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    NVQ Level 3 Diploma Business Improvement Techniques

NVQ Level 3 Diploma Business Improvement Techniques

This is a broad, cross-functional qualification designed to support the overall effective operation of the business. This NVQrecognises competence in contributing to process and quality improvements, compliments your existing skills and encouragespractises that can maximise profit by eliminating waste, improving workflow and reducing cost and variation.

The Qualification

The NVQ is gained fully in the workplace. You will attend a tool kit training course and then gain evidence for the Diploma by leading3 improvement projects.

Entry Qualifications

You do not need any prior qualifications to do an NVQ. Ideally you will be responsible for contributing to quality and processimprovements in the workplace. You will be employed as a supervisor, team leader or facilitator and are responsible for carryingout business improvement activities or preparing to take on responsibilities in a continuous improvement environment.

Course Duration

We would anticipate that a Level 3 NVQ to take no longer than 6 months.

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This qualification compromises of 2 pathways - Process Improvement or Quality Improvement. From the chosen pathway you willcomplete all mandatory units plus the required number of optional units. 94 credits must be achieved.

Process Improvement

Choose 2 units from either Process or Quality Improvements

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  • Complying with statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements
  • Leading effective team
  • Applying workplace organisation techniques
  • Applying continuous improvement techniques (Kaizen)
  • Developing visual management systems

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  • Creating flexible production and manpower systems
  • Carrying out problem solving activities
  • Analysing and selecting parts for improvement
  • Applying lead time analysis
  • Carrying out Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
  • Applying set-up reduction techniques
  • Applying Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
  • Applying Flow Process Analysis
  • Applying policy deployment (Hoshin Kanri, Quality Operating Systems,Business Plan Deployment)
  • Applying value management (Value Engineering and Value Analysis)
  • Creating Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)

Quality Improvements

Plus 3 Units (2 must come from Quality Improvements)

Mandatory Units

  • Complying with statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements
  • Leading effective teams
  • Applying six sigma methodology to a project
  • Carrying out six sigma process mapping
  • Applying basic statistical analysis

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  • Applying mistake/error proofing (Poka Yoke)
  • Carrying out Statistical Process Control (SPC) procedures
  • Applying six sigma metrics to a project
  • Producing a characteristic selection matrix
  • Carrying out Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA)
  • Carrying out capability studies
  • Producing multi-variance charts
  • Applying hypothesis testing

Course Cost

This NVQ Diploma could be fully funded as Workplace Learning.

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I have this theory that some creators – not all, some people just make experimental works – make experimental works because they’ve already made the most perfect basic, straightforward narrative that they can possibly make.  The simplest example of this for me is David Lynch’s Elephant Man.  The movie is damn near perfect.  But Lynch did not stop there – he has since gone on and pushed the bounds of visual storytelling in just about everything he’s done since – some good, some bad and some great but he’s always tested the waters.

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Editorial, part 4

The Universe as an ordered infinity of information-processing units

"MATHESIS UNIVERSALIS" starts its life in 1996 - the 350th anniversary of Leibniz's birth, celebrated by the community of Leibniz scholars. Hopefully, this is to attract attention to the Leibnizian perspective of this journal.

This is a perspective in which Leibniz's insights accord with (i) recent explorations into information physics, (ii) new attitude towards infinity due to Georg Cantor, and (iii) the weakening of the previous dogma that there has to be a fixed limit set on divisibility of matter. However, a certain union of these ideas is characteristic of Leibniz alone. Should we take into account and carefully examine that unique proposal for a synthesis? To answer "yes" means to assume the Leibnizian perspective.

Were all this a mere anticipation of more advanced conceptions to come in the future, it would not exceed the field of interest of historians. Leibniz, though, in his quest for synthesis is bold enough to surpass even nowadays breath-taking horizons. In view of the accord between his insights and the later developments, this should encourage to engage in an brainstorming instead of dismissing what may seem too excentric. Not that Leibniz should be revered as a kind of prophet. His distinguished position is rather due to that circumstance that he was lucky to find himself at a crossing of some main tracks of the European thought. Thus even his errors prove useful as these are not mere individual mistakes but rather those trials which some common ideas should have been put through; eg his belief that any mathematical problem has to be decidable was an orthodox view in logic up to time of Goedel's limitative results.

1. Information physics as anticipated by Leibniz

Leibniz's anticipation of the recent claim that information processing is not a priviledge of human consciousness alone, but rather an ubiquitous property of matter, may have been owed to an earlier tradition. In Leibniz culminated the belief, going back to the ancient Stoics and St. Augustine, that the world is filled up with seeds of reason ( rationes seminales). In Leibniz's language they were called immaterial natural machines, or - with the same adjectives - automata (see Monadology, 64).

Such a vision, which must have seemed odd to Leibniz's contemporaries is familiar to those of us who trace the career of such programmed and programming entities as genes, viruses, crystals, etc. Leibniz held such entities to be governed by laws which do not belong to the mechanics of non-living bodies. In this point he may have shaken hands over centuries with Ervin Schroedinger who in his classic book What is life? 1944, wrote what follows: "living matter, while not eluding the `laws of physics' as established up to date, is likely to involve `other laws of physics' hitherto unknown" (pp. 68-69).

Leibniz termed that other physics as metaphysics, but one should be cautious in interpreting this term in any traditional sense. When trying to give a typical example of metaphysical laws, he mentioned that light takes always the shortest way and commented it as manifestation of finality at the level of non-organic nature - as if a beam of light were capable of perfect solution of the logistic question of how to economically reach the intended spot. While finality belongs to the domain of nature, at the same time it is germane to information.

Information-processing cannot be construed without the notion of purpose. Every calculation is meant to solve a problem. If it is carried out by a human-made machine, it pursues a solution needed by its user, and if carried out by an organism, it provides solutions needed for survival or growing or else reproduction of just that organism. One's purposes and endeavours control the flow and processing of information in natural machines; this is one of two characteristic features in which they differ from artificial machines (the other is to disccused in the next Section). Obviously they belong to the physical world, hence a theory which handles them deserves to by called information physics. Recent years witness the rise of projects of such theory, for instance Roger Penrose's idea of "physics of thought", and ideas popularized and commented by such authors as Tom Stonier. [*1]

While physics of material bodies deals for instance, with heat, information physics, for instance, considers heat as the antihesis of information (cf. Stonier's quoted book, p.74); or, in other situations, as a factor which stabilises organization, provided it is suitably controlled (p.67). Though Leibniz was not capable of going into such issues which are due to the later development of science, in one respect at least his insights may reveal new horizons.

2. Advancing frontiers of informatics

The term "frontiers" stands for the extreme limit of an area of knowledge or a particular activity; let the considered area be informatics (in the sense discussed in part 1 of this Editorial, Sec. 2)). The singular form "frontier" means the extreme limit of settled land, beyond which the country is wild and not developed. This is an illuminating metaphor to state the point that the frontiers of informatics shift more and more towards ever smaller and simpler units: viruses, genes, crystals ... and what further? Does there exist any fixed ultimate limit? The standard orthodox answer is in the affirmative: though the frontiers of informatics advance with the progress of knowledge, there must exist the point beyond which there are no information pieces, no proceesing of them.

In the history of human thought no one except Leibniz and Georg Cantor dared to claim that the extreme limit lies, so to speak, in infinity. True, there may come a moment in which our human capabilities of observation as well our skills of mathematically handling the ever growing complexity prove exhausted. However, the vast land beyond those limits of human cognition should be accessible to a higher intelligence, and if that proves exhausted, then to a still higher one, and so on.

However, the supposed superior intelligence may prove the future intelligence of human race, provided that our evolution will consist in transcending once fixed limits, and so extending the frontiers ever further. Some philosophers of evolution, as Hoimar von Ditfurth, believe in such a transcendence. The Leibnizian perspective can become a fitting framework for those free of what Cantor called horror infiniti.

This Leibnizian perspective involves a conjecture which a time ago seemed mythological to scientifically minded people, but nowadays it does not seem so hopelessly stupid. This is the supposition of infinite complexity of matter, accompanied by the other - that at each successive level of complexity there exist information-processing systems. [*2]

In this perspective, there appears a sharp demarcation line between living and not living-machines (apart from the mentioned above that the former have purposes of their own). To wit, living machines are infinitely complex, that is to say, each successive part is composed of constituent parts. This is why the creation of living machines would require infinite intelligence. For the same reason, artificial intelligence matching natural intelligence, if "artificial" means non-organic, would require the infinitely powerful mind; hence the chances of its being produced by the man would equal zero.

Such a set of conjectures can be never empirically tested, but it can become what Karl Popper called metaphysical research programme. The Leibnizian perspective is not the worst candidate for such a role.

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[*1] Roger Penrose, "On the physics and mathematics of thought" in: R. Herken (ed.) The Universal Turing Machine. A Half-Century Survey. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1988, pp. 491-522.

Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind. Concerning Computers, Minds, and The Laws of Physics. Oxford University Press, Oxford etc. 1989.

Tom Stonier, Information and the Internal Structure of Universe. Springer, London etc. 1990. [-> back to main text]

[*2] The problem of infinite progress towards the complexity of matter is discussed in James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science (Macdonald, London 1991), p.115, in the following way. "For modern particle physicists, the process has never ended. Every new accelerator, with its increase in energy and speed, extends science's field of view to tinier particles and briefer time scales, and every extension seems to bring new information."

This fact is also commented in the famous A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking (Bantam Press, London 1992), p.66. "And so we know that particles that were thought to be `elementary' twenty years ago are, in fact, made up of smaller particles. May these, as we go to still higher energies, in turn be found to be made from still smaller particles?". Hawking, in accordance with his belief that physics is near to a "theory of everything", is inclined to expect an ultimate limit of divisibility, but who does not share his optimism as to availability of such universal theory is not bound to share his conclusion. [-> back to main text]

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This morning, Trump once again tweeted about online retailer, alleging that it is scamming the United States Postal Service and that the agency should raise its shipping rates. He also says that The Washington Post — owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos —should register as a lobbyist.

Earlier this week, Axios reported that President Donald Trump wanted to take on Amazon. The President followed up with a tweet on March 29th, saying that Amazon was taking advantage of the USPS, paying little in state and local taxes, and putting retailers out of business.

The New York Times outlined earlier this week that Amazon has collected sales taxes since April 2017. The retailer reported $957 million in income taxes last year. The Times also lays out that while the USPS is losing money — it reported losses of $2.7 billion in 2017 — these losses are due in part to declining volumes of “marketing and first-class mail,” and the agency’s requirement to prefund the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund each year, which costs over $5 billion annually.

Indeed, the growth in package shipping from retailers like Amazon have been beneficial to the agency, which “have offset its general shortfalls in revenue.” The Washington Postreports that officials have explained to the President that Amazon’s contracts with the USPS are profitable.

In his second tweet, the president says that the retailer is taking advantage of the USPS, saying that Amazon is scamming the agency. He cites a Citi Bank report (via the Times) which says that the agency’s rates are underpriced, and that price adjustments could bring in additional revenue of $2.6 billion each year. The Times notes that while Amazon does have a shipping arrangement with the USPS, the agency has reviewed the rates and found them to be profitable, and has said that said rates are competitive in the marketplace.

The Post cites officials who say that Trump’s anger towards Amazon is a result of the paper’s coverage of his administration, and claims that it is acting as a lobbyist on behalf of Bezos. The Post says that while it is owned by the Amazon CEO, it operates independently of the retailer. We’ve reached out to Amazon for comment, and will update if we hear back.

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from Portrait to Caricature

Posted 11 days ago

I'm sorry! I planned on making a nice Pencil Portrait of this beautiful, smooth, normal-looking girl ~ a lovely girl that I Caricatured at a recent Party. But alone in my Studio, time off, I ended up playing around with the Shapes. The real girl isn't crazy. And she doesn't look crazy. But we can do these sorts of things when we're drawing pictures. Art is Play.

I'm thinking that the reason for doing our own linework/placements for 'Realistic' Pencil Portraits might be because we would see the needed 'exaggerations' when the linework doesn't look right. So it's a way to determine what makes the drawing look like this unique face.

I started this as a New Pencil Portrait. Using an excellent reference Photo from a recent Party ~ Where I Caricatured this lovely girl. Because it was still at 4,000 pixels ~ which makes a big difference when you want to see details.

And this time I decided to get the basic linework right before going in with the shading. Making Sure to Leave Out the Highlights because that's better than erasing i wish i was working in oil paint but i don't feel like taking That out. Anyway I gave myself 1/2 Hour to work on this Pencil Portrait. I didn't get far.

I made 3 Starts in that 1/2 Hour. (I tried to make them Darker in PhotoShop so I could post them here.) I loved the likeness in the first one, but it's too big. I feel like Portraits look grotesque if we make them too big ~ unless we're drastically Simplifying the shapes. So I did the linework a 2nd time. Still too big ~ because I approached it the same way. Quickly aborted that attempt, and did the linework a 3rd time. It's a better size, but the 'face' should be longer.

I used my eraser to adjust that.

Then I decided to Change my Approach. Simplify. I spent another 1/2 hour determining the placements ~ bouncing off the Basic Face Proportions of some mystical 'average' face. I didn't trace. I didn't grid. Because I wanted to Experience this for real. Which is why I got away from 'Portraiting'.

But I did print out the Reference Photo in B/W. 8 1/2 x 11.

This did two things. It made it more likely that I might draw Smaller (a little?) on my 11 x 17 paper. And it made it possible to determine my values using my own homemade value scale.

I know I started out to make a Portrait, but I couldn't stop noticing the upturn of the 'eye' that was in front of my left hand. So I decided to do this modeled Portraity Style of Caricature.

I tuned the renegade eye almost vertical. Then I decided to flip it over altogether. I made the lips curvier and wider, front teeth bigger. I carefully determined my lights and darks.

I looked at it. Decided that the lower part of the face got too narrow ~ making the 12 year old girl look too old. So before blending and developing, I widened it out.

Then I started the fun part of this process.

I spent another 1/2 hour blending it out and developing the shapes. Ooooh ~ I didn't want to stop. But I'm trying to get in the habit of sleeping at night. So I had to cut my drawing time short. Picture unfinished

The Next Next Afternoon:

Shouldn't I be working on my taxes?? But no. Here I am again. For 1/2 Hour. Because I saw this unfinished Caricature here.

Dagnabbit. Is 1/2 Hour up already?

I really Need to Do Nothing for 1/2 now before going to the Dentist. Maybe I'll bring this project along with me to the dentist.

ad then that Night:

at Starbucks ~ I choose to call this Caricature finished.

I liked drawing it, but I don't like looking at it. I'm wondering if perhaps this is Not the best approach for Caricatures (although I'd feel glad to do it again if anyone ever orders a Caricature to be drawn like a Pencil Portrait).

Wondering if I can lol Wondering if I can stick to Portraiting if I feel like doing this sort of drawing again

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I can't stop

Posted Oct 2017

Even when I'm not working, I'm likely to spend my time looking at people, playing with what they look like. Sometimes I'll just do it in my mind. But sometimes, I'll be in a situation in which I can get down my ideas.

I drew these Caricatures at a NY Starbucks ~ just patiently waiting for a chance to see other customers' faces. (They were busy with their own work.)

I see faces everywhere. In Starbucks, on line at the Supermarket, while my Friends and Family talk with me..... Even while watching tv ~ the faces never stop. I see them in the clouds, in the tree-branches, in the shadows

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Time Off in Starbucks

Posted Mar 2015

Here's some #black/white linework #Caricatures that I made on my time off at #Starbucks. I was feeling so psyched to get to today's College event.

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Expanding Our Views about Love

Posted Jan 2014

When a client gives me a lot of instructions, it's sort of like working out a puzzle. This client, for instance, gave me some unusual instructions for his Marriage Proposal. I could feel that he was definitely excited, happy, full of Love for his Lady. But the things he wanted were not trite fill-in-the-blanks for Romance. I wanted to see his excitement from His point of view. Not tell him what he Should be wanting.

Before he flew in from England, he ordered his Proposal Caricature ~ planning on proposing at the Falconer Statue in Central Park. He gave me the following instructions for his Picture:

It's be be Fun. Romantic. Stand-out-ish. To resemble Them And NYC. Across the bottom, it's to say: their names New York City 27th December 2014 He's to be wearing Velvet Slippers (very important). No Socks. White Shirt. Bright Pink or Purple Sweater tied over his shoulders as in the reference photo. He wants them wearing what they normally wear. That would be sexy clothes for his Lady. Note her Eyebrows. AND AND he wants me to Include The Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building AND AND King Kong!

Whew ~ No short order. How to do this? How to do this? Should I show them in a Bubble? Clear and protected, with a dark smashing scary city around them? No. That's not the City he would be experiencing. They're flying in from England, and staying at a quite upscale hotel. Expecting a sparkling good time. Here's what I came up with:

based on these Reference Pictures:

But then, Oh. Change in plans. They will not be here for the Proposal afterall. Client asked if I could email him the picture. So he would get it printed up in UK in time to propose on NYE.

Took me a bit to figure out what he was talking about. UK ~ that's United Kingdom. And NYE ~ that's umm, maybe I'll look it up later. I photographed the Caricature, sent it to myself in an email, downloaded it onto my Desktop, and Imported it into PhotoShop from the Desktop. So I could crop the background of my Studio off the photo.....

But then, when I opened his email to 'Reply' with the picture, I realized Oh. NYE. That's New Year's Eve! Uhoh ~ I'd better contact him. Because he had had me write December 27 in Ink.

We decided that I could just make the change on the emailed version. By doing it in PhotoShop.

On my New Computer. I had been given a much needed new Computer for my Birthday. It's a sleek new Mac. Much different than the PC I had been using. At the time that I had to handle this client's change in plans, I wasn't yet completely comfortable with my MAC. At the bare hint of a touch, pictures became transparent and the windows combined with each other. I had to do my own 'on the job training', so to say.

I flipped around the options, and I found a place where I could change stuff. Hmmm, I'll change this, I'll change that, I'll set it up this way best...... Success ~ I can now keep the pictures in separate windows in PhotoShop on my Mac.

But now what. My activities must have affected the Computer's ability to import pictures from my Printer into PhotoShop. I had written 31 on a separate piece of paper, planning on Moving it into place on the Caricature, and just covering up the New York City part. But it did not pop up in PhotoShop when I 'Import Picture from Device'. And it didn't show up in Documents, Downloads, or Desktop either.

I spent Hours trying to figure out how to Import Pictures from my Printer (Scanner). My client expects the picture to be emailed right away. It was finished on time. All I had to do was email it to him. What to do ~ What to do for my heart-filled Client ~

Aha! I hadn't yet done much with PhotoShop on my new Mac yet. But I quickly figured out how to add Text and affect it. Here's what I finally came up with:

It has a different 'flavour', but it was extra work that I was doing. Not part of our official Agreement. I figured out how to Import the Pictures later ~ on my own time. For now, this represents the experience. And isn't that what Art is supposed to do anyway?

Done. But then I had no job for December 27, 2014. A very busy time of year, but I had previously turned down a Couple of requests because I was committed to the arrangements I had made to handle this Studio Caricature in person. So, kinda time off. I ended up sitting in Starbucks with my IPad and my Client's reference pictures. I decided to Surprise him with a free Bonus picture. To help him deal with his feelings about his Girlfriend's changed plans. And to perfect' my Party Style Digital Caricatures at the same time.

I worked in Layers. First Layer was an Underdrawing:

On top of that, I did the Linework:

Here it is when I deleted the Layer with the Underdrawing:

Then I put in the home-colors:

I liked that. It's my style. I might even prefer it at this point ~ before the shading and the highlights and the extra playing. Easy on the eyes. Peaceful. But the following picture does make more of a Statement about the situation. So I felt happy to send it to my Client. An Engagement Gift from his Artist in NY.

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Sword and Shield Stags, Part 2

Part 1 was about the largest (and most fun) props from the Stag Do I hosted last month.
Now onto part 2, which focuses on the smaller props and accessories I made for the par-tay…

A golden hat

The Groom needed to stand out from the rest of us plebs. Sashes are for hens, and this was not the kind of group to all go out in full costume. I ruled out the ‘Helmet of Justice’ from Knightmare because, well, you can’t see where you’re going. That would get old fast.

Being a Discworld fan (and he’s a bit of one himself), I plummed for a Moist Von Lipwig inspired hat… with a bit of local hero Fred Dibnah mixed in.

The base hat was a flat cap from Primark. Four reasons led to this choice:

  1. You don’t want to repaint and cut holes into something pricy, or riun a costly item and need to buy another!
  2. It came in One Size (fits all), so no chance of a cap that’s too small.
  3. The groom had tried it on briefly on our suit shopping trip.
  4. The hats in the costume shop were made of an uncomfortable, hard plastic.

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Sword and Shield Stags, Part 1

Did I mention I was picked to be a Best Man this summer? Well, that happened. Which means that one of my duties was to organize the Stag Do.

Here’s post 1 of 2 about the props I made for my friend’s Stag Do, and a few things I learned along the way.

Picked because:

  • the historical role of the Best Man was to stand guard, in case the adbucted bride’s family came a’knocking,
  • because we’re all nerds,
  • I thought that gently beating the Groom would be funny,

Ladies and Gentlemen… a sword and shield on a budget.

And the nerds rejoiced.

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Making Money

This week, the UK’s new Pound Coin entered circulation – Its biggest change in 34 years. While I do have an interest in coins, going to one of a handful of locations to clamour for one of the first in the country? Not that interested. A fancy quid will crop up in my change soon enough.

Left: Old and Busted (1983-2017). Right: New hotness (2017-).

Anyway, money. At work, we have competitions and offers. Some of them have cash prizes, so I had to draw us some coins. The best way, I decided, was to do them in Illustrator with the 3D effect – this let me draw it once, then copy and paste, repeating, resizing and rotating the graphic to add variety.

Partial artwork of Win £500 flyer

My 2015 custard coloured coins – Make it rain!

I’m going to briefly go over how to make a 3D coin in Adobe Illustrator, then talk about the new Pound Coin graphics I created last month.

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A Stack of Seasonal Sketches

Kate Beaton, Canadian comic artist extraordinaire, regularly doodles diary comics when she goes home to the family for Christmas. They’re all very charming – when it comes to family, you just can’t write this stuff. Click the example below to visit her full gallery, around 40 comics strong!

Beatonna Xmas 2016 comic (sample)

Judging by the frames, I think she draws them digitally.

So last Christmas (2016), laying about with time off and laid up with a wonky hip, I had a go at my own Christmas comics. Same rules as the hourlies – Take notes, draw later.
My final count nearly matched Kate’s: I completed 35 festive comics!

A small sample of six (click to view):

I shared a few on Twitter and Facebook in January: You can find the complete set lounging around on my Tumblr.

Click here or the image below to go and have a gander!

A cover image lovingly prepared in under half an hour.


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Well, one reason is that by making your own, you eat fresh pasta. There is a difference of taste and texture between fresh pasta and pre-packed pasta.

But there is another reason: if you make your own pasta, you may want to use nutritius ingredients, ensuring that your pasta not only tastes good, but it is also low in fat, and generally good for you.

For instance, you may want to make your own low fat pasta with unrefined flour, ensuring that your pasta is rich in fibre and B complex Vitamins.

Finally, learning to make your own basic pasta dough is the first skill towards preparing other (more advanced?) types of pasta dishes like lasagna, raviolli, tortellini, and that type of thing.

It's not such a difficult thing to do, and it can be a fun process.

You see, normally you make pasta with refined wheat flour, eggs and salt.

But if you want low fat pasta, you need to use water instead of eggs, and you have to give salt a miss.

This recipe makes about 750 g of low fat pasta (about 1.5 pounds), and it takes about 50 minutes to make.

To make your own low fat basic pasta you need:

* 500 g (1 pound) of strong wholemeal flour

* 275 ml (a bit over a cup) of water.

This is what you do:

First, put the flour in a large mixing bowl and make a well in the middle (like a volcano, sort of thing).

Then, pour in the water, and mix with a knife till the dough binds.

After that, you start mixing with your hands and knead it till all the flour is evenly incorporated into the dough.

Move the dough to a kitchen bench, and knead it for about 10 minutes, till it becomes smooth and elastic.

Next, put the dough into a plastic (zip lock) bag and leave it there for about 30 minutes.

Then, take a quarter of the dough and roll it out by hand on a slightly floured surface. Roll it very thin. Leave it to rest and dry before using it.

Freeze whatever you don't use. It will remain good for up to 3 months.

You will be able to use this basic low fat pasta to make many of my delicious recipes.

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Friday, November 20, 2009

Achelon - Matriarchal Prosperity

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Achelon [ACK-el-on]
Achelonian [ack-el-OWN-ee-yun]

Achelon has seen many decades of restoration and growth since the end of the wizardrous Old War with its eastern neighbor, Telengard.  Due to prosperous trade with its southern neighbors, the kingdom of Noffel and the Free City of Kaladar, Achelon is presently one of the largest and strongest monarchies in Ara.  Almost all trade goods in Ara eventually traverse some part of the Endyn Trade Route, the most heavily traveled of all Arandish roads, most of the north-south length of which is maintained and taxed by the Achelonian Queen.

Matriarchal Rule
Achelon is a matriarchal culture, ruled by a Queen.  This is likely in response to the strongly patriarchal cultures of Noffel and Telengard, from which Achelonian people descend and against which they define themselves.  The southern half of the region now called Achelon was first settled around Old Calendar year 1000 by migrants from Noffel.  It would seem that those who favored matriarchal rule stayed on in this area, while those with a more patriarchal (traditional Noffellian) bent moved on northeastward to the Telegardian high plains.
The castle of the Queen of Achelon is located in Achelonia, in the southern half of the Achelonian realm.  To the present day, this southern region is more politically stable and geographically beautiful than the north, being made up largely of pastoral farmlands, fields of abundant crops, and dense but scattered copses and wooded areas. Southern Achelonians, being from the more agriculturally cultivated and “citified” regions, have every opportunity open to them: they are traders, farmers, merchants, militiamen, magicians, thieves, politicians—you name it.

In northern Achelon, looser government control combined with greater monster-related threats keep the region in upheaval. The Queen's influence is less strong here, especially in the region west of Achelon proper known as the Western Lands.  This northern area -- the Western Lands and Northern Achelon proper -- is heavily wooded, with large evergreen forests housing great and terrible monsters of all descriptions.  While Achelonian troops loyal to the Queen do keep minimal guard in the north, especially of the valuable Trade Route itself, for the most part, local barons have the run of the land.   Thus Northern Achelonians favor heavy projectile and melee weapons like long bows and two-handed swords, weapons that deter the kinds of large monsters that dwell in the region.

The Endyn Trade Route
The Endyn Trade Route is is the major north-south roadway in Achelon and Ara, and is the most-used road in Ara.  It circles the interior of the Arandish continent, connecting the dwarven mines and forges of Gannar to northern Telengardian cities like Freetown and Ironcrown, then running south through Achelon to Riverhold, then eastward to the Free City of Kaladar and the villages and towns of Delzar (e.g., Greywood, Bilnhof).  One of my most frequently used adventure hooks is to have a merchant hire the party to work as caravan guards on a mission along the Endyn Trade Route -- especially in the particularly dangerous stretches of the Route passing through northern Achelon and the Ghardash Wilderness region of Telengard. This hook works nicely if you want to start the campaign in the economic and cultural hub of Ara, the Free City of Kaladar, which sits on the border between Achelon and Delzar but is its own sovereign realm.  The road leading east out of Kaladar into Delzar is officially named the Kaladar-Bilnhof Road, but informally almost everyone considers this road an extension of the Endyn Trade Route and calls it by that name.

In southern Achelon and near the free City of Kaladar, the Endyn Trade Route is well-patrolled, both by Achelonian soldiers as well as Kaladarian Royal Guardsmen, who claim an active jurisdiction of up to fifteen miles out on all sides of the Free City.  Despite this patrolling, brigands and monsters will attack travelers and merchant caravans on the Trade Route in all but the most heavily guarded places (e.g., within sight of the walls of the Free City).  In northern Achelon, one of its most feared stretches, the Endyn Trade Route is kept somewhat free of brigands and monsters by Achelonian soldiers, traveling merchants and their hired caravan guards, and troops working for the northern landholders bordering it.  But this is a much more dangerous area and in the forests just beyond the northern leg of the Trade Route, wild and dangerous beings hold sway.

Legends of Mornlyn
The Spire of Mornlyn, called by many Southern Achelonians The Haunted Spire or Arlon's Spire, is the source of most of Achelon's darkest legends.  Mornlyn marks the site of the prison constructed by Arlon to hold the evil necromancers at the end of the Old War.  Given its noteriety, the Spire of Mornlyn is a frequent adventure destination for fortune- and legend-hunters, and is also a place from which people frequently never return.  It is an evil place.  The Spire itself is thin, pitch black, and approximately 300 feet tall.  It is frequently rumored that no one now living understands its true purpose or power.

  1. Cool! I like the sound of Achelon. So when can I go digging around the Spire of Mornlyn? Still think you might start this thing up sometime early in the new year?

  2. let me know if you're ever looking for new players, i might be able to fit it in...

  3. I was actually bandying around ideas for a matriarchal state with DG for my Arabian C&C game .........the Trade Route idea for adventure hooks is an excellent one IMHO

  4. @ Carl: I assume we will get underway in early 2010, maybe as soon as mid-January. I will need to get settled in with my new teaching schedule, pick a day of the week (possibly a weeknight!), and then we will be good to go!

    @ ze bulette: I will indeed be looking for players, so I will surely keep you in the loop as things develop. I know I have two or possibly three confirmed players right now (Carl plus one or two other players from our MUTANT FUTURE group), which leaves room for at least 3-4 more PCs in my mind.


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Saturday, February 5, 2011

Lands of Ara Reaches "Maven" Level

The Lands of Ara blog has seen a lot of growth in the past couple months in terms of gaining new followers. I attribute this in large part to increased variety in what we're putting out there. Obviously, the most notable facet of this "variety surge" is the addition of Spawn of Endra as a regular contributor to the blog -- check out his HEE-larious DM's guide back cover additions if you haven't already. I also had the good fortune to be able to coax a mythology-oriented friend into offering his very insightful thoughts about the origins of the Otyugh. (Sadly, the "Origins of . . . " column, which I still hope to establish as a regular feature, may have to be placed on hold for a few months while Uncle Junkal's player finishes his doctoral dissertation.) Who knows, maybe my expansion into the realm of old-school product reviews hasn't hurt, either. I don't know, I haven't checked the blog's tracking statistics -- honestly, I am a bit afraid to look at them.

I usually try to stay focused on what inspires and interests me, and while I am a big fan of external statistical rankings like Cyclopeatron's recent "fastest growing OSR blogs" update, I don't want to get too wrapped up in popularity contests or obsession with rankings, etc. My thinking is that true inspiration comes from what I find interesting, not what I think (or try to anticipate that) other people might find interesting -- though our shared assumptions and interests as members of the OSR community hopefully ensure some overlap between those two categories. I fear what I (and this blog) would become if I started consulting my own blog stats too regularly.

That said, The Lands of Ara hit a milestone yesterday: we gained our 80th follower. Now, 8 happens to be my all-time favorite number -- I like its symmetry -- and not only that, 80 followers means that The Lands of Ara has leveled up on the From the Sorcerer's Skull blogger advancement table: We are now Level 6 bloggers, with the Level Title of Maven! An auspicious occasion indeed.

THANKS to everybody who is tuning in!

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  1. Congratulations on your Maven-hood. Now use your powers only for good. ;)


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Battle a never-ending hoard of the undead in a post-apocalyptic wasteland! Five massive areas loaded with obstacles, speeders, boats, hovercrafts, supplies, buildings, modern ruins, and, of course, ZOMBIES TO HH4X0RZ! (a cross between Left 4 Dead and my own twisted idea of what the zombie apocalypse is going to look like)

speed- spd- 1/2*def
defense- def- 3/4*atk
attack- atk- (4*spd)-(1/4*def)
majik- mjk- 1/3*(atk+def+spd)
strength- buf (like in "buff")- (1/2*atk)+(3/8*def)
drunkennes- bze (like "booze")- aim-10=1(bze)- fixed by sobriety potion
hangover- hng- spd-5(bze) & aim+10(bze)=1(hng); fixed by pigbelly bread
experience (exp) to level (lvl) equasion: lvl=(exp^2)-(1/2*(spd+def+buf+mjk))+(bze+hng)*(1/2*X)
X=random number from 1 to 50

Jick el Tearer- (dark)- mysterious, remorseful serial killer being haunted by victims
Phoenix- (fire)- Jick's wife, regrets her old life as an evil genetic engineer
Chuck Norris- (light, 'cause he's faster than it)- Chuck Norris ('nuff said), regrets not hiring Phoenix to create a Chuck Norris clone super-army
Posidon- (water)- Greek god of the sea, regrets not allowing Phoenix's hoard of gigantic box jellyfish into the ocean ('cause it was Chuck's idea to put them there)
Olaf- (earth)- Viking berzerker and Phoenix's highschool sweetheart, regrets that last shot...
Zapdos- (electric)- electric legendary bird pokemon, regrets being Phoenix's college sweetheart (I mean, really, her name makes her seem like a legendary bird of some sort, and who knew pokemon could get herpes?)

Safehouse Guy (Adam)- paranoied about zombies, so he survived the Apocalypse of Zombie by staying in his bunker/house
Arms and Armaments Dealer (Nina)- she deals in weapons and armor, wadidja expect?

in order of most common to most rare:
John Doe Zombie- Just your average zombie
Macro-Corpse- Big ol' fat ol' strong ol' zombie
Elemental Zombies-
Grue (dark; only in caves)- Are these things undead? I'm not sure...
Eurg (light; only in light)- The opposite of a grue
Fire Zombie (fire)- HOT! HOT! HOT!
Water Zombie (water)- Eeeewwwww... The crabs got it's eyes... (less accurate)
Earth Zombie (earth)- Oh, man, I hope that's _mud_...
Zomborg- (electric)- cyberneticaly reanimated corpse
Valkerie- A flying zombie from the frigid northlands
Cultist Zombie- Just plain evil
Vengance Zombie- "Ahm gonna git chu!"
Vigilante Zombie- Trying to win his soul back by saving everyone on the Earth; he didn't do too well...
Patchy- Think "Frankenstien," but more rotten. And evil.
Shayman- a Polynesian immigrant witch doctor whose exposure to various plants, fungi, and exotic animals has given him a powerfull venom
ZombiEXP- a weak adversary that gives tons of experience
ZomBling- a weak adversary that gives tons of money
ZombItem- a weak adversary thats half random-stuff gollum and half zombie and gives tons of regular (non-majik) items (like weapons, ammo, food, drink, clothes, et al.)
Zomboni- a gypsy zombie that gives tons of majik items

sweetloaf- regains HP- a medievil recipie for the nobles, made with honey, water, and sugar slowly carmelized with pine nuts, then shaped into loafs; it's really, REALLY sweetly, tooth-rottingly good
Dunkin' Doughnuts- increase speed- my mouth is watering; imma run 'n' get some...
toast- increases accuracy- face it, all toasters toast it, and they shoot it out... what else is there to do with it but shoot stuff at it while it's airborn?
hormone-enhanced Oreos- increases strength- testosterone (or estrogen, if that's how you roll) laced trans fats and sugars btween two artaficialy-flavored chocolate cookies; whats NOT to love?
Kevlar Krispies sweetened Kevlar cereal- increases defense- when I wake up, I like a big ol' bowl of body armor, because I find it fortifies my skin, and makes me have pleasant hallucinations.
(all drinks restore HP)
glue from concentrate- because you never wanna loose that stick-to-it-iveness that keeps you fighting
urin- urin has oodles of vitamins that your body didn't need the first time around, but you might need them now! it's steril, so drink up!
water- because it's good to stay hydrated
Snap-e-Tom Tomato and Chile Cocktail- It's so good, I decided to put it in this game idea!
sword- it slices! it dices! it slays those zombies like theres no tomorrow, because, well, there might not be a tomorrow!
swordgun- O. M. Great googledy gosh... A gun... that's also... a sword...

majik items:
The Python- line 1: "import HAXZOMBIE"
hex(adecimal)- ff00ff! Pink majik!
#- IPOUNDYOUFACE!!!!!!1!!!!!11! (strong majik: damage=1/2*(buf+mjk))
Schweppenstien's Currative Citrus Drink- Pure lemon juice mixed with tonic water. This stuff is sure to increase your majikness and strength! Great with gin!
Gin- a Faustian drink; you get some good at the price of more good: drink this and loose 10 aim and get 5 spd and def (bze+1).
Sobriety potion- A majiky glowing gunk that removes drunkeness. Not approved by the FDA, CDC, FBI, CBC, NBC, or any other three-letter acronyms
Pigbelly bread- A majiky compound (derived from the belly of a pig, between twopieces of a bakeddough made of bleached wheat, and a myterious fungus that causes beer to foam) which removes hangover.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A hoard is a place where you keep stuff. A horde is a large group.

A horde of dragons is a tough fight.
A dragon's hoard is what you get from killing one.

Other than that, I don't see much problem with your design.
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oh. thanks!
but what if it's a horde of zombies in a hoard?
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You should make a game about kittens instead.
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NEW YORK (CelebrityAccess) — Music streamer Spotify has responded to criticism it received after it, alongside Google, Pandora, and Apple, announced plans to independently appeal a rate ruling by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board.

Under the terms of the ruling, payouts to songwriters from streaming services to songwriters and publishers would rise to 15.1 percent of revenue by 2022, up from 10.5 percent, an increase of 44%.

In their joint statement on Thursday, the streaming services said: “The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), in a split decision, recently issued the U.S. mechanical statutory rates in a manner that raises serious procedural and substantive concerns. If left to stand, the CRB’s decision harms both music licensees and copyright owners. Accordingly, we are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to review the decision.”

Unsurprisingly, the reaction from stakeholders in the rights-holder community was swift. After news broke that the streamers were appealing the ruling, David Israelite, CEO of the National Music Publisher’s Association, issued a statement to Variety where he stated: “When the Music Modernization Act became law, there was hope it signaled a new day of improved relations between digital music services and songwriters. That hope was snuffed out today when Spotify and Amazon decided to sue songwriters in a shameful attempt to cut their payments by nearly one-third.”

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According to the blog post Spotify published on Monday, Spotify clarified that they were “not suing songwriters” and is only appealing the ruling by the CRB.

The company also stated that it was supportive of the US effective rates rising to 15% between now and 2022, but qualified that support by questioning the scope of publishing rights. Spotify claimed that CRB’s 15% rate doesn’t account for all these rights, and does not consider the cost of rights for additional material such as videos and lyrics.

“The CRB rate structure is complex and there were significant flaws in how it was set. A key area of focus in our appeal will be the fact that the CRB’s decision makes it very difficult for music services to offer “bundles” of music and non-music offerings. This will hurt consumers who will lose access to them. These bundles are key to attracting first-time music subscribers so we can keep growing the revenue pie for everyone,” Spotify said.

The NMPA quickly responded to Spotify’s post, characterizing the streaming service’s claims as outright falsehoods in many cases. As the NMPA notes, Section 115 of the subject and scope of copyright only applies to making and distributing phonorecords, digital or otherwise.

The NMPA also takes issue with Spotify’s concerns that the new rates will make it difficult to offer bundles to its customers.

“Let’s be straight about how Spotify (and Amazon) want “bundles” to work. Say that Spotify wants to partner with a non-music service, like a gym. You join the gym, and pay $50 every month, and you get Spotify for “free”, something that would cost $10 a month if you paid for it alone. Let’s also say the rate stays at the 15% of revenue. For a music service alone, Spotify would owe the songwriters/publishers 15% x $10 which would equal $1.50. Simple, right? So if the $10 Spotify service is “bundled” with a $50 a month gym membership, and the rate is 15%, how much should Spotify pay the songwriters/publishers? Under the CRB ruling, Spotify would have to value the music service at $10 per month, and still owe $1.50. That’s what Spotify calls “flawed,” the NMPA said.

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Sunday, November 15, 2009

The Wrong Way to Retrieve the Last Record ID Inserted

Hardly a week goes by without seeing some forum post that either uses or recommends my pet peeve: the erroneous SELECT MAX(id) query. Mind you this is across the board, not just in CF. For some bizarre reason, this faulty technique never seems to die. And it REALLY should. There are so many correct alternatives, I cannot understand why anyone would still use it for new code. If you are even considering it, might I inject a note of sanity and recommend some excellent reading material on Adrian J. Moreno's blog:

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