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Lum and Abner
Lum and Abner was an American network radio comedy program created by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff that was aired from 1931 to 1954. Modeled on life in the small town of Waters, Arkansas, near where Lauck and Goff grew up, the show proved immensely popular. In 1936, Waters changed its name to Pine Ridge after the show's fictional town.[1]
The series was created by co-stars Chester Lauck (who played Columbus "Lum" Edwards) and Norris Goff (Abner Peabody). The two characters performed as a double act, with Lum generally playing the straight man to Abner's attempts to break free from Lum's influence. As co-owners of the Jot 'em Down Store in the fictional town of Pine Ridge, Arkansas, the pair are constantly stumbling upon moneymaking ideas only to find themselves fleeced by nemesis Squire Skimp, before finally finding a way to redeem themselves. Lum and Abner played the hillbilly theme with deceptive cleverness. The hillbillies knew that the slickers would get what was coming to them sooner or later and either didn't mind or knew more than they let on that the slickers getting theirs was a matter of fortunate circumstance.[clarification needed]
In addition to the title characters, Lauck also played Grandpappy Spears and Cedric Weehunt while Goff played Abner, Squire Skimp, Llewelyn "Mousey" Grey, Dick Huddleston, and most of the other characters.
Show history[edit]
Lauck and Goff had known each other since childhood and attended the University of Arkansas together where they both joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity. They performed locally and established a blackface act which led to an audition at radio station KTHS in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Prior to the audition, the two men decided to change their act and portray two hillbillies, due to the large number of blackface acts already in existence. After only a few shows in Hot Springs, they were picked up nationally by NBC, and Lum and Abner, sponsored by Quaker Oats, ran until 1932. Lauck and Goff performed several different characters, modeling many of them on the real-life residents of Waters, Arkansas.
When the Quaker contract expired, Lauck and Goff continued to broadcast on two Texas stations, WBAP (Fort Worth) and WFAA (Dallas). In 1933, The Ford Dealers of America became their sponsor for approximately a year. Horlick's Malted Milk, the 1934–37 sponsor, offered a number of promotional items, including almanacs and fictional Pine Ridge newspapers. During this period, the show was broadcast on Chicago's WGN (AM), one of the founding members of the Mutual Broadcasting System. Effective July 1, 1935, the program was also carried on WLW (Cincinnati, Ohio), KNX (Los Angeles, California), and KFRC (San Francisco, California).[2] Along with The Lone Ranger, Lum and Abner was one of Mutual's most popular programs.[3] In 1936, Dick Huddleston of Waters petitioned the United States Post Office to change the town's name to Pine Ridge.[4] Postum cereal sponsored Lum and Abner in 1938–40, before Alka-Seltzer picked up the duo. Miles Laboratories, manufacturers of Alka-Seltzer and One-A-Day Vitamins, became the longest-running sponsor, backing the program from 1941 until 1948. Over the course of its life, Lum and Abner appeared on the two other major radio networks in addition to NBC and Mutual: CBS and ABC (formerly NBC Blue).
In 1948, the show changed from a 15-minute "comedic soap opera" to a 30-minute self-contained show. New writers were added, including Flying Tiger ace Robert T. Smith, along with an orchestra and a live audience. The new format was unpopular and the series came off the air in 1950. Lauck and Goff experimented with other formats during the hiatus, finally changing back to a 15-minute, Monday-Friday show on ABC in 1953,[5] but the revived show was discontinued the following year due to competition from television and Goff's failing health.
Episode status[edit]
The team broadcast more than 5,000 shows, of which over 1,630 episodes exist today. The archive is extensive between 1935 and 1948. As with most old-time radio shows, very little pre-1935 content (in this case, two episodes) survived to the present day. Only a handful of post-1948 programs, and some of the 1953-54 revival, have survived; whatever recordings of those shows are believed to have been destroyed.
Like several of their contemporaries, Lauck and Goff had the opportunity to bring their characters to life in movies. The Lum & Abner radio show of March 29, 1940, "The Store Closes to Shoot a Movie," announced a break in the radio series in order to make the first film of the series, Dreaming Out Loud, which was released the same year. Six other films were later produced, the last being Lum and Abner Abroad (1956). This last film, shot in Yugoslavia, were originally meant as three episodes of a television pilot, but, as the series wasn't picked up, it was released theatrically.
- Dreaming Out Loud (1940)
- The Bashful Bachelor (1942)
- Two Weeks to Live (1943)
- So This Is Washington (1943)
- Goin' to Town (1944)
- Partners in Time (1946)
- Lum and Abner Abroad (1956)
As well as inspiring the program and its characters, Pine Ridge is also home to the Lum and Abner Museum, which opened in the 1970s and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[6] A replica of the Jot 'em Down Store stands adjacent to the Museum.
The National Lum and Abner Society[edit]
The National Lum and Abner Society, formed in 1984, published a bimonthly newsletter, The Jot 'Em Down Journal, until 2007. Between 1985 and 2005 the organization held 20 annual conventions (skipping 2004) in Pine Ridge and Mena, Arkansas, playing host to numerous veterans of the Lum and Abner radio programs and motion pictures. Since 2007, the NLAS has existed as an organization with free membership with its Jot 'Em Down Journal transferred to the NLAS website. Founding officers Sam Brown, Tim Hollis, and Donnie Pitchford have remained connected to the organization since the beginning.
NLAS Convention guest stars included radio-television-cinema veterans Roswell Rogers, Clarence Hartzell, Jerry Hausner, Elmore Vincent, Wendell Niles, Bobs Watson, Les Tremayne, Louise Currie, Willard Waterman, Parley Baer, Cathy Lee Crosby, Forrest Owen, Mary Lee Robb, Kay Linaker, Frank Bresee, Fred Foy, Barbara Fuller, Sam Edwards, Dick Beals, Rhoda Williams, Robie Lester, Ginny Tyler, Nancy Wible, and Dallas McKennon. Additionally, various family members and personal friends of Chester Lauck and Norris Goff were present.
The first NLAS "Reunion" took place in June 2011 as part of the annual Lum and Abner Festival in Mena, Arkansas to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the Lum and Abner show as well as the 75th anniversary of the changing of the name of Waters, Arkansas to Pine Ridge. The NLAS has released the first three CD volumes of Audio Jot 'Em Down Journals for blind members, working through the Helping Hands for the Blind organization in California. These contains readings of the 1984-89 printed issues of The Jot 'Em Down Journal. A fourth volume is on hold at present.
Lum and Abner comic strip[edit]
The Lum and Abner comic strip is available at Lum and Abner Comic Strip. The fourth year commenced with strip and audio #157 on Sunday, June 1, 2014. On Sunday, July 20, 2014, the characters of Lum and Abner were awarded a cameo appearance in the Harvey Award-winning Dick Tracy comic strip, written by Mike Curtis and illustrated by Joe Staton. Lum and Abner were introduced during the crossover in which Tracy rescues Annie, whose own comic strip ended in 2010.
Each strip is accompanied by an audio dramatization with voices, sound effects and music, a feature designed with blind fans of "old time radio" in mind, but one that any reader may access.
The project began early in 2011, when negotiations between Ethan C. Nobles of www.firstarkansasnews.net, the Chester Lauck family and cartoonist Donnie Pitchford resulted in a new comic strip series based on the classic radio programs and its characters. Beginning June 5, 2011, Lum and Abner officially began appearing at http://firstarkansasnews.net in a "Sunday strip" format with a new installment each Sunday. Readers may sign up for a free e-mail subscription by visiting GoComics. The comic strip made its newspaper debut in The Mena Star of Mena, Arkansas on Thursday, July 28, 2011. It has since been signed by The Standard of Amity.
In April 2013, radio producer Joe Bevilacqua entered into an agreement with Donnie Pitchford to broadcast the Lum and Abner comics as part of his weekly radio show The Comedy-O-Rama Hour. The first two Lum and Abner radio comics premiered April 13, 2013.
The success of these broadcasts prompted the release of 100 All New "Lum & Abner" Comic Strips audiobook written and directed by Donnie Pitchford featuring a full cast. The three-hour-long audio theater is available from Waterlogg Productions and Blackstone Audio.
- Watch Dreaming Out Loud 1940
- Watch The Bashful Bachelor 1942
- Watch So This Is Washington 1943
- Watch Two Weeks to Live 1943
- Goin' to Town 1944
- Partners in Time 1946
- Lum and Abner Abroad 1956
- Watch one of the Lum and Abner TV pilots
- ^ "Pine Ridge". Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism.
- ^ "Lum and Abner Still at It" (PDF). Broadcast Weekly. July 14, 1935. p. 7. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ For argument that Mutual was primarily a vehicle for The Lone Ranger, see, e.g., Olson (2000), p. 173; Head (1976), p. 142; Schwoch (1994). For counterargument and popularity of Lum and Abner, see, e.g., Hilmes (1997), pp. 107–8; Hollis (2001), p. 41; McLeod, Elizabeth (1999-04-12). "Some History of the Mutual Broadcasting System/Correspondence: 'Mon, 12 APR 99'". History of American Broadcasting (Jeff Miller). Retrieved 2010-03-01.
- ^ Lum and Abner Now Have Real "Pine Ridge," Arkansas » The Arkansas News
- ^ Warren, Jill (May 1953). "What's New from Coast to Coast" (PDF). Radio-TV Mirror. 39 (6): 20. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
- ^ Arkansas.com
External links[edit]
- "A Hindu Miracle Man Will Cure Lum (1941)" in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)
- 1979 interview with Chester Lauck
- National Lum and Abner Society
- Lum and Abner Comic Strip
- Pine Ridge News (November, 1933)
- This month's free OTR webcast schedule
- Lum and Abner on Facebook
- Lum and Abner Comic Strip Group on Facebook
- Lum and Abner on Outlaws Old Time Radio Corner
- The All New "Lum & Abner" Comic Strips
- American comedy radio programs
- Fictional characters from Arkansas
- Fictional hillbillies
- American comedy duos
- 1931 radio programme debuts
- 1954 radio programme endings
- 1930s American radio programs
- 1940s American radio programs
- 1950s American radio programs
- Film series
- Mutual Broadcasting System programs
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A proposed settlement between Maui County and Neldon Mamuad, creator of the popular MAUIWatch Facebook page, has yet to be agreed on, forcing the county to file a memorandum of opposition against Mamuad's federal lawsuit.
"We made several changes and were willing to settle for a fraction of our legal fees and cost but as of right now we do not have an agreement," said Dan Gluck, senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, in a phone interview Tuesday. "I thought we were going to have an agreement toward the end of last week, but I have not gotten a substantive response from the county and the county has filed additional legal documents as of yesterday afternoon."
Mamuad, a part-time executive assistant to Council Member Don Guzman and a volunteer Liquor Control Commission member, filed the lawsuit last month, claiming that county officials pressured him to stop work on the Facebook page, which violated his First Amendment right to free speech.
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Members of the County Council's Policy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee discussed the lawsuit behind closed doors in an executive session last week. Committee members voted to recommend the full council adopt a resolution authorizing the county Department of the Corporation Counsel to settle the case.
County attorney Richard Rand said he "would have preferred to have ironed out the settlement this week so we didn't have to do the filings."
"We remain hopeful that we can work through it," Rand said Tuesday.
Maui County spokesman Rod Antone referred all questions to Rand, who could not comment on the details of the settlement.
Mamuad could not be reached by phone on Tuesday, but he posted on the Facebook page that "we bent over backwards to settle this case" and that "the gloves are now off."
"We finished mediation. We completed everything," he said late Monday night on the social media page. "The version of the settlement agreement that the PIA Committee approved last week? We told the county's lawyers before the meeting that the county's version didn't do enough to protect my First Amendment rights, thus wasting everyone's time.
"The county continues to refuse to take steps to protect the First Amendment rights of county officials and employees - our main concern," he said.
The MAUIWatch Facebook page, now a crowd-sourcing site for traffic and other breaking news, began last summer as TAGUMAWatch, a page dedicated to observations of Maui police officer Keith Taguma. The longtime officer has gained notoriety for being "prolific" in writing traffic citations in Central Maui.
According to the county's filing, Mamuad conceded that "most of the time, we were just poking fun at (Taguma) for being so serious about his job for ticketing people for what seemed like petty things."
Taguma filed a complaint under the county's "Violence in the Workplace Action Plan" policy. County officials found that the complaint was substantiated, and Mamuad was required to attend an employee assistance program - which Mamuad partially cited as reason for his preliminary injunction.
However, before action was taken, the county rescinded the letter, and "the investigation is deemed closed," the county's memorandum in opposition says.
"The letter, which (Mamuad) believes led to the filing of the complaint and the present motion, has now been retracted," the county filing says. "This makes the plaintiff's request for a preliminary injunction moot."
In Mamuad's lawsuit, he said he only agreed to change the website's name in August after he was pressured to do so by Corporation Counsel Patrick Wong.
The lawsuit reported that Taguma complained about online postings of his sightings and alleged that Mamuad was harassing him by using his name and photo without his permission and by encouraging others to submit photos of him and comments about him.
The lawsuit sought a federal court order prohibiting Maui County from interfering with Mamuad's right to speak freely. The complaint also asked for a court order declaring the county's actions unconstitutional and ordering the deletion of any disciplinary action on Mamuad's employment records.
The county's memorandum says there is no pending action or investigation against Mamuad relating to his Facebook page, and that Taguma's letter has been removed from Mamuad's personnel file.
The county added that the website's change in name was done voluntarily by Mamuad and that his "self-regulating" posts on his Facebook page are "his decision, one not imposed by the county."
"The county acknowledges that in his role as a private citizen (Mamuad) enjoys certain First Amendment rights and that under well-established precedent one of the threshold issues will be whether (he) is speaking in his capacity as a county employee or as a private citizen," the county's memorandum says. "It appears (Mamuad) seeks a broad order giving him unlimited rights in his role as a county employee."
Gluck said Mamuad and fellow attorney Marcus Landsberg are looking to settle the case "as quickly and efficiently as possible."
"Neldon is certainly frustrated over the lack of progress that has been made in this case and is concerned that his First Amendment rights are protected," Gluck said.
Mamuad's lawyers have until Monday to respond to the county's memorandum. A court hearing has been set for May 12 in Honolulu before U.S. District Judge John Michael Seabright.
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My BFF told me she was going to throw a sprinkle for me so I registered and now I'm 29 weeks and no sign of any sprinkle. I can tell no sprinkle by my mom's comments also like telling me time to start getting all the things I need ie no shower. I can afford all the things I need, but was excited about the idea since baby is a different sex. Oh well.
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Posted 01/26/2013
That stinks! And honey that is no BFF. Why don't you just come out and ask her...maybe indirectley. You could say..."Hey, have you decided on a date yet..because other ppl have asked me?" Lol...Or just be ballsie and ask her straight out! She can't say you were rude...because #1 you're preggo..and your hormones took over! And #2..She's the rude one for promising a preggo mama something, and not doing it! :)
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Posted 01/26/2013
Sorry about that azure...I'm pretty sure I'll be in your shoes too despite all the showers I have thrown for my friends. I too would just ask her, it isn't like you are the one who initiated it. Maybe tell her you registered and need to start buying things if she has decided not to throw you the sprinkle she mentioned. If she is a bff that should be all that needs to be said. Good luck!
Posted 01/26/2013
That blows. Maybe do it your self.
I decided that for next baby ill throw my own. I had way to much drama with my hostess that I will never let someone else plan a party for me. Ever!
I decided that for next baby ill throw my own. I had way to much drama with my hostess that I will never let someone else plan a party for me. Ever!
Posted 01/26/2013
I agree with TxRunMom-I had a ton of drama with my baby shower (it was last weekend) and I wish I had just done my own. My sister in law threw the shower and she acted like it was all about her and she ended up threatening to take everything to my mom's house the night before and drop it off because she didn't want to deal with it. Some people are weird about throwing your own shower, but I've known several people who have done it and they had a blast doing their own!


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04-13-2011 06:36 PM - edited 04-13-2011 06:38 PM
Hello forum, i've just recently formatted my hard drive and reinstalled my OS on my Toshiba Satellite A665-S6070. I'm currently running on Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit. I managed to back up all my drivers and reinstalled what i could but, among various other drivers that aren't working, i cannot seem to get my NIC card up and running. Neither my Wi-fi or a directly connected Ethernet cable work. When i troubleshoot it tells me that it does not detect a properly installed network adapter. I've used software such as "Unknown Drivers" and it tells me that the Ethernet Controller i am missing is the "Realtek Semiconductor RTL8139/810x FastEthernet NIC." I've downloaded multiple drivers, both from the Toshiba and the Realtek website, nothing has worked so far. Any help on how to get this working would be greatly appreciated.
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04-15-2011 02:40 PM - edited 04-15-2011 02:50 PM
Install this, do all your Windows Updates, and then run the Toshiba Software Installer again:
Good luck.
Anybody? =/
04-14-2011 01:14 AM - edited 04-14-2011 03:54 AM
OK, I'll bite. But, 27 minutes wasn't very long to wait for a response, before prompting us again!
Regardless, here's my 2 cents worth. Your Satellite A665-S6070 Specifications show that your system can use a maximum of 8GB of RAM, and that it originally came with Windows 7 Home Prem. 64bit version.
So, by installing the 32bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate, you have limited your upgrade path, as the 32bit version can only handle a maximum of 4GB of RAM. As well, this required you to do a 'clean' or custom install of the 32bit version, as opposed to the straight upgrade of the Win7 Home Prem 64bit, to Ultimate 64bit versions you could have done. In addition, it would appear from your Satellite A665-S6070 Downloads page, that there is not a full set of Windows 7 32bit drivers for your your system, eg the critical 'Chipset' drivers.
More importantly, you have probably wiped out, or at least rendered unusable, your Toshiba Recovery Parition/Utility, which can be an invaluable troubleshooting tool. See pages 61-74 of your Satellite A660 Series User Guide. In addition, this would have contained all the Toshiba drivers/utilities you needed. So, unless you made a set of Toshiba recovery disks/media before you installed Ultimate, you'll need to order the recovery media to replace it.
IMHO, you have 2 main options at this point. If you have a set Toshiba Recovery disks, or if you're willing to order them, then use these to rebuild your HDD to its factory default out-of-the-box condition. Then do an in place upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. This is what I would recommend.
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Thanks so much Mike. I installed Window 7 Ultimate 64-bit and ran the Toshiba Software Utility. Unfortunately, it needs internet access to install the drivers, so it defeats the purpose of getting my NIC card working. Any other suggestions?
04-15-2011 02:40 PM - edited 04-15-2011 02:50 PM
Install this, do all your Windows Updates, and then run the Toshiba Software Installer again:
Good luck.
Thank you. my NIC card is only working through directly connected ethernet but it's a start.
Do you mind looking at my other post ?
04-15-2011 05:35 PM - edited 04-15-2011 05:36 PM
Did you try the Toshiba Software Installer again with the ethernet plugged in? It might save you a lot of time and grief.
Regardless, the order of loading of drivers and Toshiba utilities is critical.
For drivers, generally you want to load:
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For Toshiba utilities/software
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2) Toshiba Flash Card Utility (sometimes included in the above)
3) then all other Toshiba utilities and software
In your particular case load these drivers in this order:
Intel Chipset SW Installation Utility
Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver
Intel Turbo Boost Technology Driver
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nVidia Display Driver(v261.32)(64bit)
I'm not sure what sound card you have, probably the Realtek. Try it first, only if it doesn't work try the nVidia sound driver.
Then all the other drivers. Make sure you're loading the 64bit version. Click on the '+' (plus) symbol beside some of the drivers to find other versions.
Next load these utilities/software in this order:
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Then all the other Toshiba utilities and software.
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Proud Ima to my sweet big boy 5/15/2011
And precious baby girl 12/11/2013
I would definitely start the transition prior to moving. First I would start by explaining that mommy will be be speaking Hebrew now. Has he never heard you speak Hebrew before? I think if he has heard you use Hebrew it should be an easier transition than if he thinks you don't speak.
I would transition gradually. You don't want to upset him by suddenly changing languages on him.
We transitioned when DS was 14 month and we moved from the States to Germany. He did fine with me suddenly speaking English to him. I did transaition a bit too for a few weeks before the move where I gradualy increased my English.
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I would love to hear other opinions or experiences from others who have moved and changed languages they speak with their LO.
Moosmutzel, can you tell me about how you made the transition? Did you start speaking English during certain situations?
Thank you ladies for your input!
Proud Ima to my sweet big boy 5/15/2011
And precious baby girl 12/11/2013
I thought mixing the languages confuses them.
If you mix languages in the same sentence, yes. If you hold one conversation in English and a few minutes later another one in Hebrew, it probably won't confuse him. At least not beyond the "Huh? Why is Mommy speaking Hebrew?" confusion that will happen regardless.
I would transition languages before the move. Get both of you used to having a relationship in Hebrew before everything else changes. Your LO is going to have enough stress dealing with all the changes in his life all at once getting used to a different home, different culture, different community language, different people around him. Keep Mommy the same through all that turmoil.
However, I have NOT had to move and switch languages with my kids. Moos has 100% more experience with that than I do.
This is off the subject but I was in Target in my home town and a little girl says "I'll get out of the cart on the count of three. Ahot, schtai, shalosh..." (sorry if the transliteration is wrong but you get it).
I couldn't help it but started laughing. The mom noticed and I said "Very good!" The mom was amused. "Didn't think anyone in Target would understand! There's Gan for you!"
I made some sort of remark that she was getting her money's worth lol!
But seriously, do a little research before the move (if you haven't already). An Israeli friend told me that his brother moved to the Silicon Valley (not even New York!) The kids do not go to a Hebrew school, they go to an Israeli Gan! He said now the problem is that the brother's kids aren't learning English, living in California! It's a temporary expat assignment and they may go back to Israel without English.
I'm sure this is true only in certain places and you may already know that this isn't a possiblity. If not, look into it. While it would be great to keep up the Hebrew by keeping a Hebrew-only household, find out if you even need to switch languages on him.
I also know of a family who did the switch... and then never moved. They were then "stuck" with speaking the community language and the minority language, where they were supposed to move, got squeezed out.
Again, this may not be a possiblity but if it's remotely possible, you may want to keep this in mind!
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For us the move happend quickly and it was very very stressful because DH was already in Germany and I had to pack up the house and everything else in a month and move me and the boy and three cats - and all that on no money. DS was fairly young (14 month) and prior to the move I was his only German source.
I switched as you planned first in public to English and than more and more in certain situations at home. Like when I was packing stuff up I narrated it in English - it was a new situation for DS and all new things so it worked. We moved to Germany at Christmas time so we spend some time with my family first and I kept speaking German with him in family situations and than once we were back just let it fade out.
He has adjusted very very well and now at 27 month he has more English but he goes to a bilingual daycare and hears lots of German there and he is starting to speak more and more German as well now. He always understood both languages without a problem.
I got a little negativity that I am speaking English now with him even so it is not my native language, but for us it was the best solution. I am the primary care giver for DS and the first few month in Germany I stayed home with him. I didn't want him to loose all his English and I am very comfortable in English. But I am also very careful to really just speak English with DS no matter what. I never mix languages with him at all and even if I am speaking German with my mom, as soon as I turn around and talk with DS it will be in English.
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I have been pretty good about not mixing the languages in the same sentence. We still have at least two months, so I guess I will start speaking Hebrew to him in public, and slowly add in more from there.
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Just as a side issue, you may run into negativity for using a non-native language. What I've read on this subject (no sources cited here but you can google it) is that this is seen as "bad" when it means that the child is not exposed to the parents' language at all. This is not the situation with either one of you. If, later on, you want to chat in your own language, your child will speak it.
This is backlash from immigrant parents, often in households where the other parent doesn't speak the language, the other will start using the community language with the child. There are more complex versions of this, for example, if there is a third language involved, or perhaps a dialect. I see Alsatian speakers using French with their children all the time and it's a shame to see it dying out (including my own children). In my dh's case, he spoke French to his mom and is stronger in French but it still bugged me.
There are also claims that the relationship could suffer because the non-native speaking parent can't "express themselves" as they could in their own language. Trust me, if that happens, you can switch languages, even if only for certain conversations, and that is a long way off! The child will be totally fluent in both before that issue arises...
I'm explaining this so that you're "armed" for any negative comments in the future. Your children will learn your language, since it exists outside the door. It's not like your children will never learn it.
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There are some really good mobile-web-related development resources that I use all the time when building mobile web pages, and in this movie I would like to share some of my favorite ones with you, so that you can refer to them during your projects. Now here in the ExampleSnippets file I have provided links to the resources that I use, and I have grouped them according to a couple of genres. So the first set of links are links that you will refer to as references; the second one has to do with standards around HTML5 and related web applications; and in the last group here are resources that are provided by the various mobile browser vendors, such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, and so on.
So let's go ahead and take a look at each of these resources, starting with the ones at the top. Okay, so this is the Mobile Web Best Practices specification, and the W3C set down came up with this a couple years ago. And essentially, what it is is a list of best practices to follow when you're developing your web apps. And if we scroll down here you can see here the Table of Contents, and the specification is built using some pretty standard W3C boilerplate that you can skip.
Let's just go ahead and jump down to the Structure of Best Practice statements. So this shows you how each best practice is organized. There is The Heading and what the statements are, and each best practice is highlighted in a blue box like this one. The next section explains what the best practice means, how to do it, and then what to test for. So let's actually scroll down to some of the best practices and you can see that the best practices are organized under a couple of different sections. There is Overall Behavior, Navigation, so on so forth.
So let's go ahead and scroll down to one of my favorite ones. I am going to go back to the Table of Contents here. I am going to jump right down to Style Sheets. So for example, this is the best practice around style sheets, and you can see that there are three of them. The first one says, "Use style sheets to control layout and presentation, unless of course the device is known not to support them." The next one says, "Organize documents so that if necessary they can be read without style sheets," and, "Keep style sheet small." Then there is a good explanation of what it means. Obviously, you should use style sheets rather than embedding stuff directly in your code, so on and so forth, and then how to do it and then what to test for.
So follow these best practices and you will be able to create mobile web pages that will work across a variety of devices. All right! Let's take a look at the next resource that I refer to. This one is the mobile developer table of contents that is put out by the guy who does Quirksmode. His name is Peter-Paul Koch, and he maintains a list of tests of various capabilities across smartphones, and he's got a pretty good list of tests that he does here on his web site.
And if you are a web developer you're probably already familiar with the Quirksmode site for desktop browsers, but he's gotten more and more into mobile lately. So for example, we can take a look at the Touch action compatibility table, and it's organized in a table that looks like this, so basically each one of these is the browser and then there's a related section of capability over here, and then there is color-coded boxes that show you whether or not that browser supports a particular feature.
So you can see, if you scroll through here, there is no different support. This is covering touch events. He has got other stuff on here as well. There's a table that compares the various WebKit browsers across all the known phones, because each phone manufacturer has a slightly different version of WebKit. So anyway, this is a really great resource to refer to when you want to know if a browser supports a certain capability. Okay. The next site I am going to show you is called User Agent String. User Agent String has a list of known user agents across many, many, many different browsers--not just desktop and mobile, but all kinds of browsers.
When you go to the User Agent String web site, it'll show you what the current user agent string for your browser is, but that's not really what's interesting. What's interesting is this list right here. So this list of user agent strings shows you all the browsers that this site has measured user agents for. And I am just going to scroll on down to the MOBILE BROWSERS section right here. So the MOBILE BROWSERS section contains known user agent strings for mobile browsers, and this is important, as you will see later on in the course, especially when we use this in the section for testing mobile web sites on desktop browsers.
This is a great resource to come to when you want to test the layout for how a certain web site is going to respond when a browser such as Blazer or Blackberry hits the server. You simply click on one of these guys-- so I will just click Blackberry right here--and you can see that when I click on Blackberry I get a whole list of user agent strings that correspond to known user agents that Blackberry-based devices send out. So I can just copy one of these and use it in my user agent detection logic. Okay.
Let's move on to the next group of sites. I am going to start off taking a look at the HTML5 specification, HTML5 obviously becoming a very important specification for web development--not just on desktop, but on mobile too. And this is maintained by the W3C. And this is the same HTML5 specification that you would use on desktop development, but it contains a whole bunch of useful information about mobile development as well. So this is the spec that I find myself referring to over and over again especially for things around form input types, working with offline web applications, local storage, that kind of stuff, and in fact I have actually called out those individual specifications right here.
So for example, Geolocation, obviously a very exciting technology for mobile, because Geolocation helps you determine where a device is on the planet. And in fact, we will see an example of this later in the course. So this Geolocation specification, also maintained by the W3C, and I've provided the link here, so you can read it yourself. Another one of course, Web Storage. Web Storage helps you maintain offline data in a mobile web application. It works on both desktop and mobile, but it's extremely useful for mobile because it allows you to store data without using cookies. And again, we'll see an example of that later.
And then of course there's offline web applications, and it is maintained by the whatwg, and I have got the link up here. Now offline web applications help you build web apps that work even when the web site is not connected to the Internet, and that's really useful for mobile devices because mobile devices sometimes have connectivity and sometimes they don't. So I am not going to cover this in this course because Bill Weinman already covered this in his course on HTML5 Local Storage here on the lynda.com web site.
So I'll refer you to his excellent course instead of covering that information here. Let's take a look at the vendor-specific sites. Okay, starting with Mobile Safari. This is the Getting Started with iOS Web Apps section on the Safari Developer Library, and again I have got the link right up here, and it's in the snippets file. And you can see, as we scroll down, there is a Start Here section, and there's a whole bunch of useful information in here like Optimizing Web Content, and this shows you how to get web content optimized for mobile devices.
And if we go back, there is a section on Configuring Web Applications, and we'll take a look at this later on in the course as well, when we get to that section. And if go back here, you see that there's a whole section here on the Safari HTML reference, the Safari CSS reference, and so on. So this is a really good site to refer to when you're building web applications on iOS devices such as the iPhoto and iPad. Next site is for Android, and Android, also from Google, has a Web Apps Overview section, and I have provided the link.
And this is pretty similar to the Safari version. It just shows you how to target screens for web apps, how to debug them, some best practices. And as you might expect, this site covers the best practices for the Android browser. And let's move on now to the IE 9 tab. This is the Internet Explorer 9 Guide for Developers, and this particular web site has information that applies both to the desktop and mobile versions of IE 9 on Windows phone.
And in addition to this particular web site, there is a PDF file that Microsoft has produced--and let me just bring that up so you can see it. That's this file right here, Designing Web Sites for Phone Browsers, and I have included the link to this in the snippets file. And if we scroll down, you can see that there's a whole bunch of information that's specific to designing web sites for browsers on the phone. And a lot of this information is actually not IE specific-- there are just some best practices in here-- although there is information about IE contained in this document as well.
That's pretty useful. So let's go back to the browser. Mozilla also makes a mobile browser, and it's called Fennec, and this is the link to their information page. And you can see here, if we scroll down there, is a section about the Fennec project, there is a Mobile Wiki that you can refer to for questions, and information about developing for the mobile browser made by Mozilla. The last one we are going to look at is the Opera site. Of course, Opera also makes a mobile browser, and this is the section on their site that's dedicated to mobile.
And as you might expect, there's a whole bunch of information in here dedicated to Opera mobile and mobile web development in particular. Okay, so using these resources you can really find out a lot of information about developing for mobile devices. I refer to these sections all the time when I am building mobile web sites because there's a whole wealth of information here about not only targeting specific browsers, but best practices to follow when you're building mobile web sites.
- Implementing well-defined web standards
- Working with Modernizr and Mobile Boilerplate
- Building a first mobile web page
- Understanding content adaptation strategies
- Designing forms for mobile
- Detecting client capabilities with script
- Using server-side detection with PHP and ASP.NET
- Working with mobile browser capabilities
- Viewing and testing the mobile site on device emulators


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This crochet bobble sweater is one of many free crochet sweater patterns to make and wear. Learn the bobble stitch and use it to embellish this sweater from Mellisa Langer.
- Worsted weight yarn
- I hook
The front is formed by crocheting two rectangular panels that are sewn together in the middle to make the front of the sweater with a slight V in the front:
This pattern creates the sweater you see that fits me which would be the size of a child L or an adult S. Please feel free to make adjustments to whatever size you want.
Sweater front: (make two panels)
- Ch27
- Rows 1-5 sc across (26)
- Row 6 (change color) Join new color and sc in same stitch, sc in next stitch, *bobble, sc in next 6 stitches, bobble* repeat until end of row. End bobble color (4 bobbles formed and 2 sc on either side of the bobbles at the end.)
- Change back to background color.
- Rows 7-11 sc across
- Row 12 Repeat row 6.
- Continue with this pattern until 5 rows of bobbles are complete and then sc with background color to form a long rectangle that is 20" long.
- Now you should have a rectangle that is about 9 x 20. I then weave in all of the ends and sc 2 rows along each long side so that the rectangle is about 9.5 x 20.
- *Repeat the same process for the second panel.*
- With wrong sides up, line up the two panels with the way you want you bobbles to appear. (I inverted mine so that there is a bobble patch at the top and one at the bottom.)
- Start at the bottom and sew the two seams together with your main color yarn & a yarn needle leaving 2.5 inches open at the top for the v opening. Now sew back down the seam again to the bottom to reinforce the seam and weave in your ends.
To form the back, my gauge is to ch 52 and sc a rectangle that is about 19 x 20 that matches the front in size. No worries if it is not wide enough when done because you can add a row or two of sc on the sides to make them match up.
Sleeves: 16" total (make 2)
I start my sleeves as a flat band to check the gauge and to create a slightly different pattern in the sleeve to form a band at the top that is 5 rows and then sew the seam together and start working in the round. This is my preference, but you can start in the round if you like.
- Ch 48
- Sc 5 rows across flat band. (17" strip)
- Row 6 – join work and work in rounds (sew up seam)
- Row 12 – sc 10 decrease 1 (4x) = 44
- Row 14 – sc18 decrease 1 (2x) = 42
- Row 20 – sc 8 decrease 1 (4x) =38
- Row 47 – sc 3 decrease 1 (8x) =30
- Row 48 – sc 4 decrease 1 (5x) = 25
- Row 49 & 50 – sc AA – end
- Row 51 sc AA in contrasting color.
Piecing together: (I always sew all the seams twice to reinforce and to prevent holes.)
- I line up the front and back panels and sew 5" in on each side at the top to form the shoulders and leave a comfortable neck hole.
- When the top is joined, I line up the bottom and join the sides from the bottom up to about the middle or a little higher to stablized the body to join in the sleeves. (There will be an opening on the sides that have not yet met the sleeve area that I will close once the main part of the sleeves are sewn in.)
- I fold the sleeve so that the little seam from joining the 5 top rows is in the arm pit, line up the top at the shoulder, sew the front of the sleeve to the body, flip, sew the back and then close the side while joining in the last little bit of the bottom of the sleeve in the arm pit.
- To finish, I pick the bobble color or a third contrasting color to sc around the bottom of the sweater, cuffs and neckline.
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Jan 17, 2015
How do you "learn the bobble stitch" if it is NEVER described in this pattern?!?
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Jan 19, 2015
Hi there, here is a great bobble stitch video tutorial from our friends at AllFreeCrochet http//bit.ly/1yzjlfC. Thanks! Julia from FaveCrafts
Jan 28, 2013
This pattern looks straight forward but I've never had to increase on my own. What is the bust size on the pattern as it's written? How can I increase/adjust? Help!!!!!!
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