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Tip 1: JUST DO IT!
Definitely do it if you are still on the leveling grind, you will be picking up enough XP to make it a worthwhile diversion to your questing and grinding and you get access to epics. Epics which apart from being purple will be guaranteed upgrades more often than not.
The boys at ForTheHorde! reminded me that I needed to get back into Pee Vee Pee and not worry about the Transient Twinks, so I have been getting in and getting dirty.
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Tip 2: Go Resto, Go!
I mentioned how much I was enjoying Elemental in BGs, but that doesn't stop me shopping around. I even asked the question over at Addicted to Heals shaman blog.
Last night the decision was made for me due to Alzheimer's.
I forgot…
- I just turned 50
- Battleground brackets are x0-x9
So I joined WSG only to realize that I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. What's worse, those dreaded DKs were experienced for the 1st time… And they don't come in x0-x5 models.
I respec'd after that battle and went on to give more in BGs than I ever did as Elemental, or even as a Mage.
Tip 3: Rarer than hen's teeth
You think finding a healer for a PuG ToC is hard… Try finding one for a PuG BG!
Generally the only other classes on the healing scoreboard were Locks and Hunters. It was an amazing BG if there were 2 healers.
You see, Instances and raids need the holy trinity of Tanks, DPS and Heals.
BGs require the Dynamic Duo of DPS and Heals.
No tanks required and every healer and their dog goes DPS.
Resto really is the fast track to making friends!
Tip 4: Earth Shield
Once you get it, Earth Shield(ES) is your friend.
ES will turn your squishy DPS only teammate into a self healing dynamo!
It will also give you a second or two to get off the next heal.
Tip 5: Mage buddy
I know, I know, I might be a little prejudiced, but Mages are great BG buddies.
Mages have little armor and small health pools, but HUGE DPS.
Thing is, as Resto we can change all this about.
- They gain an infinite health pool, self healing (ES) and a few more of your tricks.
- You gain an insane DPS protector with a whole lot of utility tricks up his sleeve.
Let me tell you, Gnomeaggedon always notices when he gets a heal… They are so few and far between. When I get one, I get all overprotective of my den mother and will wipe out anyone who even looks sideways at my health supply… They also get water and Arcane Intellect on tap!
I hooked up with a Mage last night (like I say, I am a little biased), in part because he was one of the few that remembered the objectives of the BG and didn't get sidetracked. But also because he wasn't afraid to run the flag, protect the flag and, most importantly, protect the hand that healed him (Others would cry for heals then leave me to die mid cast).
We slaughtered the flags, we slaughtered the Horde. The flag rooms were ours. In the end the Hordes only resort was to Zerg us… The 2 of us!
Tip 6: <– Resto
Make sure tour team mates know you are Resto right from the word go. Draenei are big and Shamans all look the same, so make sure you tell them you are their lifeline. Just type this when you zone in:
/bg <— Resto
Tip 7: Mark me up please
To be sure tour message gets through, go a couple of steps further, ask to be marked up so that your team mates can see you clearly and come to your aid.
Use any (or all) of the following lines:
/bg <— Resto
/bg Please mark me with a [square] and protect my arse so I can heal yours.
/bg Healing priority: 1. Flag carriers. 2. Flag defenders. 3. Me. 4. Mid-field playing Honor Farmers
Hopefully that will get the message across.
Tip 8: More than just heals
Yes you are a healer #1, but there is more to your Resto Shaman toolkit than healing damage.
Tip 9: The Purginagor
Make the opposition go down faster, be The Purginator!
Purge the enemies buffs…
They go down faster, your mates go down slower, less heals required!
Tip 10: Arcane Buster
- Mage shoving Arcane Missiles up your butt?
- Fear bombs going off left right and centre?
Remember that you have a few tools on your Bat Belt to sort this out!
Interrupt the Mage (or other caster…)!
Ohh poor Arcane Mage locked out of their Arcane tree? That will screw them, they probably only have arcane missiles and arcane explosion on their toolbar… Make them look through their spell book!
Fear Bombs… Mmm seems to me you have a totem design to bring fear bombers to tears, their knees and ultimately their graveyard… Tremor Totem… Use it!
Grounding totem is a great early warning system and wastes that Pyroblast the Mage has been winding up for the last 3 minutes.
Drop it and Laugh!
Tip 11: Last Healer Casting
What the opposition has healers?
Now we have a worthy opponent for your Resto Shaman.
Your DPS probably hasn't noticed them, or can't get to them. Meanwhile their targets have a never ending health pool. You will go OOM and probably trip up and miss a heal and this battle will be lost.
Take action!
Windshear their heals… No heals for the enemy.
Flame Shock and Fire totem them. Now they have more to worry about than their DPS's health.
Tip 12: Share the heals around
Not getting the protective love you expect, nay demand, from your DPS. A few well targeted chain heals will make sure they notice and appreciate you en-mass.
Just remember if you chain heal a party member (vs. Raid member) the chain heal will only go to your nearby party mates. Chain heal someone outside your party and the chain will just in and out of your party as required.
Tip 13: Totems of choice
Grounding. Don't let them get the 1st magical hit.
Stoneclaw. Useless I hear you say, there is no aggro I'm a BG, there aren't any NPCs.
Ha! I retort, what about pets!
Yep pets will get distracted. If you can LoS their owner, they won't realise that Fido is gnawing on a stick rather than a shaman!
Earthbind. Unfortunately this is the same element as Tremor, so you will need to drop it as required.
Enemy FC stealing your flag, your FC getting chased down… Earthbind FTW!
Tremor. Alternatively, if you want to stay in control of the battlefield, don't get scared, resist the fear!
Sure it pulses, so it might take a second, but it's a beautiful thing when the gloating fear merchant realizes 1 or 2 seconds later that everyone has turned back to pummel their broken corpse!
Tip 14: Flag runners
Apart from Natures Swiftness and Earth Shield your mobile heals are limited.
So what's a Resto shaman to do?
Earthbind the enemy to keep them off your FC's heels and when your FC stops for the inevitable piece of honor farming mid-field, keep them green!
Tip 15: Flag defenders
Ohh the pain, Oh the shame of the poor enemy strike force that encounters a flag defender with healing support. Especially when that healer is also earth binding them, frost shocking them and chain lightning them to toast.
Last night our Mage FC had 2 heals for support, but a bucket load of horde gnawing on his Gnome behind. Enter Resto Chain Healing, Chain Lightning, all singing, all dancing Squidly.
Tip 16: Mid-Fielders
I'm in two minds about healing mid-fielders:
- If they are supporting the cause by preventing Flag Room intrusion or shepherding our FC, heal them.
- If they are honor farming idiots that think that since we are one flag up with only one minute to go… Let them Rez!
Seriously I have now lost 2 WSG (that I remember) because everyone thought it was now safe to honor farm.
Folks it's only safe to honor farm if our flag is secure… and I mean in our Flag room, not in theirs
Tip 17: Win friends and influence people
- People like you when you keep them alive.
- People like you when you give them the chance to mana up without visiting the spirit healer.
- People will look after you once they know you have their back.
They will even salute you and grats you when you level up or get an achievement.
No one remembers the other 8 DPS, but they will remember the healer!
Tip 18: A tip for battleground survival
Gnomer wants a pocket healer
I was so envious of Evinflo Last night. Imagine being a Mage in a BG with not just the odd heal, but a constant flow, and Earth Shield to boot!
How I envied his need to drink to regain Mana.
How I envied his healer supported flag captures.
So a note to all you healers out there, when you see a Mage in the BG, especially if he is a Gnome by the name of Gnomeaggedon, befriend him, love him, HEAL him!
Gnomer and Out, Squidly and Stout!
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After a heavy night of partying, Ohio State student Lisa Kelner couldn't hang on to Sloopy nor her turkey meatloaf dinner.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
MZone Caption Contest
27 comments:
- Unknown said...
In a ritual little known outside the state, an Ohio State student summons the ghost of Woody Hayes by praying to the Scarlet "O."
- April 16, 2007 8:44 AM
- wolverine71 said...
One fan's reaction to a bucknut naming their first born Tressle Hayes.
- April 16, 2007 9:13 AM
- Out of Conference said...
God - losing bets to my roommate suck. I can't decide which is worse, this freakin ugly ass Andy Worhol/ Marilyn Monroe shower curtain that she now gets to put up or having to wear this shitty Buckeye towel.... oh god, they both make me yyyaaacckkkkkkkkkk.
- April 16, 2007 9:41 AM
- Bucktown Skins Fan said...
Originally thought to be a galaxy far, far away, scientists have now determined this Hubble Space Telescope image to actually be the lavatory in the Ninth Circle of Hell.
- April 16, 2007 9:48 AM
- Unknown said...
"You mean that guy I made out with at the bar last night wasn't my brother?!?!?"
- April 16, 2007 9:53 AM
- SBU Lacrosse said...
In a furious contest of keg olympics, the OSU students made sure that Florida wouldnt win another national championship, and paid dearly for it the following morning.
- April 16, 2007 11:22 AM
- Hemlock Philosopher said...
After a night of cocktails (emphasis on the first syllable) and White Castle sliders, osuck student, Buffy Balshine, mistook the porcelain 'shoe for ohio stadium. Because her roommate recently "dropped the buckeyes off in said 'shoe", what she found was something remarkably similar to the real thing in both sight and smell.
- April 16, 2007 11:48 AM
- Unknown said...
Buckstache rides free. My Ass.
- April 16, 2007 11:51 AM
- Unknown said...
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- April 16, 2007 11:59 AM
- Unknown said...
After giving Katie Smith oral pleasure, I had to do something to get the taste out of my mouth.
- April 16, 2007 12:01 PM
- anonymous said...
After the national-title game, many fans were left wondering whether Ohio State even bothered to come up with an offensive game plan at all. But they did -- and one crafty Buckeye coed found it.
- April 16, 2007 12:04 PM
- Locutus of Suburbia said...
it was all fun and games until somebody blew an actual gator.
- April 16, 2007 12:47 PM
- 1650summitt said...
Buckeye Heroe's cereal.
Yeah thats the ticket.
- April 16, 2007 2:32 PM
- nitz said...
1) My own private feedin' trough! Wait'll I tell Ma and Pa!
2) Even with bulimia, Buckeye "babes" can only slim down so much.
- April 16, 2007 3:28 PM
- G8RB8R said...
"Bobbing for Toilet Trout" but, since this is a Michigan blog, let's just call it, "Bobbing For Buckeyes"
- April 16, 2007 4:57 PM
- Eric said...
This advanced level OSU medical student wanted to see what a buckeye was really made of.
- April 16, 2007 6:50 PM
- Bo said...
Suzi Tressell Hayes partakes from the punch bowl at a recent meeting of the OSU chapter of MENSA.
- April 16, 2007 7:45 PM
- TitleIX said...
hate to be a party pooper....but where's the post about the Spring Game this weekend?????
god I miss football....
- April 16, 2007 9:44 PM
- Unknown said...
Stupid, Maurice Clarett...Maurice Clarett, Stupid.
- April 16, 2007 11:14 PM
- Pat Mobley said...
Using my miraculous spectacles and a seer stone delivered by the angel Buckeye, I can get my entire OSU education in the comfort of my own home!
- April 17, 2007 8:55 AM
- Unknown said...
1. tOSU student administrator searches for future Buckeyes.
2. But dude, she WAS AJ Hawk's sister, it's not that bad, is it ?
- April 17, 2007 9:40 AM
- brianthomasbuckeye said...
Oh, here it is!! Lloyd Carr's record against Mr. Sexy Jim Tressel. I knew I'd find it!
- April 17, 2007 10:01 AM
- Sundawg said...
Realizing the connection between memory and smell, this tOSU coed returns home to Dayton without leaving her dorm.
(funny, but shameful)
That's right dear, put Vicks in the water, cover your head and breathe deeply; your stuffy nose will be gone in no time!
Thanks Coach Tressel.
- April 17, 2007 11:02 AM
- Wolverines66 said...
If you stare at it long enough it says "Fuck Michigan."
- April 17, 2007 3:43 PM
- drdavedc said...
Sure, "just take your parents credit card, get a $5000 cash advance and bet the whole fucking thing on the Bucks to kick Florida's ass in the national championship game, its a sure thing, hell they will be thanking you later" I am going to kill that cock sucker Andy when I get ahold of him! Blahhhhhhhh!
- April 18, 2007 9:22 PM
- BARman said...
So what's with the bowl?? Overflow device?
- April 19, 2007 2:54 PM
- Unknown said...
She just woke up after an all nighter with Kirk Herbstreit :)
- April 24, 2007 2:49 PM

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The Johnny Cash Project has been doing the rounds on Twitter and the blogosphere recently, for good reason. Anyone initially sceptical ("another crowdsourced music video?"), very quickly realised it was something pretty special. Digging a tiny bit deeper, spotting Aaron Koblin was heavily involved, things started to click into place for us. It's a well-conceived idea, beautifully done – textbook Koblin.
Something else clicked into place at the same time. So much talk about crowdsourcing, so much experimentation, almost all of which we're in favour of. Nonetheless, there is an art to how we use the crowd.
Last night I saw Ennio Morricone at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The maestro was conducting some of his best known compositions (including soundtracks to many of Sergio Leone's films – last night The Ectasy of Gold from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was unforgettably good). On their own, the soprano Susanna Rigacci, the Roma Sinfonietta orchestra and a 100-strong choir were all world class, together they were extraordinary. Morricone is famous for using singers less to tell a verbal story and more as an emotional, 'human' instrument. Last night was no exception: there was something completely mesmeric watching orchestra and singers working as one. It was an act of collective creativity.
No question, a lot of us in the audience felt moved, even elevated.
In a similar way (although perhaps the reaction is less viseral, given there's a little more distance when something isn't live and in front of you), The Johnny Cash Project is elevating. There is something profoundly brilliant about making the work of many hands *entirely* visible. It feels 50 times as powerful for its sense of mass mobilization behind a creative act. Its strange quirks, differences, non sequiturs…versus how you'd imagine the same task performed by an individual working alone. Suddenly, one artist in isolation feels one dimensional, ironed out, as if the output would lack vibrancy and surprise.
Sure, centuries of art prove me wholly and irrevocably wrong on that last point. But when I think about how we might most usefully use the crowd, it strikes me crowdsourcing has the potential to be most palpably powerful – to lead to richer outcomes – when we use the crowd as a creative collective.
Right now, with the honourable exception of the likes of Aaron Koblin, a number of innovators in music promo creation (including early initiators Hal Kirkland, Masa Kawamura at BBH New York & their buddies Magico Nakamura & Masayoshi Nakamura – whose lovely video for Sour's Hibi No Neiro is justly famous), our industry seems most interested in using crowdsourcing primarily to:
a) drive down cost
b) give the crowd something to do – in other words, the 'crowd' are in fact a target audience and we want them to feel 'involved' with a brand
c) broaden choice – lots of responses to a stated question or task, only one winner
Those are all reasonable things to attempt and we're not suggesting there should be only one use of the crowd, it just strikes us that focusing on using the crowd as a collective creative resource is something we're doing less of. And yet, oddly enough, it might be the most powerful use yet.
What do you think? Are there a host of examples of brands using crowdsourcing as collective creativity that we're missing? For more on The Johnny Cash Project, check out Maria Popova's blogpost here.
For more on Sour's Hibi No Neiro video and our interview with Rick Liebling about his e-book on crowdsourcing, see the BBH Labs posts here and here.
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Baby Landon is finally wearing one of his new hand-knit hats! I especially love how soft this hat is and the barely there tone-on-tone stripe pattern. The key is to pick two colors that are hardly different from each other, whether it's this ivory combination or shades of gray would be great too. This hat knits up quickly and I was happy to learn a new ribbing edge and also practice the technique that prevents the stripes from jogging at the seam.
Pattern is for a small newborn size, but you can increase the size by using a thicker yarn with larger needles or increasing stitches by a multiple of 6. I used the Debbie Bliss baby cashmerino yarn with US 5 needles (since I am a tight knitter).
CO 60 sts on US #5 with Color 1
Join in the round, careful not to twist the stitches.
Start with Twin Rib:
Multiple of 6
Row 1: *k3, p3*
Row 2: *k1, p1*
Continue in this pattern for 10 rows or about 1.25"
Now to start the stripe pattern making sure to click here and use this technique as you knit around.
Color 2:
Row 1 +2: K all
Color 1:
Row 3, 4 + 5: K all
Once the hat is approximately 4.5" from cast-on edge, start to decrease while continuing the stripe pattern:
Row 1: *K10, K2TOG* (55 sts)
Row 2: K all
Row 3: *K9, K2TOG* (50 sts)
Row 4: K all
Row 5: *K8, K2TOG* (45 sts)
Row 6: K all
Row 7: *K7, K2TOG* (40 sts)
Row 8: K all
Row 9: *K6, K2TOG* (35 sts)
Row 10: K all
Row 11: *K5, K2TOG* (30 sts)
Row 12: K all
Row 13: *K4, K2TOG* (25 sts)
Row 14: K all
Row 15: *K3, K2TOG* (20 sts)
Row 16: *K2, K2TOG* (15 sts)
Row 17: *K1, K2TOG* (10 sts)
Pull yarn through remaining stitches and pull tight. Cut yarn and weave in all ends.


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Monday, November 22, 2010
Welcome to the Big 10, Nebraska: Where we leave your junk alone
Well apparently this tradition has spread to the football team.
In the first quarter of Texas A&M's 9-6 upset of Nebraska on Saturday, Cornhusker tight end Ben Cotton dove on a fumble by his team. In the ensuing scrum to recover the loose ball, Aggie Tony "TSA" Jerod-Eddie attempted to get Cotton to release his grip on the football by squeezing the shit out of another ball in Cotton's possession.
Check it out in the latest MZone video creation below showing how the love of grabbing mansack has spread from the A&M fan base to the football field. Either that or Jerod-Eddie is getting ready for his interview with the Transportation Safety Administration this week.
9 comments:
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
And then, to add insult to injury--literally--he gets a flag for defending his genitalia. I never would have expected to sympathize for a Nebraska player coached by a former Ohio State player but--as a current Michigan fan--I can relate to a world lacking in justice.
- November 22, 2010 8:52 AM
- Andy said...
Instant Classic.
- November 22, 2010 9:19 AM
- whetstonebuck said...
I think you are making too much of this. Everyone knows The A&M player was interviewing for a job with the TSA.
- November 22, 2010 9:32 AM
- Mikoyan said...
I didn't watch this game, I was listening to the Notre Dame-Army "game". About the only time I root for Army, they lay a goose egg. Thanks Army. At least one of our services can take care of the folks from South Bend.
And seriously, I never thought I would say this but I think Joe Buck and Troy Aikman better look out...they've got competition....
- November 22, 2010 9:56 AM
- Yost said...
Whet, that was the other angle I almost went with, lol.
- November 22, 2010 10:24 AM
- Yost said...
Added a TSA line in there, Whet.
- November 22, 2010 10:44 AM
- JR said...
Certainly got a reaction out of the Husker guy, huh? Reminds me of this one time when one of my grandfather's cows switched his tail up against an electric fence... have never seen a cow move so fast...
Maybe a similar experience was what inspired the Aggie guy...
- November 22, 2010 10:53 AM
- Unknown said...
Trust me, he was heavily punished and ran so many laps he nearly threw up. Our (Aggie) coach made it clear that was NOT acceptable!
- November 27, 2010 11:08 AM
- Daniel B said...
"Trust me, he was heavily punished and ran so many laps he nearly threw up. Our (Aggie) coach made it clear that was NOT acceptable! "
Sorry, but unless he suspended him for the next game, he wasn't punished enough. Sherman let him off light.
- September 29, 2011 12:49 PM


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"Come on Eileen" by Dexys Midnight Runners is the official winner of the Ultimate '80s Name-Song Tournament!
It beat "Rock Me Amadeus" (1986) by Falco in the final round of voting.
The name Eileen has a complicated etymology. It's an Anglicized form of the Irish name Eibhlín, which is a form of the Norman French name Aveline, which is a form of the Germanic name Avelina, which is ultimately based on either the Germanic root avi, which might mean "desired, wished for," or the Germanic root aval, which means "strength."
The related name Evelyn is the 20th most popular baby girl name in the country right now, but not-as-stylish Eileen is down in 748th place. Eileen was most popular in the U.S. during the 1940s, peaking at 70th in 1945.
And how about the band — where did they get the name Dexys Midnight Runners? "Dexys" (no apostrophe) comes from the club drug Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine sulfate) and "Midnight Runners" refers to the extra energy the stimulant gives users.
Thanks for playing along, everyone! I threw the Ultimate '80s Name-Song Tournament together last-minute, so there wasn't much time to research songs. I ended up overlooking a few good ones, such as:
- "All for Leyna" (1980) by Billy Joel
- "Romeo and Juliet" (1980) by Dire Straits
- "Luanne" (1981) by Foreigner
- "Baby Jane" (1983) by Rod Stewart
- "Jane Says" (1987) by Jane's Addiction
- "Sweet Jane" (1988) by Cowboy Junkies (Velvet Underground cover)
Do you think any of these would have had a chance against "Come on Eileen"?
Finally, if I hold another name-related tournament next March, should it be songs again? If so, songs from what decade? If not, what would you like the theme to be?


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Man accused of leaving 4 children in hot car
Police say man was shopping
Police say it was over 90 degrees outside when a Maine man left his four children in a car in a New Hampshire store parking lot and went inside to shoplift an item.
Police said 28-year-old Jeremiah Hollenbeck of Lebanon, Maine, was inside the Family Dollar store in Franklin for about 10 minutes as the children were inside the car Wednesday afternoon. The windows were rolled up.
Someone spotted the children, ages 9, 5, and 9-month-old twins, and called police. They eventually were taken to a hospital for treatment of heat-related symptoms.
Hollenbeck, who didn't have a lawyer, was arraigned Thursday on misdemeanor charges of endangering the welfare of a child and receiving stolen property, and one felony, possession of a controlled narcotic. Bail was set at $50,000.


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nocera wrote:Fire0nice228 wrote:don't worry everyone, the defense is fiiiinnne!
This board is going to be awful tonight. Have fun guys. See you in the morning.
I'm with you, nocera. One little deficit and all the whiners, crybabies, Chicken Littles, and Gloom-and-Doomers bring their black clouds out. I guess the Pens have to be perfect in EVERY phase of the game and should NEVER lose. Enough of this crap.


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Here are a few more 'chinois chic' images that I've had on my mind lately. This interior belongs to the Melbourne manager of Brunschwig & Fils. It has a masculine feel about it, and I love how he's mixed styles as well as the origin (some of the furniture is Japanese, some is Chinese).
Bedhead is upholstered in Gaston y Daniela's "Tap Astorga", wallpaper is "Orientala on Bamboo & Cotton" also by Brunschwig & Fils.
Chair is covered in "Balthazar Silk Velvet Stripe" Brunschwig & Fils, cushion is "Leopardo" by Rubelli, and the stunning wallpaper behind is "Yunnan", also by Brunschwig & Fils. This is probably my favorite of all the images. The combination of the wallpaper, chair (and those fabrics) and the chinese cabinet is perfection.


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Forget diamonds—cookies are a girl's best friend.
Diamonds cost a ton of money—cookies are deliciously cheap. Diamonds just sit there and sparkle—cookies melt in your mouth and relieve hunger. Diamonds smell like nothing—cookies fill your house with yummy, comforting flavor. Diamonds gets lost and you freak out—cookies get lost and you just make/buy/steal more…after you freak out.
See? Cookies are way better than diamonds.
Did you know that cookies are a guy's best friend, too? Cookies are an equal opportunity sort of dessert.
Guys should really learn how to make at least one good batch of cookies. Give a girl diamonds, it shows that you know how to drive a car to a store and get suckered into spending too much money on—literally—a piece of rock. Give a girl cookies, though, and it shows that you care enough to create something especially made for her. Much, much better than a diamond.
If the girl you like thinks homemade cookies are a lame replacement for diamonds—you probably shouldn't be dating her in the first place. Unless you think cookies are a lame replacement for diamonds as well, in which case you're both missing out. But whatever, birds of a feather yada yada yada.
Now that that's out of the way, let me tell you just what is so great about this particular bunch of cookies that would make them my new favorites. Firstly, although I'm a major proponent of soft, fluffy cookies, I've also discovered the joys of the substantial, chewy cookie. When baked in the chocolate chip variety, the chewy style cookie is a really wonderful thing. Whether you're hungry or your face simply wants food—you know what I mean—these chewy cookies make for the satisfying snack you need.
Everyone gets a dollar for each time I said the word "chewy" in the previous paragraph.
These cookies have oatmeal in them. Yes. Oatmeal. Yum. It makes them even chewier and even more irresistible.
So, which sounds better? A huge, fresh-from-the-oven cookie, sparking with chunks of chocolate chips and flecks of oatmeal, or a small piece of stone?
For me, cookies win the best friend battle every time.
My New Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies
Recipe adapted from "Favorite CCC" by Lindsey Yeo
360 grams all-purpose flour (in this case, weighing is best, but this is about 2 1/2 cups)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup packed light brown sugar
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs
2 cups chocolate chips (milk, dark, semisweet, or a mixture of the three)
1 1/2 cups old-fashioned oats
Melt butter and add to the bowl of a stand mixer. Add granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract, mixing well until fluffy and smooth. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in the flour, baking soda, and salt. Stir in the chocolate chips and oats. Place in the fridge overnight or in the freezer for 20 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Using a small ice cream scoop or just using your hands, drop portions of cookie dough onto the baking sheets, spacing them evenly with room to spread. Baked for 12-15 minutes, or until light brown around the edges.


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AG Kilmartin Announces $1 .5 Million Grant to Rhode Island Housing to Ai d Struggling Homeowners
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 3, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — Following up on last week's announcement of a $150,000 grant to Housing Action Coalition of Rhode Island, Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin today announced a $1.5 million dollar grant to Rhode Island Housing and the agency's HUD-approved counseling center.
Rhode Island Housing opened the HelpCenter, a comprehensive HUD-approved counseling center dedicated to providing professional support and education to help R.I. homeowners avoid foreclosure, in the fall of 2007 to respond to the growing foreclosure crisis. The HelpCenter's trusted, trained HUD-approved counselors have helped more than 8,000 R.I. homeowners at risk of becoming homeless. HelpCenter counselors take a customized approach by helping struggling homeowners make sense of an existing mortgage, work with lenders and explore options to avoid foreclosure.
"Rhode Island Housing is often the first place struggling homeowners turn when needing assistance with their mortgages, and is our partner in connecting homeowners to available resources," said Attorney General Kilmartin. "In 2012 alone, the HelpCenter at Rhode Island Housing received 2,706 inquiries. The numbers don't lie: the housing crisis in our state is far from over, and this grant to Rhode Island Housing will enable the HelpCenter to help more Rhode Island families stay in their homes."
"With the recent cut-backs and contraction of federal counseling funds, these new funds from the Attorney General will ensure that the HUD-approved counselors at our HelpCenter can continue to help Rhode Islanders at risk of losing their home receive counseling in a safe place," said Richard Godfrey, Executive Director of Rhode Island Housing. "Seriously delinquent mortgages remain high in Rhode Island, and we encourage Rhode Islanders to call the HelpCenter at the first sign of having difficulty making a mortgage payment. The sooner people come to us for help, the more options they will have."
Preventing foreclosures is a primary goal of the Rhode Island Housing's HelpCenter. The HelpCenter, along with partners Money Management International and the nonprofit NeighborWorks centers in Providence and Woonsocket, are the primary providers of critical foreclosure-prevention counseling and services in our state.
As part of the National Mortgage Settlement, Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin was charged with distributing approximately $8.5 million to supporting mortgage foreclosure counseling and prevention programs. In the past six months, Kilmartin has announced grants totaling over $3.8 million, including today's announcement, to several nonprofit organizations:
$150,000 grant to the Housing Action Coalition of Rhode Island to support their work to develop, maintain and secure affordable living situations for low-income Rhode Islanders
$1.57 million grant to Rhode Island Legal Services to fund the Foreclosure Prevention Project
$375,000 grant to the Housing Network of Rhode Island for homebuyer counseling, homebuyer education and outreach
$155,000 grant to Progreso Latino to expand the agency's Better Living Project
$60,000 grant to HousingWorks RI to research and report on foreclosures and foreclosure prevention programs over the next three years
Attorney General Kilmartin also recently filed legislation (H5512/S0547) to reform the Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS). The legislation will make it easier for borrowers and regulators to determine who owns loans secured by mortgages on Rhode Island property: borrowers facing foreclosure will be able to more easily discover who owns their loans before it is too late, and municipalities will be able to identify lenders responsible for abandoned homes. The legislation will end the practice of having the vast majority of mortgages held in the name of a private registry with no interest in the loans, known as MERS. The banking industry has been using MERS since 1997, claiming it minimizes the administrative and financial burdens of the recording process for lenders. However, this practice has basically privatized the local land recording process, thereby undermining the accuracy of public records – leading to negative consequences for consumers and municipalities.
Additionally, Attorney General Kilmartin filed legislation (H5335/S0416) earlier this month that would require mortgage service providers to participate in good faith in a conciliation process administered by a HUD-approved independent agency. The goal of the process is to facilitate an agreement between the lender and homeowner to avoid a foreclosure. In 2012, 85 percent of homeowners who completed the conciliation conference process were able to reach an agreement with their lenders to avoid foreclosure and remain in their homes.
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i'm so fed up and confused!!
Posted 06 July 2009 - 01:57 AM
I think I need a bit of advice! I'm in my final year of PhD land, with 3 months of money left, i'm still running experiments in the lab and am really struggling to try and write up something at the same time! (and still have no papers out on my actual research as nothing is quite completed - I feel like i am really bad at the bench!!!)
The lab I work in is where I carried out my honours project, and I really like my supervisor and his wife (not as my boss's so much but socially they are fine!). The lab used to be pretty big, but when I came back afew years later after some time out there was really only me! So throughout my PhD i've had no post-docs or tech support in my area and have just muddled through with all the experiments kind of self teaching! Also, because its just me, and i have a seriously problem saying NO to stuff i've ended up doing so much other things as part of other smaller studies and I feel like my own project has suffered quite a bit for that! (we had a grant for my project to take on and do loads more stuff with post-docs etc, and my bosses have basically managed to get most of it done just by me! i'm shattered!!!!). I feel like because there's so much quantity of little things, the quality of the main stuff has suffered and I dont feel confident about my work, the results or anything! Like I said I really feel like I am not good at bench science, and I don't trust results or anything I do anymore. I have lost all confidence and basically just want to stay home all day and stare at the wall!
Anyway, i'm blabbering abit now sorry! My point is, this whole experience has really put me off working in science for the rest of my life. I know other labs may be different with more people, more money etc, however when I look at senior academics who spend long hours/weekends doing work and never getting any decent breaks I really dont think i want that for my life! I have recently applied for a job as a part time lecturer at a college, and my experience throughout my phD stands me in good stead (i'll let you know if i get an interview). Really though I dont know what I want to do anymore, but I really feel I can't quit at this late stage, and so many people are looking up to me to get the work finished, write a good dissertation (and family to be Dr!!! ). My partner asked me seriously the other night if i wanted to quit and really I do, but its just too late, I should have done it in first year.
Also, If i get my PhD and then decide to leave academia then my chances of getting a job are slim as i'll be TOO experienced for stuff, is that really the case, as I really see my future as a less stressful job with better hours and plenty of time for family and a social life.
Apologies for the long post, I think I could go on forever I just have so much on my chest, and my partner is fed up of hearing about it!
Any advice or just support would be really appreciated,
Cheers, KT
Posted 06 July 2009 - 04:16 AM
I really do understand how you feel. I have felt exactly the same way and stll do at certain times about whether i should quit or continue on with my phd.. there is no easy answer really - i think if you are really really unhappy then you should not continue. but this is not feasible in your case. i strongly suggest that you continue on.. especially since you have completed the majority of your phd program. reason being - you have a plethora of skills which you have gained throughout your doctorate.. and these skills will be rewarded no doubt once you reach the end. i assure you that you will find a better and more rewarding place to work in - whether its research or any other area really. your phd will come in handy! it's often hard as a scientist to project to the future and imagine yourself being a scientist working the long hours.. as research often doesnt give you immediate gratification. i guess gratification is hard earned.. but that doesnt mean you wont ever be happy. your situation sux.. however the journey you have gone through - working on your own and figuring problems out on your own will serve you well in the future. you are self sufficient, you are independent, and you can work with pretty much anything, adapting and problem solving. now that is a true scientists! you have accomplished all these things, so i wouldnt feel so bad if i were you. i understand about your thesis. have you talked about this with your supervisor? im sure you can get an extension to help give you a rest at the bench so you can concentrate on the more administrative side of your research. if you are getting results in those other little projects.. then maybe you can incorporate them into your final thesis.. have you thought about perhaps publishing those little projects?
dont think you are stuck in a hole though. i completely understand about the whole lack of money thing! our lab had the same problem its a pain isnt it. its a very tough life being a scientist.. however the rewards far outweigh the negatives. yeh so basically.. i would suggest that you continue your efforts in getting results.. and once you finish your phd you can think about what you want to do with yourself. a phd graduate doesn't have to stay in research.. there are many other options out there!
i really think that you should discuss this with your supervisor. your supervisor has been in your shoes once before and im sure he can work something out if you are really unhappy with how your project is going.
hope this has helped somewhat
Posted 06 July 2009 - 11:29 AM
thank you for you encouragement, in retrospect I guess things could be a lot worse, i'm just having a bad week (month) and just struggling to face the lab everyday, but like you say i'm so close and i'm not going to quit!
We are trying to get a paper out on one of the small pilot studies we did, however the research was only small with few samples so its quite tough, but we have taken them to conferences so there is something to show for it at least!
Hopefully when i get a holiday next month my main experiments will be finished, and when I get back i'll be analysing last samples and hopefully will have some more time for writing, so fingers crossed! I just really want to finish as close to 3 years as possible!
I will update the post when things move forward and let you know how i'm getting on, or if I decide what to do with my life!
Good luck with the rest of yours too, stick at it and we'll be there soon!
Posted 14 July 2009 - 10:18 PM
I would kill to be able to do my PhD. So many others would too!
I dont want to be mean but i gotta be real, why the hell did you go into research? maybe you need to reevaluate those reasons.
Posted 14 July 2009 - 10:53 PM
Why aren't you doing your PhD if you want to so badly??
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Posted 15 July 2009 - 12:53 AM
Wow thats pretty harsh, MaggieRoara.
Why aren't you doing your PhD if you want to so badly??
completely agree!
Everyone gone (or going through) PhD has faced phases of frustration. Thats part of the process. It helps to shout it out. It helps to cry and rant over it, but in the end you get your head up and finish your thesis.
So if you badly want a PhD, what stops you?
Posted 15 July 2009 - 01:28 AM
MaggieRoara - before you criticize, always walk a mile in another mans shoes! If i wanted that advice i'd have spoken to my Gran!!! Sorry to be blunt in return but thats not why I posted this spiel! I know there are people out there who would kill to be where I am, and I'm sorry that you clearly want to do one and for some reason can't? However, I did enter research because I love it, but as time has gone on i've changed and so have my circumstances, and sometimes its very difficult to see the big picture when you've not had a full day off in 3 months!!!
Don't worry guys, i'm not going to quit, I've come this far and I would never waste my time and prospects! but like you say, sometimes you just need to rant and get things off your chest to anonymous people who haven't heard your ramblings before and have been in the same situations! My head is firmly back down to the grind to get my work done.
So thank you for letting me vent, and I will be quiet now and get on with my work!
Cheers, KT
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I'll do my best
Posted 22 July 2009 - 06:53 AM
To cut long story short, my project was a big risk project to start with. A post-doc in our lab would always highlight this thing when I would give a talk in the lab meeting. My boss had hypothesis and nothing else. He had no clue how to go ahead with the project. I was left to do everything by myself. This was good in a way that I learned very well but the bad part is, since he didn't know anything in the project, he was very suspicious on what I was doing. It took more than a year for him to believe, what I was doing was correct. May be I was at fault too, I couldn't speak his 'lingo' that it would perspire in his brain.
I can't and could not approach him anytime with any problem, as all I would get back is, how-stupid-you-are kind of attitude. Bullying in the form of screaming and swearing became a regular thing. I-have-a-problem was never accepted. Failures were not accepted. If you with any negative result, you would get really acidic remarks. You have to explain negative results and you can not explain always, why thats so. If such scenario comes up then it would be hell.
The things got worse and worse, I spent 2 years in depression, now have been diagnosed with another stress-related condition, eating about USD 500 worth medication a month. My article got scooped out by our collaborator and how that happened, I don't know. My boss never came clean on that. I think that was some kind of deal.
Now I am in similar situation as you are, should have defended my thesis now but no articles so can't defend. Still my boss wants me to explore on hypothesis when actually I should be getting, whatever-I-have, out and here I am, spending another year on something that will not contribute to our upcoming article. I have to do it, as if his hypothesis turns true, it will be a nice story. I agree on that part but its just not worth spending so much time on this already scooped out article.
Now, I have isolated myself in the lab. Don't interact with the boss or any other colleague unless its essential. Stress has becoming integral part of life, more frequent than having interactions with my partner.
He has sabotaged my self-confidence totally and my dream of working in science is tarnished a big time. I was very seriously considering to go to industry for a while to learn how it really works and then start my own group. Now, I think, I will just use my skills to teach next generation, if at all, I get teaching job after one of two post-docs.
Don't you think now, you are in way good position?
Posted 22 July 2009 - 07:00 AM
Apologies, that wasn't meant to sound like a criticism. I know Maggie is right in what she says, I've just got to stop moaning and get on with it.
You have every right to moan here because you know some poeple will be in the same boat! Its a great place to vent and sometimes its nice to know your not so alone with your experiences...
Im having a tough time with it at the moment because they keep switching priorities in my project... i wont go into too much detail just in case but keeping everything straight in my head is a nightmare! and my supervisor is ofent absent for months at a time...
So rant away if it makes you feel better
Posted 22 July 2009 - 06:09 PM
I have my own set of problems in the lab too, but I can't be bothered to go through it into details.
All I can say is.. whenever I need help, I will come to this forum and get the help I need for my experiments and it is really very useful so I am glad to be part of this community here.
Do cheer up and see things on the bright side. You aint alone!


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In 1876, Lucy Maria Field Wanzer became the first woman to graduate from the UCSF School of Medicine (then known as the Medical Department of the University of California).
When Lucy Wanzer applied to the Medical Department of the University of California in 1873, she was rejected. Throughout the nation, female medical students were few and far between, and no medical school west of the Rocky Mountains had ever admitted a woman.
But committed to her childhood dreams of becoming a doctor, Wanzer appealed the decision. After a four month long process, the Regents of the brand new University of California finally let her in, passing a resolution that "women offering themselves for admission and passing the required examination must be received to all the privileges of the Medical Department." This resolution would set a precedent for generations to come of female medical applicants to UC medical schools.
"Dr. Wanzer's contributions to UCSF and American culture vis-à-vis women's rights cannot be overstated," said Dr. Robert Sherins, a member of the UCSF School of Medicine Class of 1963. "Her life was so inspiring to me that I decided to publish an updated iteration of her biography."
This iteration appears in the 50th Reunion Memory Book that Dr. Sherins recently compiled for his class reunion in April. With nearly 20 years of experience doing family genealogical research, Dr. Sherins set out to write a historically accurate biography of Dr. Wanzer. The final product was a full chapter of material that Dr. Sherins obtained from civil archives, newspaper and academic journal articles, and UCSF archival images. The Reunion Book is available in Archives & Special Collections at the UCSF Library.
Dr. Sherins' research reveals that Wanzer's first few days in medical school were not so easy. At the start of the year, the dean of the school had encouraged her male classmates to haze her. Many of her 26 classmates followed, playing pranks on her and trying to scare her during anatomy dissections.
Unfazed, Wanzer continued going to class, where she faced discrimination by her professors. One instructor told her that a woman had no business studying medicine, and that if one did, she ought to have her ovaries removed. To this, Wanzer allegedly replied, "Then men students ought to have their testicles removed." In the obstetrics clinic, Dr. R. Beverly Cole warned her that the material he was about to teach would be embarrassing to her and suggested that she excuse herself. When she insisted on staying, an impressed Dr. Cole took her on as his mentee.
Eventually, Wanzer also won over her male classmates when she refused to rat them out to the administration for a prank they'd pulled on a fellow student. Over the next few years in school, her classmates and teachers treated her with respect and consideration as an equal in education.
Lucy Maria Field Wanzer graduated in 1876 with the first official class of the Medical Department of the University of California (today's UCSF School of Medicine). However, her problems as a pioneer for women in medicine were far from over.
UCSF's first graduating Class of 1876. Dr. Lucy Wanzer is in the front row, 2nd to right.
Images courtesy of Archives and Special Collections, Library and Center for Knowledge Management, University of California, San Francisco
Upon graduation, Dr. Wanzer had to fight for admission to the San Francisco County Medical Society. This time, however, she was backed by her UCSF mentor Dr. Cole, and she soon became the first woman to be elected to the Society. She went on to open a private clinic on Geary Street, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology as well as pediatrics. She was elected the Vice President of the UCSF Alumni Association in 1885 and eventually served as an attending at the Children's Hospital of San Francisco.
Many women would follow the precedent set by Dr. Wanzer. In 1920 (44 years after Dr. Wanzer's graduation), when women won the right to vote, about 10% of each UCSF graduating class was female, far ahead of the national average of 4%. Moreover, it would take many medical schools well into the mid-20th century to start accepting women.
Today, women actually outnumber men at the UCSF School of Medicine; women made up 56% of matriculants this year, compared to a national average of 47%. In his article, Dr. Sherins included a detailed analysis of female graduates of the UCSF School of Medicine through the years since its founding. "The trends of the past decades show pretty clearly that the UCSF administration and faculty have a very certain view of their responsibilities vis-à-vis gender equality," he suggested.
And it all started with the first female medical graduate in 1876. "Dr. Lucy Wanzer contributed to the local and national awareness of women's rights by successfully doing what she knew best, taking good care of her patients and being recognized for her many efforts."


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Soaring veggie prices push up retail inflation to 10.03%
New Delhi: Soaring vegetable prices pushed up the retail inflation to double digits at 10.03 per cent in August, up from 9.86 per cent in the previous month.
According to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data released today, the highest rise in prices was for vegetables which recorded an increase of 20.79 per cent during the month.
In the urban areas, the CPI rose to 10.19 per cent during the month as compared to 10.10 per cent in July. The retail price rise in rural areas worked out to be 9.90 per cent during August up from 9.76 per cent in the previous month.
The CPI for August, however, did not capture the impact of hike in diesel price announced by the government on September 13 to help the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) to reduce their under recoveries.
The CPI for food and beverages section during August increased by 12.03 per cent, clothing, bedding and footwear by 10.71 per cent and fuel and light by 7.55 per cent.
Among the individual segments, steep rise in retail price was noticed in case of oil and fats (18.41 per cent), followed by sugar (17.51 per cent) and pulses and products (16.04 per cent).
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I am starting this journey in the early days of American cinema; from its inception in 1895 through its development into a viable culturally-influential industry. I've dated this period as "pre-1939." Many of you will recognize 1939 as being the release date of Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)'s classic film The Wizard of Oz, a film that contains the most iconic Hollywood witch in American cultural history.
From 1895 to 1916 moving pictures were just a technical novelty. As film historian Jeanine Basinger said, "No one really took movies very seriously. It was thought that they were a fad." Most early movies depicted actual events, landscape photography, historical re-enactments or popular stories. (Basinger, American Cinema, 1994)
During these first two decades, only nine American films contained a witch. Of these nine, five were dramatizations of beloved fantasy stories. The list includes The Magic Sword (1901), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910), His Majesty the Scarecrow (1914), Mary PIckford in Cinderella (1914), and Snow White (1916).
In all of these films, the witch is a non-threatening, non-theological fairy tale construct. Her appearance and behavior recall the circus-clown or court jester with a big round collar and colorful patchwork clothing, or a heavy wizard cape and cone hat. She plays the role of the buffoon.
Because this is the silent film era, filmmakers primarily used visual cues to define character. To do so, they had to draw from pre-cinematic cultural sources in order to speak to their viewers. The witch as clown motif can be found in still renderings from that time period. It is even a common element in Mother Goose drawings. Additionally, all of these stooped, elderly witches are surrounded by other non-cinematic icons such as brooms, cauldrons, and pointed hats.
The concept of magic focuses on transformation and trickery. For example, In His Majesty the Scarecrow (1914), Mombi the Witch transforms her three ugly companions into beautiful maidens. In Snow White (1916), the witch transforms the Queen from bland to beautiful. The use of magic in this way is reminiscent of something you might find in a Shakespearean comedy of mistaken identity (e.g. As You Like It)
Of the earliest nine films, the remaining four did not recreate fantasy stories. However, they have very little influence on the construction of the Hollywood witch. These include a lost animated experimental short called Bewitched Matches (1913). The first filming of Shakespeare's MacBeth (1916) and an historical narrative called The Witch of Salem (1913).
The fourth film, The Mysteries of Myra (1915), is the most interesting of these early witch movies. The popular seventeen part film serial recounts the tale of Myra Maynard, the daughter of an Occult leader, who is repeatedly hunted by her dead father's devil-worshipping Order. In each episode, the narrative tackles an Occult subject with no mention of witchcraft until episode thirteen. In this aptly numbered episode, a cloaked witch helps Myra escape the satanic Order.
Film restoration artist Eric Stedman, notes that episode thirteen is the only one to "introduce traditional fantasy – magic and characters rather than concepts derived from then – current spiritualism." What spiritualism? He is referring to the public's growing interest in Occult practice and, of course, Aleister Crowley. Some of the film's Occult imagery recalls the popular images of Crowley himself. Interestingly, at the time of filming, Crowley was living in New England not terribly far from the production lots in Ithaca, NY. .
Despite the narrative proximity of witchcraft and Satanism in the serial, the writers clearly separated the two magical practices. In this way, the witch remained a fantasy construction. At some point in the pre-cinematic entertainment world, the witch was separated from her satanic connection and became trapped within a fairy tale. As such, she is denied all theological relevance or esoteric meaning – good or bad. Although it is outside my exploration, I would speculate that this is the result of Victorian cultural styling and the increasing dominance of rational thought.
Now, let's move to the period ranging from 1916 to 1932. During these sixteen years, there is only one Witch film – a lost animated short called At Rainbow's End (1925). Why did the witch disappear? At this time movies had transitioned from novelty to commodity. The new industry, now located in California, had to maintain viewer interest through realistic sensationalized marketing strategies. Remember, this is before the Production Code. The fantasy witch had no place in salacious, adult entertainment and, therefore, disappeared. (Eric Smoodin, Animating Culture, 1993)
However, by 1932, the world and Hollywood had drastically changed. Silent films turned to sound (Talkies) and the Hayes Commission began enforcing its Catholic-based moral censorship code. Additionally, the country had lived through a World War, the free-wheeling roaring 1920s and was now in a deep economic depression. Hollywood responded with wholesome, upbeat and glittery escapist films. Not surprisingly the fantasy witch reappears. From 1932-1939, Hollywood produced five witch films including Disney's Babes in the Woods (1932), Betty Boop's Snow White (1933), Betty Boop's Baby Be Good (1935), The Greedy Humpty Dumpty (1937) and Disney's Snow White (1937).
At first glance, these animated witches appear to be similar to the earlier variety. They are "hags in rags" with cauldrons, brooms and pointy hats. However, there is a difference. In Disney's Babes in the Woods (1932), the witch plays the buffoon, but she is more grotesque in form. Her pointy face and emaciated body are gangly and sharply angled. Her clothes, now dark and ragged, are topped with a flowing torn cape. This iconic look is repeated over and over throughout the period.
Then in 1937 Disney released what would become his masterpiece – the first full-length animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In its wake, the film created a famous American Hollywood witch – the Wicked Queen. She is the first witch to step out of the side-show act and enter the realm of macabre. Disney's Queen is an amalgam of the early fairy tale witch, the 1930s animated hag and something new, something darker. While she is still trapped within the fairy tale narrative, she is frightening and intense in both her forms: "a hag in rags" and glamorous queen.
In addition, for the first time in Hollywood's history, we witness the witch as a representative of "transgressive female sexuality." Film professor Elizabeth Bell notes that Disney's production papers describe the Queen's "beauty as sinister, mature [with] plenty of curves." The Wicked Queen is a femme fatale who is defined as "represent[ing] demonic natural forces that, like a cyclone, threaten to uproot man from himself." In this historic film, the Hollywood witch transmutes into what feminist film theorist Barbara Creed calls "the monstrous feminine." (Elizabeth Bell, "Somatexts at the Disney Shop," From Mouse to Mermaid, 1995)
During the Pre-1939 period, the witch began her journey as a side-show act devoid of any esoteric or theological meaning. By the end, she had transformed into an allegory for the powerful, independent, sexualized woman. Was this a function of America's need to reinforce traditional gender roles during the Depression? Or was it simply a function of Disney's own conservative nature?
In the next post, we'll move on and follow the transformation. Next stop, the year 1939 with the release of The Wizard of Oz and the birth of the all-American Hollywood Witch….


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This image taken by NASA's Wise Satellite is in the infrared spectrum, meaning it can reveal the light that is normally hidden behind thick, dark clouds of gas. But some clouds are so dark that no light can get through.
These are known as infrared dark clouds — they're the black patches in the image above — and they're so cold and so dense that even our most powerful infrared telescopes cannot peer inside them. Visible light is unknown inside these gas clumps — if you were to take a starship inside one of these cosmic clouds, you wouldn't see any neighboring stars or galaxies or any other light at all. These clouds are places of quiet, constant blackness.
That said, the darkness is not eternal, and indeed these clouds eventually undergo about as dramatic a metamorphosis as one could imagine, as they give birth to new stars and planets. Until then, these clouds remain opaque to all but the longest wavelengths. Even the bright lights that surround these clouds are beyond our own familiar visible wavelengths, and that's why the infrared detectors on NASA's WISE telescope are so crucial.
Astronomers from the WISE mission explain what we're seeing here, and why we wouldn't see it otherwise:
If you were to look at this same region of the sky through a backyard telescope, you would see a sea of stars packed together, similar to the thousands of blue stars seen here. You might also notice small patches of darkness that appear to block out the stars behind them. But what you wouldn't see are these beautiful clouds colored green, yellow and red in this image from WISE. Those are only seen in infrared light. In fact, the places where you see dark patches with your eyes are often the places where WISE sees bright clouds with its infrared "eyes." This is because those clouds are dense enough to block visible light, but not dense enough to block longer wavelengths of infrared light that WISE detects. In addition, they are too cool to shine in visible light but still warm enough to glow brightly in infrared light.
Via NASA.


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Marko Karakasevic's youthful rebellion was most unusual. As a teen Karakasevic brewed beer, daydreaming about one day opening a brewery. His parents quickly burst his illicit bubble. "My mom said, 'No beer. This is a distilling family,' " recalls Karakasevic, 38, who was slated to be the 13th generation distiller in his family's long line of distillers and winemakers.
Following a brief detour to college, Karakasevic came to his senses and joined the family trade: Napa Valley's Charbay Winery & Distillery, which dad Miles and mom Susan founded in 1983. After several years producing Charbay's wines, brandies and fruit-infused vodkas, Karakasevic's mind drifted back to beer, specifically its kinship with whiskey. Whiskey begins life as a distiller's beer, or wash, that's made with malted barley, water and yeast. Since wash traditionally lacks hops, which contribute bitterness to beer, it's a raw ingredient, not something to sip. "I thought, Why can't we distill something we enjoy drinking, like really good beer?" recalls Karakasevic.
In 1999, the distiller sourced 20,000 gallons of bottle-ready pilsner, hops and all, from the defunct Sonoma Mountain Brewery. It entered Charbay's alambic pot still and, over three and a half weeks, dad and son distilled the beer for 24 hours a day. (Unlike automated continuous column stills, alambics require constant attention.) Checking the still every three or four hours, they carefully pruned the distillate's undesirable heads and tails—the first and last liquids to leave the still—and selected the hearts, or the choicest alcohol, until 1,000 gallons of whiskey remained. The first batch, released in 2002, matured in used American oak barrels for two years, unlike the eight, 10 or 12 years commonplace in American bourbons and whiskeys. "Compared to distiller's beer, the pilsner is super-flavorful when it comes off the still," Karakasevic says of the whiskey that, despite its youth, was full-bodied and multifaceted, with hints of aromatic hops and barley. It was a spirit equally at home in a rocks glass or a pint.
Historically, distilleries and breweries have orbited in parallel universes, but in recent years brewers have begun pulling double duty as distillers, and distillers have begun acting like brewers. Anchor Brewing, one of the earliest breweries to crossover to spirits, specializes in gin and re-creations of vintage whiskeys. Holland, Michigan's New Holland Brewing creates rums, doses distillates with hops and offers a line of beer-inspired Brewers' Whiskeys. Delaware's Dogfish Head fashions rums and a hop-flavored gin. In Newport, Oregon, Rogue Ales' spirits division concocts gins, rums and whiskey made with the Dead Guy Ale's grain blend. Flipping the script, Nashville, Tennessee's Corsair Artisan Distillery releases spirits based on recipes for imperial stouts, pumpkin ales and even a witbier, while Sierra Nevada Brewing supplies the smoky brown ale that Alameda, California's St. George Spirits transforms into single malt whiskey.
Into the Wash
Launching a brewery does not require distilling know-how. But starting a distillery, especially one specializing in whiskey, demands brewing acumen. Rarely do those skills intersect, especially since home distilling is illegal—it's a felony to refine moonshine.
Lately, these industries have intertwined as brewers, armed with resources and beer-making expertise, have begun to open spirits operations. "The future is to build a brewery that doubles as a distillery," says Bill Owens, 73, president of the American Distilling Institute. "One day you're kegging beer, and the next you're brewing wash for whiskey." That synchronicity appealed to Zac Triemert, 37, president and cofounder of La Vista, Nebraska's Lucky Bucket Brewing and Sòlas Distillery. In the early 2000s, while brewing beer at Omaha's Upstream, Triemert developed an affinity for whiskey. Discovering that it's basically distilled beer "sent me on a path," he recalls. He moved to Scotland to earn his master's degree in brewing and distilling at Edinburgh's Herriot-Watt University. He returned to Nebraska in 2006 with his sights set on founding a combo brewery-distillery, but quickly discovered craft distilling was illegal in Nebraska.
Undeterred, Triemert penned a craft-distilling bill that Nebraska's legislature approved. Roadblocks removed, he quickly launched Lucky Bucket, releasing Pre-Prohibition Lager in November 2008. Getting Sòlas—Gaelic for happiness—going proved trickier. Triemert needed to navigate irksome government regulations, including one requiring breweries and distilleries to be in different buildings or divided by a wall. (His solution was a 12-foot-tall chain-link fence separating the businesses.) A year after his first beer, Triemert debuted his inaugural Sòlas product, Joss Vodka, hewn with Nebraska wheat. The Cuban-style rum Chava should appear by year's end, but he's waiting till 2013 to release his passion, an American-style single malt whiskey. "We have access to specialty malts to add more dimensions, or what I call knobs, to the whiskey," Triemert says. "We try to turn every knob, from our ingredients, to the wood we use, to how we make our cut and how long we mature our spirits, to create a one-of-a-kind whiskey."
Lucky Bucket isn't navigating the spirits world alone. At its Edgefield Distillery in Troutdale, Oregon, brewpub chain McMenamins uses its unhopped Hammerhead Ale to fashion Hogshead Whiskey, while the Ranger Creek Brewing & Distilling "brewstillery" in San Antonio, Texas, makes an as-yet-unreleased Texas bourbon crafted with rye. At its Portland pub, Oregon's Rogue Ales distills the Hazelnut Spice and Dark Rums. Similarly, Brett VanderKamp, president of New Holland Brewing, wanted to create an interpretation of rum from the early colonial days of America. "I wanted to make a nice rum in the Great Lakes region," explains VanderKamp, 39, whose brewery focuses on bold beers such as El Mole Ocho Mexican Spiced Ale and oak-aged Dragon's Milk Ale. He launched New Holland Artisan Spirits in March 2005.
"We had years of experience in mashing and fermentation," VanderKamp says. "Very effectively, we're able to get the wash to the distillery." New Holland's portfolio includes the aromatic Knickerbocker Gin, the Freshwater Rum series and spirits inspired by brewing. "We said, 'Let's take 50 gallons of white dog, throw hops in there and see what happens,' " VanderKamp recalls of the genesis of Hatter Royale Hopquila, an unaged whiskey spiced with Centennial hops (like New Holland's flagship Mad Hatter IPA). The experiment boasts floral, citrusy aromatics that recall tequila, so it's only fitting that "it makes a hell of a margarita," VanderKamp says. "It's a direct link to brewing," as is his Brewers' Whiskey line. The limited releases have included the Double Down Barley, Walleye Rye and the Malthouse, which contains six varieties of barley. "We see the natural extension of whiskey coming out of a brewery," he says. "It's a nice way to take the best of both worlds."
Send Out for the Wash
While brewing wash can help distillers stand out, many lack the space, equipment or skills to make beer. In lieu of learning or installing costly infrastructure, many distilleries contract breweries to create their whiskey base, a relationship that ensures a high-quality ingredient. "I tell people, 'Hire a brewer. Those guys know how to make wash,' " ADI's Owens says. When Denver's Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey launched in 2004, it sourced wash from Flying Dog Brewery, then Oskar Blues. Washington's Ellensburg Distillery produces Gold Buckle whiskey with wash cooked by neighboring Iron Horse Brewery. And though Sierra Nevada Brewing supplies a smoky wash for California-based St. George Spirits' whiskey, master distiller Lance Winters created the recip
e. Credit his brewing savvy.
While working at a Bay Area brewpub in the mid-'90s, Winters, 46, brought home beer to distill on the copper still concealed in his garage. "They were making really good spirits, but I had no idea why," Winters recalls. Eager to learn more, and to transition into distilling, he sought out St. George owner Jörg Rupf. Winters' résumé—a whiskey sample—earned him a month-long tryout that quickly became permanent. Winters's brewing knowledge proved invaluable when he formulated the wash for his Single Malt Whiskey. "Having been a brewer gives me a broader palette and access to different aroma and flavor profiles," Winters says. Elementally, distilleries are concerned about starch conversion—unlocking grains' sugars to create the most alcohol possible. Contrasting that, craft brewers create flavorful beers with any available grain, not caring that, say, darker-roasted grains offer few fermentable sugars. "As a brewer, you trade off on efficiency for flavor," he explains.
He distilled 18 different beers, pinpointing preferred flavor components, then wrote a recipe for Sierra Nevada. "By starting with a brewer's background and a diverse range of grains, you have the potential to make an amazing whiskey," Winters says.
Distill the One
One of bourbon and whiskey's defining flavors is wood. Over the years, distillates aging in charred casks develop notes of lush vanilla, peppery spices and, above all, oak. Although aficionados can easily differentiate, say, sweet wheated bourbons such as Maker's Mark and a spicy Rittenhouse Rye, these spirits share a baseline barrel-aged profile. "I'm sick of over-oaked whiskey," says Charbay's Karakasevic. "What's important is not the barrel, it's what's in the barrel." He and other distillers are abandoning the time-honored traditions of Tennessee and Kentucky and taking cues from craft brewing.
Since unveiling his pilsner-based spirit dubbed, simply, Whiskey, Karakasevic has continued dabbling with beer. In 2008 he released Whiskey II (it rested for six years in American oak and four years in stainless steel), and now distills Bear Republic Brewery's hoppy Racer 5 IPA. "I don't need to set up a brewery when I have Bear Republic 20 minutes away," he says. Tanker trucks transport Bear Republic's piney IPA to Charbay, where it becomes Doubled & Twisted Light Whiskey—so-called because the liquor coming off the still twists on itself like a chain. ("Light whiskey" is a substitute for "white dog," a term for unaged whiskey that Karakasevic detests.) Aged in barrels for one day to appease government regulations, D&T drinks fruity and floral, with a greenness familiar to any hop head. "People try Doubled & Twisted for the first time and say, 'Oh my God, it tastes like the beer, but it's whiskey,' " Karakasevic says.
Though the debut D&T was basically unaged, future releases will sleep in neutral, reused oak casks and stainless steel for 17–24 months, six years and 12 years. "When you barrel-age distiller's beer for more than 12 years, it turns into one big pile of oak extract," he says. "I believe my whiskey can handle the 12 years of aging and not turn into oak extract. The oak meshes with the whiskey and doesn't become the dominant top note." Not content to work with just one beer, Karakasevic has started distilling the Bear Republic's Big Bear Black Stout too. "It uses six different grains, two different adjuncts and two different hops," he says. "How many distiller's beers can say that?"
Not many, but the distilled-beer category is rapidly growing. Germany's G. Schneider & Sohn has its banana-noted Schneider Aventinus weizenbock distilled into Edelster Aventinus by the nearby Schraml distillery. Fellow German brewery Uerige distills its strong brown ales Sticke and Dopplesticke, respectively, into Stickum and Stickum Plus. Japan's Kiuchi Brewery turns Hitachino Nest White Ale into Kiuchi No Shizuku. Yet few spirits manufacturers have embraced craft beer quite like Darek Bell, the owner and distiller at Corsair Artisan Distillery in Nashville. "When you look at the palette the distilling world uses, the paints typically consist of corn, rye, wheat and malted barley," explains Bell, 38, a former homebrewer. "Contrast that to craft brewing, where brewers use dozens of malts and adjuncts. With distilling, I think like a brewer: The better the ingredients you put into the whiskey, the better it will be."
Thus sparked many of Bell's genre-blurring distillates. His Wormwood Wit started as a Belgian witbier spiced with orange peel and coriander, before Bell added wormwood, a traditional absinthe ingredient. A pumpkin beer he brewed every fall inspired his Pumpkin Spice Moonshine, one of several spirits that, echoing breweries, will be released seasonally. The Rasputin Hopped Whiskey is a potent Russian imperial stout with a heady, hoppy nose and cocoa component; bitterness disappears during distillation. "Hops make this a very different whiskey, which appeals to craft beer drinkers," says Bell, who just released a collection of his offbeat recipes in Alt Whiskeys. In the book, Bell is careful to point out that home distilling is illegal, one of many challenges facing the budding field.
"It's probably easier to open a nuclear reactor than a small distillery," ADI's Owens says of the maze of permits and regulations. Time is another major concern, since barrel-aging whiskey is a years-long endeavor. "Sharing that with your bank becomes, 'You want to do what? And you're waiting how long before this product comes out?' " says New Holland's VanderKamp, whose Zeppelin Bend whiskey rests for at least three years in oak. Yet fresh off the still, many beer-based whiskeys are more flavorful than their oaky competition. Aging is great, Corsair's Bell says, because barrels will fix some minor problems, "but sometimes you lose the flavors that you've worked so hard to make unique." This can be a tough sell to consumers conditioned to see a spirit's age as a measure of quality. Education is a struggle, but it's a battle that breweries are used to fighting.
"I love that we can help shift the idea of what whiskey can be," VanderKamp says. "Maybe that's crazy, but years ago people said the same thing about craft beer."


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Bailout? Are you kidding me? Emily said the media should be calling this a "scandal." No shit. This ain't no bailout. This ain't no disco. She's right. It's a scandal. It makes me sick.
The long weekend was awesome. Apple picking with the extended fam didn't happen because of the rain, but instead the reunion happened in the Aunt and Uncle's "room we never use". Lily went to her first Rosh Hashanah service at a Temple that resembled a church. At least in the musicality. Seeing another Temple's service was familiar but it was more foreign than anything. Luckily the row behind us entertained Lily a lot of the way through – that and Lily slept through most of it. Two notes there: 1) There are many o' nannies in West Chester – many with whom I met walking with Lily in the stroller outside. 2) There are sadly way too many formula fed babies in West Chester. Meeting Opus (he says we've met before, but I don't believe him) was mega cool. He's such a stud. And getting to see a Colbert Report taping was mad cool. James Taylor was the guest. He played great and did this awesome duet (Carolina On My Mind) with Stephen Colbert. It was cool seeing Stephen out of character for 5 minutes. What I didn't get was how bad James Taylor was on camera. 40+ years in the biz and he can't do a good interview?! This past trip I decided to limit my visit to Manhattan to once. I like it that way. Emily got a day to do and see her things. And I got a day to walk around with Lily next to the trees.
And Al, thanks for the Lucky Fortune recommendation. My beef with veggies was awesome. But Em's eggplant and garlic was mad deep fried.
Tomorrow will be a good day. Em has some things to finish up. I have two mastering projects and a client meeting. Then a Kadman show. A good day filled with fillings.
Glad to be back home to normalcy. Well, you get the idea.


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Jennifer modeling fall 2012 to-be-named Pirtti scarf
Through Ursula of Modaspia I found Elizabeth of Primoeza. Through Elizabeth I found Jennifer of Ermie. By chance of moving to California and having the opportunity to visit L.A. regularly, I have met with Jennifer in person. I just love how that all comes together!
This past weekend I was in L.A for a quick trip and had the chance to meet up with Jennifer for coffee. (Though in reality it was much too hot for coffee!) I've been a fan of her bold and colorful work for quite a while. Having my head in the sand so to speak, weaving away by myself, I wanted to show her what I'm working on and talk through some ideas. It occurred to me that Jennifer has never actually seen my work in person and it tickled me pink that she was ready to buy a scarf on the spot on a hot day. It was great to show her the stuff in person, get some feedback, see what aspects of the work she was drawn to. I'm ready to get cracking on the next few warps and of course have ideas for many more. I only wish there were more hours in the day, or that I required less sleep.
All the ladies I mentioned above inspire me and were the first ones I followed when I decided to pursue this new venture. They all have blogs, and in the spirit of "follow friday", I highly recommend you check them out.
Primoeza also on Pinterest and Instagram
Ermie also on Tumblr and Instagram
Instagram is quite fun and I find myself addicted. (@pirttihandwoven if you're interested.) Speaking of following people, I have a funny story about that, but I'll save that for another day…
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