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Bizarre Creations isn't the only video game developer dealing with hard times right now. Two more developers appear to have been affected by holiday layoffs, including Star Wars game dev LucasArts and Guitar Hero studio Budcat Creations.
Sources close to LucasArts say the studio has gone through another round of layoffs today, but numbers were not specified. The studio was hit with as many as 85 cutbacks in September, after wrapping up development on The Force Unleashed II.
When contacted for comment, LucasArts confirmed changes in staffing, but did not provide details.
"LucasArts recently made a minor adjustment in staffing to help us better address the needs of the business," said a LucasArts rep. "We remain committed to our internal studio – and to fostering relationships with trusted external partners – in order to deliver quality games that amaze and inspire fans."
The other studio given the gift of joblessness today is Budcat Creations, according to former employees of the Iowa City-based developer. The developer of PlayStation 2 and Wii versions of many of Activision's Guitar Hero games was acquired by the publisher in 2008, shuttered today.
Update: Activision has provided the following statement, confirming the closure of Budcat.
We continue to streamline our music development resources to ensure that they are aligned against our slate and strategic goals. As a result, we are implementing a targeted reduction in jobs in our Quality Assurance team in California and closing our Budcat studio in Iowa. Budcat has been a great partner to Activision and has created a lasting impact on the Guitar Hero franchise.
Approximately 88 positions, or approximately 1% of our global workforce, will be impacted by these reductions. We are working to redirect those employees that are impacted to other parts of the company where possible, as well as offering them outplacement counseling services.


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Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the U.S. side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, June 15, 2012.
Reuters reports: Nik Wallenda, a member of the famed "Flying Wallendas" family of aerialists, completed a historic tightrope crossing through the mist over Niagara Falls Gorge on Friday, stepping from a two-inch (5 cm) cable onto safe ground in Canada to wild cheers from onlookers.
Wallenda made the walk from the U.S. side of the falls to the Canadian side, a journey of 1,800 feet (550 meters) over treacherous waters and rocks, in a little more than 25 minutes.
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Tightrope walker, Nik Wallenda the first walk across Niagara Falls in over a century, braving winds and heavy spray in his historic feat.


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Stir-fried lamb flavored with garlic, ginger, soy, and sherry.
Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 15 mins
To prepare lamb strips, put recommended cut, covered, into freezer until firm (about 30 minutes). Slice across the grain in very thin strips.
Mix lamb strips with oil, garlic and ginger.
Heat wok or non-stick skillet on high (no need to add any extra oil). Stir-fry lamb strips in two batches for 1 to 2 minutes, allowing pan to reheat between each batch. Remove all meat and set aside.
Drain mushrooms, reserving liquid. Add mushrooms and greens to pan with a sprinkling of reserved liquid. Cook, stirring until greens are wilted slightly but still bright in color (about 1 to 2 minutes).
Return lamb strips; add in bean sprouts. Stir in combined soy, sherry and honey to heat through, about 1 to 2 minutes.
Can serve with Chinese noodles.
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Monday, November 7, 2011
Danny & Janay's Wedding
Last night two of our long, long-time friends Danny and Janay got married at The Farmhouse at Schnepf Farms. In true Janay fashion the celebration was perfect, down to the last detail. The celebration was picnic-themed, and one of the most adorable and beautiful weddings I've ever been to. A few of my favorite things: pie instead of wedding cake, lemonade in mason jars, the vintage handkercheifs when you walked in ("for happy tears"), the bridesmaids in cardigans and cowboy boots, the groomsmen in bowties, and all of the little touches that were so distinctly them.
The night ended with s'mores around the fire and hayrides around the farm, and I couldn't have imagined a better way to send those two off on their Hawaiian honeymoon! Congratulations again, Danny and Janay!
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Looks like such a beautiful wedding! I just adore her dress. xReplyDelete
Beautiful! Also adore her dress. I'm definitely wearing a short one to my wedding. Love the photos too!ReplyDelete
Their wedding was so gorgeous! I love how their little fill in the blanks game!!!ReplyDelete
This is such a unique and beautiful wedding!
Such great ideas.
I love the mustaches on sticks!
Perfect way to celebrate Movember! ahaha.
So cute! I had handkerchiefs for your "tears of joy" at my wedding too. I love the photobooth pics + the caramel apple favors :) awesome!ReplyDelete
This wedding looked soooo cute and fun! All the personal touches are amazing.ReplyDelete
Also, your dress was so adorable! You really do look great in yellow!
what a sweet wedding! thank you for sharing their day!ReplyDelete
It was nice to see you last night! I've been waiting all day to see your pictures! Sonja decided she NEEDED to nurse right as their vows started, so I missed seeing part of it, but heard it all and it could not have been sweeter. Not a bad way to end the wedding year of 2011 :)ReplyDelete
What a fun wedding! So many cool little touches.ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness! I love every detail of this wedding. Just perfect. Congrats to the bride and groom!ReplyDelete
Xoxoxo, Ali
All I want to know is Where did you get THAT CUTE AS A BUTTON Dress!ReplyDelete
i love love love a good wedding.
p.s. you and your hank are the cutest!
What a beautiful wedding. I am glad it went great.ReplyDelete
This is such a cute cute cute set up! I love the food and table labels!ReplyDelete
I'm in love! what an adorable and original idea!ReplyDelete
I love outdoor weddings and this looks so beautiful!! I bet a lot of planning went into that, there is such a love for details! it's amazing how I have seen the most beautiful weddings through the blogging world, so wunderful!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 7, 2011 at 2:41 PM
How unique and lovely :)ReplyDelete
what a great weekend. and dani, these pictures are amazing! simply beautiful ;)ReplyDelete
this wedding totally made me think of Kaelah as she was talking about doing pies + cardigans at her wedding! love this. everything was so unique and pretty! congratulations to your friends!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 7, 2011 at 3:16 PM
wow this is so adorable! I love weddings!ReplyDelete
looks like a perfect wedding! when you said the bridesmaids were wearing cowboy boots my immediate {and out loud to myself} thought was "hells ya!"ReplyDelete
Wow,I love all of the decorations. They're so cool!ReplyDelete
These pictures are amazing! There were a lot of details but it all turned out beautifully :). And it was so great to see you! I wish we had more time to catch up but I loved meeting Hank!ReplyDelete
That looks like so much fun. I love the photo booth and the brides dress is so pretty. xo, rvReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 7, 2011 at 6:35 PM
nice wedding... :) irene wibowoReplyDelete
that is just the most adorable wedding I've ever seen.ReplyDelete
I saw the pics you posted on Instagram and couldn't wait to see the blog post! The wedding looked so warm and lovely!ReplyDelete
great pictures! looks like a BLAST!!!!ReplyDelete
Wow! really a wonderful wedding. Very unique.ReplyDelete
What a creative and fun wedding this must have been! You looked so cute girlie :)ReplyDelete
Looks like a fantastic wedding :)ReplyDelete
what a great unique idea for a wedding! I loved all the pictures!ReplyDelete
LOVE your lemon-colored dress!ReplyDelete
how cute!!! i love the mad libsReplyDelete
This is sooo stinkin cute. Everyone looks so cute. I love the picture of Andrea and Lexy's face in the bottom one. Hahaha. Too cute!ReplyDelete
What an AMAZING idea! and your right- every last detail was thought out it looks! So cute!ReplyDelete


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We can't get enough of this series of images by photographer John Shireman, who combines beatiful flowers, dead-simple composition and a rather creative use of liquid nitrogen to produce some of the most striking floral portraits we've ever seen.
First Shireman photographs an attractive flower against a stark white backdrop. The effect is fetching, but far from original. But then he soaks his subject in liquid nitrogen, sometimes for as long as 30 minutes (which seems excessive to us; given the fact that LN2 is colder than -320 °F, it's hard to imagine it would take that much time for a flower to freeze completely), before smashing it into pieces and photographing it with a high speed camera. It's floral photography as you've never seen it before.
Check out the rest of Shireman's series over on his flickr.


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Interest in The Edge of the Western Sea PBP?
Ruleset would DD v3 + house rules. [Which means it will be OD&D in feel with the xp, spells and other things from the DD v3]
Settings: TEOTWS - The Edge of the Western Sea. Long ago I posted a small sandbox on the ODD74 boards for self contained campaign set on the very edge of my world. The feeling is meant to be Earthsea meets Shattered World. It's a Dark Age mentality, very small populations, very insular in their struggles to survive in a unpredictable world.
Class: Fighter, Wizard, Cleric [no thief]
Races: Human, Elf, Dwarf, Hobbit [to start]
Scope: This is meant to be a long campaign where the players might very well rise to a level power to challenge foes beyond the edge of the world. Hence my slow rush to commitment. Once I start something I'm very good and keeping at it, so as long as players are interested it will get run even if that means a decade or more.
Pace: 2 or 3 weeks seems likely. We all know that pace is variable but I'm pretty sure I can 2/week pretty easily.
Post a reply if you think this is something you are interested in. If we have enough here and I'll build a sub forum and start posting enough details so that character generation can start.


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UPDATE: The twitter-verse exploded recently with news of Joss Whedon having shot a film adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," and launching a website and everything.
Well now he's posted a press release on the site that answers a few questions:
Santa Monica, CA (October 24th, 2011)
Bellwether Pictures proudly announces the completion of principal photography on
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, a modern version of Shakespeare's classic comedy
adapted and directed by Joss Whedon (Marvel's upcoming THE AVENGERS, "Dr.
Horrible's Sing-Along Blog"). Filmed in just 12 days entirely on location in exotic Santa
Monica, the film features a stellar cast of beloved (or soon to be beloved) actors – some of them veterans of Shakespearean theater, some completely new to the form. But all dedicated to the idea that this story bears retelling, that this dialogue is as fresh and intoxicating as any being written, and that the joy of working on a passion project
surrounded by dear friends, admired colleagues and an atmosphere of unabashed rapture far outweighs their hilariously miniature paychecks.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING is the first feature from Bellwether, a micro-studio
created by Joss Whedon and Kai Cole for the production of small, independent narratives for all media, embracing a DIY ethos and newer technologies for, in this particular case, a somewhat older story.
Shot in glorious black and white by Jay Hunter (PAPER HEART, "Dollhouse"), the film
stars Amy Acker (CABIN IN THE WOODS, "Alias") and Alexis Denisof ("How I Met
Your Mother", "Angel") as Beatrice and Benedick, the world's least likely lovers headed
for their inevitable tumble into love. As Joss Whedon puts it: "The text is to me a
deconstruction of the idea of love, which is ironic, since the entire production is a love
letter – to the text, to the cast, even to the house it's shot in." The supporting cast
includes Nathan Fillion ("Castle", WAITRESS) as Dogberry, Clark Gregg (AVENGERS,
IRON MAN) as Leonato, Fran Kranz (CABIN IN THE WOODS, "Dollhouse") as
Claudio and Reed Diamond ("Franklin & Bash", MONEYBALL) as Don Pedro.
The film was produced by Whedon, line-produced by Nathan Kelly and M. Elizabeth
Hughes, and co-produced by Kai Cole and Danny Kaminsky. The super-impressive cast
is listed below. Full tech credits (for the extraordinary crew) will be up shortly. The film
should be completed by early spring and headed for the festival circuit, because it is
The Players:
Amy Acker - Beatrice
Alexis Denisof - Benedick
Nathan Fillion - Dogberry
Clark Gregg - Leonato
Reed Diamond - Don Pedro
Fran Kranz - Claudio
Sean Maher - Don John
Spencer Treat Clark - Borachio
Riki Lindhome - Conrade
Ashley Johnson - Margaret
Emma Bates - Ursula
Tom Lenk - Verges
Nick Kocher - First Watchman
Brian McElhaney - Second Watchman
Joshua Zar - Leonato's aide
Paul M. Meston - Friar Francis
Romy Rosemont - The Sexton
And introducing Jillian Morgese as Hero
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Nate Fillion's and Joss Whedon's publicists may want to touch up their resumes, as Fillion has taken to Twitter to announce the completion of their latest film together.
"muchadothemovie.com" Fillion tweeted late yesterday, which he was forced to follow up a few hours later with "Oh, it's real. Very. Very. Real. muchadothemovie.com" (via The Playlist).The link takes you to a website that says, "Bellwether Pictures is proud to announce the completion of principal photogrpahy" across the top, followed by a lengthy list of actors, the image above (ibn the middle) and underneath it says "A FILM BY JOSS WHEDON" and then "BASED ON A PLAY." That's it
So how on Earth does a man like Whedon, who's knee-deep in "The Avengers," manage to make a movie? And without anyone knowing about it? According to a tweet from GrrrAargh, "He had 2 weeks holiday, they filmed it then, finished yesterday, how it will be released hasn't exactly been decided yet."
The cast includes previous Whedon collaborators Reed Diamond, Clark Gregg and Amy Acker among others, and there's speculation that a more informed announcement is imminent. We'll keep you posted.


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Evangelists lament Calvinism, SBC trends
JACKSON, Tenn. (BP)--A group of 15 evangelists meeting in Jackson, Tenn., Jan. 7-8 said they have concerns about the growth of Calvinism and the rise of a Willow Creek-style of non-confrontational evangelism within Southern Baptist churches.
The conference was initiated by Jerry Drace, an evangelist from Humboldt, Tenn., who invited prominent evangelists from eight states to discuss issues vital to the evangelists' ministry.
A LifeWay Research study released in November reported about 10 percent of Southern Baptist pastors identified themselves as Calvinists. However, 29 percent of recent SBC seminary graduates espoused Calvinist doctrine.
The study concluded that a minority of SBC churches are led by Calvinist-leaning pastors, but that number is increasing. Also, Calvinist-led churches are generally smaller in worship attendance and baptisms than non-Calvinist churches. However, the study said the baptism rates between Calvinist and non-Calvinist led churches are virtually identical. Additionally, the study found that Calvinistic recent graduates report that they conduct personal evangelism at a slightly higher rate than their non-Calvinistic peers
A few summit participants said the movement toward Calvinism has come on secular university campuses through organizations such as Campus Crusade for Christ and InterVarsity.
"In a broad sense, it's happening on Christian college campuses too, as Calvinism appeals to young people who are wanting a more intellectual approach to Christianity," said Hal Poe, Charles Colson Professor of Faith and Culture at Union University in Jackson. "Southern Baptists neglected serious Christian education from the early 1960s, and that's when all the trouble started. From discipleship training we went to the amorphous youth groups, whose only real good was to keep kids happy until they graduated from high school and graduated from church. Now, you have a generation [of college students] who have come along and want something deeper and they have latched onto Calvinism."
Poe said the "greatest missionary" for Calvinism in the local church is John Piper, a Reformed Baptist theologian, preacher and author who currently serves as pastor for preaching and vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis. Two of his most popular books are "Desiring God" and "Let the Nations be Glad! The Supremacy of God in Missions."
"He's effective because he's so passionate," Poe said. "He holds huge, stadium-type events that are rip-roaring. There's nobody else doing anything like that so he becomes [Calvinism's] expositor. But John Piper's version of Calvinism is not something John Calvin would espouse, or even that Charles Spurgeon [British reformed Baptist preacher] would espouse.
"Calvinism has an appeal because it tends to have an answer for everything -– you can explain everything [by saying] that God predestined it."
Drace told the group he currently is working with some young pastors who are "so leaning in this morphed Calvinism that they almost laugh at evangelism. It's almost to the extent that they believe they don't have to do it. So [Calvinism] gives them an excuse not to do evangelism."
Wayne Bristow of Edmond, Okla. added that he's distressed about having to "tiptoe" around terminology for fear someone will misunderstand or take his comments another direction. For example, he said he has always told people who have asked that he can preach and give an invitation with authority and confidence because he believes in the sovereignty of God.
"When I preach I know the Holy Spirit is at work in the hearts of people in that congregation -– arresting them, convicting them, convincing them and drawing them to Christ," Bristow said. "If I didn't believe that, I have no authority; I have no confidence. All I did would be in my own strength, and I would be forced immediately into a ministry of manipulation. But we live in a time now where [Calvinism] has come so much to the forefront that when you say something like that then … you've got to be labeled."
The evangelists also attributed a Bill Hybels-style of seeker-friendly evangelism as a contributing factor to fewer evangelism opportunities in churches.
"When the pastor preaches on Sunday morning in a Hawaiian shirt, shorts and tennis shoes, do you think he's going to bring in this fire-breathing evangelist who wears a tie and black suit and have him stand up there and tell people that they are going to hell?" Michael Gott of Keller, Texas, asked rhetorically.
"Do you think he's going to change that whole user-friendly approach to have somebody like you or me tell people that they must recognize there's something wrong, and what's wrong must be changed, and the only one to change it is Jesus Christ.
"They're going to try to woo them step by step, overextending friendship evangelism, to the point that confrontational evangelism is not part of the package."
Gott said the Hybels concept so prevails in Southern Baptist life that it's the trend, and there is no part for an evangelist to play in Southern Baptist life.
"We're not even within the system," Gott said. "It's not like [leaders] are rejecting evangelists, but the system has eliminated the role of the vocational evangelist. That is going to have to be changed by seminaries, by denominational leaders who challenge churches to use an evangelist. [Bobby Welch], past president of the SBC, did exactly that -– he asked churches to have revivals."
Sammy Tippit of San Antonio, Texas, asked if some of the seeker-friendly approach could be attributed to a backlash against the type of manipulation people see in televangelists.
"Because of the Internet, television and instant communication, we're influenced by such a broad spectrum of voices, styles of ministry and people," said Wayne Bristow of Edmond, Okla. "All of this probably began because of the wrong role models. I know men who have been on evangelism conferences –- who if you got them to speak their mind and their heart, they would be opposed to the invitation.
"And yet they have become the models for young preachers today. Some of them go down like a dose of medicine and some of them go down like honey. They are out of the same school and have the same basic convictions."
Michael Chute is a professor of journalism at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.


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Is this the end of Duck Dynasty?
While the fifth season, much or all of which has presumably been shot, is set to premiere Jan. 15 on A&E, the entire Robertson family has come together in support of patriarch Phil Robertson, who was suspended by the network in light of anti-gay comments he made in a recent interview with GQ.
"We want to thank all of you for your prayers and support. The family has spent much time in prayer since learning of A&E's decision," read a statement posted on the Duck Commander website.
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"We want you to know that first and foremost we are a family rooted in our faith in God and our belief that the Bible is His word," the family continued. "While some of Phil's unfiltered comments to the reporter were coarse, his beliefs are grounded in the teachings of the Bible. Phil is a Godly man who follows what the Bible says are the greatest commandments: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart' and 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
RELATED: "Duck Dynasty" Star Booted Over Anti-Gay Comments
"Phil would never incite or encourage hate. We are disappointed that Phil has been placed on hiatus for expressing his faith, which is his constitutionally protected right. We have had a successful working relationship with A&E but, as a family, we cannot imagine the show going forward without our patriarch at the helm. We are in discussions with A&E to see what that means for the future of Duck Dynasty. Again, thank you for your continued support of our family."


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I will be sitting on my back deck. I'm 6 miles from Vonore, TN....pretty much in the center of the totality area
Hope everyone takes the proper precautions to view! Please be safe!
I'm playing it safe. I'm having my wife watch it for me, then tell me what it looked like!
DW and I are gonna fly a C172 from Wichita to the totality in northern KS, watch from the plane and fly back.
I figure it's gonna be kinda like going to the Super Bowl... I went to Super Bowl 27, I could have had a much better view of it watching TV. BTW. Do you think my old arc welding helmet with a #10 lens would work ?
Local news (Eugene, OR) posts photos of 15 mile long traffic jam near Prineville. And, it's only Thursday. Gonna be crazy.
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The S-Bend (or straight-front corset) is probably the most misunderstood and unstudied corset fashion in the historical spectrum of corsetry. The style is hardly covered in the standard corset book repetoire, such as Valerie Steel's The Corset and Jill Salen's Corsets: Historical Patterns & Techniques. Corsets and Crinolines has one pattern for this style, and short commentary. When the style is discussed online, you'll hear statements like "I know that they are said to be the most dangerous style to wear." "Can't you lace down even smaller with that style?" and "Aren't they supposed to be bad for you...?"
We'll examine these statements against the evidence and let you be the judge.
The "S-bend" or "S-curve" was in fashion from 1901-1910, with the most extreme fashions appearing 1904-1905. It could also be called the "Gibson Girl" look, and the figures of Camille Clifford and the other "Gibson Girls" were idolized. The "pouter pigeon" front and a skirt smoothly fitted over the hips gave a woman's figure the sillouhette of the letter S.
The Delineator August 1901
Eatons, Spring & Summer, 1905
American Beauties, Harrison Fisher, 1907
Valerie Steele, in her book "The Corset", declares that straight front corset, when laced even moderately tightly, pushed the abdomen back, threw the breasts forward and arched the back (p.84). This certainly appears to be the case in fashion illustrations like those below, but does it show in photographs of real women? It's certainly possible to hold a slanted, sway back posture for a few moments, but did real women actually stand and walk this way, forced into this posture by the corset?
Corset La Samothrace, 1905
Dessous Elegants 1905
Le Neos, 1909
To answer this question, I turned to a variety of sources for photographs of women from this era, specifically looking for profile photographs where the line of the head, shoulders and hips were not obscured, making it easy to see their actual posture and poise. Below are a selection of formal portraits, street photography and group photos.
Edith Kermit Roosevelt with Quentin, 1902
Alice Roosevelt Longworth,1903
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, 1904
Cast photo from "The Prince of Pilsen",
Play Pictoral 1904
Lina Cavalieri publicity photo
The Bystander, April 26 1905
|The Empire line Fashion, Femina, 1905
|Annette Kellerman, 1907
|Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1908
|Geraldine Farrar on board ship 1908
|Detail from 5th Avenue, New York, Easter Morning, 1903 LoC 4a10757
|Detail from The Bathing Hour, Atlantic City, 1905 LoC 4a17334
|Detail from Atlantic City Boardwalk, 1905 LoC 4a12627
|Silhouette 1903 yearbook for Agnes Scott College, p136
|Milady in Brown, 1906 yearbook for Belmont College, Field Hockey team
|Actresses from "King of Cadonia", 1909 LoC 16389
In analyzing the ladies in these photos, especially the group photographs, the fashionable posture becomes obvious. The shoulders are pulled back, causing the chest to raise and thrust out. The chin is lifted up and the head aligned with the shoulders. The lower abs are tightened and the hips are curled forward, bringing them into line under the shoulders. This erect posture, when combined with clothing cut to emphasize the curve of the bust and hips, creates the s-bend look. The leaning sway back seen in fashion illustrations does not appear in photographs.
The correct position, one in which the balance of all parts of the body is perfectly preserved, is almost, but not quite, erect. It should incline very slightly forward, above the hips. The weight of the body should rest firmly upon the balls of the feet. The heels should be close together. The knees should also be close neighbors. The arms in standing should hang naturally at the sides with the elbows close to the sides.
One position only is proper for the chin. It should be well up. Notice any woman whose chin is lowered. Shadows fall about the hollows of the face, or create an illusion of hollows there. Every woman looks five years older with her chin lowered. Also such a pose of the head will make wrinkles in the fairest and plumpest neck. Nature designed woman to hold her head as proudly as that of a mettlesome horse. The chest should be held up and out.
Observe how a well-trained soldier stands on parade. That is an excellent model. He appears to have no abdomen, so well is it held in. His shoulder blades are flat as a knife.
Practice the proper posture in standing before the mirror. Study not only the front, but the profile view of your figure. If the chest sags, thrust it forward. If the abdomen protrudes, determinedly shift your weight so that it recedes. The prominent abdomen in half the cases I know is simply the result of bad habits of standing. If the shoulders curve forward, draw yourself erect until they are flat.
If you find your weight resting upon the heels, your figure will look awkward and countrified. If you rest upon the toes, it will look mincing and affected. Nature has indicated that to keep the balance of the body the weight must fall upon the balls of the feet. Try all these postures and notice how much better your figure looks when you stand correctly. It will be an object lesson you cannot forget.
In standing, don't throw the hips far back. They should be straight, in easy line with the body. In walking, do not swing the arms. In sitting, keep the crown of the head up and back. To test your carriage, pass the hand across the back. If the ends of the shoulder blades can be felt at a light touch of the fingers, the carriage is incorrect. The shoulders must be drawn farther back.
Did the straight front corset actually decrease the waist size more than the curved busk corsets worn in the 1880's and 1890's? One place to look for this information is in historical pattern drafting books, which often have tables of proportional measures that give the bust,waist and other measurements for a certain height.
For this study I chose a bust measure of 36" as a constant, and recorded the waist measurement associated with it from a variety of pattern books and clothing catalogs. When there was more than one source for a particular year, I chose the one with the most complete data. My aim was to see if the waist measures related with a particular bust size actually did decrease during the straight front corset era, or did they increase?
As you can see from the graph below, waist sizes were smaller in 1898 (the height of the tightlacing era) and increased in size during the straightfront corset era. The waist measurement then decreased again during the post-Edwardian long-line corset era.
Sources of the Data
The Delineator, September 1902
PracticalDesigner, 1911
So, what was so special about this corset anyway? Why was it heralded as a great change from the previous "curved bust" corset? I'll finish with two analyses of the time, that will also give clues as to proper fit and cut of this style of corset.
Therapeutic gazette, Volume 17, 1901 THE CORSET AS A THERAPEUTIC AGENCY.
The radical change is that, instead of taking the waist line for the point of departure, it takes the anterior line of the trunk; this you will hear spoken of as the 'straight front' corset. The anterior line of the trunk is not absolutely straight, but it is a great advance to have it assumed to be straight instead of constricted like an hourglass. Again, the abdominal flare has been differentiated in three directions; the front has been made flat; a gore has been put in the side to allow for the prominence of the hip; and another gore has been put in the back to allow for the prominence of the sacrum. Again, the construction of the front of the corset has been changed, so that, instead of being made in one piece, it is made of a series of narrow, bias pieces that run obliquely from the front of the abdomen upward and backward toward the spine. It reminds me a little of the external oblique muscle of the abdomen. This change of construction does two things—it prevents the stretching of the anterior part, consequently there is not the tendency for the abdomen to lift up the front of the corset as it does in the older styles; and, second, the tension of the corset is in the direction of these bias pieces, making the lower part of the front, not the whole of the front, the special point of departure for support.
Put this corset on a patient, placing the bottom of the front just above the symphysis, and from below draw up the lacings in the back till the lower third of the corset fits the patient snugly, and watch the result. The first thing you will do is support the abdominal wall and hold up the viscera; next, you will notice that you have increased the obliquity of the pelvis; instead of the symphysis riding upward and the sacrum downward, you have the sacrum thrown upward and the symphysis downward. Then you will see you have thrown the center of gravity forward so that now it is easy for the patient to rest her standing weight forward on the arch of the foot instead of backward on the heels. Look again, and you will see the lumbar spine resume its supporting power, and the patient can now throw back her shoulders, expand her upper ribs, and carry her chest erect. It is an easy matter now with a separate lacing to adjust the upper third of the corset to fit the new carriage of the chest. Then, with a third lacing simply hold the waist as it falls into place, with the abdomen and chest fitted. There is the same old possibility of evil if the waist line is constricted. I have heard of one case causing ecchymosis of the abdominal wall in this way.
Personal hygiene and physical training for women Anna Mary Galbraith , 1911
The Curved Front Corset
The corset is applied to the trunk of the body, consisting of the thoracic cavity, a distensible cage containing and filled by the heart and lungs; second, the abdominal cavity, whose walls are almost wholly composed of muscles, and containing the fiver and the entire digestive apparatus; and third, the pelvic cavity, whose walls are partly bony and partly muscular.
When the anterior wall of the body is forced to take the shape of this curved corset, it is pressed back toward the vertebral column, and even when the corset is not laced tightly, there is always more or less constriction of the base of the thorax, so that a serious deformity of the lower part of the thorax and abdomen is produced; instead of the normal outward curve of the anterior surface of the body, with its most prominent part in the region of the umbilicus, there results a broken fine at the waist, and an obtuse angle is formed here, pointing outward. This causes a marked incurvation of the lower part of the chest and its approach toward the spinal column, with a corresponding flatness of the chest and lessening of the respiratory capacity of the lungs, and the action of the heart is seriously interfered with.
The chest or thorax is forced into the shape of a cone, the lower opening is narrowed, and its walls are brought too near together. The lower ribs become too short, and, if the corset is worn early in life, the upper ribs become too long; and the thorax as a whole is too long.
Just how seriously the curved corsets interfered with the expansion of the lungs was shown in a paper published by Dr. Sargent in 1889. He found that the average lung capacity when corsets were worn was one hundred and thirty-four cubic inches; when corsets were removed, the lungs showed a capacity of one hundred and sixtyseven cubic inches—a gain of thirty-three cubic inches; that is, corsets crippled the lungs to the extent of one fifth of their entire capacity.
By the constriction of the waist, the liver and all the abdominal contents are pushed downward below their normal position, and their functions are greatly interfered with. The effects of this pressure upon the stomach are most disastrous, and cause a host of digestive and nervous troubles. There is very frequently a prolapsus of the kidneys; the right one is more frequently prolapsed than the left, owing to the relation of the right kidney to the liver.
The Straight Front Corset
This corset, when worn loose, is a great improvement on the curved-front corset. When properly fitted, all the compression comes at the hips and across the lower part of the abdomen, which is lifted up, and the waist-line is increased in size. This corset has for its base of support the bony pelvis, and there should be sufficient space to easily introduce the hand between the lower part of the thorax and the corset. In this case there is great freedom of movement of the entire chest cavity, so that respiration is not nearly so much interfered with as in the curved-front corset, and if the corset is properly fitted, the lower part of the abdomen is raised together with the contained viscera, and, indeed, this style corset is prescribed in cases of prolapsus of the kidneys.
By having the base of support from the bony pelvis, the chest is left free, and a good chest expansion and its throwing forward is favored, and at the same time an erect carriage is secured.
The waist-line runs below the short ribs, which lengthens the waist, producing graceful lines without compression.
But not all straight front corsets fill these conditions. Unless sufficiently long and well fitted about the hips, they may fail to raise and support the abdomen, and when too tightly worn may press too strongly upon the abdomen in the pretext of obliterating it, with the result that it is placed in a vice from before back. Pressed down, the intestines find a means of escape at the lower border of the corset.
The front of the corset is frequently carried too high up, and does not leave the epigastric region sufficiently free. The corset must absolutely not be thoracic, and must definitely renounce the support of the breasts, which should be accomplished when necessary by an extra bust supporter. The long straight corset immobilizes the trunk in the same manner as the curved front corset.
Hopefully this article has helped dispel some of the myths and confusion surrounding the straight-front corset. Now that you've seen the evidence, what's your verdict?


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In Which She Ponders the Array of Choices in Crackers:
I can't, CANNOT, seem to buy crackers successfully or with any sort of speed at all. Does anyone else have this problem? I get to that aisle and there is this ridiculous abundance of choice, and I get totally stuck, my eyes racing from brand to brand and subgenre of cracker (thin? thick?) to subgenre (wheat? rice? devoid of trans fat or...?). I stand in a sea of crackers for absurd stretches of time: Late July, Kashi, Tamari Rice, Health Valley, Stoned Wheat…
Sometimes I wish I were in a society where there was less choice. Like in a Communist country. There would be downsides, true. For example, there was probably no tamari rice cracker in East Berlin. So you have no tamari rice cracker and that blows. Then again, on the bright side, there's no tamari rice cracker. Just plain old crackers. You reach out, purchase them, and leave. No agonizing over the myriad cracker-options. No computing of individuated-cracker-to-price ratio. No boggling of the mind by something quite so thin, insubstantial, here-today-gone-tonight as a bloody square of compressed wheat. Or rice. Or puffed soy.
Yes, buying crackers is paralyzingly tricky for me. And now my staggering inefficiency at cracker-choosing has morphed into a newfound blankness at the bread aisle too. I am in a new place and the breads are strangers to me. So much so that after a glacial eon of hesitation had me frozen in the bread section last week, Crabtot leaned toward me from her perch in the cart and said, "For God's sake, Mommy!"
Quite right.
In a related point, I had what I think will turn out to be a typical Crabcity moment. Here in my new west coast world, the local QFC grocery store baking aisle sports an eyecatching mix called "hemp brownies." Now that's a happy toddler for you! They also sell bongs and didgeridoos at this grocery.
Okay, not quite.
In a slightly unrelated segue: I had one of my first truly crunchy-west eavesdropping experiences. At a playground, a dad with Willy Nelson braids was telling some German woman a recipe. "You just sauté the tofu, add some Kashi, then hot sauce, then the flax seed and only AFTER the ginger do you put in the bulgur. You can also use quinoa instead. The kids really love it." And then they headed off for cranio-sacral massages.
But sadly, I love Crabcity so much that it is hard to make fun of. For now. Which is probably good. Because apparently I am not funny anyway: I am still smarting a tad from an incensed reader who commented over at the bloglet on my piece, When Parents Attack! Feel free to tell her off for me if you have oodles of time and can think of nothing better than wading through the pop-ups on my bloody bloglet. Please feel free to lob a zinger at that lady. I have said enough. In fact, I shouldn't have said a thing. I mean, who does she think she is, attacking me like that? I'm the one who gets to talk smack about other moms, not her!
Sheesh. The nerve.
Stay tuned. I have a host of pithier posts coming up. And hold on, hold on until June when the C-tot hits school and my personal website here will get more attention. Plus I will also be doing more giveaways. Which will cause many of you to label me a blog-whore but hey, WHO CARES if I can get me some free swag. And you. Because the truth of it is that if I want to run with the big gals in this here blogging world—and I do (because it's my "work")—I need to offer something to rival the riveting content of fundmentalist Christian homeschooling blogs. No, seriously, I am lining up some good stuff for these freebie festivals. Some of the swagginess is personally gratifying: sweet, cheapo, but beautiful and original things I have found with my own eyes and which benefit the world's natural environment in huge ways, while simultaneously raising money to feed everyone everywhere, all the time. And that can mean only one source here at Crabmommy: the Dollar Store.
Okay, what was I saying? Dollar Store prizes aside (and there are always more of those to come on this site), I'm working on finding cool and delectable and nifty things to give away. And I have found some good goodies that are good and do good. But that's only some of the loot. Other stuff is sheer utter corporate swagibility that is to be foisted upon this blog readership. My motto: if they bring it, I will fling it! At my readers, that is. Mind you, I have already nixed a wide array of useless and ugly and cheesy stuff, so don't think I'm not discriminating. There will be only quality loot in these giveaways. Ish. So rest assured.
Now, for those who think giveaways are completely lame and wankish: I'm going to do them on weekends so as not to interfere with the HIGH ART and literary-minded parenting pursuits I like to delve into in the week. Fair?
As for you who want to know what I want for Mother's Day (the sixty million dollar question that has been clogging up my inbox [joke]): nothing. I want nothing at all and I mean it literally. And as we moms all know, a day of nothing at all is hard to come by.
Anyone else got a randomoment to share? Or something to tell us about Mother's Day? What's MD all about at your crib?
I wish you all a good one and please God, not breakfast in bed. May you not receive breakfast in bed. (Am I the only one who does not like b in b?)
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Randomommy #3, Observations from the Domestic Frontier
In Which She Ponders the Array of Choices in Crackers:
Posted by Crabmommy at 9:14 PM
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15 comments:
- Fall From Grace said...
I loath b&b.I dread b&b. I offered to get up and whip cream for the pancakes so I could avoid b&b. (does anyone remember that stomach turning commercial: "...we dont' have the stuff to make pancakes.") They're not going for it. I might go for b&b if I didn't know I'd have to eventually haul my butt out of bed to clean up the ungodly mess created by hub and children concocting b&b.
And I never get it right anyway; I'm not sure of the parameters. Can I get up and shower? Can I get up to pee? Do I have to pretend to be asleep? Should I fake surprise? At what point do I scream at my lazy kids to get the frig OUTTA BED, mommy's getting hungry!!!
Every year, the only gift I've ever requested on Mother's Day is for my kids to stop bitching/whining/fighting/crabbing (no offense). So far, nadda. But this year is looking up; we get to attend a model train show (wtf?!?! should this not be offered on Father's Day weekedn...?). In a nod to moms, there is also a giant used crap sale in the same building. I'm all atwitter.
- May 8, 2008 at 5:58 AM
- Fall From Grace said...
I just read the Cookiemag blog. (frig signing up there, too complicated)May I suggest that CC's cookies aren't the only thing that's crumbling in her world? She needs a re-lax. Breakfast in bed, perhaps? A little gin in the teapot? My grandma didn't call it 'mommy's little helper' for nothing.
- May 8, 2008 at 6:38 AM
- Xan said...
Crabmommy, CLEARLY you are failing to recognize this person's obvious superior parenting skills. I mean, jeez. Bow down already.
As for mother's day, I'd like to spend some special quality time with a Stephen King novel and a cheese sandwich. Or two. Yeah, two sandwiches.
- May 8, 2008 at 7:19 AM
Love the crabiness here. My last b&b resulted in a bed full of coffee and a dog making away with my stale bagel. I'm considering running away for the day. Or going on strike. I saw that on a made for tv movie of the week once. If it can work there then I'm sold.
- May 8, 2008 at 7:43 AM
- kpmac said...
The bloglet attacker: she really did drive the point home. What a cow!
I'm having a moment of sympathy for the unfortunate young women who will, perhaps, one day become mothers to CC's grandchildren. She's the kind of mother-in-law that could cause real problems in a marriage.
I'm with everyone here on breakfast in bed for mother's day. There is nothing good about it. Instead, I'm escaping with my mother, grandmother and sister for breakfast without children. Following breakfast, we'll find something to do - anything at all - to delay going back.
- May 8, 2008 at 8:51 AM
The bloglet attacker has a need to respond to every single comment back at her...that should tell you all you need to know right there. She is so defensive and insecure, it IS scary.
I've never had b in b. Last year was my first mother's day (spent adopting in China), so I have no idea what might happen this year...although, if it involves any more family togetherness time in my bed, I'll pass. I get plenty of togetherness in the form of my kicking and squirming tot when she climbs in most mornings around four, thank you very much.
- May 8, 2008 at 11:13 AM
wow! cookiecrumbs really seems to have too much time on her hands.
- May 8, 2008 at 11:27 AM
- Danielle said...
New here-
and wow! Cookie crumbs is bananas! Wonder what her sprited children were doing when she was busy playing high and mighty and mean... hmm. ickyness.
Love your blog!!!
- May 8, 2008 at 4:28 PM
That crunchy recipe sounds god-awful. But puzzlingly (is that even a word?) I want to taste the outcome.
- May 8, 2008 at 7:35 PM
- Jenny said...
Considering cookiecrumb's confusion over how blogs work, how punctuation works, and how the term "snark" works, I actually want to compliment her for figuring out how to power up that big scary computer machine and get it to her let her onto the internets. But I'm not going to register at cookie to do so.
- May 9, 2008 at 9:54 AM
- Daytrippingmom Media said...
I hate b and b.. hate is to light of a word- detest is better. I would love a day of nothing but at the beach.. with my laptop.. that's it.. oh and by the way cookiecrumbs is probably the same hag that I ran into at a local pizza joint and chastised me for letting my 3 year old take a sip of my diet coke
- May 9, 2008 at 10:28 AM
- Cass said...
I just found your blog (I was blog surfing, because I have nothing better to do with my life - haha), and just wanted to say HELLO! And you make me laugh. Loud. And I love it. Thank you. :D
- May 9, 2008 at 9:03 PM
- Mommyrella said...
Mother's Day? We should call that Mommyrella's Day. This is the one day where I get to go to the ball, and the fam can do all my work. Think I'm kidding? I made them a list, room-by-room, bullet pointed, of how I clean the house and would like it done. At the top, I put "Do weekly grocery shopping 'See attached list.' Wash, fold, and put away all laundry. Have dinner ready by 6:30." My son called it "slavery." I answered, 'Yes. But I do this every week and you only have to do it one day in 365.' Then I told him he and his dad and sis had better start on Saturday to get it all done. Forget breakfast in bed. Wash my sheets.
- May 9, 2008 at 10:42 PM
- Jege (Jen) said...
"...And then they headed off for cranio-sacral massages."
God, you make me laugh!!!! That was perfect!
- May 10, 2008 at 12:26 PM
MDay should absolutely be a day when we get to run away from anyone attempting to cling to (or get into) our skirts (husbands included ... obviously). Kid concocted bnb should be outlawed, as we will already be in a hotel room, alone, ordering bnb from room service sometime around noon. With accompanying cocktail. For God's sake, if we can't avoid being mothers on Mother's Day, when can we?
- May 10, 2008 at 6:46 PM


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Heat the pot with a little hot water so that your chocolate will remain hot, then pour the chocolate into the pot.
Moussoir and lid go down together ...
... and you start foaming your chocolate by rubbing the stick between your palms like so.
Serve with a few meringues...
... and drink the dark liquid into oblivion.
The liquid has an intense chocolate taste that disappears into the mouth, leaving only its black memory imprinted onto the tongue. No fatty residue that sticks to your gums like when you use milk. As bitter or sweet as you like - just vary the quantity of sugar to your taste. A real classic.
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Your hot chocolate looks divine!
Btw, thanks to the Spanish who lorded it over this place for more than three hundred years, the Philippines has a tradition of chocolate drinking (we also grow cacao beans) and we also have frothers (batidor). Traditionally, our cocoa comes in "tablets" -- we drink our hot cocoa with a Spanish pastry called churros, and we also pour hot thick sweet chocolate as a sauce over a small rice cake we call suman.
I'll give this recipe a shot because your photos make it look delicious, but I have misgivings about a non-dairy hot chocolate. Just seems it would be richer with milk. Anyway - thanks for a great site! Can't wait to see what you show us next!
Lovely photos as always. I enjoyed the informative post. I've never seen a European chocolate pot and had no idea there was such a thing as a European version of the Mexican molinillo. Fascinating to see evidence of how food, among other things, migrates around the globe.
This could be close to what the Aztecs drank.
I shall change from brandy to chocolate for my breakfast drink.
And how did you take that picture with both hands on the moussoir? :D
xocolātl, a Nahuatl word meaning "bitter water".
If you're on a diet try with less sugar. Cocoa is a very intense flavor and quite delicious when the taste is acquired. I use less and less sugar with my cocoa -to the point where it's impolite to serve it for friends and family now.
Can't you get a cup of hot chocolate in Switzerland that is basically pudding -it looks delicious too.
I would very much like to visit one day the Philippines, it seems a very exciting culinary world. I use a Nikon D300 camera with a little SB-800 off camera strobe shot through an umbrella.
Francois, the Demon of Hedonism
In any event, I figured I'd go ahead and make the recipe anyway and make the drink with my 99% cocoa chocolate. It turned out thin and bitter, but rather quite delicious (not unlike a supermodel, I suppose). I did have to cut a corner and use a coffee pot and a whisk, but I'm sure the result is at least comparable to what I'd get with a chocolate pot.
Brilliant as usual.
All this talk about how chocolate should taste, when it is made properly, reminds me of the mood evoked in Chocolat. It is a movie about a woman and her daughter who opened a chocolate shop in a small French village. Yes, yes don't mention the French to someone Swiss, I saw that response. ;)
Your website is going to either make me fat or end up with a very cluttered collection of specialized cooking gadgets, likely both. :P
I must let you know that there is another step to the preparation on an immaculate drinking chocolate. I learned of this from the sage epicure Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin during some group study of his work.
"'When you wish good chocolate, make it the evening before in a tin pot. The rest of the night gives it a velvet–like flavor that makes it far better. God will not be offended at this little refinement, for in himself is all excellence'" (The Physiology of Taste, Section X).
Believe me, a night to mingle makes a world of difference. Better yet, I find it most enjoyable about 3 days later after some fermentation of the beverage has transmuted the flavor into something otherworldly. (Readers should note that cocoa beans are fermented before they are used to make cocoa powder or chocolate, and this secondary fermentation is nothing to fear. After all, there are no ingredients in the recipe that can spoil or promote harmful bacteria)
Also, try replacing some of the white sugar with a lacing of raw honey. The earthy sweetness is much more complex, and it highlights subtleties in the cocoa as well.
Regards, and enjoy,
Colin Gore
I was thinking of bits of roasted and/or caramelized crushed almonds surrounded by a solid coat of chocolate (surely you have Belgium chocolate covered pralines over there?) floating in a warm mug of hot chocolate.
Or alternatively, this just occured to me, another way to have the hot chocolate would be to sip it through a Tim Tam Australian style. Not sure how easy it'll be to get hold of Tim Tams in Europe though.
Now if I could find the time to showcase, make meals and plan teas on a regular basis, ahh bliss, I'd be all set. Oh well priorities, priorities, priorities. And the endless juggling of them.
What the heck is that ? :-)
With water ?
What about with milk ?
Now seriously, what's the reason for adding water and not milk ?
If you have time please answer to my mail.
Take care,
PS. I also had a laugh with the Evian note... If Evian is evil, I love the gates of hell...
Unfortunately the weather was so hot and humid back home that I never made it again, but now that I'm back in the UK perhaps I can be tempted to whip up another pot by your post.
Awesome pictures and keep up the interesting posts!
Please could you tell me where you got your chocolate pot from please, or alternatively who it is made by?
I can't seem to locate one very easily.
I look forward to hearing from you.
keep up the great work!
Add a pinch each of cinnamon and pasilla chile powders, and leave it in the pot overnight and then reheat (as Colin says above), to really go Aztec style. Theobroma indeed. The stuff is like a drug.
Congratulations again.
In my country they feed children some "instant" made by Nestle's that is actually nasty. Of course it has some form of powder milk in it. Just awful.
I do not know who my mother got the taste from, but I got it from her.... that we use Hershey's Swiss Dark. But we put milk in it; otherwise we think something is wrong. We have been damaged. Damaged by the Americans that lived in the Panama Canal Area.
I once feasted some friends with my version with egg yolk.... just nicely thick, but not too much. Adorably creamy.
Love your expertise and fabulous comments by visitors & yourself.
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Oh, the only chocolate pot available here (US) is $200 and it's from France! How inexpensive were you referring to?
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Can't catch the Padres on TV? Here's my pitch
If a column is considered a hit by the feedback it generates, my piece on the Padres TV fiasco was an absolute moon shot.
It's not a term I use loosely.
"This is not rocket science," astute reader Clair Southgate emailed me. "If we can get to the moon, we should be able to sit these two business interests (team and TV) in a room and get this resolved."
Yet here we are, midway through a sorry season, after an All-Star Game that didn't even feature the lone Padre on the roster, and still about 40 percent of San Diego County's TV viewers can't watch our, ahem, team.
That's a term I do use loosely.
This is our team, though. And our town. So what's a frustrated fan to do? Here's my plan. And yes, I am serious.
Protest the Padres TV fiasco
When: July 22 (next Sunday) at 10 a.m., before the game
Where: Outside
Why: Because no one else is organizing anything
Let's meet July 22, a week from Sunday, outside Petco Park at 10 a.m. to protest the fact that impasses between
That's three hours before the team's 1:05 p.m. start against the Rockies. It should give us plenty of time to vent before you enter Petco Park or saunter off to enjoy a San Diego Sunday.
Here's the deal. I was overwhelmed by the response to my column on the TV wrangling. I got three dozen emails the day the column ran on July 5, and others trickled in for days. Thursday, I wrote back and asked what everyone thought about teaming up.
Most responses were what you would want from a fan base: enthusiastic.
"I think a public rally would be great!"
"Would love a 'mob up' at Petco."
"It would really make me feel good to have some role in helping get Padre baseball available on TV for more San Diegans."
A few people were skeptical, of course. One reader wrote: "The easy part is organizing the fans; they're angry and willing to act. The hard part is convincing your own editors to do something."
If that's the hard part, this is going to be a breeze. Seriously, we may swing and miss, but the size and makeup of our crowd on July 22 will show these TV executives how San Diego feels.
Big crowd? Big message. Small crowd? Small chance people like you and me without Cox Cable or
It may be akin to climbing a mountain, but it's a start at least.
So are you in or are you out? Who wants to show the O'Malley family just what a fired-up fandom looks like so that if they do buy the team, they might adjust the Padres' priorities and intervene in the TV mess?
Last week, I heaped out a Mount Rushmore of blame for this fiasco, naming people who should be shaming the TV execs into a deal. I called out current team owner John Moores, San Diego Mayor
This situation would not exist in Boston, my old stomping grounds, I wrote last week. People would take to the streets with bats of their own. That's true, but it didn't sit too well with some of you.
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Tyler Havener's win seals Oneida wrestling's victory over Mount Markham
WEST WINFIELD -- Oneida's wrestling team trailed Mount Markham 39-34 entering the final match of their dual meet Tuesday. Tyler Havener made them a winner.
Havener reversed McKenzie Dorie then pinned him late in the second period to cap a back-and-forth match and gave Oneida a 40-39 win.
The meet was back and forth until MM went on a 21-0 run toward the end. Havener, the team's 285-pounder, took a 9-4 lead in the first period despite being put on his back. Havener earned back points to start the second period, was reversed then did likewise to set up his pin in 3:39 against the No. 3-ranked wrestler in Division II.
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This is a group of people I trained with for months,
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Along with Friday's launch of two new iPhones, Apple has released iOS 7, the latest update to its mobile operating system that runs the smartphone as well as the iPad and iPod Touch.
Whether you sat through an hours-long download on Wednesday or plan on upgrading your phone or tablet today, here are some tips and tricks for navigating Apple's new iOS.
1. Breaking down Command Center. Swiping from the bottom of the touchscreen up brings up one of iOS 7's big features. Along the top are five settings options: Airplane Mode, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Do Not Disturb and Orientation Lock. Users flip between turning these on and off with simple taps on the preferred icon.
The middle is where users control the phone's brightness and music. Four native apps appear along the bottom: a new flashlight, calculator, clock and the camera. It's also accessible while the phone is locked.
2. Shutting down apps. Normally, if users want to close out apps, they double tap the home button and pick the apps they want to close. In iOS 7, after the double tap, apps now appear as a series of screens users scroll left to right (similar to how mobile Safari might organize multiple pages). To close apps, users simply swipe up.
3. Performing a phone search. Instead of scrolling completely to the left to search for content on your phone, it's accessible through a swipe similar to viewing notifications. While users would place their thumb at the very top of the screen and swipe down, users swipe down anywhere on the screen to bring up a Search field.
4. Folders get bigger. Say farewell to limits on the number of apps users can keep in a single folder. Each one will now hold as many apps as you choose.
5. Using the camera. There are more options right in front of you, like High Dynamic Range and Panorama. There's also a new Square option and native filters, a nod to Instagram fans. Photos are organized a bit differently, too. There's the standard albums, but when you tap the Photos icon at the bottom left, you can view images as "collections" sorted by date.
6. Blocking numbers. Let's say a user gets phone calls or messages from a number they don't want. There's now an option to block callers. You can do this with contacts, or numbers found in the Recents menu. Click the info button on the right and scroll down to Block. The feature will block any phone calls, messages or FaceTime chats from that contact.
7. Apps are changing, too. Most notable is mobile browser Safari, which gets major upgrade with new design and Shared Links fed through Twitter and available through the Bookmarks tab. Music adds iTunes Radio, which features a variety of free radio stations for users to peruse, similar to Pandora. Since it's linked to iTunes, you can directly buy music from a station, too.
Even third-party apps are getting a new look. Take Facebook, for example, which moves access to Notifications, Friend Requests and other options to the bottom of the screen with a cleaner design matching iOS 7.
As for updating apps, users can now choose to have apps automatically update instead of push them through manually. The App Store will show a list of apps that have been recently updated.
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Eve is once again working with the folk song Storms On the Ocean. In lesson 15 you'll be looking at different strumming techniques that can be used to spice up the song.
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Eve Goldberg is proud to present a brand new series on folk music. In this lesson, she talks about the history of folk, her background with folk, and what to expect in this series moving forward.Length: 15:02 Difficulty: 0.0 FREE
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Eve Goldberg returns to her Folk Guitar series with a look at a new traditional folk song. Specifically, she's turning her attention to the song Storms On the Ocean as played by the Carter family. In...Length: 20:05 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Eve is once again working with the folk song Storms On the Ocean. In lesson 15 you'll be looking at different strumming techniques that can be used to spice up the song.Length: 16:37 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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In part four of her look at Storms On the Ocean, Eve discusses adding melodic content to the song. To get you started, she'll use the vocal melody to help you lay in a basic melody that can be expanded...Length: 18:42 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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In the previous lesson, Eve went over a basic melody idea covering the verse of the song. In lesson 18 she's going to expand on that melody and discuss ways of spicing it up!Length: 19:41 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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In lesson 19 of her Folk series, Even discusses the chorus section melody to Storms On the Ocean. In this lesson you'll find the basic melody based off of the chords you're playing and start laying a...Length: 23:39 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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In the previous lesson you went over the bare bones melody for the chorus. Lesson 20 is all about spicing that melody up so that you can add it to the verse melody.Length: 19:58 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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To wrap up her song study of Storms On the Ocean, Eve discusses ways of combining all the elements taught in the previous seven lessons. She demonstrates a couple different ways that you may want to accomplish...Length: 19:58 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Imagine a kitchen party where Mother Maybelle Carter, Ella Fitzgerald, Mississippi John Hurt, Bessie Smith, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and Patsy Cline show up, and you begin to get a sense of what it feels like inside songwriter Eve Goldberg's head. Never one to restrict herself to one genre of music, Eve has performed her trademark mixture of folk, blues, country, bluegrass, old time, and jazz in venues ranging from small house concerts to the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington DC since 1990.
Eve was born in the Boston area but has called Toronto, Ontario home since 1981. As a child, she was dragged to folk concerts by the likes of The Weavers, Doc Watson, Arlo Guthrie, the Watersons, and countless others. Eventually it sank in, and as a teenager she began to devour all kinds of contemporary and traditional roots music. She began performing in 1990, and hasn't looked back since. Along the way she's earned the respect of legendary musicians like Peggy Seeger, Geoff Muldaur, and Penny Lang.
Her watercolour voice and solid guitar style has become a favourite at festivals, folk clubs, and concert series across Canada and the US. With an equal passion for traditional music, and for the art of songwriting and interpretation, Eve's performances are intimate and relaxed, moving effortlessly from folk classics to original gems, all wrapped up in her clear, pure voice and dynamic guitar playing. She has released two albums to widespread acclaim -- 1998's "Ever Brightening Day" released on her own Sweet Patootie Music label, and 2003's "Crossing the Water," released by The Borealis Recording Company. Her instrumental tune "Watermelon Sorbet" was used for years as the opening theme to the popular CBC national radio show "Richardson's Roundup."
Her latest album "A Kinder Season" was released in September 2007 on Borealis Records (US Release: Jan 9, 2007). Recorded in the months after her mother's death, the album is a remarkable personal testament to the joy and hope that lurks somewhere beyond the heartache, and the sweetness that can be found even in the bitterest seasons of life. Produced by Ken Whiteley, "A Kinder Season" features twelve new originals that firmly establish Eve as a compelling and thoughtful writer whose songs draw honey from the rock of human experience. As legendary blues musician Geoff Muldaur put it, "As far as I'm concerned, Eve Goldberg is on the verge of riches. Big name folks would want to get hold of this stuff."
In January 2008, Eve released "The Streets of Burma," a song inspired by the peaceful demonstrations of monks and nuns in Burma in September 2007. Since then, Amnesty International Canada has used the song as part of its campaign to free U Gambira, one of the monks arrested following his participation in the protests. Visitors to www.amnesty.ca/streetsofburma/ can listen to a preview of the song, find out more about the situation in Burma, sign an e-postcard to help free U Gambira, and if they want, download the song in exchange for a donation to Amnesty International Canada.
"A pure and pleasing voice and a performance style that know no bounds."
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