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The troubles of King Stymian
Only a year before, King Stymian's future was firmly in his grasp. Today, he struggles for his own kingdom. But of all things, he is not a man that yields to opposition.
Plot summary
In the wake of the conflict for the Falcon Islands, King Stymian had finally the right moment and the right means to start a war that was due for so long. The lure of the Arnellia Valley was too strong, and there was an army tried in battle; a surprise for the enemy was also at hand. With an able general to lead the army, what could go wrong?
Then it all started falling apart like a house of cards. The invasion failed miserably, and anything that could go wrong, went downright south. His enemies at home, until then disorganized, have united into a strong opposition.
What should be a quick invasion could only become a war of attrition. Even then could be victory achieved, with heavy losses. But by that time was the king aware of the quiet resistance on his home front. First the invasion was sabotaged, then started the chaos.
Seeing that he would loose the whole kingdom soon, he acted wisely. His son, now 'Stymian the Third, Slayer of Giants', has suppressed the chaos, and the old weakened man has given up his crown to the valour of youth. How praised was this decision!
The old man wasn't as weak and close to death as it seemed... he had enough power to advise his son for some necessary measures. Aside, while pondering the future, he developed a little private project.
So, this is the current situation. Of some help may be the plans of all concerned parties. But what the future will bring, only the stars know.
Game uses
The whole story may be used as a metaplot for the current part of the game world - overarching the everyday events and providing a background for major events.
As a campaign, it may serve for parties of lesser stature, to serve in the open or hidden conflicts on any side that hires them - or choosing their own side. Or they could be lower nobles, or similarly empowered to meddle in the politics for their own good. Still, sooner or later they will be pushed to choose a side. Note, that the situation is open-ended, so both sides could end up victoriously - or even a third side could show up.
And lastly, it can be made recent history, the winners and losers already known, providing for background and some newer plots to stand on the old events.
Falcon Islands
Occupied more than a hundred years ago, the locals never accepted their fate. Not understanding the luck of being governed by a remote, but enlightened government, whose best men rallied to bring the blessings of true civilisation (high taxes, advanced strict laws and a devoted bureaucracy), the primitives took to fighting their best future, undermining the gentle threads of prosperity.
The situation started to spin out of control when other countries lustfully made their moves, and supported the fledgling movement for 'independence'. Parts of the archipelago wealthy in spices and other exotic resources were not longer under the control of mainland. A rival state has started to arise, not strong enough to take over the rest, but too hard to defeat with the support from outside it had.
Times like this bring out great men. It was baron Spader who shined in several naval and land battles, promoted to the governor in hope of solving the growing problem. In position, he reduced the corruption and injustice that provoked so much hate in the locals. With skilled political maneuvering, he calmed down the population and won respect at all sides of the conflict. With his secret aid, some of the problems befalling the young rival country were increased, if not caused; it is still not sure if the sudden outbreak of diseases was not of his making. However, his help was always public and generous, and that is what counts.
In the end, a compromise was reached that both sides could interprete as victory. Both sides have promised to respect the borders, and the rival state to not call upon foreign assistance. From that moment on, the enemy is slowly and gently being turned into an ally, a country fully in the Kingdom's zone of influence.
Arnellia Valley
An area of some strategical importance, it is nestled within a mountain chain, and offers the only passable way to the other side. It was for long years contested with the neighbouring kingdom, many small victories in a drawn-out lazy war, until it was suddenly taken over with great military power. The reason became clear soon enough: veins of iron ore and silver undiscovered before, along with lesser amounts of other metals were the hidden treasure of Arnellia Valley.
The Valley was occupied during the reign of Stymian's grandfather, and from then on, the duty of reclaiming went from father to son as a dark heritage, a shame on the family, to be cleansed one day with whatever means necessary.
That time has come.
Surprising attack
While the move to war was hard to hide, there were two surprises prepared for the enemy:
First, the preparations for war were made to seem delayed. While the enemy forts were only starting to be fully stocked, the attack should be launched weeks, up to a month before expected.
Second, there were known weaknesses in the defensive grid of the defender. They could be breached, and time, luck, and a great sacrifice of men would bring true victory. However, the attack was planned on the strongest fortress in the valley, and therefore the least expected target. A suprising strike coupled with a little treachery meant (relatively) few losses, and free access to the Valley... a good start is half of the success, as King Stymian likes to say.
Side note: the movements of troops were explained with preparations to wipe out the numerous bandits that started to proliferate in the hills nearby. Of course, it was never believed; but should things turn out badly (intelligence claiming the plan cannot succeed), the troops will be used that way. Some minor parts of the territory may be reclaimed anyway, just because.
Baron Spader
His fame arose in the conflict for the Falcon Islands, at first a skilled strategist, then a politician, he rose from a low noble into the position of a general and later the governor of the Islands.
The Baron is blessed with a rare kind of charisma - he appeals to the instincts of every man as honorable and trustworthy. If he listens, you know he pays attention to you; if he speaks, his words are worth listening to. His principles are undeniable; it is known that he always keeps his promises.
Motivation: the baron is slow to offend, and is not of the kind that jumps on any chance to get higher. But as his position rose, he found the pleasure of being respected and seeing ones commands well executed. He has become a great governor, serving his kingdom faithfully, for it was his art of diplomacy that brought peace to the Islands. He was content... were it not for the growing anoyance, the king that kept sending delayed instructions, not knowing the intricate details that could be only gained in place. It was not once, that he had to adapt the well-meaning intentions of a king, so that the success of the measures could be ensured.
It may have been annoyance, but the Baron was himself sure, that his services were highly valued, his position being the reward. He loved the Islands dearly, and even found a gentle servant girl, to replace at least partly his long deceased wife. Marry again did he not, but never did take another woman to himself.
Then, from one week to another, he was called off. The governor should become a general again, with as much thought spent on him as on a chess figure moved from one place into another - a valued piece but nothing else, to be sacrificed if necessary. Was this to be his reward? Was he supposed to go into a useless war, for a king that wanted just a little fame?
And his devotion to the king slowly waned...
The sons
The islanders say, that to a man are his sons like arrows - he will not know what their flight will be, until he releases them from his hands. According to this wisdom, Baron Spader is a lucky archer.
Valermont, the oldest
Quite the father, he grew up during the first wars on the Islands, learned to command men and lead them into battle, to use his sword or his tongue as the situation demanded it. Of the three brothers, he is the closest to his father, and they are often seen together, arguing and debating any topic. He has inherited his father's charm, and he knows how to gain the respect of people, noble or low.
He will be the prime inheritor of power, and maybe will achieve much more... but that is to be seen.
A failure, or maybe not. While he seemed as much promising as his brothers, there was something wrong with him... managing all the duties and lessons of a noble son at ease, but on the battlefield awaited his doom. No coward was he, but blood and wounded flesh, and the dead he or others killed were too much for his mind. For a time he suppressed himself, yet the nightmares continued and slowly even his sanity was shaken - shaken enough for his father to notice. And so he was sent to a friend of the family, a priest that would help the young man overcome his hard moment and return him to his father's side.
To the dismay of the father, his son has become a priest.
It took several years for the father to overcome the shock, and gradually accept his decision. The young man himself had a few doubts at first, but the resistance to his father helped him to stay firm. Strangely, they eventually found the way back to each other, and exchange many letters every year. And as the son slowly moves up in the hierarchy of the Church, his father does not fail to see the opportunity in the future. This weapon is saved up for later, however.
Marival, the youngest
He is the warrior, curteous to the ladies, but of the brothers, he is the only one married. He is known to tell adventurous stories, wildly exaggerated but based on truth. Will make a great general one day, now he is the one to impress soldiers and young nobles alike.
As an aside, he does not take father and his far-reaching plans very seriously, but he will support Valermont on anything.
Motivation: while for the nobles opposing King Stymian count manifold reasons intertwined together, at the core of this revolt are emotions, hurt feelings that can arise so easily, and yet are so hard to reason with. Of course, each of them has perfectly logical reasons why the king's actions are against his own interests.
Duke Asimon - a wealthy duke of the east, has a long grudge against the king, and the list of reasons grows ever longer, starting with his sister King Stymian hasn't married years ago, up to the fact that the attack against Arnellia Valley will be made through his territory, with all the costs of an army to be fed and guarded lest it has too much fun falling on him. He is no petty man, or at least does not see himself so. As his line is descending from the royal family, he _deserves_ to be treated accordingly. Personnaly, he even started to fancy that he could become the king.
He is definitively not the brain of the operation, but his support (and wealth) is crucially important.
General Bartingau - the unlucky one. During the conflict for the Falcon Islands was he commanded back to mainland when he failed to deliver the victories asked of him. His noble family with a glorious history was having financial problems even then, and has been down on luck ever since. Being the chief commander of the army has kept him afloat, and the upcoming war brought a promise of spoils and rewards... only to be gone again, as he was once again displaced by baron Spader! (While he understood the reasons, and they get along well now, this might be a possible weakness, where to sow conflict into the opposition.)
Not the natural talent as baron Spader, the general must not to be underestimated. He played the game of court intrigue long, and played it well. He is also a good, if unlucky commander, and was the chief advisor when King Stymian planned the strategy of his war. It hurts all the more.
While not many soldiers would follow him in case of a civil war, he knows how to make the lesser commanders hesitate and wait, in effect blocking a significant part of the army.
There are also many lesser nobles, but this all would be only a debate club, were it not for support of the baron.
The opposition grows
Shortly after arriving back in the court, the king invited baron Spader to a feast, and praised him loudly for all he has done in the interest of the kingdom. Then, half-jokingly, and maybe half serious, he noted his influence on the Islands, and even mentioned some overheard rumours that he was offered to be a king for the whole archipelago, if only he would give up his allegiance. Would he not want to be a king?
Laughing on the rumour, the baron answered very seriously, that he was always faithful to the kingdom, and that he never wished to be a king, it being a too great burden on a common man like him, and it was honour enough to serve a good king. This was seen by all present as an open declaration of loyalty and support for King Stymian, and earned him high respect on the court.
The group of dissatisfied nobles were at first repulsed by this, but the new star on the court approached even them, and let them know of his doubts and regrets. When Duke Asimon carelessly uttered words that bordered on treason, the baron only replied that he would never turn on the king openly, a statement that shocked the group. To turn on the king was never an option they would seriously consider, until then. But, the baron continued, should the king fail in his endeavours spectacularly, he may fall on his own. And the king's plans have many weaknesses...
Feverish were the next days of the group.
All the good plans failing
Enthusiastically, the king gave the order to move. Long have been the preparations, and the victory would be glorious. Small army units marched the roads to east, all according to the plan. Elated, the king noticed not the opposition growing in the midst of his own camp. Then came the news.
It was the minor things, outbreaks of diseases halting some army details, sudden plundering by what should be loyal troops, and numerous small accidents turned the angry flood-to-be, into a lazy, muddy stream, that reaches a place and is not sure what to do.
The secret is simple: with incompetent people on the right places, no enemy is needed; only a little help perhaps.
Loosing the advantage of time, there was still The Plan. For this part, the baron was clear the plot should never be revealed to the enemy kingdom, because treason would pull the whole group into dirt, not to mention that such knowledge has a tendency to be revealed - something no one wanted to risk. (Also, the whole plan could be eventually retried later.)
Instead, the army had to be stopped long before its target was reached, with as little losses as necessary. 'The Plan' relied on veteran units that would quietly sneak close to the main fortress of the valley, with a large part of the army marching quickly after, while the door was being unlocked.
The easiest was to reveal the elite troops before they could get into position. Being 'accidentally' found, alarm was sounded, and the trap could not be sprung. A few token skirmishes later, the war was over before it could really begin.
To the credit of the troops and their leaders, they wiped out most bandits of those dirty mountains. As if by accident, they also captured two small forts they claimed to be in support of the bandits. Small as they were, they would serve as a fine springboard for the next invasion.
Times of unrest
The army was away.
At home, there was already little love for the higher taxes, fueled by more disseminated rumours. The abrupt tide of incompetence has swept through the whole country. The good civil servants were suddenly clearly seen for what corrupt leeches they were, and many mistakes and downright attacks on the common citizens became widely known.
Criminality and banditism soared to unheard of levels, the aristocrats were blatantly unable to aid their people as they were 'doing their duty' and serving their king.
And as chance had it, a group of Giants has settled close to human settlements while his army was occupied far away. After a short period of uneasy cohabitation, an estate has been found destroyed by obviously gigantic hands, people killed and partially eaten; all of this less than a mile from a half-empty guardpost. News of this spread like a wildfire, creating a massive uproar that halted even the most trusty nobles.
More and more of the talks turned against the king. Where was he, playing at another war, something he always failed at? (Yes, even the Falcon Islands were again interpreted as a failure.) News of no real progress of the army could not be denied.
Father's son
Not such a lucky archer as the baron, King Stymian is also not without progeny and hope.
Good thing is, the young prince was into time-honoured hobbies for a ruler - hunts and swordplay equally entertained him, and he excelled at them. Bad thing is, politics wasn't such a hobby, and wasting away at the court too much of a hindrance. The education was there, a determined look belonged to the young man, and he even had the smarts. But he still wouldn't sit in the court.
Alas, the young generation is always differing from the tried values of elders. The two came at last to an understanding of sorts - the king would stay in his place ruling, the prince would slowly learn the necessities for running a kingdom, showing up on important public events, but left with considerable freedom and privacy. This left both content, as neither actually wished to change their place.
But those times changed. Now, when the king is over sixty, and the prince approaching thirty (scandalous as he is unmarried!), a large crisis loomed over their lineage. Discontent of peasants could be suppressed, but rebellious thoughts started to infect even lesser nobles; both sources of frustration were channelled into the army. Clearly, this was made possible by enemies that wouldn't stop so easily. A drastic change was necessary.
The scandal with giants was made for such a symbol. The prince has tracked and killed all the beasts, in a combination of hunt and military operation, possibly his last great hunt as a free man. Perhaps the Giants were innocent, but the rumour was out of control already.
Stymian the 2nd, faking a serious wound, has passed on his crown and kingdom, to a younger and stronger king. Great celebrations followed, the young hero hailed by everyone as a saviour, untouchable by his enemies at least for the moment. This strong move has shocked the opposition, who are not quite sure what to do.
Of course, a King is not complete without a Queen, so the news of the provisorial coronation, along with the following public one, immediately provoked heated talks of who would be best suited for the king and the kingdom. The young man certainly bade his time for succession, but, so it is said, he matured into a strong decisive man able to take on a bear with but a knife, yet still stay curteous on the royal ball. All attention focused on the royal family, which is as it should be.
And so has the new king (advised by his father) disbanded the war council. Not loosing time with convictions of treason, there were spread rumours (and some evidence) of their strategical failures; that way the diffilcut nobles lost face and a lot of influence. Several of them were commanded off to various borders and irrelevant positions of the kingdom, to prevent them from plotting (and make the common folk laugh about their incompetence).
In a truly heavy blow, one not so important baron has been accused of looting - OK, allowing his men to loot - when they should cover the main army's flank. While he bought himself free with a part of his properties, the damage was already done. And so on...
The largest problem here is that the former king doesn't still know all the main characters of the opposition. Duke Asimon was an easy guess, and general Bartingau is strongly suspected (and not a few times was his exchange regretted). Baron Spader is the real unknown... is he a loyal soldier to be used, or would he be a troyan horse that would destroy all of his plans? Distrust plagues the old man, who sometimes really feels as the rumours suggest he should.
A new toy
The plans of war being put to a halt, and his son taking over most of a king's duties, there was still much to think about - the very future of the kingdom! Not to forget the war he felt was necessary. In the end, it was the (lack of) public support that hit him hardest, a strong opposition backed by the unwashed masses could not be overcome. Yes, he had wise advisors and even the mage dabbling in mind-magic, but he couldn't control or easily see through that many people.
Then, while having no magical powers, but making full use of the magicians under his command, he himself has directed the research for an item that would give insight into the mind of 'the people'. And as the rumours have started to circulate, it has been dubbed Helm of Prophecies by those that knew little of its function.
The heavily guarded secret being not so secret anymore, his enemies loose much time pondering about what kind of weapon has he got. Could it really be a tool of prophecy? They don't know how it works, but they know he is not a fool. Most wouldn't ever believe in prophecies... but how can they be sure in a world full of magic? The very possiblity that the former king could foresee the steps of his opponents is terrifying. They desperately need to know more.
Plans in the plans of other's plans
So what do they all want, anyway?
The former king is insulted. He desires to find out all of those that have committed treason, and take care of them... with any means necessary and practical. Long-term, he may find the magical research a very interesting venue of pursuit, and may produce more items, even as he slowly would hand over the reigns to his son. But the young man needs to marry first, and that is a task that cannot be left to chance.
The new king wants his freedom. With time, though, he will find his place on the throne acceptable, and if the marriage business goes well (particularly if he has children), there will be peace for him. Eventually he will take over the power; there may be some conflicts with his father about the exact time period. The opposition is not that important to him, but he will surely indict anyone proved to have acted against the kingdom (his own line and himself, in the end).
Duke Asimon is a little surprised by the turn of events. Now, he does have a daughter in the proper age, and he realizes that such a marriage could bring peace to the kingdom, not to speak of promoting his blood on the proper place. But the slights are not forgotten, and the former king is still the one with power. Although less probable than before, he still thinks of the throne as reachable. Should he decide to go for it, his acts may end up to be quite desperate.
General Bartingau starts to be tired by it all. A new option has opened for him now - to become a servant of the young king, help him to become a ruler worth the name, that would push his father aside. That way, he could get a good position, and settle the score, without getting his hands dirty. The Baron may stand in his way, however; also his more than brief flirt with the opposition (and direct help) could complicate things.
Baron Spader is still not content. His secret ambition was to shame the old king sufficiently, then see to it that a hunting accident ends the life of the prince (in such a way to be NEVER associated with the deed - he would warn his companions, but knows their motivation too good). As the Duke would quickly be not only suspicious of the deed, but also considered unfit to rule, his son Valermont would marry the Duke's daughter - and surprisingly become the best way to make peace in the country. An acceptable result would be to close quietly the whole opposition thing, and withdraw to his beloved Falcon Islands. But even this may fail if the former king finds out the truth.
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wow, never saw this before. Its wonderful, do continue.
Okay, this is a really bad case of a submission that just won't be finished. Thus I throw it at you, mindful of too many places where it could be expanded still more.
I cant believe there are no comments on this one. This here, is a fully formed campaign setting/plot, that has enough juicy info, to last several gaming sessions. It also wisely leaves room, for additions and subtractions, which every GM should appreciate. Evrything is intricate yet pliable! Great Work manfred!
The characters are believable, the plot is in-depth and layered nicely, and I loved all the easy links to the scrolls.
This is wonderful! Its the type of submission I will come back to again and again, and hopefully add to, since I know thats what your looking for here!
Lets say your a GM. The 'crew' is about to come over. You have nothing prepared. Well, here's an entire world! Just print it off, read it, understand it, alter it if you must, and BAM!!! instant long-term campaign!
5/5 for this interesting world.
Can I rate it a 6?
Fully formed and well fleshed out. Linkage to scroll points and other posts was what the new citadel was all about. This is one of the few submissions that actually utilizes this to its potential.
Plus the plot is good, the characters and setting are interesting, and it is well written.
I give this top marks for innovative presentation!
Can't add much that has not already been said. Awesome.
Many thanks to all the praises!
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Archive for February 17th, 2009
The Sacking of Lawrence, May 21, 1856 – 1
One of the most surprising things I learned from reading Michael F. Holt's exceptional book, The Political Crisis of the 1850's, was that the "Sacking of Lawrence" was not the murderous affair I had always thought it was. It led to further research on my part and the realization that I was guilty of combining the stories surrounding the raid on Lawrence with other violent events occurring in the region, an area in which I am a resident. As is often the case with history, I had developed a mythical sense of the day, one that went well beyond the simple destruction of property. This new post series summarizes the findings of my search for the truth about the events of May 21, 1856. Its writing helped to crystallize my understanding of why the Kansas and Missouri borderland became such a focal point for politics in the 1850s. It also revealed that there has been much liberty with the facts and that even today, historians do not agree on all of the specifics.


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A blessed Lent to all!
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I need to say on the Romanian language:"Christ is Risen! Truly Risen!".Also would really appreciate if somebody could write me two another Romanien words like as "Hello!" and "Good buy!"
We don't usually use 'Good buy!', but you could say- Bună alegere! (Good choice! > Boo-nuh ah-leh-geh-reh)As a joke,Bună cumpăraturi! means Hello Shopping!
Ceau! is used mostly in Transilvania and it means Hello! and Good bye!
I'll make a few corrections, Gabriel. You did a good job. You're welcome is spelled 'Cu plăcere'; Ioanna is 'Ioana' and facii is 'faci'
Hmm. So "Bună" doesn't mean "good" when it's used in that second phrase? Should I then say "Bine cumpăraturi" for "There is good shopping here"?
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I had a bit of a relaxing weekend! I worked on Saturday, then went to go see a movie with fellow SmartPaker Kaitlin T. On Sunday Kaitlin and I spent a relaxing day shopping at Kohl's for a bit, then we went to the barn to have some hanging out time with our ponies! After a trip to the barn-I was just relaxing on my couch when my cat Nikki decided she didn't like her water dish anymore and would much rather drink out of my glass. I thought it was too cute not to share! – Jessica B., Returns
My horse, Diem, is rehabbing from an injury this season. I spent all day Sunday volunteering at my barn's first two-phase of the season, and I got to spend some quality time with my horse hand walking, cold hosing, grooming and feeding him plenty of treats. – Sara F., Creative
Sunday I had a group lesson with some of the other awesome adults at my barn. We have a lot of laughs together, a great camaraderie and a healthy competitive spirit. Group lessons are great to cheer each other on but also good practice to step it up when it's your turn (kind of like entering the show ring). My trainer is great at teaching group lessons and I find that you can really learn a lot from watching other horses and riders. One exercise was really helpful to watch: Four cavaletti are set up on a circle, all equal distance apart. We were instructed to ride 6 strides of equal length in between each cavaletti. When we reached the 4th cavaletti we rode 5 forward strides on the straight line. This exercise teaches you to ride your track, keep your horse between your aids and to expand and collapse his stride. Knowing if your horse has a left drift, or always bulges towards the barn or has a monster sized stride enables you to correctly ride the exercise. Because the cavaletti's come up "quickly" you need to be able to correct any problems before they compound. For the rider this exercise teaches you to be looking up and forward towards your next fence. – Renee P., Purchasing
This weekend, I headed over to Valinor Farm to watch my horse Rex and Hannah (who leases him) compete in their first show together, which was also Rex's first show ever! Hannah rode two tests and scored a 59 and a 61. Considering she has only been leasing him for a few months, I was more than thrilled with how well she did and can't wait to see them continue to progress this summer! – Kaitlyn Z, Marketing
Last weekend I went down to Southport, NC to visit my boyfriend for a very quick two days (but, well worth it)! He took a new job down there in January and this was the first time I was able to go down and see the area. Southport is a beautiful small town and I really enjoyed the ocean, seafood, and seeing the different locations that the movie "Safe Haven" was filmed at. We also toured the U.S.S. North Carolina Battleship Memorial which was interesting as I had never been on a battleship before. I can't wait to get back down to North Carolina again soon! – Paige Z., Customer Care
Bug's mane got a make-over! After the long winter, she was looking like Cousin It! – Marisa C., Customer Care
This weekend I spent most of the day Saturday getting my mare Luna ready for the upcoming show season. Hard to believe our first outing is in just two weeks! As I surveyed her wild mane and long whiskers, I realized I had quite a bit of work ahead of me! After enjoying a great ride together, I got her clipped, mane pulled, and mostly shedded out. On Sunday I spent some time preparing for my other big event of the spring- my second half-marathon. With only 6 weeks to go, it's getting to be crunch time! Luckily the weather is starting to get warmer which makes for much more pleasant long runs. – Kerri V., Marketing
Most of my weekend was devoted to my other passion besides horses—local music! Friday and Saturday were spent in Boston, watching local rock bands perform and filming music videos. You know, the usual. That left Sunday as my designated Horse Day. Ax was very happy to kick up her heels in the field, and I was happy to get a respite from tinnitus. – Emily D., Accounting
With my horse once again out of commission due to soundness issues, I am lucky that my sister (and fellow SmartPaker), Jess, lives just down the road with her beautiful barn and 3 horses in the backyard. I recently purchased a new pair of Piper Breeches in the gorgeous Merlot color hoping that new riding pants would encourage Charlie's mystery lameness to resolve (if only we could be so lucky!). After tending to him Sunday morning, I met up with my sister and cousin, Meg, for a much needed ride! I snagged the newest addition to the herd, Sienna, an adorable little bay mare. We had an awesome ride together and I even popped Sienna over a few jumps, my favorite! I love love love my new breeches which have to be the comfiest pair I've ridden in for quite some time, especially for jumping. Best of all, Sienna's last few winter hairs just brushed right off of them. It finally feels like Spring is just about here and hopefully more riding time is on its way 🙂 – Sara R., Customer Care
I just finished up a two week road trip which included stops in Florida, Georgia, and Virginia. It was a blast all-around but the highlight of the whole thing was definitely the last 5 days which we spent in Virginia. My horse has been down in Virginia training with a friend for the past two years. He's recently started eventing at Novice level and I couldn't be prouder of him. While I was down there I decided to do a dressage show – our first ever! I've never been big into showing but I figured a couple dressage tests couldn't hurt. Long story short, our tests went terribly (I guess I deserved that since we had so little practice before hand!) but I ended up having a blast. It was a beautiful 70 degree day at Morningside Training Farm in The Plains, Virginia so there are definitely way worse days to spend a spring day. While my pony is definitely a silly goose, it was so nice to spend some time with him and my friend. To top it all off I walked in this morning with a wee bit of post-vacation blues to the most adorable sign ever from my teammates here. – Amanda B., Retail Store
This weekend was great! The New England weather is finally cooperating for us, so most of my weekend was spent outside. My weekend got off to an early start on Friday with a saddle fitter coming to check out my new horse. Luckily no new saddle needed (you can imagine my how happy this made my husband) and it was really neat to see a professional saddle fitter in action. Saturday and Sunday were mostly spent at the barn hanging with my horse, as I said he is still very new to me so it is our "honeymoon" period where we getting to know one another… I may be bribing him with treats :). As always I enjoyed some time with my two dogs, Abby and Zoe. I also spent some quality time with my family which is always wonderful, we played an epic game of crazy eights that lasted almost an hour (my husband, Justin was the proud victor). So all in all it was a great weekend in great company. – Whitney F., Customer Care
I spent the weekend driving to Maryland to pick up my new puppy Gemma : ) Gemma is a 10 week old English Toy Spaniel. A friend of mine runs Ali Oop Rescue in Cumberland MD and specializes in rescuing small dogs with squishy faces(English Toy Spaniels, French Bulldogs, and Boston Terriers), but she also dabbles a bit in the world of show English Toy Spaniels.
So, Gemma is not a rescue -she will actually be competing in Confirmation when she gets a little older. But for now she is just a crazy puppy! : ) – Leslee M., Customer Care
I took the Amtrak Acela train down to DC this weekend for a whirlwind visit with family and grad school friends. Highlights included seeing the Pre Raphaelite exhibit at the National Gallery of Art, getting some close-ups of the cherry blossoms (yay Spring!) and hanging out with my friend's two year old (we read LOTS of horse-themed picture books). – Elizabeth R., Customer Care
I had a great weekend! Saturday was spent at the barn getting in some much needed grooming time with Hale. By the end of the day I looked like a wooly mammoth but he was sleek and shiny. It's so nice to see his dapples starting to show up after a long winter! Sunday I relaxed at home and spent some quality snuggle time on the couch with my two dogs, Lad and Sophie! – Martha B., Customer Care
Last week my trainer and I started my brand new youngster, Sawyer, under saddle! Although I plan to use him primarily for dressage, we're starting him in a Western saddle. And I have to say, he looks pretty darn good in it… Can't wait until his shaggy coat is gone! (He's only been on the elbow-grease-and-omega-3s program for a couple of weeks, so stay tuned for some shinier pictures coming soon). This weekend we did a lot of groundwork with him wearing the saddle, and he was absolutely awesome, a true ambassador to his Lippitt Morgan bloodlines. My favorite pic is the one of him looking like a tough ranch horse in the middle of our dressage arena. 🙂 – Jessica N., Marketing
My weekend was chock full of horse and dog fun. Recently my horse Newt and I have been focusing on the Game of Contact principles to really encourage understanding of the bit and quality stretching. He's really starting to understand what I'm asking for, which is very exciting! He's a lot of fun to teach something new to, and is constantly making me laugh. We finished off a great ride on Sunday with a trail ride around the farm with our pals. I also took my dog Rue on a hike, and she had a blast running around and jumping over logs. Action shots included! – Casey F., Marketing
Excel and I were ready for an early spring lesson in the outdoor, and practically everything we wore was purchased at SmartPak (full list below)! We flatted outside, jumped inside and Excel was a good boy throughout. It was a fabulous day! – Susan T., Barn Sales
On Excel:
KL Select Italian Bell Boots
Eskadron Neoprene Front Boots
Lettia Coolmax Fleece Girth
Lettia Coolmax Saddle Pad – embroidered with Excel's name by our fabulous personalization team at SmartPak
Matrix Ergonomic Half Pad – A/P
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Sox Trot Socks (blue polka dot) – can't seem 'em but promise they're there
Tailored Sportsmen Trophy Hunter Knee Patch Breeches – Black
Sunshield Shirt – Royal Blue (can see a hint at the collar)
Gersemi Elissa Quilted Jacket – Grey
Ariat insulated gloves (from a few seasons ago)
One Knot Hairnet – dark brown (lunch lady version)
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Beginning today, foie gras, the ancient culinary delicacy consisting of the fattened liver of a duck or goose, is no longer legal in California. We've known this day was coming for a long time now. The ban was passed back in 2004 in a bipartisan effort by a Republican governor and a Democratic legislature. The long period between the law's enactment and its going into effect was intended to give California's one foie gras producer a chance to adapt or find a new line of work. (If you're interested in an engaging treatment of the general controversy around foie gras, I recommend Marc Caro's excellent book, The Foie Gras Wars.)
The law can be found beginning at section 25980 of California's Health & Safety Code. It prohibits two things:
- Force feeding a bird for the purpose of
enlarging the bird's liver beyond normal size; and
- Selling a product that is made by force feeding a bird.
Force feeding is defined as "a process that causes the bird to
consume more food than a typical bird of the same species would
consume voluntarily. Force feeding methods include, but are not
limited to, delivering feed through a tube or other device inserted
into the bird's esophagus."
Violations are punishable by a fine of $1,000 per violation, per day.
It will be interesting to see if restaurants come up with creative ways around the ban, as they did during the brief period in which foie gras was banned in Chicago. For instance, producing and selling foie gras is illegal, but the law does not prohibit possessing, consuming or giving it away. In Chicago, a number of restaurants provided free foie gras with certain purchases, though my guess is that such schemes would still be interpreted as sales unless the foie could be obtained without any purchase at all.
Who knows what other hijinks or unintended consequences this prohibition might give rise to. Smuggling rings from Las Vegas? Foie gras speakeasys? Clandestine backyard goose farms? Foie gras kingpins? Stay tuned.


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Mackie Announced the DL806 8-Channel Digital Mixer with iPad Control—Available at B&H Pro Audio
New York City, NY (PRWEB) January 24, 2013
B&H Pro Audio is pleased to share with the audio community the release of the Mackie DL806 8-Channel Digital Mixer with iPad Control allows the entire process of live-sound mixing to be controlled by an iPad.
The DL806 features 8 Onyx microphone preamps, 24-bit A/D & D/A converters, powerful internal DSP processing and an iPad docking faceplate. The DL806 has 4 XLR inputs, 4 XLR/TRS combo inputs and 4 aux sends. Integrate an Apple iPad and complete the setup for a live sound mixing experience that takes advantage of the iPad's touch screen capabilities and wireless control.
Mackie's Master Fader app to mix live audio and access the DL806's internal processing, including 4-band EQ, compression, gate, delay, reverb and 31-band master buss graphic EQ. Add a wireless router (not included) and mix with your iPad remotely, at various locations of a venue, hall, etc. The DL806 takes full advantage of the iPad's flexibility.
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With the Mackie DL806's seamless wired to wireless mixing capabilities, you can mix in real-time from anywhere in the venue on your iPad (requires wireless router, sold separately). Instantly adjust mix functions from tuning front of house trouble spots to ringing out stage monitors.
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Morenci Garden Club members led the way by scheduling an auction at their December meeting. Everyone brought a wrapped gift and for the auction, members placed bids and took their chances on what was inside.
The effort brought in $210 which was donated to the Morenci Food Bank.
Since the auction was such a success for the Garden Club, club member Renée Schroeder decided to try it last week when city employees and volunteers gathered for their annual Christmas lunch.
When the proceeds from the city hall auction were tallied, $292 was raised for the Food Bank. City supervisor Barney Vanderpool added an extra $8 to round it off at $300.
The surprise gifts ranged from chocolate covered peanut brittle to Christmas ornaments to a tube of Boudreaux's Butt Paste.
The events were a quick way to help out the Food Bank, Schroeder said, and participants had a good time doing it.


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Simon7 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 59 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
http://www.imperialmerchants.com Imperial Merchant Services
We are a full service provider that processes credit card transaction for retail merchants as well as online stores. The company is under new and younger management team and would like to re-Brand it's marketing starting with logo and once the logo is finished move to the new web site and marketing materials.
Our audience are business owners nationwide that do accept credit cards. Our business is often compared to banking business since majority of the transactions are still managed by the bank and the reason business owners would usually turn it to our services is generally since we would provide them better service.
The existing site that we have and an exiting logo looks like it's from 80's http://www.imperialmerchants.com therefore our main focus is to make it more modern look and utilize possible cool fonts (we really like Sony vaio font the one on Sony laptop) our best competitors logo's would be company like
Other concept might have A full imperial merchant services name or an abbreviation ims or both ims and full wording in it
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Other site industry related sites that we like are the following
Good luck we are open to any fresh ideas and approaches,modern contemporary and cool that represents service,technology,and banking yet utilizes cool font and a concept of http://www.firstdata.com logo
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Can 500 sweaty and limber people be wrong?
This Saturday and Sunday Maine YogaFest transforms the East End Community School in Portland into an exhale emporium. Flexible folks from hither and yon will cop their best downward dogs and try the latest trends in this ancient form of wellness.
What is new on the yoga mat this year?
Spin yoga fusion, meditative yin yoga, spa yoga and black light yoga class — let the yoga #selfie onslaught begin.
Saturday night instead of sipping margaritas in a seaside bar, join 150 yogis (including me) in a sweat and surrender throw down lead by NYC instructor Halle Becker. Becker calls herself a spiritual gangster and while that doesn't sound very Zen, this could be the class of a lifetime.
On her site Homegirl Yoga she tells participants to be set "to fly and laugh, to go inward and sing the body electric;" channeling Brooklyn-born Walt Whitman, who may have lauded all these writhing limbs.
Though I'm no practiced yogini (is any journo?) there are times when I believe I can fly, but that's usually after my fifth cup of dark roast.
Participants are asked to dress in bright colors. Think studio 54 sans hallucinogenics. DJ Revolve from HOT 104.7 will spin tunes as our gangsta guides us through a steamy sequence of yoga poses illuminated by neon maneuvers in the dark. Glow-in-the-dark cosmetics and body art is for sale before class to make this more trippy.
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A better understanding of the link between the neurologic damage caused by SCI, spontaneous motor function recovery, and long-term motor deficits would lead to better therapeutic approaches, as discussed in an article in Journal of Neurotrauma, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Journal of Neurotrauma website.
About 70% of human traumatic SCIs are incomplete, but the destruction of critical nerve fibers disrupts the signals normally sent between the brain and spinal cord beyond the site of the injury, resulting in locomotor impairment and paralysis. Elisa López-Dolado, Ana Lucas-Osma, and Jorge Collazos-Castro, Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos Finca La Peraleda, Toledo, Spain, simulated a C6 partial SCI in adult rats and analyzed their recovery of motor function over four months.
The authors report extensive kinetic, anatomical, and electrophysiological data that demonstrate how the animals compensate for the permanent loss of some motor function. In the article "Dynamic Motor Compensations with Permanent, Focal Loss of Forelimb Force after Cervical Spinal Cord Injury ," they propose that a premotoneuronal system in the cervical spine may be involved in the production and chronic nature of limb impairment, which could have important implications for the design of future treatment methods.
"This paper is important to the spinal cord injury field because it provides a comprehensive assessment of motor performance up to four months after cervical spinal cord injury," says Deputy Editor of Journal of Neurotrauma W. Dalton Dietrich, III, PhD, Scientific Director, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, and Kinetic Concepts Distinguished Chair in Neurosurgery, Professor of Neurological Surgery, Neurology and Cell Biology at University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Lois Pope LIFE Center. "Force and kinematic data identifying progressive sensorimotor compensatory processes indicate new targets for therapeutic strategies to promote recovery and repair."


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This interesting concept is called the DrawBraille phone, created by Shikun Sun while he was studying industrial design. It's basically a haptic phone that uses a braille board as a display. Braille boards mechanically raise dots so that visually impaired and blind users can read using their fingers.
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Kimberly of Kimberly C Baking emailed me about the idea of a Ferrero Rocher cupcake. After I wondered, "What the heck is a Ferrero Rocher?" I looked up Ferrero Rocher on Wikipedia and declared it a great idea.
We talked about her idea for a bit and Kimberly suggested that we both bake different styles of Ferrero Rocher cupcakes and blog about it; another great idea. I was on board still never having tasted the chocolate behind the gold foil.
I picked some up and and gave it a try. Damn. That's a good chocolate. It was no wonder people liked these things. Try some if you have never had them!
I was ready to create. I decided to make a chocolate hazelnut cupcake and give it a gooey ganache filling (like the gooey surprise in the chocolate) and top it with a chocolate ganache with hazelnuts bits in it (again, like the chocolate).
Where to Buy Hazelnut Extract
In order to make said cupcake, however, I needed hazelnut extract. Apparently, there is no demand for hazelnut extract in St. Louis, because nobody carries it. I do have to give special props to Straubs and Penzey's Spices who both went out of the their way to suggest other places I could possibly find it in town. The lady at Penzey's actually called 3 other places for me. Finally, I had to purchase it online here and wait… and wait.. and wait.. OK, it took just a week to arrive, but when I have my heart set on baking something, I am ready. I do not want to wait!
How to Pronounce Ferrero Rocher
While I was waiting, I had more time to plan. I was always hesitant to use the name "Ferrero Rocher" when telling people what I was making because I had/have no idea how to say it. It turns out though, that most people don't know how to say it. Only one person I asked seemed confident in his pronunciation. However, saying the chocolate in the gold foil seemed to be understood by everyone. The cupcake also needed to be easily recognizable. It needed gold.
Using Edible Gold on Cupcakes
For the gold on my cupcakes, I used actual edible gold. What else? I had no idea that gold was edible. Apparently you can eat gold, but it has no nutritional value. It just goes in and comes out. Hmm… I forgot to check for gold flakes in my poop. Good thing I still have some cupcakes left so I can try this experiment.
Finally, my extract came and I was ready to bake. Alas, Kimberly, my partner in crime, was sick. Then, she had to go and be nice and bake someone some chocolate cupcakes for Christmas. She hasn't gotten to bake her Ferrero Rochers yet. I was going to wait and post with her, but did I mention that I don't like waiting?
You are just going to have to promise to check Kimberly's blog and her cupcakes when she get them done. I'll also update this post with a link to her completed cupcakes.
Ferrero Rocher Cupcake Reviews
My husband: "Wow! These are just like the chocolate!"
My friend: "These are some of your best ones yet."
My Mother-In-Law: "These are good, but not as good as the caviar cheesecake ones." (She is alone in this line of thinking.)
My blogging friend: Said nothing at the time, but mentioned them on her blog.
Me: I thought they were perfect. They were a rich, moist chocolate with great hazelnut undertones – but not too sweet. The gooey surprise inside worked really well, as did the ganache. It all just came together.
Ferrero Rocher Cupcake Recipe
The cupcake recipe came from Laura of Sweets Made Here.
Ferrero Rocher Cupcakes
Cupcake Ingredients
- 1/2 c boiling water
- 6 T unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 c milk
- 1/2 t vanilla extract
- 1 T hazelnut extract*
- 1/2 c unsalted butter softened
- 10 T dark brown sugar
- 6 T granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 c all-purpose flour
- 1/2 + 1/8 t baking soda
- 1/4 t salt
Gooey Chocolate Hazelnut Filling** Ingredients
- 1 c heavy cream
- 1 c semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 t hazelnut extract
Chocolate Hazelnut Ganache*** Ingredients
- 1/2 c heavy cream
- 8 oz good semi-sweet chocolate chunks
- 2 T light corn syrup
- 2 t hazelnut extract
Cupcake Instructions
- In a bowl, whisk the boiling water into cocoa until smooth and whisk in milk, vanilla, and hazelnut extracts. In a large bowl, beat together butter and sugars until light and fluffy, about 2 to 3 minutes, and beat in eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Into another bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, and salt and add to egg mixture in batches alternately with cocoa mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture, and beating well after each addition. Fill each wrapper slightly more than 1/2 way. They will rise a lot. Bake in a preheated 350F oven for about 18 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
Gooey Chocolate Hazelnut Filling Instructions
- Bring heavy cream to a boil. Pour over chocolate chips to melt them. Add extract. Mix until fluffy. Let cool. Cut a cone in each cupcake and put a teaspoon or two of the ganache in. Replace the cone.
Chocolate Hazelnut Ganache Instructions
- Heat the cream on the stove until it boils. Pour over the chocolate and stir to melt, adding the corn syrup and hazelnut extract.


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I have posted this query on other newsgroups with no response yet so
I'm guessing this is a toughyu but here goes...
VB6, ADO 2.1, Access97 database
I have a Form with many text boxes set to fields in an ADO recordset.
The recordset holds data from 2 tables. All the data from the 1st table
is stored in the text boxes as it is except for one field which is
stored in a DataComboBox and it holds the primary key to a record in
the 2nd table. The SQL query returns a field from that second table
based on the foreign key in table one matching the primary key in table
SELECT T1.Field1, T1.Field2, T2.Fieldn From Table1 T1 Join Table2 T2
Where T1.ForeignKeyField = T2.PrimaryKeyField
A DataComboBox (DCB) control holds Table1's foreign key to Table2's
Primary key. The row source of the DCB is SELECT Field1, Field2, FIELDn
FROM Table. When I change the value of the DCB, the new value is stored
in the recordset but 2 other fields on the form which hold values from
Table2 are not updated. This situation is augmented more by the face
that there is a 3rd table which is linked to Table2 that is also
displayed on this form.
To better explain... Lets say Table1 holds customer Names. Table2 holds
their Category. And Table 3 holds the regions that each category
belongs to. On the form the DCB displays the Name of the category but
is bound to the recordset via Table1's ForeignKey field which points to
Table2's PrimaryKey. One text box then holds the Catgeory description
and another text box holds the Regions description. This all display
properly except when I change the value of the DCb the other 2 text
boxes are not updated until I close the form and re-load it which opens
the recordset backup.
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A few weeks ago, I met with a VC who has been investing in healthcare for over 30 years. He asked if we invested in healthcare and I told him that we'd like to but we don't really know how to fit it into our investment thesis which is focused on large networks of engaged users disrupting large markets. Clearly healthcare is a large market, possibly the largest measured as a percent of GDP. But we haven't seen many large networks of engaged users emerging in healthcare.
A week later, I got an email from an entrepreneur I backed something like sixteen years ago. I think that his company was the very last healthcare investment I've made. He built an enterprise IT healthcare software company and sold it for a nice return. Then we mostly lost touch. He emailed me that he had a very exciting new opportunity to create a new software solution to managing costs in large hospitals. I told him it sounded like something that was needed but that we were not the right investor for him. That turned into a long back and forth discussion of the state of healthcare, healthcare investing, and the role of the web in it.
When we look at education, what's wrong with it, and what needs to happen to fix it, we can see how the web, technology, and large networks of engaged users can impact education in a positive way. That is why, after studying the market for a couple years, we started to invest in education services late last year. We've now made four of these investments and will certainly make a bunch more.
When we look at healthcare, what's wrong with it, and what needs to happen to fix it, we can't see as clearly how the web, technology, and large networks of engaged users can impact healthcare in a positive way. But that is starting to change. When we first looked at education, we saw a market that was largely controlled by big powerful institutions that were not adapting to the needs of the market. But then we saw things emerging like home schooling, online learning, low cost learning tools in emerging markets, and teachers and students opting out of the system and taking things into their own hands. And that has led us to vision of how to invest in education. We are looking hard for those kinds of changes in healthcare that can help us start to see the way forward. We know that consumers need to take more control of their healthcare choices, their healthcare costs, and their health. And we know the web and large networks of engaged users can help all of that happen.
It is likely that we'll be doing more looking and studying and less investing in healthcare for a while (as we did in education). But I'm hopeful that entrepreneurs, industry observers, and of course all of you, will help us develop a thesis that allows us to start investing in healthcare. Like education, it feels like a market where you can make strong returns and also help facilitate important and needed changes.


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I installed Hyper V 2016; I didn't realise it didn't have a GUI, but I figured no problemo, I'd heard of 59 and will try that.
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Well that didn't take long. Priorities Action USA — the super PAC fronted by former Obama spokesman Bill Burton — just launched an ad riffing off of Mitt Romney's now-viral "47 percent" video.
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The President himself responded to the controversy Tuesday night on David Letterman's CBS show… right before heading to a $40,000-a-head NYC fundraiser hosted by Beyonce and Jay-Z, who the President referred to as "To J and B….thank you so much for your friendship."
Name-check! "Beyonce could not be a better role model for my girls."
Uh, Mr. President, have you seen Beyonce's "Party" video?
Best line of the night: Obama said he and Jay-Z have a lot of common. "We both have daughters and our wives are more popular than we are. So, you know, we've got a little bond there."
Anyways, here's the Letterman gig. Dave asked him what the difference was between his 2008 gaffe in San Francisco, which we talked about Tuesday:
Team Romney is swinging back….with an audio recording of Obama from October 1998 talking about the redistribution of wealth during a forum at Loyola University in Chicago. You know, back when Obama was a state senator nobody cared about.
The whole "redistribution" talk harkens back more to 2008, and Obama's comments to…yes…Joe the Plumber. As we know, all political roads eventually lead back to JTP.
Here's Obama's comments from 1998. It ain't exactly a Jeremiah Wright moment:
"I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure everybody's got a shot," Obama said at the time.
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Rob Dickins, Editorial Director of the online journal Psychedelic Press
BB: Could you tell us a little about your work with Psypress?
The Psychedelic Press UK project started in 2008 as a blog dedicated to providing a wide-ranging literature review of psychedelics texts, which quickly evolved to become an online magazine, featuring interviews and articles. Then, in 2012, I put a shout-out online asking if people would be interested in a print edition of PsypressUK, with original and in-depth articles, and the response was a resounding Yes! Since then we've gone from strength to strength and now publish a volume every 2 months.
The journal features articles from across academic fields - the sciences and humanities - along with literary and opinion pieces. Psychedelia is such an interwoven field that taking any one aspect in isolation feels rather contrived. What we aim to do is explore society and culture at large, with all their intricacies, and ask just how the psychedelic experience effects it all. My work specifically is as Editorial Director - so I manage contributions and editing - although I'm helped out by a brilliant group of writers, artists, and editors, without whom the whole project would be untenable.
BB: For you what is the value of the psychedelic experience?
Well, this is both a very easy and very difficult question to answer - the psychedelic experience is nothing if not paradoxical! In one sense, people are still fascinated by the 'what the hell is going on here?' point, yet there are many groups of people who have begun to find value in the psychedelic experience, without necessarily coming to satisfactory answers as to what exactly is happening.
For me the value of the psychedelic experience lies in one's ability to manipulate imagination through set and setting - essentially a theatrical understanding. The chaos magic tradition, if you can call it that, is particularly bang on at exploring this aspect. Whether your intention is healing, psychonautical exploration, value transformation, communing with the spirits, etc., then psychedelic substances can be a tool by which to explore these paradigms. Ultimately then, the value of the psychedelic experience is the ability to stand out from one's usual identity monikers, which socially speaking is a remarkably healthy and rewarding act - what is like to be in the boots of the other?
BB: You obviously have a significant role in bringing the subject of psychedelics in to the wider conversation; interest is perhaps as high now as in the countercultural heyday of the 60's, why do you think that is?
Older generations have passed on now since the initial hysteria of the Sixties - in terms of revolutionary advocacy and mass-media misinformation - and I think time is ultimately the great healer. Having some hindsight and perspective does wonders! When you add the fact that mental health issues have become a primary concern in many quarters today, then there's a lot of medical people looking back at their history and saying, 'well these substances appeared to work, why aren't we using and researching them anymore?'.
Moreover, people are generally more drugs savvy on the whole now. In the 1950s medical drugs revolution, a whole generation of essentially naive people were told about the extreme wonders and horrors of drugs and they took what they were told at face value. Nowadays, we are able to make more discerning choices, and our understandings are better informed. And as alchemists have kept the psychedelic flame going for decades, it is basically impossible for the flaws in drug laws do not be shown in their full glaring horror.
BB: What's your ideal in relation to current drug policy?
I follow the late Alexander Shulgin's position on this. The drug laws simply need to be repealed - in this country all the way back to the Pharmacy Act of 1868. Building legislation on legislation is a bureaucratic nightmare, and a recipe for a confused state-of-play. The term 'drug' can't be adequately defined: How can one produce law based on a near-meaningless word? The result can only ever be that the interpretation of it by the powers-that-be will be based on their own particular agenda - the reification of institutional racism is one example of this. Any regulation should be aimed at producers producing what they say they produce - never in the act of consumption.
BB: Psychedelics have obviously been neglected until comparatively recently as a therapeutic tool but would you concede that they could be used a tool for wider societal transformation – perhaps our collective neurosis and flawed relationships with our environment could also be transformed?
Well I think this was the essential lesson that gave rise to the countercultural Sixties with LSD, which had its roots in psychiatry. In traditional therapeutic contexts, individual neurosis was treated in the hope of adjusting the individual back to 'normality'. What certain more revolutionary minded psychiatrists and psychologists recognised was that these neuroses were often the result of 'normal society', and they were merely treating the symptom and not the cause - returning people to a state of 'alienation'. Hence they wanted a revolution in society.
In this sense, LSD revealed a societal problem. Could it possibly be a cure, however? I'm not sure. If you have a radical agenda to begin with, then it might perhaps seem that way, but not everyone believes society is broken, so while someone may gain personal and/or spiritual insight, their thoughts will not necessarily turn towards revolution. The beauty of LSD, and psychedelics more generally, is not that they're revolutionary - they're fundamentally insurrectionary. Rise up and recognise your theatre, but embody the society in order to address them - revolving who's in charge, in an 'us and them' attitude, will just bring the same problems about in a different disguise.
BB: What advice would you give the uninitiated?
If you'd like to be initiated, do so with friends, love and respect is the way to depend.
BB: Finally, what's your longterm vision for Psypress UK?
I'd like to see PsypressUK stocked in newsagents all around the world, in a state where being educated on the effects, uses, and understandings of psychedelic substances is an important part of society!


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Making the case for solid-state storage
With a variety of solid-state implementations available, it's time to take a serious look at how the technology could enhance your storage environment.
- Dennis Martin, Demartek
Interest in solid-state storage is high, and with a variety of solid-state implementations available and newer technologies emerging, it's time to take a serious look at how solid state could enhance your storage environment.
Data storage professionals considering solid-state storage have myriad solid-state storage architectures to consider, including systems that use solid-state drives (SSDs) in various form factors, caching implementations and appliances. If that wasn't enough to ponder, those planning on implementing these systems need to decide whether to use a product that mixes solid-state storage and traditional disk drives, or to use SSD-only storage subsystems.
But perhaps more important than just choosing the hardware, enterprises need to decide what data to put on solid-state storage or consider using some form of software automation to move the data onto solid-state storage to make the most efficient use of what is still a somewhat expensive resource. Deciding what data to place on solid-state storage and how to put it there makes choosing a solid-state storage option more complex, but your selections will have a long-term impact.
Solid-state-only shops: Not so soon
In a few decades, some form of solid-state storage may be the dominant and possibly only form of enterprise data storage. But given the present state of matters, that day is (at best) on the distant horizon. We might dream of replacing all of our electro-mechanical disk drives with solid-state storage if cost weren't a factor, but there's nowhere near enough semiconductor fabrication production capacity available today to satisfy the total storage capacity that's deployed in IT shops.
But there are some promising signs. Enterprise solid-state storage prices are dropping relative to enterprise hard disk drives (HDDs). Not that long ago, enterprise solid-state storage was as much as 40 times the price of an equivalent capacity of enterprise hard disk drive storage. The price comparison ratios are in the neighborhood of 25% to 50% of that today, depending on specific solid-state storage products.
As a result of this pricing and capacity disparity, data storage managers and administrators are finding that solid-state storage complements existing traditional forms of storage. They've deployed, or are planning to deploy, solid-state storage where high performance, low latency or energy savings are needed.
There are two basic ways to implement solid-state storage technology:
- Use solid-state storage directly as a primary store
- Use solid-state storage as a cache in front of spinning disks
Each of these implementations has its advantages and disadvantages, and implementations vary among storage vendors. And some vendors offer one implementation now while planning to offer the other in the next six to 12 months.
|Form factors and interfaces
Solid-state storage comes in a variety of form factors, including nearly all the disk-drive form factors, as internal modules within a storage system or as a PCI Express bus card. The PCI Express bus form factor provides the potential for very high bandwidth storage access within a server or workstation.
Enterprise solid-state drives are available in 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drive form factors that are compatible with today's servers and storage systems. The primary interfaces for these are SATA, SAS and Fibre Channel (FC). The SATA interface is available for many solid-state drives, especially for the consumer and desktop market. Fibre Channel has a long future as a SAN interface, but is approaching end-of-life as a disk drive interface. Disk drive suppliers and solid-state storage suppliers are moving away from Fibre Channel as a drive interface in favor of 6 Gbps SAS as an enterprise drive interface. We expect the Fibre Channel interface on 3.5-inch drives to stick around for a while to maintain spare parts on the relatively large number of 3.5-inch FC drives in enterprise disk subsystems. And we also anticipate that relatively few 2.5-inch enterprise drives will have a Fibre Channel interface.
Using solid state for primary storage
For vendors that implement solid-state storage directly as a primary data store, many use the standard disk-drive form factor. This implementation method is simple to understand and is compatible with current subsystem designs and configuration processes. The one downside to this approach is that many of today's controllers and subsystems weren't designed for disk drives with an order of magnitude of faster performance at the drive level, so vendors typically don't support a large system completely full of solid-state disk drives. But this is changing as vendors design and build improved controllers that can handle many more solid-state drives. The good news is that significant performance gains can be achieved with a relatively small number of SSDs, often only one full or partial drive shelf. Some users are reporting five to eight times performance gains for some workloads with a relatively small amount of solid-state storage.
We're also seeing an increasing number of solid-state-only storage products available today and planned for release over the next several months. These systems are designed to use solid-state storage as the primary store, with capacities in the single- or double-digit terabytes today and larger capacities coming soon.
For users who have implemented solid-state storage as a primary store, the big question focuses on what data to put on the solid-state storage. There are some obvious candidates, such as database indexes, heavily accessed database tables or temporary scratch areas, log files or any other hot spot. However, this is often not a static solution. Some data that's hot today may not be hot tomorrow. So storage administrators, database administrators or other IT technicians may have to continually monitor data usage patterns and be prepared to make adjustments on a fairly regular basis. In some cases, this increased management burden may be too much work and operational expense to be worth the tradeoff for increased I/O performance.
The answer is to provide an automated way for the storage system to identify the hot data and move it onto the solid-state storage automatically, then move it to slower storage when it no longer requires solid-state performance. Many vendors provide forms of tiering software that does exactly that. This software observes the I/O patterns for a time and then moves the data in a way that's transparent to the host applications. Many of these automated solutions allow the administrator to determine what activity level defines "hot" data, set the time period over which the observations are made, and then set a separate parameter that controls the frequency of data movement (anywhere from hourly to weekly). Some of this software has the ability to make recommendations about the data tiering based on the observations it has made, such as recommending a 10%/90% mix of solid state vs. spinning disk. Today, many of these automated data movers perform the data movement at the LUN level; sub-LUN-level data movement is expected from several vendors within the next six to 12 months.
The solid-state-only storage products eliminate the need to move data from faster to slower storage because all of the data is on fast storage. These systems appeal to customers who want to put an entire application and its data on solid-state storage. At today's price points, these solutions tend to be deployed for critical applications only. The decision (and budget) to acquire them tends to come from line-of-business owners or architects rather than from the IT department.
Caching with solid state
The other basic implementation is to use solid-state storage as a cache in front of spinning disks. This method has the advantage of always accelerating the hot data in real-time, since only the hot data is likely to be in cache. And because the solid-state storage is acting as a cache, there's no need for an administrator to decide what data should be placed on it. The basic questions here are what size cache is appropriate and which workloads should be directed toward the cache to make the best use of the solid-state device.
Some solid-state caching solutions are built into existing storage systems, while others are delivered as external appliances. Adding flash memory as a cache inside a storage subsystem in effect provides a "level 2" cache not unlike the L2 cache found on many processors inside today's computers. This added cache capacity improves performance for most if not all operations. In addition, because flash memory is non-volatile, this cache provides some extra protection in the event of power loss. But issues such as cache coherency, and whether the cache is DRAM based or flash memory based, remain. Generally, a cache is tied to one processor or controller, and there are various cache management functions that can be applied to allow caches to work properly with multiple processors or controllers. In addition, storage systems that use caching can add special features to their internal OSes that are aware of the cache and can provide additional flexibility, such as the ability to assign different I/O priorities for I/O going to different volumes on the storage system.
The caching appliances add the benefits of cache without requiring changes to any existing servers or storage systems. These appliances fit easily into the storage network and can accelerate all I/O going through them, even sending data to different storage subsystems at the same time. Many of the appliances can be set to write-back, write-through or pass-through for any given volume they accelerate. Some of the caching appliances are constructed in such a way as to allow their memory modules to be hot-plugged, so maintenance or growth can occur without taking down the entire appliance.
The big question for a caching implementation is how much cache is enough. For many workloads and applications, a relatively small amount of cache (5% to 20%) relative to the total storage allocated to that application is enough to provide significant performance improvements. For other workloads, the cache needs to be large enough to hold the entire volume to achieve appreciable performance gains.
It's all about performance
Solid-state storage, however it's deployed, offers the promise of significant performance gains. We've seen results of seven to nine times overall performance gains in our lab testing for various real-world applications (email, database, etc.) when configured optimally for the application.
With performance gains of that magnitude possible, what's not to like? Certainly, pricing is a factor. However, consider some of the current methods that are used to increase performance for spinning disk drives, such as "short stroking" spinning disk drives. Short stroking spreads data over many disk drives by using only a portion of the capacity of each drive for data, so that as many "spindles" as possible can be applied to improve performance. To achieve desired performance goals, some users short stroke some of their enterprise disk drives using ratios of 7:1, 8:1 or 9:1, which means they're using only 1/7th, 1/8th or 1/9th of the available capacity on each drive. If the price of an enterprise SSD is 10 to 15 times the price of the spinning drives being short stroked, it may make sense to move that application data to enterprise SSDs and get the required performance while using much less power and space.
Almost all data storage system vendors now offer configurations that use a combination of solid-state storage and enterprise SATA storage instead of arrays full of enterprise spinning disk drives. These new configurations typically offer higher performance, equivalent capacity, lower power consumption, smaller space requirements and lower total hardware costs.
BIO: Dennis Martin has been working in the IT industry since 1980, and is the founder and president of a computer industry analyst organization and testing lab.
Related Resources
- Infographic: Comparing solid-state storage technologies –ComputerWeekly.com
- SSD: Features, Functions and FAQ –SearchStorage.com
- Pros and Cons of PCI Express SSD –SearchStorage.com
- Essential Guide to Solid-State Storage Implementation –SearchStorage.com


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