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The US privatized prison industry provides very cheap labor, thus patriotically bringing more jobs back to the US, woot, USA #1 and all that…
I worked once – it was a Thursday – about 3 pm. It was awful. Then I realized I was born unemployed, and that's what God wanted for me. You have to be INSANE to WANT a job!
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You forget it is the consumer that is buying this stuff. I do not like what corps are doing but if they did not go to the cheapest place thier stuff would sit on the shelf and they would go broke so it is a lose lose problem
Since corps are the ones who make this stuff, if they did not go to the cheapest place, they could still sell their stuff. As Henry Ford said, "I need to pay my employees enough that they can afford to buy my product." Econ 101!
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I've posted that info several times... 1-800-436-6184. Free call. Or Google 'Texas SNAP abuse'...who'd have thunk?
I never have heard anyone say 'yeah, I reported it...', Most would rather gripe...
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"I'm not sure where this recipe came from but it's one that my mom made all the time when I was growing up. It's now a regular at my house and it gets excellent reviews from everyone I've served it to...and the best part is the kids love it too!"
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1 egg
1 small onion, chopped
1/2 cup dill pickle juice
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 slice bread, torn into small pieces
1 pound lean ground beef
1/4 cup chopped dill pickles
1/4 cup ketchup
2 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
I can dill pickles almost every year and thought I'd give this one a try. It is possibly the tastiest meatloaf I've ever made! I reduced the salt to 1/4 tsp.(plenty of salt in the pickle juice) and made an addition of 1/2 tsp. liquid smoke to the sauce recipie. Absloutely a delightful Meat loaf !!!!
Uh.....gosh. I was really excited about this meatloaf. Followed this exact, only adding garlic powder to the meatloaf and a little dijon to the topping ingredients. This meatloaf was REALLY wet. Like, I had a hard time getting it out of the pan and it just fell apart into bits. When I scooped it out, it wasn't......visually appealing. My husband ate over half and my son thought it was really great, it just wasn't a hit with me or my littlest. I really was pulling for this recipe. I'd like to play with it a bit and see if I can't get it a little more solid. Maybe make it a base for a Cheeseburger Meatloaf? I'm sorry. I really tried.
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I think this is great! I don't like to substitute in recipes the first time I make something but in this case I had to make a few changes. I only had ground turkey and I used bread crumbs instead of bread. One thing I would recommend is doubling the sauce!!! It's excellent. Also, dont' be tempted to use relish instead of the pickles to me it's just not the same! I also think next time I'll bake this without the sauce on top first so I can get the nice crust then for the last 10 min or so add the glaze. I also forgot to add the salt (ooops just skipped it by accident) but I really don't think it needs the salt.
My first meatloaf ever-- so easy and tasty. My husband kept saying how delicious this was. I didn't have Worcestershire (SP?) sauce, so I instead added a bit of onion soup powder to the meat and the sauce on top to flavor. I didn't add any extra salt because I was using very salty (Israeli) pickles. I cooked this in a long loaf pan, and I knew it was done when the meatloaf pulled away from the ends of the pan. (I'm not sure if it's supposed to do that, but the meatloaf itself tasted perfect!) I'll definitely be making this again!! I was so impressed by the flavor... I would never have known the meatloaf had pickles in it, but it definitely has a little "zing." Also, I like the fact that there is no added cheese or oil, so this is at least marginally healthy! I served with mashed potatoes and sauteed green beans with garlic... a delicious and easy all-American dinner. :)
This was a really unique meatloaf! I, too, doubled the sauce. I was out of Worchestershire sauce so I used soy sauce instead. My only complaint is that every few bites you get a mushy bite from the bread. But that could be remedied by using bread crumbs or crushed crackers instead. Thanks so much for this!
Used this recipe for a meatloaf cook-off that I organized for my Boss's birthday (his favorite food). I doubled the recipe easily and the only change I made is I used 1/4 cup of crushed salinities in substitution of the slice of bread. Next time I am going to try making the topping with dill pickle relish to see how it turns out. Will make again and it got great reviews. Many skeptics of the name became believers after tasting it.
This is very, very good! I didn't change a thing! I HIGHLY recommend making this recipe. This will be the only way I make meatloaf from now on! Thank you for a great recipe!
This is a good meatloaf but we couldn't taste any pickle flavor.. and I doubled the amount (from 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup). I would've thought that the pickles were weak or something but they tasted pickly enough straight out of the jar. No complaint about anything else.... Will keep around as a basic meatloaf recipe to add ingredients to.
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Serving Size: 1/4 of a recipe Servings Per Recipe: 4 Amount Per Serving Calories: 300 Calories from Fat: 143
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Around the world:
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3000 oil rigs on the water
Larry King Live: Jeff Probst, Bill Nye (The Science Guy), Prof Steve Wereley, Purdue University
They finally found someone not affiliated with oil to look at the video and make an unbiased estimate of the flow rate.
STEVE WERELEY, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University looked at the video and estimated the flow to be 70K barrels/day (plus/minus 14K) not 5K as estimated by BP.
Had the video been released immediately, the numbers would have been obvious as they were to anyone who saw the gas and oil gushing out, which is why it wasn't released.
And where was the media?
It took until Day 21 (May 11) for BP to release the first video.
And where was barry's environmental czar or whatever?
Why isn't the media asking themselves what they haven't done and what barry's administration failed to do.
I guess the real question is why does anyone in America believe the press is doing anything about anything remotely related to barry's watch.
Can't find Larry King video but here's Prof Wereley speaking with the BBC. Starts at (2:30)
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"The Science Guy" BILL NYE, MECHANICAL ENGINEER: Not right now, not one this big and I think it's from traditions. That is to say in the oil field, there are about 800,000 oil wells around the world. There are about 3,000 oil rigs out at sea and when something goes wrong on land, you have a gusher, a big problem, you enclose it. You put a fence around it. You sweep it up. You pour cement on it. You get the thing to stop. But at the bottom of the ocean is really difficult.
PROBST: Are they doing the right things?
NYE: I guess so. But the problem is it's a very corrosive environment. You have literally in many cases, sulfuric acid coming out and the sea water is very cold, the oil is very hot. Everything has to be very precisely aligned. They're going to try to put this pipe within a pipe?
It's a difficult business and then what happened they put the dome over it. The dome kind of looks like a house. I didn't think of that. The bubbles of methane gas turned into this stuff we call clath rates, or this ice crystal. It's a water — it's one molecule of methane, natural gas enclosed in a few molecules of water. And it plugged up the pipe. And with experience, that wouldn't happen. But they have never tried it like this before.
PROBST: And does it surprise you that they have not tried that before, knowing this is a possibility?
NYE: Well, it surprised me a little bit. Here is the problem in my opinion. Everybody uses the expression fail-safe.
PROBST: We talked about it earlier.
NYE: Yes, exactly. But these systems in oil wells are really not fail-safe. If things go wrong, you can turn them off. There are systems to shut a valve, a big valve. Even if the drill stream is solid steel rod is still in there, it will cut through it and shut it off. But you have to activate it. You have to turn it on to do that. It doesn't happen on its own. And so it's not –
PROBST: So it's not like a train where if the conductor goes down, everything shuts down.
NYE: That's right, the so called dead man pedal. In this case, in congressional testimony they said if the battery is dead, the dead man pedal, the dead man system doesn't work. It's not quite the same.
PROBST: Steve, you're a flow measurement expert. We've been talking about it. Everybody is talking about it. What is your take on how much oil is actually leaking out?
Well, so when the video was released two days ago of the oil and gas poring forth from the pipe in the bottom of the gulf, I tried my advanced analysis techniques on it. A technique called particle image velocimetry and I was able to calculate 70,000 barrels a day are leaking into the gulf.
PROBST: So Steve, obviously — BP now says 5,000. That's a huge discrepancy. So are you suggesting that they don't know what they're doing? Or you have two very different opinions? Or maybe they're not being as forthcoming for obvious reasons?
WERELEY: Well, I have seen the description of BP's number and their methodology isn't clear. So I can't really say one way or the other that their number is wrong. But I can say — one thing that I can say for sure, I'm looking at a snapshot in time.
This 30-second snapshot of this video that they posted and during that 30-second time period, I see a flow rate of 70,000 barrels a day, plus or minus 14. So it could be as low as 56 or as high as 84. But I'm quite confident. I've been doing this for almost 20 years. And I'm quite confident the correct number is in that range.
PROBST: And they're saying also there is a mixture of gas in there. Could that be? Can you tell the difference in looking at the video?
WERELEY: Sure. Yes, if you look at the video, I don't know if you can run it for — on the show.
PROBST: It's running.
WERELEY: OK, the first six seconds of the video, there is a lot of white material coming out of the end of the pipe, and that is the gas. In fact, you can see it float upwards in the video. Quite a bit more rapidly than the oil does.
PROBST: And then it turns dark.
WERELEY: Right, and that's the oil. Toward the end of the video. I based my analysis — yes, go ahead.
PROBST: Well, I mean, as another engineer, you trace a particle, then, and you have software that measures how fast it's going?
WERELEY: Exactly. The name of the technique is called particle image velocimetry, and basically that means measuring the velocity of the fluid based on a particle's motion. So typically, the way that this would be done in a laboratory setting is you would have — you would either put small particles into the flow, or you would have some small particles that lap to be there, and you would track how those move.
Now, I can't do exactly that with the video, because the oil is opaque. So I can't see into the oil. But what I can see, and what any viewer can see, when you look at the video, you can track these clouds and different features within the cloud of oil that is coming out of the end of the pipe.
A viewer at home can do this. You can look from one frame to the next you see a little glob, let's say some sort of little feature on the video, you can track from one frame to the next and see how far that moves in how long a time.
PROBST: Steve, I'm going to interrupt. Bill, what happens briefly for a laymen like me, what is happening with cold water and oil? How does that impact this?
NYE: Well, I think — let me back up one. The estimate of 5,000 barrels a day. I think came from the EPA using satellites. And then I suspect people at BP said oh, yes, 5,000, that's about right. But here Professor Wereley's got it much more accurate when they finally release the video.
WERELEY: Yes, I heard the same history, Bill.


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Portrait of a perfect Sunday night
May 9th, 2011
Milo, Hulu, salad, ginger beer:
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OH yeah!
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We know what Milo's thinking!
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May 10, 2011 9:59 am
What's not to like here? : )
Seriously, Milo looks like he's trying to hypnotize the salad into levitating over to the couch.
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May 10, 2011 2:55 pm
If you sub "bed" for "couch," and "dairy-free nachos" for "salad," and "cats" for "Milo," looks like a standard lovely Friday night for me!
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This makes me want a dog:).
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Marius wrote:And here are the details of the first of the game's free content updates: http://www.thesecretworld.com/news/the_ ... _unleashed
Basically, a bunch of new missions, new end game modes of two dungeons, the auction house is being enabled, and a bunch of other, unspecified stuff. Half the missions are investigations, and those usually take a few hours to solve.
Marius wrote:Oh and here's my aforementioned review of the game, just in case people aren't checking the front page.
garamel wrote: The voice acting is waaaaaaaay better as well surprising given how much Bioware spent on theirs.
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Pathfinder Society GM Discussion
There's good advice in the GameMastering 101 workshop about the best way to deal with the emergencies of little-to-no-prep with a scenario. (What to look for if you only have five minutes before the players sit down at your table, that sort of thing.) But I feel we're losing sight of the awesome experience that Pathfinder Society can be, if the GM is really prepared and firing on all cylinders at the height of his/her powers. So, I'm posing the following challenge. Choose four adventures available for Pathfinder Society, either modules, short "Free RPG Day" modules, or PFS scenarios. For the purpose of this challenge, any scenarios should be from different seasons. For the purpose of this challenge, these should be adventures you have never run before, or have run only once. Prepare them as thoroughly as you can. Play them first. Pre-draw or copy all the maps. Get all the handouts and art ready. If the opponents have spells, read up on the details. Know the rules for chases, or mounted combat, or magus class abilities, or haunts, or whatever the adventure entails. Work through each of the combats with the iconics. Read up on the formus to see what issues and recommendations other GMs have found. Then run each of them, at least three times between now and GenCon 2013. After each run, evaluate your performance and analyze what worked well, and what could be improved. My Choices
Interesting idea. I`ve been gravitating towards running scenarios at least twice and more often 4 times, in part because you get better, and in part to make more use of the terrain I make. I rarely play, but other than that, your list is pretty much how I prep every scenario I run. I don`t do an after-action report, though, so a lot of the learning probably gets lost. Challenge accepted. (Guess now I have to come to GenCon 2013!) Now to find stuff I haven`t run from each season!
So mine is actually a binder now, of adventures I don't mind running cold anytime. I have more Season 3 loves because of the fact that I started playing Society in Season 3. I don't even care if I get credit for them at this point. Season 0-Among The Living Season 1-Among the Dead, Citadel of Flame, Assult on The Kingdom of Impossible. Season 2-Shadows Last Stand Pts. 1+2, The Penumbal Accords, Below the Silver Tarn Season 3- God's Market Gamble, The Temple of Empyreal Enlightenment, The Immortal Connundrum, The Ghenett Manor Gauntlet, The Goblinblood Dead. Season 4--None yet, but they will present themselves in due time. Modules: Crypt of The Everflame, Masks of A Living God, The Midnight Mirror.
(nods to Lady Ophelia) That's cool. See, it looks like you've got a portfolio of solidly prepared adventures. That's not what I think most people mean, when they use the phrase "running cold". The way I've understood it, they mean "running the adventure while reading two pages ahead of the PCs". And running without prepwork is a valuable skill. I don't mean to denigrate it. But I think that PFS has put more emphasis on running under emergency circumstances than on preventing emergencies in the first place. (Why do I think this? Because some GMs are choosing to run (1) at conventions, for paying gamers, (b) without prepwork even though (c) they have prep time, and this isn't considered a scandalous insult to the players.)
Well, while we're sharing, my portfolio that I always have with me that is no problem for me to 'run cold' is listed below. My List:
Season 0 - Among The Living, Mists of Mwangi Season 1 - City of Strangers, Among the Dead, Assault on the Kingdom of the Impossible Season 2 - Before the Dawn, The Penumbal Accords Season 3 - God's Market Gamble, The Icebound Outpost (run it four times now!), The Temple of Empyreal Enlightenment, The Golden Serpent (a bit harder given the map) Season 4 - In Wrath's Shadow Modules - The Godsmouth Heresy
It's a pretty good list for me and they work well hence the reason I chose them. All of them can be run on pretty short notice and I hardly go anywhere without at least two of them in my folder.
Robert Beasley wrote:
I am a fiend for picking at least reasonably representative minis for my encounters. So much of a fiend that I *hate* running something I haven't had a couple hours to prep. That changed at GenCon when they handed me the beautiful box of cardstock. I can have my Rockstar Prep scenarios, (reference: Golden Serpent pics, mild spoilers) and still be able to grab a flip mat and give a good scenario run on no notice. I suspect you prep more deeply and judge better than I, Chris, but I certainly try to hit the majority of those. Now that I picked up the good rotary cutter, I may go for spell cards for the spells I don't know cold. (elemental body II, eh? I really need to do a summary better than what's in the PRD for that chain....)
I'd actually prefer to see PFS mods written entirely as bullet points rather than prose, as it would make finding things easier and speed up prep time. It would also help when running cold, assuming the bullet points were reasonably succinct, and negate the reliance on box text. Making a scenario up at random: - Jake is a Pathfinder who seems to be pursuing his own agenda.
Encounter 1
etc. The GM can spin that into box text without too much difficulty.
Stormfriend wrote:
That's a reasonable idea for someone who's experienced with running stuff cold. But a lot of people rely on the flavor text and other bits and pieces to inform them of mannerisms and other details that improve the scenario.
Flavour, mannerisms and 'details that improve the scenario' can be included in the bullet points. - Adril Hestram, a big bearded bear of a man with an easy smile, faint whiff of beer and a twinkle in his eyes for the ladies, tells the PCs to get to the tower and end the experiments, one way or another.
Bullet pointed adventures are good for *really* talented table judges. Our threshold is necessarily lower than only having table judges who can do amateur improv for *all* of the NPC interactions and *all* of the description of the room. Especially at a large con. I am very much against the notion of moving this much of the writing from the writing and development process into the hands of the table judge. Missed details in the briefing would go way up because the table GM missed a bullet point, failure rates would follow, and it'd be *NOT* the problem of the scenario. Also, I disagree with reducing prep time. It'd increase it vastly as you figure out how to play this guy with a skeletal improv script instead of having box text that sets the stage and describes areas.
TetsujinOni wrote: I suspect you prep more deeply and judge better than I, Chris, ....) Naw. This is as much a challenge to myself as to anybody else. I'm always looking up spell effects -- I still play in a 3.5 campaign at home, and I've given up trying to remember the particulars for each game system -- and critter stats at the table. If you want to see real prep-work, find Thea at some convention and have her show you her marked-up scenarios. One result of deep prep for a scenario is that it bleeds over into similar scenarios. Once I really look at how haunts work, for "Haunting of Hinojai", I can better adjudicate them in any other scenario. Same with magus abilities. And mounted combat. And dragons. So, one of the best way to prepare for "running without prep" is to run a few scenarios with thorough prep-work. It's like, one of the best ways to learn to play jazz is to practice classical music.
Stormfriend wrote: I'd actually prefer to see PFS mods written entirely as bullet points rather than prose, as it would make finding things easier and speed up prep time. 100% agree. And I don't see how it would hinder beginner GMs - quite the contrary as the most important info would be highlighted. I myself have to include in my prep routine to make such a bullet-point summmary of the whole scenario. Also, I don't understand why the NPCs stat blocks are not simplified, and include more of the spell/SA/SD effects. Way too much clutter, not to mention stuff and spell that's not going to be used. That's one area where 4E fares way better. Having to go through the details of each NPC, taking notes on the secondary attack effects, special defenses, etc. is just nonsense.
This is exactly how I approach GMing. I'm not sure I would run a scenario truly "cold" even if asked (it would take a serious emergency). I like having the scenario in prose, so that it reads like a story, with background details in the appropriate places. I also need a good summary to actually run from, so my prep work goes something like this: My Process:
1. Read it through once. 2. Screenshot useful graphics (pictures of NPCs, the "Where on Golarion" map on the first page, things like that) and print them onto cardstock (I typically do four to a page and cut them out, then either stick them to the front of my GM screen, or pass them around). I also find graphics for things that could use physical representations (such as puzzle items) to help my players. 3. Print the faction missions on cardstock and cut them out, so that they last longer in the field. 4. Make sure I have flipmats or prepared maps for all encounters that would take a long time to draw, or that have details it would be difficult to draw. For dungeons, I like to make each room its own piece, so I can lay them down as they are discovered (and so that I can remove rooms that have been left behind to make room on the crowded table). 5. Copy each NPC/monster that might be involved in a combat onto a separate page (2 or 3 to a page, if the text is short enough) for easy reference. This is especially important for monsters that are just page references from the books (and with the changes to GM core requirements in 4.2, more of those monsters will be this way) and for spellcasters with spells I don't use a lot. While I'm doing this, I calculate the variable-by-level effects so it's already done. 6. For encounters with multiple possible results based on skill checks made by the PCs, I make a bullet point list so they are easy to find when I need them.
This is an evolving process, and I need to go back and improve my earlier preps to include things I've discovered along the way. So far I've applied this to:
I'm working on 3-25 Storming the Diamond Gate, 3-5 Tide of Twilight, and 3-6 Song of the Sea Witch. I hope to have those done in the next month.
Like Lady Ophelia and the honorable Tampa VC, I have a handful of scenarios I usually carry with me that I've run and for which I think (hope?) I can do a fair amount of justice when running without pre-prep. I have run scenarios cold before and will avoid it if at all possible; "well, I haven't read and prepped that one, but I could run one of these...?" I agree with TetsujinOni regarding the preference to have somewhat-representative minis for a scenario. That's part of my prep. All that said, I can always, always improve as a GM; my trip to PaizoCon this year reminded me of that again. I like the challenge, Chris -- while I may not make Gen Con in 2013, I can still try this out, right?
Chris Mortika wrote: If you want to see real prep-work, find Thea at some convention and have her show you her marked-up scenarios. I suspect my wife may give Thea a run for her money. She's running her 4th and 5th tables at Pacificon (she started off with one part of the First Steps at our FLGS, and has since run a couple of groups through We Be Goblins!). Her copies of the scenario are marked up with highlights, notes, &c. She's also got printouts of all the monster stat blocks, spell descriptions for any spells used, index cards for all the major opponents complete with all the important numbers (the cards just go into the initiative stack when she's running that particular encounter). Cross references between the cards and the scenario are all colour-coded. Miniatures and/or pawns for all the encounters get checked off a list and go in a box all ready to be used, and if we don't have the appropriate flip-mat she'll draw out everything on a blank the night before. She took my baseline (some highlighting; scenario in a report cover, and a two-pocket folder for printed stat blocks, faction missions, chronicle sheets, and additional GM aids such as crib sheets of notes, detail maps, etc.) and improved on it considerably. If she's prepped a scenario I'll just grab her copy :-) At present she's only done the simpler stuff (single-tier scenarios, and no faction missions), but I don't see her having any problems handling the more complicated ones once she feels she's ready. I suspect that most of the time somebody who'd never seen the module before could read the introduction, grab my wife's GM kit, and run the module without the players ever knowing this was a cold run.
This is actually a reason I stopped playing PFS so much... I enjoyed running a game when I could prep it like crazy (hand-drawn maps, colored and coded), but I really disliked the expectation that a "good" GM was one who could run any scenario given a five minute warning. Similarly, as a player, I want to play with a GM who knows the module inside and out. Everything about this game is made better when people get invested and care about the writing and story and dynamics of play. Especially when we're looking at battles. A well-thought out encounter is significantly more difficult for even strong players to handle. Anyway, before falling off the wagon as a new GM in Season 3, the ones I'd focused on were: short list:
3-09: Quest for Perfection #1 3-12 and 3-14: Wonders in the Weave #1 and 2 3-16: Midnight Mauler Besides creating maps and reading (and re-reading!) stat blocks and abilities, it was nice to know the major plotline and how the faction missions tied into the story. I knew how enemies would react to different motivations or actions, and I didn't have to spend too much time reading notes or text blocks to do it. If I owned minis, some of the ideas above would hit my list as well. Regardless, I'm going to have to do some major research to figure out what kind of scenarios I really want to learn! This is an interesting challenge, and I really want to get it done. Excelsior!
I do this with all of my scenarios, which is why it takes so much time. It blows my mind how some GMs could run 6 scenarios during Gencon. I usually only run a scenario once. Sometimes things Improve the 2nd time I run something, but that's only if I screw something up the 1st time. Sometimes the 1st time is best (for me), because it's "new". Runs are usually more/less fun depending on the players. As GM, you can bring roleplaying fun to the table, it's up to the players if they want to add to it.
Here is my list of favorites. These I could run anythime, some of them without ever having to look at the statblocks. Season 0 - Mists of Mwangi, Among the Living
Add to this The Cyphermage Dilemma, which I have now ran 10 times; 5 of those at GenCon. And it looks like I'll be running it again at Little Egypt Wars.
I accept your challenge! And I raise you unpopular by review scenario's! Believing it is the GM far more then the scenario that can make or break the game! So with that...I shall master the following scenario's in the next year: Season 0: The many fortunes of grand master torch.
These will be my scenario's to perfect for this upcoming year...on top of these, I will also perfect and run the season 4 mass table special at least 3 times in an attempt to become an expert at that! (Eat your heart out Baird!) Let the battle begin! IPON!
Arkos wrote:
That's generally something we try to avoid here in the NAGA groups whether it's Pathfinder, or LSJ, or whatever. We try to get the modules to our GMs days in advance. With the modules being digital there isn't that much excuse not to. My Venture Lieutennat orders them and if I'm judging that module, it'll show up in my Paizo download page.
Arkos wrote: This is actually a reason I stopped playing PFS so much... I enjoyed running a game when I could prep it like crazy (hand-drawn maps, colored and coded), but I really disliked the expectation that a "good" GM was one who could run any scenario given a five minute warning. That was a pretty unfair expectation, because those are two different skill sets, even two different mindsets. It's the equivalent of asking a method actor to do improv comedy. It's unrealistic to expect people to excel at both. An even bigger issue is that not all scenarios lend themselves to improv. Chaotic battles or straight dungeon crawling? Sure, I'll run something like that with a few minutes prep. But any kind of mystery or political intrigue plot requires thorough understanding of the characters involved and a really close attention to detail. If you miss the key clue or telling character detail, the whole story falls apart, and it's impossible to recover. I think it's much more important for GMs to recognize what does and doesn't work for each scenario. And if a particular group or event requires improv-style GMs, then they should restrict themselves to improv-style scenarios.
I accept your challenge, good sir! To date, I have not GMed any of these ever before, and only played through 3 of them (the last 3). 00-02 The Hydra's Fang Incident
I also further challenge myself that I will run at least one of these 15 sessions I hope to complete before Gencon 2013 as a PbP, which I have never GMed a game of before. Ready, and.......GO!
Challenge accepted! My Choices Season 0 - Fingerprints of the Fiend (Never played or GMed)
Okay, so I have picked two so far -- 4-02: In Wrath's Shadow and Dawn of the Scarlet Sun. I've played both but never run either. I'm leaning toward adding 3-16: Midnight Mauler (which I've run once) in no small part because Kyle Baird ran it at PaizoCon 2011 and made it An Awesome Experience. So that'd be three.
I am going to accept a variant of that challenge - choosing 4 different tiers rather than necessarily different seasons. One of each tier 1-5, 3-7, 5-9, 7-11. I have gradually been doing more and more prep on any new (to me) scenario I run - so my prep is now similar to above for at least the last 6 scenarios I prepped - but there is undoubtedly room for improvement - and better post scenario evaluation - which I generally have done by ad-hoc writing and updating reviews. I also need to master the highest tier scenarios.
Since Seth mentioned it, I probably should post it here. So.... Challenge Accepted! My Choices are: 0-14: Many Fortunes of Grandmaster Torch (because I have a love-hate relationship with Torch, so I'll gm him once for a change of view)
I want to add a module to this list, like many others of you have, but I know so little about them that I feel it warrants a bit of research before I just grab one. Although I will admit that I am probably leaning towards a higher level one for a chance of pace. As a side note, did Mike Brock just let the name of an unreleased season 4 out? =)
Mourne wrote: 2-25: You Only Die Twice (played it, had a blast, and now I want to share the fun with others) IKR? I almost chose that one for the same reason. Mourne wrote: As a side note, did Mike Brock just let the name of an unreleased season 4 out? =) No, that has been out for at least a week or so now. If you look at the list of Season 4 scenarios, on the unavailable list you can see the names and tiers for, I think, the next 6 scenarios to be released.
Challenge not-exactly-accepted: My local PFS scene is such that trying to run the same scenario three times in a year isn't going to be very helpful to the players, just leaving lots of people saying "Played it; will there be something else offered?" I could be wrong, but around here it seems the more helpful thing to do is to make time to thoroughly prep whatever scenario needs to be run. As such, the commitment I'll make will be to take whatever scenario I'm given and prep the everloving snot out of it. Last time I GMd was Citadel of Flame (that reminds me, I have a PM to send...) and I spent about 8 hours on it: I wrote monster ID handouts, produced quick-reference versions of monster stats for myself, examined all the encounters for ways to tailor the challenge level without altering anything, and so forth. This will be my new standard for every scenario I run, whether I've run it before or not.
Chris, you get major points for GM outreach my friend. Challenge Accepted - let's see if I can do six as well! My choices:
(The above being said, I wish I could get more people locally to get as interested in being a GM as I am - I haven't played one of my own characters since halfway through Gen Con.)
Chris Thanks for the challenge and to foster better GMs and a better play experience for players. So here is my modified version of the challenge: a) Each scenario will be build up in 3D - DwarvenForge plus customized bits (Hirst Arts, self made) b) For each scenario I will build a board 2*3 feet max size, max 2 boards per scenario. This allows transport to conventions c) I will ensure that I make photos of each board / layout and post the for others d) I will GM each of the scenarios once as PBP - using the photos as resource / maps The above resctricts a little bit my choice. So here is what I have so far: Season 0: Black Waters. I have a great lake that needs some clear resin - with tinted black and the Ruins Set should work above ground. For this I cheat (GMed it twice) Season 1: Infernal Vault Module: Dawn of the Scarlet Sun - great for the new upcoming DF Catacomb set. Ruins set works great outdoors I take suggestions for one or more season 2-4 scenarios
Full of good ideas... Now I want to print up some binders for my frequent GMs and tell them "prepare all of these, and be ready to GM any at a moment's notice"... I had a hard time selecting, as I need to pick ones I know people in my area haven't done recently. S0: Lyrics of Extinction (never touched)
Module: Ruby Phoenix Tournament (might only get to do this once, but I'll make it good)
CanisDirus wrote: Cyphermage is the current 4-star Special, meaning for the first year of it's release it can be GMed by ONLY 4+ star GMs, VCs, and VLs. It should open up for the general public in the spring some time, so you can still get it, but it'll be awhile before you would be allowed to GM it.
Seth Gipson wrote: Good call - but yea, once it does come out for open GM-ing, I'll be all over that :)
Alright, I'm down like a clown. I truly enjoy prep for scenarios, so I'm looking forward to prepping the Asmodean Kitchen out of these: My Choices: Season 0 - Black Waters
I'm going to get into Paper Model building this year (shout out to Dave Graffam!), so I'll report on how that works together with the prep of these scenarios. Thanks for the challenge. -Dink
Any thought to having a standard questionnaire people could fillout for the DM? It could be just for the DM not reported since we have an issue reporting...I find feedback helps me a lot because some times as a GM I see things a little differently
Interesting! Challenge accepted, then. :) I've already got a few that I would say I could run almost blind, since I've ran them multiple times and poured over the details for so long. Stuff like Crypt of the Everflame, Mists of Mwangi, Decline of Glory, Sewer Dragons of Absalom... But it would be good to get a few more under my belt! So, here we go. Season 0: The Frozen Fingers of Midnight (I've played and ran this once, but I love it and feel that I could easily make it an essential part of my repertoire.) Season 1: Assault on the Kingdom of the Impossible (Again, played and ran once. I love the flavor, as well as the opening encounter, and could easily refine it to a top-quality level.) Season 2: Below the Silver Tarn (I just recently played this, and even retired a character on it. I loved everything about it and would enjoy running it, especially the finale, as close to perfect as possible.) Season 3: Portal of the Sacred Rune (I've already played this once, and ran it twice, so this is kinda cheating. However, it's such a complex and dense set of encounters, especially the end, that I'd love to run it without feeling that I accidentally overlooked anything. I almost nailed it on my second run, but I missed one spell that the BBEG was supposed to have active. Not a big deal, but still nags at me when I reflect on it!) Season 4: The Golemworks Incident (I also recently played this, and I couldn't believe how much I enjoyed it. The atmosphere and tension ratchets up so incredibly as the scenario progresses that I almost couldn't stand it. It didn't hurt that I had a great GM run it, but I want to make sure other players get to experience the same level of intensity that I felt when I went through it.) Module: Carrion Hill (I've played and ran this, but I would love to do it yet again. I've been running a Carrion Crown campaign for almost a year, and I've fallen in love with Ustalav as a setting. I know that next time I run this module, I have a lot more I can contribute in maximizing the atmosphere of Ustalav.)
Slamy Mcbiteo wrote: Any thought to having a standard questionnaire people could fillout for the DM? It could be just for the DM not reported since we have an issue reporting...I find feedback helps me a lot because some times as a GM I see things a little differently Slamy, here's my take on things. I admit I might be quirky. The players are almost exactly the wrong people for the GM to ask about his performance during a scenario. For hours, the players have been listening to the GM, trusting him, trying to do their best in the adventure and not be critical of him And suddenly, the GM asks if they have any advice for him? I've given a standard spiel: "I'm always trying to improve as a GM. If there's something that you've seen other Game masters do that you think I might be able to learn from, or if there's something you think I just did badly, I'd be interested in knowing, so that I can improve." I think I've gotten a useful datum three times, out of over 150 tables. What has helped is having an uninvolved GM sit and watch the game from a discrete distance. How long do I take to look up a monster or a spell? Does a player ask a question that I never hear or never bother to answer? At any given moment, how many players are actually paying attention? Are players confused about something? Do I slip in and out of character for the NPCs? Is there prep-work props, like face cards or item cards, that I forget to use? So, what I'm hoping to implement at a couple of cons this year is a reciprocal observation. You and I agree that we're both going to prep Scenario 4-14. I watch you run it, and you watch me run it. Or three GMs, each observing one peer and being watched by the other. And then sitting down for a meal with notes and observations. That sounds much more useful to me than asking players as I'm handing out Chronicles. (And questionnaires would be even worse, I imagine. There would be a lot of "fine" or "I don't know" answers.)
Season 0-Slave Pits of Absalom
Have not played or ran any of this. I will be running Goblinblood dead a few times soon. We see how that goes.
Season 0: Slave Pits of Absalon (1-5)
All of these I've played but not GM'd. I'm doing this because I'm a whore for GM credit. Also, the seasons 0,1 and 3 I thought, in retrospect, I could do better. Therefore I will find out. Season 2 and Feast were run very well, so I want to see if I can match them. Also, all of these seem fun.
Finished first running of Frostfur Captives: Challenges: 3 of 4 players Golorian-Fu was weak, so I had to put in a lot of effort explaining Irrison/Land of the Linhorn Kings. When I mentioned Baba Yaga as a starting point I got a question from a player "who's Baba Yaga?". From there I started using 'Slavic Narnia, only darker' references. 3.5 hour slot. Not a problem as long as I kept the game on task. I had prepped the optional encounter but didn't use it. We finished at 3 hours, 38 minutes. Those I handled well, the one I didn't handle well was rules lawyer player who came in a couple minutes late. Part of it was that I was spending so much energy keeping it on time and filling in background info I wasn't at the top of my game. 3 hours in, my patience was starting to fray. I wasn't rude, but I wasn't engageing as much and my RP in the last 3 scenes suffered. What I did well: Prep was awesome. Initial RP was great. The goblins had a lot of fun making puppets from the severed heads of the enemy goblins killed in the first encouter, complaing about food etc. Ice Troll proprositioned the Monk. Kept game running. Everyone had fun. Other thing; other than printing off some more chronicle sheets, I could run this on the drop of a hat and do better. Needs to be Better Keep up energy and don't be drained by circumstances. Have superior rules fu in order to slap down the rules lawyers quicker. Basically, I had enough hesitation to encourage him. Must control body language to control him and show less hesitation. My grade for myself(and I am harsh)--C.


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Kevin had his XC Banquet at Byblos last night, they did a nice job and food was delish. Just wish I had leftovers.
The Grand Island Holiday Inn was in a great location, about 5 minutes off the main highway. Those 5 minutes made all the difference in feeling like I'd taken a nice trip to the countryside. I'm from NY, so I don't always want a big city/downtown area feel to my hotels. With its location on the Niagara River, being across from a golf course, and rural feel, it was great to be at that Holiday Inn. Although the hotel allows pets, the carpets were clean. I probably saw one small stain on a section of carpet during my entire stay. There was zero pet odor. I have three dogs, so I know what pet odor smells like. Also, there wasn't any smell of smoke in the rooms or the corridors of the hotel. The hotel balcony was nice. You just have to roll your room chair out to sit down. The outdoor pool was closed and drained. The indoor pool was great and was full of locals in the morning doing water aerobics. There's an arcade room, which leads out to the gazebo. It was beautiful. The Grand Lady yacht is docked outside. Jet skiers and power boaters cruise around past the hotel. It's very scenic. The staff were great. They smiled and it felt sincere. They gave great recommendations on food and good directions to various venues. My sister is hard to please, but she congratulated me on picking a great location. I'd definitely stay there again!
Wow! What a great experience I had at your hotel this week! My conference was for over 100 people, with multiple rooms in use, and a luncheon. We had the best service I could have asked for. The breakfast coffee was hot, pastries were fresh and juice was delicious. The facility was clean and your staff was so attentive. Thank you for a wonderful lunch, you chef is outstanding! Keep up the good work and I will be back again for sure.
Everything was pretty good. We didn't spend much time at the hotel, but when we were there it was cool, comfortable, and suitable for our requirements. Drawbacks: one lady at the front desk wasn't as nice as the other, and i really wanted to ask her to help us instead (being polite, i did not). Ice was not available on our floor and we were sent by staff to 4 different locations before we finally found a working machine. We asked for 2 additional pillows & did not get them until the next day when we asked again. Positives: fabulous view from the balcony! We could even see the fireworks at the Falls from our room. Easy to get to, convenient parking, very friendly hostess at the restaurant.
Quite place and the view is very beautiful. I went in March, so not much people. 15 minutes drive to the Fall. Great value for family or friends to go together. Internet is fast and parking is convenient,
I picked this hotel due to its proximity to my business meeting. The hotel is older, but was very clean. The staff was very friendly and helpful and the on-site restaurant was great. I would stay here again whether it was business or pleasure.
The staff was very polite and nice all the time. The room was very clean and an awesome view of the Niagara River.
I visited the falls and then took a day trip to Canada. Stayed four days and didn't want to come home but as we all know "Back to life Back to reality.
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It's a sneak peak into what Connaught Place would have looked like when it was built in the 1930s. With CP's C-block renovation work almost complete, you just have to look at the block next to it to actually understand how one of the most important commercial hubs in the city was envisaged and what it's condition actually is.The block, which house 39 shops, has been under renovation for a year now and is the pilot project undertaken as part of CP's redevelopment plan. The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has tried to restore the facade of the building as per the original design (made by Robert Tor Russel and W H Nicholls) after extensive research through the civic agency's archives, alongwith that of CPWD. The restoration work has cost NDMC Rs 2 crore. According to the civic agency, work began with C-block as it is the smallest block in CP.NDMC has used granite stone for the flooring and has carried out plastering and finishing of the outer facade. There will be no wires hanging out as ducting in front and two sides of the block has been carried out. The windows have been restored to their original shape and wrought iron railings have been put up. Uniform signposts have also been put up. They still have to fix the lighting in the area. CP has around 12 blocks and work in the other blocks will start simultaneously once restoration of the facade of C-block is complete.Meanwhile, NDMC is still making a plan for the parking in CP. While some areas will have surface parking, underground parking will also be made where ever it is a viable option. The plan to begin restoration was mooted in 2004 and expected to be complete by July 2010. CP will also have central air-conditioning. Designed by Robert Tor Russell and W H Nicholls, CP was built in 1931 and is named after the Duke of Connaught, a member of the British royal family, who visited India in 1920. Designed in a circular form, it is divided into blocks by seven radial clocks. The radius of the inner circle is about 947 ft. Though CP appears circular, close observations reveals that it is more like a horseshoe in design.
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The history of the crêpe is fodder for debate. Some contend the name is French for "pancake" and thus conclude the person who prepared the first flapjack in France simply forgot to add baking powder. This theory is vigorously disputed by the Crespelle Conspiracists, who believe the crêpe recipe was stolen from Italy by French nationalists in retaliation for Pope Clement VII's actions against Charles V in 1526. Who knew? One thing not debatable is that the owners of Otentic Restaurant prepare the sort of authentically delectable dessert crêpes one might find proffered by a Parisian street vendor. For $6.50 each, the ethereal circles are delicately filled with choice of ice cream, banana, strawberries, chocolate mousse, honey, sugar, jam, Chantilly cream, or, our favorite, the classic Nutella chocolate-hazelnut spread. The French chef pours the batter on a specialized turntable-shaped griddle, waits for those caramel-colored dots to appear, flips the crêpe, slathers on the sweetness, folds it, and delivers it still steaming to the table. Otentic likewise spins savory crêpes ($7 to $8) for patrons with less of a sweet outlook on life.
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It's time to redesign our website. Our company has changed significantly over the last couple of years and our web presence should reflect that.
I gave our team the following objectives, stepped back and let them loose. You can be the judge of how well these have been achieved. A taste of our new marketing is featured in the February 2011 issue of CT&L and we needed to coordinate our new web with that release date. The directives were as follows and can act as a helpful guideline for anyone in the process of updating their site.
Message first - It's great to be clever but it's critical to communicate…if you can combine the two it becomes memorable and creates impact
Front door message- Lead with your strength which in our case is 22 years of experience marketing the transportation industry. It's important not to cast too wide a net and weight your product offerings so that people get a real sense of who you are and what you do…in short order
Side door message - Leave the door open to other opportunities which for us is the fact that our process works for any industry. You need to back that side door message up with hard facts to make it believable.
Easy to navigate - With the help of Google Analytics you can track how customers are reacting to your site through a number of metrics. Most come to your site to get contact info and get an overall impression if this is a company they want to deal with. Ease of navigation is a key element.
Warm and personal – Our clients are becoming directly involved with a higher proportion of our staff. It's a function of running lean and streamlining communications. In general terms, we believe it is important that your web has a personality that reflects your company. A few real shots mixed in with a stock library can help accomplish this. Yes people leave but the web can be updated very easily. It's a more dynamic and flexible media that you can measure a return on.
Assess the brand – Take a look at your brand elements. Do they need a tweak. Is your tag line unique and does it help establish a persona for the company. In B2B you can change elements of your brand without so much as a ripple in the stream. Be open to subtle change. It can breathe new life into your marketing.
Incorporate social media – We continue to experiment in this area. Our blog efforts have shown the most return. You need a champion to lead this charge. Anything that brings fresh content to your site helps promote your company and raise your ranking on search engines
Engage SEO (search engine optimization) – There is an expense to this and it varies on the size of the site and how deep you want to go with. We plan on taking it all the way. Why? It works and you can clearly measure the results (With Google Analytics) and fine tune it for even greater benefit in the future
Meet the Deadline - It's important to set a date and work towards it with diligence. You get a certain flow that takes the project to a higher level. When too much time goes by where the project is parked on a shelf, it's increasingly hard to get it off the bottom of the pile and successfully launched.
Lee's quote for the day
"Change is good and engaging proper SEO powers your site like fuel powers your vehicle. Doing one without the other doesn't make much sense or get you any further down the road"
Anyone on the sales side of the equation knows how hard it is to turn a single transaction into a repetitive one and a business contact into a customer. Screwing up and subsequently how you handle a screw up is one of the defining moments in establishing lasting supplier and customer relationships.
As much as we strive for perfection the fact is we are all going to mess up occasionally. When we do, we need to correct the immediate problem and figure out how to stop it from happening again. Thus the birth of processes and standard operating procedures… but then if you're not careful, the rigidity of these quality standards can put you into a situation where you cannot be as responsive as you once were. Like many things, it's all about striking balance.
Food for thought…
"It's been my experience that most small business is better positioned to perform miracles then they are to run a solid day to day operation. A few years ago we beefed up our supplier base to get the best of both worlds and through a trial and error basis, established an improved network of suppliers. Suppliers that owned up when they made an error and worked closely with us to proactively manage each project consistently, in a quality manner and to specific timelines."
"We're a mature company of 22 years and through a process of learning everything the hard way, we've come to know what makes us a fit for a customer. We're not order takers… so today we shy away from situations where the customers wants to micro manage from the directors chair and is looking for technicians, not thinkers. Our best fit is where we are dealing with the senior executive of a company who needs someone who can take the ball and run with it. That is our make up, we understand it. I believe it's important to know what your value is and promote it to the appropriate market".
"I would say we have an extremely high percentage of great customers… suppliers too. But we fired one this past week. After 2 months of going back and forth on a service failure they let process and procedure get in the way of making a fair and equitable decision to satisfy a legitimate customer complaint. We credited the order for our customer and after several attempts to mediate the problem, fired the supplier of 20 odd years. Circling back to the top, how well you handle a problem is a critical factor in building business relationships that last."
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"Know your product and your market. Don't get frustrated unnecessarily by trying to sell your Grade A Beef to Vegetarians. The fact that they don't buy it doesn't mean you've priced it wrong or there is something wrong with it, you're simply talking to the wrong audience."
In one of my blogs not too far back, I suggested that if you have a diversified service mix you need to maintain the quality of each product to a similar high standard…maybe not. Last night some musician friends of mine were backing up a Japanese blues guy and invited me to come by. After viewing the performance it made me rethink my previous stance.
So here is a young blues man who has studied the traditional greats like Little Walter, Muddy Walters, Big Joe Williams and so on. His main thing is playing harp (harmonica) and he is extremely good at it, way above average and most definitely at a professional level. Born in Japan, he hasn't quite mastered the English language and you can clearly hear a thick accent in his voice. If he had started off singing, you might have dismissed him totally as a bad karaoke performer, for at first it's almost comical to hear his rendition of the traditional blues classics that make up his repertoire. But…
..but he started off with his strongest talent first. He was very credible as a blues harp player so you gave him a little more rope before judging his vocal abilities. And guess what? Although an acquired taste, he was very sincere in his performance and within a few songs you couldn't help but accept him. And after a set of his brand of blues, with an awesome back up band (another immediate source of credibility) and confident performance…he was an undeniable hit.
It was a bit of an epiphany for me and maybe a lesson for us all. If we lead with our strength, are prepared and confident… maybe clients will let us sing the occasional number that is a little out of tune, providing we continue to impress them with our core service talents.
Lee's quote for the day
"It's probably true that you never get a second chance at a first impression… so let's hone our talent and lead with our strength so that by association, the odd sour notes that come later aren't quite as noticeable!"


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Webenz e3 Commerce System
Posted December 2nd, 2003 in Case Studies (Updated November 18th, 2010)
The Webenz e3 Commerce System was created by me, Chris Hope, while working at Webenz. Webenz had been utilising an ecommerce system called Intershop which was marketed in New Zealand by Telecom Xtra as "Business Builder" but found it wasn't suiting the needs of their customers, so they decided to develop their own ecommerce solution.
The Webenz e3 Commerce System
The initial two revisions were developed using Perl but these were not as flexible as required so two further revisions were created in 1999, this time using PHP and MySQL. The end result was an extremely easy to use and flexible system that could easily be customised to suit every customer's needs.
The system allows site administrators to easily manage the following, without the need for constantly referring to a web site developer or programmer:
- products
- customers
- orders
- product categories
- performance reports
- site content
The system uses a series of configuration files to track what information is stored in key database tables; these files allow every website to use a common codebase and administration area which makes upgrades and bug/security fixes easy to apply across the board.
It is no longer developed or in use
There were once dozens of sites that used the Webenz e3 Commerce System, but over time the number has diminished due to businesses closing down or site revamps and overhauls being done by new developers.
Webenz shut down in October 2004 and no longer exists, so no further development work as been done on this ecommerce system and no new sites created using it. It is unlikely that any websites are still using the system.
Other E3/Commerce systems
There appear to be one or more other ecommerce systems called "e3" (as well as the big e3 expo held once a year). The system I created is not the same as these other systems and they have nothing in common other than the name and possibly using PHP and MySQL.


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Henry E. Roscoe announced the isolation of vanadium in 1867. This transition metal, which helps strengthen steel, was first discovered in Mexico over 200 years ago but was lost in a shipwreck before its identity could be verified.
Alison Butler is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research takes her around the world in search of new bioinorganic chemistry in diverse environments. The following is excerpted from Professor Butler's essay on vanadium.
My intrigue with vanadium began in college when I discovered the brilliant colors characteristic of vanadium complexes. The multiple oxidation states stable in aqueous solution captured my interest, and I kept a careful eye out for reports on the biological role of vanadium. Since the turn of the past century, vanadium has been known to be accumulated to very high levels by ascidians (also known as tunicates or sea squirts), yet even today, the biological function of the sequestered vanadium remains a mystery. In the 1970s, a vanadium nitrogenase had been reported, then retracted, and finally rediscovered through genetic manipulations in the late 1980s as the alternative nitrogenase.
When I started out as an assistant professor in 1986 and wanted to work on a new metalloprotein in biology, I was delighted by the initial report of a vanadium haloperoxidase enzyme that is found in marine algae. Vanadium bromoperoxidase (V-BrPO) is abundant in marine algae and catalyzes the oxidation of halides (Cl2, Br2, or I2) by hydrogen peroxide, which results in the halogenation of certain organic substrates or the formation of singlet oxygen in the absence of appropriate organic substrates.
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The concept is a bit precious: happy, gorgeous Kate (Malin Akerman) gets swept off her feet by a guy with two ex-wives, three kids, and, you know, baggage. She tries her darndest to be cool and a maternal figure while battling for respect. Despite the setup, the show is funny, mainly because the jokes aren't forced, the plots are well-constructed, and Akerman is utterly winning as the beleaguered title character.
Andy Samberg's shtick is (mercifully) turned down by about half in this Fox police comedy. Samberg's Jake is a wise-ass (yet somewhat bumbling!) detective, but it's the full ensemble of precinct-dwellers that really shine — especially Jake's new boss, played by Andre Braugher, who you definitely know from cop shows.
Grab the misanthropy of Seinfeld, add in the economics of a recession, throw in a dash of alcoholism and illiteracy for good measure, and top it all of with a healthy dose of screaming, and you'll have this long-running FX/FXX hit. The quality had been waning in recent seasons, but in this, its ninth, it's brilliant again, with it's meta-commentaries on guns, self-esteem, and the Emmy Awards.


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Flying Planes and Mindsets Changed
While Carwyn has been busy in Mexico with Leon we have all been busy on site too. We have had a very exciting week.
It started on Monday by picking up Charles and Jeremy from Able Flight who came to visit the project until Thursday. Charles is the founder of Able Flight, which is an organization from the US that helps disabled adults learn to fly planes. Jeremy is one the disabled pilots and an ultimate 'cool guy'. Read more »