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I would like to open a forum for discussion of the whole gift/guilt/kids and consumption issue, for those who celebrate Christmas. I am a single parent who does receive child support, I do have a good job, and it isn't as though I can't "do" Christmas at all. I love the holiday and we have a beautiful tree with other traditions each year. It's just that I am getting resentful of my daughter's expectations(she is 8). I also realize that I have been instrumental in creating them.
She has a late November birthday, which I realize adds to the problem. Her father participates in none of the birthday celebration nor Christmas gift purchases. His side of the family is very generous, as is her stepmother, so she is not hurting for gifts or expressions of love. She also HAS everything imagineable. My issue, I guess, is where do I break this connection of guilt and obligation to spend money and buy her things just for the sake of it? What am I trying to prove and to whom?
p I have seen the receipt of gifts become meaningless year after year, as they get piled into the closet to be resurrected and played with in perhaps JULY?! She is an only child, so spreading them around isn't an option. Any feedback on this would be greatly welcomed. Thanks. I find myself on bedrest this holiday season, which had lead me to think about what is essential for a happy holiday (in our case, Christmas). I'm now remembering a book I read last year, after a Christmas of too much stress. If you'd like to have a simpler, more meaningful holiday experience this year or next, I highly recommend the book: "Unplug the Christmas Machine: A Guide to Putting Love and Joy Back into the Season" by Jo Robinson and Jean Staeheli. Natasha
It seems to me there are a couple of ways to approach it. One is to ask why you feel you need to purchase things to express your love. Is it because you can't spend as much time with your child as you want? There are lots of holiday activities - concerts, plays, tree lighting ceremonies, teddy bear teas - that you can substitute for buying something.
And that gets to the other approach. Does your child have any idea of the meaning of Christmas? Can you try to teach her more about why we celebrate it and plan some activities together in that spirit? For example, rather than buying her a bunch of presents, take her with you to buy some toys to take to a homeless shelter. There were some good ideas in the Chronicle's Datebook section today, and Natasha Beery in another post to this list suggested a book that sounded like it might have some alternatives as well.
For myself, I would like to start some holiday traditions for our family that take the emphasis off the gift receiving, and I'd love to hear how other people have done this. Lysa
In my case my parents have far more money than I do, as do my sister's family and also my brother and his wife. As a result my son really gets too much stuff every year, but I just can't seem to break out of this. I know that if I even tried to explain some of this to my family, they would only smile tolerantly and just feel sorry for me. They really wouldn't get it, being a crowd of rampant consumers all, ever ready to rush out and get the latest "must own" thing.
p It's always a relief when the holidays are over because of this, even though at that point I am left with a lot of bills and, yes, many toys that don't get played with much. I feel the only way I could possibly get away from this competition in gift giving would be to move to a mountain top or desert island some where and cut off all communication with my extended family.
Has any one else faced a similar problem and come up with a reasonable solution? I don't want my son to think less of his grandparents or aunts and uncles, so I don't what to cast a lot of aspersions on the expensive gifts they give. Besides, I could probably get him to say that he liked some homemade thing I gave him best, but deep down it just wouldn't be the same thrill for him as the latest Hot Wheels set up, or something of that ilk.
I didn't mean for this to turn into such a long whine, but if any one has any suggestions, I'm definitely open to them. Dianna
My own 4 year old son, thanks to a bunch of catalogs inundating our mailbox and Sunday paper ad inserts, by now wants about two UPS truckloads of gifts. I tell him that Santa has to think of all kids, although of course this might not fly with an 8 year old. In the end, my beautiful memories of holidays past tell me that these are what you decide to make them. A child might not appreciate what for him/her are abstract arguments on how privileged we are as a society and how callous our sense of entitlement can be, but that doesn't mean that we should (completly) bend to the, in the end, unhealthy demands of guilt and consumption. The best gift a child can receive is clear guidance, a structured life, and time with parents (along with sound financial planning that will allow him/her to not have to take care of them in their old age). This in itself is a tall order in our days of absurd work hours and double income obligations, but if one provides these, the issue of guilt becomes moot.
Another issue that bears mentioning is that of labor conditions in the toy factories of Asia. Due to repression of unionization efforts and terrible working conditions in China for example, I try to make an efort to buy US or European made toys. These are more expensive (e.g. Brio, Lego), but I just buy less. Another option is to buy used toys and invent a nice personal wrapping for them, which I am doing this year. It is a good way to support a small local business (I hate ToysRus) and fight waste. The preoccupation with labor conditions abroad and waste can also be solved by offering, as a gift, a outing to see The Nutcracker. With my family, we went to the Oakland Ballet's rendition of it a few years back. It was my first time at the ballet, and I loved it. I want to take my son again this year. Good luck. - adad
We've also outlawed gifts for all the minor holidays (Easter, Valentine's day, Halloween, etc.). Instead we've encouraged them to send cards. The cards have gotten pretty creative, I think our parents are actually enjoying the challenge. Our oldest daughter who can appreciate them loves when she gets them. She asks me to read the card over and over. She especially loves the XOXOXO's and what they mean.
Both sets of grandparents and all Aunts and Uncles live out of town so they all sneak in extra gifts when they visit but so far it hasn't gotten out of hand. Last time my sister was here she brought 2 books and told me she was afraid we'd ask them to stay at a hotel if she'd bought toys.
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Photo series on the legendary Twelve O'Clock Boyz of Baltimore
By Annie Churdar in New Photography on Thursday 28 February 2013
Noah Rabinowitz and Lotfy Nathan have been travelling together on a mission to find the Twelve O'Clock Boyz, an urban tribe of bikers in the heart of Baltimore. This culture of bikers ride in large groups, sometimes huge, 100 member groups. They ride around urban neighborhoods, pulling stunts and paying no attention to traffic laws. […]
Baltimore Free Farm to launch a sustainable prawn farm
By Gerry Mak in New Eco on Wednesday 7 March 2012
I just hung out at the Baltimore Free Farm, an ambitious and multi-faceted permaculture farm in the middle of Baltimore City. Most exciting is their plans to have a sustainable prawn-farming facility, where shrimp will consume compost and vegetable waste and provide fertilizers for the farm with their own waste and a healthy and delicious protein source for people.
Luminous Intervention: a public art project in Baltimore
By Gerry Mak in New Art on Tuesday 6 March 2012
I have some serious issues with the Occupy brand and culture these days, but I met some cool artist types through the movement, and we're trying to do awesome stuff in Baltimore with a projector. Help us out.
Video for Baltimore by Colorado band Tennis
By Fitacola in New Music on Wednesday 11 January 2012
A year ago, I stumbled onto the music of Tennis and fell in love. Their happy, sun-filled sound has a way of making my day begin well, even in winter, even when the sun doesn't shine all that much. It has the promise of better, sunnier, happier days ahead.
Rare bootleg of Baltimore band Romantic States
By Romantic States in Video on Tuesday 10 January 2012
A rare bootleg tape recording of Baltimore's Romantic States has been released on Bandcamp, and is free to listen, download, and share. It is titled Come Over To My House, and features Jim Triplett and Ilenia Madelaire on various instruments. With minimal overdubs, the eleven tracks are raw and alive with a rough but happy […]
A documentation of Baltimore graffiti
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Bigger cities tend to get more documentation of their street art and graffiti, but here's a nice and comprehensive Flickr set of Baltimore graffiti.
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In a weird case of life imitating art, Baltimore Sun crime reporter Justin Fenton recently tweeted that someone named Omar Little Jr was arrested on gun charges.
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People are often skeptical when I tell them Baltimore is one of the best cities in America, mainly because they only know the city via The Wire and John Waters movies. Maybe this will convince them: the country's largest pinball museum will open in Charm City by the end of the year.
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I'm a wheat-free guy, and though I've never been into sweets, I love Sweet Sin, the only gluten-free bakery in Baltimore. Aside from their wheatless treats, they also serve a wide range of savory meals such as snapper, goat, and greens.
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This test is a progress check of aerobic capacity using the result of your 3 minute aerobic test to set the sub maximal level. It has the advantage of being less fatiguing than a maximal test and has a short recovery period.
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A horse's normal body temperature is 99 - 101 F.
Pulse- The normal pulse rate,
most often taken by listening to the heart on the left side of the chest
just behind the left elbow, is 36 to 42 beats per minute.
Young stock and ponies tend to be a bit faster.
Respiration-The normal rate
for horses is between 8-12 breaths
per minute.
Capillary refill time (time it
takes for color to return to gum tissue adjacent to teeth after pressing
and releasing with your thumb): 2 seconds.
Every horse owner needs to know what is
"normal" for their horse. Knowing how your horse acts and reacts
when he
is feeling good will help you to faster realize when there is something
"not right" with him.
all of
the signs before veterinary help arrives can often give a much clearer
picture on the level of concern
and the response rate.
This page
is to
educate you on a horse's vital signs. Knowing the vital signs, learning
what is normal and what is not,
will help you take care of them, and aid you in knowing
when to call a vet.
Below are the
normal vital signs
for adult horses. If you can determine
the normal parameters of your horse that can
be essential
in your assessment of his health.
Even horses with what might appear
to be only a mild depression may be in critical condition.
Knowing your
horses normal vital signs, and comparing those
numbers to times when one might
suspect that he is ill,
can be a VERY helpful aid in
determining how quickly he needs veterinarian
Whether he is interested in feed or grass
or not will tell the owner very quickly if the horse is ill.
Horses are never
"just not hungry".
Take your horse's temperature when he is healthy so you can get a normal
reading for him.
The normal
temperature for the horse is 100.0 degrees. However, a horse's
temperature can vary somewhat
with the season. During the winter, it is
not uncommon for the temperature to drop to as low as 97. But usually,
are not concerned with temperature that are low, but rather, trying to
determine if he is running a fever from an
During the winter,
any temperature above about 100.5 should be suspect, with average fevers
normally running
from 101.5 up to 104. The summer heat, as well as any
exercise, can often raise the core temperature upward even
without a
fever. This must be taken into account when the assessment is made.
A race or show horse, after intense competition, can have a core
temperature up to 105. Even at rest, in the summer
heat under a tree, a temperature
of 101 would not be considered abnormal. So events preceding the
acquisition of the
temperature must be taken into account before it is
interpreted. A high fever doesn't always indicate a severe condition,
but if his
temperature is over 102 F, you should call your veterinarian.
To Take a Horse's Temperature:
The most accurate way to take a horse's temperature is rectally.
Always secure a string to the end of the thermometer, so that it doesn't
get lost
The plastic digital thermometers work very well and are generally easier
to use,
and most of them beep when they are done.
Be sure that if you use an older mercury-type thermometer,
that you shake down the mercury before taking the horse's temperature.
The horse should be tied or held still by an assistant.
Lubricate the tip of the thermometer with petroleum jelly or Vaseline.
Move the horse's tail to the side and out of the way and insert the
thermometer into the horse's rectum,
angled slightly towards the ground. Stand close to the horse's hip ,do
not stand directly behind the horse,
because some horses don't like this and might kick out - but most don't
For the most accurate reading, leave a mercury thermometer in position
for at least 3 minutes.
Many digital thermometers work well in less than 1 minute.
Important: Always clean the
thermometer well before returning it to its case...
and especially if used on an ill horse, to prevent the spreading of an
Pulse: The normal pulse rate,
most often taken by listening to the heart on the left side of the chest
just behind the left elbow, is 40 beats per minute.
Checking the pulse rate.
Another place to
check the pulse rate.
Horses that are fit may
have rates as low as 28, and this is not considered abnormal.
However, ANY rate above 40, even 44, should be looked in the context of
how the horse is feeling.
Rates between 40-60 are considered "serious",
but may be explained by an elevated
temperature. However, rates above 80
are considered "critical" and indicate a very serious problem.
Of course,
these rates apply to a horse at rest, and any exercise just before taking
the pulse should be taken into
consideration. Also, if the horse is
suddenly excited, it may be elevated on a very temporary basis.
Listen to
the rate for at least a minute, checking to see if it comes down, before
recording the final rate.
Respiration: The normal rate
for horses is between
8-12 breaths
per minute.
However, many things can effect this that must be taken into
consideration before considering whether it is abnormal.
One common
factor is his temperature. Other characteristics of breathing, rather
than just the rate, may be more of an
overall indicator of problems.
heavy breathing, or breathing with an extra abdominal effort, abnormal
noise, labored breathing, or gasping are all
indications of a very serious
problem. Report any observations that are anything but quiet and easy
Mucus Membrane Color: The
normal color is pink. Gums that are pale, deep red, purple, overly
yellow, or streaked
with the appearance of small broken blood vessels are
abnormal and should be recorded. Some of the causes for
appearance are listed below:
Pale: Low perfusion of blood indicating a "shock" condition.
Deep red: Congested membranes, also a shock type condition with toxicity.
Purple or blue: Low oxygen levels or serious toxicosis.
Overly yellow: Gums are normally slightly yellow, but very yellow may be
a liver problem.
Capillary Refill Time: After
depressing the gums, the color should return within 1-2 seconds.
Delayed return of color,
3 seconds or more, is an indication of poor
blood perfusion, often brought on by serious dehydration, shock, or other
Borborygmus: This refers to the
sounds that the gut makes in digesting the feed. A horse should have a
gurgling sound on both sides of the
abdomen back near the flanks.
Several horses should be assessed before making a
determination of what
can be
considered "normal", "none", "low", or "hypermotile".
During colic
episodes, horses with little or no gut sounds may be in serious
condition. A hypermotile gut may be
indicating an irritation, and this
may be coupled with a loose stool or diarrhea. Assessing the gut sounds
from one
moment to the next may indicate whether a horse's condition is
improving or deteriorating. Take this, and all of the
vital signs,
Your vet will listen for
"gut sounds" (digestive sounds) in the locations above on both
left and right side of your horse. You should be familiar with
the normal gut sounds your horse has.
Hydration State: The best way
to determine hydration is through an assessment of the horses blood
However, using the "skin turgor test"
can often be a quick
field aid. The skin over the shoulder should be pinched with some
elevation of the skin.
If it snaps back into place very quickly, the
horse may be considered to be adequately hydrated. Any delay should
suspect and assessed along with the other vital signs. Older horses tend
to have a more relaxed skin, so this
should be taken into account. Again,
assessing this parameter when the horse can be considered healthy will
determine if this is abnormal.
Conclusion: It is important to
remember that all the vital signs must be
taken into account when assessing your
One parameter that may be outside the normal boundaries may not be
overly significant when all of the others are
within normal bounds.
some signs may adequately explain why others are abnormal, such as an
increased pulse rate associated
with a fever. However, reporting all
the signs before veterinary help arrives can often give a much clearer
picture on the
level of concern and the
response rate.
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Although the Lakers experienced several key losses to graduation and most of their key returning wrestlers were underclassmen, they completed a perfect dual meet record in the Lakes Eight, and still took home the league title after finishing second to Tri-County at the conference tournament at Orchard View on Saturday.
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The Lakers should also be considered the favorites to capture a Division 2 district title inside their home gymnasium, although opening round opponent Muskegon, and potential finals foes Fruitport and Reeths-Puffer will try to prove otherwise.
"We're not overlooking anyone," Robinson said. "We're going to have to have our best dual meeting performance if we want to win that trophy."
What makes it a tougher challenge for the Lakers is they enter the district tournament banged up. Senior Kyle Edwards will try to gut through the pain of a high ankle sprain, while junior George Nietering recently had stitches in his foot, but will tape it up and also fight through the injury.
"The kids know what's at stake," Robinson said. "They don't want to miss it."
Robinson said a key to victory is the Lakers taking care of business in their middle to upper weight classes. Those classes include Al Slajus at 145, Gabe Giddings at 152, Zack Kennedy at 160, Mason Dial at 171, Jared Marod at 189, Shane Skorupski at 215 and heavyweight Billy Belcher.
Belcher, Kennedy and Dial won individual league titles in their respective weight classes on Saturday. It's been an especially sweet senior season for Belcher, who had to be talked into coming out for the sport by his friends during his freshman season.
He slowly made progress on the mat, going from a dismal two-win season his first year, to a .500 record as a sophomore.
"At the end (of his sophomore year) he beat a really tough kid from Coopersville, and you could tell something just clicked," Robinson said. "From there, he started going to our team camps and a couple individual camps on his own and just progressively got better and better."
Belcher, who lost both of his matches at last season's individual state finals, is a favorite to advance back to the Palace of Auburn Hills to avenge those losses.
Before that, ending a team district drought is first and foremost.
"It's been five years (since our last district title), and the kids realize that," Robinson said. "Hopefully we'll be ending that drought."


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If until now the Georgian home has been like a monochrome engraving, Vickery has made it three dimensional and vibrantly colored. Behind Closed Doors demonstrates that rigorous academic work can also be nosy, gossipy, and utterly engaging.
"Professor Vickery is a thorough and disciplined academic who has trawled through many often obscure archives and tapped unusual or long neglected reservoirs of information. But not for a moment is she overwhelmed by the mighty volume of her research. She weaves it all into a compelling narrative packed with anecdote, strange characters and all manner of weird and wonderful details about Georgian home life."Dan Cruickshank, Country Life
"Vickery is that rare thing an academic historian who writes like a novelist... an enthralling slice of domestic history."Jane Shilling, Daily Mail
"Vickery's great skill lies in combining a sharp forensic eye with the ability to spot and tell stories, moving between different scales so smoothly that you can't see the joins. And then there is the wit of the thing. Few academic historians manage to be so funny without compromising the seriousness of their work. She did it 10 years ago in The Gentleman's Daughter and she has done it again here. It was worth the wait."Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian
"We see the Georgians at home as we have never seen them before in this ground-breaking book. Vickery can make a young wifes arrangement of china into an event of thrilling social and psychological tension. Behind Closed Doors is both scholarly and terrifically good fun. Worth staying at home for."Frances Wilson, Sunday Times
"[Vickery] describes Enlightenment domesticity and the growth of elegant taste with wonderful aplomb and infectious enthusiasm ... [Behind Closed Doors] is especially gorgeous in unusual and telling illustrations.Christina Hardyment, History Today
"Amanda Vickery has uncovered wonderful stories and characters, and written a book that is amusing as it is scholarly. You can hear her voice on every page."John Mullan
"How many academic books make readers laugh out loud? My guess is that I wont be alone in having that experience of Behind Closed Doors ... [Behind Closed Doors] reveals in a fundamentally novel way how the language of taste actually functioned for those outside of the well-known literary and philosophical elite in this period. Indeed, as someone who imagined they knew the scholarship on interiors, I learned something on almost every page; and its also not a small thing to say that unlike almost all the other published books on interiors available, I got the strongest possible sense that Vickery had lived in an interior, and understood how interiors work on a day to day level." - Dr. Jason Edwards, University of York
"Vickery is rare as an author who can speculate as to how certain events might actually have felt to those involved, whilst keeping the discussion firmly rooted in the sources and not seeming overfanciful. This is a beautifully written book. It includes important research and thorough engagement with current debates, whilst managing to tell a whole series of cracking good stories."Dr. Kate Retford, Birkbeck College, University of London
"Comparison between Vickery and Jane Austen is irresistible. In a sense, this is history on the scale of the famous square of ivory on which Austen claimed the ideal novel should be created: graceful, delicate, sparkling with sprezzatura. As with Austen's novels, though, Vickery's research into the landscapes of Georgian domestic politics reveals a great deal more than embroidery going on in the drawing-room. This book is almost too pleasurable, in that Vickery's style and delicious nosiness conceal some seriously weighty scholarship. Using more than 60 archives, Vickery develops her theories through the perceptions of her protagonists, themselves so vivid and memorable that observations such as 'The battle of wainscot versus marble, or stucco versus rampant wallpaper was a motif of a wider cultural debate in which gender was a weapon' sneak slyly under the dado."Lisa Hilton, The Independent
'In history… the study if homes and home life has undergone a revolution in the past few decades. One of the leading figures in that revolution is Amanda Vickery. Who can resist a book that describes one diarist as a confirmed grumbletonian. One would have to be a confirmed grumbletonian indeed not to find enlightenment – and pleasure – on every page of this book.' — Judith Flanders, The Sunday Telegraph
'[Vickery] opens resolutely shut doors and peeps into the private lives of servants, aristocrats and the "polite and middling sorts" – merchants, clergy members, doctors and lawyers…Ms. Vickery's greatest achievement is to upend the notion that the home was divided into separate spheres in which men were responsible for brick and stone while women ruled over domestic life. Instead, she brilliantly shows that these boundaries were fluid and mutable…Few writers have such a talent for transforming the driest historical source into a gripping narrative.' — Andrea Wulf, International Herald Tribune
'What Vickery illuminates, often brilliantly, always entertainingly and through a myriad of examples from many different people, are the ways in which family and gender relations were played out in Georgian England.' — Stella Tillyard. Times Literary Supplement
'Amanda Vickery's beautifully textured exploration of domestic life.' — Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman
'Relying on documents such as account books, journals, letters, inventories and wills, Vickery paints pictures for her readers…Vickery discusses not only the appearance in everyday life in Georgian England but also the nature of the relationships within it…Behind Closed Doors is a fascinating contribution to our understanding of the Georgian period.' — Jocelyn Anderson, The Georgian
"[Behind Closed Doors] stands out … [It] not only revels in the details of domestic life, it offers a very funny way of looking at otherwise familiar historical characters. Whoever would have guessed that the Duke of Cumberland, the Butcher of Culloden, had such an eye for a well-turned vase?" — Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph
"An evocative account of life in Georgian England … How much we owe historians who trawl through the illegible and scattered archives for us to assemble these alternative accounts of history." — Margaret Drabble, The Guardian
"A perfect balance between academic and popular history … In a sense, this is history on the scale of the famous square of ivory on which [Jane] Austen claimed the ideal novel should be created: graceful, delicate, sparkling with sprezzatura … This book is almost too pleasurable." — Lisa Hilton, Independent on Sunday
"A deeply moving investigation into the domestic lives of our 18th-century ancestors. A scholar of the highest order, Vickery has scoured over 60 archives and … has unearthed wonderful sources … In supple, elegant prose she repeatedly shows that domestic routines and choices were intertwined with political and public participation … A book full of fascinating discoveries – and radically important conclusions." — Kate Williams, History Today
'A nuanced and often shocking portrait of the Georgian home … Vickery builds up [her] conclusions carefully from the evidence and writes wit verve and wit. Her book is strengthened by its confinement to respectable society, where her arguments about solitude and substance ring true.' — Sarah Bakewell, The Independent
"Men and women were both under the illusion that they were in charge of the Georgian home. Amanda Vickery makes a delightful study of these roles and homes and draws from a huge period sources as she delves into the lives both of the rich and of the everyday Georgian. This book takes an unstarchy look at domestic life in Georgian England and is full of delicious detail." — House and Garden
"Amanda Vickery's stunning new book on domestic life in 18th-century England trumps the traditionalists by showing what can be achieved when a historian boldly goes into new terrains, harnessing the technological advancements that the internet has made possible with an impressive array of original archival evidence (including over 60 collections in various archives and local record offices) and a kaleidoscopic range of material sources: from textiles, furniture, and the visual arts, to wallpaper, and the built environment. . . . Vickery's prose is a model of its kind: as elegant and as bracing as a brisk rub-down in a gilt bath with carbolic soap. Some of the considerable achievements of this important book are Vickery's sheer mastery of the sources, the originality of her materials and methodology, and the provocations contained in her seductive prose." — Helen Berry, Reviews in History
"This book takes an unstarchy look at domestic life in Georgian England and is full of delicious detail." — House and Garden
"Some of the considerable achievements of this important book are Vickery's sheer mastery of the sources, the originality of her materials and methodology, and the provocations contained in her seductive prose." — Helen Berry, Reviews in History
Behind Closed Doors was highly commended by the judges of the Hessell-Tiltman prize for history and described as "outstanding in every way."
'This is social history as it should be written…Yale has allowed a wealth of illustrations - over 100 - which adds to the book's enjoyment.' — E.B, Contemporary Review
'In Behind Closed Doors her sparkling, richly detailed investigation of what she calls 'the hazy background' to the Georgian household … Vickery finds a great deal of information about everyday life, much of it previously hidden." — Gillian Darley, London Review of Books
"Driven by colorful diaries of the time, as well as illuminating letters and other contemporary material such as household accounts, Vickery's scholarly but amusing narrative brings the high and lows of Georgian housekeeping to brilliant life.--Mitchell Owens, Elle Decor
"To say something that is at once original to the expert and exciting to the common reader, the historian must combine a heightened mastery of the material with a clarity of prose. No wonder such works are rare; Amanda Vickery's wonderful book should therefore be celebrated."--The New Republic
'Amanda Vickery breathes new life into 18th century society.' — KO, Sunday Telegraph
'This history of house interiors in Georgian England is a sparkling and erudite work from one of our best historians.' — Daily Telegraph
"Vickery's Behind Closed Doors once again displays the expert scholarship, interpretive nuance, and deft writing that makes her work a pleasure to read." —Jason Kelly, Economic History Review
"Vickery crosses disciplinary divisions and pursues her subject through an array of sources, from diaries and letters and ledgers, to novels, pattern books and advertising. . . . Absorbingly narrated."—Eighteenth-Century Fiction
"Amanda Vickery's study charts Georgian's ceaseless attempts, successful and not, to form homes and homelike spaces for themselves and then furnish them with objects that expressed their personalities, their status, and their times."—Margaret R. Hunt, American Historical Review
"An impressive book. Vickery should take a bow for her masterful use of visual and material culture as objects of historical inquiry."—The Journal of British Studies
"On every page, she includes a reference to a novel or play, a religious tract, legal statute or similar. By the conclusion the reader is more knowledgeable about the Georgian world as well as having glimpsed the private life of the Georgian home, but Vickery presents her material with such a light touch that the reader is thoroughly entertained along the way. It is quite simply a 'good read'."—Margaret Ponsonby, Journal of Design History Vol. 23, No. 1
"In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England....Writing with her customary wit and nerve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life."—Yorkshire Evening Post
"Vickery's stunning new book, Behind Closed Doors: At Home In Georgian England, is a serious innovative, in-depth study of Georgian Society."—Ruth Gorb, Islington Tribune
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"This richly illustrated and detailed account of the domestic world of the long eighteenth century examines the home as the central location for theories of society, politeness, economics, authority, and gender."—Year's Work in English Studies


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The Mississippi River delta – what the corps knew and when they knew it!
Editor's note: Tom Sands is a distinguished authority on the lower Mississippi River, and I have long respected his broad experience, vision and judgment with respect to "re-plumbing" the river system south of Cairo, so as to save the delta while enhancing navigation. General Sands, now a coastal engineering consultant, is retired from the US Army Corps of Engineers as former commander of the Mississippi Valley Division.
He thoughtfully forwarded this link to the December, 1897 issue of National Geographic Magazine, which features a fascinating piece on the Mississippi River delta that is absolutely relevant to current policy discussions. After reading this article by a civil engineer named E.L. Corthell (his professional titles are listed as C.E., D.Sc., etc.) I was inspired to comment on what I discovered to be a surprisingly sophisticated state of delta knowledge in 1897.
I especially call your attention to a provocative discussion that is even more apropos today than it was in 1897: flood protection vs. Mississippi delta survival.
Although I've never taken a geology course for credit I've long worked with coastal geologists and consider myself reasonably well informed about the earth sciences,* at least as they relate to south Louisiana.
It is now considered a truism that, prior to the widespread construction of artificial river levees, spring overbank river floods and crevasse splays had for millennia added new sediments that elevated the landscape of what was to become south Louisiana, in a process that roughly offset subsidence and maintained the deltaic surface above sea level.
Even the most loyal levee lovers now acknowledge that constructing dikes around NOLA ended sediment input, permanently consigning the drained and "protected" landscape to unmitigated sinking relative to sea level.
I had assumed that this sediment starving levee effect was a twentieth century concept .** I had also assumed that the levee effect was not acknowledged by the public until the nineteen eighties – and not by the corps until the nineteen nineties.
In other words it had always been my understanding that the corps' traditional 19th century levees-only decision to dike and channelize the lower Mississippi River was carried out in blissful ignorance of the long term effects of this policy. I had assumed that the Mississippi River and Tributaries (MR&T) project was authorized in 1928, absent knowledge that the levee system would starve the delta of sediments, with long term devastating consequences.
Thus I was surprised to discover in Corthell's article that the harmful levee effect was recognized by experts at least as long ago as 1897 – and by authorities with the corps, no less! One of these exceptionally informed folks with strong corps connections was James Buchanan Eads, the brilliant engineer who designed the first steel bridge to span the Mississippi River (at St. Louis, MO). Mr. Eads, who died in 1887, figured notably in John Barry's fabulous book Rising Tide, which details the national effects of the 1927 flood.
The following three topics discussed in the article are of particular scientific interest and a fourth is relevant to current policy discussions. Quotes from the article are shown in italics:
1) Lateral and vertical extent of the delta:
Dr. Corthell reported (without a reference citation) that the Mississippi delta extended upriver about 100 miles from New Orleans. He wrote that the most precise datum available on delta thickness was measured while drilling for potable water in Lafayette Square in New Orleans. Apparently the drill tool broke and was abandoned at 1,042 feet, at which depth pieces of driftwood were still coming to the surface in the drill cuttings. In other words the floor of the Holocene had not been reached. I'm very curious why well water was being sought in NOLA, adjacent to North America's largest source of flowing freshwater!
2) Subsidence rate and delta instability:
Corthell reported a subsidence rate based on observed sinking over nineteen years of a 17th century Spanish battery close to where Mr. Eads installed his jetties along South Pass in 1877. This datum suggested that subsidence at the mouth of the river was occurring at a constant rate of one-half of one-tenth of a foot per annum (i.e., five feet/century). This closely conforms with modern subsidence estimates in the Belize Delta of about five feet per century. It should be noted that this number is not net (eustatic) elevation change, i.e., it does not include sea level rise, which was considered to be nil, or any correction for riverine sediment accretion or organic production. A
Here's another quote that sounds very modern, It is a fact well known to people living in the delta of the Mississippi that large tracts of land were long ago abandoned in consequence of overflow by Gulf waters due to the sinking of the lands.
Not only are these lands unstable in a vertical direction they are also found to be so in a lateral direction. It is an interesting engineering as well as physical fact that an accurately measured base line exactly 700 feet was found, after a lapse of five years to be 712 feet in length. Any ideas about this, geologists?
3) Sea level rise:
As to the question of the rising of the Gulf level, careful investigations and inquiries around the entire Gulf coast from Yucatan to Florida disclose no indications of any such elevations. This statement conforms with my understanding that global sea level rise has only recently begun to accelerate.
Number 4 represents the heart of the article, spookily similar to current discussions on coastal protection vs. restoration.
4) Short term levee benefits vs. long term costs:
The conditions are very different now from those existing prior to the existence of levees. There are at present no annual accretions of sedimentary matters from the periodical overflows of the river. These accretions formerly were a little more than equal to the annual subsidence of the lands…The effect of the withholding by the levees from the great areas of the delta of the annual contributions of sedimentary matters, and the steady, though slow, subsidence of these areas, is one which should be taken into account in deciding the important question of how to protect the people from the flood waters of the river (now Gulf).
No doubt the great benefit to the present and two or three following generations accruing from a complete system of absolutely protective levees, excluding the flood waters entirely from the lower delta country, far outweighs the disadvantages to future generations from the subsidence of the Gulf delta lands below the level of the sea and their gradual abandonment due to this cause. While it would be generally conceded that the present generation should not be selfish yet is safe to say that the development of the delta country during the twentieth century by a fully protective levee system, at whatever cost to the riparian states and the federal government will be so remarkable that people of the whole United States can well afford, when the time comes, to build a protective levee against the Gulf waters, as the City of New Orleans has done on a small scale against the sea waters of Lake Pontchartrain and as Holland has done for centuries…
Do these comments from 112 years ago not sound familiar? Is this not another example of what I like to call Deja Voodoo?
Len Bahr
*Based on my scrutiny of those familiar Mercator world maps that hung in many classrooms during the 1950's, the shapes of Africa and South America fit together much too well to be coincidental. Thus, with all due respect to my geologist friends I have long harbored a prejudice against earth science, based on its refusal to accept continental drift until the late 1970's! Check out this animation from Wikipedia of Pangea breaking into separate continents.
**It had long been my impression that 1926 was the earliest date on which the fundamental need for the periodic flooding of the delta that is south Louisiana was specifically described in print. The coastal hero who wrote about this will be featured in honor of the first year anniversary of LaCoastPost around October 15 2009.
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Prior to the construction of levees, there was a net gain when weighing subsidence against sediment gained from seasonal floods. Now that we have levees up and down the Mississippi as well as improved soil conservation in farmlands upstream, I'm not sure that there would still be a net gain even if all levees south of Baton Rouge were removed.
Also, it's fascinating to read about benefits to current generations outweighing costs to future generations. The irony is that once current generations feel protected, they increase their investment in just those sorts of immovable improvements (roads, buildings) that would be endangered by future subsidence/sea level rise. It's as if they thought that somewhere down the road someone would figure out how to stop gravity.
this is all so confusing i'm not very good at stuff like rivers and this website makes it so much more harder for me (not very good now is it) you should make part of it a kids section or something for people like me who find it trouble to do work like this a little kids corner because that would be greatt!!!!
Sounds like Captain 'arry Shreve, mentioned in the Tulane link above, has some 'splainin' to do with respect to his channel diggin he did back in the mid 1800's at Turnbull's Bend……
To stormineaux:
It seems like you (and many others) are saying Corps (Feds) created a problem by building levees and managing navigation routes as mandated by Law. This can easily be fixed. Just let Corps know where you do not want levees and send bulldozers. Let's remove the river control structures on the Atchafalaya River so that Mississippi can takes its natural flow. Let's do this and save the coast.
Very good information! This calls for another question: When did the federal government learn that constricting the mouth of the Mississippi River with jetties to facilitate navigation would drastically reduce the amount of sediment available to the delta? The reason that this question is pertinent is because many folks in this nation hold to the opinion that we deserve our sinking delta because we wanted the levees and benefitted from them. We wanted improved navigation, too, but almost everyone in the US benefits economically from the navigation improvements at the mouth of the River. When the federal policy of Mississippi River management is discussed, the policies of flood control and navigation should both be considerd. The Corps has expertly managed to make these issues seem to be separate for many years, but we can't let the structure of the Corps' budget process continue to define what can and should be done to protect and restore our coast.
Link to another article regarding the Mississippi River and its past history:
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Sounds like the debate was ongoing back in the 1850's; 40 years prior to the National Geographic article…..
Another interesting source of 'olde news' in the Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers; which dates back to about the 1870's.
These were published annually and might also contain thoughts on river mechanics from those days.
It is quite interesting to see how 'thats the way it was' back in the 1800's……
Wow!!! I have searched for and found references to knowledge of subsidence in river deltas in the 1800's, but this National Geographic article is the best and most explicit item that I have ever seen on the potential for loss of land in the Mississippi River Delta. The earliest statement of knowledge of coastal land loss potential this explicit that I have previously seen came from the 1930's, and I was pretty happy to find that. This places pretty definitive responsibility for coastal land loss on the federal government. These statement pre-date most federal actions that had a material impact on the shape of the coastal wetlands.
One must now conclude that the federal government took action that destroyed coastal land (that has not been disputed); the federal government knew when they did it what was going to happen; and no one was compensated for the loss of their land as a result. The federal government owes Louisiana and its citizens considerable damages for the loss of land in coastal Louisiana.
I am very impressed by this article find.
- 1897 National Geographic Article Demonstrates Knowledge about Louisiana Coastal Subsidence and the Resulting Damages Mississippi River Levees Would Cause - Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Blog - [...] today. Len Bahr published an article in his La Coast Post Blog on July 31, 2009 entitled, The Mississippi …


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Sources of RWS Symbolism - Bob O'Neill's research into potential origins/precedents of the symbolism on the Majors. All the stuff is here. Someday, I'll get pics of all the various cards up on this site. Read this now. While you're still young.
ArthWaite writings and more - A. Grinder has done a marvelous job of posting many of the relevant writings of AE Waite. Cut right to the chase without having to buy and read all the books! Several variations of the PKT and KT (Pictorial Key to the Tarot and Key to the Tarot) are there.
Villa Revak - James Revak has a lot of interesting articles on Tarot, especially on early influences on the RWS deck from Mathers and Etteilla. Meet Fifi Ho-Tep Trismegista!
Tom Tadfor Little's Tarot History site - a comprehensive look at Tarot history and more.
The Colman-Smith Tarot Overview - This one is a bit strange, as it ultimately shows yet another recoloring of the deck. That's the strong point. I won't say anything else.
Memorium for Pixie Smith - Wicce has quoted from The Encyclopedia of Tarot, Vol. III. A brief overview of Pamela Colman Smith's life. Otherwise, but the Encyclopedia, Vol. III and read the entire article.
US Games Systems Inc. - The monster that supplies the Tarot world. Many different variations of the RWS deck are here. Many of the same versions of the deck are here in different sizes. Books too. There is no escape! Surrender!
Tarotgarden.com - A great site with a wide variety of decks, mostly those hard to find imports. Just about as bad as Alida, but closer to home. Save on shipping by buying the the US. No great bargains here, but a very fine resource. They also have a wonderful gallery of images of more decks than you can shake a stick at.
Manteia article - Here's Frank's website and it's a joy to go through it. There is a link to order his book on the RWS Tarot, The Story of the Waite-Smith Tarot. A definite must-have for anyone interested in this deck.
TarotL - A mail list with fascinating discussions on a wide range of topics for anyone, beginner to master beginner. My favorite place to learn. This is the homepage site.
Carol Hertzer's page - You can find her wonderful recoloring of the RWS deck here along with several other decks. I consider her recoloring one of the finest examples around. It just glows and vibrates and is just plain neat! I finally got the current offerings of her deck and I just sit around and "be happy." Find the money and get one or more! You can "be happy" too. The new Radiant Waite from US Games does not hold a match to these decks!
Rider-Waite Clones - A good look at the varieties of "close cousins" of the RWS. I take a small issue with considering this deck for "beginners" as after nearly 30 years, this deck still holds my interest.
The Redneck Tarot - This was one of the funniest parodies I've seen. Sadly Paganbear doesn't have this site anymore or the material BUT, being the packrat I am I managed to recreate it here. All the credit goes to Paganbear and his strange, quirky mind.
Copyright information - A fairly decent overview of the "grand issue" of what kind of copyright US Games has on this deck. I quibble with a few points, but overall, a nice summary. Someone will have to one day challenge the "900-lb. gorilla" and let us know what the real scoop is. If you want to really know the truth, get an intellectual properties lawyer to figure it out! Otherwise, visit the US Copyright Office site and look the stuff up itself and do the research.
Weiser Antiquarian Books - I've done business here recently in person. A more delightful, helpful, and lovely set of people I have rarely met. If you have rare book needs, check here first. If you have questions, ask. If you have needs, request. All four thumbs up from me!
Tarot.com - Bob O'Neill's current thoughts are here. Learn about the iconology of the Trumps, the Templars, and other oogey-boogey things here. A scientist's view of the Tarot world, and well worth looking at. Ask for the Dante stuff! Keep this project alive here.
BATS - the website of the Daughters of Divination. Thalassa hosts the Bay Area Tarot Symposium in October (see below for change) every year. In 2009 there was a special celebration of the 100th anniversary of the release of the RWS Tarot. 2010 is tentatively scheduled to happen in August, all details TBA. The theme for this year will continue the RWS madness and focus on Arthur Edward Waite, that loveable rascal! Check the site often to see what is happening. Become a Daughter and get even more - discounts, 'The Flying Squirrel' and more.
Tarosophist International - the homepage of Tarot Professionals and a rather lovely magazine. Go here to see what this very active and dynamic organization is up to. Issue 5 of the magazine contains an article by me on the history of the RWS deck for all of you that missed that at the 2009 BATS.


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ICON: Kardinal Offishall is Dangerous and Not for Sale
2012 Saw a T-Dot Pioneer break his silence on making it in Canada
Words and interview by Rebecca McDonald.
As one of the premier producer/rap artists to grace the Canadian music scene and beyond, you can crown this king the Jay-Z of Canada. Kardinal Offishall first launched his career back in 1997, during a time when the industry was "bubbling," long before companies like Napster or iTunes came or went, sending single song purchases or illegal downloads through the roof. Still the Jamaican rooted emcee survived and continues to build his empire. In 2012, he returned with a mixtape, Allow Me to Re-Introduce Myself. But after doing it all and accomplishing all the accolodades that you set out for, where do you go next? We asked Kardinal this very question during his visit to MTV Iggy.
So your last release was 2008, and in 2012 you dropped a mixtape. Why did you "reintroduce yourself" this past summer after all that time off?
I spent so much of the previous 10 years before that chasing my dream, and once I started to accomplish them, I was touring around the world. I was barely home. It was dope for me in terms of monetary success, but I wasn't living my actual life. So what I kinda had to do was figure out how to properly balance my actual life with the actual business side of it. Cause a lot of crazy things had happened since then. You're on all these different number one songs around the world, you're on songs with Lady Gaga, you have your own stuff with Akon, and you're going to India, China, Japan, Romania…So much happened. I was literally only home a couple days a month. And for me—it's literally tattooed on my arm— family is number one. So, in between all the touring and all that— cause music is definitely my life— I was actually just living life. I had my first son, which is amazing. Bought a bunch of property and really was just trying to have a real existence. The other bonus you have in traveling the world and knowing celebrities and entertainers is you see the mistakes they made in their life, or where they're lacking. Like they can't relate to a conversation about Thanksgiving. They're like, "oh what show did you do?"
I was like, 'I left space open so I could be in Chicago for the big family cookoff.' So it was those type of things I was doing over the past years, and still, within my home territory of Canada, we released music steadily. But it was a thing where between 2008-2012 there was such a huge leap with social media and public interaction, that I had to reintroduce myself to people who are just of that generation. People who didn't go out and seek their favorite artists, just whatever the blogs were reporting, whatever is the hot shit of the day. It's a reintroduction because to some of them, their first introduction to me was "Dangerous," which was my first multiplatinum-selling song.
…I'm a conflicted artist, like business vs. personal, but also even within the type of music that I love to make, produce and perform.
So you worked with Nottz Raw for this one. How did you meet?
First time, I ever heard of Nottz was through the Flipmode album way back. I just remember hearing this retarted beat—like, I've never heard anything like it in my life. It sounded like a Ukranian sample flipped over some hip-hop drums. It was a combination I had just never heard of and it just really resonated within my spirit. It literally made me want to jump out of a car and headbang against a concrete wall. The beat was just that ridiculous. So when I signed my first deal and I had a bit of a budget, I was able to go to different people and Nottz was one of the first on my list. I've always admired Busta [Rhymes]'s energy ever since I was little, so I wanted to see if there was some way that he could, in my own unique way, bring a certain energy out of me.
Besides the business part of it, we've been good friends for over a decade now. Every time I go to Norfolk—and anybody who knows about Norfolk knows besides school or the military, there ain't much to do there, so whenever we go there we always bang out classics. We have about at least 5 or 6 albums' worth of material. So we was like, we gotta do this for the love of this.
Moreso on this album than any other, you blend genres. You have P Rock. You have Green Lantern, so you're mixing old and new, hip-hop, dancehall, reggae…
That's one of the blessings I have as being an artist, I'm able to execute different styles well. Cause a lot of our favorite artists, and no disrespect to them but they're really good at one style. They try as much as they can to milk that style, but they can't really venture off to other things because people don't get it [coming] from them. But for me, just my musical taste growing up, my father was a DJ so I grew up around a lot of different music: hip hop, reggae, funk, just a lot of different black music. My dad had an extensive collection, so whatever stuck on my skin is what I try and put out in my music.
It sounds redundant, but my truth is: music is an extension of who I am. So to be truthful to myself, I can't neglect certain things and pretend it doesn't exist which is why my Jamaican heritage comes out. That's who I am when I'm at home, so it comes out in the music. In terms of the different genres, I just like to push the envelope because I think that's what music should do. I think it should always be rediscovering itself, regenerating new energy. Especially right now, I think music lacks those people willing to take chances. I'm always willing to take a chance, whether it's widely received or just by a certain part of the population.
What about the music community in Toronto?
Toronto is the fourth largest city in North America, but the country is really spread out and the population is not that big. So what happens is you only have a small talent pool. In Toronto there's an exception because there's a lot of people with talent, but the mentality that we have as a nation is one at a time. So it's always been, me, Drake, K-os, Saukrates—whoever it's been, it's always been one at a time. The infrastructure we have inside the country has never been large enough to support more than one huge act within hip-hop. I think it's probably a subconscious thing, but it kind of lives on cause they don't know how to handle it. With everything, maybe with the exception of acting, even in a different genre, like alternative with the Barenaked Ladies, it's just, Barenaked Ladies. Or if it's Nelly Furtado, it's just, Nelly Furtado.
It's the same thing within all genres. It's tougher on some of the up and coming artists, because of that mentality. They're like, "I can't really blow unless Kardinal's not doing anything." "I can't really blow and get my shine unless Drake is taking a year off." That's just how it is. Our media is set up that way. Now is probably the first time ever [that] we've had that many people successful internationally, between myself, Drake, Bieber, Melanie Fiona, K'Naan.
But it does sound like some doors have opened..
Not in Canada.
Well, you're kinda doing it with a new clothing label?
But that stuff is me doing it myself. There's a difference between you putting it on people and somebody else coming to the table. Like I did a Pepsi campaign a few years back and some stuff with Coca Cola for the winter Olympics, but a lot of these things are spearheaded by international companies as opposed to in Canada.
Canada has to take more risks. There's a lot more Kardinals and K'Naans and Drakes and Biebers, but they have to take better risks.
What's the music scene like right now in Jamaica? It seems like the US isn't really catching on?
They are, but it's still subcultures though. It's not really in the mainstream, but artists come here and tour heavy to sold out shows all the time. Dancehall parties, shows, are still very much authentic and filled with people who love it, no matter what race. So it's not that it's not poppin' right now, it's just something you have to seek out. You can't go to MTV.com.
You can go into a club and get down with Sean Paul, but put on another artist and a lot of the hipsters will clear the room.
But you know with reggae it goes in cycles. There's always been a history of time where reggae is readily accepted. Over the last year or two, it's started to come up again because Rihanna, who has a blatantly reggae song like "Man Down," went to number one. Shouts to Rihanna, that's my girl right there. I've known her since she was young, before the deal and all that. It's unapologetically a reggae song, and it's capable of going to number 1. And when they play it, they're not dancing to it just because it's Rihanna, it's because they love it.
If you could put together the ultimate lineup for the next Sunfest, who would be on it? Living or dead…
Oh shit…Bounty killer, Supercat, Beanie Man, Vybz Kartel, Bob Marley, Gregory Issac, Garnet Silk, Shabba [Ranks]… Jamaican concerts go 'til 7 in the morning anyway. Tanya Stevens, to say the least…
Best festival story?
Performing at Sunfest with Akon in Jamaica. First of all, we were on tour but we flew there on a private jet. Got there the day of— I remember that's when Nas' the N word album came out. I remember listening to that album on the beach that day with some jerk chicken and some rum. My first collaboration with a reggae artist was Bounty Killer, and I remember he was like, "Yo, Kardinal, don't perform at those things until you're ready, until the people know ya." Jamaica's one of the toughest crowds in the world to impress.
When we got there, the energy was crazy, the media was going crazy. I remember going out on stage, wildin' out, doing my thing and 'Kon jumps into the crowd which is something I would not suggest to this day to do in Jamaica. But he went way out in the crowd, climbed a tower, hopped a fence… So much crazy stuff going on. Gunshot salutes were going off. It was an amazing time and the funny thing was after that we had to get back to Vancouver, Canada for a concert. We were on tour with Wyclef and Sean Paul at that time. And 'Kon had some problems with his paperwork getting back into the country. That whole run there was absolutely bananas cause we had to do it in less than 48 hours. I'll never forget that. It was a welcoming home, I was on Konvict [Muzik; Akon's label].
How did fashion and music come together for you?
It was something I had to learn. We take things and make them fresher to suit us. Those high-end suits are made for Italian men that have different shapes than what we have. My ass is big, I can't fit into a lot of them shits. [Laughs] So it's high-end stuff that won't fit me. It wasn't made for someone who's 6'4. When you travel internationally, you see something amazing and you know they don't make something in your size or color, that's where my line comes in.
You have a track that you're working on with Wizkid. What do you think about other newer artists?
Shoulders up, shoulders down. No disrespect, cause there are dope new artists over the last few years. You can see what happened in music, the shift to making money instead of good music. Whether you hate Kanye or love him, I respect him because he's pushing the envelope. Even [his] street records are never regular. Even when he's rapping the same way, sonically behind him, there's [new] structure changes and elements you are introduced to. Nicki Minaj is catching all this flack for expressing the pop side in her, but I think that's dope cause she's capable of doing it. It's a bonafide side of her. Some hip-hop fans are like, "I don't mess with it," but the rest of the world does. I always applaud people who go out there, and try and give you something other than the norm.
I have to ask you about Snoop. I'm just curious…
You ask me. I'm not gonna voluntarily…
Where do you think he's going?
Don't know. As a Snoop Dogg fan I am awaiting to see where he is going to take us. I'm intrigued to see where this musical journey takes him.
Are you excited about his transformation?
I think with Snoop it's a bit more than the music, so that's why it's interesting. There's a difference between diving into different genres, and embracing and taking on a culture. I've loved Snoop from '93; he's the godfather, he's no dummy. When he came out with "Sexual Eruption," people were like, "Where's he going?" And it shot to number one. He's a great thing for hip-hop, he's an icon. Where is the lion taking us?
You've paved the way for someone like Drake. Where are you going from here?
Im blessed with a great team, with the Bystorm family, who's headed up by Marc Pitts and my day-to-day guy Chris. With Bystorm they deal with me, Miguel, J.Cole— being with that family and knowing their history from dealing with the Notorious B.I.G., I feel comfortable in terms of them guiding my career in the business cause over the last year we've just been restructuring the way I present myself to the public. They know what I enjoy doing. All they do is get me to focus, and besides music, [they] expose people to who I am.
Right now we have a lot of hit songs, but we don't have star power anymore because we don't know about the people who make number one songs because there's not much to them. That's why we report about who somebody is dating, or someone was high at the club and fell on their face cause there's not a lot of depth to people anymore. We're trying to promote being an actual real life person who fans can relate to, not somebody perfect.
Once the fans can see your truth and realize you're going through the same thing, there's a lot more of a connection and those people will stick around. Love for a certain way of life outlasts love for a song.


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