Great Recession - $4 trillion later.
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Gallup's U.S. Economic Confidence Index dropped slightly to -17 for the week ending Aug. 10.
Gallup's Economic Confidence Index is the average of two components: Americans' views on the current economic situation and their perceptions of whether the economy is getting better or worse. Last week, 19% of Americans said the economy is "excellent" or "good," while 35% said it is "poor," resulting in a current conditions score of -16 -- a three-point dip from the previous week.
While 38% of Americans said the economy is "getting better," 56% said it is "getting worse," resulting in an economic outlook score of -18. This is one point lower than the prior week.
Generally speaking, Americans remain more negative than positive about the economy, but are less negative than they were in the first few years after the Great Recession.
This year has arguably been a positive one for the economy with growth in consumer spending, the GDP, and hiring, all of which should send the public's economic confidence upward. However, these positive economic developments may be offset by a series of international and domestic challenges, including the rise of Islamic militants in Iraq, intense fighting between the Israelis and Palestinians, increasing U.S.-Russia tensions, a wave of illegal immigrants from Central America, and stock market volatility after a year of steady stock increases in 2013.
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At least business is booming in the human smuggling trade.
"I think what we need to do is redefine what it means to feel 'successful', to re-define what 'improvement' is."
Some politician somewhere talking about how to keep pissing down people's backs and still have them accept it as rain.
Headline edit: 62% don't see the economy getting better, 37.9% see it getting worse and .1% don't give a shit cause they own it all.
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The 38% all have government jobs.
If you include all the leaches living off of: Big-Ag, Big-MIC, Big-Road, Big-Water, Big-Airport, Big-Energy, Big-Ed, Big-House, Big-Fin, Big-OldFart, Big-OldFartHealthcare, Big-AntiDrug, & Big-PoliceState you are right.
"Full faith and credit"
Honestly, most folks still don't "get" it.
Hmmmmmmm..... 38% of people see it getting better. That number just happens to be the same as Zero's approval rating, and the same percentage as those on the .gov dole..... go figure.
I'd argue, with plenty of evidence, that once you consider all the subsidies and tax loopholes, the number of those "on the dole" is considerably higher than 38%.
Well, no doubt there. I'm referring to those who get a direct paycheck.
I'd still say that almost any single corporate subsidy or tax loophole that a company or individual CEO enjoys is still several orders of magnitude greater than the "paycheck" those mouth-breathers in the ghetto receive.
But again, I am an equal opportunity "hater" according to my liberal friends.
We should all get into our heads that unless the system radically changes, this won't get any better. Ever.
We're NOT all in this together. The smart-n-savvy people screw the dumbasses.
Survival of the fittest is a bitch when you find out you're the food, but people have to learn to stop complaining about being the food because, overall, this is the best kinds of system there is.
Are you a fierce hunter complaining about the complaints of your preys?
Yeah, when they bitch too much the meat gets tough.
I am thinking that you consider yourself "smart-n-savvy"
God no, I've got a long long long history of being one of the dumbasses getting screwed. But, sometimes you just get lucky.
Life, especially in America, is about running a scam or participating in one. I'm not smart-n-savvy enough to run a scam but I'm just smart enough to know that when I'm participating in one I'm not going to stop because of morality.
The secret of success is duplicity, the secret of happiness is self-delusion.
Who cares what the Trash Class thinks. Just a bunch of worthless losers. All that matters is roughly the top 20%.
Survival of the fittest, BITCHEZZZ!!!
It's true - you are NOTaREALmerican - but you are really something. Many words come to mind, but let's not devolve to name-calling.
Yeah, go ahead and help the Trash Class if you want. It's a free country. Just don't force me to live with them.
38% are extremely blind http://newamerica-now.blogspot.com/2014/02/beyond-collapse.html
The top 10% are doing fantastic. The top 20% are doing pretty damn good. The top 30% are keeping up.
So, that means the top 38% to top 31% think they can get into the top 30%.
I'd say not blind at all.
The Trash Class in the bottom 60% aren't worth the effort to think about.
"The Trash Class in the bottom 60% are cannon fodder" - fixed. The issue is always where those cannon are pointed as collateral damage can be indescriminate when it comes to "class".
I didn't know that "confidence" is edible or it can be used to fuel a car.
"Confidence" is another propaganda term to brainwash people, like "cycles" and "structural slowdown".
Nearly 4 in 10 people say the economy is improving?
Wow - I would say that the con is working very well indeed.
Good for you. I'm in the bottom 60 I'd say. But I'm not trash.
Please find a smaller brush to use old man.
Let's see how things play out. I'd say that 30% might change a little in the near future. I'd be happy to let the ladder down for a few open minded people. Know what I mean friend.
Nothing wrong with being part of the Trash Class. Everybody can't be a winner in our survival-of-the-fittest society. But, it's important to remember why we, as a society, value having a society that rewards the most-fit and punishes the less-fit. If we didn't, it would send the wrong message.
Are you fitter than me because you earn more? Or am I fitter than you because I've clawed myself up from a huge fall. Interested to know your definition of trash. Is it based on monetary wealth?
Sure as hell I'm no socialist. I'm not asking for anyone's help. I'll get back to where I was and beyond. I'm not interested in being in the top 20%. And I'll say I'm fitter than most of them.
But be weary with that big ol' brush you're using there!
Well, technically, "most fit" would be whose DNA bling has the best shot at moving into the Management Class that runs Big-Gov and Big-Corp. Not much matters besides DNA bling. Overall the Elysium Class (say the top 1%) and the Elysium Management Class (say the top 10%) have the best shot at keeping their kids running the world.
Like I said, just life: We're not all in this together, we're all Americans, not a bunch of pansi Europeans who are supposed like each other because of some ethnic affinity. It's OK for Americans to prey on each other, it makes us stronger.
Interesting. The Royal Family are in a fine place, but genetically they are inbred fucks. But even these elite (who are way more elite than your Elysium Class wannabes) need help! They need lots of trash around them because they are incapable of doing general tasks themselves. They barely know how to feed themselves.
All 1%ers are vulnerable, especially as they laude their gains over the have nots. But it only takes a few clever have nots to realise where the chinks are.
Remember the elite families are generations away from the clever ones. We are now down to 5th/6th generation idiots who are used to the easy life. This shit will come unstuck and they won't know what the fuck to do.
We're not all Americans or 'pansi' Europeans either.
As you say, we're not all in this together. But wealth and privilege do not make you 'fit'.
light up those obama phones, break out the EBT cards, get the disability and SSDI out there!!!! recovery is just on the horizon, funemployment is here for 92 million Americans, how much better news do you want?????
I remember a friend who told me in '99 that I "just didn't get it" about dot coms. Well, he got it. Right up his ass.
I'm confident that this shit is about to get much worse.
That prolly makes me positive in these surveys.
38% own a fair amount of bullshit stocks. coincidence?
It's always darkest before ..............................................the end!
Surprising that 62% of Americans choose cynicism over hope. \sarc
And still the VIX gets hammered? FUCK YOU VELOSITY SHARES!
'Change You Can Believe In!' - 2008
Sounds like one of these .gov muppets actually did a days work. It must have taken ages to find enough people to make up 38%. Although I'm probably being too generous, it was a poll they had in their office, there were only 10 of them! Presumably Canadian .gov muppets with those stats.
Went to our local Wally this morn , the place was deader than Osama. And the day before school starts. Didn't have atv ramps either
"62% Don't See It "Getting Better"
Makes sense, most people don't work in a welfare industry like Financial Services
Are those the same 62% that voted for the Kenyan?
More scenarios for TBTB and PD 51 to be authorized for a "emergency"...
When DOW loses 30% in the next couple of months keep an eye peeled for the selected quarantines to begin!
If you actually believe anything a pollster puts out I have swamp land
and a Brooklyn Bridge for sale real cheap. I'm not upselling here and you had better think quick because this deal won't last long in a sellers market. Economic fundamentals are sound and we are on course to a balanced budget next year. The fundamentals are so good that we think tax breaks are in order once again for the corporate sector only.
Socialized profits and privatized losses makes Financialization and the world go round don't ya know.
The economic recovery that the media and talking heads have been bantering around does not exist and is just a myth. A manipulated stock market distorted by recent economic policy hides and mask the real truth, in many ways it is ground zero in the war to convince us all is well.
The American people and Main Street will tell you they are far from convinced that it is smooth sailing ahead. Huge weakness in the economy has been shown by numbers that barely get by even after record amounts of stimulus. Fact is if QE or the massive government deficit spending that props up our economy is removed it will fold like a cheap umbrella.
Recent changes in how the GDP is figured , which boosted growth thus reducing the debt to growth ratio, and attempts to spin poor numbers regarding employment have been met with skepticism. More on this subject in the article below.


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If projections are accurate, Nas' album Life Is Good will debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
The feat would place Nas elite company. Eminem, by comparison, has six No. 1 albums, including Curtain Call: The Hits, and Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile. DMX's first five solo albums debuted at No. 1, while his sixth, Year of the Dog...Again, dropped at No. 2. Jay-Z leads all emcees in the No. 1 album department, scoring 11 of them, including Unfinished Business with R. Kelly and Watch the Throne with Kanye West.
Nas' other albums to hit No. 1 are 1996's It Was Written, 1997's The Firm with Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature, 1999's I Am, 2007's Hip Hop Is Dead and 2008's Untitled.
Billboard.com reported the projection, stating that Life Is Good may be the only title to sell over 100,000 this week, with Zac Brown Band's Uncaged expected to drop to No. 2.
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Boudhanath Stupa (Bodhnath Stupa)
It's unclear whether the Bodhnath Stupa houses a holy Buddhist relic as most such stupas do, but locals will tell you it has a small piece of bone that the Buddha once carried. Whatever the case my be, pilgrims still come here to walk clockwise around the stupa and spin the dozens of prayer wheels lining the brick wall that surrounds the structure.
You can enter the stupa from the north side, and once inside, you'll see intricately painted mandala ceilings and a large golden Buddha statue with a small shrine to the Dalai Lama at its base. While you're in the area, consider stopping in for lunch or dinner at one of the area restaurants specializing in Tibetan cuisine.
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Neil Ullman
County College of Morris
Newsletter for the Section on Statistical Education
Volume 2, Number 1 (Winter 1996)
We are constantly measuring, estimating, and experimenting -- all without FORMAL statistics. This informal, essentially subconscious, statistical thinking begins from the moment we wake up in the morning and consider how much longer we can lie in bed. It continues all day in a multitude of ways as we decide whether the water in the shower is "the right temperature," how much coffee to put in the coffee pot, or when to leave for work or school. Just as we have learned to speak words without instruction, we act and think quantitatively without realizing it.
Yet what we teach is generally a formal system relying on an assumption that the student has an internalized familiarity with mathematics, especially of algebra, and hopefully calculus. We begin by presuming measurements have already been taken and concentrate on teaching the grammar and syntax of some subset of mathematical statistics. Rarely is there any connection to something that even we as individuals could say is important to our daily activities or an appeal to our instinctive understanding.I suggest beginning a process to redefine what we call statistics, and offer some ideas:
Statistics should not be a vehicle for teaching mathematics or satisfying a "mathematics" requirement. Statistics needs to be recognized as much as a subject of problem definition and measurement as computing of special quantities. Courses need to be expanded to examine the whys and hows we get to the data in the first place, allowing more time for studying the source of the information and devoting more emphasis to the ways we actually encounter "data." All too often the formal statistical aspect of a problem is the least important.
Restructure our courses to infuse informal quantitative concepts (accepting them as a legitimate part of a college statistics course) along with the formal statistical practices. Before this can become a universal practice we must develop a common "spoken" language so we all understand the principles and can communicate these ideas amongst ourselves.
Most of our everyday encounters with "data" do not involve or need formal methods. In spite of all of our admonitions about statistics as a survival skill, most people seem to be surviving without us! Frequently the important consequences are so obvious that we can observe them and react appropriately without special effort. However, when differences are small, problems complex, or our ability to measure not adequate -- then we need to begin to use formal systems.
Let me provide a couple of quick examples of rethinking what we do. I teach at a school where about 99% of my students commute by car. I begin the course with a questionnaire which includes asking how far they travel and how long it takes them. No one has a problem providing values. I challenge them to measure the time and distance it takes for their next trip. The results are brought to the class and then we engage in questions of the cause of different results. This leads to an operational definition so we can compare day to day and student to student trips. Then a data collection can, and does, begin in earnest. Class discussion can bring out points like:
In a similar fashion I explore how students perceive the comfort level in our classroom. I begin by asking "how do you feel," shift to a 5 or 10 point numeric scale that ranges from too cold to too hot, and finally request an estimate of temperature of the room. Just recording this information, along with collecting their responses into a simple table gives an indication of the relative feelings. A display of their response by seating location can quickly signal differences around the room. Finally I pass around a thermometer which gives a "real" measure of the temperature.
Much insight into the conditions and the state of the room can be learned without any highly formalized statistics. However, if we pose a question such as whether opening the door changes the condition of the room, a formal approach involving taking separate samples and computing estimates of the temperature difference may become necessary.Let us take heed of the Quantitative Literacy efforts at the elementary level. I recently observed a group of first graders do in-class surveys. They gathered the data and individually prepared bar charts. Most incredible, however, was how they were able to verbalize the results and draw conclusions from their data. They presented their findings in ways I struggle to have my adult students do.
We have been teaching a foreign language. As an adult I have failed miserably trying to learn to read foreign languages, especially when taught by memorizing words and learning grammar. But those same children can readily learn to speak other languages, and accelerate their ability to read them.
Let us move away from the concerns about rigor, and "college level" and recognize that we need to rethink what is basic quantitative reasoning and stress that in standard courses. I recall a trip when the most important, but least accessible, thing I needed to know in a particular foreign language was how to ask the question "where is the bathroom?". What is the most critical thing most people really need in becoming aware of the statistical language?
The above is based on a paper presented in Orlando last summer. Copies of the presentation and a longer paper are available.
Neil R. Ullman
County College of Morris
Randolph, NJ 07869
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More than half a century after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier with the Dodgers, the team is on the verge of hiring its first minority manager.
Former Dodgers outfielder Dave Roberts, who has an African American father and Japanese mother, is expected to be announced as the team's manager Monday, according to people familiar with the situation who spoke anonymously because his contract was being finalized.
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It was a simple question in the Biz Bistro, "Has anyone used the bullet journal method to increase productivity" that got the buzz going.
Y'see, I'm all for being intentional with my time and using it as wisely as I can considering I need to allocate it for business, blogging, client projects, home management, family care, self-care. You get what I mean, right?


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hello folks, first of all Id like to thank everyone here for being so awesome, and secondly Id like to submit my first map to the scrutiny of this community!
I followed pasiss tutorial for the mountains and trees and ascensions antique style tutorial for the overall look, so thanks to those guys for making that available. I am quite happy with how it turned out!
I find myself in need of several points of advice from the knowledgeable on many things I think. The map is a depiction of a land that is behind a story Ive been developing for hundreds of years almost! There are locations that exist in my mind and on paper but have no geographic place as of yet. theyre vague which is fine on paper and in theory but now I have something to look at I am becoming quite obsessive about the logic of placements and trade routes.
The basic idea here is the sea level has risen and broken the continent into islands, I wanted them close so that they could be linked by great bridges that were constructed by a more advanced civilisation that came from the east from a land that is only assumed to exist because these folk must have come from somewhere!
The first settlers came from the west, so their movement across the islands eastward would have some effect on where major locations would be(?)
Then later when the second settlers came from the east, their movements westward would also have more of a drastic effect because they came to dominate(?)
1. I would like any comments as to where you guys would logically think capitols and major ports and trade routes would crop up
2. I dont want to add deserts simply for regional variance, my understanding is that many things are responsible for the formation of deserts and landmass is one of them(?) Im not sure if deserts would form because none of the landmasses are big enough
Any river comments will be acted upon straight away, if it means changing a river entirely I would appreciate any advice as to where great rivers could go I like em long!
The UK is there for scale as well as actual geological position, this came about by overlaying the map on the earth and lining the UK up, if I move the UK down any further then the northern islands go too far north and theyre supposed to be Scandinavian in climate and if I move the UK up then the southern portion ends up even further into north Africa!
Please graffiti on it and say anything you want even if you hate it, Im going for realistic here and if a complete change is necessary then I will change it to a degree, I still want it to be a series of islands that are almost touching!
There is one more thing! On the eastern most island there is a small collection of high lakes these are plot related and I would like any advice on natural circumstances that would facilitate their existence, theyre not mountain top lakes, just lakes in mountains!
ps: i wasn't sure about image size, read that there was a 4.7mb limit on uploads so i just shrunk the amount of pixels and made the rivers red so they all stood out better - the original is 6k by 6k 300px/inch
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A non-profit in Abbot is all about working together to bring people out of the darkness and into the light.
"It's been really fun and amazing to see how the businesses, especially in our local community, and throughout the state of Maine, are so generous and giving," said Monica Bates.
Her community is showing their support of the JD Foundation. The organization means so much to Bates.
"It's played a huge role in my coping skills, and in my life, and I'm very grateful for the JD Foundation," said Bates.
She reached out to Cheryl Morin when she needed advice with a friend she believed was suicidal.
"Suicide is a tough subject. And, there's not many people out there that want to work around that," said Morin, founder of the non-profit.
Morin decided to help others after her own tragedy.
"It became a non-profit October 2008. That was almost three years after I lost my son to suicide which was November 18th, 2005. I knew that because of our loss, that there were actual warning signs of somebody who is suicidal, that I had no idea about," said Morin.
They hope to raise money through an upcoming dinner and auction. She says the more help they can get, the better.
"I believe because of the warning signs that my son had, he could've been saved, if I had been educated, so, let's get as many people educated as we can, and maybe we will save a life, and I know we have, I know we have saved a life," said Morin.
The foundation works with people all over the state, teaching the signs of suicide, like depression, mood swings, anger, and no sense of purpose.
They also have a program that brings people dealing with depression into nature.
"It just gives you an overwhelming feeling that you're doing something worthwhile. That people really enjoy it," said Vic Morin, the director of Connecting With Nature, and Cheryl Morin's husband.
They're certain the foundation is something Cheryl's son, Joe, would have been proud of.
"I do think, I think I know that he thinks it's fantastic," said Morin.
The event is this Saturday, November 23rd at the Guilford American Legion on 107 Main Road.
Dinner is from 4:30pm to 6:30pm and the auction immediately follows.
For more info, call them at 876-2295 or go to thejdfoundation.org.
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Obama Maintains Strong Lead Over Romney in Massachusetts
Posted September 18, 2012
Addition of Paul Ryan to the GOP ticket hurts more than it helps in the Bay State
President Barack Obama continues to hold a sizable lead over former Governor Mitt Romney in Massachusetts in the race for the White House, according to the latest survey from the Western New England University Polling Institute.
The statewide telephone survey of 444 likely voters, which the Polling Institute conducted Sept. 6-13, 2012 in partnership with The Republican newspaper of Springfield and MassLive.com, found Obama ahead of Romney by a margin of 60 percent to 38 percent.
Among a larger sample of 545 registered voters, Obama led Romney by a two-to-one margin, 64 percent to 32 percent. The Polling Institute's previous survey in the race, conducted May 29-31, 2012, found Obama with a 22-point lead among all registered voters, with 56 percent supporting the president to 34 percent for Romney.
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"As he has in other parts of the country, President Obama may be experiencing a post-convention bounce in Massachusetts," said Tim Vercellotti, director of the Polling Institute and a political science professor at Western New England University. "Voter enthusiasm shows up not only in the presidential horse-race numbers, but also in his measures of job approval and favorability."
Sixty percent of registered voters said they approve of the job Obama is doing as president, while 32 percent said they disapprove, compared to approval-disapproval numbers of 54 percent and 36 percent respectively among registered voters in the May 29-31, 2012 survey. Obama's favorability also is up seven points, to 64 percent, among all registered voters, and his unfavorability rating is down four points since the May survey.
Romney, however, has seen his favorability rating decline since the last survey. Thirty-one percent of registered voters view him favorably, down from 36 percent in May, and 60 percent of registered voters view him unfavorably, up from 50 percent in the previous survey. Among the smaller sample of likely voters, 34 percent view Romney favorably, and 56 percent view him unfavorably.
In terms of the vice-presidential spot on the national tickets, Massachusetts voters also were more favorable toward the Democratic nominee than the Republican nominee. Fifty-one percent of likely voters had a favorable view of Vice President Joe Biden, and 35 percent had an unfavorable view. Twenty-nine percent of likely voters had a favorable view of Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin congressman whom Romney has chosen as his running mate. Forty-seven percent of likely voters had an unfavorable view of Ryan, while 21 percent either had not heard of Ryan or had no opinion of him.
In the presidential match-up, Obama had support from 97 percent of likely voters who identified themselves as Democrats, while 91 percent of Republican likely voters said they support Romney. The candidates split the independent vote, with 47 percent backing Obama and 48 percent backing Romney. But the three to one registration edge that Democrats have over Republicans in Massachusetts means that Republican candidates have to win significant numbers of independent voters in order to be competitive in the state.
Obama led Romney among all other demographic groups. Male likely voters supported him by a margin of 53 percent to 43 percent, and women backed Obama over Romney by a two to one margin, 66 percent to 32 percent. Support for Obama also increased by age category, with likely voters ages 65 and older supporting him over Romney 66 percent to 31 percent.
Romney's selection of Ryan as his running mate appeared to hurt the Republican ticket more than help it overall in Massachusetts. Sixteen percent of likely voters said the choice of Ryan as vice-presidential nominee made them more likely to vote for Romney, but 27 percent of likely voters said the pick made them less likely to back the former Massachusetts governor. Fifty-five percent said the choice made no difference to them.
Selecting Ryan did boost Romney's support among Republican likely voters, with 27 percent saying the choice made them more likely to back Romney, 8 percent saying less likely, and 62 percent saying the decision made no difference. More than half of independent likely voters said the choice made no difference, with 21 percent saying the pick made them more likely to vote for Romney and 21 percent saying the choice made them less likely to support the Republican nominee.
While the polling results for the presidential race offered little drama, the voting preferences of Obama and Romney supporters in the state's much-watched U.S. Senate race provided some intrigue.
The survey of 444 likely voters found Democrat Elizabeth Warren leading Republican incumbent Scott Brown 50 percent to 44 percent in the race for the Senate. Polling data, however, showed that some likely voters who back Obama indicated they would split their ballots and support Brown for the Senate race if the election was held today.
Among Obama supporters, 77 percent said they would vote for Warren and 14 percent said they would back Brown. The percentages were roughly the same among all registered voters, and were comparable to results from the previous survey conducted May 29-31, 2012.
"While Warren leads Brown in this survey, the defection of 14 percent of Obama supporters to Brown should be of concern to her," Vercellotti said. "For Brown, winning over as many Obama supporters as possible is clearly a critical part of winning re-election."
The Western New England University Polling Institute survey consists of telephone interviews with 588 adults ages 18 and older drawn from across Massachusetts using random-digit-dialing Sept. 6-13, 2012. The sample yielded 545 adults who said they are registered to vote in Massachusetts, and 444 adults who are classified as likely to vote in the Nov. 6, 2012 general election. Unless otherwise noted, the figures in this release are based on the statewide sample of likely voters. The Polling Institute classified likely voters based on voters' responses to questions about interest in the election, likelihood of voting in the election, ability to identify their polling place, and whether they reported voting in the 2008 presidential election.
The Polling Institute dialed household telephone numbers, known as "landline numbers," and cell phone numbers for the survey. In order to draw a representative sample from the landline numbers, interviewers first asked for the youngest male age 18 or older who was home at the time of the call, and if no adult male was present, the youngest female age 18 or older who was at home at the time of the call. Interviewers dialing cell phone numbers interviewed the respondent who answered the cell phone after confirming three things: (1) that the respondent was in a safe setting to complete the survey; (2) that the respondent was an adult age 18 or older; and (3) that the respondent was a resident of Massachusetts. The landline and cell phone data were combined and weighted to reflect the adult population of Massachusetts by gender, race, age, and county of residence using U.S. Census estimates for Massachusetts. Complete results of the poll are available online at www.wne.edu/news. The full text of the questionnaire for this survey is available at www1.wne.edu/pollinginst. Complete coverage of the polls by our media partners, The Republican and MassLive.com, can be found at www.masslive.com/politics/.
All surveys are subject to sampling error, which is the expected probable difference between interviewing everyone in a population versus a scientific sampling drawn from that population. The sampling error for a sample of 444 likely voters is +/- 4.6 percent at a 95 percent confidence interval. Thus if 57 percent of likely voters approve of the job that Barack Obama is doing as president, one would be 95 percent sure that the true figure would be between 52.4 percent and 61.6 percent (57 percent +/- 4.6 percent) had all Massachusetts likely voters been interviewed, rather than just a sample. The margin of sampling error for the sample of 545 registered voters is +/- 4.2 percent at a 95 percent confidence interval, and + / - 4 percent for the sample of 588 adults. Sampling error increases as the sample size decreases, so statements based on various population subgroups are subject to more error than are statements based on the total sample. Sampling error does not take into account other sources of variation inherent in public opinion studies, such as non-response, question wording, or context effects.
Established in 2005, the Western New England University Polling Institute conducts research on issues of importance to Massachusetts and the region. The Institute provides the University's faculty and students with opportunities to participate in public opinion research. Additional information about the Polling Institute is available at www.wne.edu/pollinginst.
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HGTV Design Star Goes Vegas For Season Two
April 29, 2007 12:03 AM by Joe Blackmon
The die is cast, the expert judging panel is back and 11 finalists have
been selected to compete during the second season of the original
interior design competition, HGTV Design Star. It's anyone's guess
which finalist will walk away with the coveted prize – his or her own
show on HGTV, but when the reality series hits the strip in Las Vegas,
each one will hope for a kiss from Lady Luck. Hosted by Clive Pearse,
who also hosts the network's top-rated real estate series Designed To
Sell, HGTV Design Star will begin its nine-week run with the Design
Star Casting Special on Sunday, July 22 at 10 p.m. ET/PT and then air
weekly its regular time slot beginning Sunday, July 29 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
through September 16.
As with the series' first hit season, fans can expect captivating challenges that stretch the creativity, ingenuity and skills of the designers, artists, stylists, architects and craftsmen who aspire to host a television show. The judging panel, which features designers Vern Yip and Cynthia Rowley as well as In Style executive editor Martha McCully, will critique the efforts of the finalists as they complete seven demanding design challenges. In the end, two finalists will remain for a spectacular showdown, but when America casts their final votes, only one finalist will get a shot at television stardom.
"Las Vegas is a perfect, visually-stunning backdrop to shoot this new crop of creative talent," said James Bolosh, vice president, event programming, HGTV. "Viewers will find more twists, more turns, fun surprises, fresh ideas and takeaways on the show this season. The finalists are driven and determined to make it to the finish line for a shot at their own show, but they will find that we have raised the stakes on the challenges. This competition isn't for the faint of heart."
During the competition, several finalists will discover that the real-life demands of a weekly television show are a lot to navigate as they also try to showcase their design expertise and hosting skills. Others will thrive on the time and budget constraints, rigorous production schedules, ever-present camera crews and frequently-fretful homeowners.
The finalists already have overcome significant odds for the chance to participate in HGTV's search for its next star. Network executives and show producers culled through more than 2,000 essays, portfolios and videos to select semi-finalists who appeared to have the skills and "it" factor to survive the competition.
In early spring, 30 semi-finalists presented their work, in-person, to McCully, Yip and David Bromstad, a special guest judge who was last year's winner of the competition and currently hosts his own primetime show, Color Splash. The live presentations were documented for the Design Star Casting Special which will show how the 11 finalists managed to measure up to the exacting standards of the judges.
The HGTV Design Star judging panel is the talented trio of McCully, Rowley and Yip. Ms. McCully is In Style's executive editor as well as a trend watcher and style maker whose knowledge, keen insights and interest in all things home-related is second only to her expertise in beauty and fashion.
Ms. Rowley is an award-winning international designer whose collection includes women's wear, shoes, handbags, eyewear, belts, dishes, baby wear, leg wear, color cosmetics and a signature fragrance. She also is co-creator of the bestselling line of Swell books and home products at Target and is currently working on a new line of home products. Her latest book, Slim: A Fantasy Memoir, will be released in time for Mother's Day.
Mr. Yip is an award-winning architectural and interior designer who gained national acclaim for his expertise in transforming homes and restaurants in his private design practice and on primetime cable and network television series. He also has his own line of top-quality products and found time to write a book, Designing Spaces. His new HGTV show, Deserving Design, will get a sneak peek airing after HGTV Design Star on Sunday, September 9 at 10 p.m., then air in its regular weekly time slot beginning Wednesday, September 12 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Viewers will have their opportunity to vote on HGTV.com for their favorite HGTV Design Star finalist during the series' seventh episode. In addition, they will be able to text-in their choice via cell phone.
"HGTV Design Star ended its first season as the highest-rated series in the network's history, so we are sure that viewers will embrace this new opportunity to weigh in on who should win their own show on HGTV," said Bolosh. "Last year we discovered David Bromstad – that one special talent who had the potential to be a 'break out' star. He's a star. We're ready to do it again."
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One Response to "HGTV Design Star Goes Vegas For Season Two"
Jordan Says:
May 4th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
I love these home design shows, it really interests me to see how they turn a boring room into something new! There's also this new show on HGTV that I can't get enough of, being that I am a "home fanatic", hehe. It's a new show called Bought and Sold. It follows real estate agents in New Jersey as they all try to make that deal, it's really riveting. I don't really know what goes on during a house hunt, but now I feel like I'm part of the drama. I think the best parts of the show, is when they tell the house hunters that they got the house. Gets me every time. If you haven't already checked it out, head on over to this link to watch clips: http://web.hgtv.com/webhgtv/images/pac/59889/start_at_home.html?section=boughtsold,panel=videos