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History of American Fashion
Gender in History of American Fashion
The Gender Politics of Fashion
It has always been socially hazardous for the few brave souls willing to don a radically new style. Because of the social and political meanings often associated with traditional styles, and the ever-present popular pressure to conform to dominant trends, mavericks flouting convention have long been targeted as objects of public ridicule for their public displays of unorthodoxy. In 1851, the Bloomer (or "American") Costume first appeared in Amelia Bloomer's newspaper, The Lily. Bloomer was a reformer who ran her paper out of Syracuse, New York, where women had recently gathered for the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention in 1848. Another woman named Elizabeth Smith Miller first donned the Costume, but Bloomers came to be known for the woman who most publicly promoted and adopted this potentially liberating style. The Bloomer Costume consisted of ankle-length trousers—either large Turkish style or straight-legged "pantaloons"—worn with a mid-calf-length dress. Few women actually adopted the costume, but it generated a disproportionate amount of public outrage and ridicule. Critics linked the concept of female trousers to the women's rights movement, which they feared and despised. People wrote songs and poems mocking the bloomer style, and cartoonists suggested that women donning the American Costume would also commence smoking cigars and assuming a generally masculine demeanor.
Apparently most Americans felt that bloomers went "too far," thereby demonstrating the potential power conveyed by fashion statements and the extent to which American patriarchy continued to reign supreme. Even a seemingly superficial clothing trend that offered more comfort but less gender distinction was deemed unacceptable, perhaps because of the bloomers' feminist implications. But the unusual level of public contempt also indicated a widespread understanding that fashion statements like the bloomer—if allowed to continue unchecked—might lead to demands for more substantive gender equality, like equal pay and equal rights. To avoid this immediately hostile reaction, some activists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton avoided the style entirely; many suffragettes did not want to alienate conservative women and undecided men. Clearly if peer pressure did not succeed, such pragmatic calculations did, and bloomers remained a phenomenon much talked about but very rarely displayed.
Suffocating Style
Trends have sometimes demonstrated a deep public ambivalence over changing social mores and gender roles. According to historian Jill Fields, the corset revival of the post-World War II era "manifested nostalgia for an imagined prewar past of more starkly defined gender differentiation when women were more clearly subordinated, while also providing a means for modern middle-class women to embody the twentieth-century ideal... of being both respectably nice and desirably naughty."142 Victorian corsets of the nineteenth century had been deemed repressive by feminists and unhygienic by public health proponents. In the early twentieth century, after their nineteenth-century heyday had come and gone, many people simply deemed corsets as downright old-fashioned. The very involved and even dramatic practice of putting on and lacing up a corset has long been considered a ripe subject for popular caricature and ridicule, even as the corset was almost universally employed among middle- and upper-class women. As famously depicted in the cinematic Civil War epic Gone With the Wind, wealthy ladies like Scarlett O'Hara would hold onto the bedpost for dear life while their maids—or slaves—pulled on the corset threads to encase their abdomen in as restrictive a brace as humanly possible. (Scarlett's waist was famously said to be seventeen inches around, though this was almost certainly an exaggeration of the actual waistline for antebellum ladies.)143 With the assistance of coutil (a dense, tightly woven twill cloth) and narrow strips of whalebone inserted into the corset layers in parallel strips, they literally molded the female body to produce a narrow waist, arched back, and rounded hips that were deemed the essence of feminine beauty throughout the Victorian period. The corset has thus provided one of the most vivid historical examples of physical suffering in the interest of beauty.
In the eighteenth century, corsets were known by the English term "stays" for the left and right sides of the garment, which were laced together. During this earlier period, stays functioned to shape a woman's upper body like an inverted cone, and they also enabled an ample amount of cleavage by pushing up the breasts so that they were at least partially visible at the neckline. But by the mid-nineteenth century, they became more tightly laced and were utilized to minimize the waistline as much as possible. Longer stays were in fashion in the early eighteenth century and again in the 1840s; these extended down past the waistline and contained a pocket in the center front for a busk (a two-inch-wide board of ivory or wood, extending the same length as the stays). These longer corsets prevented women from being able to bend at the waist, and forced them to assume an upright posture and bend at the hips and knees, which was considered more elegant. Busks were often intricately carved and presented as gifts in New England, where they were commonly worn.144 Corsets shortened along with the elevation of waistlines, then lengthened again. Throughout these cycles, one constant remained: the corset was employed to physically shape and contour the female body according to the current fashion, regardless of the discomfort involved. Women's sexuality and sexual appeal were incorporated into this trend, which extended beyond superficial clothing styles and into actual body manipulation. By the time of the corset's reincarnation in the late 1940s and 1950s, women hoped—and designers and advertisers promised—that such body manipulation could be successfully employed to convey their idealized dual role as respectable society lady and desirable wife. Fashion thus became the fabled conduit by which women could meet society's expectations and satisfy their own fantasies; these benefits were implicitly deemed worthy of the pain and discomfort involved in achieving them.
In the nineteenth century, corsets connoted slightly different sorts of promises to their female wearers; they offered a certain degree of respectability and social status, as well as a fashionable appearance. They were usually worn over a knee-length chemise or undershirt. The corset dictated a degree of inactivity that was considered a sign of class status, since only bourgeois or upper-class ladies could afford to be freed from conducting hard manual labor. The corset's rigidity was also interpreted as a sign of virtue; although authors Elaine Benson and John Esten have noted that "courtesans [prostitutes] were as tightly corseted as any other woman," nineteenth-century custom nonetheless dictated that "ungirdled women might be wanton or 'loose.'"145 Nineteenth-century society searched for easily identifiable markers of class and virtue, but if anything, the history of the corset demonstrates how unreliable such markers turned out to be. With prostitutes and gentrified ladies both confining themselves to corsets, only outdated social custom and ongoing trends continued to dictate the rationale for such uncomfortable lingerie.
Health advocates then intervened to make their case against the corset trend. Hygienic reformers worried about the corset's dozens of "stays," or metal bones, and in the 1870s they began to design alternate undergarment versions with shoulder straps or yokes to hold up the breast support, instead of the rigid corset. Prominent Boston dressmaker Olivia Flynt advertised a corsetless breast supporter in 1876, which enabled "beauty of form to be preserved without lacing or otherwise injuriously pressing or binding the body."146 Some of the first elastic inserts, designed to ease the pain, appeared in 1885.147 As women's health care and work changed with the turn of the twentieth century, the brassiere gradually supplanted the corset as the preferred undergarment for American women. Regional firms began selling breast supporters by mail order, usually for about $1. The bust supporters were sold by bust measurement, from sizes 30 to 45. One Chicago company, Gage Downs, marketed a "Bicycle Waist" with elastic sides and shoulder straps for athletic women. The brassiere evolved from this phenomenon in 1904, when the American Charles R. De Bevoise Company began marketing its new product. Brassiere was a French word that meant a woman's bodice or a child's undervest. The brassiere looked like a camisole with a few stays to maintain its shape. It enjoyed widespread popularity in the early twentieth century, since it coordinated well with the lightweight bodices and layered skirts of the then-popular Directoire fashion. Thus by the time of the corset's revival in the 1940s and 1950s, the garment was increasingly considered an element of the specialty lingerie market; it signified a certain element of drama and novelty that was reserved for special occasions, rather than everyday wear. But women continued to confine and manipulate their bodies in order to conform to popular concepts of beauty and the ideal female figure, and marketers continued catering to that popular desire.
Revealing Clothing, Advertising, and Weight Loss
Even with the advent of potentially liberating new trends in undergarment manufacture—from the increased use of elastic and other flexible materials to public calls for enhanced mobility in women's wear—public pressure remained to maintain the idealized female figure increasingly publicized in advertisements and magazines. In the early twentieth century, Dr. Jeanne Walter sold "medicated" Para rubber undergarments for $4.50 to $6, with the idea that the rubber would enable women to sweat off the pounds without having to diet or exercise. In the 1920s, the corset was manufactured with an increasing number of elastic and rubber sections until it morphed into the girdle. Throughout the 1920s, the rapidly expanding advertising industry promoted new undergarments by promising "diaphragm control" that would suppress fat in the midriff and back. These same advertisements also promised women that they would look younger by maintaining their figures.148
Pressures to look thin only intensified as fashions grew increasingly revealing over the years. In the early 1930s, the average skirt length was about six inches above the ankle. Skirt hems steadily rose throughout the decade, hitting at just below the knee in 1939. Gown designs donned low fronts and backs, or were entirely backless. Body shaper undergarments evolved out of the girdle and in various styles, in order to accommodate these new gown designs and clothing styles. They remain a facet of the apparel industry; in 1999, staffers from Good Housekeeping tested five different brands that came in sizes from four to twenty. They included the Belly Buster by Bodyslimmers, the Flexees Instant Slimmer, the Playtex 18-Hour Sleek Shapers, the Tummy Terminator, and Vanity Fair Smooth Moves, items that ranged in price from $13 to $22. On average, the body shapers took one to two inches off of the waist and hips; the article and current retail prices thus imply that in American culture, each inch taken off of a woman's measurements is worth about $20. One of the testers' most common complaints was, ironically, that the garments were "too tight—even though they were of course designed to make women appear thinner by compressing their fat under bands of tight elastic.149 The pressure to conform to popular beauty ideals may not have waned, but women now appear to be demanding a bit more comfort in their quest for the thinnest possible appearance.
Bathing Beauties
Similar transitions in swimwear have proven as influential in shaping popular notions of ideal body types. Director Mack Sennett's bathing beauties of the 1910s were covered from head to toe in mop caps, long jersey tunics, stockings, bloomers, and shoes. As more skin was revealed, long legs became a revered body trait. After the androgynously flattened chests of the 1920s lost their appeal, large and shapely busts once again became the standard for bathing beauties—as well as a broader cultural preoccupation.
During the twentieth century, female sexuality became intertwined with both fashion and a sense of explosiveness, even of potential danger. The iconic two-piece bikini swimsuit actually emerged out of wartime, when garment manufacturers during World War II were forced to conserve precious fabric for military use, and so literally cut down the size of their garments. The name for the new suit came from the French Bikini Islands in the Pacific Ocean, where the U.S. conducted nuclear tests from 1946 to 1958. A hydrogen bomb dropped on the island in 1946 was affixed with a photograph of Hollywood "bombshell" (a term that emerged in the 1930s) Rita Hayworth. Four days later, Louis Reard—a French automotive engineer turned enterprising swimsuit designer—named his midriff-baring creation (which was more revealing than the thigh-length shorts and full-coverage tops of the war years) the "bikini" for its "explosive potential."150 Yet by 1949, less than 2,500 bikinis were sold annually in the U.S.151
American society was characteristically ambivalent about this new development; female sexuality, as showcased in ever-more-revealing swimwear, was a subject of perennial male fascination and fear. Even civil defense pamphlets as late as 1972 portrayed "potentially both harmful and helpful" radioactive alpha, beta, and gamma rays as three sexy women in strapless suits with prominent busts. Sexy—and sexually liberated—women were at once alluring and potentially threatening, for they conveyed a sense of power that could upend American patriarchy.
Just as Cold War society sought to "tame" the atom in order to provide safe nuclear energy, so female sexuality might be "contained and domesticated," as historian Elaine Tyler May put it, into "harmless chicks, kittens, and the most famous sexual pet of them all, the Playboy bunny."152 Initially, the bikini did appear to have been tamed, notwithstanding another "bombshell" appearance when French actress Brigitte Bardot notably donned one in the very controversial 1956 film And God Created Woman. The beach-babe look of the early 1960s, featuring stars like Sandra Dee and Annette Funicello, popularized an alluring but still pure and ladylike fashion for the female counterparts of the surfing craze. Even Brian Hyland's saccharine hit song of 1960, "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," seemed to poke fun at the ever-shrinking swimwear while sanitizing the phenomenon for mass audiences in the form of catchy pop music. Of course, the bikini kept shrinking and increasingly selling: Americans bought 87,000 of them in 1959. When inventor Louis Reard died in 1984, the bikini made up nearly 20% of all swimsuit sales in the U.S., far outselling every other model on the market.153
Paralleling developments in body-shaping undergarments, the swimsuit industry has profited from designs that play on women's self-consciousness in revealing bikinis by guaranteeing an improve—i.e. slimming—appearance. High-waisted bikinis are marketed to women who don't want to feel as though "their stomachs are hanging out," as one swimwear buyer put it. Several suits feature "tummy control panels" that work similarly to the control-top on panty hose. In 1986, designer Carol Wior introduced a line of "Slimsuits" that especially appealed to young mothers aged 25 to 35, who were anxious about their post-pregnancy figures; but Wior's store surveys also indicated that customers as young as fourteen and as old as 78 were purchasing Slimsuits.154
Fashion has long served as a metaphor for society's cultural values. After the World Trade Center attack of 11 September 2001, the American news media broadcast images of Muslim women enshrouded in the all-enveloping burqas of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. They seemed to embody the oppression of an extremist theocratic regime that feared change or outside influence so much that it sought to destroy the influence of secular world powers like the United States. Yet the United States itself also had a long and often problematic history when it came to gender relations and women's social status. Oppression can take a variety of forms, from the objectification that stems from scantily clad outfits in magazines and music videos to the literally constricting Victorian corsets of the nineteenth century. Although today's American women tend to enjoy more freedom of choice in their dress than ever before, new styles of clothes, swimwear, and lingerie have also ratcheted up the pressure to conform to popularly marketed standards of beauty.
Body image has long been intertwined not only with the fashion industry, but with cultural standards of beauty. Studies conducted in the early 1990s indicated that up to 10 million girls and women and 1 million boys and men were struggling with eating disorders.155 Between 1988 and 1993, the incidence of the eating disorder bulimia tripled in women ages 10 to 39.156 In a 1996 study that asked women whether they were satisfied with their appearance, 80% responded "no." And a 1991 study of girls in first through third grade found that 42% wanted to be thinner.157 As styles become increasingly revealing, more cultural emphasis is placed on the female body, and women become objectified as purely sexual playthings, rather than human beings. Women sidle up to rap stars and gyrate against them for the sake of appearing in music videos, while being referred to as "b----s" and "h-s" in the song lyrics. Beauty pageant contestants demonstrate their talents and their public speaking abilities before the judges, but they also have to compete in "swimwear" competitions during which they wear nothing but bikinis and parade around the stage, often having covered their rears in hairspray or other adhesive to keep the bikini line from shifting. If such "fashions" teach us anything, they reveal that while styles may have changed, the popular preoccupation with the female body remains a central—and still problematic—facet of American culture.


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Diamond Dallas Page has been around a lot of wrestlers in his career, from his days in the AWA through his milestones in WCW, and finally in his short stint in the WWE. According to Rajah.com on Jan. 17, DDP did a recent interview where he talked about a number of things, including The Ultimate Warrior's induction into the 2014 WWE Hall of Fame.
Page, who said he was not really a big fan of the Warrior's interview style, also said that there is no doubt that The Ultimate Warrior deserves to be in the WWE Hall of Fame. He pointed out that, while a lot of people don't like Warrior, even more do like him and his fans are extremely vocal.
DDP even pointed out an autograph signing event where he and Jake Roberts went to sign autographs. He said they had a lot of people waiting on their autographs but when Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan showed up, the line was out the door with people waiting to pay over $100 for an autograph.
DDP also touched on the fact that Ultimate Warrior is getting in before "Macho Man" Randy Savage. While he said Savage deserves to be in the WWE Hall of Fame, there was a lot of animosity between him and the WWE which kept him out. He did say that it looked like Savage was coming around to it before he died, and it was similar to how Ultimate Warrior finally softened his stance on the WWE.
DDP finally said that he is pretty sure that he will get into the WWE Hall of Fame one day, as will guys like Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, and it is just a matter of patiently waiting till it is a specific wrestlers turn.
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Man About My Love Vol. 14
Is love still relevant in this age of materialism? When tricked out whips, benjamins, video vixens and six pacs rule the airwaves, you have to search hard for something real, something profound, something you can feel. But, it still exists disguised sometimes by outward fake appearances, brick walls for protection, casual sex, bedroom freaks...but it's there. Don't be afraid to take a risk....
Love, life and sex...
It's amazing how 3 words are so intertwined. How that fuse together all the time. Living or existing, being or ending, chaos, or serenity, bliss, depression, ecstasy, or death. So many outcomes are possible from such few words. The decisions, people we allow into our lives help shape the results and experiences...Choose wisely...be warned.
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Happy Hour, Pizza Night and Burger Night are coming to an end! ... Well, at least for the summer. Memorial Day marks the end of the off-season discounts. It's a bummer, we know, but you still have two weeks to get to the pub and get those great deals.
This June, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery will release Rosabi, a well-hopped Imperial Pale Ale brewed with musician Julianna Barwick. Each case of six 750ml bottles will be packaged with a 10-inch record of four original songs that Julianna composed using sounds from Dogfish Head's expanded brewery.
Analog-A-Go-Go is back and better than ever! Our annual vinyl swap and cask beer fest is going down June 13-14 at both our brewery and brewpub in coastal Delaware. At the top of the bill is Bob Mould, best know as the singer, songwriter and guitarist for the '80s rock band Hüsker Dü. Mould, who NPR calls "one of the great heros of American indie rock," will be playing a free show Friday night at our Rehoboth Beach pub.
Here at Dogfish head, we're known for brewing with nontraditional ingredients like figs, pears, brown sugar and grapes. Since we opened in 1995, we've mined the entire culinary landscape for beers, but there's one ingredient that anchors everything we do: water.
Since last summer, when we announced that Dogfish was headed back to the four states we pulled out of in 2011, we've been grateful for all of the anticipation, kind words and patience from the craft beer community.
It's Aprihop season, and to celebrate the old in-like-a-lion, we've compiled some tracks to accompany the days when the sun finally comes out to stay. When it brings on the warmth, makes everything feel right and tempts us to just be out in it.
While a good amount of hop flavor and aroma comes from additions in the brewhouse, no other method rivals dry-hopping in its ability to deliver high levels of fresh hoppiness. Dry-hopping is adding hops to beer after it's been fermented. This allows the very volatile essential oils of the hop to be absorbed into the beer without subjecting them to the violent environments of boiling wort or vigorous fermentation, both of which drive the most delicate and desirable compounds out of town. Listen in as our brewer Shane pulls back the curtain and dishes the nitty-gritty on Me So Hoppy:
Let's take a quick trip back to the late '90s. ... While heating water one day to prepare for a brew at our Rehoboth Beach brewpub, Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione caught a cooking segment on the TV above the bar. The chef was describing his method of adding small pinches of fresh cracked pepper to his soup in equal increments the entire time the soup boiled, rather than in one large handful in the middle of the process. The chef said this method would bring more complexity and evenness to the spice of the dishes than if he added the whole volume of pepper all at once.
Welcome to our listening room. This is where, on a monthly basis (at least), we will be sharing a glimpse into what we're listening to (good music mostly) and what we're thinking about (beer mostly) in the form of a Spotify playlist. This series of lovingly curated mix tapes takes inspiration from what's happening around the brewery and pairs those stories with tracks that sound good together (mostly).
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Obama Took Pensions of 20,000 Nonunion Workers
Administration's bailout of General Motors helped unions while targeting other workers
President Obama said the protection of pensions was a high priority for him. But in 2009, the administration, in its takeover of General Motors, terminated the pensions of nonunion workers at a plant that supplied parts to GM. Meanwhile, despite contradictory testimony under oath, there is email evidence that President Obama's Treasury Department sought to protect the pensions of GM's union employees.
Listen to some of the 20,000 who were hurt by his actions talk about their struggles (30 seconds), and read the Daily Caller report on how evidence reveals the administration gave special treatment to union employees while hurting nonunion workers (3 pages).
Nissan has been down since the Christmas break and not assembled one car in the U.S., yet their ernite full-time workforce has still reported to their workplace every day for training etc. Should the Detroit Three copy that business model? It sounds like a disguised jobs bank to me.Pointing fingers will not solve the auto industry problems; however, it would be interesting to analyze the Detroit Three's total labor cost for salary on an hourly basis and compare that to the Japanese transplants. If the new initiative of the auto industry is to emulate the Japanese auto industry business model, no stone should remain unturned in that process. C.E.O.s working for a dollar-per-year is nothing but a publicity stunt. Likewise, double- charging the current organized workforce for their own retirement costs along with past workers' costs is a bit sensationalistic and a strange way to analyze labor cost. Realistically, if the current workforce is burdened with the past workforce's retirement cost, shouldn't the future workforce be charged with the current workforce's retirement costs? It appears to me that as a UAW current worker, I am paying not only my bill but everyone else's too. Maybe an accountant on this blog can explain how labor costs are determined using generally accepted accounting principles instead of an analysis designed to sell newspapers or a collective bargaining stratagem.


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So if I can discover the "next" element and name it and then make nano tubes I can have a VULVA! I'll be in the lab...
We're awarding today a much-coveted Vulture Vulgar Acronym trophy (VULVA) to China's Dachi Yang, Guowen Meng, Shuyuan Zhang, Yufeng Hao, Xiaohong An, Qing Wei, Min Yeab, and Lide Zhanga for a truly breathtaking contribution to the genre in their snappily-titled Electrochemical synthesis of metal and semimetal nanotube–nanowire …
So if I can discover the "next" element and name it and then make nano tubes I can have a VULVA! I'll be in the lab...
Given the presence of CuNTs, shouldn't this be labled appropriately to protect people from the evil, humourless office-web-filter?
I choose Paris cos she is a ...
Is a right Copper Nano Tube!
Especially the supplementary information talking about Open and Closed CuNTs. Oh dear...
If heterojunctions are on there, is a homojunction Kings Cross?
Now I can say to my soon to be old boss that I always considered them a copper nanotube.
Do you use Beryllium nanotubes to go around corners?
Camping with Tellurium nanotubes?
Does an abundance of radium nanotubes cause some people to go off on one in forums?
Just make sure you don't make any from calcium...
All this is in a bid to be allowed to don my coat and leave the premises.
Mind you, keep at it long enough and my employers may just make my wish come true. Premenantly.
That should see strong demand from the legal profession.
I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only person who feels that they work with BiNT's on a regular basis
... and the number of times the C acronym is used in the text is quite large. And it's Royal Soc Chemistry journal, paper marked as "Received (in Cambridge, UK)" ... it is implausible that noone would have noticed this. But then, I suppose, it is the obvious acronym, generated in the same way as exisiting ones .... anything else would have looked odd, in a sense.
Bismuth nanotube ?
This is not original work. The Hugh Heffner Institute has already published several articles showing advanced copper nanotubes that are are also PlutoniumBeryllium-free.
in Australia was called Curtin University of Technology (CUT). Rumour always was that it was originally intended to be called Curtin University of New Technology but for some reason the New was dropped.
Newcastle Poly was going to call itself the City University of Newcastle upon Tyne...
Bible-bashing students at Cambridge once set up a Cambridge University New Testament Society...
I wonder if any chinese boffins are working on quadruple in-line memory modules.. i've been waiting years.
I suppose a calling someone a copper nanotube sounds better than callling them a James Blunt... I think it sounds Pete Tong!
To be heard chanted on the terraces the length and breadth of the country on Saturday afternoon:
"All coppers are nanotubes. All coppers are nanotubes."
(Sadly, I cannot imagine Reg reader chanting it, nor one copper understanding it!)
Rumour has it that Border TV was originally called Scottish Highlands and Islands Television until someone was doodling in a board meeting...
A significant portion of the human population have had these for centuries. About 0.7 billion have them right now! And that is only the Chinese version! ;-P
...feel a bit sorry for Ruthenium Nanotubes. They seem so much smaller and weedier than all the others.
Sorry, sorry, I know. That joke was a bit Protactinium Nanotubes.
OK. Got coat. Or should that be Cobalt-Astatine?
Yes, yes, I'm going.
Is sometimes called the South Halifax Institute of Technology.
you very well might need one of these:
Proton Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscope - (anacronym left to the reader)
The original Paper - (of the same name)
Journal of Chemical Physics, 1972 Val 56, Number 4, page 1776
cunning stunt ! have those sinoscientists managed to pull off, so amazing .
You can't have forgotten about the Sheffield Hallam Institute of Technology??
Doesn't need an acronym like that. It is synonymous with the word. The acronym would be redundant.
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I wonder if these tubes went into this radio product (NSFW)
We have a new vulture unit of measurement.
...please! I'll wager that the title of The Register's award and the attention devoted to a copper-based expletive/body part pun are both silly and offensive to lots of readers.
When The Register pulls its punches, it recalls Punch (of blessed memory). When it doesn't, it smacks of losers like Beavis and Butthead sniggering "He said ... heh-heh heh-heh heh-heh".
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"It's the life of an actor. We don't really have a lot of choice in the matter. You have dry spells, and then you have times when there is a lot of opportunity."
That was Katie Holmes in a recent interview with E! Online discussing the "dry spell" she went through while held captive married to Tom Cruise for seven years. She doesn't blame him or their relationship for it, but it's hard to ignore how busy Holmes has been since they split two years ago. One of four completed projects she has on the way is the indie comedy Miss Meadows, which has her as the world's sweetest vigilante killer ever.
A new trailer for the film has been released, and it stars Holmes as grade school teacher Miss Meadows. She nourishes young minds by day but at night she loads up her gun and takes to the streets as a vigilante, eliminating the neighborhood scum and drawing the attention of the local police, led by Iron Man 3's James Badge Dale. Karen Leigh Hopkins (writer on the abysmal Because I Said So) makes her directorial debut and the film was greeted with mixed reviews at Tribeca earlier this year.
Also starring Jean Smart and Mary Kay Place, Miss Meadows opens November 14th.
SYNOPSIS: Prim schoolteacher Miss Meadows (Katie Holmes) is not entirely what she appears. Well-mannered, sweet, and caring, yes, but underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides the soul of a vigilante, taking it upon herself to right the wrongs in this cruel world by whatever means necessary. Things get complicated, however, when Miss Meadows gets romantically entangled with the town sheriff (James Badge Dale) and her steadfast moral compass is thrown off, begging the question: "Who is the real Miss Meadows and what is she hiding?"


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March 7, 2011
SEATTLE - Men's track and field star James Cameron was named the Gohuskies.com Student-Athlete of the Week for the week of Feb. 28-March 6. This is the first such honor for Cameron on the year and the second ford the men's track and field team.
Cameron, a sophomore from Lake Forest, Calif., achieved one of the most famous marks in track and field, breaking the four-minute mile barrier to earn a spot at nationals.
The Dempsey facility has turned out dozens of four-minute miles over the past several years, but only two UW men had ever reached that mark before. Eric Garner posted a 3:58.93 in 2002 and Austin Abbott had a 3:58.23 in 2007 and 2009.
Cameron moved steadily up the pack that included four Huskies, until he was second heading into the bell lap. Cameron kicked for home and crossed in 3:58.51, the second-fastest mile in Husky history behind only Abbott.
His time was well under the NCAA Auto mark of 3:59.00 needed to advance to College Station, Texas for next week's national meet. Cameron has also posted top-five times in the 3,000-meters (8:00.17) and the 5,000-meters (13:54.77) this season indoors.
Other nominees include: Austin Voth (baseball), C.J. Wilcox (men's basketball), Chris Williams (men's golf), Jeevan Nedunchezhivan (men's tennis), Katie Flood (women's track and field), Kristi Kingma (women's basketball), Anya Alvarez (women's golf), Samantha Walior (gymnastics), Jenn Salling (softball) and Denise Dy (women's tennis).
2010-11 Gohuskies.com Student-Athlete's Of The Week:
March 7 - James Cameron (men's track and field)
Feb. 27 - Kyle McMorrow (men's tennis)
Feb. 21 - Chelsea Orr (women's track and field/cross country)
Feb. 14 - Niki Williams (softball)
Feb. 7 - Samantha Walior (gymnastics)
Jan. 31 - Denise Dy (women's tennis)
Jan. 24 - Matthew Bryan-Amaning (men's basketball)
Jan. 17 - Kale Schmidt (men's track and field)
Jan. 10 - Kristi Kingma (women's basketball)
Jan. 3 - Mason Foster (football)
Dec. 27 - Isaiah Thomas (men's basketball)
Dec. 20 - Scott Suggs (men's basketball)
Dec. 13 - Kindra Carlson (volleyball)
Dec. 6 - Chris Polk (football)
Nov. 29 - Chris Polk (football)
Nov. 22 - Allie Beahan (women's soccer)
Nov. 15 - Jorde LaFontaine-Kussmann (women's soccer)
Nov. 8 - Kindra Carlson (volleyball)
Oct. 25 - Valaree Fowler (men's crew)
Oct. 18 - Jermaine Kearse (football)
Oct. 11 - Jorde LaFontaine-Kussmann (women's soccer)
Oct. 4 - Jake Locker (football)
Sept. 27 - Karinn Dickinson (women's golf)
Sept. 20 - Stephen Fung (men's soccer)
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text: Help Us Keep 10k Shelter Pets Cool! Posted on Jun 19 , 2013 by Emily, Petfinder Foundation vp, development Print Home > Blog > Petfinder.com Foundation > Help Us Keep 10k Shelter Pets Cool! Tags: summer safety As part of Petfinder's Summer Pet Safety campaign, we're challenging Petfinder.com visitors to help us raise $10,000 to help keep 10,000 shelter pets cool and safe this summer. (Donate to keep shelter pets cool here.) HSSA's Samantha Esquivel, left, and Sara Gromley share homemade frozen dog treats with adoptable dog Benson. The funds raised will go towards Summer Cooling grants to help shelters purchase misters, sun shades and other cooling devices. We visited the first grant recipient, the Humane Society of Southern Arizona (HSSA), this week. HSSA, which takes in about 10,000 pets each year, received $1,000 to help keep its animal residents cool as temperatures in Tucson hit triple digits over the summer. HSSA Public Relations Lead Samantha Esquivel showed us some of the ways the shelter keeps pets comfortable in hot weather (and you can too): Benson cools off in a kiddie pool. 1. Fresh, cool water – for both drinking and playing in – is key for keeping dogs like Benson, a 9-year-old flat-coated retriever, safe and happy. Not only does Benson benefit from HSSA's overhead misting system, he loves the shelter's sprinklers and kiddie pool, which you can set up at home. 2. Homemade frozen treats – such as a Kong toy stuffed with peanut butter and kibble stuck in the freezer for several hours – are an easy way to keep your pet entertained and cool. You can try our recipe for catsicles to give your feline friends a frosty, tasty snack. 3. Shade sources – such as trees, dog houses or the sunshades HSSA uses in its visiting yards – are crucial when your pet is outside. But even if plenty of shade is available, be sure to limit your pet's time outdoors and watch closely for signs of heatstroke (learn the symptoms of heatstroke). "The best part of our dogs' day is when they get to let loose in the visiting yard with volunteers, but we always have to be vigilant about heat and usually cut playtime short," HSSA Public Relations Coordinator Sara Gromley tells us. "Thanks to a grant from the Petfinder Foundation, we're able to extend the fun!" Are you with a Petfinder member shelter? Apply for a Summer Cooling grant here. Share this Article: Print


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Some airlines take a firm stand against customer service. Hopefully this disturbing attitude does not become an industry trend. After spending a life time traveling the world, I have finally decided to list the two airlines that stand apart from the rest when it comes to complete disregard for its passengers.
#1 US Airways
To see customer reviews of this airline click here: Yelp, Trip Advisor, Airfare Watchdog, Eopinions, and Ripoff Report .
If ever there was an airline that said "every man for themselves".... I have seen airline flight attendants embarrass customers who asked for assistance on the plane and I have seen the gate attendants roll their eyes when a customer requested an aisle seat for an elderly woman when they reassigned her ticket to a center seat due to an airline error, and so much more.
Then there was me--morning sick from my first pregnancy and flying home from a relaxing trip to a few Caribbean Islands with my family. Each plane we boarded was late but this one was almost two hours late. We were told there was no water on board the plane bathrooms. These things happen however and should be taken in stride.
When the plane landed we sprinted from one end of the airport to the other to make our connection. One person from my flight arrived 15 minutes before take off. I arrived 11 minutes before. Others arrived after. US Airways insisted that they close the doors 10 minutes before the flight which should have meant that my family and I were able to board, but they insisted it was too late. It was late at night. The airline had canceled other flights and would not put us on a partner airline so they insisted that we were out of luck.
I watched a young mother who needed to pick up her daughter in a few hours bawling because nobody would help her. I saw a "customer service" associate toss an amenities bag at another worried customer who said she did not have money for a hotel before yelling at the soft spoken woman to "sleep at the airport." I looked over at my mother and shook my head. "Jesus knew not to put me in that line," I told her.
A supervisor named Sonata at this Philadelphia airport walk away from me in mid sentence and another associate named either J. Kevin K., or K. Kevin J., whose job role is unknown, started throwing jabs about how they won't help us, how it's not their problem, and how we should have ran faster.
I didn't even know why he was talking to me when I was talking to another associate whose job was actually customer service. I legitimately thought he was the company janitor and wondered why he was trying to pick a fight. Is it just me or is the last thing you need when customers are stranded and upset someone who fans the fire?
One supervisor named Mustafa simply refused to come and talk to me.
Because I have pretty bad morning sickness that lasts nearly the entire day, staying at the airport was not an option for me. The airline said they would give us a discount that brings the hotel costs down to $80 or more. When asked why they would not cover our hotel costs after refusing to let us on the plane they said it depends on how they classify the flight problem. Basically, they can classify the flight anyway they want in the computer so that it falls outside of the criteria for deserving a hotel stay.
One rep told me the flight was NOT labeled as delayed at all, therefore we don't qualify. Other said that it was delayed for weather, therefore we don't qualify. Another said it was delayed because of air traffic so we don't qualify. Everything was inconsistent EXCEPT for the lack of customer service that we received at all times.
Little gestures that other airlines grant customers such as an attentive ear are not included in the ticket fee and should not be expected. Not caring about resolving customer concerns seems to be a serious part of the company culture.
The positives about this airline are that they sometimes have slightly lower fares than other airlines and you won't have to worry about disgusting food because chances are you won't receive as much as a peanut while on board.
#2: Air China
If you have the pleasure of flying this airline make sure you never need to request any type of customer assistance because you will be waiting in a very long line of irate customers who will never receive any either.
I was truly shocked by how difficult this airline stands against granting mileage to alliance members on certain flights, and how no matter how small of a request passengers made the reply was always "that has to go through management and the managers are not here" even though these are peak business hours.
It is clear that delegating authority is a major hindrance to customer service for this airline. When there were errors made on flight tickets nobody was able to help and when the representative on the phone said they would take care of something it did not happen.
Also, watch out for some of the most unappetizing food available on the planet and do not be surprised when they tell you they need to weigh your carryon luggage to make sure it fits their requirements.
The positive aspects of this airline are that they were very reasonable when it came to changing tickets with much smaller penalties than other carriers and their fares are often lower than their competitors when traveling Asia.


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Haines Highway will be closed Saturday, Jan. 15, from Mile 42 to Dezadeash Lake for the Alcan 200 snowmachine road race.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Beautiful Blue Bedroom
Lynn from Paris Hotel Boutique and Holly from Decor8 both posted a slew of images from a colorful home featured in Traditional Home magazine, all of which were stunning...so much fun color! This particular image that Lynn shared was my favorite, for obvious reasons. I love the mantel behind the headboard. And such a neat headboard at that!
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Work Hardening
Magnetic Permeability
Work Hardening Rates
Slow Forming Speeds
Improved Machinability Grades
Rules for Machining Stainless Steels
Austenitic Stainless Steels
Duplex Stainless Steels
Martensitic Stainless Steels
Ferritic Stainless Steels
Welding Dissimilar Metals
Soft Soldering
Recommended Procedure for Soldering
Brazing (Silver Soldering)
Recommended Procedure for Brazing
Stainless steels, particularly austenitic grades, are capable of being fabricated by any conventional fabrication methods. The commonly used austenitic grades can be roll formed, spun, deep drawn, hot and cold forged or bent and folded with a strong force, owing to the material's high strength and work hardening rate.
Despite these properties, austenitic stainless steels have very high ductility, which enables them to be very heavily cold formed into deep drawn products. Some of the other metals are also capable of being cold formed without splitting.
All metals can be work hardened upon cold working, based on the type of stainless steel grade. Austenitic stainless steels tend to work harden at a rapid rate, but the cold working rate of 400 series stainless steel is slightly higher than that of the plain carbon steels. The rapid cold working rate of austenitic steels makes them suitable for applications that involve high corrosion resistance and strength, such as spring manufacture in corrosive environments. The relationship between the extent of cold working and the resulting mechanical properties are represented in the chart of Figure 1.
Figure 1 - illustrates the relationship between the amount of c old work (expressed as "% reduction of area") and tensile strength.
It should be noted that austenitic stainless steels can be hardened only by work hardening. However, like low alloy and carbon steels, martensitic stainless steels can be hardened by thermal treatments such as quenching and tempering. Cold working can harden ferritic stainless steels, like austenitic grades. Their work hardening rates, however, are very low and, therefore, it is extremely difficult to achieve high strength.
The steel grades with the highest work hardening rate usually have the highest magnetic permeability for a given amount of cold work.
The tensile properties of stainless steel grades, such as grade 301, 302 and 304, can be enhanced up to 2000 MPa in cold working treatments such as cold drawing. However, such high tensile strength values are limited to fine wire sizes and thin sections.
With the increase in size of a material, cold working necessary to achieve high tensile properties will not be suitable, owing to the rapid work hardening rate of large surface sections. For instance, 6 mm round, cold drawn grade 304 steel with 15% reduction in area will have an ultimate strength of about 800 MPa. By contrast a 60 mm round, cold drawn grade 304 steel with same reduction percentage will show the same ultimate strength in full section. However, the 60 mm round section will exhibit low tensile properties if it is machined from its centre, while the 6 mm round section will have about the same in full section. Moreover, the 6 mm round steel can be cold worked to achieve high tensile properties, whereas the 60 mm round section should be annealed for further cold working, owing to high hardness.
400 series alloys are magnetic at room temperatures, and they will work harden at rates similar to that of low carbon steels. Wire products of this series can be cold worked to achieve tensile properties as high as around 1000 MPa. However, bar products are often cold worked at a rate higher than 850 MPa. Ferritic steel grades cannot be heat-treated, but martensitic steel grades are heat-treated using hardening and tempering, to achieve maximum corrosion resistance and mechanical properties. The work hardening rates tend to decrease with an increase in temperature. This change in rate can be observed at low temperatures of 80°C.
Unlike carbon steels with the same formability at any operating condition, stainless steels experience severe deformation at slow forming speeds during cold working.
In general, austenitic stainless steel grades are difficult to machine. For this reason, fabricators developed a free-machining grade 303 steel. Free-machining versions are also available for martensitic and ferritic grades. Grades 416 and 430F exhibit improved machinability, due to the presence of manganese sulphide that serves as chip breakers.
The free-machining grades offer lesser corrosion resistance when compared to that of non-free-machining grades, due to the presence of non-metallic inclusions. These grades should not be used in aggressive conditions, such as marine environments, as they are subjected to pitting corrosion attacks. Those grades with high sulfur levels have reduced ductility and, hence, they cannot be bent, welded or cold forged.
A number of manufacturers have produced "improved machinability" versions of austenitic stainless steel grades. Such as grade 304 and 316, by using steel melting techniques. These techniques seem to have sufficient chip-breaking effect for significantly improving the machinability. However, they retain the mechanical properties, such as corrosion resistance, formability and weldability, of their standard grades. These materials are commercially available in trade names of "Ugima". The machining speed of "Ugima" is nearly 20% higher than that of other standard equivalent grades.
"Ugima 303" is commonly referred as a "super-machinable" grade. The corrosion resistance, formability and weldability of "Ugima 303" are compromised to achieve maximum machinability. The graph in figure 2 represents the relative machinabilities of various stainless steels denoted in comparison of achievable cutting speeds.
Figure 2 - illustrates relative machinability ranges of stainless steels
Given below are some general rules of machining that are applicable to most of the stainless steels:
Stainless steels have different weldabilities, and almost all stainless steels can be welded. Austenitic grades are the most readily welded metals. The weldability of stainless steels depends on the family that they belong to. Australian Standard AS 1554.6 provides a number of pre-qualified conditions for welding metals and covers structural welding of stainless steels. Pre-qualified welding consumables for welding different metals, or the same metal, can be referred to from Table 4.5.1 of AS 1554.6. This standard also covers the specification of welding procedures that suits every application.
The austenitic steel grades are readily welded through all conventional electric welding procedures, using a wide range of welding consumables and standard equipment. The use of stabilized grades, or grades with low carbon content, for welding heavy section products resolve the problem of inter-granular corrosion and sensitization. Thin materials can be quickly welded as sensitization depends on time or temperature. Care should be taken that, if fabrication has become sensitized during welding, corrosion resistance of the material can be restored by a full solution treatment.
The free-machining grade 303 is subjected to hot cracking and, hence, it is not preferred for welding applications. The "Ugima" improved machinability grades, "Ugima 304" and "Ugima 316", offer reasonable machinability and excellent weldability.
Duplex stainless steels have good weldability, although not as good as that of austenitic grades. All standard welding methods can be used along with a wide variety of consumables. One of the advantages of duplex stainless steels is that they have low thermal expansion coefficient when compared to that of austenitic stainless steel.
Martensitic stainless steel grades (except high sulphur free-machining grade 416) can be welded often with austenitic filler rods for improving the ductility of the steels. However, care must be taken as they form brittle and hard zones adjacent to the weld. Cracking can also occur in these zones, and hence caution needs to be exercised with pre-heating and post-welding treatments.
The ferritic grades do not possess good welding properties due to lack of ductility, sensitization and excessive grain growth. Post-weld heat treatment can be used to solve some of these problems. Filler metal, which helps in enhancing weld toughness, can be of austenitic grade or of similar composition. The excessive grain growth problem is extremely difficult to overcome, and, hence, most of the grades are welded only in thin gauges. Stabilized ferritic grades exhibit better weldability when compared to that of unstabilized grades.
Grade 3CR12 is a proprietary ferritic grade with very low carbon content. It can be readily welded even in a heavy section plate. As for other ferritic grades, it is normal to use austenitic stainless steel fillers.
Welding of different metals, such as grades 304 and 430, can be performed with some precautions. Over-alloyed austenitic welding rods, such as grade 309, are recommended to reduce dilution effects on stainless steels. The Schaeffler diagram shows the composition of the weld deposit generated from dissimilar grade welding. AS 1554.6 provides a table that specifies pre-qualified consumables for each combination of dissimilar metal welds.
A lead-tin soft solder can be used for soldering all grades of stainless steel. Leaded solders should be avoided if the product is being soldered for applications such as transport, serving or food processing. Soldered joints are relatively weak over the strength of steel, and, hence, this method should not be used where the mechanical strength is dependent upon the soldered joint. Strength can be improved if the edges are riveted, spot welded or lock-seamed.
The recommended procedure for soldering is as follows:
Brazing is used when welding is impossible and a strong joint is needed. It is useful for joining nickel, bronze, stainless steel, copper and other non-ferrous metals. The corrosion resistance of a joint produced by brazing will be slightly lower than that of the stainless steel, but brazed joints meet the requirements under atmospheric and mildly corrosive operating conditions.
The following is the recommended procedure for brazing:
The following table outlines various recommendations for welding stainless steels.
Post Weld Heat Treatment
Cool rapidly from 1010-1090°C only if corrosion conditions are severe.
Not required
Usually unnecessary, as this grade is generally used at high temperatures (b).
As for 309
Cool rapidly from 1060-1150°C if corrosion conditions are severe
Air cool from 650-760°C
410 (d)
430 (d)
Air cool from 760-790°C
309 (e)
Not generally required
Table 1 - Recommendations for welding of stainless steels
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