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Wed, 30 December 2009
Anime dvd review of Heroic Age: The Complete Series Part 1, Episodes 8-13. Directed by Takashi Noto. Series Composition by Tow Ubukata. Music by Naoki Sato. Published by Funimation. List Price: $59.98, Rated 13+.
The Argonaut continues to flee to the new human homeworld as the Azz-Azoth fleet under Nilval tries to hold off the Silver and Gold Tribe armadas. Things could get messy as Nodos Mehitak shows up to take down the Azz-Azoth. Meanwhile, Bellcross and Karkinos are still locked in battle. Their fight is not measured in minutes or days, but weeks! Like a rumble between two gods. Dhianeila's two scheming and arrogant brothers try to commandeer leadership of the human forces through bribery and extortion. They begin to move along their plan for all-out war against the Gold and Silver Tribes, with the ultimate end goal of recapturing Earth. Problem is that Meleagros, the scion of the family, is a tad bit power hungry and isn't shy about sacrificing his own forces or even entire planets if it furthers the glory and power of him and his family.
I really love the epic space opera feel of Heroic Age. When we have fleets battling each other here, it isn't just a couple of ships on each side. It's thousands, if not TENS of thousands involved. And when you're talking about the insect-like swarms of the Gold Tribes, it could be MILLIONS! It's war the likes of which we reality-bound humans can hardly imagine. And then you have the jockeying forces of the politics within each tribe (except the Gold) as the humans try to decide the best course of action. There are even factions in the Vulcan-like Silver that believe the universe is big enough for Silver and Iron while others think the humans should be destroyed.
The problems I have with this show are two: one major and one minor. The first is that the battles between the Nodos lack any impact or drama. All the Nodos are completely rendered in CG and are not animated very well, moving very stiffly and awkwardly. They are supposed to be living creatures but they move like robots. The director should have looked at some of the old Evangelion fight scenes or Eureka 7 to learn how to handle this properly. Sadly, I almost wish to jettison the whole giant monster facet of the show.
One minor complaint is in the character designs and costumes. The characters look too much like they fell out of a Gundam series, or even Fafner. The costumes of the humans are dull and boring with too much whiteness splashed with some second-thought colors. It doesn't look like too much effort was spent on their uniforms.
My Grade: B+
Listen to my podcast review of the first seven episodes:
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Category:Anime DVD Reviews -- posted at: 1:27pm CDT
Wed, 4 November 2009
Anime review of Episodes 10-13 of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Box Set. Published by Geneon. List Price: $59.98, Rated 13+. Box Set contains Episodes 1-13. Directed by Akiyuki Shinbo (Moonphase, Negima, Maria Holic). Written by Masaki Tsuzuki.
Fate has once again failed to capture Nanoha's Jewel Seeds, so yes, it's time for a sadistic whipping from her mom, Precia Testarossa (why are the Japanese obsessed with naming their female characters Testarossa?). But this time, Aruf gets pissed and attacks Precia. For her trouble, she is almost destroyed and has to flee to Earth, where she again encounters Nanoha and her pals and decides to switch sides in order to rescue Fate from her mother. Meanwhile, the TSAB are closing in on Precia's space travelling rock for a final confrontation. Nanoha, Yuno, and Chrono have to go in after Precia wipes out an assault team.
Magical Nanoha comes to a satisfying if uneventful end. Ok, a big battle happens at the end, but what I mean is that while Nanoha has been entertaining and fun, it never really succeeds at seperating itself from the mob. All of the characters were just a tad bit too shallow and one dimensional. The animation, especially on this last dvd, is first rate and rarely reverts to shortcuts, even during the battle sequences. But Nanoha could never cast off its indebtedness to Cardcaptor Sakura, even though it succeeded in its own kinda clone way. Definitely worth watching if you're a magical girl fan but isn't going to ever break into the greatness realm.
My Grade for the Series: B
Watch the first part of episode 10 below:
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Category:Anime DVD Reviews -- posted at: 7:02pm CDT
Mon, 12 October 2009
Podcast anime review of Love Hina: The Complete Series, Episodes 8-13. Directed by Yoshiaki Iwasaki (Hayate, Familiar of Zero). Series Composition by Kurou Hazuki. Published by Funimation, Rated 16+, List Price: $49.99.
In this second batch of episodes, Keitaro's efforts to get into Tokyo U take a backseat to stories focusing on the female leads. Motoko, the samurai girl, finally has to confront her turtlephobia when Su lets a giant mecha-turtle loose. Then she has to enter Keitaro's dream, which is based on an old Japanese RPG, which pisses her off, even though she's in an unconscious state. Kitsune plays the role of Sherlock Holmes (she actually cosplays as him) to find out what has become of the missing monthly Hinata rent payments. Naru might just be leaving her friends and Tokyo U behind as she attempts to break into the cutthroat world of Japanese pop idols, managed by none other than the male diva, Kentaro. We also get a little more background info on the always mysterious Su, as the residents try to find out more about her older brother and sister. Whoops, I almost forgot Shinobu and her desire to experience her first kiss!
I actually enjoyed this second disk more than the first because, let's face it, Keitaro is a bit of a wanker. The girls are much more interesting, seeing as how they don't have a single goal in life that obsesses them to extremes. Actually, maybe they all do. Motoko with her sword training, Su with her absent family members and gadgets, Kitsune with her drinking, and Naru, whose quest mirrors Keitaro's. I guess I meant that the girls seem to have more texture, and the writers of the show are making them even more individual in these episodes. Even though Love Hina was one of the first harem anime, it still works better than most because there are only five girls, unlike Negima where you have over 30. So it's much easier to get to know them and add layers to their personalities. The animation is top of the line, supplied by Production IG, which wisely modified their super realistic style to suit the design of the original manga. The voice acting is done very well also.
My Grade: A
Listen to podcast of Episodes 1-7:
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Category:Anime DVD Reviews -- posted at: 6:58pm CDT
Sun, 27 September 2009
Area 88 Volume 3: Wings of the Wind, Episodes 10-12. Published by ADV Films. Running Time: 75 minutes. Directed by Isamu Imakake (Captain Tsubasa). Screenplay by Hiroshi Ohnogi (Kekkaishi, FMA: Brotherhood). List Price: $29.98. Also available in a box set.
There are only 3 ways out of Area 88. The first is in a bodybag. The second is to serve out your 3 year tour of duty. The last is to raise $1.5 million to buy your way out. You get a bounty for every enemy plane you down, but the pilot's ammunition and maintenence of their jet takes up a lot of money so the odds are stacked against that option. In this last volume, Shin Kazuma has scaled that mountain and only needs to shoot down one more fighter craft. Then he can go home to his beloved Ryoko and live happily ever after, remembering Area 88 only in bad dreams. Shin is usually on the ball when he's up in the air, but knowing he only has to take down one more plane puts a lot of added pressure on him. He also has visions of Ryoko dancing through his mind (not literally). This distraction almost costs Kitri her life during a dogfight and Shin's jet takes some damage. Shin is resigned at first to the delay in his liberation, that is, until he finds out Ryoko is getting married to his former best friend who also happens to be the dude that got him shipped out to Area 88!
Back in the day Viz partially published the original manga upon which this anime is based. It was before the Tokyopop innovation of cheap and original size manga so the Area 88 volumes were those huge trade paperbacks Viz put out for $16 or so. The reason I bring this up is because as I watched the anime I couldn't help but feel that it was only scratching the surface of a much larger story. I didn't think we got much time to get to know the characters or to find out more about the war they were fighting. That's right, even after the series ended, I still didn't know much about the political situation or what brought the conflict about. I don't think I ever even saw the face of an enemy soldier. I guess maybe that was the show's intention, but I doubt that it was the case in the manga. From what the cast and director said about the manga, the original creator was very much influenced by shojo character designs. I would really like to read them, but Viz isn't exactly famous for putting out old series. Maybe under their "Signature" line? I guess I'll see if I can track some of them down on Ebay.
I wish the show had been longer. Even with its brevity, I still really enjoyed it. The mysterious nature brought about by the shortness made the characters even more appealing, if that makes any sense. There is also an OVA collection from ADV that is readily available. I guess I'll be hunting that down next.
Volume 4 Grade: A-
Overall Series Grade: A-
View the trailer below:
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Category:Anime DVD Reviews -- posted at: 11:28am CDT
Mon, 21 September 2009
Podcast anime review of Shigurui: Death Frenzy The Complete Series, Episodes 1-6. Directed by Hirotsugu Hamazaki (Texhnolyze). Series Composition by Seishi Minakami (Paprika, Boogiepop Phantom). Based on the manga by Takayuki Yamaguchi. Published by Funimation, List Price: $59.98, Rated 17+.
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Two damaged warriors wear the scars of a twisted and violent past. Bitter rivals for the secrets of their master's sword and the right to his daughter, these samurai inflict wounds on each other that would destroy lesser men. The final chapter of their saga unfolds within a brutal samurai tournament, a gruesome contest arranged to satisfy the bloodlust of a cruel tyrant overlord.
The disfigured legends of the blade must summon the strength for one last battle - a final lesson in the artistry of violence where nothing is more beautiful than the kill.
My Grade: A-
You can watch all 12 episodes for free at Funimation.com. Here is the link to the first episode:
And here's the trailer for the box set:
Direct download: Episode_185--Shigurui_1-6.mp3
Category:Anime DVD Reviews -- posted at: 8:44pm CDT
Sun, 13 September 2009
Anime DVD review of xxxHolic Volume 4. Directed by Tsutomu Mizushima (Genshiken, Hare+Guu). Series Composition by Ageha Ohkawa of CLAMP and Michiko Yokote (Bleach, Naruto, Genshiken). 100 minutes, Episodes 13-16. Published by Funimation, $29.98 (Rightstuf.com has it for $7.00 and Funimation has recently released a box set of the entire series), Rated 13+.
Watanuki and Domeki's partnership is growing stronger as the 4th volume of xxxHolic opens, even if Watanuki wants Domeki out of the way when it comes to his would-be romance with Himawari. He always seems to pop up as the third wheel just when he's about to get Himawari by herself. But first things first. Watanuki notices a girl at school with a strange feature on her back. She has a pair of small wings! At first he thinks they might be cosplay or something but they are real. Does it have something to do with the girl hanging out on the school roof, gazing at flying birds?
Then it's on to a two parter involving two very weird twins. Well, maybe it's all in Watanuki's imagination. When he's around the the two girls, he feels a strange sort of wave effect that does not portend anything good usually. In some way the twins are impacting each other through a psychic link or by the things they say to each other.
A comedy element of xxxHolic these days is the nine tailed fox spirit that mostly appears in a cute sort of small furry eel form that is always clinging to or wrapped around Watanuki's body. Don't get this spirit confused with Naruto's evil entity. This fox spirit is more like an affection starved dog. He starts causing trouble for Watanuki when he is changed into his full size on this volume.
xxxHolic is an anime that always falls just a tiny bit short of being a really good show. It succeeds admirably at creating a comedic but always otherworldly atmosphere that at times can creep you out. But its Twilight Zone-like endings never seem to shock or surprise. Because the writing is a bit subpar, you can always figure out what is going to happen long before it does. So the "punchlines" at the end very rarely have the impact the writers intended. This seems to be a problem that CLAMP has a lot. They are very good at designing characters and of concocting interesting plot setups, but do not do a good job with the execution of their stories. Tsubasa is a good example of this. They had awesome characters jumping across time and space but all the worlds they visited seemed so cliched and boring! I think they would be a greater force if they just set up scenarios and supplied the art and let someone else do the actual writing. I really like the characters in xxxHolic and the comedy bits are quite good. The supernatural elements are where inconsistencies popped up. It probably didn't help that I had already read some of the stories in manga form before watching the dvd. Even though it doesn't live up to its potential and the beautiful art from the manga is simplified a bit, xxxHolic is well worth watching.
My Grade: B+
All 24 episodes of the series can be watched at www.hulu.com
You can view Episode 13 below:
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Category:Anime DVD Reviews -- posted at: 12:15pm CDT
Mon, 7 September 2009
Anime dvd review of Otoboku (Maidens Are Falling For Me) Volume 3: Androgynous Antics. Published by Media Blasters. List Price: $19.99, Rated 16+. Episodes 10-13. Running Time: 100 minutes. Directed by Munenori Nawa (Galaxy Angel A&Z). Series Composition by Katsumi Hasegawa. (Japanese with English subtitles)
It's time to say goodbye to Seio Academy as the last dvd wraps up the series and some of its cast gets prepared to graduate. Luckily for Mizuho, for the most part, he has been able to keep the secret that he's actually a dude from most of the all female student body. This last volume focuses almost exclusively on the love triangle between Mizuho, his childhood friend, Mariya, and the Student Council President, Takako. It's unclear at this point if that love is reciprocated for either girl on Mizuho's side. I think he sees Mariya as his best friend and doesn't really see her in a romantic way. The event that brings things to a head is the staging of Romeo and Juliet at the school festival, with Mizuho and Takako playing the starcrossed lovers. It's left to them whether they will actually kiss during the love scenes. Locking lips has an odd effect on Takako as she goes from overconfident snobbish prude to love struck puppy dog after one kiss from Mizuho. Mariya is going to have to share Mizuho even more as he takes the traditional role of dancing with all the single girls at the annual Christmas dance party. The last episode on the dvd is an OVA sendup of the fairy tale of Cinderella, featuring super deformed versions of the Otoboku cast.
This series really brought something new to the crossdressing genre, (or maybe this is a harem anime?) whether it be a boy or a girl in the uncomfortable role of masquerading as something they are not. The aspect that made Otoboku unique was that after the first couple of episodes, Mizuho became a girl. What I mean is that he wasn't really a horndog like other anime characters put in the same situation. Mizuho is so nice that you forget he's a guy. There is more fan service in Maria Watches Over Us than this show. He just sorta goes with the flow and you almost feel like you're watching an all girl cast. It was really refreshing that he never tried to take advantage of the situation to seduce or cop feels or spy. But let's face it, he was already so effeminate before he came to Seio, he made Clay Aiken look tough in comparison. I almost wish the show was longer so I could see what happened with the different character's plot lines.
Extras: Clean Ending, Live Event in Kawasaki featuring the voice actresses singing songs, and a promotional music video.
Media Blasters will be releasing a box set of the entire series on Oct. 6.
My Grade: B+
Listen to my podcast review of Volume 1 here:
View the opening sequence of the anime below:
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Category:Anime DVD Reviews -- posted at: 5:06pm CDT
Sun, 6 September 2009
Anime review of Episodes 6-9 of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Box Set. Published by Geneon. List Price: $59.98, Rated 13+. Box Set contains Episodes 1-13. Directed by Akiyuki Shinbo (Moonphase, Negima, Maria Holic). Written by Masaki Tsuzuki.
Nanoha's friends, Suzuka and Arisa, are getting very worried about her behavior. Just like her family, they can sense that something is up but Nanoha hasn't told them about her new magical girl role yet. Arisa is getting pissed and hurt because she feels Nanoha doesn't trust her. Without her in the triad of friendship, the bond between the three girls just doesn't seem the same. Nanoha, on the other hand, is intent on making a new friend, the mysterious and merciless Fate, the black-clad mage that she tangled with on the previous dvd. Fate, and her shape shifting wolf familiar, Aruf, are intent on seizing Jewel Seeds for Fate's mother. Unfortunately for Earth, and the universe at large, the clash between Nanoha and Fate over the Seeds could destroy the entire space time continuum! A Time-Space Adminstration Bureau Enforcer, a sort of interdimensional cop, arrives on the scene to make sure this doesn't happen.
While on the surface, Lyrical Nanoha might seem like a Cardcaptor Sakura rip-off, its imagery and plot skews a lot higher to older otaku. Why do I say this? Perhaps because there is some insinuated fan service, total nudity when Nanoha changes to her magical girl costume, and the fact that Fate's mom tortures her with a magical whip...over and over. So maybe I should say Cardcaptor Sakura with a dose of De Sade to poison the otherwise Hello Kitty sweetness? Also, Lyrical Nanoha at its heart is a sci-fi anime. What its users call magic is mathematical equations which mages activate with mental energy. The show gets even more sci-fi with the arrival of the Time-Space Bureau, a police force that patrols multiple dimensions in a starship, looking for people jacking with the universe. The character designs in the show are pretty cool but for the fact that every character in this series has serious "bedhead". No matter if it's a girl or a boy, everyone has these big clumps of uncombed hair poofing off the side of their head. What a tragedy that a show can actually be dragged down by bad grooming! This is not a great show but it can be entertaining if magical girls are your bag.
My Grade: B
You can watch the first part of Episode 1 below:
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Category:Anime DVD Reviews -- posted at: 4:50pm CDT
Mon, 6 July 2009
Area 88 Volume 3: Tightrope at the Speed of Sound. Episodes 7-9. Published by ADV Films. Running Time: 75 minutes. Directed by Isamu Imakake. Screenplay by Hiroshi Ohnogi, $29.98.
The supplies are getting pretty low at Area 88 as the enemy has shot down multiple transports that were bringing fuel and ammo for the pilot's aircraft. Of course, the enemy know Area 88's dire straits and send out a raiding party to take out the base. They are not only sending fighters but long range bombers that could destroy the whole area! The base only has enough fuel and ammo to send up three jets. Shin is in charge of the mission and picks the new female flyer, Kitri, and young but talented Kim to go with him. Kitri has a real problem with Kim. She thinks he'st too young and a mediocre pilot that has no right to be flying fighters. Another thorny problem crops up when an enemy sniper takes up position around Area 88 and starts picking off its inhabitants. He's so skilled that if anyone tries to take off in a jet, he either shoots the pilot or takes down the plane before it gets off the ground. Wouldn't you know that Shin is gonna be the one to dare the impossible? The title of this volume refers to the last episode where the Area 88 crew must negotiate a canyon in Death Star-like fashion to avoid radar as they attempt to destroy an enemy base.
The presentation of this series has always left me a little cold. It just seems like there's so much more to the story and characters that we're not getting to see. I was really glad that we got a little more backstory last volume and found out how Shin got stuck in Area 88, but it really just skimmed the surface. We only get very tiny glimpses of who the other characters, like Kitri, really are. In fact, I know next to zilch about where she learned to fly and why she got into Area 88. But I can say that about almost all of the characters. For example, what is Matoko's real motivation to capture all these pictures he's taking? Does he get a high off of it, like Speedgrapher, or does he want to show the plight of the pilots? You really needed a 24-26 episode show to get all these things into the light, rather than 12-13. Even if I feel Area 88 keeps the viewer in a box, I still like the show, especially for its dogfight sequences.
It would be nice if Viz would republish the manga (I'm not gonna hold my breath). I think they published a couple of volumes back in the good old days of flipped, unnumbered, $17 volumes before Tokyopop enlightened them on how to publish magna.
My Grade: B
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Category:Anime DVD Reviews -- posted at: 1:32pm CDT
Wed, 1 July 2009
Podcast anime dvd review of Trigun Volume 2: Lost Past. Directed by Satoshi Nishimura. Published by Geneon/Pioneer. List Price: 19.99 (Amazon has used copies for around $7). Episodes 5-7, Rated 13+.
Vash just can't seem to catch a break. Here he is again, just minding his own business in an Inperil City bar when another group of thugs with the $60 billion reward on their minds comes barging in to kill him. Vash takes them out no problem, but then finds that the ENTIRE city wants to take him down. Even kids are pulling out guns! At one time Inperil was a prosperous city centered around a Lost Technology power plant, but it broke and the city began to wither and die. They want to claim Vash's head so they can pay for the expensive specialists that can reignite the power plant's energy source. Realizing that even an entire city is no match for Vash, the local sherrif lets the Nebraska Brothers out of prison. In a send up of giant robots, one brother is a mad scientist type who rides on his godzilla sized cyborg brother who can shoot his fist like a chained rocket launcher. Unfortunately for Inperil, the Nebraska Brothers do not care how much property is destroyed or how many Inperilities are killed in the pursuit of Vash.
I did not like the first volume of this series at all. In fact, if I hadn't checked the first three volumes of this show out from my local library, I would not have watched this second installment. But since it was free, I was like, "what the hell". I was really surprised with Lost Past. I really liked these 3 episodes. I guess sticking with a show past the first volume really does pay off sometimes. What changed my mind about Trigun? Maybe I got used to Vash's personality and humor, and I started finding some of his mannerisms and dialogue funny. Like when he shoots a whole gang of bounty hunters with toy gun darts before they can even draw their guns. I think what really made the show turn around was that the writers made these episodes form a continuity which flowed together whereas Volume 1 seemed disjointed and unconnected. I also was intrigued by Vash's mysterious past, driven home by the fact that he cannot remember the city he supposedly destroyed to earn the price on his head. I know Vash is more than he seems, but his origin is a mystery I really want to solve.
The fact that this volume contains only 3 episodes is a bit of a rip-off that could not be pulled today. Just ask Bandai (They tried selling dvds with ONE episode!). But this was par for the anime course back in the day. Since the Trigun show is not really a current show, you should be able to find the dvds pretty easily and at low cost.
My Grade: B+
Here's the first part of Episode 5:
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Fantastic historic dress resource! Particularly useful for isolating by decade the time period you are researching.
Démodé: 1790's real women's clothing directory
Every example is precious. This is a beautiful example of sartorial enthusiasm for the revolution. Or, it could just be a gorgeous red & white striped parisien jacket.
This showed up on Wikimedia Commons today. Will add to my Beatrice Gallery.
Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Study_of_Beatrice_Cenci,_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron.jpg
Study of Beatrice Cenci, 1866.
Model is May Prinsep.
Up until the 18th century mourning was a luxury enjoyed (sic) mainly by royalty and those with sufficient aristocratic pedigrees. When Sir Henry Unton, a mere Ambassador, MP and civil servant extraordinaire, died of bubonic plague while in the queen's service in 1596 he was accorded a baron's funeral for services rendered, a full two stations higher than his own of Knight.
Certain mourning customs that were familiar to the Victorians, the worlds best mourners, would have seemed equally at home four-hundred years earlier. While the 16th century was awash in black, the upper class women (and by that we mean aristocratic) draped themselves in various veils and bauble-free headgear, usually in black, sometimes in white if you were Marie Stuart (please clip those "r"s like a proper scot). Men donned a hooded cloak, seen quite clearly in Sir Henry's funeral procession. These are not monks, but friends and family, who would be expected to wear the garment up to six months depending on their relation to the deceased. Male mourning would later lose the mourning cloak and cowl, and substitute darker, more somber versions of au current fashion.
Prior to Et in Arcadia ego (Nicolas Poussin, 1637-1638) death iconography was quite literal, and consisted mostly of deaths heads and crossbones, reapers, and uniquely animated cadavers out to pay a call.
During the enlightenment era a fundamental change occured. While mourning goods became more affordable by the middle classes, mourning customs began to be sentimentalized as the enlightenment philosphies began to change the very basis of family life and family feeling. Rousseauian ideals and neoclassical motifs collided so that by the second half of the 18th century every grieving mother envisioned herself a stoic Roman matron mourning her Brutus while posing attractively on the lawn with an obelisk. Early on it was primarily in mourning iconography that women played out these neo-classical fashion fantasies, long before they appeared draped over the heaving bosoms of the demi-monde at the Palais Royale.
Mourning Jewelry and Portraiture
It was common custom for a person to stipulate in their will to have memorial jewelry made for loved ones (rings, brooches, lockets) either using macerated hair to paint with, or locks of hair woven to create a pleasing pattern or design, with a sentimental phrase, pertinent names, dates etc. The to-be-deceased would have set aside some locks of hair for this purpose. So it is with little surprise that (especially) during the Terror, when people were certain of their own demise, we find the condemned preparing for death, and their own remembrances there-after. Locks of hair and other tokens are exchanged frequently, bequeathed, and smuggled out of prisons by sympathetic, and sometimes merely pecuniary, opportunists. This was especially the case for the royal family. Despite thorough efforts by the revolutionary government to deter the traffic in royal relics, there were reports of locks Louis XVI hair being sold in little boxes, and "large silver rings, which have secret openings, containing in their upper part, made convex for this purpose a small piece of the coat of Monsieur Veto..." [source: The Politics of Appearance - Wrigley]
Royalist Sympathies
The year is 1791 and Bourcet, as an official in the house of the Dauphin, is displaying his royalist sympathies with a lack of subtlety that does him credit. Upon the table to the left are marble busts of the king and queen, one white lily (of france) lies dying upon the table, while a second remains in a french blue vase. I speculate that the lilies are the two dauphins of france, the elder of the two perished just before the fall of the bastille in July of 1789. The Bourcet family seems to be mourning their own loss. M. de Bourcet's downward gaze falls upon the fallen lily, hand empty and outstretched, while the other holds his eldest affectionately to his side. The four children stand between their parents. The eldest, father's little soldier, gazes forlornly at the portrait on the floor, a toddler on Maman's lap reaches towards the portrait upon the wall, too young to understand where his deceased brother has gone, while the young girl watches pensively by her youngest sibling's cradle, the infant turns away, perhaps ready to join the elder sibling who went before, and take her place in the empty frame above. Madame and Mlle. are the only two who gaze at the viewer. Who is the painting beneath the table?
The Victim's Ball
To read more on the most unusual mourning practice of the age, view my post and gallery on Les Bal des Victimes!
Will posterity believe that persons whose relatives died on the scaffold did not institute
days of solemn and common affliction during which, assembled in mourning clothing,
they would attest to their grief over such cruel, such recent losses, but instead [instituted]
days of dancing where the point was to waltz, drink and eat to one's heart's content.
Up until the 18th century mourning was a luxury enjoyed (sic) mainly by royalty and those with sufficient aristocratic pedigrees. When Sir Henry Unton, a mere Ambassador, MP and civil servant extraordinaire, died of bubonic plague while in the queen's service in 1596 he was accorded a baron's funeral for services rendered, a full two stations higher than his own of Knight. His widow assures that this momentous honor will not be forgotten by her neighbors, had a brilliant and surreal panel painted depicting his birth, life, achievments, but mainly his oh-so-glorious death which takes up a good three-quarters of the panel. His death, including maladie, doctoring, dying, sailing back to England in a black sailed mourning ship, the above mentioned mile long funeral procession and packed church, ends with his tomb, upon which he rests rather cheerfully, looking as if he were resting in a field of daisies, the Widow Unton looming over him like a spider. All of this layed out rather counter-intuitively from right (birth) to left (entombment).
- Sir Henry Unton Resource: Nifty teaching tool that examines each little part of the painting. Please complete the workbook at the end of each section and submit.
- Sir Henry Unton (1557-1596): at the National Portrait Gallery
- Source: National Portrait Gallery Visitor's Guide, Revised 2006
While my main focus here is French mourning, I mention Sir Henry because the painting is so very cool. Well, that and the further you go back in time, the more difficult it is to dig up the evidence on google. French and English customs have long been in a neck and neck horse race. One is never far behind the other, and so too goes the mourning customs. That there is my excuse for rambling on about the very awesome Life and Death of Sir Henry Unton (which I didn't actually find on google, but saw rather in person during a recent visit to the National Portrait Gallery in London).
So here I depart from England.
Interesting article about the Tudor's most recently prolific presenter: David Starkey.
Get your hands off my butch history:
The historian David Starkey says his field has become all too girlie but his female colleagues are quick to slap him down
History, he proclaimed in the Radio Times, had been "feminised" because "so many of the writers who write about [it] are women and so much of their audience is a female audience". Even the subject of his latest television series, Henry VIII, had been "absorbed by his wives", he said, "which is bizarre".
That said, Starkey's "Mind of a Tyrant" was pretty entertaining. With more of a focus on Henry VIII himself than even his own previous series have had.
What I did over the Christmas holidays... It started out with Mr. Kallisti downloading "The Devil's Whore" for me "cuz it sounded like your type of thing. Y'know, whores..." It snowballed from there as I watched Charles I beheaded three times over the two week slowdown! It has taken me 2 more weeks just to finish this post, oy!
Here's the line-up, all highly recommended, in rough chrono-order.
1638 to 1660: The Devil's Whore [IMDB]
By and large, there are two categories of period drama. The first is White Petticoat Drama, where people do a bit of frisky fan-work, have a picnic that involves a huge ham, and then live happily ever after. The second is Dirty Period Drama - where everyone is covered in boils, wees out of the window, and palpably suffers from the lack of antibiotics and/or mobile telecommunications. The Devil's Whore is definitely in the second category. John Simm's fleas should make the credit list. Oliver Cromwell clearly pongs. It makes a dirty war a very dirty war. But one that, against all the Civil War odds, makes great telly.
1640 to 1660: "By the Sword Divided" (1983) [IMDB] [WIKI]
A bit obvious to say, but if you liked Poldark you'll really enjoy "By the Sword Divided." Classic low budget, yet brilliantly written and performed eighteen hour series from the BBC. It also aired on Masterpiece Theater in the late 80's. One of the few period dramas to deal with the English Civil War, before and aftermath.
1660 to 1685: Charles II - The Power & The Passion (The Last King in the U.S.): [BBC] [IMDB] 2003, covers the life and adventures of Charles II of England, played by the ever roguish Rufus Sewell. Mwrowr.
1673 to 1722: The First Churchills [IMDB]
The First Churchills: 1969! Covers the period 1673 through 1722, based on the biography by Winston Churchill of his illustrious ancestors, the first Duke & Duchess of Marlborough. Susan Hampshire & John Neville are sublime.
Michael Dobson and Nicola J Watson are the authors of England's Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy (Oxford, 2002). It is a guide to the nation's 400-year obsession with the Virgin Queen.
"This is a deliberately miscellaneous selection, since one of the most extraordinary things about Elizabeth is the sheer range of material she has inspired, and continues to inspire, from Spenser's Faerie Queene to Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth and beyond."
Read the full list: The Guardian.co.uk - Michael Dobson and Nicola J Watson's top 10 books about Elizabeth I
Or take a spin on my li'l carousel!
Excerpt from: Tudor terror: John Guy is on a mission to bring history to the masses—The Independent
It is the summer of 1535, just weeks after the execution of Sir Thomas More. A small rowing boat makes its way along the Thames from Chelsea to London Bridge. The oarsman's passengers are a 29-year-old gentlewoman, Margaret Roper, and her maid, who carries a basket. A horrific sight meets their eyes as they approach the bridge: a dozen or more skulls on poles protruding from the parapet, which have been boiled and tarred to prevent them being fed upon by circling gulls. As new heads arrive, the old ones are moved along the row until they reach the end of the line, when they are thrown into the river.
At the door of the north tower of the bridge, the maid negotiates with the bridge-master, handing over the contents of her purse. In return she receives one of the skulls, carefully wrapping it in a linen cloth and placing it in a basket. This is all that remains of Thomas More. One day the skull will join Margaret Roper herself, when she is interred in the family tomb at Chelsea, a burial symbolic of the special attachment between father and daughter.
This is the gripping opening scene of John Guy's study of the relationship of Margaret Roper and her father, Thomas More.
To be released: A Daughter's Love: THOMAS MORE AND HIS DEAREST MEG by John Guy
Margaret More (1505-1544), Wife of William Roper, 1535-36
Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497/98-1543)
Vellum laid on playing card; Diam. 1 3/4 in. (45 mm)
From: Metropolitan Museum of Art


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Tuesday January 27, 2009
This I Believe #35
...that Michio Kaku and Michiko Kakutani should get married, so they can go around being announced as Michio and Michiko Kaku-Kakutani.
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Well, I believe that the governments of Canada and the United States should get together and (perhaps as part of the infrastructure component of their economic stimulus packages) build a major road linking Thompson, MB, with Walla Walla, WA, and name it after a noted Cree playwright.
What I'm not sure about is whether it should be called the Walla Walla–Thompson Tomson Highway Highway, or the Thomson Highway Walla Walla–Thompson Highway.
Posted by: Q. Pheevr at Jan 27, 2009 7:52:57 PM
Ooh, ooh, and we could say to our Japanese friends, "Kaku-Kaku-Kakutani ni michi o oshiete kudasai" and so forth.
Posted by: Matt at Jan 28, 2009 3:08:06 AM
Personally I believe that Isla Fisher marry Jack White, then divorce him and marry Brian Ferry, then she can be introduced as Isla White-Ferry.
Posted by: at Feb 1, 2009 11:05:04 AM
I had the idea for a sitcom starring David Spade and James Spader called "Spade and Spader".
Posted by: Bill McNeill at Feb 5, 2009 2:46:52 PM
And the Original:
If Wanda Landowska had married Howard Hughes, and then divorced him to marry Henry Kissinger, she'd be Wanda Hughes Kissinger now.
Posted by: John Cowan at Dec 17, 2009 9:24:53 AM


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March 23, 2014, 28 days after the original schedule, baby Jewel is officially a Christian. She was baptized at Immaculate Conception Parish Church in Bulua Cagayan de Oro City under a Roman Catholic rights. Catholic baptism usually take about 30 minutes at most. We have not undergone pre-baptism seminar maybe because husband and I were married in a Catholic Church and already our second time to have a child baptize in the church.
After the ceremony, a small celebration was held at our humble home with few of our friends and relatives. Most of the invited guests, our officemates weren't able to join the celebration because it was a Sunday and most of the them are from Iligan City, and weekends are the only time they can spend with their family back home.
Nevertheless, we're very thankful that out of the 10 listed godparents 5 of them were able to join us. The others were most willing to celebrate with us but because of other important reasons they were not able to.
Anyway, I'm sure proud parents like us are willing to spend some of their hard earned moolah in this kind of celebration. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bragging here I'm only sharing what we did to make the event successful and within budget. And also as an idea for parent's out there who are planning the same event for their kiddos...
So here goes...
Food - Originally I wanted to avail the catering package of Darnell's. How did I know them? It is one of the caterers that our office is contacting whenever there are company related events. Based on the menu I've tasted, I must say they do cook delicious dishes.
The package they are offering are P180/pax with minimum of 70pax, i.e. about P12,600.00 which is too expensive for our part and besides we don't have that expected guests count. So instead I chose the following dishes and desserts from their short order menu, i.e. good for 30pax per order;
Chop Roast Beef - P900;
Crispy Chicken - P850;
Four Seasons Vegetables - P850;
Buttered Shrimps - P900;
Choco Moist Cak - P680;
Banana Cake - P380.00
+ Tables and Chairs (12 sets with cover) - P 684
The irony was the chopped roast beef I ordered became something else. Definitely chopped roast beef can't have thick sauce, potatoes and onions right? They've probably switched it because according to the delivery man they have a lot of caterings on that day. :-( With what had happened they definitely lose a customer, no next time for them.
Moving on.. To complete the food part, I asked my SIL's husband to order a lechon baboy (roast pig) that will fall in the P3,000 budget. And he did find one in spite of the "lechon peak season" (graduation celebration here and there).
We only cooked the rice and bought around 6 pcs of 1.5liters softdrinks + few hard drinks and beer for the men.
Cake - When we had our first born's Christening Day, I ordered customized cake for him, fondants for his 1st and 2nd birthdays. So para walang tampo paglaki nila, I've searched and found a cake shop in the city called D'Cakes and ordered a very cute fondant cake + cupcakes package for Jewel.
The package consisted of a single layer fondant cake more or less 10" in diameter + 35 pieces cupcakes at P3,300.00. Ms. Dexa was cool enough to do my requested design and it turned out superb. She is truly a cake artist. By the way they are currently on summer promo you can get the same package for only P3,000.00 so check her out on FB.
And now for the decors, souvenirs, etc...
Tarpaulins - Since we already have it printed before the decision of postponing the event, and too costly to have it done again, we covered the original date with paper sticker with the new date. Price per tarpaulin is P98.00 (3'x2' size).
Balloons - I had 2 sets of pre-designed table top balloons at Gaisano Mall at P195.00 per set. For the loose balloons you see in the picture, I bought them at a party supply shop in Cogon at P25-P30 per pack of 12.
Invitations - Since I already send out the 1st invite, and texted the expected guests about the postponement, might as well text them also the new date. So, I only have 10 pcs. of the front invitation printed for the Ninongs and Ninangs and as a remembrance also. Price: P6.50/2pcs
Souvenirs - I already posted about the souvenirs here. Just like with the tarpaulins we also use sticker paper for the new date. Price: P30/pc
Signature Frame - I wanted to make my own version of signature frame but sadly I don't have much time so I settled for a ready-made one, bought at P245.00 @ Gaisano Mall.
Candles with ribbons - To make the candles pleasant looking I tied pink and gold ribbons on it. Cost: approximately P6.00 per candle
Baby's Gown + Sandal - For Jewel's gown + veil, I bought it at SM for P299.00 while the cute sandals at P P249.00.
To Summarize everything;
Food: P4560.00 + 3000 = P7560
Cake: P3,300
Drinks: P1000
Invitations: P338.00 + P65.00 = P403
Souvenirs: P1500 + P90 shipping = P1590
Balloons: P390 + P120 = P510
Signature Frame: P245.00
Candles: P60.00
Jewel's Gown + Sandals: P548.00
With the total cost mentioned, I think we did great in exceeding only P216.00 of the intended budget of P15,000. Yep! that's the amount I saved up for months from my handmade jewelries and is really intended for our little princess.
After the Christening, I'm on the saving mode again for her first birthday party... I hope I get a lot of online opportunities... cross fingers!


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Government PR puff pieces alive and well
It appears the New Zealand Government can still rely on the "mainstream media" to deliver unchallenged PR puff pieces... today's was promoting the supposed brilliance of state-owned Kiwibank (an Anderton idea, backed by Labour).
The bank now has almost 650,000 customers "on its books", with loans and advances rising to $5.6 billion (including $700 million from the acquisition of the AMP home loan portfolio).
And while Kiwibank has managed to sell the customer numbers as an impressive figure in its free PR coverage, in actual fact the bank has a very small share of the New Zealand banking market... around just 3%.
Journalists faithfully reported that the SOE made an annual profit of $36.8 million this financial year, an increase of 19% on last year's result.
And the bank is a long way off "breaking even" for the New Zealand taxpayer, and Knowles admitted it's "still a year or two off" paying dividends to the Government.
Kiwibank cost around $80 million to start in 2002. Since then taxpayers have given the SOE another $200 million in funding, including $55 million in additional capital in the year to June '07, and a further $50 million to June this year.
* NZ Herald: NZ Post still shores up Kiwibank
* Stuff: Kiwibank makes $36.8m profit
Posted at 7:51 pm Saturday, 23 August 2008
Why you shouldn't play Footsie under the table...
Posted at 10:33 am Friday, 22 August 2008
Oops... Helicopter crash turns out to be toy
I suspect someone will be getting a tap on the knuckles over in the TVNZ newsroom tomorrow...
Reports of a helicopter crashing near Wanganui tonight turned out to be considerably less substantial than first feared.* Stuff: Chopper crash a small story in the end
Late in their 7pm bulletin tonight, One News announced breaking news of reports of a helicopter going down.Police later confirmed to the Dominion Post that a helicopter had indeed crashed - a small remote controlled toy chopper.
A full emergency callout was initiated when the model helicopter crash was mistaken for the real thing.
Inspector Ken Climo from the police central communications centre said a man had taken his model helicopter out for a flight and lost control of it...The mistake was discovered when the model helicopter owner went looking for his machine and ran into police looking for a genuine helicopter wreckage.
"He drove around a few streets and left his name at a few houses, went around a corner and, hello, here are all these police cars.
"Being a typical Kiwi he thought 'I'll go and find out what's going on here', wandered up and they told him about this helicopter crash."
"He said 'I'm looking for a helicopter – but mine's a model'."
Mr Climo said unfortunately some media reported the incident as being a genuine emergency before police could establish what had actually happened.
Posted at 10:14 pm
Super Smackdown for Sue Bradford
It was second-time successful for the backers of a petition calling for a Referendum on Sue Bradford's Anti-Smacking laws.
An audit of signatures by the Clerk of the House found there were 310,000 valid signatures... 25,000 more than is needed to force a referendum. An additional 60,000 signatures were collected, after an earlier audit found too many were invalid (incorrect or incomplete details compared with the Electoral Roll, duplicates, or illegible).
Labour claims "next year" would be the best time to hold the referendum, and to hold it as a postal ballot, costing taxpayers million dollars in extra costs.
PM Hillin Cluck incredulously claims it isn't possible to hold the referendum alongside the general election voting, "just in terms of sheer organisation". I struggle to believe this, given that an election date hasn't yet been set, and political parties are still sorting out their lists.
Bradford's bill was supposed to have been a conscience issue, but the Labour Party doesn't like the idea of MPs having consciences, and ordered all their members to vote for the bill.
The vote saw United Future MP Gordon Copeland quit the "family friendly" party, in protest at its support for Bradford's bill, along with Labour's wider "secret agenda" of social engineering.
Posted at 5:50 pm
And you thought the iPhone was cool...
You know it's not just about the product... it's also about the cool packaging.
Apple do a good job with their iPhone and iPod range of products, but Samsung seriously has them beat with the boxed packaging of its new Samsung Omnia i900 touch-screen mobile phone!...
* Hat tip: Holy Moly
Posted at 3:12 pm
Engineering Union gets Ironic with ACT Candidate
The NZ Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union (EPMU) has suspended one of its employees, after learning he was standing for the ACT Party in this year's general election.
Shawn Tan is ranked at #10 on the ACT Party list released this week, but has been suspended until further notice, officially because he didn't get approval from the union's executive before deciding to stand as an election candidate.
EMPU President Andrew Little admitted that in the case of someone standing for ACT (which the NZ Herald describes as a "right-wing party"), the choice of party could be additional factor, given that ACT "held positions counter to the union's core beliefs".
The EPMU plans to meet with Shawn Tan next week, and there has been a request for mediation.
(No Minister has a tougher description...)
The NZ Herald article does make an important point...
The Human Rights Act prohibits employers from discriminating against employees based on political beliefs, except where the staff member is an adviser to parliamentary or local body politicians.I guess the other question is why a Union worker and former Green Party speech writer is being placed at #10 on the list of the most liberal-right party currently represented in the NZ Parliament.
There has been some debate online amongst members and supporters about some of the "bolters" and notable omissions in ACT's party list. The board left former MP and diligent worker Kenneth Wang off the list altogether, apparently to improve his chances against National's list MP Pansy Wong in the Asian-heavy seat of Botany.
Party members say long-time Welfare campaigner Lindsay Mitchell is a glaring omission from the top 10 list of candidates. The high profile ACT veteran was apparently offered a pretty insulting list position of #14 (after having the #9 spot in 2005), behind a number of newbies including Tan.
ACT's top 8 are Party leader Rodney Hide (Epsom), MP Heather Roy (Wellington Central), Party founder Sir Roger Douglas (Hunua), EFA-campaigner John Boscawen, Lawyer Hilary Calvert (Dunedin North), IT specialist Peter Tashkoff, (Te Tai Tokerau), and Farmer John Ormond (Tukituki).
(My old mate Clint Heine has denied rumours he's going to get bumped up the final list, and insists he's pretty happy with his 39th list spot (and "UK-based candidate")... despite the fact that gives him as much chance of being elected this year as his old Otago University arch-nemesis Chris Ford, who is #22 on the high-flying Alliance Party list ;)
* NZ Herald: ACT candidate suspended from union job
* No Minister: Stalinist union hypocrites!
Posted at 1:11 pm Thursday, 14 August 2008
Spain gets in trouble for "wink" to China
I love a bit of controversy, and I say bloody good on the Spanish basketball teams for their "slanty-eye" photos, which seem to have caused "international outrage" if you believe the spin of the mainstream media.
Spain's top basketball teams posed for a photo as part of a pre-Olympic publicity advertisment for their sponsor, where all are shown using their fingures to make a "slant-eye gesture". The Spanish Women's Basketball team also posed for a similar photo, using their fingers to make their eyes look more Chinese.
But the teams deny the Olympics advertisement - set on a basketball court adorned with a Chinese dragon - was a racist attack.
The men's team say they're shocked by the negative reaction, and blame the media for "stirring the pot on a non-issue". Players say they felt the slant-eye gesture was an affectionate gesture towards the Chinese (dodgy commies the lot of 'em, I say ;)
Team sponsor Seur - a Spanish courier company - says it has no plans to withdraw the newspaper ads, which will appear only in Spain and are scheduled to run until the end of the Beijing Olympic Games.
Posted at 8:21 pm Tuesday, 12 August 2008
ACT Candidate explains centre-right MMP voting
An interesting web advertisement caught my eye this week as I was indulging in my regular Facebook fix, posing the question "Why National Party Supporters should give their Party Vote to ACT".
Clicking on the advt took me to an article written by Peter Tashkoff, the ACT Party Candidate in the Te Tai Tokerau electorate, through Google's 'Knol' website.
He sees Key's driving of the National Party to the centre as "a good thing", which he believes can "ensure that "National-led governments can once more dominate the political scene, like they did from 1949 to 1984, where National was in power an incredible 83% of the time."
However, the ACT candidate hasn't totally lost his morals. Tashkoff notes that most National supporters probably believe in growth orientated policies and less government beureacracy and waste... and may be feeling uneasy with "how little differentiates National from Labour."
He suggests the ACT Party are the best coalition partner for National (given that major parties are unlikely to gain 50% of the vote in a General Election, despite what current political polls might suggest).
ACT (with the help of recent re-recruit Roger Douglas) have put out a pledge card what the party's described (with tongue firmly in cheek) as "the juiciest election bribe ever".
The party believes their policies would foster strong growth in New Zealand (as good or better than Australia), creating $500 extra per week for the average worker by 2020, as well as no health waiting lists, and an education scholarship for every child.
Tashkoff argues if National supporters want policies as well as power, then they need to give their party vote to ACT, to ensure those policies have a strong champion in Parliament.
As well as the policy and principles argument, he has also compiled a long list of "pragmatic" reasons for supporting ACT, because of the country's MMP voting system, including NZ's voting history under FPP (First Past the Post).
For those confused or overwhelmed by pure facts, figures, and graphs, Peter Tashkoff has compiled his arguments into a video presentation...
I'm still not sure that I'm entirely convinced that Key's hell-or-high-water "Labour-lite" approach is the best way to gain power, but much of the arguments in the clip are valid.
Tashkoff says other video presentations are on the way... including "Why Maori should vote ACT", and the intriguing "Why Labour Party supporters should vote ACT". I look forward to seeing those ones ;)
Posted at 8:14 pm Sunday, 10 August 2008
What's the word from Tauranga Winston?
So Winston... What's the word on the street in your former electorate of Tauranga? Do they want you back??
This evening came the disappointing news for Peters that even the voters in his former heartland of Tauranga have turned against him. National Party MP Bob Clarkson currently holds the seat with a 730 majority, but has decided to retire at the election.
A "snap" Colmar Brunton/One News survey (of 519 voters) put National's new Tauranga candidate Simon Bridges solidly ahead in the seat, with 48% support. Winston Peters polled a very poor second, with just 28%.
In the Party vote, Tauranga voters put National on top with 55%, Labour managed second place with 31%, and Peters' party NZ First were back in third place with just 6% support... which is still double their average support across the rest of the country.
Posted at 7:28 pm Saturday, 9 August 2008
Paris Hilton will have to wait to be US President
Aw, Wellington newspaper The Dominion Post has pointed out that Paris Hilton has to wait until 2016 before she can try running for President of the United States of America ;-(
McCain would be 72 on Inauguration Day (one year old than Ron Paul, a Libertarian who actually stands up for more of the Republican Party's founding principles than his other GOP Presidential rivals).
For anyone that's managed to miss Paris Hilton's brilliant campaign viral video, you can check it out below...
* The Dominion Post: Editorial: We'll always have Paris
* Hat tip: Kiwiblog
^ Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl (Max Martin/Dr Luke)
^ Carolina Liar - Done Stealin' (Max Martin)
Posted at 4:53 pm Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Amazon's Kindle becoming the iPod of eBooks
Amazon's Kindle device - the electronic book reader billed as the "iPod of e-books" - has proven to be a massive success for the online retailer.
Amazon.com boss Jeff Bezos has been pretty tight-lipped on just how many Kindles the company has sold, but a company source has apparently leaked facts and figures to the Techcrunch blog.
Kindle users have spent a lot of money buying content to load onto their new eBook devices, including digital books, newspapers, and blogs. The device has received positive reviews for its revolutionary electronic-paper display, and wireless connectivity.
The strong popularity of the Kindle has apparently surprised even Amazon itself. The eBook reader initially launched last November at a cost of $399. Once inventory problems were sorted out, Amazon dropped the price slightly to $359 which encouraged a second wave of sales.
It's believed Amazon could be looking at launching a new student-oriented Kindle, aimed at the education textbook market where college textbooks can cost students over $500 a semester.
* TechCrunch: We Know How Many Kindles Amazon Has Sold: 240,000
* Arts Technica: Despite flaws, Kindle a $100m success for Amazon
Posted at 9:41 pm
Yahoo boo boo with creepy Chinese Olympic mascots
Web giant Yahoo! says an "automated boo-boo" resulted a celebratory photo of Beijing's fluffy Olympic mascots being displayed below the headline "Tiananmen Square Massacre Remembered" on its website.
A picture of the five creepy Beijing mascots standing in Tiananmen Square waiting to welcome visitors to the Olympics was "automatically added" to a slideshow added by Yahoo, following memorial services on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Yahoo's bad taste news page was apparently even accessible from Beijing which is an achievement in itself. The restrictive communist Government of China blocks a lot of international web content, through filters known by many as the 'Great Firewall of China'.
The move by the Chinese state comes despite earlier promises by the International Olympic Committee of unrestricted media access during the games.
Some of those restrictions have since been lifted, following strong criticism by Olympic officials, journalists, and Western political leaders. However many "politically sensitive sites" remain inaccessible in the City of Smog.
Meanwhile the Chinese Government has forced foreign-owned hotels to install state-sanctioned software to spy on internet use by hotel guests during the Olympics. Hotels says China's Public Security Bureau has ordered them to install the internet monitoring equipment, or face "severe retaliation".
* NZ Herald: Tanks for the memories - Yahoo's big Tiananmen mistake
* NZ Herald: Hotels forced to install internet spyware
Posted at 8:51 pm Monday, 4 August 2008
National plans big debts under 'Think Big 2'
PM Cluck has been surprisingly astute lately, and was on the money again this morning when she compared John Key's infrastructure-on-credit plans to those of former National Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon, and his ambitious "Think Big" schemes.
Muldoon and Bill Birch led the "interventionist state economic strategy", running up massive external deficits to pay for large-scale Government industrial projects, which took years to pay back.
Speaking on TV this morning, Cluck described Key's plans as "incredible"...
"The big idea is just borrow the money. Run up the debt. All our students know how hard it is to pay a debt back, all our families know how hard it is to pay a mortgage back and here we are in the middle of international financial market turmoil and the National Party want to borrow the money."Key dismissed the comparisons to Sir Robert, saying the National Party would oversee a modest increase in the country's debt-to-GDP target, to fund $5 billion worth of spending in "infrastructure".
The plans, and the other 9 pledges announced by National at the party's annual conference should remind voters that the party is little better at taking care of taxpayers' money than the Labour Party.
Apart from a sensible reigning in of expenditure under Ruth Richardson in the early 90s (and some good promises under Don Brash before the 2005 election), the National Party doesn't have a history as good economic caretakers.
Those fears aren't calmed any by the possibility of serious-centrist Bill English as the next Finance Minister.
Kiwiblog passes comment on the full transcript of Deputy Leader Bill English's "leaked chat" with a delegate at the National conference, where English reveals how his ideology differs from many of the party's supporters...
NATIONAL DUDE: What about getting rid of Kiwibank, I mean…
ENGLISH: Well, eventually, but not now. Well, its working. A lot of our supporters get a bit antsy about it, but its working. It's like a lot of things…
ENGLISH: And all our work tells us they're pretty keen to keeping the bit they've got. And we call them Labour-plus voters - and they're sitting there thinking "that nice man Mr Key is pretty smart – he'll get me a bit more...
And the reality is if we had been the government with the surpluses they had, we would have had something, like Working for Families, but not the same. We would have given them quite a bit of cash back.
And what happens is – you go in there to try and change it, frankly Don and co got a bit carried away, cos they didn't understand it.
If you give people money then, it is very hard, there's a set of inevitable problems. It's like physics, right. If you push something up its gonna drop. If you give people cash, you have high marginal tax rates. OK, that's it. You can't get round that. Don thought he could but he couldn't. So did John, actually – but you can't.
Hello? Former Reserve Bank Governor Don Brash didn't understand basic economic mathematics?? I hardly think so! It also sounds like English has in some part shaped Key's thinking.
It is very simple to give people "cash" back, by taking much less of their own money off them in the first place! If there is still a desire to directly tax people to fund Government activities, a flat tax across the board results in a serious lack of "high marginal tax rates".
It is good to see National are planning another series of tax cuts in April 2009 and 2010, but from John Key's comments on television last night, it sounds like they won't be as generous as the "$50 a week" he had previously hinted at.
Liberty Scott sums up the thinking of a growing number of people... that basically the National Party doesn't offer anything new...
That, and its inherent lack of courage and conservatism... That gutlessness to not even roll back what Labour has done to National policy in 1999 is an abysmal success for mediocrity.* Stuff: Debt to pay for infrastructure
* Not PC: Borrowing to fake credibility
* Liberty Scott: National looks to Muldoon and Pork
* Liberty Scott: National's fundamental problem
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KINGMAN - Becky Collins carried her leftover Jack Daniel's hamburger out of Kingman Chophouse restaurant recently with every intention of reheating it for another meal at home.
The Kingman native was not the least bit concerned that the new restaurant opened in May at the former location of Sushi Buffet on Kino Avenue, a restaurant that was plagued with health code violations and was shut down several times over the past few years under different names.
Collins said she was comfortable eating there.
"They remodeled it and it's beautiful," she said. "Just what they did and the new ownership ... because it had to take a lot to take care of those bugs."
And by taking care of those bugs, she means wiping out a colony of cockroaches.
The environmental division of Mohave County Health Department closed Sushi Buffet, previously known as Super Buffet and Palace Buffet, twice in 2013 and once in 2012 for violations that included roach infestation, rodent droppings and improper food storage.
One customer had complained to the health department about seeing a mousetrap in the dining area.
It's not easy for restaurants to clean up an unsanitary reputation, said Rachel Patterson, environmental health manager for Mohave County Health Department. The best remedy is to bring facilities up to code and keep them there.
"For me, I think it's maintaining consistency," Patterson said. "If they can meet our requirements and reopen, that means they're in a good place. A lot of times we have establishments written up and they correct it and then they're right back at it.
"I think it's important for the public to see consistency, not 'Needs Improvement,' then 'Satisfactory' and then back to 'Needs Improvement.'"
Chophouse owner Jesse Godinez said he went through similar issues with Kingman Steakhouse, a restaurant he operated for eight years in a 50-year-old building on Stockton Hill Road.
"It's not the building. It's just bad management, bad ownership," the longtime Mohave County restaurateur said. "You have to get a reliable pest service. We've got Ecolab. They're the best in the business. We started servicing the building and surrounding area months in advance."
Godinez said he and building owner Josh Ott invested $75,000 to $80,000 in remodeling the 4,000-square-foot, 140-seat capacity restaurant, putting in a wood-burning fireplace, new furniture, fresh paint and a bar area with eight flat-screen TVs.
The Chophouse received an Excellent rating from the health department at a July 1 inspection.
"You've got to ensure guests," Godinez said. "People know our reputation for quality. We have the Mohave Steakhouse in Bullhead City. I've been in the area for 10 years. Locals here know who we are and what we're about."
B's Monkey Butt Bar and Grill at 4400 Stockton Hill Road landed on the health department's watch list in early June after being slammed with a litany of violations.
Ant poison was found among liquor bottles behind the bar. Supposedly clean glasses had lipstick and fingerprints on them. The cook didn't have a food handler's card. Food was left uncovered and undated in the refrigerator and freezer.
Pigeons were nesting in the evaporative cooler on the roof, which was blowing feathers and feces into the food preparation area.
Patterson said health inspectors returned on June 16 and were happy with the progress made at Monkey Butt.
The owners had corrected everything and made significant improvement, she said.
Monkey Butt's owners were out of town and unavailable for comment, an employee told the Kingman Daily Miner.
It's difficult for Patterson to keep track of all the restaurants opening and closing in Mohave County. They're inspected about every six months, though frequency of inspections can increase with repeat violations.
Closure comes with imminent health hazards such as a rodent or roach infestation, lack of hot water or sewage problems, Patterson said.
"We sometimes put them on a risk control plan to see if we can correct the problem for the long term," she said. "Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
"Everyone gets a fresh start, a clean slate when they open. We just need to keep them there."


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Paramedics, responding to a call of a person shot, found Munoz-Ramos near a grocery in a strip plaza in the 1800 block of Irving Park Road.
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The Central Los Santos Medical Center serves the southern neighborhoods of Los Santos. It is bordered by Capital Boulevard, Crusade Road, Davis Avenue and Innocence Boulevard, in the eastern side of Strawberry. It is likely based on the LAC+USC Medical Center of Los Angeles.
According to signage, the hospital has departments of Urology, Radiology, Ultrasound, Endoscopy and Medical Physics, as well as an emergency room and a chapel. The hospital is connected to its own parking center via an inaccessible walkway just across Davis Avenue. This carpark is labeled as 'Medical Center Parking' by signs so presumably is for hospital patients use only, rather than general public.
Due to its location in a heavily gang populated area, the hospital is presumably quite busy and is always receiving patients (ambulances will often be seen leaving the hospital on calls). The medical center has also gained negative criticism for its bad doctors and healthcare in TV commercials of Mount Zonah Medical Center.
- Ambulances spawn frequently on the hospital's parking lot. These can come in several liveries including the generic Mission Row SA livery and the more specific Los Santos Medical Center livery.
- One or two Air Ambulances can also spawn on the hospital's roof, which can be accessed via the ladders (and stairs), though it may take a few visits to spawn.
- In Grand Theft Auto Online, the player can find helicopters like the Maverick, Buzzard and Cargobob on the helipad after achieving certain ranks.
- One of the 50 spaceship parts can be found on the roof.
- The hospital's logo is the Rod of Asclepius, a serpent-entwined rod that is the symbol of medicine and health care.
- Gang members such as those from the Varrios Los Aztecas and Los Santos Vagos will sometimes spawn on the sidewalks behind the hospital.


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Outrageously Easy BIG Bread
2 (1/4 ounce) packets yeast
1/4 cup warm water
2 cups hot water
3 tablespoons turbinado
1 tablespoon salt
3 cups + 3 cups flour, divided
1/3 cup vegetable or corn oil
1. To proof yeast, pour warm water into a small ceramic bowl and add the yeast, but do not stir. Set aside. In a large mixing bowl, pour hot water over the turbinado and salt; stir with a wooden spoon to completely dissolve. Combine 3 cups flour with the hot water mixture. Pour the oil on top of the dough mixture then add the yeast mixture on top of that, but do not stir.
2. Top with the remaining 3 cups flour and mix well. (I begin mixing with the wooden spoon but I very quickly have to move into squishing the dough with my hands.) At this point, the dough should be pliant and moist, but not gooey. Cover the bowl with a damp towel and set aside to rise for at least 45 minutes. (I've left it for almost two hours.)
3. On a lightly floured cutting board or countertop, divide the dough into half. (This is when I recruit someone to knead the dough, but the recipe actually calls for no kneading; I've done this recipe many times without kneading anything, and it always turns out really good.) Flatten each half into roughly an oval/rounded rectangular shape, about 1/2-3/4" thickness.
4. Roll the dough lengthwise and place on an ungreased, but very BIG, cookie sheet. (If you don't have a very large cookie sheet, use two cookie sheets, one for each half of the dough.) Cover the dough with a moist towel and set aside to rise again for another 45 minutes (or longer).
5. After the dough has risen the second time, preheat the oven to 375 degrees F and bake for exactly 23 minutes. If you can keep everyone from digging in right away, allow to cool for about 15 minutes and then enjoy. (Also, before the bread bakes, you can slit the top of each lump of dough a couple of times and brush lightly with some kind of egg substitute. The glaze helps the bread come out with a slightly crunchier crust. I don't usually bother.)
Source of recipe: Whenever I go to potlucks, I bake this bread and it disappears within minutes. I've even had special requests for it. At a family Christmas, after I found out that store-bought rolls (ick!) would be served with the Christmas Eve dinner, I announced that I would make homemade bread. Since dinner would be served in a little less than two hours and since my family knows how much I absolutely detest cooking, my mother thought I was lying. She couldn't believe that I could make "respectable" bread without any kneading and in time for dinner. I made this bread and, as usual, it vanished almost instantly. My mother got this bread recipe from me. I think the dogs got the store-bought rolls.
I've been using this recipe as a basis for my cinnamon rolls for a couple of years. Everyone loves them!!
This is a great bread recipe, easy and versatile. I've made this recipe many times and have mostly used olive oil, instead of vegetable oil, and it turns out wonderfully. Another thing I do is lightly coat the top of the bread with olive oil using a pastry brush right before putting it into the oven, makes the bread crust a little less dry.
I've been baking this bread off and on for about a year now. Just recently I've stopped purchasing bread from the store. We have made it in all kinds of shape, even hot dog bun shape. It's pretty much perfect for everything.
I commented before and I am doing so again.
This time I used all white flour, and halved the recipe and made it in the bread machine.
FINALLY a bread that comes out just as soft and wonderful as bread found in the grocery store. You have no idea how many loavs of bread I have made that are always more dense then the grocery store brands. I can't believe it. I am having a piece fresh out of the bread machine with EB and jelly on it right now. I love my bread! ;)b
Heee heee, for desert is some vegan cookies I have in the oven right now, my boy fell asleep early tonight so I can eat junk food for dinner...yooo hooo! :D ^-^ ;)
I have been making this bread for weeks now and I love it!
I just tried making it into rolls, OH MY GOSH, they are amazing!!!!!
Thank you, thank you for this recipe!
It is incredibly versatile! I have done regular bread, italian, cinnamon raisin,
cinnamon rolls and now the dinner rolls. YUM!
This bread is addictive!
I've made it a few times, experimenting, and finally came up with what's perfect for me:
I add the sugar to the yeast and warm water; to the hot water and salt, I add a couple of tablespoons of milled flax seed and nutritional yeast and use unbleached all-purpose flour. I let it rise twice, then form it into loaves, slash the tops and let them rise a third time. I bake the loaves on 275 degrees for about 30 minutes. Oh, so deliciously soft, yet with a slight crustiness. :-)
And my dogs love it, too! It's funny to watch them beg for it!
Okay so my whole family loved it! Me, my husband and two boys ages 4 and 2!!
However even though it rose both times it baked flat! The only thing I can figure is the yeast??
I am definitely going to keep trying and perfect it because it tasted great!
I used Saffola oil and raw cane sugar but that should of been okay right??
Let me know of suggestions cause I really want to get it down.
I made some changes... Instead of the oil I used 1/2 cup applesauce, used brown sugar instead of turbanado, used all whole wheat flour and had to add an extra cup of water... But it still came out quite tasty!!! I've wanted to make this for over a year and now I feel silly for wating so long!
:)>>> this bread is so amazing! i made really good french toast from a Delicious TV podcast, and it worked so well. My grandmother, who always made homemade breads for my dad, pronounced it delicious as well. a staple for any vegan that loves a good slice of bread with a meal! :)>>>


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Lou Reed, the pioneering musician who fronted influential rock band The Velvet Underground and won mainstream acclaim with solo songs "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Perfect Day", died on Sunday aged 71.
Reed, whose band fused music and art in collaboration with its early benefactor, pop artist Andy Warhol, died at the Long Island home he shared with his wife, Laurie Anderson, following complications from a liver transplant earlier this year, his literary agent Andrew Wylie said.
"I think Lou was as great an artist as it was possible to be," Wylie said. "It's a great loss."
Formed by Reed and classically trained Welsh-born musician John Cale in the mid-1960s as an experiment in avant-garde rock, The Velvet Underground gained Warhol's notice soon after hitting the New York club scene.
While the band never achieved great commercial success, it revolutionized rock in the 1960s and '70s with a mixture of thrashing guitar licks and smooth melodies sung by Reed or the German model Nico.
The Velvet Underground has long been recognised as a major musical inspiration for punk art and rock, as reflected in a quote often attributed to musician Brian Eno: "The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band."
Neil Portnow, president the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which bestows the Grammys, credited Reed with "introducing avant-garde rock to the mainstream."
"His uniquely stripped-down style of guitar playing and poetic lyrics have had a massive influence across many rock genres, including punk and alternatives," Portnow said.


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Heavy Rain Gets Move Upgrade September 22nd
After a long and outstanding debate, Heavy Rain has finally opened up its umbrella, and given a little shelter on when players could expect to see a move-compatible update for their sensational and atmospheric adventure game. Being released on September 22nd (that's just three days after the release of the Sony Move), the update will be downloaded silently if you have PlayStation Plus or otherwise, and will give the user the ability to "mimic real-world motions"
Yet if you're still not sold on this new-fangled "motion" craze, then you will just have to wait an additional week till September 28th, where a demo will drop and give you a chance to try it out. Allowing you to go through two levels of the game, it won't give you the option to fix their God-awful pronunciations of anything in the English language. Still, it's better than nothing.


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