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- Degree Requirements
- Non-Degree Status
- Recommended Course Schedule
- Internship
- Professional Portfolio
- Special Opportunities
Additional information, including tuition and fees, can be found at: Graduate Admissions
An informational video giving an overview of the Master of Public Policy Program can be viewed in conjunction with the materials on this page.
Degree Requirements
The Master of Public Policy (MPP) is designed to be a two-year professional degree although part-time students may take significantly longer to complete the degree.
Students are normally required to complete 39 credits of coursework (13 courses), including 24 credits (8 courses) in a common curriculum component, that includes an Internship, 9 credits (3 courses) in a policy concentration area, 3 credits of free elective (1 course), and a 3 credit Policy Research Seminar. Students are also required to prepare a portfolio of their professional work and present it to a faculty committee for their review and approval.
The Common Curriculum Component consists of eight courses required of all students in the MPP program. Some courses in the Common Curriculum Component have prerequisites which can/may be fulfilled by courses taken as an undergraduate. If a prerequisite is not fulfilled by a course taken in obtaining a bachelor's degree, the Free Elective may be used to fulfill one prerequisite, including one undergraduate course. No other courses taken as prerequisites will count toward the MPP degree requirements.
Requirements for Master of Public Policy Degree
Credits | Courses | |
Common Curriculum Component | 24 | 8 |
Policy Area Concentration | 9 | 3 |
Elective | 3 | 1 |
Internship | 3 | 1 |
Total: | 39 | 13 |
Concentration Areas
The MPP requires students to declare a policy area concentration by the beginning of their second semester. The policy area concentration will be fulfilled by taking three or more courses on a related topic(s). Special Topics courses and Independent Study courses may count toward the concentration if they are relevant to the student's declared area of concentration and are approved in advance by the Program Director.
Available concentration areas include:
Students may propose an individualized concentration area from available courses and submit it for approval to the program director before the end of the student's first semester.
Non-Degree Status
Students may enroll in up to two MPP courses without being admitted to the MPP program. Students interested in taking courses as a non-matriculated student must have the permission of the instructor before enrolling in the course.
Recommended Course Schedule
Year 1- Fall
POL 500 - Public Institutions and Policy Process
POL 540 - Microeconomics for Public Policy (prerequisite for POL 541)
POL 581 - Research Methods for Public Policy (prerequisite for POL 530, 580, and 585)
Year 1- Spring
POL 510 - Public Management
POL 530 – Policy Analysis
POL 541 – State and Local Finance
Year 2 – Fall
POL 580 – Statistics
Concentration Area Class or Internship
Concentration Area Class or Internship
Year 2- Spring
POL 585 - Applied Policy Research Seminar
Concentration Area Class or Internship
Concentration Area Class or Internship
To help map out your studies, the MPP_Advising_Form can help you figure out which courses you need to take as well as track your coursework in the program.
A video providing an overview of the internship requirement is available here.
The Master of Public Policy requires an internship (3 credits) for students with less than 2 years of substantial and relevant public policy or public management experience. The field work component of the internship (2 credits) will be waived if an individual has at least 2 years substantial and relevant work experience in a policy making or public management position, although all students must enroll in the academic seminar component (1 credit) of the internship to graduate and for purposes of reviewing the students' professional portfolios.
Students seeking a waiver should make a formal request in writing to both the Department Chair and Internship Coordinator in the semester prior to when they plan on completing the internship requirement. This written request should include a detailed discussion of the substantive reasons why the applicant's previous experience and professional background merits a waiver. Waivers are granted at the sole discretion of the Department of Public Policy.
Students will select an internship venue from a pre-approved list of local, state, and federal agencies, non-profit organizations, and private sector businesses. The internship's objective is to expose students to a policy-related or public management setting that allows them to integrate public policy theory (in their academic course) with the real world of policy making and public management in their area of substantive interest. In the academic seminar, interns will share workplace experiences and analyze these experiences within the framework of public policy and public management theory.
Deadlines for Requesting Experiential Component Waivers for the Internship
Students requesting waivers must adhere to the following deadlines:
For waiver requests where the course is to be taken in the Fall semester, students must submit the request no later than April 15th of the immediately preceding semester (for example, a waiver request for Fall 2011 must be made no later than April 15, 2011).
For waiver requests where the course is to be taken in the Spring semester, students must submit the request no later than November 15th of the immediately preceding semester (for example, a waiver request for Spring 2012 must be made no later than November 15, 2011).
Failure to follow these deadlines will result in an automatic denial of the waiver requests. If students cannot wait until a later semester to make the request then they will be required to take the full internship experience (3-units) regardless of prior experience.
Registering for the Internship
Registering for the internship course (POL599) requires written approval from the internship director. After speaking with your academic advisor, contact the director for written approval during registration for the semester you wish to engage in the internship experience. With written approval you will be able to register for the course as indicated in the approval (1-unit section with waiver, 3-unit section without waiver).
Planning Your Internship
Ultimately, establishing an internship experience that is valuable to you and also one that meets the requirement of the MPP program is an interactive process between the student and their advisor, with approval of the experience required by the internship coordinator. As stated in the course description of POL599:
A policy-related internship tailored to each student's career preferences or academic interests. The selection of an internship venue will occur in consultation with the student's MPP advisor and with the approval of the MPP Internship Coordinator. The Internship venue is usually selected from a pre-approved list of local, state, and federal agencies, non-profit organizations, and private sector businesses. Note: The field work component of the internship (2 credits) is waived if an individual has at least 2 years substantial and relevant work experience in a policy making or public management position, although students must still enroll in the academic course component (1 credit) of the internship to graduate.
To allow for the most valuable internship experience possible, the following guidelines are suggested:
- First, explore what is out there. Reach out into the community in the areas that interest you to see if you can find an experience you would enjoy. If you are having difficulty, and after consultation with your adviser, you can contact the internship coordinator Chad McGuire for help and to develop your ideas. This should be done well before the semester you are planning to take your internship.
- Second, once you have a possible connection for an internship, make sure the specific 'project' you plan to engage in during the semester meets the internship requirements of the program. You should ensure the expectations between yourself and your sponsor for the internship are aligned. You should also make sure these expectations meet the requirements of the program, and this is where involving the internship coordinator in the final agreement between you and your agency makes sense.
The Internship Experience
The actual internship will be divided into two parts: the experiential component (actually engaging in the internship experience), and aseminar component where you will interact with your fellow classmates also interning during the semester. The specific details of the experiential component (required if not waived) will be determined by agreement between your host entity and the internship coordinator. The seminar component will take place mainly in an online interactive environment where you will have specific readings to link your internship experience to your academics in the public policy program, as well as larger connections between your work and civic engagement. There are monthly discussion posts required in the seminar component of the course, as well as a final report that is due at the end of the semester. Part of the final report may be helpful to students in preparing their summary statement for their portfolio presentation.
For more information about internships, please see: http://www.naspaa.org/students/careers/service.asp
For a searchable listing of internship opportunities in Massachusetts, visit http://massitsallhere.com/Student-Internships
Professional Portfolio
(A video tutorial on preparing your e-porfolio materials on the wiki page is available here)
Students should begin developing a professional portfolio during their first semester. In the last semester of their studies, students present their portfolio to a faculty committee and discuss how it represents their learning and will support their future job search.
Portfolio Presentation Requirements
The portfolio presentation is a final requirement of all Master of Public Policy (MPP) candidates. The goal of the portfolio is to present a 'cumulative experience assessment' that integrates the academic experience of the student in the MPP program with a reflective assessment by the student of how that experience has impacted their understanding of public policy both intellectually and practically. This goal is met by two deliverables: a portfolio submission and a portfolio presentation (both explained in greater detail below). Faculty members review the submission of the MPP candidate, some level of inquiry is given, and the candidate finalizes the process by completing an exit interview.
The general process of the portfolio requirement is as follows:
- MPP candidate is invited to a private e-portfolio website in their final semester of study (candidates who believe they are in their final semester who have not received a formal invitation to this site should contact their faculty advisor or the department chair and request an invitation). An example of the e-portfolio site can be found here: e-portfolio example.
- The MPP candidate assembles all of their learning materials during their tenure in the MPP program into a coherent portfolio. The portfolio should begin with a overview by the candidate summarizing their experience in the program, the way the portfolio is laid out for review, and identifying any major themes presented in the portfolio (concentration area for example). The candidate then submits the portfolio on their private section of the website in an electronic pdf format. Items to include in the portfolio include, but are not limited to, the following:
- research papers written for courses taken in the program
- policy white papers written for courses taken in the program
- papers or products from the course in Applied Policy Research
- documentation of other professional or scholarly achievements over the course of their enrollment in the MPP
- newspaper clippings about the individual's achievements, public service, and awards
- published articles in trade magazines or newspapers
- professional certifications, licenses, and other evidence of professional development
- evidence of presentations or attendance at meetings of relevant professional associations
- letters of commendation and letters of recommendation from supervisors or others in a position to evaluate the individual's academic and work.
- other items of importance as determined by the student and their faculty advisor
- An example of how this information is presented from the e-portfolio example site is available for viewing here.
- On a separate page of the website, the candidate 'presents' their portfolio to the faculty by preparing a presentation. The presentation can include a variety of formats including: a powerpoint presentation with voice capture; a video presentation that is uploaded for viewing; or other methods of presenting the material that are suitable to the candidate. The e-portfolio site contains a variety of tools to aid you in presenting your materials. An example of a recorded presentation from the e-portfolio example site is here.
- Helpful Hint for Video Recording: For the presentation, UMD now offers Camtasia Relay to students and faculty (with MyUMassD credentials - username and password). This software product allows for easy-to-use screen capture video recording. Details on the product, including an easy how-to-use video, is available here.
- Helpful Hint for Video Recording: For the presentation, UMD now offers Camtasia Relay to students and faculty (with MyUMassD credentials - username and password). This software product allows for easy-to-use screen capture video recording. Details on the product, including an easy how-to-use video, is available here.
- Once the portfolio and presentation have been submitted, faculty will review the materials and post comments/questions in discussion threads that attach to the specific web page on which you created your submission and presentation. The candidate will review these comments and respond where appropriate. The candidate will then be given an indication by the faculty that the presentation of the portfolio is complete.
- Once the presentation has been completed, the candidate will find a final page connected to their personal portfolio site. This page will contain an exit interview that asks the candidate to answer a few questions about their experience in the MPP program specifically, and at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth generally. Once the candidate has completed the exit interview, all of the requirements of the portfolio have been completed. Congratulations!
Helpful Hints and Procedural Notes
You will be given reinforced detailed instructions and examples on the portfolio creation and submission when you are officially invited to the e-portfolio website. This summary above should give you a good understanding of how to think about the portfolio as you begin and matriculate throughout the MPP program. As a rule-of-thumb, you should consider the following to aid you in preparing for your portfolio submission and presentation:
- Create a special 'portfolio' file where you place digital copies of all major papers, reports, etc. created for each course you have taken during your tenure in the MPP program.
- Include summaries of any special events or presentations you have made during your time in the MPP program.
- Consider your POL599 Internship experience and final report as examples of summative pieces that can help tie together the academic and practical experiences you have had during your MPP experience. The final report, for example, can be helpful in producing your 'introductory' summary at the beginning of your written portfolio submission, and it can also help you in highlighting some of the integration of what you have learned into an applied setting for your portfolio presentation.
- A video tutorial has been prepared to help you understand how to prepare your materials, available here.
If you follow these general guidelines you should have little difficulty in the preparation, submission, and presentation of your portfolio.
The deadline for completing your portfolio materials is generally the last day of classes of the semester in which you are graduating; use this date as a 'marker' for completing your portfolio materials.
Special Opportunities
Kassel University (German Exchange Agreement)
The Department of Public Policy has a student exchange and course-sharing partnership with Kassel University's (Germany) Master in Global Political Economy program. The exchange agreement allows up to 3 students annually to study in Germany for periods of 4 weeks to one full semester (or summer). All courses in Germany are taught in English and are pre-approved for transfer credit in the MPP. Consult the International Programs Office for more information.


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Story | Sep 6, 2013A week ago, Hagerstown Mayor David S. Gysberts released a clear, well-reasoned statement of intent regarding a proposed multi-use stadium downtown. In it, Gysberts announced the city's resolve to get the project done, both as a way to keep minor league... -
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Story | Sep 5, 2013 | 5:45 PMDue to a source's error, the obituary in Wednesday's Herald-Mail for Charles Lindbergh Bean, 86, of Hagerstown omitted information. He is survived by grandsons, Clyde Charles Tressler and wife, Heidi, and Juan Trevino.

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The Twitter Well-Being Tracker was created as a way to start conversations about well-being and promote health change in the Twitterverse. We developed a system for pulling tweets and categorizing them into the six domains of well-being per Healthways' Well-Being Assessment: Life Evaluation, Physical Health, Emotional Health, Healthy Behaviors, Work Environment, and Basic Access.
Over time, we realized that although capturing and analyzing the conversations about health was important, it would be more satisfying if users could see their own score after answering the questions in the Well-Being Assessment. Moreover, we made the experience social, so users could share with friends on Twitter. If a person's friends took the test, the Well-Being Tracker would aggregate the scores of the user's followers and provide an average score for all of the followers.
As we began to mix and match the data, we saw the need for a way to share the aggregated Twitter well-being sentiment daily, which led to the creation of the Well-Being Bot. The sharing of scores was meaningful because it was an example of "connected health," the concept that health is determined by the health of those around you.
The Twitter Well-Being Tracker showed us that although people were interested in getting their well-being score in a quick and social way, creating the scores using sentiment analysis proved to be expensive and difficult. However, the app gave us an opportunity to iterate on a new type of user interface for these kinds of assessments, and the lessons we learned live on in Daily Challenge. In addition, Deepak Chopra adopted the Twitter Well-Being Tracker for his Wellbeing Movement, which led to a strategic partnership in Daily Challenge.
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Vanitas is a four-song EP, the band's debut (and even at that abbreviated length, it's actually shorter than it appears, since one of those songs is just an intro, an atmospheric instrumental underneath some spoken-word "mood-setting" nonsense). This one rides by in about fifteen minutes, with Suffocation/Cannibal Corpse/Whitechapel comparisons and the typical "original blend of tech and brutality" mindset that doesn't strike me as being terribly original. The tunes are mostly mid-tempo, lumbering along in that caveman gait that I do appreciate in my death metal and sliding often into the chunky palm-muted stagger that defines (and often derails) most every deathcore record. Carlos Moran's vocals are inward and guttural, swallowed into the depths of his being, but in the album's best moments, the vocal attack is varied up with some thrashy midrange rasping to offset Moran's rumbling lows. Instrumentally, there are some pretty interesting moments, for example in the latter half of "Esurient Fount (The Risen Nephilim)" where there are some earth-shattering stomping low riffs that are deathcore to the core, but do what they do well enough to get the ol' toes tapping.
Vanitas is short and to the point, but whether or not it's sweet depends on your need or tolerance (or lack thereof) for yet another indistinguishable death metal act. Having run through about twenty of these in the past six months, I can say with certainty that I'll likely not spin Vanitas terribly often, if at all, but I am not completely averse to listening to whatever Archaeon may release next with hopes that it transcends its peers and influences.


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Firing Squad
I like sins and total war
First preview is up. Mother of God!!!!Amphibious assaultsLegions with their own traitsThree or more capture points for cities60 units to control per army!!!!Not out until next year some time. boooooo http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/07/02...rome-2-preview/http://www.pcgamesn.com/totalwar/total-war...estion-answered
I AM STOKED...definitely my favorite time period out of all of them...
Supposedly it is going to be less about positioning and more about numbers and vulnerability/strengths. Hopefully they can pull it off.
Yes and yes. Here's hoping that the wardogs and flaming pigs are left at home this time.
Can't wait! Long wait but the prize!
They're targeting end of 2013, so you have at least 18 months to drool.
You have to admit they were funny though...and then there was the Briton head hurlers that threw heads which went off like hand grenades...
I can't say I'm surprised Rome 2 was there second project, but wow that does look and sound wonderful.
I hope they toss that infernal MP tactical only battle system they defiled Shogun 2 with.
Yes, but will there be space ships? If not, how are the romans gonna defend against the Vasari
Space Ponies
If they use 1% of the budget on AI this time, then we might actually have a game
I've found the AI to be quite good since Napoleon. It does have it's weaknesses, but what AI doesn't?
I especially like how the AI actually attacks you on the strategic map. Back during the otherwise excellent Medieval 2, you could just walk over Europe, avoiding enemy armies and taking undefended cities.
I was listening to an interview where one of the devs said its vital to gamers to be able to see individual faces on the soldiers...is this NVDIA or EA Sports talking or are they completely out of touch with "what gamers think is vital"? I'm worried we are going to get some flashy "visually revolutionary" game without solid strategy. Hopefully they also remember that TW:R included the whole family system which has been dumbed down or nonexistant in other TW games.
It's hard to piece togeather info so far, but they have said battles will be bigger with out saying how much bigger, Since Rome the size of battles have only increased marganaly, I can't play Naploelon total war, I just can't play a napoleonic battle with 2500 soldiers, which is bearly a brigade.
They have said that instead of just controling random units, you'll order complete and sevral legions around.
But what that means I have no idea, A roman legion consisted of 1200 skirmishes, 1200 Hastati, 1200 Pincipes and 600 Trairii pluss some 300 light or medium cav. Or about 4400 soldiers, that more then most Total war battles, and now they are saying we are gonna control sevral legions?
I highly doub't we get real legions, I think like 250 soldiers from each soldier type.
I hope they actualy use the right armors and shields ect. in the original rome, the principes and hastati and triarii just looke like later legionares.
It always starts with a heavily photoshopped dream that is never delivered I remember the trailer to the first Rome, a battle full of excellent animations that never appeared in the game
They have a terrific engine but always aim for too much Real Time spectacle and too little 'actual military tactics'.
The games are moddable, which is good because I hate to play them as shipped.
Key things they could work on would be to set an actual figure and ground scale, and then the battles would start to make sense.
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I am not especially anti complementary medicine. I'm skeptical. Come up with the evidence, and I'll buy it. And I am happy for people to come up with the evidence.
If you doubt me, you can read a book chapter I jointly wrote (in http://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=un9KoRWYTxIC&oi=fnd&pg=PR8&ots...), where we discussed homeopathy, and in particular the way that Jacques Benveniste was treated by the editors of Nature. Irrespective of the actual science, his work was described as "delusion". Using the language of mental health concerns reduced the scientific critique to a personal one, and was (I still believe) inappropriate - especially from the editors of a respectable scientific journal. Benveniste might have been wrong, but still deserved to be treated with respect, and to have his findings discussed scientifically.
The core our analysis was simple: people assess theories in ways that fit their existing beliefs. The editors of Nature specialized in the physical sciences, so homeopathy's basis in extreme dilution crashed against those core beliefs.
The same effect works the other way around. If someone's core beliefs are that pharmaceutical companies are money-grubbing bastards (and in some cases this is not unreasonable) this can be used to distort the beneficial effect that some of their products actually have. Some products of the pharmaceutical companies do save lives.
Today, a very strong-willed guy survived a pretty nasty attack from a health group, because he criticized people for making medical recommendations to others, without being a medical practitioner, of a treatment that is essentially bleach. I'm filled with admiration for the way he handled himself, and as to the story - @rhysmorgan tells it better than I ever could. The story has become known as 'Bleachgate'. For the video version, see http://www.twitvid.com/Z7TOH, or read it at: http://thewelshboyo.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/bleachgate/.
Despite my open-mindedness for complementary medicine, there is a line which should not be crossed - that of reckless endangerment, and Bleachgate crossed that line. Big time.
Examples of the kind of endangerment I mean include:
People die because of these claims.
I will be honest, the Bleachgate treatment, which is essentially related to hypochlorite, has some plausibility. Hypochlorite is used by the immune system - although in a targeted way. The original tests for this began as a "cure for balaria" (http://miraclemineral.org/aboutauthor.php). There was even a trial, of sorts, although it is pretty clear it was no very well controlled.
Here are a few excerpts from the description available at http://miraclemineral.org/part1.php.
The assistant medical technician … arranged for us to do the clinical trials. We slipped him a few dollars at several different times and he was quite cooperative. He was actually quite cooperative even before we slipped him a few dollars, but he was such a nice man that we thought it would be nice to help him out a bit. (p92)
Bribery is not really considered good practice when running a trial. They also paid the salary of the technician conducting the blood tests. These two gathered the data, so t the very least there was a conflict of interest. The clinical trial was also run in a prison. These are not conditions which would normally be conducive to solid, impartial evidence. For example, if I went in offering plain water - with a little bad flavouring to make it seem like medicine of a kind - and if I paid everyone's salary, would I get an effect? There is a reason why it is sometimes a idea to run trials in a double-blinded way.
It is my belief that the reason the Pharmaceutical Medicines and Poisons Board so readily accepted our MMS as a mineral supplement, rather than a drug, was that so many officials drank it without hesitation when we told them that it was not a drug. (p93)
Well, this is just a lie. It's a chemical. It has an effect. Of course it's a drug! (I know what you meant: they would not have accepted a treatment offered by a large pharmaceutical company. However, it is still a drug!)
You may not believe it, but for years the U.S. FDA has been suppressing all real cancer cures, as well as information concerning how vitamins prevent heart attacks, and all other information regarding products that may in any way reduce the income of the large pharmaceutical companies (Big PHARMA). Please don't take my word for it; become informed. Read the information available on the Internet. Just go to any search engine and search on "FDA Suppression." (p117)
Now we head into the lands of conspiracy theories. Unless it's true, of course. Why the US FDA would support large pharmaceutical companies from outside the US (as many are) is unclear. But to be honest - all the information seems to be badly suppressed. I can buy books on any of them from thousands of people around the Internet, often top-ranked on search engines. Also, all the theories that are being suppressed are very different. Sometimes it is vitamins, sometimes a "miracle" cure, sometimes it is simply prescription information available elsewhere in the world. What, really, is being suppressed here?
Given a choice between believing that all large pharmaceutical companies are in cahoots with large governments to suppress information about viable treatments, or believing that those treatments don't currently exist, I want to believe they exist.
However, I personally feel that ingesting bleach is generally a Bad Thing. I would do it if a doctor advised me, and there was evidence that it would help me. I probably wouldn't enjoy it, but I'd do it.
What is simply unacceptable is lambasting somebody for questioning the evidence, and for resisting aggressive postings to at last ensure that important communications are visible to everyone, so they can make an informed decision. Anyone who claims that drinking bleach can cure these serious diseases had better have some damn good evidence, and if not, they'd better have jail time for serious fraud leading to people dying. The evidence available now looks like an unethical and mismanaged trial.
As to the group, their handling of this case is a case of sour grapes. In the original meaning, from Aesop's Fables:
Driven by hunger, a fox tried to reach some grapes hanging high on the vine but was unable to, although she leaped with all her strength. As she went away, the fox remarked, 'Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.' People who speak disparagingly of things that they cannot attain would do well to apply this story to themselves.
(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes).
We want the cure, but we can't have it. It seems the criticism of large pharmaceutical companies is more due to the fact that the "cure" isn't within reach. Claims of suppression by big pharma and the US FDA are simply souring the grapes.


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...before your harem become a "collection"?
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How many guitars does it take to have a harem?
Whew...I have nothing to contribute to this one. some of the collectors can tell us when it happened for them.
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He had a voice that could make a wolverine purr and suits so fine they made Sinatra look like a hobo.
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when my wife asks "how many do you have now?"
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More walls, but I will wait until I move into a bigger place.
But is he a hoopy frood who knows where his towel is?
As for the original question - I think the answer is when you look at a guy's picture of his guitars on line and say, "Damn, dude's got a lot of PRSi!" and realize you have the same number or more.
That happened to me.
Worse, it happened to me in front of my wife.
"What do we want?" "Time machines!!!" "When do we want them?" "That's irrelevant!"
i believe the answer is- when you have more than the next man!!!
I am not a luthier but i am in my own workshop.
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Gift From a Holiday – Like Pioneers I don't know if anyone has noticed but I kind of like this band's sound a lot, especially this song because I can't help but sing along. Theses guys are a mini Chicago indie super group which also worried me that they wouldn't continue their efforts because of being too busy. Thankfully though, their manager emailed me a couple of months ago informing me that they in fact were in the process of creating new material and even had a session for Coach House Sounds. Keep them on your radar, or I'll try to at least.
You Were Right – Days Away I have a strong affirmation for the progressive rock band, Days Away. I started listening to them back in my emo days and don't even shake your head because everyone had emo days whether you believe me or not. Anyways, another great band come and gone but today we will revisit them.
Walking – The Dodos I love the banjo. Absolutely love it so obviously that's why this song is so great to me. "Walking" is one of their earliest songs off Visiter after being signed to Frenchkiss. I really enjoy the female vocals floating in for the chorus to give the song a little more depth. The guys have just released their fourth album, No Colors, this year (impressive!).
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Centrolenidae Taylor, 1951, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 64: 36. Type genus: Centrolene Jiménez de la Espada, 1872.
Centroleninae — Barrio, 1968, Physis, Buenos Aires, 28: 165-169. Lutz, 1969, Acta Zool. Lilloana, 24: 276; Rueda-Almonacid, 1994, Trianea, 5: 134.
Glass Frogs (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 45; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 118).
Tropical Central America, tropical Andes, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia, Cordillera de la Costa of Venezuela, Tobago, Guiana Shield, Amazon Basin, and Atlantic Forest of Brazil.
Darst and Cannatella, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 31: 462-475, provided molecular evidence that centrolenids are far from hylids. This was confimed by Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 126, who suggested on the basis of an analysis of DNA sequence data and morphology that Centrolenidae is the sister taxon of Leptodactylidae (subsequently shown to be polyphyletic and composed of Leiuperidae and Leptodactylidae, sensu stricto), reported on systematic literature, included Allophrynidae (containing only Allophryne) as a subfamily with a coordinate Centroleninae (containing a paraphyletic "Centrolene", Hyalinobatrachium, and Cochranella), and noted difficulties in the current generic taxonomy. Roelants, Gower, Wilkinson, Loader, Biju, Guillaume, Moriau, and Bossuyt, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 887-892, on the basis of less inclusive sampling, a moderately different molecular dataset, and a different analytical method found Centrolenidae as the sister taxon of Leptodactylidae (in the sense of including Leiuperidae). Rueda-Almonacid, 1994, Trianea, 5: 133-187, reported on the anatomy of Centrolene and suggested that the relationship of centrolenids was with hylines and on this basis considered the taxon a subfamily of Hylidae. Guayasamin and Trueb, 2007, Zootaxa, 1447: 27-45, disputed the treatment of Allophryninae as a subfamily of Centrolenidae, although they recognized that it forms the sister taxon of Centroleninae, and continued the recognition of the monotypic family, Allophrynidae. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 1-82, provided a detailed discussion of the evidence/characters underyling the taxonomy of Centrolenidae and provided modifications to diagnoses and the general taxonomy suggested originally by Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30, and subsequently elaborated and built upon by others. Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Ayarzagüena, Trueb, and Vilà, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 48: 574-595, discussed the phylogenetics of the group on the basis of 3 mt and 3 nuclear gene sequences. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the earlier result. Vitt and Caldwell, 2009, Herpetology, 3rd Ed.: 453-454, provided a general taxonomic account and map as part of a much more general and extensive overview of amphibian biology. Kubicki, 2007, Glass Frogs Costa Rica: 1-299, provided a key and accounts for all species in Costa Rica. Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297, reported on systematic literature, included Allophrynidae (containing only Allophryne) as a subfamily of a coordinate Centroleninae (Centrolenidae of this catalogue). Guayasamin and Trueb, 2007, Zootaxa, 1447: 27-45, also recognized that Allophryne is the sister taxon of the traditional Centrolenidae, but continued the recognition of the monotypic family, Allophrynidae, and arrangement followed here because most of those working on relationships within centrolenids prefer that arrangement. See comment under Centrolenidae. Señaris and Ayarzagüena, 2005, Rev. Taxonom. Fam. Centrolenidae de Venezuela: 1-377, reported on the species of Venezuela. Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 1-97, provided a general taxonomy of centrolenids, treating Allophryne as its sister-family, Allophrynidae.
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Thank you, Alison, for your insightful article on my retirement from the staff of the Bethel Historical Society. I thought you did a "yeowomanly" job of covering much "territory" and lots of time in limited space.
For a person who attended the American Historical Association annual meeting in the early 1970s and found that nationally there was about one college history teaching position for every hundred historians, I still managed to stay in history and enjoy a most interesting career. I did get one offer to teach in a Maine college in 1973, but would be preparing four courses a semester and required to have my Ph. D. dissertation completed by the end of the academic year. It sounded like too much to take on with considerable uncertainty, so I turned down the invitation. Of course I wondered for a time if I had made the right choice, but now, after all these years, I am certain I did. As your article stated, the job sought me, I never applied. Granted one seldom got rich monetarily in this field, but the rewards of working with so many wonderful people and experiencing the thrill of seeing countless younger faces light up as they developed a passion for the historical process cannot be valued high enough!
I expect to be involved as a volunteer at Bethel Historical Society for the foreseeable future. And once more, I would like to express my deepest appreciation to all those people who made my years at the Society such a memorable and rewarding experience. It has been an outstanding privilege to serve the cause of history in so many ways and with so many "kindred spirits."
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Laughing Moon Chocolates, Stowe, Thursday, August 13, 2 P.M.
As the creamy, dark chocolate dripped into soft clumps before their eyes, the two boys watching the chocolate-dipping demonstration at Laughing Moon Chocolates could hardly take their eyes off the gooey delicacy. It was almost like a scene out of Willy Wonka — except instead of the mass-produced Wonka Bars, these boys were drooling over locally produced artisan truffles.
Sadly, the demo lasted only 10 minutes. However, the highlight came at the end when, as I had hoped, the chocolatier offered a free sample to everyone in attendance. The crowd was limited to the two fascinated kids, their mothers and me, and we all jumped at the chance to gobble down the pricey treats.
The truffle I sampled, called "Green Mountain Sunshine," literally melted in my mouth. It had a vodka base and was incredibly rich. Laughing Moon also produces an enticing variety of sweet fruits coated in chocolate, butter crunch and caramel.
Not all the ingredients are local — unfortunately, cocoa beans don't grow in Vermont — but owner Leigh Williams says the company tries to use local fruit whenever possible.
Williams, who has been creating sweet treats for six years, is quick to point out the difference between her small shop and larger chocolatiers. "Everything is made on the premises," she says proudly. "It's much more of an art form than large-scale manufacturing."
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Sketching a somewhat ambitious project. I hope I'm able to start it and go through all the way to the end. From my calculations, for the base alone, I'll need a minimum of 1620 iron blocks... I hope the iron golem farm is up and running The rest... bring on the red and white wool! I'll have to read on feed the beast. It sounds interesting!
I have a sheep farm and some saved up wool in the public storage tower in Cape Coon if you're looking for wool. Might not be everything you need but it should be a good start. Could I also get whitelisted on FTB? I just want to try it out.
Thanks Aquinus! Do you mind if I breed a few more? From the looks of it I'll need a f lot of wool lol and I really want to avoid using the public storage. Only if I really need to.
I assume you're going to need iron blocks. Do you have any idea how many? I could put Anderson back to work collecting in the iron golem collector.
That's fine. Just don't over fill it. If you really need more I would be open to making a larger sheep farm that's more like the cow farm but use what you need. It can always be replenished.
I'm going to need about 1600 blocks of iron or nearly 15k ingots. I already started collecting some last night. Got it, thanks. Ooo, thanks for the info, where are they?
Yep, pasture is a good place to get colored wool, I think I have most colors of sheep. And with at least the red and white, there are enough sheep in the pens that you can just run around with shears and constantly collect wool, and never run out of sheep to shear.
It's underway! Revised the need for resources, only needed 836 blocks of iron. Dumb me failed to realize I didn't need to fill the base with the same blocks as the exterior. So instead I filled with cobble stone. Tomorrow sheep... beware
It turns out McMyAdmin has just added support for FTB, so I'll be re-doing the FTB server in the next few weeks. However, this shouldn't affect the map, I should be able to load the current map into the McMyAdmin sever.
That's cool about McMyAdmin. But, at this point a reset wouldn't bother me too much. I don't know what just happened but I was playing with the portal guns I found, died and there was none of my stuff there. Lost a TON of stuff i was carrying on me.
That is one of the problems with FTB. Certain things, like portals, keep the chunks loaded in memory. So if you die and the chunk stays loaded, your items will disappear way before you can get back to them. In normal minecraft, if the chunk is unloaded from memory, the items will stay there forever until the chunk is loaded again, then the countdown until they disappear starts again.
Thanks for the heads up! For now I won't need any more iron blocks. But if everything goes alright this project will have sort of two stages, and I may use more iron then. *snip snip* "here sheepy sheepy"...
Hadn't thought about that, but i guess it makes sense if you can see the world on the other side of the portal. It wasn't as terrible a loss as it first felt. Only things I can't re-make are the portal guns themselves, and I wasn't really using the portals very much.
I have set up a liquid tesseract, public channel 10, pumping lava from the nether. Anybody that joins and want's to access it will just have to create their own liquid tesseract and set it to recieve only on the same channel.
Still waiting on getting white-listed on FTB. I think 36 hours is enough time to warrant asking again.
There has been some timing issues on FTB the last couple times i've been on. I'm not sure if it's lag, but those symptoms are there. It seems like everything is running slower than normal. It's usually at 20 ticks/s and it seems to be closer to 5. Smelting takes longer, mobs react verry slowly, and blocks don't always break the first time. I have a couple chunk loaders and some portals still hanging around but no timers, quarry, or sorting system yet, which usually causes issues because of the number of item entities flying around.
Thinking about it, there are probably still portals open in all the different mystcraft ages I went to. If they keep chunks loaded that could be contributing to the issue. I didn't know you could close the portals until watching a mods spotlight for them today.
I restarted the FTB server, we'll see if that helps. I forgot that McMyAdmin automatically restarts the server for me, but since FTB isn't using McMyAdmin yet it doesn't get automatically restarted daily. I just don't think FTB can handle running for days on end, it just wasn't set up to do that.


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By Greg Reifsteck – Follow on Twitter @moviemaniaceotm & Facebook @Movie Maniac
The Good, the Bad-Ass and the Undead.
Going to San Diego Comic-Con used to be a different experience. It wasn't about getting a big bag of swag and lining up at 4 a.m. to see some big name celebrities in Hall H. It used to be a social experience to meet up with the same comic book fans year after year back, and be with like-minded people.
Now with the overcrowding of 120,000 comic book, movie and TV buffs squeezing into the exhibit halls and corridors of the San Diego convention center, and all of the movie and TV studios plugging their latest projects, Comic-Con has become a sociological experiment unlike any other.
Being the Movie Maniac, I will be bringing you up-to-the-minute online updates of the cinematic action going on at the Con on the EOTM Blog.
I will also be doing a round-up, including interviews from the convention on my new internet radio show Greg Reifsteck Movie Maniac debuting Sunday July 22, 5 p.m. PST on EOTM Radio.
Click here to be redirected to Greg Reifsteck Movie Maniac
Here is part one of a preview of what I feel will be the movie highlights of the Con.
DAY ONE -Thursday, July 12
The first day of the Con looks to be a marathon that won't let up. Twihards will collide with Disney freaks and muscle head fans, all parking themselves in Hall H.
11:45 a.m. – Stan Lee's World of Heroes Panel- Room 6BCF
What a fitting way to start the Con, by bowing down to one of the masters. Stan the Man will be joined by Luke Skywalker himself Mark Hamill and hottie Adrienne Curry to discuss his latest online venture.
12:45 p.m. – Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 – Hall H
Twihards will be camped out in the fitting darkness of the early morning to get into this one. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and the rest of the blood suckers from the film series finale will be in attendance.
2:05 p.m. - Walt Disney Studios Panel- Hall H
It's a heavy hitter panel with the Mouse House trotting out the two mega directors that will revive the studio after last year's John Carter from Mars debacle: Tim Burton's Frankenweenie, Sam Raimi's Oz: The Great and Powerful. Also being featured will be the animated ode to 8-bit video games Wreck It Ralph, that my sore thumbs are going A,B,A,B, left, right, start over in excitement . Stars John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman will be in attendance.
3:00 p.m. 1982- Greatest Geek Year Ever Panel – Room 5AB
If you cannot get into the Hall from Hell, this lively retro panel will be a highlight for anyone from the MTV generation.
The editors of Geek Magazine along with a panel of other writers will discuss the year that gave us Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Blade Runner, E.T., Tron, Poltergeist, Conan: The Barbarian, The Road Warrior, The Thing, Liquid Sky, The Sword and the Sorcerer, Diner and 48 Hours.
3:00 p.m. Hotel Transylvania Panel- Indigo Ballroom, Hilton San Diego Bayfront
More alternative programming if you cannot get into the Disney panel. A must-check-out for horror and animation fans, this hilarious-looking film will be presented by its director Genndy Tartakovsky.
4:45 p.m. Expendables 2 Panel- Hall H.
All of the big guys are back in Lionsgate's sequel to the Sylvester Stallone-directed mega action star mash up. Van Damme, Schwarzenegger, Lundgren, Randy Couture and Terry Crews all will be there in their HGH inflated glory.
5:00 p.m – The Most Dangerous Women at Comic-Con Panel – Room 7AB
It's tough to be a woman in the testosterone-fueled action film industry. Here will be some good estrogen-driven counter programming to the dudes in the Big Hall. Katrina Hill (GeekNation, MTV Geek) has assembled a team of women dangerous in their own right: Leah Cevoli (Robot Chicken), Holly Conrad (Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope), Adrianne Curry (Stan Lee's World of Heroes), Clare Kramer (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Patricia Tallman (Night of the Living Dead) and many others with moderator Bonnie Burton.
8:30 p.m. – Comicon: Episode IV : A Fan's Hope Screening and Panel- Ballroom 20
Documentarian Morgan Spurlock will put a capper on the day with his take on the Comic-Con phenomenon.
Petco Park Insanity
This year the Con has gotten so ginormous, it has spilled over into Petco Park next door. From 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday and in the daytime on Friday and Saturday, there will be the unbelievable Walking Dead Escape fan experience www.thewalkingdeadescape.com where you can hunt the undead or be a hunted zombie in a wicked looking 35 to 55 minute maze that overtakes parts of three levels of the baseball park. Price levels vary for the type of treachery you want to take in.
At night the first ever Dawn of the Con will take place at the park for Con badge holders only from 5:30 to 11 p.m… Rob Zombie will be the master of ceremonies, presenting a concert of remixes of his classic songs. There will also be exclusive giveaways every hour, as well as a photo op experience with Zombie's Dragula car.


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Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson were caught on set May 30th filming scenes for their upcoming movie Pain and Gain in Miami, Florida. "The Rock" has tweeted a couple pictures of him with fans from the set but hasn't said too much about the actual filming. But he did tweet some motivational words:
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Move the Crowd is right! I'm pumped up, let's get some stuff done today. I'm not sure which task to take on first, creating World Peace or ending World Hunger? I may be over shooting a little bit over here. Maybe I'll just do some push ups and work off some of the weight I gained over the holidays...in 2002. Also seen on set were Tony Shalhoub and Ed Harris. Pain and Gain is set to be released April 12, 2013.


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Makes a hearty breakfast for two.
Approximate cooking time: 20 minutes (cook and dice chicken breasts ahead of time)
- 1 tsp coconut oil, tallow, lard, or bacon drippings
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- 1/2 tsp chili powder (or ground chipotle)
- 1/4 tsp sea salt (optional)
- 1 Tbs water
- 1/4 red onion, diced
- 1 green bell pepper, diced
- 1 jalapeno, diced (optional)
- 12 oz chicken breasts, chopped
- 1 medium tomato, diced
- 1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
- Heat coconut oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat.
- Meanwhile, break eggs into a small bowl. Add cumin, chili powder, sea salt, and water. Scramble with a fork until fully combined.
- Add onions, bell peppers, and jalapeno to the hot skillet. Saute 3-5 minutes, or until slightly softened.
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This is much better than some fast food breakfast. It doesn't sound that bad for you. They are fresh ingredients.
If you fill yourself up with healthy foods, you will be less likely to snack on bad foods later in the day:)


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Orlando Johnson reflected on those 6 a.m. workouts at Palma as a senior, begging a coach to meet him in the dead of winter to unlock the gym doors when teammates were still asleep.
He rekindled the endless pickup games over the summer as a collegiate that sometimes went well beyond midnight in the bay area.
And Johnson remembered his grandmother — who raised him before she perished in a home fire when he was 11 — when his named was called in the second round of Thursday's NBA draft and No. 36 overall by the Sacramento Kings.
"I reflected on everything I have been through,'' a somber Johnson said. "I was glad I could share this moment with my family. But I'm glad this is over.''
His tenure with the Kings, though, lasted about five minutes, as Johnson was traded to the Indiana Pacers, a team in need of a shooting guard, a team he was familiar with.
Johnson is the first athlete ever from Monterey County to be drafted in the NBA. He is the first UC Santa Barbara player to be selected since Brian Shaw was chosen in 1988.
"Nothing really surprises me,'' said Johnson, who lost his mother when he was one. "I have had no contact with the Kings. It's a blessing that Indiana wanted to take me.''
In fact, it was the Pacers that called the 6-foot-5 shooting guard to inform him that Sacramento was going to pick him, but they were going to trade for him.
"I never spoke with the Kings,'' Johnson said. "Indiana called two picks prior to my selection to inform me what was going to happen.''
Johnson actually wasn't in the room when Indiana called. The 23-year-old had to get out and get some air when he didn't go in the first round.
"I was hurt I didn't go in the first round,'' Johnson said. "I got a little anxiety. I had to leave the hotel room. I could not deal with it. I wanted to be by myself for a while. So I went for a walk.''
Johnson choose to come home and spend the moment with his two brothers that helped raise him as well as family members after a world wind tour of NBA workouts saw him visit eight teams over the course of 10 days.
The Pacers were one of those teams.
"It was great,'' Johnson said. "I got a chance to meet with their representatives. I really liked their style. I just want to get into the rotation.''
Projected to go anywhere from No. 28 to No. 38 in the draft, talks had surfaced that the Bulls would grab him with the 29th pick.
"I thought I was better than some of the guys that went a head of me,'' Johnson said.
Last season at UC Santa Barbara, Johnson averaged 19.8 points a game, finishing as the schools all-time leader in points with 1,825 in just three years.
He became the first Gaucho to amass 500 or more points three straight years and earn All-Big West Conference honors three consecutive years.
Johnson tried to keep his day in prospective, evening speaking earlier on Thursday at the Ron Johnson-Anthony Toney Football Camp at Monterey Peninsula College.
"That went well,'' Johnson said. "It took my mind off things for a while."
Johnson, who spent last summer playing on the US National team at the World University Games, will report to the Pacers Summer League team in Orlando, Florida.
Last year the Pacers finished second in the Central Division to Chicago at 42-24, falling to eventual NBA champion Miami in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
"I know they have a lot of people in their rotation,'' Johnson said. "I'll figure it out when I get there. This is a team that I believe I can fit right in with. It's an unselfish group of players."
Among the teams that had worked out Johnson was Golden State, who passed on him twice.
Johnson, who played his first two years at North Salinas, transferred to Palma as a junior. By his senior year, he was arguable the best player to ever come out of Monterey County
As a senior, Johnson led Palma to a Central Coast Section Division IV title, averaging 25.2 points a game, taking them to the State Northern California Division IV semifinals.
Johnson made an immediate impact in his first and only year at Loyola Marymount, setting freshman records for points and rebounds.
But a change in coaches convinced Johnson to change schools, where he enrolled at UC Santa Barbara and sat out an entire season.
The delay only enabled him to enhance his game. Johnson made an immediate impact on the program, earning Big West Tournament MVP honors as a sophomore, taking the Gauchos to the NCAA Tournament.
Johnson duplicated the feat as a junior, helping Santa Barbara back to the NCAA Tournament. Choosing to remain in college for his senior year instead of putting his name in the NBA draft last year saw his stock soar this year.
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It's true, and is published in a recent NEJM article.
Residents in Europe work about 56 hours per week, and after August 2008, they will be allowed to work only 48 hours.
Sleep medicine experts state that current training restrictions with maximum 30-hour shifts and 80-hour workweeks are unsafe for both patients and physicians. A fine balance is being looked at as to where the optimal line of patient care vs. physician work hours can be drawn.
If you compare what US residents work to residents in Europe, the poor US guys and gals are working almost twice as much.
I think further work hour reform is on the horizon, especially if favorable data comes out of the decreased work hours for European residents. Only time will tell but I think it's a push in the right direction. 80 hours per week is still too damn much.
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Chinese valentine day named QiXi on 7th, July is coming, are you ready for getting gifts for your lover?
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May be you take consider about the jewelry, shoes, perfume, handbags, headwear, dolls or something other gifts, but these will not make your lover feel more special or fresh, a big surprise will be a fashionable evening dress or party dresses for her, as we all know, pretty dress is the best talented gift for ladies in the world.
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I had a very wonderfull experience with Caribe Horse Riding. Nice and healthy horses, and very nice tour guide from Holland. I really love that they prefer to ride the horses with bidless briddles.
I had a very wonderfull experience with Caribe Horse Riding. Nice and healthy horses, and very nice tour guide from Holland. I really love that they prefer to ride the horses with bidless briddles.
A must do in CR!! Worth your every dollar, where you get much more than what you paid for. We rode 4 instead of 2,5 hours in punta uva, amazing deserted beaches and the jungle right next to the beach. High waves and loud sea with pelicans diving in on one side, jungle with sloths, hibiscus and noni trees on... More
As many others have said, we thoroughly enjoyed our morning ride out of the Caribe Horse Riding Club. We were picked up from our hotel by a prepaid taxi as arranged by the Club. There were only three of us, plus our great guide Amelie, and the beaches were quite empty on a weekday, so it was a very relaxed... More
We had an excellent ride on the beach with great horses and guides. Didn't know to ask about swimming with the horses....guess I have to save something for next time. Highly recommend this activity.
I had an incredible experience doing the horse back full moon night beach tour. The staff was incredibly pleasant and thoughtful and even sent me pictures after. I would do it again in a heart beat and feel comfortable recommending it to others.
My husband and did a ride on our honeymoon - it was a long ride on the beach, and it was so worth it. Our guide was great too - she told us about different plants, and the area that we rode through, and she also took us to a point on the coast with a great view. I would... More
I did enjoy this ride, but I have ridden on and off most of my life and do enjoy getting back in the saddle whenever the opportunity presents itself. Looking back over previous reviews, it seems that many people enjoyed the experience of swimming with the horses, cantering along the beach and spotting various wildlife. Unfortunately, I didn't get any... More
thank u for everything guys, it was incredible ! beautiful landscapes, really kind horses, i will remember it for sure !
I told my new husband that we should ride horses on the beach on our honeymoon, and so we did! It was a perfect day - Isa arranged for a driver to pick us up at our hotel and take us straight to the stables. The horses were bridled and saddled and off we went. The ride was a mix... More
This horseback tour was the highlight of the caribbean portion of our trip to Costa Rica. Our guide and his two sons were very friendly and excellent hosts. This tour is great for any rider from beginner to experienced. Our tour lasted longer than it was scheduled for so we could enjoy the beautiful evening. This is a great way... More
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What would your dream job be if you could do anything and get paid for it?
Supreme Court Justice (its a good gig if you can get it). More realistically -- because I'd never pass the Senate Confirmation -- District Attorney or Federal Prosecutor.
Or billionaire crimefighting vigilante.
Or maybe both.
Don't forget the mask. A cape isn't required, c.f. The Flash, Ironman, Daredevil, and Mr. Incredible.
Similar to Jack's comment, I'd be a multi-billionaire by the age of 25. I'd spend enough money to retire and enjoy life......and spend the rest of it making the world a better place.
Golf course critic/reviewer, or golf club tester, or pretty much anything that would require me to play golf.
Otherwise, a scholar (not sure exactly what you'd call it). I'd love to be paid to sit down and learn something new every day.
Right now I have been doing a lot of research into management consulting, wouldn't mind finding even ethics consulting gigs.
Basically anything where people seek out my opinion and not only do they pay for it(very well) but they actually implement it and listen to it at the executive level
Oil Exploration Engineer, area of focus ----> West Africa.
Historian, jazz bassist or owner of the hippest joint this side of 52nd Street.
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