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Eight Ways to Sell Your Products
This is the time of year when most of us sell the greatest volume of soap, body products and candles of the entire year. Moreover, most of us want to capitalize on that and sell the most we possibly can. We also have many choices for selling our goods.
Farmers markets are popular among vendors and offer several advantages. They are generally inexpensive and attract a good source of customers who appreciate the natural goodness of soap, candles and body products. They can be an ideal place to begin.
Craft shows run the gamut from inexpensive to expensive, customers who fit your niche to those who don't; well run and attended to, well, the opposite, they are popular choice for the beginner and experienced, alike.
A number of those in cottage industries sell via consignment shops, where others won't consider them. Renting shelf space is sometimes an option, as well, and may be a good option. A storefront allows the owner to do whatever she desires, but takes capital, inventory and business sense to succeed.
If one is willing to put the effort into a website, she stands to expand her business to virtually anyone, anywhere. The same is true with internet handcrafted sites such as Etsy and Artfire. All require, however, fees for listing or selling or monthly costs, as well as the added job of shipping goods.
Finally, some choose wholesale, although it's usually a choice of those more experienced in selling of course, for several reasons. The requirement to produce in large batches, the tight deadlines in getting product ready, and the ability to negotiate contracts require a skill that most who are new to selling, lack.
How do we like our options, and how do we decide which ones to pursue? To be honest, it's often simply a matter of which opportunities fall into our laps. We use the trial-and-error method until we find those that best fit our products and our needs. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it can take some time to find our groove–the choice that works best for us, individually. Others of us determine our niche and goals and realize from inception of the business which selling venues will best help us reach our business goals.
Which methods do you prefer, and how did you get to where you are? What is one piece of advice you would give to the hobbyist who is working on turning her hobby into a business?
Until next time, may your days be filled with bubbles and wax.
Beth Byrne for the Saponifier
Wanted: Emulsion Junkies
I admit to being crazy about emulsions, especially as they pertain to soap, lotions and creams.
A scientist I am not. I was never fond of chemistry until I embarked on this soap and stuff adventure a number of years ago. I actually remember my first lotion emulsion. Following the directions in The Herbal Home Spa, by Greta Breedlove, I warmed my water with a little borax and in another pan, warmed my oils and beeswax. I slowly poured the water phase into the oils phase and voila! I had lotion. I went on to experiment with other emulsifiers such as lecithin. Soon, I discovered e-wax and was really on my way in having obtained a stable emulsion. I experimented with various oils and water amounts and later, with BTMS and other emulsifiers. It was fun. To be truthful, I can't say my mistakes were fun. The time I forgot the borax that was to accompany my beeswax and I ended up with a separated mess was not fun, but I did learn a valuable lesson about a borax/beeswax emulsion.
Later on, I got up the nerve to make cold process soap and again, was fascinated with emulsions. That combining sodium hydroxide and oils could produce a hard bar of soap was fascinating and I couldn't get enough. I still can't! When that separating oil and water becomes one at trace, I get a little thrill of wonder and success. Although I don't do it often, hot process is just another variation of that process that amazes me with its results.
I am writing this because I just know that I am in no way unique. You likely share a similar story or we would have no need for the Saponifier. We have our individual differences–you may have begun with soap and then moved to lotions, or you may make only lotion or soap; nevertheless, if you enjoy making one, you're an emulsion junkie just like me.
So, how about it? Do you declare yourself an emulsion junkie?
Until next time, may your days be filled with bubbles and wax.
Beth Byrne for the Saponifier
Molds: Not Just a Tool, but a Passion!
Soap molds. They come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and materials. Some need to be lined; others don't. You'll find fancy molds and plain jane log or slab molds built with scrap wood in just a few hours. Molds aren't just a tool, but a passion!
We soapmakers love our molds. For some of us, a walk through the grocery or hardware store is more of a mold-finding expedition than it is securing food for our families or tackling our next diy project. Every empty container is eyed as a potential soap mold. We even have our families trained to save containers that appear to be suitable for soap. This was especially true for me as a beginner making melt and pour soaps. I used empty juice cans, plastic packaging and bottoms of soda bottles, to name a few. In doing so, I also learned what didn't work. The plastic packaging had to hold up to hot soap being poured into it and a rigid plastic would be next to impossible to remove soap from. Yes, every soapmaking session was an adventure in resourcefulness and creativity, and it was fun.
This kind of behavior isn't conducive to production soapmaking, yet many of even the most seasoned soapmakers engage in the practice at least once in awhile. And why not? It keeps us on our toes and renews our creativity. It might even lead to the Next Big Thing in our product lineup! If you think about it, we might not have round soaps had it not been for some clever person in the hardware store who took a gander at pvc piping, or upon emptying his cylindrical can of potato chips wondered, "Hmm. . . can this be used for soap?" What's even better is how soapers share their discoveries so that all might benefit from both their successes and their failures.
What about you? What is the most unique container you've ever used for soap?
Until next time,
May your days be filled with bubbles and wax.
Beth Byrne for the Saponifier
Five Ways to Survive the Silly Season
The Silly Season is upon us.
Silly Season, in case you don't know, is roughly that period of time between November and Christmas when many businesses do the bulk of their sales. Add that to the busyness that most of us find ourselves immersed in with friends and family obligations and other activities, and you have a Silly Season, indeed. Even hobbyists find themselves in a similar situation with their desire to create lovely gifts for all of those fortunate people on their lists.
We all need to cope with this season and create ways to make our way through and come out the other side, victorious, having neither damaged theirs or their families' health and sanity, so ideas to get the discussion going follow:
1. Plan ahead. Take a bit of time to sit down with your calendar and plan what you can do between now and the date you want to cease production by. Take into consideration your other obligations and your health and sanity. Even those among us who find planning to be sheer agony can benefit. You might not write, "Nov. 4, make Peppermint Soap," but you might make a list of what you want to make and think about how much time it will take you to accomplish it and then decide how much fits into your timeframe. If you need supplies, order now. Don't put yourself in the position of stressing over whether your order will arrive in time for you to make the products your customer wants. Allowing two weeks for shipping to you is a good idea at this time of year.
2. Bring in holiday help. Every retail store that is busy during the holidays does it. It may be worth the cost in order to have the product your customer wants. If you're lucky enough to have good friends and family who will help, don't be a hero. Let them! Reward them, of course, but take any good help you can get.
3. Encourage your customers to order early. Don't expect that they will automatically take into account your busy schedule or the fact that you have limited supplies. Instead, head those last-minute shoppers off by making it attractive to order early. Offer a coupon for a November purchase, feature weekly sales in November, or promise a freebie with their order, anything that will compel them to order now rather than later.
4. Limit your offerings. I know, I know, you want to offer every holiday scent candle or soap shape that you and your customers like, but resist the temptation. Instead, offer just a few holiday products. It's less confusing for your customers and for you, and keep in mind how much easier it is to make three large batches of scents/colors than it is to make thirteen. Even for regular stock, you might consider cutting back to your most popular products and scents for the season. If you find that you don't have time to keep up with your regular line, don't bother to offer holiday products. It's better to end up with twenty lavender candles after December 25th than to end up with twenty Balsam Fir candles that are in low demand the rest of the year.
5. Set a "last date to order" date and a "last day to purchase" date, along with any other rules that will make the season tolerable. Set specific times of the day for phone orders, a cut-off date for special orders and gift baskets, or an "in stock products only" date that will work for you. Don't find yourself stressing and losing sleep for a bar of soap!
If we think about it, we can brainstorm a multitude of ideas to keep us on track and sane through the holiday season. I'm not suggesting that we can make the next two months stress-free, but I am suggesting that we exercise some control over the season and not let it defeat us by looking realistically at our individual situations and planning how we will deal with them to only do what we can reasonably do and by finding ways, big and small, to make our goals attainable.
What do you do? How do you manage Silly Season? We'd love to hear your ideas. Let's help each other get through 2012!
Until next time, may your days be filled with bubbles and wax.
Beth Byrne for the Saponifier
What Kind of Artisan Are You?
Before I get into the topic of this post, I'd like to express the thoughts, prayers and well wishes of everyone at the Saponifier for those affected by Hurricane Sandy. Please know that we are supporting you as you recover from this devastating storm.
And now, for our blog.
We can usually group ourselves into a type of artisan, at least where our work habits are concerned. Some of you plan far ahead, writing an annual plan. On January 1st, you begin following the plan you drew up the previous year. You have each month and week carefully planned, with each day outlined. Little room is given for spontaneity or procrastination. Others of you fly by the seat of your pants, however, making what you feel like making when you feel like making it and selling what you've got or playing catch up throughout the season until December 25th. You often spend long hours while the urge strikes to create and produce.
Most of you, I suspect, find yourselves somewhere on the continuum between the ultra-organized and disciplined and the disorganized free spirits. You may plan out an annual calendar with monthly goals and then at the beginning of each week, choose what you can accomplish that week. Others of you simply work on your goals throughout the month, getting done what you can. Or you might just respond to your inventory, making more when it reaches a certain level so that you don't run out of any particular item.
No matter how you look at it, planning ahead is a sure-fire method for avoiding panic and distress. The more we plan, the more we are likely to accomplish. What could possibly be wrong with an outlook like this? Sometimes, the ultra-planner is unable to see far enough ahead to deal with the reality that life brings and doesn't respond well to customer demand or other market conditions. She has difficulty dealing with anything that disrupts her plan and may find herself discouraged about her inability to fulfill the goals she's set.
Not all of us are built that way however, and some find their creativity is stunted by having to plan and to work by that plan. Believe it or not, I have observed that the "seat of our pants" kind of approach is often nearly as successful as the plan written on January first and followed as close to the letter as possible. These free spirits accomplish a great deal while in the mood and what they churn out is their best work. The downside of that is the example of the pretty cold process Christmas soap that they have the inclination to make on December 10th. The soap won't be ready in time, and even with shortcuts, won't get properly promoted for those crucial and time-sensitive holiday sales.
What's an artisan to do? It's important to look at yourself and decide where you fit on the continuum and how it has affected you. If you find that you've missed opportunities by being inflexible, plan for 2013 to leave yourself a little leeway. Promise yourself that you will review your goals and readjust your priorities when it makes sense. On the other hand, if you realize that you're not accomplishing your goals and instead running after this and that, you know that a planning session is in your future, including a plan for further planning on a regular basis.
Where are you and what can you do to make your "artisan life" better? We'd love to hear your views.
*Note: watch your mailbox. It's just hours before your copy of the Nov./Dec. issues arrives! It includes our favorites and the annual Raves for Faves Survey!
Until next time, may your days be filled with bubbles and wax.
Beth Byrne for the Saponifier
Vote for American Made Soap!
I have exciting news to share.
One of ours has made it as a finalist in the Martha Stewart American Made Awards! His name is Andrew Fuller, and he is a soapmaker from Des Moines, Iowa. His business name is Cirmes Tonsorial Parlor (cirmes.com, cirmes.etsy.com). Andrew entered the contest and has made it all the way to the finalist level. As a matter of fact, he's in 2nd place!
Please vote for Andrew as he is representing us as an industry and makes an awesome product, besides. As he stated yesterday, "Thank you, beauties. This is a REAL FIGHT and I need all of my soapy friends to rally behind me and get the word out. It's amazing what we can do as a group."
Here is the link for the contest. You may vote once each day: http://americanmade.marthastewart.com/profiles/andrew-fuller-836
Let's cheer Andrew on and see one of our own win!
Until next time, may your days be filled with bubbles and wax.
Beth Byrne
Artisan Giving
Most of us are gearing up for the holiday season. We've planned our production schedules and are working to get our holiday products ready for the throngs of buyers who demand our wares (in our dreams, anyway). With all of our planning, sourcing supplies and making product, we might be forgetting something. Of course, it may already be part of your plans. What is it? It's giving. Giving back can be an enriching experience and something we should all be considering.
The idea of giving or giving back is more prevalent during the holiday season than at any other time for most of us, so it's a timely subject of discussion, even though it isn't limited to that small space of time between Thanksgiving and December 26th (for our Boxing Day observers).
Do you give regularly during the holiday season or at some other time? Do you give of yourself? Perhaps you make one big annual donation or several smaller donations throughout the year. Maybe you teach your craft to others or volunteer in some other capacity.
I know that we small business owners are terribly busy and often running on a shoestring budget, so that giving is sometimes the last thing we worry about. Other times, we are stopped because we don't know the best way to give, desiring that our gifts be used to their best possible use. I know I've struggled with both. I donated to a national organization that collects soap and sends it to third world nations, but then I learned that it costs more to collect, prepare, and ship the soap than it would cost to pay someone in the country to make it. I have not substantiated this, but it made sense. I decided then, to make my donations more local because it would be the most efficient use of my product.
I've read about a few other soapmakers traveling to countries to teach women to make soap and sincerely applaud them for their efforts to bring our craft to people who need it. Some reach out to people in their own communities, as well. Others donate money to the favorite charities.
What about you? Do you agree or disagree with sending donations to national organizations? How do you make a difference in your community or your world with your craft, whether it be soap, bath and body products or candles? We'd love to know what you do.
Until next time, may your days be filled with bubbles and wax.
Beth Byrne
Oil Crazy
In my pre-soaping days, I never dreamed that I would become an oil connoisseur. And yet, like many soap and bath and body artisans, I have. I love oils! Trying different kinds in soap and other products and observing how they perform is something I truly enjoy. I only wish I could try them all.
It's a good learning experience, substituting one oil for another and playing with percentages, especially in soap, not only for satisfying my own curiosity, but because substituting one or more oils for another sometimes becomes necessary. We see that Possessing the skills to do so is important to becoming an experienced soap and bath and body artisan. For instance, when olive oil's price climbed so high, I learned to make soap without it and found that what I came up with, I liked as much or more than my soaps with olive oil. Moreover, now that jojoba oil is becoming more difficult to find and prohibitively expensive, I am formulating without it and am finding that I can live without that lovely, liquid wax. Of course, I will be more than happy to use it again once the price comes down.
Most people wouldn't understand this thrill that some of us get from testing new oils and in studying the results of swapping out one oil for another, but I have to believe that I am not alone here and that some of you are shaking your heads up and down in agreement and enthusiasm. Right?
Tell us whether or not you feel comfortable swapping out oils, what some of your favorite oils are, or which oils you like the most. I really want to know I'm not the only one!
Until next time, may your days be filled with bubbles and wax.
Beth Byrne
Color My World–or at Least My Soap
Color–one of my favorite topics.
I find myself drawn to color, which probably explains why I like gardening, flower arranging and soapmaking. They allow me to enjoy creativity in coloring, whether blending or just enjoying the beautiful hues. The possibilities in creating color patterns are literally endless and I can admire photo after photo of colorful soaps that my fellow soapmakers have created. The same is true of candles. I'm a stickler about the color matching the scent, but I enjoy the many colors and designs in candles. At the same time, I want to see a lilac scented candle with lots of purple. Don't confuse me with something red!
One scent/color combo that I find disconcerting is peppermint. Have you noticed that it can be red, blue, or green? How confusing. Give me something easy like lemon. The soap or candle will be yellow; but, simple, common peppermint, and I have three choices! It can really wear on a person trying to decide which color to use in a case like this.
Quite often, a scent doesn't conjure up an obvious color. As a matter of fact, I recently made a soap using a sandalwood vanilla fragrance. What color should it be? I think it should be a light brown, because sandalwood is a tree and tree trunks are brown. Also, vanilla beans are brown and the scent will turn the product brown, so I'm just being realistic. I ended up making it light brown and blue. Why blue? I don't know. I just liked the blend, and thought it would be appropriate for a unisex soap. You might say I'm breaking my own rules, and I am. In my defense, however, I do attempt to offer my customers a variety of colors so that if they're looking for a soap to match the bathroom or kitchen, I have it and for some reason, I don't offer much in blue.
Do you feel the same way about color? Must you color your soap and candles, or is it unimportant to you? If you use colorants, what are your favorite ones?
Until next time, may your days be filled with bubbles and wax.
Beth Byrne
Surviving the Summer Show Season
It's the summer craft show season.
Most of the shows, in the northern part of the US, anyway, are held outdoors. Merchants set up tents and sell at festivals and other outdoor public events. With any luck, the crowds are out and about enjoying themselves, and, we hope, spending their dollars on soap, candles, and bath and body products.
Sounds easy, doesn't it? A day or a weekend spent in fun and games collecting said dollars. Those who have done these shows, however, know the truth. They spend hours in preparation manufacturing adequate quantity. They set up their booths, sell for the long hours that the shows often demand, experience fickle crowds, and then take it all down and return home with what is left, all the while with a smile and perky attitude. This description doesn't even begin to mention the "good shows gone bad"–rain, wind, mud, extreme heat, even hurricanes and tornadoes, and so on, wreaking havoc on tents, customers, and vendors, alike. Indeed, the life of a professional crafter who sells at outdoor shows is likely to include tales of surviving (or not) extreme conditions and other adventures of selling on the road. Those who think it's an easy way to make money will be quickly taught otherwise, even at their first show.
Not that it's all bad. Sometimes crafters hit the jackpot and find their goods selling like the proverbial hotcakes (although I have yet to see hotcakes being sold at all, quickly or otherwise, but I digress). They meet wonderful people, be it other crafters, show staff or customers. They glean valuable feedback about their products, and they might even get the opportunity to participate in some of the activity going on around them. Not the worst way to spend the weekend, indeed.
Do you vend at summer, outdoor shows? Do you find them to be enjoyable and lucrative, or do you not participate, seeing the shows as too much of a gamble, too much work, or tough on product?
If you do like them, please leave your best tip for other readers to not only survive the shows, but to thrive at them.
Until next time, stay happy creating bubbles and wax fun.


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Glossy Box December 2012
December Glossy Box 2012 – the December box is always a good one! Well, based on last year… so I had high hopes for this years! It arrived in a glossy silver box with star print paper and here's a peek at the contents…
In typical fashion (this always seems to be the case) I am most impressed by the Sleek Lipstick (love the colour) and the Seche Vite Nail Colour – soo impressed by this. Pigmentation and application is amazing!
The Milk Shake leave in conditioner mousse is interesting, but I have a bit of mixed luck with leave in conditioners – they tend to make my hair flat – but hoping the mousse formula might avoid that fate.
The little extra of the Glossy box blusher is nice – the colour is pretty and reminds me of a dusky version of MAC's Well Dressed (which reminds me, I need to dig that one out). The fragrance sample is a bit 'meh', but overall – great box!
I haven't seen what goodies others have received yet this month, so can't compare to see if this was a 'good' or 'bad' collection of products. All I can say is that I'm happy, love the nail and lip colours!
What do you think of December's Glossy Box?
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5 Comments
SILVIA December 19, 2012 at 12:15 pm
Hi dear!
I love ur style!
such a wonderful blog
flabbyface December 19, 2012 at 1:55 pm
Is that Magnifique by Seche? Gorgeous colour. Does it dry fast and apply well?
Jules x
Laura December 19, 2012 at 2:58 pm
I got mine the other day and I'm really happy with it. I got the mousse, the nail polish and the blusher, but the rest of my products differed to yours. I got Rituals whipped body cream, Anatomicals lip gloss and a Sleek Make-up eyeshadow palette, which is my favourite item of the box
Sharmin December 19, 2012 at 11:00 pm
What colour is the sleek lippie? its beautiful I must have it!!!
Kristina December 20, 2012 at 2:44 am
I had a different selection to you and am very happy with mine. Sleek eye shadow palette amongst other things. Can't wait to trovel it on. LOL

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How to Reset Your Windows 7 Password Without a Password Reset Disk or Windows CD
The following tutorial will walk you through the procedure to log into your Windows 7 computer if you have forgotten your password.
1Use another computer to complete steps 1 and 2. Go to http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop and download Ubuntu. You can use another Linux operating system, but this tutorial will use Ubuntu.Ad
2Once your download is completed, Burn the Ubuntu ISO to DVD. This will make a live CD. You will be able to run the Ubuntu operating system without installing it.
3Make sure the Ubuntu DVD you just created is in your CD drive and restart your computer. Hit enter if it prompts you to boot from CD. If not, find out how to get to the Boot Menu on your machine.
4Click "Try Ubuntu" and wait for the operating system to load.
5On the taskbar click "Places" and select your hard drive for windows 7. This will automatically mount the windows hard drive to Ubuntu.
6Click on the folder "Windows" then click the "system32" folder.
7Find a file called Utilman.exe, right click the file and re-name it Utilman1.exe.
8Find a file called cmd.exe. Right click the file and select "Save a copy", and then re-name the copied file Utilman.exe.
9Restart your computer.
10Once Windows is loaded and you are greeted with the login screen, click the icon for "ease of access" at the bottom left. Instead of the ease of access program coming up we now have command prompt.
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I hate unfollowing people. I feel like it's disloyal. But sometimes a blog that usually posts things I like starts posting waves of stuff that makes my skin crawl.
Ick ick ick.
And now I can never go back to their blog, because they're probably one of those people who posts something like "lost a follower, fuck them" or something like that.
-le shrug-
Rocking to Pink Floyd. Doing Dreggon Dungeon with my entire Bright Team. Eating oatmeal for breakfast.This is a good day :D
On the flip side, Mom's in EastTn on day one of negotiations with Papa about living arangements. I'm going to be keeping busy to try not to think about it.
Now that I'm back into Dofus, I've ditched LoL and my internet stuff is falling behind.
That's okay though, cause I'm having a blast.:D
As for tumblr, it keeps saying I have a random huge number of new posts, when I've actually got 2.
Stop that, it's annoying :P
I figured if I write this down, I can look back and think it over when I'm a real person again.
I got up on Monday around 1 pm.
I slept noon until 4pm on Tuesday.
Here it is 2 am on what is now Wednesday morning and I'm going to sleep.
Dear Self,
Puzzle out this ludicrous sleep fiasco and put it into some witty form and repost it later.
Me, you sleep deprived idiot.
Can't hear you, LALALALALA.
Yes, I do put on my headphones and listen to them really loud so I don't have to hear things I don't want to hear. Worked for 15 year old me, works just fine for 23 year old me, too.
"You're Ugly."
"I hate you."
"Harry Potter is stupid"
Exactly! People post politics, religion, drama on fb and I ignore it. Someone posts HP hate and I'm like GTFO >_>
This is true. Very true. I need to do an appreciation post. And there are so many pros to having our space to ourselves. It's all going to work out.
Well, except the Papa stuff, but that's something I shouldn't fret about because I can't change it. Man, I have got to stop crying every time I think about him or I'll dehydrate myself >_<
My mom and uncle are going up to see my Papa, a big 6 day trip to convince him to go into assisted living. Which he said he'd rather die than go into a home, so I don't know how they're going to convince him. But he needs looking after and none of us can do it.
Papa is my favorite person in this world. And I'm missing out on a trip to see him because of money. (Which I'll cover in my Second, I have a post)
I'm trying to keep it together, but I keep thinking about how Papa always asks after my husband and checks to make sure we're okay. I mean, really, he's dying a little each day and can't remember hardly anything, but the things he remembers are things about me and my life and how important it is to look after me.
It's super fucking hard to keep it together and not just pile up and cry about it.
today has been /delicious/. In honor of that, I'll give you a gif spam ;)
Edit: This first one is for you, Pherozen <3
When good stories are accompanied by really bad art.
I've only been up for 8 hours, but I'm suddenly super sleepy. I'm just sitting here trying not to fall asleep on my keyboard.
It's weird.
My mate and his game friends are all gaming and I don't feel up to playing, so I was going to sit here and see if I could snag one of my two people I talk to on fb chat, but they're not on..and I'm just gonna go nap :P
Buckets and buckets for my tears.
There are kind Slytherins.
There are brave Hufflepuffs.
There are some stupid Ravenclaws.
There are twisted Gryffindors.
Your House doesn't define you.
And please, the next time you're about to tease someone for being a lowly Hufflepuff, or a slimy Slytherin, or a stuck up Ravenclaw or even a foolish Gryffindor, just remember that we are all Hogwarts students. We're all part of the magic.
Together we stand, divided we fall.
has been more frustrating than it should have been.
Woke up from a delicious dream to have my brain and body invaded by…I don't know, I need to invent a term for these things that eat at me in a way that would be pleasant and fun if events worked out the way they should. But they don't, so I'm just pissy and stuck in a loop of grump and festering.
How I've felt today:
Chyeah, that's about how I've felt and will continue to feel until I can go to sleep and start over.
I'm glad my good dreams are back, but I'm not happy about them royally fucking up my waking hours.
I asked my husband who he would ship me with in the Spn fandom. (Since I don't have tumblr friends to ask, lol)
He was like, hmmm.
Girl: Jo. Or the hot thief chick.
Guy: Gabriel, because he's a trickster, like me.
I was like…really?
Cause I'd ship me with Ellen and Balthazar.
Balthazar has the fun loving/joking without the I'm-just-doing-this-because-I'm-emotionally-damaged-because-my-family-fights.
And I can't be perving on Jo if I'm lusting after Ellen, that's just uncool. xP
Gotta explore other fandoms later, lol.
You're most welcome :) You're very brave to answer such personal questions and with such honesty. -snug- ^_^
When I screw something simple up and then can't handle the ribbing from my well intentioned companions.
It doesn't help that their were skinny people with perfect bodies on my anti-thinspo blogs today. Now I feel fat and improperly shaped for societal acceptance. TYVM.
About writing and how I'd I'm generally excited about the chance of progress.
Wednesday, in all the birthday madness, we snagged a moment to read some fanfiction a mutual friend had been writing. Being a rabid fanfiction reader, my standards were a bit high and I felt the need to brag on some of my own writing. (Not fanfiction, tyvm. I am generally opposed to writing original characters into fanfiction and I'm a big fan of my original character work)
When my bff read the first paragraph of my story, she complimented it on sounding like an actual story.
After that little bit of encouragement, I decided to pull up the story and read it. I hadn't really looked at it since the middle of November, so I was hesitant.
I just finished it and let me tell you…I love that story. I love Viveca and Roman and their backstories, their interactions, everything.^____^
So, I did a little editing, refreshed myself on where I know they're going in the written version. ((For reference, their on the first week of June in my written work and I've "written" up through January)) I'm considering starting working on the story again. I finished the "written" part around January of this year but I know I've got enough of the details memorized to easily wrap it all together.
I could be, possibly, working on my writing again O_O =D


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BUFFALO, NY (WKBW) -There's a big party to celebrate that tonight on Main Street downtown.
Who needs to travel to New York City or Toronto, when you have countless theatres all participating in the 31st Annual Curtain Up! Event in Buffalo!
The popular event officially opens Buffalo's live theater season, the event includes productions at 15 participating theaters in cooperation with the theatre alliance of Buffalo. There will also be a black-tie gala dinner on the Shea's Performing Arts Center stage.
Most of the tickets to the gala and many of the productions have been sold out but one of the best parts of the night is a free post-party featuring live entertainment on Main Street in the theater district that starts at 10 P.M.
Renovation work is also complete at the old studio arena, which is now the "710 Main Theater". It will celebrate its first performance today with "Seth's Big Fat Broadway Show".


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Fluid Properties In The Formation Of High-Grade Iron Ore In Northern Minnesota, 2014 Minnesota State University, Mankato
Fluid Properties In The Formation Of High-Grade Iron Ore In Northern Minnesota, Elizabeth Drommerhausen
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
The Mesabi Iron Range in Northern Minnesota has been a major producer of iron ore for over 100 years. Production has been from the 1.85 – billion-year –old Biwabik Iron Formation, an iron-rich sedimentary rock that is tilted gently to the south. Most of the known high-grade ore lies near the surface and has been already mined. Determining whether more high-grade ore may lie at depth could have significant economic impact on the mining industry in northern Minnesota. To evaluate the likelihood of finding more high-grade iron ore deeper underground, it is important to determine the source of the fluids ...
Study On Deterioration Mechanism And Prevention And Curing Techniques Of An Rc Bunker, 2014 Purdue University
Study On Deterioration Mechanism And Prevention And Curing Techniques Of An Rc Bunker, Henglin Lv, Haijian Xie, Shuchun Zhou, Sun Lei
International Conference on Durability of Concrete Structures
In the coal mining industrial environment, the materials of RC bunkers suffer from serious aging problems. The cracking and deterioration of concrete and the corrosion of steel reinforcement lead to a degeneration of structural performance and a decline of structural reliability. In this paper, based on on-site detection and coal mining ground industrial environment, the deterioration characteristics of RC bunkers were tested. The investigation involved the apparent characteristics, carbonized depth, compression strength of concrete, reinforcement distribution and cover thickness, corrosion rate and mechanical properties of reinforcement, decline degree of bunkers, and so on. Then a design review check was done ...
Pressure Hydrometallurgy, 2014 SelectedWorks
Pressure Hydrometallurgy, Fathi Habashi
Fathi Habashi
Pressure Hydrometallurgy is a supplement to the author's Textbook of Hydrometallugy [second edition 1999]. It is an update to the new processes described in the literature dealing with recovering metals from ores and concentrates using this technology. Great progress was made in this field that necessitated this review.
Travelling In Turkey, 2014 SelectedWorks
Travelling In Turkey, Fathi Habashi
Fathi Habashi
The peninsula that lies between the Black and Mediterranean seas, called Asia Minor by the Romans and Anatolia by the Greeks, was one of the crossroads of ancient civilizations. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 was a turning point in the history of mankind. Visits to Istanbul, Ankara, Eskisehir given together with the history of the country. Mineral resources of the country is briefly outlined.
History Of Innovation In Extractive Metallurgy, 2014 SelectedWorks
History Of Innovation In Extractive Metallurgy, Fathi Habashi
Fathi Habashi
People learned melting of ores to get metals since ancient times but the use of aqueous solutions for this purpose was introduced relatively recently in the Middle Ages. The most recent technology, however, came when electric current became available on commercial scale towards the middle of the nineteenth century. The present article records in general terms the development in pyro- , hydro-, and electrometallurgy
Catalytic Or Thermal Reversed Flow Combustion Of Coal Mine Ventilation Air Methane: What Is Better Choice And When?, 2014 SelectedWorks
Catalytic Or Thermal Reversed Flow Combustion Of Coal Mine Ventilation Air Methane: What Is Better Choice And When?, Krzysztof J. Gosiewski
Krzysztof Gosiewski
The paper presents a comparison of the two options of reverse flow reactors destined for the utilization of coal mine ventilation air methane by catalytic (CFRR) or thermal (TFRR) combustion. It has been shown that both solutions have advantages and drawbacks. The use of the catalyst significantly decreases reactor temperature and makes the operation becomes to be autothermal for methane concentrations lower than in TFRR (even as low as over 0.06 vol.%). On the other hand when methane is combusted, particularly if average concentration is higher than ca. 0.4 vol.% the maximum temperature in the reactor appears to ...
Metalurjiye Adanmış Bir Hayat, 2014 SelectedWorks
Metalurjiye Adanmış Bir Hayat, Fathi Habashi
Fathi Habashi
Evidence Of The Existence Of Cathodic And Anodic Zones During The Leaching Of Minerals And Metals, 2014 SelectedWorks
Evidence Of The Existence Of Cathodic And Anodic Zones During The Leaching Of Minerals And Metals, Fathi Habashi
Fathi Habashi
It is accepted worldwide that the dissolution of minerals in some cases, is an electrochemical process where anodic and cathodic reactions take place. There are many parameters, such as agent concentration, that directly affect the dissolution process. The rate of leaching of minerals may differ depending on the oxygen concentration. In this paper, the existence of anodic and cathodic zones on themineral surface during the dissolution/leaching of minerals andmetals has been presentedwith some differentworks. It isworthmentioning that a good number of published papers have experimentally demonstrated the existence of anodic and cathodic areas on the mineral surface.
Multiscale Modeling Of The Mine Ventilation System And Flow Through The Gob, 2014 University of Kentucky
Multiscale Modeling Of The Mine Ventilation System And Flow Through The Gob, William Chad Wedding
Theses and Dissertations--Mining Engineering
The following dissertation introduces the hazard of methane buildup in the gob zone, a caved region behind a retreating longwall face. This region serves as a reservoir for methane that can bleed into the mine workings. As this methane mixes with air delivered to the longwall panel, explosive concentrations of methane will be reached.
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is one of the many approaches to study the gob environment. Several studies in the past have researched this topic and a general approach has been developed that addresses much of the complexity of the problem. The topic of research herein presents ...
Geçmişten Günümüze Hidrometalurji Hydrometallurgy Over The Years*, 2014 SelectedWorks
Geçmişten Günümüze Hidrometalurji Hydrometallurgy Over The Years*, Fathi Habashi
Fathi Habashi
Thousands of years ago people had learned how to build furnaces and use fire to melt rocks and produce metals but the use of aqueous solutions for ore processing came much later, mainly at the time of the alchemists when acids and alkalies became known and used. Modern hydrometallurgy, however, can be traced back to the end of the 19th century when two major operations were discovered: the cyanidation process for gold and silver extraction and the Bayer process for bauxite treatment. Later, in the 1940s, a breakthrough came during the Manhattan Project in USA in connection with uranium extraction ...
Hydrometallurgy Over The Years (Geçmişten Günümüze Hidrometalurji), 2014 SelectedWorks
Hydrometallurgy Over The Years (Geçmişten Günümüze Hidrometalurji), Fathi Habashi
Fathi Habashi
Binlerce yıl önce insanlar, nasıl fırın yapacaklarını, ayaçları eritmek için ateşi nasıl kullanacaklarını ve metalleri nasıl üreteceklerini öğrenmelerine rağmen, cevherlerin zenginleştirilmesinde çözeltilerin kullanımı, asit ve bazların öğrenilip kullanıldığı simyacılar dönemine rastlamaktadır. Bununla birlikte modern hidrometalurjinin başlangıcı, iki önemli prosesin keşfedildiği 19. yüzyılın sonlarına dayandırılabilir. Bu prosesler, altın ve gümüşün çözündürülmesi için siyanür liç prosesi ve boksit cevherlerinin değerlendirilmesi için geliştirilen Bayer prosesidir. Daha sonra, 1940'larda, uranyum zenginleştirilmesi ile ilgili olarak Manhattan Projesi (ABD) bir dönüm noktası olmuştur. O tarihten itibaren, hidrometalurji giderek ilerlemekte ve hatta bazı pirometalurjik proseslerin yerinialmaktadır. Bu süreçte Kanada'nın, özellikle uranyum, nikel, kobalt ve çinko ...
Development Of Industry Oriented Cfd Code For Analysis / Design Of Face Ventilation Systems, 2014 University of Kentucky
Development Of Industry Oriented Cfd Code For Analysis / Design Of Face Ventilation Systems, Todor P. Petrov
Theses and Dissertations--Mining Engineering
Two of the main safety and health issues recognized during deep cut coal mining are methane and dust hazards. Advances in continuous miner technology have improved safety and productivity. However, these advances have created some environmental problems, notably more dust and methane being generated at the face during coal extraction.
Results of studies performed in the last three decades concerning the face ventilation for deep cut mining showed very complicated airflow behavior. The specifics of flow patterns developed by the face ventilation systems presents significant challenge for analytical description even for equipment-free entry. Fortunately, there are methods, such as numerical ...
Status Of Communication And Tracking Technologies In Underground Coal Mines, 2014 University of Kentucky
Status Of Communication And Tracking Technologies In Underground Coal Mines, Alexander D. Douglas
Theses and Dissertations--Mining Engineering
In 2006, Congress passed the MINER Act requiring mine operators to submit an emergency response plan that included post-accident communications and tracking systems to MSHA within three years of the Act. These systems were required to be designed for maximum survivability after a catastrophic event, such as a fire or explosion, and to be permissible (meets MSHA criteria for explosion-proof). At that time, no commercially available systems existed that met these standards. Several companies undertook developing new, or enhancing existing, technologies to meet these requirements. This research presents the results of a study that was conducted to determine the present ...
Interview, 2013 SelectedWorks
Interview, Fathi Habashi
Fathi Habashi
Translation of a Turkish interview published in MEi Online
Pyrite: The Strategic Mineral That Became An Industrial Nuisance, 2013 SelectedWorks
Pyrite: The Strategic Mineral That Became An Industrial Nuisance, Fathi Habashi
Fathi Habashi
Pyrite, known since antiquity, had at one time a great strategic importance because it was the main raw material for making elemental sulfur for gun powder manufacture and for making SO2 for sulfuric acid production. However, when other sources of cheap elemental sulfur became available, pyrite not only lost its importance but became a nuisance for the metallurgical industry because of problems associated with its disposal. At present only pyrite-containing gold is treated by a variety of methods to recover gold.
Study On The Surface Chemistry Behavior Of Pyrochlore During Froth Flotation, 2013 Western University
Study On The Surface Chemistry Behavior Of Pyrochlore During Froth Flotation, Saeed Chehreh Chelgani
University of Western Ontario - Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Separation of pyrochlore from its associated minerals is typically accomplished by froth flotation. The surface chemistry of pyrochlore is similar to many of its associated non-value minerals. Therefore, understanding the surface chemical properties of the pyrochlore for selective pyrochlore flotation will potentially aid in the design of flotation strategies for optimized recovery. In this study, pyrochlore samples were collected from various points in the flotation scheme at the Niobec plant, Quebec, Canada. The SEM-EDX analysis revealed that pyrochlore from the Niobec deposit occurs as high and low iron varieties, and that recovery favours varieties with a lower Fe content. To ...
Energy, U.S. Department Of, 2013 Purdue University
Energy, U.S. Department Of, Bert Chapman
Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research
Provides information about the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies and how DOE influences federal energy policy and scientific research in the western U.S.
Mining, Uranium, 2013 Purdue University
Mining, Uranium, Bert Chapman
Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research
Provides an overview of uranium mining's role and influence in the American West with comparative information on uranium mining in foreign countries.
Borehole Localization And Detection For Mining (Orica), 2013 Olin College of Engineering
Borehole Localization And Detection For Mining (Orica), Samantha Becht, Thomas Duggar, Blair Emanuel, Arjun Iyer, Luis Rayas
2013 SCOPE Projects
Orica is a multinational supplier of mining chemicals and services. The Orica-Olin SCOPE team investigated opportunities for automation of dirty and dangerous tasks associated with the surface mining process, for example the blasting of existing boreholes. Our project is the first step: building an automated proof-of-principle which uses stereo vision to identify holes and moves a laser pointer over the center of each hole.
Power And Politics In Organizations, 2013 Montana Tech Library
Power And Politics In Organizations, T. W. Camm
Mining Engineering
Aristotle made the observation that man is a political animal. Engineers often like to think they are above the fray when it comes to organizational politics, but most organizational theorists believe politics is a fundamental dynamic in any group. This paper examines the various ways that people use power within organizations to negotiate the political interactions in the work place.


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Words of Wisdom From an Older Dancer
Words of Wisdom From an Older Dancer
All these things are important to remember.
This is such a great read for dancers, regardless of age.
A Huffington Post article by Keesha Beckford
1. Treat class, and your every opportunity to dance, as a gift, as a special time for you.
2. Leave your emotional baggage outside. Let class be your chance to think only about you. Let it be your therapy. Let it heal.
3.Listen to every…


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A guest talk by retired Army Colonel Dennis W. Devery on Monday, Nov. 12, will kick off Veterans' Week observances at Rowan University.
College of Graduate & Continuing Education
Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, will present a lecture and lead a discussion on the many moral and ethical issues raised in her New York Times bestselling book on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 11 a.m., in the Eynon Ballroom of the Chamberlain Student Center at Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro, N.J.
The official uniform of many college students—jeans, flip-flops, sweats—won't pass muster in the boardroom. It won't even get you into the boardroom, says Ruben Britt, assistant director of Rowan University's Career Management Center (CMC).
Rowan's offering tons of Homecoming activities for students, alumni & more.
Gloucester County Times, by Jessica Bautista
Freshman Connection — a program designed to engage Rowan University first-year students in volunteerism and service learning — has gotten off to a running start this week.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is the first book in the RU Reading Together Common Reading Program.
Plan will restructure higher education, transform Rowan.
Beaches, bathing suits and barbecues?
The R.N.-to-B.S.N. program at Rowan University continues to grow, adding new locations for health care employer-based cohorts — the latest about 2,500 mile west of the Glassboro campus.
The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) recently accredited the baccalaureate program (R.N.-to-B.S.N.) at Rowan University for five years. According to CCNE, the organization determined that the program met all four accreditation standards and did not exhibit any compliance concerns related to key elements. The standards include mission and governance, institutional commitment and resources, curriculum and teaching-learning practices and aggregate student and faculty outcomes.


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Friday, October 31, 2014
From The Onion...
Traumatized Nation Terrified To Make Its Voice Heard In Another ElectionFrom the piece:
"When I think back to past years—whether it's '86, '88, '94, '02, '04, 2010, or 2012—I realize that pretty much every time I've spoken up, I've been badly hurt," said Dayton, OH resident Kellan Avery, adding that the mere thought of scanning a list of candidates and selecting one filled him with a profound sense of terror. "You want to voice your opinion, you really do, but as soon as you say your piece—wham!—they slap you right back down again. And these people are supposed to be there for us. It just…it breaks you down."Read the rest here.
Koch Fiends
Tags: Daily Show, Elections, Humor, Koch Brothers, Politics, Right Wing World, TV
Monday, October 27, 2014
Recommended Reading
John Dickerson tells us what this upcoming election is really about. Short version: Not much.
Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Politics, Right Wing World
Sugar Why
Tags: Humor, John Oliver, Society, TV
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Nostalgia Theater: The Cult of Urkel
a Key & Peele sketch that nicely encapsulates the bizarre transmogrification undergone by the sitcom Family Matters (which premiered on ABC in fall of '89) as it metamorphosed from "blue collar Cosby Show" to a weekly showcase for nerdy next-door-neighbor Steve Urkel. With his "Did I do that?" catchphrase and cartoonish appearance, he was a marketer's wet dream, even as he flew in the face of the show's entire aesthetic.
It wasn't long before the character, intended as a one-off guest spot, came to dominate the whole thing, shooting all credibility to the four corners as he and series star Reginald VelJohnson engaged in increasingly outlandish escapades (seriously, that skit was just barely exaggerating). It's easy now, with twenty years of remove, to look back and wonder what the heck they were thinking, but being in the middle of it, actually living through the Cult of Urkel, was another matter again.
For some perspective, here's the intro for Family Matters' first season:
It wasn't long before the character, intended as a one-off guest spot, came to dominate the whole thing, shooting all credibility to the four corners as he and series star Reginald VelJohnson engaged in increasingly outlandish escapades (seriously, that skit was just barely exaggerating). It's easy now, with twenty years of remove, to look back and wonder what the heck they were thinking, but being in the middle of it, actually living through the Cult of Urkel, was another matter again.
For some perspective, here's the intro for Family Matters' first season:
Tags: '80s Sitcoms, ABC, ALF, Bill Cosby, CBS, Family Matters, Nostalgia Theater, TV
Thursday, October 23, 2014
The MovieFilm Podcast: Episode 57
From there, it's on to headlines: The hot trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron just dropped, and we unpack it, as well as the news that Robert Downey Jr. signing to appear in more Marvel films, DC's overloaded slate of superhero movies, and Johnny Depp's questionable costume choice for the upcoming Into the Woods. After that it's the main event, with the guys explaining why they liked -- but didn't love -- the new Brad Pitt starrer Fury.
Of course, there's plenty more than that, and you can listen to it all below! Be sure to go to iTunes and Stitcher to write us a review, and drop us a line at our Facebook page to tell us how we're doing!
Tags: Age of Ultron, Avengers, Brad Pitt, Brian Hall, DC Comics, Johnny Depp, Mikaela Hoover, MovieFilm Podcast, Movies, Mr. Boy, Podcasts, Robert Downey Jr., Star Wars
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
What I Did Today
Tags: Daily Show, Humor, Media, Zaki's Life
The Avengers 2 Trailer is Here!
the third biggest box office hit of all time is queued up to rock the box office next May, and based on the assemblage below, we're in for more of what we dug about movie one, albeit with a much darker tinge. We get good looks at all the returning favorites (including Iron Man wearing one of my fave armor configurations), plus newbies Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor Johnson) and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), not to mention Ultron, the CGI baddie with the James Spader voice. Joss Whedon directed again, and it'll be in theaters next May. Not too much else I really need to say here. Looks sweet. Watch it after the jump:
Tags: Age of Ultron, Avengers, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Joss Whedon, Marvel, Movies, Robert Downey Jr., Trailers
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Nostalgia Theater: Double Dragon -- Good Game, Terrible Cartoon, Worse Movie
Tags: '90s Animation, '90s Sci-Fi, Action Figures, DiC, Double Dragon, Movies, Nostalgia Theater, Video Games
Thursday, October 16, 2014
From The Onion...
Entire Conversation With Parents Spent Changing The Subject
SEATTLE—Deftly switching from topic to topic from the moment he answered his phone until ending the call 20 minutes later, local man Andrew Heltman reportedly spent the entirety of a recent conversation with his parents changing the subject. "Yeah, things are fine at work, the usual—but hey, aren't you guys leaving for vacation soon?" said Heltman, 26, who while speaking to his father did nothing but redirect discussions of his career, personal finances, and political views to more innocuous areas such as the Kansas City Royals' postseason run and Ken Burns' recent documentary series The Roosevelts. "No, I'm still not sure what my plans are for Thanksgiving yet. You going to invite Aunt Jean? How's she doing?" Once the phone was handed over to his mother, sources confirmed Heltman spent the remainder of the call steering the conversation away from his romantic life with repeated inquiries about the family dog.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Ebola Facts
Tags: Ebola, Fox News, Media, Right Wing World, Shep Smith, TV
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
INTERVIEW: Co-Creator Mike Shoemaker on Hulu's The Awesomes
Hulu's The Awesomes just wrapped its second season (directed by my best bud Sean Coyle!), but as co-creator Mike Shoemaker explains, there's still plenty of super-comedic action on the way for the animated offering, which features voice work by comedy greats such as Seth Myers (also co-creator of the show), Bill Hader, Kenan Thompson, and many more. Shoemaker, a lifelong comic book buff, first conceived of the idea along with Meyers in the early 2000s when the pair was working on Saturday Night Live. But as he explains, the show's journey from concept to cult favorite was long and circuitous before finally becoming a Hulu original. Keep reading for some highlights of our conversation:
Tags: Awesomes, Comics, Interview, Sean Coyle, TV
Monday, October 13, 2014
Oliver: How is Columbus Day Still a Thing?
Tags: Columbus Day, Humor, John Oliver, Society, TV
Sunday, October 12, 2014
The Urkel Effect
Tags: '80s Sitcoms, Family Matters, Humor, Key and Peele, TV
Nostalgia Theater: ExoSquad -- Warfare, Bigotry, and Genocide on Weekday Mornings
Tags: '90s Animation, '90s Sci-Fi, ExoSquad, Nostalgia Theater, Robotech, TV
Saturday, October 11, 2014
INTERVIEW: Director David Dobkin on The Judge
The intergenerational family drama, written by Nick Schenk and Bill Dubuque from a story by Dobkin himself, features Downey as hotshot defense attorney Hank Palmer, who is forced back to his Indiana hometown following his mother's death, and must work through lingering issues with his father, no-nonsense Judge Joseph Palmer (Duvall).
The Judge also has such respected performers as Vincent D'Onofrio and Vera Farmiga in the cast, and my first question for the director was regarding the top-tier talent he had lined up in front of the camera, including two of the greatest actors of all time headlining. Read on for his answer, as well as other highlights of our conversation:
Tags: David Dobkin, Interview, Movies, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, Vincent D'Onofrio
Friday, October 10, 2014
Diffused Congruence: Parvez & Zaki Celebrate One Year!
Bill Maher and Ben Affleck (which conspicuously had no Muslims actually involved in the conversation), we celebrate one year of the Diffused Congruence Podcast by chatting about the rise of anti-Muslim and Islamophobic invective from mainstream media figures, and why this podcast is meant at least partially as a response to that. In addition, we also delve into the secret origins of the show, and and what we hope to achieve going forward. Download or stream the show below, or listen at iTunes (don't forget to leave us a review!) and Stitcher Radio. Feel free to send any comments or questions our way at email@example.com or via our Facebook page!
Tags: Barack Obama, Ben Affleck, Bill Maher, Diffused Congruence, Fox News, Islam, Islamophobia, Muslims, Parvez Ahmed, Podcasts, Reza Aslan
Thursday, October 09, 2014
The MovieFilm Podcast: Episode 56
iTunes and Stitcher to write us a review, and hit "like" on our Facebook page to tell us how we're doing!
Tags: Brian Hall, Ghostbusters, Gotham, Iron Man, MovieFilm Podcast, Movies, Mr. Boy, Podcasts, Robert Downey Jr., Star Wars
Wednesday, October 08, 2014
Recommended Reading
Max Fisher at Vox runs us through the gauntlet of recent cringe-worthy cable news segments to make the point that these orgs are instrumental in fostering a pretty toxic (and uncritically tolerated) air of Islamophobia which could, per Fisher, "further normalize bigotry against Muslims in America, making it the default."
Tags: Bill Maher, Fox News, Islam, Islamophobia, Media, Muslims, Reza Aslan, TV
Monday, October 06, 2014
Recommended Reading
H.A. Goodman says Ben Affleck was right and Bill Maher was wrong in that Real Time kerfuffle last Friday. Click over to read why.
Tags: Ben Affleck, Bill Maher, Islam, Islamophobia, Media, Politics
Once Upon a Time in the West
The West Wing is up there as one of my favorite TV series of all-time, and the only show I've watched the whole way through multiple times. (Here's what I said when it wrapped up back in 2006.) Well, hard as it is to believe, this fall marks fifteen years since the Aaron Sorkin-created political drama first aired on NBC. To celebrate this auspicious moment, James Dyer of Empire has compiled the definitive oral history of the series, getting on-the-record remembrances from just about everyone who was ever associated with the skein for lengthy deep-dive of a read that any fan needs to set aside time for.
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Sunday, October 05, 2014
Nostalgia Theater: The Flash's First TV Series
|One of my prize possessions, natch
Here's the intro of the resultant series:
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Saturday, October 04, 2014
Batman v. Bill Maher
his vocal anti-Muslim views from author Sam Harris (who once said "We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim"), but the pair faced some welcome pushback from the rest of the panel, which included journalist Nicholas Kristof, former RNC chair Michael Steele, and Batman himself, Ben Affleck. Watch highlights (lowlights?) of the exchange below, which one friend of mine rightly referred to as "maddening."
Tags: Ben Affleck, Bill Maher, Islam, Islamophobia, Michael Steele, Muslims, Nicholas Kristoff, Religion, Sam Harris, Society, TV
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Reza Aslan Bangs Head Against Wall
a particularly dunderheaded Fox News anchor. Well, if Aslan's appearance on CNN yesterday is any indication, Stupid Anchor Syndrome isn't confined exclusively to Fox. For some context, Bill Maher engaged in his usual brand of anti-Muslim invective on last week's Real Time, wherein he called out liberals for not broad-brushing all Muslims for the actions of their most extreme elements. Aslan, who's been a frequent guest for Maher, was brought on to CNN to respond, and well, this is what happened next:
Tags: Bill Maher, CNN, Fox News, Islam, Islamophobia, Media, Reza Aslan, Society, TV
Monday, September 29, 2014
Oliver: How is Ayn Rand Still a Thing?
as this segment from last night's Last Week Tonight makes clear, Rand's presence at the forefront of conservative thought is a bit of a head-scratcher.
Tags: Ayn Rand, Books, Humor, John Oliver, Libertarianism, Right Wing World, TV
From The Onion...
Woman Worried Student Loans Could Prevent Her From One Day Owning Entirely Different Kind Of Crippling Debt
PHILADELPHIA—Lamenting that she will spend the foreseeable future paying off her college expenses, local 23-year-old digital marketing assistant Ashley Orlinsky expressed concern Wednesday that her student loans will prevent her from ever owning an entirely different type of utterly crippling debt. "Realistically, it'll take years or even decades to fully repay $50,000 of loans, which makes me worried that I'll never qualify for a backbreaking mortgage on a house that I can in no way afford," said Orlinsky, adding that with $350 in monthly student loan payments, she will likely struggle to even borrow money to purchase a new car that will destroy her credit rating and may one day be repossessed by the bank. "I have dreams of starting my own company at some point in the future, but I just don't see how I'll have the opportunity to be saddled for my entire adult life with a suffocating high-interest small business loan if my student debt is following me wherever I go. It's awful." Orlinsky was reportedly encouraged, however, after coming to the mistaken conclusion that she could just default on her student loans and have them discharged in a bankruptcy filing.
Tags: Debt Limit, Humor, Onion, Society
Stupid But True: First in a Series
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Sahil Kapur's in-depth interview with King demonstrates, King knows exactly which way his crazy crumbles, and he's speaking directly to the voting Republican base.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
False Patriotism
Tags: Daily Show, Elections, Fox News, Humor, Media, Politics, Right Wing World, Terrorism, TV
Nostalgia Theater: The Cosby Mysteries Comes and Goes
I reminisced about The Cosby Show on the occasion of that show's thirtieth anniversary, so I figured I'd keep the Cosby conversation going this week by briefly remembering Bill Cosby's follow-up to his groundbreaking family sitcom. Unfortunately for the Cos, this one didn't enjoy quite the same pop culture shelf life, and the only real mystery today is that The Cosby Mysteries once existed. Don't believe me? For proof, watch the intro below, and keep reading after the jump!
Tags: '80s Detective Shows, Bill Cosby, NBC, Nostalgia Theater, TV
Thursday, September 25, 2014
The MovieFilm Podcast: Episode 55
For this week's show, we pick apart the premiere episode of Fox's new Batman-minus-Batman TV series Gotham. We look at what worked, what didn't, and where we hope things go in the weeks ahead. In addition, I discuss how Liam Neeson and Denzel Washington have cornered the market on "Old Guys Beating People Up" movies via A Walk Among the Tombstones and The Equzalizer. Oh, we also have an exclusive interview with Mike Shoemaker, co-creator of the hilarious Hulu original series The Awesomes. All that, plus listener letters, and the latest headlines out of Hollywood, including word that Matt Damon is set to return as Jason Bourne, and rumors that William Shatner may again don his space suit to play Captain James T. Kirk. As always, please hit up iTunes and Stitcher to write us a review, and drop us a line at our Facebook page to tell us how we're doing!
Tags: Brian Hall, Denzel Washington, Gotham, Liam Neeson, MovieFilm Podcast, Movies, Podcasts, Star Trek, Star Trek 3, Star Wars
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Diffused Congruence: Ayesha Mattu and Ali Eteraz
For this episode of the show, Parvez and I shine a spotlight on Muslim authors who've successfully broken through into the mainstream. First, we chat with Ayesha Mattu, co-editor of Love, Inshallah and its new sequel Salaam, Love about how the two books came about, what the reactions have been, and what she's learned from her audience. After that, we have a conversation with Ali Eteraz, author of Children of Dust and the upcoming Falsipedies and Fibsiennes. You can download or stream below, and also listen at iTunes (don't forget to leave us a review!) and Stitcher Radio. Feel free to send any comments or questions our way at email@example.com or via our Facebook page!
Tags: Books, Diffused Congruence, Islam, Media, Muslims, Parvez Ahmed, Podcasts
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Nostalgia Theater: The Cosby Show Turns 30!
Per author Bill Carter in his book The War For Late Night, that quote was uttered by former ABC exec Lew Erlicht after being approached by a homeless person seeking help. And while Carter couches that anecdote as likely apocryphal, the truth behind the probable fiction is that Erlicht did indeed (much to his regret) reject a pitch by producers Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner for a family comedy centered on comedian Bill Cosby. He passed, the show was picked up by NBC prexy Brandon Tartikoff, and the rest is TV history.
One Year Ago in Nostalgia Theater: XX Years of The X-Files
Three decades of history, in fact. In news that's sure to make a lot of folks of my vintage feel positively decrepit, last night marked thirty years to the day that The Cosby Show premiered on the Peacock, introducing America to the upper-middle class Huxtable family, headed by doctor dad Cliff (Cosby) and lawyer mom Claire (Phylicia Rashad), with four (later five) children. On its journey the '80s, it revived the sitcom format, changed the playing field for African-Americans on TV and, depending on the telling, rescued NBC, which had spent the better part of the last decade on-the-ropes, from insolvency.
Here's one of my fave bits from the very first episode:
Tags: '80s Sitcoms, Bill Cosby, Late Night, Magnum PI, NBC, Nostalgia Theater, Simpsons, TV
Friday, September 19, 2014
Key & Peele on Aliens & Racism
Tags: Humor, Key and Peele, TV
From The Onion...
I think this was me last month, when I visited Chicago.
Man Visiting Hometown Amazed To Find All His Childhood Insecurities Still There
MANSFIELD, OH—While walking through his old neighborhood, Mansfield, OH, native Peter Grogan, 37, was reportedly surprised Thursday to find that each and every one of his childhood insecurities remains in his hometown. "I was heading down Marion Avenue, where Jeff Bilderman used to pick on me every day, and noticed that my old anxieties, fears, and constant sense of shame are all still here," Grogan told reporters, marveling that the dozens of uncertainties that plagued him throughout his adolescent and teenage years were still thriving exactly where he left them. "I haven't been back for long, but it doesn't seem like my timidity and self-doubt have changed even a bit. And it looks like my feelings of inadequacy are still going strong, judging by the fears of rejection that came flooding back when I walked past my old high school. It's all exactly the same as it was almost 20 years ago." Grogan added that the one difference he could identify was that walking through his hometown now fills him with newly established insecurities regarding his financial situation, relationship with his parents, and own impending mortality.
Recommended Reading
Jonathan Chait looks at the peculiarities of polling coming out of Kansas, and how changing political winds could be blowing against the state's deeply-entrenched Republican establishment.
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Nostalgia Theater: Getting to the Core of Filmation's Journey to the Center of the Earth
the 1959 feature adaptation starring James Mason and released by 20th Century Fox (which also produced the 'toon). For an overview of the premise, look no further than the intro below, with narration by the late, great Ted Knight:
Friday, September 12, 2014
Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, and Craig Johnson Talk The Skeleton Twins
The family drama stars Wiig and Hader as titular twins Maggie and Milo, reunited in adulthood due to extenuating circumstances and forced to deal with the repercussions of two lifetimes of questionable choices. I had opportunity to chat with Wiig, Hader, and director Johnson last May for the film's San Francisco premiere, and what follows are some of the highlights from the hilarious roundtable discussion, which often dissolved into spontaneous comedy routines from the two stars:
Tags: Interview, Movies, Saturday Night Live, TV
Thursday, September 11, 2014
The MovieFilm Podcast: Episode 54
For our first episode of the fall season, the MovieFilm Podcast is proud to present a roundtable interview with actors Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig, and director Craig Johnson, about their new film The Skeleton Twins. After that, we dive into the latest headlines out of Hollywood, including our thoughts on the newly-revealed Batmobile from Batman v. Superman, word that Sylvester Stallone may be getting ready to strap on the machete and play Rambo one last time, and some new rumors about what to expect from Star Wars: Episode VII. After that, it's onto the main event, as we continue our annual tradition of looking back at the just-concluded summer season's spate of releases, from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, offering a post-mortem on what worked, what didn't, and why. It's loose, it's fun, it's under two hours, and you can stream it below or download at the link! As always, please hit up iTunes and Stitcher to write us a review, and drop us a line at our Facebook page to tell us how we're doing!
Tags: Brian Hall, Episode VII, MovieFilm Podcast, Movies, Podcasts, Rambo, Superman-Batman
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
From The Onion...
Man, ain't it the truth.
Puzzled Nation Can Remember Name Ferguson, But Not Sure From Where
WASHINGTON—Reportedly racking their brains in an attempt to figure out how they knew that name, a puzzled American populace admitted Monday that while they definitely remembered hearing the word Ferguson, they could not quite put their finger on where. "Ferguson, Ferguson—God, I know that word from somewhere. It's right on the tip of my tongue," said Virginia Beach resident Mark Brown, one of millions of citizens nationwide who reportedly paused during the day and furrowed their brows in bafflement, before venturing guesses that the familiar-sounding term might have been a thing from TV or someone they heard a friend talking about. "Yeah, that definitely rings a bell. Hmm. Boy, I'm drawing a big blank on this one. Oh, well." At press time, each citizen agreed that wherever they had heard the name Ferguson, it probably wasn't worth any more of their time trying to remember.
Recommended Reading
Lawrence Wright on twenty-eight missing pages in the the congressional inquiry into 9/11. Those pages were excised at the behest of the Bush Administration, but it's the "why" that's at issue.
Tags: 9/11, George W. Bush, Politics, Terrorism
Sunday, September 07, 2014
Nostalgia Theater: Run, Joe, Run -- It's The Fugitive With a Dog
Tags: Fugitive, NBC, Nostalgia Theater, TV
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Gigi Orsolani makes a fantastic line-up of still whites from his Erbaluce vineyards in the northern Piedmont region of Caluso. His handcrafted sparkling wines are even better! This is small production, handmade, wine that undergoes a Champagne-style secondary fermentation in bottle, ages on the lees for 3-4 years, and then is riddled, disgorged, and given its final dossage all by hand. There's a little Champagne buttered toast and bread dough in the aromas along with yellow fruits, fresh herb, and a hint of mint. In the mouth, it's creamy and finely textured with peach and apricot notes and a nice dose of toast. Finishes bright, fresh, and elegant. A terrific riff on Champagne from just below the Italian Alps!
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Ferrando and Carema's co-op produce the bulk of the meager 10,000 cases of Carema each year, but Gian-Luigi Orsolani makes a tiny bit as well – making this the only other estate-grown/bottled Carema you'll find. The name "Le Tabbie" is local dialect for the "tables" or terraces perched on Carema's mountainsides where Nebbiolo is grown. Orsolani harvests these grapes in late October and gives them a traditional, long, fermentation and maceration before aging for 2 years in large oak barrels, 1 year in smaller barrels, and 1 last year in bottle. All the wood is neutral – just letting the wine soften rather than imparting any oak flavor.
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A small country with a dark past, Cambodia in Southeast Asia is being illuminated by its first PGA-standard golf course. The layout in Siem Reap is expected to attract much-needed tourist dollars to the impoverished country, a company official said Wednesday.
Designed by and named after British golfing legend Nick Faldo, the "Faldo Course" opened on December 22 at the Angkor Golf Resort. Its developers hope the course will boost Cambodia's economy by drawing well-heeled tourists, said Adam Robertson, operations manager. "By having an internationally acclaimed golf course in Siem Reap, we will now attract golf travelers, who generally have a large disposable income."
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Tourism is one of the few sources of foreign exchange for Cambodia and the government is trying to woo tourists into venturing beyond the temple to other areas. Cambodia recorded about 1.7 million tourists in 2006. Officials hope further gains will inject new life into a country still recovering from decades of strife.
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The technology to expect in your next TV
4th Feb 2010 | 11:00
Multicore processors, quad HD, lenticular lenses and more
OLED screens and multi-core processors
Everybody is talking about 3D TV.
This year's CES was buzzing about it. Samsung, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba and LG all showed off 3D-capable HDTVs, some with 2D-to-3D video conversion technology that claims to add depth to existing content on the fly.
More recently, Sky made broadcast history by showing Arsenal vs Manchester United in 3D. Later this year, Blu-ray 3D will bring high definition 3D movies into your living room. A 3D revolution looks inevitable, albeit slow to unfold.
Of course, 3D is also a convenient way for manufacturers to sell more HDTVs. Plummeting telly prices continue to benefit consumers – you can pick up a 5-star rated Samsung LE32B550 for less than £400.
But cheap HDTVs have also dented the profits of the big hardware manufacturers. It's why they'll be trying to convince you that your current HDTV is already out of date. Yes, it might have optimised gaming modes, DLNA connectivity, LED backlighting and internet widgets. But we bet your HDTV doesn't have...
Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED)
OLED is viewed as the natural successor to LCD. It boasts superior brightness and colour reproduction because the organic material used to construct an OLED panel emits its own light when charged, so there's no need for a separate backlight.
LED or otherwise. OLED and AMOLED displays are already being used on portable devices, including the Zune HD and Google Nexus One. They're also expected to make the transition to laptops – Dell recently teased an OLED-equipped Studio XPS.
Building OLED HDTVs is proving a bigger challenge. The problem is that OLED displays remain expensive to manufacture, especially in large sizes.
Not enough factories are geared up to produce them, so working TV prototypes are few and far between. But there have been some promising developments. Both Sony and Samsung showed off 3D-capable OLED concepts off at CES 2010.
Mitsubishi has recently unveiled a massive 149-inch prototype OLED display (consisting of several 10 x 10 cm panels) that will be appearing at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) show in February.
While the TV industry distracts itself with 3D, OLED and 3D OLED displays are undoubtedly the future of TV displays. But we might have to wait until the end of 2011, early 2012 before they become commercially available beyond the 11- and 15-inch novelty panels currently available.
Quad pixels
Manufacturers are always trying to improve the quality of their displays, whether it's through favouring PDP over LCD, boosting the refresh rate or adopting LED backlighting.
Sharp has taken a different tack. Its proprietary 'four primary colour' technology adds an extra yellow pixel to the existing Red, Green and Blue setup in a typical LCD.
Sharp's future Aquos models will feature this new RGBY technology to extend the gamut of viewable colours to more than a trillion. According to Sharp, this quad pixel approach will enable its LE920, LE810 and LE810 models to reproduce colours that have been "difficult to portray using conventional LCD displays, such as the golden yellow colour of brass instruments."
Multi-core processing power
The new Toshiba ZX900 Series Cell TV could be the shape of TVs to come. Featuring a version of the same Cell chip that powers the PlayStation 3, the ZX900 boasts eight co-processing cores running at 3.2GHz.
It has, says Toshiba, 143 times the multimedia prowess of its current MetaBrain TVs and is capable of upscaling HD content to Ultra HD and converting 2D video into 3D video in real-time.
The Cell chip can also juggle multiple video streams. The Japanese version of the Cell TV will incorporate 14 TV tuners – 11 digital terrestrial tuners, 2 digital satellite tuners and 1 analogue terrestrial tuner. According to Toshiba, it will be capable of recording eight programmes in parallel or displaying them simultaneously in split-screen.
Lenticular lenses, Ultra HD, return of portable
A built-in digital hub
If the Cell processor inside Toshiba's forthcoming Cell TV wasn't impressive enough, this sliver-thin HDTV is wirelessly connected to a companion set-top box that boasts a built-in 1TB hard disk drive, Blu-ray Player and 802.11n Wi-Fi connectivity. Less a standalone HDTV, your future telly could be a full-blown entertainment system.
Lenticular lenses
While manufacturers are falling over themselves to produce stereoscopic '3D Ready' HDTVs, future TVs could use autostereoscopic technology that doesn't require polarised or Active Shutter glasses.
Autostereoscopic TVs use lenticular lenses mounted in front of the TV display. These lenses refract the light from the panel so that each eye sees a different image.
The catch? You have to be sitting in exactly the right spot to enjoy the effect. And you mustn't move. A challenge if you're trying to sit through a two-hour movie.
Quad HD/4K2K resolution
You don't need to imagine image quality four times better than today's 1080p HD. 4K panels with a resolution of 4,096 x 2,160 pixels already exist – Sony unveiled its 56-inch £47,500 Trimaster SRM-L560 in Japan last year, while CES saw Panasonic showcase a 152-inch 4K2K plasma with a screen area equivalent to nine 50-inch TV panels.
4K2K eclipses the resolution of a traditional 2K (2048 x 1080) digital cinema projector but there's little or no content being shot in this Quad HD format. Nevertheless, future TVs will increasingly come packed with multimedia processing power.
If Toshiba's Cell TV is any indication of hardware to come, TVs will be capable of upscaling broadcast HD and Blu-ray content in real time.
A 10-inch touchscreen...
All this talk of bigger, more powerful HDTVs might be missing the point. Not everything we watch needs to be viewed on a 65-inch 3D-capable Full HDTV.
So we predict the return of the portable TV. Not as the separate mini telly of old, but in the form of a lightweight Wi-Fi internet tablet that you can cuddle up with on the sofa.
Yes, something very much like the Apple iPad, a slate-style device capable of streaming catch-up TV services, watching downloadable TV shows and accessing recorded content on a home server or Slingbox.
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