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… et idem indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus
And yet I also become annoyed whenever the great Homer nods off. – Horace 23BCE
I posted this on the Supernatrual Underground the other day but didn't mention the tie in with Mercury Rx. Of course we 'nod' more often then! How's everyone going? Any conundrums?
The 'Homeric Nod', or continuity as we now call it, has been a problem for thousands of years. Some deliberate, most accidental, continuity is an age old challenge for storytellers everywhere.
I have a friend who teaches the ins and outs of continuity (known also as script direction). She's brilliant, and no small fry, having been the 'scripty' on films as fabulous as The Matrix series, The Lord of the Rings (all three) and soon to be released, The Hobbit. I did tech support for a class she gave last week and I found film continuity not all that different from the issues a novelist faces. A lot of the techniques for catching these errors in film translate well for authors, and it does make a huge difference, having the continuity water tight.
Because unless it's a comedy, seeing or reading an anachronism, inconsistency or error will jolt the reader/viewer out of the participation mystique of the story. Suddenly they are no longer 'with' the characters but back in the audience, scratching their heads because a jet just flew over ancient Troy. Oh boy. That's almost as bad as Edward saying that Carlisle, in 1660, "actually found a coven of true vampires that lived hidden in the sewers of the city . . ." when said sewage system wouldn't be built for another two hundred years. If the reader knows their history, it's going to snap them out of 'it', and that's definitely not the goal.
As we can see, big name authors with major publishing houses are not exempt from these problems. Did anyone catch in Chamber of Secrets where Dumbledore tells Harry that Lord Voldemort is the last remaining ancestor of Salazar Slytherin. Sure JKR meant descendant but why didn't the editorial process, and the author, pick that up? (It's been corrected in later print runs, something film editors can't do!) Readers are very good at spotting such things and a lot of subsequent print run corrections are due to them writing in. Don't be shy. Your authors appreciate it!
Usually novelists have more control over continuity than script directors on a film set. What writer, for example, would have gorgeous Captain Jack Sparrow about to say something mouth-watering-witty with the ticky-tag on his bandanna showing? Novelists aren't dependent on air traffic, sound artists, make up or wardrobe to get it right. But we do end up being all of the above and more when it comes to the final product – a book in the reader's hands. When the 'poor continuity' hammer falls; it falls squarely on the author's head. It's not like we haven't had a chance to make corrections.
1) Author hands in manuscript
2) Editor makes general comments
3) Author applies suggestions
4) Editor rereads and may return with more suggestions or send on to the structural editor
5) Structural editor edits the entire ms for form, structure, consistency, meaning, grammar, spelling, context, you name it
6) Ms returns to author to approve or reject suggested changes or rewrite scenes
7) Ms goes to copy editor who edits for grammar and spelling mostly but also consistency, meaning and clarity.
8) Ms returns to author to put in changes/rework
9) Ms goes to proofreaders where one to six proofreaders mark errors and make comments. All the comments from various proofreaders are then transcribed onto one manuscript which the publishing editor reviews. At HarperCollins Aus, this would then result in a phone call (sometimes lasting hours) where the question marks and quirks and 'ifs' are discussed with the author. The editor puts in agreed changes.
10) The ms then goes to typesetting and the resulting 'fourth pages' are sent to the author to proof.
11) The author catches any errors and shoots the ms back to the publisher (This process is repeated with third, and second pages until they are down to the first pages complete with the dedication, acknowledgements and copyright info.)
12) The author checks those first pages and returns to editor (the turn around time become increasingly shorter with each of these steps)
13) Ms is off to print. Yay!
It's not a haphazard process, yet still mistakes appear. My friend the script director says that in film, it's often down to the editing process where they have better shot, even with an inconsistency. They'll take acting over continuity every time.
How about you, readers? Have you ever loved a book but wanted to throw it across the room because of the mistakes or typos? I bet this writer (below) wishes he'd had a copy editor on board! O. M. G #14!


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I am writing a program that allows the user to create an array of 12 numbers and my program has the ability to find the highest month's rainfall, the average rain fall, and the total rainfall. The total and average rainfall work fine but in the getHighestMonth() method i continually have the issues of my variable month being found as a java.lang.String but it requires a double. The highest month method is supposed to display the actual month's name and not the amount of rainfall.
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public class RainFall { public double[] values; // Constructor method public RainFall(double[] d) { values = new double[d.length]; for (int index = 0; index < d.length; index++) values[index] = d[index]; } // Return the sum total of values in the array public double getTotalRainFall() { double total = 0.0; for(double val : values) total = total + val; return total; } // Return the average (mean) of the values in array public double getAverageRainFall() { double mean = 0.0; int count = 0; mean = getTotalRainFall()/values.length; return mean; } public double getHighestMonth() { double highest = values[0]; String[] months = {"January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "Novemeber", "December"}; String month = ""; for (int index = 0; index < values.length; index++) { if (values[index] > highest) month = months[index]; highest = values[index]; } return month; } }

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Correction: Not all of the 32 hit with ordinance violations for walking in the street were Manual or Woodruff high school students. There's a good chance some weren't students at all. At least two were middle school students.
Correction: Not all of the 32 hit with ordinance violations for walking in the street were Manual or Woodruff high school students. There's a good chance some weren't students at all. At least two were middle school students. "We knew you couldn't walk in the street, but we didn't know you could get a ticket for crossing the street," says Paris Jordan, a sixth-grader at Lincoln Middle School who just turned 12. Jordan and her friend Jewrita Sampson, 13, a Lincoln seventh-grader, say they walked from school to Jordan's home in the 600 block of Voris. From there, they began walking across the street in a diagonal line. That's when police gave them $75 tickets for "walking in the highway." "I thought they were just pulling us over for a talk," Sampson says. Clarification (for the umpteenth time): Nobody has condoned kids disobeying the law or walking in the streets. Rita Ali - the witness who helped organize a protest and press conferences denouncing police tactics - acknowledged in her initial complaint to police that she's had problems driving down side streets filled with kids. Peoria Police Chief Steven Settingsgaard has said increased attention to poor sidewalk conditions in some areas is the one good thing that could come out of the controversy surrounding the department's shock-and-awe crackdown of Sept. 28. "Some of them are impassable," he conceded during a press conference defending the crackdown last week. Resolution: Details haven't been worked out, but Ali, Settingsgaard, local and state NAACP President Don Jackson and City Manager Randy Oliver were among those who worked out a face-saving, sensible compromise Monday. Fines will be dropped for ticketed students who attend all-school assemblies on safety and the law. City leaders and police also promised to continue meeting with representatives from the black community. Unfortunately, Peoria School District 150 wasn't included in Monday's negotiating session. It should have been. Some of the poorly planned aspects and subsequent tension over the tickets might have been avoided in the first place had there been better communication between the police and schools. Reaction: Manual seniors Breon Wright, LaJuan Porch and William Schwab say they'll be among the first in line at their school assembly. The three suspect they were among the very few seniors, especially job-holding seniors, of the 22 ticketed in the Manual area. It might not have been easy, Wright says, but they could have paid their tickets themselves rather than dip into parental wallets. He doesn't think that's true for most of the students ticketed near Manual. "It was really messed up for them," he says. "I see these little freshmen and sophomores. ... They're amped up about coming to school and getting good grades and then this happens. ... You might as well say they're harassing us for going to school." Denise Westhafer is the mother of Schwab, one of the few white youth ticketed by police. "Just because the tickets are dropped doesn't mean we can forget this problem of racial profiling," she says. "I see how these police jump out and bumrush the kids." Kathy Jordan, Paris Jordan's mother, says the solution, as announced, is on the right track. But she worries about how children receive the message police are trying to send. "You tell your children to trust police, but it's hard to make them listen when things like this happen," she says. "We need some healing." And a postscript: Students have been roundly chastised for walking in the middle of the street. People throughout the city have offered their own anecdotal incidents with road walkers as justification for a crackdown on ill-mannered, intimidating children who don't respect authority. One point overlooked, however, is that there have been no reports of students doing anything other than accepting the tickets in this incident. The situation could have easily erupted into a free-for-all. That many students pulled over at one time could have easily run from police. They could have sabotaged officers by giving wrong names and/or birth dates. Several said they thought about doing just that. But they didn't. Trust me, I'm a Manual grad, class of 1971. Many of my classmates would not have been nearly as respectful of authority. Pam Adams is a columnist with the Peoria Journal Star. Her e-mail address is email@example.com.


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It is time to restore the primacy of the spiritual, which will require a thorough going reform of church and state. European politician should make a pilgrimage of penance to Rome given their mistakes on economic issues which are going to cause untold suffering to millions and Pope and Bishops should make a pilgrimage of penance to the Palatine Chapel in Aachen in penance for the systematic child abuse and its cover up of the post-war years by the Catholic Church, which was a complete inversion of the moral and religious order.
Only then will Europe be at peace. And they thought that mere money in the form of the euro would give her prosperity.
Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.
nisi Dominus aedificaverit domum in vanum laboraverunt qui aedificant eam nisi Dominus custodierit civitatem frustra vigilavit qui custodit
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(Poem #62) So We'll Go No More a-Roving
So we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul outwears the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon.
"Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects, he is a child." - Goethe. I agree completely. Byron seems to be the distillation of all the qualities which I dislike in the Romantic poets. Having said that, I must add that this beautiful lyric is one of my favourite vignettes. Again, it's a poem to which not much can be added by way of commentary (funny, isn't it, how such poems tend to go hand-in-hand with days on which I don't have time to write comments?) Actually, I started writing some stuff, but I gave up because it wasn't going too well, and also, to be frank, I don't like Byron enough to be able to write about him. So I'll leave you with just the first line of my (unfortunately) stillborn essay: Written around the age of 30, after a tempestuous and highly controversial youth, this shows Byron in a more pensive, melancholy mood, far removed from his usual (somewhat wanton) sensuality. That, I'm afraid, is all I wrote. Oh well, that's the way it crumbles, cookiewise. thomas.


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Europe's second polar-orbiting weather satellite is aloft
PR 28 2012 – The second Metop satellite was launched today from the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, atop a Russian Soyuz launcher.
Metop-B will ensure the continuity of the weather and atmospheric monitoring service provided by its predecessor Metop-A, which has been circling the globe from pole to pole, 14 times a day, since 2006 and has now exceeded its design lifetime.
The Soyuz-Fregat vehicle lifted off at 16:28 GMT on Monday, 17 September. The Fregat upper stage manoeuvred to release the satellite into a polar orbit at an altitude of 810 km some 69 minutes later, over the Kerguelen Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean.
Metop-B, developed for EUMETSAT's polar satellite system, is now under the control of ESA's Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
In the coming days, its systems will be tested before it is handed over to EUMETSAT, also based in Darmstadt, for six months of commissioning of its payload before entering routine service with Metop-A.
For ESA's Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain: "The launch of this second Metop satellite has taken place about two and a half months after that of MSG-3; this is a perfect illustration of the vitality of Europe's weather satellite programmes developed in cooperation between ESA and EUMETSAT. The fact that the next generation satellites in line are already being prepared by ESA shows the strong commitment of Member States of both organisations to continue and improve collecting data that are supporting not only weather-forecasting but also monitoring and understanding of climate change. Such services are demonstrating daily the economical and societal value of investing in space infrastructure."
Volker Liebig, ESA's Director of Earth Observation Programmes, commented: "Metop-B will become operational while Metop-A is still active and performing well. This will ensure the continuity of the service without any risk of interruption in the data feed. Meanwhile, we are working with EUMETSAT to prepare the future with the second generation of European polar satellites."
Unlike the Meteosat satellites, which are watching about half of our planet from a fixed vantage point almost 36 000 km above the Gulf of Guinea, Metops work at lower altitude and fly over the whole globe to provide additional data on the atmosphere.
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The much talked-about new TV comedy drama series, Professor Johnbull, sponsored by the grandmasters of data, Globacom, FINALLY hit TV screens across the country. The rib-cracking, yet highly thought-provoking drama series, features popular actors including Kanayo O. Kanayo who plays the lead character Professor Johnbull, Mercy Johnson-Okogie, Yomi Fash-Lanso, Ime Bishop Okon, Queen Nwokoye, Junior Pope, Funky Mallam, Bimbo Akintola, Bidemi Kosoko, Chiwetalu Agu, O.C. Ukeje, Bovi, Mama G, Helen Paul and many others. It will air from 8.30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays on NTA network, NTA International and Startimes. The opening montage summarizes each character featuring in the sitcom in one word as Professor Johnbull who relishes expressing himself grandiloquently, flips through the pages of one of the piles of books on his coffee table.
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It really is shameful that people this stupid can get elected to Congress. Apparently Georgia Republican Paul Broun knows more about the Constitution than former Constitutional Law Professor Barack Obama. Really, the hubris of this is just astounding.
President Obama has "no concept" of the U.S. Constitution, despite his previously being a constitutional law professor, Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) told theAtlanta Journal-Constitution. Rather, he said, the president upholds the constitution of our old Cold War foe.
"I think my role is to uphold support and defend our Constitution," Broun said. "The Constitution I uphold and defend is the one I carry in my pocket all the time, the U.S. Constitution."
Obama on the other hand? Not so much.
"I don't know what Constitution that other members of Congress uphold, but it's not this one," he added. "I think the only Constitution that Barack Obama upholds is the Soviet constitution, not this one. He has no concept of this one, though he claimed to be a constitutional lawyer."
In the post, the Journal-Constitution's Jim Galloway included a few lines from the preamble of the most recent constitution of the Soviet Union (which of course is no longer the Soviet Union). It reads: "The Great October Socialist Revolution…overthrew capitalist and landowner rule, broke the fetters of oppression, established the dictatorship of the proletariat, and created the Soviet state, a new type of state, the basic instrument for defending the gains of the revolution and for building socialism and communism."
If the name Paul Broun rings a bell, it might be because you read about him claiming that the Big Bang and Evolution are "lies straight from the pit of Hell." Seriously, do Democrats who say stuff half this dumb get elected to Congress?


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How to Properly Photograph CE Games for use on the site
Here is the process for taking pictures of games:
The Setup
My current photography setup is very simple and was relatively cheap (~$40). I bought:
Framing the Shot
Shots you should take
Some good examples of photographs you should imitate:
Submitting Photos:
*some email accounts will not let you send files over 8MB, you can either create multiple zip files and sent multiple emails, or send me a PM and I will try to set you up with an FTP account where you can upload your files.
it might seem like a lot but it's pretty simple once you do it, I set these guidelines up for myself just so I could ensure that the information was standardized from game to game.
Photographs, especially well-shot photographs make a fantastic addition to our database and they're always greatly appreciated.
Last edited by twistedsymphony; 06-13-2011 at 02:57 PM.
Re: How to Properly Photograph CE Games for use on the site
Hi Twistedsymphony
I've ordered a Tripod for my camera, so will be able to use it without the flash
One quick question, you haven't specified what the file size should be, is the a min and max Res or file size, do they need to be a particular format. e.g. JPG, PNG, BMP etc.
Are there any restrictions on aspect ratio etc.
Re: How to Properly Photograph CE Games for use on the site
I personally take pictures in jpg format in a pretty hefty resolution... then I crop, color correct, downscale them to about 900px on the largest dimension, then add a watermark before uploading.
I'm fine with people sending me the files directly off of the camera un-modified, I'd prefer to do the post-processing cleanup myself. anyway.
though my PC died a few weeks ago and I had some problems reinstalling windows so right now I'm running Linux... because of that I've got no photoshop and have been unable to use my scripts for color correcting/watermarking that I use for the site. I've got a few games worth of pictures that I haven't uploaded because they're waiting to be processed.
Re: How to Properly Photograph CE Games for use on the site
If u still need pictures please let me know. I can provide you with PAL CE Games.
Have to say that a lot of my games are still sealed, so can't give any pics of the content.
Re: How to Properly Photograph CE Games for use on the site
I just updated the top post with some additional tips...
at some point I need to take some pictures of my new lighting setup ... it was very cheap and it's quite effective...
Re: How to Properly Photograph CE Games for use on the site
When to use: ALWAYS (if you can, if your seal is already broken that's ok)
Other Notes:This shot should show what the original package seal looks like, this is important for collectors of sealed games to compare their seal to see if it's genuine. (if necessary this can be a close up shot too)
Shot: Overall Angle Shot
When to use: If the game comes in a large box (anything larger than a standard case)
Notes: Make sure there is ample empty space all around the item... no edge of the item should be "cut off" by the edge of the photo
Shot: Front Cover Shot
When to use: ALWAYS
Notes: Make sure there is a straight on shot as if the item was put through a scanner... also make sure there is NO GLARE from a flash or other light source
Shot: Back Cover Shot
When to use: ALWAYS
Notes: Make sure there is a straight on shot as if the item was put through a scanner... also make sure there is NO GLARE from a flash or other light source.
Shot: Side,Top, or Bottom Shots
When to use: If it's a big box release and there is something of interest on side of the package
Notes: Use your digression as to what shots are interesting and what is not
Shot: "Unboxing" Shots
When to use: ALWAYS (if you can, if you're leaving it sealed that's ok)
These shots should basically take you through the unboxing process layer by layer.
Shot: Interior/Exterior Naked Case Shots
When to use: I always do this with SteelBooks, or if the case has an image on the inside cover, or an image that spans across both the front and back of the case.
Shot: Individual Item Shots
When to use: If there is something that is included other than the package, the disc and the manual.
Notes: Be sure to take a single "overall" shot of each individual item. Items like figurines may require multiple "overall" shots from different angles. Remember this is an "individual" item shot, not a "group" shot... 1 item at a time. The only exception is if say the edition included a 5 stickers, then taking a picture of all 5 stickers together would be acceptable... If you're unsure, take it both ways... then you're guaranteed to have the right shot.
Shot: Detail Item Shots
When to use: If one of the included items has a high level of detail that warrants a close up view.
Notes: This is NOT a replacement for the "overall" shot of each individual item. use your digression, it's usually pretty rare that an item needs a detail shot.
1. make sure 100% of the items in the photograph are in view, this means lot of extra empty space around the item for clean up. The only exception are the detail shot and (sometimes) the seal shot, listed above.
2. make sure the background is is plain, no patterns no other junk, not even other parts of the edition, take your photos on a plain boring background without anything in them other than what you're photographing
3. make sure the shots are CLEAN, not blurry, not grainy, no stupid instragram filters, and especially NO GLARE.
4. take at least 2 of every shot (if you're using a tripod), take 3 or 4 of every shot if you're holding the camera in your hands... this will let you pickout the highest quality version of every shot. if you take two shots you've just doubled your chances of getting a good pic.
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Do you have a photoshoot area twisted? It looks like you have your own studio with lightings from left and right to produce the shadow effect.
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Copyright And The Harlem Shake: Selective Enforcement
from the use-it-share-it,-except...-you deptFor those of you who have managed to avoid the viral sensation of February, known as "The Harlem Shake," consider yourselves lucky. People still seem at a total loss how this became "a thing," but it involves the opening 30 seconds of a song released nearly a year ago, called The Harlem Shake, by Baauer, with the first half involving someone in a wacky costume (often involving a helmet) dancing while others around them ignore it, followed by a bass drop and suddenly everyone around is dancing crazily, often involving costumes, stuffed animals (or real animals), people in sleeping bags and much much more. It's gone quite insane (and, yes, we know it's not "the real Harlem Shake" but so what?) with way, way, way, way too many people, companies and organizations all doing their own versions. There were reports of 4,000 Harlem Shake videos being uploaded to YouTube every single day, and over 60,000 being on YouTube already. If you want (and I warn you to be careful), you can spend hours going through video after video. The KnowYourMeme link up top has collected some of the most popular ones. I cannot vouch for how many such videos it takes before you are driven insane, so be forewarned.
For those who have not seen them, this video was basically the first, but this one that quickly followed it more or less established the basic parameters of the meme.
Over the weekend Baauer's song hit number one on the charts and it appears to be doing fairly well around the globe. Also, the song has resulted in a sold out show in NY for Baauer and what is likely to be a fair bit of money. That's because, rather than freak out about others using "his" song (which includes a bunch of samples), Baauer and his label Mad Decent have a deal with INDmusic, which helps indie labels/musicians claim YouTube videos via ContentID and place ads on them. So, combine a top selling song on iTunes, plus allowing the free use of it on YouTube (and monetizing it via ads) and it seems like a tidy profit is being made.
So, for a bit, this was looking like yet another story of how letting people build something on your music was enabling a nice way for one artist to make money, without flipping out about "copyright infringement." But... then we learned that it wasn't quite that simple. As highlighted by The Verge, while Mad Decent and Baauer have mostly let people do what they want with the song, they did send a takedown to Soundcloud over Azelia Banks posting her lyrics over the entire Baauer track, and also posting a video:
That quickly turned into a bit of a Twitter fight, with Banks calling out Baauer:
"I'm not happy about it," says Baauer. "She had a version that we were going to release because I'm a big fan of hers. We knew she likes to beef with producers. So she laid something on 'Harlem Shake' and it was so/so. Didn't love it. And that was a little while ago, and since all this video stuff happened, our plans all changed. Because of that, we decided to just release the song on it's own with no vocal version. So we told her, 'Please don't release your version.' And she said, 'Well, I'm going to put it online anyway.' And we said, 'Please don't. We'd really like it if you didn't.' And she did."Still, while lots of folks are defending Baauer here (in part because Banks does have a reputation for getting into arguments with people, and in part because she also went on a homophobic rant), she did have a point when she tweeted this:
"I just had the idea of taking a Dutch house squeaky-high synth and putting it over a hip-hop track," he says. "And then I tried to just make it the most stand-out, flashy track that would get anyone's attention, so put as many sounds and weird shit in there as I could. The dude in the beginning I got somewhere off the Internet, I don't even know where, and the lion roar just makes no sense." He laughs. "There's the sound of flames in there, too, it's just really low."He doesn't know where the "dude in the beginning" comes from -- though, the folks at Reddit have figured it out (because Reddit knows everything). You have to imagine that wasn't licensed, though, if he didn't know where it was from. Who knows about all of the other samples. Personally, I think it's great that he created something by building on the works of others, and was inspired to create something that has become such a huge hit. But you'd think that someone who made the song by pulling bits and pieces from others wouldn't be so fast to sling claims of "ownership" back at someone else who built off of his work. Yes, there's more to it than that and, for the most part, Baauer seems reasonably giddy with all the insanity (and he definitely seemed to do a nice job with his Reddit AMA thanks in particular to this exchange).
It would just be nice if artists who really build on the works of others didn't jump to claiming ownership when others build on their works as well.
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Greenwich Village Book Desecration League
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Wladd Muta... France...
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Hannah Cullwick... Mad Love ...
'I kissed you when you asked me. I wanted to see what your mouth was like. It was hot and warm. I knowed you was good and soft by the feel of your mouth.'
Hannah Cullwick as Mary Magdalen by James Stodart in 1864
directed by Kim Wood 2003
Hannah Cullwick is a fascinating figure, a working class woman who kept a diary and pursued a class-defying relationship which encompassed S/M role-playing, cross-dressing and muscle fetishism.
Refusing to be constrained by notions of gender, class or race,she revelled in her physical toil and embraced her identity as a maid of all work, building up musculature and strength which delighted the victorian barrister Arthur Munby.
Victorian English gentlemen were notorious collectors. In the interests of scientific investigation and sociological progress, they amassed butterflies, antiquities and colonial territories on a breathtaking scale. Arthur Munby – minor poet, man of letters, Church Commissioner and barrister – collected working women. For over 50 years he sought out shop-girls, milliners, fruit and flower sellers, prostituterag-pickers, flither-lasses, pitbrow and gypsy girls, a cquiring their photographs and making detailed notes about their physical appearance and working lives.
Munby first spoke to Hannah on her 21st birthday. She was enjoying her second visit to London, having been brought from her native Shropshire by her employers for the season. On her first visit, the year before, Hannah had seen Charles Kean in Sardanapalus, Byron's tragedy about the King of Assyria who falls madly in love with one of his many slaves, Myrrah.
The play so fired her romantic imagination that when Munby approached her, she immediately identified him as a Master to whom she could become lovingly enslaved. His interest in female drudgery perfectly matched her desire to abase herself.
She practised her letter-writing in order to send her lover the kind of detailed descriptions he revelled in, telling him that "the blacker I get with work, the more ardent I feel towards you", and incidentally ensuring that her side of the unusual relationship is amply recorded.
Both documented their relationship, though it remained secret from their peers and Cullwick even took the bold step of changing jobs when staff became suspicious of the chain she wore round her neck as a symbol of her "belonging" to Munby. In her diaries she records submissive acts such as washing his feet and licking his boots.
However,Cullwick was probably in the driving seat in the relationship and refused his attempts to turn her into a lady. While Munby's diaries are full of his admiration for her physicality and muscularity, it is less clear what drew her to him,and indeed kept them locked together for decades in a relationship she described as "the same to us as marriage is to other folks",much of it spent living apart.
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"For freedom & true lowliness, there's nothing like being a maid of all work..." Hannah Cullwick, 1872
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I am the Raffle/Auction Chair for the Gulf Coast Council-FFI
The GCC has 14 clubs in LA, MS, AL & western Florida. Since reorganizing four years ago, the GCC has held our Fly Fairs, in Ocean Springs, MS, and donated 50% of our profits for research at the Gulf Coast Research Lab - USM: [FONT=Roboto]gcrl.usm.edu/
Additionally, we support Boy Scouts and other educational projects, including 35 fly rod/reel outfits & hundreds of boxes of flies to BSA Swamp Base High Adventure: https://www.bsaswampbase.org
We would love your materials to be utilized in our raffles, auctions and teaching programs. We would like to invite you to the GCC Fly Fair, Sept 14/15. It is a easy drive down to the coast for this event!
I sincerely hope that you will consider the Gulf Coast Council for your donation.
Tight lines,
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Jim, I have offered to help out at the show next week, don't have a date or time yet. NGTO has a booth and needs some warm bodies to man it. My cell is 678-988-3555, give me a call and I will come meet you even if I am at home, I live maybe 12 - 15 miles from the center. That's a great idea, I was thinking of you earlier this week.
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Grubsheet Feejee is the blogsite of Graham Davis, a dual Fijian-Australian national working as a media and communications specialist in both countries and in other parts of the Asia Pacific.
Graham has had a four decade-long career in the mainstream media in Britain, Australia and Fiji. He has reported for the BBC, ABC, SBS and the Nine and Seven Networks and has written for a range of newspapers and magazines in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. His multiple awards include Walkley and Logie Awards in Australia and a New York Festivals Medal in the United States.
More recently, Graham has been a consultant to the GeoPolitical Solutions division of the global communications company, Qorvis-MSLGROUP, which represents a range of sovereign clients around the world. Part of his brief is to assist the Fijian Government with its program to introduce the first genuine democracy in the nation's history in 2014.
Graham is broadly supportive of the Bainimarama Government's reform agenda but invites comments from people of all political persuasions. Please don't label your return volley "anonymous". Give yourself a name or pseudonym so that readers can track your progress over time.
Many of these postings have appeared in mainstream newspapers such as The Australian and the Fiji Sun – where Graham has been a columnist - and on other websites, including newmatilda.com and Pacific Scoop NZ.
Feejee is the original name for Fiji - a derivative of the indigenous Viti and the Tongan Fisi - and was widely used until the late 19th century.
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# A MELANESIAN MINEFIELDPosted on January 12, 2014 | 34 CommentsForeign Ministers of the Melanesian Spearhead Group are set to tip-toe through a diplomatic minefield with news that a MSG delegation – led by Fiji's Ratu Inoke Kubuabola – will make its long-awaited visit to the Indonesian province of West Papua this week. The mission is fraught with potential difficulty and will require all the diplomatic skills the Ministers can […]
# SPLUTTERINGS FROM THE EDGEPosted on December 11, 2013 | 130 CommentsThe bellowing Canadian Moose, Dr Marc Edge, has spluttered back into life after a period of self-imposed hibernation with yet another of his perennial attacks on Grubsheet and our fellow blogger, Professor Crosbie Walsh. The former Head of Journalism at USP – who was sacked for misconduct – claims that Croz and I have gone quiet because we have "outlived […]
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Staring into the nothingness
It would really be helpful to have something of consequence to which we could react in some charmingly pithy manner, thus filling our self-imposed daily quota of blogginess and leaving you all wanting to come back for more tomorrow. And, hopefully, the next day.
Sadly, life gets in the way, and we find ourselves crushed under deadlines and unable to find the space to breathe for a moment and even think about anything other than the unanswered emails and the unfinished tasks and the countdown towards the moment when all of this comes to some frantic conclusion and we can get everything back to normal. Which is not for a few days, anyways.
All of this is, we suppose, our way of saying sorry for the lack of any meaningful posts. It's not that we don't have stuff to say...but we just don't have the time to craft it into something that is worth your while. As a consequence, we've ended up sitting on posts and getting scooped (back to the drawing board on that one), or letting things languish until they barely seem interesting anymore.
Some days, we wish this was all we did, and we could walk away from the daily grind of spirit-crushing duties and menial responsibilities and regale you all with 100% Tao-ness every day, all day. Alas, it isn't so, and something has to suffer. This week, it's the blog.
But really...how about that Brian Bocock move?
16 comments:
- Stoeten said...
I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY LET GO OF A YOUNGER, CHEAPER JOHN McDONALD!!!!!!! SO ANGRY!!!!!!!!
- January 27, 2010 at 3:10 PM
- Ian Hunter said...
I feel your pain, Tao. BTW, Pitchers & Catchers report in 22 days.
- January 27, 2010 at 3:48 PM
- KP said...
Hang in there Tao.
And don't worry about the nothingness.
Remember, he who clings to his work will create nothing that endures.
- January 27, 2010 at 4:18 PM
- Mattt said...
Ian beat me to it but I was gonna say in 22 days all of your problems will be soothed by daily reports of Jays news...
- January 27, 2010 at 5:09 PM
My immediate reaction to Bobcock news was: "Holy crap... AA might actually know what he's doing!"
Not that losing players to other teams for no return is a good strategy, or anything... but the fact that Philly actually wanted this guy - and that AA beat them to the punch - gives me a (boner) bit more confidence in AA's ability to run this team. I mean, I probably wouldn't have paid any particular attention if it was some crappy team, like the Royals (or the Jays... oh wait, shit!) But the FREAKIN' Phillies?! They're actually kinda relevant! This is probably my second-favourite meaningless Jays-related roster move in a long time... My favourite being when the Jays traded Jonny Mac to the Tigers for... Jonny Mac!
- January 27, 2010 at 5:21 PM
- Colt McCoy said...
These bleak days are almost over...
Just think about the arrival of pitchers and catchers in Dunedin
- January 27, 2010 at 7:08 PM
- Gil Fisher said...
This is the Tao I know and love.
btw, did the irrelevant shi not mention Chops is mounting the mound on Friday? (who is hand feeding these scoops to shi? is he just asking the right questions? is he becoming......relevant.....maybe he's gaining some of the relevancy that Blair is losing)
i weep for blair....fcukin' luge.
- January 27, 2010 at 11:51 PM
- Meredith said...
This post about nothing speaks volumes. I feel better for reading it.
Such is The Tao.
- January 28, 2010 at 3:41 AM
- Peter DeMarco said...
Apparently Bococky sounded good to the Jays, but once a part of the team there was remorse and no longer felt it was the right move.
- January 28, 2010 at 10:18 AM
- Ty said...
I still can't believe the amount of discussion/arguing that resulted from Bocock's short time with the Jays, considering AA's own admission that he was only signed to give them some infield depth at AAA. That his existence was ever an issue at all is either a testament to the blogosphere's devotion to this team, or just another reminder of how many reactionary poo-poo heads there are over in the DJF comment section -- probably a bit of both, I guess.
Farewell, Giant Bocock... we hardly knew ye.
- January 28, 2010 at 1:20 PM
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
You're the man, Tao.
- January 28, 2010 at 2:09 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Thanks for the encouraging words, kids.
Sometimes, I need to throw a little tantrum like a kid in a mall parking lot in order to feel right again.
I'll be back in form soon.
- January 28, 2010 at 3:05 PM
- The Ack said...
Never mind your self loathing, I have to come up with something worthwhile RIGHT QUICK to make up for my recent streak of fucking terrible weekend contributions.
- January 28, 2010 at 4:13 PM
- Gil Fisher said...
I appreciated the piccie of front end loaders on Portage Avenue during a winter storm, even if the subject matter that followed paled.
- January 28, 2010 at 9:34 PM
- Gil Fisher said...
Though upon further review, that's not Portage Ave so get it sorted.
- January 28, 2010 at 9:36 PM
can anyone tell me which is the best counter strike guide ? :)...i found this one :
What do you hither wind up to it ?
Thanx in advance
Sorry for my bad english :s
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I recently started a video series about old Mac games! There are already a few videos up there, both with and without commentary. A recent video is about Marathon predecessor, Pathways into Darkness.
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What's Up in Pizza: Tattoos, Fancy-Pants Pies, Pizza Art, and More!
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- Anthony Calleo, owner of Houston based Pi Pizza Truck, has a deal for you: get a Pi Pizza Truck themed tattoo from Scorpion Studios tattoo artist Gabe Massey, and you get one slice of pizza every day for the rest of your life (or as long the truck keeps serving anyway). According to CultureMap Houston 22 people rose to the challenge last time, and so the offer is back in play this year; Massey will be ready and waiting this Friday and Sunday with special designs, and it'll be first come, first inked.
- According to Eater, Mazzou Pizza in Verdun claims to serve the world's most expensive pie, for $4,250. Known as the "Miss Verdun", it's topped with white truffles, lobster, caviar, and 24-Carat gold flakes (a classic trick for kicking up the bill). The outrageous price tag also includes a personal chef, ready to whip up the pie in your kitchen—and a chamber orchestra. A little digging, and Eater turned up an even pricier option—the Louis XIII pie from Chef Renato Viola of Salerno. Topped with more high-end ingredients, you can order from anywhere in Italy and a small team of chefs are dispatched to prepare it for you...for $12,000.
- Which reminds me—the bitcoin pizza. We know anyone with enough bitcoins can trade them for pizza now thanks to Pizzaforcoins.com, but do you remember the pizza that started it all? In 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz sent 10,000 BTC to a British volunteer, who bought him $25 worth of Papa John's. Since then the bitcoin value has skyrocketed, and BusinessInsider reports that as of November 2013, the 10,000 BTC Hanyecz spent on pies in 2010 translates to $6,000,000.
- NYC-based designer Lauren Manning is the creative mind behind the Tumblr 100 Ways to Serve Pizza. She describes the project succinctly—"A creative exercise to go beyond logical thinking and explore ways of solving the same problem over and over in different ways. In two days, I came up with 100 different ways to serve pizza. Some make sense, some are funny, and most are just plain ridiculous." Ridiculous or not, now I totally want a pizza pop.
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With A Dangerous Method hitting theaters on November 23rd and the NC-17 rated Shame opening on December 2nd, Michael Fassbender is busy promoting both films and his truly excellent performances in each. Although very different films, they each explore themes of sex and sexuality, and what is culturally accepted behavior in the bedroom.
While Collider got to sit down with the ultra-busy actor to talk about those films, we'll run the video interview closer to their release dates. However, in the meantime, we did want to share what he had to say about his return to the role of Magneto for the eventual sequel to X-Men: First Class, how he's looking forward to working on ideas with James McAvoy and hopefully Matthew Vaughn, and that he's interested to see how Charles Xavier turns into Professor X. Check out what he had to say after the jump.
X-Men: First Class was both a critical and commercial hit. What are you looking forward to with the sequel, and do you know when you'll start filming?
MICHAEL FASSBENDER: I have no idea. I'm looking forward to working with all those people again. We had a lot of fun. It was a great cast and a great crew. Hopefully, I'll get in at ground level and start putting some ideas together myself, with James [McAvoy] and, hopefully, (director) Matthew [Vaughn], and we can see what happens next.
I'm really interested to see what happens to Charles (James McAvoy), in the next one, and see how he becomes Professor X 'cause we got to see Erik turn into Magneto, in the first one. It will be interesting to see who shaves Charles' head. When he's drunk one night, the mutants will go in there and shave his head and shave off his eyebrows. Maybe.


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Recently, in my role as Publicity Chair for the Illinois State Genealogical Society, I was asked to develop an "email signature" to publicize various events including the upcoming FGS 2011 conference in Springfield, IL.
What Is An Email Signature?
An email signature is usually a snippet of text or an image embedded into your blank email template. Each time you create a new email, the text or signature will appear at the bottom.
Here is an example of my current email signature using Outlook 2007:
Why Use An Email Signature?
Look at the bottom of your email as real estate that should be used wisely. If you run a business, you should be placing links to your website or advertising your latest special or offering.
If you sit on the board of a genealogical society, think about advertising your next event or project. It costs nothing and every time you send an email, the message gets out.
Email Signature Cheat Sheet
In order to get all our ISGS board members on board and have them create email signatures, I had to address all the different email programs such as AOL, Gmail, Hotmail and more! That's why I've created the FREE Guide to Email Signatures over at The Connected Genealogist (downloads in PDF) to help walk you through the process.
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- Date: 04/09/2019 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
- Location: City Council Chambers
1400 Highland Ave
Manhattan Beach, California 90266
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Monday, March 12, 2012
White chocolate cranberry cookies
I made these white chocolate peanut butter cranberry coconut oatmeal cookies ( that is a mouthful) early this afternoon. Sometimes I don't always have ingredients to make things I am craving....chocolate chips. I really didn't feel like driving to the store. So I rummaged around in the cupboard until I found things that might be tasty, when mixed together.
Jonathan bought me some white chocolate wonderful a few months back. It has been pushed to the back, only because we pretty much devoured the whole jar, except for the bottom part. You know when you get to the end of the container, but you keep it thinking that you might be able to scrape a good 1/2 cup worth? Well..I DID, and it turned into these!!
White chocolate cranberry cookies
3/4 cup earth balance coconut spread
1 cup brown sugar
2 tsp vanilla
2 egg replacements ( I used Ener-G)
1/2 cup white chocolate wonderful peanut butter
1 1/2 cups oats
1 cup shredded coconut
1 tsp baking soda
2 cups flour
1 cup chopped fresh cranberries
Preheat oven to 350
With a mixer beat coconut spread with sugar, add vanilla and egg replacements
Continue beating until fluffy. Add the white chocolate wonderful.
Mix in the rest of the ingredients with mixer. Until well combined
Roll into balls and squish down. Bake for 9-10 minutes.
Allow to cool before storing.
7 comments:
YUM! Feel free to send me some of these anytime! :-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 12, 2012 at 4:57 PM
I've avoided buying anymore White Chocolate Wonderful as I have a bad habit of eating the entire jar within days. These sound fabulous, I'm totally willing to take the risk of picking up some jars just to make this recipe.ReplyDelete
whoa, ive never heard of white chocolate pb! im with noelle - feel free to mail me some of these :)ReplyDelete
I used to work at PB & co. and we made a White Chocolate sandwich with raspberry jam, which was pretty good but a little too sweet - I bet the cranberry cut that nicely!ReplyDelete
That peanut butter sounds wonderful indeed! These cookies look really great, I like that you used fresh cranberries.ReplyDelete
So... I just went to the Peanut Butter and Co. website and ohhh my goodness I am in love. How did I never know they existed?! And I'm ordering a jar just so I can try this recipe :) Thanks!ReplyDelete
These cookies look fantastic! Love white chocolate & cranberry together. Great blog by-the-way!!! :) definitely looking forward to check it out lots in the future.ReplyDelete


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Sunday, July 04, 2010
A Bowl of Black Pig Ramen
That is what I got recently at Tampopop.
The Black Pig Toro Ramen ($14.80) featured a soup that apparently takes two days of boiling pork bones! It smells wonderfully of sesame oil and tasted robust with a nice salty edge. I selected Hokkaido ramen instead of Kyushu ramen and loved the springy, chewy noodles that were slightly curly and thicker.
While I was disappointed that the egg was hard-boiled instead of the gooey-yolked onsen eggs, the thin slices of black pig belly were sweet and had an alluring grilled aroma. Delish!
Takashimaya Shopping Centre
Tel: 6235 2318
Chew On This: With the recent import ban of beef and pork from Japan, it is good to know that the Black Pig used here is from the USA!
4 comments:
- Kyle Leung said...
I do feel that the standard of food at Tampopo has declined. The last time I was there (January 10 at the Ngee Ann City outlet), the soup was surprisingly flat, lacking depth of flavour and heavily redolent of salt and/or MSG. The black pig belly came in strands instead of slices like a North Korean ration. I figure Tampopo needs to shake off a bit of complacency and put the customers first. Like how a man's dressing reflects his refinement, the Tampopo egg you were served says everything about the finesse and commitment of the establishment.
- @plainkyle
- 1:30 am
i feel tampopo at liang court is way better than taka's .... i was very disappointed when i went for dinner with my frenz at the taka branch ...
- 11:55 am
- Camemberu said...
Wow you changed your template? Green pastures ahoy! :D
- 8:32 pm
- The Hungry Cow said...
Kyle: Hey, thanks for your input and sorry to hear about your bad experience there. They could have inconsistency issues? Btw, the North Korean ration part is hilarious! Haha.
purinne: Probably like yourself, I've dine more times at the Liang Court branch. It was actually my first time at the Taka branch!
Camemberu: Yups, tinkering around and found grass! Lol.
- 9:58 pm


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Do you ever find yourself in a rut, always doing the same old thing the same old way? Have you ever, suddenly, discovered a new way of doing that thing and wondered why you never tried that before?
"Aha!" Moments
Like pancakes! I love pancakes. Inspired by my recent Movie Break with the film "Stranger Than Fiction" I think I might even say I have a new found appreciation for pancakes. I was really struck by the quote from the film where Dustin Hoffman's character, Dr. Jules Hilbert, is speaking to Harold Crick:
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Hell Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted.In one of those "Aha!" moments, where a light seems to shine on something you have probably always known but suddenly see anew, I was struck by how it is the little things in life that matter. It isn't just the end result or our destination that is important but every step along the way that adds to the quality of the journey. And what better example could you ask for than pancakes? I could totally relate.
Harold Crick: What is wrong with you? Hey, I don't want to eat nothing but pancakes, I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind, in a choice between pancakes and living, chooses pancakes?
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that, that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes.
The Quality of Pancakes
When my husband and I were first married we made pancakes the only way we knew how: we opened a box of Bisquick and we followed the directions on the back. The result was an adequate pancake. Smothered in butter and syrup they were sweet and filling and we, not knowing any better at the time, were satisfied.
Years passed and I ran across a recipe I absolutely loved for its convenience, Overnight Pancakes. This pancake batter could be made ahead and stored for up to a week and made a thinner but more tender and subtly flavorful pancake. I had a new favorite. Easy, practical, interesting and made from scratch, it is still my standard pancake recipe.
Then one day a friend offered to treat us to Swedish Pancakes for breakfast. For his family these are the gold standard of pancakes. He makes them whenever he has friends or family gathered for breakfast or brunch and he considers this recipe a personal specialty.
I didn't really know what to expect. I don't think I had ever eaten Swedish pancakes before, but I do like to try new things, and I love to watch other people cook. So he cooked while I hung around with my camera watching.
The pancakes he made were nothing short of wonderful! While simple enough, in terms of ingredients, the outcome was something very special. These pancakes were sweet and elegant and a delightful change from the ordinary style of pancakes I am used to making.
Beyond Ordinary
Generally, I would have to say that I agree with Harold. "I don't want to eat nothing but pancakes. I want to live!" Still while I am living I'm going to have to agree with Dr. Hilbert too. Much does depend "upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes." Personally, I am thankful for a life where I can share my gifts, my history and my recipes with friends and family and where they shares theirs with me in return. As I share myself with others I find the quality of my life continues to improve and, as a happy coincidence, so does the quality of the pancakes!
With Christmas approaching, wouldn't these pancakes be a fantastic holiday breakfast or brunch for out of town guests, or any family or friends you have the opportunity to treat this holiday season? Inexpensive to make yet elegant, filling and delicious, these pancakes would be a wonderful treat any guest would enjoy. And I can think of so many variations. Of course you can fill them with the traditional lingonberry sauce or fruit jam and sprinkle them with powdered sugar and they will be wonderful. And yet, what about topping them with a cranberry orange relish, or with pumpkin butter, a drizzle of maple syrup and a few toasted pecans? Or smothered with Nutella and sprinkled with toasted hazelnuts or almonds? The possibilities are as great as the quality of your imagination.
Here is the recipe for Swedish Pancakes as described by the cook:
Swedish Pancakes
Swedish pancakes, if you don't know, are quite a bit different than your ordinary pancake. They are more of a crepe than anything else. Compared to making regular pancakes, Swedish pancakes seem like a lot of work, but for the occasional special breakfast they are well worth it.
My 1968 copy of "Better Homes and Gardens NEW Cook Book" given to me by my Uncle Stan (who now actually owns the restaurant noted below) is where I got the basic recipe which reads:
3 eggs
1-1/4 cup milk
3/4 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
This recipe will make approximately nine 8" pancakes. (We tripled the recipe to make enough pancakes for a brunch for five with some left over. All of the pancakes were gone before dinner.)
The instructions say,"Beat eggs till thick and lemon-colored." After that, sift and add the dry ingredients mixing gently with a wire whip. When the mix is the consistency of a thick paste, add the milk slowly as you continue to mix. The reason for mixing slowly is so that you don't mix too much air in the batter. A batter that is frothy does not seem to cook properly.
When the batter is ready, set it aside, and prepare the frying pan. The best pans are about 8 to 10 inches in diameter at the bottom, with very low sides. The low sides make it easier to flip the pancakes. Start with the heat at medium and adjust as needed. Each pan seems to have its own quirks about how much heat it likes and how fast it will cook pancakes. Melt about half a teaspoon of butter in the pan and when melted, spread it around so that it covers the bottom of the pan. You need to add more butter for each pancake which can be a challenge with more than one pan. I pre-slice bits of butter ahead of time so that they are ready to toss in the pan without losing time fiddling with the butter knife.
Pour in just enough batter to cover two thirds of the pan, and then swirl the pan to spread the batter. Let the pancake cook for about 30 seconds, and then peek under one edge. When it starts to brown in spots, flip the pancake and cook for another 15 to 30 seconds depending on heat.
Start with one pan to get the feel for making these things. They take a while to cook individually, so as you find yourself making more, you might stretch to use two or more pans at one time. I personally have had four frying pans going at once with the able assistance of one of my brothers at a family outing, but then we were trying to cook about 60 pancakes that day!
As the pancakes come off the stove, keep them warm in a warm oven. When all are ready, serve them hot from the oven with butter, jams, and powdered sugar for toppings.
We enjoyed fresh wild blackberry and marionberry jams which came from my uncle's restaurant, The Berry Patch Restaurant in Westport, Oregon.
Personally, I like to put jam in the middle of my pancakes, roll them up, and sprinkle a bit of powdered sugar on top. Others like to put their fruit on top, and some just enjoy them plain.
Anyway you prepare them, these are a real treat.
Equipment Note: The Calphalon Commercial Nonstick 10-inch International Griddle/Crepe Pan does have sides a bit higher than the ideal for making Swedish Pancakes but, after trying it out, all agreed it worked fine for this recipe. What's more it is great for eggs and sandwiches and other everyday tasks too. I would recommend this pan for anyone who is stocking a kitchen of their own, or who just happens to be in need of a nice 10-inch multi-purpose nonstick skillet. Check it out and notice that Amazon offers it at a fabulous price.


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