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Monday, 29 February 2016
The Gingerdead Man #1 (Action Lab Comics)
The Gingerdead Man #1 (Action Lab Comics)
Brockton McKinney (w) Sergio Rios (a)
If you are a fan of those marvellous but entreatingly corny "B Movie" type horror films then this is the comic for you!
They brought a doll to life in Chucky but worse still in this story convicted killer Millard Findlemeyer returns to the world of the living as a psychopathic cookie.
Yeah sounds ridiculous but here is a three issue mini-series to appal and entertain you!
When I ordered this from Previews I didn't know there had been a film about The Gingerdead Man let alone three. The whole idea seemed so absurd I just had to buy and I have to say I wasn't disappointed! With strong (adult) dialogue an matching artwork this was an entertaining read.
So if you go down to a long deserted bakers, don't use the cookie mix, you never know what might happen......especially when there's a little black magic involved!
On sale at your local comic shop now, if not order it! There's trade paperback of the complete series in the latest Previews catalogue. Go on you know you want to!
Oh and here's the trailer for the original movie never released in the UK (as far as I know).....
Grab a glass of milk now!
Sunday, 28 February 2016
Buster Book 1966
There are certain comics that I remember having as a child and this Buster Book cover dated 1966, but actually issued in 1965 was one of them. What I didn't recall was that unlike most British annuals these were published in paperback rather than the usual hardback format which explains why any remaining good condition copies are a little pricey.
However if you have the opportunity to pick a copy of this book do so, you will not be disappointed. Besides Buster himself you also have tales of Johnny Samson, Charlie Peace, Willie Marvel and his Talking Cat, Rob Roy, Brett Shane: Frontier Scout and more.
Along with TV based comedy with Charlie Drake, Jimmy Edwards in Whacko and original strips like Sonny Boy these were a "must have"back in the sixties.
The annuals or "books" as Fleetway marketed them ran from 1962 to 1994.
Saturday, 27 February 2016
2000AD TV Advert 1977
It's a long time since I saw an advert for a comic on TV (Eaglemoss collections aside) so thought I'd share this with you from 1977. 2000AD is the last of the British weekly "adventure" comics still going along with it's sister publication the Monthly Judge Dredd Megazine.
Next year will be the fortieth anniversary. Oy vey do I feel old!
Next year will be the fortieth anniversary. Oy vey do I feel old!
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Lion Holiday Special 1980
One of the great joys of summer was being able to pick up a giant sized edition of your favourite comic. Lion was one of the better boys comics which produced no less than 17 of these between 1967 and 1980.
What is even more remarkable was that the comic itself had ceased being published in 1974 when it was merged with Valiant, then IPC/Fleetway's flagship title.
These are difficult to find and in good condition generally more expensive than the annuals due to there being taken on holiday, subsequently damaged or left behind on the beach or in the back of the car!
The 1980 Holiday Special was to be the last, but was or is a cracking read. The lead story as seen on the cover was a meeting of two old Lion favourite Archie and the reformed villain The Spider which was presented in two parts inside.
Also of note was a lengthy Black Max feature which for the uninitiated was a story set in the Great War about an RAF pilots battle against giant bats. Yes you read right! Originally appeared in the short-lived Thunder comic which merged with Lion in the early seventies.
There's also three adventure with Zip Nolan, motorcycle cop, some comedy with Mowser and The Spooks of St Lukes plus a whole wrath of features including a look at the second Star Wars movie.
Grab a copy of this or any other Lion Holiday Special if you get the chance!
Monday, 22 February 2016
Tomb Raider #1 (Dark Horse)
Tomb Raider #1 (Dark Horse)
Mariko Tamaki (w) Phillip Sevy (a)
Lara Croft, the Tomb Raider returns in a new (second) series to Dark Horse comics and the search is on for a mushroom. Yes you read that right. It's a mushroom that bestows immortality apparently and Lara isn't interested until a man asking for her help is killed and some nasty looking men turn up.
The game is on...
Tomb Raider started life as one of those computer games that I've never played but came to us in both film (with the gorgeous Angelina Jolie) and comics with a Top Cow version that lasted some time and crossed over with the likes of the now Witchblade.
The latest version is more akin to what I would expect of the character outside the previous "Top Cow" universe version and the first issue is well worth reading. Makes a change from the superhero world that most comics revolve around these days.
Here's a short preview courtesy of Dark Horse Comics.
Sunday, 21 February 2016
Jet #1 (1971)
Over the years there have been a number of short lived comics on the British market and Jet was one of these launching in May 1971 and lasting just 22 issues before merging with the long running Buster. This was a comic that passed me by when it came out but it's actually rather good and a shame it didn't last longer.
Jet opens with Von Hoffman's Invasion an offbeat story about a mad Nazi scientist who after spending 25 years in prison for his crimes is released into the modern world and decides to have his revenge on old blighty. His weapon? Enlarging gas that he uses not just to create monstrosities out of local insects and other wild life but is somehow able to control these creatures with his voice.
This popular strip lasted into the merger with Buster so may be remembered by those who didn't get Jet at the time.
Other features included The Sludgemouth Sloggers about a town that lives in permanent rain and is going broke who enter a competition to change their fortunes, Partridges Patch which tells yarns of a village copper and his dog unappreciated by his career orientated boss and the inevitable world war two story Sergeants Four.
Paddy McGinty's Goat comes up next and is about an alien stuck in Ireland who changes himself into a goat to escape detection. The stuff British comics were made of!
Humour in the form of The Kids of Stalag 41 takes the full colour centre pages and is exactly what the title suggests. The Germans have not reckoned with the antics of British school children!
This beng a the era of Wacky Races sees a bizarre car race take place in jolly old England in Crazy Car Capers. There's a footy story (which I always skip) Adare's Anglians, more humour from Faceache, Athletics with the Kester Kid, and adventure with Bala the Briton set in ancient times.
Overall well worth a read. Some strips lasted a little longer in Buster and there was one Annual published that year. Deserved a longer life.
Saturday, 20 February 2016
Forces In Combat #1 (Marvel UK/1980)
One of the more unusual Marvel UK comics was the short-lived Forces In Combat which featured a number of second if not "third tier" characters. Release in May 1980 it lasted just 37 weeks but for those of you interested in non-superhero fare this isn't a bad comic.
Leading off with Sgt Fury and his Howling Commando's, there was science fiction with ROM, based on a short-lived Hasboro toy of the same name which actually was a very good comic that in the US outlasted the toy itself.
For western fans there was the Rawhide Kid, and in a sign of the times Master of Kung Fu also got a feature.
Other than ROM, the other outstanding feature was the Steve Ditko version of Machine Man. This character originated in Marvels adaptation of 2001 A Space Odyssey and was created by Jack Kirby. Ditko's reboot didn't last long but brought Aaron Stack into the mainstream Marvel universe.
Other strips included Kull, the deposed King of Atlantis, and Lifeboat. There's also a reprint of Wulf a twenty year old colour adventure that "our fathers would have read according to the introduction. This was originally published in Express Weekly, a comic I am not familiar with.
With all the competition for everyone's pocket money this comic never found the audience it needed to survive. Nevertheless worth a dip. I was lucky enough to get a copy with the free gift still inside. A large sticker with a picture of a Matilda tank.
Sunday, 14 February 2016
Super DC #14 (DC/UK/1969)
One of the comic "oddities of the sixties was the short-lived Super DC published monthly directly by DC comics themselves rather than their material appearing in established British comics as both the Alan Class and Power Comics lines had done.
Super DC lasted just 14 monthly issues costing 1/- but was quite good value in terms of the amount of stories contained inside each issue along with text stories, features and letters. Surprisingly this last issue didn't even tell readers that this was the end. A fans letter requesting more (of everything) wasn't even responded to. Sad really.
Unlike the early issues which had quite bad covers which were almost always the same, the later comics had a more inviting front page picture but alas too late to make a difference.
The stories featured Superman, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and of course Batman. Almost completely out of place was a two page text story about football. Go figure.
The title had one more surprise for readers as a "Bumper Book" appeared in time for Christmas. An Annual really and too slim to be called "bumper" by any stretch of the imagination.
It wasn't until 1980 that another attempt to break DC into the British market would take place, by which time their rivals Marvel were well established.
Saturday, 13 February 2016
The New Eagle (1990)
As the comics market changed at the beginning of the nineties so did the Eagle which went through a major makeover. Gone was the newsprint, mainly black & white, mainly comic content. In came the glossy nearly all colour comic with magazine features that marked the final years of the second run of Britain's most famous comic, The New Eagle
The announcement made by computer editor "Max" (from The Thirteenth Floor strip that was the longest surviving story from the short-lived Scream comic) was made the week before as all the strips were brought to an end.
Not all satisfactorily I have to say!
However The New Eagle was worth the extra price of entry, up a whopping 13 pence to 45p. Four full colour pages of Dan Dare (the original one now returned as his descendant had been sidelined), along with Computer Warrior which featured readers playing the games, The Eagle One Off (short stories) and Dark Angels (a group of kids on skateboards).
The comic almost returned to it's roots having educational features on science, pop music and culture but also featured the Eagle cut-out picture featuring amongst other things diagrams of Polaris carrying submarines. Rather relevant to today's debates kids!
I was lucky enough to pick up the first three issues of this run which would last until the Eagle made it's last stand as a monthly starting the following year.
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Commando: The Survivor!
One of the most famous and long running British comics is the pocket book size Commando published by DC Thomson, who also issue The Beano which is now the worlds longest running comic book. Both of these titles survive on our newsagents shelves to this day.
Commando has four issues published every fortnight which includes two new stories along with one "silver" reprint from 25 years ago and one "gold" featuring a story from the earlier days of this great comic.
Back in the sixties and seventies this was just one of a whole range of "pocket book" libraries that we used to buy and swap with our mates. These little comics always had a complete self contained story and were always more gritty than their American (or weekly British) counterparts because the heroes didn't always survive.
While most of these titles (including Commando) focused on the Second World War, there were stories from other conflicts over the years mainly the First World War, but also Korea and in more modern times tales from further back in history such as the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. amongst others.
There were also science fiction stories and one series about a lost Roman Legion which I'll leave for another day.
The Wrong Enemy (Commando #4886) is a tale about an Italian soldier and his change of sides from fighting the British in North Africa to the Nazi's in his home country. This story was originally published in 1991 and like all the reprints carries a disclaimer about politically incorrect language.
There's certainly plenty of these to collect given the numbering will reach 5000 issues later this year and with the variety of conflicts covered there should be something for everyone to enjoy.
Sunday, 7 February 2016
Growing up with comics in the sixties
The first memory of actually being given a comic of any sort was when my father brought home a copy of Wham! #1 which was back in 1964 when I was around six or seven. This wasn't the first comic I had or read but the beginning of an interest that I have pursued for most of my life (with a couple of inevitable gaps) until my late childhood as I approach 60.
As a child growing up in the sixties entertainment was somewhat limited. Only two TV channels until BBC 2 came on the scene and other than Saturday mornings/lunchtimes not much to watch there either and there was no Internet. Even the science fiction novels I began to read later on didn't even reference such a thing and the use of "video phones" was clearly in the world of fiction.
How little we knew then..
However there was one form of entertainment readily available in every newsagents in town.
There were lots of them too. I became a major fan of what eventually turned into the "Power Comics" line of which Wham! was just the first. Smash! and Pow! were soon to appear. But these were not the only comics either available or that I read.
One of my earliest interests were American comics which unlike British ones were in full colour and featured the adventures of Superman, Batman, Hawkman and many others that have over the years remained staple favourites.
There were also the early Marvel comics and I was introduced to them in the main through their great value reprint titles such as Marvel Collectors Item Classics and Marvel Tales. These contained the early adventures of the Fantastic Four, Doctor Strange and the Ditko drawn Spider-Man who in my opinion was the best artist old Spidey ever had.
DC published their 80 Page Giants and other publishers appeared in the spinning racks our newsagents use to have that attracted this young reader to the joys of The Fly and The Mighty Crusaders (Archie), Blue Beetle and Captain Atom (Charlton) and T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents amongst others.
British comics were aplenty. I often purchased stalwarts such as Lion, Valiant and TV 21 but in those days there were far to many to choose from (we should be so lucky today!).
For a giggle The Beezer, Topper and Buster also joined the growing pile in my room. Sadly like so many others these did not stay with me after childhood. A common complaint of my generation.
As a kid I didn't realise how lucky we were in the UK. Not only did we get American comics we had our own. The variety on the market was fantastic. Every genre was covered from war (in those little pocket size editions that used to get passed around) to sports, not my cup of tea but highly popular with my mates.
Then there were the Summer Specials and Annuals which appeared during the summer holidays and Christmas respectively.
As you might expect Wham! and Smash! annuals were on my list to Santa every year.
My interest in comics waned in the early seventies but both Cor!! and Whizzer and Chips made their way into my hands.
For me and many others, the sixties this was a true golden age of comics.
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Sunday, July 22, 2007
high up on the way downs
this week herself and i had a wonderful day out. herself is signed off work with stress, as i may have mentioned. because she is at home she can meet up with people and go for walks. so she and her friend the writer decided to go for a walk. we met the writer at the station and then drove to a place where we could leave the car.
the first bit of the walk i had to be on the lead because of the skylarks. these are some rather daft birds. in spite of the fact that they can fly and so could quite easily find a tree to nest in, they choose to nest on the ground. to make matters worse they nest in fields that are going to be mangled by combine harvesters. in the face of such carnage it is not clear why a humble lurcher could do them any harm but there are signs everywhere telling people to keep their dog on the lead. as though i would get out of bed for anything less than a rabbit!
things looked up a bit later. we sat down for a rest. herself and the writer had a cup of coffee. i was allowed some prickly water. it has little bubbles in that burn my nose but its better than nothing. no sooner had herself poured out the coffee than some huge vehicles arrived and nearly ran over us. they were harvesting the skylarks, and it has to be said they were making quite a racket about it. one of them stopped almost on top of us while the driver ate his lunch without turning off the engine. ah, the peace and quiet of the countryside!
we got on our way again and after interminable photo stops (at last herself has someone to walk with who doesn't complain at the endless stopping to take a picture) we got to the bench where we were going to have lunch. alas! some people had found it before us! how dare they! so we had to walk further on to the jumping gate. this is where, when i was a bit more sprightly, i used to practice my jumping. i get my jumping skills from my grandad who it would appear could not be kept in anywhere. when the peeps first had me they could not work out how i could get out of the dog jail and into the house. they soon realised i could not be kept away from my bed and was leaping over the 5 foot fence and in through the window. i fear they had not bargained for a flying lurcher.
anyway, after a picnic lunch we wended our way back to the house. by now herself was melting into a pool of lard so had to have a shower before the peeps drove the writer back to her train.
i think the next outing may be to a beach - i only hope there will not be 200 greyhounds there...
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
joker the schmoozer!
dear readers, i have been honoured with an award! it seems i am a schmoozer! i did not know what this was so i had to look it up. i was given this award by the wonderful mrs deb whose blog herself reads avidly. i have never had any sort of award, nor been tagged to answer those wonderful quizzes full of questions you never knew you would need to know the answer to.
i have only one slight gripe: mrs deb seems to think that the editorial input in my blog comes from herself, whereas of course herself only provides the secretarial support due to my problem of typing with paws. the kernels of wisdom that i share with my readers emanate from beneath my own shaggy eyebrows. however, i would not wish to be a prima donna. herself is often generous enough to share her sandwiches with me, not always knowingly, of course, but that does not in any way detract from their tastiness. so i will share my fame and schmooziness with her.
one of the terms of the award is that i have to name another 5 blogs that deserve a similar award. two of the blogs i would name have already been nabbed by mrs deb so i will have to name some more. it is impossible to choose; herself reads so many blogs to me that my head is spinning trying to decide. but here goes: can we kick the bar here, , spectrum of possibilities, the eyes have it, free range living, and the lurchers.
so there you are people, go forth and schmooze!
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Thursday, July 12, 2007
it would be fair to say that herself is a little put out. in fact there is smoke coming out of her ears. the source of her displeasure is himself.
as regular readers will know, himself has dodgy kidneys. they are so dodgy that at some point soon they will stop working altogether. when this happens himself will have to have a pipe put in his rather fine belly and will have to pour stuff in and pump stuff out. in preparation for this i have been instructed that i must no longer jump up for a cuddle in case i pull out the pipe.
because himself has dodgy kidneys, his blood is not getting cleaned up properly. this means there are loads of nasty chemicals floating around in his system. the effect of the chemicals is that he is, to put it mildy, difficult to live with. herself generally puts up with this. so does my boy, although my boy often gets the worst of himself's moodiness. my boy copes with this by doing what herself calls "acting out". this does not mean my boy gets involved in plays. it means he does things like borrowing a cigarette lighter from a kid at school and then trying to light a pile of paper with it. as the house is made of wood, and my boy saw fit to put the paper in a bin next to the wall, this was frowned upon.
anyway, the long and the short of it is that, what with her job and himself and my boy, herself has got a bit stressy. this week she burst into tears at court which is a bad move. the lawyer on the other side knows that you are on the back foot if you are crying. herself has been signed off work with stress. she has been thinking hard about how to manage life.
part of the problem is that herself is in charge of earning most of the money. this is not because of the dodgy kidneys. it has always been this way, even before the kidneys got dodgy. from where i sit it looks like a reasonable way to divvy up the stuff. herself is good at earning money, himself is good at cooking and shopping and stuff. the thought of herself being in charge of the cooking and shopping and stuff and himself being in charge of earning money fills me with dread. we would be living in a cowshed with the smoke alarm going off the whole time.
for years and years the arrangement worked well. however, it seems it is no longer working well for herself. she is shaking and crying and not in a good state. she came to the conclusion that she has to cut down her hours at work, given that she has quite a lot to do at home as well.
the only way to cut her hours is to cut how much the peeps spend. at the moment they spend more than they have coming in. they do this by way of little squares of plastic. about once a year herself rings up the money man and gets more money. she does this by way of a magic device called a re-mortgage. the downside of this, which herself has just realised, is that you have to pay the money back. this means that herself has to keep working to earn money.
herself announced that there was going to be a change of plan.
"if i don't stop working so hard i will drop dead!" (this struck me as overly dramatic but she did have a point) "we will have to look at our money!" i am not sure how you look at something that is in fact not there.
herself drew up some spreadsheets. for someone who cannot add up how many fingers she has she is pretty sharp when the chips are down. the spreadsheets made it clear that the peeps will have to a) spend less and b) pay off the mortgage, before herself can cut down how hard she works.
the spending less idea is a novel one. herself can spend money without getting out of bed. in fact when she can't sleep she often sits in bed with the laptop, shopping. but once she is on a mission there is no stopping her. the first thing to go was lavish food shopping. the peeps went to waitrose (which for the benefit of my overseas readers is a place that sells yummy stuff) after parents evening at my boy's school. parents evening is a bit gruelling for the peeps so himself was looking forward to buying a tasty treat.
"don't spend too much!" said herself, "remember our economy drive!"
himself chose a tin of baked beans.
"we've got baked beans in the cupboard," pointed out herself.
"i want these f***ing beans!" shouted himself. several people turned round to look. herself was a little unnerved but had the presence of mind to warn himself that his little outburst would find its way into my blog.
today herself put her energies into sorting out the household bills. she found a deal where you can get your internet, phone and telly all for £26 a month. this will save a lot of dosh. the downside is himself will no longer get his football matches. he decided this was sufficient reason for another tantrum.
"its all i have left!" he wailed, forgetting that he also has computer games and the internet and normal telly and his season ticket to go and watch football, which herself has just bought him at huge expense. and he could of course talk to herself and my boy, although that i fear would be a last resort.
"i can't believe you!" said herself, "you are seriously expecting me to carry on working full time so you can watch bloody football!"
"just because you are miserable there is no need to make the rest of us miserable!" himself retaliated.
at this point herself had, for once, the common sense to retreat before she said something she might regret. i will tell you about the plan to build a house in the front garden to pay off the mortgage another time....
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007
this is just a very quick post but i have persuaded herself to write it now before i forget this morning's gem. my boy was just chatting about school to put off the evil moment when he has to get in the shower.
"in geography i had to design a travel poster about an exciting holiday," he told the peeps, "my poster was of a static caravan."
"lovely!" said herself. not everyone would enjoy a caravan holiday, and certainly even fewer would consider it exciting but my boy has been desperate to go on one for ages.
"my poster didn't look all that exciting so i jazzed it up a bit."
"how?" asked herself, nervously, thinking about more messages in the home/school book.
"oh, i drew britney spears in the background, being electrocuted."
"britney spears?" asked himself.
"yeah, she only had one leg." said my boy, a trifle too nonchalantly, "she lost the other one to diabetes."
these beefburger people have unusual minds...
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Sunday, July 01, 2007
new shoes
herself collected the new shoes yesterday. they are, as my boy said, well cool. they come with a dvd to show you how they work. this in itself is rather odd. shoes should, it seems to me, just go on your feet and then be forgotten about. but then i only have paws so what do i know.
everyone gathered round the laptop to watch the dvd. a canadian robot provided the soundtrack. the extreme programmer is staying and he rolled up laughing. he is very tall so there is a lot of him to roll up.
"i am going to set up a company that makes shoes that need a training manual and become a millionaire!" he cried. in reality the extreme programmer is already well on the way to becoming a millionaire. he is only 24 and already earns more than herself. he works for the best company on the planet who seem to own most of the internet. they have toys in their office and dogs are allowed to go to work there. they have a gym and restaurants and it is so cool that the employees never want to go home. so he is really not going to diversify into shoes.
anyway, i digress. after watching the dvd herself did a few laps of the kitchen. the shoes seem very wobbly. my boy, who now has feet the same size as herself, tried the shoes. he was impressed. he did a few laps and then gave them back to herself. by now herself was keen to try some of the exercises. it seems that even when you are standing still you can exercise by rocking backwards and forwards. in the dvd the people were doing this while waiting to check in at the airport.
"but you don't go to the airport every day!" protested my boy.
"well, you could rock in the queue at the supermarket." said herself, firmly.
"might as well go on the grape diet and sit on the bus rolling your eyes!" said himself. this was a reference to herself's birth mother who was of an eccentric disposition. she once read a book that said you could throw away your glasses if you did special eye exercises so she used to sit doing them in a spare moment, often to the entertainment of strangers. she also went on odd detox diets which gave her headaches.
in the evening my boy's sitter came so the peeps took the extreme programmer to the pub. herself wobbled in on the new shoes. after a pint of guinness the shoes were even more wobbly.
"i wouldn't like to wear these when i was drunk," she said, "they ought to warn you about that on the dvd." himself observed that the sort of people who were on the dvd wouldn't let anything other than distilled water past their lips.
"maybe that's why they make your stomach more toned," mused herself, "you can't drink too much guinness when you are wearing them." i feel she may need to watch the dvd again...
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I have been practicing with lining a lot lately. If you want to get better at lining then you just have to give it a go. This little jacket is part of a design I am working on that has a jacket with a collar and long sleeves. It will also have a curved front bolero.
If you follow what I make you will probably recognise this pink jacket from a while back.
I just wanted to experiment with fur before publishing it.
I have added photos to show what I did. If you haven't done lining before you will need to get used to turning things odd ways and making funny shapes.
|I put 2 back pieces together to make one piece so I could
cut the fur in one layer rather than trying to fold it.
|Make sure you cut it so the fur lays in the right direction.
This one smooths downwards.
|Stitch the shoulder seams and trim the fuzz a bit.
|Fold one centre back seam allowance of the lining to the
inside and press.
|Place the folded seam on top of the other seam and stitch
at the top and bottom to hold it in place.
|Line up the main and lining at the neck and the sleeve hem edges.
Stitch it. rim the corners a bit and clip the curve of the neck.
|Turn it right sides out.
|Bring the side seams together at the lining...
|... and the main. Stitch both side seams. It is a bit tricky
to get past the underarm with all that fur. Just make sure you go
far enough in then with the needle down, lift the foot and turn
to angle down the rest of the seam.
|Both side seams done. Now I am going to finish the hem edge.
|Bring the hem edges together by pulling them away from each
other and rolling them around the rest of the jacket. Push the sleeve
parts out of the way as best you can so you have room to stitch
without catching the inside bits.
|Pin it along the hem edges. Stitch it all the way across. If you are not using
fur you can cut the back lining on the fold and leave a gap in the hem edge
for turning that you can finish as you top stitch around the jacket.
|Use the gap in the centre back of the lining to pull it rights sides out.
First one side then the other.
|Hand stitch the centre back seam of the lining.
|It looks great just edge to edge.
|I had a beautiful coat clasp that I thinks looks great.
Happy Sewing,


text: Chloe Neill Has posted the first two chapters of Drink Deep, and Ethan has made another ghost appearance. All I'll say is, Neill better bring him back permanently, and soon, or I'm giving up the series for good. I like Jonah, but he's nothing when compared to Ethan. Clink here to read excerpt.


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Extreme Boxing is a not for profit organisation that is committed to amateur and professional boxing & combat sport. We maintain a high ethical, moral and fitness standard expectation of all those who train within the group. Smoking, alcohol and poor behavior is NOT tolerated. Read more…
Muaythai: Positive Impacts on Character Development of Adolescents
Written by: Yolanda Schmidt
Muaythai, or any martial art for that matter, develops more than simply the ability to defend yourself. I am convinced that by the end of this article you too will agree that Muaythai can positively impact the future of our youth, and is equally, if not more, beneficial than any other sport. In fact, I am certain that your opinion will transform (if not already) as your knowledge evolves and that you would consider encouraging children and even your own children to partake in Muaythai. Unique learning opportunities can be offered through the study of the art of eight limbs.
What makes Martial arts equally important in developmental stages of our youth? Much research has been conducted that supports the benefits martial arts can offer. Children are provided with the opportunity to develop physical, emotional and intellectual ability through the study of such an art (character development).
Some parents are weary of enrolling their child into Muaythai, with the thought that it also promotes violence. Studies have shown that this is a myth. Martial arts can assist in further developing self-discipline, social skills, respect, focus, team work and self-confidence. It is training of the mind, body and soul.
In fact, children who have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have shown great success with these programs. Self-control and concentration are exactly the skills underdeveloped in ADHD kids and Muaythai requires a vast amount of that. Children will learn how to maintain focus until conclusion of a task.
Fosters Self-Discipline
The discipline required in martial arts will carry through to other aspects of their life such as their academics, house chores and, in later years, work. Children are
encouraged constantly to work on techniques to experience success. The "practice makes perfect" phrase comes to mind. Martial arts fosters drive and discipline to follow dreams, and set and achieve goals. Muaythai has provided assistance with troubled youth or at-risk youth by teaching the art of discipline. It has been reported that children who study the art of Muaythai are less likely to drop out of school, they have greater academic achievement, their sense of self is better developed and they are less likely to report of boredom than those children whose learning is not embedded within the arts.
Promotes physical activity
Muaythai makes use of contextual and practical study, which provides opportunity in the development in physical, social, aesthetic and cultural aspects. With the growing obesity epidemic in Australia, Muaythai promotes healthy lifestyles, physical fitness and wellbeing by providing students with the opportunity to make healthier life-style choices. Too often in modern society children opt for sedentary activities such as PlayStation games and mobile devices. Muaythai gives them an avenue to engage in physical activity while having fun and interacting with others.
A very necessary skill, required in later life, is also acquired through the study of martial arts. Children will learn how to fail, a skill that aligns with competition. Today many sports go the route of every child being awarded a prize. Muaythai allows children to be accountable, develops resilience, determination and goal setting ability.
Body Awareness
Every child has a different learning style, kinaesthetic, visual and auditory. Muaythai caters for all those learning styles, including every stage of Gardner's multiple intelligences. Muaythai is linked to Gardner's multiple intelligences in different ways, for example, bodily-kinaesthetic allows a child to think through the body, Muaythai allows problem solving of movements through feeling and exploring their own body. Intrinsic feedback is developed, the ability to recognise and feel when a technique is performed incorrectly and making the necessary adjustments. As well as extrinsic feedback, whereby the mirrors and trainers provide instructions on how to better their technique. This allows a child to value other's feedback (and in other contexts, other's opinions). Visual-spatial links to the awareness of where the body is while moving through the space (distance from partner or opponent to effectively land shots when hitting pads and sparring), with the ability to recognise, recall and manipulate movements.
Another example of the multiple intelligences is the rhythmic component; children work with rhythm, vary tempos and learn about timing, when to execute techniques with sparring, bag work and pad work. Children also develop interpersonal skills through the study of the art form, providing them with the ability to relate to others through interaction, observation and collaboration with various different people, trainers and professional fighters.
Instills Respect & Boost Self-Esteem
Within Muaythai children are taught to value, respect and appreciate their trainers, themselves, their own achievements and the work of others.
Many non-martial artists out there see it as simply learning combinations of skills. However, not only do children learn techniques, but develop their self-confidence and self-respect. Researchers back up my strong opinion that Muaythai provides children with the ability to observe critically, and exercises that promote a positive self-esteem and values, which fosters personal growth in their developmental stages. Your child's self-esteem can be improved through the feeling of achievement and success during skill acquisition. The sense of accomplishment experience by a child is a feeling that encourages further goals to be set and achieved.
Mental Alertness
As you can see, Muaythai provides many learning opportunities for our youth, mental alertness skills are stimulated through attention to detail, modelling, sequencing, and memory of movements and combinations of techniques. The study of the art of eight limbs promotes team work, negotiation skills and understanding of other's opinion during partner work and group activities.
Muaythai is not purely about getting in the ring and fighting. Muaythai places emphasis on the processes of the experience, not only the end goal. Elements such as deep knowledge, cultural knowledge, deep understanding, engagement and problematic knowledge are incorporated into Muaythai classes. Then, the integration of the elements of performance (sparring days, demonstrations at festivals, amateur and professional bouts); encouraging confidence, projection and focus and the integration of the elements of appreciation, whereby students learn to appreciate their own work and those of others (YouTube videos of fighters who may inspire them). Muaythai promotes critical thinking through the reflection and analysis of their performance and those of their team mates.
Communication and Social Skills
Further research supports my belief that Muaythai enables participants to articulate, communicate and comprehend emotions and ideas in an engaging manner.
Muaythai is a means of communication that is more powerful than that of politicians, regardless of the language spoken. Social skills are further developed along with team work.
This statement is supported by researcher's who believe that our lives are enriched through the engagement of our emotions projected through the study of the art form. Therefore, the opportunity to express movement symbolically within aesthetic and cultural contexts is provided in Muaythai (also evident in the Wai Khru Ram Muay). The study of Muaythai encourages expression of emotion and promotes subjectiveness of everyday events, which allows us to better understand ourselves, the world and our role in this life.
Cross Curricular Links
Children are able to develop interpersonal skills through Muaythai, including body awareness and body exploration. Muaythai can even be linked to other key learning within the school curriculum. Such as logical-mathematical links to Muaythai where children learn about movement patterns, rhythmical ideas and geometrical shapes. Geometrical shapes and lines associated with Muaythai skills allows students to think of abstract ideas linked to Mathematics. Linguistic development is supported through the learning of Muaythai techniques and movement names.
Muaythai adds a cultural element to physical activity, providing children with the opportunity to learn about other cultures which can assist in reducing prejudice. Not only does this provide deep knowledge about culture, but it also creates the link between Muaythai and geography and history.
Muaythai is a universal language, let us teach everyone!
Written by Yolanda Schmidt
Muaythai Fighter : 36 Fights (29W-6L-1D-9KO)
- WKN Australian title
- WMC NSW State Title
- WKA Australian Title
- Thapae Stadium title
- 2x MTA Gold medalist (2014, 2015),
- 2x IFMA Bronze medalist (2015, 2016)
- Australian Female Muaythai Fighter of the year 2015
- Australia's most inspirational fighter of the year 2016


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New broadcast partnerships for season one include BT and Virgin Media in the UK and WeKids in Asia. Meanwhile, ABC (Australia), BBC Kids and Knowledge Network (Canada), YLE (Finland), NRK (Norway), SIC Television (Portugal) and MBC (the Middle East) have acquired season two.
The show's 24 x half-hour second season premiered on PBS KIDS in the US in August. It has inspired a collection of web games, mobile apps, licensed toys and other products that are set to launch in the US next year.
Ready Jet Go! follows new kid in town (and alien) Jet Propulsion and his Earth friends as they embark on astronomical adventures exploring the solar system. Aimed at three- to eight-year-olds, the series was created by Craig Bartlett (Hey Arnold!, Dinosaur Train). CAKE handles international distribution, excluding the US and Canada (but holds broadcast rights for Canada).
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Mark Leslie is a writer, editor and bookseller who lives in Southern Ontario. In 2005, Mark joined the blogging bandwagon and started posting random thoughts and musings on writing, bookselling and being a father.
Monday, September 04, 2006
Extreme Vacuuming
Even now, it's not a promise to visit Dairy Queen or McDonald's that gets his attention, but a promise that he and Daddy will get to vacuum. While I'm vacuuming, there are three main activites that occur.
1) Alexander runs up and down the hallway screaming in delight
2) Alexander follows along doing his own vacuuming with Dusty, a toy vacuum that he got last Christmas (one of his favourite toys, of course)
3) Alexander works hard at moving objects (the footstool, his toybox, book basket, etc) out of the way so I can properly get behind spots.
And at the end of each and every vacumming session, as I'm trying to unplug the vacuum and put it away, he points out "spots that I've missed" -- of course, there's never anything there, it's just a wonderful stalling tactic so we can continue with his favourite past-time. Sigh.
Recently, he's taken the sport to a new level, enjoying taking Dusty onto the stairs and doing acrobatic stair vacuuming. And the other morning while Fran and I were laying in bed, he dragged Dusty over and pulled him into the bed and tried to vacuum us. The funniest part about it, of course has to do with a series of random phrases that Dusty mutters, because just as he was rolling across my chest, he started to choke and say that he swallowed a hairball.
I think he's starting to invent a new sport that might catch on. Extreme Vacuuming. Watch for it this fall on TSN.
7 comments:
- Sandy Hatcher-Wallace said...
That is so cute...I'm glad that you are documenting all his little favorite things because he'll love to read these to his children someday. You can also use it as blackmail when he's a teenager.
I really enjoyed reading this post today...even about the hairball.
- lecram sinun said...
LOL! Tghat is way too cute!
- Franny said...
Wow, you got that kid trained! My kids are TERRIFIED of the vacuum cleaner, and run screaming and crying bloody murder when I turn it on. As a result, we don't vacuum all that often. Thinking about buying a goat to eat up all the crap on the carpet...
- lime said...
oh that is priceless!!! this is one of those 'little alexander stories' you will have to tell him when he is older, and tell his children too. i love it!
haha franny! too cute!
yes, Ben doesn't like the vacuum either, granted he's a cat...probably thinks the thing will suck him up or something.
as for Alexander, keep this story in mind as he gets older, so that you can remind him when he whines about doing this chore, how much he loved it when he was younger.
Hi, Mark! Love the Alexander anecdote...Alexander is going to be very embarrassed by that story when he's a teenager, LOL. Sounds like you're really enjoying the new career. You realize, of course, that we're still recovering from your loss over at the big I... :-)
- Rainypete said...
Megan just covers her ears and proceeds to shriek "Too loud Daddy!". Maybe Alexander can develop a stealth vacuum.
I'll look forward to him diving out of a plane clutching a shop-vac on TSN in teh future.


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Justin and I have been dating almost a month. When we are together we have a blast. It's Friday night and he is heading to my house from work. I open the door and he gives me a bear hug and a kiss. I melt. He is so affectionate.
"Are you hungry?" I ask as I lead him to the kitchen.
"Starving." He says.
"You are going to help me make dinner. Can you handle that?" I say smiling.
"I think I can. You just tell me what to do and I will do it." He says with a grin.
He is so cute with those laughing eyes.
We make Chicken Paprika which is chicken, sautéed onions, sour cream and lots of paprika over rice. It's quite easy to prepare and delicious. My sister Ava joins us for dinner and we sit for hours talking and drinking wine.
After dinner we make a fire and listen to music and dance. The way he looks at me I feel as though he is looking deep into my soul. It's a little un-nerving. I am starting to let him in-my walls are coming down. But apparently all is not rosy on the home front…
The next day as he is leaving to go home we start talking about relationships. He motions me to sit on his lap and I say: "If you ever want to get rid of me cheat on me." Apparently those words didn't register because as he is getting into his truck he says:
"Summer is coming and if an opportunity arises I will take it".
I am floored. Didn't what I just say to him register at all in his brain?
"What does that mean?" I asked searching his face for an answer.
"It means that I am not ready to be in an exclusive relationship." We've only known each other a few weeks." He counters.
I am speechless. I shake my head. I can feel the tears welling up and I walk away. I can hear him call after me;
"Doesn't mean that I will. l am just saying". I can hear the truck door close and I hear him pulling out of the driveway.
My heart is breaking. Here he is telling me that he really likes me a lot and the way he is so affectionate with me I know he cares deeply and then he tells me this. I can't figure him out…
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Schooling for Tomorrow Knowledge Base › Themes › Innovation › School Leadership
If a strong focus is made on schools as learning organisations, intermediary structures and networks might be thought to diminish the importance of leadership, this is not borne out in these articles.
In Networking for Educational Innovation: A Comparative Analysis, Sliwka argues that even in network structures defined by the absence of hierarchy and top-down lines of control, "they need to be understood as requiring both relatively stable structures as well as some form of organisational leadership to function effectively". Johansson (in Schooling for Tomorrow — Principles and Directions for Policy) proposes that "strong autonomous schools meeting high ambitions… call for strong leaders, principals and managers".
This is not leadership defined in traditional hierarchical terms. As Shuttleworth in Governance Management and Leadership maintains, this would be to seek solutions from earlier "scientific management" paradigms that are inappropriate to the post-industrial era, a mismatch that arguably has characterised some educational policy thinking over recent decades. Mulford (also in Governance Management and Leadership and Hirsch (in Management of Learning, Schools and Sytems) reject the "great man/woman theory of leadership"; Johansson (in Schooling for Tomorrow — Principles and Directions for Policy similarly argues against placing faith in "idiosyncratic influence of the charismatic individual".
The arguments are two-fold: first, modern forms of organisation – whether schools or others – need leadership other than that defined in strongly hierarchical relationships; second, contemporary complex environments need teams not single individuals. Even as regards those individuals who are in key leadership positions, their role is not that of providing single-handed direction. Mulford in identifying the features of what he describes as the "transformational principal" emphasises the extent to which this person should bring all the staff into the decision-making and organisational change process rather than impose this "top-down":
● Individual Support – providing moral support, showing appreciation for the work of individual staff and taking account of their opinions.
● Culture – promoting an atmosphere of caring and trust among staff, setting the tone for respectful interaction with students, and demonstrating a willingness to change practices in the light of new understandings.
● Structure – establishing a school structure that promotes participative decision making, supporting delegation and distributive leadership, and encouraging teacher decision-making autonomy.
● Vision and Goals – working toward whole-staff consensus on school priorities and communicating these to students and staff to establish a strong sense of overall purpose.
● Performance Expectation – having high expectations for students and for teachers to be effective and innovative.
● Intellectual Stimulation – encouraging staff to reflect on what they are trying to achieve with students and how they are doing it; facilitates opportunities for staff to learn from each other and models continual learning in his or her own practice.
Strong pressures towards relatively narrow forms of accountability may, however, sit uneasily with exhortations for leaders to be more "transformational" in the directions outlined in this list of desirable characteristics. Nor is it a question of replacing one outdated form of leadership with another that is more up-to-date, for various approaches will be needed. The context in which schools operate – Mulford (also in Governance Management and Leadership singles out the varying structures of governance and Mulford (also in Governance Management and Leadership identifies socio-economic environment as pertinent aspects of context – influences the room for manoeuvre available for the effective exercise of leadership. There is no one model of leadership that is best for all circumstances.
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Just how little confidence is there in the ability of the Barack Obama administration to fight terrorism? So little that even liberal Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen is now mocking the pathetic efforts of this administration in his latest column:
There is almost nothing the Obama administration does regarding terrorism that makes me feel safer. Whether it is guaranteeing captured terrorists that they will not be waterboarded, reciting terrorists their rights, or the legally meandering and confusing rule that some terrorists will be tried in military tribunals and some in civilian courts, what is missing is a firm recognition that what comes first is not the message sent to America's critics but the message sent to Americans themselves. When, oh when, will this administration wake up?
Cohen then suggests that the original plan (now hopefully aborted) to try terrorist Khalid Sheik Muhammed in the middle of Manhattan was a brain-dead effort by the Obama administration to demonstrate to the world that The One is the un-Bush:
It is amazing that no one thought this through. Published reports say that the Justice Department informed Mayor Michael Bloomberg of its plan just about the time it was announced. This alacrity was clearly the product of some excitement down at Justice -- yet another chance to show the world that George W. Bush was gone and with him the odious attempts to treat terrorists as if they were, well, terrorists. A civilian trial! Right in the heart of Manhattan! Obama ought to ask his friend Attorney General Eric Holder what in the world he was thinking -- just as we might ask Obama why he has such faith in Holder's judgment.
Cohen also finds the concept of Mirandizing terrorists to be ridiculous:
In a similar example of poor judgment, an undoubtedly delighted Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was told he had something called Miranda rights and could, if he so chose, cease talking about allegedly attempting to blow up a jetliner as it approached Detroit on Christmas Day. Abdulmutallab was Mirandized after just 50 minutes of interrogation and he, having probably seen more than his share of "Law & Order" episodes, promptly shut up.
...It has been more than a month since he last opened his mouth, and even if he resumes cooperating -- a deal may be in the works -- he now knows just a bit more about the present-day location of various al-Qaeda operatives than does Regis Philbin.
Remember when it was perceived by liberals that closing Guantanmo would be a good idea? No longer...at least for this liberal:
The announced closing of Guantanamo has also suffered from a peculiar Obama-style naivete. It is now apparent that there are some bad people there who should be detained way past the time they are eligible for AARP membership. It's true that the world does not like Guantanamo, but then it's also true that the world is not an al-Qaeda target.
Of course, being a liberal, Cohen does take potshots at Bush and Dick Cheney:
No doubt George Bush soiled America's image abroad with what looked liked vigilante justice and Dick Cheney's hearty endorsement of ugly interrogation measures.
Yet despite his automatic dislike for Bush/Cheney, Cohen does admit that:
...in all likelihood he bent over backward to ensure that nothing like those attacks would happen again.
Which is in sharp contrast to the attitude of the current administration:
The Obama administration, on the other hand, seems to have bent over backward to prove to the world it is not the Bush administration and will, almost no matter what, ensure that everyone gets the benefit of American civil liberties. But the paramount civil liberty is a sense of security and this, sad to say, has eroded under Barack Obama. Repeatedly, the administration has shown poor judgment. Abdulmutallab's silence is a scream that something is wrong.
So, Richard, despite your ideological dislike of the Bush administration, do you feel safer from terrorism now or then? Remember, you stated that the paramount civil liberty is a sense of security.
p.s. And for those of you still complaining about the rotating graphic used in this (and other) blogs, I suggest you take the matter up with General Zod.


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For some, choosing which interests to pursue can be a difficult decision. For John Harris, a senior anthropology and jewelry major, the solution is simple: pursue them all.
On Thursday, April 5, at 6:00 p.m. in the Dr. Margaret Eschner Bacon Student Gallery, Harris will host a reception for his multi-faceted senior seminar event, Casting Culture. Part art exhibition, part book release, and part performance, Casting Culture showcases the wide range of Harris's skills and interests.
In the gallery from April 2 to April 6, Harris has more than 20 functional pieces of metal artwork that he's created over the past four years. Also on display is his newly published book, The True Survivors, a fictional ethnography, which his artwork is based on.
At 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. on April 5, performances directed by Harris will take place in the Upton Quad. The performances will be based on life, death, and rebirth, the recurring themes in his book.
"I've spent a lot of time thinking of ways to make my show the best it can be," Harris said. "I want to set the bar for future student exhibitions in this gallery, and I want to graduate knowing I left my mark at Buffalo State."
His time spent thinking has certainly paid off. Everything in Harris's show has been meticulously considered and executed. The pedestals for his art were designed and built to resemble archeologists' sifters. His performances will take place on a stage that is strategically positioned to be viewable from the gallery. Harris has also installed speakers so that the audience can hear the performances in the gallery, as well.
"Everything for this event has been built from the ground up," Harris said. In addition to creating the artwork, writing the book, and directing the performances, he also wrote and recorded the music for the performances, designed the costumes, and built the stage.
Casting Culture is a cohesive blend of Harris's two fields of study: anthropology and metals. The show incorporates his talents as a jewelry designer, sculptor, director, author, anthropologist, costume designer, and musician. The only problem that remains is how to fit all of that onto a business card.
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"History has failed us, but no matter" is the opening line of Min Jin Lee's novel Pachinko. This sweeping, historical, and immersive family saga delves deeply into the experiences of Korean immigrants in Japan between 1910 and 1989.
The story begins in a small fishing village in Yeongdo, Korea. There, we are introduced to fishermen, farmers, and vendors who make up the village. Among them is a man named Hoonie, who is born with a cleft lip and a twisted foot. Despite his physical deformities, Hoonie is respected throughout the village. He marries Yangjin, daughter of a farmer who lost everything during the Japanese colonial rule in Korea. Hoonie and Yangjin have one daughter, Sunja, who they showered with love and affection.
Sunja becomes the most integral character in Pachinko and the heart by which the story is propelled forward. By choosing to tell a story through the lens of an average Korean family, Min Jin Lee gives us a glimpse of Korea's rich culture and how Koreans were affected during the Japanese colonialism as well as during and after World War II.
The characters are portrayed with remarkable humanity and authenticity. We see most of them experience overwhelming hardships. Sunja and her parents lived through abject poverty. When Sunja, along with her husband, emigrated to Osaka, Japan, she, as well as her fellow Koreans, are treated horribly by others (Japanese and Koreans alike), forcing them to live in impoverished circumstances, to endure discrimination as well as racism, and to succumb to desperate situations—prostitution, gangs, crimes—in order to survive.
On an interview with PBS, Lee mentions how fiction allowed her to deftly explore people's complexities and contradictions. Lee recognizes that one cannot simply describe a person within the category of good and evil, black and white, light and dark. In Pachinko, even though Koreans experience maltreatment in Japan, the Japanese characters in the book are not portrayed as contemptible people. In point of fact, there were Japanese who also suffered at the time, especially those who showed empathy towards Koreans. Moreover, Lee shows how other Koreans take advantage of their fellow Koreans. They do it not out of malign intent but for their desperate need to survive.
Lee creates well-rounded and fully realized human characters. As readers, we find ourselves deeply and emotionally invested in them, the relationships they create, and the fate they hold. If books are bridges by which we can put ourselves into someone else's shoes, Lee profoundly changes the way we connect to literature. In an article from the The Atlantic, Lee says that she's "interested in creating radical empathy through art". This radical empathy is evident throughout Pachinko. As we slowly start to partake in the character's misfortunes and triumphs, our views shift; then, we realize that these fictional characters reflect real people.
Lee's writing style is straightforward. She lets her characters and their story be the focal point of her narrative. Furthermore, she examines Korean identity with depth and integrity. At its core, Pachinko is a tale of hope and forgiveness. It is a book that shows how one can catch a glimpse of a glimmer of light through the dark times. It is a story of people rising above the injustices and inequities they have experienced. Pachinko is one of those rare books that will transcend time.
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Today on Let's Eat In, Cathy Erway is joined on the phone by Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton of The Canal House. The Canal House releases seasonal publications three times a year, and they recently published a cookbook entitled Canal House Cooks Everyday. Today, Cathy, Christopher, and Melissa are talking about Thanksgiving dinner! Hear about some of the dishes that Christopher and Melissa are cooking for their own Thanksgiving dinner tables. Hear why The Canal House recommends a dry salt brine for your turkey as opposed to a traditional wet brine. Christopher and Melissa discuss some of their favorite late-fall greens, and their passion for seasonal ingredients. If you're interested in a decadent date, have Christopher and Melissa take you out for oysters, champagne, and foie gras! This episode has been sponsored by Hearst Ranch
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Apple's message to customers about iPhone batteries and performance provides additional clarity around earlier confirmation that Apple made changes to iPhone performance for the iPhone 6s and later, starting with iOS 10.2.1, and then for the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus in iOS 11.2. There's a lot of good info in the message, including an explanation on how chemically-aged batteries aren't able to deliver the same kinds of peak energy that they can when they're newer, why some users thought slowdowns were a result of major iOS version releases, and how Apple will be handling the issue moving forward.
While Apple appears to have no long-term plans to address an issue that's inherent with all rechargeable batteries, they are planning to mitigate the issue in several ways. Out of warranty iPhone battery replacements are now just $39 in Australia for anyone with an iPhone 6s or later. There will soon be an iOS update that provides more information on battery health, so you aren't left wondering if it's that's latest update that's killing your battery or whether your battery has aged overnight. Some interesting additional followup questions about the entire issue include whether this is as big as the press is making it out to be, or whether it's all just a storm in a teacup.
Apple's new support article on iPhone battery and performance claims batteries are consumables, which isn't exactly news to anyone who has owned a laptop before. Hot environments can cause batteries to age faster, and power management included in iOS can lead to longer app launch times, lower frame rates while scrolling, lower speaker volume, and other minor power-saving measures. Importantly, Apple also tells us about what isn't affected by power management, including call quality, network performance, camera photo and video quality, sensors, and Apple Pay.
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Just before Christmas, Bloomberg had a story telling us about a combined user experience across Macs and iOS devices. Many interpreted this as the amalgamation of iOS and macOS, but John Gruber's take is that Apple's Marzipan will more likely be a new development framework to allow some measure of cross-platform interoperability, as opposed to touchscreen Macs and mouse-cursors on iPads.
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SMILA/Documentation/2011.Simplification/Howto integrate a component in SMILA
This page summarizes the different types and complexity levels for the integration of components in SMILA.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Conventions
- 3 Integrating BPEL service
- 4 Integrating data sources
- 5 Integrating alternative implementations of SMILA core components
Due to its architecture SMILA allows for the easy integration of third-party components into its framework. Actually there are three different possible integration scenarios available that are depicted in the following table.
|Integrating BPEL service
|Integrating data sources
|Integrating alternative implementations of SMILA core components
|This is probably the most frequently used integration scenario. It allows for the integration or exchange of functionality (services, 3rd party software, etc.) used to process records in the workflow engine.
|Integrating your own crawler or agent implementations is another common scenario for adding functionality to SMILA. By doing so, further data sources can be unlocked to provide additional input to SMILA.
|This scenario is particularly intended for the experienced (SMILA) developer and comprises the possibility to exchange existing implementations of the SMILA core components by your own implementations.
|The figure demonstrates how you can integrate the functionality of your service or your piece of software to SMILA by adding it to the workflow engine.
|The figure above exemplary shows how you can add your own crawler implementation to SMILA. Please note that though you may also add an agent implementation likewise this option is not shown in the figure. This was chosen due to simplicity.
|The figure above demonstrates how two of the SMILA core components -- connectivity and data store -- may be exchanged by your own implementations. These components serve as examples only, that is, you may also exchange other core components such as the blackboard service or the delta indexing manager.
|The above figures exemplary demonstrate at which levels in the SMILA architecture an integration of new components is applicable. However, for simplicity reason, we restricted the above figures to the index processing chain while completely ignoring the search processing chain that offers the same integration options (except for the integration of agents and crawlers), but is currently not in the focus of this page.
Handling of Character Encoding
To make processing of data in SMILA easier: If external data must be converted to a string (e.g. an attribute value), the crawler, agent or any other component accessing an external data source should try everything that is possible to ensure that the conversion is done using the correct encoding. For example, HTTP clients should use the encoding reported by the HTTP server. If the data source does not provide information about the character encoding, you can use the class org.eclipse.smila.utils.file.EncodingHelper that tries to convert a byte[] to a string by trying to detect the correct encoding from a byte[] by checking BOMs or checking XML and HTML content for instructions and finally by using UTF-8 or, if this fails, the default platform encoding. You may find this helpful.
On the other hand, if valid string data must be converted to a byte[] (e.g. if it is stored as a attachment after pipelet processing), the conversion must always use UTF-8 encoding.
Integrating BPEL service
As already shown in the overview above, SMILA offers the possibility to integrate your own service or piece of software into SMILA BPEL workflows. In SMILA we simply call these workflows pipelines. A pipeline is the definition of a BPEL process (or workflow) that orchestrates pipelets and other BPEL services (e.g. web services).
There are several options on how to achieve this:
- Simple: The easiest method to add functionality is to invoke a web service by using the standard functionality of BPEL. However, the disadvantage is that not all data of SMILA records are accessible if you opt for this method of integration.
- Default: The recommended way to integrate additional functionality in SMILA is to provide Java implementations of an interface that allow for an easy creation of the above mentioned pipelets.
- Advanced: (idea, not realized yet) This method extends the default mechanism by providing an alternative procedure for integrating OSGi services that do not run in the same OSGi runtime as the BPEL workflow but in another OSGI runtime that may even run on a remote machine.
Simple: Integrating web services
The simplest way of integrating additional functionality in SMILA is to call a web service, which is a standard BPEL workflow engine functionality independent of SMILA. However, there are some limitations concerning the input and result data to/from web services: The workflow object (a DOM object) that enters the BPEL workflow in SMILA contains only the record IDs by default. That means records and the data contained therein - attributes, annotations, and attachments - are not accessible from a BPEL workflow because it can only access and use the values contained in the BPEL workflow object.
To overcome this restriction you can add additional data to the workflow object by adding filters in the configuration file located at org.eclipse.smila.blackboard/RecordFilters.xml. These filter rules define which attributes and annotations should be copied to the workflow object to make them accessible in the BPEL workflow. Additionally, you should not forget to include all attributes and annotations in the RecordFilters.xml file that you wish to write data to. Though filters work on attributes and annotations there is no possibility to access attachments of records because binary data is not reasonable in DOM.
A good example for this use case is the integration of the Language Weaver web service. The Language Weaver Translation Server provides a web service interface that translates a text into another language. This service could easily be used within SMILA to extend its functionality.
Further reading
Please consult the following how-to tutorials for a more detailed technical description:
Default: Integrating local SMILA pipelets
The default and thus recommended technique to integrate functionality or software in SMILA is to provide a pipelet that runs in the same OSGi runtime as the BPEL workflow engine. Pipelets are easy to implement as they require only standard Java knowledge. They are not shared between multiple pipelines, even multiple invocations of a Pipelet in the same Pipeline do not share the same instance. The lifecycle and configuration of pipelets is managed by the workflow engine, not by OSGi runtime. For further information on pipelets refer to the Pipelets documentation.
The above mentioned restriction of integrated web services using the BPEL default engine functionality does not apply to pipelets. Both have full access to SMILA records by using the [SMILA/Glossary#B|blackboard service]], which makes it easy to read, modify, and store records.
In general pipelets follow the same (sometimes optional) logical steps (of course this depends highly on the business logic to be executed). These steps are:
- Read the configuration (optional)
- Read input data from blackboard (optional)
- Execute the business logic
- Write result data to blackboard (optional)
In terms of the pipelet that implements the business logic you are totally free to use any desired technology. Some of the posibilities include:
- Using POJOs (For examples refer to the XML processing pipelets)
- Using any local available OSGi service (For an example refer to the LuceneSearchPipelet that uses a LuceneSearchService)
- Using other technologies such as JNI, RMI, or CORBA to integrate remote or non Java components (As an example consider the integration of Oracle Outside In Technology.)
- Typical examples for pipelets are the XML processing pipelets. These lightweight pipelets are used for XML processing (e.g. XSL transformation). Each pipeline uses its own pipelet instance.
Further reading
Please consult the following how-to tutorials for a more detailed technical description:
Advanced: Integrating remote services
Integrating data sources
Due to the architecture of the SMILA connectivity framework it is easy to include additional data sources by providing appropriate implementations of agents and/or crawlers.
- A typical agent is a FilesystemWatcher. It monitors a folder (or folder structure) for changes (creation, modification, or deletion of files/folders) and reports those actions to SMILA.
- Typical crawlers are the FilesystemCrawler or the WebCrawler. The first iterates over a folder structure and sends all encountered files to SMILA. The latter traverses the links of HTML pages, follows links to other HTML pages, and sends these pages as well as other resources (images, PDF files, etc.) to SMILA.
Further reading
Please consult the following how-to tutorials for a more detailed technical description:
Integrating alternative implementations of SMILA core components
The component-based architecture of SMILA even allows you to provide your own implementations of SMILA core components. More info coming soon...
A typical example is an alternative implementation of the DeltaIndexingManager that does not store its state in memory but in the file system or in a database.
Further reading