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Jonathan Sawyer was immortalized by James Joyce in his nonsensical work, Finnegan's Wake. But to those of us who live in Dublin, Georgia, Jonathan Sawyer is our founding father. Little has been written about the man. And, some of that has been woefully misprinted. Just about two hundred years ago, the tiny post office of Dublin, Georgia was established by its first postmaster and the founder of Dublin, Jonathan Sawyer.
Although for a century Sawyer has been called an Irishman, he was in fact a Massachusetts Yankee. Born around the time of the American Revolution in Westminster, Massachusetts, Jonathan Sawyer came to the capital city of Louisville, Georgia in the early 1800s to seek and find his fortune. Sawyer went into business with his brother-in-law, David McCormick, son of Dr. James McCormick. With no fortune in sight, Sawyer decided instead to try his hand in the genesis of a new town.
He settled at a place called "Sand Bar" on the banks of the Oconee River where an old Indian trail crossed. Sawyer was granted a license by the Inferior Court of Laurens County to sell spiritous liquors during its August 1809 term. At the time, the county seat of Laurens County was at Sumpterville, some five miles inland to the west. But Sawyer knew that sooner or later, the center of the county would need to be moved to the banks of the Oconee River.
Jonathan Sawyer married Elizabeth McCormick. Elizabeth McCormick was not a native of Ireland, but of Baltimore, Maryland. Her granddaughter, Ann Eliza Oakley, reported that her grandmother Sawyer had once taken a trip to Dublin, Ireland to visit the land of her ancestors. Oakley said, "They loved at first sight and were soon married. He built the first house in Dublin." For centuries, those who knew Mr. Sawyer wasn't Irish, believed in their hearts that Mrs. Sawyer was from the land of shamrocks and leprechauns. Mrs. Oakley, during an extended visit to Dublin in 1908, once and for all confirmed that the founder of Dublin was not Peter Sawyer, but indeed Jonathan Sawyer.
The Sawyers had three children, two boys and a girl, none of whose names have survived the sands of time. Sometime about the early part of the year 1810, Elizabeth Sawyer died during the birth of her daughter.
No trace of Elizabeth Sawyer's ground could be found on her granddaugther's visit in 1905. It could be presumed that she was buried near the Sawyer home or perhaps in the city cemetery on the northwestern corner of the town, just inside the front gate.
The Sawyers had a close family relationship with Laurens County's most preeminent citizen, Gov. George Troup. The former United States senator and congressman married Anne St. Claire McCormick, a sister of Mrs. Sawyer. Hessie McCormick, another sister, married James Jackson, who moved to Gainesville and later Alabama, where he served as a college president. Brother David McCormick lived in the Dublin area before removing elsewhere. His son, Pollard McCormick became a millionaire in the iron business in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
In his correspondence with the editors of the Dublin Times, T.F. Sawyer, of Hutchinson, Kansas, related the stories of his father, the only surviving child of Jonathan and Elizabeth Sawyer. Ironically, the Sawyer's son's name is never mentioned. Sawyer said, "My grandfather would send a Negro after my father on Saturdays or at the end of each month, riding one horse and leading another, and some times during vacations how he would run away from his home, or from his uncles, with the young Negro boys and spend weeks at neighboring plantation." He concluded the story by saying "Then a Negro would come and capture him and take him on the horse behind him and he would pull the servant's wool and scratch his face; thence when he got home, I remember he said Uncle Jackson made him thrash the young colored boys who had been with him telling him to put it on harder, what he did not give, then he (Jackson) would have to give his father and usually gave him more than he gave his companions."
On another occasion, Jonathan Sawyer and his son were out for a pleasure ride on horseback and met the rival merchant from up or down the river who was desirous of settling a little matter with the Dublin founder. The other man told him to get off his horse and would take it out of his hide. Young Sawyer began to cry. The six-foot, two-fisted New Englander dismounted, handed the lines to the young Sawyer, and commenced business. Sawyer took the man's pistols away from him and got full satisfaction as they left him lying by the side of the road. As the Sawyers approached the nearest plantation and requested the neighbors to go and gather him up and revive him, the young boy was still crying.
It has been written by some that Jonathan Sawyer gave the land for the Laurens County courthouse and the town of Dublin. In reality, the 101.5-acre half land lot where the city of Dublin originated was sold to the commissioners of the public buildings Laurens County by Joseph L. Hill on March 11, 1811 for the nominal sum of $100.00. Sawyer bought the other half of the lot from Hill on the same day for $200.00.
Sawyer accumulated nearly a thousand acres on the west side of the river in and around Dublin and nearly an equal amount on the eastern side. At one time, Sawyer owned lands at Fish Trap Cut, which he sold later sold to his brother-in-law George M. Troup.
The financial troubles which plagued Jonathan Sawyer from his founding of Dublin culminated in 1817. Sawyer removed himself and his family to the port city of Darien in southeastern Georgia. Sawyer caused a notice to be published in the Georgia Journal that he was currently engaged in the factoring and commission business in Darien in the late fall of 1817. Sawyer later joined forces with the firm of T. Herring, which was based in New York City.
Sawyer was elected in 1821 as Clerk of the McIntosh County Court of Ordinary and served as many as three terms in a position which involved the issuance of marriage licenses and the administration of estates.
Jonathan Sawyer, the man who named our home, died in February 1847 in Anderson Courthouse, South Carolina. This once active and successful man simply faded away.
The date of the establishment of the post office of Dublin occurred between April 25 and May 6, 1811. No one knows for sure. However, Friday marks the first written record of the post office of Dublin, Georgia, which would not officially become a town until December 1812. So now you know that Dublin, the name sake of the heart of all Irish folk around the world, was not founded by an Irishman but by a New England Yankee, who loved his wife so much that he gave us our most wonderful name of Dublin, which by the way in ancient Gaelic "An Dubh Linn," which means "black pond" or "black pool."


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{UPDATE: Here is a whole new series dedicated to perfecting homemade pizza with updated recipes and a lot of step-by-step tutorials on baking, so you may want to check that out first!}
I've posted about pizza before, but since it makes a frequent appearance in our home (i.e. most every Saturday night except when I am lazy and grilled cheese pops up on the menu), a few things have changed and I want to share them with you.
Namely, I have a new favorite pizza dough recipe I've slightly adapted from here and oh, it is incredible. Chewy and flavorful, it is definitely my new go-to pizza dough recipe that I've been using for a few months now.
It takes a minor amount of forethought and planning, since the dough benefits from being made the night before or in the early morning but it is well worth it. I still use the Fast and Easy recipe if I haven't planned ahead, but this other recipe is really superb.
Thanks to the whole wheat flour in the dough, it gives the crust a great depth and texture that is unparalleled after being baked to perfection. Here is my favorite pizza sauce recipe.
Also, over the last year, I've gathered a few other tips and tricks that I thought I'd share with you (including revamping the pizza sauce a bit). I've included them below with the recipe.
A few I'll mention here:
1)I always use freshly grated mozzarella cheese for topping our pizzas. I've harped on this before but since I'm, like, half-scientist, I can assure you that freshly grated mozzarella melts a lot better than preshredded. My husband happens to work for a cheese company and agrees with me (let's forget the fact that he has a boring desk job and isn't actually making the cheese – details, details). But you really can trust me on this – do a side-by-side comparison and I promise you'll be converted to the idea. And then you can officially be classified as half-scientist, too.
2) Also, although we keep our pizza toppings simple (usually just cheese and turkey pepperoni), I've found a quick way to elevate the pizza to a delicious new level – sprinkling freshly grated parmesan cheese over all of the toppings right before baking. The slightly salty, flavorful hit of the parmesan cheese is fantastic.
Homemade pizza is one of the most satisfying things I make for my family. It tastes a hundred times better than restaurant-bought and my kids can get their grubby little hands right in there and help. And grubby or not, I love their help.
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- 1 1/4 cups warm water
- 2 teaspoons instant yeast
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
- Make the dough the night before or early the morning on the day you want to make the pizza. In a large mixing bowl (or in the bowl of a stand mixer), mix the water, yeast, sugar, honey and oil. (If using active dry yeast, increase the amount of yeast to 2 3/4 teaspoons and proof the yeast in the water until foamy before mixing in the sugar, honey and oil.) Then mix in 1 cup flour and the salt. Continue mixing in all the remaining flour until you get a nice, soft dough. Knead until dough is soft and smooth, about 10 minutes by hand or 5 minutes with a stand mixer.
- Shape the dough into a ball and place in a lightly greased bowl and cover tightly (with a lid or plastic wrap). Place the dough in the refrigerator to slowly rise until three hours before baking. Three hours before baking, remove the dough from the refrigerator and let it come to room temperature, keeping it lightly covered.
- 45-60 minutes before baking, move the rack to the lowest position in the oven (if the lowest rack in your oven is nearly touching the oven floor, move it up one notch – you don't want it that close or the bottom of the pizza will burn), place the pizza stone on it and preheat the oven to 500 degrees. Don't be nervous about a hot oven! I used to be scared to death to cook anything above 400 degrees but I promise 500 degrees is the only way to go when cooking pizza. If your oven is a bit sketchy at that temperature, bake at 475 degrees.
I think a pizza stone makes all the difference in good versus great pizza. I have this pizza stone and I love the rectangular shape. I have baked many a pizza on this stone and it is awesome.
Here's a few different methods for making great pizza:
Pizza Paddle/Peel: I have a wooden pizza paddle, like this, which I sprinkle with cornmeal and place the pizza dough on. I layer my toppings on the dough and slide the dough quickly onto the hot pizza stone. After about 8 or 9 minutes, the pizza is baked to perfection and I slide it onto a cutting board to slice and eat.
Alternative Pizza Paddle/Peel: If you don't have a pizza paddle, you can use the underside of a baking sheet (I use an 11X17 size) or a large cutting board as a makeshift pizza paddle. Cover it lightly with cornmeal, flour or parchment paper, make your pizza on the floured baking sheet or cutting board and gently slide the pizza off of the makeshift paddle onto the baking stone when ready to bake (if using parchment paper, you can let the parchment paper slide onto the baking stone with the pizza). Bake for 8-9 minutes until the crust is nicely browned. Retrieve the pizza with a pair of tongs or a spatula and slide the baked pizza quickly onto a waiting cooling rack.
Rimmed Baking Sheet: If you currently bake pizzas using cornmeal on a pizza paddle, you'll know how messy it can be – cornmeal everywhere. In fact, right now, my oven is in serious need of a good vacuuming. So, ofttimes, I'll still preheat my baking stone like normal and instead of using my wooden pizza paddle, I stretch the dough into an irregular shape on a lightly greased rimmed baking sheet (I don't worry about pressing it into the corners to give it a rustic look), add the toppings, and slide the entire baking sheet on the pizza stone to bake. Bake the pizza for 9-10 minutes until the crust is nicely browned. This method still browns the crust nicely – and while you don't get the extremely authentic pizza crust, it is still mighty delicious and I can make more pizza at once rather than sliding them one at a time onto the baking stone.
Follow @melskitchencafe on Instagram and show me the recipes you are making from my blog using the hashtag #melskitchencafe. I love seeing all the goodness you are whipping up in your kitchens!
Pizza Dough Recipe Source: adapted slightly from Emily at Savory Seasonings

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Lisa Marie Presley's 46th Birthday Party with Daughter Riley Keough and Mom Priscilla Presley (Exclusive)
Lisa Marie Presley celebrates her 46th birthday with daughter Riley Keough, 24, and mother Priscilla Presley, 68, in these exclusive JustJared.com pictures at her birthday party held at L.A. hotspot No Vacancy on Saturday night (February 1).
Other friends and family in attendance included Lisa's love Michael Lockwood, her son Ben (with girlfriend Alexa), Zoe Kravitz, Ellen Page, Lisa's best friend Linda Ramone (with boyfriend J.D. King of the band The Olms), Jacqui Getty, Riley's boyfriend Ben Smith-Petersen, Priscilla's sister Michelle Beaulieu Hovey, and Jared Eng.
Attendees also enjoyed a chocolate fondue station, tarot card readings, and magic shows. Toward the end of the night, a tightrope walker performed!
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As Commissioner Bud Selig and several prominent players attempted to evade subpoenas for recent House of Representatives hearings on baseball's steroid problem, Rep. Henry Waxman observed, "What strikes me is that baseball doesn't want to investigate it and they don't want us to investigate it." The California congressman summed up baseball's policy as "don't know, don't tell."
This "Selig Strategy" could also describe the academy's response to indications that the nation's humanities and social sciences departments suffer from a lack of intellectual and programmatic diversity. Calls for outside inquiries have been denounced as violations of academic freedom, while few if any signs exist that the very internal academic procedures that created the problem can successfully resolve it.
Instead of imitating baseball's strategy of trying to cover up relevant information, the academy should bring transparency to the now-cloaked world of faculty hires and in-class instruction, compiling and publicizing the necessary data, probably through college and department Web sites. Such a response would allow the educational establishment to employ the habits of the academic world, namely reasoned analysis through use of hard evidence, to address (and, when false, disprove) specific allegations of ideological bias. At the same time, the exposure associated with greater transparency might deter those professors inclined to abuse their classroom authority for indoctrination.
Calls for any greater openness have encountered fierce resistance from some quarters of the faculty — as seen in many of the contests for the American Association of University Professors' governing council, for which balloting concludes on April 15. Four of the ten races (Districts 1, 3, 8, and 10) feature one candidate who defines academic freedom as chiefly a tool for protecting the professoriate's dominant ideological faction — to the point of resisting outside scrutiny and limiting publicly available information about academic matters. In a fifth race, for District 7, both candidates have endorsed this vision.
This cohort has deemed transparency a negative force, and instead has outlined a vision of:
- Imagined reality, in which leftists and far lefists — despite myriad surveys suggesting their substantial overrepresentation on the nation's campuses — represent a besieged minority in the academy. In 1999, for instance, District 8 candidate Ellen Schrecker doubted that if "America was to enter another Vietnam War," junior faculty members would "express themselves as freely as we did in the 1960s." Though the professoriate's outspoken hostility to the Bush administration's Iraq policy belied this prediction, the platform of District 7 nominee Jeffrey Halpern nonetheless continues to assert, "The exercise of free expression among tenured faculty is being radically curtailed in the name of national security." Radically curtailed?
- Professorial privilege, in which faculty possess an apparently unlimited right to bring their political agendas into the classroom. After a 2001 job action by the California Faculty Association included calls for professors to insert pro-union statements into their course syllabi, District 1 candidate Susan Meisenhelder scoffed that administrators who protested the policy overlooked how "important university traditions such as academic freedom" allowed professors to infuse their courses with political material. In this vision of the academy, undergraduates, like administrators, cannot even publicize their dissent. In early 2005, Schrecker charged that students who criticized the imtimidating behavior of anti-Israel professors of Middle Eastern studies at Columbia University wanted "to impose orthodoxy at this university, often in the name of academic diversity." Better, evidently, for universities to cover up classroom misconduct, especially if the professors in question are expressing the preferred viewpoint on contemporary foreign policy issues.
- Freedom from oversight, in which faculty members are responsible to no one and the goal of professional organizations is to conceal information that faculty ideologues find inconvenient. District 3 candidate Roxanne Gudeman promises to contest "unacceptable intrusions" that seek "to monitor and censor the political, ideological, and ethnic backgrounds of members of the academy and their teaching and research." (Gudeman also champions ethnic and racial diversity programs, which, if nothing else, monitor the "ethnic backgrounds of members of the academy.") District 10 candidate Michael Bérubé has committed himself to fighting "concerted and well-organized attacks on the professoriate," including calls for an advisory board for Title VI area studies programs — as if professors, alone among recipients of federal appropriations, are entitled to receive public moneys without legislative oversight.
The polar extreme of these viewpoints, of course, is David Horowitz's Academic Bill of Rights (ABOR), which the AAUP has formally condemned as a political intrusion into the academy. The "Selig Strategy," however, represents a remarkably ineffective response to the ABOR movement. Public support for ABOR derives from a perception that most professors have little interest in restoring intellectual diversity to the academy. In light of scandals at such prestigious institutions as Columbia and Colorado, faculty organizations issuing blanket assertions that all is well in their ranks and dismissing outside criticism as illegitimate only reinforces the impression that the professoriate has something to hide regarding the ideological tenor of classroom instruction.
There are, of course, occasions — the McCarthy Era was one, the early stages of the Vietnam War, perhaps, another — that justify aggressively utilizing the principle of academic freedom to prevent inappropriate outside scrutiny. But higher education, like baseball, is an institution whose survival depends on public support. Just as Mark McGwire sacrificed the public's trust when he told congressmen that he would not "talk about the past," so too will higher education's public standing be diminished by continued claims that academic freedom allows the professoriate to ignore allegations of ideological bias. Even institutions not reliant on taxpayer support cannot long flourish in an atmopshere of widespread public distrust of the academy's values.
Fortunately, a middle ground exists between the "Selig Strategy" on the one hand and having state legislatures dictate classroom content on the other. Transparency — not a claim that academic freedom prevents public scrutiny — represents the most effective way to respond to criticism of bias among the professoriate. "Sunlight is the best disinfectant," noted Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate in Shadow University, applying Justice Louis Brandeis' famous dictum to the problems of higher education. The Internet provides an unparalleled opportunity to demonstrate the inner workings of the academy to legislators, trustees, alumni, and taxpayers. If professors have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear from drawing back the curtains regarding personnel and curricular actions.
To my knowledge, no university requires departments to publicly explain how and why they have allocated new lines. Imagine if every other year, every college department published on its Web site a statement about shifts in lines. For example, a religion department that had replaced one of four slots studying Christianity with one focusing on Islam might explain that it did so because of increased scholarly and student interest, post-9/11, or because the field had produced important new scholarship on Islam-related themes.
My own discipline, for example, has witnessed a sharp decline in positions in political, diplomatic, constitutional, and legal history over the past generation. Perhaps intellectually compelling reasons exist for dramatically shifting staffing toward adherents of the trinity of race, class, and gender. Yet absent any public justification, it's hard to think of a reason other than ideological bias why, say, the University of Michigan's History Department, whose ranks already included five U.S. women's historians, used new lines to hire three more specialists in women, gender, and sexuality — all while the department lacks even one historian currently working in U.S. foreign policy.
Even more discouraging, despite the credible allegations of in-class bias by professors, I know of no university that requires faculty members to publicly post their course descriptions, syllabi, assignments, and lecture notes. The latter requirement, admittedly, would mean more work for professors, in that notes would need regular updating, but it also would provide concrete evidence that faculty members are always revising their in-class presentations to reflect new scholarship in their fields, while seeking to teach the subject matter at hand rather than attempting to shape their students' viewpoints on controversial contemporary issues.
Of course, this strategy also would expose improper conduct to the light of day — as when Professor Joseph Massad, of Columbia's Middle Eastern studies department, informed one class that "Israelis introduced plane hijackings" to the Middle East and that Zionist leader Theodor Herzl allied with "anti-Semites" to "help kick Euro[pean] Jews out." Faculty members committed to the indoctrination approach could theoretically post neutral lecture notes while maintaining wholly biased classroom presentations. But such a strategy would constitute outright deception on the part of the professor, behavior that few administrations would be likely to tolerate.
In their platform, Schrecker (who has darkly hinted of an Internet-related "virtual McCarthyism") and her cohort oppose any movement toward greater transparency. Might they fear that sunlight would confirm some or all of the outside critique of ideological bias? More ominously, do they speak for a majority in the academy?
"The thought police," Harvard professor Stephan Thernstrom recently observed, are now "not just outside, on some congressional or state legislative committee. They are inside too, in our midst." The educational establishment can imitate baseball's 1990s strategy and ignore the problem, hoping that no one notices the ever more powerful internal threat to academic freedom. But, as Bud Selig and Mark McGwire have just discovered, the "don't know, don't tell" approach entails substantial risks. In this situation, transparency, not utilizing "academic freedom" to shield professors from outside scrutiny, represents the best course for the academy to adopt.Download file "Transparency or a "
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aphexyuri needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 112 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
SignalPhire is a brand new startup by a small group of young ambitious people.
Our core business will be in developing high standards web / Rich Internet Applications (RIA), as well as consultation and managing for commercial emerging-media & social-media.
We like catchy designs, social media, cool web tools/apps and love building interfaces that are fresh, slick and easy to use.
We are based in Halifax, Canada, but wish that what we stand for will appeal to people from anywhere.
We aim on providing our highly specialized services for small to medium sized clients that have an eye for fresh design, coupled with innovative usability and high standards. We hope that our identity will attract fresh forward thinking individuals and companies.
Our services will not be overly expensive, but still focus on quality and personal attention.
We hope this brief is enough to give you some insight into what we stand for.
We also chose the name SignalPhire for a reason. It is made out of...
- The 37 signals identified by astronomer P. Horowitz as potential messages from outer space.
- More signal, less noise. This is what is required in today's media. People want to know about the important things (the signal), without having to listen to all the noise.
- A person that is like phire(hot lively, unstoppable, bright)
Digital Phire:
- A pulse of digital information bigger that the universe that eats anything in its way :)
A few guidelines:
1.) Emphasis to be placed on the "ph" in SignalPhire, so it is not confused with signalfire. (see signUpSheet.png attachment)
2.) No stock images or clip-art.
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4.) Easily applied on print and web.
5.) Professional yet fun, exciting and eye catching.
6.) In keeping with todays newest web and design trends.
7.) I'm not a great fan of bitmaps, so logo should display well as vectors
8.) We have not decided on colours, so please feel free to experiment.
9.) signalphire / signalPhire / SignalPhire / SIGNALPHIRE...does not matter, we are open to ideas.
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BOSTON – The night started with Tim Thomas stoning New Jersey sniper Patrik Elias and rookie Mattias Tedenby in rapid succession just one minute into the contest.
It finished with Thomas needing to make 14 saves in the third period to preserve his fourth shutout of the season.
In between, Thomas could've practically taken his mask off and waved to the crowd, as it was an evening that was both one of Thomas' easiest and busiest over the course of 60 minutes of a 3-0 win over the Devils at TD Garden.
"I'm just thankful, because in an 82-game season, you know …" said Thomas about the overall lessened workload than he has had of late.
The Bruins as a team owed Thomas this relative vacation. In his last two games, a win and a loss, Thomas faced 46 and 33 shots, respectively. Even in front of Tuukka Rask, Boston has been letting up close to 40 shots a night. Even with possibly the best goaltending tandem in the league wearing black and gold, that's no way to keep them both healthy over the course of a seven-month NHL season.
Thomas said he approached this game as "must-win" even though it's just October and the opposition was a team that already seems ticketed for the lottery. The Bruins have struggled of late, especially at home, where they had lost three in a row. An early Devils goal, however, could've given the visitors a confidence boost and soured the festive atmosphere of Military Appreciation Night.
Maybe the game turned on the save Thomas initially made on Elias after the winger carried the puck into the Boston end and then dragged it across the slot before wristing one from the bottom of the right circle. Or perhaps it was the second save on Tedenby, who couldn't get his rebound past Thomas despite the goaltender having his back turned.
"Backwards butterfly?" said Thomas with a laugh. "Yeah, I practice that in practice sometimes. I could see it. I could see what he was doing with it, so … it's not too often I give myself a pat on the back for a save, and I do on that one. It felt good to do something in a game that I do quite regularly in practice."
Although the workload wasn't heavy through 40 minutes, Thomas said he didn't change anything about his approach. That paid off in the third period, when the ice was slightly tilted in New Jersey's favor. The shots were still mostly coming from the outside and from less dangerous areas of the zone, which meant less fancy maneuvers, belly flops and "backwards butterflies" by the veteran puck-stopper.
"Yeah it's a similar feeling to how I felt against Washington, probably early this year was the closest that I kind of felt like that," said Thomas. "I just felt like they weren't going to find a way to score."
Shutting out Ottawa and Phoenix with 29 saves earlier this season was probably a more difficult accomplishment than extinguishing all 28 shots from a Devils team that's dead last in the NHL in goals per game. But shot totals can be misleading. Some goaltenders prefer the more work they get because they can stay sharper and in the flow of the game. Some have a knack for staying focused enough to make that one key save on a night that sees them seldom tested.
Thomas says he doesn't fit into any category.
"I take it as it comes," he said. "I don't control how many shots I'm going to get against me, so I don't really put too much thought into what I want for the night. I just want to win. And if I do get shots, I want them to be as least dangerous as possible."
Thomas had the best of both worlds tonight with fewer shots for most of the game and then a couple flurries, with the shots coming mostly from non-scoring areas. It was about time the Bruins rewarded Thomas for all the times he has bailed them out with a calmer night. And he proved once again his ability to adapt to any situation.


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Our review sample of the software got off to a flying start, rapidly identifying and disinfecting 101 files in our test PC's Windows XP system folders before it even installed itself. The rest of the installation was equally quick and painless, and included an automatic firewall configuration for our wireless home network, consisting of another desktop PC and a laptop.
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Musc Ravageur
Yes, I'm looking for what the title is saying. A very very sweet, warm and loud cinnamon note combined with a creamy, sugary sweet vanilla! It sounds delicious, doesn't it?
I don't care if it's a feminine fragrance, just suggest what ever fits my description!
Thanks in advance everybody!
EDIT: No musky or leathery scents, please!
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Musc Ravageur
24 the fragrance.
Some day's you're the statue and some days you're the pigeon.
Well you asked for no musky scents so I'm not going to agree with the above 2 posters on Musc Ravageur...if I were you I would try Une Crime Exotique by Parfumerie Generale or Corduroy by Zirh.
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You can go really cheap on this one:
Carlos Santana for Men ($20 for 100mls)
or really expensive
Musc Ravageur ($230 for 50mls)
Matin Calin by CSP
Jaipur Homme is such a delicious scent. I have the edp version. So refined, balanced. It gets a lot of criticism in that it is outdated, etc. I don't subscribe to that school of thought. It is a classic to be appreciated by men of substance.
Senore, I've been really interested in this one, but I have a hard time with orientals...I find they're often too opulent, formal and downright "fancy" for my tastes and personality.
Would you describe Jaipur as opulent, formal, and fancy (understanding I'm not using these words with a negative connotation)?
I read through this thread because that sounds like an intriguing frag and I wanted to see what people were saying...even though I don't have one to suggest because I haven't come across one yet, I have to say that from your description of what you are looking for, Musc Ravageur is definitely not it!! If Musc Ravageur is the scent of cinnamon cookies dipped in vanilla then apparently I have never smelled it. Musc Ravageur is far from sweet in a cookie sense, and it is powdery and, in my own opinion, nasty. I'm just saying that it smells nothing like cinnamon cookies dipped in vanilla to me.
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I read through this thread because that sounds like an intriguing frag and I wanted to see what people were saying...even though I don't have one to suggest because I haven't come across one yet, I have to say that from your description of what you are looking for, Musc Ravageur is definitely not it!! If Musc Ravageur is the scent of cinnamon cookies dipped in vanilla then apparently I have never smelled it. Musc Ravageur is far from sweet in a cookie sense, and it is powdery and, in my own opinion, nasty. I'm just saying that it smells nothing like cinnamon cookies dipped in vanilla to me.
I know Musc Ravageur is very much loved here, I have a hard time getting beyond the Band-Aid smell it opens with. The first time I wore it, the Band-Aid scent was gone within minutes, and I hit the beautiful vanilla scent. The second time, I never reached the vanilla stage...the Band-Aid stayed with me for hours. Major bummer that day.
I'm sort of on a hunt for a similar scent. Of the ones I've tried, Jaipur isn't bad. I've worn it once and enjoyed it.
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I'd say 24 Gold..doesn't hurt that it's $40 either. It's warm and very very loud.
In point of safety, should be used with the application of cinnamon-heavy fragrances; for cinnamon is a potent skin irritant.
This suggestion is easy for me: Les Senteurs Gourmands by Laurence Dumond called Petite Madeleine, named after the sweet French pastries.
The notes: "Sweet, warm, and gourmet, a tempting treat from morning till night," and its notes are listed as bergamot, cannelle [cinnamon], almond, vanilla, white musk and precious wood."
This is affordable at about $39.00 USD.
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Hello everyone, and thank you for all of your suggestions so far!
I'm not even gonna bother to try Musc Ravageur after all the hate about the opening, especially when the opening lasts for a pretty long time (about 2 hours from what I've read)
I've tried Jaipur in both edt and edp and I have to say, even tho it's a wonderful fragrance that has alot of cinnamon in it, it smells out dated and is suitable for an older gentlemen rather than the 18 years old boy that I am. And, it contains a lot of patch, which I also hate.
I have to try out the rest of the suggestions. Really excited to try out the CSP one and Laurent Dumont!
BTW, keep suggesting fragrances that fits my cravings without musk, patch or leather!
I'd go with Musc Ravageur. You might actually also enjoy Angel Men, even though it doesn't fit your criteria exactly. It has that cookie and bakery vibe.
The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
It would be silly to dismiss Musc Ravageur (or any fragrance) without trying it yourself. It's definitely cinnamon and vanilla, and based on your request it was the first thought of many people here (including me).
And by the way, almost all fragrances contain musk. Smell before you judge.
I'm with Merely on this one: We usually agree on everything so this is not unusual--but it's true: When you get the best, most expensive and finest cinnamon extracts they are *always* augmented with a skull and cross bones and warning signs. Cinnamon extracts are systematically hyper poisonous: Even mints. My derm told me *never* to buy cinnamon mints. regardless of allergies or not: Just not OK for the human body. They do say that about porc, bit in france we've been eating it for centuries and also horse: Horse is so much better than beef that once you have eaten it, beef seems second grade, to say the least. Granted, we eat lamp's head roasted as well, and tripes, and all manner of other strange things: Frogslegs, snails: The list is never ending. Nothing, though, is poisonous like cinnamon. It *clearly says* "poisonous" and "death" on the bottle: and this is from the best sources.....
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Five O'Clock Au Gingembre by Serge Lutens - One in initially treated to a lemony accord. Bergamot, with its bittersweet and peppery facets, commingles with a robust, sweetly floral, Earl Grey tea. This tart and tangy mixture, almost effervescent, is carried on an undercurrent of ginger, which infuses its sweet and lemony facets, to the heart. Here, the warmth and spiciness of cinnamon and a hint of nutmeg shower the lemony opening, lifting a gingerbread accord, reminiscent of speculoos, with their rich sweetness and spiciness. A balsamic and faintly buttery woodiness from cedar carries the seductive accord to the base. Transitioning, the smooth cedar is tempered by a woody and lively pepper flittering about, akin to incense, and honey, which imparts its sweetness with a touch of urine. A resinous amber infuses its vanillic and smoky facets. And, a somewhat dark and slightly musky patchouli diffuses its aromatic earthiness. A dusting of bitter cacao also presents. The interplay of the foregoing leads to a comforting drydown. This unisex fragrance leans to the masculine side, and is light and bright. A festive composition, it has average projection, a 1-foot scent cloud, and average longevity, approximately 8 hours.
That one does sound really good, D&S..haven't had much luck with SL scents but it does sound good.
Diesel Zero Plus is what you are looking for and it just costs a few bucks.
L by Lolita Lempicka is an accurate depiction of a Cinnamon cookie dipped in vanilla It's also created by the same perfumier as Musc Ravageur ... Maurice Roucel. I would say its creamier
I get both notes from Endymion by Penhaligons (plus a strong note of mocha and/or milkshake mixed with sage, if this kind of note or even the mental concept, image, association of these notes is possible).
I was just reading some reviews on Hypnotic Poison and it mentioned some these notes, especially the almond and vanilla. Might be worth a sniff.


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The British Board of Film Classification has announced it is to put a new emphasis on the effects of horror films under new guidelines.
The body, which decides movie ratings, said in future it will further scrutinise the " psychological impact of horror" examining "gore" among the strong visual detail which may be featured in films.
It will also be tougher on strong language in films aimed at family audiences but will be more "flexible" for films at the 15 classification after public research showed that context rather then frequency was the key factor for viewers.
The BBFC - which has published new guidelines on its ratings policy - said there will greater weight given to the "theme and tone" rather than simply specific scenes and details on screen, particularly at the 12A/12 and 15 levels.
It will also pay further attention to sexual content after an extensive public consultation - involving around 10,000 people - showed there was concern about "the sexualisation of girls and pornography", with the content of music videos and access to online porn said to be "special worries".
During the research people were asked how issues such as sex, violence and bad language should be handled, looking at 60 films and videos. The vast majority backed the classification levels of films they had seen recently, with nine out of 10 believing that The Woman In Black - which has brought the most complaints of the past four years - had been correctly issued with a 12A certificate.
The BBFC's director David Cooke said: "Our new classification guidelines reflect explicitly concerns raised by the public during the 2013 consultation and will, I believe, ensure that we continue to be in step with what the public wants and expects in order to make sensible and informed viewing decisions."
He admitted that even after 12 years of use, some viewers were still confused by the 12A rating.
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Kevin Sabet is not one of the more than 70 percent of Floridians who want Amendment 2 to pass in November.
Sabet -- director of the drug policy institute at the University of Florida and a professor at the college of medicine there too -- is one of the few experts who's been outspoken in opposition to the medical marijuana movement. Originally from California, he witnessed the effects of legalization there and claims it's one of the reasons he's so passionately against medical marijuana. He's worked in the Obama, Bush, and Clinton administrations, so he insists that he comes at the issue with a nonpartisan point of view. He's cofounder and director of Smarter Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) and works closely with Patrick Kennedy on the left and David Frum (former speechwriter for George W. Bush) on the right.
Sabet spoke up to explain his side of the medical marijuana debate.
See also: United For Care's Ben Pollara Counters Arguments by Anti-Medical Marijuana Crowd
10. People have misinterpreted Dr. Sanjay Gupta's stance on medicinal marijuana. In 2009, Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, wrote an article for Time magazine called "Why I Would Vote No on Pot." He thought the movement was a cover for people who really wanted to get high. But last year, he publicly changed his stance, apologizing and explaining that he'd read more medical research and was now supportive of the potential to use weed as medicine. Says Sabet: "Sanjay Gupta I think has been misinterpreted by a lot of folks. He is saying we need to study marijuana for medicinal purposes. He isn't coming out and saying everyone should smoke marijuana. He isn't coming out for legalization. I think what he said -- unfortunately the headline producers have put on it -- have been more about gaining controversy than even really representing 100 percent of his views. I have spoken with him. He isn't in favor of legalization at all. I don't think he prefers smoking as a delivery system, and yet what would happen in Florida is de facto legalization via smoking smoking, and it's a problem."
9. Softening attitudes toward marijuana put children at risk. "The science shows us that one out of every six kids who starts using marijuana will become addicted. That's not a controversy; that's a scientific fact. If you start in adulthood, one in ten or one in 11 adults [will become addicted to marijuana]. The adolescent brain is under construction until about age 25 or 28. Anything that comes into contact with your brain has the potential to stay with you your whole life -- good things and bad things. One of those bad things are drugs. Marijuana has that distinction going in one in every six 16-year-olds will become addicted. I don't think writers of the petition want kids to become addicted, but when we increase the acceptability and normalization [of marijuana] -- look at what's happening in Colorado and California. Do Floridians want their state to look like that? That's the question the needs to be asked. That's all it comes down to in November."
8. There are alternatives to medical marijuana legalization. "There are clinical trials and scientific programs [those who are suffering or have loved ones suffering from a debilitating disease] can enroll in. If you have cancer or uncontrollable muscular spasticity or your child has Dravet syndrome, there are scientific programs to enroll to get marijuana-derived medications in a safe way. Those are being sanctioned by the FDA. On the other hand, I don't begrudge anybody from getting anything that they want to make themselves or their loved ones feel better. But this is the right way to do it in Florida."
7. Marijuana possession arrests are higher in lower-income neighborhoods where African-Americans and Hispanics are unfairly targeted. But passing medical marijuana will not solve social injustice. "I would say that all crimes are focused too much on minorities. So the idea that you can legalize marijuana and solve social justice and move forward is laughable, I think. Secondly, more importantly, the alcohol model shows us that alcohol is much more prevalent. There are eight times as many liquor stores in poor neighborhoods than upper-class neighborhoods. You want to look at rates, look at any form of drug. If you wanna look at what the lottery does, it targets the poor. Those are legal and addictive things. Legalization of marijuana is going to contribute more disparity, not less."
6. CBD is fine, but Amendment 2 is not just about passing CBD. Cannabidiol (CBD) is a component in marijuana and is said to offer medically beneficial properties without the psychoactive properties of THC. Some growers in states where weed is legal are specifically growing strains heavy on CBD. Says Sabet: "[CBD] would be for a very small population. I do think that would be a good example of a medicine at a pharmacy that's CBD-derived. That's fine. That's good. We have to do more research and have it available at pharmacies. Passing this initiative is not going to be putting CBD into people's hands. We aren't going to know what we're getting. There is no oversight. There isn't going to be any independent body looking to see what's actually in the medication."
5. Just because alcohol and tobacco are legal doesn't mean marijuana should be. "Those are the last models we would want to use. We are stuck with those models. That's why we aren't arguing for prohibition even though [it would prevent] hundred of thousands of deaths a year. [Alcohol and tobacco industries] make up a multibillion-dollar machine. Why would we want to mimic that with marijuana? We would want to do something much better than that with marijuana."
4. Passing medical marijuana will lead to de facto legalization. "It doesn't matter what the intent [of the amendment] is. The effect is going to be de facto legalization. The way it is written, the law, the way it is being [carried out] in other states is de facto legalization. I'm not going to have an argument about their intent; the effect is going to be de facto legalization. If you want to make it a medical model, we need to make it a medicine. Smoking a joint and growing it in your home is not what a medicine is."
3. Florida's pain pill mills will become pot mills. "What we worry about in Florida is that the infamous pill mills will become pot mills. It's going to be a similar problem with marijuana instead of prescription drugs. And today's marijuana is not your marijuana of the '60s -- it's ten to 30 times stronger, often concocted by combusting butane and often consumed in cookies, brownies... and they are marketed to kids.
2. Medical professionals did not craft the petition. "What we are really worried about is creating the next tobacco industry, except this time it would be the marijuana industry. There is a right way to do marijuana as medicine, but, not surprisingly, the way it is written by a trial lawyer and Democratic pollster is not the right way. We need it done by doctors and public health officials. And that would be in the context of a pharmacy, and that's not what this initiative is about at all."
1. There is a medicinal value in opium too. "There is a medical value in marijuana; the question is how do we deliver that value? Just like there is a medical value in opium, we wouldn't ask someone to smoke opium; we would ask them to take morphine. The same thing should be the case with marijuana. We need to have marijuana-derived medications at pharmacies under direction of a doctor."
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- Bentley debuts the 2013 Flying Spur at this year's Geneva Auto Show
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The 2013 Geneva Auto Show marks the premier of the 2014 Bentley Continental Flying Spur. With new lower and wider looks and world-class amenities, the Continental Flying Spur works to redefine what it means to be a high-end luxury sedan.
Up front the re-sculpted hood and fenders are now formed from aluminum with a technique Bentley borrowed from the aerospace industry, wherein heated sheets of alloy are shaped by compressed air. The sleek body lines accentuate the new chrome grille and LED daytime running lights.
Under the hood of the 2014 Bentley Continental Flying Spur, Bentley has fitted its twin-turbocharged W12 engine, which produced 606 hp. Along with the 8-speed automatic transmission that sends power to all four wheels with a front-to-rear power ratio of 40/60, the Flying Spur can go from zero to 60 in 4.3 seconds. From there, the all-new Bentley will hit a top speed of 200 mph, making it the fastest 4-door Bentley ever.
Inside, Bentley designers spared no expense. Each individual car features over ten square meters of hardwood, which Bentley boasts has been sustainably sourced. The Flying Spur is available in either a four or five passenger setup. The front 14-way adjustable seats are both heated and cooled. Buyers can choose to cover the seats, roof lining and pillars in 12 different colors of natural premium quality leather.
As for technology, the Continental Flying Spur comes with an 8-inch touchscreen display, complete with Bluetooth connectivity and voice activation. Rear passengers can control most multimedia controls, including satellite navigation, from a rear center console-mounted Touch Screen Control (TSC).
Bentley has sculpted the rear end of the luxury sedan so that it appears to be much more muscular with its dipped taillights. The new trunk lid has been formed from a polymer composite and includes the multimedia antenna. Additionally, to make their Bentley Flying Spur unique, buyers can choose from four wheel options: a standard 19-in, an optional 5-spoke 20-in, a 6-spoke 21-in, or a 21-in 10-spoke rim.
What it means to you: Bentley hopes to cut the all-new 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class off at the pass by building one of the finest and fastest 4-door luxury sedans of all time.


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Crazy Jim Tyer stuff
Rare Kurtzman!
You can learn how to write great comic book dialogue while you're at it.
Flip is quite endowed!
Well this looks to be a wonderful comic site and I bookmarked it myself so I could keep checking in.
hey John
Is that blue dog in Big House Blues that informs Ren that Phil has been "put to sleep" an homage to Milt Gross? (he also appears in Kilted Yaksmen)
Have you been asked this question a thousand times before, too?
yes and yes
Why'd ya do it Flip? WHY?!!!
Hiii Johnny!!
Eeep! Cool! Jim Tyer and Milt Gross and stuff!!
Hey, I just put a post on my blog with step by step bg painting instructions that I did for Altruists, of that hole in the ground, along with some scans of HB dirt and grass texture and stuff!
click here
Thanks John!
Also, Kristy:
I LOVE your work on 'Altruists'.... no offense to John, but it's worlds better than the bgs in Big House Blues ( although I like the pyschotic bgs ).
- trevor.
hey wow, that's some Paul Pope (Robin pic.) work. wonder what he's up to these days. I love your site, I tell my fellow animation students to go here all the time. Animation enlightenment.
This explains why Flip quit starring in cartoons. He was put into amphibian stud service.
Oh boy; Flip the Frog: Most obvious blackface-inspired character design ever? And I thought Mickey was bad... :P
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That pig is incredible!
John, concerning your response on my last post: If you understand the term, I think you'll be hard pressed to give me an OBJECTIVE propositon concerning aesthetics. If you can, you'll have made a breakthrough that would stymie all of Western Philosophy. Art History is filled with quibbling, principled, schools, and they are, yes, very subjective. You repeatedly define your tastes on this site, taste is not an objective phenomenon.
John -
Thanks once again for a great plug. I'm trying to post at least twice a week, time permitting.
You got me with that Flip "endowed" line. I hadn't caught that before. Now it seems so obvious. =)
Damn it, I've been beat to the punch.
John, I feel like a total jackass every time I leave a link to new George Liquor stuff I've drawn.
oh well...tenth time is a charm.
some new Sody stuff I did
Hey john
Hows it going i put some new funny pics on my blog. I tried to add more negative space again in some pics. If you could leave some feedback that would be great. Thanks again.
Those Jimmy Tyre drawings were great and the Tyre comic is one of his best! Tyre is a reason for living!
Ahhh, but beauty is SO objective. Almost anyone can recognize a good cartoon when they see it, but have trouble explaining just what it is that makes it so. I think John does a great job at explaining some of the 'important' elements in GOOD cartoons, and art in general. There are certain things that make cartoons pleasing to the eye and it's difficult to pin them down with words, but John does it, and that's why this blog is so popular with artists. A lot of art schools may quibble about the details of what makes good art but there are some big principles that you need to form a good foundation and no amount of detail can fix a poorly constructed piece.
I watched some Popeye cartoons from the 60's this weekend (the King stuff) and they looked horrible. I had my wife put them up for sale on Amazon immediately. But, I would not sell one of my Ren & Stimpy DVD's no matter how much you offered. Get it?!?!?
I'm glad John K. is such a "Giver"
Old news now, but still havn't had the conditions of objectivity met, via Mr. Hoek's vagaries. I'm not calling for the liquidation of principles, but a curb to pedantics, and am an admirer of Mr. Kricfalusi.


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In a field of 13 teams and 170 participants competing, the Panthers were well represented as they posted five runners in the top 50, and two in the top 20.
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A Marine at Twentynine Palms is facing punishment after making an "inappropriate" reference to the Trayvon Martin case in a Twitter message, the Marine Corps said Saturday.
The Marine, a staff sergeant with 10 years in the corps, put a message on Twitter: "Rifle range all day today. Shooting black all day like George Zimmerman." Silhouettes on rifle range targets are painted black.
Once his command found out about the post, he deleted the post, erased his Twitter account and took down his MySpace account.
The Marine also apologized for the post when contacted by a reporter for the Marine Corps Times: "It was a distasteful comment that was said. I guess at the time I didn't realize how one comment would affect so many people negatively, and for that I apologize to everybody."
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Users / Re: 0710 beta 2 available« on: January 09, 2008, 07:01:33 pm »
The existing MBR I installed with my previous (FAT32 sda3, a la USB Flash) process to point at that old 0704 menu.lst with 0710 added as an option, and I hadn't edited that menu.lst to fix the bug (thinking, like you, that it wasn't in the critical path). I fixed the sda1 menu.lst, booted into it, and now it works! 0710 loaded, and is now sitting at the AV Wizard Step 0. Thanks for all the help, mostly just correcting my boneheaded mistakes.
The net instructions I'm following now don't specify how to make the MBR point at the 0710 installer partition's menu.lst , even though that's the clean way to do this. If I have that MBR instruction, I'll revise and post this complete, tested process in the wiki.
That's why I choose to have a common /boot partition mounted by all my linux installations on this system. This sda1 (/boot) partition hold the MBR and the GRUB menu.lst. From there it points to different / (root) partition depending on the system to boot. And I can modify the menu.lst from any linux version I boot.


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Career Path: From grad school dropout to Hollywood acclaim
Eric Boulanger founded The Bakery, an audio mastering studio, in 2015 on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City.
A classically trained violinist and engineer, Boulanger has worked with artists such as Neil Young, Green Day, Selena Gomez and Olivia Newton-John to master their work for mass consumption. Several of his mastering projects have been Grammy winning or nominated, including songs from the recent blockbuster film "La La Land."
Boulanger spoke with Crain's about his early career and how he manages his company today.
Q: What's your background with music?
A: I was always a violinist. I was trained classically, always studying the violin. Music was always what I was doing.
[In undergrad] I had a start-of-life crisis. What was happening was I didn't want to go to a conservatory anymore. It was all old news and I made the decision, to my parent's dismay, that I would go to a university and not a conservatory because I would be studying music and something else. I ended up going to Carnegie Mellon because it was the best school that accepted me.
I always had an idea and an understanding of what made me happy and what I wanted to do. I think that's overlooked by a lot of people; not everyone gets to have that. And I don't know where it came from, I just knew when I walked into a recording studio, I was like "this is totally for me." I had no idea why. So being able to pursue that led me to academics and out to L.A.
Q: Tell me about your early start in the industry.
A: My first internship opportunity, my first professional break, was being the first ever intern for Capitol Studios, in between junior and senior year of college. Skipping a little bit forward I ended up getting hired by an absolute legend in the industry. His name was Doug Sax. I worked for him and his company called the Mastering Lab. So I got an incredible job at the top of the field almost right off the bat, which was both luck and work.
Nonetheless, when I first started I had the bright idea that if I don't do a master's [degree] now, I never will. And I was right about that part. My thinking at the time was, "If I do a master's now, I can defer loans," which, I would love to point out how bad of an idea that is. I ended up going to USC for some form of a music business type degree, but to say that program was mundane to me is a real understatement. It was just so mundane. The whole program to me was so obvious and the main thing that was dragging me down was the time commitment. And I'm happy to say that I'm a graduate school dropout. I made it a semester and a half.
Q: How did you make the decision to drop out?
A: I remember the day... I was involved with [assisting] one of Doug (Sax's) close friends and colleagues. They wanted me to be doing the grad degree and everything. I was going [to school] every Tuesday and Thursday evening, and this happened to be one of those days.
When it came five o'clock, they said to me, "Eric, you've got to go to school, you've got to make it on time." And not one iota of me wanted to go. It felt like they were my parents telling me it's time to go to school. But of course, I go, and then it was the most ridiculous class I've ever experienced where I literally argued with the professor. We hit our break, I packed up my stuff and I never returned to USC. It's very dramatic, I know.
Q: What did you take away from that experience, if not a master's degree?
A: I would say my one early on mistake was not specifically [attempting] a master's degree, but conforming to normality and what others are doing. If I had spent all of 10 minutes really thinking about what was going on and where I was and what I was doing, it probably would have been very obvious that [it] wasn't necessary. And a very large waste of money. USC is not cheap.
But it's the only thing a for-profit school can do. All they can do is promise the best education and then because of it, you're going to have some sort of job. Simplistic, but that's the idea. And it couldn't be more wrong. There's almost zero fields on this planet where that can be a guarantee. To me, education is what you make of it
[After dropping out] my biggest a-ha moment was knowing, "OK, now you've got to focus and hunker down. You're in the real world. You're in an iconic studio with an amazing opportunity."
At the Mastering Lab at that time, I was definitely the newcomer and lowest on the totem pole. But it's all about whether or not you have your foot in the door, and I did.
Q: Was there any other point in your career that you would return to and change something you did, or a decision you made?
A: I think that's a fact of the type of work that we do. It's a creative role, an artistic role. My job, what brings in the bread, is working on albums. It's artistic and creative. So just like the work we do has no right or wrong, so does the journey. Of course we all have hard times or projects or clients that don't work out, nightmare situations, but that's all part of it.
Q: Do you have any kind of philosophy that you follow to help manage your company?
A: It's efficiency.
When making a move or investment, I always assume the worst. And [The Bakery] was not what I expected at all. We haven't lost a dime since opening. I attribute a lot of [it, to] where we put our money investment-wise.
With a mastering studio and starting from scratch, there's a lot of equipment. But financially, I think the reason why everything's working so well, is our efficiency, especially between me and my other engineer [Joanne "Jett" Galindo].
Follow The Bakery on Twitter @bakerymastering
Photo courtesy of Eric Boulanger


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A new project natal or kinect as you may call it gameplay video has been released by USA Today
Okay, I just can't resist.
A minute or so in is a young girl who's body is recognized by Kinect for the first time, and she moves about excited by it. Here's what must be going through her head:
"Check it out, dawg! I'm dancing! I'm dancing!"
That's the first thing I focused on when she seemed more mesmerized by seeing the console displaying her exact double on screen than playing the game(dancing)
Can't wait to see some sort of boxing game and other stuff in the morning and following days.
He reacted like that because I responded to his trolling in the Cliffy B Kinect article while he was trolling, that is why his response in here doesn't seem to make sense and off.
But hurt kid. what did he say wrong?
Honestly, I'm just too damn lazy to play these games. How many of you are that enthusiastic and even that fit?
The last thing I want to do is come home from work or school and start playing Kinect games. And that I feel is the biggest obstacle for MS to overcome, especially for hardcore gamers.
These are demo titles, but I wonder about the full titles. I keep flip-flopping my thoughts on Natal's success towards hardcore gamers. I really hope MS doesn't shortchange us come Tuesday.
Edit: Apparently this is the event showing Tuesday. Can anyone confirm this??
Alpha I'm with you on that. And it's not that I'm lazy, I just got see it being all the fun. If they took this put it in gyms for work
outs. MS would bank for real!
that spencer guy really annoys me, i cant really pinpoint why, its just the way he talks or something
I workout 5 days a week for 1 hour a day. I'm fit enough to do this, but even I don't think I want to jump around my living room.
Unfortunately Alpha, they don't seem to be targeting you and me. They're marketing towards family game night. The people who come home and plays games to unwind are not who they are looking at.
It's unfortunate, but true.
yea I can't see spending more than 1 afternoon a weekend, if that much, playing a game when I jump alot and wave my arms...to be honest they haven't shown anything but that yet.
From the video the guy says the presentation at E3 will have games that are accessible to people, I read family games only, and thats a huge disappointment if true.
the vid is not working all im getting is that lame add
I noticed how the avater was jumpinng when the girl on the right wasn't even moving?! whats up with that?! LOL!
also, very, very laggy at times too..
The response time is pretty bad in the gameplay (By that I mean what they show AFTER the 3 and a half minutes of PR footage). And it registers as TWO jumps half of the time.
Like 3:28.
First the character jumps with no instruction, then she jumps and he jumps and their avatars join them two seconds later.
MS dudes look kinda shady and that "family" looked like actors to me. This shit better not get popular for us gamers' sake.
The bits with the family are clearly done by a production company and hired actors.
the raft game doesn't show accuracy and precision since it's really just tilt body left / right or jump, which you could easily do with any device.
i think hardcore gamers anxious for kinect should wait a bit before getting it. See if it gets more than just the casual offerings that the studio heads are talking about, since they seem eager to direct kinect towards the casuals to draw them away from the hardcore image of the 360.
whoops. wrong reply. Errgh. Dammit. This reply was for seij555
Yeah, the MS dude looked slimy as hell, and the "family" was wayy too enthusiastic.
Yup! I was thinking the exact same thing. That dude looks like a total slime ball. And the "family" looked WAYYY too enthusiastic.
So i guess that the new redesigned Xbox360 is real then because no one knew what "Kinect" mean't before that leaked image/video.
I really wish MS would show some actual games. Games we would actually want to play. This is all casual stuff. I want to see exactly how MS plans to "revolutionize" game.
By making it casual of course, I don't know what people are expecting, but motion controls are all about the fake families smiiiiiiiiiiling...
now I've got smoke blown all up my ass!! Thanks M$ I feel the Kinection.... lol
like wow,i mean... wtf were they thinking?? whos going to play these games? MS has to show some quality content at E3 for kinect. for now its like they took step backwards, plus it still lags badly. they better show some shooters or rpg, or racing game.
Nobody cares if the supposed 'hardcore' gamers buys Natal/Kinect or even play it..
In fact, for 99% of the people who have been obsessed with hating on it all year long..arent going to play the hardcore games on the 360 either.
The video showed 3 types of people who also won't be playing Gears of War 3..younger children, moms, and girls in general..that's who they are trying to market too..
The bottom line is Microsft has a product that successfully seperates itself from Wii and may turn out to be the 'in' thing for kids and families if Microsft can pull it off
What people don't get is THIS is what it takes to really move systems outside of the normal clip Microsft has been used to. the casual market moves everything from portable gaming devices to cell phones..Apple and Nintendo have proven that if you carve your niche the casuals will follow
In less than a day we'll see the REAL games anyway
bingo, great post EVILDEAD360.
lets not forget that so called 'hardcore gamers' are the MINORITY, not the majority. the Wii is generally scoffed at by people who refer to themselves as hardcore gamers, yet its the console thats sold 70+ million consoles, not the 'hardcore' consoles.
Kinect is trying to capture the casual market, and from what we've seen i think it will do very well at it. the casual market is HUGE, and mostly untapped. why do you think the wii went gangbusters from day one? because it appealed to the market that has never been interested in video games before. theyre the people that Kinect is going after, not the people who are on the internet having stupid arguments about how games are not 720p or how many copies a certain exclusive shifted in a week.
Didn't really see anything new. Video is new but still just showed the same old lame ball game and that boring raft game.
I know they didn't say new games or footage for the video. But I still don't expect to see anything new when the games are revealed. I feel most games they reveal will be just like these "mini games". But I'm still curious to see what they show and how that works.
this web cam loves to have people jumping around like some fools...
come on i don't want to see no more of that family games stuff i wanna see a good game for the hardcore gamers
sorry but this is all thats new before the E3 press conference
It's a cool little video of it in action. I so cannot wait till tomorrow!
He's not wearing sun-glasses!!! (kudo tsunoda that is)
But for the casual audience, that rafting game looks pretty neat. Granted I don't expect it to hold much attention for very long, but still.... Kinda neat. As to how it actually performs, I guess we'll see.
im not sayin natal/kinect will be bad
idk that cause i havent played it
but all the games im seeing for it just arent showing me that it has any potential.
like it just looks like party games n such
i like that sony is actually showing me potential in diff genres with move.
i guess we have to keep watching
Natal is pretty cool I have to admit.
How can you not think it's cool? Sure it's not for hardcore, the games are useless and ultimately lame. But the idea of no controller and the character doing what u do is pretty neat. I just think it's cool we have the technology now to be able to recreate our movement on a TV without holding anything. 10 disagrees? wow...
Notice how all the actors are white? Something tells me that Kinect has a hard time tracking black people. I am going to laugh so hard if that's true.
edit: yeah I know, but that's just their way of being representative. I am not saying that they are racist; it's just that Kinect like many video cameras can't track black people well.
dude the advertisement picture has supposedly a father and daughter who happen to be black.
WHAT , guys this looks awful, a raft game that all you do is jump, i could do that on a power pad for nintendo. then the dumb red ball game and another game that you jump and duck.man if this is all they got, this is sad. if you guys really think this is good you are lying to yourselves.
I don't really expect to see many hardcore orientated games for awhile. Microsoft have only given developers a year to make games for it so far, a lot of games typically take 2 years however. Most games will probably be casual focused anyway, but Microsoft is trying to get that audience, and though Sony is too Kinect seems like it may drag in that casual audience more than Move will.
Because everyone has their console in a giant family room right? I hope the 360 shoots out Cheetos when you accomplish tasks with Natal, or else this thing won't be too consumer-friendly here in America.
Okay, let's jump up and down in our room, just hope the house doesn't fall down...
The problem with these kind of games is that you will have great fun playing them especially with your (friends,parents,bros,sisters, .....) but after a couple of days they will get boring as hell and you'll always need something new .
Sadly this is the problem with every single motion controller device :(
Plus I'm noticing that MS haven't shown a single hardcore game for Natal ???!!!!!!
It would seem as if all Natal games will be "on-rails" type game play, where things come to you and you either destory it or jump out of the way.
What do you guys think?
LOL, Kudo without shades, he's trying to shed himself from the BAM!!! incident, but he'll have to try harder.
wow kudo doesn't look like a douche without his glasses and orange jacket.
This, is another FAKE video.
Look @ the initial delay time, is IMPRESSIVE, near 0ms.
But look @ the last game (the one with the circular boat) it's near ONE FU**ING SECOND.
Nice try ms
Yea... looks like shit :/ I had an eyetoy for the PS2 and this really looks no different. Im not trolling im not doing anything but saying I really think this is gunna flop. Everyone is gunna bash me but my bets are on it flopping
Are you saying Kinect will not sell?
Microsoft products never 'flop'.
i just cant see hardcore halo and gears fans play this..natal will flop hard..
well, the thing is, they are after the casual gamer, you know, the wii gamer.
problem is, how many of those people will buy such a product.
I see 2 redesigned consoles, one white and one black sitting in front of the TV while 2 people look like total tards jumping around.
Well at least their honest about where they want Kinect.. fortunately their target demographic already have painted a negative picture on the 360 console and I look forward to hearing about the poor sales.
I was waiting for Natal/Kinect to show me games that will prove its worth towards the hardcore gamers....sadly i am disappointed on what kind of games MS is churning out for it. Mark my words, this will never live up to the hardcore gamers and will only cater towards the casuals......which really isn't a bad thing for MS since that's where the money is.
Now, do I go and spend £150 on Kinect, or go and play my brothers Wii. I know I'll save my money, I can buy 4 MOVE games, such as, I don't know, Killzone 3 and SOCOM 4.... Oh yeah, and GT5.
I'll PASS big time on this.
why is it jumping when the girl isnt even moving... OMG that looks sooooooo fun
btw adding all the "oooooooo" is sarcasm


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Among my circle of basketball-loving family and friends I am known for my relentless rant in which I call for a major change in the game's 10-foot rule: As players 18 years and older are so much taller and more talented than their 1891 equivalents, I think the basket should be raised to 11 feet: no more 10-foot rule.
But this column is about another 10-foot rule that needs looking at: the legal smoking perimeter outside of doorways.
Ten feet is not enough; at least not at every doorway.
And in many cases I don't believe smokers, and establishment owners, are doing enough about it.
I believe these businesses know who they are; the doorway is one thing, but how people actually get to the doorway is another — and it is the actual pathway to the building entrance that needs to determine how far away smoking should take place.
Oregon's Smokefree Workplace Law, passed in 2007, states that employers must "prohibit smoking in the workplace and within 10 feet of all entrances, exits, accessibility ramps that led to and from an entrance, windows and air-intake vents." (Italics are mine.)
It does no good to require someone to stand 10 feet from a doorway but on the ramp or stairs that leads to that doorway, making people walk through a gauntlet of smoke.
I include my own workplace as an example of places with accessibility ramps that at times become inappropriate nicotine smoke pathways.
Even the church I attend has this issue: At both entries, the sign tells smokers to stay back 10 feet, but there is no other access other than through that point 10 feet away.
Secondhand smoke, besides being deadly, is persistent.
Violation of the 10-foot law, as it pertains to ramps and entrances, is not exactly a rampant situation, but prevalent enough that I think anyone with clientele that goes outside for a smoke needs to take a walk on the block and figure out where it is those folks should be realistically expected to go and light up. Every situation is different, but no situation is immune, either.
I believe that 10 feet up the sidewalk from a doorway is not enough, if anyone needs to walk past that smoker on a 6-8-foot sidewalk. And how many of us have experienced smokers standing 10 feet down the sidewalk on both sides of the entrance?
The 10-foot rule in basketball was more or less arbitrary: Dr. James Naismith nailed the peach basket high enough on the gym wall to increase the amount of exercise his players received.
The 10-foot smoke rule also seems arbitrary. Oregon should follow other states and give smokers more exercise by expanding the distance to 20 feet. And if employers or business owners need to ask clientele to please stand farther away, they should consider the longer-term benefits of carving out a healthier approach to their door.
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