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November 25 marks the day that my sweet nephew, Payton, began his journey on earth. What none of us could have imagined on the day of his birth was that the unsurpassable joy we felt with his arrival would be met with unsurpassable pain and grief just four and a half years later.
Today, as I made my way around Point Defiance with Leif and Sochi, I reflected on Payton's life. It is difficult for me to reflect on his life with out also remembering the raw sadness that his early death brought to my family and all who loved him. It is with great effort that I force my mind to focus not on the last memory I have of Payton's broken body, hooked to machines in a hospital bed, but rather on the joyful squeals and laughter of our last day together before Josh and I moved to Cape Town. My remembrance, in order to over power the heart breaking images of June 2010, must move beyond my mind and encompass my entire body. I must remember the smell of early summer grass, the racing of my heart chasing Payton around my parents yard, the coolness of the evening air as we dove and rolled, wrestled and tickled. It is only then, when I allow my whole self to remember that joyful night, that I am able to allow my jaw to relax, my shoulders drop and my heart soften.
Earlier this week I listened to a man (on the internet) who lost his wife in childbirth earlier this month. Three days later, the baby also died. He said something that resonated with me– God did not orchestrate this (or something along those lines). He went on to say that he knows this horrible loss must be used for good. That God is somehow, in his grief, piecing together a beautiful melody–one note at a time. This is different from the bullshit (pardon) that I heard from some after Payton died. The "God has a plan" as if somehow a good God would be cool with a 4 year old boy falling from a window and smashing his head. Screw that. That's not the God that I believe in. But what then? How could this happen? Why did this happen?
July of 2010, a month after Payton's accident, also brought a life altering event for me. Lost in the mountains of South Africa, in the winter with nothing but a few dates, jeans and long sleeve t-shirts, I was certain Josh and I were going to die under the rock we took shelter in when we could no longer see our feet in the darkness of the mountains. The near freezing temperature settled in my bones. I ached for my mom who had just lost her grandson, was watching her own son bare the unbearable and was now going to lose her daughter–and probably never find out where or how. The pack of animals that surrounded us, growling in the dark, the poachers that for some reason left the crazy, shaking, pleading white girl and her male counter part (not shaking or pleading but acting very calm given the situation, by the way)…and yet for some reason, when the sun began to rise at 6 AM, 12 hours after is had disappeared completely, we were alive. By 11 AM we had found our way out of the mountains and to our car. Alive. Unharmed save a few scratches on my ankles from running through the grass and sliding down into gullies. Alive.
There is so much more to the African mountains story that leaves me questioning why I am alive. I am alive and Payton is not. It seems very unfair. In the months following, I tried over and over to process these events. I would sometimes hear growling in the night and I often felt the need to knock myself out with sleeping medication so as not to lay be bed with heart ache for Payton. One night, while reflecting on why, I had a vision. It was a hand like form holding me over one of the cliffs that Josh and I had encountered in our mountain fiasco. I was on my back, limp, head back and the hand was shaking me and shouting, in a firm but loving voice, "I'VE GOT THIS!"
My faith has changed a lot since 2010. I no longer feel the urge to worship God in a church. I feel much more alive when I worship him in the forest or my garden or nursing Leif. I sometimes still feel anger with God and even question the goodness or realness of God in wake of Payton's death. But knowing that I don't have to believe he planned Payton's early death, but yet somehow has still "got this" crazy shit helps me to continue on with my days without living every moment in complete fear that it can all fall apart at any moment. And it can. In a blink, it can shatter.
God did not orchestrate Payton's death. He did not say, "I'm going to let this one die so his family can experience body crushing pain and some other families can have his organs." No. That's not the God I believe in. The God I believe in felt every unbearable, breathless moment of our grief and matched every single tear. And then he began weaving good out of it– offering other families hope with Payton's bravely donated organs…and in turn, giving our family hope that some good would come of our suffering. I still send those families love and pray their bodies accepted with grace the gift from Payton.
Payton– I see the good that God is weaving, yet I still ask "WHY?" We miss you and would give anything to have you here with us. You are loved and cherished and carried in our hearts always. Happy Birthday, my sweet nephew.
Wherever you Are, My Love Will Find You
Nancy Tillman
And Someday if you're lonely
or someday you're sad
or you strike out at baseball
or think you've been bad
just lift up your face,
feel the wind in your hair.
That's me, my sweet baby. My love is right there.
In the green of the grass…in the smell of the sea…
in the clouds floating by…in the top of a tree…
in the sound crickets make at the end of the day…
"You are loved. You are loved. You are loved." They all say.


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Yesterday I shared a little look at my travel art kit, and have had quite a few questions about it since, so I thought I'd take the time to share it properly.
At the moment, I'm working on a number of projects, but am carrying only one with me, which is just a little daily journal, full of the minutiae of everyday life. So my art kit is currently geared towards that project, but can be tweaked to suit whatever I'm working on.
Here I have:
Watercolour crayons
Baby wipes – to blend the crayons, and for clean ups
Paint dabbers – I carry either some of these or the crayons, not both at once
Paper supplies (details in seperate pic)
Make-up bag of pens etc (more detail in next pic)
Package of nappy bags – great little trash bags for art on the go!
This photo shows the contents of the make-up bag which, incidentally, I had made to order by Something From Rebecca.
Cutterbee Scissors
Glue stick
Charcoal pencil
Faber Castell big brush pen (india ink)
Pilot Permaball pen
Pilot Choose white pen
Sakura Gelly pen
Bic 4 colour pen – coz I like the funky colours lol
Lead pencil
Mini stapler
Deco tapes
Paper clips
Mini mister
I also usually have my aquash pen, but have no clue where it is at the moment. Probably rattling around my handbag somewhere!
And this pic gives a little look at the contents of my plastic envelopes. I just have a random selection of paper scraps, stickers and ephemera pieces. My journal is an eclectic mix of goodies – I think the style suits the randomness of every day life lol
So there you have it, my art on the go kit! I take this everywhere and use it in all manner of places – in the car while waiting to pick Haylee up from school, whilst having lunch out, at the local library, or the park, if I just feel like getting out and about. Heck, I even used it at Micky D's recently while the kids had fun on the playground!
I'll be back tomorrow to give you a peek inside the journal. It's a sweet little handmade journal from Cave In The Clouds, made with a fabric cover and 'found' papers. I love it! So be sure to pop back tomorrow to take a looksee inside!
Happy crafting!
Lita xo

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Matthew Crippen was being charged with 2 counts of violating anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). Mr. Crippen was allegedly running a chip-modding business where he would modify an Xbox so that it could run copies of games. Normally, and Xbox can only run official copies of games, and games that are burned to DVDs will not play. Modifying allows the Xbox to play backup copies of games you already own, but it also allows you to play pirated games you downloaded from the web.
Needing to prove Mens rea, that the defendant willfully broke the law, the Prosecution's first witness testified that he secretly videotaped Matthew Crippen modify an xbox and tested the mod job with a pirated copy of a game. While relevant, the testimony that Mr. Crippen tested his modification with a pirated game was not first submitted to Mr. Crippen's attorneys, a huge procedural misstep. In addition, the act of secretly videotaping the defendant was likely in violation of California's privacy laws.
Prosecutor Allen Chiu admitted that the evidence should have been shared with the defendant's attorneys beforehand and requested the case be dropped for "fairness and justice."
This was an interesting case and I will dig deeper into the facts and pleadings in later installments.
See also Wired's reporting of the case.
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text: Here's a recipe for those who have been unsuccessful making great tasting nutritional yeast products. This is a recipe taken out of "The Almost (no) Fat Cookbook", written by Bryanna Grogan. It is good over steamed vegetables, as a dip, to make macarroni & cheese, in a "cheese" veggie burger, you name it. I have fed this in dishes to so many people, and most end up asking for the recipe, including my vegetarian-phobic grandmother! Give it a try. GOLDEN SAUCE 6 oz. reduced fat firm tofu, cubed (about half a package of Mori-nu, firm) 1/4-1/2 cup nutritional yeast (depending on thickness and cheesiness) 1 medium-sized potato, peeled and cubed 1/2 medium-sized carrot, cut into half-inch pieces 1/2 medium-sized onion, cubed. 1 teaspoon salt. 1 teaspoon garlic powder. Cook potato, carrot, and onion in 1/2 C. water until all vegetables are done and the carrot is easily piercable with a fork. Put into a blender (i use a vitamix if one is around), and add tofu, nutritional yeast, garlic powder and salt. Blend until smooth. It's as easy as that! If you make this,post back to the lists your results. Enjoy! EAL. PS there is a version of this sauce that is INCREDIBLE layered in lasagna instead of cheese. However, it calls for a small amount of Tahini, and no carrot, which brings the CCF up to 20-30% which is too high for this list. ------------------------------


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Julz went to district with her science fair project. She took the pulp from our juice machine and baked them with brownies. #1 was normal, #2 had apple pulp, and #3 had spinach, carrot, kale and celery. Then she went around the neighborhood to see what they liked best. Half knew what was in the brownies, the other half did not.
Most of the people who didn't know what was in the brownies chose brownie #1. The people who did know what was in the brownies chose different favorites than expected. Three people in the category chose #1, four people chose #2, and one person chose brownie #3.
That was Henny Penny of course.
Julz and her friend Carson.
A fifth grader from the school I worked at last year. I forgot her name but she wanted me to take a picture of her anyway. So cute.


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4 days ago
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Sarcoma in children and young adults
Sarcoma represents roughly 15 percent of all cases of childhood cancer diagnosed each year, says Joan Darling, president of the Sarcoma Alliance. But you might not know it by the way statistics have been presented during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
The American Cancer Society lumps different types of leukemia together, for example, but separates different types of sarcoma. That makes it harder to see the impact of sarcoma on young lives.
But Darling sees it. Since 2001, she has volunteered as a patient advocate with the Children's Oncology Group (COG), the cooperative that designs and implements clinical trials for childhood cancers. A biologist who lives in Lincoln, Neb., she also helps manage the Rhabdo-Kids mailing list for the Association of Cancer Online Resources.
Darling sees more than statistics – she sees her daughter, Ali, diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma at 13, now a young lawyer on the board of the Sarcoma Alliance. Here's an excerpt from her daughter's story:
"Having cancer absolutely changed my life. I don't think it changed who I am, but I do think it changed my view. I will forever be plagued by the side effects of the drugs that saved me, and I still get nervous when I find any lump or bump. But, most of all, I love and cherish the qualities I've acquired through the experience. It's been said so many times in so many ways, but it's best put in one word: Perspective."
The Alliance plans to expand its sections on children and young adults as well as adding more personal stories.
One will come from Joanna J. Burgess, who won the Great Comebacks Award, South Region, this month. She was diagnosed at age 3 with rhabdomyosarcoma and got a urostomy to replace her bladder. Radiation therapy caused colitis, and she later had to have a colostomy. She became a registered nurse who specializes in wound, ostomy and continence care.
"My efforts to help others have been a passion and an important part of my own recovery," says Burgess of Apex, N.C. "From my experience, I think I understand the special challenges people face when they are living with these diseases and when they have ostomy surgery. I want people to know that someone understands what they are going through."
Ashley Grennell of Groveland, Fla., hopes her story will help others see that they can live every day to its fullest despite a bad prognosis. Diagnosed with a sarcoma called malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, she went into hospice this month at age 26 after multiple surgeries and rounds of chemotherapy and radiation.
"I knew four years ago that we'd never get ahead of it," says Grennell, whose last wish is to find the money for a funeral. "But I had four more birthdays, four more Christmases, four more years with my family. It was worth it.
"People always ask me, 'How do you stay so positive? Every time I see you, you have a big smile on your face.' You have two options. You can curl yourself in a ball, be miserable and waste your life, or you can say, 'Yeah, this is the hand I've been dealt.' You deal with it, and you live your life."
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Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Small Child In The City
11 comments:
- auntiegwen said...
Sounds fab
At the risk of sounding very shallow (Im sorry, I am ) but I use Liz earle Cleanse and Polish which is a kinda cheapo version of Eve Lom, is it really worth the money ?
but otherwise I love Reiss and your weekend sounded great
- 8 October 2008 at 09:42
- Mom/Mum said...
Oh what a fun time you had. This post has me all nostalgic for my London days...can't wait to be able to take the boys back there one day...
- 8 October 2008 at 18:35
- Yummy Mummy said...
sounds like a very successful trip!
- 8 October 2008 at 20:33
- workthatwardrobe said...
There's no place like home especially once you've had kids!
- 8 October 2008 at 21:35
- that girl ? said...
Auntie G - I've heard of Liz Earle but not tried it yet so it could well be! Maybe we could combine and set up Liz Lom?! Anything that fakes a glow at my age is worth it! (also see below!)
Mom/Mum, YM and WTW...thanks for reading... whenever I don't post for a few days I always miss my bloggy friends so I love it when everyone talks back! I'm feeling sorry for myself tonight as I had my freckled friend that was apparently about to grow again, removed today... and it bloody hurt!
- 8 October 2008 at 22:39
- The Dotterel said...
We took to Sally to London (again) recently and she was just as smitten as she was the first time, years and years ago. Lez Miz helped, of course.
- 9 October 2008 at 11:46
- The Stiletto Effect said...
I also love spanish food :) ahhh paella!
Have fun in London!
- 9 October 2008 at 19:24
- Tara@From Dawn Till Rusk said...
Liz Earle. Brilliant. And I am a total product junke so should know!
- 9 October 2008 at 21:00
- mrsbear said...
Sounds like a great trip. Our last vacation was in April, about 1600 miles with four children in our minivan, not as much fun as you'd expect.
- 9 October 2008 at 21:19
- Can Bass 1 said...
Absolutely spiffing!
- 9 October 2008 at 21:23
- A Confused Take That Fan said...
Sounds like you had a great weekend. Highlight must have been the M&S curry surely? ;o)
That Bob phone sounds fab. Might have to indulge for 2 year olds birthday.
And a Reiss coat...I wish!
- 12 October 2008 at 17:02


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Man, I haven't updated in so long. Lots of school and relationship stuff came up, but here I am again to drop another word. DotA 2 get announced by Valve yesterday, October 13, 2010 and has been given a release date of some time in 2011. All of the 100+ DotA heroes will be ported over in delicious source engine goodness. Here is the artwork for four of the heroes. I don't know about anyone else, but bald Lina is still hot. (Huehuehue.)
Life and Times
Just a collection of what goes through my mind.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
WCG 2010 swag
Went to World Cyber Games 2010. Had fun. Got swag.
Yes. I got two cameras as swag.
Edit: I won the cameras in two separate contests. One was a voice impersonation and the other was dancing.
Edit: I won the cameras in two separate contests. One was a voice impersonation and the other was dancing.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Evangelion - Asuka
This is the Gothic Night Asuke Langley by Sega. Now that I remember back to it, this was the first PVC statue I bought in January 2010 at Anime Los Angeles (ALA). I got her for $15 and the Gothic Night Rei for $20, though I gave that one to someone as a gift. I questioned the quality of it due to its price since I had no idea about figures in general at the time. Of course, I would learn later that Sega just has a knack for making high quality figures for low prices.
According to everything I've researched (IE Google), this figure is either 1/7 or 1/6 and stands at about 8 inches tall. The costume is one of many original concepts, and it just seems like the manufacturers just like dressing up everybody as a gothic lolita. Asuka stands in a simple way, just kind of flaunting the dress. I'm not saying she should be muscled up and ready to choke a viking, but I think it's a little plain for what it is. The base isn't anything too special; just a black square platform to place the figure on. The best thing about this figure is how well it captures the character's facial features and it's just really pleasant to look at. I also like how her hair isn't altogether in once piece, though it does bring up the question of why her hair would do something like that. To be more of a nitpicky bastard, the proportions of this fugre are pretty weird. The length of her legs are somewhere between normal and Bayonetta, basically. There also isn't too much detail in the legs in general, but it works to the advantage of the overall presence.
It came out at about $15 and you might be able to catch one somewhere for maybe $25. If you're just starting your collection, I'd say this is a pretty good piece. For more diehard collectors, there are many more iterations of Asuka to buy, but I wouldn't overlook this one. Sega's Gothic Night Asuka Langley gets a very solid recommendation from me.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Soul Calibur 2 - Nightmare
Ah, this one take me way back. I picked up this Nightmare from Mikomicon 2009 for a nut-grabbingly delicious $3, though it came without the box. If you checked the link, this figure goes for about $45, so I think I made a small sacrifice.
As you can tell from the picture, this figure is very well detailed. I wouldn't expect anything less of its producer, McFarlane toys, known for its long line of American figures including Spawn, Jason Vorhees, and The Simpsons. However, the rich attention to detail comes at the cost of its articulation; only the beefcake deformed arm is movable at its shoulder, and even then it only moves in a circle. In addition to this, the base is movable, allowing you to position the figure in any way you want. Nightmare also comes with the trademark Soul Edge for more possibilities in posing or losing under your couch, never to be found again. His posing in this is pretty nice, too. It allows the positioning of his arm to make sense no matter how he's displayed (and it also looks pretty badass). Don't let the picture fool you, though; in person, the figure is no bigger than a pencil.
In the end, I would only recommend this to three kinds of people:
1. Hardcore fans of the Soul Calibur series
2. Devoted collectors of McFarlane Toys
3. People who found this thing for cheap
It's a very visually pleasing figure, don't get me wrong. It's just that the price point just doesn't justify a purchase.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Evangelion@School - Rei
Here's my Evangelion@School Rei Ayanami. It's the first figure I bought and the one that started my hobby. I got it for $25 at Anime Expo 2010, and I love the friggin thing. It stands at about 6 inches high and the head literally makes up half of that height. The most posing you can do with it is in the neck - it rotates a little bit, though not too much. A very good pickup in my opinion even to this day.
I've also ordered an Asuka of the same line, and it should come within the next few weeks. I just can't wait for the day when Rei doesn't have to be displayed alone. :']
Saeko Busujima - Figure
With the uprising popularity of High School of the Dead, Chara-Ani is making a Saeko Busujima. Compared to its old version released back in February 2009, this figure comes with a black tank top and a limited red apron in addition to its original apron. Along with her are re-releases of Rei and Takagi.
Due out in March 2011, this fig will definitely put a dent in many a collector's wallet.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The Problem We All Live With
Because of the damage wrought in the Black community by these people's ideas, mentality and actions, I made a short list of men for whom it would take every ounce of Christian restraint to keep me from punching in the throat on sight if we ever met.
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill
The Rev. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
The Rev. Alfred Charles "Al" Sharpton, Jr.
Dr. Cornel Ronald West
Broderick Steven "Steve" Harvey
Thomas "Tom" Joyner
Kanye Omari West
As these men prove, education and success are no measure or guarantee of wisdom. They are indeed the modern day Sambos and Quimbos, tirelessly wielding the whip for their racist liberal masters, keeping the coloreds inline on the Democrat plantation. Servile and ignorant, they look towards their masters in government to see to their needs.
They are happy to be in those nice servants quarters the masters done let them have in Compton, East St. Louis and the like. The Democrats of old forbade the education of their slaves, lest they become uppity and begin to question their station. The modern Democrats still don't want Black folks learning to read, so they resist any idea that might have the effect of improving education for urban youth.
School vouchers? "We don't want them going to school with our children!" Charters? "What about the teacher's unions?" The Democrats have even managed to have the more slack-jawed Black folks championing the failed urban school systems, telling their fellows "the Charter Schools really aren't that great."
The NAACP teamed up with the United Federation of Teachers in a lawsuit against the City of New York, alleging the charter schools took resources away from the public schools. As well they should–when you consider the charters put those resources to much better use.
President Obama, as his support begins to erode even in the Black community, in a gesture I am sure was aimed at assuring his more reactionary urban constituents that he is still "down", hung Norman Rockwell's painting "The Problem We All Live With" a few feet from the Oval Office.
This painting, one of Rockwell's most famous, was inspired by the plight of Ruby Bridges. In 1960, at age 6, Ruby Bridges became the first student to be integrated into schools in New Orleans. The painting depicts a little Black girl dressed in white, escorted by a cadre of U.S. Marshals, errant tomatoes splattered behind her on a wall adorned with the word "NIGGER".
I am sure it's not lost on the President, but his adherents fail to see the irony in his hanging this particular painting. The left eschews a Rockwellian depiction of America in almost every way. Always quick to portray Rockwell's conservative chronicling of American society in the last century as hopelessly idealized, they claim it has very little relation to reality.
Yet it was the conservatives who loved that romantic view of America as rendered by Rockwell that actually championed desegregation. It is forgotten that it was a Republican Dwight Eisenhower who ordered those U.S. Marshals down to Nola to escort Ruby Bridges to school! The leftist Democrats also want it forgotten that it was Ike who got the Civil Rights ball rolling to begin with.
The painting is a dramatization of what was happening in the South at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement. Adding to the irony, anyone in New Orleans who was opposed to Ruby Bridges or the "Little Rock Nine" attending school with all them good White children back then and likely to throw tomatoes and write "nigger" on the wall, would have been a staunch Democrat.
Democrats still champion separate but equal education for Black folks. How else do you explain their dogged encouragement of failed educational paradigms? The fewer Black folks in good school systems the more Black folks languishing in the ghettos for the Democrats to exploit. Keep them on the plantation; let master think for them.
"Pay no mind to them uppity conservative Black people, they forgot where they belong. We know how to control our coloreds. You got to make sure they understand they can never compete with the White man, unless we help them. And we only help the ones that know their place. You know the American dream ain't for you, boy! You know the White man ain't never gonna treat you like an equal."
So why bother?
That is the question ruling the lives of far too many of the American Black youth of today. They feel like there is no hope. They had hope in Barrack Obama, he seems to be repaying that hope with indifference. Maxine Waters was absolutely correct to call Mr. Obama on his failure to even pretend to address Black issues. A stopped watch and all that...
It should be acknowledged that the hardest hit segment of the President's constituency is the Black community, yet on his recent bus tour he did not stop in a single urban area to assure that community he is working on it.
The bottom line is that Mr. Obama knows despite the utter failure of leftist policies in urban America, Black folks are going to vote for him in huge numbers just because he is Black and more importantly, a Democrat. Because Black folks would still vote for a White Democrat, if the Republican candidate is Black, we saw that played out in the 2008 elections.
So why waste a trip to inner city Chicago? It is the White vote Obama needs and he knows it. So it is much more pragmatic to have a donut in Decorah, Iowa, than a Coney Dog in Detroit, Michigan.
The "problem we all live with" today, is an unengaged Black youth. Where the Black children like Ruby Bridges of the first half of the 20th century saw education as a means to better themselves, far too many of today's Black youth have zero confidence in the school systems they are trapped in by liberal policy's ability to make them viable. Along with a belief that the whole world is stacked against them, because that is what their heroes keep telling them.
And the left, despite the platitudes they spout to the media, do all they can to foster that attitude amongst urban youth. "Progressive" morality has decimated the Black community. Driven by urban entertainers (themselves motivated only by money and fame), our Black youth idolize and internalize some of the most unwholesome behavior and ideas that have ever existed in America.
With our Black children raising hell in public and flash mobs robbing people based on race, Blacks are participating in the most self destructive conduct imaginable. And the left fans these flames every time they portray Black youth as victims instead of responsible beings who control their own destinies.
The only people preying on Black folks today on a regular basis are other Black folks! The naked stupidity of Black youths attacking White people is proof positive of their complete detachment from all practical reasoning. Not only is it morally wrong to attack anyone of any race, it is beastly foolish to pick a fight with someone who has numerical superiority and a great deal more resources than you.
The leftist will say the establishment and corporate America is preying on Black youth, sucking the jobs out of the city and taking them overseas. They can say this with a straight face as they grant men like G.E. CEO Jeffrrey Immelt all access passes in fraudulent quasi-governmental positions like "The President's Council On Jobs And Competitiveness." Meanwhile, General Electric continues to be one of our greatest exporters of American jobs.
When do we wake up? Perpetual idiot Janeane Garofalo accused Presidential candidate Herman Cain of suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and being a paid shill for the Tea Party, acting as a beard covering inherent racism in the conservative movement. Yet men like Herman Cain represent and offer an alternative to failure, a break from the misery plantation as cultivated by the left that the Black community now finds itself yoked to.
How long must the Black community wax worse and worse before we stop listening to the modern day Sambos and Quimbos? Some are complicit in advancing the racist liberal urban agenda – men like Sharpton, Hill and Dyson, who know for whom they are working and what impact it has on urban America, but, it got them into the big house. Others are just plain dumb, like Harvey, Joyner and Kanye West; all they know is what they have been conditioned to know, but their bully pulpits make them terribly harmful as they spread that conditioning.
Black youth create havoc, often racist in nature, film it and post it on YouTube themselves in an unenlightened celebration of folly and madness. Then racist White folks see it on YouTube, call the videos of Black bad behavior "Chimp outs" and use it as a justification for their own hatred as they spew racial invective! All this under the presidency that was supposed to heal the nation?
The left cringes at the idea of one's faith playing a factor in governing. Most who hold to a liberal perspective have little regard for the things of the Holy Bible and the Bible's God. They maintain the belief that man can restrain man, but never wonder why their endeavors bear so little fruit. You can change laws to protect man from his fellow, but you cannot legislate the attitudes of his heart.
Frankly, the left is only interested in persuading people to vote for them in elections; they don't really care what happens to folks in their work-a-day lives. This is the primary reason they oppose a practical Christian faith. They are OK with faith on Sunday, but don't bring it into your political and practical life.
They know that the only way to enact real "Change" is through Christian faith, but that goes against everything they work toward. They condition their henchmen like Sharpton and Cornell West to advocate for folks placing their faith in government, rather than God and themselves through Biblical truth. Why? Because the truth has the nasty habit of making men free!
"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God." Ezekiel 36:26-28
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Apple recently rolled out two-step authentication check for iCloud to protect users from having their account info changed without an additional, one-time password. They were a tad late to the game, however, as companies like Dropbox, Google, Facebook, Twitter and others have already implemented this additional security step for their users.
Now that security researchers have had enough time to scour Apple´s methods for this two-step authentication and give it a test drive, it´s been found to be less secure than the others. ElcomSoft, a Russian security software company, claimed in a blog yesterday that Apple´s security measures only protect users from having account info like passwords and billing address from being accessed or changed. If this information is already compromised, or if a hacker is able to gain physical access to your iPhone, however, this two-step measure could be essentially worthless. ElcomSoft even went so far to say that Apple´s two-step authentication process, as it currently exists, is not a "finished product."
Vladimir Katalov with ElcomSoft put Apple´s security measures to the test and found it lacking. To begin, Katalov takes issue with the optional nature of this two-step authentication, especially considering the incredibly important information stored in iCloud. As Mat Honan discovered last year, an iCloud hack could give cyber thieves access to nearly all of your digital life.
Going further, Katalov found that even when a user chooses to turn on two-step authentication, this doesn´t protect iOS backups or iCloud data, like calendars, mail or photos.
"In its current implementation, Apple´s two-factor authentication does not prevent anyone from restoring an iOS backup onto a new (not trusted) device," writes Katalov.
"In addition, and this is much more of an issue, Apple´s implementation does not apply to iCloud backups, allowing anyone and everyone knowing the user´s Apple ID and password to download and access information stored in the iCloud."
This is frighteningly easy to verify, unfortunately. Any user can log into the iCloud website and see their data, and if the login credentials have been compromised, this means any hacker can have access to the same information. During their tests, ElcomSoft was able to gain access to iCloud data without ever running into any two-step authentication barriers. Even when this feature is turned on, Apple sends the unlock PIN to the iPhone´s lock screen rather than sending it through an iMessage or text message. This means any hacker with physical access to the phone only needs the login credentials to have complete control of an iCloud account.
"In ElcomSoft´s opinion, this is just not the right way to do this from a security point of view. iCloud has been exploited in the past and will be exploited in the future," says ElcomSoft.
To be fair, any Apple ID or iCloud account is as secure as its password. It´s also true that one must trade some convenience to gain some security. Any two-step measure is more complicated by its very nature.
The most secure way to lock down an iCloud account is to simply change passwords every few weeks or so, using strong and secure passwords each time. Yet as this is likely a little too inconvenient for most (and very hard to remember), measures like two-step are a helpful way to keep users protected. It seems Apple´s method, however, isn´t doing much to protect users at all.


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CELTIC target Alfred Finnbogason last night confirmed he will quit Heerenveen this summer.
Neil Lennon has been a long-time admirer of the Icelandic striker, who is the top scorer in Holland with 29 goals this season.
He injured his knee as Heerenveen beat AZ Alkmaar last weekend to line up a play-off with Groningen for a Europa League place.
And Finnbogason, 25, said: "I will take three to four weeks to recover so I have played my last game for Heerenveen that's for sure.
"I will listen to every club who comes to an agreement with Heerenveen and then we will see."
The Dutch club rejected a £7.5million offer from Fulham in January but his value has since dipped.
And that could open the door for Celtic who are desperate to strengthen for next season's Champions League campaign.
The Hoops are also considering a move for St Mirren goalie Chris Dilo.
The 20-year-old French ace has impressed for the Buddies and is now available on a Bosman.
Clubs in England and France are keeping tabs on Dilo but Celtic lead the chase for him as they expect No.1 Fraser Forster to leave this summer and are on the lookout for new keepers.


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The corset controversy is an ensemble of letters and articles concerning the corset that appeared in newspapers and periodicals in the 19th century.
Corsets, also called bodices or stays, were worn by European women from the 16th century onward, changing their form as fashions changed. For most of this period, floor-length full skirts were the norm. Variations were endless. The French court dress of the 18th century with its extensive drapery supported by panniers was an extreme but telling example of the style. The English had their "robe anglaise". Irrespective of variation, rigid corsets beneath the dress compressed the waist[1].
Beginning in the 1790s, there was an abrupt break with tradition as the Empire silhouette became fashionable. Coinciding with the French Revolution, a revolution occurred in women's clothing. Inspired by the tunics of classical antiquity, dresses were high-waisted and loose fitting, with a long flowing skirt. The corset was reduced to a minimal form, primarily to support the bosom.
Then, starting in the mid 1820's, women's fashion returned to the full skirts of the prior century. In a repudiation of the Empire silhouette, the waist became the central focus of female dress. The corset assumed the dominant role it would hold for the rest of the 19th century. Designed to emphasize the waist, it was pulled in as required to achieve the desired tenuity. [2] Doctors and much of the press deplored the garment but were unable to override the dictates of fashion.
Criticism of the corset was nothing new. During a tight lacing period of the prior century, Jean Jacques Rousseau had denounced the practice in The Lancet [3] while cartoons of the period satirized the practice.[4] What had changed was that in the 19th century, women were writing letters to publications expressing their views directly and articulately. The one-sided denunciation of the past turned into a dialogue.
Women made their voices heard, sharing their experiences and their opinions, some in favor of the corset and even tight lacing. Newspapers and popular journals became the media for the exchange of hundreds of letters and articles concerning the corset.
Known as the "corset controversy" or simply the "corset question", the controversy spilled over multiple publications, multiple decades, and multiple countries. Of particular and singular concern was the issue of tight lacing. The flow of articles and letters waxed and waned over time, reaching a crescendo in the late 1860s, which may be taken to be the peak of the frenzy. However, the issue surfaced long before and continued long afterward. Throughout this period, advertisements in the same publications promoted the sale of corsets with enthusiasm. [5]
English publications in which the controversy raged included the The Times, Lancet, Queen, The Scotsman, Ladies Treasury, The Englishwomen's Domestic Magazine, and All the Year Round.
In America, the Chicago Tribune, looked across the Atlantic and sniffed,[6]
- the English journals are indulging in one of their periodical battles over the corset question. At moderate intervals the pros and cons of tight lacing are hotly discussed by our British brothers and sisters with very great fervor and very little common sense.
Despite its disdain, the Chicago Tribune published its own contributions. Other American newspapers and periodicals also participated, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Hartford Daily Courant, the North American Review, and The Saint Paul Daily Globe.
Other parts of the English-speaking world joined from time to time, reprinting articles from England and America, as well as contributing their own. Even provincial newspapers such as the Amador Ledger of California, the Hobart Town Courier, the Otago Witness, and the Timaru Herald of New Zealand had their say.
Topics of the Controversy
Much of the controversy can be simply summarized: The detractors of the corset argued that it was harmful to health, its wearing prompted by vanity and foolishness. The advocates rejoined that it was required for fashionable dress and had its own unique pleasures.
However such a summary fails to do justice to the countless variations and subtleties of the discourse. Hundreds of letters and articles appear, woven into multiple threads. As the controversy went on for decades without significant change of substance or tone, a chronological exposition would prove tedious. Instead, it is most useful to describe the controversy by its major themes.
The views, particularly those in favor of tight lacing, are so remarkable that no summary can represent them faithfully. Only actual quotations from the time can do them justice.
The line between wearing corsets in general and tight lacing in particular was never drawn precisely. Many detractors denounced both, obviating the distinction, while many advocates endorsed both. Additionally, many women who wore corsets denied that they tight laced, adding confusion to the controversy. The West Coast Times wrote [7]
- The evil consequences of tight lacing are universally admitted. Ladies, however, generally refuse to acknowledge that tight lacing is at all common. Each possessor of a small waist claims that it is a gift of Nature, not a work of art, and wears a corset, not for the purpose of compressing her shape into a narrow circumference, but merely as a comfortable, if not necessary support.
Reading the correspondence today, one cannot help but be incredulous as to some of these practices. Indeed, some dress scholars such as Doris Langley Moore have characterized various letters as spurious and fantasies.[8] However, the articles and letters appeared in a wide variety of publications, in multiple countries, and over several decades suggesting that they were, in the main, authentic. It is most likely they are a manifestation of the values their time.
Then, as today, women suffered for the sake of fashion[9]. For perspective, one might consider recent articles by modern women concerning high heels. Sarah Sands, English author of a topical column on social and cultural issues, wrote in The Independent [10]
- High heels are to us what corsets were to late Victorian women. They are inhumanly uncomfortable – and yet self-imposed. … Women burned their bras but now subject their feet to terrifying pieces of engineering in order to lengthen their legs and reduce their waists. Since the Sixties, society has been founded on comfort, convenience and personal freedom. Yet, in 2008, women are squeezing their Ugly Sister feet into shoes that are heartbreakingly beautiful and feel like the crucifixion. Some things are simply worth the suffering.
The Sunday Times of London ran a similar article [11].
- Why must everything in life be good, wholemeal, mid-heel and earnest if you are to be a respectable female? High heels may stand on un-PC ground, but we choose them knowingly and interpret them on our own terms by attaching them to our feet, making them an extension of us. The relationship a woman has with her heels comes from the same sickening lack of common sense displayed in a bad, but good, love affair. The pain, the suffering — the joy of living.
Corsets and Fashion
The dress styles of the time called for full skirts and small waists emphasized the fashion. That fashion should govern women's dress seemed as certain to the majority then as it does to a few today. The corset was the device that enabled the small waist.
The Saint Paul Daily Globe wrote [12]
- CORSETS FOR BELLES, How they Mound the form in the Fashionable Shape
- There is not a single fashionable woman who des not wear a corset. Some of the slender young debutantes affect the picturesque princess bodice, with the whalebones inserted in every seam.
- "Go without my stays? Never" exclaimed one of the leaders of fashion. "I wouldn't do anything so untidy. I think a woman without corsets is most unsightly." "You cannot look smart and have a pretty figure without stays. It is impossible."
There were countless denunciations. Fashions that required a tiny waist were deemed oppressive. One such appeared in the Chicago Tribune [13]
- THE SLAVES OF FASHION, through Long Centuries Women Have Obeyed Her Whims
- It is difficult to imagine a slavery more senseless, cruel or far-reaching in its injurious consequences than that imposed by fashion on civilized womanhood during the last generation. … the tight lacing required by the wasp waist has produced generations of invalids and bequeathed to posterity suffering that will not vanish for many decades. … And in order to look stylish, thousands of women wear dress waist so tight that no free movement of the upper body is possible; indeed in numbers of instances, ladies are compelled to put their bonnets on before attempting the painful ordeal of getting into glove-fitting dress waists.
Yet some women professed to enjoy the practice. A letter to the Boston Globe reads [14]
- I myself have never felt any ill effects from nearly 30 years of the most severe tight lacing, nor have I yet found any authentic case of real harm being done by stays, even when laced to the utmost degree of tightness, both day and night.
- People who write against the practice of tight lacing are either those who have never been laced and have never take the trouble to inquire into the pros and cons of the subject, or those who have, perhaps been once lace up very tightly in badly made, ill-fitting stays with the settled determination of finding them most awful instruments of torture.
- Those who have been systematically laced up in proper stays from their childhood are the only ones who are capable of forming a right judgment on this subject and I hope you will allow tight lacers the opportunity of defending themselves against the enemies of trim little waist.
A corsetiere described how women might attain the desired waist size[15]
- In our business, we constantly find women who want to have the waist made smaller and who are willing to endure anything in the world except hanging to get a little waist. … We measure the corset, pulling he measurements snug. And we tell the woman to wear it as tightly as she can comfortably do. Then we suggest a series of corsets, each a little smaller than the last, thus making the transition a slow and easy one from a big waist to a little one.
- We frequently have customers who want to wear a corset day and night in the extreme eagerness to get thin. … We have made this woman two corsets, one for day wear and one for night wear. The day corset is a nineteen inch. … As soon as the waist has been reduced, and it is coming down rapidly, we will make two more corsets. The new ones will measure seventeen for day wear and eighteen inches for night wear. And in a short time we hope to present the woman with a pair of sixteen inch corsets to fit her exactly.
Medical Criticism
Doctors railed against the practice as positively harmful. Women replied that tight lacing was actually beneficial and well as enjoyable. The following exchange, which took place during ten days in 1869 in the pages of The Times of London, gives a flavor of the discourse that volleyed back and forth for decades.
The exchange was initiated by a note in the British medical journal, the Lancet [16], which was reprinted in The Times of London.
- Our old friend, tight-lacing, has again made his appearance. … The folly is one which was formerly to be found mainly in the drawing-room, but now it also fills our streets. It is lamentable to observe at every turn a woman, young or old, who moves forward in a stooping position, unable even to hold herself upright in consequence of the constraint upon the muscles of the back. … as medical practitioners, we see its effects every day in the train of nervous and dyspeptic symptoms by this it is constantly indicated, and in the still more grave internal mischief of permanent character which is often caused by it. Until some little physiological knowledge is made a part of female education, and is considered an "accomplishment", we suppose it is of little use to protest against the cruel injury to health which women thus inflict upon themselves.
A reader signing herself "Not a Girl of the Period" wrote a letter to The Times in reply [17]
- Sir, — As the paragraph with the above heading, copied in The Times from the Lancet a few days ago, has naturally excited some discussion among those affected by it, I request to say a few words in our defense. The writer in the Lancet says he sees ladies stooping in consequences of being tight-laced. As any person of experience knows that wearing tight stays of proper construction, and stiff enough in front, produces exactly the contrary effect. Those whom he sees stooping have either acquire the habit during the late fashion of neglecting the figure, or are led into it by wearing the stays with weak steels in front, for which we are indebted to the doctors …
- He may learn from Fairholt's Costumes and other books, that in spite of the denunciations of doctors of medicine and theology, this fashion has flourished throughout Europe for a thousand years at least and no means among our sex alone. And if he will, for once, consult instead of advising those who have had real experience of it, he will learn that when practiced judiciously it is not only harmless, but often beneficial to health, and extremely pleasant.
A reader, signing herself, Anti-Slavery countered [18]
- … feminine curiosity compel me to ask what sort of flesh and blood, body and bones are possessed by "not a Girl of the Period" to enable her to find tight-lacing "extremely pleasant" … Tight-lacing, or an approach to it, is as extremely unpleasant as it is unnecessary for either health or elegance. It is practices because its victims suppose it improves their appearance, and because they can bear it with that female fortitude with enable us to endure so much. … I have not worn stays or any substitute form them since my school days, and many friends who have paid me the complement of wishing to imitate my carriage have left them off too, and have never return to them, finding that their figures suffered no more than mine from the freedom which is too delightful to give up.
The Lancet felt compelled to reply as well, expanding on its medical arguments [19]
- The writer of a letter to 'The Times', who signs herself "not a Girl of the Period", takes up the cudgels on behalf of the tight lacers, and impugns the accuracy of our options that the practice is a injurious to the health as its effects are monstrous to the eye. … If a lady encases herself in a stiff pair of stays, and laces them tightly, the lungs would be quite unprovided with air, and she would speedily die but for the action of the diaphragm. By this she is saved, but her safety is purchased at a ruinous expense.
- And we do not hesitate to say that to the practice of tight lacing is due a very large number of distressing female ailments, over and beyond those derangements of digestion and circulation to which we have already referenced in our former article. The writer in The Times refers us to Fairholt's Costumes, for proof that, in spite of denunciation, the fashion has flourished throughout Europe for a thousand years at least, and her inference is evident that the continuance of the practice under these circumstances proved it innocuous — a style of argument by which, we need scarcely remark, the harmlessness of theft, murder, drunkenness, and a few other "fashions" might equally well be substantiated. — The Lancet
Other readers wrote to extol the virtues of tight lacing [20]
- … though few ladies may be able to attain the coveted size of "16 inches that may be spanned", such is the flexibility of the female frame that with properly fitted stays — not the flimsy ready-made article generally sold — most ladies may, without discomfort or injury, attain a smallness of waist that would delight both themselves and their friends.
Mothers and Daughters
It was expected that women would wear corsets and it was part of a mother's duty to her female offspring to have them wear the garment.[21]. Just how and when might depend on the mother, the daughter, the place, and the time. However, some things were the much the same everywhere. Two examples, one from the American frontier of 1880, the other from London in 1907, are variations on the theme.
Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American author who wrote a series of children's books based on her childhood in a pioneer family. Little Town on the Prairie is set in 1880 in South Dakota in an area recently settled. Despite being on the frontier, the women and, in particular the girls, were expected to behave according to the norms of the times. Its date, in 1941, takes it out of the "discussion" period, but as it was written as a children's book for girls, its account is unlikely to be spurious or a fantasy, so it serves as a reliable testament of some the more curious practices such as sleeping in corsets.
The family had four daughters, Mary, Laura, Carrie, and Grace, the youngest. Mary, the eldest, tries on a dress that is found not to fit until her corset is laced more tightly, leading to the following exchange [22]
- "I'm glad I don't have to wear corsets yet," said Carrie.
- "Be glad while you can be," said Laura. "You'll have to wear them pretty soon." Her corsets were a sad affliction to her, from the time she put them on in the morning until she took them off at night. But when girls pinned up their hair and wore skirts down to their shoe tops, they must wear corsets.
- "You should wear them at night," Ma said. Mary did, but Laura could not bear at night the torment of the steels that would not let her draw a deep breath. Always before she could get to sleep, she had to take off her corsets.
- "What your figure will be, goodness knows," Ma warned her. "When I was married, your Pa could span my waist with his two hands."
In fashionable London, tight lacing was a serious affair. The New York Times wrote [23]
- …tight lacing is fashionable again. One of the most exclusive corsetieres in Oxford Street, who is the authority for the statement, said today:
- "We are on the verge of another tiny-waist craze. The demand for the smaller sizes in corsets has doubled in the last six months. Eighteens are now in common demand and orders for seventeen-inch and sixteen-inch corsets have greatly increased in the last few weeks. Not a few of my clients are systematically training for the fashionable measurements.
- "When the eventual size is decided upon, three pairs of corsets are made, one for ordinary wear, one for special occasions, and another for night wear. To take a typical case, a young lady was brought to me by her mother at the beginning of the year. The girl, who was 16 years old, was tall and already possessed of a well-developed figure. She had a waist that measured twenty inches. Her mother was desirous that it be reduced to sixteen inches.
- "I provided three pairs of corsets of graduated sizes, and the young miss wore sixteen-inch corsets, laced close the week before last at the Buckingham Palace garden party. She and her mother were so delighted with the effect that the girl came to me a day or two later to be measured for a pair of fifteens for dress occasions."
There was no shortage of those who condemned both mother and daughter. For example [24]
- What is to be said for the sinful folly (the mania is apparently not confined to the young) of the mother who put her child into corsets as six years old, or the young lady who "enjoys the feeling of tight lacing so much," and never lets her waist exceed 17 inches or 15 3/4 if she has no breakfast? We are not surprised to hear that she cannot walk. Are there really such foolish relatives as the one who insisted on a young woman reducing her waist to 17 inches saying "No man will marry a girl unless she looks smart." These unfortunate victims of fashion sleep in their corsets, and know no release night or day from the agony of tight ligaments pressing gradually on soft and growing bones.
In some cases, mothers started their daughters wearing corsets in early childhood. The New York Times described the practice in its Fashion section [25]
- From the time an infant wears dresses, a kind of broad belt is used, with shoulder pieces. To this, the child's undergarments are buttoned. Little girls wear these until they are about 7 years of age. From this time, the belt has rather more shape, and the back part is supported on both sides by a whalebone or a very soft steel spring. From the age of 10 to 12 years, another bone is added in the back. Corsets for young ladies have busks, narrow whalebones, and very soft steel springs. Ladies' corsets of satin or other material have jointed busks, and are drawn in over the hips, making the front of the corsets very long.
Mothers wrote letters describing their version of the practice. The following, published in the English periodical Queen,[26] is typical.
- … that the formation of the waist is not begun early enough. The consequence of this is, that the waist has to be compressed into a slender shape after it has been allowed to swell, and the stays are therefore made so as to allow of being laced tighter and tighter.
- Now I am persuaded that much inconvenience is caused by this practice, which might be entirely avoided by the following simple plan, which I have myself tried with my own daughters, and have found to answer admirably. At the age of seven I had them fitted with stays without much bone and a flexible busk, and these were made to meet from top to bottom when laced, and so as not to exercise the least pressure round the chest and beneath the waist, and only a very slight pressure at the waist, just enough to show off the figure and give it a roundness. To prevent the stays from slipping, easy shoulder-straps were added. In front, extending from the top more than half way to the waist, were two sets of lace-holes, by which the stays could be enlarged round the upper part.
- As my daughters grew, these permitted of my always preventing any undue pressure, but I always laced the stays so as to meet behind. When new ones were required they were made exactly the same size at the waist, but as large round the upper part as the gradual enlargement had made the former pair. They were also of course made a little longer, and the position of the shoulder-straps slightly altered; by these means their figures were directed, instead of forced, into a slender shape; no inconvenience was felt, and my daughters, I am happy to say, are straight, and enjoy perfect health, while the waist of the eldest is eighteen inches, and that of the youngest seventeen. I am convinced that my plan is the most reasonable one that can be adopted.
- By this means 'tight-lacing' will be abolished, for no tight-lacing or compression is required, and the child, being accustomed to the stays from an early age, does not experience any of the inconveniences which are sometimes felt by those who do not adopt them till twelve or fourteen.
Another letter, in the Boston Globe, [27] is similar
- …I know many mothers who are not only enthusiastic lacers themselves, but are very strict in employing this article of dress in the foundation of their children's figures. Each of my own daughters — I have four — on her seventh birthday was provided with a snugly-fitting pair of corsets, which she wore from that time out, by night as well as by day, unless in case of decided illness. As the child grew, more bones were added, and the chest and hip measure was increased, but no alteration was made in the waist, and no expansion being allowed during the hours of sleep, its tenuity was retained and there was no necessity of resorting to tight-lacing, which becomes requisite where corsets are not worn until the figure has grown large. It goes without saying that I wear corsets myself, and though I have left youth far behind I still have a figure that provokes admiration …
In much of fashionable society, a girl was expected to have a fashionably small waist. Girls' schools were preparation for society and there were headmistresses who treated that attainment as part of the girls' schooling. As the girl was not yet an adult, her opinion was not considered.
Three letters form a thread that illustrates the issue. [28] The thread begins with a letter written by a mother
- I have been abroad for the last four years, during which I left my daughter at a large and fashionable boarding school near London; I sent for her home directly I arrived, and, having had no bad accounts of her health during my absence, I expected to see a fresh rosy girl of seventeen come bounding to welcome me. What, then, was my surprise to see a tall, pale young lady glide slowly in with measured gait and languidly embrace me?
- When she had removed her mantle I understood at once what had been mainly instrumental in metamorphosing my merry romping girl to a pale fashionable belle. Her waist had, during the four years she had been at school, been reduced to such absurdly small dimension that I could easily have clasped it with my two hands. 'How could you be so foolish,' I exclaimed, 'as to sacrifice your health for the sake of a fashionable figure?'
- Please don't blame me, mamma,' she replied; 'I assure you I would not have voluntarily submitted to the torture I have suffered for all the admiration in the world.'
- She then told me how the most merciless system of tight-lacing was the rule of the establishment, and how she and her forty or fifty fellow-pupils had been daily imprisoned in vices of whalebone drawn tight by the muscular arms of sturdy waiting-maids, till the fashionable standard of tenuity was attained. The torture at first was, she declared, often intolerable; but all entreaties were vain, as no relaxation of the cruel laces was allowed during the day under any pretext except decided illness.
The daughter herself continued the account in a subsequent letter. Rather than deplore the practice and call for its abolition, her remarkable conclusion was that tight lacing should be started at an early age.
- In last month's number of your valuable Magazine you were kind enough to publish a letter from my mamma on the subject of tight-lacing, and as your correspondent 'STAYLACE' says she is inclined to think the whole story made up for purpose, mamma has requested me to write and confirm what she stated in her letter.
- It seems wonderful to me how your correspondent can lace so tightly and never feel any inconvenience. It may be, very likely, owing to her having begun very young. In my case I can only say that I suffered sometimes perfect torture from my stays, especially after dinner, not that I ate heartily, for that I found impossible, even if we had been allowed to do so by our schoolmistress, who considered it unladylike.
- The great difference between your correspondent 'STAYLACE' and myself seems to be, that she was incased in corsets at an early age, and thus became gradually accustomed to tight-lacing, while I did not wear them till I went to school, at fourteen, and I did not wear them voluntarily.
- Of course, it is impossible to say whether I underwent greater pressure than she has; I think I must have done so, for my waist had grown large before it was subjected to the lacing, and had to be reduced to its present tenuity, whereas, if she began stays earlier, that would have prevented her figure from growing so large. …
- I quite admit that slender waists are beautiful – in fact, my own waist is much admired, and that I sometimes forget the pain I underwent in attaining it. I am also quite ready to confess that I am not in ill health, though I often feel languid and disinclined for walking out, nor do I think a girl whose constitution is sound would suffered any injury to her health from moderate lacing; but I must beg that you will allow me to declare that when stays are not worn till fourteen years of age, very tight lacing causes absolute torture for the first few months, and it was principally to deter ladies from subjecting their daughters to this pain, in similar cases, that mamma wrote to you.
- I am sure any young lady who has (like myself) begun tight-lacing rather late, will corroborate what I have said, and I hope some will come foreword and do so, now you kindly give the opportunity."
A woman signing herself as a schoolmistress defended the practice as an "elegant article of dress". Her solution agreed with that of the young lady, commencing the practice at an early age.
- As regular subscriber to your valuable Magazine, I see you have invited your numerous readers to discuss, the subject brought forward by a correspondent in Edinburgh, and as the principal of a large ladies' school in that city, I feel sure you will kindly allow me space to say a few words I reply to her letter.
- In the first place it must be apparent that your correspondent committed a great mistake in placing her daughter at a fashionable school if she did not wish her to become a fashionable belle, or she should at least have given instructions that her daughter should not have her figure trained in what every one knows is the fashionable style. For my own part I have always paid particular attention to the figures of the young ladies entrusted to my care, and being fully convinced that if the general health is properly attended to, corsets are far from being the dreadfully hurtful things some people imagine, I have never hesitated to employ this most important and elegant article of dress, except in one case where the pupil was of a consumptive tendency, and I was specially requested not to allow her to dress at all tightly.
- All my pupils enjoy good health, my great secret being regular exercise, a point which is almost always disregarded. It appears from your correspondent's letter that the young lady did not experience any inconvenience the first two years she was at the school, nor does her mother say her health was affected. She only complains that she is no longer a 'romping girl.' Now, no young lady of eighteen who expects to move in fashionable society would with to be thought a romping schoolgirl. With regard to no doubt caused by her not having been accustomed by degrees to a close-fitting dress before she went to the school.
- I find that girls who have commenced the use of stays at an early age, and become gradually used to them, do not experience any uneasiness when they are worn tighter at fourteen or fifteen. There can be no doubt that a slender figure is as much admired as ever, and always will be so. The present fashion of short waists is admitted on all hands to be very ugly, and will soon go out. Those girls, then, who have not had their figures properly attended to while growing will be unable to reduce their waists when the fashion changes, whereas, by proper care now, they will be able to adopt the fashion of longer waists without any inconvenience. I trust you will allow us schoolmistresses fair play in this important matter, and insert this, or part of it, in your Magazine.
One young lady looked back upon the practice with a certain affection [29]
- I venture to trouble you with a few particulars the subject of 'tight-lacing,' having seen a letter in your March number inviting correspondence on the matter. I was placed at the age of fifteen at a fashionable school in London, and there is was the custom for the waists of the pupils to be reduced one inch per month until they were what the lady principal considered small enough. When I left school a seventeen, my waist measured only thirteen inches, it having been formerly twenty-three inches in circumference.
- Every morning one of the maids used to come to assist us to dress, and a governess superintended, to see that our corsets were drawn as tight as possible. After the first few minutes every morning I felt no pain, and the only ill effects apparently were occasional headaches and loss of appetite. …
- Generally all the blame is laid by parents of the principal of the school, but it is often a subject of the greatest rivalry among the girls to see which can get the smallest waist, and often while servant was drawing in the waist of my friend to the utmost of her strength, the young lady, though being tightened till she had hardly breath to speak, would urge the maid to pull the stays yet closer, and tell her not to let the lace slip in the least.
However, other young ladies recalled the practice with little fondness [30]
- WASP WAIST CONTESTS, Curious Course of Training in Old Time Girls' Schools
- A letter recently unearthed from a trunk shows that in the sixties of the last century, principals of girls' schools thought they were fitting the girls for society by urging them to retain small waists. Accordingly, they offered prizes to the girls having the smallest waists. The girls were put through a course of training for reducing their waist measures. The conditions of the contest were that the corset should not be removed on retiring at night and that each pupil must be inspected every morning to make sure she had not loosened her corset. One of the persons who engaged in the contest afterward wrote of it:
- "Some of us tried hard to be permitted to retire from the contest, but we were rebuked for stultifying ourselves and accurse of making fools of our principals. On the following morning, the undergoverness, with her maid, came as usual to superintend the toilets, and after satisfying herself that each lace was drawn in to the utmost, she fastened it in a knot at the top and, passing the ends through a piece of card, placed her own seal on them, so that any attempt to loosen the corset during the night might be infallibly detected in the morning."
There are many articles admonishing girls to abjure the custom of tight lacing and assuring them that no man they would want to marry had any interest in small waists. Typical is [31]
- The fashion of light lacing obviously owes its origin to a desire on the part of the ladies to attract admiration. It is of little importance to point out that they are quite wrong in their calculations as to the effect, and that the other sex, so far from admiring a waist of extreme tenuity, shudder at it as something unnatural, and inconsistent with true beauty. Without regard to this fact, though it is in itself sufficient to settle the question, we would press upon the guilty parties, and all interested in their welfare, that tight lacing is a practice which cannot be long persisted in without the most disastrous consequences. It is painful to reflect that parents, so far from discouraging the practice, as often enforce it upon their children. We have heard of a young lady whose mother stood over her every morning, with the engine of torture in her hand, and notwithstanding many remonstrative tears, obliged her to submit to be laced so tightly as almost to stop the power of breathing.
Another, entitled "The Absurdity of the Custom as Well as the Effect upon the Health of Slaves to the Fashion", begins [32]
- There would be no tight lacing if girls could be made to understand this simple fact: that men dread the thought of marrying a woman who is subject to fits of irritable temper, to headaches and other ailments we need not mention, all of which, everybody knows, are the direct and inevitable product of the compression of the waist.
Other articles suggested more dire consequences. A "Doctor Lewis" wrote [33]
- A girl who has indulged in tight lacing should not marry. She may be a very devoted wife, yet her husband will secretly regret his marriage. Physicians of experience know what is meant, while thousands of husbands will not only know, but deeply feel the meaning of this hint.
Whatever the doctors might say, young ladies laced down in preparation for their wedding, as evidenced by contemporary photographs.
Moreover, some women laced down after their marriage to please husbands who fancied the practice. One such wife wrote [34]
- I did not commence to lace tightly until I was married, nor should I have done so then had not my husband been so particularly fond of a small waist; but I was determined not to lose one atom of his affection for the sake of a little trouble. I could not bear to think of him liking any one else's figure better than mine, consequently, although my waist measured twenty–three inches, I went and ordered a pair of stays, made very strong and filled with stiff bone, measuring only fourteen inches round the waist. These, with the assistance of my maid, I put on, and managed the first day to lace my waist in to eighteen inches.
- At night I slept in my corset without loosing the lace in the least. The next day my maid got my waist to seventeen inches, and so on, an inch smaller every day, until she got them to meet. I wore them regularly without ever taking them off, having them tightened afresh every day, as the laces might stretch a little.
- They did not open in front, so that I could not undo them if I had wanted. For the first few days the pain was very great, but as soon as the stays were laced close, and I had worn them so for a few days, I began to care nothing about it, and in a month or so I would not have taken them off on an account, for I quite enjoyed the sensation, and when I let my husband see me with a dress to fit I was amply repaid for my trouble; and although I am now grown older, and the fresh bloom of youth is gone from my cheek, still my figure remains the same, which is a charm age will not rob me of. I have never had cause to regret the step I took.
A ladies maid recounted a similar situation [35]
- I hope you will pardon this letter, but reading the Hon. Mrs. B's article on tight lacing, I thought one from a lady's maid might interest you, as we see a great deal of this sort of thing. I am living with a young married lady at present, who is most particular about her figure and appearance, and her husband is always talking to her about slim waists and lacing, as he admires it very much. She is tall, about 5ft. 8in, and well made, so you can imagine what a business it is pulling her in to 17in; but she has a splendid figure when she is dressed.
- She always laced tight, but never below 19in till she married a year ago. Her husband then persuaded and bothered her into reducing her size. People little think of what pain she is suffering when they admire her trim waist and tapering figure; but she is pretty, and has a very pale, good complexion, and white soft hands and pretty feet, so her female vanity supports her. At 9 o'clock I lace her, after her bath, and a housemaid helps me to squeeze her waist well in. As I tighten the lace she looks very white, and her lips often twitch as we pull her in. She never lunches, and does not walk very much. At night she wears a softer stay with a 19in waist, as she says it is more painful to allow her figure to expand completely, and then lace it up again, than to keep it always about the same size.
Fashion establishments
Girls working in "fashion establishments", as they were then called, wore corsets to suit the dictates of their employers. Tiny waists were required of employees to sell the then current fashions, much as size zero models are frequently used in fashion shows today[36].
The practice was described by a shopgirl [37]
- When I first accepted my situation, my waist was twenty inches. My mistress informed me that I would have to lace for the benefit of her customers and that I also must agree to sleep in her house.
- When I was ready to retire on the first night, mistress came and took my corsets away, and next morning she brought me a pair which were only 18 inches. She made me put them on and said that she would lace them in herself. I did as she told me and I had to stand with the other girls employed in the establishment while she laced me in. I did not like it at first, standing in a row with my hair hanging down, waiting for the mistress to come and lace me in, but of course I soon got used to it as all the other girls had to do. I was never allowed to dress myself until the mistress had laced me in …
- One morning, I was sent for and found that three other girls besides myself had been called. We learned that we were to wear 16 inch corsets. At first I rebelled, but the mistress coaxed me … When night came, I was glad, for I though I would be able to take the corsets off. Judge of my dismay when the mistress informed me that I would have to sleep in these corsets. Next morning as we stood in line, she measured our waist and told us we would have to continue sleeping in these corsets. Once a week, she said that we could be allowed to take them off. At last the time came for us to take them off and what a relief that was. In a short time, however, they were put back on again and laced in smaller than ever. … At last, though, I got so that the sixteen inch corset would lace up tight and I knew I was a successful model. …
- Now I am proud of myself. Mistress has gotten me so that my waist is only fifteen inches. My corsets, too, are well laced together. Everybody admires my little waist … I am not sorry that I am a model as after all I have gone through I am well looked after my mistress, and if she were to ask me to put on smaller corsets, I would do so.
Various writers condemned the practice, for example [38]
- Now there is one practice which is painfully common among all classes, and that is the use of the "locked corset". This is practically a steel corset, with a waist varying from about 14in to 16in. Into this the growing girl is compressed by force, the corset is shut tight and secured by a lock, the key being kept by the mother or whoever is responsible for the proceeding.
- It may be observed here that it is the usual practice for the heads of "trying on" departments in large dress-making and mantle-making establishments to require all girls engaged in "trying on" to enter one of these corsets, which is looked, and the key kept by the head. In the case of the growing girl, the object is to prevent the waist from growing as the rest of the body develops, and the idea is really only worthy of Chinese cruelty.
- In the case of the shop girl, the object is to "preserve" the figure precisely at the exact amount of compression which is supposed to I show off ladies' garments to the best advantage. In any case, the girl is confined in this way by the middle, night and day. She has to sleep in her "little ease" if she can, and the torture is such that at first even the shopgirl, worn out with the fatigues of the day, can hardly sleep for the pain.
- Probably nothing can be done until all women are sufficiently sensible, to, realize that there is no beauty in a wasp's waist, that the majority of men do not really care a bit about it, and that there is real danger in tight-lacing, but surely the dreadful events which have happened lately ought to do something to emancipate schoolgirls and debutantes from their perpetual imprisonment in locked corsets. Elder women who compress on their own account are responsible for their own folly, but something ought to be done to put an end to this form of girl-torture.
Another wrote[39]
- Girls in the more fashionable London stores make the most amazing statements in reference to dress regulations. They are compelled to compress their waists to a wasp-line slimness to show off the "creations" to the best advantage.
- "The girls are expected to be living fashion plates," says the editor of a London trade paper. "The must have all the elegance of willowy style and lissome, grace of figure, without which there are no good in the service."
- The editor above referred to a letter from a girl in one of the most fashionable stores, and she makes this alarming statement. "The girls are laced up till there are nearly cut in two. Locked corsets are used, the key being kept by the manageress, and the corsets being worn night and day."
- In reply to a letter of remonstrance, the firm stated that they had certain regulations in regard to dress and other matters, and that no girl ever objected in the least to tight lacing.
One such shop girl certainly had her objections[40]
- It is only two months ago that my employer insisted upon my reducing my waist from 16in to 14in, on the ground that she must have a model to show the newest fashions on. How could I refuse? I know many girls who would lace their waist till they fainted to get a good situation. And so to please these ladies, I am locked day and night into a vice which hardly allows me to breathe.
The Dress Reform Movement
Advocates of dress reform deplored the impractical and restrictive fashions of the time. The bloomer dress was a mid-century attempt at rational clothing for women. It attracted considerable ridicule in the press and relatively few adopters. Other attempts at dress reform fared no better.
Various dress reformers turned to the printing press. In 1873, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps wrote [41]
- Burn up the corsets! … No, nor do you save the whalebones, you will never need whalebones again. Make a bonfire of the cruel steels that have lorded it over your thorax and abdomens for so many years and heave a sigh of relief, for your emancipation I assure you, from this moment has begun.
But dress reform had little mainstream impact. Fashion continued to emphasize the waist and, so long as it did, the corset continued to be regarded as an indispensable of dress. An unusually perceptive reformer described the situation in an address to the National Christian League in 1895. Her speech was reported in the New York Times,[42]
- WOMEN'S SLAVERY TO FASHION — She Admires Ideal Garments but will not Wear Them
- Mrs. Margaret Stanton Lawrence … told of the artist who spent years in inventing a dress for woman that would be at once comfortable, convenient, and beautiful. Success crowned his efforts, but alas! who would invent the woman to wear this ideal garment! The dress was delightful, all women admitted, and filled every requirement, but — alas again for them! their husbands would not walk in the streets with the wearers of such a garb, their fashionable friends begged to be spared the visits of such unconventional creatures, and the clergymen in the churches asked that their congregations be not disturbed by thoughts of a woman's dress.
It seemed that change would be glacially slow at best. A year later, The New York Times wrote [43]
- FOR THE LIBERATED WOMEN; THOSE VALIANT ONES WHO WILL GIVE UP THE BINDING CORSET. More and More Women Are Doffing Their Stays — But It Still Takes High Courage to Join Their Ranks
- The receipt of several letters asking The Times to give some designs suitable for making up gowns to be worn without corsets has suggested the article here presented. The leaven is working among women: Many have discarded them, many more, mothers, who feel that it is too late for them to change, are persuading their growing daughters to omit their adoption. … Human nature is weak, very weak, when it comes to the question of personal appearance, and having for generations adopted the standard of a tapering waist as a mark of feminine beauty of figure, it is going to take character, perseverance, religion even to counteract this. …
- "One of the most pathetic speeches that I have listened to in a long time", said a woman recently, "was that made by a friend to me the other day. We were discussing hygienic dress and the use of disuse of corsets. I remarked casually and tritely that it took a good deal of moral courage to give them up. 'Moral courage!' she repeated, 'it takes wrestling with the Lord. There is no plea I have made oftener of my Heavenly Father than that He would give me strength to persevere in this thing'".
End of the Controversy
All this changed in the early 20th century when the world of fashion circled back to styles reminiscent of the Empire silhouette. Fashionable dress was fluid and soft, with flowing lines. What rational dress reform was unable to accomplish in decades of rhetoric, the wheel of changing fashion brought about almost overnight. The waist became unimportant and the waist-restricting corset lost its significance.
Paul Poiret was one of the leaders in this movement. He replaced the corset with the hobble skirt [44], which, while equally restrictive, was different and thus readily adopted in an era eager for change. [45] In his autobiography, Poiret wrote [46]
- It was in the name of Liberty that I proclaimed the fall of the corset and the adoption of the brassiere, which since then, has won the day. Yes, I freed the bust, but I shackled the legs.
The hobble skirt lasted but a few years, but its adoption marked the beginning of the end. Other designers such as Madeleine Vionnet, Mariano Fortuny, and Coco Chanel soon followed with simple comfortable fashions that freed the entire woman. With their adoption into mainstream fashion, the corset controversy receded into a historical curiosity.


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Tuesday, 8 September 2015
Sardines in madras paste
Another quick and cheap sardine recipe from me today. Prepare the sardines so they are just the cleaned out middle section (with lightly scored skin ) and rub in plenty of madras paste available where you find the curry sauces in your local Tesco or other supermarket. To give some moisture to the cooking I added a half a tin of coconut milk and cooked the sardines for about thirty minutes on a medium heat in the oven. I ate them simply with some fresh romaine salad leaves and a chopped tomato.
Posted by philip lowe at 09:56
2 comments:
- Joy said...
That's sounds good. I don't use readymade masala pastes or powders, though. So I could rub it with a spice combination of my own and bake it with coconut milk! Thanks for the recipe!
- 12 September 2015 at 17:08
- Joy said...
Forgot to mention I'm at http://www.chef-on-the-run.blogspot.com
- 12 September 2015 at 17:10
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"If all human beings possess dignity–this extraordinary moral worth–we need some explanation of what it is about the species Homo sapiens that makes them so deserving. When we start looking at particular characteristics that might ground dignity – language-use, moral action, sociality, sentience, self-consciousness, and so on – we soon see that none of these qualities are in fact possessed by each and every human. We are therefore left wondering why all human beings actually do possess dignity."
One would have hoped that arguments in favor of eugenics had gone away a long time ago but people seldom pay attention to history. While I don't know what's inside Mr Cochrane's heart, I would say that the seminal beginnings of discussions about how some life is more worthy than others start with the examination of such matters brought up by Cochrane. We as human beings are different from beasts and Christianity teaches the preciousness of human life. Christian organizations lobby for the sanctity of life both at the beginning and end of the spectrum. Smith concludes his article with the following....
"Cochrane admits that Christian religion and its concept of the soul could justify human exceptionalism. But like most among the intelligentsia, he finds no place for faith in the discussion because Christian views are "controversial." And it is true: When pagan Rome permitted unwanted babies to be exposed on hills, it was Christians who controversially gathered them up and lovingly raised them as their own. Today, Christians—just as controversially—continue to follow their Lord's admonition to love one's neighbor as one's self, for example, by standing in the breach to protect the unborn from abortion and being used in scientific experiments, and the aged, and cognitively disabled from euthanasia and denial of food and fluids."
Smith hits the nail on the head. It was as true in ancient Rome as it is today.


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Track: If I Were A Boy
Year Released: 2008
Director: Jake Nava
Genre: RnB
Main Audience: 15-24 year olds, female
- The video was filmed in black and white in the centre of New York. The fact that it is in black and white I feel is very important, it is almost representing how she is drained of emotions and tired - this reflects the lyrics. Filming without colour makes the video seem rather simple. This contrasts with the lyrics and the situation she is in which are very complex and complicated.
- The main audience if for females as they are most likely to be able to relate.
- This video is 'both compelling and reflective of the independant woman stance she has exhibited throught most of her career'
Knowles explained the video is mainly about all the little things that are vital in a relationship and that it would depict common things that men do to hurt their significant others, like not answering their phone. It portrays a narrative about an ordinary day for a couple (played by NFL player Eddie Goines as the male character and Knowles as the female one) in a role reversal that is hinted at by the lyrics. This is visually revealed only at the end of the video where we get to realise that the husband is a cop and what the female character has been doing throughout the video is what the male character has had actually done to her all along. Knowles explained that when viewers would first see it from a different perspective, her behavior seemed more abnormal. And when they would realise that it was the guy doing everything she just did in the previous scenes, it becomes all too familiar.
- There are aspects of both male and females gazes as both of the actors involved are attractive.
- All of the editing of the music video has been done using straight cuts, there are no transitions. This keeps it straight to the point and serious.
- The costumes that are used fit in with the narrative however when Beyonce is dressed in the police uniform it is almost like she is being de-sexualised. This is stereotypically seen as a very manly job.