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Cheney's chutzpah and the public debate over Iraq
Do read the new column from E. J. Dionne about "Dick Cheney's Chutzpah," because it's as angry as even-tempered E. J. ever gets. And with good reason. In a field crowded with shameless hawks, cheering for more military action in Iraq while ignoring the consequences of their past enthusiasm for war, Dick Cheney stands out as perhaps the most shameless of all. He and his daughter Liz wrote an op-ed for yesterday's Wall Street Journal, published with a subheadline that left even the most cynical liberals sputtering:
(To be fair, it does say "rarely," which you might read as a concession that it has happened before.)
Is Dick Cheney in any position to be lecturing Barack Obama about fecklesness in foreign policy? Of course not. But his motives for doing so are clear enough. He, like many of the other neocons and Bush-era hawks now pointing fingers at Obama, has a reputation to think about, and a deep investment in shifting the blame for the mess in Iraq onto someone else's shoulders. Embracing a revisionist history of Bush-era foreign policy could have dreadful consequences for most Americans, and especially for the men and women in the military -- not to mention for the people of Iraq and neighboring countries. But it can only be good for Dick Cheney. Here's Dionne on how they'd like the debate to be rigged:
Thanks to the Cheney op-ed, we can see how Obama's hawkish critics are out to create a double standard. Whenever they are called out for how mistaken they were about Iraq in the first place, they piously lecture against "relitigating the past" and say we must instead look forward. At the same time, many of them feel perfectly free to trash the president in extreme and even vile terms.
A lot of liberals and media types have spoken up in exasperation after watching unreformed and unreflective hawks like John McCain, Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, and so on appear on the Sunday-morning shows and on op-ed pages as if they were still respected authorities, with no hard questions about the disastrously wrong predictions they made so confidently before the (last) invasion of Iraq. James Fallows says: "we are talking about people in public life—writers, politicians, academics—who got the biggest strategic call in many decades completely wrong.... we now live with (and many, many people have died because of) the consequences of their gross misjudgments a dozen years ago. In the circumstances, they might have the decency to shut the hell up on this particular topic for a while." (He links to a lot of other people making similar arguments, including our own Andrew Bacevich -- and, yes, go read that now if you haven't already.)
Meanwhile, at Salon, Jim Newell makes the important point that these people -- the "extremist neocon dunces" -- are not just discredited, they are also very far out of the mainstream: a second reason they shouldn't have such prominence in debates over how to clean up the mess they won't admit to having helped make.
Maybe a hawk arguing for airstrikes against Iraq might qualify as representing a legitimate "side" in the debate, making a case on behalf of a significant — but not that large, honestly — subset of the American people. But ground troops, with an open-ended commitment? This is a yahoo opinion. The opinion of a nut. The guy out on the street, screaming about how outer space aliens did 9/11. You don't ever see that guy on "Meet the Press." And yet there's probably a greater audience of people out there who believe outer space aliens did 9/11 than there is of people who believe reinvading Iraq is a legitimate option right now.
Jonathan Chait, who favored the war in 2002 and later repented, now protests that this "shut up and go away" imperative is an excuse for liberals not to take up the harder questions about what to do. Fair enough. My own opinion is that those of us reluctant to rush into another bombing-and-possibly-ground-troops situation should be less focused on getting someone like Bill Kristol to go away than we should on getting journalists to do their jobs better this time around. So talk to Kristol, by all means, but when you do, be sure to ask him what he has to say for himself now that he has been proven wrong so many times over. That sort of reckoning could contribute positively to figuring out what course of action might prove less disastrous now. Watching journalists fail to do that, however, is like watching a horror movie for a lot of people who remember the runup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Then, people who opposed the invasion or questioned the administration's case for war were marginalized and attacked, while people like Kristol and McCain and Wolfowitz dedicated themselves to making a case for war that turned out to be, at best, misbegotten, and at worst an outright pack of lies. So you can hardly blame them for being horrified that it seems like the same thing could happen all over again. [Update: read Paul Waldman on that point:
Is there a bit of over-enthusiasm with which people like me are attacking the return of the Iraq War caucus? Maybe. Part of it comes from the fact that a decade ago, those of us who were right about the whole thing were practically called traitors because we doubted that Iraq would turn out to be a splendid little war. And part of it comes from the fact that the band of morons who sold and executed the worst foreign policy disaster in American history not only didn't receive the opprobrium they deserved, they all did quite well for themselves.]
Chait is right that "ignore the hawks" is not a sufficient approach to debating what Obama should do. "Grill the hawks" would be much better. But best would be to seek out the people who were right, or at least not completely wrong, last time around.
Yes, media should treat those who got Iraq wrong with extreme skepticism. Even more important: Pay attention to those who were right.
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) June 19, 2014
If David Frum has a good idea this time, but no one will listen to it? I can live with that, as long as it's because the media is busy talking to other people who also have good ideas and the benefit of less tarnished credibility.
Meanwhile, Cheney met hard questioning on, of all places, Fox News, where Megyn Kelly wondered if maybe he wasn't the best person to be blaming Obama for the mess in Iraq. And she had done her homework -- this was no generalized, gentle "Wouldn't you say mistakes were made?" line of questioning. She quoted him. She had specific errors in mind. "Now," she concluded, "with almost a trillion dollars spent there, with 4,500 American lives lost there, what do you say to those who say you were so wrong about so much at the expense of so many?"
Attention, television journalists: this is what you should be doing. But please also note how Cheney responded: "I just fundamentally disagree.... You've got to go back and look at the track record. We inherited a situation where there was no doubt in anybody's mind about the extent of Saddam's involvement in weapons of mass destruction."
That is simply false. A lot of somebodies had doubts in their minds. In the run-up to the invasion, they were derided and shouted down and ignored. What possible excuse could there be for allowing that to happen again?
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Liz and Dick (not Burton) did a video; he is wearing a cowboy hat and she has a mean look on her face. The first thing that came to my mind was Grant Wood's "American Gothic" painting (although the two persons are reversed).
It's hard to say that their comments are deliberate lies. I think that they truly believe what they are saying. That makes them persons with no self-awareness and no conscience.
Just shows the great human capacity and willingness to embrace self deception.
Considering that the iraq war was sold to the American people as much by pundits and "journalists" on Fox as by Cheney and the Neo Con's,that a Fox journalist can now ask "tough" questions[no ,mention of the iraqi lives lost,I guess they still don't count to Fox reporters] is as much a way to deflect from their failure of responsibilty to do more then tow the line as Cheney/Bush was to establish the line. Pots calling kettles black,IMO.
HT to Rachel Maddow - on Liz Cheney:
Bet you didn't know that Liz Cheney worked for Bush in 2006 plotting secret conflicts with Iran and Syria (modeled on the *highly successful* Iraqi adventure).
That is exactly what I thought.
That and how nice it must be to be the Cheneys.
It all is actually quite amazing, those people and their "chutzpah".
It is one thing to argue that Obama and his team have not figured a sucessful strategy for dealing with the Middle East generally and Syria and Iraq in particular, though I would argue that eliminating Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, which in fact did exist unlike Saddam's, deserves more credit than it gets, but wholey a different story for one of the architects of the mess Obama has preumably failed to resolve to complain about it. Chutzpah is right. At least young Bush has had the common decency to stay mostly out of sight. This clown lied, and now lies about the lies he told in the past. His response to Megyn Kelly ignoring the facts and stating that somehow things he knew but others didn't justified his actions is just dispicable. Dick Cheney is a nasty little man who has no interest in the truth and is unable or unwilling to admit he screwed up and we have paid a severe price and will likely continue to pay a severe price for the arrogance of the likes of Cheney and his ilk.
I suppose the past will be relitigated, and I'm sorry to see Rupert Murdoch's media outlets give such a big megaphone to the neocons. But I'm not confident that this President is going to handle this situation effectively.
The thing that's extraordinary about Dick Cheney is that even at this point he seems to think that he has somehow been right all along, miraculously right even about the existence of non-existetnt WMDs. How does he manage such self-decption? Or should the quesiton be how can he NOT realize that he was palpably wrong? How is such self-deception about blatant facts even possible?
The psychiatrists define craziness as having lost touch with reality. By this definition, Dick Cheney is literally crazy.
Dick Cheney never served on active duty, yet he's a hawk when it comes to war. His most notorious action while holding a hunting rifle was accidently shooting his buddy! Go figure.
"American forces will not be returning to combat in Iraq." -- President Obama today. He announced air strikes in the next breath. News flash: Fighter-bomber pilots are engaged in combat. He also said he is going to put up to 300 combat troops into Iraq, not to fight but to figure out if there is any chance of training the Iraqi army. News flash: We trained that army before we left. He hopes Maliki will form a unity government. News flash: Ha ha ha ha.
Our current policy seems to be the half-Lindsay. Just enough to, hopefully, keep McCain at bay.
Bad as it is, our previous policy was worse. OK? OK. But that is not the policy we are messing up the Middle East with now.
JP or Tom Blackburn - care to educate or let us in on how you propose we handle affiars in Iraq? Syria?
It is always easy to say that you doubt or don't like what Obama is doing? All that does is align you with the likes of Lindsey Graham or John McCain who never miss a chance to bellyache but have either always been wrong or never make a solid proposal in terms of what is actually happening.
Sometimes, world affiars actually have to be considered when they happen and we do have to react - it is just reality.
Did Bush/Cheney get rid of chemical weapons in Syria? (oh yeah, they invaded the wrong country in that search)
Did Bush/Cheney stop Iran from building and developing nuclear weapons?
Did Bush/Cheney stop the arming and build up in Lebanon of Hezbollah?
Did Bush/Cheney have amy succes such as Libya without Kaddafi (and no US troops on the ground)
Did Bush/Cheney catch the 9/11 mastermind? (oh yeah, they lost interest)
Why did Bush/Chevey reduce and stop US success against the Taliban and terrorism in Afghanistan? (oh yeah, they had to start a war on false pretenses in Iraq)....not much is reported about this failure that we continue to live with now
What did Bush/Chevey do to resolve the disputes between Sunni, Shia, Kurds, Alawites, etc.? (oh yeah, thier surge provided unlimited funding and arms to groups that are now killing each other)
What has been the legacy of Guatanamo in the Middle East?
Bill - Re-litigate away. I opposed Bush's Iraq War, and I'm betting that Tom Blackburn did, too. Being against it propelled President Obama all the way to the White House. Now that he's on that side of the desk where the buck stops, he needs to be for something. Does he have a policy? What is it? Is this it? Sounds like the kind of thing that Dick Cheney might rubberstamp.
Sometimes, world affiars actually have to be considered when they happen and we do have to react - it is just reality.
Bill, I agree with the implications of every one of your questions.
What I don't agree with is the American exceptionalist presumption that we "have to react." The Sunnis in Iraq have had enough of that tinpot wannabe dictator the Bushies accepted when Ahmed Chalibi, their first choice, imploded. The Kurds can take care of themselves. So let the Sunnis and Shias have at it. And try to keep Obama's 300 shut-up-Johns from getting into a firefight wherein we have to send 500,000 more troops to get them out, as we had to do with our "advisors" (remember?) in Vietnam.
Look at Megyn Kelly destroy Bush. She may be helping him redeem himself at the end witht "game changer" BS. But for this even to repeated and put in the face of Chaney by Kelly of Fox News might be a game changer in itself. Fascinating stuff.
The sad news is that Chaney, a practiced liar, gets a forum again.
JP - policy....well, only the Iraqis can settle this; the Baghdad government must be inclusive; US can't overthrow or pick this inclusive government; Iran will not be a part of the solution; US will not involve ground troops (beyond targeted special forces); US (Kerry) will involve and listen to our European and Middle East allies on a comprehensive approach and solution.
Waiting to see if financial pressure is not used to push Sunni/Shia engagement politically; looks like Iran has already agreed to the negotiated process to move forward on changing/neutralizing their current nuclear plants. Guessing that Kurdish, Turkish, Jordanian, Saudi pressure won't be used to try to limit bloodshed and move to negotiations. Finally, guessing that Obama will, at least, temporarily adopt the earlier Biden approach.
re-litigate - yep, you used the Cheney approach from FOX News - avoids the difficult questions and allows the incompetent to continue to weigh in as experts. Sure, question Obama but let's not buy in to the Cheney, Bremer, Wolfiwitz neo-cons.
Folks who are interested in US policy may find this article of interest. The high points of our policy as it is evolving now seem to be: make Maliki go away; work with Iran and Sunni neighbors to come up with a more inclusive government; support the Iraqi army against ISIS.
Along the same lines: Charles Blow, "The Gall of Dick Cheney:"
Antonyms for self-aware:
Yes, I'd say these fit the bill.
That apple sure didn't fall very far from that tree. Cannot think of two more repugnent individuals being heard by the heart of our nation. I certainly hope the nation does not listen.
We're not sending combat troops, but special military advisors to Iraq. What do military advisors actually do?
Irene, Mr. Obama said the "up to 300" advisers will "assess" how we can best train, advise and support Iraqi security forces."
We had a yearrs-long training effort for the Iraqi army. Presumably some of those old trainers will be trying to light a fire under those they trained. The problem has been that we can show them how to fire a rifle (as if they didn"t know), but tribal loyalties determine whether they fire the rifle in a given threat or bury it for another day. The support part of the mission would include calling in air strikes, which Mr. Obama somehow doesn't seem to consider combat.
It was also unclear whether the advisers are part of or in addition to the additional troops sent in to protect the embassy. The embassy, you may recall, is slightly larger than the state of Texas because once upon a time Cheney and Wolfie planned ultimately to run the whole "Middle East" from Gibraltar to the Indus River from it. Protecting it the way the Republicans say they would have protected Benghazi could include combat up to and not excluding atomic weapons.
Basically, though, to answer your question, these military advisers make Sen. McCain use more words when he criticizes Obama. Instead of "no boots on the ground" he will have to say "not enough boots on the ground." That is why I called them shut-up-Johns. For historical comparisons, it was around 700 "advisers," sent as "shut-up-Barrys," that got us involved in Vietnam.
I think Robert Welch's famous rebuke of Joe McCarthy really could be applied to Dick Cheney.
"You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency, Sir? At long last, have you no sense of decency left?"
I have to accept that in a society like ours that values free speech that seriously demented Dick Cheney and his loathsome daughter Liz have every right to say what ever they want to say. Have at it.
What I can't abide is that the media pays any attention to them! Both of them should be consigned to the bloggerverse where I suppose that their kind can be sequestered in an appropriate social vacuum.
I just wish that some politician would have the courage to propose a draft law that would require all the sons, daughters and close relatives of every federal official - in all three branches - to be the first to serve on the frontlines whenever we commit troops to combat around the world.
No more wars fought by the poor and working class alone. Liz and Mary Cheney need to stap on a helmet and start toting a rifle if America is going to send their legions abroad to maintain the empire.
You'll be amazed at the immediate change of heart from the likes of their draft dodging father and fellow neo-cons if they all had some skin in the game.
There's a good reason "Cheney met hard questioning on, of all places, Fox News, where Megyn Kelly wondered if maybe he wasn't the best person to be blaming Obama for the mess in Iraq."
Cheney would never appear anywhere but the official propaganda channel of the Republican party. When he was travelling during his years as vice president, all of the hotels where he stayed had to have the TV sets in his rooms pre-set to that network. He actually bragged about this in an interview. It reminds me of Antonin Scalia, who recently pointed out that he doesn't read the New York Times but gets most of his news from the Wall Street Journal and talk radio shows he listens to on his way to work.
God save us all from the conservative "mind."
@ Jim Dunn
It was Joseph Welch who chopped off Joe McCarthy at the knees.
There was a Robert Welch, but he was the founder of the John Birch Society. He's more likely to be Dick Cheney's kind of people than Joseph Welch.
Liz and Mary Cheney need to stap on a helmet and start toting a rifle.
Mary most likely is capable of doing so. Liz otoh would probably worry about how it would photograph and what it would do to her nails.
I wouldn't want to see Liz toting a gun. She is too much like her father. She may hit the wrong target.


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6 Ways You Can (Accidentally) Attract the Ladies
The other day the entire Cracked staff was sitting around on our lunch break when one of us realized, hey -- you, our reader, isn't having sex right now. We all agreed that was an injustice that could not stand, but what could we do? We are but an internet comedy site. Then we realized that the answer was simple -- we should make an entire freaking web series about it. Rom.Com is the new show from the people who brought you Adventures in Jedi School (us), and Agents of Cracked (also us, but like, a long time ago ... so it doesn't seem real anymore, ya know?).
Of course, filming a series takes longer than 36 hours, so while we finish this up, please enjoy this Cracked Classic, which will scientifically explain how the weirdest, most utterly random things make you more attractive. And please take your time reading because -- and don't tell our bosses this -- we haven't actually started filming Rom.Com yet. Heh. We are so screwed.
If you're a heterosexual man, you've done at least one thing today purely intended to woo the ladies. The level of effort ranges from merely remembering to shower to training to be an astronaut, but the effort is there.
But it turns out many of the most important things you do to attract the opposite sex have nothing to do with skill.
#6. Be Effeminate
Are you a little sensitive about the fact that you're not exactly the manliest dude on the block? And that it takes you six weeks to grow a beard? You shouldn't be. After all, haven't you noticed that suddenly they're selling a lot of men's pants that seem to be designed to fit women? And that Hollywood hunks have gotten a lot less manly over the past, oh, 50 years?
Put your pants back on. It's Jude Law.
It's looking like if you want to attract the women these days, it helps to be a little lady-like.
Seriously? Why?
There is apparently a scientific reason why the ideal man these days is closer to the sensitive, gel-haired emo than the gruff, grizzled cowboy your grandma lusted after. Some experts think it has to do with the availability of the birth control pill.
Historically women were attracted to strapping, virile men who would pass on their bulging, hairy chested, muscular genes to their children. Obviously the point was to ensure that the resulting offspring would be strong enough to survive all the horrifying claptrap that goes on in the forest at night.
Thanks to some hormone magic, this tends to change after the woman is pregnant. Her brain assumes the most important bit has already been done, and relaxes its "make strong babies" hold over her. This is when she finds herself annoyed by the smelly, bearded, farting creature who impregnated her and finds herself wishing she had a sensitive guy to help with the mothering.
But when on the pill, a woman's body thinks she is pregnant all the time.
So the theory goes that millions of women have been on the pill at some point in the last 40 years, and their lust objects have changed accordingly. Today they're more attracted to a male archetype who is more effeminate, less aggressive and will make better a life partner than bear killer. So get busy waxing those legs, guys.
Put your pants back on. It's Zac Efron.
#5. Be Average Looking
Have you ever looked in the mirror and sighed, "Cursed be this plain visage! I'm just so average looking!"?
"Oh, hell yes."
If so, don't despair. Studies show that people with "average" features are considered more attractive.
Seriously? Why?
Basically, it works like this: You've seen a lot of people in your life and subconsciously have a good idea of what normal looks like. A very good, very detailed idea. And people like the things they are used to seeing. So if your eyes are the same distance apart as everybody else's, huzzah! You are on your way to sexytown.
For instance, look at these photos and decide which row is hotter:
The second row, right? That's because the second row of photos have been subtly manipulated to make the women's features more like everyone else's. Everything from the ratios between nose to eyes to hairline to the nostril hole proportions have been configured to match the average person's, which somehow makes each girl prettier.
In the future, plastic surgeons hope to use this knowledge to give people more natural-looking cosmetic surgery, instead of the nightmarish frozen-mask look most surgeons turn out now.
#4. Be Symmetrical
Do you have two arms? Are they of similar size and length? If you find one is slightly larger due to your job as a professional arm wrestler, try alternating. Simply being the same on both sides is one of the best ways to get chicks.
Seriously? Why?
People with symmetrical bodies are consistently rated the most attractive no matter what their facial attractiveness may be. Again, this is something that made sense a long time ago. Symmetry is a sign of good health and development. Having two legs the same length meant you were better able to run away from predators. If you were less symmetrical, you might pass on weaker genes to your children.
Science says this haircut is stupid.
In one study, scientists even removed faces and skin color from the equation, making sure body symmetry was the only thing being judged. The differences between people can be so subtle, the tests subjects couldn't even explain why they chose one over the other. So go find out how symmetrical you are, then get out on the dance floor. Oh didn't we mention? More symmetrical people tend to be better dancers, indicating dancing may have evolved as a way to advertise that fact.

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Godey's Lady's Book, a magazine aimed at women, was a leading influence in the cultural and intellectual lives -- including fashion -- of 19th-century American women.
Louis Antoine Godey (1804-1878), whose family fled France during the French Revolution, was the joint founder of the magazine in 1830.
Full of energy and enthusiasm, he demonstrated great self-confidence. In his popular "Arm Chair" chats he shared with his devoted readers his problems and his successes.
In the early years, the magazine contained only reprinted English works. When Godey hired Sarah Josepha Hale as editor, that changed and the magazine began its climb to influence.
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Under Sarah Josepha Hale's direction, Godey's Lady's Book brought American authors such as Edgar Allen Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Greenleaf Whittier, Horace Greeley, Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes into thousands of American homes.
The magazine also carried articles of current interest; beauty hints, advice on homemaking, needlework, music, and a host of other features.
Circulation reached 150,000, an astounding number at the time, made possible perhaps by the low price of 25 cents per copy.
Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879), who grew up in New Hampshire, earned the equivalent of a college degree by reading and being tutored by her brother, who went to Dartmouth College.
In 1813 she married David Hale, a young lawyer who had opened an office in Newport. With his encouragement, Sarah began to write articles for the newspaper and established a local literary club.
David Hale died in 1822, leaving Sarah on her own with five children.
She turned to writing, publishing her first novel, Northwood, in 1827. Its success led to her magazine-editing career.
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Hale fought vigorously against the use of fashion illustrations to increase the sales of American periodicals because she thought they had an air of frivolous absurdity, exaggerating already excessive fads of fashion.
In 1830, she published the first fashion plate in her Ladies' Magazine. She deliberately chose a ridiculous example by Boston lithographers, Pendleton Brothers.
In her accompanying comment, she criticized the gullibility of American women and even suggested that the courtly ladies in France invented the exaggerated styles to conceal some deformity.
Louis Godey did not want to give up the popular and profitable fashion prints, but allowed Hale to employ American illustrators.
She qualified the fashion plates with the following statement: "Our engraving of the 'Fashions'... is not given as a pattern for imitation, but as a study for each reader to examine and decide how far this costume is appropriate to her own figure, face and circumstance."
The first of Godey's "improved" fashion plates appeared in 1843. It showed conservative but elegantly dressed models in front of the Lady's Book offices at 211 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
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Women's fashions of the 19th century, with their sumptuous fabrics and graceful silhouettes, conjure romantic images, but they also represent a deeper cultural meaning and changing attitudes toward women.
Eighteenth century American clothing, except for that worn by the most genteel ladies, was far more practical and reflected the active life of women who were involved in providing the needs of their family.
With the decline of agriculture, especially in New England, the workplace shifted away from the home, at least for many men, leaving some women free to wear less practical clothing.
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The layers of petticoats, corsets, and crinolines worn during the 19th century make it clear that movement was difficult for the wearer.
Such restriction was a conspicuous reminder that a woman dressed in elegant fashion did not have to endure the demanding physical labor of farm chores and housework. Her social and economic status allowed her to be decorous.
Women were expected to be guardians of the home, carrying out educational and cultural responsibilities in childrearing and maintaining the home's spiritual sanctity.
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In addition to attending church and local functions, women could show off their fashionable attire in "calling" on one's relatives and friends.
The tradition of afternoon tea allowed not only the opportunity to wear one's finery, but to view and comment on the interiors and material possessions of one's friends as well.
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1830 marked a turning point in women's fashions. From 1800 to 1825 the silhouette of dresses had been predominantly classical with a high waist and skirts, which hung loosely to the floor.
During the 1820s waists dropped to a more normal level and began to be cinched. Skirts became fuller and shorter, revealing dainty shoes and embroidered stockings.
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By 1837, the year the young Queen Victoria ascended to the throne in England, women's dress had begun to take on a rather prim sentimentality.
Fabrics were heavier in design and weight and bright colors gave way to more somber tones. Brocaded silks were particularly popular.
In spite of whalebone supports, hoops and swans' down padding, the enormous sleeves of the 1830s reached such an extreme that they began to droop.
Many variations of sleeve style were seen from 1837 to 1843 when fullness was caught down from the shoulder with ruching, pleating, and gathering.
Bonnets became less exaggerated in size and, after about 1840, hemlines began to drop back down to the floor.
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The 1840s often are characterized as a period of sentimental melancholy. The lines of dresses and bonnets seem designed to reinforce a subdued modesty and frailty in women.
Pleats drawn down to an exaggerated and pointed long waist accentuated bodices, which were often padded.
Sleeves were cut tightly and shoulder seams dropped so low that it was almost impossible to raise the arms. A little jockey cap over the top of the sleeve was popular from 1840-45 and sometimes allowed the removal of a longer sleeve for summer wear. The lower part of the sleeve was gradually widened to reveal a white cotton undersleeve.
Skirts became wider making the waist appear even smaller, and women wore a vast number of petticoats underneath.
The shawl became a popular accessory for daytime dresses and capes or "pardessus" added warmth in winter.
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Even though America was intent on breaking away from England politically, in matters of cultural refinement, America was still under the spell of the motherland.
England in turn received its inspiration in fashion from France.
Fashion styles spread throughout Europe during the 19th century at such a rapid rate as to be indistinguishable from one country to another.
Most of the ideas came from a romantic preoccupation with earlier times. Immediately following the French Revolution. French women adopted clothing with fluid classical lines as an expression of democratic ideals inspired by Greece and Rome, with men adopting the informal dress of the English country gentleman.
Then in an effort to revive French nationalism, sentiment turned toward medieval dress, Renaissance opulence, and the ruffs and puffs of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Historic styles merged and new romantic images from the literature of the time added to the rage for period dress.
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Officers in Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign of 1798 brought home Far Eastern articles as gifts, creating a fashion for exotic items during the Romantic Period.
Indian shawls, especially those from Kashmir, made of the wool of the Tibetan goat, were the most highly prized.
European weavers tried to imitate the intricate hand loomed and embroidered patterns that were the secrets of only a few Indian families. In France, shawls were made of silk and wool blends.
Shawls provided warmth without bulk and were more convenient in changeable weather. They also solved a problem of tailoring coats to fit the voluminous skirts of the 1850s and 60s.
Skirts had swelled in circumference to an enormous dome shape made possible by numerous petticoats and the addition of "crinoline," stiff fabric made of horsehair.
The jacket bodice was developed as an alternative to back fastenings and sleeves widened into a "pagoda" shape.
Taffetas, moiré silks, faille, and velvets were all immensely popular and Queen Victoria's passion for Scotch plaids spread quickly even to America.
Elaborate silk fringes, ruching, and braid were added to emphasize the bodice and sleeves. A starched white cotton or lace cuff was worn inside the wide sleeve and could be removed separately.
The 1850s "cage" crinoline, supported by steel hoops, made for difficult passage on train aisles and in most doorways. By the end of the 1850s skirts were so enormous that two women were unable to sit on the same sofa.
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From 1840 on, home dressmaking and millinery gained in popularity. Books of the period gave diagrams of patterns and information on the construction of dresses and bonnets.
Old dresses could be "made over," reversing materials, relining skirts, replacing trimmings and combining salvageable parts of two dresses into one.
Dressmakers, almost always married women needing extra money for their families, went to customers' homes to help them cut out and stitch garments, charging about $1 a day.
The sewing machine, although invented in England in the 1840s, did not gain acceptance in America until after the Civil War.
Sarah Hale was quick to recommend the new laborsaving device and suggested that women form neighborhood clubs to buy one.
Jane Lord Stone and Alice Durrell Smith dresses, ca. 1860Item 11548 info
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When George IV of England died in 1830, most English fashion magazines simply colored their fashion plates in shades of black and gray.
By the time Prince Albert died in 1861, leaving Queen Victoria a young widow, the cult of mourning in Europe was well established. Americans adopted official periods of mourning, following practices observed by the courts of Europe.
Queen Victoria wore black until her death in 1901, and Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godey's, is said to have followed the same practice after her husband died in 1822.
Not all widows carried the custom to such an extreme, but family members were expected to wear black garments devoid of decoration in their first year of bereavement.
Shades of purple and gray or combinations of black and white were acceptable during the second.
Five dresses, ca. 1860sItem 11568 info
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Godey's Lady's Book contained special advice on the intricacies of mourning etiquette and carried information on the latest styles, fabrics and accessories of mourning.
Some women dyed their dresses, and many continued to pack away mourning clothes to take out when needed, but most articles encouraged the belief that it was bad luck to keep such clothes on hand.
The wealthy chose the most elegant and socially correct styles, causing every new fashion detail to be reflected in mourning dress. Many women made their own costumes, and even the less fortunate could rent the proper mourning attire from exploitive entrepreneurs.
In another mourning ritual, jewelry made of woven human hair became immensely popular in the 1860s and 70s. Instruction on hair weaving was found in Godey's and ready-made hair jewelry was commercially available.
The idea of incorporating one's handicraft skills into the process of mourning demonstrated further devotion to the deceased.
Such overwhelming preoccupation with death and dying was encouraged by the prevailing spiritualism and sentimental melancholy of the mid-19th century. But literature and poetry also carried messages of reassurance of the heavenly rewards of paradise.
Two dresses, one worn by Mary B. Hunt, c. 1865Item 11549 info
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The Civil War diverted the attention of American women away from fashion as seamstresses on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line turned to knitting and sewing for their men at war.
After the war, as Americans attempted to recover from the physical and emotional scars of war, industries flourished and cities, especially in the Northeast, enjoyed prosperity and a building boom. Fashion revived.
Through most of the 1860s skirts remained large. Gores were devised as a way to shape the skirt and add extra width at the hem without excessive material at the waist. The greatest fullness of material was gathered at the back. As the mountainous skirts retreated rearwards they were often caught up in swoops and flounces.
American women were predictably tentative about the new styles, but by 1870 the idea of pulling the fullness of the skirt backward had clearly caught on.
As skirts were bunched toward the rear, hairstyles followed a similar change. Hats tipped forward to accommodate the elaborate twists and braids.
Five dresses, c. 1870-1890Item 11550 info
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Before the Civil War, in the 1830s, hairstyles had featured side curls or loops in front of the ears. The hair was parted in the middle with a bun or twisted braid at the back.
Older women wore a lace cap indoors, and even a young fashionable woman was supposed to wear a cap as soon as she had children.
During the 1840s bonnets became smaller. The large scoop bonnet of the late 1830s gave way to a rounded outline with the crown and brim still having a joining seam.
After 1845 bonnets were made in one piece in a shape somewhat resembling a coalscuttle. The "poke" bonnet added to the effect of extreme modesty as faces could only be seen from directly in front.
Two dresses, ca. 1870sItem 11566 info
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Bonnets during the 1850s began to slip backward on the head and grow smaller. Side curls disappeared and hair was pulled toward the back with a waved effect at either side of a central part.
The retreat of the bonnet allowed the addition of material or flowers that, together with ribbons tied under the chin, made a charming frame for the face.
Two-piece wedding dress, 1872Item 11565 info
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The early 1860s saw the introduction of bonnets with a slight depression in the front and a ruffle or bavolet gathered at the back.
It was considered indecent to see the back of a lady's neck.
But as hairstyles became more elaborate, bonnets began to get smaller until ribbon ties almost disappeared. By the 1870s and 80s bonnets were largely replaced by hats that were worn higher to accommodate rising hairstyles.
Dresses worn by Frances Jewell Morse and Mary Getchell, 1875Item 11552 info
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During the mid-19th century, American women's physical energies seemed to be declining noticeably.
Whether real or inspired by the romantic literature of the time, women displayed frailty.
Sarah Hale detested the notion that pallor was an essential element of beauty. She advocated a healthful diet, plenty of exercise, and at least one bath a week.
She also spoke out vehemently against injurious waist lacing that she felt was "the cause of the vapors and frequent swooning."
Blue silk dress, ca. 1870Item 11543 info
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The outcry against corsets by dress reformers and physicians continued into the 1880s. Feminists attacked corseting because of potential harm to internal organs and the obvious restriction of movement.
Most authors agreed that rather than assail fashion it was better to teach hygiene. Godey's Lady's Book often featured articles by doctors on various topics of health and personal care.
In England a counter-current in the form of aesthetic dress gained popularity in the 1870s and 80s.
Encouraged by the romantic paintings of Pre-Raphaelite artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a looser, simpler form of dress, vaguely Medieval inspired, became the vogue with artists and writers.
It was not until the end of the century, however, that the popularity of new active sports such as bicycling, skating, tennis, and croquet encouraged special styles of clothing designed for active wear.
During the 19th century American women never developed an indigenous fashion of their own.
Stubbornly fixed on the high styles of Paris and London, they went on to adopt the next and even more exaggerated phase of the bustle.
Four dresses, ca. 1870Item 11564 info
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During the second half of the 1870s it seemed as though women were growing taller and slimmer.
Whether they wore a "cuirass" bodice or a princess sheath dress, the effect was figure fitting to below the hips.
The skirt was tied back tightly by ribbons inside so that the front was stretched f1at with flounces of pleats at the bottom.
In back the skirt was draped and decorated in a variety of ways usually ending in a train for afternoon and evening wear.
Two piece brown satin dress worn by Mrs. Henry G. Thayer, 1880Item 11554 info
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This two-piece brown satin dress with a long, tight fitted bodice, high neck, and pleat down the front enclosure was worn by Mrs. Henry G. Thayer, the daughter of Capt. John Oxnard of Freeport in 1880.
The dress includes a full skirt, pleated flounce at hem and trim-draped attached overskirt, a bustle in back and pearl buttons on its bodice.
Two piece wedding dress, 1885Item 11556 info
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The effect of the new style was something like a mermaid and movement on land must have been about as difficult.
Much was written about the absurd unseemliness of a train, which swept the floor and streets.
Two piece brown satin dress, 1882Item 11561 info
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The smooth bodice and a very fancy skirt were striking. The style was one of stiffness and almost military posture.
One dress in this group even has side "panniers," a brief throwback to an 18th century fashion.
Three dresses, ca. 1870sItem 11557 info
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In France during the 1840s certain young aristocratic women flaunted their independence and coquettishness by riding horseback and wielding a whip and pistol as well as any man. Such was their rebellion against the frail helpless look of the period.
Later in England the passion for horsemanship was furthered by Queen Victoria who was often depicted in equestrian portraits and statues seated in a stylish lady's side saddle.
Two-piece dark suit worn by Helen Gammon Patrick, York, ca. 1877Item 11560 info
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By the 1860s hardly an issue of the popular ladies' magazines was without a "redingote" or riding outfit.
Masculine down to the waist, the jacket was often worn with a man's collar and tie. The skirt was designed to open into voluminous folds and the outfit was crowned by a man's top hat and veil.


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I haven't been here for some time but hopefully my pano skills progressed a little. I've done and stitched several multirow panoramas using my Canon G6 and NN5L head. Anyway, as you can imagine, it's quite difficult and time consuming to do it multirow... Several days ago I decided to go with a Nikon D90 and a fisheye to take just a few pictures. I'm thinking of buying Nikkor 10.5mm lens but before I do that, I would appreciate yours input on this. Has anyone any experience with this lens? What are different (maybe better) choices?
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FOLLANSBEE - A Follansbee man has been charged with entering an automobile without breaking after being chased several blocks by an instructor at a local fitness center Wednesday.
City Police confirmed Matthew Alan Leavitt, 31, of 325 Rockdale Road was arrested on that charge and public intoxication after being pursued by a woman outside Cindy's Fusion Fitness on Main Street (state Route 2) at about 9:22 p.m.
Carrie Laase-Whitehead said she was arriving at the center to teach a class when she saw Leavitt touching the door handles of several vehicles in the lot. Laase-Whitehead said she asked Leavitt what he was doing, and he replied he was just walking around.
But she continued to watch him closely and when one of her students came out of the building, the two saw Leavitt enter her unlocked vehicle.
Laase-Whitehead said the student, who also is a friend, had just retrieved her cell phone from her car and was returning to it when they saw Leavitt bent over inside it.
Laase-Whitehead said to her surprise, her friend pulled Leavitt from her car and held onto him.
"He was scuffling around, so I went over to help," she said.
At that point, Leavitt broke free and fled, and she pursued him, Laase-Whitehead said.
She said he ran into a Dumpster near the business, striking it very hard, and she thought he might stop. But he continued through Main Street and other city streets to a steep set of city steps along Jefferson Street, she said.
Laase-Whitehead said Leavitt was clearly exhausted when he reached the top and collapsed. She said she detained him there until police arrived, though he didn't put up much of a fight.
"The cops were pretty quick in responding. I didn't have to wait long," she said.
She said while chasing Leavitt, she dialed 911 on her cell phone while her friend also called 911 from inside the fitness center.
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She said frustration with the recurring crimes probably fueled her desire to catch Leavitt.
Laase-Whitehead said she had taught another class in Martins Ferry before coming to Follansbee and though she was tired, she proceeded to teach her class after the chase ended.
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Usually, VVVVVV saves the games in my Documents folder. How can I change this? I don't want my saved games appearing in my documents folder – I just don't know how to change the location without corrupting my progress.
I ended up just moving the saved file to a different folder when I don't want to play VVVVVV, and when I do want to play, I just move it back. There's no error that comes up, and no corruption of the file. It's just a simple drag and click. Not exactly a technical solution, but it works!
You probably can't. VVVVVV is a flash game that is "converted" to a mac app via something called Flash Projector. Since the entire game (including saving and reading files) is written in action script and translated through this projector interface, the game is probably using the AS3 File APIs to write/read from a hardcoded location such as your documents directory.
It doesn't sound like you're willing to just symlink that directory elsewhere - you want it completely gone from your Documents folder. And that is something you can probably only do by convincing the developer to change the location and send you a custom build.
Hey, it's an indie game, anything is possible.
You can do it if you want to put a little work in and use the Terminal.
The first step requires moving it where you want it.
Next create a SymLink in place of the folder's original spot with its original name pointing to the new location. Open the Terminal.app in /Applications/Utilities and type:
Then lastly simply make the SymLink hidden.
A tip with the Terminal is you can drag the proxy icon (The folder icon in the titlebar of a Finder window) into the Terminal and it will type out the path for you. So just type cd and drag the folder icon for Documents in, or type ln -s and drag the VVVVVV folder from its new location into the Terminal and it will save you time trying to type out the entire path.
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I became a Noisebridge member on August 25, 2009.
While I have admittedly contributed little direct Hacking *at* Noisebridge ever since I joined, I certainly *do* Talk the Talk quite well as far as Policies and Procedures. Most besides *this* Most ;o) will easily realize that I greatly prefer managing Noisebridge affairs remotely in my own manner of self-deprecating flippancy, as opposed to spending any significant amount of live time at the Space, excluding of course attending meetings such as Tuesdays' Weekly. This is primarily due to my various commitments, including holding down a full time job as well as taking care of my young boy.
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The Randolph County Genealogical Society will hold its winter meeting on Saturday February 23, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. in the downstairs meeting room of Asheboro Public Library (201 Worth Street, Asheboro, NC 27203). Featured at the meeting will be a program entitled "Apprenticeship and the Social Safety Net" (presented by Ricky Allred), which will offer insight into how the Randolph County government provided for the care of orphans and other underprivileged children during the 18th and 19th centuries. The meeting is open to the public and light refreshments will be provided.


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Uh, it's kinda weird that Toys R' Us would even sell it. It's probably the most "adult" mainstream game in quite awhile, in not just content but subject matter.
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This is an awesome game, made by a fantastic company.
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It gives you "free shipping on new releases" (-$5.61) but as soon as you put in the $10 off code, it adds the shipping back in. So the code is more like $4.39 off.
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I think I'll just wait until the price drops on it more before jumping on it - have plenty of games in my backlog as it is :)
@bloodtalonx: I got off a little better on the sales tax than you did ($2.61) but the shipping did kill this deal for me. I can't seem to find any sort of "ship to store" options either.
@brashattack: I looked at that also. It looks as though TRU does offer ship to store, but this item is flagged as ineligible for in-store pickup on the product page. In the end, it comes out to be $10 savings over Amazon's "Enhanced Edition". I don't know if this is the same version, or what the differences are between the two.
In either case, I'll avoid TRU's sneaky shipping charge and wait for this one to drop a bit more before I pick it up :)
@chaostony: Lol. They sell Duke Nukem Forever.
@n1892: They also sell Saints Row 3rd. Sadly, there is probably a lot of parents buying these games for their kids with no clue and/or don't care...
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Don't save this cinnamon bread pudding just for special occasions. It's easy to make, and so great tasting!
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- 2 cups day-old bread cubes
- 1/2 cup egg substitute
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 3/4 cups evaporated skim milk
- 1/2 cup boiling water
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
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- Preheat oven to 350F. Spray 1 1/2-quart baking dish with cooking spray.
- Place bread cubes in dish.
- Combine egg substitute, sugars and evaporated skim milk in a medium bowl; mix well.
- Add boiling water, cinnamon, nutmeg, raisins and vanilla extract; mix until all ingredients are blended.
- Pour mixture over bread cubes. Bake 40 to 45 minutes.
- Bread pudding can be covered and refrigerated until ready to serve. Serve warm (heat in oven or microwave) or cold.
- According to USDA research, cinnamon helps to control blood sugar levels. Ground cinnamon stimulates the production of glucose-burning enzymes and boosts insulin's effectiveness.
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This is a pretty basic question, but my book doesn't give a formal logical definition of total partial ordering.
For a given full partial ordering relation R is anti-symmetric, reflexive, transitive and :
$\forall a,b \in A [ a \neq b \rightarrow ( aRb \wedge \neg bRa ) \vee ( \neg aRb \wedge bRa ) ]$
Is that the correct definition?
Thank's to Asaf for correcting my mistranslation from Hebrew to English. The book also calls it a linearly ordered set or a chain.


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I am a man in my twenties. Although I am 5 feet 6 inches tall, I weigh only 100 pounds. I want to gain weight as soon as possible. How do I gain weight and muscle as fast as possible?
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Most healthy people who do these things gain weight. Mostly muscle.
Tell your body that it needs to get bigger by lifting heavy.
Either buy a barbell and a power rack, or join a gym that has one. Get a copy of Starting Strength (the wiki is a good overview and quick-start guide; the book is a full description of the program, including excellent instructions on the lifts) and start lifting heavy. Compound exercises like squats, chin-ups, deadlifts, and presses will stimulate whole-body growth. Light, easy weights won't make you bigger or stronger, so while it's important to stay safe, make sure you're lifting heavy, challenging weights. Lifting three times per week is probably the best compromise between frequent exercise and ample rest.
Provide your body the raw materials it needs to make you bigger.
Eat a ton of food. Real food is far superior to processed crap, but you'll need to eat a lot. Your best bets are high-animal-protein items like meat, eggs, milk, and fish, but you should also make sure to eat a huge amount of vegetables, greens, starches such as sweet potatoes and rice, and good fats like pastured butter, coconut oil, olive oil, and avocado.
If you're ever hungry, you're not eating enough. When in doubt, eat more. Lots more. Plan your meals. Cook in advance.
There are things which get in the way of growing muscle. Decide if getting bigger and stronger is actually your goal. It's okay if it's not.
Things which can hamper your getting-bigger-and-stronger goal include:
Rest is crucial. Sleep is the primary time for your body to grow. Staying up talking with friends is what makes life enjoyable, but six hours of sleep will keep you from growing. The body also does a lot of growing on days off from lifting, so don't fill those up with other exercise. Certain types of exercise are more prone preventing muscle gain than others. Running is great--I love sprints!--but it doesn't help make me bigger.
I want to get bigger and stronger, but sometimes I also want to play Ultimate frisbee or go hiking. When I'm serious about getting bigger, I skip the hiking or keep it short, and I don't play Ultimate. When I'm okay with progressing slowly, I go ahead and play Ultimate and go on longer hikes, but I realize that they are counterproductive to the sole pursuit of getting bigger and stronger.
The same goes for food. I value food quality. I vastly prefer organic vegetables, local produce, and grass-fed meat and eggs for a variety of economic, ethical, and health reasons. For lunch at work, I need to choose between planning ahead and cooking beforehand, getting a factory-farm-meat sandwich from the deli, or going hungry and stymieing my growth. There are similar choices for vegetarians and people with other food restrictions.
Many people are short on money or space, and wonder if there are alternatives to a barbell and squat rack. The simple fact is that barbells are best for getting bigger and stronger. Other methods like dumbbells or even bodyweight exercises definitely work, but a barbell and squat rack is the simplest and fastest solution. Why? First, it can be loaded in small increments, so you can progressively challenge yourself without big jumps in weight. Second, barbells allow for much heavier loads than anything else. Without proper equipment, progress is slower and less effective.
Understand these choices and make them for yourself.
If you want to gain muscle and strength, then you need to
Don't buy into the 'hardgainer' non-sense.
That's the simplest way I can put it. If you eat like a skinny person, you will gain weight like a skinny person (little to none). Proper nutrition is of course next but a little out of scope for this question. Suffice it to say that 1k-2k calories above what you burn during the day is a good start. To make it easier try drinking 1/2-1 gallon of milk per day and/or a small jar of peanut butter per day. Also, keep the sweet tooth in check.
Lift Heavy
There is a simple plan for lifting to get big: compound exercises, and actually lifting heavy. These are exercises that work multiple muscle groups at one time (think squat, deadlift, press), as opposed to isolation exercises that only concentrate, or isolate, one muscle or muscle group at a time (bicep curls, for example). Isolation exercises have their purpose, but not in this particular application.
When I say lift heavy, I don't mean go in and hurt yourself. I mean every time you lift, you should add a little more weight than you previously used when you did that workout. This is how you measure your strength progress. You don't have to try and keep up with the guy who's been lifting for 10 years.
You can join a gym that has free weights, or if you have the means and space, you can build your own 'gym' that has everything you need, and it would only cost about one year's membership at a typical gym where I am ($360-$600/yr on the low end).
For a practical application and more detail to this approach, there is a book called Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe, who talks about this very thing.
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Here's a little checklist I wrote for myself.
BULKING: after figuring out calorie needs bump up the number 600-1,000 calories every single day
I don't know if this is practical for you, but joining a gym and hiring a personal trainer may be the most effective option. That's what I did right after I graduated college, and I found it worked out very well. I worked with a experienced trainer once a week (and lifted once a week on my own), and put on about 10lbs of muscle mass in the next year and a half. Not much compared to a good body builder, but I was very pleased. Best money I ever spent.
I'd tried to lift on my own before, but I kept having subtle errors in my lifting form, and kept getting joint pain I didn't know how to deal with... if you've never done sports before, lifting can be surprisingly complicated and technical. I found it REALLY helped to have someone there watching me to correct my problems.
That being said, the advise given above is all basically good (Mark Rippeote is a great strength coach, there are youtube clips of him coaching the deadlift that are among the best I've seen). But I'd think for a real beginner (like I was), its just better to start off with 1 on 1 supervision.
Oh, be careful about consuming too many calories when you're lifting. Your body can only gain so muscle at a time, any calories beyond that get stored as fat. You really only need a few hundred extra calories a day (mostly from high quality proteins, like whey supplements, skim milk, eggs, lean meats). I've made the mistake of eating too much, and gaining equal amounts of muscle and fat, which I then had to go and lose.
Good luck.
I would suggest picking up a copy of the latest edition of Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe and following the program to the letter till linear progression stops Eat to support your goals. If you goals are to get bigger and stronger then eat bigger and stronger. One gram of protein per pound of body weight, get your vegetables in there, and if needed chug some milk every day.
Gaining weight quickly can be as dangerous as losing weight quickly. If you are equating muscle to weight, in your question, then you will definitely need some exercise regiment to convert calories and bulk the muscle mass.
That said, the smartest path forward is to do so under the guidance of your doctor and a personal trainer. But if these warnings are meaningless to you then I'd suggest you follow the following method:
5 Tips to Gain Weight Easily and Safely
That last line says it best!
first of all your ideal weight in KG is (Height in cms - 100), hence (168 - 100) = 68 KG.
Secondly your goal is pretty simple: Gain weight, however in order to help you i am going to make a few assumptions and then provide a program for each, and then you may choose which way you want to go. the following (Different) assumptions can be extracted out of your post, each has a different difficulty level.
1) You think you are skinny and you want to gain weight to look healthy, average posture, hence gain healthy amount of fat and muscle to look normal, in return you dont really care about how you gain this weight, as long you get to look like a average healthy person.
Difficulty level: 4
2) You want to gain weight in form of lean muscle, with visible 6 pack ?
Difficulty level: 9
3) You dont really care about lean muscle, as long you look big (little or no visible six packs, but average belly). Difficulty level: 6
Now steps to achieve each of those goals.
1) Start eating more often, and more than you can, try not to get the hunger feeling, eat before you get hungry and eat different things throughout the day. Eat as soon as you wakeup, and try to eat every 2-3 hours, keep up the cardio, however keep it to minimum (20 mins twice a week). and next to this you may continue doing any other sports activities that you are already doing.
2) You need to consume atleast 3000 calores a day, start counting them. About 70% of it from protein, rest from healthy carbs, healthy fats, eat enough fibre (vegetables), stay away from bread, drink a lot of water. Go to gym 5 times a week, do 1 muscle group once a week, train for 45 minutes max, do 12, 10, 8 reps (increase weight accordingly). Lift heavy and hard. Be strict about eating healthy, be strict about going to the gym, be strict about sleeping on time and at least 8 hours, Stay away from alcohol.
3) Eat whatever you get your hands on, however do vary what you eat. eat often and a lot. go to gym 3 times a week, combine 2 muscle groups each day, do basic exercises. Bench, Pull-ups, Squats, DeadLifts, Clean press, Stiff leg dead-lifts, Pulldowns, Lunges, Bicep curls, SHoulder press etc, however try to use just the free weights. do 10, 8, 6, 4 reps 3 exercises per muscle, 3 to 4 sets each muscle.
As a man who had the same problem - let me tell you my findings on the matter. Muscle gain is very dependent on your biological makeup. Any weight gain is. What works for 80% may not work for you.
I'm at 180 cm height and had 62-65 kg most of my life while force feeding myself and hitting gym 3 times a week (not slacking there, I don't have time to waste).
The final solution for me turned out to be fully changing the approach - I now choose a muscle group and concentrate on it for two consecutive days working it out till total exhaustion. For example - bench press with a dumbbell. I start with two weights of 27 kg each (limit of my home dumbbells), do 3-4 sets of 10-20-15-X repetitions (I warm-up with 10 on the first set and then do as much repetitions per every set as I can push out). Every time I fail to perform 8 repetitions in a set, I remove some weight. So, after the first sets, I reduce each weight to 25 kg and continue, till I cant lift them 8 times again. Then I reduce weight to 23 and so on, usually, each weight stage gets 1-3 sets in it. I do it till each dumbbell drops to just 12-10 kg. At about 14 kg I have to do repetitions at a very slow rate, making it more of a static load (or else it doesn't exhaust the muscles enough). I stop when I can't lift even 10 kg in each hand 8 times. All in all - I do 24+ sets of the same exercise slowly reducing the weight.
The very next day I repeat the entire process, except that starting sets are more like 10-15-X, since muscles haven't completely restored.
Such training sessions are long - usually 1.5 hours - if you consider that all that time is spent on just one type of exercise. It is important to keep yourself hydrated, have good cardio and at least some stamina on the muscles involved before you load them fully. Also, only major muscles can be worked like that, but I assume that where you want the growth?
To sum it up:
Hope my experience helps you.
Above all else, do deadlifts and/or squats. Add any other compound lifts that you'd like, such as overhead or bench presses, and other compound exercises using cables. Stronglifts 5x5 is a good, free program to follow for this. One thing to note is that the 3 days per week routine might not be good. I've found my largest gains come with 4-5 rest days between workouts, so following the SL program but increasing the number of days off might be crucial. Remember, you don't build muscle while lifting weights, you build muscle while sleeping. It takes a while for your muscles to recover, and once they have recovered, it takes a while for them to start growing. You could be looking at 2-3 days for each.
Many people will recommend eating a lot; that might help, or it might do nothing. I've made absolutely no size gains regardless of how much I eat (what I eat, and the quality of the food makes a difference though), but the vast majority of my gains have come from lifting heavy.
As a follower of the Quantified Self movement, I've tracked carefully my progress on Occam's Protocol (a more realistic version of From Geek to Freak by Tim Ferriss). In three weeks, I gained 2lbs of muscle and 2.2lbs of fat. This was shown by DXA body scans, the most precise and advanced technique for measuring body composition.
Back in 2011, these gains happened despite me not respecting the diet and the sleep components of the routine.
In November 2013, I started a new trial of the Occam's Protocol, this time carefully following the diet and getting enough sleep. Yes, you do have to make muscle gain a priority and be very clear that this is what you want at this point in your life.
Simple, gain more calodies from what you eat than you consume during daily activity. You should know that 1g of fat has 9 calories, 1g of proteins=4cal. and 1g of carbohydrates=4cal.....
You can easely get fat eating fastfood if it`s what you want :)) but i will never recommend that....so eat healthy, more fruits, vegetables (especially potatoes)! Practice a sport and try to avoid stress factors.
i used to be fat and i am same height as you. I exercise usually 6 to 7 days a week and eat daily the right food i do not cheat much maybe once a month. And i still manage to gain weight. I do not eat much either about 1000 to 1200 calories. For a man i will get canned for it that is too little or too much depends on a person. But a ex-fat person has an easier time to gain weight than a skinny person.
you just listen to your body, first you need to train and here you should not concentrate on how much weight you lift but you should concentrate on the form (i.e Full and Slow movement you must resist the weights).
Now while you are training right your body will tell you that he want fuel(Food), so provide him with it as needed (i.e Eat when you feel hungry and dont let your self starving never) also what you eat matters a lot..
now we come to the rest part here i only tell you sleep 8 hours at night to let your body recover.
after all of that you need to read and ask and be patient year after year until you find your path to what you want to be.
I would start with doing a lot of cardio exercise. According to recent research, underweight people tend to have a larger fat percentage than average people, in some cases they are actually as fat as mildly obese people. This fat is hidden in the body as visceral fat (fat that surrounds the organs). The person is then underweight because he/she has smaller organs. This puts these people at a greater risk of developing diabetes and heart disease.
It is therefore recommended to build up cardio fitness and work toward being able to run fast for more than half an hour, 4 to 5 times per week. At the same time the diet should be adjusted to limit any weight loss, but you will lose a bit of weight due to losing excess visceral fat.
After about a year you should have made a lot of progress in building up cardio fitness. Only then should you start doing strength training. Your body will then be better adapted to doing heavy lifting work. Even though you'll still have to build up your muscles, your heart rate won't go up nearly as much as if you were to do this right away; you'll feel less exhausted after heavy exercise. The problem with getting tired after exericise is that your body will tend to keep the fat reserves. So, the food you eat is then used in a less efficent way to build a stronger body.
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