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Tweet Heat – The hottest Tweets of the Month [Dec 2012]Categories Articles
This is a guest post by Jan Rajtoral (AKA Gonzo the Great), founder of gonzodesign, a Dutch design studio specialized in graphic and (responsive) web design. He also writes for the gonzoblog.nl, where above anything else, his passion for writing, technology, communication and design drives him to contribute.
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In this article we're going to take a look what has been published this last month on the Blogosphere. We hand-picked a selection with the best Resources, Tutorials, Scripts/Snippet and WordPress related Articles for you. All these design-related links have been mentioned on Twitter in the last month, and collected in this single article. So, I hope you'll enjoy this roundup cause we think that having resources and staying up-to-date is important in your personal growth and development.
And .. of course: Happy New Year y'all!
HTML, CSS, PhP, Coding & Resources
Create Emails for Any Device: Introducing Responsive Email Templates – With so many readers viewing emails on mobile, we knew there had to be an easier way to ensure campaigns look swank on any device.
How to use the CSS3 transition property – CSS3′s transition is a great way to add a little animation to sites without the large overhead of a JavaScript library like jQuery.
A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks – CSS frameworks have gone responsive, squeezing content into a spectrum of desktop and mobile browsers with varying degrees of success.
Is It Adaptive or Responsive Web Design? – There seems to be a lot of confusion in the industry among both us web folk and clients about the differences between adaptive and responsive web design. I've even seen someone go so far as to say they're both the same thing. They're not.
Stop designing for screen width, design for content – When choosing your breakpoints, you should always be making your decisions based on where the content breaks and not to device screen widths.
Pros and Cons of Using Grids in Web Design – Designers are increasingly learning that the approach that has traditionally been used in the worlds of graphic design and print publishing can deliver huge benefits when building websites.
Parallax Tools and Techniques – Using parallax to give your website some depth and added interest is great, but try to avoid too much of it or you may end up with a site that has too much going on.
Testing @font-face Support on Mobile and Tablet – A few attempts to document font-face support across desktop devices, including the article @font-face feature detection on Paul Irish's blog, are often misleading and deprecated when it comes to the mobile world of pain.
Giving CSS Animations and Transitions Their Place – Here are a pair of methods I've found to be pretty helpful in keeping the potential bloat and wire-crossing under control when CSS has its hands in both presentation and behaviour.
PHP Anonymous Functions: What Are They, and Why Use Them? – In this tutorial you'll explore anonymous functions in PHP. Anonymous functions are a PHP feature that you probably won't use that often; however, they can be really useful in certain situations.
How To Work With Linear, Radial, And Repeating CSS Gradients – Gradients are things of progressive enhancement and not usability requirements. They should never be essential to your design working. In other words if someone using IE8 can't see your gradient, it's not a big deal.
Best Practices When Working With JavaScript Templates – Like any other tool or technique, there are a few best practices that you should keep in mind, when using templates. We'll take a look at a handful of these practices.
PHPitfalls – The first thing you come across when starting out with PHP is probably the fact that it has an extremely bad reputation. You will hear lots of things, including "it doesn't scale", "it's not a real language", "it doesn't have X so it ..
:hover is dead – With the proliferation of touch enabled devices, the :hover pseudoelement is dying. How many times have you tried to access a menu orsome form of navigation on a touch enabled device only to find that themega-menu is based on :hover events.
Nine Ways to Improve User Experience in Mobile Design – how to build a great mobile site, and here are nine tips from the book for optimizing your site for all those mobile site visitors.
How to design forms that convert – Any time one of these forms is abandoned we lose a potential customer, so it's in our best interests to make sure as many people as possible complete the form.
12 Design Best Practices for Drop-Down Menus – We often focus optimization activities on landing pages, checkouts and home pages, and less on the pages that provide the "assists" in conversion.
A Harder-Working Class – In the next handful of paragraphs, we will look at how these emerging practices – such as object-oriented CSS and SMACSS – are pushing the relevance of class
Using web fonts in email – If you've ever flirted with using web fonts in your email designs, it may be your lucky day. With the @import CSS at-rule, support for less-traditional typefaces is looking better than ever.
Placeholders and Overflow – Unfortunately in some circumstances the INPUT element's placeholder text doesn't fit within the length of the element, thus displaying an ugly "cut off." To prevent this ugly display, you can use CSS placeholder styling and
text-overflow: ellipsis!
CSS Click Events – An article about different experimental approaches of employing click events using CSS only. It summarizes and shows some clever hacks and smart tricks.
Which JavaScript Recipe Is Right For You? – Let's start with some fundamental negatives. JavaScript has no good answer for some really basic features of modern programming languages: private variables and functions, packages and modules, standard localization mechanisms, ..
CSS Baseline: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly – Vertical rhythm is clearly an important part of Web design, yet on the subject of baseline, our community seems divided and there is no consensus as to how it fits in — if at all — with our growing and evolving toolkit for designing online.
Calc()ulating layouts & backgrounds with CSS – It's pretty easy — the
calc() function can be used anywhere lengths are required. This means it can be used in margin, padding, width, heights background-position, and a lot more.
How to Detect DOM Changes in CSS – Traditionally the two classical methods for detecting DOM changes are 1) using a timer, or 2) binding on the DOM mutation events. Both methods suck.
Vexing Viewports – Browser makers in turn agree to support those standards and set defaults appropriately, so we can hold up our end of the deal. This agreement has never been more important.
Conditional loading of resources with mediaqueries – Here is a quick idea about making mediaqueries not only apply styles according to certain criteria being met, but also loading the resources needed on demand.
The Worst UI Pattern in Existence – Infinite scroll + footer. Scroll through page content to the footer. As you start reading the footer links, the site injects new content into the page and the footer gets pushed down below the fold.
What's the Difference Between Fixed, Fluid, Adaptive, and Responsive Web Design? – As a web designer, it's important to embrace that your website is going to look different in various browsers and on different devices.
The Pros & Cons of Responsive Web Design – However, now with Responsive Web Design, a page is constructed in a way that it automatically adapts to the device's screen size. Although, there are many advantages to Responsive web design, there are few disadvantages as well.
Writing Semantic Microformats & Microdata in HTML Markup – I want to dedicate this article as an introduction to microformats and microdata. Google does recommend using these formats in your HTML code if you want to increase SEO rankings.
Dive into Flexbox – Flexbox is a new layout mode in CSS3 that is designed for the more sophisticated needs of the modern web. This article will describe the newly-stablized Flexbox syntax in technical detail.
CSS Masks – How To Use Masking In CSS Now – Today I want to talk about another WebKit-only feature and show you how you might be able to use it across all of the browsers: This is about…
How To Deal With Vendor Prefixes – If you write CSS you almost surely need to be using vendor prefixes on some parts of the code you write in order to ensure the best browser support. So how do we author CSS so that we always are using the correct prefixes all the time?
Introducing the HTML5 Datalist Element – But what if we want the user to be free to enter what they please whilst at the same being given some suggestions? This is where
datalist comes in.
Choose the right PHP framework – Frameworks provide a foundation where developers' code can be neatly arranged. Documentation, common problems, solutions, tips and advice can be shared online in an open source fashion.
Getting to Know CSS3 Selectors: Other Pseudo-Classes – In this article, I'll review the remaining pseudo-classes introduced in CSS3: the state-based, target, and negation pseudo-classes.
Creating Semantic 2-Column and 3-Column CSS Layouts – In this tutorial I want to look over a series of different CSS column layouts. We can see how to build websites using floats and direct positioning. There are new standards being written so frequently it can be difficult to gauge the best possible solution.
5 Use Cases for Icon Fonts – Icon fonts are great: You can CSS the crap out of them and they don't mind, They look good on any display or resolution and There is only one HTTP request for any size set of icons. Let's look at 5 typical uses cases for icon fonts.
Scrolling Performance – Scrolling doesn't immediately seem like something you'd think about from a performance perspective. After all, your content is styled and all your assets are loading or loaded, so why all of a sudden might we care about what happens when you scroll?
A Responsive Off-Canvas Menu – We need to embrace the viewport and do more than stack content vertically; one very long scroll is no better UX than a zoomed out, fixed-width format.
Choose The Best Responsive Email Layout For Your Message – When thinking about email, these patterns help designers understand the way subscribers are learning to interact and the way brands are working to create sustainable investments in the new approach.
10 Easy Things All Web Developers Should Do For Web Accessibility – If you don't know anything about ARIA or web accessibility, but you still want to make it possible for all users to use your website? We'll explore ten easy things that all web developers should get used to doing.
Page Weight Matters – Many of us are fortunate to live in high bandwidth regions, but there are still large portions of the world that do not. By keeping your client side code small and lightweight, you can literally open your product up to new markets.
A Visual Database Gallery In Pure CSS – This effect is best suited to a portfolio of two dozen images or less. The goal is to filter the works by type to allow the visitor to view images in different categories, just as a true database would, only visually.
StackSlider: A Fun 3D Image Slider – An experimental image slider that flips through images in 3D. Two stacks resemble image piles where images will be lifted off from and rotated to the center for viewing.
Responsive & Touch-Friendly Audio Player – A jQuery audio player plugin that is responsive and touch-friendly. The UI is css-only, no images used.
Build an Adaptive CSS Modal Window – This tutorial is yet another fun CSS project that helps you build something that you may have thought was only possible with JavaScript. We're going to create a modal window that can be shown and hidden with a click that's powered by a CSS checkbox.
Make A Responsive CSS3 Image Slider – Web developers desire solutions that not only scale across viewport sizes, but perform well on mobile devices. The responsive solution detailed here is particularly well-suited to those goals, as it avoids JavaScript entirely, running purely in CSS3
Make a Jquery and CSS3 powered Lightbox Gallery – Learn to make a fully functional lightbox using Jquery with both mouse and keyboard based controls for navigating images. The thumbnails have cool hover effects with zoom icons added by CSS3 pseudo elements to save on repetitive HTML.
Fullscreen Pageflip Layout – A tutorial on how to create a fullscreen pageflip layout using BookBlock. The idea is to flip the content like book pages and access the pages via a sidebar menu that will slide out from the left.
Coding a Minimalist Portfolio Layout with Dynamically Sorted Projects – I want to demonstrate how we can build a dynamic filtered portfolio list using jQuery. To speed up the development process we can use a jQuery plugin Quicksand to help with the sorting animations.
Creating a 3D Button in CSS3 – Today I want to show you how to use some of the awesome new features in CSS3 to create an animated, three-dimensional button. To start off, we care about creating a fun experience that works to its ..
Sticky Captions Concept – A little trick on how to make captions of thumbnails or items "sticky" in order to stay visible in the window or viewport. The main idea is to see when a hovered element overflows the viewport and show the caption in the right place by changing its position from absolute to fixed.
Create a Flexible Folded Paper Effect With CSS3 – In this tutorial we'll learn to create a flexible (responsive) folded paper effect using CSS3 features like background gradients and box-shadows, which can give a cool-looking background to the content area of your website.
Create Polaroid Image With CSS – In this tutorial we are going to display images in a polaroid style using just CSS. The links will need a title attribute as we will use this as the text for the image caption.
Create an Animated Share Menu With CSS – Today, we're going to build a simple sharing menu that integrates an icon font as well as some animations. The final product is inspired by Disqus, but has a unique twist of its own.
How To Code a Vertical Accordion Nav Menu with jQuery – In this tutorial I will demonstrate how we can build a simple vertical navigation accordion menu using CSS3 and jQuery techniques. We can build custom styles and format the links to slide down & up on each click.
Slider Pagination Concept – An experimental slider pagination using the jQuery UI slider. The idea is to use a simple navigation concept that preserves layout and style while allowing content to stay easily accessible.
CSS Card Tricks – Know any good card tricks? Hopefully, after today, you will! We're going to build some simple and attractive playing cards with pure CSS, then we'll learn how to target and animate each card for some added fun.
Wishing You A Responsive and Retina-Friendly Xmas! – An experiment with different responsive (and retina-friendly) background-images and various media-queries. Show a different background-image in every defined media-query.
Tools (web applications, bookmarklets, frameworks etc.)
GoSquared – Use real-time analytics to understand what's happening on your site. GoSquared provides analytics behind your site's traffic the moment a visitor lands on your homepage. Not a second later.
MQFramework – A responsive CSS framework based on a 12 column grid, has been structured to suit different needs, be it from a new project to fitting into an existing project with very little changes to the code.
Rounded Rectangle Radius Resizer – This tool will allow you to edit the radius of a rounded rectangle after you've drawn it.
Proto.io – A new UI prototyping tool specifically tailored for mobile applications. The web based environment allows you to start off by creating a project for popular devices like iPhone, iPad, Android phones or tablets, as well as any device with a screen interface.
Extensionizr – A good start to create a Chrome extension and it is also open source. The tool has various options to choose like: the extension type, background page, content scripts, permissions to Chrome modules and more..
xander.io – 90/10 is simple and better than A/B. 90% of page requests go towards your best variant. 10% of your page requests go towards finding the next best variant.
Copybar.io – A simple but revolutionary feature. For any website, on any platform, you can edit your content directly on the page. You do not need to login to a backend. You do not need to toggle between your editor and your page.
Site44 – Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites. Edit your HTML locally, and your website will always be up-to-date. Creating a new website with our free plan takes less than a minute
GAS – A wrapper around the Google Analytics Tracking API from Google. It tries to add new functionality while keeping the same API. GAS is not an official Google library and GAS developers are not affiliated with Google.
wysihtml5 – An open source rich text editor based on HTML5 technology and the progressive-enhancement approach. It uses a sophisticated security concept and aims to generate fully valid HTML5 markup by preventing unmaintainable tag soups and inline styles.
Lorempixels – Placeholder Images for every case. Webdesign or Print. It's simple and absolutely free! Just put the custom url in your code to get your FPO / dummy image.
Framote – Give us an initial URL and we'll generate you a Framote.com short link which will embed yours. You'll be able to change the embedded URL anytime.
Centurion – A CSS framework, built using SASS and CSS3 media queries, for creating (mostly prototype) layouts that behave good on all devices. It includes a 960px grid (that scales down to 320px), can handle image scaling and has a navigation with desktop and mobile versions.
HTML5 Bones – A template that goes back to basics and provides you with the bare minimum required to get going withHTML5. Inline comments explain how and when to use some of the most common HTML5 elements.
jQuery Plugins, Javascript, etc.
FooTable – A jQuery plugin that aims to make HTML tables on smaller devices look awesome – No matter how many columns of data you may have in them. FooTable transforms your HTML tables into expandable responsive tables.
Alertify – A fully customizable alert, confirm and prompt dialogs JavaScript notification system.
extender – A library that helps in making APIs chainable. It does this by creating a function that accepts different values and returns an object with functions based on the type.
Vegas – An exciting jQuery plugin for creating fullscreen backgrounds for web pages. The plugin's capability is not limited to displaying a single image but can also rotate a list of images automatically.
sigma.js – An open-source and lightweight JavaScript library for drawing graphs, using the HTML canvas element. It has been designed to display interactive static graphs exported from a graph visualization software.
FooTable – A jQuery plugin that aims to make HTML tables on smaller devices look awesome – No matter how many columns of data you may have in them. FooTable transforms your HTML tables into expandable responsive tables.
version.is – An API for getting the latest version of Open Source projects
Tweed – jQuery plugin for dysplaying a simple feed of recent tweets. Type of query that determines what kind of API request will be made. Three types of queries are supported
TypedJS ~ Save your JavaScript code by sanity checking it. Harness the power of type annotations and program specifications to make your code robust. It's easy to get started.
Aware.js – A simple jQuery plugin that allows a site to customize and personalize the display of content based on a reader's behavior without requiring login, authentication, or any server-side processing.
ABalytics.js – A pure javascript library allows you to do simple A/B testing working only on your client-side code. All data is registered as custom variables in your website Google Analytics profile, so you don't need to configure anything server side.
QuoJS – A micro, modular, Object-Oriented and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, and Ajax interactions for rapid mobile web development.
jQuery.Shapeshift – Inspired heavily by the jQuery Masonry plugin, Shapeshift by Scott Elwood is a jQuery plugin that will dynamically arrange a collection of elements into a grid in their parent container (like on Pinterest).
WordPress Related
Glider – A one-template-file WordPress theme that uses jQuery's .load() function to ping WordPress for single posts, then inline-loads the post in question – this results in the ability to read all the posts without any (apparent) page loads.
Customizing the WordPress Menu with Custom Classes – The standard menu in WordPress, while powerful and easy to add onto almost any theme, leaves a bit to be desired when it comes to styling.
Add Custom Post Types to Tags and Categories in WordPress – Out of the box, WordPress does not automatically take your newly created custom post types and add them to the archive pages for existing taxonomies 'categories' or 'tags.'
How to Create a Custom Options Page in WordPress – One thing that seems to define technology is that users like both ease of use and the ability to customize the appearance of everything they use. Custom preferences pages within the WordPress are the best way to combine these interests.
Conditional Variables and Database Queries within WordPress – The development team behind the world's most popular content management solution has included a way to alter templates "on the fly" using database queries and conditional variables.
Discover WordPress Conditional Tags – They are simply great because thanks to these tags it's very easy to create conditional statements. You can for example display content only for some users, or load scripts only if a page is using ..
How to Create WordPress Photo Galleries with the New 3.5 Media Manager – The biggest change in the recently released 3.5 version of WordPress was undoubtedly the way media is handled. Not only did the Media Library change, but the way galleries are created also changed.
The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Permalinks – One important consideration when building and setting up a new WordPress site is definitely your URL structure, better known in WordPress as the permalink structure.
Inserting Widgets With Shortcodes – The shortcode ability of WordPress is extremely underrated. It enables the end user to create intricate elements with a few keystrokes while also modularizing editing tasks.
Practical Tips for Improving Your Code – So rather than focus on how to build something or review any particular code, let's review a few practical tips for writing quality WordPress code.
Optimize WordPress in Five Minutes Tips and Tricks – I have to say that it is not an easy task to maintain a clean WordPress website especially if multiple authors are producing content.
10 Things I Hate About WordPress (And How to Fix Them)– it's about providing solutions to some common problems. One cool thing about WordPress is that if you don't like something, you can always contribute your idea for a fix because it's open source.
How to Integrate Google Maps Into WordPress Shortcodes – Well, it`s not that hard and requires minimum PHP knowledge. To prove you, I`m going to create a shortcode which allows us to integrate Google Maps into any post/page.
Add a SlideShare Presentation to Your WordPress Site – Slideshare is a popular online presentation viewing service. Members can upload presentations in multiple formats, host them in the cloud and deliver them through Slideshare's viewer.
How to Change the Default Media Upload Location in WordPress 3.5 – Important but less talked about change is the disappearance of the option to change the upload directory path from Settings.
A Comprehensive Guide to Formatting Your WordPress Posts and Pages – Belly on up to the WordPress formatting bar, and let's take a look at seven ways to polish up your posts and pages.
Understanding and Using Hooks and Filters in WordPress – The success of WordPress majorly depends on the flexible and easily extendible architecture of WordPress. This lets the plugins and themes add functionality to WordPress without changing the core WordPress files.
How to Add Rotating Testimonials in WordPress – In this article, we will show you how you can create a rotating testimonials area in WordPress where testimonials fade in and out automatically. You can use this technique for other uses as well such as quotes, etc.
Backing Up WordPress? Don't Make These 9 Mistakes – A good backup plan is your insurance policy on your WordPress site! Here I've compiled a list of the most common WordPress backup mistakes, and added a few tips on how to avoid them.
Pros and Cons of using WordPress Template Frameworks – In this article, we are going to understand what does it mean by WordPress template Framework and why did it come into existence. Later we will discuss about the Pros and Cons of WordPress Template Framework.
.. and don't forget these!
One Div – An inspiring set and showcase of icons that are created with a single
<div> element and with the help of creative CSS3 rules. There are 55+ icons, new ones are added from time-to-time and it is possible to click the source codes with a click or download them.
pixeltalks – Video presentations from the best Web conferences in the world: creativity, web design, typography, UX Design, etc.
Colour Accessibility – Colour is very relative — not just in the way that it appears differently across different devices due to screen quality and colour management, but it can also be seen differently by different people — something we really need to be more mindful of when designing.
Review of the Best Font Managers for Your Own Usage – There are a huge number of font management apps, and I've tried a lot of them. So, let's start talking about their pros and cons.
10 Free Online Books for Web designers – Today we have collected 10 free online books to add to your collection. From classics that you know to new presentations transformed in pdf files, we have 11 files for you.
Four Custom Icon Font Generators Compared – Icon fonts are all the rage right now. They make it so dang easy to embed vector graphics into a page that designers everywhere are turning to them as the primary way to handle icons.
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American Horror Story Will Get New Characters, New Haunting for Season Two
How good was last night's first season finale of American Horror Story? A little long, but so good, right? And amazing show creator Ryan Murphy will continue to not fuck his show up. This is a Christmas miracle.
Murphy announced today that season two of the FX hit will have a whole new haunting, all new characters, and a whole new cast. Yes! This is exactly what we would have hoped for. While the idea of a soap opera consisting of a bunch of ghosts trapped in a house sounds appealing, it would get old really fast, but this will keep the show fresh for at least a few more seasons. This is the kind of bold move more TV shows should make.
Murphy, who created the show with Brad Falchuk, said that some of the actors from season one might return (please say Jessica Lange and Dylan McDermott's ass) but they'll be playing totally different people being terrorized by totally different demons.
Congrats on a perfect season one, guys. You answered all the questions and tied up all the stories nicely while leaving room for our creepy imaginations to run wild about the possibilities of what happens next. Hopefully you can do it all again next year, but, knowing Murphy's track record, he'll probably find a way to mess it up.

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Moncler launched their new Grenoble Fall/Winter 2010 Collection during New York Fashion Week. On the edge of the Hudson River Moncler built a 4 story structure to present the new collection for both men and women. The new collection comes in black and dark grey colors and fuses high technology and tradition.
""Space-age ski-suits, and close-fitting, down-filled and quilted jackets, in techno-nylon and micro-rip stop, were set alongside ribbed sweaters, furs and long, full, treated-canvas skirts, banded at the hem in reflective nylon, which were inspired by 1950s designs from the Moncler archives.
The customary palette of metallic grey and matt black was spiced with shades of wine, chocolate and cream. Snug hoods, caps, gaiters, leggings, ski-goggles and boots, completed the effect of an army of piste and off-piste warriors.
Strict functionality was built into many of the pieces. The trousers, for example, were slim enough to be worn in an urban setting, but featured "bellows" at the bottoms of the legs, which could be opened out to accommodate ski-boots.""
All in all not only once again an impressive collection, but also an impressive presentation by the Italian brand. Check out a video of the presentation here below.
Take a detailed look at the Moncler Grenoble Fall/Winter 2010 Collection after the jump.
Via GQ, Love Magazine, Telegraph.


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The 22 Greatest Ohio Mugshots of All Time
By: bgoldstein | 13/06/2013
Redhead of the Month: Emily Archer [32 Photos]
By: bgoldstein | 13/06/2013
14 WTF Moments From The 2014 World Cup
By: Alex Giardini | 13/06/2013
Holy Taco Meets the Suicide Girls
This past weekend Holy Taco managing editor Ian Fortey, currently typing about himself in the 3rd person, headed to Toronto, Ontario to attend Fan Expo. You already saw how his heart was broken by Lou Ferrigno (if not, go read it) but what you did not learn was how some delightful ladies called the Suicide Girls helped put that shattered man back together again.
By:Ian Fortey|August 30, 2012
This Book is Full of Spiders: a Review
Literary criticism has somewhat curled up and died over the years and now we're at a point where reviews are torn between "I love/hate this book because pew pew awesome raawr!" and "This book displays certain tropes and mimetic principles that onomatopoeia feminism Jungian archetypes blah shit merp." Does any of that make you want to read the book? Why would you read a book review at all, what's the point? To find out why it is either good or not good. David Wong's This Book is Full of Spiders is a good book. You should read it.
By:Ian Fortey|August 29, 2012
The Morning Jolt: Oh, Quantas. Yes.
God, I love the C word.
By:Ian Fortey|August 29, 2012
The Day I Didn't Meet Lou Ferrigno
I was supposed to meet Lou Ferrigno. But I didn't. I was attending Toronto's Fan Expo from August 23rd to 26th. My plan? To met Lou Ferrigno and challenge him to a fight on camera. Then to put the video of the fight on Break.com and HolyTaco and see how long before someone in the comments calls me gay. Because that is what commenters do.
By:Ian Fortey|August 28, 2012
The Morning Jolt: Evolution of Louis CK
It's 10 minutes but it's worth it if you're a Louis CK fan.
By:Ian Fortey|August 28, 2012
Filthy Limericks for All Occasions
You know what we don't have enough of? Dirty limericks.
By:Ian Fortey|August 27, 2012
Reviewing Movies We Haven't Seen: August 24th
Last week was a shameful event at the movies (or not, depending on your tastes) but this week is going straight up subtle with offerings that are all pretty much flying under the radar. To the movies!
By:Ian Fortey|August 24, 2012
An Open Letter to Up and Coming Disney Stars
S'up? You guys just hanging out? That's cool. Pretty def, huh? And maybe phat? Yeah. So listen, I don't want to come off sounding like a square adult, or some kind of unhip shitbird (kids still say that, right?) but I need you to be prepared for what's coming.
By:Ian Fortey|August 23, 2012
5 Planets Not Run by Apes
You can't trust a planet of the apes and I'll tell you why – it's run by apes. We all love a chimpanzee when they're wearing t-shirts and engaging in delightful antics, but the downside is that every so often a chimp can and will take a person's face and/or limbs off. That's not even a joke, Google it.
By:Ian Fortey|August 22, 2012
The Morning Jolt: Musical Beers
This is old as ass, but who cares, it's Workaholics.
By:Ian Fortey|August 22, 2012
How to Fight a Holy Man in 3 Easy Steps
So, you've decided to take a harbinger of a Lord to task (which Lord? Doesn't matter), good for you. For far too long the envoys of the various holy orders around the world have been getting pretty uppity, haven't they? With their circumcisions and catechisms and wailing walls and robes and blessings and c'mon already. Well it's time to put them in their place. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
By:Ian Fortey|August 21, 2012
The Morning Jolt: Europe Hates Your Car
Obviously I've never driven any car from Europe because I take the bus, but for all their griping they do have a point that we love to make really shitty dashboards. That said, what's a European dashboard made of?
By:Ian Fortey|August 21, 2012
A Game of Hodor vs The Walking Carl
It is dark and it is cold and everything should be still and peaceful. Everything is not. The forest has shed its forest sounds. There are no birds in trees, nor even insects. There is no breeze. But there is the crunch of leaves, felled branches and twigs. Deadfall, they call it. They call it deadfall.
By:Ian Fortey|August 20, 2012
Reviewing Movies we Haven't Seen: August 17th
This is arguably one of the biggest weeks for movies in ages, not because it has a certified blockbuster like every week since May, but because it doesn't. In fact, it has a lot of movies that are uniquely tailored to different audiences making it a week that will likely be almost sort of interesting. Almost. Not a challenge to call, though.
By:Ian Fortey|August 17, 2012
The Morning Jolt: Girl Room Revenge
I don't know why I found it so funny when he admits it was really well done, but I did. And he's right, really well done.
By:Ian Fortey|August 17, 2012
6 Saddest Places Penises Have Had to be Freed From
The penis is the strangest animal you'll ever meet. It stands proud when it's happy, shrinks like a fearful puppy when it's scared or cold and it also humps stuff. All kinds of stuff. And not just normal stuff like other people or Fleshlights, but nutty stuff that you should have enough self awareness to keep your junk away from. But if that were the case, this article wouldn't exist.
By:Ian Fortey|August 16, 2012
The Morning Jolt: Young Love
Holy Taco is all about facilitating romance. This dude clearly loves Emily. Soldier on, Casanova.
By:Ian Fortey|August 16, 2012
6 Unceremonious Ways to End a Sexual Encounter
So, you've decided to have sex. Please tell me what it's like. But also, be wary! As it happens, not all sex can be as glamorous as what you've seen in Willem Dafoe movies. As it happens, sometimes sex doesn't follow a script and then something all crazy has to happen that ruins everyone's good time. Like what, you ask? Savvy reader, you are. Read on!
By:Ian Fortey|August 15, 2012
The Morning Jolt: How to Eat a Watermelon
If this video didn't exist, I'd have to write an article. Especially about the fork cartels.
By:Ian Fortey|August 15, 2012
How to Remove a Wine Stain
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DJs USING MixSCAN™ WILL NOW RECEIVE ROYALTIES FROM THEFUTURE.FM
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NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dubset Media Holdings, a music industry leader in rights-flow and fingerprint technology, today announced the launch of the world's first formal DJ Royalty Program being offered by its internet radio site Thefuture.fm (www.thefuture.fm). Powered by the company's patent-pending MixSCAN™ technology, Thefuture.fm provides one of the only platforms for DJs to share mixes with their fans under full rights compliance. Now, for the first time in history, DJs will begin earning multiple royalties themselves. Thefuture.fm is home to thousands of custom DJ radio stations having successfully fingerprinted over twelve thousand of the world's best mixes from notable artists, venues, and festivals. The company recently surpassed two and a half million mix-plays by listeners.
Dubset's MixSCAN™ technology is what makes sharing those mixes legal. It parses mixes into thousands of individual audio files, comparing each against the world's largest music database, Gracenote. The resulting output is an industry first "Mix DNA" that not only identifies all underlying music but all rights metadata associated with it. The platform is rights compliant and fully integrated with all performance rights organizations including ASCAP, SESAC, BMI, and SoundExchange. It reports all mix and listener data downstream and makes necessary royalty payments on behalf of the site and the DJ.
Lindsay Luv, a celebrity DJ in Los Angeles and New York, has used the platform to host music for top brands like Victoria's Secret, "I use MixSCAN to deliver mixes to my fans at Thefuture.fm because it's the first and only platform where DJs can legally stream music and share in per-play royalties like other artists. Working with a legally compliant platform is important in that it ensures the rights holders of my music are properly identified and compensated. That's important to me and the brands that I work with; MixSCAN has allowed for that."
"The prolific rise of DJ performance and the digitizing of this music on the web makes it clear that the MixSCAN™ concept becomes an increasingly relevant way to unlock tremendous value, not only for artists and DJs, but for the music industry as a whole," notes David Stein, Founder. "We've spent the last five years working with top DJs, recording artists and record label executives listening to the challenges they face and working to bridge the gaps that exist when trying to monetize mix-tapes, podcasts and live streams."
"Mix streaming technology is a unique area of expertise for the company," says Bob Barbiere, CEO. "Since Thefuture.fm pays a portion of its revenue to the performance rights organizations, DJs can use the site to share their mixes without the threat of copyright infringement or takedown notices. Although DJs traditionally share mixes for free, most free sites are not DMCA compliant and create a potentially large financial liability for the DJ. DJs who choose Thefuture.fm to share music with their fans represent a growing number who understand the risks and are concerned about the artists whose music they are mixing."
Dubset is launching its new DJ royalty program, with a special offering for music fans, in partnership with leading crowd-funding platform, Indiegogo (www.indiegogo.com/mixscan). The campaign provides a way for DJs to onboard their fans with exciting reward packages. Fans can select special offers such as subscription packages at dramatically reduced prices and tickets to exclusive VIP parties. It also allows fans to contribute towards MixSCAN™ and enabling DJs to begin broadcasting their sets live, in high-quality digital audio, while managing all rights and royalties real-time.
"As more and more mixes are taken down from the free internet music sites, DJs are starting to understand the risks and work associated with sharing their music in the wrong places. The volume of DJs who now successfully offer their music at Thefuture.fm has allowed us to give back and create an important royalty program for them." The company estimates DJs will earn nearly 55 million dollars in new royalties over the coming years thanks to MixSCAN™.
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Correia Shuts Down Rangers In Twins' Win
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Thanks to another strong outing from Kevin Correia, the Minnesota Twins are ahead of where they were at this point last season.
Way ahead.
Correia pitched eight sharp innings, Justin Morneau homered and the Twins beat Texas 5-0 Sunday, handing the Rangers consecutive losses for the first time this year.
It took the Twins 37 games to reach 11 wins last season. After Correia's big day, they're 11-10.
"That's our goal, to surprise some people and make a push in this division," said Correia, who allowed six hits and only one runner to reach third base while lowering his ERA to 2.23. "Right now, being above .500 is a good sign, but we got a long ways to go."
Mitch Moreland and Lenoys Martin each had two hits for the Rangers.
"He just put the ball where he wanted. Cutter, changeup, sinker," said A.J. Pierzynski, who caught Correia when the right-hander was in San Francisco. "He's kind of shortened his slider and throws more cutters and changeups now. Good for him. He's really turned into a good big league pitcher."
Correia (3-1) has pitched at least seven innings in each of his first five starts for the Twins after going seven or more only three times all of last season.
The soft-tossing veteran signed a two-year, $10 million contract with Minnesota in the offseason and has been the Twins best starter. Using a fastball that rarely broke 90 mph and a variety of offspeed pitches, Correia retired the first seven batters and set down 11 of the last 12.
"Getting balls hit to people right now," Correia said. "Right now it's just going my way."
Alexi Ogando (2-2) allowed three runs on four hits over six innings.
Ogando looked just as sharp as Correia before walking Josh Willingham in the sixth. On the very next pitch, Ogando hung a slider and Morneau lined it into the right-field bleachers for his second home run, giving the Twins a 3-0 lead.
"He had been throwing him breaking balls all day, but he wasn't throwing it for strikes," Texas manager Ron Washington said. "He tried to get one over for a strike. Morneau was sitting on it."
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire was ejected in the seventh after arguing with third base umpire Alfonso Marquez about a force play on a bunt.
Gardenhire kicked the dirt around home plate and angrily took off his sunglasses as he walked off the field to a standing ovation from the Target Field crowd.
The manager was in a happier mood after the game, thanks to Correia and the fact that Twins pitchers have allowed just two runs in the last 18 innings.
"We went out and made some good signings," he said. "Hopefully for guys that throw the ball over the plate, give us a chance to stay in the ballgame, get deep in the game. For the most part, they've been doing that."
The fans remained fired up after Jamey Carroll lined a single up the middle that scored Aaron Hicks and made it 4-0 immediately after the ejection.
Brian Dozier followed with another RBI single off Joe Ortiz, one of three relievers Texas used in the inning.
Casey Fien pitched the ninth after Correia was removed after throwing 102 pitches, 65 for strikes.
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Sandy hit as a "post-tropical cyclone," not a hurricane, leading to public confusion.
The fact that the National Weather Service did not issue hurricane warnings as deadly and devastating Superstorm Sandy roared ashore last October caused public confusion, and at one point led New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to downplay the storm's ferocity as it neared the coast.
It's also caused a bit of a furor in the weather and emergency management community since then.
But the weather service announced Thursday that starting with this hurricane season, "the definitions of hurricane and tropical storm watches and warnings will be broadened" to allow these watches and warnings to be issued or remain in effect after a tropical cyclone -- or hurricane -- transitions to become post-tropical, when such a storm still poses a significant threat to life and property.
In addition, the weather service says the new system will "ensure a continuity of service by allowing the National Hurricane Center to issue advisories during the post-tropical stage. These changes were motivated by the special challenges posed by Hurricane Sandy, which was forecast to evolve from a hurricane to a post-tropical cyclone prior to reaching the coast."
The National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center are part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The problem with Sandy had mostly to do with its unusual meteorological structure, and not with ts power: Since Sandy was technically forecast to hit land as a "post-tropical cyclone" and not a hurricane, the hurricane center did not issue its usual hurricane watches and warnings as the storm approached the coast, instead relying on several local weather service offices to issue "high wind warnings," "coastal flood warnings" and other watches and warnings.
Two days before the storm hit, Bloomberg said at a news conference the storm "will be less dangerous" than Hurricane Irene, which had hit the year before. It turned to be far from it: While Irene did some serious damage, Sandy's catastrophic storm surge devastated coastal communities from New Jersey to Connecticut, causing billions of dollars in damage.
Up until now, the hurricane center had always only issued warnings for hurricanes and tropical storms, while local offices issues warnings for most other weather phenomena.
"Our forecasters now have more flexibility to effectively communicate the threat posed by transitioning tropical systems," said Louis Uccellini, the new director of the weather service. "Sandy's forecast was remarkably accurate and under a similar situation in the future, forecasters will be able to choose the best option to underscore the urgency involved."
"I would like to thank everyone for their open and candid feedback on this proposal," said Rick Knabb, director of the hurricane center. "Keeping communities safe when a storm threatens is truly a team effort and this change reflects that collaboration."
The Atlantic hurricane season officially starts June 1 and lasts until Nov. 30.


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By Fiona Ellis
When a fashion trend debuts it can be shocking or at least unsettling to the common view of what constitutes appropriate attire. If however, the look in question resonates with the contemporary thinking, the trend becomes acceptable and widely adopted. Take tights for example. A glimpse of stocking was once, as Cole Porter so aptly put it, "simply shocking" but now we take the sight of Lycra-sheathed leg in stride.
Some may view fashion as frivolous, but clothes are an interesting reflection of what is happening within a culture. Studying what was fashionable can provide insight into the social norms of a particular era and tell us a lot about how women were viewed (and how they viewed themselves) in society. Throughout its history, hosiery responded both to the rise and fall of hemlines, sociological changes, and technological advances in both fiber and manufacturing. In many cases because these aspects are at play at the same time it's not always clear which was the strongest influence precipitating the changes.
Boot hose believed to have belonged to Charles I. Image copyright © 2014 Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Canada.
First Steps
In the early years the lower limbs (both male and female) were kept under cover by strips of cloth wound around the leg and held in place with narrower strips. While this method served its purpose for warmth and protection, it did have its downside. The fit was poor and required constant adjustment. By the 14th century things had improved slightly. Men wore stockings cut from woven cloth and stitched together to form a leg-shaped piece. Knitted socks and stockings as we recognize them today, didn't appear until the 16th century. During this time knitting guilds flourished throughout Europe. There are references to a Paris guild founded in 1527, and Henry VIII was said to be quite fond of knit silk hose imported from Venice and Milan. Stocking manufacture was a thriving industry and was further revolutionized by the invention of the mechanized knitting frame during the reign of Elizabeth I. (For a more detailed history of framework knitting see Fancying Framework Knitting in the Winter 2013 issue.) Ladies kept their stockings hidden under voluminous skirts, but that didn't keep them from having a bit of fun with them. Fabric tended toward the colorful, and the hose that adorned the legs of the wealthy were often patterned with embroidery and silver and gold threads.
Blue silk lisle stockings embroidered with silver thread, circa 1710-1740. Image copyright © 2014 Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Stockings made on the early framework machines were knit flat, and then seamed to fit the leg. This basic construction method continued in much the same way for a good 200 years. The invention of handcranked circular machines in the 1800s introduced stockings without seams, but they didn't allow for any shaping. Essentially you ended up with a perfectly cylindrical tube—not exactly well fitting or flattering. The production of a more fitted seamless stocking was also hampered by the framework knitters' resistance to the steam- and water-powered machinery that had taken over other clothing production. Eventually this resistance gave way and knitting was pulled full force into the factory.
Making Strides
A proper Victorian woman generally wore black, white, or pastel-colored hose. But even though legs—and the stockings covering them—were hidden under heavy skirts, a fashion for decorative details developed. Imagine a modest Victorian lady lifting her skirt a few inches too high to reveal a bit of decorative embroidery about the ankle. A man lucky enough to catch a glimpse of this pattern would have thought it quite racey. But patterned stockings weren't the sole provenance of those of questionable morals. It was a trend that most well to-do ladies soon adopted—even Queen Victoria wore embroidered stockings. As in the Elizabethan age women of lower classes, if they wore stockings at all, wore plain, practical hose simply to keep their legs warm. Victorian stockings were made from silk (only for the wealthy), wool, linen, or polished cotton (called lisle) and were held up by knit garters that attached to corsets, often with a lacy "welt" at the top of the stocking to help keep it in place.
Black silk stockings, circa 1870-1889. Image copyright © 2014 Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Canada.
The turn of the century brought the women's suffrage movement to the forefront, slowly changing women's lives —and their hosiery. Newfound freedoms spurred an interest being active—tennis and cycling were particularly popular. To facilitate these activities skirt design had to change considerably—imagine trying to ride a bike while wearing a crinoline or bustle dress. Skirts were shortened, bloomers made their debut, and it became socially acceptable for women to "expose" their legs while engaged in these pursuits. To maintain modesty when dressed this way, women wore thick wool hose and calf-height boots.
Embellished stockings, circa 1880-1910. Image copyright © 2014 Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Canada.
As the 1920s roared in, hemlines and stockings changed dramatically. Gone was the restrictive corsetry of previous decades, replaced by softer, much less structured undergarments. With hemlines rising to hitherto unseen heights the leg became a major focus. Shoes and stockings became highly decorative and knees were much on show as Flappers danced the Charleston. Empowered by the excesses of the era, young women began rolling their stockings over their garters to create a padded look. Worn just above the knee so as to give a glimpse as the skirt moved, the fashion reflected the daring natures of the girls who wore them.
Rolled stockings became a little less shocking. Photo courtesy of Cynthia Gilbert.
Although ladies were now permitted to enjoy a dip in the ocean in mixed company, they were required to wear woolen hose when doing so. The concession to comfort was that stockings could be rolled down to just below the knee. But it still wasn't considered proper for those knees to be uncovered with no sand or sea in sight. Only brazen women would bare their knees, as the lyrics from the musical Chicago relate:
"Come on babe, why don't we paint the town? And all that jazz. I'm gonna rouge my knees and roll my stockings down. And all that jazz"
Stocking sales rose along with hemlines. With the introduction of rayon (then known as Art Silk) in 1910, man-made fibers began to replace costly cotton and silk. Less well-heeled ladies could now afford the fashionable, shimmering stockings previously only available to the well-to-do. .
Synthetic Chic
In the 1930s the industrial materials company DuPont de Nemours (better know as DuPont) launched the first fully synthetic fiber (rayon, derived from wood pulp is man-made). Debuting in 1939, first in San Francisco and later at the New York World's Fair, nylon took the world by storm.
DuPont's vice president, Charles Stine, described the company's wonder fiber this way: "strong as steel, yet fine as a spider's web," going on to promise that DuPont would make "indestructible" stockings in the near future. He didn't exactly follow through (as anyone who's had to toss a pair of tights thanks to a run knows), but in all fairness he was speaking of the fiber and not the stocking construction process. And nylon was a wonder fiber.
DuPont's foray into polymer research that produced nylon was an attempt to rebrand the company. Originally a manufacturer of gunpowder and explosives (the company supplied the allies with 40 percent of their explosives during World War I), DuPont was eager to embrace the "new age" of chemistry. It took 11 years, 230 scientists and $27 million dollars to create the fiber, which was originally named "nuron" (the name was changed to avoid the rhyme with "moron.")
Nylon's arrival played into a number of social political trends. It was an era of excitement as items that had once seemed possible only in in the science fiction worlds of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells became reality. Nylon also appealed to patriotism. The silk used for stockings was imported from Japan and not supporting that economy seemed a righteous thing to do as the West moved into conflict with that nation.
Nylon stockings circa 1933. Image copyright © 2014 Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Canada.
During World War II DuPont switched its manufacturing to the war effort making nylons hard to come by and consequently even more sought after. With stockings in short supply (and bare legs still a sign of questionable taste) ladies went to great effort to give the appearance of wearing stockings, putting makeup on their legs. Some used a Helena Rubenstein product called "liquid stockings"; those with less cash to spare resorted to staining their legs with gravy browning and penciling in a seam with an eyebrow pencil. So intense was the longing for stocking that DuPont launched an ad campaign in August of 1945 promising ladies that the war was coming to an end, and they would have "nylons by Christmas." I'm assuming those same ladies were also looking forward to the safe return of their menfolk.
Modern Marvels
Nylon was revolutionary not just because it was synthesized, but also because of its ability to be "heat set." In terms of stockings this meant that the hose could be placed around a leg-shaped form, heated to high temperatures, and then shaped to follow the contours of the leg—a far cry from those cloth wraps of the 14th century. Seams still prevailed though—without them the leg looked bare and this was deemed undignified.
Miniskirts put more leg (and more stocking) on display. Photo courtesy of Fiona Ellis
Women finally had a garment that fit well, but the means to hold it up remained less than perfect. Things improved a bit when the garter belt appeared in the 1950s. Now rather than straps being secured to a corset, stockings could be attached to a less cumbersome item of undergarment.
The 1960s ushered in a revolution in both fashion and feminism. As a result, hose took a whole new turn. A sleeker solution for holding up hose was created when Ethel Gant, wife of Allen Gant, the owner of the fabric manufacturing company Glen Raven Inc., suggested that he manufacture an item that combined panties and hose in a one-piece garment. Pantyhose, first know as "panti-legs," debuted in 1959, just as hemlines began to rise. It really isn't totally clear which was the strongest force at play. Was it the manufacturing/technological push (being able to make them) or the consumer/designer pull (the advent of the miniskirt)? I tend to think the latter; Mary Quant's microskirt of 1966 would not have caught on if women were still having to figure out how to keep their stocking tops and garters from showing.
By the 1970s pantyhose (or tights as they are known in Britain) were outselling stockings — a trend that's yet to be reversed. Some manufacturing changes have been seen, such as "micromesh" (combining knit and tuck stitches that prevent runs) and "hold-ups" (stockings that require no garters), but most changes since then have been limited to those of fashionable colors and patterns.
As the years roll on more and more of the leg is fashionably on display. These days however, we're more likely to leave the textured tights and silk stockings in the dresser drawer. First Lady Michelle Obama has a penchant for stepping out barelegged, making it acceptable for almost all of us to do the same--even for formal occasions. That's not to say hosiery is history; stockings after all, protect from cold winters and blistering boots and shoes. Long may they run!
Fiona Ellis is the author of Inspired Cable Knits, Knitspiration Journal, and Inspired Fair Isle Knits She is an on-line instructor at Craftsy and you can find out what she is currently working on at www.fionaellisonline.com
Editors' Note: Special thanks to the Bata Shoe Museum for the use of several of the images that accompany this article. If you'd like to step further into the history of hosiery and footwear, we encourage you to pay the museum a visit at 327 Bloor Street West in downtown Toronto.


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Canaries Upend RailCats Again
GARY, IN -- The U.S. Steel Yard has become a very friendly place for the Sioux Falls Canaries.
The Birds remained undefeated in five games this season in the Gary SouthShore RailCats' home with a 4-1 win on Saturday night. They improved to 8-1 this season against the wildcard-leading RailCats (47-37) and clinched a three-game series ahead of Sunday's finale.
Ben Moore (9-6) earned the win with a bend-but-don't-break performance. He allowed only one unearned run in seven innings, giving up seven hits but stranding eight RailCats runners – six in scoring position. Moore did not walk anybody and struck out four batters.
Jared Clark opened the game's scoring with an RBI double in the second inning, and he came home on Stephen King's two-out hit for a 2-0 Canaries lead.
The 'Cats responded with a run in the third inning, but the Birds added two more in the top of the fourth. Kevin Dultz singled with one out, went to third base on King's double, and scored on Nick Van Stratten's groundout. Cory Morales then singled home King.
Reliever Chris Allen tossed a perfect eighth inning, and Alan DeRatt threw a 1-2-3 ninth inning for his 20th save of the season.
The Canaries (37-49) are 6-6 with one game remaining on a 13-game road trip. They return home for a six-game home stand on Tuesday night.
The series finale with the RailCats is at 2:10 p.m on Sunday.
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The term bibliographic instruction (BI) is a relatively modern construct, and its short history as a professional area of concern in the information field spans the last three decades. Each decade constituted a generation of thinking within that history and each generation redefined the term: the first generation of the 1970s viewed BI as library orientation; the second generation, the 1980s, saw the development of ideas and methods of bibliographic instruction and a growing trend toward defining BI as a way of teaching patrons how to use research resources; and in the 1990s, we are seeing a shift from print-oriented library services toward information profusion in various formats, including multimedia, for diverse user groups. Bibliographic instruction has not yet redefined itself adequately to deal with these new and varied formats in today's research environment. The opportunity is with us now to build on the foundation laid in the second generation of bibliographic instruction to create a brave new world for BI in the information world of the 1990s.
Unfortunately, the reality of the brave new world being created by the new breed of information specialists is in many ways as frightening as that envisioned by the futurist Aldous Huxley in his book of that name. "Libraries without walls" loom ominously on the horizon as an inevitable future result of information technology improperly harnessed by the profession. A changing role for BI could very well prevent the physical annihilation of our libraries as institutions.
What is required at present is balanced thinking which builds on the past to create the future, taking action in our new information circumstances with a wisdom born of the library's historical context. Academic librarian Elizabeth Frick has always found this essentially schizophrenic nature of our institution, with its need to cling to the old and to leap into the new, a conundrum. She likens it to another beloved institution which suffers a similar schizophrenia: baseball. She quotes George Will as saying "Baseball is both intensely traditional and interestingly progressive. By progressive, I mean steadily improving. The traditional side is obvious in baseball's absorption with its past and its continuities." Frick calls for librarianship to likewise improve while at the same time tending to its continuities.
We should retain the best of our library traditions, specifically the book and other print formats and the libraries themselves. The time has come, however, for librarianship to fashion a merger between its past and the new future being thrust upon it by technological change. Nowhere is the need for such a merger more evident than in bibliographic instruction. The term bibliographic instruction is still dominated by its association with short-range, library-centered, print-bound instruction. A new paradigm is needed, which includes computer and multimedia technologies, since the view from the old lens of bibliographic instruction does not provide the insights needed for solving the new problems created by these technologies.
The emerging paradigm of information literacy seems to provide such insights. Information literacy in this context refers to users who understand the importance of information and who have the competence to locate, evaluate and manage it comfortably. Where this paradigm fails in the view of this writer is in placing the onus for locating and managing information on the user. This is properly the province of information specialists and can provide us with our most exciting professional challenge: reconstituting libraries by making their finding technology itself information literate so that libraries become truly user friendly.
The answers to how to make libraries easier for patrons to navigate in our increasingly more technological world will never be final answers. There really is no right way or wrong way to achieve the goal of ease of access to materials. As a librarian, I welcome technology with grateful, open arms as a means to locate sources within the library. I also welcome certain computerized sources for research purposes, such as CD-ROM products. Technology has the potential for streamlining research, consolidating sources and achieving a level of access that has never before ben realized in the history of libraries. But the availability of technology and computerized sources of information should not replace print sources, nor in my mind the library facilities themselves.
Given this perspective, I will postulate a sketch of what the new paradigm for locating sources might be. In this paradigm, I envision bibliographic instruction redefined to mean strictly and simply instruction by librarians in Boolean set theory and logic, using the customary "AND," "OR" and "NOT" logical operators. Certainly most persons doing research are capable of understanding and employing these terms once properly taught. I envision information literacy redefined to mean the knowledge needed by information specialists to redesign information retrieval within libraries.
To redesign information systems to accommodate this paradigm, I would suggest that the natural language now used in making keyword entries in conjunction with Boolean operators be "treed" internally by computer information specialists to the appropriate subject headings for retrieval purposes. My suggestion as to how to decide which keywords to tree to which headings through computer programming is to observe which keywords are used to access which headings and then use a book of synonyms to build the tree to the subject headings.
The demand for the creation of computer- and user-friendly libraries is coming from today's information society, meaning a society increasingly dominated by computers. A more sophisticated constituency of library users, accustomed to computers which make their lives easier everywhere but the library cannot understand why they cannot also enjoy the benefits of the technology there. The library's "invisible users" at modems in remote locations require topical access to holdings through simple keyword entries. Business people, accustomed to the efficiency computers provide in the working world, demand instant information made quickly available. Today's youth, raised on computers, want a "magic machine" which puts all the information they need for their assignments together for them at the touch of a button.
One theory of information usage suggests that people are not willing to put forth much effort in fulfilling their own information needs. So, while significant advances have been made in information storage and retrieval, until the amount of effort required to use these systems is reduced, most people will not benefit from them. I believe that the systems professionals in library school programs could better meet their professional obligation by facilitating the in-house research process, rather than replacing that function with databanks and off-site patrons, which only decimates the institutions themselves.
Perhaps these demands, while hardly welcome in our day of overworked librarians operating in financially strained institutions, are not unreasonable nor unachievable. Perhaps it would be possible to restructure libraries with the current technology to achieve a "magic machine" which would have the library's in-house holdings listed topically by subject. Surely the current breed of information scientists, with their boundless faith in the capabilities of information technology, could make such a technological vision into reality with forethought and a philosophical change in orientation. They would in so doing change the future of the library as a virtual reality into the reality of a library whose technology actually serves its patrons.
Realizing that I may very well be swimming alone in my think tank with this future vision of libraries, I call for library reform through innovation similar to that which is being tried in our nation's public schools. Schools prone to innovations often set up campuses as "charter schools" at which they can experiment. The chosen schools are then restructured along the lines of the research paradigm and appraised for an expected increase in effectiveness. Such a research paradigm could also be applied to selected libraries, either public, academic or school, with the purpose of making each topically accessible through a computer catalog developed in-house for each library's holdings.
I am calling on my fellow professionals to be futurists who realize that technology in libraries has but moved the institutional emphasis on collection and organization back to the traditional concept of service. The odd irony is that technology may finally succeed where generations of librarians have failed in making libraries the user-friendly places they were originally intended to be.


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Studying at Bucks
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Bucks can be all things to all seekers of education. We can be your first college experience…a stepping stone to your bachelor's degree...your resource for continuing education...a way for you to improve your skills and jump-start (or further) your career.
Our flexibility extends beyond what we offer — a choice of majors, certificate programs, non-credit courses, workforce development — to how and where we provide learning experiences. We have several locations throughout Bucks County, and we offer a growing number of online courses.
However you choose to become part of Bucks, rest assured that you will be taught by some very smart people. Our academic departments are staffed by professors who hold degrees from a number of the nation's top universities —and who bring to the classroom years of professional experience in their fields.


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Categories --> Maker --> Takagi, Jyunichi
Bladesmith, Jyunichi Takagi, was born in 1937. He is well known as one of the last traditional adze makers and a skilled knifemaker. He began his apprenticeship in 1952, when he was 15 years old. Until recently, Jyunichi worked at the side of his brother. At 71 years old (in 2008), this skilled craftsman sadly does not have any apprentices; as he explains, though he would like to teach his skills, knifemaking is a very difficult process and takes many years to learn.
Takagi's traditional knives are highly sought after by professional chefs and show tremendous skill. Most of his knives are made in the honyaki style. His honyaki (or "true-forged") knives are forged from one piece of carbon steel. They take more skill to forge and shape than Honkasumi knives and are also more difficult to sharpen. Of all the Japanese knives, honyaki knives have the greatest kirenaga, staying sharp the longest, but they are also more fragile than other knives and can chip, crack, or break if used improperly.
Deba, Mioroshi, and other "hard-use" knives are forged by Takagi in honkasumi style. Craftsmen forge honkasumi knives by forge-welding a layer of soft iron (jigane) to a layer of carbon steel (hagane). After forging, hammering, and shaping, the carbon steel becomes the blade's edge. The soft, supportive iron layer becomes the body and spine of the blade. This reduces brittleness and makes sharpening easier. Kasumi knives are easier to use and quicker to sharpen than honyaki knives; but their kirenaga (edge retention) is shorter. Kasumi means "mist," which refers to the hazy appearance of the soft iron part of the blade in contrast to the glossy appearance of the carbon steel cutting edge.
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Local and small businesses have gained big dollars with recent upgrades at the San Diego International Airport, the airport reported this week.
Local businesses won $415 million in contracts, or nearly half of the total for the airport's $1 billion Green Build project, a series of expansions and renovations to the terminals, concessions, airfields and roadways. Small businesses received awards totaling $118 million, or about 10 percent of the project. The Terminal 2 West portion of the The Green Build is scheduled to have its grand opening in August.
Their contributions are a direct result of recent outreach efforts by the Airport Authority to inform local and small businesses about work opportunities, the airport said. The outreach included 10 events around the county, and bid opportunities and package sizes tailored to encourage participation from local and small business participation.
Silva General Construction's $2.5 million job on the project has been its biggest for the airport yet, said president and CEO Rosalie Silva, after nearly a decade of working smaller contracts..
Until recently, she said, it was virtually impossible for small businesses to compete for the high-dollar contracts, because they could not comply with the stringent requirements the airport puts on its contractors.
Lately, Silva said, the airport has tried to make it easier for small firms to compete, by doing things like encouraging its prime subcontractors -- the larger firms that can comply with the requirements -- to carve out pieces of their contracts for local and small businesses.
"That's how we got our foot in the door on the Green Build," Silva said.
Component West holds a $4 million drywall contract for the project, she explained, but instead of doing all the work, it only did the steel stud framing. It subcontracted out to Silva General Construction for the actual drywall installation and taping.
Until it was able to partner with Component West, the largest contract Silva had been able to undertake was under $800,000.
"This is a good boost, and the recognition we get from it is really amazing, because it's going to help us get more work," Silva said of the Green Build contract.
The Airport Authority Board says it plans to continue reaching out to small and local businesses for future projects.


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Hubert Cummings
A Series of Unfortunate Events
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Little Miss Mary Stanley forgot her parasol as she was headed to church on a lazy Sunday summer afternoon. Mary never dreamed that her one moment of innocent forgetfulness would indirectly lead to the deaths of four men and the serious maiming of another. It all started at one of the most historic intersections in Laurens County. It ended on a hard bunk in a cold cell of the dank Laurens County jail.
The scene is Thomas Cross Roads, one of Laurens County's most ancient landmarks. This is the place where the red men greeted each other as they trekked along their ancient paths. This is the place where the Blue and the Gray stopped as they were looking for the fleeing Confederate President Jefferson Davis or where General Joseph Wheeler brought his 10,000 man cavalry force in an attempt to thwart the villainous General William T. Sherman's 60,000 man right wing as it cut a devastating swath through Middle Georgia. This is the place where the venerable Governor and U.S. Senator, George M. Troup, maintained a small plantation, not too distant from where Laurens County's government began in 1808. None of these historical facts seemed to matter to the people who gathered there on that faithful Sabbath afternoon.
Buster Wells and his wife Winnie were heading toward late afternoon church services on the afternoon of June 15, 1919. It was a beautiful fair late spring Sunday afternoon. Their daughter and her friend were driving down the Old Macon Road when Mary noticed that she had left her parasol. The little girl asked Buster to stop his car at the home of Mrs. Alice Carswell, the mother of one Herbert Cummings, and some four and one half miles from the Wells place. Wells stopped his Overland car. After the girls warned him that cars were coming down the road behind him, Buster immediately pulled off to the right shoulder of the road as close as he could to the slope of a four-foot-high embankment. Wells parked just beyond the yard gate, leaving plenty enough room, or so he thought, for cars to pass by.
Tailing just behind the Wells family was one Raymond Cannon, son of James N. "Mr. Jim" Cannon, a prominent area farmer and his wife, the former Miss Mollie Green. Cleveland Currington, a twenty-four-year-old married sharecropping farmer working for Cannon, was driving his Maxwell car on the way to see Charlie Stinson. Though he couldn't recall why he going there, ol' Cleveland did seem to vividly remember in exacting detail all of the events of the afternoon, which contrasted starkly from Buster Well's account. "I saw Mr. Cannon, who I knew, coming down the road when he saw Buster Wells pull out in front of Cannon's stripped down Ford automobile. I don't know exactly where he was going," he remembered as they left the Cannon home. Currington recalled that he was traveling about 15 to 20 miles an hour about a quarter of a mile from the crossroads when he saw that Cannon's car was about sixty feet away from Well's car.
All of sudden Wells began to back up, a move which ended in a rear end collision. He distinctly remembered that Well's car was not on the side of the road as Wells had said but definitely in the dried mud ruts in the center of the narrow road some 50 to 60 yards ahead of Cannon on a slightly uphill grade. Currington was able to pass Wells on the right but Cannon tried to stop and couldn't. After skidding about thirty feet, Cannon's car collided with Well's automobile, which according to the witness had backed up some thirty feet and was still backing up upon impact with Cannon's car. The sole white observer of the collision opined that no one could have avoided the collision when Wells was backing up as he did. He saw no evidence that Cannon was driving recklessly, although he did admit that
both he and Cannon liked to take an occasional drink of moonshine when the notion came over them.
Raymond E. Cannon was a veteran of the late war. The resident of Rt. 2, Montrose was inducted into the U.S. Army on July 17, 1918. He served at Camp Greenleaf at Fort Oglethorpe in northwest Georgia until August 22nd, when he was transferred to the U.S. Army Hospital # 1 in New York, where he was discharged on February 28, 1919.
Cannon, agitated and aggravated, got out of his car and sprinted toward the Well's car. Cannon's car was slightly damaged, suffering a bent radiator. The men quietly and peaceably assessed the slight damages and came to an amicable settlement. That's when all Hell broke lose.
Hubert Cummings was visiting his mother at her Route # 4 home when he heard a loud noise. He sprang to his feet and ran to see what the matter was. Witnesses to the event told the happenings which followed differently. Currington said Cummings came out and told Wells "you don't pay him a damn cent, it wasn't your fault. Cannon told Cummings to hush, telling him that he had no business in the matter. Then Cummings ran back into the house. He appeared a few moments later brandishing a single barrel shot gun. Currington clearly remembered the alleged assailant standing in a garden before Cummings dashed toward the scene of the collision, aimed his gun at Cannon, and screamed "Now, God d..n you, make me hush!" Cannon turned to see the barrel of Cumming's gun pointed straight at him. Buster Wells slowly backed away, not wanting to alarm either one of the
combatants, who were standing just beyond the garden in the middle of the road.
Cummings fired. Cannon, a fine physical specimen, was thirty one years old and
weighed about 145 pounds. He died almost instantly from the wounds to his breast and face, but not before he managed to pull his pistol, its trigger guard broken from the impact of the buck shot, from his pocket and get off a futile shot at his assailant. The girls screamed. Buster tried to comfort them, knowing that Cummings was not going to shoot them and it was all over, or so it seemed. After the commotion subsided, Cleveland Currington picked up the pistol, which wound up at the home of Cannon's father though Currington denied under oath that he took it there.
Realizing that his friend was dead, Currington sped to the Cannon home to tell his family what had happened. Cummings, fearing for his life, set out toward the nearby Chappell's Mill pond. The Cannons took their son's body for burial in lower Wilkinson County in the old family cemetery on the place of his great granddaddy, ol' man Eason Green. Sometime later after his death, the State of Georgia marked his grave with a marker indicating that he was a member of the 157th Depot Brigade.
All night and throughout the next day, some two hundred or so of Cannon's armed neighbors and friends frantically searched Burgamy's District for the suspected murderer. Cummings later stated that he ran back into the house and met Buster Wells in the back yard. From there, Hubert said that he rode with Buster to his house. Cummings left on Monday night, with a small stipend from Buster in his pocket. Somehow, he managed to escape and found his way to Lyons, Georgia.
A reward of $1,000.00 was posted for the capture of Hubert Cummings. Half of the money was put up by the family and friends of Raymond Cannon. The other half came from the State of Georgia. An all points lookout was placed for Cummings, who was described as six feet tall and weighing 175 pounds. He was described as large muscled with a ginger brown complexion with a slight tinge of red. Cummings wore a size 10-11 shoe and could be further identified by a gold crowned tooth on the right side of his mouth and having a small scar under one eye.
The following Friday, Cummings boarded a train for Millen eluding the reward seekers. From there, he made his way to New Orleans, LA, Mascot, TN., Lynch, KY. to West Virginia, where, under the assumed name of Will Roach, he was helping to sink a shaft for a mine. Meanwhile, Buster Wells was taken to jail and charged with conspiracy in the murder of Raymond Cannon.


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WALTHAM, Mass. - The MIT women's fencing team picked up wins over Air Force, Haverford, Hunter and NYU before falling to No. 8 Penn as the team went 4-1 at Saturday's Eric Sollee Invitational hosted by Brandeis University. The Cardinal and Gray has had strong showings at each of its last two meets, improving their record to 13-9 overall on the season.
MIT's foil squad, led by senior Cordelia Link (13-2), had the most impressive performance of the three weapons, winning four of the five matches and posting a 33-12 record on the day. Finishing 8-1 against the U.S. Air Force Academy, the foilists clinched the 15-12 victory for the Engineers over the Falcons. Link, along with Jenna Caldwell (11-4) and Lindley Graham (9-6) scored Tech's only 9-0 wins with their efforts over Haverford College and Hunter College.
In Epee, Sophie Monahan (9-4), Stephanie Shin (10-5), Kirsten Hessler (9-6) and Kristin Kuhn (2-0) combined to go 30-15 over the five rounds. Against New York University, the trio won 8 of 9 possible points, lifting the Engineers to a narrow 14-13 victory against the Violets.
MIT's young sabre contingent held their own against the tough competition, posting consistent 4-5 records against three opponents and totaling 23-24 throughout the meet. Sophomore Molly Kozminsky (10-5), along with Annabeth Gellman (8-7), Elena Tartachenko (3-11) and Laura Evans (1-0) had a 7-2 outing against Haverford College, allowing the Engineers to dominate the Fords, 24-3.
The Engineers have some time off before they hit the strips again on February 20 at the New England Collegiate Championships hosted by Mount Holyoke College.