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The year is 20XX.
An American vice-president accidentally receives the heart of a lycanthrope during a tragic mix-up during a transplant operation. In the ensuing chaos, 18 hospital staff are devoured, and the beast flees into the night.
A corrupt Russian military leader waits at a rendezvous point in North Africa to sell yellow cake uranium to a terrorist organization. His vast wealth allows him to employ a private military company, and full conversion cyborg soldiers guard him in the scorching African afternoon.
Eighty eight Adolph Hitler clones scheme in a South American jungle compound. They plot and skulk, hidden from the world, slowly rebuilding a weapons program of doomsday proportions.
These are your targets. Your job is to kill them.
Stab City! is a role playing game about deadly assassins and murderous foes. It is a story game, designed to create "Michael Baysian Anime Magical Realism" adventures, which is a thing that did not exist until Stab City! came along. It's a game about secretive cabals and mysterious organizations battling in the shadows, a world of gritty intrigue, cigarette stubs and dark, rainy nights. It is also a game about ninjas, supervillains and massive special effects budgets. It is one part grindhouse crime story, one part high budget summer action movie, and several parts weird. Stab City! finally answers important questions that people want to know. What would have happened if Haruki Murakami had directed Fast And Furious 6? What would Robert Rodriguez's film adaptation of No More Heroes have looked like? How about Zack Snyder's gritty reboot of The Venture Brothers? Or Hideo Kojima's Saints Row: The Third?
In Stab City! you play as one of Los Asesinos, a loosely knit organization of assassins, cut throats and trigger men stationed in the Cuban resort town of Puerto Muerto, colloquially known by it's residents as Stab City. Whether by intense training, advanced technology, or sheer badassery, these super human action heroes are capable of feats no mere mortal could undertake. These are no knife-in-the-ribs, stealth and subterfuge assassins. Shrugging off small arms fire, disarming a bomb with their teeth, and charging an entire army alone is more the style of Los Asesinos.
Stab City! is not a typical near-future crime thriller. It is a game about hyperkinetic action and absurd ultraviolence, where realism takes a backseat to awesome stunts and improbable scenarios. When you play Stab City! you will:
- Jump through a skylight with two uzis blazing
- Double cross the Yakuza
- Throw a man through a brick wall
- Perform unsolicited urban demolition
- Cut off three ninja heads with a single sword strike
- Jump out of a helicopter to elbow drop your target
- Walk away from explosions without looking back
- Have a gunfight on the wing of a jet plane
- Punch a hole in the side of a tank
- Gunfight in a fireworks factory
Stab City! is designed as a game for 3-7 people to play in a single short evening. The game has been designed from the ground up for quick play and simplicity, and to be approachable to new players. It is best played with a sense of wicked humor and a round of daiquiris. Rather than restricting myself to following the example set by traditional role playing games, Stab City! draws inspiration from video games and board games as much as RPGs in making the rules of play. One player takes the role of the Pit Boss, setting up the scenario and guiding the episode forward, while the remaining players are Assassins, the deadly inhabitants of Cuba's secret city. You can find a demo of the rules by following this link. It isn't the full rules, since it doesn't contain Assassin creation rules, rules for making bad guys, and the full combat rules (because who wants to read a page long list of status effects?) but it should show you what the game is like, and what you can expect the final version to look like. All backers, regardless of level, get access to a fully playable playtest version of the game, and backers at the Asesino Electronico level ($10) and higher will receive additional playtest packets as I tweak the rules based on playtest feedback.
Character creation is fast and simple, taking no more than a few minutes. It's designed for maximum flexibility, letting you play everything from an ex-spook to a cyborg mercenary. When you create a character, there are no lists of choices to pore over; you get to define your Edges. You simply write down what you think fits your character best. "Contacts in the Mossad," "Master of disguise," and "Chromed cyber-arm with built in vibro-blade" are all equally acceptable choices.
The game utilizes a unique playing card based rule set instead of dice. The rules are simple, allowing people with no experience to learn as they play. Stab City! has a very narrative focused challenge system that allows for incredible flexibility in the rules. The exactly same challenge mechanic can cover anything from ninja ambushes and SWAT team assaults, to tense negotiations, car chases, and hacking a computer network. These challenges encourage the players to grab the narrative by the throat by allowing them to describe their actions in a way that emphasizes having fun over realism or fiddly rules.
For those fight scenes during a game that feature awesome set pieces or particularly exciting foes, Stab City!'s Showdown system is used. The Pit Boss will set up the Battle Grid, made up of a deck of cards.These scenes use a combat system designed to balance rule simplicity with tactical complexity. Assassins use cards to jockey for position and attempt to defeat their foes or achieve objectives in a grid skirmish game.
This is what a Showdown (combat scene) looks like on your table:
This is what a Showdown looks like in the world of imagination.
Stab City! The Stab City! rule book, available in PDF and paperback, contains everything you need to play the game in a single volume. It features black and white interior art by Daniel Olsen and Kaitlynn Peavler. In addition to the rules and setting, the book contains pre-generated characters, advice for Pit Bosses and Assassins on how to use the rules to create "Michael Baysian Anime Magical Realism" stories, an extensive chapter of villains, rivals and antagonists, photocopiable pages of tokens and effects, and optional random generators for Stab City! missions or character backgrounds. If features two self contained "episodes": ready to play adventures that allow groups to jump right into playing Stab City! and even a chapter on suggestions for "hacking" the game and running it as a swole-and-sorcery epic, or a giant rubber monsters vs giant robots game.
Ninja Doodles Backers who pledge at the $1 level will receive a doodle of a ninja by Ian Johnson, unique to each backer, delivered to your e-mail as a JPG. Each doodle will be extremely deadly and mysterious.
Stab City Abstract Only available for backers of this project, the Abstract is an old-school 'zine-style booklet. It contains designer notes, the history of the Stab City! RPG, doodles of ninjas, an expanded reading/viewing list for inspiration, the game design theory behind the mechanics of Stab City!, and my thoughts on Nicolas Cage's film career.
Asesino Supremo The ultimate Stab City! collection, containing both print and electronic versions of the rule book, and the Stab City! Abstract. In addition, it contains all the materials to run the game straight out of the box. It contains 6 decks of Bicycle playing cards, a collection of poker chips, resin tokens for zone effects and conditions, as well as small toys and miniatures hand selected for use with Stab City! The only thing you need to run Stab City! that isn't included in this set is an ice cold Cuba Libre.
¡Asesino EXCLUSIVO! In addition to all material in the Asesino Supremo ($100) tier, I will personally work with you to create an Assassin to include in the book as a potential rival and antagonist. This can be just about anything you want, and includes an illustration of the character, so if you wanted to make your mom into an Assassin as a weird Mother's Day gift, this would be the way to do it. You can give as much or as little direction as you'd like, but I reserve the right to ask you for a different idea if your Assassin is too vulgar or offensive. I will work diligently to ensure you are satisfied with the result.
Kickstarter Exclusive
In 20XX, there are few actors held in higher regard than Nikolai Cage. Known for his work on such famous movies as Criminal Air, Ghost Biker, Face Swap and the American Treasure franchises, Cage is the number one American Badass. Decades of work in action movies has, through acting chop osmosis, given Cage preternatural action hero powers. The Nikolai Cage character class will be delivered as a PDF to all backers at the Asesino Electronico ($10) tier and higher.
$6,000 - "Old Stab Hack"
Kirin Robinson, creator of the ENnie award winning Old School Hack, will work with me on producing an Old School Hack hack of Stab City! This will be a complete and playable game, and will be available for free to not only backers of this project, but in honor of the free availability of OSH, it will be made available as a free download on the Stab City! website.
$7,000 - Bonus Episode 1
Ninja expert Reynaldo Madrinan from Bumrush The Titan will write an episode for Stab City! Los Asesinos are hired to travel to Tokyo to deal with corporate sponsored superheroes, and end up destroying half the Tokyo skyline in the process. If I know Rey at all, there will probably be a giant robot involved as well. The episode will be delivered in PDF format to all backers at the Asesino Electronico level ($10) and higher.
$8,000 - Bonus Episode 2
Jack Shear from Tales Of The Grotesque & Dungeonesque, and producer of a variety of excellent old school RPG products and, of course, the "psychoholic trash culture" RPG setting Planet Motherfucker, will produce an episode for Stab City! Los Asesinos are called in to take out a target at an exclusive yacht party, only to discover a boat full of classic horror movie monsters. This episode will be delivered in PDF format to all backers at the Asesino Electronico level ($10) and higher.
$11,000 - Stab City! Playing Cards
A unique poker deck for use with Stab City! will be produced. As an added bonus, you can play normal poker with it as well! This deck will be available as a +$10 add-on for backers.
$4,000,000 - "Danger Zone"
At $4M, I will contact Kenny Loggins and attempt to use funds from this campaign to purchase the rights to his CLASSIC 1986 song "Danger Zone." Then, assuming I am able to procure the rights, all physical copies of Stab City! delivered to backers will include an electronic device built into the book that, using cutting edge Hallmark card technology, will play "Danger Zone" whenever the book is opened.
The art in a role playing game can make or break the product. I'm excited to have two really excellent illustrators involved in the project.
Stab City!'s lead illustrator is Daniel Olsén, a cartoonist, illustrator and concept artist from Sweden. He has worked on game and software development at IC3D Media, and did illustrations in Spartacus Publishing's Luchador: Bright Lights And Barbed Wire. Although he claims to like "robots, peace of mind and good storytelling" Daniel is from Sweden, so I assume his real interests are horned helmets and battleaxes, but was too demure to tell me that. You can see more of his work here, or follow him on tumblr.
Kaitlynn Peavler will be providing additional illustrations. An international jewel thief, she has been successful in hiding her career with a fake identity of freelance artist and illustrator. She's work on the Conquering Corsairs card game and for the Prismatic Art Collection. Her Kickstarer Deck Of Legends just funded with over 400% of the original goal!
Risks and challenges
As this is my first professional venture, gaining enough attention from the role playing game community will be the greatest challenge for this project. I have invested a lot of time and effort into this project, and hopefully that passion will and dedication will show in what I produce.
The writing of the book, as it stands now, is about 50% finished. I've written the setting and the rules, barring tweaks and fixes that will come up in play testing. All that's left is fleshing out the book and filling page after page with deadly villains and rivals. Proofreaders and play tester feedback will also help me organize the rules in a coherent way, and help me ensure that the rules are written in such a way as to be accessible to both veteran gamers and people who have never played a game before.
The $4,000 funding goal is to produce a minimalist and barebones version of the book. With that goal I can get a book printed and shipped. The higher that the project overfunds, the better I can make the book, but spending more on art assets, and increasing the page count with more enemies, episodes and hacks.
I have budgeted and planned for shipping costs and unforeseen expenses, but in the unlikely event that this ends costing more than planned, I am prepared to cover the remaining costs personally. This project is a labor of love, and while I'd love to break even, my primary concern is producing a kickin' rad product and getting it to as many people as possible.
As I am producing all of the written content for the project myself, my untimely death would mean an end to this project. However, so long as I don't croak, I am confident that issues which may arise with other contributors (graphic designers, illustrators, stretch goal writers) can be handled by myself, or by contacting backups to cover their work.
Transparency is important! Backer updates will include progress reports and information on what I'm working on, so in the unlikely event that I am unable to complete this project on time, all backers will know why, and when to expect it finished.
Nicolas Cage may sue this project. Although I'm fairly confident in my understanding of parody laws, I simply do not have the funds to deal with a court case. If such a situation arises, a replacement Kickstarter exclusive character class will be created and delivered.
Kenny Loggins may not wish to sell me the rights to Danger Zone, and/or backers may not actually want their role playing game manual to play music every time they open it.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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I found the picture of a miniature English Castle and Cottages on the Net. I have always loved the look of this type of Cottage. My goal in the upcoming months is to build something sort of like this Cottage, in my own style made with 100% paper. I am wanting to see if i can create a Cottage that I can make a mold from and mabey try to mass produce at least 50 a year with 100% paper, with a limited number of each style produced, to see if this could lead me into my own buisness.
I thought it could be a great idea, if i can do it, and the Cottages were about 2 ft tall and 2 ft wide and 1 ft deep that i could afford to sell them for around $200.00 to $250.00 a cottage. Then people would be able to afford buy the homes, and just need to paint it and add electrical and stuff. Since most people could not afford to buy one of my finished Gnome homes because of the time and labor involved, and each of my homes has at least $200-300 in electrical and lights, and $150-200 in furniture cost, at least $100 in building material or more, thus needing at least $1,000 a home.
So this is my goal I am going to start working on. I think i will call them my English Gnome Cottages. I can wait to start and Post Pictures to see if you like them.

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"My Father Was A Terrorist. But I Chose To Be Different"
Zak Ebrahim was born in a Muslim household in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the USA. Up until 7 years of age, he had a comfortable childhood. But post that, he was exposed to the fact that his dad wasn't just a engineer like he had claimed to be. His father was part […]Read more ›


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Long Distance Motorcycle Riding Tips
It was late November when I set out on my journey – temperature, 26 degrees. My trip began in Michigan, my final stop, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Despite the challenges of the cold, rain and warm weather, my trip was successful, all because of planning, training, friends and my Gold Wing.
During the planning stage, you should ride your bike in all types of weather conditions – driving through heat, rain, cold weather and at night. On the road is no place to discover that you lack the skill to negotiate these situations – road and traffic conditions change rapidly. A GWRRA ARC class is a must. Another class recommended is on tire performance in various road conditions. On long trips, I have had to perform evasive maneuvers – rapid stops, turning around on narrow streets. You may encounter objects on the road or an object that has just fallen from a car/truck. I have had to navigate tight turns at gas stations.
Conduct several shakedown rides with all of your gear. Far from home is no place to discover that your gear does not fit. The most common conditions you will encounter are rain and cold weather or both at the same time. Make sure you wear clothing in the configuration that you plan to use during your ride. You may encounter rain and the next stop is 50 miles away. A raincoat may not be enough. I wear a heated jacket liner under my raincoat. I have found that your raincoat should be the brightest object on your body. People take notice of high visibility clothing before they see your bike or its lights. I wear a "Safety Green" rain jacket. Know your limitations and be mindful that safety is first. If you are uncomfortable riding in rain, stop at a safe location. However, always be prepared for rain.
Riding a 2010 Gold Wing, I found it is best to pack rain gear on the left side because on the right, a hot exhaust pipe runs behind the saddlebag. Over the years, I believe the heat degraded my Frogg Toggs lining causing it to leak during the rain. I switched sides and have since had no problems.
Cold weather riding can be challenging. Over my heated clothing, I wore a Tourmaster Transition Jacket. Over my heated pants liner, I wore Sliders Quest 3 Kevlar Riding Pants. I have heated foot footpads and heated gloves. Even though your bike may have heated grips, you should wear heated gloves. I wear tall boots to block out wind from coming under my pant legs. I must warn you – Before you leave, clean your heated clothing connections with denatured alcohol. You may find that your connections build up a film; during cold weather, your riding clothing may not heat as well.
Long distance riding will also require you to wear your helmet for long periods. A helmet that fits for short trips may become painful over a long distance. During preparation, wear your helmet for at least three hours. Wear your helmet for two main reasons – for safety and for bugs. Rocks and large bugs have struck my helmet. The rock chipped it. Had I not been wearing a helmet, I would have received severe injuries. No matter how tall your windshield, objects find their way to your head region.
There are always debates on how far you should ride each day. If you ask any seasoned traveler, your answer will vary. The distance will depend on your comfort level and your bike. Remember, it is difficult to know when you are getting fatigued. When fatigue sets in, often it is too late. I suggest instead of miles to travel, use time traveled. I found for me it is best to do six to nine hours of travel per day. If you are riding four hours and you find that your next three hours will be winding roads and/or heavy wind, stop and rest for the night. Safety always comes first. In hot weather, drink plenty of water and monitor yourself for dehydration. If you stay at hotels, sign up for their awards program. You will be shocked how fast you will receive free night stays.
Also, know your bike. I found that many Honda shops did not know what size tire a Gold Wing requires. Know what tires you have. If you ever have a tire changed, inspect your bike and tires to be sure the tire fits properly and the valve cap is on. Inspect your bike before you leave the lot. You should have a small cache of tools to perform small repairs, like changing light bulbs, fuses and tightening screws or bolts.
In some parts of the country, parking your bike may become a challenge. If you park your bike facing downhill your bike may roll forward and tip over, if you are pulling a trailer, your bike may roll backwards. Finding a suitable place to park may become a challenge.
For those times where you may not find an adequate place to clean your hands, I carry baby wipes (they are larger than handy wipes) and liquid hand sanitizer. I also carry two pairs of riding gloves, eyeglass cleaner (clean your glasses, face shield and windshield often and if you ride in the rain put RainDex on your face shield), emergency first-aid kit, fire extinguisher, two pairs of glasses – sunglasses and clear lens glasses. Traditional transitions lenses do not get dark enough for long distance daylight riding. I discovered the active transition lenses get dark behind your helmet shield and dark enough for the road. For road comfort, I suggest an MP3 player and an XM Radio. My MP3 player has over 30 hours of music.
You should have cash, a credit card, debit card and gas card. For gas, I use my gas card. I usually carry $200 dollars and if I need cash, I can always find a store to get cash back. I have a virtual road coordinator/ navigator. While on the road, I call my coordinator to give me locations, best price and best-rated hotels. One app I recommend is Booking.com. You can find well-rated hotels at good prices, book it and pay for it right from your phone. Make sure you have your insurance card and telephone number of your insurance agent and Rescue Plus. If your bike is ever involved in an accident and can be ridden, take your bike through all the gears, checking the reverse gear and braking functions. I discovered that my reverse gear was damaged because of the accident. "Failing to plan is a plan to fail." Ride safely and sensibly.
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Culture vs. Cognition: a false dichotomy? Amen!
A basic premise of our research since its inception, the fusion of cultural outlooks and cognition of risk is the defining characteristic of the cultural cognition thesis.
From Kahan, D.M., Slovic, P., Braman, D. & Gastil, J. Fear of Democracy: A Cultural Evaluation of Sunstein on Risk. Harvard Law Review 119, 1071-1109 (2006), pp. 1083-85:
The claim behind cultural cognition is that culture is prior to facts in societal disputes over risk. Normatively, culture might be prior to facts in the sense that cultural values determine what significance individuals attach to the consequences of environmental regulation, gun control, drug criminalization, and the like. But more importantly, culture is cognitively prior to facts in the sense that cultural values shape what individuals perceive the consequences of such policies to be. Individuals selectively credit and dismiss factual claims in a manner that supports their preferred vision of the good society. . . .
Although one can imagine alternative explanations for cultural variation in risk perceptions, cultural cognition offers a distinctively psychometric one. On this view, the impact of cultural worldviews is not an alternative to, but rather a vital component of, the various psychological and social mechanisms that determine perceptions of risk. These mechanisms, cultural cognition asserts, are endogenous to culture. That is, the direction in which they point risk perceptions depends on individuals' cultural values.
Consider the affect heuristic. Emotional responses to putatively dangerous activities strongly determine risk perceptions, but what determines whether those responses are positive or negative? The answer, according to cultural cognition, is culture: persons' worldviews infuse various activities — firearm possession, nuclear power generation, red-meat consumption — with despised or valued social meanings, which in turn determine whether individuals react with anxiety or calmness, dread or admiration, toward those activities. This account recognizes, in line with the best psychological accounts, that emotions are not thoughtless surges of affect, but rather valueladen judgments shaped by social norms.
A similar account can be given of probability neglect. Individuals display less sensitivity to the improbability of a bad outcome when that outcome is attended by intensely negative affect. But insofar as the valence and strength of individuals' affective responses are influenced by their cultural appraisals of putatively dangerous activities (guns, nuclear power plants, drug use, casual sex, etc.), probability neglect will again be culture dependent.
Availability, too, is likely to be endogenous to culture. The magnitude of a perceived risk depends on how readily an individual can recall instances of misfortune associated with that risk. But how likely someone is to take note of such misfortunes and to recall them almost certainly depends on her values: to avoid cognitive dissonance, individuals are likely to attend selectively to information in a way that reinforces rather than undermines their commitment to the view that certain activities (say, gun possession, or economic commerce) are either noble or base.
Culture will also condition the impact of social influences on risk perceptions. Most individuals are not in a position to determine for themselves whether childhood vaccines induce autism, silicone breast implants cause immune system dysfunction, private firearm possession reduces or increases crime, and so on. Accordingly, they must trust others to tell them which risk claims, supported by which forms of highly technical empirical evidence, to believe. And the people they trust, not surprisingly, are the ones who share their cultural worldviews — and who are likely to be disposed to particular positions by virtue of affect, probability neglect, availability, and similar mechanisms. Risk perceptions are thus likely to be uniform within cultural groups and diverse across them. Accordingly, group polarization and cascades are endogenous to culture, too.


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Another very sad day yesterday, with Donald Featherstone, the father of modern wargaming, passing away. I never met Don, although his personality shone through his books which were a huge influence in my, and no doubt, many other wargamers' lives.
From the very fine tributes from a number of other wargames bloggers this morning, I know many, many others – Nate, Conrad, Lee, Bob, Mike and Grimsby Mariner – feel the same way.
Like many other wargamers born in the late 1960s, I grew up in the age of school wargaming clubs and the wonderful British public library system. When I think back, it's hard to separate the two. I used to wargame at the School club on a Friday evening, and cycle down to the local public library before it shut at 7pm to swap last week's library books around. I was very fortunate – the Hull librarians had the forethought to purchase many of Don's books for the shelves (located somewhere around 793.3 in the duo-decimal system). "War Games", "Solo Wargaming", "Advanced Wargaming", "Skirmish Wargaming" – the list went on, and by cycling around the libraries in Hull, or using the inter-library loan exchange, I ended up reading almost them all by the time I left school.
It's hard to think of my hobby without Don Featherstone.
Thank you Don for helping me to build a lifetime of wargaming pleasure with my friends.
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Saturday, January 20, 2007
Queen Liliuokalani's Home is Now a Museum
Washington Place in the historic capitol district of Honolulu is one of the oldest residences in Hawaii. It was built by a wealthy sea captain in the 1840's and it became the home of the future Queen Liliuokalani when she married the captain's son. The queen was arrested inside Washington Place before she was deposed and she died in one of the downstairs bedrooms. After Queen Liliuokalani died, her home became the Hawaii governor's mansion. Today it is a museum and it can be toured by the public if reservations are made in advance.
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Michael Page
Dear Sir,...I feel I should inform you that your mother is very ill. If you wish to see her before it is too late, you should come at once.Sincerely,Mrs. Camilla StuartPierce Waverly, the Earl of Devonmont, has led an unabashed rogue's life, letting no woman near his heart. Inexplicably abandoned as a child to be raised by distant relatives, he never forgave his parents, refusing to read any of his mother's letters after his father's death. Then came a letter that shook his resolve. A Christmas visit to Montcliff might prove his last chance to discover the truth of his past, and come to terms with the stranger he calls "Mother."But two surprises await him at Montcliff. His mother is perfectly healthy, nowhere near a deathbed, as her meddling lady's companion led him to believe. The second is Camilla Stuart herself, a lively vicar's widow, too bright and beautiful not to arouse the scoundrel in Pierce. Though she alone is reason enough to prolong his stay, he is soon faced with other tantalizing riddles: What secrets lie in his mother's past to explain his childhood abandonment? Why is the captivating Mrs. Stuart so determined to mend the breach between mother and son? Meanwhile, Camilla herself is caught up in love's complications since the arrival of the irresistible earl. As his bold flirtation and suggestive whispers draw her dangerously close, can anything protect her vulnerable heart? If they are destined to share real happiness, there must be honesty between them—yet telling him the truth about her own life may shatter that chance.None of them can predict the startling revelations to come. Or the secrets, both heartening and shocking, divulged between a mother and son, and between two lovers haunted by their respective pasts, that will make Christmas night at Montcliff one to remember—and the glorious night after, one to treasure for a lifetime.
Run time: 9 hours
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Sabrina Jeffries
Sabrina Jeffries is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Royal Brotherhood trilogy, the School for Heiresses series, and the Hellions of Halstead Hall series. The winner of numerous awards, she also headlined the novella collection The School for Heiresses and contributed to the holiday anthology Snowy Night with a Stranger. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and son.
Michael Page
Michael Page has been recording titles for Brilliance since 1984. He has over 250 titles to his credit, several of which have received Earphones awards. He is also an Audie nominee and winner. He recently retired from his other profession of college theatre professor but still performs during the summers with the Peterborough Players in New Hampshire.


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Well, I went to the doctor on Monday and she said I was 4 cm dialated!! Ahhh!! I started freaking out and thinking that when I finally did go in to labor, I would be too far along and wouldn't be able to get my precious epidural (this is exactly what happened to my friend)! Oh the horror!! So, I scheduled an induction for tomorrow morning. We are going in at 6 am (so, no sleep for us starting tomorrow). I can't wait to see what this little guy will look like and be like. It will be so fun to have another boy in the house. I grew up with 6 sisters, so I don't really know what boys are like. It will certainly be an adventure!
On another note, Scott is back in school and loving it. He always has to be busy doing something. Even on spring break he organized closets, did hours of yard work, played with Ryley...he even rearranged and organized my kitchen cupboards!! How's that for a husband! :)
Saturday, March 31, 2007
The Baby is Coming!!
Well, I went to the doctor on Monday and she said I was 4 cm dialated!! Ahhh!! I started freaking out and thinking that when I finally did go in to labor, I would be too far along and wouldn't be able to get my precious epidural (this is exactly what happened to my friend)! Oh the horror!! So, I scheduled an induction for tomorrow morning. We are going in at 6 am (so, no sleep for us starting tomorrow). I can't wait to see what this little guy will look like and be like. It will be so fun to have another boy in the house. I grew up with 6 sisters, so I don't really know what boys are like. It will certainly be an adventure!
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
You Know You're a Mom When:
1) You catch yourself singing the "Blue's Clue's" theme in the shower.
2) You are never caught up on all of the laundry.
3) You don't get a shower until 1pm!
4) You always have something on your shirt from your kids.
5) Sleeping in is considered a thing of the past!
6) You hide in the bathroom to be alone. ( I do this so much, but then my daughter NO MATTER WHAT, always finds me. She can sniff me out like a police dog!!)
7) You wouldn't trade any of it for the world.
I know there are many others, but that is all I have the energy to type right now.
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Monday, March 26, 2007
Baby or Beauty Pageant
By the way I have been acting lately you would think I was entering a beauty contest or attending a red carpet event. However, I am not doing anything close to those things...instead I am getting ready to have a baby. That's right. I am primping and prepping to go to the hospital and bare it all. Now I have done this before so it is no big deal right? I mean the doctors and nurses see women all the time and probably don't flinch at anything askew. As for me, I am not taking my chances. I have been shaving my legs everyday because heaven forbid I have some stubble on my legs, or anywhere else for that matter. I got my hair did last week (totally chopped off and a little bit of color). Today I even put on tanning lotion to hide all of my luscious whiteness. My mother in law gave me a gift card for my birthday so I can go get a pedicure. What in the world else do I need to do!!! I'm telling you, aside from dieting, I feel like I am getting ready to attend a wedding! Am I crazy, or do most women do this? I just feel like, once the baby is here most everything will be put aside. So I may as well do things now while I can, right?
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Saturday, March 24, 2007
Spring Break...cookies and cake!
The first week of Spring Break is behind us now. Our bodies are in shock from all of the food and inactivity and our brains are in shock from all of the bonehead, end-of-game plays during the NCAA college basketball tourney! Unbelievable. One day I watched about 5 games in a row, my teams losing in all the games. What drives me absolutely nuts is how, with, say, 15 seconds left in the game, the team with the ball is down by 2 and bringing it up the court...OK...freeze it there...I'm not a sports analyst, coach, and I can't even palm a basketball, but I do know that if you take it into the paint you have a chance of not only scoring, but getting fouled and winning.....so they'll come down the floor, dribble in place for about 13 seconds and then heave a rushed, off-balance three pointer that doesn't even touch the rim! What the?!?! This seemed to happen every single game! Whateva...
So, I''ve registered for school and am looking for a good internship in my field that will pay. Jill and I are just waiting for the baby to come. She's feeling lots of discomfort and "crowding" in her belly so we know it's soon. We're soo excited to have a little boy in the family.
We hope everyone is happy and being blessed in your goals.
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Monday, March 5, 2007
High Fructose Corn Syrup
This is a very annoying subject to me. First of all, if any of you ever read the ingredients on what you buy you will know that almost everything contains it. Even your 100% whole wheat flour bread (it is the 3rd ingredient!). It is also in light miracle whip, light yoplait yogurt, ketchup, many cereals....even bran flakes and rice krispies, which are not sweet to me at all! Here is a little bit of info: This sweetner is metabolized differently from other forms of sugar, and some studies suggest that its effect on your insulin levels actually prompts you to eat again sooner. It also tastes sweeter than other forms of sugar, which may condition us to want even sweeter foods! This is my complaint...we try to eat healthy and avoid trans fat and processed food and high frutose corn syrup....but when even whole wheat bread adds it in how can we possibly avoid it!! SOOOOO annoying!! I guess I will just need to make homemade wheat bread if I want to avoid it. I have checked almost every type of whole wheat bread, and the only kind I have found that doesn't have any hfcs is this sugar free kind, which was pretty good. I found it at Wal mart, but now it isn't there anymore. But what about yogurt...does the plain kind have any hfcs? I am just mad at the food industry and especially because they make the healthier foods more expensive! How do they ever expect the obesity rate to drop. That is why there are so many unhealthy people in the world. It is easier and cheaper for people to eat processed foods than to make homemade healthy meals. I also read an article today that said you can eat real sugar-in moderation and still lose weight. Instead of using artificial sweetner, which can be 200 to 700 times as sweet as natural sugar, and consuming these may interfere with your ability to judge natural sweetness. So, maybe instead of using an sugar packet on my cereal, I should use 1 tsp of sugar??? Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
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Check out this site's Recent Publication Page for reports published since 2000. Please let me know what is missing. For instance, I just found new research on the effects of Pomacea insularum on the Snail Kites in Florida:
For his Master's Thesis at UF (see Recent Publication page), Christopher Cattau recently found that the exotic snails (Pomacea insularum) that have invaded Lake Tohopekaliga were 69% larger than the native apple snails (P. paludosa). The larger exotic snails require longer handling times for Snail Kites (Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus), an endangered raptor in the U.S. that exhibits an extreme form of dietary specialization. The larger size of the prey leads to increased drop rates and depressed capture rates. However, the average exotic snail weighed 3.5 times the native and provided 2.7 times energy than the average native snail. Consequently, the effects of the exotic snail on foraging behavior do not have negative energetic repercussions for adult kites. In fact, he found that adult kites are attracted to Lake Toho and that the relative contribution of the lake to the range-wide nesting effort increased from 6% to 33% after the invasion of the exotic snail.
The invasion of exotic snails is a problem for juvenile Snail Kites, however. The exotics were 4 times harder to capture, plus drop rates and handling times for the exotic snails were over 5 times those of the native. These effects on juvenile foraging behavior lead to insufficient daily energy balances and suppress juvenile survival. Given the critically endangered status of the snail kite and the propensity of the exotic apple snail to spread, serious management and conservation initiatives that address the exotic apple snail are necessary to prevent further deleterious consequences for the kite population in Florida.
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Iron Savior heading for Spain & Noise-Years
Hueso Producciones presents upcoming dates of Iron Savior in Spain in February 2018:
|22. February 2018
|23. February 2018
|24. February 2018
|25. February 2018
Awesome!!! It's been a while since our last visit in Spain so we are looking really forward to this one! Hope to see you all there!
Right now we are in the final making of our major re-recording project of the 'NOISE-years'. You will find entirely new versions of lots of classic Iron Savior stuff such as "Riding On Fire", "For The World", "Warrior", "Titans Of Our Time", "Battering Ram", "Iron Savior" and "Watcher in the Sky" and many more… in full versions.
All the best,
Piet & the Boyz \m/
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You would never know that Bass Drum of Death is a two piece band. The Mississippi duo of John Barrett on guitar/vocals and Colin Sneed on drums make trail blazing rock that leaves half-hearted-listeners in the dust (think Japandroids). Contrary to the group's name, you're not going to be bombarded with Southern 808s, but expect a lot of wailing of "oww wows," references to drugs, girls, and Hunter S. Thompson-esque stories.
Catch them tonight at The Echo. Win a pair of tickets on our iPhone app.
Bass Drum of Death – "I Wanna Be Forgotten"


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HTC announced their new HTC Salsa at the mobile world congress 2011. HTC Salsa is powered by android and it also comes with most popular social networking Facebook button that lets you update your status. The button also enables you to share news , pictures , music and videos with your friends with just one touch.Salsa is powered with a 600mhz
qualcomm procesor. This is more than sufficient to handle all android apps. HTC Salsa has the lastest version of android 2.3 aka Ginger bread. The phone has a 3.4 inch touch screen. The new HTC Salsa has a speed of 512mb which makes multi tasking easier. Salsa comes wit an internal memory of 512mb , this enables many of the files to be stored in the internal memory itself. It comes with a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus and led flash this makes HD video recording possible. The phone also has a front VGA camera which enables user to make high quality video calls.
HTC Salsa Android Phone Features
- Qualcomm processor with 600MHz Clock Speed
- Loaded with Android 2.3 aka Gingerbread
- 3.4-inch touch screen with 480x320 pixels resolution
- 512mb ROM
- 512mb RAM
- Sensors: G-sensor , Ambient Light Sensor , Proximity Sensor , Digital Compass
- Wide range of supported audio formats like MP3 , AAC, M4A, WMA, WAV, OGG, MIDI
- Supported video formats : MPEG-4, Xvid, AVI, 3GP, 3G2
- HTML browser with FLASH SUPPORT
- 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 with FTP/OPP for file transfer, micro USB 2.0 and A-GPS with Navigation
- 3.5mm stereo audio jack with A2DP for wireless headset
- Rechargeable Lithium-ion bateery
The phone also has a high-efficient Lithium-ion battery 1520 mAh capacity which gives longer battery life upto 7hrs in 3G mode and 9hrs in 2G mode. The HTC Salsa costs around 450$ and as in india it will be around RS.25000


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How Do You Find The Confidence and Courage To Own All Of You When You're Out There Dating?
How do you say "I'm disabled," or "I'm a bigger woman," and own the things that sadly some people don't sometimes see as valuable when dating? Find out with Cathy Vartuli from http://www.TheIntimacyDojo.com and Robin Wilson Beattie from http://www.sexAbledwithRobinWB.com
How Do You Find The Confidence and Courage To Own All Of You When You're Out There Dating?
Liz: So when you're dating someone new, should you have sex with them first or make them wait awhile? I'm Liz Powell from http://www.SexPositivePsych.com/
Cathy: I'm Cathy Vartuli from http://www.TheIntimacyDojo.com/
Yoni: I'm Yoni Alkan from http://www.ElementsofSexuality.com/
Caroline: And I'm Caroline Carrington from http://www.JewelInTheLotusCoaching.com/
Sexy Librarian: And I am the disembodied voice in the background.
Liz: I love our disembodied voices.
Cathy: So fuck first, or wait awhile?
Liz: Right, fuck first or wait awhile? So we know that we have some different camps here and people who have tried different strategies. I'm a mega sexual and as a mega sexual I pretty much always fuck first.
Cathy: Can you define mega sexual?
Liz: Sure. So, a mega sexual is a person who requires sexual connection and chemistry in order to develop a romantic connection so I have to know that sex is working with someone before I'll be romantically attached so for me, I've actually had people that I dated where they're one of the slow movers so they don't want to get sexual quickly and by date three and four if we haven't had sex I'm losing interest coz that's part of how I am, like until I have that connection with you I don't feel as deeply connected.
Caroline: Can we define what you mean by sex?
Liz: Sure, so so the people that I'm thinking of all we did was kiss and cuddle.
Caroline: Oh okay.
Liz: So I'm looking for anything that has an intent to towards orgasm, touching of any kind of erogenous zones that sort of thing right? So.
Caroline: But it doesn't have to be fucking or intercourse.
Liz: No, it doesn't have to be intercourse. Like it could be oral, it could be manual, it can be any of those things, anything that moves towards orgasm or attempt to orgasm would be fine.
Caroline: But it has to be goal oriented [Inaudible 00:01:31]
Liz: No it doesn't have to be goal oriented it's that like there's a difference between like I'm touching your leg because I'm saying hi, I'm touching your leg or like I'm touching your leg. Where there is a sexual intent and that's more what I'm walking about because for lay folk what I've seen is that when I told them sexual intent, they don't necessarily understand that terminology so much as like, were you touching them hoping that they would have an orgasm eventually as a sort of part of what you're doing or were you just touching them to touch them and have this whole connection.
Caroline: Or to touch them so they can experience intense amount of orgasm didn't happen.
Liz: Yes
Yoni: Yes. Yeah
Caroline: That's what I'm most interested in.
Liz: But then how would you differentiate between like the intense amount of pleasure you get from a massage, versus intense amount of pleasure you that you would count as sex.
Caroline: What the intention would be
Liz: Okay.
Caroline: The differentiating factor
Liz: So how would you know the intention?
Caroline: Ahhh, sometimes you would set that up hopefully. Hopefully you would set that up before you start.
Cathy: You are talking about a verbal agreement.
Caroline: Yeah, verbal agreements but I think you would also know by the quality of the touch that you're receiving and so context.
Cathy: Yeah, context is a big part of it and I want to make sure you come back to the quality of the touch because I think there's a lot of people that don't know how to give different quality of touch so we'll do a different one but like for me I'm demisexual, okay, I need to have a heart connection with someone before I want to get sexual
Liz: Se we're like opposite of the opposite end of the spectrum.
Cathy: Right, but I'm the same way, if I've been out with three or four dates with someone and there hasn't been some kind of chemistry, I'm like, no, why bother? And as you said earlier, if they're not good in bed, there's no chemistry.
Sexy Librarian: Yeah, why would you bother? Just be friends because the romantic relationship or sexual relationship complicates things, so if you really enjoy that person's company by all means, enjoy their company but if there's not a sexual connection, then leave it as friends. You'll have a much longer relationship I think.
Liz: I totally agree.
Cathy: No. I do have a friend that I, Rick and I are super romantic but we are not sexual so it is okay to have that if you want to.
Liz: Yeah.
Yoni: But but your relationship has been going on long time.
Cathy: Yeah.
Yoni: That's not like oh I just met the person
Cathy: Yeah, it's not three dates or anything like that.
Yoni: Yeah, exactly from a cis-hetero male point, it's a little bit different because the place that I'm in but I go out on a date with someone in order to enjoy their time but enjoy my time with them, if it gets sexual or not it doesn't really matter, if it does, yeah great I'm all for it. If it doesn't get sexual after a while and I would like it to, I would basically open a conversation about it because, what are we doing here we better kind of figure out why are we here?
Liz: Yeah.
Cathy: I know there's a lot of people out there that talk about just using looks or just knowing, I think we're all advocating using our words.
Liz: Look, I'm a terrible psychic. So bad at it, I'm just the worst, I've never won the lottery, like I'm so bad at guessing and I just want you to tell me. If you want me to kiss you, just like ask, you can even say like, your lips look so lovely, I'd love to feel how they feel on mine. Right, there's all sort of ways to ask what you want that are hot, sexy and fun and not would you like to kiss me now?
Yoni: Ahh.. I would have to check.
Liz: Right, see you can make it awkward or you can make it sexy sometimes awkward is fun too.
Yoni: Yeah. True.
Caroline: I also think the importance of building the container, I know I freak people out but this all the time, the first day I'm like so, what do you want to do here? And for me that isn't necessarily about sign the dotted line and you have to commit your life to somebody.
Liz: You are now required.
Caroline: No, like is this friends-with-benefits thing? Are we just playing around? Are you looking for a deep long term-committed relationship and are the two of you actually in alignment? Because for me I when I explore sexually with somebody especially when intercourse is involved, I have a lot of attachment that shows up. So I tend to actually delay intercourse for quite a long time until I figured out if that person is actually available for the kind of attachment that I want and that's it, it may not intercourse for you out there but figuring out where that line is when the attachment starts running that's been really really helpful then I can build, I can have lots of different connections with lots of different people and I just go oh, we're just going to run some, it's very [Inaudible 00:06:03] language. But we're just going to run some energy together or we're going to breathe together but that can be a really fun date for me.
Liz: Yeah.. Yeah..
Caroline: You're like, that can't be… That's no fun at all…
Liz: No it can. No I got really great energy sex with people that we never had any kind of physical touch or connection other than like our hands or something, we never touch each other's genitals or anything and had really really hot energy sex.
Caroline: And I have lovers that I've been lovers with for four years and for various reasons they're not right person for me to fuck so we don't. We have, we ride that edge, really fun to ride that edge but we know what the container is and we're both really happy and we agreed on what it is so it actually gives more freedom.
Yoni: And I think that if you bring that up on the first date, if you get serious and just talk about it and it freaks the other person out, that might be a good filter for you that this is someone that is not on your level of communication granted maybe other people will not feel like that.
Liz: We might be [Inaudible 00:07:06].
Yoni: Yeah, we might be a little bit in the over communication but that's the way we like our lives but yes, it can be frightening for someone I'm sure but then it really depends what are you looking for.
Liz: And setting those expectations are so helpful so much of what I see folks coming to me with and even with my friend group is, was this a date date or just like a friend date, do they want to have sex with me, now that we've had sex do they want to date or do they want to just be hooking up? What are we now? Right, you have all these questions that they ask your friends rather than asking the person who are developing the relationship and
Cathy: And the friends give them an answers and they decide on that, and the other person is like we never talked about that.
Liz: And we never talked about it. Yeah.
Yoni: And that's also the question why I approach it with I'm here to have fun. However that fun will be, what it will look like, that's what I'm aiming for, aiming to enjoy my time with this person.
Liz: And having that information allows you to adjust your priorities coz you know I'm entrepreneur, I'm very busy right? So most of the people that I see these days, I see them once a month if we're dating and we're not like serious serious dating so, I need to know where we're at and give them that expectation as well so most times when I'm on a first date I'll tell people like, hey just so you know here's what I have available in my life right now, something may change and we can always talk re-negotiating that, if that's not serving both of our needs anymore but right now this is what I have available.
Yoni: Yeah. That's great, do you have anything to add on this topic? I want to come back and talk about the quality of touch.
Liz: Yeah.
Yoni: Quality of touch.
Liz: Now I'm excited.
Cathy: Leave comments below.


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What do you enjoy most about wealth management?
Creating financial clarity and peace of mind in the lives of successful people.
What's the biggest challenge?
Market "clutter" and individual skepticism are the backdrop in which we operate and the trust that is needed to be highly effective is not easily gained, nor should it be, which makes it challenging for people to recognize our special value.
What do you love most about being part of Aspiriant?
Aspiriant equals commitment – to our clients, to our people, to our industry. I love being part of that.
What quality of yours makes you best suited to do what you do?
I am passionate.
How should people think about their wealth?
As an opportunity and a calling.
What do you love to do outside of work?
I love walking barefoot in the sand at sunset with my wife, Leyla, and daughter, Brooke, just before a great meal at a sidewalk cafe.
What would you be doing if you weren't at Aspiriant?
I'd be coaching high school sports in small town USA.
What professional accomplishments are you most proud of?
- Provided strategic vision and financial management for some of the most successful families and entrepreneurs of the past few decades.
- Helped a family realize their dream of owning a professional sports franchise.
- Served as a Board Member for several philanthropic organizations whose sole purpose was to create positive community change.
What's the most influential book you've read?
Desire, by John Eldredge, helped open my eyes to the much larger story that we all find ourselves in every moment of every day.
What personal accomplishments are you most proud of?
Hermosa Beach Triathlon finisher, New York Marathon finisher, Metropolitan Theatre Group performer, Cal Poly Rugby team captain.
Education and accreditations
- M.B.A., California State University, Dominguez Hills
- B.A. in Business, emphasis in Accounting, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Prior to joining Aspiriant, Bret served as the President and Chief Personal Financial Officer for Sasco/Roxford One; Chief Financial Officer for Andell Holdings; Managing Director for the Saban Capital Group; Client Service Director and Vice President of Client Financial Operations for myCFO; Chief Financial Officer for The Bubble Factory; and Senior Manager for the business management division of Price Waterhouse.
Bret has served on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including the California State Summer School for the Arts, Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust, and Stand To Reason. He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) in the State of California and holds an MBA from California State University and a BA in Business Administration from California Polytechnic State University.


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Alcatel OneTouch has just lifted the lid on an affordable series of smartphones called the "PIXI 3" series. Entry-level smartphones are a dime a dozen these days, so what makes this series so special? What edge do they have over everybody else? The smartphones are "compatible" with Mozilla's Firefox OS, Microsoft's Windows Phone, and Google's Android.
Press release:
CES – Las Vegas, January 5th, 2015 – With a series of announcements at the International CES, ALCATEL ONETOUCH, one of the world's largest smartphone brands, makes good on its commitment to offer the latest technological innovations to all.
The brand's new PIXI smartphones make mobile Internet available to everyone, while offering another innovative feature of OS-agnostic. It is available with Firefox, Windows or Android, providing the flexibility to all consumers. What's more? The smartly priced WATCH creates a newly attainable smartwatch category.
4G LTE at an affordable price
First among ALCATEL ONETOUCH's announcements at CES, the smartphone brand is launching its affordable PIXI 3 series, ranging from a pocket-friendly 3.5-inch display to a larger 5-inch display. Offering both 3G and 4G LTE connectivity for the PIXI 3 (4"), (4.5") and (5") and 3G for the PIXI 3 (3.5"), the PIXI 3 series further features easy customization and the most popular applications pre-loaded.
OS-agnostic – Firefox, Windows or Android
Besides being the first among the PIXIs to offer 4G, the PIXI 3 series is also first to be compatible with three major operating systems: Firefox, Windows and Android.
"Our users do not want complicated systems — they want something familiar from their work environment in the office, but also on a smartphone," said ALCATEL ONETOUCH Chief Marketing Officer Dan Dery.
Cross-device integration, from smartphones through to PCs. PIXI 3 series offers consumers simplicity of use and the reassurance of having the same system at home, at the office and on the go. With its OS-agnostic PIXI 3 series, ALCATEL ONETOUCH presents operating-system choices to its customers. This continues the efforts begun last year, when the brand teamed with Mozilla to launch the Firefox OS on its FIRE series of smartphones.
We're not exactly sure how Alcatel made this possible or how the smartphones are compatible with Firefox OS, Windows Phone, and Android. We're sure, however, that we'll know more at CES 2015, which kicks off at Las Vegas from the 6th to the 9th of this month.
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A team of students has been working on this project for more than two years now, and we are ever expanding to include new members from diverse backgrounds.
The overall team is divided into different sub teams that will work together to make this launch a success. The Orbits, Launch and Propulsion team is responsible for determining what orbit we will launch into and how the time capsule will arrive in that orbit. The Bus, Power and Payload team is creating the physical time capsule and utilizing cutting edge technology to understand how to shrink data into its most minute form. Currently there are two aspects to the payload team: a DNA experiment and conducting roughly 1,000 interviews from throughout the U of M community to be put on the time capsule. Lastly, the Tracking team is in charge of figuring out how we will track the time capsule in space after it has been launched and know when to bring it back down. The Marketing team is working to spread the word about this amazing project to as many people as possible.
As a multidisciplinary project, the time capsule is intended to represent everyone involved with the University of Michigan—students, faculty, and staff. It is our desire to share the multitude of individual narratives that collectively make up the heart of this University. Our goal is to preserve these narratives in space for 100 years to leave an unparalleled legacy for future generations.
Current Members
Past Members
Team Leads
Hashmita Koka, Project Lead
Hashmita Koka recently graduated with a Master's Degree in Aerospace Engineering and a focus in Gas Dynamics from the University of Michigan, where she also received a Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering. She is the Project Lead of M-BARC and has been working on this project since Summer 2016. She has previously led the Propulsion and Tracking sub-teams on M-BARC. She is also a part of the AIAA Michigan Chapter through the Outreach Committee and has helped organize Aerospace Day STEM outreach activities for the Aerospace Department. She was a GSI for Aero 405 and previously the Project Manager of MBuRST, a member of the S3FL Executive Committee and a part of the Aerospace Centennial Committee. In her free time, Hashmita enjoys traveling, learning new languages and kickboxing.
Connor Bluhm, Team Lead
Connor is currently a Master's student in Space Systems Engineering at UM with a Bachelor's in
Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech. He's worked on M-BARC since Fall 2016, starting out on the
team exploring options for propulsion and then moving to optical tracking analysis of the satellite. He's
now moved to team lead in this final semester and is excited to see the team's effort come together in a
real satellite. Outside of engineering, he plays viola in the campus orchestra, and piano in his apartment.
Aakar Mehul Sheth, Bus Lead
Aakar is currently a graduate student in the ECE department at the University of Michigan and is the Bus Lead, which includes the EPS and CDH subsystems of this project. He is also leading nano-fabrication for the payload team. Aakar's background is mainly associated with Systems (Power & Control) and it's applications. Having been associated with various prestigious projects back in his home country India, Aakar has brought a great level of exposure & perspective in exploring new ideas for the project. Moreover, he has been a part of various e-lite panels who are associated with various path breaking technologies on the basis of which he has various Publications & papers to his name in the field of Controls & Power. Aakar, is also a 'Student Ambassador' for the ECE department at the University of Michigan.In his free time, Aakar likes to study entrepreneurship, as he aspires to be an entrepreneur one day. He enjoys reading books and listening to talks by successful entrepreneurs who share their unique perspectives.
Eishaan Gakhar, Structures Lead
Eishaan is currently a graduate student at the University of Michigan, and the team lead for structures of the M-BARC project. Eishaan's background is associated with design and manufacturing. He brings a great level of experience in design based on his knowledge on manufacturing processes acquired while working in a robotics lab at the University of Texas at Austin and classes taken at the University of Michigan. In his free time, Eishaan likes playing and watching cricket. He also loves traveling, exploring new places and cultures, and playing computer games with friends.
Weiyau Tee, Systems Engineer
Weiyau is a Masters student and is currently working as the systems engineer in the DSM-BARC mission. Having completed his undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, he realized independency of design and manufacturing. This motivated him to pursue a Masters degree in manufacturing and specializing in manufacturing design and sustainability. He is currently completing his practicum for his Masters degree. In addition, he is deeply fascinated with ancient history and enjoys traveling to historical sites around the world. During his free time, Weiyau finds joy in lifting heavy things up only to put them back down.
Aaron Ridley, Faculty Lead
Aaron Ridley is a professor in the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering department at the University of Michigan. His main area of research is modeling the near-Earth space environment, having developed several models that describe the phenomena such as the aurora and how the aurora causes the atmosphere to change and alter the orbits of satellites.
He has been the principal investigator of several CubeSat missions that have been built at the University of Michigan and is the Constellation Scientist for the CYGNSS mission that is measuring wind speeds in hurricanes. He is the faculty advisor for the College of Engineering Honors Program. Professor Ridley teaches classes on satellite mission design, rocket science, space instrumentation, and the upper atmosphere. He has several blogs, a podcast, and is an avid photographer.
Thomas Zurbuchen, Faculty Lead
Thomas Zurbuchen is a professor of Space Science and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. From 2009 to 2015, he served as the UM Associate Dean of Entrepreneurial Programs in the College of Engineering, and from 2012 to 2015 he was the Senior Counselor for Entrepreneurial Education. Prof. Zurbuchen was the founding director of the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship. He serves on the boards of three small companies and non-profits. In 2013, Zurbuchen was appointed by Michigan Gov. Snyder to the Northern Michigan University's Board of Trustees. He has been at the University of Michigan for more than 20 years.
Zurbuchen, who holds a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Bern, Switzerland, received numerous awards, including the prestigious US Presidential Early Career Award, which represents the highest honor by the US government for early career scientists and engineers. Zurbuchen, a specialist in the robotic exploration of space, served as team leader for the development of NASA's Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer, an instrument that was part of the MESSENGER spacecraft, which orbited Mercury from 2011 to 2015. His team is actively involved in the development of a new space instrument, and is responsible for five such instruments currently in flight.
Zurbuchen also has a long record of service as a chair and member of committees advising NASA, NSF and the DOL. He served on several committees of the National Academies, mostly focused on Space Research and Innovation. He has also testified before Congress on research topics, educational issues, and export control.


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Day 3 - Pear and Two Vases SOLD
For this painting I rubbed off patches of the gold foil background to expose the brown stained wood beneath for a "rusted" effect.
I am realizing these first three paintings all use lots of transparency and reflection, two effects which unfortunately don't show up so well in photos!
The paper with the handwriting on the lower half of the painting has a history. I bought it off the street from a drunken man in Mexico a few years ago. He was walking out of an antique/junk shop in San Miguel de Allende as I was walking in, weaving a bit and carrying a sheaf of papers he apparently had tried to sell to the shop. I don't know what the documents say, but they are beautiful - written in Spanish in an old-fashioned ink script on embossed letterhead.


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No cart just a very clever horse visiting the M & B stables at Cape Hill in 1954. Do you know it's name?
ScipioNo it was 15 years earlier when Gene Autry visited Birmingham and I'm not sure if Champion was with him then. No this is Trigger who appeared at the Hippodrome in 1954 (I was there) with his wife Dale Evans and of course Trigger. This is photo of Trigger climbing the back stairs of The Queens Hotel where Roy & Dale stopped whilst in Birmingham (perhaps trigger didn't like the stables).
Our food bill as gone down. Collecting the g daughter from school on the back home we would give a horse and it's fold apple and carrots. The horse would run to us when it could see us. She is on holiday now and when she returns to school she will be going to the senior school and won't be passing the field with the horses in.
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Can you believe that Chinese New Year falls on January 28th this year? Earlier and earlier every year! I have very fond memories of Chinese New Year from my childhood. The day, the foods, the traditions are special to me. But most memorable is my mom's part in it. She would clean the house and cook an amazing spread. Family would come visit. She would often take us out of school, if not pick us up early.
Mom would make whole chicken, whole steamed fish, bao, noodles, rice. There would be coconut candy, sesame candies, almond cookies, fresh fruit, tea... there was NEVER any fortune cookies. I can't think of one year where there was fortune cookies. It just isn't really a Chinese thing. Still I made them last year. They are easy to make, and taste so much better than the kind you get after a meal at a restaurant. You can find the recipe HERE.
Since it's just our immediate family I spread out the New Year's celebration over the week. I made Double Pan Fried noodles one day, fish another, dumplings the next, and so on. This works well for us. There's not a ton of food and leftovers, just enough for the night.
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Frustrated over Environmental Protection Agency regulations, one family decided to protest by creating their own version of the song "Let It Go" from the Disney movie, "Frozen."
Regulating Puddles?! Judge Nap, Krauthammer Weigh In on 'Insane' EPA Water Rule
Some of the lyrics are, "That's enough. That's enough. The EPA and the Corps, they will try to justify. But we won't back down. Don't need more government anyway."
The seventh generation farming family is fed up with the Clean Water Act. Kacey and Andy Clay, along with their three kids, joined Fox and Friends this morning.
Andy said, "We don't understand why they're overstepping their boundaries, in my opinion here. So that's why we teamed up with Missouri Farm Bureau to make this video to try to bring awareness to the general public."
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Sonja Licht was part of the Yugoslav dissident movement from the late 1960s, and from the mid-80s, she was among the founders of numerous local and international civic organizations, including the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly in 1990. From 1991 to 2003, she led the Fund for an Open Society in Yugoslavia (later Serbia). In 2003, she established the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence and was a member of the Council of Europe's Network of Schools of Politics devoted to the democratic capacity building of decision and opinion makers in 16 countries. Licht has served on the boards of many reputable international institutions, and her work promoting democracy and civic activism in Serbia and South East Europe has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including the Council of Europe Pro Merit, the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, and the French Legion of Honour.
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Keep Calm and Get Hired: The Chivery Needs a Part-Time, Work-From-Home Rep
Keep calm and chive on, read the cool kids' T-shirts. KCCO, man.
If you don't know what that means, don't feel left out — it took me a while to figure it out, too. I'm still not sure I really understand it.
From what I've gleaned, it all stems from The Chive franchise. No, not like the plant. The Chive is a mostly photo-driven entertainment website, parental guidance possibly advised.
The Chivery is its bro brand — some people might argue a way of life — that sells tons of T-shirts. Here's its story, according to the site's nontraditional about page.
John and Leo, the brothers who brought you theChive, have been on a quest. They search not for El Dorado, Bigfoot, nor the Fountain of Youth. Nay, these two captains of men have been on a worldwide hunt for the softest, most astoundingly comfortable T-Shirts in all the land.
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You should be passionate and self-motivated — even a little weird.
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If you're a PC person, sorry. You need to work on a Mac with ease and be able to manage orders with NetSuite and Shopify.
We've already established you can be a little weird, but you should also be hardworking, proactive and attentive to detail. You should communicate well and be able to multitask and manage your time.
Be open to working nights and weekend, as well as holidays. You might be asked to work overtime, so don't be shocked — especially as the holidays approach.
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After filling out basic info, you'll attach a resume, paste a cover letter (customized, of course) and, in 150 characters, tell The Chivery what makes you unique.
"Say something that will catch our eye," the site says. Knowing The Chive, you can probably get pretty bold with this.
I reached out to The Chive to see how many positions are open and what pay's like. No word yet, but the site says "competitive." I'll update y'all if I hear back.
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Downloading music from the internet is a fast, easy, and inexpensive way to expand you music library. Music downloads can even let you listen to music that you wouldn't otherwise have had access to. The only problem is that there have been so many illegal music download sites in the news that a lot of us are afraid to get any music online.
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Which of these sites will provide you with the best quality downloads for the best price? They'll both provide you with easily-accessible music download options, but there are some significant differences in ease of use, price, and overall experience.
Napster is well-known as one of the most famous previously-illegal music sites. The takedown of Napster's illegal music download service was felt all throughout the Internet community. Napster then came back as a legal service, which has cemented its reputation as one of the world's leading music download services. Napster's intuitive site design and huge library of over 5 million tracks let you choose the music that you what and the method of listening that suits you.
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The good points of Napster are its ease of use, its attractive and intuitive user controls, and the fact that it allows you to stream full songs for free (up to five times each).
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Barbara (Getty) Sonier died suddenly on Monday, Sept. 26, 2011. She was 78.
Born Nov. 20, 1932, Barbara was a genuine caregiver. She worked as a licensed practicing nurse, providing comfort and care to children at Shriners Hospital in Philadelphia before sharing a dance (and kiss) with Howard Andrew Sonier in August of 1955 at Brookline on the Boulevard.
That dance turned into a marriage where Barbara filled the last 55 years with fun for her loving husband, Howard, as well as their four children, June, Joy, Drew and Michael; and 11 grandchildren, Adam, Noel, Brooke, Jonathan, Andrew, Jake, Barbara, Katie, Hope, Graham and Griffin.
Barbara, lovingly known as Nana, was acclaimed far and wide for her creativity exemplified in her hand-crafted Christmas cards and award-winning Halloween costumes that included the Phillie Phanatic, Fozzy Bear, Kermit the Frog, Cat in the Hat, the Beatles and countless others.
Barbara was an avid Philadelphia Phillies fan, through their many ups and downs, and will be with them this October watching from her sky box in Heaven.
Barbara's unique sense of humor and joyous laugh will be missed by all who were privileged to know her.
Services to fondly remember and celebrate the life of Barbara will be held on Friday, Sept. 30 at Neshaminy-Warwick Presbyterian Church in Warwick, Pa. Visitors are welcome at 9 a.m. with services beginning at 10 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Barbara's honor to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Delaware Valley Chapter, at www.cff.org. Decker Funeral Home,


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Patricia Cosulich doesn't expect many people to actually shoot 1,000 free throws in four hours Friday at Huntington Beach High School.
But even if they come up short, she hopes that number will stay with them.
Patricia, co-president of the World Vision Club, has organized a fundraiser for Hoops of Hope, a nonprofit that raises funds for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. According to the nonprofit, about 1,000 children every hour lose their parents to the disease — so the World Vision Club has asked contestants to shoot for that number Friday.
"The goal is really to put in perspective how much 1,000 is," Patricia said.
The 16-year-old sophomore, who co-founded the World Vision Club in September, got the idea to host the fundraiser several years ago when she heard Hoops of Hope founder Austin Gutwein speak at a Christian conference. Austin, who is Patricia's age, started the charity in 2004 when he was still in elementary school.