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Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Sun, Sea but no Sangria
Just had the most brilliant few days away over the 'festive period'. Finished my Winter Berry Stole which was done as an Advent KAL, a clue a day and I managed to keep up, finishing at lunchtime on December 24th - wore (unblocked) to throw pebbles on Seaton beach....not much sand there, but the sun did shine if only for a very brief period.
Managed to lose a screw, I know I have had a screw missing for years, but this was the very important screw that holds one of my front castors in place, so we had to curtail our walk, although by the time I noticed it was missing we had 'walked' from one end of Seaton esplanade to the other - a couple of miles, so no chance of finding it.......
Castor fixed, we had another long walk on Boxing Day, admiring the picturesque architecture of South Devon - well actually peeking into other people's houses, (a hobby of ours) after which we rewarded ourselves with some more mulled wine................
I have finally filled one of the big bobbins on my Hansen Mini Spinner with combed Polwarth - phew! A whopping 12ozs - having n-plied the first 100 grams - 630 yards, this I have calculated equates to around three and a half miles of singles on one bobbin............
Also took Mr S to Axminster Tools to choose his pressies - well after the hash I made buying the lathe in the first place, I thought better of surprises and settled for 'pick your own'! While in Axminster we found the most fantastic pizzeria serving gluten-free food - well you can't turn down the opportunity of a meal out - so for our Christmas treat we had pizza - straight from a proper pizza oven - delicious!
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
The Sun is coming back...
December and all the festivities is a marmite situation, you either love it or hate, I hate it and long for the relative peace and quiet that January will bring - I dislike the constant drone of the Christmas 'pop' music in the shops - did a quick shop for tonight's supper in a well-known large supermarket and we could hardly hear each other speak - quite understand why Internet grocery shopping is growing in popularity - shame that the nearest Waitrose doesn't deliver to us yet!
This year I have joined in a Knit-a-long - an Advent Scarf/Stole, and its has certainly helped - rather than dreading the impending 'day' I have been drawn along eagerly awaiting each day and its clue - this could be the answer to December blues -
Although it has been rather costly in needles - up to now I have used Knitpro interchangeable or fixed circulars, but breakages have become more commonplace - three 2.75m fixed circular needles broke in the last month, one after only a week - not good! So I thought I would canvas opinion on the best alternative - Addi Lace, Chiaogoo, Hiya, Denise, Kollage Square and dream on Lantern Moon.
A friend lent me a set of Denise, not keen they don't feel very substantial and I don't like the twist that attaches the cable to the needles - plus the join isn't very smooth - so a no
I bought a couple of Chiaogoo red lace cable needles and they are certainly very nice to use, the cable doesn't kink and the join is very smooth - so a contender!
Hiya - not managed to get any as yet, although I have just found a UK supplier so will order some after the holiday if they have the right size - why aren't there any 3mm, US 2.5, Old English size 11s when I want them?
Addi Red Lace, obviously picked up on the Chiaogoo with the red, but actually very nice to use - they are nickel plated brass and the join is so smooth - and I am using these for the Advent Stole KAL
The square needles feel strange although the tips are the usual round, a good needles, but the cable on the smaller sizes is so thin, I'd be worried that it would break and I'd lose the stitches
Lantern Moon - well I haven't tried them - and at £23 each I won't trying them for the forseable future unless a kind someone would like to put some in the raffle???
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Text by Patrick D. Lyons, Director
August 2013
Perforated plates have intrigued southwestern archaeologists since the late 1800s, when they were first encountered at the late Classic period (1300–1450 C.E.) platform mound sites of the Phoenix Basin as well as the ancient and early historic period villages of the Hopi Mesas. Residues, contextual clues, and use-wear together strongly suggest that they were used as base-molds for making pottery, and/or as potters' turntables. They were, in effect, pottery vessels (shallow bowls) used for making other pottery vessels. Early historic period Pueblo potters used similar tools, although they lacked holes. Such objects are still used by Pueblo potters today. The Tewa word for this implement is puki and the Hopi word istavìipi.
The holes in these objects were punched through them, from the concave (interior) surface to the convex (exterior surface), before they were fired. Most have a single row of holes around the circumference, just below the rim, but some have two or three rows. Some exhibit patterned arrangements of holes (such as a cross dividing the plate into quadrants) as well at the usual row of perforations around the rim. Others are perforated only part of the way around the rim, or have pin-pricks where the holes ought to be. Most whole specimens of perforated plates have many "holes" that were partially or entirely plugged up when the perforating instrument was withdrawn.
Many functional explanations for the holes have been offered, including: drainage for excess moisture and improved drying of vessels being formed within the plate; creating a roughened surface—making it easier for potters, with clay-covered hands, to grip the plate; and anchor points for strings to be stretched across vessels placed inside the plate, with the strings being used as guides for the painting of designs. None of these inferences, however, has held up to scrutiny. The variability in the nature and placement of the holes led Dr. Emil Haury, former ASM Director, to suggest that they were decorative.
Potter Maria Martinez, San Ildefonoso Pueblo, NM. Wyatt Davis, photographer. Courtesy Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), 44191.
In any case, all available evidence supports the conclusion that perforated plates were used in pottery making. They have been found in the burials of women, alongside unfired pots, materials for making pottery, and known pottery making tools. Whole specimens have also been recovered with unfired clay, prepared for pottery making, adhering to their interior surfaces. Dozens of whole and fragmentary specimens bear fingerprints and smudges in red clay—most likely evidence that they were manipulated by a potter with slip (clay used as a decorative background color for painted designs; red clay was often used) on her hands. Many whole specimens also bear areas of heavy abrasion on their undersides, caused by repeated rotation.
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I selected this object, found in the Globe-Miami area, for Curator's Choice for three reasons. First, it helps to tell the story of the ancient migration of people from the Kayenta region of northeastern Arizona and southeastern Utah to central and southern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and northern Mexico. Perforated plates were developed by the people of the Kayenta region perhaps as early as the 600s C.E., were common in northern Arizona by 1100 C.E., and spread southward as the Four Corners area was depopulated during the late 1200s. Another perforated plate from the same site was recently subjected to analyses that matched its mineralogy to that of the Globe-Miami area, indicating it was produced locally by immigrants, rather than having been traded southward.
Second, perforated plates highlight the fact that Kayenta immigrants and their descendants were responsible for the origin and the spread of Roosevelt Red Ware (Salado polychrome pottery)—a new pottery tradition that appeared during the late 1200s and early 1300s, eventually replacing local traditions throughout the Hohokam world and adjacent areas. Many sites in central and southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico with the best evidence of northern immigrants, including perforated plates, have been identified as places where Roosevelt Red Ware was produced.
Finally, this plate has a connection to Dr. Florence Hawley Ellis (1906–1991), one of the University of Arizona's most eminent alumni in the field of archaeology. Dr. Hawley Ellis was one of the first three people to receive a UA Master's degree in archaeology (in 1928) and produced the first comprehensive guide to the identification of prehispanic pottery types found in the Four Corners states, Sonora, and Chihuahua. Her 1936 manual lists and describes nearly 200 different types.
Dr. Hawley Ellis's father, Fred G. Hawley, was a chemist who worked in the mining industry and became an associate of Harold S. Gladwin, founder of Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation, based in Globe. The Hawleys excavated this object from a site on private property in 1928. Beginning in the 1980s, the Hawley and Ellis families began to donate collections from this and nearby sites to ASM.


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Moses and North Maggie
How Not to Climb Them
June 20-22, 2005
By: George Wysup
Michael Gosnell is a strong hiker and climber, and is serious about the SPS List. Despite that, he suggested that I accompany him for a June weekday trek to bag Moses and North Maggie. Perhaps that is because I have all this time on my hands and I like to plan trips. In fact, I often try to think too much and over-plan trips. This turned out to be one of those times.
We invited some others along and succeeded only in inducing Rudy Fleck, another strong one, to go. I was hoping for another elderly and semi-disabled slug with whom I might be able to keep up. Not to be.
I began the planning by reading some archives and studying the topo map. The reports were typical in that most of the detail involved who went and how much fun was had by all. What I really wanted was more detail on the routes that go. A friend who climbed these last year offered that their direct assault of the north ridge to Moses was a bit hairy. George Toby's report had the best Moses information, saying to go from the north, then go back south about 300' below the ridge until directly below the summit, then go up. He also implied the existence of a better and more direct route that they took on the return.
A report told of backpacking into a nice campsite about a quarter mile before Long Meadow. I reviewed the route on the map and concluded that this was about a 5 mile backpack with maybe 800' gain, round trip. From this I figured that day hiking both peaks and sleeping in the campground was more reasonable than backpacking. One minor advantage of this is that a permit is not needed to hike in Golden Trout Wilderness. Well, here's what happened.
Monday about noon we departed the LA-LA land and, after a so-so Mex dinner in Springville, arrived at Shake Campground at 6500' elevation in Mountain home State Park. This is a very nice campground with all amenities except showers, and the price is most reasonable (gratis). The area is beautiful, abounding with large sequoias, and the wildflowers were a welcome bonus to us amateur botanists. I did notice that the campground was located in a slightly different spot than shown on the map. And that the trailhead was not quite in the right place.
We set out early the next morning for (hopefully) the summit of Moses Mountain (9331'). The trail undulated much more than the map had indicated. After hiking about 2.6 miles we came to Redwood Crossing, the trail's first crossing at 6600' elevation of the north fork of the middle fork of the Tule River. The swollen waters rushed mightily and were far too dangerous to wade. We pondered this situation and looked about for a reasonable ford. There is a sequoia log crossing the river, which we were able to use for the crossing. The log sits at an inclination of about 18 degrees, but its 4 feet or so diameter is large enough that even the roaring river about 20 feet below did not scare us unduly. Had the log been wet, as with an afternoon rain on our return, crossing on it would have been disastrous. But the weather was perfectly dry with no clouds. No problem. We marched onward, expecting to find Long Meadow. We finally found the meadow about 3/4 mile past the location shown on the map. The meadow is at about 7100 ft elevation and, disturbingly, there were patches of snow there.
Just past the meadow, the trail crossed the Tule again. This time there was no convenient Sequoia log to scamper across. I did not like what I saw one bit. Michael and Rudy saw this as some sort of challenge. They saw a narrow spot in the channel and collected saplings with which they created a sort of bridge, not a very solid one, but a bridge. The both danced across this to the other side, using other saplings for balance. They beckoned for me to follow. Easy, they said. My brain thought otherwise and I invented excuses not to cross. I was already tired, I said, and I'll slow you guys down, and this isn't even an emblem peak, and I have my camera here and I'll just do some nature photography on the way back to camp. Come on, you can do it, they said. Maybe, I said, but I think I have a pulled groin muscle. And my bad back is hurting.
So they went on and I moseyed back. There were indeed some flowers that deserved recording in digital memory. I found what I think is the campsite mentioned by Mr. Toby. It looks like a fine spot and is located at waypoint (NAD27 grid 11S) E0350455 N4016115 at elev 7040'. As I neared Redwood Crossing I noticed the signed " Hidden Falls" trail heading south. I explored it and found that it followed the east side of the river for 0.8 miles, with minimal undulations, and ended at a parking spot (6000' elevation). Normally, this would be a far superior starting point to Shake campground, but at this time there was much water crossing the road, which was slippery with a coating of algae. This spot is reached by a drive of about 2 miles from the Shake campground road.
I relaxed with a couple of brews and a good book in my camp chair and Michael and Rudy returned at about 4:30 p.m., with smiles on their faces, signaling success. Here is what they reported:
They followed the recommended route, which went quite well until they neared the summit ridge. They contoured below the ridge but were probably too high and had to do considerable detouring to avoid some class 4 stuff near some chutes. Reaching the summit was not so difficult. There was some snow, but it was not a factor. On the return they found a chute that was not choked with snow or brush. Though steep, it went nicely class 2 and they would recommend it for the ascent. The following waypoint marks the approximate top of the chute. This is NOT a measured point and I can't guarantee the accuracy (NAD27 grid 11S) E0349350 N4016310. When they reached the river they miraculously found a safe jump-across point. This crossing turned out to be about 20 yards north of the presumed campsite.
Just after first light the next day we again started up the trail, intent on climbing North Maggie. They had observed that summit from Moses the previous day and seen considerable snow, not too surprising after this wet winter since N. Maggie reaches 10,234'. Again we crossed the river via the sequoia log to the east side and continued to the second crossing, but turned away from the river instead of having to cross. The going wasn't difficult as long as we kept to the north slope of the mountain to avoid the heavier brush. There is a gully, shown as dry on the map, starting just north of the word "Fork" on the map and curving to the ESE toward North Maggie. This gully was now a raging torrent and, in any case, is loaded with deadfall and brush, at least in its lower reaches. We climbed easily on the slope using the gully as the left handrail and following the best openings through the trees. At about 8300' we hit patchy snow. This concerned us and we decided to depart from the recommended route and take the knife ridge up to bump 10,113 and go over its top, hoping that the sunnier side would be relatively snow free. The ridge began to get, for me, disturbingly rocky and, at this point, I did my escape act again and headed back to the campground. Hey, I'll never finish this list anyway.
The boys returned at about 5 p.m., again with smiley faces, to find me relaxing with a good book. They got the peak! To do so, they had to drop back down about 800' and go via the more normal route. This took them easterly to the saddle between bump 10,023' and North Maggie, then south to the summit. There was deep snow, but it was soft enough yet firm enough to be manageable.
The highlight of the trip for me was finding some unusual flora such as Fawn Lilies, Shorthorn Steers head, and Dudleya cymosa. You won't find these in September. Of course, getting the peaks would have been nice, but it was still fun seeing the other guys succeed.
On the way home we stopped at the Springville Inn for dinner. We all recommend this place highly.
|SPS Trip Report Index | Sierra Peaks Section


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"All I want is for Cate to leave me alone."
In September 1848, a portly man strode to the middle of a bridge over the Connecticut River, ripped a fistful of letters to bits and tossed them into the swirling waters.
Calvin Stowe was tired of taking orders from his domineering sister-in-law.
"Cate has neither conscience nor sense -- if you consent to take half a pound, she will throw a ton on your shoulders & run off & leave you saying -- it isn't heavy at all, you can carry it with perfect ease," he wrote to his wife, Harriet Beecher Stowe. "I will have nothing to do with her in the way of business, any more than I would with the Devil, not a bit -- & you ought not to have. She would kill off a regiment like you and me in 3 days."
As the oldest of 11 children, Catharine Beecher had always been queen of the "Beecher buzz" -- that whir of activity emanating from the family parsonage in Litchfield.
Like the Kennedys of Massachusetts in the 20th century, the Beechers of Connecticut were America's most prominent family of the 19th century. The Beecher family's fortunes were not financial but intellectual; Lyman Beecher came to be known as the "father of more brains than any other man in America."
People loved or hated the Beechers -- or "those damn Beechers" to those who saw the family as troublesome meddlers and even radicals, always getting involved in things that didn't concern them as they relentlessly, sometimes shrilly, challenged the nation's silence on slavery, intemperance and women's rights.
For many years, Hartford was the Beecher "annex" -- home to Lyman Beecher's grown daughters and various family members, who boarded together in the same Hartford residence in their early years and later, when finances improved, lived near each other at the Nook Farm compound on Forest Street.
Unable to follow their father into the clergy, as all their brothers did, the Beecher daughters found their own pulpits for social reform.
Catharine pioneered the notion of a serious academic education for women. Harriet subverted the nation's blase acceptance of slavery with her novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin." And their flamboyant half-sister, Isabella, helped lead the fight for women's suffrage.
Bossy, funny and smart, Catharine made it all happen, shaping her sisters not only through force of personality but by unshuttering their minds. At a time when girls were considered incapable of mastering "difficult" subjects beyond embroidery and stenciling, Catharine taught Latin, mathematics and philosophy. But first she had to educate herself, then write the textbooks and create the classrooms to pass on her knowledge. One of her earliest pupils was her sister Harriet.
In fact, until the publication of the serial "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe's chief fame was being the sister of Catharine Beecher, who had become the popular author of publications on homemaking and child-rearing, making her the Dr. Spock-Dr. Laura-Martha Stewart of her era.
"She was an agent of change," said historian Kathryn Kish Sklar, author of a biography on Catharine. "She started in the domestic world, where most women lived their lives, and encouraged them to take more control of their lives."
By the end of the 19th century, however, the roles had reversed and Catharine's accomplishments faded as historians focused on her famous young sisters Harriet and Isabella. Catharine became the "forgotten" Beecher -- a term that surely would have amused her brothers and sisters.
"A man cannot ravel out the stitches in which early days have knit him."
-- From "The Minister's Wooing" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1859
Every Sunday, the Beecher children would file out of the family home in Litchfield, cross the green to the Congregational church and watch their minister father work his magic from the pulpit. They couldn't understand much of his evangelical rants, but they noticed the way he moved an entire congregation.
Warm, impulsive and at times amazingly insensitive to the feelings of others, Lyman Beecher profoundly influenced all of his children, especially his oldest daughter, who looked like a miniature version of her father, with her lithe build, angular features and chestnut-color hair.
Religion was not just for Sundays at the Beecher parsonage; Lyman made no distinction between church and home when it came to "snaring" souls. Each of his children, perhaps none more courageously than Catharine, had to cope with their father's well-intentioned but psychically exhausting remonstrances to be "saved" or suffer eternal damnation.
There was no treading softly in the Beecher parsonage, where passionate discussion, sermons and soul-searching conversions were a constant, and where every opinion, thought and anxiety had to be voiced, probed, debated.
This "intellectual electricity" -- leavened with a dry sense of humor -- would always be a hallmark of the Beecher family, as can be seen in the thousands of letters exchanged between family members preserved at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center's library at Nook Farm. Yellowed with age, creased from being folded and unfolded, they speak of toothaches and heartaches, of life as it was lived -- not as it is imagined -- in this vibrant family of the 19th century.
"Catharine has been here and we have all been thoroughly metaphysicated," Harriet said in a letter written in 1829. "Let me give you an idea of our manner of life. At breakfast we generally have the last evening's argument hashed through and warmed over, indeed they serve us with an occasional nibble through the whole day."
The Beechers couldn't slow down. Stories of Lyman's eccentricities abounded in Litchfield, where he shocked visitors who found him behind the parsonage twirling overhead on a set of ropes and pulleys that he called "jimnastics."
This may have been Lyman's way of warding off depression -- a condition shared by his children, who used the 19th-century term "the indigos" to describe getting the blues.
By the time Catharine was 15, she had seven younger brothers and sisters: William, Edward, Mary, George, Harriet, Henry and Charles. A year later, her mother, Roxana Foote Beecher, whose brilliance as a young woman had been overshadowed by the needs of her constantly growing family, was dead of consumption. She was worn out at 41.
With her father prostrate with grief, Catharine at 16 stepped in as matriarch, reigning in her brothers and sisters by putting each in "charge" of the next in line, forging family loyalties that would hold fast throughout their lives.
The year after Roxana's death, Lyman Beecher brought home an elegant new wife, 27-year-old Harriet Porter Beecher, who never quite fit in. The chaos of the parsonage made Harriet Porter edgy, as did the constant flow of boarders taken in by the cash-strapped family.
Harriet Porter added four more children, including Isabella, whose arrival in February 1822 was announced by Catharine in a letter to 11-year-old Harriet, who had been sent to stay with relatives in Guilford:
"We all want you home very much, but hope you are now where you will learn to stand and sit straight, and hear what people say to you, and sit still in your chair."
Catharine's letters always rang with an oldest sister's curious mix of bossiness and love.
For instance, in a later letter to 17-year-old Harriet, when she was visiting relatives in Boston, Catharine complained of a toothache and directed Harriet to bundle up some items and put them on the next stage to Hartford. Then her tone changed: "Write me a letter & tell me how you do for I do feel anxious about you -- Do exercise a great deal & not think about your troubles if you can help it."
As always, she closed with: "Your Affectionate Sister, Catharine."
In 1822, Catharine's life was altered forever. She was engaged to Alexander Fisher, an eminent young mathematics and philosophy professor at Yale. The wedding was to take place after Fisher returned from a trip to Europe to tour universities. He sailed on April 1, 1822. Five weeks later, he drowned in a shipwreck off the Irish coast.
"My Dear Child," her father wrote to her upon hearing the news in New Haven. "The waves of the Atlantic, commissioned by Heaven, have buried them all."
Lyman offered his daughter cold comfort -- her fiance had not experienced "conversion" before his death, an omission that would bar Fisher's soul from the gates of heaven. His warnings to Catharine about her own state of grace turned to torment; he urged her to be "saved" before it was too late. But try as she might, like her fiance, Catharine could not "feel" God's salvation. She rejected her father's belief that the good man she loved had been damned -- becoming the first of Lyman's children to challenge her father's beliefs.
"Oh Edward where is he now?" she wrote to her brother in 1822. "I know not where to look for comfort."
Edward wrote back with spiritual advice and sent along a pair of pants he needed altered by his big sister -- "I wish the striped pantaloons I sent to be lengthened as the other pair was."
Life went on, spiritual crisis or not.
All of Lyman Beecher's children eventually rejected their father's "monster God," as one historian described his Calvinist beliefs. But Catharine would struggle all her life with guilt over her spiritual state.
She would never recover from Fisher's death. She would never marry or have children.
Instead, she would open a school -- and change the culture of a nation.
"A lady should study not
to shine but to act."
In May 1823, a bold advertisement appeared on the front page of The Connecticut Courant:
"Female School, Misses C. & M. Beecher, will open in this place a School intended exclusively for those who wish to pursue the higher branches of female education ... Geography, Grammar, Rhetoric, &c.; ... None will be admitted under the age of 12, unless unusually advanced in their education." (M. Beecher referred to Catharine's sister Mary, who was a teacher at the school.)
Catharine Beecher's school opened later that month in a rented room above the White Horse harness shop in Hartford. Seven young women made their way down the cobbled Main Street to the corner of Asylum to attend classes that first day, hitching their long heavy skirts to climb stairs at the back of the shop to the Hartford Female Seminary.
These were the daughters of Hartford merchants and factory owners, graduates of "finishing" schools that taught embroidery and stenciling to women and little else, leaving them unable to calculate sums in their heads or write much more than their names.
As a minister's daughter, Catharine was better educated than most young women of her time, but before she could offer girls at her school a curriculum similar to that offered to boys, she said, "I was obliged to train most of my teachers as well as myself."
She studied her fiance's textbooks on mathematics and the sciences and turned to her brother, Edward, a Yale graduate who headed a grammar school for boys in Hartford, for nightly lessons in Latin, which she passed along to her "scholars," who by 1824 included 13-year-old Harriet. Harriet stayed eight years, as a student and teacher, as the school's enrollment increased to 200 students. By then, the girls' school had expanded into a new building on Pratt Street, designed to look like a Greek temple. It became known for its academic curriculum, and its requirement that scholars do calisthenics. .
But it wasn't without controversy. In 1829, Catharine's proposal to build a dormitory for her scholars, who boarded with local families, provoked an unsigned editorial that ran in The Courant:
"I had rather my daughters would go to school to sit down and do nothing than to study philosophy, etc., these branches fill the young Misses with vanity to the degree that they are above attending to the more useful part of an education. ... She will be a dandizette at 18, an old maid at 30."
By then, Catharine had bigger plans anyway. In 1832, she resigned and emigrated West to the frontier town of Cincinnati, where she opened the Western Female Institute.
Harriet soon followed and was swept into her big sister's latest project -- to "civilize" the West by recruiting New England teachers. Her school ultimately failed when Catharine's Eastern hubris offended the community.
Short on cash, Catharine decided to try her hand at writing magazine articles for women. She wrote to the well-known Hartford writer Lydia Sigourney in 1838 for advice on magazines "to make myself known, as popular as I can with all classes of readers."
"I need not tell you," she added -- a bit disingenuously, given her oft-stated desire to "be head" -- "that this may be aimed at without craving for fame or notoriety, but as one means of increasing my sphere of usefulness."
"Are not the most responsible
of all duties committed to
the charge of woman?"
By the mid-1800s, the Industrial Revolution had produced great tension, even chaos, in American family life, especially for middle-class white women. Machines turned family life upside down as factories took production out of the home. Women became consumers, increasingly dependent on income generated by their husbands to buy food, clothes and furniture.
Enter Catharine Beecher, author of "A Treatise on Domestic Economy," which in 1841 addressed the issue head-on: "Home and duties of the family state are not duly appreciated."
Describing domesticity in industrial terms, she called on society to "elevate" the status of women. The publication became a bestseller. In 1869, she shrewdly capitalized on her younger sister's fame by having Harriet add a couple of chapters on home decorating.
More than a compendium of homemaking tips, Catherine's treatise was a textbook to "train" women for work at home in the same way that men were trained for work outside the home. Much later, her ideas would play out into the women's movement.
"Most women are rather driven along by the daily occurrences of life," Catharine wrote, urging women instead to develop a "habit of system and order. ... There is nothing which so distinctly marks the difference between weak and strong minds, as the fact, whether they control circumstances or circumstances control them."
Catharine's advice didn't sit well with some readers, as her cousin, Elizabeth Elliot Foote, made clear in a sarcastic letter in 1841: "If it were not for these maiden ladies instructing married ones how to keep house and take care of children I don't know what would become of us."
Catharine, however, had a ready audience for a book that also tackled serious health concerns. At a time when few people understood the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning, she warned of the slow effects of poisoning from inadequately ventilated "modern" wood stoves. She included diagrams in the book for the proper ventilation of stoves and took on the "prevailing prejudice against night air."
She wrote about the importance of calisthenics for good health and on the dangers of tightly laced corsets.
Catharine's book reinvigorated her career after her failure in Cincinnati. She founded the American Women's Education Association and crisscrossed the country on speaking tours, traveling by stagecoach and on horseback, and later by steamboat and railway.
In 1848, when Calvin Stowe was ripping up her letter, the State Gazette in Burlington, Iowa, wrote about the arrival of Catharine Beecher, "whose name has long since become a household divinity."
"My head is tired, Tom."
There are no images of Catharine Beecher as a younger women. A daguerreotype of her in 1848, at the height of her career, shows a heavier, less charming version of her sister Harriet who still wore her hair in girlish ringlets at 48. Catharine's spectacled eyes seem to stare out from the 19th century.
Behind the scratched glass of the daguerreotype, Catharine holds a quill pen in her right hand, in her left a piece of paper.
A few years later, she traveled back East to Maine, where she spent a year helping care for Harriet and Calvin's seven children so Harriet could finish her book.
"I am trying to get Uncle Tom out of the way," Catharine wrote in 1851. "At 8 oclock we are throu' with breakfast & prayers & then we sent off Mr. Stowe & Harriet both to his room at the college. There was no other way to keep her out of family cares & quietly at work & since this plan is adopted she goes along finely."
The "quality" of Aunt Cate's care was something else. Her niece, Catherine Beecher Perkins, wrote while visiting the Stowes:
"Aunt Cate's head is in a very precarious state so she can't bear any noise," a problem exacerbated by a new baby, the "constant fire of quarrel" between the older children and "four girls, none of us remarkable for our quietness."
Catharine kept her distance upstairs in the house, appearing "once in a while like a comet" for meals, at which she sat "with a very martyrized air" until she had piled her plate with food "and then declares she can't stand so much noise and departs."
As a spinster of limited means, she spent her final years traveling among her siblings' homes -- "like a trunk without a label," Harriet said.
By this time, Catharine's domineering personality had alienated more than endeared her to family members, some of whom refused to take her in.
When Catharine's brother Tom hesitantly approached his wife, Julia, about taking in Catharine, she responded in a letter: "I think there are worse afflictions in the world than the care of an old Christian woman who has at least tried to do good all her life. ... I am not going to worry about that."
Catharine died a year later at Tom and Julia's home in Elmira, N.Y., after telling her brother, "My head is tired, Tom."
On her bedside table was a half-finished letter to her sister.
"I feel anxious about Harriet and wish to have her with me on every account."
--1827, letter from Catharine in Hartford to her father in Boston
"I am greatly afflicted. I feel no realizing sense of my sinfulness, no love to the Redeemer, nothing but that I am unhapy and need religion; but where or how to find it I know not."
--June, 1822, from Catharine to her brother Edward
Much of the material printed here was part of a special series on the Beecher sisters -- also called "Those Beecher Women!" -- published in The Hartford Courant in 2001 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The lead reporter on the project was staff writer Valerie Finholm, who researched, compiled and wrote much of the material, along with staff writers Susan Campbell and Kathleen Megan. The stories were edited for the newspaper by Barbara T. Roessner, and Joellen Black was the photo editor. Suzette Moyer and Jim Kuykendall designed this publication.


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Battery Hotel has been sold
Employees at the iconic Battery Hotel in St. John's received layoff notices yesterday because the property has been sold.
The approximately 1.8 hectare property sits on the lower portion of Signal Hill and overlooks St. John's harbour.
Carol Furlong, president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employees, represents many of the 70 workers at the hotel. Furlong says they will all be laid off in early January.
A worker at the hotel confirms that the property was sold by American developer Rick Butler who also owns the Hotel California. The property has been for sale since 2010 -- at the time it was listed for $15 million dollars.
Furlong said workers do not know who has purchased the hotel or what the future holds for the property.
"It's a little unsettling right at this moment. They don't know what's going to happen," she said.
However if the buyer does maintain the business as is, she added, the union employees would still have their collective agreement in place.
When Butler bought the Battery complex back in 2005, he later submitted a proposal to demolish the existing hotel. He envisioned a 10-storey complex of hotel rooms and condominiums. The plan was halted after local residents campaigned against it.


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Playful and useful, what a fun way to get everyone to eat their veggies!
Available here for purchase - and if you are feeling inspired, check out the Yolk Fish - Egg Separator (which also makes cooking quirky and fun).
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As a HUGE fan of the LA Flower Mart, I was thrilled to learn about the Oakland Flower Market. Both BZ and I really enjoy having fresh flowers in the home, and because the LA Flower Mart is both affordable and special, I had high hopes.
Located in downtown Oakland (parking is available in the back or on the street) the market is a wholesale and retail floral company catering to both the general public and trade businesses. It's a one stop shop for all floral needs, providing a nice variety of flowers and greens, general supplies, vases, floral tools, ribbons, sticks, moss, etc.
Because it was smaller than I had imagined, I asked about it's history and learned that years ago, the flower market flourished and had multiple vendors, but sadly over time all but one vendor closed down. As a result it feels like a smaller and less impressive venue (especially compared to the LA or San Fransisco Flower Mart (which was kinda a bummer). Due to this small size, I found that the prices weren't that competitive (BOOO) so the convenience of having everything under one roof is really the only reason to go.
With that said, BZ was able to put together a beautifully simple arrangement (that continues to look healthy and vibrant) for much less than a florist (but not less than Trader Joe's or the Farmers Market).
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Rubber Barber erasers, designed by Chen Lu Wei, is forcing me to reconsider my career as a hair stylist - making mistakes has never been more stylish! If you are feeling inspired, you can purchase them here :)
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I have always been a fan of Serena & Lily, but I had no idea they expanded beyond nursery/baby items (like YEARS ago). I was so pleased to learn about their wide variety of home goods, and not surprised by the stylish quality. Perfectly modern with just the right sprinkle of ethnic detailing, everything except the price, is right up my alley. Here are some of my favorites :)
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Berkeley Bowl is an independent, full-service supermarket committed to bringing the highest quality groceries at the lowest possible prices. I realize that a grocery store might not be so exciting for everyone, but I promise you it's AMAZING and totally worth a family outing (at the very least). Their specialty has always been produce and the selection is a beautiful variety of every fruit and vegetable under the sun. Since tasting is encouraged, you can snack your way through the produce department and fill up your cart with the freshest, sweetest and healthiest of treats. Even though HML is a good eater (knock on wood) this could be a great way to get little ones to try new fruits and veggies if that is something you are up against :).
The rest of the store carries a wide array of organic and natural foods, speciality items, international foods, beautiful meat/seafood/dairy departments, a gourmet kitchen (which includes hot meals, sushi, sandwiches, salads, etc) a huge bulk food section that will blow your mind, conventional groceries, a fresh bakery, and other everyday items.
I like going to the grocery store, but this was beyond my wildest dreams. Where else can you try four different types of pineapple before making a selection, have the best tangerine you have ever had in your entire life (I bought 10), find treats you haven't had in years cause you could only find them abroad, sip your favorite Japanese soda, and then get a deli sandwich to bring home for lunch. The downside is the crowds (although they do have wide aisles, which really helps) and parking might also be hard - so plan your trip accordingly and happy shopping!
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
And Sometimes Y
I will readily admit that I'm a radio junkie. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact of when I spent my formative years (late '50s). There wasn't a lot on TV in those days, even in the New York City area, and my parents limited the time we spent in front of the boob tube. I had a small transistor radio and used to secretly lie in bed at night, the little earphone in my left ear, listening to Gene Sheppard, Oscar Brand and Murray the K until I fell asleep. Anyhow, I've always loved radio.
So now, living in Canada as I do, I'm a confirmed CBC Radio addict. Some of the programming they have on weekends is particularly good, and my favorite of those shows is "And Sometimes Y".
This show is all about letters and groups of letters -- better known as "words" -- and I find it utterly fascinating. Yeah, yeah, I'm a writer. I SHOULD find this sort of stuff interesting, but I think that anyone with an inquiring mind would enjoy it and get something out of it. Two shows in particular have been outstanding. The first is about letters, how they came about, what they represent pictorially and about letter that "didn't make the cut".
Many of you are probably familiar with the letter known as "thorn". This one looks like a "y" with a curlicue on the front. It stood for the sound "th" as in the word "thorn". A ghost of it is still around when you see business' known by names like Ye Olde Pie Shoppe. In Early and Middle English, this was actually the way "the" was spelled. Anyway, rather than have me give you all the info in this blog entry, you can go to the official website of this show and hear it for yourself (they do a far better job than I can hear):
The second show that I found really fascinating was one dealing with punctuation. This is an area in which our language is very much in flux, and a lot of it is due to bad usage. To my mind, ost mortals don't know how to use punctuation correctly. When mistakes actually get into print, others look at it and figure that the bad usage must be correct because it's in print. You get sort of a punctuation vortex as English culture around the world starts going down the communications drain. Anyway, this is a fascinating show (and I don't agree with everything that's said in it), but if you love language it's a must:
Now I'm going to listen to the Blue Jays game. And I do mean listen. Only the radio will do for baseball.
2 comments:
- Jared said...
Hear, hear. I miss Tom Cheek, but Jerry Howarth is like a good friend that I have one-way conversations with.
- 9:14 am
- Rick Blechta said...
I can't tell you how much I miss Tom. To me he was not only the voice of the Blue Jays, he was the voice of summer. Every year, I'd wait for that first broadcast from Spring Training. As soon as Tom signed on, I already began feeling warmer and more hopeful.
Not only that, he called a damn fine game.
Jerry's a damn fine broadcaster and does a great job, but Tom had a little something that Jerry lacks.
- 6:49 pm


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Emma Watson's toughest role
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- 25 August 2015
Emma Watson tries to rid her Harry Potter persona and says her hardest part yet is playing a nun in 'Colonia Dignidad'
Emma Watson's "hardest part" is playing a nun.
The 25-year-old actress - who rose to fame as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter franchise - plays Lena in political drama 'Colonia Dignidad' who is forced to join a cult run by preacher Paul Schäfer (Michael Nyqvist) as she searches for her husband who was kidnapped by the government.
She told Daily MailOnline: "It's the hardest part I've ever had to play. But also the most satisfying. It felt like the right thing to do."
Set in Chile in the seventies and directed by Oscar-winner Florian Gallenberger, the film tells the true story of Emma's character who disguises herself as a nun to infiltrate a Nazi cult.
'Inglorious Bastards' actor Daniel Brühl, 37, plays Lena's husband who is taken by General Augusto Pinochet's secret police, DINA.
And Emma hopes the role will be the final "psuh" that will rid her of her Hogwarts persona.
A source shared: "Emma is determined to distance herself from Harry Potter and this is her big push to be taken seriously. She gives an amazing performance and is being tipped as an Oscar contender. She is dowdy in this movie - she's undergone a make-under."
Colonia Dignidad opens in Germany next month and the UK early next year.


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Does your accounting firm have a marketing plan?
The next graduate arrives, interviewing for a position at a small to medium-sized accounting firm: your accounting firm. This graduate will be one of the top performing employees for the employer of their choice. It takes you a while — nearly fifteen minutes into the interview, to fully realise that they are actually interviewing you.
Methodically, the graduate carefully crafts their answers and questions. When you look up from your notepad, direct eye contact takes a fraction of a second to re-connect: this graduate is absorbing the environment, the workspace and your body language. As you take notes, this graduate is also checking boxes on their own mental checklist: assessing you as a partner and the firm as a whole.
They don't fit into your standard interview guide or assessment criteria: they are impressive in every aspect that a young aspiring graduate could be. They are energised and prepared to embark on a exciting career — just not with your firm.
You think you lost her when you answered a simple question about marketing:
"We don't do marketing. We don't need to do it. We rely on word of mouth, and it brings in enough work."
You were also hopelessly prepared for the discussion about your aspirations for the firm: it's growth, talent management and career paths. Although you help others plan and grow their businesses, you neglect your own business in need to generate your day-to-day cash flow, pay your current employees and convert those word of mouth opportunities.
What about the marketing?
Marketing is an essential part of your business. You must market. Every touch point is a customer experience that helps shape how your brand is viewed and determines if potential and existing customers choose to spend their next dollar with you.
If you have not done so recently, set aside your next team meeting to white board the following way of looking at your business:
- A fresh look at your brand: Regardless of the size of your business, you need to establish a brand identity and tone of voice to ensure brand consistency. Any good marketing book will help you shape your brand to appeal to your target market.Your logo, values, premises, standard of dress (corporate or casual) and way you answer the phone all need to be consistent with your brand. Does your current branding appeal to the type of customers in your overall strategy?If you specialise in medium-sized businesses in a certain industry, your brand should appeal to your target market.
- New client acquisition: What is your marketing plan for new clients? Have you set a target? Are you planning to grow? Develop a plan to reach new customers beyond traditional advertising. What conference are you speaking at or what topic is your white paper on? When did you last generate a newsworthy story about your business that the local press covered as a news item, instead of a paid advertisement?
- Existing client base: Your existing customers already know you. Do you have a loyalty or referral program? Should you? Look at potential ways to better help your customers by up-selling or cross-selling additional value added services to meet their needs.
For example, are they aware you also offer a new product or service? How are you marketing this into your existing customer base?
- Client retention and win-back: Do you have a process to identify at-risk clients or know which ones you want to win back? Is there a communications plan to re-engage with lost clients or those on the brink? Your team should discuss this.
- Brand hygiene: This is the basic of maintenance of your branding values and image across everything you do. I think of this separately to building your brand — this is more than consistency of outdoor signage, business cards, websites and letterhead. Brand hygiene extends into everything you do and the overall customer experience.If you are about quality, accuracy and professionalism, you can't have unclean toilets, worn carpet or torn magazines on the coffee table. Your brand needs to permeate through everything you do. It is not just a logo; it is every aspect of the customer experience.
- Internal Communications: Large companies have internal 'comms' teams that specifically handle internal communications. They write content for and design newsletters, intranet sites (employee-only websites) and marketing materials and programs for employees. This is important, and having structure to it helps, even in small teams. How you — a partner, senior or team leader — communicate internally has a powerful impact on how your employees see the firm. It will impact staff retention, recruitment, and staff morale.
- Marketing channels: Selecting smart, strategic ways to use the right mix of media channels for your business goes hand-in-hand with taking a fresh look at your target market. Test strategies and learn approaches for the channels that suit your target market. Get your marketing mix right: be strategic and measure the return on investment.
With the proliferation of media options these days, television, print, radio and digital advertising are more and more affordable. Of course social media has become a game changer, and content creation may play heavily into your media mix decisions, together with the use of events, sponsorships and outdoor marketing.
- Recruiting: I began this story talking about an interview and will end it in the same way. In developing your unique marketing plan, put yourself into your customers' and employees' shoes (potential and existing) and take a good, hard look at yourself. If you don't invest in marketing, doesn't that mean you are not planning to grow? Are you happy with the status quo? Others are networking — should you be as well?
In my fictional introduction, both the accounting firm and the interviewee were marketing themselves to each other. Not having a marketing plan to grow your business or investing in marketing says something about you. Are you on social media? Should you be? It says something to your target market if you are — or are not.
While in this example it is a bright employee that was lost due to poor marketing (the message received was we are not planning to grow), it could well have been a major new client walking away. Your brand promise and marketing must be tangible in the customer experience, or you will lose credibility with your customers.


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Mel C hopeful for Spice Girls Olympics show
Mel C hopeful for Spice Girls Olympics show
Mel C would like the Spice Girls to put on a "demure" performance at the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony.
The 36-year-old singer would like her group - which also included Victoria Beckham, Geri Halliwell, Mel B and Emma Bunton - to reunite to perform at the sporting event, but thinks their show would need to accommodate a global audience.
She said: "If they ask me, then I'd be there. Maybe us girls need to get together to discuss it. If we were to reform again, we'd have to reconsider the stage show. Maybe we need to be a little bit more demure."
As well as wanting to hear the Spice Girls' hits at the Olympics, Mel is also looking forward to hearing them when the group's musical opens in 2012, though she insists the show won't follow the story of her and her bandmates.
She said: "The story is fictional but because Jennifer Saunders, the writer, has known us for a while, and knows the dynamics between us, the chemistry between us will be reflected in the characters.
"But it won't be five girls called Sporty, Posh, Baby, Ginger and Scary. It's not the story of the Spice Girls."
Spice Girls split up in 2001, two years after Geri quit the group.
They announced plans for a reunion tour in 2007, but after going on the road a year later, went their separate ways again.


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Mass Effect 3 and DLC
I'm about to start playing Mass Effect 3.
To be honest, I'm not really excited about it since I wasn't exactly blown away by ME2. There are other games I'd rather play right now, but I'm afraid that if I wait much longer I'll start to forget some of the details of the story from ME 1&2, and I want some closure.
Anyways, I was wondering which of the single-player DLC packs are considered a must-play. I'm not interested in any of the item packs, so I'm only looking at - From Ashes, Leviathan, Citadel, and Omega.
Are all of them worth playing? Ironically, I only paid $12 for ME3, but it will apparently cost me $50 total for those 4 DLC. Is purchasing them with "Bioware points" at the Origin store the only way to obtain them?
Oh, and another question. I still have my installs from ME 1&2 on the same computer that I just installed ME 3 on. Will ME3 automatically detect and import my save games or is there something I need to do?
You may buy Bioware points elsewhere (for example on go2arena), but you'll still be forced to use Origin. Prices are about the same everywehere. Also, I've posted a few times that Bioware points are never on sale. Because of that, we all plain adore EA. If they were into woodcutting, they'd charge thousands for an axe even today.
I have only From Ashes, DLC that started a scandal. It's files were initially in the game but was sold as access to it so ppl said it's just the content cut out just to fraud the audience and milk more cash from silly consumers who'd pay for anything. I won't say it's a must have DLC, but some things become clearer with it and definetly has a vibe it's not just a side story but an integral part of the game trilogy. It's worth playing.
I don't plan to buy other DLC. What's enough is enough. Those DLC of theirs are not FO:NV days of fun DLC, but an hour or two of questionable quality and ripoff price.
One of the few games I absolutely demanded a refund for. No game offended me so much since DA 2 than Mass Effect 3 did. I'd avoid it like herpes, playing solitaire would be infinitely more enjoyable. Twenty minutes of my life that I'll never get back….in fact, I think I spent more time arguing for my refund than I did playing the thing.
Carn, you sure you won't edit that post a bit? See… Once you've installed Origin…
EA knows where you live. :evilgrin:
F Origin, and F Ea as well. Please please come seek me out, the both of ya, invade my castle and get a close, personal look at a fine Italian shotgun. I'll rid the world of two useless humps, no extra charge!!! =)
It's probably the right time to play it.
By now, you must have heard enough of the heavy criticism to last a lifetime. That usually creates such low expectations that you can't help but be positively surprised :)
Haha. Be sure to check out the multiplayer (it's coop style) before the community dies out. It's much more challenging and a ton of fun!
BTW, all the multiplayer DLC are free downloads. :)
I got Citadel free when my multiplayer player account bugged out on the Bioware servers. Have yet to play Citadel, but played all the other singleplayer DLC. All were memorable, for what it's worth.
I liked Mass Effect 3 a lot, despite its flaws and the much discussed ending.
I think the Leviathan DLC is must-play if you are interested in the plot about the reapers.
The Citadel DLC ist a must-play if you are interested in interacting with your crew members on a more casual level.
The others aren't that important imho.
Before you do anything download extended cut DLC. Improves the ending. Its free so go and grab it. Nuff said.
Basicly 3:
1) From the ashes:
This dlc includes a new squad member and a new weapon. Its same kind of dlc as Stone prisoner in DA. It has tons of story content throughout the game. And you learn quite a lot about protheans when interacting with him.
2) Citadel DLC
This dlc is must if you're a long time mass effect player and enjoy interacting with squad members. Lots of funny scenes, inside jokes, nods to previous games etc,. It has a new side mission too. Citadel dlc also expands citadel by adding a whole new areas to the citadel hub and it adds a combat simulator. Its not essential in same sense as from the ashes or leviathan, but you'll miss quite a lot if you don't have it.
3) Leviathan DLC
This DLC tells you something about reapers orgin. I personally liked it quite a lot.. I don't know if it blows your mind or anything but it has fun gameplay and the ending was actually quite cool and reminded me of a famous scifi film which name i won't say here because it would be spoiling. Definitely worth of playing.
I got myself digital deluxe edition which included from the ashes dlc and n7 arsenal pack. Then i grabbed leviathan and citadel packs.
I haven't played Omega DLC, but i've heard that it is mostly combat and offers very little story content. so i skipped it.
With some distance I see the whining about three same ending but a color, something just very kiddish. It's a comment that put more importance in some pictures than in words. It was a so totally kiddish and focusing on points that are significant but not that important.
Otherwise ME3 definitely improve some points and the fights are better and the design of obstacles to cover was hugely improved and quite natural when it was a bit weird in ME2. For sure the strange ME2 hub design around companions was something very special and ME3 didn't even attempt reproduce it. But I think it's for me the only plus of ME2, a lot more companions and a game very centered on companions. Otherwise for me everything is better in ME3 but overall I'd probably put ME2 above. For ME1… never enjoyed it, and 4/5 attempts didn't solved the problem.
Thanks for the comments. I think I'll probably end up getting all four of the DLCs even though I loathe the idea of paying that much for DLC that's more than a year old.
From Ashes and Leviathan seem like must plays for me. I enjoy extra content that sheds more light on the backstory and expands on the lore of the setting.
Citadel and Omega, while not quite as enticing to me, sound like they offer enough gameplay to make them worthwhile.
I'll be skipping on any multiplayer action despite the positive comments. I just don't have the time for it. I can still get the best ending without doing any multiplayer, right? I seem to remember there being some controversy about that.
Gameplay is good for both single and multiplayer so even if you don't like writing you still might enjoy game.Also there is no best ending all are equal crap.
If the ending is very important to you, you might consider looking up about what you need to achieve to be able to get a certain ending. Here you can see a guide with hardly any spoilers.
I've written elsewhere, they wanted to create something I've seen for the first time in Evangelion (old anime series) but they failed as it's uncompatible with the overall game style/design. In movies such quasireligious and metaphysical stuff was added to Matrix sequel, again was not compatible with the rest of the movie(s) and again was a fail.
In Evangelion the design worked because with each episode you were "trained" to expect it and by some it's a masterpiece. Me… I don't live in a town full of strangers and in some paranoic neighborhood, so that stuff couldn't amaze me much. I'd say today it was okayish.
I believe Bioware had good intentions and wanted to create something unexpected that will amaze the audience, but because of the game design the audience simply didn't want a closure in that style. Me included. Never seen so called alternate ending that came out later, but if it wasn't rewritten completely with kicking "the kid" and his philosophy out of the picture, it doesn't matter.
And I didn't play ME3 multiplayer nor will. IIRC EA CEO said everything they publish will have MP, well he can sell that MP to his mother, just not to me.
The ending to everything sucks. The rest of ME was so good that it didn't really bother me much.
JDR, you don't have to multiplay to get all the galaxy resources for the "best" endings. Just hunt down and explore every planet in every system and do all side quests. Stuff you are probably going to do anyway.
I assume you're implying that being hunched over isn't the only issue here. I wouldn't argue that, but I'm obviously not as bothered by it as you are.
That's like saying Scarlett Johansson is not bad looking ;)
So, yeah, you "assume" correctly - good guess!
But fair enough, you didn't really mind it - and I certainly did.
Good part is that it's only there when you don't have armor on, IIRC.
Bad part is that it's the least of its problems ;)
I guess I'll just have to discover these other problems as I continue to play. I'm honestly not seeing them so far. :)
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Suarez unaware of Real interest
Luis Suarez has told Uruguayan radio that he is looking forward to a "good season" with Liverpool after brushing off reports he is wanted by Real Madrid.
The Liverpool striker has made an impressive return to action after serving a 10-match suspension for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic last season.
He has scored six goals in five Premier League appearances amid speculation that Real are ready to offer cash plus Karim Benzema to sign Suarez in January.
Suarez, who was the subject of offers from Arsenal in the summer transfer window, is unaware of interest from Real and insists he is happy in the Premier League.
"Absolutely nothing at all," Suarez told Uruguayan radio station Sport 890 when asked if he knew of any interest from Real.
"In the team we are all really excited, looking forward and looking forward to a good season.
"The Premier League is the best league there is. The stadiums, the atmosphere and the fans make football here so entertaining."
Last week, Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers rejected talk that Suarez is likely to be on his way when the transfer window reopens in January.
"No, I wouldn't say that," insisted Rodgers. "I think he, like ourselves, wants to be at the very highest level he can be.
"And you can see by his performances he deserves to be looking at that level.
"But it also shows he has been excellent in his attitude, you see his work rate – that is the key."
Rodgers added: "For me, this is the place for Luis. I still maintain that even if we were in mid-table this would be the place for him to be because this is a massive club – a global institution.
"But as a football club and as a team we are growing – and he can grow with us. Luis has the support of everyone at the club and the love of everyone and because this is a worldwide institution, there is no better place for him to grow."
Meanwhile, Suarez is proud to be on the 23-man shortlist for the Ballon d'Or, but he is not expecting to win the prestigious award.
Suarez said: "I feel very proud to be on FIFA's shortlist for the Ballon d'Or, but I can think of a number of other players who had a more impressive year.
"If I had to choose, I'd go for Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Ribery."


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Core areas to focus on to crack NMAT 2015
NMIMS Selection process consists of two stages and has three components. Based on the performance in the NMAT examination, only short listed candidates are called for the Group Discussion (GD) and Personal Interview (PI). Duration of the NMAT written Test will be 120 Minutes and comprises of questions from following sections. Given below is the section-wise breakup of the NMAT paper along with the individual cut-offs of the respective sections:
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|Language Skills
|22 Minutes
|Quantitative Skills
|60 Minutes
|Logical Reasoning
|38 Minutes
Important 5 Points to be remembered by the students:
- Students need to clear sectional as well as overall cut-off to qualify for GD/PI.
- No negative marking is there
- NMAT is more of a speed-based test rather than a test of knowledge. Candidates need to attempt 120 questions in 120 minutes. Each section is timed (Details given in the table above)
- Each question carries three marks.
- Work experience in executive/management capacity will be preferred while shortlisting of candidates for GD/PI.
Here's a detailed section-wise areas to focus on for NMAT 2015
[Based on the 2014 NMAT paper]
Quantitative Aptitude + Data Interpretation
Difficulty level: Moderate
Important areas: Geometry, Arithmetic and DI
The section had at least one question from each topic under QA and DI. The topics covered include algebra, arithmetic, averages, coordinate geometry, geometry, modern maths, number system, percentage, profit and loss, ratio and proportion, time and distance, time and work. Apart from it, there was a good balance of questions between Data Interpretation and Data Sufficiency. Overall, NMAT is a predictable paper. A correct attempt of 30 to 35 questions can be termed a good score.
Verbal Ability + Reading Comprehension
Difficulty level: Easy to moderate
Important areas: Vocab, Fill in the blanks and Speed in RC.
This section bordered between easy to moderate and will be quite similar to NMAT last year paper pattern. Speed is important in Verbal section. There were a total of four Parajumbles, two to three Reading Comprehensions of 350 word each with four questions. A correct attempt of 25 – 28 questions can be termed a good score.
Logical & Analytical Reasoning
Difficulty level: Easy to moderate
Important areas: Verbal Reasoning, Logical Analytical Puzzles and Coding decoding.
This section too had questions from almost every possible topic– arrangements, assumption based questions, blood relations, coding decoding, direction sense, puzzles, sequences & series, strengthening & weakening.
The section was easy but due to the range of questions, it is better to rate it as moderate. Around 30 to 32 attempts with 90 % accuracy is a good score.
Core areas to focus on to crack NMAT 2015


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Chopper 2 for Mac OS X
Available now on the Mac App Store.
Also available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
Chopper 2 features 36 action packed missions over 12 unique and beautiful locations. It features a completely re-written 3D game engine, all new enemies, weapons, graphics, and missions, while still retaining the classic side scrolling game-play.
Escort a convoy of vehicles across the desert, or defend a train from enemies emerging from underground mines. Use your laser sight to line up enemies emerging from stairwells in the city. Chase down lines of enemy tanks and choppers while avoiding heat seeking missiles, gunfire and bird strike. Help your allies defend against advancing armies, and rescue stranded civilians, all while trying to complete your mission as fast as possible for the highest score.
Chopper 2 for Mac uses high resolution graphics and effects built for display right up to 2560x1600 pixels. It uses keyboard and mouse for control, and features a 17 minute long original soundtrack.
If you also have an iPhone or iPod Touch, you can use the fantastic remote control feature to wirelessly control the Mac version with Chopper 2 on an iPhone or iPod Touch over WiFi.
You can follow @chopper_2 on twitter You can also purchase the original 17 minute long Chopper 2 soundtrack on iTunes.
For remote control setup instructions and trouble shooting, and for all support enquiries please have a look at the Chopper 2 FAQ.
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Sorry, ladies. Your strangle-hold (get it?) on the exercise by jacking off ghost dicks industry has finally ended. WHERE MY FELLAS AT?!
Looking good, dudes! Could you aim the Shake Weight for Men a little more towards your mouth? A little more? A little more? Perfect.
Here's a fun game to play, guess which of these quotes is a testimonial to the Shake Weight for Men, and which is someone describing their first homosexual experience:
- a) "15 seconds into it you're already going, OK, this is for real."
- b) "I just blew a guy in the bathroom."
- c) "Like 30-45 seconds I was already covered in sweat and completely pumped."
- d) "30 seconds going like this and I'm like, 'this is not easy.'"
- e) "I just blew two guys in the bathroom."
- f) "It's an all-over workout, with your breathing, and your arms pumping. It's awesome."
- g) "I haven't had a pump like this for a long time."
Answer Key: a) homosexual experience, b) homosexual experience, c) homosexual experience, d) homosexual experience, e) homosexual experience, f) Shake Weight for Men, g) homosexual experience
If you got any of those right, then you know that the Shake Weight is ridiculous.
But wait, there's more:
"I use my Shake Weight for Men in case there are no gay people here. To jerk off. With my lady hands."
–Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise, everybody. Total Shake Weight for Men Head. (Thanks for the tip, Whitney.)


text: Hello, So whenever I get stuck with money online, I always go through my MSN contacts that are from bhw, and one guy replied i need to know your situation before i can help and so i told him and thought about it myself also. So my situation is my dad owns a marina, we have 100s and sometimes 1000s of boats go by my house every day (my house is right beside where they leave the marina and to the open water). When they come back in around 5-6 PM, they are usually always drunk and stuff. Me being, 14 and bored in the summer, thought I could some how monetize this. Also, there is a beach that streaches down, starting at my house... actually let me map this out. There has to be MANY thing you could do in this situation. The gas dock is where people come, park there boat on the side of the channel, gas up there boat for 20 minutes then leave. This is always busy. I want to try avoid affecting my dads business as he is VERY strict about people affecting his business. any questions, just ask. Any suggestions, PLEASE TELL! Thanks!! btw online success isn't working out for my so i am trying to change it up.


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Cougars Look To Extend Hot Streak In Sacramento
March 6, 2002
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Friday, March 8 - WSU at Sacramento State, 2:00 p.m., Hornet Field, Sacramento, Calif.
Saturday, March 9 - WSU at Sacramento State, 1:00 p.m., Hornet Field, Sacramento, Calif.
Sunday, March 10 - WSU at Sacramento State, 12:00 p.m., Hornet Field, Sacramento, Calif.
Friday, March 15 - WSU at Oregon State, 2:00 p.m., Coleman Field, Corvallis, Ore.
Saturday, March 16 - WSU at Oregon State, 1:00 p.m., Coleman Field, Corvallis, Ore.
Sunday, March 17 - WSU at Oregon State, 1:00 p.m., Coleman Field, Corvallis, Ore.
Monday, March 18 - WSU at Portland, 3:00 p.m., Pilot Stadium, Portland, Ore.
Friday, March 1 - WSU 12, Troy State 5, 4 p.m., Northcutt Field, Dothan, Ala.
Sunday, March 3 - WSU 7, Kent State 3, 3:15 p.m., Riddle-Pace Field, Troy, Ala.
(all games at the Troy State Wiregrass Classic)
* = Pacific-10 Conference game
COUGS ON RADIO/WEB: WSU's three-game series at Sacramento State will not be broadcast this weekend on the radio or Internet.
COUGS INVADE HORNETS NEST: Washington State continues life on the road this weekend with a trip to Sacramento, Calif., to take on Sacramento State. The Cougars are in the midst of a four-game winning streak and have won six of their last seven games.
Last week, WSU went 2-0 at the Troy State Wiregrass Classic, defeating host Troy State 12-5 and Kent State 7-3. In two successive tournaments, the Cougars went 6-2 and had the best overall record at both its tournaments.
WSU is doing it both at the plate and on the mound. The Cougars are hitting .307 as a team and have eight players batting over .300.
On the mound, the team has gotten clutch pitching performances from its starters and relievers.
Lanakila Niles has a 1.93 ERA in three relief appearances and has emerged as the team's top middle reliever. Brandon Hundt is 3-0 as a starter and reliever and also has a team-leading two saves.
Following the Sacramento State series, the Cougars will embark on a four-game swing through Oregon, taking on Oregon State in a three-game set beginning March 15 at 2 p.m. and will take on Portland March 18 at 3 p.m. at the conclusion of the OSU series.
BRUCE-ING AT THE PLATE: Freshman shortstop Derek Bruce swung a huge bat last weekend at the Troy State Wiregrass Classic...the Lewiston, Idaho, native went 6-for-7 with two home runs and improved his batting average from .267 to .346...on top of his robust average, Bruce also leads the Cougars in home runs with six, runs with 17 and has a slugging percentage of .808...in addition...he is second on the team in RBI with 16 and doubles with four...Bruce also seems to be at his best in important situations, as he is hitting .308 with runners in scoring position.
HURLIN' HAWAIIAN: WSU quarterback Jason Gesser might have some competition for the best arm from the islands...Senior pitcher Lanakila Niles, who calls Pearl City, Hawaii, home, has a 1.93 ERA and one save and one win in 9 1/3 innings as a middle reliever...his past two outings include two shutout innings of relief for starter Eddie Bonine in a 12-5 win against Troy State March 1, to notch his first save of the season, and a 5 1/3 inning outing against Texas A&M Feb. 23, in which he allowed just two runs and five hits to get the win...Niles has also struck out 11 and opponents are hitting just .222 against him.
CLUTCH HITTERS: WSU has not wasted its scoring opportunities much this season...as a team, the Cougars are hitting .318 with runners in scoring positions...catcher Jon Baeder is hitting .800 in such situations and second baseman Bookie Gates .409...the Cougars also hit .322 with runners on and .438 with the bases loaded...WSU has also advanced runners 55 percent of the time and have 30 two-out RBI
DOUBLE DUTY: Sophomore outfielder Collin Henderson joined the team in time for the Feb. 15-17 series against Gonzaga...through last weekend he is now batting .238 with eight RBI...Henderson is also a starting wide receiver on the Cougar football team, catching nine passes for 83 yards and one touchdown in 12 starts for the 10-2 Sun Bowl Champions...he has been a three-year starter in football...Henderson is playing baseball for the first time since he was a senior at Puyallup High School...Henderson was a three-sport prep star, earning all-league honors in baseball, basketball and football.
COUGS LOSE FARRAR: Junior outfielder Jeremy Farrar, who collected two hits in WSU's first win over CSUN, is expected to miss the remainder of the season after suffering a torn ACL in his right knee...the injury occurred when he pulled up at third base against the Matadors...Farrar transferred to WSU from Hill JC in Texas last August and was one of the newcomers coach Tim Mooney was counting on to provide solid play both at the plate and in the outfield.
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Telefonica UK, better known as O2, has signed a five-year managed services deal with China-based services provider Huawei.
The contract signing comes as the telecommunications provider reported a 53.9 percent drop in net profit to £599 million for the first quarter of 2012, compared with the first quarter of 2011.
The group largely pointed to a difficult performance in Europe as the cause of its poor performance, where it said it faced "economic headwinds, with negative impacts from regulation and stiff competition". Operating income in Europe was down 23.6 percent year on year to £1.3 billion.
O2 has since announced that it will be transferring 118 staff to work for Huawei's managed services business, where under the agreement, Huawei will be charged with planning, implementing and managing Telefonica's core transmission, mobile access and network in the UK.
"We are very pleased to announce our first major managed services agreement in the UK," said Victor Zhang, CEO at Huawei UK.
"The skills and experience transferring to work with us will be invaluable as we seek to develop our managed services capabilities in the UK as well as managing Telefonica UK's core network."
Huawei is also vying for additional revenue in the US, where it traditionally has had difficulty striking deals with large enterprise customers due to security concerns about it being based in China, by signing a distribution agreement with Synnex.
Synnex's ConvergeSolv Secure Networking division will work with resellers to deliver Huawei's portfolio of IP network infrastructure, unified communications and data centre products across the US.
Synnex customers will be able to test Huawei's products in its proof-of-concept demo labs in its US distribution headquarters located in Greenville and Fremont.