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me in prison costume and being handcuffed by a guard. great day on the set of Orange Is The New Black!
1. Besides the temp job (gotta get these bills squared away...), I'm training to get my TESOL certificate to teach English as a foreign language (Mom said, "enough with the secretarial stuff" for a day job and I finally listened!)
2. I booked a tiny part on Chris Rock's latest film project, tentatively titled "Hammy the Bear" (had a cute flirting scene with JB Smoove who is even funnier in person!),
3. Spent my weekends on set shooting the independent short film called "The Bridge" (so nice to NOT play a stereotype Black female character - had a great time!)
4. Getting this move together - again. Ugh, moving is such a pain!
5. Orange is the New Black.... and that's what I'm blogging about today. :-)
This week, I got called in to do a nude shower scene on the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. They asked me if I'd be ok with nudity and I said yes. Blame it on having been raised in Italy, Germany and France, but I have no problem being nude around people - not in a sexual way, just in a hey-man-it's-all-nature kinda way. I'm THAT girl at the gym locker room who's looking at you like you're the freak when you get in the sauna wearing your workout clothes or a bathing suit... So the requirements for the scene didn't scare me away. I was just blissfully excited to be working on this awesome show! The call came in Thursday, the scene was Friday. I had less than 24 hours to get "shower ready". If you're a woman, you know the first thing that popped into my mind: BIKINI WAX! Because I was not about to get caught on camera with bush...this was an emergency, ladies, you know what I mean. Coincidentally, I'd gone in for one 3 days earlier (at Eve Day Spa, the only place I've trusted with my bikini line since I moved to New York!), but, just my luck, all the waxers were out doing an all-day continuing education seminar (huh?!), so I postponed a week and spent the cash on a something else not thinking I'd need an emergency wax in just 3 days... So now I had 24hrs to fix my "situation" and not enough cash. Lesson: Actors, ALWAYS keep a $200 stash for random acting emergencies (transportation, headshot reprints, last minute beauty appointments...). :-)
So yesterday, at 7am I reported to Kaufman Astoria studios and .... I had the best day ever! We started with the shower scene, I was, literally, in the middle of breakfast (that studio has the best crafts services!!!) and suddenly they were calling us up! We then spent hours naked, being sudsed up with shaving foam and bubbles over and over for each take. Then we spent another few hours in prison uniforms for a scene near the prison commissary. So that was my day. Everyone's been asking how it was and what it was like, so here are my observations:
1. Orange is the New Black (OITNB) employs more women on their crew/production team than I've ever seen on any show or film I've worked on. That is FANTASTIC! Powerful women in film!!! A beautiful thing to see.
2. Law and Order SVU used to be the only show shot in NYC that regularly looked for Black actresses and for all these years I've felt like I was the only Black actress they never called (loser!?). Now, it's OITNB and I'm proud that this time I haven't been left out. ;-)
3. It's an incredibly rare event to be doing a scene with a dozen other naked Black actresses. We bonded. How could we not? It was like a sorority initiation experience. I have a group of very cool new friends.
4. I will never be ashamed of my body. Short, tall, thin, fat, butch, femme, old, young... the sheer force of so many brown skinned women naked in this small space was incredible. It felt....mighty! I expected to feel a bit vulnerable being filmed showering in prison would, but instead it was empowering to be around all these proud, cool women.
5. The set is like being on a cruise ship - buffets of all kinds of food everywhere! I couldn't stop eating (what is it about free food that makes us lose our damn minds?!) Again, best crafty ever.
6. At one point, we were all lined up against the wall, topless with towels wrapped around our waists (waiting to be soaped up with foam and bubbles by the costume ladies) and I looked down the row of us and thought for a second that we looked like a National Geographic photo of some central African republic's tribal ceremony.
7. Prison uniforms are ugly as sin and hideously unflattering, but it's the boots that are truly awful. Ours must've weighed a good 10lbs each. It was like walking in cement blocks. So if you see my episode and I'm walking like a gangster, it's probably just from the sheer weight and discomfort of those damn boots. ;-)
8. I'm conflicted about sharing when the episode will air. Yes, I'm proud of the work and super excited to get a foot in the door on this show! I even shared the news on Facebook, which is something I don't usually do. But, I'm also conscious of the fact that gawkers will be tuning in to see my lady lumps all nekkid. And, as fantastic as my tits are (and, darling..., they truly are fantastic) that's not really the point, it is? So I'm not sure I'll announce the episode date. I'd rather people tune in for a scene where the focus is on my acting, not my hoo-hah. ;-)
Anyway, it's a hectic time for me, that's why the blogging is spotty, and probably it will be until the end of the year when this move is complete and I'm set up in the new place (not announcing that info 'til I'm there, though - I've learned my lesson!). But I'm so proud and grateful for all this work. Things are looking up. :-)


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Thursday, January 3, 2008
Teens are Using the Library!
Posted by Kelley B at 3:20 PM
Some of you may have seen this article which Karen Brooks-Reese shared on the teen listserve, but if not, check it out. It's great to know that they're using the libraries!
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With tiny, Internet-connected computers everywhere these days, home automation is finally hitting it big. [Jelora] was looking for a few more home automation projects and realized his electric meter had a pair of 'digital information outputs'. With a Raspberry Pi and a few bits of wire, he figured out how to read this digital output and put a log of his electricity consumption up on the web.
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Remote sensing applications that make sense and cents? (sorry, couldn't help ourselves) That's what [hackersbench], aka [John Schuch], aka [@JohnS_AZ] is working on as his entry for The Hackaday Prize.
He received a multi-thousand-dollar water bill after having an underground pipe break and leak without knowing it. His idea will help you notice problems like this sooner. But if you actually have a way to capture data about your own water use you also have a tool to help encourage less wasteful water use habits. We wanted to learn more about the hacker who is working on this project. [John's] answers to our slate of questions are after the break.
Gas, Water, and Electricity monitoring
From the look of this you can tell that [Jasper Sikken] has some pretty interesting stuff going on to monitor the utilities in his home. But it's important to note that this is a rental home. So adding sensors to the gas, water, and electric meters had to be done without making any type of permanent changes.
The module above is his own base PCB which accepts an mbed board to harvest and report on usage. His electric meter has an LED that will flash for every Watt hour that is used. He monitors that with a light dependent resistor, crafting a clever way to fasten it to the meter using four magnets. The water meter has a disc that makes one revolution for each liter of water that passes through it. Half of the disc is reflective so he uses a photoreflective sensor to keep track of that. And finally the gas meter has a reflective digit on one of the wheels. The sensor tracks each time this digit passes by, signifying 10 liters of gas used. He also monitors temperature which we're sure comes in handy when trying to make sense of the data.
[Thanks Stephen]
Water tank level meter prevents overflow
Most of the homes in the area where [Raikut] lives have tanks on the roof to hold water. Each is filled from a well using a pump, with gravity serving as a way to pressurize the home's water supply. The system isn't automatic and requires the home owner to manually switch the pump on and off. [Raikut] made this process a lot easier by designing an LED bar indicator to monitor the water level.
The sensor is very simple. Each LED is basically its own circuit controlled by a transistor and a few resistors. A 5V signal is fed from 7805 linear regulator into the tank. The base of each transitor is connected to an insulated wire, each extending different depths in the tank. As the water rises it completes the circuit, illuminating the LED.
[Raikut] is conservation minded and built a buzzer circuit which is activated by the LED indicating the highest water level. If someone walks away from the pump switch while it's filling the alarm will sound as it gets to the top and they can turn it off before it wastes water.
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Testing caps with a DIY ESR meter
There's a problem with collecting old tube amps and vintage electronics – eventually the capacitors in these machines will die. It's not an issue of a capacitor plague that causes new electronics to die after a few years; with time, just about every capacitor will dry out, rendering antique electronics defective. The solution to getting old gear up and running is replacing the capacitors, but how do you know which ones are good and which are bad? With [Paulo]'s DIY ESR meter, of course.
An ideal capacitor has a zero equivalent series resistance, and failure of a capacitor can be seen as an increase in its ESR. Commercial ESR meters are relatively cheap, but [Paulo] was able to build one out of a 555 chip, a small transformer, and a few other miscellaneous components.
The entire circuit is built on stripboard, and if you're lucky enough to find the right parts in your random parts bin, you should be able to build this ESR meter with components just laying around.


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Discussion in 'Classic Menswear' started by Claghorn, Jan 6, 2014.
Definitely go with the 48 then. Winner.
Is that the windowpane or the solid Minnis fresco?
I thought you returned yours?
Guys, I'm telling you, my fit is NOT perfect. Take a look at the back of tchoys recent B&T suit...that's what I call perfect. I will never get that with RTW, but Formosa is a damn good fit for me. Don't get unrealistic expectations from one crappy picture I took that really doesn't show the fit all too well. I think Rudals and AJL will be looking just as good if not better after a trip to the tailor, but yes...I do have a big grin because I love these suits.
I have not returned it. It's still the best suit that I have. LOL
I will hold it for now.
FYI I'm also about the same height as you (though my license says 5'8" ) and I never even thought to consider a Short in Formosa.
No, I don't have that blue plaid (yet). Happy to take your 48 off your hands if you want to send it up north.
dang, you gentlemen are wearing 50r at 5'8" -ish?
I am 6' ft but wearing a 48r. I do have a longer torso and shorter legs though...
Yeah and those 38rs fit you very poorly.
What? No, my better fit is the 48. Which is why I'm happy to take the 48 that's too small for you off your hands.
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It's the windowpane, aka subtle plaid, 11 oz H&S. Procured for purposes of fit only, though now I'm wondering, hmmm...
Nah, pants are too tight, just checked. I'd have to go the mto jacket & pants separates route, though I believe that ship has sailed. Besides if I were going that route I'd probably opt for something like the 11 oz birdseye or Minnis fresco, were they available as mix 'n match.
Not that this isn't a lovely suit, just wouldn't be my first choice given the other options.
Okay, fellas, I can take a hint, sheesh...:tounge:
in about 5'10 in my 54R. fat boi ftw.
isnt murl like 6'8 or something?
6'3", I wouldn't want to be 6'8". I can pull of the 50 using the hand cup and ass cover rules, but not the BOC to floor. My legs are too long so that never works. If a L was offered, I would buy it, but my R is nowhere near Thom Browne territory so I'm good as far as I'm concerned....which is all that matters.
FWIW, I would've never guessed you're a size 54. You look way more slender than that. Kudos to your sense of what fits and flatters you(r body)!
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As with any slot machine, the first thing that hits you about Pamplona is the graphics and visuals. This machine is set in a background that looks very much like a bullfighting ring, although some may argue that it has more than a touch of the Colosseum at Rome about it – either way the stage is set for an epic scene. The reels are set in an ornate grid that's touched up with elegant, curling decorations, much like the spears used by matadors in the bullring. Reel symbols are exactly what you'd expect on a game like this – full of bulls and flamenco fans together with a bunch of well crafted poker symbols to make up the numbers.
One thing we really love about the Pamplona slot machine is the cool Spanish inspired music that floats around the reels when you take a spin on this game. It's full on Mariarchi style sonics that'll have you jumping up to do a little bit of hot-stepping Flamenco dancing on your very own living room floor as you get into the spirit of the theme. The audio then accelerates when you find your way into the bonus round where the fingers of the Spanish guitarists catch on fire as the feature burns out the big wins. Fantastic noise that really works well with the bullfighting theme of this machine, setting a Summertime fiesta vibe that's really fun.
The base game in Pamplona uses the good old Multi-Way Xtra system that you'll probably have already encountered on other IGT slots such as Fire Opals and Star Trek: Against All Odds. However, if you haven't played with this marvellous winning system then we'll explain it for you briefly here. You're paid out for any combination of consecutive symbols that read from left to right on the reels, and you'll also get a multiplier for every single time the said combination appears. This might sound a little complex, and we have a fuller explanation of this system in the Treasures of Troy review, but trust us when we say if this system wasn't easy and accessible then slot players simply wouldn't put up with it.
In addition to the Multi-Way Xtra system you do get a bunch of special symbols to help you on your way to some wins on the reels of Pamplona. There's a wild symbol that works in the normal fashion, helping you make those all important winning combinations, together with the bonus game scatter that grants access to the free spin round. In addition to this you get a whole bunch of stacked jackpot symbols that hold the key to hitting the big multiple combinations on the reels here.
The bonus game in Pamplona is activated when you hit three or more of the blue bull scatters anywhere in view on the reels. This takes you instantly to a second screen sub game where you get to choose an amount of free spins together with a multiplier. The bigger your free spin count, the smaller your multiplier and vice versa. The maximum limit is 30 spins with up to a 3x multiplier on each spin or if you want to go for death or glory you can try for 5 spins with up to a 20x multiplier on each spin. Beware here as each spin will have a different multiplier which will often not be as high as you hoped. We're sure the Slots Prof has something to say about this in his game play guide below – but just don't get caught out.
Slot Professor Says
Whilst other Multi-Way Xtra games have been copied several times – for every Treasures of Troy there's a White Orchid and a Crown of Egypt and for every Siberian Storm you've got a Day of The Dead and then some, there was one machine that featured this ways to win mechanism from IGT that stood on its own – Garden Party. That was until now, with Pamplona taking the formula from this Summertime slot machine and adding a little bit of a fiesta flavour into the mix.
I'm wondering why IGT are suddenly going for all these Hispanic themes on their machines? First we saw Day of the Dead with it's Mexican influence and now Pamplona is coming at you full of matadors and Spanish bullfighting, making me wonder if there's some new market that they're set on getting into. Whilst I don't really care too much for the theme of any machine that's been endlessly re-skinned as for me this makes both the original and the remake a little less special, I can't help but think that they're up to something. Still, with the exception of High Five Games, this does represent yet another foray into the world of online slots that's very short on originality. I don't know if you're feeling the same way as I am about this, but I would love to see IGT release a game that's up there with the likes of Cleopatra or Rainbow Riches.
What do I like about Pamplona? Well I've not quite finished with what I don't like about it – I believe that the graphics on Garden Party are better, although the sound on Pamplona is quite addictive. Saying all this the base game is good, the bonus round is quite exciting once you've got your head round the fact that you're only getting a multiplier that could be as much as 'x' times your normal payout. I prefer to always go for the middle to high amount of spins at the lower multipliers as this seems to payout the best range of prizes.
Despite all my sabre rattling Pamplona is a very good slot machine, especially when you compare it to the many Cryptologic and RTG titles that are still doing the rounds. The sound is great, the look is both colourful and visually appealing and the wins are there to definitely be won. I guess the thing is that I've been a champion of IGT slots for so long now I'm just expecting them to be a bit better than their slots were a few years ago and perhaps, just perhaps we're seeing a noticeable decline in quality based on their own high standards.


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Like many expectant mothers, Raquel Maldonado looked forward to the act of giving birth to her baby girl. However, the weeks leading up to the baby's delivery didn't quite turn out how she expected.
At 32 weeks pregnant, Maldonado was told by her doctors that her baby was breeched. She and her husband discovered that it was illegal for midwives to deliver breech babies in California. This meant she would require a C-section to ensure her and the child's safety.
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The last few weeks leading up to Alexa's birth, I was scared. I was terrified of this surgery. I was afraid of this scar and the long-term effects it would have on body and my mind.
I was worried I would feel inadequate, like I didn't give birth to her. So many different fears lingered, but SO many other mamas told me, it would all be OK.
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|3 days / 2 nights or 2 days / 1 night Alpilles ride - 2017
April 14 - 16 or
440 € / 3 days
May 24 - 26 or
440 € / 3 days
June 02 - 04 or
440 € / 3 days
|September 29 - October 01 or
September 30 to October 01
440 € / 3 days
October 21 to 23 or
440 € / 3 days
gypsy caravan accommodation
60 €/nuit
Small group supplement if only 2 or 3 riders book, refunded if we find a 4th rider
2 days : 50€ / person
3 days : 75€ / person
4 days : 100€/person
Single room supplement : +60 € per night ; 180 € for 3 nights to pay on site.
If you are willing to share your room with another rider during the ride but we are unable to find another person to do so, you will be accommodated in a single room without supplement.
- the trail ride as described in full board basis,
- Total and unlimited financial guarantee (APS) of all payments made to us (see "why ride with us ?"),
- Protection of the French Law for travel consumers who book through French travel agencies (see "why ride with us ?").
Depending on day time or season, colors and light change, landscapes are always different but the local French accent and the warm welcome are always present.
Day 1
Meeting point at the stables around 9am. You will be explained your itinerary for the day and will get on your horse to start the ride. We will stop for lunch outside on the way, where a nice local meal would have been prepared.
Dinner and night at the guesthouse.
Day 2-3
We ride around 5 or 6 hours. Our guide will choose our itinerary depending on the conditions of the trail to make sure you have the best time possible.
Itinerary 1 : St Remy de Provence
Itinerary 2 : Alpilles Peak
Itinerary 3 : Aureilles
Itinerary 4 : Lake Bauxites
Day 4
We take the road towards Mouriès « the olive's capital ».
This charming typical village is nestled in the middle of the Alpilles. We pass through olive groves and near a beautiful traditional mill.
For lunch, we have a picnic and play Pétanque, the traditional southern sport.
Then we get back on our horses, and head to the Servanes waterfalls before arriving to the stables.
End of the ride, individual departure of the riders around 5pm.
We have different types of horses. Criollos, Quarter horses, Paints, Appaloosas or Spanish Pure Breeds, Merens, Camargues...Tack
We use australians, Mac lellan or western saddles. Saddlebags are not provided but you can bring yours to carry your personal belongings during the day.
Recommended riding ability
To join this trail, you have to be comfortable at all paces in open spaces, to ride outdoors in various grounds.
It can be your first time outdoor riding over several days but novice riders could not be accepted.
We ride 5 to 6 hours per day.
Maximum weight : 100kg
Useful informations
Each rider is responsible for his horse : feet, detection of small scratches, brushing, and tack.
Accompanied children are allowed from 10 years old if they are good riders and from 12 years old if they are alone.
|This trail is guided by experienced and qualified guides. Sebastien, the main guide is France and Europe champion of team roping and will propose an introduction to his passion over the week-end.
You will be accommodated in a typical Provencal gîte for 4 people. Each one have a double room and a bunk bed in the leaving room. You might have another accommodation according to the availability.
For couples, accommodation in gypsy caravan is possible for 60€ additional. Each caravan have double bed in alcove and same accomodations that gîte.
Everyday you will have hot or cold lunch brought by a logistic car. Breakfast and dinner are taken at the gîte and cooked with local and organic olive oil.
Language: French and English.
Group size: From 2 to 10 riders
Closest airport / train station:
Meeting at the riding centre around 9am.
You can come by plane, from Marseille and Nîmes airports, or by train, from Avignon and Arles train stations. Transfer by taxi.
If you come by train, plan your arrival on the day before the beginning of the trail. You can also stay one more night after the end of the stay.
Anne's report
"Provence scents, colors, and friendly encounters make this riding trip a memorable experience."
Contact Anne
Phone : +33 (0)437 02 2000
3 days / 2 nights - 2.5 days riding
Contact Anne
Phone : +33 (0)437 02 2000
PROVENCE - Luberon ride
A spectacular ride in the so-called Provencal Colorado.
A wonderful journey in the mountainous heart of Provence.


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We all know that taking supplements of vitamins and minerals can provide us with some real health benefits. However, it is true that we can also eat this 'goodness' in the form of leafy green vegetables (spinach, kale), some fruits (berries, pomegranates) and cruciferous offerings from the family Brassicaceae (cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts). It is also fair to point out that we could never eat enough of these foods to manage to gain all the nutrients needed!
Hence the requirement for supplements, the basic broad lines here are to partake of iron (energy and bloodstream), B6 (skin hair and nails), evening primrose oil (good sleep), collagen (youthful elasticity = plumpness in the skin) and hyaluronic acid (skin tone and anti-age), Vitamin D spray (bones) and Ginseng (heart, immune system and concentration)
The real test for me has been not using these for over a week and I have definitely noticed a decline. My moods have been affected even though I have sat in the sun (very carefully I may add), taken exercise, eaten healthily. My radiance and lustre has not been as obvious (I refer of course to my skin's glow, shiny hair and strong nails! just in case any of you are worrying that I am hankering after fetching a stick!!)
My hydration levels have been at drowning point and that still has not counteracted the lack of supplements. Thus it is so that for me the supplements are not a myth and are of very real benefit.


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So you think the world is completely entzaubert? There is no magic in high-tech societies? But now stop and take a deep breath. Look at this small piece of cloth! My lady, the Necktie! What magic it possess? For all types and colors of men and sometimes even woman. From Einstein to Churchill and James Bond to our new age Ceo's. We will consider it's three most bizarre almost magical properties!
In the nineteenth century and to great extent in the twentieth too, there is hardly any reference in European scientific literature to the cults and rituals, totems and taboos prevalent in West. One understandably considered it to be the domain of artistic literature and history and had other terms for such queer things, like tradition, convention, style, fashion, trend, art- or stylistic-epochs, each Christianized with its own respectful, sometimes bordering to awe, name. Now and then there were no doubt also some disdainful or humor full references to a certain convention or an entire epoch, like the Biedermeier epoch in Germany. But nothing in such conventions, rituals, fashions, totems and taboos of an epoch or a century were ever found to be really all that bizarre, let alone declared as such, compared to most of the rituals and the taboos attributed to certain tribes of our world. Here you had History and Literature, some tentative explorations in Sociology and a rather ethnocentric Psychology, and there it was Ethnography, and for the Ethnologists these people were just the Natives, almost nameless and with facial and bodily features indistinguishable from one another. They had almost no individuals. Science here was even more biased than literature. Herman Melville gives us a true great account of such a native. But he was no ordinary writer. He sat on the desk late in his life. And was far ahead of all the European desk-top sociology, psychology and ethnography of his time. As late as Emile Durkheim, these two domains western sociology and tribal ethnology had nothing in common. In fact the people, who existed detached from the main civilization centers and the domains of written history were subject to other type of natural laws and even if not existing in a vacuum somehow showed a strange affinity with algebra, whereas those at home had more affinity with Sonata and Poetry and Science, not to talk about the latter possessing a direct hot-line to higher spiritual beings, denied to the natives. No doubt some of it was certainly true. There existed and still exists cannibalism on the planet, but the need for irrational conventions and habits did not end with the natives, they are all around one and everywhere. No society is free from them. And some of them are really bizarre! Durkheim was a pioneer in using the powerful findings of the ethnographers to arrive at more universal conclusions, quite aware as Levi Strauss later, that these so called natives in far flung places, without any significant influence from the great civilization centers may have replied to the demands of nature and community life in a much more subtler and effective ways than what one saw at first glance or was willing to acknowledge and trust these infants to accomplish. Most of these natives may have had restrictive organizations, but at the same time some of them have had hardly any occurrences of suicide, murders or sexual perversities, so widespread in modern population centers. Freud and Malinowski, who was incidentally a Freudian however applied such findings in service of their own preconceived ideas, although the former doubtlessly did go out there, as had Captain Cook before him and many missionaries before and after them. Elsewhere I have paid a tribute to some great missionaries, who dedicated their lives and years of labor in noting down, amongst other things the languages, grammar, customs, legends, history, flora and fauna in these exotic lands with unsurpassed sincerity, dedication and respect, very much lacking in the tourists of the new age or the academicians of the earlier decades.