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First I want to say thank you to the E46Fanatics community on helping me decide on what kind of Head Unit to get.
I went for the Dynavin 99 plus Android.
Before I placed the order I called up and Jeff picked up promptly, I had a couple questions that was probably already answered online but he answered them anyway respectfully without making me feel like a dumb-ass. After a 2 minutes on the phone, I was sold. I asked Jeff if there was anything I needed in order to get the Dynavin working and since I don't have navigation he said 'nope' and everything was in the box.
SO... after I ordered, within minutes I had a confirmation that the order is shipped and a tracking number was provided. Cool!
Later that night I started reading more into the Dynavin because I was pretty excited on what I have just ordered and stumbled across the HVAC relocation kit. I was thinking to myself... dang it, I didn't get that. So I called Jeff back up the next morning and told him I forgot to get a HVAC kit. He said I didn't really NEED it but having one would make everything fit well... but unfortunatly the Dynavin unit already was shipped and I would have to make a new order.
Jeff covered the shipping cost for me which was cool.
Than... I keep on reading about the Dynavin and discovered about the rear backup camera. I looked up all the different camera and come to find out... Jeff sells the cameras too!
Here we go again, I called up Jeff... just in time before he shipped out the HVAC kit and asked him about the cameras he offers. I went with the small universal camera because I saw pictures of people having the hidden ones that goes in the liscense plate light, but I wasn't a big fan of it because it would not make the lights even on the plate (yeah I'm that picky).
So we got that order in just in time before the second package shipped.
Overall I give the experience of the customer service an A+, 10/10, 5 stars, you name it.
Just a note to Jeff.
I deal with sales myself and I find that you were very informative and helpful with my purchases.
Try up-selling someone who is already sold on your product!!!
For example: Me. I got the Dynavin, HVAC, and Camera all from you. I could of easily gone somewhere else to get a camera and what not, but I wanted to deal with as little vendors as possible. So tell/remind your customers on the other products you have that complement the Dynavin Unit.
Not trying to tell you on how to do your job, just giving my suggestions.
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One more time: the $439 advertised lease payment is for a car with ~$4,000 of options. Knock an option or 2 off, and you're in the high 300's. I was clear about this; perhaps you missed it?
Or perhaps you just want to be contrary and disagree with me. I'm cool with that even though it's not going to get you anywhere.
You have mentioned it, but in your last post you claimed the $1,500 would get you below $400/month.
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The extra 1500 bucks lowers the payment by 40 dollars
So if it's the base 528i and your removing $4k in options, the monthly payment will drop by more than $100 ($4000/36). Unfortunately, there is only one option listed in the offer which is $2,600, but that will still get you below $400/mo. If you want to put down another $7,200 then the payment will drop below $200/month. If you keep adding a few more grand your monthly payments will reach $0. Is $0/mo the best BMW lease ever? Well, that's called a single payment lease and should only be considered when we climb back towards double digit interest rates.
Anyway, I'm not here to argue with you, but I do try to make people aware of potentially misleading information by sharing the bigger picture. Putting $7-8k down is a bad idea, unless of course you are using it for MSDs.
If you are cool with it, then realize there have been incredible lease deals over the years. This one, although pretty good at the moment, doesn't strike me as the best ever. Sure the residual is up, but the money factor is also up and the incentvies have also been higher. I've seen the get you in the door $399 deals before. On the otherhand, just two months ago there was a 2yr 535 lease that several members got that struck me as a better deal overall. Good luck in your purchase.
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Basic issue with plotting derivative
Hi everybody,
I am using the 2d structural mechanics for static simulations of a cantilever undergoing a point force. I want to plot the derivative of the deflection u by respect to the position x along a boundary. But plotting d(u,x) gives me a zeroed value function.
By digging in the forum, I thought first that this may be due to the order of the shape function, but it should not be an issue in my case as I just want to know a first order derivative. It looks like a basic issue but I do not find the solution.
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February 21, 2013 1:23pm UTC in response to Michael Renaud
Re: Basic issue with plotting derivative
There are two issues here:
1. Since the Solid Mechanics interface is defined on the 'Material frame', the displacements are functions of the material coordinates (X,Y,Z) rather than the spatial coordinates (x,y,z).
2. Still, it will not be possible to evaluate d(u,X) on a boundary or an edge, since such derivatives are only available in the domain. So in a Volume plot, you would be able to display that quantity.
The solution to your problem is however simple: There are built-in variables uX, vX etc. which you can use in your graphs.
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Google on Monday unveiled a large-format tablet computer to compete against the original iPad as part of a revamped line of its Nexus devices, and touted a new music service for Europe.
Google said on its blog that its Nexus 10, a rival to the market-leading iPad, would be "the highest resolution tablet on the planet" and would offer settings for multiple user accounts.
The Nexus 10 appeared to be the firm's entry into the 10-inch (26 centimeter) screen tablet market pioneered by Apple, which last week unveiled a smaller seven-inch iPad mini to be sold alongside its 10-inch original iPad
Google also said it would be selling its Nexus 7, which has a seven-inch screen, with mobile access for GSM networks worldwide.
And Google unveiled its Nexus 4, a smartphone with a 4.7-inch screen manufactured with South Korea's LG.
"A Nexus device is much more than simply a phone or tablet. It's your connection to the best of Google -- all of your stuff and entertainment, everywhere you go with no hassle," Google's Andy Rubin wrote in a blog post.
"Now you have three new Nexus devices, a new improved version of (Android operating system) Jelly Bean and more entertainment than ever before -- all available in Google Play. The playground is open."
Google said the music offerings on Google Play, the firm's online store, would be launched in Europe on November 13, with a new feature to allow music in a customer's online collection to be automatically uploaded to the cloud.
It will be offered in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
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"This will be available in Europe at launch on November 13 and is coming to the US soon after. This will all be for free -- free storage of your music, free matching, free syncing across your devices and free listening."
Google had scheduled a news conference in New York for the announcement but canceled the event due to Hurricane Sandy.
The entry-level Nexus 10 will be sold at $399, or about $100 less than the least expensive iPad, starting November 13 in the US, Britain, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Canada and Japan.
Nexus 7, which was launched earlier this year, is available in the same countries, and the version with mobile data will go on sale November 13 in those countries except for Japan.
Nexus 4 will be offered in the US through T-Mobile and unlocked in Britain, Australia, France, Germany, Spain and Canada.
Google's Nexus 4 to have wireless charging
The leaked quick-start manual shows an induction coil at the back of the LG-built device, which would allow it to be charged by placing it on a charging mat rather than having to plug it in, CNET reported Monday.
The manual mentions a "wireless charger" and informs Nexus 4 owners they must only "use an approved model."
The manual was spotted after LG Australia released some product pages overnight, CNET said.
The Nexus 4 is expected to include 2 gigabytes of RAM, 8 gigabytes of storage, a 1.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor, an 8-megapixel rear camera and near-field communications for wireless payments.
Google had intended to unveil the Nexus 4 at an event in New York Monday morning but postponed the event because of approaching Hurricane Sandy.
Google did not announce a rescheduled date, saying it would do so in the near future.
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A higher-end Nokia phone, the Lumia 920, is meanwhile expected to be exclusively launched in the United States through the country's biggest operator AT&T, according to media reports.
Both launches are due in the first half of November, according to industry experts quoted in specialised media.
Verizon has some 95.9 million mobile phone subscribers, while AT&T has 100.7 million.
The success of the two models in the US, the market of reference for mobile telephony, is seen as crucial for Nokia's future as it falls behind on the smartphone market amid stiff competition from Apple's iPhone and Samsung.
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We are researching our line of Stevens which is taking us into Tunkhannock, Luzerne Co, PA.
We are believing that Eliphalet, the elder who was born 1731 and who married Elsie Holloway, the presumed d/o Joseph/Hannah (Soule) Holloway ~ may have had a brother Ebenezer Stevens who married an Elizabeth (?)....might you know of this particular brother of the elder Eliphalet as another son of Ebenezer & Abigail (Lord) Stevens?
We believe this particular Ebenezer Stevens may have died pre-1790 as Elizabeth Stevens was in the l790 Tunkhannock, PA census with younger children in her home.....by 1800, this Elizabeth Stevens is gone from the area......and we believe 2 of their children were named "Neze" Stevens and a Weston Stevens, they showing up in that particular 1800 Census ~ Tunkhannock, PA.
In your research have you uncovered any Stevens men that for some reason or another didn't fit into elder Eliphalet's family?
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It appears that some parts of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) government wants to snoop on Western governments and countries. Since then, I discovered that at least two news bureaus in China have had some of their e-mail accounts hacked. This only furthers my fears that China is engaged in wide-spread high-tech spying that may even go so far as exporting hardware that comes with built-in security holes.
Am I being paranoid? My buddy David Coursey thinks I may be "a tad over the top." As he points out, of the major PC manufacturers, only Lenovo is based in mainland China
Coursey also wrote: "Can you imagine the firestorm that would break out if it could be proven that computers were bugged?" Sure. Gigantic.
But, that presumes that those parts of the Chinese government that want to spy on the West care about Western public opinion. I doubt they do.
For years now, the U.S. in particular has been shipping manufacturing jobs offshore. Manufacturing, once the bedrock of the American economy, has been sold off piece-by-piece to the lowest-possible bidder. Often, that has meant high-tech manufacturing and jobs have ended up in China's Shijiazhuang National Hi-Tech Industry Development Zone and other Chinese provinces.
At the same time, China and the U.S. have grown increasingly strong economic ties. The two often don't see eye-to-eye though. And, the evidence continues to mount that at least part of China's government sees the West as an enemy that needs constant spying on.
Perhaps I am paranoid about general computer equipment. Even with server farms to weed out the wheat from the chaff of millions of PCs, it may not be worth the Chinese's time to filter out potential targets. But, what about networking equipment?
As a Slashdot commentator named Animats wrote about my article: "One of the obvious places to put in a "back door" is in Ethernet controllers. Many used in servers already have logic for hardware "remote administration" (turn machine off, reboot, load code, etc.). It is supposed to be disabled by default, and work only when initialized with keys during hardware installation. Just build a set of default remote administration keys into the chip, and everyone using that chip is 0wned. Send the right UDP packets, and you can take over the machine. This would be completely invisible until activated."
He's exactly right. Everyone in networking circles knows that a lot of gray-market networking switches are made in China. This equipment typically looks just like, say a Cisco switch, but it's actually a knock-off made on the cheap.
Then, of course, there's the legit network hardware that's made in China. Every move you make, every byte you make goes over networks. Place the right routers and switches in the right places, and you can watch every move your competition makes.
I wish I were paranoid. I wish I could simply dismiss this vision of how China might be looking at the outside world. Unfortunately, I keep reading the news, and I know who makes much of the technology we now use in our businesses and homes. So, while I wish this was an irrational fear, I fear that's nothing unreasonable at all about it.


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Richards: Making just his second Champions League start, it was Richards' pass into Milner's feet which carved Ajax open in the build-up to City's opener. 6
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Dzeko: Doesn't want to be called a super sub but the Bosnian was hardly super after being handed a start by Mancini. Missed his one clear chance to get City back into the game. 5
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They are befriended by the mesmeric Barlozzo, a self-styled village chieftain. His fascinating stories lead de Blasi more deeply inside the soul of Tuscany. Together they visit sacred festivals and taste just-pressed olive oil, drizzled over roasted country bread, and squash blossoms, battered and deep-fried and sprayed with sea-salted water. In a cauldron set over a wood fire, they braise beans in red wine, and a stew of wild boar simmers overnight in the ashes of their hearth. Barlozzo shares his knowledge of Italian farming traditions, ancient health potions, and artisanal food makers, but he has secrets he doesn't share, and one of them concerns the beautiful Floriana, whose illness teaches Marlena that happiness is truly a choice.
Like the pleasurable tastes and textures of a fine meal, A Thousand Days in Tuscany is as satisfying as it is enticing. The author's own recipes are included.
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2. San Casciano is itself a living, breathing character in the book. What is your most vivid impression of the town? How is it similar to, or different from, impressions you had about Tuscany prior to reading this book?
3. How do the author and her husband adjust to living in the rustic world of San Casciano? What does de Blasi see as the most rewarding and challenging aspects of this new life? In your view, what would be most appealing about living a similar existence in a simple, rural town? What would be the most frustrating?
4. How does de Blasi reconcile the tension that sometimes exists between "the simple life" and the march of progress, especially as she acclimates to her new environment? How do the villagers respond to this conflict—of "tradition versus the new"—in their own ways? Have you ever struggled with a similar tension in your life?
5. The author has said that this book is a companion piece to A Thousand Days in Venice. How does the book function as one standalone memoir, and how does it provide another piece in the puzzle of the authors life? Do you think all readers would benefit from reading these books in tandem? If youve read both books, does de Blasis mindset change from one to the next, with her change in location?
6. A Thousand Days in Tuscany is separated into sections delineated by season. Discuss this organizational technique. How does the framework of the book mirror the way that rural Tuscan life unfolds? Could you imagine this book organized in any different way?
7. On page 99, de Blasi writes, "Right now all I know is that in love there must be some form of desperation and some form of joy." Do you agree or disagree with this idea? How is this statement exemplified by the relationships in the book, particularly the one that de Blasi shares with her husband and the one between Barlozzo and Florìana?
8. De Blasi develops a passionate relationship with the land itself. Why does she so enjoy the grape and olive picking she becomes a part of during the course of the book? What connection does this give her to the earth? What activities do you enjoy that might impart that same sort of feeling?
9. "Both my clothes and I are survivors of some other time," says de Blasi on page 133. How do the clothes that the author chooses to wear evoke her personality and character? Why does she choose to wear one particular ensemble per season?
10. How does de Blasis discussion of food throughout this memoir impact your understanding of her life? Do you plan to try any of the recipes that the book includes?
11. Why do de Blasi and Fernando nickname Barlozzo "the duke"? Why do you think Barlozzo immediately takes de Blasi under his wing? What characteristics do the two share? How does Barlozzos counsel and involvement shape the life that de Blasi and Fernando construct in San Casciano?
12. How does Barlozzos story about his past give clues about the formation of his adult personality? Ultimately, how is he constrained by the ghosts of his parents, and how is he able to triumph over them? Have you ever felt a similar struggle with the past?
13. What about Florìana was so compelling, and to the author and Barlozzo in particular? Why do you think she was so private about her illness? How did her fellow villagers respect her need for privacy and, ultimately, for companionship?
14. The note that Florì leaves for Barlozzo reads, "I wanted death to find me dancing." How does Florìs attitude about death mirror the one she holds about life? If you needed to leave someone a similar note at the end of your life, what would it say?
15. In which ways are de Blasi and Fernando a study in how "opposites attract"? How do their different personalities and cultures play a part in their relationship? How are the two similar, both in their approach to their relationship and to their new life in San Casciano? How does their relationship evolve during their time in Tuscany?
16. De Blasi tells Misha that security "is a myth." Do you agree with her statement? What prompts Mishas concern about his friends safety and security? Do you think that Misha fears change? Why? Does de Blasi value "risk more than comfort," as Barlozzo contends? What is the largest risk youve taken in your life? How was it rewarding?
Jennifer Morgan Gray is a writer and editor in Washington,D.C.
Jennifer Morgan Gray: A Thousand Days in Tuscany is an autobiographical chronicle of your time in San Casciano dei Bagni. Did you keep a detailed journal during the time covered by the book? Was there one image or person in your life that compelled you to begin writing this memoir?
Marlena de Blasi: Friends keep giving me these lovely leatherbound journals, as though the empty books themselves would insure that I'd keep writing. I have quite a collection of blank ones and sometimes I recycle them, give them as gifts to others. But I did keep a journal of sorts during the San Casciano days, if not a particularly detailed one. I called it Florì's book. It was a way for me to tell her things even when we couldn't see each other or talk. I suppose I was the one who compelled the memoir, if "compel" is indeed the right word. I just wanted to tell my stories.
JMG: Do you view this book as a companion piece to A Thousand Days inVenice? How did you seek to make it a stand-alone work? Were there other titles you considered for either book and then abandoned? What is the "bittersweet adventure" of the book's subtitle?
MdB:Surely it's a companion piece to the first book. It begins on the very day we left Venice. But one who reads A Thousand Days in Tuscany first will not be at a disadvantage. I didn't have to try to make it stand by itself. It's a different story, albeit with two of the same protagonists. It recounts a whole other part of my life. A Thousand Days in Venice was my working title, my only title.The title I would never have considered changing. I was lucky that my publishers didn't ask me to. But A Thousand Days in Tuscany is a title of which I'm hardly very fond, but my publishers loved it.The title is not even true since the book covers only a single year. But I guess "Three Hundred Sixty-five Days in Tuscany" doesn't have the same ring. Apart from that little ruse, the book is not about Tuscany in the way that A Thousand Days in Venice is about Venice. The second book is more about people than it is about place.The original title was Dolce e Salata. Sweet and Salty. "That's how life tastes to me," I think I say at some point in the text. A Thousand Days in Tuscany is not another finding-the-villa-and-choosing-the-marble-for-the-staircase sort of story, or one about the darling peasants who come to clean the house and cook the suppers.The story is as much about pain as it is about beauty.All sugar or all salt—both end up as oppression.Even in Tuscany.
JMG:You discuss your husband, Fernando, and his "Quicksilver" nature at great length, beginning on page 93.What was the most difficult aspect of dealing with Fernando during those episodes? How did your relationship evolve during that time?
MdB:Once we'd been in Tuscany for a few months, Fernando began to blossom and the Quicksilver in him faded rather fast.The episodes I write about happened very early on in our Tuscan days.These were backlash events, the result of his unmanaged expectations more than anything else. He wanted his peace to arrive with our baggage. I think many people suffer delusion if they are convinced that serenity is geographical.The "If only I lived in Tuscany or Paris or Rio, then everything would be fine" song. As for what I found difficult during those periods, I think they were actually much more instructive than they were difficult. I learned that it was wrong for me to expect Fernando to be anyone but himself. In addition to his character, his very culture played a part. It's simpler to quote the text. These crises of his, which feel oddly like betrayals, cause desolation in me.And I have to push hard at that desolation so I can remind myself of how he is made. All this behavior is an expression of his character, inexorable as bones and blood. Besides that, Fernando is Italian, and he knows what I can't learn. He knows that life is an opera that must be shrieked and lamented and only once in a while laughed. I must tell you that having lived for almost twelve years in Italy now, I've become a bit unused to all this therapists' lingo about "relationships" and such. Here there's much less of that. Here people deal more in emotions than in excavation.We leave the digging to the archeologists. What I will say is that love—the real kind that happens only when both people love each other more than each one loves himself—ALWAYS grows.ALWAYS gets stronger. Nothing and no one can do much damage.And of course the converse of that is also true—if it's not love, it can't become love, no matter who the therapist is.
JMG: Barlozzo takes you and Fernando under his wing from the beginning of your time in Tuscany.Why do you think he immediately did so?
MdB:I think that in the text I talk about how Florì viewed Barlozzo's attraction to us. She said that he liked us a pelle, from the skin. It was an instinct,much like falling in love is instinctual. Indeed, it was love that we all felt, and still feel, for one another.That's what Florì meant when she called us "complicit."Over the years, I've come to understand that—at first sight and more thereafter—I reminded Barlozzo of his mother, who died when she was not yet thirty. I think I talk in the text about his comparing me to his mother. Eyes, voice,mystery. He said we were very much alike.
JMG: What about Barlozzo was compelling to you from the outset? How do both of you "trust risk more than comfort"? How was Barlozzo's relationship with you different from the one he enjoyed with Fernando?
MdB: I say in the text that it was always "high noon" when Barlozzo arrived on any scene. I say that he looks a little like Gary Cooper. Now if you put both of those images together, perhaps you can understand why I found him mesmeric, gritty. I think that just as he was drawn to us instinctively, so were we drawn to him. A purely emotional response. Many readers want to know if I saw him as my father figure and I suppose I did, and do, but he's much more than that to me. I guess I'll save the rest of the answer for another book. As for our mutual trusting of risk more than comfort—either one of us believes in the myth of security. I think a person can chase safety—in a relationship, a job, a house, a bank account, any number of things—for all his life, as though safety were life's entire goal.As though there were some prize for arriving at the end of life with all that "safety" intact, even if one also arrived not having lived that life, never once having walked to the edge. In the book I'm writing now, there is a part where Fernando and I have just spent an evening with two very old sisters who live in one of the grandest palazzi in Orvieto, women who've played things close to the chest for eighty years, never risking so much as their children's wrath or a single strand of rubies, I tell Fernando, "Poor souls, they've had a safe life. Now they're old and sad, their mettle untried." As for how Barlozzo's relationship was and is different with Fernando—well, the two of them are children together.They both immediately become about ten when they see each other. It's a gift each of them gives to the other. Now with me, Barlozzo gets to be old. Maybe even older than he really is. He gets to talk about dying and being fearful. He gets to talk about the past. And I get the same things from him.
JMG: On page 215, you write, "Mathilde and Gerard had so much because they had so little." Similarly, how did living in San Casciano give you perspective on what was truly important in life? What do you think is most alluring about the prospect of living "the simple life," and what are its challenges?
MdB: I honestly don't think that the people of the village gave us perspective. Remember that at least some significant percentage of them was trying to "escape" village life.Traditional life.They wanted to trade medieval life for "the pink and yellow cement palaces in the post-war part of the village." What some of them might have done for us was to present, close up, images of who we wanted and didn't want to be as we grew older. Everything is distilled in a hamlet of two hundred souls. But I think there's evidence on almost every page of the book of our perspective on the simple life.We never really measured our choices in a clear-cut "allure versus challenge" sort of way.We never got out the yellow pad and drew two columns. I, more than Fernando at the beginning, was in thrall with the idea of weeding and scrubbing at life, of making it smaller, in a sense. Relieving it of things and thoughts and pursuits that didn't add to our peace, and even relieving it of a few people who we knew could only continue to be themselves. And the smaller we made our life—no job, no house, not much money—the larger it became in terms of appreciation. There is a sense of privilege rather than of deprivation which comes with simplicity. Bread and oil and wine are a feast.A length of silk is a treasure. A day, a whole string of days spent walking and thinking and lying down in a field or wading in a river—not knowing if it's the wind that makes you shiver or the revelation that this, this is how you really want to live—these composed our perspective. None of this is to say that in dreams there are no responsibilities. All dreams, at least the ones you really want to come true, begin with work. And so one invents the next thing to do. And the next one after that. Simplicity is not for the faint-hearted. Nor for the feint-hearted either.
JMG:Were you surprised that you so easily fit into the rhythm of the town? Was there a particular point when you really felt as though you belonged?
MdB: No, I wasn't surprised. I would have been surprised not to have felt comfortable. I've traveled alone so much in my life, found myself in situations both awkward and marvelous, grim and enchanting in so many places in the world that, somewhere along the way, "fitting in" became natural. When strangers sense a person's interior comfort, they become much more at ease themselves and differences—even in language—diffuse. Besides, the truth is that we're all much more alike than we're not. Another truth is that "belonging" is a rarity even among people who have been together forever—living, working, being neighbors. They are almost never a cohesive tribe, if you will. So the desire for a societal belonging has never been an issue for me. I know that I belong everywhere as much as I know that I don't belong anywhere.
JMG: As I was reading, I found myself wincing whenever Misha opened his mouth! And it seems as though others, like Barlozzo, did as well. How is such a contentious person such a source of comfort—and a great friend—to you? Has he been to see you since his inaugural visit?
MdB: As you might recall, Misha was a psychiatrist. Can you imagine being one of his patients? Barlozzo and Misha locked horns. In some ways they were just too much alike.About the same age, each one sprang from a very different culture and each one also lived through some stunningly difficult times.Years before, when I lived in California, Misha and I had become friends. In fact, at one point he believed he had fallen in love with me, though that idea passed quickly enough. But there always remained some wisp of jealousy from him where I was concerned. He showed it when he first met Fernando and, in a sense, when he met Barlozzo—though for an altogether different reason. He felt that Barlozzo had usurped his role as general sage and guiding spirit in our lives. Also, Misha knew when he came to visit us in San Casciano that he had only a few months left to live. He never told us this, not until he'd returned to California.And so the intention of his visit had been to "knock some sense" into us while he still could. But his letter from California said, among many other things, that he'd gone away from us with great contentment. Strangely enough, Misha and Florì died within a few days of each other.
JMG:What do you think incited Barlozzo finally to tell you the story of his family? How did his past weigh him down? And what do you think finally prompted him to live beyond the secrets and demons of those who lived and died before him?
MdB: Going back to that sentiment of instinct about which we spoke earlier, I think it played its part at this point as well. He felt safe with us. He'd carried the demons about with him until he found a safe place to put them down.To close the door on them. In the book I'm working on now, there is a scene that might help to explain "how his past weighed him down." He tells me, "I wish I'd done what you did." He whispers this. "I wish I'd loved someone more than myself. Myself whom, over time, I couldn't distinguish from my sadness. As though I was made of sadness and there was nothing to do about it, and so I got used to it. Came to cherish it. Obedient as to a king, I followed where it led me. I thought it was me who was obliged to shelter the past.To keep it burning at all costs.A fire in the rain. Except for Florì, the sweet respite of her, my life has been made of other people's lives. I wish I'd done what you did and claimed one for myself."
JMG: Were you surprised when Barlozzo suggested he might buy a house for the four of you—him, Florìana, and you and Fernando—to spend time together? What about that gesture was characteristic and uncharacteristic of him? After Florìana's death, did he follow through on those plans?
MdB:Yes, Fernando and I were both stunned on the day when he first brought us to see his "ruin."What I think he was after was to make up for lost time. At that point, he and Florì had finally begun to live the love they'd had for each other for forty years. Rather than like a man beyond seventy, he was behaving like a young man in love, wanting to buy a house for his "bride," wanting to have "children," wanting to "settle down." He wanted all the things he'd never had or thought he could have. So, it was a magnificent gesture. Heartbreaking, really.He thought he would live with Florì, share the house, from time to time, with us. And this sweetness is both characteristic and uncharacteristic of him. Florì called him buono come pane, good as bread.And that's what he was and is. But he'd become very good at being rascally, too. At hiding his vulnerability behind the guise of a scoundrel. As for whether he followed through on those plans—well, the dream died with Florì. But in the book I'm writing now, you'll see what happens with the "ruin."
JMG: Do you think you and the other women would have gathered around Florì's bedside had she not asked you to? How was it a cathartic experience for all of you? And how was it just a fun party that captured her spirit?
MdB:We were all happy when Florì said she wanted to be fussed over for a few days.We'd all been longing to take care of her from the first day she came home from the hospital. But she resisted us then, remained thoroughly self-sufficient. I believed her when she told me, "I can do that now that I know I'm well. Before, when I wasn't sure, the idea of everyone being around me seemed too scented in farewell." So, no, I don't think we all would have arrived at her bedside unbidden. I don't think the event was cathartic as much as it was nourishing, enriching. No one left behind their delusions or their pain or their memories in Florì's bedroom that day. Rather,we came away with an exalted sense of our courage.We were all in the Red Tent together in tribal celebration of our childhood and our womanhood. How was it just a fun party that captured her spirit, you ask? In no way was it that. No way at all.
JMG: How did you feel about leaving on a three-month trip to research a book in the wake of Florì's death? Do you think you would have done so without Barlozzo's approval (whether tacit or overt)?
MdB: When Florì was sick and I wanted to go to the hospital to be with her, Barlozzo admonished me to love her the way she wanted to be loved rather than in the way I wanted to love her. In other words, she needed to be alone, and so the best way to love her was to let her be. It was much the same after Florì died. All I wanted to do was to keep Barlozzo close to us.To grieve with him. But that's not what he needed from us. He needed to be alone.The best way to love him at that moment was to let him be.A loud resonance there. Too often, when someone is ill, others relate that illness to themselves. Either thinking: "What if it happened to me?" or, perhaps worse, "How will their illness, dying, and death affect me?" Or, the absolute apex of egotism, "I can't take all this suffering." The person who is ill can't even be the protagonist in his own illness. As it turned out, by asking us to let him be after Florì died, by his telling us that he would much rather be alone, what Barlozzo accomplished was to strengthen the intimacy among he and Fernando and I. More about that in the next book.
JMG: I've read that you and Fernando have launched the project of leading tours together. How do you enjoy working together as a team? What do you think the most important element of exploring a new place is—in other words, do you have a philosophy on how to best enjoy traveling?
MdB:Well, as far as our working together, that's the lovely part. I do the talking and the cooking and Fernando does the charming and the driving. Succinctly put. But the truth is, we don't have all that much time for that part of our lives at the moment. I'm always writing the "next book."At this point,we usually program no more than six to eight weeks a year for touring with our guests.With very few exceptions, this work has put us together with some of the most magnificent people we'd ever hoped to meet. In the book-inprogress, I do tell some of the stories surrounding these tours.
JMG: How was writing a memoir different from the food-based writing—including cookbooks and criticism—that you usually do? What were the challenges of the memoir? How did you find it a liberating project?
MdB: This is a great question because normally one would expect that the leap from food books to memoir would be a giant one. But in fact, when I was writing cookbooks, they weren't cookbooks at all but a collection of recipes with memories. Now that I'm writing in the memoir genre, I include recipes. In a sense, I've always done both. Even when I was a food critic for all those years, I always wrote about the history of a place or of the chef or of his grandmother. So my writing life has always been very much of a piece. Only the balances have shifted. The challenges of a memoir? To tell other people's stories along with your own. More than your own.To develop all the players.To let yourself be seen in resonance, reflection rather than under hot, white light. Some writers are too busy with their own lives to be collecting impressions about others.When they set about to write their story, the result can be one long egoistic narrative. Not so many of us live such fascinating lives that the telling of them can stand alone. Was it a liberating project? Well, everything one does passionately is liberating, isn't it? I love my life, I love to write. I love the hard parts about being a writer more than the easy parts, though. And there are lots of hard parts.
JMG: Do you have any special writing routines or methods that facilitate the process and stoke your creative juices? Do you cook a great deal while you are writing?
MdB:I cook a great deal when I'm writing and when I'm not. I cook and bake with great constancy, shall we say. Fernando rations my flour during writing periods so I get only a kilo a day.Two decent loaves. One for a neighbor, one for us. I rotate my bread route. I even bring bread to the baker, trade him for flour. But as for routines—no. I write mostly in the very early mornings (while waiting for the bread to rise; didn't I tell you that my life is all of a piece?) but sometimes I don't sit down to write until late afternoon. I would feel throttled by a routine of any kind. As for stoking the creative juices—I have trouble the other way. I find inspiration in the smallest events and so my fingers are always trying to catch up with my racing mind.As for methods—Do you mean going to writers' conferences or joining writers' groups or taking classes and such? Well, I've never been to a writers' conference and I hope to continue to evade that experience.All those churning, churlish, starving people waving manuscripts at one another. And most writers' groups are not peopled by writers at all.As for creative writing classes,well you can't teach a body to write words any more than you can teach it to write music.You can teach a person to write poetry because poetry has more technical flesh on its bones.You can teach someone the rudiments of how to put color on a canvas (not teach them to paint, mind you) since there's technical skill wanted for that, too. Same thing goes for all the fine arts. But I've never known a writer who learned how to write.Though I have known a few who became decent plagiarists. If you're a writer, you write.
JMG:Do you try to sit down at your computer and write for a certain amount of time each day? For instance, are you predisposed to writing in the evening, the morning, or just whenever, as you say, your fingers are itching to catch up with your mind? Are there any writers you love to read when you're about to plunge into crafting your own words?
MdB:No, there's no preordained plan as to when or for how long I'll write. But since I'm not a sleeper and am awakened by the muses at no later than five each morning, I already know—before sunrise— if it's a long session I'll want that day, a shorter one, or just an hour or so to read what's already there.That daily-changing sense of things is what gives my writing life its shape. In the same way that I don't sleep much, I don't rush much either. I read at least half the time in Italian. Mostly classics, once in a while a contemporary work. Rarely, though. Italian literature has been in a slump for years. Maybe centuries. I read happily in Italian, although I do so, in part, because I live in a place where books in English, at least good books in English, are hard to come by. My non-Italian reading is often dictated by the secondhand books my friends send to me or by the care packages posted by my British and Australian editors. From my own stacks, I read and reread the dead Europeans. And the Russians. All of them.
JMG: What can your readers expect from you next?
MdB: I'm working on a third memoir, the working title of which is: In via del Duomo 34. Our address here in Orvieto. It's a continuation of Tuscany, just as Tuscany is a continuation of Venice, but, too, it's a story unto itself.


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Tropical Biology (BI 221) and Field Studies in Tropical Biology (BI 222) constitute a four-credit, two-course sequence that introduces students to the biological complexity of tropical ecosystems. BI 221 is a 2-credit course offered during spring semester (odd years) that examines the fundamental scientific concepts and theories that describe tropical systems. Course work will cover a variety of topics, including the natural history of tropical biota, patterns of species diversity, rainforest ecology and conservation, coral reef ecology, and Belizean history and culture. BI 222 is a 2-credit course offered in the summer (odd years) that complements the understanding of tropical biology students have gained in the classroom by providing a hands-on field experiences in the ecologically diverse Central American country of Belize. Throughout the trip, Saint Anselm faculty (Dr. Eric Berry and Dr. Lori LaPlante) and local experts will lead field exercises in two of the most species-rich ecosystems on the planet, the neo-tropical rainforest and coral reef. With its emphasis on Belizean ecosystems and travel within the country, this course provides students a unique opportunity to learn about and then experience the ecology and culture of a different country.
Watch a short video from previous classes in the rainforest or out on the coral reef. See pictures at our Facebook site.
Note to Biology majors: completion of both BI221 and BI222 are necessary to count as one of your major elective laboratory courses.
Dr. Eric Berry earned his Ph.D. in Botany studying a threatened palm species in the cloud forests of northeastern Mexico and has nearly 15 years of teaching and research experience in tropical forest ecology. In addition to regularly teaching the Belize course, Dr. Berry has travelled extensively throughout the tropics, visiting tropical forests and savannas within the Bahamas, Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, and Panama. He is an active member of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation and is SCUBA certified.
Dr. Lori LaPlante earned her Ph.D. in Ecology studying the reproductive biology of fish in Long Island Sound (CT), the Great Barrier Reef (Australia), and Okinawa Japan. She has nearly 20 years teaching and research experience in tropical marine ecology. Dr. LaPlante is an experienced world traveller having spent the last 20 years travelling on unbeaten paths in countries like Australia, Belize, Ecuador (Galapagos), Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, and South Africa. She is a Master Scuba Diver with additional certifications in rescue diving, dry suit diving, night diving, scientific diving, scientific nitrox diving, wilderness first aid, and CPR.
Trip Includes
- Saint Anselm College summer tuition (2 credits)
- 1 day of savannah field studies at Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
- 4 days of rainforest field studies at Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary/Jaguar Reserve
- 6 days of coral reef field studies at Tobacco Caye
- 1 night accommodation at a hotel in Belize City
- All housing, ground transfers, and most meals in Belize
- The expertise of Saint Anselm College faculty Dr. Eric Berry and Dr. Lori LaPlante
- This course is open to all majors who have taken one semester of college-level biology
- Participation is limited to 12 students, priority is given to students who completed BI221
- A $500 deposit (nonrefundable) is due with application. The deposit will be credited against course fees.
- For information on immunizations for Belize, visit the Center for Disease Control Web site.
- Additional supplies/gear will be required for the course. Review the packing list (114 KB) for details.
To apply, contact either of the faculty instructors.
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A proactive response to the mobbing problem : a guide for HR managers
Shallcross, Linda, Ramsay, Sheryl, & Barker, Michelle (2010) A proactive response to the mobbing problem : a guide for HR managers. New Zealand Journal of Human Resource Management, 10(1), pp. 27-37.
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This paper introduces the concept of workplace mobbing as a destructive organizational behaviour of psychological assaults perpetrated against the target causing them harm and loss of employment. The discussion is drawn from a three year Australian study of 212 self identified targets of workplace mobbing behaviours. The behaviours are typically covert with informal networks and friendship loyalties providing effective mechanisms for emotional abuse, including those arising from human resource management practices. This paper discusses the manipulation of informal sources of power, with the use of gossip, rumour, hearsay, and innuendo to discredit and demonise those targeted. The study explores some of the systemic reasons for these behaviours and identifies some of the contributing risk factors and suggests management practices that can minimise the harm caused.
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Does Google Have an Ethical Obligation Not to Spy?by
Many Americans are outraged at the government for mining user data from Apple, Google, Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants. What about the actions of the companies themselves -- have they met their ethical obligations to their customers and society as a whole? Do they even have any?
The Washington Post reported that the National Security Agency collects data "directly from the servers" of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple. While some companies issued carefully worded denials of involvement, it's hard to imagine they were unaware of the arrangement, however they choose to describe it.
Assuming that the companies found the program an infringement on our liberties, could they have declined to provide the government the information it requested? Ultimately, probably not; it seems unlikely they would have met the requests had they not faced a legal obligation to comply. But legal and ethical obligations aren't necessarily the same thing.
Take the recent case of Apple's use of Irish subsidiaries with no tax residency to avoid U.S. taxes; the tactics may be legally sound, but ethically dubious. Now turn that around: If companies are willing to go to such lengths to get around U.S. tax law, is it too much to ask that they apply the same creativity to avoiding the surrender of their customers' private information?
In Apple's case, that may have happened. Apple looks to have resisted the government's requests for years. What does that say about other companies, which complied more quickly: Are they better corporate citizens, or worse?
The role and obligation of the corporation in American society is an unsettled question. When Mitt Romney proclaimed that "corporations are people" in 2011, he sparked a combination of ridicule and outrage. But Apple, Facebook and Google occupy an increasing space in popular culture, and they're judged not only for the products they sell or the profits they generate, but also the way they treat their workers, pay their taxes and even design their headquarters.
The surveillance debate raises the question of whether our expectations of these companies and their leaders should also extend to the defense of our civil rights. Imagine, for an instant, that Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg had held a press conference in 2007, when the government first began seeking this access, and said to the public, "The government has asked for your information, and we don't think that's right."
Faced with that kind of corporate civil disobedience, what would the government have done? Arrested them? Closed down their operations? Taken the companies over? It seems unlikely. More likely, the government would have backed down, at least temporarily. And the next time Congress tried to co-opt the nation's most prominent companies in its intelligence gathering, it might have thought twice.
The point isn't that these companies should have stopped this program from starting. It is that they probably had the power to do so, when so few others had that power. The line about great power and great responsibility is apt: Does the ethical burden increase with the consequences of a company's decisions?
This week's revelations demonstrate the centrality of Silicon Valley to American life, in ways we never imagined. In the face of that expanded role, maybe it's time to revisit what it means for a company to be a good corporate citizen, and whether that includes acting as a check on the government when no one else can.
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Hey guys, I usually get the random /tell asking me if I know someone at such-and-such of crafting level to make them items. I figured it'd be a nice idea to compile a list of crafters who are willing to commission items and perhaps, even forgo the expensive AH prices/fees.
Please include your name, main craft + level, support craft + level, and any conditions that you wish to be included. (Inspired by Baron von Walkerscrisps' color coding!)
As the list grows, I will start separating this directory by crafts & levels.
Here are some to begin with: (In order of craft)
Name: Bri
Craft: 100 Alchemy + 2 equips
Support Craft(s): 60 Cooking, 50.1 Clothcraft, 50 Leathercraft, 46.4 Goldsmithing, 38.6 Smithing, 24 Woodworking
Conditions: Bring me the materials and I'll make it for ya.
Name: Fndragon
Craft: 100 Alchemy + 2 equips
Support Craft(s): 55+1 Goldsmithing, 34 Smithing, 20+ for most other crafts.
Conditions: You've gotta find me to get me to synth something. :)
Name: Gabrielx
Craft: 100 Alchemy + 3 equips
Support Craft(s): 60 Smithing, 60 Woodworking, 20 goldsmithing
Conditions: Negotiable depending on synth. Hakutaku Cluster: 50k
Name: Kaida
Craft: 100 Alchemy + 3 equips + 3 advanced
Support Craft(s): --
Conditions: Negotiable
*Keyitems: Anima Synthesis, Alchemic Ensorcellment
Name: Kaindgs
Craft:100 Alchemy +3 equips +3 support
Support Craft(s):51+1 goldsmithing, 30 smithing, 30 cooking, 10 woodworking, 11 cloth, 7 bone.
Conditions: Usually negotiable. Depends on whether you want to buy an alchemy-synthed item or get an item synthed. Usually sell the hktk clusters.
Name: Nedrea
Craft: 78 Alchemy + 2 Equips XD
Support Craft(s): 11 Cooking
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: Nichan
Craft: 88 Alchemy
Support Craft(s): 52 Goldsmithing, 37 Cooking, 15 Smithing
Conditions: And ive already helped many who see me in this thread and look me up, dont hesistate to ask? Its always free and im on most PST nights and afternoons. Good luck everyone ^^
Name: Bartal
Craft:88+2 Smithing
Support Craft(s):60+1 Goldsmithing, 60 Clothcraft, 60 Leathercraft, 60 Woodworking
Conditions: NQ synths are generally at no cost. Unplanned HQ synths are subject to a 50%(HQ-NQ) fee. Planned HQ synths are subject to additional conditions and fees so it is best to contact me and I can provide a quote. Any high profile signed item I make I would ask the opportunity to buy back rather than you putting on the Auction House.
Name: Genomage
Craft: 82 Smithing + 2 Equips
Support Craft(s): Clothcraft 53, Goldsmithing 51 + 1 Equip, Woodworking 40, Leathercraft 25
Conditions: Most synths are free... any HQ hi-lvl synths, probably 50% of the HQ-NQ price (negotiable).
Name: Greendestiny
Craft: 100+3 Smithing
Support Craft(s): Everything @ 60 except cooking...(?)
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: Marseilles
Craft: 100+3 Smithing
Support Craft(s): 60 Woodworking, 60 Cooking, 60 + 1 Goldsmithing, 60 Clothcraft, 60 Leathercraft, 60 + 3 Alchemy
60 Bonecraft, 19 Fishing.
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: Noremac
Craft: 67 Smithing + 1 Equips
Support Craft(s): 60 Alchemy, 60 Bonecrafting, 60 Clothcraft, 60 Goldsmithing, 60 Leathercraft, 60 Woodworking
Conditions: Bring me the materials and I'll synth for free (NQ & HQ), as long as its not used for profit.
Name: Toyomoyo
Craft: 81 Smithing + 1 Equips
Support Craft(s): 90 Fishing, 49 Goldsmithing, 53 Cloth, others @ 60
Conditions: Free synth for friends =)
Name: Fifty, Fiftyone
Craft: 61.1 Bonecraft
Support Craft(s): 59.8 Woodworking, 21.2 Smithing, all others 2 11+.
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: Immasureloc
Craft: 100 Bonecraft + 3 equips + 3 advanced.
Support Craft(s): 60 + 1 Leathercraft, 60 Alchemy
Conditions: Negotiable.
Name: Mandy
Craft: 54 Bonecraft + 1 equips
Support Craft(s): --
Conditions: Free Crafting (Bring the ingrediants and ill craft). Donations will be excepted if you want.
Name: Rehana
Craft: 69 Bonecraft + 1
Support Craft(s): 37 Cooking, 30 Fishing, 36 Leather, 20 Goldsmithing, 31 Clothcraft, 10 Smithing
Conditions: If you need anything just give me a /tell or message and we will work something out. Anything I make that is signed, sell back to me when finished with the item.
I've made 4 attempts at Scorpion Harnesses (1 NQ, 2 HQ, 1 break - didn't lose claw on break). Need any tips on crafting let me know, there are a few things to HQ's that aren't posted anywhere :P
Name: Saraodomin
Craft: 97 Bonecraft +2
Support Craft(s): 57 Leathercraft
Conditions: If you come to me with materials, I will craft MOST things for free. However, donations are much appreciated.
Name: Skycloud
Craft: 100 Bonecraft + 3
Support Craft(s): 60 Leathercraft+1, 60 Alchemy+1
Conditions: NQ items - FREE
HQ items - 10% worth of most recent AH jeuno price
Name: Sofrah
Craft: 100 Bonecraft + 3 equips + 3 advanced
Support Craft(s): --
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: Arilon
Craft: 80 Clothcraft
Support Craft(s): 43 Goldsmithing, 13 Woodworking
Conditions: Option [1] Level of the synth x 1000 gil (rounded up to the nearest 10k). Option [2] Free synth, if the result is +1 we split the profit. Customer supplies materials, and can supply any conditions (moon/day/time). All Synths are free if they fail.
Name: Falazure
Craft: 89.7 Clothcraft + 3 Equips + 3 Adv.
Support Craft(s): 59 Woodworking, 22 Alchemy, 41 Gold smithing, 52 Black smithing, 25 Bonecraft, 50+ Leathercraft
Conditions: Negotiable.
Name: Greenfource
Craft: 81 Clothcraft + 1 Equips + 3 Adv.
Support Craft(s): 60 cooking, 15 Smithing, 13 Goldsmithing
Conditions: Buyer provides the materials. I synth.
- I fail, I will give back 10% of items lost cost, gil-wise, up to 100k. Unless you're asking me to synth something above my level OR you have me synth something not at a proper time/day.
- I NQ, hand the product over. If the materials cost the same as the AH cost I charge nothing. If the materials cost less then AH cost I charge 50% of difference(ie. Materials cost 900k items costs 1mil, 1mil - 900k = 100k/2 = 50k charge)
- I HQ, I charge 50% of the difference between the NQ and HQ. (NQ = 1mil, HQ = 2mil, 2mil- 1mil = 1mil/2 = 500k charge).
If you do not want to pay for the HQ I will either keep or sell the HQ and pay you the 50% difference and either buy or synth you a NQ.(so, using the example, you can either pay me 500k for the HQ or I will pay you 500k and either attempt the synth again or get you a NQ.)
Name: Honnan
Craft: 94 Clothcraft
Support Craft(s):
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: Hyabusa (alc. vol.%40)
Craft: 98 Clothcraft + 2 equips + 3 Adv.
Support Craft(s): 60 Leathercraft, 51 Goldsmithing, 54 Smithing, 23 Alchemy
Conditions: Buyer provides materials and I synth for free if Im not busy. Synths above level 70 bast rate of 30K, I will charge more for rather valuable synths such as V cloak. For signature add 5K.
H.Q. rules: Should I HQ something I will either buy you the NQ and give it to you, or you pay 50% of the price difference between the NQ and HQ. As always negotiations can be made to all of these rules.
Should failure occur there is no charge for my time, and I will not be held responsible for your materials.
Name: Irocky
Craft: 90 Clothcraft + 1 Equips + 3 Advanced
Support Craft(s): 50 Leathercraft, 60 Cooking
Keyitems: Spinning, Cloth Purification
Conditions: Negotiable. Usually don't charge.
Name: Maximal
Craft: 95.2 Clothcraft + 3 Equips + 3 Advanced + Related Moghancements
Support Craft(s): 60.0 Leathercraft, 60.0 Goldsmithing, 54.5 Smithing
Conditions: Price is very dependant on synth, travel time, day of syth moon etc. Also dependant on quantity. /tell for estimates.
*Keyitem: ? purification
Name: Skeeve
Craft: 88 + 2 Clothcraft
Support Craft(s): 25 Goldsmithing, 25 Leathercraft
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: Treye
Craft: 99 Clothcraft + 3 equips + 3 advanced.
Support Craft(s): 60 Leathercraft, 60 Blacksmithing, 51 Goldsmithing.
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: Ambusher
Craft: 42 Cooking
Support Craft(s): 13 Fishing
Conditions: I will require a certain amount for crafting, plz obtain all of the ingredients yourself.
Name: Arisu
Craft: 70 Cooking
Support Craft(s): --
Conditions: Negotiable
*Keyitems: Raw Fish Handling
Name: Clarkus
Craft: Cooking 95
Support Craft(s): 12 Woodworking
Conditions: Negotiable, I'm usually out in the field so if you go through the trouble of buying the ingredients and finding me I'll probably do it for free.
*Keyitems: Raw Fish Handling
Name: Dsturbd
Craft: Cooking 100
Support Craft(s): 60 Alchemy, 60 Clothcraft, 60 Bonecraft, 60 Leathercraft, 60 Woodworking, 60 Goldsmithing, 60 Smithing, 50 Fishing
Conditions: Negotiable.
Name: Dizmo (Jenovax's mule based in windurst)
Craft: Cooking 90
Support Craft(s): None
Conditions: 10k per highish priced order of food is preferred, but can be negotiable if you are only ordering a small amount, do not ask me to obtain ingredients myself and don't complain when I break ^^.
*Keyitems: Raw Fish Handling
Name: Greenfource
Craft: 70 Cooking
Support Craft(s): 80 Clothcraft, 15 Smithing, 17 Goldsmithing
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: Hiru
Craft: 45 Cooking
Support Craft(s): 19 Fishing
Conditions: None really. I only care that if some of the ingredients are pricey, that you provide them. This does not include crystals.
Name: Kathel
Craft: 100+2 Cooking
Support Craft(s): 100+4 Fishing
Conditions: Will synth for free if available.
*Keyitems: Noodle Kneading / Raw Fish Handling / Patissier Key items
Name: Katsako
Craft: 97.7 + 3 Cooking + 3 Support
Support Craft(s): 14 Fishing, 14 Woodworking, 24 Goldsmithing
Conditions: Negotiable
*Keyitems: Raw Fish Handling.
Name: Merlee
Craft: 56 Cooking
Support Craft(s): --
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: Nineinchnailz
Craft: 50 Cooking
Support Craft(s): 40 Goldsmithing 20 Smithing
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: Poodlehat
Craft: 100 Cooking
Support Craft(s): --
Conditions: Negotiable
*Raw Fish Handling
*Noodle Synthesis
Name: Rasantath
Craft: 95 Cooking + 1 Equips
Support Craft(s): --
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: Shorty
Craft: 100 Cooking + 2 Equips + adv. support
Support Craft(s): 55 Goldsmithing, 50.8 Fishing, 34 Smithing, 60 Alchemy, 17 Bonecraft, 14 Clothcraft, 5 Leathercraft, 28 Woodworking
Conditions: Will synth anything, but a tip would be nice. Will not synth for those who will use it for profit.
*Keyitems: Raw Fish Handling.
Name: Sparx
Craft: 93 Cooking
Support Craft(s): --
Conditions: Negotiable
*Keyitems: Raw Fish Handling
Name: :Tyrian
Craft: 43 Cooking
Support Craft(s): That's it. Cooking.
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: Zeenna
Craft: 100 Cooking
Support Craft(s): 20 Alchemy, 20 Woodworking, 4 Smithing, Fishing 24
Conditions: Negotiable
*Keyitems: Raw Fish Handling
Name: Jylomulie
Craft: 57.8 Fishing + 1 Equips
Support Craft(s): 53 Clothcraft 37 Cooking
34 Smithing
Conditions: Skilling up on Noble Ladies; willing to sell for less then AH prices upon negotiation. All other fish subject to time and availability.
Name: Toyomoyo
Craft: 90 Fishing
Support Craft(s): 73 Smithing, 47 Goldsmithing, 53 Cloth, others @ 60
Conditions: Free synth for friends =)
Name: Aurellia
Craft: 50 Goldsmithing
Support Craft(s): 20 Smithing, 10 Woodworking, 6 Leathercraft, 3 Alchemy, 2 Clothcraft
Conditions: Negotiable
*Keyitem: Gold Purification
Name: Fangorn
Craft: 55 Goldsmithing + 1 Equips + 3 Advanced
Support Craft(s): 52 Alchemy
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: lilmidgetnate
Craft: 66.9 Smithing + 1 Equips
Support Craft(s): 49 + 1 Goldsmithing, 60 + 1 Bonecraft, others.
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: LordKev
Craft: 100 Goldsmithing + 3 Equips + 3 Advanced.
Support Craft(s): 60 Alchemy, 60 Clothcraft, 60 Bonecraft, 60 Leathercraft, 60 Woodworking, 60 Smithing. Conditions: Negotiable. Will not synth for those who overbid for synthesis materials.
Name: Knighthawk
Craft: 55 + 1 Goldsmithing
Support Craft(s):
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: Liluth
Craft: 56 Goldsmithing
Support Craft(s): 22 Smithing
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: Veres
Craft: 100 + 3 Goldsmithing
Support Craft(s): 36 Fishing, 31 Woodworking, 34 Blacksmithing, 21 Leathercraft, 37 Bonecraft, 58 Alchemy. (100+3 Alchemy on mule, 100+3 Wood on another mule.)
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: Blight
Craft: 96.2 Leathercraft + 1
Support Craft(s): 60 Clothcraft
Conditions: Negotiable ... generally only charge for HQ's and high lvl synths...
Name: Cares
Craft: 98 Leathercraft + 3 equips + 3 advanced
Support Craft(s): 60 + 1 Clothcraft, 45 Smithing, 60 Alchemy, 52 Goldsmithing
Conditions: Charge for highlvl expensive items: generally 100k, behe leather, byrnie, RDM JSE, etc..
Name: Faffy
Craft: 83 Leathercraft
Support Craft(s): 56 Smithing, 53 Clothcraft
Conditions: Negotiable
Name: Pyroman
Craft: 83 Leathercraft + 1
Support Craft(s): 56 Smithing, 52+1 Goldsmithing, 41 Woodworking, 22 Clothcraft.
Conditions: Negotiable depending on synth.
Name: Qatsi
Craft: 95 Leathercraft + 1
Support Craft(s): 46 Smithing, 51 Clothcraft
Conditions: Terms: NQ is free, successful HQ is 1/3rd the cost difference from HQ to NQ.
Name: Clavical
Craft: 69 Woodworking
Support Craft(s): --
Conditions: Negotiable
*Keyitem: Lumberjack
Name: Dyunei
Craft: 90 Woodworking +1 equips
Support Craft(s): 41.9 Goldsmithing, 31 Smithing, 17 Bonecraft, 3 Cooking
Conditions: For the moment there will be no commission charge (i.e. I work for the thrill of seeing the excited look on my customers' faces!!), just send me a /tell in-game and if i'm not busy i'll be happy to synth it for you.
*Keyitem: Lumberjack
Name: Exhile
Craft: Woodworking 94.5(+1 equips)
Support Craft(s): 55 Alchemy, 45 Smithing, 33 Goldsmithing, 9 Bonecraft
Conditions: prefer not to do Cursed items, will craft anything if given materials for free
*Keyitem: Lumberjack
Name: Gamindral
Craft: 100 Woodworking + 3
Support Craft(s): 60 Smithing, 60 Alchemy, 60 Bonecraft, 60 Goldsmithing, 60+1 Bonecraft
Conditions: Negotiable. (commision is in stored favours)
Name: Izual
Craft: 67 Woodworking
Support Craft(s): 30 Alchemy, 15 Goldsmithing
Conditions: Negotiable
*Keyitem: Lumberjack
Name: Odysi
Craft: 100 + 3 Woodworking
Support Craft(s): 53 Bonecraft, 44 Blacksmithing, 31 Cooking
Conditions: Negotiable
*Keyitem: Lumberjack
Name: Playajson
Craft: 100 + 3 Equips + 3 Advanced Woodworking
Support Craft(s): 50 Smithing, 50 Goldsmithing, 25 Leathercraft
Conditions: If HQ 1/4 Of price. Example "HQ staffs @4mill I will charge 1mill and if you're a friend, 500k, Link Free
If NQ, i wont charge. But i know alot about crafting which directions for HQ what days whats moons i know it all.
*Keyitem: Lumberjack
Name: Pyscal
Craft: 72 Woodworking
Support Craft(s): --
Conditions: Negotiable
*Keyitem: Lumberjack
Name: Quufer
Craft: 74 Woodworking
Support Craft(s): 53 Smithing, 53 Clothcraft, 51 Bonecraft, 41 Goldsmithing, 35 Leathercraft
Conditions: Negotiable
*Keyitem: Lumberjack
Name: Saro
Craft: 60 Woodworking
Support Craft(s): 25 Goldsmithing, 60 Alchemy.
Conditions: No charge for any single synth, HQ or not. If it's more than one synth, I may charge or ask you to wait until i'm finished with my own crafting. I'll usually never ask for money, but tips are good ^^.
*Keyitem: Lumberjack
Name: Schlauch
Craft: 100 +3 Woodworking
Support Craft(s): All subs 60 or 60+1.
Conditions: Bring me materials and its free even if I HQ! I'm sick of ppl charging for crafts...it cost nothing to craft and ppl wanna charge for HQ when they arent even thier materials...Need something? look me up its all free!
Roughly 10/12 on merzaq synths ^^
Name: Xaine
Craft: 98 Woodworking + 2 equips
Support Craft(s): 60 Bonecraft + 1, 60 Leathercraft, 60 Smithing, 35 Goldsmithing
Conditions: Send me a tell if you need anything, i dont charge for crafting if you have to materials.
Note 1: It may be best that you know what the synthesis recipe is prior to approaching the crafter for a commission. Be prepared to get the ingredients, if necessary, and lastly, don't spam them. Happy hunting. :)
Note 2: HQing is a tricky business. Do not kick and scream at your crafter if they do not HQ. They tried their best under the circumstances.
Edit: Apparently this idea already spawned from another person on the Fenrir server by the name of Rekini. I didn't know about it until now (as I don't check the Fenrir threads...at all), so credit goes to them! :)
Edit 2: Controversy regarding Advanced support as being +2/+3. It's a 1 level difference, use your discretion.
Edited, Fri May 20 16:21:27 2005 by Railus
Edited, Nov 17th 2009 5:46am by Nedrea


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First European Cruise Adventure: Eurodam Cruise Review by Wichita Senior Cruiser
Overall Member Rating
First European Cruise Adventure
Destination: Europe - Western Mediterranean
Embarkation: Rome (Civitavecchia)
Food on the ship was better than average, based on our past cruise experience, in the Rembrandt Dining Room. We had open seating, but the concierge arranged the same table for 2 each night that we ate there. The waiter and sommelier assigned to the table were personable and provided good service. We had More room service several nights and it was always good, warm, and brought in a reasonable amount of time. Our only big dining disappointment was the night we made reservations at the Tamarind Grill, the pan-asian restaurant. The concierge had told us the wasabi encrusted beef tenderloin filet was really good, so we both ordered that. The ambiance was nice, the service good, and the appetizers were very good. The steak, however, was tough and chewy. We should have sent it back, but it was getting late and we were getting tired.
We enjoyed each of the ports we visited. In most places, we found the double decker busses with hop-on and hop-off and included earphones that plugged into a port and then you selected the language you wanted. It gave good information about the sites in each city and time permitting, we could hop off to actually see the attraction up close. In Paris, however, since we were there for one day and it was a 3 hour trip each way from the port to Paris, we took a bus tour arranged by HAL, as did our friends, which added to the experience. Think we saw about all we wanted to see in Paris and had a nice lunch at a brasserie that had been arranged as part of the tour...a pleasant experience compared to what we had expected (like a box lunch?) for a bus load of tourists.
Our big disappointment was with the disembarkation and the events that followed, once we got to Dover. We were supposed to disembark around 8am, but time drug on and finally they announced things were running behind because of a "baggage handling issue". We had asked the concierge for the best way to get to London from Dover, bus, train or taxi, and she recommended the bus arranged by HAL, so we bought tickets for the bus...which turned out to be a huge mistake. We finally disembarked around 9am, found our baggage, and headed for the bus. There were actually 3 or 4 busses lined up to go to London so we got on one of them. We were about 30 minutes down the road when one of the passengers asked the driver when we would be getting in London. The driver said we were not going directly to London, as a couple on the bus had missed the 2 busses that were to go to the Gatwick Airport so he was taking them to Gatwick Airport before going to London...really? Nobody told us that before we left. The driver indicated told us that it would be about another hour from the Gatwick Airport to London, once we dropped them off. About 20 or 30 minutes later, the bus driver pulled the bus over to the side of the highway, opened the door and got off the bus. He got back on shortly thereafter and told us all to get off the bus and stand by the side of the road. When we got off the bus, we could see smoke coming out from under the bus and not long after, a couple of fire trucks arrived and started spraying water under the bus. By this time, it was also raining on us. The bus driver told us another bus had been dispatched and would be here in about 30 minutes, which was not even close. He blamed traffic on the highway for the delay, which was more like an hour and a half. Then all the baggage had to be transferred, and then the passengers. By this time, some of the passengers, including us, were wondering why they were inconveniencing all the rest of us for these two people who missed their bus...it certainly was not our fault. One guy suggested they order a cab for these two people to take them on to the Gatwick Airport so the replacement bus could take us to London. Another said we would even take up a collection to pay for the cab. Another suggestion was that they take us to London before taking this couple to Gatwick, because if it was because they had a flight to catch, they had certainly missed it by now. The driver finally conceded to contact HAL. He later reported that HAL had denied the request and we were still going to be taking this couple to the Gatwick Airport. An unhappy busload of people finally arrived at the train station in London at 3pm, not 10am as we had been told when we made the arrangements. Some passengers only had this day to see London as they had a flight out the next day. We felt sorry for them as we had arranged a couple of more days in London after the cruise, but we also were extremely disappointed we missed this first day of touring London. We felt cheated out of it by HAL. We caught a cab and headed for the hotel and by the time we were checked in, it was about time for dinner and nothing else.
HAL sure knows how to leave a bad taste in your mouth if you were one of the 40 some people on the bus who they inconvenienced, but those 2 people, who were strangely silent during this whole ordeal, must have been pleased with HAL's attempts to satisfy THEIR needs. Kind of makes you question HAL's decision making, if nothing else.
We paid a lot of money to go first class on this cruise, but in the end, we were given bad advice and then treated in a very rude and inconsiderate manner by the HAL representatives. Less
Published 06/29/10
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