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Aug. 12, 2006
Never has the phrase. "Last season doesn't matter" meant more than it does for the Lipscomb University Lady Bisons soccer team as it prepares for the 2006 season.
Fifth -year coach Jenger Parrish has stressed that her team put away the memories of endless injuries and frustrations that filled the 2005 season. Not even being picked last in the Atlantic Sun Conference in a preseason coaches' poll has dampened the new attitude of the team.
"We are going to focus on it being a new year," said Parrish. "Everything has changed. It is nothing like last year. And we don't want it to be like last year on the field."
One of the ways Parrish is putting a new feel and look to the team is the infusion of 12 recruits to join the 11 returning players.
"We have a lot of newcomers," said Parrish. "Physically, and mentally, last season was very difficult with so many injuries. These new players bring some enthusiasm and excitement. . It's a new season. With so many new players there is a fresh attitude.
"What I don't expect to change is the unity of the players. They were close last season. They got along off the field. They worked hard on the field. They were competitive. We had a great time working together."
The centerpiece of the team is expected to be senior forward Melissa Chambers, the team leader in most offensive categories with five goals, two assists, 12 points, 41 shots and 19 shots on goal.
"Melissa is an amazing player," said Parrish. "She is so composed in her skills. She kind of lulls you into buying whatever she is selling. You don't look at her and think she is going to run by you, but she does. She runs faster than you think she can run. She is a smart player. She has a great touch. If she is healthy, she will be big for us on top."
Some other veteran players expected to be key components of the team are sophomore midfielder-forward Sasha Sack, senior midfielder Laurie Babcock, junior defender/forward Leisli Lopez, sophomore midfielder Sara Green, sophomore defender/midfielder Sarah Foster and senior forward Jessica Jordan.
"The ones that went through last year are mostly juniors and seniors," said Parrish. "They see how fast their college careers go. They are motivated to make their last year or last two years the best they can be."
While last year was a disastrous one in terms of injuries there was a great deal of experience on the team. With so many new players expected to make big contributions Parrish expects to see more mistakes.
"We have to recognize we are going to make mistakes that we would not have made last year because of the inexperienced players we have," said Parrish. "Most of the experience we are losing was on defense. I expect us to score more goals this season so we have to balance that out with what they bring in terms of talent."
Some of the newcomers being counted on to make quick contributions are midfielder/forward Brandi Bresheres, defender Cally Warren, and defender Sarah Brummert.
Despite a series of disappointments last season the Lady Bisons remained competitive against most teams, losing three games, two of then against Atlantic Sun teams, by one goal. They also tied Jackson State 1-1 and Jacksonville, an A-Sun foe, 0-0.
"We were hanging with team," Parrish said. "We would be up 1-0 at halftime, but the more we would play players that were injured the more they would be dragging late in the game.
"We would have a lapse and the other team would make us pay for it. And it would be an uphill battle from there. The most difficult part is knowing we could play with those teams if we had been healthy. We were able to be competitive. We were in a position to win several games, but because of the injuries we couldn't close the deal."
Goaltending is always an important factor for a soccer team and Parrish has two choices. Katie Shelton is returning after sitting out last season as a medical red-shirt. She will be challenging Bethany Copeland who played in all 18 games last season.
"Katie has more height than Bethany and has a lot more experience in the goal," said Parrish. "She is a very good field player. She reads the game and knows how to be in the right position.
"I know Bethany will do a good job. Bethany has very little fear. She is very good in one-on-one situations because she is not afraid to come out and take shots from point blank range."
The Atlantic Sun Conference is expected to be a tight race for the tournament berths this season. Parrish doesn't see one or two teams dominating the league.
"This will be the first year without Florida Atlantic," said Parrish. "I think it is anybody's conference to win. It is probably the most competitive that the conference has been since we have been playing. Nothing is guaranteed. Nothing is given. As a whole the competition in the conference has increased, but there are not one or two schools that are going to run away with it."


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Orioles' Johnson snaps blown-saves skid
Jim Johnson took the mound at Camden Yards on Friday night, and nine pitches later he had closed out a 9-7 Orioles victory over the Oakland A's, becoming the first Orioles reliever to have multiple 40-save season.
With the O's in the midst of a battle for a postseason berth, Johnson had given the Baltimore faithful a positive to grasp in light of the three consecutive blown saves he suffered during the Orioles' series earlier this month at San Francisco and Arizona -- the most recent time he'd been given a save opportunity.
Jim Johnson took the mound at Camden Yards on Friday night, and nine pitches later he had closed out a 9-7 Orioles victory over the Oakland A's, becoming the first Orioles reliever to have multiple 40-save season.
With the O's in the midst of a battle for a postseason berth, Johnson had given the Baltimore faithful a positive to grasp in light of the three consecutive blown saves he suffered during the Orioles' series earlier this month at San Francisco and Arizona -- the most recent time he'd been given a save opportunity.
Friday, Johnson allowed the Orioles to clinch the season series from the A's, giving Baltimore the home-field edge in case the A's and O's wind up tied for a playoff spot. The Orioles are currently two games back of Oakland for the second American League Wild Card spot.
"It think it was a relief for a lot of people," Johnson told the media afterward.
There is no role in baseball where perfection is demanded more than a closer.
Even though Johnson leads the majors with 40 saves, what looms over him is that he also leads the Majors with nine blown saves, which was highlighted by that three-game meltdown from Aug. 9-14.
Since the save became an official statistic in 1969, there have been 781 pitchers to earn at least 20 saves in a season. Only six times has a closer with at least 20 saves been perfect in the role, according to Stats Inc.
Eric Gagne converted a record 55 out of 55 for the Dodgers in 2003, Jose Valverde was 49-for-49 for Detroit in '11, Brad Lidge went 41-for-41 in Philadelphia in '08, Michael Gonzalez was 24-for-24 with Pittsburgh in '06, and Rod Beck went 28-for-28 with the Giants in 1994, and 20-for-20 in San Diego in 2003.
Johnson, meanwhile, is one of 209 relievers to have at least nine blown saves in a season since 1969. He, however, has an 81.6 percent conversion rate, which ties him with Jeff Reardon with Boston in 1991 for the 12th-best conversion rate of a relief with nine or more failures.
Rollie Fingers holds the record of 15 blown saves in 1976 with Oakland (when he converted 20 but also pitched 134 2/3 innings). There have been eight pitchers blow 13 or more saves in a season, and three of them are in the Hall of Fame: Fingers, Bruce Sutter, who was 27-for-41 with the Cubs in 1978, and Goose Gossage, who was 22-for-35 with the Yankees in 1983.
There have been four relievers who blew 10 or more saves in a season in which they closed on World Series championship team: Dan Quisenberry (37-for-49 with Kansas City in 1985), Gossage (27-for-37 with Yankees in '78), Jason Isringhausen (33-for-43 with Cardinals in 2006), and Reardon (31-for-41 with Twins in 1987).
The 2004 Colorado Rockies set the team record with 34 blown saves, one more than Texas in '02, and two more than Atlanta in 1973 and the Chicago White Sox in '96. Colorado had the most blown saves (29) for a team to advance to the World Series, when it was swept by Boston in 2007.
St. Louis, in 2011, and Minnesota, in 1987, suffered the most blown saves (26) of any team that has won a World Series championship. The Cardinals' bullpen converted 47 of 73, and the Twins' 'pen 39 of 65.
Tall talk
At 6-foot-4, DJ LeMahieu has joined George ``High Pockets" Kelly of the 1925 New York Giants as what are believed to be the tallest every-day second baseman in major league history. Dick Hall, who was 6-foot-6, is believed to be the tallest player to play second base, but that was for only seven games with the Pittsburgh Pirates in '53.
Kelly spent the prime of his career as the starting first baseman for the Giants. He led the National League in home runs in 1921, RBIs in '20 and '24, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in '73. He appeared at second baseman in only 145 games during a career that spanned 16 big league seasons, and 108 of those games came in '25 when Frankie Frisch was injured.
Branch Rickey auditioned Hall, who was signed by the Pirates as an outfielder, at third base and shortstop. Hall was a September call-up in 1953, when he drew seven starts at second base. By '55, he was converted to the mound. During his 16-year pitching career, Hall threw one wild pitch and unintentionally issued 166 walks in 1,259 2/3 innings.
Hall, who was the oldest player in the Majors his final two seasons (1970 and '71), was a member of the Orioles' World Series championship teams in '66 and '70, and the AL pennant-winning teams in '69 and '71. He became the first pitcher to win a League Championship Series game, getting the final two outs in the top of the 12th inning of the Orioles' 5-4, 12-inning victory vs. Minnesota on Oct. 4, 1969.
It's a hit
There is debate on Ichiro Suzuki's 4,000 hits because 1,278 of them came while he was playing in his native Japan. What can't be ignored, however, is that Ichiro has 43 big league hitting streaks of 10 games or more, according to stats guru Bill Arnold. Only five players have had more: Ty Cobb (66), Hank Aaron (48), Tris Speaker (47), Derek Jeter (45) and Al Simmons (44).
• Houston went into Saturday with a "tragic number" for elimination from the AL West title of three, and seven for elimination from AL Wild Card contention. In the NL, Miami's tragic numbers were seven in the NL East and 11 in the NL Wild Card.
• The Rays and Orioles both batted their designated hitters ninth in their game on Tuesday, only the fourth time since 1973 (when the rule was adopted) that opposing teams batted both DH's at the bottom of the order, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The other contests with two ninth-place designated hitters were the Indians-A's contest on July 25, 2005, the Indians-Blue Jays game on May 4, 2009, and the Yankees-Rays on Oct. 2, 2009.
• The Dodgers are the third team since 1901 to go from at least 12 games under .500 (they were 30-42 on June 22) to at least 22 games over .500 (they went into Saturday 76-52). The other two: the 1914 Boston Braves and 2009 Colorado Rockies. The Braves won the World Series. The Rockies lost in the NL Division Series.
• White Sox pitcher Jose Quintana has a franchise-record 15 no-decisions this year, and he has 25 no-decisions in 48 career starts. By contrast, White Sox Hall of Fame pitcher Ted Lyons had 29 no-decisions in 484 career starts, compiling a 245-210 record in those outings.
Out of left field
Kit Krieger of SABR notes that former Minor League batterymates, pitcher Connie Marrero and catcher Mike Sandlock were a combined 200 years and 65 days of age on Saturday, probably the longest-lived former battery in professional baseball. The two former Major Leaguers played for the Almendares Scorpions of the Cuban Winter League in the 1947-48 season. Marrero, who turned 102 on April 25, is the oldest living former big leaguer. He pitched for the Washington Senators from 1950-54.
Tracy Ringolsby is a columnist for MLB.com.


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A winner was selected from 85 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
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The hand-sized yellow objects poking up among the lush canopies at Camalie Vineyards aren't a new variety of monster grape. They're electronic devices that can sense soil moisture.
Viticulturist Mark Holler says these wireless sensors sprinkled throughout the leaves help him manage the high cost of irrigation and improve his yield.
"Wireless sensor networks extend the Internet ... out into the environment," says Mr. Holler, a retired Intel technologist who owns and runs the 4.4-acre vineyard in Napa, Calif.
While the networks won't necessarily make someone a better vintner, they do have a practical side: During the 2007 drought in California, Holler figures the technology saved him several thousand dollars in water costs.
Electronics weren't originally outdoor friendly. Rain and dust wreak havoc on computer circuits. Cables and power problems snarled early attempts at open-air networks. But as Wi-Fi and solar panels grew more popular, inventors started looking outside. Now, power-sipping wireless sensor networks are cropping up in more and more outdoor venues.
In Antarctica and California's Sierra Nevada mountain range, they measure snowpack. On volcanoes in Ecuador, they sense tremors. In Australia, they track invasive cane toads. And in Cambridge, Mass., they sit atop buildings and street lights to monitor weather changes and air pollution.
"The potential is unfathomable," says Kirsten West, principal analyst at West Technology Research Solutions in Mountain View, Calif. With no wires to hold back innovation, "you don't have to worry about the physical network."
Already a $120 million market, networked outdoor sensors will benefit from a boom in low-power microchips. Ms. West estimates that demand for the latest chips will grow 34-fold to $680,000 by 2013.
"The market is still relatively small, but the pieces are all there," says David Culler, a wireless sensor network pioneer and computer science professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
The networks that originated in university labs like his are now reliable enough that they have moved into mainstream uses in homes, buildings, factories, and the environment. The industry still needs established standards to assure that networks can talk to each other and longer battery life to keep them running.
The improvements to outdoor technology have been readily evident at Camalie Vineyards. Only a few years ago, Holler was wrapping each device's circuit board in aluminum foil to protect them from rain, dust, and ultraviolet rays. The makeshift electronics looked better at scaring off crows than sending data. Now, he buys the circuitry snugly sealed inside yellow plastic cases, each topped with a small solar panel that can recharge the batteries.
With limits to battery power, it's also important to conserve energy use in the wireless network.
"The sensors are automatically power-managed by our device," says Mike Horton, president of Crossbow Technology of San Jose, Calif., which makes the solar-powered eKo sensors that Holler uses.
Soil, temperature, and other conditions can vary across the vineyard, so Holler has set up 32 network stations or nodes. Each has the eKo circuit board mounted atop a six-foot post and wired to three sensors buried in the soil at depths of one, two, and three feet.
The sensors measure soil moisture every 10 minutes and relay that information to the eKo device, which, in turn, transmits the information via wireless radio signals to and from other nodes in the vineyard. The information travels from the wireless sensor network in the vineyard to an Internet gateway and then to Holler's office computer.
"The technology works, is robust, and puts data on the Internet quickly," says Holler.
The sensor network has a self-organizing feature, meaning each network node talks to the nearest node with the strongest signal. If one node fails, the next strongest signal is picked up so the network keeps working. He says the information from the sensor network has let him use less water, stress the vines less, irrigate properly, and get better quality grapes.
To date, sensor networks are being used with high-value crops like fruits, nuts, and nursery plants. A recent survey of 36 vintners and farmers in the US found that more than half already use wireless sensors and about a third plan to get new applications over the next 18 months, according to ON World, a wireless research company in San Diego. Uses include monitoring soil temperature and moisture, sensing how fertilizers dissipate, and detecting pests or mold.
Because sensor networks are wireless, they are being put in far-flung places, including on volcanoes. Matt Welsh, associate professor of computer science at Harvard University's Sensor Networks Laboratory in Cambridge, Mass., has put test networks on several volcanoes in Ecuador to detect seismic and acoustic signals so scientists can better understand how volcanoes work.
One of the challenges was the tough physical landscape. The volcanoes regularly shook or spewed rock – at one time shearing off an equipment antenna. The sensor network was able to collect mounds of data that told researchers what the volcano was doing.
"The things we are doing with volcanoes could apply to collecting high-resolution signals such as on a bridge or during an earthquake," says Mr. Welsh. "There are potential commercial applications in oil and gas field exploration."
He sees much broader uses for wireless sensor networks. "The technology is on the brink of getting widespread adoption," he says.
In a few years, sensor networks could be in the same place the Internet is now, Welsh says.
"Sensor networks could be enmeshed in the fabric of the world to do monitoring in all kinds of places where you can't do it now."
New sensors tap power from trees
The thought of trekking across Antarctica or through an expansive vineyard to change a wireless sensor's batteries isn't too appealing. To avoid such trips, researchers are looking to harness the energy of everything from building vibrations to tree chemistry to keep their devices running as long a possible.
"There is an emerging trend toward power harvesting," says Sam Lucero, an analyst at ABI Research in Scottsdale, Ariz.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., has tapped trees to power sensors that could predict and track forest fires and potentially detect threats such as radioactive materials at US borders.
Each sensor has a battery that can be slowly recharged using the small amount of electricity generated by a chemical imbalance between the tree and the soil in which it grows.
The wireless sensor network is being developed by Voltree Power of Canton, Mass., and is to be tested this spring on a 10-acre lot provided by the US Forest Service.
Germany's EnOcean makes wireless sensors without batteries. The sensors are powered by their surroundings such as energy from vibrations, rotations, pressure, light, and temperature changes. For example, vibrations can be converted into electrical energy by flexing crystals that have a property known as piezoelectricity.


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After six years working on XNA, I decided it was time to take on a new challenge. I am moving to the Windows Phone team, where I will be working on things I'm not sure how much I can say about here (leaking future business plans on MSDN might not be the best way to endear myself to my new boss 🙂
Writing this post is a bittersweet moment for me. I'm excited by what the future holds for Windows Phone, and looking forward to my chance to be part of that, but also sad to leave a team and product that have given me so much satisfaction. There'll be no going back once I hit that Publish button a few minutes from now...
I feel an urge to wax nostalgic about some of my favorite times with XNA:
Staying up all night to watch Michael purchase the first ever Creators Club subscription.
The first Dream Build Play competition, when we got to see the first actual games made with our technology (Dishwasher FTW!)
On stage with Mitch at Gamefest, where I wrote a network game 'from scratch' (if you ignore some minor snippet cheating :-) in less than an hour. I'm still blown away by the fact that our APIs were simple enough to make this possible. Also amazed that the demo actually worked, considering what an unstable early build we were using! Unfortunately there is no video of this, and the slides don't do it justice since the whole point was the live coding demo.
On stage once more at MIX, demonstrating XNA graphics on the new Windows Phone with a frighteningly last minute demo cobbled together just a few days earlier using a hot-off-the-presses build of XNA on an even more experimental frankenbuild of the phone OS. Then rushing back to my hotel room to blog about the new features coming in XNA 4.0 (which, modesty aside, I still think is some of the best design work I have done to date).
Trying to decide, of all the lines of code I have written in my life, which one has been executed the most times? I think it must be the default SpriteBatch pixel shader.
Last but not least, spending time with y'all on forums and this blog, where I got to know so many great people and see the amazing things you create.
I'm not yet sure what this means for my blog. I want to keep writing, but will probably cover more general graphics and game development topics, and will obviously no longer have inside scoop on XNA implementation details. I'm also not sure how much time I will have for writing, especially in the early months as I settle into the new job, but I will do my best.
Ok, I'm off now to meet some new people and learn my way around a whole new product.
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Reading 1: Kentucky's Importance
The Civil War divided few states as deeply as it did Kentucky. Some residents, citing the state's history of supporting compromise and nationalism, wanted to remain with the Union. Others favored the Confederacy; they concentrated on the state's ties to the South through culture--most importantly, by slave-owning--and through family. In an attempt to keep these divisions from widening further, the state legislature declared in May 1861, a month after the firing on Fort Sumter, that it had decided to "occupy a position of strict neutrality."
Those who wanted to stay out of the growing conflict failed. Both the Union and the Confederacy were trying to convince residents to support their side, for each understood how the state could help in the war. Control of Kentucky would assist in the defense of other crucial territory and provide access to key transportation routes. It had the third-largest white population of all the slave-holding states, so it contained a large number of potential soldiers, and it produced wheat and livestock, supplies both sides would need. Recognizing these factors, President Lincoln told a friend, "I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game."
Unionists gradually came to dominate the state. Elections in May (for Congress) and August (for the state legislature) both ended with significant victories for men who favored the North. Many Kentuckians who had remained uncertain which side to support began to sympathize with the Union in September 1861, when Confederate Gen. Leonidas Polk took control of Columbus, a railroad junction that sat at the foot of a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River. Although Union forces under the command of U.S. Grant soon occupied two other towns in the state, General Polk was the first to move, which created sympathy for the North.
Even as Kentucky tilted towards the U.S., however, it remained far from united. Each side recruited troops from the state, and these enlistments caused splits that ran through families. All but one of Mary Todd Lincoln's seven brothers and half-brothers, for example, fought against the Union that her husband was trying to preserve.
The following excerpts demonstrate how both the Union and the Confederacy attempted to win the loyalty of the citizens of Kentucky. The first is from a speech given by Col. Curren Pope, commander of the Seventh Kentucky Infantry US, at a ceremony in Louisville in October 1861. The second is from a proclamation issued by Confederate Gen. Felix Zollicoffer, a former newspaper editor and Congressman from Tennessee, to the citizens of southeastern Kentucky in December, 1861. In the fall of 1861 Zollicoffer had crossed the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky with 6,000 men, then encamped near Mill Springs.
Colonel Pope:
We behold emblazoned upon its [the United States flag's] bright folds the same stars and stripes which the eyes of Washington were accustomed to look upon, and we rejoice with joy unspeakable that it is still this day the consecrated flag of our Union. It has streamed in triumph at the mast-head of our ships, and in many a bloody field has cheered the American armies on to victory. It has waved in every breeze on land and upon the sea, and in the strong hands of our fathers who bore it aloft, it has never, lo, never dishonored. Around it have clustered the dearest hopes of every friend of human liberty in every clime, and who doubts the last shriek of freedom will rend the skies, if it shall fall forever....[t]hough others may hate and curse the land that gave them birth, the brave and loyal sons of Kentucky will never strike with parricidal hands the State that has nutured them. Sooner may the battle-field run purple with our blood, and we fall, if fall we must, in civil strife, wrapping as a winding sheet these spangled colors around us and breathing out our last sighs for our country's glory.
General Zollicoffer:
To the People of Southeastern Kentucky:
Questions for Reading 1
1. Why was Kentucky so divided over what to do when the Civil War began?
2. Why did both the Union and the Confederacy want Kentucky on their side?
3. What arguments does Pope use to side with the North? What fears does he raise? How does he describe Confederates?
4. What arguments does Zollicoffer use to induce Kentuckians to side with the South? What fears does he raise? How does he describe Northerners?
Reading 1 was compiled from a letter written by Abraham Lincoln and published by William H. Townsend, ed., Lincoln and the Bluegrass, (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1955, 254); and from The War of Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Vol 7, (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1882), 787.


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CARSON, Calif. - A few notes from the LA Galaxy's 2-1 defeat to Real Salt Lake.
*Real Salt Lake is now five points ahead of the Galaxy for the Western Conference's second spot. If the regular season today, the Galaxy would face off against RSL in the Western Conference semifinal.
*The defeat to RSL is the first time that an away team has defeated the Galaxy at The Home Depot Center more than once since the club moved into The HDC in 2003.
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Feel its only fair to warn you guys that WA is now probably the most dangerous place in the world for shark attacks. Our government and local authorities are doing next to nothing to sort out the problem while our fellow water users get killed. There have been 5 deaths so far this year due to attacks by great whites and a number of injuries and near misses.
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Sunday, April 11, 2010
Widget technologies on different mobile platforms
I could not figure out, how to place a direct link, just look for widget.pdf on the page. Update: direct link to the document.
Back to the main issue: I found a nice confusion with regards to the widget term itself. Basically there are two schools: one interprets widget from the user's point of view, as a mini-app on a default screen, e.g. home screen, the other approaches from the technology point of view and considers widgets as locally installed web applications. There are interesting corner cases. For example Android widgets are full-featured widgets from the user's point of view but not widgets from the technology point of view because Android widgets are not based on web technologies. Blackberry widgets, on the other hand, are based on quite sophisticated web technology engine but they are always full-screen. This is not that an ordinary user would call widget.
Anyway, I am looking forward to your comments either here or on the Sfonge.com website. I will also get the direct link to the document, don't worry.
On a personal note, I am back to Budapest from London. The 2-year UK vacation is over. Gee, I started this blog before I moved to London and now I am back. How time flies - particularly in the Android universe.
3 comments:
- Janne Morén said...
I've lived in technology-land for most of my life, and I do a fair amount of programming both for my day job and for fun. But I've never once heard your second definition of widget as being related to web technologies in any way. It must be a use specific only to those actually working on and deploying such code.
- April 12, 2010 at 3:09 AM
- Gabor Paller said...
Well, I don't live in the technology land, that's one explanation. :-)
I propose to read the referenced paper or if you want something more authorative, this one:
Widgets 1.0: The Widget Landscape (Q1 2008)
For developers, some widgets differ from traditional binary applications in that they are created using the same open technologies used to create web pages. Widget engines mimic, in many ways, the behavior of web browsers: an increasing number are actually built directly on top of web browsers so they are able to render web pages, while others incorporate web browser components such as ECMAScript interpreters. To developers and vendors, this means that most widgets are significantly easier to create than applications developed with lower-level programming languages such as Java and C#.
- April 12, 2010 at 9:06 AM
- Gabor Paller said...
Sorry, I deleted two comments in Chinese here. Please, repost your comments in English, please.
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Monday, June 21, 2010
Mildred Pierce: Forties Frump? I think not
30 comments:
- Harlow Darling said...
Oh my! I actually saw these photos floating around but no one mentioned what the movie was called or about so I am very glad you posted this! Kate Winslet is my favorite actress so I can't wait to see this when it's out, and I most definately don't think there is anything "frumpy" about these clothes, they are perfect! And, they look very good on her, as Kate Winslet has the perfect body to pull off any fashion ranging between the 1900s - 1950s due to the fact that she has the figure of a real woman, or atleast the decades where women looked like women...pre Twiggy times.
- June 21, 2010 at 8:00 AM
- Miss Emmi said...
I think Kate Winslet has always looked a little older than she is, but that's not to do with lines or her clothes... I think it's something to do with her face shape. Similarly to the actress on the Good Wife at the moment, she's only going to look better as she gets older!
I love love LOVE the sensible walking shoes she is wearing here. Ms Winslet, where can I get me some of that?
ps Harlow Darling: Skinny women are "real women" too. Please read http://www.fatnutritionist.com/index.php/all-women-are-real/ I agree Kate has a great figure for 50s style clothing, but I don't agree with phrasing it that way.
- June 21, 2010 at 8:31 AM
Sigh! I've noticed to modern people the 40s are exactly the same sa teh '30s... or the '20s...or the '50s. I rememebr Angelina Jolie got called "frumpy" as well when pictures of her in her Chageling costumes appeared. I think kate W. looks terrific - my eyes popped out of my head when I first saw that distinctly '30s floral frock and hat.
- June 21, 2010 at 9:51 AM
- Pixie Drive-In said...
Ohmigosh, I cannot wait for this remake! I've been following it and the photos for quite some time, and the more I see, the more excited I get. I heard Evan Rachel Wood is playing Veda, and I'd love to see some photos of her too. I don't think Kate looks frumpy at all--she's just sporting the style of the times. Love the look with the red plaid skirt!
- June 21, 2010 at 10:07 AM
- nancy said...
Frumpy? Wow, somebody at Fashion Rules has and interesting sense of what that word means.
Kate looks wonderful. I love the shoes (of course!) and I adore each of the outfits she's wearing. Boy, if I were an actress doing period pieces, I'd always want to bring my wardrobe home!
- June 21, 2010 at 10:33 AM
- bellisimama said...
why are they remaking everything? kate is one of the best actresses, but man....i doubt anyone can compare to my girl joan, especially as mildred pierce. i love that movie.
- June 21, 2010 at 10:45 AM
- Brittany_Va-Voom Vintage said...
Fourties Frump? I don't recall -anything- about the 40's being fumpy! The 30's and 40's were the eras of classic hollywood glamour! The majority of elegant haute couture styles that we see on runways and red carpets today are based on fashions from these eras. AND if they can't tell the difference between 30's and 40's fashions, they have NO business talking about it!! I suppose that on "Fashion Rules" if you aren't showing your butt and boobs, you're considered frumpy? *ugh*
At any rate, I am SO excited about this series! I don't have HBO but my mom does! I think I'll have to have her put it on the DVR for me!! Thanks for sharing these gorgeous pics! I love Kate- she looks anything but "frumpy"!
- June 21, 2010 at 11:11 AM
- art*deco*dame said...
how is this frumpy but MODERN sloppy fashion is "in"...aigh no,no,no.I think she looks fantastic!
- June 21, 2010 at 11:45 AM
- MarieBayArea said...
frump? i'll take any of these dresses/skirts any day
- June 21, 2010 at 12:01 PM
- MarieBayArea said...
and i'll take all of those shoes too!
- June 21, 2010 at 12:03 PM
- Stefanie Valentine said...
Frumpy?! Err, nope! She looks totally fabulous, I love the dresses and shoes, totally yummy! x
- June 21, 2010 at 12:24 PM
First of all, granny chic, baby. She's channeling Miss Marple here, albeit, a younger, curvier dame... I love the look Kate's embodying here. Oy, how perfect would my fainting couch blanket be in HER home? :)
Second, I wasn't offended by the first poster's comment about women, pre and post Twiggy. Perhaps her choice of real is a debatable point, but I knew what she was driving at. :)
- June 21, 2010 at 2:20 PM
- Nancy said...
Love those outfits! They're just calling them Frumpy because fashion has gotten so out of control lately. I'm sorry that she isn't wearing something that makes her look like a sausage stuffed too tightly into its casing like most actresses today. Sheesh.
- June 21, 2010 at 2:31 PM
- garofit said...
Great costumes, can't wait to see it!
The skinny/curvy debate, I find it ridiculous since in all times there were all kinds of body shapes and weights. Just look at photographs from those times!
As for wanting to make out of golden era clothing the last - and exclusive! - refuge of the very shapely female, my skinny self must protest! I will so fight you for my piece of it!
- June 21, 2010 at 2:50 PM
- BaronessVonVintage said...
Really interesting thoughts here, both about contemporary society and the fashions of the film (and the whole idea of a remake of the film in general).
Here are my thoughts: I think we need to distinguish between real women and social ideals of women/femininity. I think Harlow Darling is voicing what I suppose has become a commonly voiced response on the part of a significant number of contemporary women who are tired of feeling they are inadequate and imperfect because they do not fit into the media-produced and perpetuated social ideal of femininity (embodied by the likes of Twiggy in the 60s, Kate Moss since the Heroin chic movement of the 90s, and a majority of Hollywood celebrities and high fashion models on the runways and in the pages of Vogue today). Miss Emmi and garofit touch on an interesting, important, and dare I say less oft voiced view, which is that, perhaps the "pro-curvy" movement (fronted by corporations like Dove etc and even men's magazines like MAXIM and so forth that put Scarlett Johanson and Jessica Biehl on their covers as the ideals of what men should consider attractive perfect women) may have produced an unfortunate backlash against the social ideal of feminine thinness which has affected women who are naturally thin in ways that have the potential to be equally damaging. I don't think it's a coincidence that both the rates of eating disorders and plastic surgery numbers have both reached epidemic proportions in the late 20th to early 21st centuries. Mainstream media has indoctrinated us with two equally unrealistic sets of ideals.
Now, when we are talking about VINTAGE ideals of femininity in the 1930s, for example, the historical-cultural artifacts (movies, magazines, etc) show us that the dominant social IDEAL of female attractiveness (or so called hegemonic femininity) was that of a woman with a physique possibly more in line with the likes of a Kate Winslet than a Kate Moss (ironic, isn't it, when this was a time of relative poverty--I would argue it was BECAUSE of the Depression that a fleshlier look was idealized). That does not change the fact that women of the past did not all look like that. Nor does it change the fact that women of the past did not, many times, go to extremes or feel depression or inadequacy from being unable to look like a Jean Harlow, for example. That's my 10 cents' worth. Ideal vs. real...'nuff said.
- June 21, 2010 at 3:35 PM
- BaronessVonVintage said...
Sorry, that last bit is a touch garbled. I was trying say that we must remember that women of the past were not any more immune to issues related to feeling unable to attain society's ideals of femininity than we are nowadays!
- June 21, 2010 at 3:37 PM
- Charlotte said...
Kate Winslet has always looked "old fashioned" to me - by which I mean that with her oval face, full cheeks and big eyes she conforms better to vintage ideals of beauty than to modern ones.
And also I think she looks fabulous in the last photo - want that outfit!
xx Charlotte
Tuppence Ha'penny
- June 21, 2010 at 3:46 PM
- BaronessVonVintage said...
Oh, the LAST thing I will note is that, from the perspective of a vintage buyer and seller, I do think slender gals like you, Garofit may not have to fight any harder than any other size group for your "piece" of the 30s vintage fashion pie. In fact, I would argue that contrary to the social ideals shown in movies and magazines from the 30s, the majority of real dresses I have ever come across from the early to mid 30s especially are usually in sizes best suited for wearers with smaller frames and slender hips. As well, many 30s dresses have small seam allowances/selvedges, which means it's a lot harder for a gal to have a 1930s dress let out than taken in. I'm not at all trying to diminish anyone's justified feelings in response to the curvy-topic...just noting that if the "real women" of the 30s were as curvy as we may be making them out to be, I would not have to CONSTANTLY "fight" in my own way to find any 30s dresses that can get over my hips. ;) Hopefully you get my point. ALL women of all sizes feel anxiety, fear, stress, insecurity about their abilities or inabilities to match up to the glossy idealized images of female beauty (whether past or present). Let's stop the madness!!
- June 21, 2010 at 3:55 PM
- BaronessVonVintage said...
Okay, totally not my last comment!
I really want to respond to a couple of the other "themes" that have come out of the fantastic comments provided by you all (I really should do a whole post on this, but whateva...
1) Art *Deco* Dame, Brittany Va Voom, Nancy, and others have hit on an important topic, which is the state of fashion and its links to female sexuality and even morality. I tend to agree with cultural critics who argue that a negative (and perhaps unforeseen) byproduct of the "Sexual Revolution" and second wave feminism is this pervasive ideology that sexual power and freedom is really the most important form of freedom there is for women. In the words of media critic Jean Kilbourne, the pervasive myth sold to women now is that we "have the right to remain sexy." Arguably, we have seen this hypersexualization and what I am going to call antifeminism masquerading as "girl power" manifesting in women's clothing (esp. in clothing worn by celebrities, music artists, etc). Look, I'm not personally someone who is against women's rights to freedom, sexuality, self-expression, etc. HOWEVER, I personally don't necessarily feel that in order to feel powerful, feminine, whatever, a woman should feel the need to emphasize or overemphasize her physicality and sexuality in order to be noticed or gain a level of social currency. What it comes down to is that I resent people calling 30s fashion "frumpy." What I find interesting about that fashion article is that it reveals another telling social issue that pervades North American culture: a kind of fear of aging and redefinition of what it means to be a woman 30 or over. On the one hand, women over 30 (such as myself) have been told that we can still look "attractive" (meaning sexy, capable of gaining male attention) when in past decades (like the 1930s), 30 = "Woman of the World." HOWEVER, what this culture of "eternal youth," with its skin creams promising to "erase" age lines, and its cult of the "yummy" mummy also does is pressure women over 30 to keep obsessing about being a sex object, being without age spots and wrinkles, etc etc. At the end of the day, it's a bit of a catch 22. My opinion: I am thankful that we are at a place and time where women feel they have power to choose and control their own destinies and sexuality. However, I don't like that the media is encouraging YOUNG girls to want to look, act, dress like sexually mature women and to encourage women to want to look like ageless mannequins and dress and act like sex and appearance obsessed cosmo sipping extras from Desperate Housewives or women of Real Life Housewives of Orange County. Case in point: if I want to wear floral dresses below the knee, don't think that I can be called "frumpy" without having something to say about it ;)
- June 21, 2010 at 4:31 PM
I just don't get the whole Kate Winslet is big thing. I'm looking at her and she just looks thin to me. I've talked about this before. What am I missing here?
Also, I think maybe they're calling her frumpy because of her dull make up and her brown hair all pulled up combined with the not quite as fitted as normal clothing. She just looks a lot different than she normally does.
By the way I don't think anyone would ever accuse YOU of looking frumpy in your 30s outfits! You always look perfectly adorable. I however do tend to look frumpy in 30s unless my make up is bright and my hair is not pulled up!
- June 21, 2010 at 4:56 PM
- BaronessVonVintage said...
Trixie, I agree her different hair color might have something to do with the article calling her "frumpy."
Thanks ever so much...I probably should have typed that if a woman over 30 in a 1930s frock is called frumpy I'm gonna have a problem with it because, HEY I'm a year older than Kate Winslet and I wear 30s outfits like hers every day. Trying to fight to redefine what so called "fashion" experts are calling frumpy. The fact that, as several bloggers have noted, the article can't even tell the diff between 30s and 40s fashion makes it a bit hilarious...truth be told, the bee in my bonnet wasn't a killer bee. Just one wanting to buzz softly but clearly. Think it's time again for milk and honey. ;)
- June 21, 2010 at 5:28 PM
- Q's Daydream said...
Yay!!! I ADORE HER!
- June 21, 2010 at 5:57 PM
- nancy said...
Baroness, you said everything I was thinking! So I won't repeat it all here, but I will say that as a more curvy girl, I have a heck of a time finding vintage dresses and vintage sewing patterns that are my size. I'm a 39-32-42, and it's darned hard to find vintage things that fit. I also cannot find many pairs of size 8 shoes from the 20's-40's.
I have a friend who studies such things at university, and she says that humans as a race have been getting bigger, especially post-WWII, because our diets are better. So there might have been curvy women in the 30's but the scale may have been relative to their less-curvy counterparts.
(Goodness gracious, did that make any sense? I shouldn't try to write while I have low blood sugar!)
I'm wondering if Kate's "barely-there" makeup may be contributing to the writer's perception of her as "frumpy"?
- June 21, 2010 at 6:03 PM
- Miss Emmi said...
Oh, Baroness, I really hope I didn't come across as "poor, skinny me" - I just think that people need to realise how exclusionary language like "real" can be to people who don't fit in the body type. This includes women whose curves aren't in the right places (we have the 'right kind' of fat now, and it's only those with a perfect hourglass shape - sorry if you've got a rounded middle, but you won't be on the cover of a men's magazine anytime soon) and those who are too skinny or too athletic to fit the very narrow definition. And I honestly think a lot of this is due to the media and advertising world - after all, how will they sell us products if everybody loves themselves as they are? They sensed the tide was turning and that people were demanding representation, and are now creating another idealized body (big breasts, big hips, tiny waist, no fat on the face or neck) to promote to people. Baroness, I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts on beauty standards and advertsing, especially as you have that glorious stack of magazines from the 1930s to compare the modern versions with!
- June 21, 2010 at 7:06 PM
Oh my goodness---thanks so much for posting these pictures! I've been out of the loop and had no idea about this production. Kate Winslet is one of my favorites and those costumes are amazing. I'm especially fond of the last outfit you posted--frumpy my foot!
- June 21, 2010 at 7:13 PM
- BaronessVonVintage said...
Miss Emmi, I LOVE that you posted that comment. I truly do think it's a very good point to make in relation to the types of feminine ideals contemporary women are bombarded with; I am definitely in agreement that the pressures on a woman to manufacture curves when her body genetically was not programmed to be that way is just as problematic as the pressures on women who are not tall and willowy. I look at that wretched creature from the show The Hills, Heidi Montag, as an exaggerated example of what can happen if real women were to take the messages (which I 100% agree are primarily produced and perpetuated by the media/corporate advertising) literally. Breast implants size "H" for Heidi? Butt implants to look like Jessica Biel? A tiny, emaciated frame that can barely support these distorted proportions? Modern women may be facing the most unhealthy and unrealistic messages yet...instead of binding our bodies with whale bone corsets, we have been encouraged to corset our minds and to use the regimes of the gym and the plastic surgeons' knives to cut ourselves down to size.
It's funny you mentioned the idea of showing some 30s ads. I had a post like this in the works, especially after poring over the ads in a "new" magazine I got at a flea market yesterday. Your wish is my command. Expect such a post shortly ;)
- June 21, 2010 at 7:43 PM
- Coedith said...
I can see why the word frumpy was used and I think it maybe because she looks unhappy. She could rock that look with a smile : )
- June 21, 2010 at 8:19 PM
- Andi B. Goode said...
I wonder if the problem is that, because these are candid shots, a couple have not-so-good posture and facial expressions? Because I don't see frumpy, either. Except for where she's hunched over, midstep, and pulling a funny face. It's not the dress - it's the posture, perhaps. But this looks awesome, anyway. Thanks for sharing! Am going to come back and read all the comments later. ;]
-Andi x
- June 21, 2010 at 8:26 PM
- BaronessVonVintage said...
Nancy, Coedith, Andi, these are great hypotheses...if only the blog post didn't explicitly say, Kate "is going for the forties frump look too, the big shouldered look. It's crazy what these clothes can do to the way a woman looks." So, it's the CLOTHES, according to the web article. Hrumph.
- June 21, 2010 at 10:14 PM
- Riikka said...
Kate's costumes are absolutely gorgeous! I especially love the blue dress she's been photographed wearing. It is a stunner!
- June 22, 2010 at 4:02 PM


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19-Aug-2002 -- We recently received a visit from a couple of young British friends, Rachel Johnston (whose father accompanied me to 16N 2E in 2001) and Andy Bowes Lyon. As far as I am concerned two of the best things to do in Niger are seeing the giraffes in the wild, and confluence hunting. So without much persuasion I got Rachel and Andy to try both on the momentous day of 19 August, 2002.
First we drove out some 60 km from Niamey to the south-east, hired a guide, and found a herd of giraffes less than 5 km from the main road. We got some great pictures and were able to get really close to them. We got back to Niamey about noon and ate lunch at my house before heading north on the main, recently repaired, laterite road that leads to Ouallam. Our objective, 14N 2E, has been on my agenda for some time. It only required some willing partners and a free day to bag it.
The reading on the GPS showed 51.8 km from my house in Niamey, but of course we knew it might be considerably further than that. We headed north on a hot day with cumulus buildup, kicking up a good cloud of dust. Some 45 km up the road and after crossing a couple of washes full of sand we came to Goubé, a small town where the transporters often stop for tea or supplies. I remembered seeing a small sign north of Goubé pointing to Boukanda, which lay on the route I had chosen to reach the Confluence. We soon saw the sign, but there was no road anywhere to be seen. It seems that when the main road was repaired they had neglected to leave an opening in the ditch for the track to Boukanda. So we just shifted into low range, the Suzuki climbed into and out of the ditch, and we found tracks leading west, the GPS showing some 12 km to go.
After about 4 km we saw the village of Boukanda and the basemap road showed a choice of tracks. I endeavoured to keep the GPS arrow heading in the right direction and we were soon following what looked like the correct track. From the looks of it it had been a long while since a motorised vehicle had passed that way. Some distance from Boukanda we pulled to a stop before a long stretch of water where the track normally crossed a dry stream bed. However, it was no longer dry, as August is the height of the rainy season. We debated about whether to try and cross the water, but no one seemed anxious to wade in and test out the depth. While trying to sound with a stick, Andy slipped on some clay and almost went into the water. He was fortunate enough to catch himself, though, and the only damage was to his hands, which were really muddy, and maybe his pride! After some scouting I found a way around the stream to the south and again the Suzuki went into low range as we crawled through the clay and tall grass, coming back onto the track after a couple of hundred meters.
The track was fairly clear except for a lot of erosion. At one point we came to a very deep hole, at which there was some doubt as to whether the Suzuki could get back out of it. Again into low range, and, growling furiously, the little vehicle climbed out with no trouble at a very steep angle. Eventually we joined with a well-travelled track, with what looked like the ruts of a dump truck or other large vehicle. We passed some picturesque areas of low buttes and mountains but I had not much hope of the Confluence being scenic. Reading 2 km from the point, we spotted a village in the distance. We were all sure that after all our trouble the point would be in someone's courtyard, but fortunately the GPS led us on past and we came abreast of 14N 2E, next to a large millet field, reading 430 meters to go.
We climbed out with the temperature gauge reading 38°C (just over 100°F) and began to hike through the field. Fortunately we were just far enough from the village and the millet was high enough that we did not have to try to explain what we were doing! Rachel, wearing sandals, cried out at one point and we found that a large thorn had pierced her sole and entered her heel. There was some slight bleeding but she was not deterred and we continued on to the point, located between two larger trees and still in the big millet field. Using the pointer arrow I went directly to the Confluence and read the zeros on the GPS for the first time in several Confluences. I even managed to get off a shot of the screen before it fluctuated.
After we posed for a few pictures we noticed that the cumulus had accumulated into a large, dark storm back to the east, so we decided to try and get out of our situation before we were shanghaied by the rain. On the way back we spotted a bright yellow chameleon crossing the track, so we got out and persuaded him to get on a stick. He changed colours a few times before the storm made us get back in the car and continue on. We got a picture at the deep hole, and with relief crossed the stream once again before it began to sprinkle as we passed Boukanda and got back onto the main road. Then it began to rain in earnest.
We thought we were home free, but had reckoned without the sandy washes south of Goubé. The first one was no problem although water was already rushing across it, but at the second we were dismayed to see that a Peugeot 404 pickup was in the water up to its headlights and stalled out. I knew that the Suzuki was slightly higher but we decided to wait until someone waded across so we could see the depth of the water. Sure enough, after pushing the 404 back onto dry land, one of the fellows began to wade across and we saw that the water was not over knee deep, which would be easy for the Suzuki. That is, until he got to the main channel where the water was rushing through quite rapidly... there he sunk to mid-thigh, with the water splashing a good bit higher! The deep part was very narrow, though, and with the man's encouragement and our desire to get home that night we decided to go for it. Once again into low range four-wheel-drive, and the Suzuki launched eagerly forward into the rushing water. Up to the hubs, no problem. We began to push a bow wave with the front bumper and I slowed. Then we hit the deep part! The whole front end went briefly under and brown water washed to the base of the windshield! But the front wheels dug in with a comforting feeling and we came up immediately. The little engine did not miss a lick and we continued on to the cheers of the people on the other side, fists and adrenaline both pumping furiously.
The rain stopped soon afterwards and we rode on into Niamey in a cloud of dust, with another successful Confluence and two converts to confluence hunting!


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