With over 160 different spice blends lining the shelves of our stores, people are always curious to know what inspired all of our unique flavor combinations. So we'd like to share with you the process by which our limited time (exclusively for Valentine's Day) Black Onyx Chocolate Sugar was created.
Stir our new Black Onyx Chocolate Sugar Cubes into your morning oatmeal!
We set out with the thought of creating something special for Valentine's Day. In talking about Valentine's Day, we always come back to chocolate. Our Baker's Brew coffee and cocoa blend has quickly become a customer favorite. In addition to spiced hot chocolates, we have two cocoa blends: Mexican (blended with cinnamon) and Mayan (with the kick of a few different chiles). The popularity of these blends tells us that, like us, our customers love cocoa!
That's when Savory Spice Shop founder Mike Johnston got an idea. Our vanilla sugars are popular, so why not create chocolate sugar just for Valentine's Day? Chocolate sugar was a great idea but would be even more fun as sugar cubes. The recipe was inspired in part by our existing recipe for Vanilla Bean Sugar Cubes, which you can try in your own kitchen! Mike ultimately created one recipe that would become both cubes and granulated Black Onyx Chocolate Sugar.
Jake and production mananger, Aimee, sample test batches of Black Onyx Sugar Cubes.
Creating a blend is a process of trial and error, involving a lot of tweaks. Mike often says that you never get a blend right the first time. It took us several iterations before we achieved the balanced and unique flavor we were seeking: a sugar base infused with chocolate extract and layered with black onyx cocoa, with notes of aromatic Mexican vanilla and mild Ceylon cinnamon. These first batches were prepared in the test kitchen, sending a wonderful brownie-like aroma wafting through the warehouse.
Once Mike finalizes the blend recipe, it goes into test production. Much like the initial creation of a blend, test production often involves a few tweaks as our production manager Aimee creates larger batches. The final process involves pressing the damp sugar mixture into sheet pans and scoring each sheet. After being processed, the trays of Black Onyx Chocolate Sugar Cubes are stacked on a rack. We then separate them into individual cubes, a delicate process that it has to be done by hand. At the same time, we pull out any cubes that have broken. After completing this step, there's always some granulated sugar left. We blend that into the granulated Black Onyx Chocolate Sugar.
The finished product! Black Onyx Chocolate Sugar and Cubes.
We have some wonderful recipes that use our vanilla sugars where you could easily substitute Black Onyx Chocolate Sugar. Try our Black Onyx Chocolate Sugar in Snickerdoodles Done Right or boost the chocolate flavor in Mary's Gluten-Free Chocolate Torte. This sugar would also be great with some less conventional desserts like Grilled Spiced Sugar Bananas with Spiced Nuts.
Sometimes you don't need a recipe, just some quick and easy uses. Drop a cube into your hot cereal or oatmeal or stir into a hot drink like Chai. We tried it in mint tea and loved the subtle hint of cocoa. You could also try it in orange spice tea, vanilla, or rooibos teas.
As always, we love to hear how you use our products. If you have tried these or any of our recipes, please leave a review.
The Black Onyx Chocolate Sugar Cubes stirred into oatmeal is the best!
Not great in drinks, leaves tiny bits that you can feel in your mouth which the entire family gave a thumbs down to. Will try in food as that will cover up the bits. Flavor is ok, basically sugar.


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Q: Kibana 3 can't connect to elasticsearch I have tried to setup a kibana 3 with elasticsearch and logstash.
When i go to 127.0.0.1/kibana i get following error:
Error Could not contact Elasticsearch at http://127.0.0.1:9200. Please ensure that Elasticsearch is reachable from your system.
And when I check the console log i get the following:
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at http://127.0.0.1:9200/_nodes. (Reason: CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' missing).
When I go to the url http://127.0.0.1:9200 i get the following JSON text
{
  "name" : "Meteor Man",
  "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "2.1.1",
    "build_hash" : "40e2c53a6b6c2972b3d13846e450e66f4375bd71",
    "build_timestamp" : "2015-12-15T13:05:55Z",
    "build_snapshot" : false,
    "lucene_version" : "5.3.1"
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}

and in http://127.0.0.1:9200/_nodes I get the following:
{"cluster_name":"elasticsearch","nodes":{"BKXqqrymQw6lShg5P7_-eA":{"name":"Meteor Man","transport_address":"127.0.0.1:9300","host":"127.0.0.1","ip":"127.0.0.1","version":"2.1.1","build":"40e2c53","http_address":"127.0.0.1:9200","settings":{"client":{"type":"node"},"name":"Meteor Man","pidfile":"/var/run/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.pid","path":{"data":"/var/lib/elasticsearch","home":"/usr/share/elasticsearch","conf":"/etc/elasticsearch","logs":"/var/log/elasticsearch"},"config":{"ignore_system_properties":"true"},"cluster":{"name":"elasticsearch"},"foreground":"false"},"os":{"refresh_interval_in_millis":1000,"name":"Linux","arch":"amd64","version":"3.19.0-25-generic","available_processors":4,"allocated_processors":4},"process":{"refresh_interval_in_millis":1000,"id":10545,"mlockall":false},"jvm":{"pid":10545,"version":"1.7.0_91","vm_name":"OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM","vm_version":"24.91-b01","vm_vendor":"Oracle Corporation","start_time_in_millis":1453983811248,"mem":{"heap_init_in_bytes":268435456,"heap_max_in_bytes":1038876672,"non_heap_init_in_bytes":24313856,"non_heap_max_in_bytes":224395264,"direct_max_in_bytes":1038876672},"gc_collectors":["ParNew","ConcurrentMarkSweep"],"memory_pools":["Code Cache","Par Eden Space","Par Survivor Space","CMS Old Gen","CMS Perm Gen"]},"thread_pool":{"generic":{"type":"cached","keep_alive":"30s","queue_size":-1},"index":{"type":"fixed","min":4,"max":4,"queue_size":200},"fetch_shard_store":{"type":"scaling","min":1,"max":8,"keep_alive":"5m","queue_size":-1},"get":{"type":"fixed","min":4,"max":4,"queue_size":1000},"snapshot":{"type":"scaling","min":1,"max":2,"keep_alive":"5m","queue_size":-1},"force_merge":{"type":"fixed","min":1,"max":1,"queue_size":-1},"suggest":{"type":"fixed","min":4,"max":4,"queue_size":1000},"bulk":{"type":"fixed","min":4,"max":4,"queue_size":50},"warmer":{"type":"scaling","min":1,"max":2,"keep_alive":"5m","queue_size":-1},"flush":{"type":"scaling","min":1,"max":2,"keep_alive":"5m","queue_size":-1},"search":{"type":"fixed","min":7,"max":7,"queue_size":1000},"fetch_shard_started":{"type":"scaling","min":1,"max":8,"keep_alive":"5m","queue_size":-1},"listener":{"type":"fixed","min":2,"max":2,"queue_size":-1},"percolate":{"type":"fixed","min":4,"max":4,"queue_size":1000},"refresh":{"type":"scaling","min":1,"max":2,"keep_alive":"5m","queue_size":-1},"management":{"type":"scaling","min":1,"max":5,"keep_alive":"5m","queue_size":-1}},"transport":{"bound_address":["127.0.0.1:9300","[::1]:9300"],"publish_address":"127.0.0.1:9300","profiles":{}},"http":{"bound_address":["127.0.0.1:9200","[::1]:9200"],"publish_address":"127.0.0.1:9200","max_content_length_in_bytes":104857600},"plugins":[]}}}

A: You simply need to enable CORS in your elasticsearch.yml configuration file and restart ES, that setting is disabled by default.
http.cors.enabled: true

However, I'm not certain that Kibana 3 will work with ES 2.1.1. You might need to upgrade your Kibana in order for this work. Try to change the above settings and see it it helps. If not, upgrade Kibana to the latest release.

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You Can Now Buy Old Indian Railway Coaches And Turn Them Into Your Own Private Space
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Shewali TiwariUpdated on Nov 20, 2016, 17:52 IST
This is a dream come true for those who love trains! As someone who has travelled extensively on trains, I can vouch for the fact that trains are the coolest way of travelling.
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As you sit by the window, trains bring an enduring happiness. The wind in your hair, the changing landscape - everything about this moving carriage is beyond perfect.
So here's the good news fellas-- you can now buy train coaches.
At least six metre-gauge trains have been pulled out of operation by the Lucknow division of the North Eastern Railway (NER) due to gauge conversion of the Aishbagh-Mailani section. These rakes (trains) would be auctioned by railways as soon as a committee declares them `condemned'.
Turn them into a fancy restaurant, your personal library, or the home you always wanted to have, as these coaches may soon be yours.
With the emblem of the Indian Railways on it, the coach could be modified to the buyer's liking or retain its original wooden seats.
People can participate in the auction and bid for what would then only be`scrap' for the railways.
"Since railways no longer manufacture these coaches, some of them will be used to augment the existing pairs. The remaining would be sent to other railways with metre-gauge trains running if they demand."
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Thereon, if the railway finds no takers, they will put them on auction. The auction will soon be advertised, sometime during next month.
The railway is on with its full inspection- coaches that are more than 25 years old are abandoned, those in need of overhauling are sent to the workshop and the useful parts of a coach are removed. The remaining will be auctioned.
The cost of the coach will depend on the tonnes of iron in it.
adventuresofagoodman
FYI - The last coach that was auctioned 30 years ago was sold for 1,10,000.

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Last week, Jenn and I went to a talk at ABC Home put on by Apartment Therapy. I've been to this series before and always enjoy it because they serve ample glasses of wine :) This time I was super excited to hear Deborah Needleman speak. She was the founding editor of Domino magazine and is the current editor of the Wall Street Journal Magazine. I've always had this unnatural obsession with magazines and constantly dream of some future involving architecture/design and publishing. Still working on that.
Anyway, Deborah Needleman was lovely and candid and had some great insight into the world of magazines. I recently bought two of her books: Domino: The Book of Decorating and The Perfectly Imperfect Home. After the talk, Jenn and I stood in line to have them signed and say hello to Ms. Needleman. When it was my turn, she was so sweet and kind and signed my book, but for the life of me, I could not think of anything intelligent to say to her. Luckily, instead of saying something dumb, I said very little. Oh well. When I come to her years later for a publishing job, hopefully she won't remember that mute girl clenching her signed book and smiling awkwardly.
On a less embarrassing note, while standing in line, I ran into a girl who went to Auburn! AUBURN! This is a big deal. The world is rarely this small. She graduated from architecture school two years ahead of me and has lived in NYC ever since. She is currently also studying for her exams and invited me to her study group. Lucky me!


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Q: How Make A Constantly Growing Text File I have an app that is collecting data from user inputs on a pretty regular basis. I'm writing the data to a text file and saving it to the disk. I usually call writeToFile:, but the issue with that is that it is constantly overwritten each time. I can't create different file names either because I'd like to keep it all in one file for the user to access later. I'm not sure how to even go about this, does anyone have any recommendations?
- (void)saveToTextFile {
    NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString *filePath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"usernotes"];

    NSString *savedString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@" First:%@  Second: %@", firstOne, secondOne];

    [savedString appendToFile:@"usernotes"];

}

I'm getting an error that says No visible interface for NSString declares the selector appendToFile.

A: have you tried appendToFile: rather than writeToFile:? Append should add the new code at the bottom of the file, if I am not mistaken.


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A couple years ago, while visiting family in Seattle, I had the pleasure of returning to the Water Tower. Those from Seattle will know exactly what place I am talking about; for the rest of you, I will do my best to describe it.
The land rising to the east above downtown Seattle is Capitol Hill, and the highest part is Volunteer Park. One of the park landmarks is a round, brick tower, encasing a very large metal tank, and serving as one of the city's oldest water reservoirs. At the top of the tank is a platform and arched brick openings allowing views in all directions: to Puget Sound, Mt. Rainier, the Cascades, Mt. Baker. To get to the platform, there are two spiral staircases, all metal, producing an echoing 'thump, thump, thump' as you climb to the top, between the metal tank wall and the interior of the brick wall. I grew up on Capitol Hill. On many days, my father would come home from his engineering job at Boeing, and he loved to take us kids out for a jog. He was staying fit for his Navy Reserve flight duties; we were just eating it up, the way kids do. Many times, this routine included going to the Water Tower. We would always race up the metal stairs. The world then was fresh and limitless, at least in the eyes of a kid.
So, a couple years ago, I returned to the Water Tower. The views are still very impressive; and, there is a definite comfort, a stability, in being able to return to places from long ago, like the Water Tower. But, at least for me, there was a little less comfort this time around. There were notices at the base of the tower, simple pieces of paper taped to the wall. The key words were 'Due to budget cuts…'. The copies stated that the City was going to lock the gates at the base of the tower on the following days for the remainder of the year (and then a list of a dozen or so days). I thought, man, it took more work to post these notices than to just leave it alone. And, the more I thought about it, the less sense it made. Clearly, the intent was not so much to save money to fit a tightening budget; no, the intent was to pressure public outcry. Which precipitated my own thought: this is a lousy way to serve the Public.
Call it a sequester threat.
Today's news stories say that FAA has 47,000 full-time employees, but take a close look at an FAA directory, and you will find that 47,000 is just the tip of the iceberg. There are scads more contract employees, many of whom occupy space at FAA Headquarters or at the Regional Offices. Look more closely at the organizational structure. The names of the different FAA units are dizzying with heir redundant overlap; it appears they have a division to monitor a division to oversee the division that runs air traffic control (yes, three layers, and all are fat with employees). And, despite all that redundant layering, they still have serious problems with concealed errors. But, that is just the large picture.
Look more closely at FAA pay, which is the reason for the threats of delays. In the past two years, I happened to research pay levels for a few employees related to my own case. Simple online research, viewing publicly available information. What I found was shocking. So many FAA officials being paid at the top of the federal payscale, which was $180K in 2010. In a full-blown whistleblower retaliation case, such as mine, it is normal to have agency officials from all areas deeply involved: HR, LR, medical, legal, security, and of course air traffic. At the Regional Offices, there are dozens of top-pay employees: the Regional Administrator, the Regional Flight Surgeon, the Regional Counsel, and so forth. In the field, large ATC facilities commonly have a dozen or more top-pay managers. In my retaliation case I found: at least ten of the few dozen who concealed records and otherwise denied me my Due Process were maxed out at $180K/year on the federal pay scale (my shock was doubled in that, I had assumed by their performance, they must be very poorly compensated and demoralized). In fact, of those few dozen officials, only a tiny minority (typically the secretaries) were making less than $120K/year. It was astonishing; no wonder everyone was so disinclined to speak up, to say what they knew!
And it is not just the legions of FAA officials ensconced in these offices, far from the front lines, who are raking in this level of pay. It is also the controllers. Controllers fully certified at en route centers are predominantly pulling in from $150,000 to $180,000 per year. That is what FAA has become: enormous pay to federal civil servants who, when they face a possible furlough pay reduction, direct their energies toward threatening slowdowns and other public pain.
But, how about the real world, where people can no longer afford college and medical costs, and where many are taking fewer airline trips because their spending money is constricting? How does this posturing by controllers and FAA managers look to them?
Where I live in Oregon, we're still logging the forests, but most of the logs are being shipped to China. There just are not that many mill jobs anymore, and the mill owners are famous for suddenly shutting things down with no warning. I have neighbors who are thrilled to pull in more than $30K a year. I see young adults scrambling to land dead-end, minimum-wage jobs, and hoping they can net $15K a year. Meanwhile, I know many other FAA employees who were allowed to retire on their own calendar, who then brought in $40-$70K in annual pensions WHILE ALSO double-dipping with contract jobs back at FAA, paying another $50K+ annually.
And so, today, the news outlets, including the resident at the White House (when he feels inclined to act as a spokesperson) are all scaring us with the prospect of more airport delays, while saying nothing to address the real gross inefficiencies within the FAA. Just one of those top-of-the-payscale FAA headquarters jobs translates to four or even six solid jobs for a young father or mother. Every FAA employee doing the double-dip is robbing an average of three young people, who remain stuck, wasting their youthful energies and enthusiasm waiting for a start.
This is not only Wrong, in the Larger Picture it is Tragic.
And how did it evolve into this? There is a lot of evidence to support the fact that, when the controllers union (NATCA) and FAA management are in dispute, the most common solution in recent decades has been to simply throw more money at it. And, in truth, Congress ON BOTH SIDES loves to throw money, because it always translates to more money back to their constituents. So, what we have is an elaborate dance, a choreographed show, which results in higher funding to the controllers, a tide that quickly lifts all FAA boats. And, once pay is ratcheted up, it virtually never slides back down.
Two parts, and it all centers on transparency.
First, FAA must clean up from decades of promoting managers into top-pay positions with no apparent purpose other than to collect paychecks and build time toward retirement. Those fuzzy and redundant positions at FAA Headquarters, in the Regional Offices, and the supplemental positions in the District Offices (and other large facilities). From my research in the past couple years, and from my decades of FAA work experience, I know that a thorough and objective DoT-IG investigation would reveal that many of these promotions were made to buy silence from witnesses to whistleblower retaliations, coverups, safety failures, and the like. It is bad enough to silence your witnesses, but just the dollar cost of this bad habit is prohibitive.
Second, take full advantage of today's information technologies and embark on a fresh start with total transparency for all FAA spending, such that any citizen can see the details online. Every position (FAA or contract). Every purchase. Every service contract. This is public money; we should all be able to see exactly how it is spent.
…where do we go from here?
This system is failing because we are stuck with 'refuseniks' in both parties, Republican and Democrat, who fail to lead and instead mire our fiscal problems even deeper. I would hope that, from here onward, President Obama will insist that he will NOT advocate for continued spending for a specific agency until that agency shows in a clear presentation – and with full transparency to the entire public – how those funds will be spent, with added proof that all spending is of value.
It's the mid-1960's and there is a 'thump, thump, thump' echoing in the Water Tower. The metal steps are vibrating, and kids are shrieking. They thrill to win the race. They long to discover the wonders of a big world yet to learn.
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I've read lots of essays about why people write and they often start with something about how the writer couldn't survive without writing, how it's what keeps their soul alive and that they've been a writer as long as they can remember.
When I read stuff like this I feel like an imposter. As a kid, I wrote because teachers made me do it. Luckily I was good at it without trying, which boosted my not-so-great confidence and I grew to like writing.
I fell into my writing career almost by accident. After college I went through a phase of wanting to ditch the over-intellectual life and learn to use my hands. This (and some romance) lead me to a black pearl farm on a very remote atoll in the South Pacific where I spent days scraping sea goo off of oysters or cooking meals for up to 20 hungry men. I got pregnant, had babies and devoted all my waking energy beyond farm work towards raising my kids.
I kept a journal through this time, logging my adventure but unfortunately its contents would never make it beyond the atoll. In a very dramatic, small-island crazed turn of events the farm manager stole my journal and burned it which, paired with other equally deranged events, made my family realize it was time to move on. It wasn't until I lost my writing and the details of my five years of experiences, that I realized I was a writer. The second we moved to Tahiti and got an internet connection I started sending out articles. When I told my stories and published them they would stay safe and alive -- I didn't want my history or anyone else's to go up in smoke again, so to speak.
I've now been a full-time professional guidebook and travel writer for nine years. I officially have the writing bug but I'm still not that person who would die if I couldn't write. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and need to write something that's brewing in my head, but if you took writing away from me for a month I'd see it more as a vacation than anything else (I work too much!). It's important to me to have correct grammar but I care far more about creating a unique metaphor that instills a sense of place than about details like the Oxford comma. I can't spell to save my life.
I write because it's my vehicle to tell stories and to share information that I'm passionate about. The art is lovely but to me it's secondary. Research and discovery excite me more than getting it all on paper, but once I get to the writing part, I take pride in doing it well. When I'm in the groove I dote on the shape of words, the cadence of a sentence and how the mix of it all can run away until it disappears into a dream world. So I guess, in a way, art follows the adventure and I appreciate the time it gives me to process information and to look for the stories hidden within it all.
Sometimes I feel like more of a historian than a writer. I don't "sit at the typewriter and bleed" (who said that?), I sit and and I recreate the places I've been and the characters I've met while telling an honest story. I come out of it with a stiff back and if things went well I'll have that same glow one gets when reading a good book.
In any case, I'm writing this because my friend Annika Hipple asked me to take part in a "blog hop," where writers answer a few questions about their writing life. I am being a terrible blog hopper firstly because I'm not going to answer any of the questions beyond this first part and secondly because I'm not handing over the baton to another blogger. I blog for fun and I just got past the fun part.
But you really should head over to Annika's blog, see what she wrote and find more links to why other writers write and what their writing process looks like. There's an amazing range of stories.
You can see Annika's post here.
Annika Hipple is a freelance writer, editor, and photographer specializing in travel, adventure, environment, sustainability, and history. She has contributed to a wide range of magazines, newspapers, and online media both in the U.S. and overseas. In addition, she helps travel companies and nonprofit organizations tell their stories through newsletters, website content, and other materials. A lifelong traveler, she grew up bilingual and bicultural, with two countries (the United States and Sweden) to call home. She has ridden a camel in the Gobi, braved the winds at Cape Horn, snorkeled with sharks in the Galapagos, ventured into ancient Egyptian tombs, tracked cheetahs on foot in Namibia, camped on a beach in the Ecuadorian Amazon, tubed through a cave filled with glowworms in New Zealand, and stood face-to-face with the massive moai heads of Easter Island. She blogs her travel photography on her website, www.annikahipple.com, publishes the Scandinavia travel website RealScandinavia.com, and is currently developing other blogging projects related to sustainable travel and history. Alongside her creative endeavors, Annika leads trips throughout the world as a tour manager and guide for a variety of travel programs.
Our trekking guide from Mamasa to Tana Toraja was a Mamasan man named Domingus, which he told us is derived from the word Sunday, "Domingo" in Indonesian. The Mamasa region is known for being staunchly Christian, but because Indonesia is a very Muslim country and this is what both Emre and I were used to, we were more drawn to the fact that "Domingus" sounded Latin, not necessarily religious. Our guide however proved to be much more of the latter.
Domingus was as clean cut a guy as you could ever hope to lead you on a trek. He had a big, round, smiling clean-shaven face, perfectly trimmed short hair with a few strands of distinguished grey and he wore brown dress slacks, a long sleeve button shirt and a guide's vest with an official looking emblem on it. Over the next three days he would wear this exact outfit every day and never get so much as a smudge of mud or a wrinkle in it. He never smelled bad or had a hair out of place. Emre and I would come out the Toraja end of the trip covered in stains, feet encrusted with dirt and hair flying in every direction. I have no idea how Domingus stayed so well put together.
On our first night we saw him put up some political posters around the village we were staying in. He explained that he was a major supporter of the Indonesian Christian party and while he was on our trek he was going to spread the word about his favorite candidate to all the small villages who didn't get much news. That emblem on his jacket - ends up it was for his political party, not a guiding organization.
It's interesting to visit Christian areas in Indonesia because the locals immediately assume that white people have the same beliefs as them and therefore, they feel a certain kinship with them. Domingus and all the families we met made this assumption with me. As minorities in their own country (where they often feel discredited and mute) this kinship can be stronger than you might expect. Our group however was a little off kilter because Emre is Turkish and was brought up Muslim. I wasn't brought up anything but because I'm American no one ever bothered to ask me about my spiritual leanings and just assumed I was as Jesus loving as the Mamasans. This suited me fine. Domingus however was immediately a little suspicious of Emre and quietly brought me aside a few times to ask me about how strong a believer she was and if this was going to cause us any problems. Everything ended up happy and peaceful but it was interesting to feel what in Indonesia would be considered a sort of reverse racism. Here I was sticking up for my "Muslim" (Emre is slightly more Muslim than I would call myself Christian) friend in a country where most women wear veils. Emre later confided in me that as a Muslim she often gets preferential treatment in Muslim countries, even getting offered special discounts etc. This was the first time it ever really hit me how different we all get treated in foreign countries because of our perceived religion.
It soon became clear that even though Domingus was a perfectly good guide and knew the area well, his main goal was to spread the word about politics. Luckily, the Mamasans seemed happy to get any news or visitors at all and welcomed the news by promptly posting Domingus's posters all over the place. In fact, they seemed to genuinely respect our guide for bringing them this information. There were a few earnest conversations about the exceptional nature of the Christian candidate but for the most part the villagers were more interested in hosting two exotic white people in their homes than talking politics.
That night we stayed up till the un-Godly hour of about 10pm in our one room shack drinking sour-sweet palm wine with Domingus, the owner of the house and our horseman (who is worthy of a whole other blog post I'll probably never write). Then to bed on our thick quilts that were supposed to be mattresses but fortunately some warmer blankets this night. We slept well.
Then the next morning it was off again but this time downhill through rice fields, tiny one-room churches on ridges and villages of small wooden shacks on stilts.


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History of Western Horseman
75 Years Of The World's Leading Horse Magazine
Randy Witte
In his welcome to this chronicle of Western Horseman's 75 years, current Publisher Darrell Dodds writes, "On the following pages, former Western Horseman Publisher Randy Witte has authored the most comprehensive history of the magazine that's ever been written."
Even more important: "Witte also recognized that a magazine, when done well, can be magical in its ability to educate, inform, entertain and inspire."
That belief obviously focuses on the stock-horse industry. But the passion to deliver the "magic" has come from staffers themselves, horse owners as invested in the western lifestyle as the magazine's readership.
Among the magicians: Witte's larger-than-life predecessor, Dick Spencer, and longtime Editor Pat Close, who rode 40 years for the brand, and many others on the magazine staff. All, Witte says, contributed to "take the readers to places they'd never go, meet interesting characters they'd never heard of and learn things they'd never imagined."
That the magazine continues into its 75th year is testament that throughout its history Western Horseman successfully has pursued these objectives.
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Pages: 160 •
978-0-7627-7753-2 • Hardback • May 2011 • $29.95 • (£19.95)
Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Equestrian
Randy Witte worked for Western Horseman magazine from 1977 through 2006, starting as editorial assistant and progressing through roles as associate editor, editor, and finally publisher beginning in 1989. In celebration of the magazine's 75th anniversary, he wrote a history of Western Horseman that is filled with colorful profiles of the owners, editors and writers who have informed and entertained generations of readers ever since 1936.
From the beginning, Western Horseman was there to encourage the formation of various breed associations and registries, and to help readers learn how to raise, train, care for, and use their horses. This book is filled with photos, personal recollections, and vignettes of the people who helped to grow the magazine and see the horse reemerge as an important part of the American West.
Today, Randy and his wife, Marsha, still have horses, and they also raise Longhorn cattle east of Colorado Springs. During the course of 50 years, Randy went from being a Western Horseman reader to longtime staff member and now is back to being a dedicated reader of his favorite magazine.
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Fort Worth, Texas, and all areas of the rancher, rodeo, and horserider West.
Celebrating 75 years of Western Horseman


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Cash Versus Accrual; How Do I Account for My Small Business?
For a traditional small business, there is no right or wrong method for accounting. However, cash versus accrual always seems to be a hot topic that small business owners and entrepreneurs want the answer to. I am glad that this question is constantly being explored because accounting for small businesses is extremely important, along with choosing the correct accounting method for your own small business. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages and this article from NOLO online does a great job of exploring both.
The cash method (or cash basis) is the more preferred of the two accounting methods. Income, sales, and revenues are not recorded until the cash is actually received. Expenses are also not recorded until the cash is paid out. This is a very simple method and it sticks by its name. This method gives you a more accurate depiction of how much cash you really have. On the down side, it can portray a distorted picture of long-term profitability. You can have a month where sales are slow but receive customer credits from the last three months. In this instance, although sales are low this month, the records show sales from the past three months all being recorded in the same month. A business must keep monthly totals of accounts to understand the books completely. As long as you understand the delay in recording income and expenses, small businesses can have great success using this method.
The accrual method (or accrual basis) records a transaction when the expense or sale is incurred rather than when the cash is paid-out or received. For service-based companies, you record the sale when the service is 100% completed. This goes for expenses, as well. This method is great for showing business income, expenses, and debts as they are incurred. The downside is that it may not give you an accurate picture of what your cash flow looks like. For instance, you can have thousands of dollars in sales but your bank account does not reflect this because your customers haven't paid yet. It is important when using this method to constantly remind your customers of what they still owe and to keep a close eye on your bank accounts.
When choosing the correct method for your business, there are a couple of things to keep in mind. The first is that if your business has sales over $5 million in sales you must use the accrual method. Next if your company sells products to the public and you have an inventory, you must use the accrual method when gross receipts exceed $1 million. As long as your businesses sales are under those two thresholds you are able to choose either of the methods. You can even switch from one method to the other, as long as you consult with your tax expert first. As far as tax deductions go, under the cash method you cannot claim deductions if they are incurred in 2012 but paid in 2013. Under the accrual method you can record those expenses when incurred and claim them in 2012.
I hope this helped answer some of your questions regarding cash vs. accrual methods of accounting. For more information check out the article on NOLO online or consult with your accounting/tax expert.


Ripon's five-course Catalyst curriculum rigorously develops the 21st century skills employers seek while streamlining the path to graduation. Every graduate earns a concentration in applied innovation, which demonstrates mastery of the skills that today's employers seek: oral communication, writing, critical thinking, collaboration, quantitative reasoning, information literacy, integration, and intercultural competence.
At the same time, Catalyst streamlines the path to graduation by ensuring that students can complete multiple majors and minors, study abroad, and hold internships in four years. As a matter of fact, we guarantee it.
Willmore Center, a $23.5 million expansion and renovation of the college's athletics and health and wellness facility, opened in August 2017. It features a variety of fitness spaces, classrooms, gymnasiums, lounges, a pool, performance courts, and a 65,000-square-foot field house with NCAA-regulation indoor track, featuring pit and field events. Memberships are open to members of the surrounding community.
Within six months of graduation, 98 percent of Ripon graduates are employed, student teaching, or pursuing graduate studies. What's more, an analysis of the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard's data found that Ripon College produces the highest-earning graduates in the state of Wisconsin. In addition, Ripon is the top liberal arts school in Wisconsin and eighth in the nation for colleges that promote social mobility, according to U.S. News & World Report.
One hundred percent of current and incoming students receive financial aid. Our average cost per student is comparable to many of the larger public universities.
Students benefit from Ripon's small class sizes and the individual attention they receive from faculty who serve as mentors, advisers, and collaborators.
Graduates include winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, Academy Award, Grammy Award, and Emmy Award; best-selling authors; three Rhodes Scholars; and major contributors in business, education, and medicine. The college also established Pi Kappa Delta, now a national honorary society for debaters and orators, and the National Speech and Debate Association. In 1953, the college was awarded a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, placing it among a select group of the nation's top colleges.
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Implants are medical devices. Testing is required prior to implementation or application, as expressed by the CE-marking on the device, which ultimately safeguards the international market suitability and promotes consumer protection.
The following decision by the local court of Frankfurt a.M. (31 C 635/11 844) dated 05.06.2011 examines the question whether the absence of a CE-marking on a medical device constitutes a material or a legal defect.
Under a purchase contract dated 30.06.2010 the defendant bought a dental treatment unit from the claimant for an tax-inclusive price of EUR 20,100. Installation. It was a unit made by the Ukraine-based manufacturer Galit, Model Gallant autark, with diverse accessories. The authorised representative of the manufacturer in the European Economic Area is the company KOMA s.r.o. based in the Czech Republic.
The defendant paid a first instalment of EUR 12,100. The remaining EUR 8,000 were to be paid in 16 instalments of EUR 500 at the end of each month, starting at the end of the month during which the unit was installed. According to the claimant's General Terms and Conditions a transaction fee of EUR 10.00 was to be applied to each instalment, which was to be collected with each debit transaction.
Installation took place in August 2010. With the action, the claimant seeks to recover the outstanding instalments for the months August, September, October and November 2010.
In a telefax dated 30.09.2010 the defendant gave notice that the unit was defective. The claimant engaged an external technician who checked the unit on its behalf on 05.10.2010 without finding any defects. The claimant informed the defendant accordingly in a letter dated 11.10.2010 (p. 7 of the file), which is cited here because of the different tests that were carried out. During the legal dispute the defects associated with the unit are no longer alleged.
According to an invoice dated 18.10.2010, the technician charged the claimant EUR 661.31 for the call-out on 05.10.2010. The claimant paid this invoice. In the action, the claimant seeks reimbursement of this amount from the defendant.
In a letter dated 18.10.2010, the claimant sent a declaration of conformity, the EU-certificate of conformity of the company EUROCAT and the certificate of EUROCAT to the defendant (cf. p. 39-42 of the file). At the same time the claimant demanded payment for the technician's invoice within seven working days.
The claimant demanded payment several times, most recently in a letter dated 06.12.2010.
Subsequently, the claimant instructed its current legal representatives. They first checked whether the contract could be be unravelled. However, the claimant initially decided to claim the outstanding instalments as well as the expenses for the technician. The legal representatives once again demanded payment from the defendant in a letter dated 09.12.2010, cf. p. 8 of the file.
In a writ dated 15.04.2011, the defendant claimed a right of retention, as a complete invoice with statement of value added tax (VAT) had not been received, which is not contested between the parties.
Enclosed with the writ of the claimant dated 21.04.2010 were the German instruction manual as well as once again the Certificates ZQ081917-13, ZQ100702-V, CQ110281-II, CQ110281-13 besides other enclosures, cf. enclosures K10.16, p. 96-16, including carbon copies for the defendant.
In sending the certificates with the letter dated 18.10.2010, the claimant believed to have demonstrated that all legal requirements for the import and use of the units in Germany have been met. In this respect reference was made to the photocopies of the corresponding certificates, p. 39-42 of the file. A clearly visible type plate with dimensions of approx. 5 x 10 cm could furthermore be found at the base of the foot of the chair of the unit, which provided all officially required device details (CA, ISO, test numbers, device number etc.).
The claimant alleges that CE marks are also present on all manuals and technical descriptions that were given to the defendant at the time installation.
In a decision dated 03.03.2011, the local court in Lüneburg referred the legal dispute to the local court of Frankfurt am Main.
that judgement is passed to order the defendant to pay the claimant EUR 2,703.31 plus interest at 8 percentage points above the base rate of the ECB on EUR 510.00 respectively from 01.09.2010, from 01.10.2010, from 01.11.2010, from 01.12.2010 and from 01.01.2011 as well as on EUR 663.31 from 25.10.2010 as well as pre-litigation legal costs amounting to EUR 439.90.
that the action should be dismissed.
The defendant asserts that the proper CE mark is missing on the treatment unit and on the associated instruction manual. In particular, the mark was missing completely on the main device with turbine, the treatment chair with lamp bore a CE mark, but one in which the final numbers (in this case 0535 for Eurocat) were missing. The extraction system bore the mark CA 0061, the compressor was lacking a CE mark, the manual which was incidentally was only drawn up in Cyrillic bore no mark at all.
The corresponding marking obligation follows from the medical device law that is applicable to the unit as well as from guideline 93/42/EWG of 14.06.1993.
The defendant believes that this must be regarded as a defect of the purchased article, giving them the right to refuse payment, as they would not be permitted to use the unit owing to the missing mark according to § 6 Para. 1 MPG and would be unable to sell the unit after ceasing to practice.
In a subsequently filed writ dated 07.06.2011, the defendant alleges that the water tank of the clean water system burst at night during the previous week, so that the claimant found a water puddle below the unit upon arrival in the morning.
The permissible claim is also well-founded for the most part, though the defendant is entitled to a right of retention, which meant that the defendant had to be ordered to perform concurrently.
I. To begin with, the claimant is entitled to a payment of EUR 2,040.00 based on § 433 Para. 1 BGB [German Civil Code] in connection with the purchase contract dated 30.06.2010.
The entitlement to the purchase price is unaffected by the missing CE mark on the dental treatment unit, which means that this question may be left open and no clarification by means of witness evidence is required.
Factually, the parties do not dispute that the treatment unit meets the technical requirements for bearing a CE mark. Claimants have in this respect produced all certificates.
The defendant only alleges that the mark itself is absent from the treatment unit. In contrast to the straight-forward case where an article that bears a mark or lacks a mark does not meet the requirements for issuance of the mark, this does not constitute, a material defect in the acquired treatment unit however.
The term material defect is defined in § 434 BGB. According to Sentence 1, the agreed quality of the article needs to be considered in the first step; a specific quality was not agreed in this case. According to Sentence 2, one then needs to examine the suitability for the use presupposed according to the contract, otherwise the suitability for ordinary use when the article is of a quality that is customary for articles of the same kind and that the buyer can expect for articles of this kind.
The ability by the defendant to use the acquired treatment unit as intended is not contested in the present case. The defendant uses the unit as intended in her consulting rooms, as apparent on the one hand from the correspondence subsequent to the technician visit on 05.10.2010, but also from the notice given in respect of the burst fresh water tank, which was first raised in the letter dated 07.06.2011. Apart from the point just mentioned, which will be discussed in more detail later, they claimed no material defects in the classical sense.
The treatment unit is generally designed in the customary manner and in the manner that a buyer can expect. To put it pointedly, the defendant merely complains about a missing sticker, though one that should be present according to the provisions of the MPG [Medical Device Law].
The evaluation of this constellation in terms of warranty law has not been object of case law as far as we can see, in contrast to the opposite case where a device bears a CE mark but does not meet the corresponding technical requirements. As far as we can see, only Niebling, in DB 1996, 80 ff., has examined this question and found in general that a qualitatively irreproachable article does not suffer from a material defect merely because the mark is missing. He also argues that an impaired ability to re-sell the article does not exist in law, as only the initial making available in the market and beginning to use are covered by criminal or monetary penalties. Only an economic disadvantage could arise from this, but this is likely to be irrelevant from the perspective of warranty law. The situation is only clear if an importer acquires articles that do not bear a mark outside the European Economic Area, as the importer is not authorised to place such articles on the market, but this only concerns the contractual relationship between manufacturer and importer, not between the importer and the ultimate customer. In this latter relationship, the negation of the relevance of the lack in terms of warranty law for material defects is upheld as a matter of principle.
Any damages that the defendant may have suffered owing to the missing mark in this constellation, would need to be captured via § 280 BGB. Corresponding damage claims, which may arise from §§ 42 Para. 1, 41 No. 2 MPG among others, have not been submitted.
The missing mark also does not constitute a legal defect according to § 435 BGB, as no third-party rights in the article of any kind can be discerned.
With respect to the burst fresh water tank, the claimant may be entitled to warranty or guarantee claims in the first instance. This does not affect that the purchase price has fallen due for payment. The defendant has not claimed a right of retention in this respect. For this reason, there was no need to re-open oral proceedings to provide an opportunity to the claimant to comment on this new submission.


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=== 2. Building on local knowledge - the challenge of agroforestry for pastoral areas. === Agroforestry Today, Oct.-Dec. 1991, pp. 4-7 For generations, the lives of pastoralists in dryland Africa were shaped by one thing: an unforgiving climate. With the threat of drought always as near as the next season, pastoral communities built up knowledge about the vegetation in their harsh environment and evolved complex strategies that gave them resilience to the consequences of unreliable rainfall. An expanding population, penetration of the cash economy, loss of dry-season grazing land to cropping, and a national emphasis on crops and settlements have brought a different set of challenges. Despite the long-term sustainability of pastoral land-management systems, they are now in danger of breaking down. Attempts to help pastoralists adapt to their new circumstances, through agriculture or agroforestry, were often unsuccessful. In many cases, this lack of success can be linked to the fact that scientists and planners failed to discuss problems and potential solutions with the recipients of research and development. The pastoralists' knowledge of their environment was usually ignored or, at best, simply not understood. A brief description of three pastoral communities: the Pokot and Turkana of Kenya and the Sukuma of Tanzania gives some answers on how they utilize plants and manage their land. Concluding, the capacity of the people and the land to recover from drought is linked to a mobile population, availability of large and diverse grazing lands, access to dry-season fodder including trees, low to moderate stocking rates per unit of land, moderate to high stocking rates per person, use of wild fruits and other fonds from trees, and limited production of dryland crops such as sorghum. A second lesson from these pastoral societies concerns the vital link between resilience and risk. For pastoralists, decreased resilience can dramatically reduce the chances of surviving a period of drought. In this context, changes in land use, such as the cultivation of areas traditionally used for dry-season grazing, may significantly reduce resilience and increase risk. By retaining trees in crop and grazing land, agroforestry could help to migitate this threat. One other lesson is an appreciation of the importance of traditional knowledge coupled with a strong community structure. The knowledge provides a thorough understanding of the environment and the production system. Concluding researchers and planners must first identify valuable aspects of the traditional natural-resource management system. They must then work with local people to help them adapt their practices to changing socio-economic and environmental conditions. Research and develop priorities will naturally vary from region to region, but given the vastness of many dryland areas, it makes good sense to develop a system-wide framework that emphasizes conservation and sustainable utilization of natural resources. Within such a framework, specific strategies could incorporate:
- The conservation and management of existing trees, shrubs and grasses, including natural regeneration
- The inclusion of a water-resource management policy to coordinate tree planting, natural regeneration, crop production and other activities that require water
- The use of existing natural-resource management strategies as a basis for further development
- A deliberate policy to increase awareness of natural-resource management, including shifting responsibility to local people
- The enhancement and reinforcement of the traditional land- management system through collaboration with resource users
- At the same time, the dissemination of promising new practices that have been thoroughly researched and tested.
 Some recent approaches to research and development tend to be more enlightened than those of the past. There is now an extensive literature that strongly advocates the use of indigenous technical knowledge and that argues for participatory research as a basis for the development of appropriate interventions. This movement towards participation in research and extension is part of a shift towards involving local people more actively in setting research priorities and planning their own development. These participatory programmes are yielding valuable information about existing systems, their potentials and constraints, problems and possible solutions. By incorporating local people in the process of project planning and technology development, indigenous skills and knowledge can be expanded and preserved rather than lost through attrition. People can maintain some degree of control over the changes that occur and they can gain a better understanding of alternative technologies and management practices. 1032 92 - 1/71 Traditional land-use systems Europe, Portugal, Alentejo, field trials, land-use system, mechanization, history of development, soil productivity, traditional tillage, cropping system, cost reduction, cereals, fodder, sunflower, soil parameters BASCH, G.
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Last night was Taco Thursday in our home. It isn't a Thursday thing. It just so happens we ate tacos on a Thursday. This took three recipes to bring together. Taco seasoning. Tacos. Corn/red pepper salsa.
Three recipes in one this morning! It is your lucky day! Well really it just takes all three to bring this tasty meal together.
Full disclosure. These tacos are extra lean ground sirloin. On a typical taco night in my home we are eating turkey tacos. Unfortunately my butcher was out of white meat ground turkey. They would have had to freshly grind some more for me. While that sounds amazingly fresh, it seemed a bit too time consuming with two small boys in tow at the grocery store. One extra small boy was about 20-30 minutes away from being entirely ready for a nap. I took a hard pass on waiting and got the lean beef instead. Time management people!
These tacos pack an extra nutrient punch with black beans and spinach. I always add spinach to any dish I can. You cannot get enough leafy greens. I have no problem consuming my leafy greens, but sometimes my boys do. This is a great and tasty way to get them their greens.
I combine all of these in a small storage dish with a lid and I shake until perfectly blended. I keep my seasoning in this dish all of the time. I just add a batch to the remaining batch. I have even labeled the lid "taco seasoning" I use it in more than just tacos. If I want something southwestern in flavor, I often turn to this seasoning.
I do not add garlic to the dry seasoning. I love fresh garlic. I will always mince 1-2 cloves of garlic and cook it in a pan with some olive oil before adding any meat/veggies and the taco seasoning.
1lb ground meat. Turkey, chicken, extra lean sirloin.
Saute the garlic in the olive oil until soft and fragrant. Add the meat and brown. After it begins to brown add the taco seasoning. Mix well. Cook through a little longer. Add the lime juice and vinegar. Cook for another minute or two. Add the black beans, mix well and heat through. Toss in the chopped spinach. Cook until spinach is wilted and the meat is thoroughly cooked. Scoop into taco shells. Add your desired toppings. I added tomatoes and cilantro to mine. I forgot to dice up my jalapeño. Normally I would add that as well.
Cook red pepper in the olive oil until it begins to get tender. Add the frozen corn and continue to cook. Add the lime juice, cumin, and sea salt. Mix well. Cook through until peppers are soft and corn is no longer frozen. Once done add the cilantro and combine well.
Add all to your plate and enjoy a deliciously fresh taco night in your home!
I am definitely going to try this taco seasoning. I love tacos but since being GF, I have found that almost all the packaged taco seasonings have gluten. Thanks for the recipe!


Windhoek Gymnasium made their presence felt with an impressive display in the first round of the Bank Windhoek Schools Netball Super League last Saturday at the Dr. Lemmer Sports Fields in Rehoboth. The private school won its match against Dr. Lemmer, 70 to 8, and against Windhoek High School, 48 to 16. But Windhoek High still managed to beat Dr Lemmer with an impressive 54 to 16 victory .
Other good performances on the first day of the league were between Tsumeb Gymnasium and El Natan, which the former won 40 to 35 in a close match; Edugate won its match against Keetmanshoop Private School, 26 to 17; and El Natan in turn, beat Edugate, 42:24. Walvis Bay High School played against Keetmanshoop Private School and won the game 21 to 14. All these games were played in Stampriet. Windhoek Afrikaanse Privaatskool and Grootfontein Agri College did not play last weekend, but instead play this weekend.
The next games will be played in Windhoek on Friday, 14 June and Saturday, 15 June.
The Bank Windhoek Schools Netball Super League creates an additional platform for the top netball teams (first teams) to participate and compete in more matches which creates an incentive for schools in the national league to improve their performance. The intention of this league is to develop netball as an important national sport, starting at school level.
The Bank Windhoek Schools Netball Super League is endorsed by the NSSU and as a result, the top eight teams of the NSSU netball league automatically qualify for the Super League.
The winning schools will win netball equipment for their respective schools, sponsored by Bank Windhoek.


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What's Wrong With The AAA MMO Industry, Using An Imperfect Baseball Analogy
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You're the head manager of a new baseball team. You're passionate about what you want to achieve, have some great ideas in mind and have at least enough money to get things rolling. When you tell other people about what your team is going to achieve, they sound excited too.
Topical.
You know that you are entering a highly competitive baseball league with no salary cap, so it could be a very expensive exercise. However, you are sure that what you are going to bring to the league will make your team stand out.
The simple way to make money in baseball is to sell tickets into the stadium to fans. No ticket, no ability to watch. It's a system that a lot of fans say they prefer and its the way all the older, bigger clubs do it.
It takes 4 to 6 years to actually get your team ready to play their first season. Assuming that your money holds out that long, you will have made compromises along the way as it turns out what you had in your head doesn't work in reality, or works but isn't really that interesting. Or maybe hiring one player means that you can't afford to hire two others, so you have to choose and trade-off on who appears in the final line up.
Unfortunately by the time you're almost ready to play, some of your players have been in the sidelines for the full 4 to 6 years. They may have been dynamic athletes at some point, but time hasn't been kind to all of them… and they're so tightly bound to the team through their contracts that you can't really replace them.
But you get to game day and it's exciting! Your team has their first ever official hit out and things go okay… but there are a few hiccups. Long-term fans of your team's potential almost immediately turn on you. Within two or three outings the majority of your fans have stopped showing up to watch your team play, preferring to return to the older, more established clubs at game time. Fans also complain that you haven't achieved what you set out to do, that you sold out, that they were lied to.
All the money you spent on putting a team together is basically gone, and ticket sales are weak almost from the get-go (outside of the first game cash blast). Even the fans who stick around to the end of your first season show hesitation about coming back unless you can get some more exciting players in. After a long of financial argy-bargy, you manage to add a supposedly popular player… but the fans who left you feel they've already seen your team play and it isn't worth coming back just for one extra player. Plus: the older teams are just better, okay?
"If you only added in more swimming caps and team circles to baseball, the sport would be a lot more popular!"
And you might be playing baseball, but you're also competing with other sports such as basketball, football and synchronised swimming for fans' dollars. (Note: those synchronised swimming fans might be small in number, but they are absolutely nuts for it and will tell everyone that if only your baseball team took more lessons from synchronised swimming, it would be much more successful.) At one point baseball was considered to offer something special, but now it doesn't seem to stand out any more. It seems like lots of fans are now heading off to cafes to chat instead of going to the baseball any more.
Which leaves you with two choices – cut the organisation down to the bare bones on the hope that you can keep regular ticket sales up high enough to outpace expenses, or open up your stadium for free at game time and hope enough hot dogs get bought that you can keep the lights on.
The Non-Analogy Version
The problem with AAA MMOs are (in no particular order):
They cost too much;
They take too long to build;
Ideas and passion are easy, talk is cheap but execution is hard;
The MMO competition is fierce and there is no shortage of it;
The subscription model is no longer holds players / generates the revenue it did;
Free-to-play sees more players into a title (whether they pay or not is a different story) and is actually a barrier to attracting players towards a new subscription game;
Players don't hang around in current MMOs as much as they did when they had less choice;
What your fans will tell you is wrong with your game may not actually be what is really wrong with your game;
Some studios appear to find it very hard to match development costs with financial capabilities;
Offering online game play is no longer that special an offer;
Player attention spans are shorter and diverted by other non-MMO titles / applications; and (crucially)
All your eggs are in one basket but it takes players between 1 and 3 months to write your title off and you are what you are at launch.
These are systematic issues. It doesn't matter if you create a good MMO within a well-managed company (or a bad MMO at a poorly managed company, for that matter) – you'll still have to deal with them.
Some people have been saying that recent events will potentially lead to a better future for MMOs, but I'm not so sure. At one point playing online cooperatively with friends was considered a novelty, but that time has long passed when pretty much every title now has an online multiplayer component.
For just $15 a month, you can be one of the guys at the back there!
In theory, it is the "massively" that puts MMOs apart from just "multiplayer online", but outside of offering the ability to talk about what's happening with other players, I'm not sure how much value the massive part actually adds. As you add to the aggregate number of players in a location, the individual average value of each player drops, which runs counter to the philosophy that players should feel important in-game. It's lousy escapism to leave your every day life for a game where you feel you are relatively worse off and weaker.
When even mainstream single player games are being built for online play (and potential online coop), I'm not sure what MMOs offer that is unique any more.
2 thoughts on "What's Wrong With The AAA MMO Industry, Using An Imperfect Baseball Analogy"
gankatron says:
I like your very topical analogy, as it highlights the major reason AAA titles fail, namely they want to become WoW overnight without following the lengthy course they followed to get their large subscriber base.
WoW built themselves up through the challenging start up phase with a dedicated nerd base, and then insidiously changed it to appeal to the larger more mainstream audience, thereby abandoning the original adopters degree by degree.
This approach also let them beat the bugs out of the game at the expense of the more understanding/tolerant dedicated nerd base and polish it to its current shiny state.
Conversely I would take care concerning your contention that MMO's suffer from not lending a feeling of individual importance for players. While I agree that one generally wants to feel that their actions have a direct local impact the trend to make every player feel they play a pivotal role in progression of the global story line. I believe that this is an important misunderstanding that contributes to the 3 month cycle of interest in a new game for many players.
I am bored of games that try to make me feel like the most powerful individual on the mysterious and secretive Dark Council, when in reality I spend large chunks of time playing Huttball to get a token to buy a new pair of gloves in between selling stacks of Blue Goo on thee GTN with all of the other Dark Council members running around Fleet.
I feel there is a difference interacting in a world full of stories that I can play a part in versus a heroic epic that is focused on me and every other person I run past.
Too many heroes and not enough minions if you ask me.
People think they want everything, but in reality this doesn't work well in games. Try remembering playing in a new DM's D&D game when a +5/+5 Flaming Vorpal Sword dropped for your level 5 Barbarian, freaking awesome! …and then a +10 Mithral Shield, amazing! …and then 10 +6 Rings of Protection, and so on.
There is only so much interest that can be maintained in a Monty Haul scenario where THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE, except of course for everyone else. What does one get for the virtual man who has everything, a different MMO where they can start from scratch again.
Should read: "While I agree that one generally wants to feel that their actions have a direct local impact the trend to make every player feel they play a pivotal role in progression of the global story line undermines interest in the long-term."
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Spring 2013 Peek into Punk
Talk to a twenty-something with a mohawk, band t-shirt, karabiner with at least 15 keys, and full sleeve and he'll probably be able to tell you which bar sells PBR, or explain that although his band sounds precisely like Fugazi, it's it's own thing man. But he probably won't know who Steven Cox and Daniel Silver of Duckie Brown are or think his DIY studded belt belongs in a museum. Until now, but on his own terms, because he will rebel if you force him.
Met Museum & The Costume Institute PUNK: Chaos to Couture
Exciting news broke this week that the Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced the spring 2013 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute will be PUNK: Chaos to Couture.
Of course true punk is the complete opposite of couture fashion and organized displays of deluxe price tags, but designers need to find inspiration somewhere. As Andrew Bolton, Curator in the Costume Institute, put it in his interview with broadwayworld.com, "Although punk's democracy stands in opposition to fashion's autocracy, designers continue to appropriate punk's aesthetic vocabulary to capture its youthful rebelliousness and aggressive forcefulness."
Anna Sui Spring/Summer 2013 collection (Getty)
Anna Sui draws color inspiration from her days attending Sex Pistol shows. "[the color] sort of made it punk-y in a modern way. What if someone wanted to have fun, they could just bleach the front of their hair a little bit and make it a color,"says Lead Hairstylist, Garren, to stylelist.com. Down with the terrible trend that is ombre hair, Sui and her crew think a bold pop of color smack in the middle of your head is the next cool thing.
The Lanvin Punk Spring/Summer 2013
I see a lot of rebellious English schoolboy mixed with a bit of corporate bad ass in Lanvin's 2013 Spring/Summer collection. Fashionising.com explains it as "Refined, but a little rough around the edges. Lanvin's Spring/Summer 2013 collection was infused with punk, an attitude as well as an aesthetic." The Lanvin punk has a shaved head, hard features and inked skin. But I will tell you, no real punk is going to wear those fancy Birkenstocks looking sandals.
Duckie Brown
Duckie Brown in tartan for Spring/Summer 2013
Although I am unfortunately unimpressed with Duckie Brown's fall collection, the designers are jumping on the punk bandwagon this spring to bring you denim and tartan, true staples in the genre's style. A "mature take on the infamous punk" per thefashionisto.com, Duckie Brown's vision of punk is about as safe and predicable as other designers' collections I've seen. Which is probably due to the fact the style is so unique to the individual that it tends to be custom made, literally.
Duckie Brown's Beaded Brogue Shoes for Fall 2012
But I will say, I'm dying over the Florsheim by Duckie Brown 2012 Fall/Winter Beaded Brogue Shoe.
The Met's exhibition, which will be on view from May 9 through August 11, 2013, will examine punk's impact from its birth in the 1970s through its continuing influence on high fashion today. Themed galleries will include "Rebel Heroes," "The Couturiers Situationists" (focusing on punk's godparents McLaren and Westwood); "Pavilions of Anarchy and Elegance," "Punk Couture;" "DIY Style" and "La Mode Destroy."
Now go piss off your parents and fight the system (in style)!


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Q: texstudio editor on external monitor shows text scambled The editor shows the text on my external monitor as scrambled almost as if the text is written over each other, the line the cursor is on shows normal though, and in a smaller font. Everything displays fine on my laptop's own screen. I am using Windows 10. Anyone have any idea how to fix this?

A: Right click on desktop, go to Display then you see the a slider with a heading  saying, Change the size of text....
Move the slider to where it's appropriate
and you are good to go.
Changing display props. of a specific app:
You can right click the text editor or whatever software is not responding, go to properties then compatibility. Below you will find some DPI settings.You should change the High DPI scaling override to be performed by the system.  Everything will be running fine now.
For TEXwork users go to Edit>>Preferences>>Preview tab
Over there you will find Screen resolution value in dpi. Now bring a real ruler  and match the one shown on the screen and adjust dpi value so that one inch in the screen is one inch in reality. Then you are good to go.

Okay my cousin had TexStudio on his machine and I would suggest you to go to Options>>Cofigure>>Internal PDF Viewer and set the dpi value according to that on the box of your new monitor.This is very similar to what I did in TeXworks.


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Q: DDD: Break the domain into sub domains in different assemblies I have a domain that includes 2 sub domains.
Each sub domain includes some dependencies on the other one.
I want to put each of which sub domains into a separate assembly (I wanna split it into 1st:vertical 2nd: horizontal  modules => easy reusability).
And the problem is :
How can I manage dependencies across different sub domains (which each of which is placed into a separate assembly)
and
Am I on the right path?

A: One important property of a Domain is that your Domain should not depend on anything else.
If you say that your Domain depends on some other Domain, then perhaps more analysis is required and currently identified boundaries are wrong.
Domain speaks only in its own terms, in its own Language! NOT in terms of other domains (because it doesn't care about them), NOT in terms of external contracts/messages (because they may change), etc.
What probably is missing here is a Bounded Context. Problems like that often pop up when no Bounded Contexts are identified in the system before even starting refining domains.
I would recommend you to start from the beginning:

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*Identify Bounded Context in your systems. By definition they are independent from each other.

*Each Bounded Context would have its own domain (if it is implemented this way, which is not necessary). This domain does not know anything outside its own "bubble" and definitely has no knowledge of other domains existence or absence.

*When different BCs need to communicate with each other, identify the contract. BCs (not mentioning their domains) should not depend or have references to each other, or use each other types. Instead they depend on contracts.

*Contracts are usually messages (however some people do other things, which hurts them from time to time)

*Anti-Corruption Layers may be implemented on BCs boundaries. It is done exactly to protect the BC (and its domain) from the stuff from outside. ACLs job is to translate things from outside (external events, messages, calls, etc) to something the domain can understand.

*Again, Domain speaks only in its own terms, in its own Language! NOT in terms of other domains (because it doesn't care about them), NOT in terms of external contracts/messages (because they may change), etc.
Hope it helps.

A: Did your subdomain are a Bounded Context (BC) ?
It depends and hard to help you without the real Domain, but differents BC should be physically seperated in different assemblies. And one context we will not have a reference to another... BC are autonomous components. The communication between contexts should be ideally asynchronous.


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Existence is Resistance celebrates 10-year anniversary in New York
Kim Jensen on January 31, 2019
Marc Lamont Hill delivered an inspiring keynote address to a standing-room only celebration of radical organizing for Palestine as the organization Existence is Resistance celebrated its 10-year anniversary in New York City.
Mohammad Sabaaneh explains BDS: I will not exhibit with an Israeli artist so long as Palestine is under brutal occupation
Philip Weiss and Annie Robbins on January 31, 2019
Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh, who is developing an international reputation, explains why he supports boycotting Israel: "As long as we are under this occupation, and this atrocity, and brutality, I will not do any joint event with any Israeli artist or citizen. Because he is a soldier. Whatever his work– artist, doctor, engineer, journalist—he served in the IDF, or will serve in the IDF, or serves in the IDF."
New Amnesty report examines how Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, and TripAdvisor benefit from the Israeli occupation
Jonathan Ofir on January 31, 2019
A new Amnesty International report titled "Destination: Occupation" examines how Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, and TripAdvisor are "contributing to, and profiting from, the maintenance, development and expansion of illegal settlements, which amount to war crimes under international criminal law."
Barbara Walters boasted of love affairs with Israel's foreign and defense ministers while covering Camp David — former Carter aide
Philip Weiss on January 30, 2019
A new book by former Carter aide Stu Eizenstat says that Barbara Walters boasted of love affairs with Israel's foreign and defense ministers, Moshe Dayan and Ezer Weizman, in 1978-1979 while she was covering Camp David negotiations for ABC news.
Dem presidential hopefuls vote against anti-BDS bill, as Van Hollen says it will 'strengthen' the peaceful BDS movement
The good news from the anti-BDS bill's progress in the Senate yesterday, 76-22, is that progressive Democrats are standing up against AIPAC for the right to "peacefully" protest Israeli policies, and almost all the presidential hopeful Democrats voted against the legislation, even Kamala Harris and Cory Booker. And Chris Van Hollen said the bill will "strengthen" the boycott movement.
Now Chad, then Mali: Why African countries are normalizing with Israel
Ramzy Baroud on January 30, 2019
It is not the road to Tel Aviv that Chad and Mali are seeking, but rather the road to Washington itself. For African leaders who enjoy no democratic credence, a handshake with Netanyahu could be equivalent to a political life insurance, and a sure ticket to the Washington political club.
New 'progressive' Israel lobby group is led by heroes of AIPAC
Three leaders of a new group aimed at preventing the Democratic Party from splitting over Israel–Jennifer Granholm, Peter Villegas, and Ann Lewis –are affiliated with the Israel lobby group AIPAC, which has been panicked by the possible splintering of political support for the Jewish state.
Anti-Zionism is a rejection of racism and imperialism, not just criticism of Israel
Eyad Kishawi, Max Ajl and Liliana Cordova-Kaczerginski on January 29, 2019
Activists Eyad Kishawi, Max Ajl, and Liliana Cordova-Kaczerginski applaud Jewish Voice for Peace's recent statement outlining its "unequivocal opposition to Zionism," but raise a critique that it gives credence to the idea that Zionism emerged from Jewish life, and was not a colonial ideology developed to expand western imperialism in Palestine. "Anti-Zionism is not merely criticism of current Israeli policies or even the idea of a Jewish nation-state," they write, "It is a rejection of an imperially-imposed, racist, settler-colonial state."
Israeli general mounts challenge to Netanyahu by flaunting Gaza carnage
Jonathan Cook on January 29, 2019
Like Israel's former politician generals, from Yitzhak Rabin to Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon, Benny Gantz is being portrayed – and portraying himself – as a battle-hardened warrior, able to make peace from a position of strength. Gantz's campaign slogans "Only the Strong Wins" and "Israel Before Everything" are telling. Everything, for Gantz, clearly includes human rights.
The fight for Sheikh Jarrah continues as residents battle second wave of evictions
Yumna Patel on January 29, 2019
"We were forced out of our homes by the occupation when I was a boy, and now in my old age they are expelling me again," 70-year-old Mohammed Sabbagh tells Mondoweiss. He and his extended family are fighting to stay in their home in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah while Israeli settler organizations are attempting to force them out. "It's another Nakba," Sabbagh says.
Canada revokes Jewish charity's tax-deductible status over support for Israeli military
Independent Jewish Voices Canada on January 28, 2019
Beth Oloth Charitable Organization has had its tax-deductible status revoked by the Canada Revenue Agency because the organization had been funding activities deemed non-charitable under Canadian law, including those that increase "the efficiency and effectiveness of the Israeli armed forces."
Gaza's 'Edward Said Public Library' needs your support to do even more
Nada Elia on January 28, 2019
The Edward Said Library is in desperate need of donations in order to be able to continue offering book clubs, English language conversation classes, and opportunities for schoolchildren in the Gaza Strip. Nada Elia writes, "Please donate what you can. It can buy a box of crayons, coloring books, books on decolonial struggle, it can help pay the rent. It can lessen the suffocation of Gaza, until the siege is lifted."
After years of study and discussion, Jewish Voice for Peace rejects Zionism
Robert Herbst on January 28, 2019
For 22 years after its founding Jewish Voice for Peace declined to take a position on Zionism. Now it has boldly stated that "Zionism has meant profound trauma for generations" and "We unequivocally oppose Zionism because it is counter" to "our vision of justice, equality and freedom for all people." JVP member Robert Herbst writes that the landmark statement "helps restore in my Jewish heart and soul a modicum of pride."
'NYT' editor hails Jewish community for 'maintaining political support for Israel'
Jonathan Weisman, deputy Washington editor of the New York Times, praised the American Jewish community's role in "maintaining political support for Israel" because it "is a very small country in a very hostile neighborhood." Weisman's definition of the Jewish community was all Zionist organizations, leaving out the anti-Zionists of Jewish Voice for Peace; and he credited the view that anti-Zionists are anti-Semites.
#IsraeliApartheidWeek – the embodiment of the human spirit of solidarity and love
Michia Moncho on January 28, 2019
Michia Moncho reports on the amazing success of 2018's Israeli Apartheid Week in South Africa which saw over 150 activities, including events with over 5,000 people in attendance: "Not out of arrogance, but humility, we can confidently claim that in this last year's #IsraeliApartheidWeek, South African civil society (across the gender, racial and religious spectrum) undoubtedly played a role in advancing the struggle for the freedom of the Palestinians."
Bari Weiss charges Ilhan Omar with 'anti-Semitic slander'- but Israelis say these things all the time!
Rep. Ilhan Omar is repeatedly being accused of bearing anti-Semitic sentiments, since she tweeted in 2012 that "Israel hypnotizes the world" and that it is doing "vile deeds" in Gaza. But many Israelis have made similar charges against Israel, without facing such accusations.
Anti-Zionists are as dangerous as white nationalists who shoot up synagogues, Isaac Herzog says
Isaac Herzog, head of the Jewish Agency, says that anti-Zionism is as "dangerous" as white nationalism for Jews, they are two faces of anti-Semitism. Herzog said Jeremy Corbyn's criticism of Israel "has nothing to do with political views and the State of Israel… I bet you had I been prime minister, Corbyn would have acted the same."
Israeli settlers claim another Palestinian life: Father of four shot and killed in West Bank village
Israeli settlers shot and killed a Palestinian father of four during a raid on the al-Mughayyir village in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah on Saturday night. Palestinian officials and local media outlets reported that a group of Israeli settlers raided the village under the protection of armed Israeli soldiers — a common occurrence in areas of the West Bank located close to settlements.
Pay no attention to Tlaib and Omar, says Pelosi– but she does
'If this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain' is commitment to Israel, Nancy Pelosi says, though she acknowledges pressure from the left. "The extreme left on this is asking for a one-state solution. So understand we have to strike the balance."
Palestinian man of 25 is shot dead during protests at Gaza border
Kate on January 26, 2019
A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli fire during demonstrations along the Gaza border Friday, the health ministry in the enclave said. Ehab Abed, 25, was "killed by Israeli occupation fire east of Rafah."
Birmingham civil rights institute votes to give award to Angela Davis after all
Mondoweiss Editors on January 25, 2019
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has now gone full circle: It announced today that it has voted to give a human rights award to Angela Davis after all! The institute rescinded the award to Davis on Jan. 4 due in part to her support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) targeting Israel.
Israeli militarism and U.S. border imperialism — two crimes, one weapons company
Ariel Gold and Ursula Rozum on January 25, 2019
Israeli weapons giant Elbit Systems is reaping profits from the suffering both in Gaza and at the U.S.-Mexico border. Ariel Gold and Ursula Rozum of CODEPINK say that divestment from Elbit will play a major role eroding the institutional and economic support that allows Israel to commit war crimes with impunity and the U.S. to increase border repression.
Trump's biggest donors' 'mission in life is to protect… the state of Israel'
Sheldon Adelson says that assimilation has stopped Jewish greatness. "We should have been equal to Catholicism, to Islamists– we should have been a billion and a half people." While his wife Miriam says her mission is to protect Israel because it makes Jews around the world safe.
Israeli forces injure 150 prisoners in raid at Ofer Military Prison in Ramallah
Nicholas Vincenzo Barney on January 25, 2019
Early on the morning of January 22nd some 150 Palestinian prisoners at Israel's Ofer Military Prison in Ramallah were injured by a raid carried out by the Metzada unit, a subset of the Israeli military. Of the approximately 150 prisoners reportedly injured, 40 of them suffered head injuries and an additional six were treated for broken bones during a raid which saw the use of dogs, tear gas, rubber coated steel bullets, and sound bombs against the prisoners.
Don't use the murder of my family members to suppress criticism of Israel
Chad Rosenbloom on January 25, 2019
Two of Chad Rosenbloom's family members were murdered by Robert Bowers during the attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Following the massacre Rosenbloom soon observed how their deaths would be exploited by those seeking to justify Israeli oppression of the Palestinians. He writes, "Using the deaths of my family members and the nine other victims to suppress criticism of, and activism around, Israeli policy disgraces their memory and obfuscates this essential truth."
Court tells Israeli municipality it cannot use 'residents only' ban to prevent Palestinians from attending local park
Top Dems imply they'd pressure Israel to end the occupation, but none will even commit to moving the embassy back to Tel Aviv
Cyclists gear up for rides in London and Manchester in support of Palestinian rights
'They shot to kill': residents of West Bank village in shock after Israeli snipers shoot 10-year-old boy in the head
Israeli minister calls intermarriage a 'second Holocaust' and endorses gay conversion therapy
Poof! One day in occupation causes young Jews on Zionist tour to question Zionism — 'NYT' reports
ISM: 100 bullet fragments in brain of 10-year-old Palestinian child shot in West Bank
Benny Morris reveals more about the Israeli conspiracy to cover-up the Nakba
Freedom only truly exists as a whole
Biden declares that US relationship with Israel must be 'ironclad' regardless of who their Prime Minister is
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