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As you remember, I made it through Thanksgiving and I couldn't follow through with my plan. I know, you are sitting there thinking what the hell is wrong with this girl, right? Well, trust me, I was thinking the same thing. But I forged forward and hope this was a one of a kind situation and that we would never have to cross this sort of bridge again. BOY WAS I WRONG!
I never could have managed to dream of all the obstacles I was going to face in my first year of marriage. Let's just take a quick run down…quit my corporate job to start a real estate career, less than 30 days after our marriage, ROB got laid off (truly fired so he admitted 3 years later into the marriage), my dad had a heart attack the day we got home from our honeymoon, my aunt was taken off life support the day after Thanksgiving, my mom was diagnosed with cancer, ROB was job hoping or out at the bars…CUZ HE WAS IN A DEPRESSION, and I was supposed to be understanding. Oh I was understanding all right…
I was so understanding and so tired of listening to him complain about everything under the sun, that I told him it was time to start his own used car sales lot. Since he had over 15 years experience in the car industry, let's start a business and make this work. So, since ROB doesn't even have a high school diploma and I have a college degree and in accounting for that fact, guess who got to get the bulk of starting this business? YEP, ME!!! What a lucky girl I was. Let's not forget I was also trying to get my real estate career off the ground as well. So I would work all day at my job and then come home to work on business plans, location sites, logo designs and more on his business. Guess where good old ROB was? Yep, out at the bar chumming it up with the boys!
As we all know, the real estate business is not the place to be and I was lucky enough to get in on right before the market crashed. Just my luck right? Oh well, when I agreed to marry ROB he told me I would never have to work again or worry about money. He wanted me to have a job that I could work when I wanted to and have the ability to travel & play more. What a GREAT guy right? Let me tell you, if someone EVER tells you this; turn and run the other way so fast!!! Especially if they also proceed to tell you…OH AND BY THE WAY, I DON'T HAVE A CREDIT SCORE, 401K AND I OWE THE IRS/DEPT OF REV FOR BACK TAXES.
I bet you are sitting there thinking what the hell is wrong with this girl, right? I sure as hell was! How the hell was I to ever tell my family that this is what I got myself into. No can do! No one in my family has ever divorced or been in a situation like this. I will dig us out of this and we will live happily ever after!
A couple of years after the dealership opened, I got a call from ROB all in a panic that the partner we had gone into business was threatening to close it. What? What the hell was this about? Oh I was quickly brought up to speed all right. ROB had embezzled $18,000.00 from the business. Never told his partner, never got the ok and never told me about this either. The business partner had given ROB 48 hours to get the about back into the business account or he was going to shut the doors and move on. Bet ya all can't even think about ROBs next move. He sat in front of me and asked WHAT WAS I GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS???? Really, are you kidding me? What was I going to do about this? His first words were when do you have a closing coming up? Why should I bail you out of this, what happened to honey you will never have to worry about money again? And first…let's talk about where this money is? A question I did not want to hear the answer to. I am sure you all have a good idea where some of it went. The bar, yep that good old hell hole in my marriage, paying bills and entertaining. Entertaining? Who? I didn't have time to deal with this, what were we going to go? We had no money, and lord knows he's not intelligent enough to figure it out.
For better or worse right? Well, I closed out my 401k plan and gave him $15,000.00. Yeah, and for what? You know what I got? $15,000.00, I owe $18,000.00 where am I gonna get the last $3,000.00!!!! Uhmmmm, hellooooooo, how about a fucking thank you? Nope, not that; that would be the right thing to do! ROB told me that there was a IRA coming due on the business for $25,000.00 and I would get that to put back into my 401k. Yeah, right! I told the ungrateful bastard to figure the remaining money out for himself.
Think this is getting good? Wait until you read the next entry!!! Marriage counseling…who doesn't want to go there? Oh yes we did!
Look for my next entry and we come closer and closer to the conclusion to this marriage!
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A study of the book A Course in Miracles, facilitated by William Dexter. The Course describes a purely non-dualistic approach to spirituality. It uses traditional Judeo-Christian terminology but is not aligned to the doctrines of any religions or denominations. This study group goes through the text, workbook, and book for teachers in consecutive order. A […]Find out more »

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The fall is a busy time for photobook enthusiasts. Not least for Lesley Martin, publisher of the Aperture book program and of the newsprint journal The PhotoBook Review. When Raw File spoke with Martin she'd just come off the back of four days at the New York Art Book Fair and, the week prior, a jury-process in which she pored over 800 books on the way to selecting 30 for the shortlists of the Paris-Photo/Aperture Photobook Awards, the winners of which will be announced at Paris Photo which opens on Thursday.
Martin has edited over 65 photography books with the likes of Vik Muniz, Richard Misrach, Takashi Homma and Paul Fusco. PDN named her "one of the fifteen most influential people in photobook publishing" and thanks to her promotion of experiments with materials, American Photo recognized Martin as one of the Innovators of the Year. Martin indulged her admiration of the Japanese photo tradition as contributing editor to Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s. When not curating or publishing, Martin has been down at the International Center for Photography and the School of Visual Arts (and now Aperture gallery) teaching the next generation "What Makes a Photobook Work."
In this Q&A, Martin explains how self-publishing is pushing everyone's creativity for the better; which paper makes for a gorgeous book; how the shifting models for funding and distribution are changing how photobooks reach our shelves; and why photographers need to know their work. She also humors our question, "What's your favorite photobook?" and wonders why photographers don't put their names on front covers anymore.
WIRED: How good are self-publishing practices right now?
Leslie Martin: There are 20 books in the Paris-Photo/Aperture First Book shortlist and 14 of them are self-published. Increasingly, these self-pub books are very sophisticated in their construction and the materials they use. Blurb books are still being offered and occasionally someone manages to hack the Blurb format in an interesting way but …
People are manipulating bindings, making beautiful cloth selection and doing things that you don't find in the usual factory processes. I really respect the creativity in the self-pub world and the level of production has really increased dramatically.
WIRED: Is that because photographers are getting their smarts on?
LM: There is a growing conversation that happens online – videos of people simply paging through books, access to knowing what people are doing, knowing what is possible. That there's a conversation around finicky, geeky details like tail bands is great. The standardization of form is up for grabs right now.
WIRED: Construction was a large factor in David Galjaard's First PhotoBook Award win for Concresco last year.
LM: What was great about David's book was that the work which is about Albanian bunkers from World War II, frankly on the surface of things, doesn't have great appeal. But the book was put together in a considered way with little booklet inserts of interviews with people who had lived through the time of bunkerization. Galjaard melded them into the printing of the pages into which they were tipped. It was mild, not over the top, and a great conceptual handling of different elements to support the work as a whole. The book as an object compelled people to go through the work. That is what a book should do.
From grazing at the New York Art Book Fair (NYABF) and jurying I saw a lot of people — through methods of shooting and organizing — playing with different modes of storytelling. When its done well it's very rewarding to unpack.
But! People should really put their names and titles on the front covers of books! Even in the shortlist, a large number of self published books had no information on the front. People need to work on their cover skills.
Put your name on the cover of the damn book!
WIRED: Any other dos or don'ts?
LM: People can get fixated on creating a book that is like another book. Listen to your own work and hear what it needs. That sounds touchy-feely but I think when you're editing you must pay attention. Sometimes the form can be really simple and you don't need fancy bells or whistles.
WIRED: So self-publishing has raised the bar?
LM: There's various competitions that now award self-publishing. There's the Iberoamerican Photobook Prize which awards a body of work that isn't a book but gives the opportunity for it to become a book. MACK has a First Book Award. There's the Dummy Award at Fotobookfestival Kassel. So people aren't even just looking at published work; they're looking at stages leading up to it. The whole ecosystem and process is being paid a lot of attention. Photographers are engaged and challenged by the conversation. Photographers know they can spend a great amount of attention to detail and people will notice.
WIRED: Do enough people understand yet how much work putting a book together is?
LM: I think so. More and more people understand the economics of it. I don't think people undertake it lightly.
But at the other end of the spectrum there are a lot of zines and DIY. Aperture recently did a book in the gallery as a performance with Self Publish Be Happy. We had a photographer come in, make the work on site, edited it, put it into book design and and printed it in the space. We made a book in four hours.
It can be easy or it can be a long painstaking project. There's room for all of those different modes of production. That said, when is enough enough? Most people do undertake a body of work with the idea that getting it into book form as an end in and of itself. Not every body of work is worthy of a book.
WIRED: Thinking of work in a book form distills ideas and forces you to think about the nature of the work?
LM: Exactly. Especially if you get into design and materials. People are taking book binding courses. I've seen some remarkable self-made books come off a printer in the bedroom. But you can't do that every week.
WIRED: We don't want to misrepresent self-publishing though. It isn't new.
LM: No. People have self-published for a long time. There just didn't used to be so many options. Ed Ruscha probably pioneered DIY.
It's not new, but with technology intersecting with desktop publishing intersecting with print-on-demand intersecting with digital printing it is amazing what you can do now. We have yet to see a 3D printed book. We don't know what the future holds.
Making a book is easier and more affordable. Digital printing through groups such as Conveyor Arts, Paper Chase Press and Editions One allow for smaller runs. Even Blurb has good options for customization. Bookmaking is technology driven just like other aspects of photography.
WIRED: What's your favorite paper?
LM: I'm a big fan of the Japanese paper Kasadaka. It's very lightweight and you can make very small runs of it. When you pick up one of those big bulky books but it's really light, it's that paper. Sadly, the plant that made it sourced trees from Fukushima area and so production was wiped out after the Tsunami. It's the paper that we did Rinko Kawauchi's Illuminance on.
WIRED: And your favorite binding?
LM: Smyth. It is loose enough that it lays flat but not so loose that the boards are wobbly. it is important to be aware of that gutter. I still work with photographers who have a horror of putting an image across the gutter – to me its part of the form of the book. You can use it in a way that's good. I'm a fan of full bleeds when it makes sense, but you must have the right binding.
WIRED: What are your focuses here at Aperture?
LM: I returned to Aperture in 2003, to get the book program back into production. We'd whittled down to just two books per season; four books per year. Now, we have ramped up to 15 or 16 books per season. Which I think is our capacity. That's a lot in a very particular bandwidth of bookmaking. We have to be careful that we're not competing with ourselves, that we're not just pumping things out for the sake of putting them out. We're expanding the types of books we're doing. Broadening into education driven books for younger audiences. The world of people who are interested in storytelling in photography is widening. We'd really like to serve newer, younger audiences. And serve people who might not want to read "how-to" books but instead read into a photographer's approach to image-making an image and telling a story.
WIRED: And then you have essay books.
LM: Each season, there's always one text-driven essay book. Likewise a first book for an author or photographer. And. we're starting to convert them into PDFs.
WIRED: How does 30 or 32 books a year compare to other publishers? What is your size?
LM: We're a midsize independent publisher. Aperture's book program is four or five people but we have the magazine too. We've a growing education program, then there's fundraising, accounting and production. We not just a publisher. The organization is 30 people which is pretty big.
WIRED: But dwarfed by Tashcen and Phaidon for example.
LM: Yes. They make cook books and the like and that is a good way to fund the guilty pleasures; to fund photobooks because photobooks tend not to be viable in the ways that traditional publishers assess viability.
To be honest, we do think there are more mass market books that can offer a great critical perspective on photography and should be seen by tens of thousands of people. We published over 30,000 books in three different languages of The New York Times Magazine Photographs — that was a relatively mass market title for us. Then there's something like the Diane Arbus that has been in print for 40 years and reprinted, I think at last count, 250,000. That's nothing to Simon & Schuster or someone who is publishing Stephen King.
WIRED: What do you look for in potential book projects?
LM: First of all, someone here has to be excited about the project. That someone is usually director Chris Boot, myself, Denise Wolf, magazine editor Michael Famighetti, or special projects head Melissa Harris. We assess if we are the right people to bring the work to the world. Do we have the scope? The audience? Is it within our mission? We don't exclude fashion or rock-and-roll but it has to be great photography that fits into the conversation of contemporary photography. There's sometimes lovely work and it would be fun to push the boundaries but maybe it's best as an installation?
We don't want to pit photographers with similar bodies of work against each other. People come to us all the time with photographs of their children and say, "Look, you published Sally Mann!" It's not that easy. There is no formula.
People still come to us and say, "I have $30,000 and a great book dummy." It might be a decent dummy but we do have to find funding for every project. No-one can just come in with a check and think that they can be published by us. I won't name names of publishers who do that. We try not to publish bad photographs.
WIRED: News flash! What else turns you off?
LM: People who don't understand what they want to say or don't have a concept. And I don't mean concept in a complicated way. People who haven't found their voice and they don't know their message or who their audience is. As publisher or editor you have to very quickly imagine the book in its final form and in someone's hands … and who that person is.
WIRED: Has the rise of self-publishing effected Aperture approach?
LM: We're definitely impacted. In terms of self-publishing we are aware that people can do it better themselves. Sometimes people don't need us and we shouldn't get in the way if it's not the right timing.
The biggest effect upon us has been the crumbling of the bigger distribution systems which is impacted in turn by the ability of people to self-publish. There's a whole set of factors, from what Barnes & Noble and then Amazon did [to distribution] to digital publishing. There's less of the clockwork systems of getting photobooks into the hands of people.
WIRED: Any glaring examples of timing?
LM: This summer, Aperture will put out the first bound book of the Sochi Project. I've had a conversation with Rob Hornstra for several years; the first couple of times we didn't know what a Sochi Project/Aperture partnership would achieve. But now, after 5 years, we decided it would be good to do a hybrid of this crowdfunded model for a 456-page book. Rob and his colleague Arnold Van Bruggen can rely on us to do the heavy-lifting of production and we're working with them to see the work travel in the United States. The idea is that together we will achieve greater visibility. They've created visibility themselves and have a core audience of subscribers. The goal is to break them beyond that and get their work to an even wider public.
WIRED: Has Rob said what he is going to do after 2014?
LM: I think he's focusing on the now. He's got a show coming up in Moscow. It's very interesting watching the response from Moscow to the work which is quite critical.
Editor's note: Since this interview was conducted, both Rob Hornstra and Arnold Van Bruggen were denied entry visas into Russia and a planned exhibition was cancelled. This means, effectively that the photographing and reporting elements of the project within Sochi and surrounding areas have ended. The project continues.
WIRED: Will Aperture be offering presales of the Sochi Project book then?
LM: Kickstarter can be amazing for a publisher. Crowdfunding may reach an audience you wouldn't otherwise to make advanced sales.
Aperture just did its first ever Kickstarter for Richard Renaldi's Touching Strangers. We set the goal at $10k and we made $80k. People keep asking what we're going to do with the extra money but it just means we've sold more copies. So we're going to make more books! We found it a really rewarding way to connect with people we ordinarily wouldn't have. It's definitely not right for every book but because Richard's work was about strangers interacting, the idea that strangers could contribute to making his book fitted. Richard had already built his own audience on Instagram and his online presence and we helped give it an extra little oomph. If Aperture could internally have a system like Kickstarter and say, "Hey, sign up for this book," it would be very valuable.
WIRED: What are your thoughts on photobook collectors?
LM: The market is growing. It's one of those striated groups. There are fetishistic collectors who are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for older books. They may not be interested in newer books. It's likes buying stocks. There's some people who want the blue chip, others want riskier investments so they're buying up full copies, two copies, one stays shrink-wrapped.
It's difficult to predict. There are books like The Holy Bible by Broomberg & Chanarin that released three months ago. The publisher MACK, strategically, only prints very small numbers of any run. The Holy Bible immediately sold out before they shipped to the US market. They immediately went back to press. The first print of The Holy Bible was being sold at the NYABF for $350. The second printing is $80. There's a little bit of gaming going on, in ways that it wasn't in the past.
WIRED: Keeping new releases rare by virtue of small print runs?
LM: Yes. I remember during my early days at Aperture, we did a facsimile called Kamaitachi by Eikoh Hosoe. The publisher at the time Michael Hoffman said there was no way to do it because it was just too expensive. You couldn't make many copies and so we didn't do that book for a long time and sadly Michael passed away before we could. When I returned to Aperture, I said we'd make it happen. We made 500 copies in the English language that started out at $250 a copy and went up subsequently. It sold out quickly. It was the first time I realized the potential for making something really deluxe for which there would be a collectors market.
WIRED: How deluxe does Aperture get?
LM: Last year, for our 60th anniversary, I commissioned 10 artists to take an older Aperture title and to respond to it. Aperture Remix asked each to intervene in some way and to make something new in response to the work. It was inspired by Marcus Schaden's Marks Of Honour; marking up a book as a way of paying homage.
We worked with great artists. Vik Muniz took the first editions of Edward Weston's The Daybooks. Vik makes collages of photos from magazines, so he cut pieces of The Daybooks so it looked like a mouse had chewed through them. We built a draw with a glass pane that was both something that you could hang on the wall and see through layers of pages, but you could also slide out the glass and turn the pages when needed. Then the prints that came with it that were pages from the book rephotographed and that went for $25,000. It was a book and a print. That was the most high end we've done. The books we did in that Aperture Remix were in editions of 5. Most had prints that accompanied them.
We worked with Doug Rickard who took copies of Stephen Shore's Uncommon Places and sourced photographs and postcards that were line with the aesthetics and scenes that Shore was sought out. Shore was inspired by postcards of that time, so we made books that took parts of Shore's Uncommon Places and basically made a new book that wove together Doug's work with Shore's work.
WIRED: I'm encouraged that you turn down projects even if a photographer has $30,000 in their pocket. Many publishers don't. It seems, at this point, photographers almost expect to be asked to bring a large amount of money to the table?
LM: Bringing money to a big publisher is not a very good business model. In fact you can make more if you self-publish because you're not selling through a third party to a vendor that's going to want a fifty percent discount. It's a law of diminishing returns when you go through that many people to get a book out. It's a tough business and I think people have an awareness of needing to be able to put energy into the fundraising aspect of the publishing.
WIRED: Any meaningful geographical differences between regions in photo book making.
LM: With the Japanese, it's a historical touchstone with the 60s and 70s. At that time, the Provoke Era was trying to recreate the way we interact with photographs. Any and all boundaries were being pushed — bindings you had to unfold and unpack. The craftsmanship of making was part of the culture. You saw some really remarkable books AS art objects.
The Dutch are more utilitarian in their approach. Part of the theory is that their graphic design industry and the photography industry at a national level were merged for a long time, so there was a lot of conversation between product and graphic designers and photographers, and as such a willingness to take risks with materials with a slightly more explosive approach to design.
WIRED: Newsprint. Fun? Supplementary? Temporary fad? Essential?
LM: Obviously newsprint is about injecting an immediacy into what can sometimes be a very hyper-produced or over-produced world of bookmaking. Newspapers are a nice way of binding words and images. It has a particular set of connotations and some people use it for no reason at all. It is a trend. As is the use of uncoated paper, just now.
WIRED: It can't be a collectors game though. It will yellow and wilt.
LM: I'm interested to see what happens to books and publications on newsprint or uncoated paper. They won't be archival. Or perhaps someone will design a plastic airtight cover to keep these things pristine and pull them out decades later and sell them for tons? In the short term, newsprint is fun – it can be really cool.
The Photobook Review is on newsprint. We're just putting to bed the fifth edition which includes a section on book production and materials and mentions newsprint. The whole spectrum is wide open. You can reproduce work on a photocopy machine or you can print work in deluxe objects. Some people take that too far. I don't think you should have to sell your book with its own coffee table to support it!
WIRED: Who's been producing recently?
LM: I think Rob and Arnold with The Sochi Project have been good practitioners. They've made newspapers, postcards, sketchbooks, weird accordion fold-outs, billboards made from 8×10 unbound paper. It's been about little incremental projects and they've found the right form for each. That's due in large part to their collaboration with designers Kummer and Herrman.
Stephen Gill is an amazing book-maker and his forms can be pretty pure and straightforward. He uses details like great silk screening on the covers.
WIRED: Favorite photo book?
LM: My decision is usually based on what is in my peripheral view at a given time. Takuma Nakahira's For A Language To Come comes to mind. This may be self-serving, but I was very pleased with our Kamaitachi facsimile. I love the original so maybe that's a cheat.
I also love the Daido Moriyama TKY Printing Show that we did. It was the first time we did a performance piece in the gallery with Ivan Vartanian of Goliga. We put up a collection of photo based images (front and back) — each one a gatefold. Each visitor was given a card to checking-off the 20 images on the wall they each wanted; they had to select and sequence images and then hand their card to the work-station which would assemble a books with its own silkscreened cover. Ivan was sat in the middle printing off pages.
I need to not think of a Japanese photobook! I have a weird book called How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb. It's a one-color terribly-designed book, but I don't know if it was done facetiously as an archive project. There's very little information.
WIRED: And finally, how's the busy Fall season going for you? All reports were that the New York Art Book Fair (NYABF) was overwhelming.
LM: The NYABF is best to do in small doses. You have to be judicious in what you really engage with. There's a lot of events this time of year. Unseen in Amsterdam which has an installation of Offprint. Unseen is the Dutch equivalent of the NYABF. Then Paris Photo, also with Offprint and other spin off events. And the Kassel Fotobookfestival in October.
A lot of smaller publishers and artists are pegging launches to these events, which makes sense. If you're a small publisher and you don't have distribution, they are a great way to make direct contact with an audience. Established structures of distribution get books widely seen but you get smaller and smaller returns. A direct sale is very good, so when Aperture is working with limited edition books, we focus on these fairs too.
WIRED: Actually meeting people! Is it damaging to the human spirit if one only looks at photographs on the internet?
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The other day, in the midst of a meeting of my paper's editorial staff, I found myself waving my Feminist card in a manner reminiscent of when I used to referee kids' soccer games, and had to deploy the whistle-yellow-card combo. (More often than not, the recipients of said cards were not kids at all, but the grown-ups coaching them. But I digress.)
Anyway, back to the meeting: that week's cover story was about the local congressional race, which is hotly disputed, and heavily watched, as recent redistricting means the seat is decidedly In Play. The longtime incumbent is a woman, a Democrat, in her 70s. And the race has been a slugfest. Thanks to the flow of cash from corporations — um, I mean people? — special interest groups, the national parties, and the campaigns themselves, one can hardly catch a post-season baseball game (go Giants!) without being subjected to a slimy back and forth of ads. (Is this what it's like to live in a swing state? My deepest sympathies.) So, long story short: this particular cover story was about this race, and the cover design, in lieu of photographs, used an illustration — two toylike robot bodies throwing punches at each other, with caricatures for heads.
Stay with me: point coming soon.
We were discussing the story when an editor, a man I deeply respect and tend to agree with on most issues, said, "I have a problem with the cover. She looks so young! It's like we're showing favoritism."
It was at this point, dear reader, that the whistle was deployed. "Would you say that about a man?" I asked — at which point a chorus of rabble-rabbles erupted, ultimately resulting in my never getting around to making my point. (I should add: I enjoy a hearty rabble-rabble session as much as the next editor. In fact, I brought it up precisely because I love a good rabble-rabble. You know, and because I did have a point.) The caricatures made both candidates look cuter, more cartoonlike, and yes, younger, than their real selves (such is the destiny of a caricature), but what bothered me was the implication that to make a woman look younger is to give her an advantage. Not an actress or model, mind you: a politician. (Nor, I suppose it's worth saying, a woman in a political battle against another woman. Her challenger is a man.) That, for women, what trumps everything is appearance. That age can only be a disadvantage; that to look old is the worst handicap of all. And that, if one wants to help an older woman out, give her the proverbial leg up, the kindest thing one can do is to deploy Photoshop's airbrush tool.
Now, I don't think this editor was actually saying any of those things, but I do think that within his off-the-cuff remark was crystallized the message women are getting, at all times and from every conceivable direction. There is an entire industry devoted to the "fight" against aging. (As though there's a chance of winning that battle. And when you consider the alternative–um, death–do you really want to?) And that industry is a big one. And it is aimed at women. (For aging men, marketers offer Viagra, and pretty much leave it at that.) And it is insidious. Because, for all the newfound opportunity and the plethora of options women now have open to us when it comes to answering the rather significant question of "What Do You Want To Do With Your Life?" (a bounty which, as we've written, is generationally new, leaving us without much in the way of roadmaps or role models), we are left to figure it all out against what amounts to a soundtrack of a ticking clock. (Ask any game show or action movie producer how to create suspense, and the tick-tock is it. In real life, instead of suspense, we get stress. Which, you know, leads to premature aging. But I digress. Again.) As I've written before, I believe it all comes together in a most counterintuitive way: our fear of aging is almost worse the younger we are. After all, when we're told that our value does nothing but go down as our age creeps up, every day that passes is a marker on a road to invisibility. Irrelevance. Tick tock.
Is it any wonder preventative Botox is a thing?
A couple of weeks ago, I was hanging out with a friend of mine, who was talking about how she's taken to pointing out men who are aging badly–"dumpy looking dudes," I believe were the words she used–to her husband, because it irked her how much pressure women are under to look good and "age well," and she wanted him to share in the misery. While I wouldn't say that's the best strategy I could conceive of, it's certainly… a strategy. But I'm not sure a redistribution of the pressure to Anti-Age is the best we can do. What is the best we can do? I'm not sure. None of us wants to look old; and I have no doubt we all appreciate a photo–or drawing–of ourselves that makes us look younger than our years. But it's worth thinking about why. And surely blowing the whistle every once in a while can't hurt.


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Heard around the West
Pity Gail Kimbell, the first woman appointed chief of the U.S. Forest Service. On Feb. 5 — her first day of work — President Bush proposed cutting her budget by 2 percent and eliminating more than 2,100 Forest Service jobs. A week later, Kimbell's job got even more uncomfortable when she had to defend the president's $4.1 billion budget before Congress. "Rough treatment" is how The Associated Press characterized her reception, though Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., felt her pain: "I feel sorry for you, having to support this 'let's pretend' budget." After the hearing, Kimbell acknowledged that living within the budget would be "difficult." It might also prove impossible, unless Congress risks a veto and authorizes more money. Several representatives pointed out that a proposal to sell off more than 200,000 acres of national forest was similar to a proposal last year that was roundly defeated. Others pointed out that the Bush budget seemed quixotic: It increases funding for fighting wildfires, but decreases spending on measures such as forest thinning that might prevent disastrous fires in the first place.
Mesa, Ariz., councilman Tom Rawles refused to stand up and pledge allegiance to the flag at a city council meeting Feb. 5, announcing that he'll keep on doing that until American troops leave Iraq or until his term ends in 2008. Reaction was swift, reports the Arizona Republic, starting with "polite rebukes" from other council members. Six people at the meeting chastised Rawles, with one calling him a "spoiled child who did not receive what he wanted from his parents." But three others supported Rawles, who summed up his protest this way: "If I don't have the freedom not to stand for the Pledge, standing for the Pledge means absolutely nothing."
A new sport for motor vehicle aficionados has begun in Northern California at the Altamont Motorsports Park, and all you need is a clunker costing $500 or less. That, and the whimsy or boldness to race that rust-bucket for 24 hours in the "24 Hours of LeMons," which attracted 32 participants, reports the Los Angeles Times. "Every little boy fantasizes about racing, even if it's just in a piece of crap," says Virgil Watson, who raced an '83 Golf. Since most of the old beaters are potential deathtraps, organizer Jay Lamm insists on roll cages and requires test runs through what he calls "the old lady mannequin slalom" and the "baby-carriage braking test." Three judges wearing black robes and curly white wigs also check each car for hidden improvements, penalizing any that fail to exemplify "the detritus of the Industrial Revolution." The inspection helps to ensure that the winning wreck is so wracked, it's liable to end up being pushed over the finish line by the runner-up. What did the last wacky race reveal? Writer Preston Lerner, who took his turn behind the wheel of an unreliable '89 Toyota Corolla, found that "really crappy cars run really badly for a really long time." Yet he wondered why nobody bothers to keep these obsolescent cars going, since 30-year-old vehicles share one trait worth boasting about: You can open the hood and understand what's inside. Beaters have character, the writer concluded, and "by taking an old car out and pushing it, we're giving it some honor."
Five hundred bars and restaurants around the state are creating talky men's bathrooms, thanks to the New Mexico Department of Transportation. Doug Lowance, 28, reports that when he entered the men's room at a bar in Albuquerque, he heard a woman's voice asking, "Hey, big guy. Having a few drinks?" Lowance, who had just downed a Jägermeister, kept listening: "Think you've had too many? Then maybe it's time to call a cab or a sober friend… Remember, the future is in your hands." The Albuquerque Journal says the "potty-mouth message" begins as soon as a deodorizing cake, created by Wizmark Co., senses a person's presence. "There's a time delay," says Wizmark founder Richard Deutsch, "that gives you time to get unzipped."
Valentine's Day was not sweet for 24 sex offenders, traffic scofflaws and petty criminals, reports the Denver Post. Instead, it turned into a sting. As soon as a fugitive answered the doorbell, a "florist," bearing a box of roses or balloons, presented the gift — followed by other cops quickly applying handcuffs. The ruse, which was carried out by the Denver-area Northglenn Police Department, was designed to make arrests safer. But it didn't fool one man, who growled: "Nobody would send me flowers."


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A proposed remake of cheesy 70's sci-fi flick "Logan's Run" has been batted around Hollywood for a while now. It's one of those projects that's been in turnaround for so long, it's almost unnatural to think of it as something that will become real. Not unlike flying motorcycles, or "Chinese Democracy." But it appears Hollywood is finally ready to move forward the tale of Logan, and they've got a hotshot young director ready to helm it. From Borys Kit over at the Heat Vision Blog:
"Logan's Run" might be getting a new pair of legs with Carl Rinsch, who is in talks to direct Warner Bros.' long-in-development sci-fi movie being produced by Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman.
Rinsch is a huge name in the commercials world who's been looking to make a move into features for quite some time. He was to make his debut with the "Alien" prequel before producer Ridley Scott decided he wanted to helm that himself, and is attached to direct "47 Ronin" for Universal, which has been in development for several years. But he firebranded himself into execs' foreheads in April when "The Gift," the short he made for electronics company Philips, zipped around town.
You can view Rinsch's short film here. It's awesome. All ads should feature people getting stabbed in the neck and robots on motorcycles. It just makes sense. Rinsch is clearly primed to direct a giant sci-fi epic. And "Logan's Run" may be just the right project. The deal is this: in the future, the government kills everyone at age 30 to help prevent overpopulation. Anyone who doesn't report to be killed (wouldn't that be everyone?) is branded a runner. And a group of killers named Sandmen are sent to kill them. Logan is a Sandman who becomes – GASP! – a runner. The hunter becomes the hunted! And hopefully robots on motorcycles are involved.
This project was originally going to be in the hands of "X Men" guru Brian Singer, who has since moved on. It's a cool idea that was foiled all those years ago by cheap effects and really bad hair. But times have changed, and perhaps Rinsch is the guy to make this thing fulfill its potential at long last.


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EU ban on import and sale of cosmetics containing ingredients tested on animals leads Bio-Modeling Systems (BMSystems) and Persistent Systems to develop new testing models
Pune: Bio-Modeling Systems (BMSystems) and Persistent Systems entered into a joint systems biology R&D initiative. The strategic initiative is the world's first collaborative effort that marries non-mathematical heuristic modeling with mathematical modeling designed to increase the success rates of drug discovery and formulation development by pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.
A key deliverable of this joint initiative is the development of a predictive in silico or computer simulated skin model that will help eliminate the need to use animals in contact allergy testing. The initiative follows on the heels of the European Union's ban on the import and sale of cosmetics containing ingredients tested on animals, offering the industry a highly effective and essential alternative.
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The 2012 report marks the first time in six years a man hasn't made it into the top 10. In fact, the only man in the top 20 was late night host Jimmy Kimmel. Honestly, who the heck searches Jimmy Kimmel naked photos all day?
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We often talk about STEM (science technology engineering and math) education and how to get more students involved in programs that inspire them to go down the path of becoming an engineer or scientists. What we don't talk about often is that many times the schools or teachers who are being tasked with growing STEM, really don't have any background or basis to do so.
In my local community of Dallas we have a large group of Middle and High School FIRST robotics teams, one of the largest community makerspaces, an amazing startup community and even some of the biggest technology companies in the world, locally headquartered. This all adds up to an environment that you think would resonate down through our society to make things like making and tinkering as accepted as playing football. Unfortunately, like in many communities that just isn't the case.
Just yesterday, student from a local High school was arrested for bringing in his home electronics clock project. You may have read about the story already as it has been spreading through the national news very quickly. The unfortunate side of things is that it is being approached from a racial perspective, because of the student's ethnicity. It is very easy to make that leap and ask the question if all of this would have happened if he had a different skin color, but from my perspective this is a cultural and systemic problem much bigger than race.
My message in response to this story is not to attack the school, but we as makers need to help find ways to widen our reach into areas un-served. Things like Maker Faires and Robotics completions help to broaden the exposure but I consider those events "opt-in" where most people who attend, are already either interested in the community or part of it. The vast majority of the population is not actively seeking out these kinds of events and that is the real problem we need to solve.
I see this event as a good call to action, where we should be making sure that schools in our communities have the right support, and knowledge where they can avoid situations like this. Going into schools and volunteering is one of the easiest ways we can help. Programs like FIRST Robotics, and others are always looking for people to help out, and many schools don't participate due mainly to lack of mentors. If you have the skills and a bit of time I urge you to get out there and help. The more people we can include in our culture, the better we will all be.
On a personal note if by chance Ahmed sees this, I am willing to help you out how ever you need. Want a tour of Dallas Makerspace, or a spot on a local robotics team, or some parts from REV Robotics, just let me know…. You are the future and don't let what happened to you deter your ambitions in anyway.


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Too often we tend to our relationships after life's obligations have been met. However, that extra time is as mythical as a unicorn. Thus, our relationships get treated like a cactus, instead of the orchids that they are. And, like any orchid treated like a cactus, they wilt and their survival becomes threatened. But, if we treat an orchid like a cactus we don't blame the flower, unlike how we tend to blame our relationships. My approach to couple's counseling is mechanical. First, I help a couple to diagnose the problem(s). Then we do exercises to enhance intimacy, followed by exercises for solving problems and improving communication. I help couples to flourish as they used to.
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Couples therapy is available to partners in a variety of circumstances; any two people living together, employee and employer or any two people that have issues they do not agree on. Couples often come for help after they have reached a highly emotional state of mind. In order to resolve conflicts and understand troublesome difference of opinion therapy can be the proper way to move forward, eventually finding some peace of mind. Harlene Arenberg is from Scranton, Pennsylvania. She is a therapist and available for couples counseling sessions.
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Consigliere (Adviser) is an important position in a crime family. Considered as the third-most valuable position next to the Don, all of the Don's orders usually come through the Consigliere, although he holds no actual power.
The Consigliere is an adviser to the family and sometimes seen as the Boss's "right-hand man". They are often low profile gangsters that can be trusted. They are used as a mediator of disputes or representatives or aides in meetings with other families. They often keep the family looking as legitimate as possible and are sometimes, themselves, legitimate apart from some minor gambling or loan sharking. Some do not have crews of their own, but still wield great power in the family.
They are also often the liaison between the Don and important figures, such as politicians or Judges. A Consigliere's main job is to act as the Don's "auxiliary brain", helping the Don formulate plans. A Consigliere, by the very nature of his job, cannot afford to simply be a yes-man to the Don, and is one of the few in the family who can argue with the Don on family matters. When the Don comes up with a business plan, the consigliere has to constantly challenge that plan's weaknesses until it's foolproof.
The Consigliere is the only one in a family who knows all of the Don's contacts and secrets, and if made to talk, could bring an entire family to ruin. However, there is neither a future nor potential for profit in this, and so long as he keeps the faith, he and his family will continue to collect his rather substantial wages whether he is imprisoned or dead.
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A wedding trip to Mackinac Island is the honeymoon planned by Mr. and Mrs. Larry Cletus Laurent, who were married at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, Aug. 31, in St. Martin Catholic Church, Tonet. The bride is the former Miss Ruthann Irene Villers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Villers, Algmoa, R. 2. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Laurent, Luxemburg, Rt. 3, are parents of the bride-groom.
Maid of honor was Mrs. Wayne Cayemberg, with Miss Shirley Degrave and Miss Mary Ann Malcore as bridesmaids. Wayne Cayemberg was best man, with Dale Romvald and James Romvald as attendants. Ushers were Harvey Villers and Francis Queoff.
The newlyweds will return to Luxemburg, Rt. 2, after their honeymoon."
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Parents Who Host, Lose the Most: Don't be a party to teenage drinking is a program for communities that have experienced challenges with parent hosted underage drinking parties. This program provides all of us - educators, parents, law enforcement, prevention professionals and other community leaders with tools to become educated about the legal, health, and safety issues associated with allowing any one under the age of 21 to consume alcohol. Below are some resources for parents.
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911 Lifeline Legislation Amendment: Call for Help and Save a Friend
In March of 2012, the Ridgewood Village Council amended Ordinance #3065 prohibiting underage drinking on private property to include the Lifeline Exemption, "911: Lifeline Legislation." This amendment grants immunity to a minor who contacts 9-1-1 to report an alcohol-related medical emergency. The minor must be the first one to report the incident, provide his/her name, and he/she must stay at the scene and cooperate with the police and the medical emergency team when they arrive. The law allows up to four people; the minor who is ill, the person who calls 9-1-1, and up to two others assisting him/her; to receive immunity.
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"An underage person and one or two other persons shall be immune from prosecution under this ordinance if:
The underage person who received medical assistance also shall be immune from prosecution under this ordinance."
The "911: Lifeline Legislation" was signed into law by Governor Jon Corzine in 2009. The bill is similar to legislation enacted in Colorado in 2005. The purpose of the law is to reduce the possibility of teen deaths resulting from binge drinking and alcohol poisoning
This is not a "get out of jail free card", but a way to encourage teens to recognize the signs of alcohol poisoning and to take action to save a life. Under state law underage drinking or possession of alcohol on public property is a disorderly persons offense and carries a sentence of up to 6 months in jail, a fine of $1000 or both. In Ridgewood and in over 200 other NJ communities, it is a disorderly persons offense for underage persons to possess and/or drink alcohol on private property.* Violators will be fined and may have their driver's license suspended and may require the minor to perform community service. Knowing the law, teens might fear calling for help for a friend when a medical emergency presents itself due to alcohol consumption. It is important that teens know about this recently passed amendment.
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Joining the Safe Homes Parents Network provides parents with an opportunity to come together and communicate with one another. Being part of the Network can help alleviate the feeling that you are alone in the belief that students in middle school and high school should not drink alcohol. When parents sign the Safe Homes pledge, they let their children and other parents know that underage drinking is not allowed in their home.
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Cricketers in the Somerset village of Charlton Pilchered, who finished bottom of their district league last summer, will not be permitted to enter the competition this year. Blazered and flanneled officials from their Local Cricket Board of Control (LCBC) made the announcement, citing Charlton Pilchered's refusal to take village cricket over-seriously like all other Clubs under their jurisdiction.
An LCBC investigation into Charlton Pilchered Cricket Club, formed in 2009 after a group of former Sunday morning footballers decided to give up exercise, found that the Charlton Pilchered team were having a great time. Even at such a bewilderingly amateur level, this is clearly in contravention of the ethics of the stuffy, miserable game of cricket.
Being chatty with the umpire, or 'Ref' as Charlton Pilchered insisted on calling him, was considered to be inappropriate by LCBC, as was widespread laughter and piss-taking during play, especially when a team-mate made an almighty cock-up or got hit by the ball. The team's scruffy appearance was also questioned, although this was later explained by a regime of fines and forfeits for any player found wearing matching gloves, pads or socks. Or indeed, anything white.
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Throughout my training career I've seen an increased emphasis on personal management of soft-tissue function through the use of diverse techniques and tools. From trigger point devices to tennis balls, people are finding ways to massage and release their muscles and connective tissue in the privacy of their own homes and fitness facilities.
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Some of my favourite tools for body-rolling are foam rollers, body-rolling balls, softballs, and the Travel Roller.
These products can be interchangeable when treating some areas of the body, while other areas or muscles seem to respond better to one tool more than others.
Smaller, more targeted areas will likely need a small ball, while larger areas are perfect for the foam roller. Of course this also varies with user size and personal preference.
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*Muscles and other tissues usually respond better when they're warm. Always perform a thorough warm-up to elevate tissue temperature, increase circulation and lubricate your joints and tissues.
* Focus on areas that are tight or have reduced range of motion. One benefit of body-rolling is to release tension in the tissues that need it. Most people know where they're tight, but an assessment by an expert in body movement and mechanics, such as a physiotherapist, kinesiologist, chiropractor or massage therapist, might be a good idea to give you some direction about which areas you should roll.
* Position the roller under the soft tissue area you want to release or loosen. Be careful to stay on the soft tissues and avoid rolling directly over bone or joints, which could be painful and won't provide any benefits.
* Gently roll your body weight back and forth across the roller while targeting the affected muscle or structure. Rolling exercises are most effective if you can relax as much as possible and allow gravity to provide the force and pressure needed to release the soft tissues. If you're straining to support your position or create enough pressure, you likely aren't allowing your body to relax enough to experience the benefits.
* Move slowly and work from the centre of the body out toward your extremities where possible. For example, roll out your upper hamstrings before working your way to the lower hamstrings and calves.
* When rolling, you will discover small areas that are more tight or painful (trigger points). You may even feel pain referring to other areas of your body. To release these areas of tension, it may help to hold the roller in the same position for a few seconds, until the area softens. Some tools, such as a foam roller, may not be point-specific enough to target trigger points. This is where a softball, tennis ball or acupressure ball may be helpful.
* Roll over each area a few times until you feel it relax. It may feel very tender at the start and get progressively less painful, which is a good indication that the soft tissue tension is releasing.
* Keep your first few foam roller sessions short, and rest a day between sessions at first. You can gradually increase the duration and frequency of rolling sessions as your tolerance increases.
* Proper hydration is key to healthy tissues and the release of toxins following any type of massage. Drink plenty of water before and after every workout and body-rolling session.
Rob Williams is a kinesiologist and posture specialist in downtown Vancouver.


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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 12:04 am
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You are exactly correct what I should have said was Holsteins as well as other breeds are graded by the inspector and not the dairy industry, just pointing out that the breed is just as important in the final grading process.
Try Holstein Prime vs Hereford Prime etc .side by side and you'll soon understand the difference in eating quality>>BIG difference !!
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>>big difference
wish I could speak to that - but being 'off the farm' my source for beef is either the supermarket or our local butcher.
in the supermarket we've got "organic" labels and "Certified Angus Beef" labels but the rest is mystery breed beef - I'll ask the butcher (we have a real "meat cutting department" at the supermarket) and my butcher if they can specifically ID the breed.
our local butcher deals exclusively with a local slaughterhouse - he would certainly have some idea - or could easily inquire - about what breed the slaughterhouse always/sometimes processes. he's third generation of the business - he knows his stuff - does a mean dry age for my Christmas prime rib. when 'it's got to be good' he's my goto source.
I do a (long involved...) beef dish where I always use "top round" - but I have noted the results aka 'quality' aka taste is not especially consistent - could be differ breeds, there is no obvious clue from the packaging / labeling.
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Very seldom if a all will you find the breed of animal advertised, unless they are touting CAB "certified angus beef" and a few others that slip my mind.
Stick with native choice or prime, no exotic breeds and you should be go to go to enjoy a good steak. Most of the upscale Steak Houses use the high end of the beef spectrum, thats why you pay the preminum prices.
If you have a discerning palette as I do, you'll be hard pressed to find, at the least a decent steak in the moderatlely priced steak houses, eatable yes ,melt in your mouth with flavor and texture abound no. Good luck and good eating.
By the way what is the special recipe you prepare with the round steak ?
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>>a decent steak....
oh,,, indeed. more like "an exercise in chewing stamina" is more apt a description to some of that stuff.
>>the dish....
ahhh... it's one of those internal to the family "comfort foods" things, passed down through my mother-in-law. she called it hash, that's what we call it - but it's not quite the exact definition of "hash"
get yerself a roast, salt/pepper, in a heavy pot, brown heavily. most of the browning / crusting goes away in subsequent steps, so more browned / seared is more better, eventually, flavor wise..... I use 4-5 minutes on a 'side' - x 4 - allowing for rotation, + end(s)
after the browning bit, remove roast, in same pan caramelize a batch of half-globe sliced onion. leeks work as well,,,, when onions are done.... I like onions, I use 2-3 mediums for the average 3 lb. roast.
put the browned roast back in the heavy pan, add liquid to "almost" cover, bring to a boil, reduce heat, simmer - covered - for four +/- hours.
as for the liquid, I've used 100% water, 80-20 water/wine, 50-50 water beer. take yer pick. for wine, a super dry type not recommended; that dry/tart flavor concentration goes 'off taste' - go with a medium to sweet white.
remove from heat, allow to cool, refrigerate overnight.
next day, low heat reheat to a simmer - covered - add diced fresh garlic to taste - simmer 3-4 hours. recheck for salt&pepper.
if you've done it right, at this point you've got "pulled beef" - the meat fiber/bundles are falling apart. remove meat, ladle out pot juice & thicken for a light gravy.
extra flavor tip: use the pot juice to reconstitute dried mushrooms; remove mushroom 'bodies' prior to service - I'm sure there must be a culinary use for reconstituted stems/caps, I've just not found it yet. love the flavor, not so big on the left-over chunkies.....
with a really sharp knife, cut across the grain & serve meat+limp onion strands smothered in the gravy, over mashed potatoes.
heh, that was her story, and I'm sticking to it (g)
steamed/braised brussel sprouts is a good side - nice conflict of tart & sweet.
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In defense of the article prompted by the commenters....
"Organic", "Certified Angus", "KobeLoveYouVeryMuchBigTime", and others are great for improving your purchase perception. If you go to Japan try the Kobe but beware that your cash for a sushi-sized piece could have purchased both an excellent steak and good hooker back here in the States. If you buy Kobe here it will likely not be the same, much like the crappy beef they get from the US/Argentina/Brazil in the EU; any food product is going to be available at a higher quality locally. I digress. As an engineer from a beef raising family I felt the need to throw my hat in the ring here.
USDA grading is a great way to tell how your steaks will turn out, especially before you find a good butcher/can spot the golden cuts in a pile of big box packaging. A half-competent grill or oven operator should be able to make any Prime steak that has at least minimal aging (such as a 12hr cold kosher salt application or two days on a cooling rack in the fridge) a testament to the privilege of first-world living.
If this is not enough to satisfy your sick food fetish, however, there is a further option which the CfE folks in Austin can take advantage of with the ease of falling off a log. However, you damn Yankees may need to work/pay more for access. I am of course referencing direct sales of responsibly raised beef. While I have grown up with the good fortune of ready access to young beefs slaughtered having never seen a feed lot/antibiotics/ground corn "feed"/shit-reeking pens/pretty much any stress, most areas of the country are now served by a new generation of farmers and ranchers that offer the same access to those born without the marbled spoon in their mouth. I urge anyone that views cooking a quality steak as a privilege to investigate their local options. While they are not always the best available, they are almost certainly better than the grocery store pack.
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As I mentioned in a previous thread, I've acquired a four boxes of Caesar Hittites.
Without getting too technical, I'd like to build an 800+ point Field of Glory army to oppose my existing Mycenaean & NKE armies. So what figures can I add as allies & mercenaries to make up the numbers?
AFAIK: everything will need to be Caesar figures?
The Hittite boxes I have will supply a heavy chariot unit, some defensive spearmen, javelin armed skirmishers, a few bowmen & an armoured Royal Guard (heavy infantry spearmen): not enough units.
I have a Mitannian Light chariot unit already painted & some Sea Peoples who can be allies.
The Caesar Bedouin sets are a possibility as mercenaries? If so, I can add a camel unit, javelinmen & archers & a medium infantry spear unit.
Comments & suggestions are invited.