Pros and Cons of Routers for Joinery

Popular Woodworking Magazine: Although routers were originally designed to create moulded shapes, they can be excellent joinery tools. In fact, they’re better in some ways than table saws, professional quality mortisers or dado cutters when it comes to cutting joints. There are several reasons routers have an advantage

Debt Sentence

American Theatre – July 2014: Freddy Arsenault is living the dream. He’s appeared on Broadway; his nonprofit credits include shows at the San Diego’s Old Globe, Virginia’s American Shakespeare Center and Manhattan Theatre Club. But he is also $165,000 in debt, a holdover from having to borrow to attend the graduate acting program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Over iced tea in midtown Manhattan in April, Arsenault recalls receiving his first bill from Citibank, his private loan lender, shortly after graduation. “I owed about $1,200 that month. I panicked. I went into a cold sweat. I started thinking, ‘How am I going to maintain a career like this?’”

11 Things You Never Thought to Do With Your Effects Chain

Pro Sound Web: In today’s world most people are mixing and tracking in the box. With this comes a lot more flexibility then in the past, yet I find the understanding of signal flow isn’t as strong. (Youngsters these days!!)
I suppose I’m at an advantage as a guitarist. I have pedals to tinker with. Over the years I’ve moved pedals around, trying many different chains. Sometimes on purpose, sometimes on accident.

Are you a Millennial leader?

LinkedIn: From the moment of their conception, millennial children seem to be wired differently.
They are smarter, more efficient, more technologically oriented, and while baby boomers are still trying to figure out the blinking clock on their VCR, millennials can work out any gadget or device in just a few minutes of their spare time without having to read the instructions.

A Simple Tool Roll

www.instructables.com: If you are like me, you end up with a lot of little hand tools cluttering up the gig bag. And if you have access to a sewing machine, a few hours of work can save a remarkable amount of hassle later on. I did this thing to learn more about my new Bernina, but it has paid for itself many times over in the sheer convenience of keeping everything I need sorted and easy to transport to the theater.

Leah Buechley: Crafting the Lilypad Arduino

MAKE: I’ll never forget the first time I heard about Lilypad Arduino. I was astounded and said, “You can make LEDs light up and you stitch it with conductive thread? How does that work?” It wasn’t until years later, after experimenting with the board that I finally got to meet Leah Buechley, the inventor. She was giving a talk at University of the Arts in Philadelphia about artisanal technologies. She amazed me with her discussion of mixing classic crafts with electronics, and better yet, it was said in a lyrical tone which reminded me of my favorite teacher from 8th grade. Who was this woman that made art and technology magically merge? I was determined to learn more.

Learning to Shout

HowlRound: In true dramaturgical fashion, I came to my first Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) conference prepared, poring over the conference schedule weeks in advance, scribbling questions in the margins of my notebook, even reaching out to previous attendees for advice. Out of all the insight I received in the weeks before I flew to Boston, the most valuable advice came from my undergraduate mentor and advisor: “Spend time with the young 'ins like yourself. They will be your peer group and cohort moving forward and it is important to be friendly yet competitive with them.”

3D Calligraphy by Tolga Girgin

Colossal: I just stumbled onto the Instagram account of Tolga Girgin, a Turkish graphic designer and electrical engineer who experiments with calligraphy. His latest pieces involve a number of 3D lettering pieces that use shadow and perspective to make it appear like the letterforms are lifting off the page. Very cool.

These Classic Japanese Toolboxes Are Finally Available in the U.S.

Cool Material: Unless you’re a toolbox connoisseur (is that a thing?), you probably aren’t familiar with Trusco. The wildly popular Japanese toolboxes haven’t really been seen stateside. Marked by their bright blue enamel, the sturdy and affordable toolboxes will stand out among the ketchup red kits you see in every hardware store in the United States.

3 Ways Your Facebook Profile Can Help You Get A Job

TheGrindstone: Typically when you’re job hunting, you’re worried that your Facebook profile will keep you from getting hired. But it turns out, the more you have on your Facebook profile, the easier it may be to get a job. How? Recruiters say it works in three ways.

When Clients Ask, ‘What’s Your Markup?’ Say This

Remodeling: One of the questions I would hear periodically when selling remodeling services was “What’s your markup?” Here are some thoughts and suggestions about how to handle that question, which I learned and/or developed over time.

The Problem with Booth Babes: How ‘Casual Sexism’ Hurts the AV Industry

www.avnetwork.com: Those of you who follow me on Twitter might have seen a hashtag I use frequently: #AVHallOfShame. It's one I use for the cringe-worthy AV moments: sloppy wiring; soundbars in places from which sound can't possibly carry to viewers; badly-sized or badly-placed displays; etc. This week I tagged Purelink's booth at Infocomm with the #AVHallOfShame hashtag. What was my issue this time? Take a look at the image to the right, from their marketing email.

Safety: The Unrecognized Strategic Lever

Safety content from IndustryWeek: Not many leaders today are talking about safety as a strategic lever. And the government does not trust organizations to embrace safety, so they legislate things we should do and audit us for compliance.
I propose that safety should be any CEOs first concern.
Not only is safety the right thing to do, it makes good business sense.

Pitfall for Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra as workplace accident nets $5K fine

www.winnipegsun.com: The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra has faced the music and admitted responsibility for its part in a workplace accident that sent a stagehand to hospital suffering broken bones to his face and hands.

The WSO pleaded guilty in court Thursday to failing to provide a safe workplace and was fined $5,000.

A Great Negotiator's Essential Advice

Harvard Business Review: The Program on Negotiation (PON), an active Harvard-MIT-Tufts consortium, draws lessons from the world’s best negotiators. This year, PON honored Ambassador Tommy Koh of Singapore as its 2014 “Great Negotiator.” PON has annually granted this award to a range of remarkable men and women such as former Secretary of State James Baker, Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein, and U.S. Special Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky.
Tommy Koh became the youngest ambassador ever appointed to the United Nations and later served as Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States. During his remarkable career, described in detail here, Koh played central roles in some of the most complex international negotiations ever held.

Hitachi Raises The Bar With Four New Ultra Short-Throw Projectors

Live Design [primary-term] press release archives: Hitachi America, Ltd., Digital Media Division, Business Solutions Group today introduced its CP-AX2503, CP-AX3503, CP-AW2503 and CP-AW3003 Ultra Short Throw projectors - four high-performance models that are ideally suited for delivering large images in limited spaces. The new 3LCD projectors offer improved image quality, flexible connectivity including powered focus, and wireless networking plus a host of useful convenience features.

The Secret to Making Every Meeting More Useful (and Fun!)

The Muse: If you don’t know Michael Dearing, you should. In a fantastic story by Leigh Buchanan in Inc’s March issue, Dearing, who’s on the faculty of Stanford’s design school, riffed on the eternal entrepreneurial topic of how to scale your company without losing the cultural idiosyncrasies that make you a special startup.

Childhood Ruined: Disney Character's Face Falls Off During Live Show

jezebel.com: Do you want to terrorize young, unsuspecting children when they are at their happiest? Follow this video as a guide!
Filmed during something called Super Party Dance Show at Disney World, the video shows The Incredibles Elastigirl coming out onto stage. Suddenly, her face falls off.

Toni Collette: Hollywood’s gender imbalance is a grave problem

Salon.com: Toni Collette –Emmy winner for “United States of Tara” and Oscar nominee for “The Sixth Sense” — is hitting big screens again with “A Long Way Down,” an adaptation of the work of Nick Hornby, but she said that she gets recognized most often for “Muriel’s Wedding,” the second movie she ever made.

Film Professor Creates Low-Cost Production Program at Santa Monica College

Variety: In 2010, Santa Monica College launched a nationwide search for a full-time faculty member to form a film department — a program that was a long time coming for a school that tops the state in transfer rates, and which offered critical studies courses that included film, but lacked an official production course of study.