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Patricia Frazier, Transitioning to Biodynamics on Conventional or Organic Farms
In this interactive workshop, Patricia Frazier leads a discussion about the practical application of biodynamics on farms of multiple scales, including management practices with the goal of transitioning toward biodynamic certification. Her organization, Demeter USA, is the certifying agency for biodynamic practices in the United States. The standards and requirements for certification will be reviewed with a practical approach toward transitioning to their application. The workshop is applicable for conventional farms seeking to transition to organic management and ultimately biodynamic as well as organic farms seeking to incorporate biodynamic principles into their management. The workshop is a continuation of an earlier workshop in the conference and is appropriate for participants with some familiarity of on-farm biodynamic management. Bring your questions and issues specific to your farms for a lively discussion.
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Humusphere: A New Book Release from Acres U.S.A.
In this breakthrough work — now available in English for the first time — the independent German-Norwegian explorer of soil life, graduate permaculture designer and graduate engineer Herwig Pommeresche shares his lifetime of research into humus.
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This Sunday, and coinciding with World Water Day 2015 Adeje will celebrate the 'Ruta del Agua', or Water Route, which is designed to remind people of the important role water has to play in the past of the local Adeje society.
According to the local cultural councillor, Nayra Medina Bethencourt, "the heritage of the town has many aspects, we can see it on our streets, in the centre of Adeje, in the Convento de San Francisco, the Casa Fuerte (town fort), and the modern Plaza de España, as well as the Barranco del Infierno. This project is under the Adeje Together umbrella, involving the whole community, give the multicultural nature of the Adeje society which has grown in recent years and is directly involved in building the Adeje of the future."
Anyone who would like to participate in the event, which is free, can sign up at the CDTCA. The starting point is the Plaza de España at 10.30am. During the event people will be able to find out more about the role water played in the development and evolution of Adeje, the borough with the largest number of natural springs in the island. Throughout the centuries water and how it has been controlled and channelled has played its part in the social and political evolution of the area. Find out more on Sunday.

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Originally posted by Pillar on 2013-12-27 04:38:45hi !
I have a pcDuino. Ithink it is a very powerfull board. the feature you can see:
CPU: 1GHz ARM Cortex A8
GPU: OpenGL ES2.0, OpenVG 1.1 Mali 400 core
Onboard Storage: 2GB Flash, SD card slot for up to 32GB
Video Output: HDMI
OS: Linux + Android
Extension Interface: 2.54 mm Headers compatible with Arduino (TM)
Network interface: RJ45 and USB WiFi Dongle
so I think Cumulocity is a good idea!then How to connect my pcDuino?


text: Asakusa is one of the 'must see' places in Tokyo. The famous Senso-ji temple (which is shown on the cover of the Tokyo book I have been carrying around every day) is located in this region. There is a long path between the temple and the Kaminarimon gate, which is full of traditional Japanese snacks and souvenir shops. The shops are so fun and the prices are very good that even locals recommended that we shop for souvenirs from this place.


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In my July 16, 2007 posting to this blog, The Middle East: A Boiling Cauldron, I tried to elucidate on the situation in this exceptionally vital part of the world, which is boiling with conflict and violence and polarization, a situation which threatens a very serious explosion. I also said that any country there could be the flash point for that eventuality, but I talked about Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq which were at the time the most probable candidates for that kind of cataclysm. The situation in Palestine, is still highly inflamed threatening the emergence of two mini states, the Lebanese are still haggling over the election of a new president who should be acceptable to all factions in that badly torn country. Iraq is disintegrating and decaying, the people are impoverished and insecure. And then the boiling cauldron exploded a little while later, which was very serious in the beginning, but it has by now deteriorated into terrible hostilities and civil wars, a nightmare which is encompassing almost the whole region. The boiling cauldron exploded, when Mohammad Bouazizi, a young Tunisian boy set himself on fire on December 17, 2010, in front of the governor of the city of Bouzid, 265 km south of the capital city, Tunisia. That act of self-immolation by the youngster, driven to despair by the local police in the city, triggered days of massive demonstrations all over the country demanding change and political reform. It was utterly incredible and implausible, the president, Ben Ali, who has been in power since November 7, 1987 was forced to resign on January 14, 2011, he fled the country and sought asylum in Saudi Arabia. These developments in Tunisia, emboldened freedom activists in the whole Arab world, and soon similar uprisings erupted in Egypt, in Libya, Bahrain, and in Syria. Major protests took place also, in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, and almost every other part of the Arab world.
In Egypt, the people were particularly incensed at President Mubarak, who after more than thirty years in power was seeking another six years term. This was more than the people could take, they proclaimed January 25, 2011, a day against him and his regime, millions of protesters gathered against him. In the capital, Cairo, in the country's second big city, Alexandria, in Suez and many other cities all over the country, they demanded that he should step down. He resisted for two days but was forced on the February 12, 2011 to resign. The news of the downfall of Mubarak reverberated in the whole Middle East, they were followed by a similar very violent uprising against Muammar al-Kaddafi who has taken power in a 1969 coup d'état, anti-government protests began in Libya on February 15, 2011. By February 18, the opposition controlled most of Benghazi, the country's second-largest city. The government dispatched elite troops and militia in an attempt to recapture it, but they were repelled. By February 20, the protests had spread to the capital Tripoli which started a very nasty civil war, and resulted in a massive death toll, numbering in the thousands, which drew international condemnation and military interference, which resulted in the capture and assassination of Kaddafi on October 20, 2011.
The explosion reached Syria on March 15, 2011, which is still ongoing, has become a deadly contest between forces loyal to the Ba'ath government and those seeking to oust it. It started with popular demonstrations that grew nationwide by April 2011. They were part of the wider Middle Eastern protest movement and demanded the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad, whose family has held power in Syria since 1971, as well as the end of Ba'ath Party rule, which began in 1963. But al-Assad refused, he ordered the army to quell the uprising, and the protests grew into an armed rebellion, a civil war.
These events have been instigated all over the region by dissatisfaction with the rule of their governments, which included issues such as dictatorship or absolute monarchy, human rights violations, political corruption economic decline, unemployment, extreme poverty, and a number of demographic factors, such as a large percentage of educated but dissatisfied youth within the population. It was an open rebellion against the concentration of wealth in the hands of autocrats who were in power for decades, against abuse and corruption.
The Arabs have been fighting for their rights for more than a generation, these events have very strong historical roots, and they were in the beginning very genuine uprisings, seeking improvements in their standards of living, their human rights and a chance to have a role in the running of their own countries, but it has unfortunately and very sadly taken a totally different course because of the brazen interference into these events by a number of local and foreign powers who imagined that a change in the status quo would endanger their political and economic interests in the region which are very extensive. This interference by these foreign powers has transformed the situation into a real nightmare. The situation in the Middle East now is not SPRING, it is a very harsh and an extremely cold WINTER. The situation in all the countries which have been part of the so called Arab spring, has by now sank into a much serious state of affairs than it was before it started, it has worsened into terrible civil wars and extremely high levels of polarization and conflicts. I am not going to talk about all of them now, I am going to concentrate on Iraq, Egypt and Syria.
In Iraq, the violence has reached unprecedented levels of violence between the two major components of the society, the Sunnis and the Shi'ites. The intensity of attacks in Iraq this year by mainly Sunni Muslim insurgents has reached levels not seen for five years. More than 1,000 Iraqis were killed in attacks in July, the highest monthly toll since 2008 according to United Nations statistics. Reuters news agency reports more than two years of civil war in neighboring Syria have inflamed long-running sectarian divisions in Iraq. The country's politics are characterized by an uneasy mix of Shia, Sunni and Kurdish persistently quarreling factions. I have written about the current situation on this blog on several occasions recently, it is terrible it is nothing but a civil war and the country's future is very unpredictable and gloomy. In Egypt it is worse, the bloody quarrel between the Muslim brotherhood and the new authority which has replaced their rule that followed the recent military coup, has reached unbelievable levels of discord and violence. The new authorities are facing unprecedented levels of opposition who insist on re instating president Mursi, the man they have helped into office, the new authority are responding by unmercifully suppressing the opposition, by very harsh measures, using the old police state tactics which they inherited from the Mubarak regime. I have been writing about this unfortunate situation for the last two months, and I have just emphasized it is getting worse by the day, leaving poor old Egypt to another worrying and very unpredictable future like that of Iraq.
In Syria the situation nowadays is a flagrant civil war, and as I have said few minutes ago, the level of violence and destruction in that country is simply staggering, there have been more than a hundred thousand deaths, tens of thousands of injuries and almost two million people have fled their homes to neighboring countries living as refugees. I am leaving the Syrian situation now, and would very soon return to it, after the real objectives of the United States government and its allies will become clearer toward the Syrian government. They want to punish the Syrian regime for their supposedly very punitive chemical weapons attack against their own people on August 21, but I would like to emphasize now that the American intentions are becoming extremely worrying and confusing, some Americans favor a strike, another faction is against it. President Obama is evidently unable to make up his mind and he is playing for time, he is saying now that he is going to go ahead after he receives a definite and a clear mandate from Congress to go ahead. In the meantime the world is holding its breath, because in the end, an American military strike against Syria, will never make things better it will very definitely make them worse. Najeeb HanoudiMonday September 2, 2013Southfield/ MichiganEmail:


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China expressed surprise about reports India had planned a secret military exercise targeting Beijing, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday.
India's Hindustan Times reported last week that the Indian army had on March 25 concluded a three-day military exercise codenamed Divine Matrix, based on the assumption a "nuclear-armed China will attack India before 2017".
It said that before the exercise, the Indian military spent six months studying various hypothetical scenarios of war with Beijing and concluded: "China would rely on information warfare to bring India down on its knees before launching an offensive."
It also quoted an officer as saying the People's Liberation Army can now "launch an assault very quickly, without any warning".
Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told a regular press briefing: "We are surprised by the report. Leaders of China and India had already reached consensus that the two countries will not pose a threat to each other but rather treat each other as partners."
China is willing to work with India to boost relations over the long term, he said.
Espionage accusations
Qin also dismissed allegations yesterday that China was involved in worldwide computer espionage, accusing the report's authors of being "possessed by the Cold War ghost".
The Toronto-based Information Warfare Monitor report released on Saturday said that over the past two years, at least 1,295 computers in 103 countries were breached by software used for spying. It said the spy ring was mostly based in China but could not be definitively linked to the government.
Hacking targets included computers used by the Dalai Lama and his "government-in-exile", the report said.
But the Canadian researchers admitted in the report that they are unsure of the identities or motivations of the hackers, adding that alternative explanations are possible.
"Nowadays, the problem is that there are some people abroad bent on fabricating lies about so-called Chinese computer espionage," Qin said.
"Internationally, there's a ghost called the Cold War and a virus called the China threat. People possessed by the Cold War ghost constantly spread this China threat virus."
China pays great attention to computer network security, and resolutely opposes and fights any criminal activity harmful to computer networks, such as hacking, he said.
"These people's attempts to vilify China through rumors will never succeed," he said.
Hu-Sarkozy meeting
Qin said China is still waiting for France to address its grave concerns before President Hu Jintao and French President Nicolas Sarkozy could plan talks on the sidelines of the G20 summit scheduled to start tomorrow in London.
Such a meeting could help mend the countries' bilateral ties, which soured after Sarkozy met with the Dalai Lama in Poland last year.


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As the Gaithersburg Trojans staged a furious second-half rally in the regional girls basketball championship last Saturday, the Whitman players and coaches had a litany of thoughts running through their heads.
"I was thinking 'Can we hold on?'" said Whitman coach Pete Kenah. He wondered if his team could make enough plays down the stretch to win.
"I just kept on thinking … 'This could be three minutes left in my high school career,' and I did not want that to happen," said senior guard Zoe Walsh.
When junior forward Erin Brown stepped to the free-throw line with the game tied at 53-53 and 1 minute, 36 seconds to play, she wasn't thinking about the score, or even the game.
"Weirdly enough I was thinking about my grandfather," said Brown. Brown said that her grandfather, Jack Davis, is ill. "I just wanted to do it for him."
Brown hit both shots and added one more with 1:01 to play to put the Vikings up for good. Whitman held on to win the regional championship 59-53 over Gaithersburg on March 3 before a raucous crowd of approximately 600 at Montgomery Blair High School.
THE TROJANS overcame a 40-21 deficit early in the third quarter behind an aggressive defense that caused the Vikings to turn the ball over time and again.
Trailing 38-21 at the half, Gaithersburg coach Ivan Hicks told his team that they just needed to settle down.
"I told them to relax and let the game come to them," said Hicks. The Vikings countered the Trojan full-court press easily in the first half, but the Trojans switched to a different press in the second half and the Vikings struggled to move the ball upcourt.
"Their intensity overwhelmed us," said Kenah. "Their press shifted… and it bothered us."
The Trojans outscored the Vikings 18-5 in the third quarter to pull within 43-39 with one quarter to play.
"We let them get back in the game in the third quarter [by] not rebounding or helping on defense," said Whitman junior guard Julie McCabe.
"'Julie, please don't foul out,'" Kenah remembered thinking to himself as Whitman's lead dwindled. Kenah knew that he would need the junior's defensive skills to hold off the Gaithersburg surge, but McCabe had fouled out a few times during the regular season and was playing the fourth quarter with four fouls.
"I fouled out a lot this season; I can't really control my limbs," McCabe said.
McCabe picked up her fifth and final foul with 5:30 to play and the Vikings leading by just three points, but after briefly surrendering the lead the Vikings righted the ship. Sophomore Morgan Werner hit a jump shot from the left wing that Kenah said was critical, and then Brown took over, both with her scoring and by grabbing crucial rebounds in the game's final minutes.
"Then there was Erin Brown down the stretch," said Kenah. "She was huge — not only the free throws but the rebounds." Brown finished the game with 16 points (including 10-of-16 free-throw shooting) and two blocked shots.
"I was upset [about fouling out], but we just have so much confidence in each other, I just knew that people would step up," said McCabe, who finished the game with 14 points.
"We worked so hard, off-season and on-season … each and every player on this team contributed to this," said Brown.
WITH SATURDAY'S loss, Gaithersburg finished the season 15-7, and relinquished last year's regional title. Senior guard Chant'e McKinney led the Trojans with a game-high 17 points.
"I just told the girls after the game how proud I was of them, they played a great game," said Hicks.
"They've been an unbelievable team the last three, four years," said Kenah.
For the Vikings, savoring the victory isn't something that they plan on doing. Kenah said that the team's "24 Hour Rule" doesn't permit them to dwell on any win or loss for more than a day, and as the only team in the county not to have lost two games in a row, Kenah said it has served them well so far.
McCabe said that the next step — Eleanor Roosevelt at UMBC on Thursday, March 8, will be exciting, but not unfamiliar for the Vikings.
"We go to UMBC each season to watch them play and to look at their locker room, so it's going to be crazy going there for our own game," McCabe said.
After surviving the Gaithersburg onslaught, McCabe said that she hopes the victory will make prepare them for the road ahead.
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Warren the 13th is a peculiar 12-year-old boy and heir to the Warren Hotel. Saying he is hardworking is an understatement as he is the hotel's bellhop, waiter, groundskeeper, and chimney sweep, among his huge list of other responsibilities. His father, Warren the 12th, passed away years ago and since he was too young to be in charge his uncle Rupert came to run things. Sadly for Warren, his uncle is rather lazy and at times exhibits evidence of narcolepsy, which led the hotel to fall quickly into disrepair.
One day a mysterious and unexpected guest arrives. His face is wrapped in bandages and he communicates by using a deck of picture cards. Despite how overwhelmingly strange this guest is, Warren does his best to be a great bellhop, welcoming him even though he seems unappreciative and impatient. Warren gives him the not so original nickname of Paleface.
When Warren's wicked step-aunt Annaconda learns of the new guest's arrival, she becomes irritated and paranoid. She asks many many questions and then starts asking if he mentioned the All-Seeing Eye, a mysterious treasure that is rumored to be hidden inside the hotel. We quickly learn that Annaconda is cruel, reminiscent of many of Roald Dahl's evil characters, including the Twit and Miss Trunchbull. And thus begins the search for the All-Seeing Eye, each character trying to find it faster than the other.
Warren the 13th* is a clever and quirky book that fuses adventure and humor. The reader must pay close attention to small clues and keep track of details throughout this fast-paced chapter book. The Edward Gorey-esque illustrations by Will Staehle are really captivating and add to the emotion of the text.
Warren the 13th and the All-Seeing Eye is perfect for kids ages 8-14. This book would be a huge hit in my 4th grade class as a read aloud, and my 5th graders would have loved to read it independently. Click here to purchase a copy of the book (affiliate link).
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Rick has served as the Area Director of Cisco Capital for the Middle East and Africa, which is a fully licensed entity at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). Prior to Cisco, Rick has worked in senior positions at several multinational companies including GE Capital, HP Financials Services and JP Morgan Chase. He has a BSc and an MSc in Computer Science and Finance from Columbia University in New York and an MBA from Oxford University.
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We're obsessed with great IPA. Some would call it a Fixation, and so we did. After a number of IPA sabbaticals to the West Coat of the USA, we were fascinated by how the brewers have taken this style and made it their own. They showcased just how fantastic fresh IPAs can be. We think IPA's are at their best when they are fresh, that big flavoursome hop aroma is just amazing when the beer is only days old. On the flip-side, they can be disappointing with a bit of age on them, they lose that awesome floral hop character and are not always at their best by the time we get to drink them at home. So we set Fixation Brewing Co. up to be Fixated on one thing, making the best IPA's possible. It's backed by people who know beer and fronted by a man who has a fanatical obsession with the style. WE had an inkling that there was room in the Australian beer landscape for a beer business that is purely focused on well made, fresh American style IPA, and Tom Delmont is the passionate IPA enthusiast to deliver it to the IPA fanatics of Australia.
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Programmatic advertising's ever growing presence in Canada continues to change the way digital media is bought and sold. In 2018, it was estimated that programmatic accounted for 70.1% of all digital display ad spend* and that number is expected to continue to rise. Get up-to-speed on the basics of programmatic and much more with our all new intensive in-person course.
New for 2019, programmatic buying and selling advertising has gotten so big we couldn't cover it all in just one day! – This year we have expanded our programmatic course by a half-day, allowing you to dive even deeper into the data side of programmatic advertising. Data has always been at the center of programmatic advertising but is all data created equally? To use it correctly you have to first know where the data is coming from, how it passes through the various systems and how you can leverage it.
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This course was developed and is maintained by a committee of peers from across the industry.
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Wishing For: Blue jean and bootie weather, it's still WAY to hot to pull this off.
Wanting: Metallic flats; how fun are these? Perfect for now and through the fall.
Pinning: Lots of looks from New York Fashion Week – Spring 2015.
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I have coffee table books all throughout my house {seen here}, I find myself picking them up occasionally as a place to look for inspiration. Don't get me wrong, I go to Pinterest more often than not, but there is just something I love about flipping the pages of a hard cover book. I came across this beautiful book {the cover image is just perfection} and was instantly inspired.
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The Huntsville City Council will be honoring the Alpha Omega Academy football team at 6 p.m. Tuesday, January 15th, during their regular meeting. The Council invites the public to join in the recognition of all the hard work and dedication the coaches, players, and supporters have invested in their success this fall.
The 2018 Lions finished their season with a 12-2 record, advancing to the TAPPS Six-Man Division II state championship game. Four Lions received All-State honors being named to the all-state team.
The Council will hold a workshop at 5 p.m. Tuesday, to hear Economic Development initiatives. The agenda for the full evening is posted here. The complete meeting packet is available here.
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California State Controller John Chiang reported some long-overdue positive news about the state's finances this week. After months of missing budget projections, in December tax revenues came in $481 million above estimates. This positive change was due to a sharp increase in income taxes. Wow. How could income taxes be up so much in a state where the unemployment rate tops 12 percent?
Turns out the numbers may be a little juiced. Starting in November, the state began requiring taxpayers to fork over an extra ten percent of their normal withholding as an interest free loan. Any excess will be returned to taxpayers in April after they file their returns. And while an extra $481 million is great, Chiang says California is still $353 million below revenue estimates for the entire year. There's also that $20 billion deficit over the next 18 months.


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Much as I lean towards utter self-absorption, I have met some wonderful people and a few of them conceded to be my friends (whether long term or single serving). The Monday Guest is about them and their brilliance. Some blogs are interviews, some are stories and some are guest blogs but all are about sharing that individual's insight. It's less a quest for anything truly significant than a desire to hunt out the nuggets to make life a big KFC family bucket of joy.
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Falling over (again)
My column is my soapbox, my outlet for voicing my anguish at the world. It's hard to put into words how much I love the damn thing and how much it has helped me. My life is structured around my column and unlike anything else I've tried, this has given me power over my OCD. I started trying to write about current affairs and I try to keep things topical but I don't worry too much about the details. It's a bit pot luck as to what'll turn up each week but my readers seem to like that.
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See Mocha Beanie Mummy for what this is about. I am simply jumping on a bandwagon here. I love taking photos and for a while took one every day for my blog, The real voyage of discovery. Once a week I'll take a photo and accompany it with no words at all. For over a year I've been focusing on my words and those amongst you that pay particular attention may have noticed I've started illustrating The Thursday Column. This is a commitment to life behind my lens.


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Sorry for the dumb question, but I'm confused as to pdaxrom on the Zaurus platform. I've just purchased an SL-C3100 after a couple of years away from the Z - I had an Akita that I sold.
It seems pdaxrom continues, but is nothing to do with Zaurus. Could it be be brought back to the Z? Should it be brought back to the Z? Is anyone else interested?
It seems feeds are a little missing in action: anything we can do collectively to organise those?
Sorry for all the questions which can probably be found by 2 days searching, but after 2 days searching I'm now more confused than ever
Thanks in advance
18 Oct 2007
is this any use?
7 Nov 2006
Folks, I'm selling my SL-C1000. It's in great condition complete with box, a PDAir case which it's been in most of its life, and a USB charging cable.
Looking for £250 / offers to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please don't tell me how cheap you can get it from pricejapan.com for, just make an offer bearing in mind that this'll not cost you much in postage, and won't sting you for VAT.
26 Sep 2006
Wow, this has really captured my imagination !
For me, the zaurus is too small for comfortable use, both in terms of screen and in terms of the keyboard.
Perhaps I'm too old, but for me the sweet spot of form factor usability vs portability is in the shape of the Psion Series 5, and the Sigmarion 3.
The psion's keyboard is great, the screen is adequate if a weird shape...
The sig3 runs an 800x480 screen with a very, very capable keyboard. If it ran Linux, well, it'd be *awesome*.
I'd love the screen real estate and keyboard size of the old devices with modern hardware. Am I alone in thinking that that is about the right form factor for such a device? We're not going for PDA replacement after all, but general purpose pervasive computing platform
8 Feb 2006
I realise that pdaxrom is targeting experienced linux people as users, but unfortunately I am not one of 'em.
I've been struggling recently with a few things, such as library locations. If I choose to install something to /mnt/user using the package manager, the library will not be found after a reboot.
Changing /etc/ld.so.conf to add the path /mnt/user/usr/lib/ and then running ldconfig sorts this out.
Should this path be added to the baseline pdaxrom config?
Other things that would be useful would be a way of identifying where the space in the root partition has "gone" - knowing what are core OS files and what can be changed/removed would be good, as I find myself running out of space on / occasionally.
Is it possible to install man or info for pdaXrom? This would again help newbies such as myself...
I know these are newbie things, but it would help the learning curve.
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Communing with Dinosaurs at Grand Prix Shizuoka
Jamin takes his last chance to prove that Green-Red dinosaurs is more than a homebrew in Standard. Learn about the difficulties he encountered while he takes you through the fifteen rounds of Grand Prix Shizuoka to see if Sarkhan's Unsealing can match the power level of Golgari Midrange.
GP Shizuoka
Since I currently live in Tokyo, playing GP Shizuoka was an easy choice for me. I didn't have access to Legacy cards, so I would only get to play the Standard part of the weekend. Ever since the Pro Tour, I worked on the green-red dinosaur deck from my last article and wanted to prove the deck's playability. I made some final tweaks (notably a maindeck Maximize Velocity) and ended up on this list:
|16Other Spells
|4Carnage Tyrant
|1Memorial to Unity
|1Drover of the Mighty
|4Commune with Dinosaurs
|4Druid of the Cowl
|1Lava Coil
|4Rootbound Crag
|1Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
|1Maximize Velocity
|1Timber Gorge
|1Raging Swordtooth
|2Savage Stomp
|4Regisaur Alpha
|4Thunderherd Migration
|4Ripjaw Raptor
|3Sarkhan's Unsealing
|1Territorial Allosaurus
|2Crushing Canopy
|2Fiery Cannonade
|1Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
|1Sentinel Totem
|1Shapers' Sanctuary
|1The Immortal Sun
|2Thrashing Brontodon
|2Treasure Map / Treasure Cove
|2Vivien Reid
After taking an early morning train from Tokyo to Shizuoka, I arrived in time for me to pick up matching basics from the land station before the third round started.
Round 3: Golgari Midrange
The Golgari matchup is a weird one: they have the better early game featuring Wildgrowth Walker (which can easily get out of control), Llanowar Elves, and explore beaters but unfortunately they also have the better late game simply because Find/Finality buys back so much gas. This makes you depend on the midgame to set up big swing turns which you can convert into game winning damage. These swing turns are the reason Maximize Velocity and Banefire made it into the main deck, pushing your midgame over the finish line.
The first game went exactly how we drew it up: on the play, I got to deploy an unanswered Sarkhans Unsealing on turn three and follow it up with Dino after Dino to finish the game rather quickly. Unfortunately, game two saw my opponent develop their gameplan a lot faster with the help of Llanowar Elves and I lost to Vraska, Relic Seeker generating too much value. With all the marbles in play in game three, this one was going to be a nailbiter.
I'm on the play again but my opponent makes the first play with Llanowar Elves followed up by two more on his next turn. As I passed turn three after playing a Ripjaw Raptor, Carnage Tyrant comes down. With the aggro gameplan out of the window, I would now somehow need to win a grindy game, which might just happen since my opponent was low on cards and I had two Tyrants in my own hand.
The game got into a state where my opponent was empty handed with a Ravenous Chupacabra on top of their deck. Knocking the top of my deck I took my draw and slam Vivien Reid onto the battlefield. A quick +1 found a Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma and with an uncontested Planeswalker, I felt great all of the sudden. My next turn comes around, I drew a land and Vivien did too. I was getting a bit worried and rightfully so, my opponent rips Assassin's Trophy off the top of his deck, leaving the game even again. I proceeded to draw multiple lands while my opponent deployed a final Carnage Tyrant and the whole game was now pinned on one single draw step. I needed to draw Banefire or Regisaur Alpha. And draw well I did, with a clutch Banefire off the top saving the day!
Round 4: U/B Quasiduplicate
I call this deck Quasiduplicate because I'm sure it played the card, though I never actually saw one.
During game one, I had the interesting decision on turn one whether to hold Commune with Dinosaurs since I didn't know what I wanted just yet. I decided to hold onto it only to have it taken as my only noncreature card with Kitesail Freebooter. Apart from that, game one was relatively unexciting with a Sarkhan's Unsealing dominating the board state. The most interesting thing in game two was a Disdainful Stroke sitting in my opponent`s hand, unable to counter multiple Carnage Tyrants.
Round 5: Jeskai Control
The recent shift in Jeskai from Control to a tap-out deck has made the matchup a lot better simply because counterspells are so important against me. Nowadays you can simply slam threat after threat and while your opponent might counter the first, they will soon run out of counterspells.
Still, the matchup is no freebie, but this match sure felt like one: my opponent made the mistake of committing a counterspell to Druid of the Cowl (which is an easy mistake to make when you don't know my deck), so he was left without one for Sarkhan's Unsealing and from there on it was smooth sailing.
Game two was Carnage Tyrant's time to shine again. With one in my opening hand and another one off a Commune, my opponent soon had to counter Maximize Velocity not to take too much damage. The first Tyrant got answered by Settle the Wreckage but my opponent couldn't find another answer in time and died to the 7/6.
Round 6: Golgari Again
I already told you about the dynamics against Golgari. This time, setting up my swing turn involved hoping that my opponent didn't have Vivien to answer my turn five Unsealing. He didn't and died to a Carnage Tyrant wrathing their board.
Game two, my opponent stumbled on mana and I didn't. It wasn't an interesting one but who am I to turn it down?
Round 7: W/G Tokens
I haven't played this matchup as often as all the others but the gameplan is often similar to matches against Golgari. Ideally you can resolve Unsealing (as you usually do have a turn to do that, the tokens deck doesn't kill that quickly) and cast Carnage Tyrant. Only playing creatures rarely good enough since March of the Multitudes doubles their board presence. Raging Swordtooth can be a total blowout if they don't have Trostani Discordant on the board already.
In the first game, I mulliganed to six on the draw, keeping a hand with two Thunderherd Migration but without a Dinosaur. I didn't find one in the top three cards either and while I was sitting there ramping on turn three, my opponent built a massive board and ran me over.
Game two had a more interesting texture to it. My opponent didn't build a board except for a single Emmara, Soul of the Accord, which got brick-walled by a Ripjaw Raptor. When they chumped my Carnage Tyrant I got suspicious and didn't deploy a third creature. Sure enough my opponent untaps and Cleansing Nova took care of my Dinos. I untapped and refilled the board with Drover of the Mighty and a backup Carnage Tyrant, but a second Cleansing Nova blew me out of the water. While I could still reload with Regisaur Alpha, my opponent had generated too much card advantage and quickly took over.
Round 8: Mono Red Flame of Keld
Mono Red doesn't usually run The Flame of Keld anymore, but my gameplan is the same: block with a turn three Ripjaw Raptor. That's it! Very easy, right? Well, there's more to it than that of course. Runaway Steam-Kin is very scary and you have to start attacking earlier than you might think, otherwise they simply burn you out.
I was on the play in Game 1 and I led with a turn two Druid. Unfortunately, the Druid was struck by lightning and I had to spend my turn three ramping instead of playing Ripjaw. After Ripjaw stabilized the board, my opponent emptied his hand to set up for the Flame of Keld, which overpowered my defenses two turns later. Ouch, losing a game on the play with druid of the cowl on turn two is rough.
Game two went smoothly for me - turn three Ripjaw became reality this time.
Game three was what I was scared of though. My opponent didn't play anything on turn one and turn two is only a Viashino Pyromancer instead of the scary growing Elemental. I had a shot! Ripjaw found his calling as a blocker once again and stabilized the board.
My opponent eventually ends up with a freshly played Flame of Keld together with some dorky red creatures. I ended up with a Regisaur Alpha + Token and a Carnage Tyrant. It's my turn and I have access to eight mana with Carnage Tyrant and Banefire in hand.
This was a very tricky spot for me to figure out since no matter which way I played it, my opponent has blocks that leave him alive even through Banefire. The question I had was "how do I convince my opponent to block in a way so that he's dead to banefire", I was pretty sure my opponent didn't know that I had Banefire in my deck at that point.
I thought about it for a while - Magic isn't an easy game. Our table judge asked me to make a decision and I decided that casting Carnage and swinging with everything wouldn't give away that I had something in hand. My opponent blocked in a way that left him at one, ready for me to Banefire. I'm still not sure what the right play would've been as it has less to do with cards and more with my opponent's perception of the game state.
Finishing day one 7-1 was a great result and I was excited for day two!
Round 9: Big Red
When pairings for round nine were announced, my table was called as a feature match and it turns out I was playing against Kentaro Yamamoto. Big Red is probably one of the best matchups for this deck. They have no way to answer Unsealing, Ripjaw Raptor is always at least a two for one, and the only two cards you have to worry about are Rekindling Phoenix and Star of Extinction. The games we actually played were very boring though as my opponent never got going, flooded in game one and screwed in game two.
Round 10: Golgari, for the Third Time
By now, you've probably got the hang of what counts in the matchup against Golgari. Unsealing got followed up by Carnage Tyrant swung game one and game two was equally swingy with Savage Stomp letting Ripjaw Raptor kill Vivien Reid, followed up by my Vivien eating a Doom Whisperer.
Round 11: W/G Tokens
The matchup from round seven was back and it wasn't any better. Game one, my opponent didn't reveal a green source until turn four, which made me play a Ripjaw Raptor instead of an Unsealing, if I had known they were a Selesnya deck, I would've chosen differently. Game two featured the very best sideboard card against me, Citywide Bust. Killing three of my creatures without losing anything turns out to be very good. At this point I am 9-2 and need to win out to make top8.
Round 12: Naya Tokens
I honestly don't have a lot to say here as I don't really know my opponent's deck. All I know was that in game two, my opponent had multiple Divine Visitation in hand but couldn't play them due to a Vivien with a lot of loyalty. Interestingly enough, I never saw a red card, so I'm still left in the dark as to why their manabase was three colored.
Round 13: Golgari #4
Alright, I'm not going to bother that much with this.
I do want to highlight one key decision in the match: after winning game one, during game two my opponent had a hand of five cards, a Vivien on six loyalty and two blockers. I had Goreclaw in play together with multiple dinosaurs and had to make the bold choice of attacking my opponent with everything rather than fighting over Vivien. It seems like a weird play at first, but I'm convinced this is the right line to take simply because beating Vivien wouldn't win the long game, it would simply make it even longer. After some bad blocks by my opponent (he told me afterwards that he forgot how the Goreclaw trigger works) leaving him at six life, Find // Finality only left a single Regisaur Alpha (with a +1/+1 counter) on the board.
From there on, I had four more draws to find any dinosaur or Banefire, (which is around 50/50 overall as I only had ~10 dinos left) but unfortunately I lost that coinflip.
Game three my opponent executed his gameplan very well, taking care of my threats with cheaper removal, and I was left in the dust at 10-3
Round 14: Mono White
The beats didn't stop for me. Winning game one was easy as I was on the play with a Druid of the Cowl, but in games two and three, I didn't have a shot due to some mulligans and not finding Fiery Cannonade. If I were to work on this dinosaur deck for an upcoming event, I would try to find a strategy against white "go wide" decks that's better than the instant speed Pyroclasm, since many of their creatures grow out of range quickly.
The Last Round: Jeskai Control
I already talked about the tap-out versions of this deck having less game against us and it displayed during my final games of the tournament. While my opponent managed to squeeze a win out of game two by curving counterspells into Teferi, Hero of Dominaria and Niv-Mizzet, Parun, I was able to dominate games one and three on the back of slamming threat after threat. Carnage Tyrant proved his worth once again and I was happy to finish the tournament. 11-4
The Aftermath
The final standings got posted while I was on my way back to Tokyo and I was very happy to find out that my tie-breakers were good enough for 52nd place. I had secured a money finish with my own deck that I had invested quite a bit of time into. This was satisfying to say the least and while 11-4 is not the finish you want after starting 9-1, my overall record shows that this deck has what it takes to compete in the current Standard. I sincerely wish there was more Standard for me to play but the next European Standard GP hasn't even been announced yet and so I will probably retire from this deck now. I hope some of you will take this list for a spin at local events and if you do, please let me know how you did either here on Cardmarket Insight or over on my Twitter.
See you next time,
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Cool deck, I played a lot of R/G Dinos a few months back. Great to hear they took you that far! The mana base should get better with Alliences though. I played 4 Unclaimed Terretories in my deck, if you find a second copy you can just name human (I played Opteck and Drover instead of Druid). Having 7 cards that give dins haste is nice =) Also, no Ghalta!? =O
Thanks for sharing!
Finally a deck in Standard that looks like a blast to play!
Well played, good games!
Fantastic Deck, no bad ideas for this construction because many combinations will be posible with ALL standads cards. CONGRATS!!!


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We dug up and took down the fencing too - that's earmarked for somewhere else.
The fencing has gone - just a few bits of 'stubborn' wood to burn then I'll rake over the ashes, rotorvate it all and add manure in readiness for my potatoes
I rotorvated the remainer of this bed and dug out the weeds along the edges.
Early potatoes are going in on the right hand side, and onions on part of the left hand side beside what will be the broad beans in the foreground - yet to sprout.
I made a start on digging this over, then decided to crack on and build a fence..
Mr Lottie dug out the trenches, and I attached the wire to the fence posts and we both hammered them in - a bit wonky in places at the moment - but not bad
I have to dig the rest of this over, add some paths, and tidy up a bit and build a proper gate.
I have to go to all these lengths to keep out the rabbits and deer!


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So this is the first image that I shot for the new series. I am still searching for models for the upcoming shoots, but hopefully will be able to round some up before I get back from Berlin. I drew from a lot of images that I had found online. As with all of the images for this series, I will be recreating images, or, in this case, stills taken from video, that I have found on the Internet. This image represents the homemade sex tape that I talked about in the previous post.
This image will be printed 50″ x 40″. I plan on hanging this for the Jerome Fellowship Show next September.
Thanks to my models for posing.


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Happy Thanksgiving, Friends!
Some years, like this year, I've already been skiing for a week, HOORAY! Other years, Thanksgiving arrives and leaves are bright though fading, snow yet to accumulate.
Either way, there are two things to know about how I eat kale.
First: I eat kale twelve months of the year.
Here's why:
This means, among other things, kale leaves are most sweet and tender in the coldest seasons. Which is SO good to know! And the reasons why are equally fascinating.
Across plant and animal kingdoms, sugars are formed in cells as cold approaches. These sugars protect cell walls as freezing water molecules expand. Pure water, H20, becomes jagged and sharp, cutting like sharp swords, as it freezes. With dissolved sugars, water becomes sloshy rather than sharp, maintaining the cell walls even as temperatures plummet.
Have you ever wondered why basil leaves are blasted and brown after even a touch of frost, while your parsley and kale continue to grow, unphased?
Now you know!
There are long fibers in kale, offering the leaves flexible, structural strength. These fibers are dense, complex chains of carbohydrates. If you've eaten kale raw in summer and been disappointed how chewy and bitter it was, you will be pleased to know that these fibers break down in the cold, their carbohydrates turning to simple sugars. This means kale becomes more soft and tender with each freeze-thaw cycle, and more sweet, as well.
This is true will all varieties of kale as well as many other hardy brassicas, like collards and brussels sprouts. This is also why carrots are sweetest in fall, why parsnips are the most delectable once they've over-wintered in the ground.
So yes, be patient.
I know, its finally fall, I've been waiting all season to enjoy brussels sprouts, too!
But trust me: They'll be so much more tender, more sweet, more delicious when you wait for the nights to consistently dip below freezing.
So yes, Thanksgiving kale is my favorite kale!
May we, too, learn to grow sweet in the cold, tender yet strong in the face of adversity.
Perhaps we are, after all, what we eat :)
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This edition of Latest Listens is jam-packed. So much music has been released within the past month, that I've been having a hard time keeping up! But here we go!
Kendrick Lamar- DAMN.: Top Tracks: HUMBLE., LOYALTY., FEAR.
Kendrick did not disappoint! Every Kendrick album thus far has been filled with classics from beginning to end, and this was no different. I listened to the album 3 times straight through and each time got something different from it. The thing that makes this album so great, is the complexity. You can feel that he really poured his heart and soul into this work of art. Artists features include Rihanna, U2, and Zachary.
Notable Quote: " I'm so fuckin' sick and tired of the Photoshop
Show me somethin' natural like afro on Richard Pryor
Show me somethin' natural like ass with some stretch marks"-HUMBLE.
Joey Bada$$- All Amerikkkan Bada$$: Top Tracks: Good Morning Amerikkka, Y U DON'T LOVE ME (MISS AMERIKKKA), BABYLON
This politically conscious album left me somewhat speechless. It had the cool vibes that we are used to hearing from Joey Bada$$ but the lyrics were actually quite touching. He hit on so many current social issues such as police brutality, and racism. It's was even a big risk to spell America with 3 K's. It's always refreshing to listen to rap that has more substance than talking about strippers, money and cars. So for that, salute to Joey Bada$$.
Notable Quote: "I know the end is near, but I just don't know when
Turn on to CNN, look at what I see again
It's another black man, died at the white hand of justice
To tell the truth, man, I'm fuckin' disgusted
I fear for the lives, for my sisters, my brothers
Less fortunate than I, let's formulate a plan" -BABYLON.
Rick Ross- Rather You Than Me: Top Tracks: Santorini Greece, I Think She Like Me, Scientology
Although it took me some time to listen to the whole album, Rather You Than Me has turned out to be one of the best Rick Ross albums in my opinion. It's no Teflon Don, but it has some hits. Of course there are the usual features from MMG members Wale and Meek Mill, but also Young Thug, Jeezy, Future, and more.
Notable Quote: "The bank account done caught the holy ghost,
I say the bank account done caught the holy ghost!"- Santorini Greece
Drake- More Life: Top Tracks: Portland, Teenage Fever, Nothings Into Somethings
Unfortunately I was not really impressed with Drake's album. I was looking forward to it because I was not too impressed with Views either. There are some hits but also some misses. I'm not really on board with this island sound he is shooting for. It was cool for One Dance and Controlla, but songs like Madiba Riddim, I don't feel they are good for Drake.
Notable Quote: "Told me I'm lookin' exhausted
You hit it right on the nose
I'm tired of all of these n*ggas
I'm tired of all of these hoes" -Free Smoke
Mack Wilds- AfterHours: Top Tracks: Bonnie & Clyde, Obsession , Stingy
This was a random download for me and ended up being well worth it. I have never really noticed Mack Wilds as a musical artist, but when I saw the release on DatPiff, I figured why not? The song that I started with was Bonnie and Clyde, I chose to listen to this first because Wale was featured. I loved the song instantly. I listened to a couple more and quickly realized why it's named AfterHours. Loved this sexy album.
Honorable Mentions: GoldLink and Kodak Black both dropped projects that are definitely worth the listen. Until next time, happy listening! Let me know what's on your current playlist in the comments below!


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Even though I focused on the 2003 movie adaptation, this playlist encompasses a variety of the adaptations that I've seen, and songs inspired by Peter Pan.
The list is provided below, but you can listen to the whole playlist by clicking here.
1. "Lost Boy" – Ruth B
2. "I Do Believe in Fairies" – James Newton Howard
3. "I'll Try" – Jonatha Brooke
4. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" – Cast of Pan (2015)
5. "Little Soldier" – Lily Allen
6. "Stronger" – Finding Neverland Cast
7. "I Won't Grow Up" – Peter Pan Ensemble w/Mary Martin
8. "Neverland" – Zendaya
9. "You Are the Pan" – John Williams


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In slightly serious non-videogame related news, Sega has been awarded $10,000 in a lawsuit against pirate site MAPHIA. Said site apparently "allowed for, and actively encouraged, the upload and download of unauthorized versions of copyrighted Sega video games." Of course this site wasn't like any other torrent site as the creator and owner of MAPHIA, Sherman was by game copiers, thus making him liable.
What won the case in the end was the matter of trademark infringement because the Sega name and trademark was used on the site. In the end, the courts found "a likelihood of consumer confusion regarding the sponsorship and origin of the game files available" making the piracy site liable and apparently guilty.
Obviously it's not that simple but that's the basic low down. What do you think though? Was this justified or is the concept of piracy a much more confusing problem to tackle in the first place? Let me know in the comments.
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Sesame… such a humble seed. Tiny in stature. Used by many cultures in a multitude of dishes. Sesame oil for stir fry, plain seed for seared ahi, blended in hummus, and my new found favorite, Halva. A middle-eastern "candy" like treat traditionally made from tahini (sesame seed butter), honey, and any sort of mix in you can imagine.
I was recently introduced to this confection at the Saturday morning farmer's market at Pasadena High School. There was a booth, there was a sample, and finally there was a purchase. My halva had swirls of chocolate in it. Um, yes. I took, I ate, and just like the infamous couple of Eden… I gave it to the boyfriend. Let's just say he took one bite and was in such bliss he probably wouldn't have noticed if he were naked or not (Biblical joke, no worries if you don't get it).
So, like a good chef, I sat down to my computer and researched my brains out for the best way to make some homemade Halva.
Here's round number one.
2 c. honey
1 1/2 c. tahini
1 Tbsp. cocoa
1/2 c. sliced almonds
1. Heat honey over the stove and stir constantly while it simmers. Take off heat once it reaches 240 degrees
2. Warm tahini over stove, not too hot, just to make it workable
3. Once honey cools a bit, add any flavorings or nuts. I added almonds at this point.
4. Pour honey into tahini pot and fold them together.
5. Pour into a flexible pan or greased pan. I added some cocoa swirls at this point.
6. Refrigerate for 36 hours for sugar to crystallize.
It would behoove one to use a candy thermometer to get the honey up to the correct heat. My second batch of halva did not get hot enough to crystallize into flakes. First batch crystalized but it was like a toffee more than a wafer. I'll definitely have to keep messing around with the recipe and methods
The raw version is delicious and I love that I can add all kinds of booster foods like maca powder and spirulina.
Look for the raw recipe tomorrow!