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Chickens really don't like the heat. They don't sweat so its hard for them to keep cool. Free range chickens take regular dust baths in the heat. Heatwaves cause people and chickens to become increasingly bad-tempered.
Be Happy chickens
Happy chickens are stress free. Free range chickens are allowed to roam free and behave naturally as chickens should. This is the reason free range meat and eggs taste better.
Is your chicken is full of liquid fillers and chemicals?
Those juicy, delicious chicken breasts in the meat case at your local supermarket are more than likely hiding a dirty little secret that might make you think twice about ever eating them again. Most people are unaware of it, but conventional chicken meat typically contains a whole lot more than just chicken, as it is often "plumped" up with brine …
Pasture-raised v. Free-range
Free-range poultry are usually fed grains, which are not the natural food of hens/chickens. Hens/chickens are omnivores, and naturally eat seeds, insects, and grubs. They can also consume small lizards, mice, and frogs. Healthy eggs and meat come from poultry that were able to eat green plants, seeds and bugs, and exposed to sunlight. Thus, if you buy "free-range" make …


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Treasures From The Bay
We just got back from Cape Cod this past weekend and it was honestly the best family vacation we've had thus far! (and yes we've done Disney lol) The weather could not have been more perfect, sunny or beautiful. The water was deliciously warm and I am so delighted that we are making this a yearly family tradition. As big animal lovers, visiting the seals and whales in their natural environment was definitely one of the highlights of our trip. Spending the day in Provincetown was another highlight thanks to some unique shops and galleries. One of my favorite spots was Wild Rice… a boutique housing vintage jewelry as well as gorgeously vibrant prints shown in the picture above. I bought a convertible skirt with a navy blue polka dot print on one side and purple flowers on the other. Love it!!! I can't wait to see what other pieces the store holds for me next Summer.
What do you find yourself looking/shopping for while on vacation?
Current Crush Thursday
Yay! I am so honored to be co-hosting this week's Current Crush Thursday! (thanks Danielle) As usual I'm finding myself drawn to nature quite a bit. I've already professed my love for leaves and trees and now my eye has turned towards butterflies. They are fluttering all over the community and the lake… my kids and I can't help but be in awe of their colors, gracefulness and beauty. As with most things in nature, butterflies translate rather well on just about anything… dresses, sandals, bags and even jewelry!
It's Thursday and you know what that means…Current Crush time! Feel free to write up a post and share what you have been "crushing" on for the week. Then, just link up your post below! And just like last week, there will be another small giveaway! You MUST be linked up in order to win. I'll be using Random.org to pick a # in the Linky and that will be my winner! {If you'd like to donate a giveaway prize or be a future co-host, please e-mail me!}
This week's co-hosts are:
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Congratulations to Rachel from A Dash of Southern! You were #13 to link up and the winner from last week's Current Crush post! Please e-mail me within the next 48 hours to claim your prize! You've won the $35 shop credit to Beautiful Cov!
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{Pinning} Pretty in Pink
It is possible that I'm still in shock that it's Monday… I'm not sure I even recognized that there was a weekend to be had! Summer is definitely in full swing and with such comes crazy-buys days whether it be Saturday or Sunday. Today I have a to-do list that is at least 3 miles long but alas I'm happily blogging about my repeat obsession with pink. While I have toned down the wearing of such for myself I just love having two daughters so I can keep the color alive! I am so drawn to all shades of pink and some of my favorite pins are filled with it.
* Pretty in Pink is definitely one of my fave movies of all time because I can't help but adore the 80's version of Molly Ringwald and all her fashionable glory at that time. (still love how she would stick 2 pairs of earrings in one hole to sassy up her look) 🙂 *
View sources & more pins at my Pretty in Pink board!

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This fun print was designed by DKNG Studios in honour of Paramount Pictures' 100th anniversary. The print highlights 100 of their most iconic films. You can see an interactive version of the print right here to get a closer look at everything. How many can you identify?
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The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association voiced its support Thursday for newly introduced congressional legislation to limit FMCSA's ability to ramp up sleep apnea testing without a formal regulatory process.
U.S. Representatives Larry Bucshon, R-IN, and Dan Lipinski, D-IL, introduced HR3095, a bipartisan bill that would require FMCSA's sleep apnea policies to undergo a full cost-benefit and regulatory impact analysis.
The bill states "the Secretary of Transportation may implement or enforce a requirement providing for the screening, testing, or treatment (including consideration of all possible treatment alternatives) of individuals operating commercial vehicles for sleep disorders only if the requirement is adopted pursuant to a rulemaking proceeding."
In a letter to congressional colleagues, Bucshon and Lipinski noted plans by FMCSA to issue guidance on testing CDL-holders for sleep apnea, and pointed to an estimated $1 billion cost for testing commercial driver's license holders.
"Even for the private school bus industry, the estimated annual impact is over $100 million," the letter says. "If FMCSA were to act through a formal rulemaking process rather than guidance, the rule would be categorized as economically significant under OMB directives. With such tremendous potential costs to the truck and bus industry, ensuring that any potential policy is developed through a formal rulemaking process is imperative in order to evaluate both the costs and benefits of proposed regulations. Such an analysis is not required and will not be conducted for the issuance of guidance."
OOIDA agreed.
"The best policy is for the agency to use the rulemaking process already in place rather than side-stepping it," OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer said. "With the potential cost to trucking running north of $1 billion without the proven safety improvement, guidance is not a practice we can support."
OOIDA has expressed concerns over the power of the medical device community to make truck drivers and other CDL-holders a target. Land Line has reported on financial ties a former chairman of the FMCSA medical review board had to companies that stood to benefit from sleep apnea requirements for CDL-holders.
"Small-business truckers applaud Reps. Bucshon and Lipinski for their efforts on this important issue to truckers and to small businesses," Spencer said. "HR3095 is commonsense legislation that has the support of the entire industry. That fact alone should send a strong signal that anything FMCSA does regarding sleep apnea should absolutely consider the costs such a policy will pass on to truckers, especially more experienced and safer drivers."
In addition to OOIDA, the bill is also supported by American Trucking Association, American Bus Association, United Motorcoach Association and National School Transportation Association.
The sleep apnea industry has been beating the drum on its desire to regulate truck drivers for years.
At an annual trucking and sleep apnea conference held near Baltimore, medical equipment companies have marketed some devices to be used by trucking companies to monitor the use of CPAP equipment by truck driving employees.
For years, the FMCSA Medical Review Board, which has power to make recommendations and suggestions, has issued guidance related to obstructive sleep apnea that didn't carry the authority of a federal regulation but could be interpreted by doctors and trucking companies as policy. In some instances, companies have required sleep tests at company terminals and even sold medical devices like CPAPs directly to drivers all while pointing to the Medical Review Board's recommendations.
OOIDA has stated it believes any truck driver with signs or symptoms of sleep apnea should seek the advice of their primary care physician. The Association has opposed mandates to require testing solely based on Body Mass Index or BMI, and requirements that truckers use only expensive medical devices to treat the condition when other less expensive alternatives may be as effective.
In the news release, OOIDA pointed to sleep apnea research published by FMCSA that shows "no statistical evidence to suggest that the presence of sleep apnea significantly increases the likelihood or the risk of motor vehicle crashes."


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So far our Journals have been doing great, and feedback from you has been quite positive. However, one thing we've heard frequently was how nice it would be to have Journal headlines on the front page. So, now you have it!
Our current implementation puts the 10 most recent headlines from M-Dollar and Infinite Loop just to the right of our News Desk stories. Below that, after the tile ad, is the familiar, older article listing. Some pathfinding through our logs show that the overwhelming majority of you notice our articles when they're in the Ars Spotlight, so we thought it would be wiser to use some of the other space for the Journals. We hope you like it, and are very interested in your feedback. In fact, we're considering making some other tweaks to the front page to make its organization more sane, so any and all feedback is welcome.
Also, to answer some other questions: yes, more journals are planned. Two should be with us shortly, in fact, but we'll leave you guessing for now. With three guesses, most of you would probably be right, anyway!


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Have you ever dreamt about having your very own art exhibition? With Instacanvas everyone (with a Instagram account) can get their own online art gallery, showcasing and selling their own art.
Signing up is quick and easy, check out instacanv.as ,claim your personalized URL (your Instagram user name), select your pictures and get started too!
The best part? It is FREE! And you can actually earn some money on it ( only 20% of the sale, but as a hobby photographer with a keen interest in getting my pictures *out there* I'm fine with that).
And the downside? The wait! After signing up, they make you wait impatiently for your gallery a couple of weeks! *bah*
There is a way to minimalize the wait thought, frequently requested galleries are prioitized. So if you want to help me get my gallery up and running (pretty please!), go to instacanv.as/mariannemixi and reguest my gallery opening!
What do you think? Is Instacanvas something for you? If you already got your Instacanvas gallery up and running, let me know what you think!


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You may occasionally need to merge two separate PDF files into one or split an existing PDF file into multiple part. Various kind of software are available for doing these tasks. But most of the softwares can either merge or split pdf files. They are also heavy and consume lot of your system resources. Today, I will be reviewing a software which can both merge and split PDF files without any hassle.
PDF splitter and joiner is a simple free software for Windows which can both merge and split PDF files. The software has a very simple and easy to learn interface when compared with other software that do the same task. You can add the pdf files you want to work upon by clicking on the 'Add PDF button' on the application's home screen. Now just click on either on the 'Splitter' of 'Joiner' menus to split or join the PDFs that were added to the application. Two separately PDF files can be joined by clicking on the joiner option. Or a single PDF file can be divided into multiple subfiles.
The software can extract any number of pages from a PDF file which has multiple pages. The pages which are extracted from a PDF are stored in the application's temporary memory till you initiate further action. After extracting pages from multiple PDF files, you can create a separate new PDF by selecting and joining the pages stored in the application's memory. You can also choose the order of the pages in the newly PDF created file. The newly created file will be saved to a place of your choice.
A good thing about this software is works independently and doesn't need any PDF software like Adobe Reader of Foxit PDF reader installed on your computer to perform its tasks.
Download link to the software
Price: Free
Version: 1.0
OS Compatibility: Windows NT/98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7/8
Rating: 8/10
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It's the Name, the NAME, THE NAME!
On Friday, they revisited a previous recommendation because the committee did not get the response they had hoped for from the secretary/government agency. They were discussing what to do, reword? resend as is? don't sent again?
The recommendation is:
Did we really think that the IOM committee was recommending we split up all these symptoms into 3 different disease, each with a separate designation on the CDC website? And since the CFSAC rejected the IOM recommended name? What would we call these three different diseases?
(I know the IOM committee said they were not intending to replace Fukuda or other criteria, but they contradicted themselves where they said the names of the other criteria, "ME" and "CFS" are inappropriate).


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Trailblazing NASA astronaut to SU Founders' Day audience, students: 'Be empowered, believe you have a right to participate'
The first African-American woman to travel into space, Dr. Mae Jemison, was the keynote speaker for a combination Community Prayer Brunch and Convocation, March 9, 2016, held in observance of Southern University's 136th Founders' Day.
Jemison greeted a large crowd in the F.G. Clark Activity Center gathered for the main program in a series of events held throughout the day in honor of the annual recognition themed, "Southern University: Continuing the Journey . . . Surpassing Boundaries . . ."
"To be invited to be a part of Founders' Day even though I didn't go to SU is an honor," said the trailblazing scientist and physician who in 1987 became the first African-American woman to be admitted into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) astronaut training program.
Born in Decatur, Alabama, Jemison was reared in Chicago, Illinois, where her family moved when Jemison was three years old to take advantage of better educational opportunities.
"I chose my parents well," she said lightheartedly. "They were very supportive and played a major role in my success and the things I've accomplished on my journey."
From her time at Morgan Park High School on Chicago's south side, Jemison was clearly a scholar. She graduated in 1973 as a consistent honor student and entered Stanford University on a National Achievement Scholarship.
She received a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Stanford in 1977. Upon graduation, she entered Cornell University Medical College and, during her years there, found time to expand her horizons by studying in Cuba and Kenya and working at a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand.
Speaking of her personal accomplishments and to the occasion of the SU commemoration, Jemison said it's important to look back, but also to look forward. "You have to connect both," she said.
After she obtained her M.D. in 1981, Jemison interned at Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center and later worked as a general practitioner. For the next two and a half years, she was the area Peace Corps medical officer for Sierra Leone and Liberia where she also taught and did medical research. Following her return to the United States in 1985, Jemison made a career change and decided to follow a dream she had nurtured for a long time. In October of that year, she applied for admission to NASA's astronaut training program. The Challenger disaster of January 1986 delayed the selection process, but when she reapplied a year later, Jemison was one of the 15 candidates chosen from a field of about 2,000. On September 12, 1992, Jemison flew into space with six other astronauts aboard the Shuttle Endeavour, becoming the first African-American woman in space.
The groundbreaking former astronaut acknowledged others who paved the way for her opportunities at NASA.
She referred to the impact the Civil Rights Movement had on creating opportunities for minority scientists who helped NASA build a diverse workforce in the early days.
Jemison paid tribute to a group of former SU students who were being honored by the University during Founders' Day, as student pioneers who were among the first African Americans to be recruited in the early 1960's through NASA's then newly created Cooperative Education Program, and who also were highlighted in the book, We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program.
"Without those who took their seat at the table and help NASA build on its commitment to social justice through scientific exploration and discovery, I would not be here today," said Jemison.
She emphasized that perhaps more than being "at the table" is what do you do when you get your "place at the table."
"Be empowered. Believe you have the right to participate," she urged.
She acknowledged that it's important for universities and students to focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics education (STEM).
"STEM fields are cutting a wide pathway through our world and it's important that we have a seat at the table and take advantage of opportunities for the future," she explained.
Speaking to faculty Jemison said, "We need somebody to help move us along and help us develop students. That's what universities do."
Jemison was serious in her charge to students to stay focused and to make good use of their time--at and away from the University.
"You get to choose how to use you time. Use your seconds of time wisely. The time you have today is not just about having fun. Go to class. Do your homework. You have a responsibility to do a good job everyday. Prepare yourself and look forward to the future," she urged.
Southern University System President-Chancellor Ray L. Belton thanked Jemison for her inspiration and for her impassioned address.
"Our time with Dr. Jemison today has been well spent. It is fitting to honor her legacy at the same time we pay tribute to our former students who so ably met the challenges of being the first to lay the foundation for a future generation of scientists and explorers," said Belton.
The 2016 SU System Founders' Day celebration began with a SU Laboratory School Commemoration and included the Community Prayer Brunch/Convocation, a NASA Student Exposition through the cooperative efforts of NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center and George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, a 136th Founders' Day Birthday Party, and an Employee Service Awards Recognition Dinner, honoring some University faculty and staff.
The SU Law Center hosted a roundtable discussion, "The History of the effort to access legal education statewide.1946 lawsuit, Charles J. Hatfield III v. Louisiana State Board of Education, a catalyst for the establishment of the SU School of Law," with a networking reception.
The Southern University Shreveport program was postponed due to campus closure for inclement weather.
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Every time I post my travel photographs here, I ask myself a question – is that something I should do on my wedding photography website. I know a lot of my friends in the business are 100% against it, saying that you should never mix your personal and professional live. The thing is though, when you hire a photographer, it's not like hiring a plumber or buying a TV. Your photographer is the person who will spend more time with you during the wedding than anyone else. Actually, if you're a bride, you'll spend more time with the photographer during the wedding that with your own husband, so I guess from that point of view, there's nothing wrong in posting something else than the wedding photos on my own blog. Now, I'm really against showing the whole world what I have for breakfast, post 50 photos a day of my dog, or check in on FB at every restaurant or airport I visit. What I mean by personal is showing what, apart from photographing people and emotions moves me in photography. Travel and landscape. That's what it is. I love to travel and photographing landscapes is the reason why I picked up my first ever camera. Now, I'm not a pro landscape photographer, I don't camp in one place for a week to wait for the perfect light to appear. I just shoot what I see and ad some minimalist approach to it – less is more, which is probably the way I'd describe some of my wedding photos.
Below you can see a few photographs from Crete. They're nothing really special, just a few frames that I tried to extract from the chaos around that beautiful greek island. When I was making the selection of the photographs I'm going to use, one think that came to my mind is that a local photographer would never use this images. What I found interesting and beautiful in a way, would be something ordinary to him, something he sees every day, and not worth a photo. I guess, from that point of view, if you're getting married abroad, and you want your photographer to record the most important day of your life the way you see it, the perfect way would be to hire someone who doesn't live there as well.


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Electric Cloud's New Tools Avoid Unnecessary Builds
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ElectricAccelerator 5.0
ElectricAccelerator speeds up Make, NMAKE, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Apache Ant based builds (by 10-20x the company says) by parallelizing them and running them on a computer cluster. Accelerator 5.0 is the full debut of Electric Cloud's patented technology to safely speed up development tasks through its parallel processing via public or private compute clouds. Originally, Accelerator's parallel processing applied only to software builds, but now it applies to other tools and development tasks in the build-test-deploy cycle including parallel testing and data modeling. Electrify creates an all-purpose private compute cloud for parallel processing, but parallel processing can also be done on desktops or a dedicated server.
Another innovative addition to Accelerator is the subbuilds feature. First previewed in Electric Cloud's free Spark Build tool, subbuilds allow unnecessary build avoidance. Subbuilds are able to skip large swaths of the build tree by building only the relevant pieces to the current work. The result is fewer broken builds and the ability to compile and test quickly and frequently without affecting the rest of the team.
The dependency graph below shows the agent component (util, xml, http libraries, and the agent application code) as solid. SparkBuild can recognize that only this component needs to be rebuilt.
ElectricAccelerator 5.0 now supports build tools such as MSBuild and SCons along with homegrown systems. Teams that standardize on SCons, for example, can use less hardware and provide faster builds than individual mutli-core servers by applying the benefits of centralization. The virtualization capabilities of Accelerator also allow easier support for multiple configurations.
ElectricCommander 3.5
ElectricCommander is a Web-based application for defining and executing distributed processes in the build-test-deploy cycle. In a development environment using many disparate tools, Commander 3.5 can remove the need to learn multiple interfaces, and it manages those tools from a central, custom UI. ElectricCommander 3.5 can be configured to extract and display data from the defect tracker, relevant build results, and test results. This lets build managers track the status of fixes and be notified when QA resolves the issue. The Commander UI's custom, dynamic screens can help developers create and execute a build or test request using the right parameters. Commander 3.5 can give developers a custom interface based on their role in the production cycle. 3.5 also provides tools to create custom plug-ins for third-party integrations.
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To try out some of ElectricAccelerator's capabilities, download Electric Cloud's free SparkBuild tool.
New roadmaps, more flexible boards, and dozens of new integrations. And that's just the beginning.
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Assistant Professor - Stanford University SOM - Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
Job description
The Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University seeks a physician, research psychologist or other PhD to join the Division as an Assistant Professor in the University Tenure Line, Medical Center Line, or Non-Tenure Research Line to develop a basic, clinical, or translational research program in neuroscience that relates to Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics.
- The predominant criterion for appointment in the University Tenure Line is a major commitment to research and teaching.
- The major criteria for appointment for faculty in the Medical Center Line shall be excellence in the overall mix of clinical care, clinical teaching, scholarly activity that advances clinical medicine, and institutional service appropriate to the programmatic need the individual is expected to fulfill.
- The major criterion for appointment for faculty in the Non-Tenure Line (Research) is evidence of high-level performance as a researcher for whose special knowledge a programmatic need exists.
The successful applicant should have an MD or PhD and evidence of a clear research program focused in clinical or translational research in neuroscience.
- The preferred area of research is developmental or cognitive neuroscience. We will give preference to candidates who have applied neuroscience methods, such as structural or functional neuroimaging, to the study of children, or children with or at high risk for neurodevelopmental or neurobehavioral disorders.
- The emphasis for the position is developing a research program that integrates neurobiology, behavioral science, and clinical practice.
- It is essential that the successful candidate have a track record or demonstrates potential for successful research funding and publications.
- The opportunities for collaboration with clinicians and scientists throughout the University will assure that the individual contributes to the reputation and leadership of developmental-behavioral pediatrics and developmental neuroscience at the university and nationally. We anticipate that the candidate will build collaborative relationships with other divisions within Pediatrics or departments, such as neonatology, child neurology, psychiatry, or genetics.
- We expect the successful candidate to train graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, clinical fellows, residents, medical students or undergraduates in developmental neuroscience. The successful candidate will participate in teaching basic research methods and statistics within the division and department.
Applications will be reviewed beginning immediately and accepted until the position is filled.
Stanford is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Stanford also welcomes applications from others who would bring additional dimensions to the University's research, teaching and clinical missions.
Submit CV, a brief letter and the names of three references to:
Suzan Carmichael PhD, Search Committee Chair,
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The shops, seething with bargain hunters, still had their Christmas decorations on display. Such decorations included life-size versions of what happens if you cross anthropomorphic reindeer with Christmas trees.
This was Beloved Wife's fault. For some reason I had had no idea that a world famous child-friendly destination would be packed in the week between Christmas and New Year. Duh. I have been assured that on 'regular' days, we would have gotten on the roller coasters. Which is good, because otherwise, I thought the Universal amusement park was too much money for too little amusement.
I am assured by a colleague who 'used to live in Orlando' that the best way to visit the theme parks is to buy a season ticket.
Then turn up at the crack of sparrow-fart and ride one rollercoaster or two. After this the queues get too long.
Come back another day for further rides.
This option is obviously not available to Orlando's tourists.
The opinions expressed in this weblog are the works of the Grumpy Goat, and are not necessarily the opinions shared by any person or organisation who may be referenced. Come to that, the opinions may not even be those of the Grumpy Goat, who could just be playing Devil's Advocate. Some posts may be of parody or satyrical [sic] nature. Nothing herein should be taken too seriously. The Grumpy Goat would prefer that offensive language or opinions not be posted in the comments. Offensive comments may be subject to deletion at the Grumpy Goat's sole discretion. The Grumpy Goat is not responsible for the content of other blogs or websites that are linked from this weblog. No goats were harmed in the making of this blog. Any resemblance to individuals or organisations mentioned herein and those that actually exist may or may not be intentional. May contain nuts.


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I love answering random questions, and I love reading other people's answers to random questions. So I thought that would make a fun series. I will answer the 5 questions in my post and you can answer them in the comments. We can all get to know each other better, how much more fun can you get?
So here we go 5 Random Questions:
1. What type of music
do you like? I like Christian music, mostly worship or fun upbeat songs, I also enjoy some non-christian upbeat music
2. Have you ever been skinnydipping? nope
3. How many Pillows do you sleep with? 1 under my head, 4 propping up my knees and feet
4. What position do you often sleep in? On my back
5. What do you wear to bed? PJ pants and a t-shirt
I can't wait to read your answers!
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As mentioned in previous posts, I've gotten several Style Share returns back lately, and so I'll try to get them all featured in fairly short order.
This nice little green and off-white Polo Ralph Lauren tie was offered up in November, and The Cable Knit Charlestonian snagged it.
He sent a couple photos back, with details on the details...
- Polo Ralph Lauren reversible herringbone/Gordon tartan scarf.
- Vintage Chaps Ralph Lauren houndstooth plaid blazer.
- Merona marled cotton cardigan.
- Polo Ralph Lauren oxford.
- Polo Ralph Lauren tie.
- Agave jeans.
- Club Room socks.
- Vintage Florsheim Imperial saddle shoes.
I'm especially digging the reversible scarf, but the whole outfit looks insanely warm and nicely-layered. Many thanks to Scott (and everyone else who has participated so far).
P.S. The Cable Knit Charlestonian is running a fun contest on his site right now, so swing by if you dare rock a crazy holiday sweater.


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Gone by Michael Grant
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book was a lot of fun. Michael Grant switches back and forth between multiple points of view, and does it well. All of the main characters are thoroughly realized and interesting. The plot itself kept me guessing right up until the very end, and I'm interested to read the next book in this series.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Review: Gone by Michael Grant
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The agricultural cooperative "El Paraiso" from Sapecho/Alto Beni was founded in 2005 and has 11 members who are all farmers in Sapecho.
In 2010, the cooperative installed a production plant for natural fruit juice, focusing on citrus fruits, particularly oranges.
The idea of the cooperative is to add value to its agricultural goods compared to just selling the raw fruits. Besides natural juices, other fruit products might be created that should be competitive on the market in terms of quality, price and packaging, and thus increasing the cooperative's profits to ensure an increase of the life standard of the farmers and their families.
The plant is technically on a good level. The machines include a pulp remover for carambola, pineapple, mango, papaya, copuazu and other fruits, a water filter system, pasteurisation boiler, tetra pak filling machine, compressor, UHT heater, three phase electric unit and water tanks.
The plant can process 800-1000 liters or pure fruit juice per day during the months of June to November when there are enough fruits.
While the cooperative has perfect skills in the production of fruit juices and produces a high quality fruit juice, the members lack business, distribution and marketing skills.
At the moment the cooperative is selling the juice in small tetra paks to nearby schools at a price of 12-15 Bs. per liter, while the production costs per liter are 12-13 Bs. This means, no real profit is being made.
The cooperative contacted with large juice producers that buy large quantities of blocks of frozen fruit juice at their plants in cities such as La Paz and Cochabamba. However, in this case the cooperative would have to do further investment into deep-freezing technology and a vehicle. Also the prices paid by these large companies per liter of juice are not attractive enough to justify the investment and effort. The members of the cooperative are not experienced in how to negotiate their position in front of such large companies.
The cooperative has never worked on a market study about the Bolivian fruit juice market, which seems to be highly competitive with high quality fruit juices being sold at very low prices. The question is, whether it makes even sense for a small producer such as the fruit juice cooperative "El Paraiso" to compete on the market with a mainstream product such as orange juice, or whether it isn't better to focus on niche products that might be sold with higher margins. These might be other exotic variety of juices, or products such as smoothies, ice lollies/popsicles etc.
A volunteer or capable intern could contribute to this very interesting project in a leading role, while at the same time learn a lot, and help the cooperative. The Bolivian fruit juice market needs to be understood to be able to make informed decisions. Should the cooperative sell juice to large companies or better directly to end consumers, or aren't niche products more profitable? A business model must be developed. Volunteers/Interns in Sapecho should be able to communicate in Spanish, as nobody of the cooperative knows English or any other foreign languages.
In the tab "More Info", you can find a detailed internship report.
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Location: Sapecho/Beni Alto, Bolivia
Availability: All year, Start date flexible
Minimum Duration: 1 Months
Maximum Duration: 12 Months
Language Requirements: Average Spanish
With Host Family in the village of Sapecho
Supervision Possible: Yes
Qualification Of Supervisor: Farmers
Minimum Qualification Of a Intern: None
Further Contribution To Project: None
Volunteering Possible: Yes
Required Qualification For Volunteer: Relevant skills
Further Contribution To Project: None
Motivation, Do you have the "right" attitude?
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Report by Raul
At the time of my arrival, there was a defect in the juice extractor that could not be corrected for monetary reasons. For this reason, the business was limited only to the sale of treated water. This was done exclusively at the wholesale AR.BOL., a road construction company with several camps along the road to La Paz.
I have heartfelt gratitude; both Don Felix and the president of the cooperative were very friendly to me and my work was very appreciated. In addition to the operational activities, I was not left alone during free time. So I had the opportunity to get to know the country and people and to spend many fun and energising hours. The other members of the cooperative are not too understanding, interns could find it a difficulty. Since the president also understands this problem, I have written, at his request, a document in which I gave my opinion of the work attitude of the other members.
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- In case of Jupapina: Transfers from/to La Paz/El Alto (LPB) on arrival and departure. In case of Sapecho: Pick up from airport La Paz/El Alto (LPB) on arrival, one night of accommodation in La Paz for orientation, then the next day proceeding by public bus to Sapecho (ticket fare included for arrival trip). In case of Achacolla: You can join the sisters every Thursday by car from La Paz to the farm. One night in La Paz is included if you arrive on a Wednesday. If you need additional nights in La Paz, they are 15 USD/night on full board.
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Happy Monday! A week ago, I went to see the new Cinderella movie starring Lily James as Cinderella and Richard Madden as Prince Charming. If you haven't seen the movie, I advise you check it out!
Moving onto the nails, I wanted to do something that somewhat mimicked the colorings of Cinderella, so I used the new China Glaze Ever Glaze in Breath of Fresh Air (I will do a review on this later), and on my accent nail used Julep Zelda.


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I've been Missing in action for a while now and for any of you that don't know we had a devastating earthquake in my city on the 22nd February. We are safe and well, as of today we still don't have a working toilet but we do have power and water.
My heart is heavy and I am finding this quake a lot harder to deal with than our one is September. We lost a lot more than buildings this time, we lost a lot of people and it is so heartbreaking. Our life right now doesn't resemble much normality but we are so very grateful that we have our life.
The children are doing well, now that the aftershocks have subsided somewhat, our biggest issue is routine. Everything we usually do is closed, for how long I don't know, so no swimming, gymnastics, kindergarten, library etc. It's been a challenge to keep them busy and engaged, let's face it I'm just not that interesting! So we have started some homeschool work until things work themselves out. The Kindergarten building may need to be demolished so they are looking for something temporary. In some ways being at home is a blessing, because traveling on the roads right now (a lot are very damaged) can be super stressful. When you are out in it, it can be overwhelming and exhausting and I really am trying to limit how much of it the children see.
The first two weeks after I was still fairly numb, just getting through each day... my mind is a lot clearer now and I know we just need to put one foot in front of the other. It's going to take a long time but I am here for the long haul. Like I've said before it might be a pile of rubble but it's our pile of rubble.
Thanks dear friends for all your messages of concern and love, I really appreciated it.
When things were in a lot of turmoil, I really felt held up by a lot of you.
Thanks so very much and God bless
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Oh Hayley, I am so proud of how you are trying to keep you and your family stable. Great job! I hope things continue to get better soon. Hopefully, your plumming and toliet will get back soon. Now that would be crazy. So thanks for keeping us posted and I am sending lots of hugs and cheers to you.ReplyDelete
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Many years ago, when I was in my teens, I remember being outside of our house in Glen Rock and my dad having a conversation with some of his friends. At the time, these men were in their mid-40s and the topic of conversation was the onset of various aches and pains that they were feeling as they began to age. For some reason, that small slice of memory has stuck with me, most likely causing me to wonder if I will be having a similar conversation with my friends as I get older. I am at an age where my peers have had knee replacements, hip replacements, back surgery, take medicines for this and that, etc.; but no general conversation about our aches and pains. Many of us are blessed with still having our parents alive. Through the wonders of advanced medicine, we all have the opportunity to live longer lives, be productive members of society longer and, unfortunately, become more prone to ailments, etc., than prior generations. Our conversations are not about us, but are more about our parents.
As children, most (but not all), look towards their parents for wisdom, insight and, yes, approval. The last one in that list does not change, even when we have children of our own, have some successes in our lives and are completely independent from our parents. In my mind, my father is still fit, able to get around easily and be a sounding board (whether we or not we agree on everything is irrelevant). Because of this view, I (selectively?) forget that he had back surgeries, strokes and uses a walker. My eyes see this, but my mind does not. As with all living creatures, as we get older, the signs of aging keep creeping into view. At my age, if I extend my fingers straight out and look at the back of my hands, the skin is no longer taunt and no longer has a youthful appearance. This means, that as our parents age, we need to become more alert to the changes that they are going through, as hard as that is, and as much as we do not want to see it.
Yes, you got it. Our conversations are not about our aches and pains, but about our parents'. Whether they are close by, or at a distance, when needed, we all run to check on them. It does not matter if they are nearby, a state away, a short flight away or in a different country, we go to them. There has become the role reversal – when they fall, we are the ones to pick them back up, tell them everything is OK and encourage them. They had done these things for us, now it is our turn to do for them. Part of accepting the fact that they are older helps when it comes to providing them advice and making decisions that really are for their benefit. While we remember to enjoy our children while they are young and the various stages that they only go through in their lives, we now must remember to do the same with our parents. For once those stages pass, they only live on in our memories.


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G's Top Movies of 2009
It has been an extremely underwhelming year for movies this year, according2g.
I couldn't come up with 10 movies I enjoyed, but here's a few:
Anvil! The Story of Anvil. Â This is a documentary about the Canadian rockers who never ever gave up on their dreams, no matter how many times it looks like they should have.
The Yes Men Fix the World. Â Another documentary that is a big F-U to mainstream media.
The Hurt Locker. Â A depiction of a group of men that disarm bombs. Â An explosive movie, to say the least.
A couple that are not making my list: Precious and New Moon. Â Two overrated, overhyped and mediocre movies.
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Thoughts on programming language fluency
I noticed that Effective Java's foreword is written by Guy Steele, so I actually bothered to read it. Here's the bit I found particularly intriguing:
If you have ever studied a second language yourself and then tried to use it outside the classroom, you know that there are three things you must master: how the language is structured (grammar), how to name things you want to talk about (vocabulary), and the customary and effective ways to say everyday things (usage).
When programmers enter the job market, the idea that, "We have the capability to learn any programming language," gets thrown around a lot. I now realize that this sentiment is irrelevant in many cases, because the deciding factor in the hiring process is more often time to fluency.
Time to fluency as a hiring factor
Let's say that there are two candidates, Fry and Laurie, interviewing for a programming position using Haskell. [*] Fry comes off as very intelligent during the interview process, but has only used OCaml and sounds like he mutabled all of the stuff that would make your head explode using monads. Laurie, on the other hand, couldn't figure out how many ping pong balls fit into Air Force One or why manhole covers are round, [†] but is clearly fluent in Haskell. Which one gets hired?
The answer to this question is another question: When are they required to be pumping out production-quality code?
Even working all hours of the day, the time to fluency for a language is on the order of weeks, independent of other scary new-workplace factors. Although books like Effective * can get you on the right track, fluency is ultimately attained through experience. Insofar as programming is a perpetual decision of what to make flexible and what to hard-code, you must spend time in the hot seat to gain necessary intuition — each language's unique characteristics change the nature of the game.
Everybody wants to hire Fry; however, Laurie will end up with the job due to time constraints on the part of the hiring manager. I'm pretty sure that Joel's interview notions are over-idealized in the general case:
Anyway, software teams want to hire people with aptitude, not a particular skill set. Any skill set that people can bring to the job will be technologically obsolete in a couple of years, anyway, so it's better to hire people that are going to be able to learn any new technology rather than people who happen to know how to make JDBC talk to a MySQL database right this minute.
Reqs have to be filled so that the trains run on time — it's hard to let real, here-and-now schedules slip to avoid hypothetical, three-years-later slip.
Extreme Programming as catalyst
You remember that scene from The Matrix where Neo gets all the Kung Fu downloaded into his brain in a matter of seconds? That whole process is nearly as awesome as code reviews.
Pair programming and code reviews:
Trick your brain into learning everything faster through mild stress and the threat of looking noobish in your colleagues' eyes.
Give you the shoulders of language-fluent programmers to stand on as they push you in the right direction.
Back off in accordance with your fluency acquisition.
This is totally speculative, but from my experience I'd be willing to believe you can reduce the minimum-time-to-fluency by an order of magnitude with the right (read: friendly and supportive) Extreme Programming environment.
What I learned: When you create interfaces for everything (instead of base classes) it's almost less work to make a factory.
You know it's a hypothetical because it's a Haskell position. Bzinga!
The point is that Fry has the high ground in terms of perceived aptitude. I actually think most of the Mount Fuji questions are nearly useless in determining aptitude, though I do enjoy them. The referenced sentence is a poor attempt at a joke. ;-)


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Not all baggage is created equal... thank you to @verytroubledchild for recreating the perfect metaphorical emotional baggage as imagined by visual wizard Wes Anderson for the Darjeeling Limited ... seen here with my lil monkey face TBone 🐵
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washing all the cashmere... not gonna lie sort of enjoying it... possibly because I get to poke it with a stick....or a wooden spoon, same...same...
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This generous bunch (the double Norah) from Urban Stems was so large i used an ice bucket for a vase- just love love love the thistles , brunia balls and cool white / silvery / blue /grey palette -keeping it very winter holiday festive.. xo
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Thanksgiving is like pudding... you cook... and then you chill....
we perfected sitting on the sofa AND being productive .... knitting/ crocheting while listening to an audio book and/or watching movies is now my favorite thing to do!
Two new poufs for the pups a novel (The 3 body problem) and a movie or two... all from the cozy comfort of the sofa ?...yep! We used the delightful Ann Weis of @flaxandtwine patterns to arm knit and hand crochet these poufs... they were both fast and easy ~with yarn being the only supply ~ we improvised a bit of color blocking on one (i.e. we didn't have quite enough of the same color yarn) then we shoved the pups old poufs inside~ and voila the whole place seems a bit fresher
again you can find all sorts of inspiration and quick easy patterns to get you started over at www.flaxandtwine.com all you need is some yarn, your hands /arms and a rainy day! Have fun! xo
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The Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominees for its Lifetime Achievement Awards, which will be presented during a ceremony in April.
Nominations are due Feb. 13. Awards will be presented to people in the following categories: business, humanitarian, the arts and ambassador of Bucks County. The chamber also will consider previous Lifetime Achievement Award winners for the Whitney Exemplar Award.
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WVU inducts loyal supporters into Order of Vandalia
Two women who thrived at West Virginia University as students are now being honored for decades of support to the University with their time and commitment to fundraising and giving.
On June 8 during Alumni Weekend, Elizabeth "Betsy" Brown and Joan Corson Stamp are receiving the Order of Vandalia, which recognizes those who have made far-reaching contributions to WVU long after their college years. The two honorees this year have dedicated themselves to colleges within the University, the WVU Foundation, the WVU Alumni Association and the University as a whole.
Elizabeth "Betsy" Brown
Elizabeth "Betsy" Brown earned her bachelor's degree from West Virginia University's College of Agriculture and Forestry in 1959. She went on to become a successful entrepreneur and amateur photographer. During her time as a WVU student, she pledged the Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity, thus beginning a lifelong commitment of service to the University.
Over the years, her love for WVU has manifested itself in the many gifts of time and resources given by herself and her husband, Dan Brown, a fellow Mountaineer. The Browns' loyal support of the University include the establishment of the Brown Lecture Series, which brings talented and successful authors, photographers, actors, composers and others to speak on campus. They also established the Brown Family Faculty Development Fund for the College of Business and Economics and the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Design.
In addition, the Browns have funded numerous high-profile projects across campus for Adventure West Virginia, WVU Career Services, the Mountaineer Athletic Club, the Pride of West Virginia., Blaney House, the College of Creative Arts and the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute.
She has also given her time as a member of the College of Creative Arts Visiting Committee, the Blaney House Visiting Committee and the Gold and Blue Travelers. She is a lifetime member of the WVU Alumni Association and a charter member of the WVU Foundation Woodburn Circle Society.
For their dedication and patronage, Betsy and her husband received the WVU Foundation's Outstanding Philanthropists award in 2009.
The Browns reside in Hilton Head, S.C., and enjoy spending time with sons Todd and Chris and grandchildren Erin, Sean, Jack and George.
Joan Corson Stamp
Joan Corson Stamp earned her bachelor's degree in marketing from the West Virginia University College of Business and Economics in 1973. She went on to become a stalwart patron of her community and an accomplished jewelry designer.
The daughter of WVU Alma Mater composer Louis D. Corson, she is a strong advocate for the University and has volunteered significant time and expertise in helping the institution reach its strategic goals.
A leader in fundraising, she is a long-time member of the WVU Foundation Board of Directors and is currently co-chairing the Northern Panhandle State of Minds committee and serving as member-at-large for the national campaign.
She is the former chair of the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center Gala at the Greenbrier and former chair of the WVU Rosenbaum Family House Board of Advisors. She served on WVU's College of Creative Arts Board of Visitors and is a member of the WVU Alumni Association, Woodburn Circle Society and is a founding member of the Friends of the Art Museum of WVU.
Outside of the University, she has given her time and talent as a board member of Wesbanco, Inc., the Community Foundation of the Ohio Valley, the Oglebay Foundation, the Wheeling Symphony Society, the West Virginia Arts Commission, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the American Symphony Orchestra League and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C.
WVU named her the Most Loyal West Virginian in 2010, and she was awarded the YMCA Wheeling Annual Tribute to Women in 2012.
She is married to the Honorable Frederick P. Stamp Jr. who serves on the U.S. District Court, Northern District of West Virginia. They have two children, Andrew and Elizabeth, and reside in Wheeling.
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Talon-tastic Thursday: Navy glitzy bitz
Thursday, September 23, 2010
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In the bottle, Opening Night is a shimmery midnight navy that looks kinda like an amped up version of Chanel Blue Satin. Blue Satin is a firm favourite of mine, but I do fervently wish that the glitter wasn't quite so hidden. I get that it's Chanel and ladylike and understated blah blah blah, but if the shimmer was more obvious I might never wear anything else.
(Well. Might.)
On the nails, though, the shimmer in Opening Night gets a bit lost, making it look simply metallic, and to my eye it also looks quite blue rather than decidedly navy. Blub.
Nina Ultra Pro Purple-xing, meanwhile, is a purple jelly with holographic shimmer and glitter. It's goes on evenly and is very sheer, which makes it good for layering as it doesn't alter the base colour too much.
Actually, Purple-xing is fully deserving of its own dedicated post. I'll organise that shortly so you can fall in love with it too ;)
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Ah, vintage Sabres videos are always a lot of fun.
In this case, we get to see some clips and quotes from a very young looking French Connection. Also, pay special attention to the pronunciation of the names – particularly "Richard Martin."
Got to love the Looney Tunes soundtrack, too.
Go Sabres.
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Do you wish to know more about the mysterious power of your own sexuality?
Have you heard about sex magick, conscious kink and Neo Tantra and wonder what these all mean?
Is it time for you to confront your own erotic shadows and shine your own beautiful light into the world?
Then join us for this Deep Dive into the Erotic Mysteries
The Erotic Mysteries are the mysterious and beautiful places where Tantra, Conscious Kink and the human Shadow overlap. What does this mean exactly?
In one sense, we'll be exploring the esoteric mystery traditions. One common goal of many of these traditions is for each explorer to fully remember that we are all divine beings and the goal of the work is to bring our divine nature into full consciousness. In other words: one purpose in exploring The Erotic Mysteries is to help us see through all of the illusions and mental programming and to remember who we really are
A second goal is to help others also remember. There is a 'coming home' feeling once we remove the shackles of illusion put upon us by the modern world.
In a practical sense, the Erotic Mysteries are about creating safe and conscious ritual spaces where we can take time to look within, explore what we find there, integrate those things we find and come out whole and empowered. As so much of our sexuality is buried in shadow, a part of our deep dive will involve using the tools of Conscious Kink in order to forge a path within ourselves.
Conscious Kink is important to our exploration of the Erotic Mysteries as these tools allow us to explore any fetishes we might have in an empowering and nurturing way. We may explore what it's like to engage in impact play (e.g. flogging or spanking) or we may create scenes where we find out what it's like to serve another person for a while. Conscious Kink also allows for our darker erotic fantasies to be explored, and for this reason a large part of the workshop is geared towards learning common tools for asserting boundaries and ensuring healthy methods for gaining authentic consent.
In this workshop we cover the tools of Sacred Sex, Erotic Service and Conscious Kink in a ritualised content. The goal of exploring the Erotic Mysteries are to combine powerful erotic states with spirituality and to create magical spaces of deep learning. We light a proverbial candle, turn inwards and face our own shadows that we have, up until now, suppressed. We embrace our own light and our own darkness in order to understand ourselves and serve each other. We use erotic techniques and shamanic journeying to reclaim those parts of ourselves otherwise lost. We explore our own inner worlds leading to places of power, self-love and ultimate greater self-knowledge.
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This is an intensive ritual / deep dive and we expect to host many breakthrough moments for people on the journey of self-discovery
The Erotic Mysteries can be a set of powerful tools for healing sexual trauma, but the movement towards healing is at your own pace. We provide the tools, techniques and safe space.
Whilst we expect a high erotic content, all of your personal boundaries will be honoured and nurtured at all times.
This event is open to people of all genders, sexual orientations and relationship formations.
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This workshop will be run by Seani Love and his expert team, soon to be announced.
During an intensive workshop we are entering an intense process together.
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Before I dig into Nightmare Maze let me take some time to talk about Judges Guild and EPT. Judges Guild of Decatur, Illinois was one of the first and definitely the most prolific of third party D&D publishers, but they also supported several other lines. The Guild published a lot of modules, supplements, and multiple periodicals. For a rundown of their product lines, check out the Judges Guild Codex. I've got a crapload of this stuff, mostly D&D/AD&D adventure modules, Traveller accessories, and most of the run of the Paul Jacquays-edited fanzine Dungeoneer. Then there's the unique items like Rat On A Stick (play monsters running a fast food stand in a dungeon), Field Guide to Encounters (a fantasy rpg with one of the weirdest monster lists I've ever seen), and First Fantasy Campaign (Dave Arneson's notes for his pre-D&D Blackmoor campaign). A lot of JG stuff is available today for cheap on the eBay or as reasonably priced PDFs over at DriveThruRPG.
Some of the Judge's Guild stuff was really outstanding. Many players of the era heap praise on the JG setting material centered around the City State of the Invincible Overlord. The City State material was sufficiently popular that Mayfair bought the rights and published an updated boxed set sometime in the late 80's. Some JG material made a comeback when 3rd edition D&D came out and dungeoneering was suddenly cool again. The classic dungeons Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia were upgraded to 3e standards and released by Necromancer Games. They followed this up with new versions of City State and Wilderlands of High Fantasy. Several old schoolers on RPGnet and elsewhere have gushed over the new Wilderlands boxed set. I think this would be a good point to quote RPGpundit on Wilderlands of High Fantasy:
Someone should contract an armed gang of Brazilian mercenaries, kidnap every other setting designer in the industry, sit them down in a dank poorly-lit room somewhere, and force them to read the whole fucking thing. Then have the guys who worked on it give them all indoctrination settings on how to do the same. NOTE TO SETTING DESIGNERS: This is how you create a "crunchy" setting, and this is exactly the sort of thing that settings should be doing today! Not more fucking feats and prestige classes, not limp-wristed in-game fiction; give us more books with 4000 fucking adventure ideas in them! Let the personality of the setting show in the actual adventure seeds, and let the adventure seeds be tied to places on the fucking map. Its so goddamned obvious it makes my ears bleed just considering that I actually have to spell it out to people.But that's the new Judge's Guild stuff, let's get back to talking about the original Judge's Guild. Not everything they published back in the day was gold. In fact, they were kinda spotty. Gigi D'arn, the gossip columnist for Different Worlds magazine, once noted in her column that JG had finally decided to start asking for rewrites if manuscripts sucked. I can't quite tell if she was being straight or just snarky when she wrote that, but either way the implication is clear. And although I like the Guild's Traveller accessories, the adventures and sector data are not well liked by Trav fans. The D&D modules are in general a mixed bag of great ideas and terrible execution. Many of the maps published by JG were ugly and in some cases they were hard to interpret as well. Not that everything produced by their contemporary competition was gold. It's easy to be hard on JG because of the handful of real stinkers in their large catalog. Many similar 3rd party ventures died in obscurity because they couldn't produce even one product of comparable quality to the better works of Judge's Guild.
But let us move on to Empire of the Petal Throne. EPT is a strange old bird, one of the earliest roleplaying games published. EPT came out in '75, a year after the original D&D game hit the scene. Tekumel, the world of EPT, is the loving brainchild of Professor M.A.R. Barker. To understand the depth and grandiosity of Tekumel, imagine that Tolkien had cribbed from Aztecs and Ancient Egyptians instead of Medieval Europe. Furthermore, make ol' J.R.R. into a GM and game designer. That's M.A.R. Barker and Tekumel in a nutshell. In the world of gaming Tekumel has few rivals. The future history of Traveller approaches the scope and grandeur of Barker's world, as well as possibly Harn and Glorantha (the setting of RuneQuest). I don't know enough about the latter two to make a fair comparison.
The publishing history of Tekumel is as long and tortured as that of the various incarnations of Traveller or D&D, but Empire of the Petal Throne was where it all began. The premise was simple: take Barker's exciting and unique setting, tweak the then-nascent D&D rules to better fit Barker's world, and let loose the PCs as barbarians new to the titular Empire. Later Tekumel games got away from the barbarian outsiders premise, which to me was the best part. I'd love to play a Conan-esque PC running rampant over the stratified social norms of the Empire. As I understand it modern Tekumel players go to great lengths to insert their PC into the Petal Throne social scene via clan affiliations and postings to imperial legions and such.
You can get more detail on EPT from the RPG Museum entry on Empire. For more info Tekumel in general, check out the definitive Tekumel site. The most recent incarnation of Tekumel is the the tri-stat Tekumel rpg from Guardians of Order. You can also get reprints of old stuff (including the original rules published by TSR) from Tita's House of Games. One of the things you can get from Tita is Nightmare Maze of Jigresh, the module I bought for cheap with a lot of old Traveller stuff. Most of Nightmare is typical of 70's era dungeons I've seen, a little bit of intro text, some rooms full of monsters and loot, a couple of new critters to spice things up, and not much else. The two new monsters are both undead, one of them effectively an undead stirge (great idea) and the other a fairly standard killer corpse. Excerpted for background purposes is the setting fluff from The Book of Ebon Bindings, a Tekumel demonology sourcebook I've often wanted to check out. The encounter area descriptions are pretty bare-bone, most of them are single lines of text like "2 Pe'Choi, hp 25, 20". It's not ideal for my crazy purposes, like adapting it to Encounter Critical, but I could make it work. Except for the map. Turns out that Nightmare Maze is one of those gimmick dungeons, where the poor sod who wrote it thought he was being clever by using a maze for his dungeon. As in the kind you use a pencil to work out in a kid's Rainy Day Adventure Funbook. Check it out:
Just looking at this map makes my balls hurt. What sort of sick, sadistic bastard do you have to be to inflict something like this upon hapless players? Glancing at this maze (that's the unlabeled player's map above, which they can only find a copy of deep within the bowels of the maze itself!) reminds me of the maze generator from Irony Games. You select one of four sizes for your random maze, "Quite boring", "Incredibly boring", "Justifiable homicide", or "Please, please, please don't!" and then click a button labeled "I hate my players' guts..." And the scale! Most of the corridors are a stifling 5' or less in width. In terms of practical play, you can achieve the whole 'maze' effect with a map that's a whole order of magnitude less complicated. Redoing the map is probably the only way to make this module workable, unless you really wanted the PCs to be lost in the maze for multiple sessions. That would be a good way to test the author's rather twisted insistence that a big focus of the GMs efforts ought to be tracking whether the PCs are starving to death or not. If that's your bag.
Don't get me wrong, Nightmare Maze of Jigresh isn't a total trainwreck. The author hung his hat on a gimmick that I don't like and that won't play in Peoria these days. Back in the heyday of the killer DMs something like the Nightmare Maze was probably more acceptable in some regions. But attitudes have changed and anyone trying to pull this crap nowadays would quickly find themselves a pariah in the gaming community. I suppose a different, less maniacal map would go a long way towards making Nightmare Maze less of a gimmick and more of an adventure. You could still get that maze effect with a tenth of the twisty passages.
I tried to find some more information about the author, but there's not much I can report. Michael Mayeau has a few other credits with JG: Survival of the Fittest, Operation Ogre, and Dragon Crown. I don't know much about those, except that Operation Ogre is still pretty easy to find. Tadashi over at the Different Worlds website will sell you a copy of Operation Ogre. That's who sold me my copy of Nightmare Maze.


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Kodak introduced the first commercially available color film—Kodachrome—in 1935, and processing for the by-then-legendary film ceased on December 30, 2010. It was a film engineered for quality and archival stability. But it ended up capturing the gamut from the most famous photographs in the world to snapshots on family vacations. I even managed to capture a few frames in the spirit of Lomography…
So much has been said about Kodachrome, especially in the last year, that attempting to add more words seems to be pointless. After all, if every picture is worth a thousand words, the amount of photographs shot on Kodachrome throughout its 74-year run (75 if you count the extra year of available processing.) Nevertheless, I think there's a unique opportunity in trying to relate the quality of this fantastic film to the Lomography community. We embrace the analog here, and Kodachrome shows you just how amazing it can be.
First, the film is a reversal, or "slide" film. But it's not like the E-6 slide films of today, where you could simply have it done in an hour at the local lab. Nor could you run it through some C-41 chemistry and get some cool color shifts. No, the Kodachrome process (the latest being K-14) was a SEVENTEEN-STEP procedure! Each layer of color (cyan, magenta, and yellow) was added separately and only during the processing step. This means each layer of color started off essentially black and white. Without the dye couplers, there are thinner color layers and a sharper image. A neat side effect is that you can angle a Kodachrome slide in the light and see that the image is visibly thick on the film. It's got a third dimension!
More importantly, though, since the film's dyes are added during processing, the images are super-archival. Properly stored Kodachrome slides are still as vivid and sharp as the day they came back from the lab. Just Google something like "WWII Kodachrome" and prepare to be amazed.
Sadly, Kodachrome fell out of favor as E-6 films grew more and more popular due to faster and cheaper processing. Furthermore, in recent years, slide film has fallen out of favor compared to print (negative) film, especially with better scanning technology. Add to that the declining popularity of film compared to digital, and Kodachrome is dealing with a triple whammy. Even though the film was still of spectacular quality, Kodak's decision to kill it in 2009 was hardly unjustified.
After the film production ceased, but before the December 30, 2010 processing deadline set by Dwayne's Photo, the last K-14 processor on the face of the planet, I tried getting my hands on as much of it as I thought I could reasonably shoot. I was lucky enough to shoot a ton of Kodachrome 64, as well as a few rolls of Kodachrome 25 (even sharper) and Kodachrome Type 40A (color balanced for tungsten lighting).
A majority of the photographs I'll be showing were shot on "quality" cameras, like my Canon SLRs, mostly because the ASA/ISO rating of the film is so low. Many cameras that Lomographers enjoy are not well-suited to slower films because they are incapable of wide apertures. So if you've got a slow film and a small aperture, either you're going to be very underexposed or, if you have a variable shutter speed, the shutter is going to be open so long that you're going to get a lot of blur. However, I felt comfortable enough on a very sunny day to run a roll through my Superheadz Black Slim Devil (a/k/a Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim) with some pretty neat results!
First up, let's look at the sharpest film ever made, Kodachrome 25, which was discontinued in 2002. I was pleasantly surprised to find that when I scanned this film, it seemed to require virtually no color correction, as opposed to the ISO 64 version. The images also seemed to be sharper, though the ISO 64 film is plenty sharp by itself. Anyway, hopefully these shots will give you an idea of what you could expect from the film:
Next up, I also shot two rolls of Type 40A, an ISO 40 film that had a blue shift to counteract the effects of orange incandescent lighting. I tended to use them to counteract the effects of sodium vapor lamps to come up with some fantastic night shots. Of course, with a low ISO and very little light, I ended up with a lot of long exposures. Not a film to try without a tripod! I also took one or two shots in the daylight for comparison, though.
Finally, I shot no fewer than 12 rolls of Kodachrome 64 during the year. Probably the most popular version of the film, especially these days, Kodachrome 64 was fast enough that you could probably use it in a few toy cameras, and I found some success with my last roll. In the shots that follow, some are taken with the "quality" cameras I've already mentioned, but the ones with heavy vignetting were taken with the Superheadz Black Slim Devil. The film only had about 8 stops of dynamic range, but the BSD really came through!
So that's it. Now I'm sitting here asking myself what the point of this review is. After all, you can't buy the film anymore, and even if you do, you can only process it as black and white film, and even then only after a bit of a hassle to remove the backing layer. Am I here just rubbing it in your face that you missed out on a fantastic film? Or is this a subliminal warning not to let your favorite film suffer the same fate? I think that in the end, it's probably an effort to share my experiences in the world of analog, from a vantage point some of you may not have seen before, or even knew existed. As I was beginning my life in film photography, the best film ever was concluding its life, and for one glorious year, we had some good times together.
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Colombia's illegal groups cast shadow over local polls
Death and politics tend to go hand in hand in Colombia, and the run-up to local and regional elections due on Sunday has proved no exception.
Forty-one candidates have been killed during the campaign, twice the number murdered during the last local polls four years ago.
And in the run-up to the polls, rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) have also stepped up their attacks, including killing 20 soldiers last weekend.
To counter the violence, the government is deploying more than 300,000 soldiers and police officers on election day: that amounts to three for every candidate for governor, mayor or those hoping for a seat on the council in one of Colombia's 1,102 municipalities.
But for many observers, violence is not the only threat.
"The risks associated with violence have actually decreased (from 2007), because illegal armed actors such as Farc and Bacrim (drug gangs) have lost some ground," Felipe Jimenez from Electoral Observation Mission, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), told the BBC.
"But the risk of fraud is bigger than ever," he said.
Mr Jimenez said political violence is just one of the many ways the illegal groups are trying to unduly influence the outcome of the elections.
Threats, vote-buying, illegal financing of campaigns and the corruption of electoral officials are also part of the toolkit.
"Even the Farc have realised the importance of political influence at the local level," said Mauricio Romero, of the Bogota-based think tank Nuevo Arcoiris.
"In some places, they will not try to boycott the polls, as in the past, but they will try to influence its outcome," he told the BBC.
The infiltration of Colombia's political institutions by illegal groups - be they rebels, drug cartels or paramilitaries - is not a new phenomenon.
And it has always been more widespread in local politics.
Money trail
"The criminal bands, the former paramilitaries, the guerrillas, they try to capture regional politics to facilitate their illegal trade," said Marcela Prieto, from the Institute of Political Science Hernan Echavarria, another local think tank.
But, increasingly, they also want to tap in the growing resources available to local authorities, who receive royalties for the exploitation of natural resources such as oil, coal and gold.
"The municipalities that are more at risk are those that are set to receive more royalties or those where there has been a mining-energy boom," Mrs Prieto explained.
Mr Romero concurs.
He says the paramilitaries first became involved in local politics mainly to strengthen their fight against the Farc, but then "came to realise that local politics is a huge business".
"They discovered the royalties, they discovered the transfers municipalities receive to fund the local health system, they realised they could divert the money available for investment by favouring certain private contractors.
"And the bounty is now much bigger, because the country is richer," Mr Romero told the BBC.
Local authorities also have access to funds sent by the central government to repair damage caused by the floods and rain that ravaged large areas of the country earlier this year.
And they will have a very important role to play in the process of land restitution to the victims of the Colombian conflict.
Given this, the national authorities are trying to tackle the potential infiltration of local councils and misappropriation of money.
Working with several NGOs, they have identified the municipalities most at risk and more than 13,000 candidates who are linked with "dubious interests".
Many analysts believe this does not go far enough.
But they agree that, to sort out such an ingrained problem, acceptance is the first step.


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OKLAHOMA CITY - A company that drills for oil in northern Oklahoma and western Kansas is urging shareholders to block an investor initiative that would restructure its board.
SandRidge Energy on Wednesday posted a letter on its website asking shareholders to oppose a move by investor TPG-Axon Group that seeks a fresh group of people to oversee the Oklahoma City-based company's operations.
The Journal Record reports TPG-Axon released documents the day before regarding land purchases in Oklahoma and Kansas, which the investor group argued indicated a conflict of interest on the part of the company.
The papers cite land purchases across 22 counties in Oklahoma and Kansas from WCT Resources, which TPG-Axon said is improper because the entity is controlled by a family trust of SandRidge CEO Tom Ward.
The land is in the highly sought-after Mississippi Lime rock formation.
SandRidge said in the letter that if the TPG-Axon proposal is approved, board members would be picked only by the investor group. The company also said the board found no indication of impropriety in the transactions, which the board reviewed beforehand. The purchases were disclosed in public filings.
Dinakar Singh, founder of New York City-based TPG-Axon, said he's unsatisfied with the board members' response thus far. TPG-Axon owns 7 percent of the company's shares.
"They've never really challenged our facts on the land acquisition," he said.
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Rumor: Treo 800w (Plus Gandolf)
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That's big news for a company whose smartphones over the last few years have sported the same basic form factor (size and shape).
First up is the one with an actual name, the Treo 800w. As the 'w' indicates, this is a Windows Mobile device. As it is supposed to become available from Verizon Wireless and Sprint, the country's largest CDMA/EV-DO carriers, this Treo appears to be the follow-up to the aging Treo 700wx.
Unlike the Treo 755p, the recently introduced sequel to the Treo 700p also offered by these operators, the new Windows Mobile Treo seems to be a giant step forward. That's because the Treo 800w, if rumors are correct, is the first Palm smartphone with Wi-Fi built in.
This is a feature Palm customers have been clamoring for years, but the mobile-device vendor has stubbornly refused to add, claiming 3G cellular-wireless broadband would be enough for most users. Not true, however.
Speaking of 3G, the Treo 800w may also feature EV-DO Rev. A technology, which offers much faster data transfers than the original EV-DO 3G.
Additional supposed features of the Treo 800w include integrated GPS, Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera, 128 MB of RAM, 256 MB of Flash ROM and an as-of-yet-unknown type of memory card slot.
This Treo may be Palm's first Windows Mobile model with a higher-resolution 320 x 320 pixel touch screen. Palm can finally bring this to a Microsoft-based Treo because Windows Mobile 6 Professional supports that high a resolution. Current Windows Mobile Treos top out at 240 x 240.
The Treo 800w may become available from Verizon in September and Sprint in the fourth quarter.
Palm Gandolf
The evidence for a new smartphone code-named Gandolf is less conclusive than for the Treo 800w. If true, however, it'll be a huge departure for Palm in terms of form factor.
While Palm has modified its Treo line a bit over the years, losing its signature antenna in the most recent models, Treos have otherwise sported the same basic physical design. Not so for Gandolf, which as you can see from the rendering above may look quite a bit different from previous Treos.
Rumors has it that there will be both Palm OS and a Windows Mobile versions of Gandolf.
The Windows Mobile version is supposed to run the Standard edition of Windows Mobile 6, which means it wouldn't have a touch screen. If true, it'll be Palm's first smartphone to lack one. And it may put the company in a better position to compete with similar device from Motorola (the Q), Samsung (the BlackJack) and T-Mobile/HTC (the Dash).
Additional supposed features of Gandolf include a QWERTY thumb-keyboard, microSD slot, camera, and Bluetooth.
A picture of a reported Windows Mobile Gandolf floating around shows a Vodafone logo, meaning it would be a GSM device. Reportedly, a Palm OS CDMA version will land at Sprint with -- like the Treo 800w -- support for EV-DO Rev. A.
The Sprint version may ship during the fourth quarter for $200.
Article courtesy of SmartPhoneToday.