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The Truth about Memory Tester Manufacturer
Every time you pick up the phone making inquires to buy any product, you will be familiar with many companies sales 's swearing by their good reputation that their product are the best, the lowest price and competitors products are always inferior. Beware of the salesman that try to sell you snake oil.
Bold Claim
In the Memory Tester Industry, several companies constantly make bold claim either on their product brochures or web-site that they were the pioneers in delivering the world first memory testers and their testers are being used as the industry standard.Frequently most customers are confused.
They charge exorbitant price for spare parts, RMA repair, sell their product using reseller with inflated markup price and you really don't know if you are paying the best price for the best value.
How do you pick the right place to buy a memory tester ?
You want to make an informed decision so you surf the web and search for keywords "SIMM Tester" , "Memory Tester" and with mouse click - several colorful web-page pops up the screen. You click on each of the website and really get confused with all the technical jargons and don't know what is best for you.Some allow you to check price online - while some require you to call or send a request.
The trouble is - everyone is saying that they are the best and you don't really know who really honest.
You talk to Memory resellers in your local shop about what kind of memory tester they used for checking faulty memory , many said they don't own one and some are as confused as you.
The most important factor in selecting a memory tester is who makes it.
It's pretty simple actually. Once you have a company that manufactures high-quality, reliable parts and is going to stand behind its product with a good web-site filled with memory information and strong technical support and good customer service, finding the right product for your company is relatively easy.
The Truth
The truth is there is only one memory tester company in the United States that does not sell you snake oil, CST Inc / simmtester.com relies heavily on its reputation to promote " Memory Testing Solution" Online and let you decide if this company is trustworthy and has good reputation for delivering the solution that you are seeking for.
At its re-engineered "Simmtester.Com" web site, CST will provide yet another additional Free consultation service, web-visitor can now post any memory question to "DocMemory" for a personalized answer by e-mail from DocMemory at no charge at all.
Recently CST had launched DocMemory translated in Chinese to target at asian readers.
Simmtester.com also offers "Free Memory Specification download, Memory Diagnostic Software ". "Daily Memory Related News", "DRAM Price Index", and "Interactive Memory FAQ" are among the Free services provided. Free subscription on Newsletter is also offered, these Newsletters cover interesting topics in memory knowledge and applications.
"We have been providing knowledge and information on memories for the last 16 years as a service to the PC industry." said Cecil Ho, president "We are just making it available to a much broader client base through the Internet".
Realms of Information, not Persuasion
Through this web site, our goal is to provide you as a customer with realms of information and not persuasion. Our challenge is make all CST 's memory tester product virtually accessible 24 hours a day anywhere, anytime at your own leisure as long as your have access to the internet. We will continue to keep you updated with the latest memory trend,daily news and the latest memory specification.
Guide to selecting a Memory Tester
Shopping for the right tester is not easy. Here is a 10 point guideline you can use as a reference. Ask yourself and the memory tester company these questions before you buy your tester.
How fast is the tester? Is it 133mhz , 100mhz , 66mhz, 33mhz or 25 MHz? Normally you can tell how fast the tester through the test time required to test a piece of memory module. Take a 64Mbz PC100 SDRAM as an example, a full comprehensive cell test that include a Marching test pattern (not simply a Basic Test) should take around 12 seconds for a fast tester, whereas it will take more than 2 minutes for a slower tester. The accuracy of the tester significantly depends on the speed of the base tester.
Support Multiple Platforms
Can the tester support different DRAM technologies? Most of the tester will not support both EDO DRAM and PC133 SDRAM DIMMS with the same tester unit. You want to make sure that you do not have to end up buying multiple testers or perform costly upgrade to the tester to test different kind of memory.
Accessories / Adapters
Ask the range of supporting adapter that are available to test all different types of proprietary memory modules such as 200pin Sun Sparc 10/20/Ultra, PCMCIA Memory module, Graphic SGRAM Module, Apple Modules, Stacked IC etc
Error Display Message
How are the error displayed? Did the tester give you enough information to pin point exactly what goes wrong with the modules? Can the tester be interface with the computer to extend programming features of the tester? If so, do it come with the editors to program the contents of the Serial Presence Detect and module mapping for error detection?
Programmable Features
Can the tester be flexible enough to edit Serial Present Detect Information (SPD), the module configurations and the test patterns ?
Support / Service / Warranty
How good is the service and support provided by the company? Do they have technical support standby to answer your questions at anytime during office hours or do you have to talk to answering services all the time. What warranty does the tester covers? What is the turnaround time policy for repair and service ?
Field Upgradable
Is the unit field upgradable ? How easier is it for you to upgrade the tester? How much does upgrade cause ? Almost all small tester will not be upgradable to test the super fast DDR or Rambus memory , thus do not take words of supplier that promise you a tester now that will also deliver DDR or Rambus. Get it in writing.
Company History
Check out the corporate history in the memory test industry. The longevity of a company reflects the leadership position in its field.
Ask your suppliers and business partners who have been using the product as a very good assessment of how good the product is. This by far should be the best testimony.
Lastly, make sure the price is proportionate with the performance it will deliver. The lowest cost tester may not necessary be the one that is best. Is the product going to be obsolete soon? Making the right choice ensure that you do not spend more money later on.
Finally we let you be the judge which memory tester company stands out.
CST, Inc. is a Dallas base memory module tester manufacturer since 1983. It provides memory module testers under the model names of "Eureka", and "SP3000". It also provides automatic DIMM handler for automation in memory module manufacturing test.
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i read the headline and thought...yes it is a caterpillar.....then i read the article and felt stupid....i love this pic!
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When I first saw this in another blog I saw... birds. I'm weird.
Me, too. I first thought it was a caterpillar. But my three-year old identified them as birds right away.
Yep, I saw the birds too. Then again, my mum always said I was immature :)

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In 2012, Danny Trejo headlined a flick aptly titled Bad Ass, in which the Machete star played a full-bearded Vietnam veteran, Frank Vega, who becomes a local hero after saving a man from attackers on a city bus.
That part is loosely based on a true story, but it's what happens after the bus incident that turns the one-time defender into a renegade vigilante in director Craig Moss's movie. Armed with only a baseball bat and a fanny pack, the fictive Frank decides to take action when his best friend is murdered and the cops show little interest in solving the crime. What ensues is a 90-minute gumshoe chase that sees Trejo cracking skulls, taking names and being an all-around badass.
Of course, 90 minutes isn't nearly enough badass for Trejo, which is why he's teamed up with the one and only Danny Glover for the action sequel titled -- you guessed it -- Bad Asses. In the new, butt-kicking followup, Frank recruits his buddy Bernie Pope to help him get to the bottom of another murder, this time investigating the death of one of Frank's prized boxing students, who ran with a bad crowd.
Last year, IGN was invited onto the set of Bad Asses in Los Angeles, where the cast and crew shot an action sequence at Elysian Park. Specifically, the production team had set up at Angel's Point, where they had picked out a gorgeous bluff overlooking the neighboring city skyline. There, the cameras rolled on Trejo and Glover, whose characters at that point in the movie had arranged a meeting with the film's big bad Leandro Herrera (Andrew Divoff) for a surprise rescue mission.
Without spoiling too much, this scene was a fun watch, as the actors played out an entire spectacle in one take, with content ranging from tense banter to bloody fisticuffs to even some good ol' fashioned gunplay. It was especially amusing to see Trejo's grungy Frank back in action, wearing a tattered camo jacket this time around, and Glover dressed in a bright green tracksuit -- both of them ready to face the baddies.
We've been beating up bad guys, driving cars. We make a good team in this.
Trejo in particular was very friendly in between takes, and happily reminisced about his own time in LA, as he looked out at the view from the top of the cliffside. As one of only two outlets on set, we got to briefly talk with Trejo one-on-one about his time on the set of Bad Asses.
Though he had never worked with Glover before, Trejo was obviously excited to fight alongside the Lethal Weapon star. "He's been great," the actor gushed. "It's been a lot of fun. We've been beating up bad guys, driving cars. We make a good team in this."
Trejo was also glad to be working again with Moss, who returned to helm the butt-kicking sequel. "Craig Moss, he's my buddy," Trejo remarked. "He's a good friend of mine -- really talented. Great guy." In fact, Trejo told us that he was having so much fun with Moss on Bad Asses, that he wanted to make another movie with him later on at some point -- apparently, a remake the 1971 western Valdez is Coming. (However, nothing official has since come out about that project). Indeed, Moss seemed to have a good rapport with Trejo on set, as the two men readily schemed off-camera, going over previous takes and making slight changes throughout the shoot.
Interestingly, Frank's prior girlfriend, played by Joyful Drake in Bad Ass, is notably missing from the story. As Trejo told us, Jacqueline Obradors portrays Frank's new romantic prospect, Rosario Parkes, whom Frank and Bernie rescue from the clutches of Leandro in the scene we saw. Trejo explained, "The boy that gets killed, [it's his] mom, so she ends up my love interest."
But Bad Asses wasn't the first time Trejo had collaborated with Obradors. "I actually worked with Jacqueline before," he said. "I did a movie called Six Days Seven Nights, with Harrison Ford, and she stole that movie. If you ever get a chance, look at it. She plays Harrison Ford's love interest. She just steals it, and she just blew us all out of the water [in Badasses]. She's been fun; she's been a lot of fun. We just laugh all the time."
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The Taken series comes to a (possible) close with this third entry, in which Liam Neeson's Bryan Mills embarks on a quest to clear his name (and track down the real killer) after he's falsely accused of murder. Though it boasts a superb and action-packed third act, Taken 3, the longest of the franchise, has been saddled with an erratic opening hour that admittedly proves a test to one's patience - as director Olivier Megaton, working from Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen's script, places an ongoing emphasis on the exploits of several periphery characters. This is especially true of Megaton's decision to spend far more time than necessary with Forest Whitaker's pursuing detective, as the film takes a demonstrable hit each and every time the action cuts away from Mill's engaging antics. It doesn't help, either, that the movie's midsection suffers from a paucity of precisely the sort of action that one might've expected, with one's desire to see Liam Neeson's character punch and kick his way through various baddies left unsatiated until the aforementioned final act. (The movie's problems are exacerbated by Megaton's incompetent direction, as the filmmaker suffuses each and every action sequence with a jittery, kinetic feel that renders such moments virtually unintelligible.) The viewer is, however, rewarded with a tremendously entertaining climax that delivers everything that one might've expected and hoped for, and it's clear that the effectiveness of this stretch essentially compensates for the inconsistency of everything preceding it - which ultimately confirms Taken 3's place as a sequel that's right in line with its immediate predecessor (ie neither of these films come close to the highs reached by the 2008 original).


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Today, President Obama once again usurped the legislative power of Congress by executive overreach. The President's gun control executive actions will infringe on the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans, but do nothing to prevent gun crime and mass shootings. I am confident that his proposals will be challenged in court and ultimately vacated. Obama's new executive actions on gun control would have not prevented mass shooting tragedies from Columbine to San Bernardino. The executive actions broaden guidance on who must obtain a firearms license while being deliberately vague in defining who will be considered a gun dealer. This will give federal agents undue power and make people reluctant to engage in gun transactions for fear of being selected for politically-motivated prosecution. The actions not only violate 2nd Amendment rights to keep and bear arms but also 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. Additionally, the President plans to prohibit certain Social Security recipients from legally owning firearms. In response, I will co-sponsor legislation (H.R. 3126) to prohibit the Social Security Commissioner from turning over social security numbers to the Justice Department-run gun background check system.


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SEC Fines Investment Adviser—a Victim of a Cybersecurity Breach— for Failing To Adopt Written Policies and Procedures Reasonably Designed To Protect Customer Records and Information
On September 22, 2015, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission entered into a settlement agreement with R.T. Jones Capital Equities Management, Inc. relating to its "failure to adopt written policies and procedures reasonably designed to protect customer records and information."1 The SEC censured the investment adviser, ordered that it cease and desist from further violations, and imposed a civil penalty of $75,000. In connection with the settlement, Marshall S. Sprung, Co-Chief of the SEC Enforcement Division's Asset Management Unit, noted that firms "need to anticipate potential cybersecurity events and have clear procedures in place rather than waiting to react once a breach occurs."2
According to the SEC order, R.T. Jones, an SEC-registered investment adviser, provided advice to retirement plan participants through an online system that allowed participants to manage their investment accounts. The plan sponsors provided to R.T. Jones the personally identifiable information ("PII") of all eligible plan participants. R.T. Jones required prospective clients to log on to its website and enter their name, date of birth and social security number, and would attempt to match this information against the information provided by the plan sponsors to confirm eligibility. R.T. Jones possessed PII for over 100,000 individuals, although fewer than 8,000 used its services. R.T. Jones maintained the PII on a third party-hosted web server without modification or encryption. Access to the PII was limited to two administrators.
In July 2013, R.T. Jones's "web server was attacked by an unauthorized, unknown intruder." The firm promptly retained the services of two cybersecurity consulting firms "to confirm the attack and assess the scope of the breach." Forensic analysis indicated "that the cyberattack had been launched from multiple IP addresses, all of which traced back to mainland China, and that the intruder had gained full access rights and copy rights to the data stored on the server." However, the attacker destroyed the relevant log files and "the cybersecurity firms could not determine whether the PII stored on the server had been accessed or compromised during the breach."
As with several other federal and state regulators, the SEC increasingly has begun to assert authority over companies' data security practices. In so doing with respect to brokers, dealers, investment companies, and investment advisers registered with the SEC ("registered entities"), the SEC has relied on its authority under Sections 501, 504, and 505 of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, which requires the SEC to establish standards for select financial institutions relating to data safeguards. Pursuant to these sections, the SEC promulgated Rule 30(a) of Regulation S-P (17 C.F.R. § 248.30(a)), which provides:
Every broker, dealer, and investment company, and every investment adviser registered with the Commission must adopt written policies and procedures that address administrative, technical, and physical safeguards for the protection of customer records and information. These written policies and procedures must be reasonably designed to:
(1) Insure the security and confidentiality of customer records and information;
(2) Protect against any anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of customer records and information; and
(3) Protect against unauthorized access to or use of customer records or information that could result in substantial harm or inconvenience to any customer.
The SEC previously has noted that "[b]ecause funds and advisers are varied in their operations, they should tailor their compliance programs based on the nature and scope of their businesses."3 As data breaches and enforcement actions continue to occur, however, the SEC may develop an implicit baseline of minimal policies. The SEC's settlement order with R.T. Jones is instructive in this regard.
The SEC found that R.T. Jones failed to adopt "written policies and procedures regarding the security and confidentiality of [sensitive client] information and the protection of that information from anticipated threats or unauthorized access." Specifically, the SEC noted that R.T. Jones's policies did not include: (i) conducting periodic risk assessments; (ii) employing a firewall to protect the web server containing client PII; (iii) encrypting client PII stored on that server; or (iv) establishing procedures for responding to a cybersecurity incident. Based on this conduct, the SEC concluded that "R.T. Jones willfully violated Rule 30(a).
In the Matter of R.T. Jones Capital Equities Management, Inc. illustrates the SEC's intention to enforce its data safeguard regulations against registered investment advisers that lack a minimum of reasonable policies and procedures in core areas. The SEC order enumerated several policy and procedure failures by R.T. Jones. Registered entities should consider developing or modifying policies in these areas:
- conducting regular cybersecurity risk assessments;
- using firewalls and encryption to protect client PII; and
- establishing specific procedures for responding to data breaches and other cyber incidents.
The above policies are consistent with guidance the SEC released in April 2015 regarding cybersecurity measures for registered investment companies and advisers. In light of the fact that the SEC settlement order with R.T. Jones closely tracks the SEC's prior guidance on cybersecurity, registered entities should consider whether the cybersecurity measures identified in the Guidance or other measures would be appropriate. (For more information on the SEC's cybersecurity guidance, please see Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, SEC's Division of Investment Management Releases Cybersecurity Guidance (April 30, 2015), available at https://www.sullcrom.com/secs-division-of-investment-management-releases-cybersecurityguidance-guidance.)
It also bears mention that the SEC expressly noted that "[i]n determining to accept R.T. Jones's Offer, the Commission considered the remedial acts promptly undertaken by R.T. Jones and the cooperation R.T. Jones afforded the Commission staff." R.T. Jones undertook several remedial actions including: (i) providing prompt notice of the breach to all individuals whose PII may have been compromised, and offering them free identity monitoring through a third-party provider; (ii) the appointment of an information security manager to oversee data security and protection of PII; (iii) the adoption and implementation of a written information security policy; (iv) the discontinuation of storage of PII on R.T. Jones's web server; (v) the encryption of PII stored on R.T. Jones's internal network; (vi) the installation of a new firewall and logging system to prevent and detect malicious incursions; and (vii) the retention of a cybersecurity firm to provide ongoing reports and advice on the firm's information technology security. Registered entities confronting a potential data breach should consider whether any of the above forms of remediation are appropriate to their situation.


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NEILD, Mary Ann 'Ann' - Passed away at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre on Thursday January 4, 2018.
Ann Herrington-Connolly (Simpson) of Lakefield in her 74th year.
Ann was a dedicated faithful member of the Selwyn Outreach Centre and many there will miss her warm inviting hugs.
Lovingly remembered by her husband Robert Neild and her children Pearl Ann (Alan Coombes), (the late) Michael (Bev), Alex (Michelle), Jamie and Pat.
Also remembered by her grandchildren Ashley, Phillip, Amanda, Christopher, Adam, Alyssa, Andrew, Austin, Alexandria, Madison and Mason and by her great grandchildren Aurora, Meagan, Jacob, Tyson and Jaxson.
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Also missed by many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her birth parents Delina Mary Myles and Gilbert Vincent Herrington, her adopted parents Mary Grainger and Charles Connolly, sisters Elizabeth, Mae, June and brothers Jim, Jack, Frank, Murray and Gary Connolly.
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Michael McBride, who describes himself on Twitter as a pastor, has tweeted that he has received information from a demonstration in Charlotte, NC, informing him of the death of one of those demonstrating following the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott. According to his information, the protester was shot in the head.
In the information he received, also by way of tweet, the witness reported, "shot in head by Charlotte police tonight. I was about ten feet away when it happened. It was an AMBUSH by the police. Please get the word out!"
McBride questioned him if it was confirmed, to which his source replied, "Yes, I was right there."
Not discounting the likelihood of someone being shot in the protests and the need for a full investigation to be conducted if that is the case, it is unlikely that police would ambush protesters in what is already an extremely volatile situation. That just doesn't make any sense, even if they were racists out to kill black people just for sport, which they're not.
A black man may have been killed and it may have been either a black or white officer who pulled the trigger. It also may have been justified. The officer who shot Scott was a black man who states he was dealing with a life or death decision. It is unlikely that they events happened as the witness described. Whether cooler, more thoughtful heads are able to prevail is a whole other issue.
Unfortunately, the truth may not matter at first, when emotions and volatility are high.
JUST IN: Charlotte cops use tear gas during protest over the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by a police officer https://t.co/Md6UvEbP8H
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I hate this. This track-stopping, hard-to-describe feeling. I hate feeling happy only to be slapped in the face by the reality that I've been trying so hard to run away from. It's as if whenever I'm walking, it shows: like a mark, a stain. People look at me and they see that. Why does pain always have to be so apparent? Maybe it's not, but it feels like it is. At this moment, it is. All the hurt, the disappointments, the imperfections in my life – all screaming and struggling to go out. I am exploding in on myself again, and there's no one but me who can hear the pieces falling to the floor, no one but me to pick the splinters as it curse through my veins and pierce through flesh and bones. There's this hollow thud to where my heart used to be. I used to be too eager to feel, too eager to experience things. I should've known that when I asked for everything, it comes with EVERY THING.
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The regally-robed kings, sultans, and sheikhs of the world's richest alliance , per capita, are meeting here to debate the increasing number of problems that threaten the oil-rich Arabian Peninsula.
The nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain - will try to consolidate their alliance at their three-day conference which began Tuesday. Since its establishment four years ago, the GCC has sought to emulate the economic and political goals of the European Community, and the military ties of NATO. But the going has not been easy.
The key issues this year are:
* The four-year-old Iran-Iraq war.
* Self-defense and internal security in the most economically strategic land mass in the world.
* The impact of the drop in oil prices, as well as means of diversifying their economies from the dominance of oil.
But the strongest underlying theme is the desire to diminish reliance - politically, economically, and militarily - on outsiders, particularly the United States.
Ties with Washington have become increasingly controversial in all six states because of a growing sense that the US will ultimately side with Israel in any dispute with the Arab world. On the eve of the summit, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sabah Ahmad Jabir Sabah referred repeatedly to the goal of self-sufficiency.
''We sincerely believe that the protection and security of this area is mainly the responsibility of its countries alone without any foreign intervention,'' said Sheikh Sabah. ''If this intervention would ever happen, 'God forbid it,' it would not be in the interest of anyone living in this area.''
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''If there is a Gulf force, it would not increase defensibility of these nations,'' one Western envoy explained. ''At the military level, it can only hope to become capable of holding off any aggressor until political forces go into action or others come to their rescue.
''But standing together might deter possible aggressors, who realize taking on one nation means taking on all of them. Formation of a GCC force will make it politically more difficult to attack any member state,'' he added.
Wide variation in war materiel and the complexities of a command-and-control structure spread through six states add to the difficulties. The bottom line, according to diplomats, is that any major threat from land or sea would require outside intervention, since the GCC is not expected to be able to become fully coordinated ''for decades, at least,'' Western sources says.


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Thursday, July 31, 2008
the finality and the finiteness
When I got home and showed M she told me immediately and not very nicely that it wasn't what she wanted and she wasn't going to have any and for some reason it broke me, I sank to the floor in the kitchen, bags scattered about as she stomped from the room.
I started crying then, a quiet sort of stoic little cry if there is such a thing and if not I feel the need to paint it as such, the romanticizing of it feels easier somehow. So I'm crying, not from the shitty attitude but mostly from the finality and the finiteness, I'm just a girl on a kitchen floor trying to figure it all out. Moving to a foreign place and leaving all things familiar and even all the things I rail against can lift and rattle all at once and sometimes the nakedness is powerful and other times I want to hide. We often talk about feeling like we are stepping into the abyss and sometimes I find myself having moments of weakness, of wishing we were already there and the journey was ironed out neat as a pin because getting dirty is good but it's dirty all the same.
And mostly, it's mostly that I fancy myself to be braver than I sometimes think I am.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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Their website says composting toilets work by providing a enclosed environment for the natural process of aerobic decomposition. This is a really nice way of saying your shit lays there in a bucket. The same type of environment on forest floors which decomposes wildlife droppings and converts them into valuable nutrients for the vegetation to use. This is in reference to Bambi shit, because Bambi has NO BUCKET. Bambi also doesn't have to clean the nonexistent bucket. The forest does the work. Good forest. There are many different designs of composting toilets, but all carry out this basic process of aerobic decomposition.
Design variations enhance this process (what process? the shitting process? is someone on hand to bite my neck or blow in my ear?) and they include:
• air baffles for distribution of air into the pile baffles? is it like a day spa for your shit?
• heating units to keep the compost at the best temperature for when your shit is cooked.
• injected air for increased decomposition when you have to shit and run.
• mixing tongs to ensure full decomposition throughout the pile for those of you shit stirrers out there. or for a delicious shit salad. you decide.
• the addition of composting worms and macro-organisms seriously? you can actually feed your own shit? Will it thank me?
As you may notice from the website, some composting toilets look basically like any other toilet and others look like a bucket. Or rather, they are a bucket. But the main thing is there is no water to flush with. So while you can shit in a rather normal fashion, it's after that has me curious. I mean, what do we do with all this shit?
More educated and enlightened folks prefer to call this piece of the puzzle Humanure. You take your shit and put it in a heap with other organic materials and turn it into compost and eventually plant it in your garden. Gross, right? I mean, WOW, natural soil! Sweet! It's a source of much debate at home, with J saying 1.8B people in the world do not have running water and me saying yeah but if we are environmentally friendly in every other way can't I get a free pass and he says no this is important and I say next you'll have M send her leftovers to China to which he responds you and the toilet will get along famously. Great, now I'm dating my new composting toilet.
In the end I have no doubt I'll warm up to the idea and besides really I have no choice. In my brain it makes sense but my lily white ass still needs a little catching up.
Monday, July 28, 2008
For Whom The City Lights Glow
I didn't know San Francisco would be so cold a place. And I don't mean the kind of cold you can combat by pulling on a sweater.
I stepped out of the taxi onto a crowded sidewalk in front of the swank hotel that had promised me a Heavenly Bed. (Later that day I'd discover that the bed in my room WAS heavenly. I don't know what the management has done to achieve beds like that. I wanted to take it home with me.)
The sidewalk was jammed with people, people coming, people going, people sightseeing. And with someone who was neither coming nor going, who was most definitely not taking in the sights. He was sleeping. Or perhaps just closing his eyes against his own reality. His arms and legs were curled protectively around his chest. For warmth, for privacy, maybe for both. He was pressed as close to the wall of the hotel as he could get, but still, people were stepping over him.
Stepping over him.
I thought, How could people be so oblivious to their surroundings that they could walk over another human being? Without even hesitating? What does that say about how they overvalue their own lives and preoccupations? Because, don't you know, they have places to go. And he so obviously doesn't. No, from the looks of him, it's been a long time since he had somewhere to go. A long time since he slept in anything resembling a Heavenly Bed.
You'll think I'm naïve. But I'm not. I grew up in New York City in the seventies. Those were some of the worst years for the Big Apple's homeless. Since then, New York has handled the problem of its homeless with clumsy but well-meaning hands. Things aren't perfect there. Yet they are better, by a long shot, than they were when I was a kid.
Why can't the same be said of San Francisco?
I wasn't sure until the second day of the conference whether what I had witnessed at the entrance to the hotel was just an isolated event, however distressing.
That's when I went to dinner a few blocks from the hotel.
And found that – if you looked – there were lots of people sleeping on sidewalks. Or sometimes, sitting up or standing. As human beings, even the homeless, will do.
One man was rather jovially trying to assist all the lost tourists. Your hotel?, he'd shout. The hotels are over there! And he'd point left where a group of befuddled tourists had just decided to try right.
He was not misleading anyone. He knew these streets.
But instead of thank you's he received withering, or fearful, or angry stares from people so far out of their comfort zones they might as well have been on the moon. That group of tourists? They went right. Idiots, I thought. Was I being uncharitable? You decide.
I thanked him on their behalf. I figured someone ought to acknowledge him.
No problem, darlin', he replied. I like to get people where they need to go. Used to be a bus driver, y'know.
I wanted to stop right there and stay awhile. Find out why he wasn't still a bus driver. I was sure that he'd been an excellent driver. Why had he ended up here, there, everywhere, nowhere?
But I couldn't stop. I had somewhere to be, you see.
Later that evening, as I lay in my Heavenly Bed, it was not the doings at the conference that kept me awake.
It was the man who used to be a bus driver, who for all I knew had slept in a Heavenly Bed himself, in a life so far removed from his life of today that it might as well have been another life altogether.
Who sixteen stories below me was surely tossing and turning as well, trying to find the elusive sweet spot, the spot where the concrete didn't rub painfully against his limbs, his back, his head.
I finally fell asleep, high above him, the lights of San Francisco twinkling, beckoning me through the sheer curtains on the windows in my hotel room.
But those beautiful city lights? The tragedy is that they beckon only some of us. For the rest of us, they're just one more hindrance to falling asleep.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
three going on thirteen
Me warning her not to fall warrants a: it's my life and i can do what i want! That one's rich, child. I can almost picture you stomping out of the house with a bag of coke and some loser boyfriend in tow.
Me asking her to stop kicking me in the head while laying together on the couch: I don't love you when you are mean, I only love you when you are nice! Ouch, kid. Now get off my head.
Me telling her to get her sweet ass into a time out for similar above behavior: No! You can't make me! What, a challenge? I love a challenge. Two time outs! Four!
Me asking her not to stand up in the tub: Stop telling me what to do! Only I know what to do!
Sweet. You can drive your happy ass to the ER on your trike later too. And I'm totally not forking over a princess band-aid either.
I'm in serious, serious trouble. If I didn't find it hilarious even more so.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
they should sell pre-made kits for this sort of thing
That said, we need to get it together and one way I do this is by compiling lists. These lists are the transitory sort, written on old receipts or the back of my hand. Our latest dilemma is how we get our stuff down there. Shipping is an option but it's complicated, and the whole point of leaving was leaving it all behind. So we decided to get rid of almost everything, throwing that last little bit of caution to the wind. We've decided we'll bring what we can carry.
Things I think I cannot live without:
1. One pot and one pan. It's possible to get these things there but I hear they are expensive and cheaply made. If I'm to, for the love of all things holy, homestead, I want a few pieces of relatively decent cookware.
2. Spices. See above.
3. Towels/sheets. These things are ridiculously expensive there (who knew?) and they take up a lot of room. So does a pot and a pan. But I digress.
4. Books. This was an issue until I got a Kindle. J's construction books however are not friends of the mighty Kindle. See #3 for obvious space issues as these are no pocket readers, these books of his.
5. M's most important possessions. This is a good time, seeing which of her belongings she's actually willing to part with. Right now she's adamant that her 3' long stuffed horse comes with her. This item needs to go on a separate list, the one titled how to cut off my own head in order to make room for the 3' stuffed horse list.
6. Important documents. That's an obvious one. Passports and medical cards and laptops and international drivers licenses and tax information and immunization records. Oh wait, immunization records, that makes me think of getting sick. We should bring some medicine, but what am I going to be able to find there? Last time I was there the little shack at the end of town had little bottles of gripe water. That may indeed be medicinal, but is it a cure-all? I know my village woman friend uses tree sap as some sort of remedy, but for what? I mean, what about run of the mill fevers? Cuts? Colds? Shit. Malaria? Good lord. Mosquito netting. Time for a new list.
7. Medicines. See above rant.
8. Clothes. This one is a bit freeing because we'll get rid of most of our stuff and only keep a few things each and I'll get ripped biceps washing all of it by hand. Every single day. Wait, maybe a few extra sets. Socks. Will we need socks?
8. Entertainment. This is easy because entertainment will be pretty scarce. We'll get used to playing with sticks and bugs, right? I love sticks and bugs. Wait. Anyways, we are narrowing it down to chess, cards and a few games for M. Oh and I like Scrabble. Scrabble is a good jungle game. I forgot about Clue. Who doesn't like a rousing game of Clue?
How all of the above and most likely more is going to equate into the things we shall carry is a bit lost on me right now. In fact, I'm starting to revert to the beginning of this post: We have no idea what we are doing. And don't even get me started on the composting toilets. That's the topic of a future post.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
my mama went to blogher and all i got was this beautiful and amazing blanket
Monday, July 21, 2008
naked blogging
But the best and perhaps most sacred time this year was when Jess, Tanis and I left the conference and went to a naked bath house. We waltzed into the old Victorian and for some reason hadn't really thought through that in a few short minutes we'd actually be sitting naked in front of each other in a big tub in the middle of the day. In fact, the moment that will last with me for the rest of my life was when the woman made it clear: all your clothes come off HERE ladies and Tanis' face registered a look of fucking horror. I think I fell over laughing then but I can't quite remember. But as we sat across from each other naked inside and out in the bright light and too hot water it summed it up perfectly: At the end of the day we are all simply naked. We are women and we were naked this weekend, both in and out of our clothes. It's not always pretty and sometimes it's more beautiful than you can imagine but either way it's real. And so while the weekend was one of mixed emotions sitting here now I am so very happy I went. Meeting women I've only read and emailed with and reconnecting with women who've come to mean so much more than I'd have thought possible two years ago is part of the garden I'll plant around me this year, your words and laughter and wisdom and truth will continue to keep me company as it grows.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
hard to tell who's had more fun this week
Thursday, July 17, 2008
passing through
One of my long time friends is back, he was at the hospital for awhile and he's come back older. He's got a cane now and it doesn't seem right. He's come to define this world for me, this man and his smile and his back and forth, it's been a decade now and nothing has really changed. It's tragic and senseless and I will always root for him and every time I see him he asks about M. He asks me every single time because he remembers the before and the during and now he sees her grow.
I'm getting ready to leave as he's coming in. He sees me and comes running over, his hug lifts me clean off my feet and his laugh is rich and deep. I ask him how he is although he's clearly beaming. I am so good. I am so, so good. I think I've found a place to live. His smile is electric as he tells me all about it, gesturing wildly and occasionally pausing to greet others on their way inside with a slap on the back or one of those man hugs, the kind where you clasp each others hands and your chests bump. I like watching those man hugs and his happiness is infectious. You are doing it, man. You are on your way.
I walk to my car conscious I'm leaving for a few days, my mind ponders the irony of where I am heading and what I am leaving, that poverty can live alongside whimsy and somehow there is room for both and it seems wrong, a preternatural coexistence of sorts. But then again so many things seem wrong when I walk in and out these doors.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
giving notice
And on the less drinky but still kicky end of things, I'll be speaking about our Just Posts on Saturday at the Beautiful Blogging panel. This little soiree is moderated by Kyran Pittman from Notes To Self and will also include Krystyn Heide from the Hope Revolution, Alyssa Royse from Just Cause It! and Lucrecer Braxton, and her Art Slam initiative, all new writers to me with really amazing blogs. If you haven't yet discovered them you should go check them out, each blog is full of love and hope and art and goodness.
And on the still kicky and more thinky side I've got a new review up about educational resources and learning activities for little ones, a very cool thing for us parents with kids ages 4-8.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
the village people
When I get home that night I ask M, so I hear you went to mama's work yesterday. No, she says firmly. I did not go to your work. That alone isn't that surprising, this project is geographically inconvenient from our house, M has only been there once or twice. I think you did, baby. Didn't you see all the beds and all of our friends? No, she says. I was with Auntie at HER work and we had oranges and bananas and bread. I am laughing now, I tell her it's my work too but she clearly isn't buying it.
No, she says. You put people to sleep. Auntie feeds them. It's NOT the same thing. Yesterday we helped people have food but we did NOT help them go sleepytime. I drop it because really, it's no use trying to convince her otherwise but between me and her Auntie, she must think we travel in odd circles sometimes or perhaps hey, it just is what it is. A little while later Auntie calls and says that she forgot to tell me they stopped in with a load of donated food, double checking perhaps because the program is a bit rough on the edges and wanted to make sure I didn't mind. I didn't and I don't as long as she keeps a close eye and I know she does but I admit it did throw me for a minute. I told her the story, both the confusion and the funny bits and she was laughing, laughing. It does take a village, doesn't it she said in reply.
Monday, July 14, 2008
the living is easy
And now onward, in a few short days a whole other sort of giddyness will commence, more late nights and dearly missed friends, am counting the hours till I can sip mojitos next to you in the dark. But in between J and I will revel in another sort of loveliness, one where our child is safely swaddled at her grandparents and we will enjoy a few quiet and glorious summer nights to ourselves. Can you see my beaming face? Because it's beaming all the way from here.
Oh, and I almost forgot, I've got a new review up about environmentally friendly toothbrushes over here. Who doesn't love their teeth and our planet? Go see for yourself.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
me and julio down by the schoolyard
M and I are headed off for a girls weekend of sorts, two girls on a plane and then my baby goes to my parents and I get to spend a weekend with my two best friends, women I see just once a year. We plan this weekend all year long, the one time all three of us are in the same country. This year we've decided to sit poolside and not lift a finger all weekend long. We'll catch up on the politics in the Middle East and who has travelled where and how long our hair has grown, one friend comes from Syria and the other has amusingly turned into something of a socialite so her house is like a fancy spa. But she's good to us and she'll pretend not to notice when we use all her fancy face cream on our legs and put our dirty feet on her expensive couch just like we always do because again no matter how old we get we are all still 12 years old.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
June Just Posts
Community: 1: a unified body of individuals: as a: state, commonwealth b: the people with common interests living in a particular area; broadly : the area itself
In a week a number of us from our online community will gather together at BlogHer. We will connect with old friends and meet new ones for the first time. It's a collision of worlds, BlogHer. One that pulls us out from behind our keyboards and into the light. We discover things we did not know, we are perhaps taken aback by previous assumptions, we are pushed and broadened and enriched and moved. Others in our community will stay behind and continue communing with others the way we do all year round, through emails and posts, comments and groups.
The Just Posts are another form of community, one where individuals find a crowd, where issues can join us, where pain and suffering and joy and light can open our eyes. It's a place where everyone is welcome, all we need to do is write. We all see with different colored lenses, but it's the way we allow the light to shine and bend that draws others around us. We do this with words, with images, and with heart and soul. It's an ongoing joy to be a part of all three of these connected worlds, month after month it's a priviledge to gather here and it means nothing without all of you.
Just Post Writers
Andrea at Punk Rock Mommy with Planting the seeds of my own garden
Andrea with The burden of perfection
Averagebean with Freedom of speech?
Blog Antagonist with Speak English Me
Chani with Wellness Wednesday: take back your time
Christine Kane with Making Friends with Songs and Food
Defiant Muse with The mommy myth
Flutter with I am an omnivore
Girlgriot with Gotta do more than holla and We can, I mean WE can
Hel with Afternoon in an urban footgarden
Her Bad Mother with Joy, And Pain
Identity Theory with The weapon of rape
Indigenous people's issues today with Five key indigenous people's issues
Jen with Where the streets have no name, the middle way and the shattered ceiling and what it means for our children
Julie with Kids and sex?
Kaliroz with indifference to me, is the epitome of evil
KC with Wheels
Mayberry Mom with 20 lousy pairs of scissors
MOMocrats with Moms need help in California family court system
Moosh in Indy with the healthcare of stereotypes
No Caption Needed with High Noon in Sadr City
The Expatriate's Kitchen with World Refugee Day
Toddlywinks with The powerlessness of three
Tossing Pebbles in the Stream with To laugh or be outraged
Susanne with Corsets, coolness, caps, and cosmetic surgery
Suzanne Reisman on blogher with Banning the Pill Kills Women. Period. and "Third Genders" in Societies with Rigid Gender Roles
WhyMommy with Thank you, AmVets
Just Post Readers
Don't forget to stop by Mad's and Su's before you go. We are here every month collecting posts about social justice from around the blogosphere and around the world and everyone is welcome to participate either by writing or by sending posts you've read. If you'll be at BlogHer next week you can also find me talking about the Just Posts here. Make sure to say hello (and no throwing tomatoes either).
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
It's wrong. It's more wrong than there are words for, the suffering some people face in our world today while we sit idly by. Save the Children, a UK charity is working to help the kids in this particular slum and you can learn more by clicking here. Kroo Bay, where these beautiful people live is built on a pile of trash. Their homes are built on filthy refuse. There are no words for this. If you are compelled to donate to this cause let me know and I will do my best to match your donation. I have to believe every little bit helps somehow.
Monday, July 07, 2008
behind the scenes
First thing I notice as I sit outside the room in the viewing area is that M is the only one not wearing a little dress. She's got on sweats, J had supervised the dressing, this is what she always wears, he said.
All the other little girls are in little girl dance dresses. Ribbons in their hair. I notice but since M's never once said anything about needing a dress, not having a dress, I figured it was no big deal. One of the other moms sits down next to me. Which one is yours, she says. That one, I point proudly at M, her wild and unruly hair flying everywhere. Oh, she says. No dress then?
Three little words, no big deal but somehow they are. Well, I say, I am never the one to bring her, I had no idea everyone else wore a dress. She's never mentioned it. I suppose she would, she says. That one's mine. Adorned in dress and ribbons. She's cute, her kid.
I come to every class, she says. Are you fucking kidding me, woman? I think and instead I just say I'd love to but I have to work. I want to stupidly elaborate. I work in non profit. People who have no homes. Mmmhmmm, she replies and I look at her. I tell myself I'm going to be blogging this later so bring it on, chick. I bet you drive a gas guzzling SUV.
The class starts and let's just say ballet is never going to be M's thing. But she's having a great time and that's all that matters. After a few minutes the mom says do you practice with her outside of class? As she's talking I watch her kid, she looks like she belongs in some 70's era Maoist state run school, you know, the ones where they force the kids into these camps and work them 10 hours a day? Exactly like those kids. No, I reply. We don't really practice.
We practice every day, she says. Touche, I think and say well, she's only three and a half. (Her kid is obviously even younger but what the hell, I'm starting to get annoyed). Oh, mine just turned three, smug, she is. So I say I figured she was older, seems like wanting to practice every day would be something that might come later but maybe that's just me. My kid prefers you know, to play. If there was the equivalent of a kick in the shins I've just offered it, I'm petty and besides, you've been pissing me off for 10 minutes and if I had a gold star I'd give you one, your kid is so totally better at three year old ballet than mine and she's got a dress on too. That must feel really, really good. You've just won this bullshit competition. Like I said, I'm petty like that.
We don't exchange another word for the rest of the hour and that's just fine with me. But there was one point when a teacher didn't notice immediately that her kid's shoe was off and this woman almost came unglued. She's talking to the teacher through the wall but of course there is no sound. Fix her shoe, fix her shoe, she's agitated and coincidentally within seconds the teacher happens to notice and does. I lean farther in the other direction and wonder why I'm feeling so defensive, why I'd let any of this matter to me at all.
Part of me still stings so when the class is over I say to M I noticed everyone else has on a dancing dress and she says yeah and I so I ask her if she wants one and she says no, that's ok. But when I get home I tell J about the woman and I can't help saying it's worse than a reality show in that viewing room, the competi-mommies are hardcore and he replied I'm usually the only guy there so they all just sit in a pack and leave me alone. But you should have told me about the dresses, I reply and he looks at me sideways but I can't help the urge to make sure M is mothered in all the ways she needs to be and yet at the same time I realize this is more about me or better said more about others than it is about her and I wonder again why I let it matter, even for one minute, what someone I do not know decides to think about the way I parent my kid.
Saturday, July 05, 2008
rest in peace, punk rock mommy
She lost her battle today, this brave and brillant woman who's endured so much and now her loving, amazing family is sad and suffering and again there are no words, they are strong and beautiful and broken hearted and cancer is horrible and I am so, so sorry for your loss.
Rest in peace, Andrea, I hope you are finally resting in peace.
Friday, July 04, 2008
sky rockets in flight
M is growing, leaps and bounds. The princess phase seems to be abating a bit, thanks to all things holy and good. I'm watching her perceive the world with more expansion, both good and bad, she's starting to take note of cruelty and injustice and also mystery and magic. Roots and wings. We can't shield her from all the confusing stuff but we can do our best to offer her roots and wings.
The Just Post mailbox is still open for business. Send me your links by Monday if you please. girlplustwo(at)yahoo(dot)com.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
end of the line
Remember this guy? And this one? Both are on the verge of moving into their own places for the first time in a long, long time, a lifetime of longing and life in the streets. They are doing really well and are well on their way. I had nothing to do with this goodness aside from being lucky enough to watch others work their magic but it's the best kind of magic I know.
It's Just Post time again and that means I need you to send me the posts you've read last month that speak to you and speak of justice or mercy or goodness in the world big and small. I have the pleasure of talking about our lovely Roundtable as a panel speaker at BlogHer in a few short weeks and I plan on highlighting this month as an example of our community so I'm counting on you to help me by sending your posts or others you've read to girlplustwo(at)yahoo(dot)com. If this is new to you email me or check out the little purple and white buttons to your right. As always, the Just Post Roundtable is on the 10th.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
walking on sunshine
I don't know the woman next to me. She's older, in her late 50's maybe and just as I'm thinking it's time to do some bouncing myself she looks over it looks like so much fun. I ask her if she's ever been inside one of these things and she shakes her head oh no, I can't even imagine it, I'd feel silly.
Silly is relative, I say. The question is, do you want to bounce? She looks at me for a long minute and smiles. Yes. So we climb in, me and this woman I do not know and we start jumping amidst the kids, the little ones tumbling all over the place from our weight. We are jumping and I see her laughing, her face is full of joy and she's going from tentative little jumps to great big ones and she throws back her head in laughter. Now this, she says, this is really fun.
And I think she's so beautiful in this moment and I'm reminded yet again how precious this life is and simple it can be if we'd all just let ourselves bounce.


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A Sudden Penchant For White Garments
I find myself eyeing a lot of white garments lately, and one of the reasons is that I have become enchanted with white fabric after seeing the Jacquemus Spring/Summer 2017 collection. My boyfriend says my fascination for white garments is because I am thinking of impure thoughts, but assuming that would be slightly naive in my opinion (and, frankly, slightly Catholic). Both of us are merely joking, but that does not explain my sudden interest in the fairest of all shades, especially since I used to naturally be drawn to the darker hues on the palette, and the fact that my wardrobe is mostly built around black clothing.
Jacquemus 2017 Spring/Summer Collection
The current Spring/Summer 2017 collection of Jacquemus had a couple of looks in particular that stood out. Albeit not very wearable, Jacquemus sent the models on the runway wearing slightly pompous white cotton dresses with gigantic straw hats – the perfect leisure summer statement. If only I could find one of those dresses in a slightly less frivolous shape (a little bit longer is also always welcome), and that straw hat slightly less large. This piece comes close. I reckon that I would wear this number while parading in the south of France, but Amsterdam is a bit of a different story, unfortunately. Also, I'm still a little bit traumatised after my introduction to the clownesque (see my last post), and would rather have those balloon sleeves narrowed down a little.
The hat in combination with the bow and side-swept hair may well be a sharp little reference to the fifteen-year-old Marguerite Duras in L'Amant. And in my opinion, any literary reference is a good one. But – where I like the cohesion of Jacquemus Spring 2017 show for the statement it makes, I am unable to oversee the cuts, which are often on the verge of ridiculity. In my opinion, nothing is as elegant and timeless as a clean and simple cut – especially if you're inspired by the classic Santons of the Provence.
I am sure that Jacquemus is merely experimenting (and going for a statement here), but this is a thing that my favourite fashion brands such as A.P.C. and MHL by Margaret Howell for example, have known for years – the brands adjust their hemlines every season to make a statement and welcome the new, but manage to never cross the line of the ridicule.
Sharper and cleaner lines would have clearly improved the wearability of Jacquemus' 2017 Spring/Summer collection for the everyday woman. Then again, I wonder whether Jacquemus targets the same audience as A.P.C. and Howell. Anyway, I appreciate l'art pour l'art, but at the end of the day these pieces are for sale on Net-A-Porter, which implies that after all, they serve a functional purpose (to be worn!) as well. For now, I let myself be inspired by Jacquemus' use of colour and fabric and the sheer longing for warmer climes.
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Spring/Summer 2017


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Inspired by the strong, silent visitors I encounter here in the magical land of Canada. It is a reassuring and thrilling thought that they wander unheard and unseen about me. The stag is often considered as symbolic of a lover of peace and harmony, of great strength and foresight.
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Anyone familiar with the Final Fantasy RPG series knows full well that the music is an integral part of the game, both thematically and in terms of moving the plot and action along.
For years Nobuo Uematsu has been the main man in charge of crafting the intricate sonic world that compliments the rich and vivid imagery of the games. With Final Fantasy XII Uematsu has, in a manner of speaking, passed the baton on to Hitoshi Sakimoto.
We caught up with Sakimoto to discuss his work on the soundtrack for FFXII.
Also, be sure to catch up on the previous days' postings:
Day Six
Nobuo Uematsu interview.
Day Five
Tofu Records tour
Day Four
Listen to some music by Angela Aki
Day Three
Complete soundtrack track listing
Day Two
Interior artwork for the U.S. soundtrack release