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Sewing Tool Belt Redesigned
The original HipNotions sewing tool belt had a velcro pin cushion. A back stage costumer needed something quiet without the ripping sound of velcro-
January 14th, 2014
January 2014- Maintenance at HipNotions Tool Belts "The Clunking Sound"
I had neglected to clean and oil this little gem of a sewing machine I found a garage sale for five dollars! It is always set up with black thread to sew on all the belt webbing onto the tool belts as well as velcro tape loops, swivel clasps and cord locks.
Rather than using a long bristle brush I am now using a small circular tiny brush to pull out all the accumulated lint. Also a screw driver is needed to get at all the parts to clean- the feed dogs and bobbin casing under the feed dogs.
After the cleaning--oil according to machine instructions.
End product--no clunking sounds and the fabric can more easily be grabbed by the feed dogs! I really need to do this about every 2 - 3 bobbins worth of sewing!
Yes, I know I have neglected blogging this timely event but I thought I would post it anyway. http://iteach16kids.blogspot.com/2013/09/spectacular-september-blog-give-away.html
It has been a very busy 2013 with changes in the air for 2014!
October 24, 2013 Thank you for the amazing product. I am extremely happy. Jessica
New Link to Print and Trim Selection
Here at Flickr are the other canvas colors, prints and trims available to jazz up your toolbelt
Cowgirl UP!
Real working cowgirls in ND wanted something more styling to hold syringes, ear tags, gloves and other things. So what started as the gardening HipNotions tool belt has now become the ranch hand!
Persistent Pen Envy
Katie, a librarian in Portland, OR wrote about pen envy and how the HipNotions Tool Belt came to the rescue! Thanks Katie!
March 12th, 2013
From Drawing Board to Work
A landscaper was unable to find exactly find the right tool pouch for work. He found me online, we emailed, I drew, I photographed, I sewed, I mailed, he photographed, he emailed....."the two prototypes are exactly what I had envisioned"
So now the prototypes are at work. Stay tuned for the tweaking or not of the design.
Thanks to SchulmanArt for posting my interview. And most of all guiding me through the process with good instruction. Yes, I am a fledgling in this social media jungle. Perhaps with more practice, trial and error it will all take flight.
Week of Designing
The HipNotions Tool Belts seem to be never ending with new designs or modifications to existing designs. Sometimes, a completely new one pops up in which I go to the drawing board!
It all starts when someone has scoured my Etsy shop for what they are looking for. Then they notice I do custom work. They contact me. Lots of emails are exchanged or occasionally a phone conversation. Remember that historical artifact?
So a landscaper has hired me to make two prototypes to test drive. This is one of several drawings before the final goes to the cutting table.
This one will slip onto an existing leather belt. It will most likely become part of my shop inventory!
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Mr. Anthony L. Muscatello, 58 , of Evergreen Lane, Schenectady, New York passed away Sunday, April 14, 2013 at Hospice Inn at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany, New York with his loving family at his side.
He was born August 15, 1954 in Amsterdam, New York a son of Louis R. Muscatello and Theresa Pasquarelli Muscatello.
Anthony was a graduate of Bishop Scully High School and then graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Johnson & Wales College in Rhode Island.
Mr. Muscatello was an IT Specialist at Albany Medical Center Hospital.
Besides his parents, Louis R. and Theresa Muscatello, Amsterdam, he is survived by his fiancée Jeannine Nelli, Schenectady; his son, Brian Anthony Muscatello, Texas; sisters, Sharon T. Kus (Jim), Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Lori Alston (John) Stillwater, New York, Mary Beth Muscatello, Amsterdam, Christine Muscatello, Saline, Michigan and Diane DeRocker, (Tim), Fort Johnson, New York; nieces, nephews and cousins.
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aren't the strokes just amazing?? (especially julian casablancas..;D )I love them so much, and this outfit is so amazing, you look pretty in purple!! love all the jewelry, especially the rings, and the tee is so chic :D xoxo HollyWWW.ISPYFASHIONDIARY.BLOGSPOT.COM
Love the shredded tee!
I'm in love with your shoes♥
This is easily one of my favorite outfits I've seen in a long time, from anyone.
wow i love these boots they are stunning , just what i need. i also love the top. great outfithttp://insidemyheadandwardronbe.blogspot.com/
¿puedes escribir mas en español?y me encanta su nueva banner. es muy vacan
You're outfit are always amazing, i used to saw them in Lookbook, but now I'm going to start follow your blog.xoxoP.S: Y se puede hablar en español? Ojalá disculpes mi pésimo inglés. Abrazos.
WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE BOOT ????!!p.s : I really love your blog ^^m
I really love the first pic.. you're so beautiful!
Je staat in de nieuwste Glamour! Bladzijde 266!!!
I want this outfit. (and by want, I mean NEED)
So in love with this rocky outfit, love the song :)xx.lescheveuxblondes.blogspot.com
woww u look so cool!!check out my fashion blog at thetalesofselfindulgence.blogspot.comjust updated a new post today!! DONT MISS … follow me via bloglovin or google if you like it thankss xoxo
you are too sweet and i really really love amsterdam streets.brava!
They did an amazing job shredding that shirt. I may have to do a DIY and see if I can accomplish that myself. If I do I'll be thrilled, but something tells me this could be some hits and misses. Still great look over all.
Love the leather jacket, I'm going to bust mine out pretty soon too. No more warm weather in Toronto!
ohhh i love this!!! the leather jacket is hott. and you look like a supermodel in these pics! :)http://cocofashionsmitten.blogspot.com/
Love this look Andy! Have been reading your blog for a while but have never commented. Hope all you are going thru at the moment will pass soon. I know your positive outlook on life will take you very far and you will reach all of your dreams. Thanks for being an inspiration! Hugs. Elena.
this outfit is amazing, so edgy and rocker! those shoes are great, i am obsessed with studs, buckles, etc….love this look! :)
i like your boots
i love this outfit and the photos ♥ you're lovely and your blog is brillianthttp://maddymaddyquitecontrary.blogspot.com/
Love it!
Wow, this is truely an amazing outfit. You look so gorgeous in the first photo!Love,Sjanna from wehavebeenexpectingyou
what a great look! you look phenomenal!thelibertybelleblog.blogspot.com
love the jacket and the boots0fashionstarr0.blogspot.com/
guaoooo did u feel rocky today??? I LOVE IT!!!XXX carmenhttp://modavsdecoracion.blogspot.com/
Okay! I am totally lovin' how you are rockin' that outfit! LOVE IT!Georgiexxhttp://styleprincessdiaries.blogspot.com
I love the leather jacket!But I love all your outfits!!Visit my blog toowww.alessandracalle.blogspot.com
Andy this my fav outfit of yours!! you look so chic and rock and roll and wearing flats!! i live in flats and find it hard to make them feel chic!! Im away to try and buy your shreaded tee now cos it rocks!! :)got a pair of lace up sheepskin boots on a giveaway on my blog, love it if ud check it out :) x
I love your outfit. Rock on !!!
lovely outfit dear, very rock-n-roll :)XoXo-Kelli Khttp://thefashionworshiper.blogspot.com/
I just love the outfit ♥
Your tee is really awesome.Love your rocker outfithttp://fashiondraft.wordpress.com/
love love love this!
I'm your fan on lookbook, and congrats for your wonderful outfits!http://obsessedwithglamour.blogspot.com/
so cool! where are the boots from honey?<3 Cintahttp://trappedinhercloset.blogspot.com/
Loved the colors, you look very good in dark colors! Can't wait to see more fall outfits! great post!
amazing look!!!totally love the colour!x amber
Perfect background with the perfect outfit.Please check out my blog! Asian streetstyle.Remedy Rougehttp://remedyrouge.blogspot.com
what a lovely balloon!!!! hihi, you look amazing girl :)
I love this rock look…I love the shoes too.xx*Sarita*http://onlyshoes.blogspot.com
I love this rock look…I love the shoes too.xx*Sarita*http://onlyshoes.blogspot.com
Great shoes! where are they from? I'm on the lookout for some cute flat biker boots!Dree xxstyle-on-sea.blogspot.com
i love this outfit, i love the rock and roll edgehellomrvideo.blogspot.com
Love the styling! So fresh! :)
Gorgeous outfit! You look great in a rock style, I like it! I love this top and shoes!greetings fromhttp://mikalafashion.blogspot.com/
Love your outfit!
so rock'n'roll! i totally love it :) xxnewyorkaises.blogspot.com
wow!!! stunning as always! where are the boots from?A
I would like to wear THAT right now, shall we change papers? :) I think it's one of your best casual looks or the best in my opinion. Although the pics are really really well done. The song that you chose rocks the look.xx
im going to have to steal that cross of you, miss! :) xx
bad girl!! i love your rock and aggressive outfits
i saw that shirt at Scoop NYC!!! love itxoxo,Fhttp://lekisskiss.blogspot.com <– Texas gal bloggin fashion from NYC!
You look always stunning!!besoooshttp://minaischic.blogspot.com/
Love Love Love !!!!Your jacket is AMAZING !! New collection ??xoxo
I absolutely felt in love with your leather jacket, i want it!!!!! Outfit really strong, rock'n'roll style is definitely the very best ever!love it at all, KISShttp://thefadlook.blogspot.com/
Such a Chic Edgy look for you! Adore the first picture!!!
love the new blog style…xoxoIole
omg this look is amazing!!!
I just love your look.X
great outfit..!www.nobodyknowsmarc.blogspot.com
Tienes mucho estilo. =) As always!
Estoy enamorado de está camiseta!! x
LOVE the tee! Its such a great color!!You look perfect as always :Dhttp://aclosetfashionista.blogspot.com/
gorgeous outfit girl! I especially love the t-shirt and these shoes, they're crazy !!!love your blog Andy :) kisswww.tokyoblondes.blogspot.com
love love love it!!!!sigh..u can pull off any styles and stil look so pretty in it!!=)
Really really love this look:)!!!Cathywww.thestylestrutter.comxxx
Love the shredded tee, love that color.http://behindthelashes.com
Love the outfit, the boots are so great!
Nice!! You rock… ;-)
Nice!! You rock… ;-)
amazingly styled! love this outfit!
its a lit bit extrain look! but ILIKEIT! xo xo carr <3
great outfitt!! it's realllyy raree seeing u wearing flatss,, but stilll stunning!xoxo
you look stunning!thestylesandwich.blogspot.com
oh wow, the shredded shirt looks so good!
Gorgeous outfit! Love that shredded tee and leather jacket. :)SarahD
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I love your jacket ! great outfit like always Andy ! You're amazing :-)One of the best bloggers ever ! Bisous
i saw you making those pictures haha while i was visiting amsterdam! really like your blog!xoxox soefandlife.blogspot.com
I love your style! And your new design is fantastic:)
awesome outfitcheckout my shoppingbloghttp://ruleoffashion.blogspot.com/
love the leather jacket.and the necklace…
I just love this outfit! It's great! And it fits you so well! You have a great style,Andy!Have a lovely sunday!XOXO,Ioanahttp://ioana-p.blogspot.com/
i love the purple with the black leather, it's a little bit gothic and rock but not over the top. and the boots are amazing. http://totallyvacuous.blogspot.com
You should wear flats more often!!Love it!
perchè ti tocchi sempre i capelli nelle foto? comunque, questo è il tuo primo outfit che mi piace.
This could almost be from Dazed and Confused. Such beautiful shots my dear, I simply adore the shredded maroon sweater.Lovexxxx
Me encanta!!!!Besosss
You look lovely in that leather jacket. <3
The jacket looks great on you!–Nolita Vintage–
Great rock chic look and stunning photos.www.inspirationofshhh.blogspot.com
I love your leather jacket!
you look gorgeous like always!kisseshttp://thescrapbookfrommyshoes.blogspot.com
You rock rock and roll!Intothefoldfashion.blogspot.com
Your jacket is gorgeous, and so are you!
You're definetly rockin' this outfit!! Love the shredded tee!
Hey pretty!
that is some shoes you havethe whole ensemble totally joan jett cross path with mary-kate olsenrock n roll rocks!<3http://escapesweetest.blogspot.com/
Love it! I really like your new banner! http://theboydoesnotlikethat.blogspot.com/
Gorgeous! Love the jacket, shoes and bag!
I love your boots, they are stunning.
i love your leather jacket !xx,http://like-a-good-old-fashion-nightmare.blogspot.com/
Love the jacket, you look fabulous :)xxlifeisroyalty.blogspot.com
i love it!! that dress is to die for! you look very edgy chic!!bjs,beckyhttp://meninaelegante.blogspot.com/
you are way tooo pretty!!!!!!!love that look!
i lov today Outfit!!rocky and little galm.xoxo Constance.
Love that look! It rocks!! ;D
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that leather jacket looks so good on you, loved itvasilievahttp://elenavasilieva.blogspot.com/x
love ur shoes
I love the top, great color!
Your look is so stylish! Love this style.xoxo, Yana.http://absque-nota.blogspot.com/
I love your blog!!!!!! :D And I love this outfit too!!
I think this might be one of the best outfits you ever showed! Love it, looks so good on you :)x
i loooooooove this look!!!
i love your hair !
nice outfit :)visit me, maybe u will follow♥http://larivergoddess.blogspot.com/
I love your outfit!!! you look really stunning here. its a good way to wear the shredded tee in a rebellious way!xoxohttp://stylison.blogspot.com/
love that kind of rock look :)
I have no words! "You're just irresistible! I liked her dress (I hope the dress is) such a Street Style! Very stylish *
you look great as always :)!http://manuellal.blogspot.com
Extra ! I love the photo shooting and your outfit :)xxxhttp://www.mademoiselle-marie.fr
love the jacket! its perfectwww.hadarcohen.blogspot.com
Love the tee!xo.
stunning outfit! love it ♥
Love your leather jacket. It's so nice that you can wear leather jacket, here in Spain it's still 30ºC, and I miss autumn so much.http://iamafashiongeek.blogspot.com/Besos de Mallorca
I love the handbag!Where did you get it?
This looks suits my style as a glove!I'm loving every single inch!
wow, amazing outfit!
Love the look!!!!The jacket is just amazing <3
who makes the boots Andy! Your gorgeous as always! I love your blog, and your a fellow Cancer like myself. Check out my blog if u get a chance and keep doing your thing mi amour!http://thickdaddys.blogspot.com/
great outfithttp://fashionsmajlik.blogspot.com/
Great look! Awesome tee and I love your shoes!
that tee is awesome and love the bootshttp://sunshinelollipopsblog.blogspot.com/
Wow, very beautiful pics. Amazing Outfit. ♥
where did you get your boots? they're so cool. :)LOVE YOUR BLOGLOVESarahhttp://www.sarahs-fashion-diary.blogspot.com/http://www.sarahs-fashion-diary.blogspot.com/
Love your jacket! :)Andreahttp://andrejkyblog.blogspot.com
That shredded tee is beyond amazing! Now you've made me contemplate getting one for myself….not sure if I'm willing to spend that much money on a tee I can DIY myself though. http://www.fashion-feline.blogspot.com
How beautifull^^ I love the top and the jacket so mutch! You're amazing!!
love this outfit, it's so gorgeous! And I totally love your neclace!!http://style-in-sight.blogspot.com
Great look, love the leather jacket! x
I love your leather jacket! I can't wait to see the goodies :)-The Trendy Fashionistahttp://thetrendyfashionista.blogspot.com
That leather jacket is the coolest leather jacket I have seen and your shirt reminds me a little bit of Rodarte, I don´t know it just has that type of feeling
cool! :)….but I am definitely jealous of all your pairs of heels! :)
Great Outfit:) Love the rocky style:)Kisses from Switzerlandwww.miaslittlecorner.blogspot.com
you look stunning as always!X
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- The notorious OS-tans are moe versions of operating systems and programs; their boob size is often proportional to memory requirements. Windows ME-tan is the Ensemble Dark Horse, who became a popular character for her good intentions but decidedly unstable nature (and her cute Idiot Hair). Windows 2000-tan is a professional, reserved woman, Windows XP-tan has excellent graphical capabilities, and Windows Vista-tan has transparencies and even more memory requirements (except for Basic-tan who's a tsundere little girl). Windows 95-tan is a Yamato Nadeshiko carrying a katana, destroying Microsoft's PC competition once and for all, and eats very little memory. Norton Anti-Virus is portrayed as a lecherous, ghostly doctor who makes the girls strip naked even for the most minor ailments; McAfee as a faith healer; and AVG as a handsome student doctor. Also with theme song.
- There are Linux-tans as well. Linux-tan herself is a bit of a Shrinking Violet, and Slack-tan is a Wrench Wench. There are also Unix-tans, with UNIX-tan herself being somewhat a tsundere. (Here is a pretty good lineup of the major ones.)
- Now an Ascended Meme, as Microsoft's got an official OS-tan for the Japanese release of Windows 7, Nanami Madobe. Not only that, she's voiced by Nana Mizuki. See the pattern?
- Microsoft Taiwan released a mascot for Silverlight, Aizawa Hikaru.
- In Japan, a campaign run by Bing (MSN's search engine) from December 18, 2009-to January 18, 2010, which has closed on February 18, had five mascots: Nanae, Nana, Nanako, another Nanami, and Nanao.
- Windows 8 now has two official mascots, Madobe Yuu and Madobe Ai (You and I).
- Microsoft's cloud based Windows Azure platform has Claudia Madobe.
- Microsoft Singapore turned Internet Explorer into a Magical Girl.
- This seems like a new trend for Microsoft. Hikaru Aizawa for Microsoft Silverlight and Inori Aizawa for Internet Explorer.
- Microsoft announced the new OS tan for Windows 10, named Touko Madobe after a naming contest.
- A similar concept can be found in My Senior IE-kun, a web series about web browsers in a Work Com setting with "IE-kun" as a ditzy Bunny-Ears Lawyer. The series typically uses the browser logos as the characters' heads, but the author did make human faces to make the moe more palatable.
- There are Linux-tans as well. Linux-tan herself is a bit of a Shrinking Violet, and Slack-tan is a Wrench Wench. There are also Unix-tans, with UNIX-tan herself being somewhat a tsundere. (Here is a pretty good lineup of the major ones.)
- Akikan! does this for soda cans. These soda girls need carbon dioxide infusions (through kissing) to live. Japan really can make anything moe.
- Okayama Prefecture in Japan has anthropomorphized their prized homegrown-jellies into moe girls.
- A few Vocaloid characters have elements of this, and one plays it completely straight. Ryuto◊, also known as Gachapoid, is a male anthropomorphism of beloved Japanese children's tv character Gachapin. Hatsune Miku's design is heavily based on the Yamaha DX7 and DX100 synthesizers. Kagamine Rin and Len have elements from the Yamaha EOS keyboard in their design. Kamui Gakupo has many elements of digital music, such as spectrograms and equalizers, portrayed as samurai gear, and Megurine Luka has elements of brass instruments in her design.
- Fruity Loops (a music synthesizer program) has FL-chan, popular among the Vocaloid fandom. Some of the official plugins have these, too, like Harmless-chan◊ (a Cute Monster Girl, ironically) and her counterpart Harmor-chan.◊
- Several Japanese railways have their trains Moe-fied.
- Ryohoji Buddhist Temple in Tokyo-suburb Hachio-ji City successfully raised attendance by anthropomorphizing its patron deities into moe mascots.
- A magazine ad for the Asus ROG Crosshair IV Extreme motherboard has it in the form of a short-haired brunette in a techno-fetish costume, holding a BFG three times her size and based on the device's design. Not very "moe" but still.
- Habanero-tan is a cute loli pepper thing based on a habanero-flavored snack chip. There's also Jalapeño-tan, Habanero-neesan, and Milk-san. Jolokia-tan, the hottest pepper in the world (at the time) is the Alpha Bitch.
- Sanrio gives us Kirimi-chan, a moe anthropomorphism of salmon fillet. She's also joined by friends based on chicken cutlets, mackerel, sharks, and many more. Taken even further with the official personification project, essentially moefying moe anthropomorphisms.
- From the same company, we have Gudetama, an egg that is moe in appearance only.
- Hana no Android Gakuen is a manga featuring moe personifications of Android phone brands (some images might be semi-NSFW), along with other phone creators like Apple and Blackberry.
Anime & Manga
- The Witch forms of former Puella Magi (ex: Candeloro, Gretchen, Oktavia, Gretchen Homulilly) are anthropomorphized. Of course this is Justified as all the Puella Magi are young girls.
- For in-universe example, Nagisa Momoe, also known as Bebe, can be seen as one, after all, she is indeed the very same Charlotte.
- Kämpfer does this in its eyecatches for the Creepy Dolls that grant the heroines their powers. While in doll form they look like cute animals that just committed suicide in a variety of ways, in human form they look like Petting Zoo People, focusing more on the cute than the creepy.
- Binchou-tan is an anime about Anthropomorphic charcoal in the form of chibi girls.
- The anime series Yatterman did Obama-kun and Hilary-chan.
- Nanako, the partially-anthropomorphised form of the Seventh Scripture in Tsukihime. Ditzy little half-unicorn girl that is only visible to those with intense magical potential, have spilled their blood on it, and weird people like Shiki.
- Parodied in Nyoron Churuya-san with "Dust-chan", who is shortly disposed of via vacuum cleaner.
- She always comes back. *shudder*
- Toei Robot Girls, which is exactly what it sounds like. Toei Animation Super Robots turned into cute girls.
- Robot Girls Z adds even more girls to the lineup, namely ones styled after the titular robots of the Mazinger franchise.
- The "Angel Chromosome XX" line of Neon Genesis Evangelion merchandise portrayed the Angels as cute girls, including portraying Lilith as Rei Ayanami.
- Tabris is a female Kaworu Nagisa.
- KoihimeMusou for Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
- Gundam has MS Girl or MS Shojo, published in the Gundam Ace monthly magazine since 1982 by Mika Akitaka, making them the origin of mecha musume. The first collection artbook was released in 1994.
- In 1985, Bandai released the Armored Lady Original Characters for Z-Gundam and Macross, Mecha Musume that predates the 1994 artbook. [1]◊
- Super Fumina, anyone?
- Ark Angels features personified versions of various endangered animals as well as of the planets of our solar system (plus Earth's moon).
- Genderswap a few character from Saint Seiya... and voila! Moe versions of the western zodiac signs!
- The Seven Sisters of Purgatory from Umineko: When They Cry are demonic stakes given the form of teenage girls. Plus, they are each an Anthropomorphic Personification of the Seven Deadly Sins. Nightmare Fuel for most, Fetish Fuel for some, including Battler, who refers to them as "the ass nee-chans."
- Money and Soul Has Msyu, the moe personification of the protagonist's future. Yes, that's right: This show makes an abstract concept moe.
- Along the same lines, Madoka Kaname in Puella Magi Madoka Magica basically invokes this by "becoming hope," transforming herself into an adorable law of the universe.
- Chintsubu makes penises cute. Sentient talking penises possessed by other male spirits. Yeah. They're actually pretty cute.
- Sentou Yousei Shoujo Tasukete! Mave-chan is an entire show based upon Moe Anthropomorphisms of the aircraft from the anime Sentou Yousei Yukikaze.
- Humanity Has Declined has moe deep space probes. Well, Pion is moe, Oyage is more bishounen.
- The heroines of Strike Witches become something like this when donning their strike units based on real-life WWII tanks and fighters.
- His Coool Seha Girls features the "Sega Hard Girls", moe versions of Sega video game hardware as protagonists.
- What about rifles and machine guns made into elementary/middle/high schoolers? That is the premise of Upotte.
- Even Pokemon has had plenty of gijinkas created for it. There are comics and more than one group on DeviantArt.
- Pokémon RéBURST is the most prominent example of this. However, the manga subverts this by using technologies to turn humans into Pokemon gijinkas.
- It is the first official Pokémon manga to have Pokémon gijinkas.
- Pokémon RéBURST is the most prominent example of this. However, the manga subverts this by using technologies to turn humans into Pokemon gijinkas.
- There are gijinka of Shizuku-chan characters in the series fandom. During the run of the 2012 anime, there was an official contest where winning gijinka designs would be featured on iPhone covers.
- Problem Children Are Coming from Another World, Aren't They? has Black Percher being the Moe Anthropomorphism of The Black Death, with her real name being Pestilence/Pest.
- Silver Spoon takes place in an agricultural high school. Nishikawa, who is from a crop farming family but also an anime and gaming otaku, tends to use this trope:
- When he's given the task to decorate a sled, he decorates it with anthropomorphized moe artificial fertilizers, and names them "NPK48", a pun on AKB48 ("NPK" standing for Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium).
- Much later in the story he presents breeds of potatoes anthropomorphizing them as various types of girls.
- Because the fan can't exactly recall the details of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure in Vaguely Recalling JoJo, he replaces a few characters with cute anthropomorphic versions.
- Cursed Devo's Ebony Devil looks like a cute little boy with antennae and is wearing a teddy bear costume.
- Jotaro gets another Star Platinum, who is probably a cosplay for the Runaway Girl.
- Mariah's Bastet gets turned into a version of Taokaka with outlet paws.
- A darker example occurs in the Japan Animator Expo short ME!ME!ME!, where the main character's depression and guilt over breaking up with his girlfriend are depicted as cute busty girls that eat him alive.
- Sgt. Frog: Thanks to Kululu's "We All Live Together" beam gun that turns animals into humans.
Based on Films
- As depicted above, even the Death Star — along with the X-Wing and TIE fighters — can be moe.
- The J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie has given us Enterprise-tan and Narada-tan. Oh, my.
- Maiden Voyage, indeed.
- Almost half of the WALLE fanart on DeviantArt makes them into humans, or at least androids. And they usually manage to make even AUTO look cute. There's also a fancomic based around this concept.
- The same can be said for Finding Nemo.
- Pixiv has provided Moe Jaegers from Pacific Rim: Gypsy Danger, Cherno Alpha, Crimson Typhoon.
- Sharknado gets in on the fun.
- Unsurprisingly, many Kaiju end up getting this treatment.
- Even Jurassic World is getting this! Perhaps helped by the fact that Jurassic World gave its prehistoric creatures a little more personality than the previous films did (making it easier to anthropomorphize them). A couple of examples.
Based on Folklore
- Entaku Seitokai (Round Table Student Council) does this for the King Arthur legends. Heroic knights of old turned into the cute girls of today. A liberal amount of Gender Flip is also applied in this instance.
- The visual novels Knight Carnival! and 12+ also provide moe versions of Arhurian legends.
Based on History
- Axis Powers Hetalia is a notable example of male moe anthropomorphism, featuring countries in human form.
- This book (site has some NSFW ads) about Moe countries, 74 Countries Turned Into Bishoujo, continues the Hetalia tradition, only all-female. And yes, North Korea is included.
- It's hilarious how England looks almost exactly like Louise.
- Moe Moe Niji Taisen does this for World War II planes and tanks. They battle by causing Clothing Damage.
- Along the lines of Axis Powers Hetalia the webmanga and web novel series Miracle Train ~Chūō-sen e Yōkoso~ about the Japan Railways Chuo Train Line has five of its major stations (Zero Tokyo, Shintaro Shinjuku, Riku Nakano, Takuto Kichijōji, and Luna Tachikawa) personified as bishonen. We're not kidding, official site here and Anime News Network report here. The characters have even been given voice actors.
- There's also an anime called Miracle Train, though it focuses on the Oedo line instead of the Chuo line.
- Strike Witches: Probably the most well-known example for military Moe Anthropomorphism.
- There's a bunch of models for AP'd WW2 planes as little girls with the appropriate national costumes and plane parts as clothes/prosthetic limbs. Surprisingly not very moe, or at least their eyes aren't.
- Afganisu-tan, a Japanese online Yon Koma about the history of Afghanistan. Infamous for presenting the September 11th attacks as a rogue cat (Al-Nyada) biting Meriken.
- Green Dam, the Chinese censorship/nanny tool once said to be a mandatory installation on all the country's new computers (until the government apparently backed down), was Moefied as a protest. Mildly NSFW link here.
- The Japan Self-Defense Force even had their own moe mascots◊. So much for fighting lolis.
- Connected with that is Mari-tan◊, the personification of the U.S. Marine.
- There was some fanart floating around that moe'd several World War II◊ figures.
- Adolf Hitler◊.
- Josef Mengele. (Link died) Note the Cute Little Fangs and scalpel barrettes.
- Adolf Hitler◊.
- Moe Hayabusa space probe! Yes.
- Just to prove that yes, nothing can avoid moe anthropomorphism, we present you with Japanese-made gijinka of a Chinese slur for the Japanese (ads and much of the other parts of this site are NSFW).
- Japanisches Kaiserriech Mitternacht Marine is a webcomic revolving around the various personifications of World War II weaponry, like planes and tanks.
- Hitler had already gotten the moe-treatment, but other dictators aren't safe either.
- As an extension of the above, some World War II generals like Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, Rommel and Zhukov are also given the treatment, from the same company that brought the "Moe Dictators" series.
- Touken Ranbu has the player bring historically famous Japanese swords to life as handsome men and cute boys.
Based on Literature
- Haiyore! Nyarko-san does this for Lovecraftian Eldritch Abominations; Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos is a silver-haired Genki Girl who loves Anime and Toku, Hastur the Unspeakable One is a Cute Shotaro Boy in a yellow hoodie, and Cthulhu (or at least one of his minions) is a busty green-haired woman who owns Doc Brown's Delorean.
- Doll/model kit company Volks has cute anime-style Barbie-sized dolls based on Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, Hastur and Ithaqua.
- Seems Japan loves to do this to the Cthulhu Mythos. Before Nyarko-san, there was the Necronomicon and a few other Mythos books in Demonbane.
Based on Live-Action TV
- Kamen Rider, mostly Heisei series, spawn Rider-tan.
- Another Toku example Tomica Hero Rescue Fire's Qsuke-Tan◊
- Doctor Who has one of these as well. Behold, the anthropomorphism that should not be: Dalek-tan!◊
- More reasonably, Tardis-Tan. Given the way the TARDIS is treated, however...
- And then, of course, this comes full circle in "The Doctor's Wife" in which, as Lady Idris, the TARDIS actually does take on human form. And the results are epic.
- More reasonably, Tardis-Tan. Given the way the TARDIS is treated, however...
- Then there's the U.S.S. Enterprise from Star Trek.
- Various kaiju from Ultra Series got this in Ultra Kaijuu Gijinka Keikaku (Ultra Monsters Anthropomorphization Project). It's official too.
Based on Military Aircraft
- The F-22 Raptor earned the nickname "Mary Sue With Wings" here on This Very Wiki. Can we stop referring to the F-22 as a Mary Sue With wings? Please?!
- Even the quote for the Cool Plane page says, "If Kim Basinger was a plane, this is what she'd be." Thanks, Tom Clancy!
- Flight Highschool features a high school populated entirely by anthropomorphized military aircraft of various nations from the Cold War to the modern day. Attributes of each character's appearance such as their hair style and height are references to the aircraft they represent. They also have their plane on their back which is sometimes used for visual gags.
Based on Military Warships
- The video game Kantai Collection and its anime adaptation, based on World War II IJN, Kriegsmarine, Italian, and most recently, American and British, ships.
- Arpeggio of Blue Steel, also based on World War II IJN ships. Blue Steel and Kancolle even cross-over occasionally.
- Pacific: World War II U.S. Navy Shipgirls, a fanfic of the above Kancolle, features World War II US navy warships.
- "German Bold Italic": by Towa Tei, with Kylie Minogue playing a... font?
- Various deities from religions around the world are personifications of certain concepts or locations. Not all of them are cute, though.
- Egyptian gods are occasionally depicted as trees or normally inanimate objects with human arms or heads attached.
- All of Spirits in Date A Live based from Tree of Life's sephirots.
- Mahou MUSH unintentionally gained its own game-wide mascot when players observed that the game's hourly randomized save message had a way of being a little too on-point. Jokes about "Save-tan" developing sentience abounded, and several more messages were added acknowledging Save-tan as a character in her own right - including the ever-popular "Dammit, Save-tan!"
Based on Sports
- There's a sorta-popular Pixiv tag for "Anthropomorphic club". Basically, it's soccer/football clubs turned into schoolgirls. For instance, here is Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal
- The World Cup 2014 countries rendered as cute/sexy girls: Look◊ here◊.
Based on Tabletop Games
- This is popular with Warhammer 40,000 races and characters, including Kroot-chan, Tau-chan, and Vespid-chan.◊
- And of course, Unyuufex, a Woobie who only wants to hug people, but Does Not Know His Own Strength...
- Then there are the speech-impedied Cultist-chan and the Really 65 million years old absolutely adorable Lolicron.
- This is how the Magic: The Gathering webcomic Lotus Cobra Is Evil portrays...well, almost everything. The most impressive is Primeval Titan, which looks like this in the game and this in the comic.
- That's less an anthropomorphisation and more replacing the character design with Ibuki Suika.
- Busou Shinki, anyone?
- The Frame Arms Girl line developed by Kotobukiya, who was well known for Frame Arms series, which consists of a robotic frame with interchangeable armors and weapons. The Frame Arms Girls are not just anthropomorphised mechs, all the weapons and gears of Frame Arms, M.S.G. and Frame Arms Girls are compatible with each other.
- There is a group on Deviantart devoted to anthropomorphizing BIONICLE characters
Based on Video Games
- The various Video Game consoles have moe anthropomorphisms as well — 360-tan, Wii-tan, PS3-tan, N64-tan, DS-tan, etc.
- The Yonkoma P.S. Three-san (or P.S. Triple in the US) centers on the adventures of the eponymous protagonist, a moe anthropomorphism of the PlayStation3, as she tries to make her mark as a struggling idol singer against her rivals X-Locks (Xbox 360) and Whee (Wii). Other consoles also make appearances as idol singers including Dee S(Nintendo DS), her bitter rival Pea (PSP) and Three-san's older sister Double (PlayStation 2) as well as the crazy producer Saygah (Sega).
- The anime series Hi*sCool Seha Girls stars a trio of characters referred to as the "Sega Hard Girls", each of whom are based Sega's consoles: Dreamcast, Sega Saturn, and Mega Drive.
- Roll in the Covenant Hunter Suit from Mushroom Kingdom Fusion.
- Nerf NOW!! has an arc about the adventures of Drone-tan, a Zerg drone from Starcraft. Also starring Cute Hydralisk Girls and an Overlord Meganekko.
- There's quite a lot of Command & Conquer gijinka on DeviantArt. One of its users is chock full of it.
- Another website highlights many of the notable ones, patience for the loading time but... Also, the Nod Avatar. Notice the position of the fuel tank.
- Forget the fuel tank, Look at the Feminized MARV and the position of the on-board refinery
- Another website highlights many of the notable ones, patience for the loading time but... Also, the Nod Avatar. Notice the position of the fuel tank.
- Lots of people have done this for GLaDOS, the Companion Cube, and the turrets from Portal — like this. There is even a "GLaDOS-tan" directly based on Miku, an extreme contrast to her personality, here. Want more Anthro , less Moe? Axel787 and Ma kani have just the remedy you need! Hint: It involves deadly neurotoxin...
- And now, they even made character models for Miku Miku Dance. Talk about Out of Character here... and they even did a parody of the original Portal 2 teaser trailer here!
- And then there's Wheatley, usually drawn to at least somewhat resemble his voice actor, Stephen Merchant. This basically resulted in the mostly-down-to-Human-Wheatley-Perverse Sexual Lust-fuelled-but-also-fairly-logical Fanon that the personality cores are all created from Brain Uploading Aperture Science employees.
- The Metal Gear Solid 4 Figumate "Sweet Snake" line of merchandise transforms four male characters (two of whom are old and have moustaches) into adorable underage moeblobs. It works surprisingly well, particularly the Tsundere Ocelot and Meganekko Otacon (who was always a bit of a moe character anyway).
- Moemon, a notorious Game Mod for Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, converts the 'mons into Cute Monster Girls, which only breaks down a little for Nidoran M. The mod also converts the Trainer to a Meido, and she flies instead of runs when she gets the Running Shoes.
- Male Pokemon do exist, and are very common, but the starters are usually female. There's a general 75%-25% ratio in the games, which has been flipped in the hack.
- On the subject of Pokemon, behold this picture of 493 anthropomorphised 'mons...
- Now taken to its logical conclusion, a Moemon of Missingno.
- Neptunia is built around this concept. The four main characters are personifications of the seventh generation game consoles (the PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii, note with the main being the hypothetical Sega Neptune), with their "little sisters" representing handhelds like the PSP and DS. The series also features anthropomorphized versions of companies like Gust and Nippon Ichi, and later games add in girls representing specific game franchises like Pac-Man, Dynasty Warriors, and Street Fighter.
- The Animated Adaptation adds in a Canon Foreigner character, Setag, who's a Moe Anthropomorphized version of Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
- Otomedius (link may be NSFW), a Spin-Off of the Gradius series, does this to the ships. With art by the guy who does Sgt. Frog.
- Spore-Tan. See here. Now in Anime!
- Colossal◊ Girls◊ (Kyozou Musume), based on Shadow of the Colossus.
- For a brief while, there was a trend among the Sam & Max fandom of drawing the titular characters as humans. Although Sam typically looked ordinary, Max was usually drawn as an absolutely adorable little boy, despite the two of them being the same age.
- The Monster Girl Encyclopedia uses this trope on many common monsters in RPGs.
- Team Fortress 2: To give Sasha a little more personality, we have this.
- Not even Lavos can avoid this. Here's the first form and the second form.
- Ristar gets this treatment.
- The Minecraft mod, Cute Mob Models gives this treatment to the mobs. Fanservice included.
- Various characters- specifically the bosses- found across Ace Combat have proved to be a popular choice for this.
- Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies gives us Stonehenge◊ and Megalith◊
- Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War has AWACS Thunderhead◊, Ark Bird◊, and SOLG◊
- Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War gives us Excalibur◊ and the ADXF-02 Morgan◊.
- Someone has taken upon themselves to apply this to the Angry Birds, specifically turning them into Magical Girls. Here they are (excluding original characters):
- Consolers is a Web Comic representing various game companies this way.
- The Unity game engine has a girl mascot in Japan named Kohaku Otori a.k.a. Unity-chan. She was popular enough to get some appearances in Vocaloid related contents.
In Video Games
- There's an eroge called MonoGokoro MonoMusume that has moe-anthropomorphized objects as most of its principal cast. Objects turned into cute girls include a computer, a pillow, a Humongous Mecha toy, a washing machine, and a pair of panties.
- A good portion of Touhou characters feature this to some degree or another; for example, Nitori, a Kappa, having the turtle shell and head plate of the actual mythological beast turning into a backpack and a cap, or Yamame, a giant spider monster, being a girl with no monstrous features except for design elements of the dress she wears. Some of the girls, like Kogasa, the Tsukumo sisters and Hata no Kokoro, are tsukumogami, which are basically personifications of inanimate objects, so they are kind of this in-universe as well as out.
- There's also the free-to-play MMO TPS CosmicBreak, where a part of robots are your usual mechs while others are mecha musume.
- The Triggerhearts from Triggerheart Exelica are designed to resemble mecha musume.
- All of the Real Robot series in Super Cosplay Wars Ultra is done by a girl with only the Gundam Wing cosplay being the only exception.
- There are humanised versions of the romanceable birds in Hatoful Boyfriend, visible in a brief portrait when you first meet them. The game claims this is the work of the ICPSS system showing the "birdiest bird" as human, though it fails with Okosan. It's clear from the text that the characters are still birds, and the manga even states that the human appearances are just there to help beginners feel the bird-moe, but this doesn't stop some fans.
- Dododonpachi Saidai Oujou: Ladies and gentlemen—meet Lolibachi.
- Gum Kare! personifies chewing gum brands into hot, dateable young men. Played with in terms of the protagonist- She's supposed to represent the mouth eating the gum, so she's portrayed as a moe photorealistic tooth.
- Mobile game Kaden Shoujo turns household electronics into cute girls.
- In Xenoblade Chronicles X, such a depiction of the Verus Skell model is one of the numerous wall decals unlocked upon maxing out your BLADE level.
- The Yuri Visual Novel Her Tears Were My Light features time and space plus nothingness as cute girls.
- Mab, queen of cute things, is a fan of the webcomic Jack. Those familiar with both comics will know this could not possibly end well. Thus, we get Mab's Chibi Hell, which is, according to various sources, adorable, awesome, an offense against all that is good and right, or all of the above. Or, to quote the author:
"She has chibified the unchibifiable. Drip is undeserving of ever looking this innocent."
- Lyrical Nanoha Fan Web Comic Nanoha R'r took a stab at creating Moe versions of Raising Heart and Bardiche◊, though the artist cheated a bit by turning Bardiche into a loli version of◊ Linith.
- One PvP arc features the lolbat (Batman + Fountain of Memes) getting a new sidekick, ReTweet, who is clearly based on Twitter.
- In addition to all of the examples in Touhou canon (see above), Touhou Nekokayou adds Original Character Masha Kinoko, a fly agaric mushroom youkai and absolute moeblob.
- She even recieved the Fan Nickname Moeshroom.
- The Squiddles opening animation related to Homestuck shows some of them as anime girls.
- Played with in this Everyday Comics strip about the Seven Deadly Sins. Nearly all of the Sins are represented as voluptuous, beautiful women, to the point where Satan can't tell which is which. the only one who ends up looking different is Lust, who takes the form of a fairly plain looking, eternally horny Otaku.
Western Animation
- In The Simpsons episode I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can, Lisa Simpson dreams of the Seven Sisters colleges each personified by an attractive woman.
- This◊ picture of Spongebob Squarepants and Patrick AS LOLIS! This is a rather popular concept, as seen in the following pictures: [2] [3] [4][5] [6] [7].
- There's a Decepticon Version of the Lucky Star opening. They're the cutest evil robots ever.
- "Humanizing" Transformers is very common in fanart, with wildly varying levels of Moe. Starscream tends to be a smarmy pretty-boy. Which...actually makes sense.
- Here is Optimus Prime-Tan and Megatron-Tan...or maybe "Optima Prima" and "Megatan"?
- "Humanizing" Transformers is very common in fanart, with wildly varying levels of Moe. Starscream tends to be a smarmy pretty-boy. Which...actually makes sense.
- As it is to be expected, it's also happening with characters from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (warning: some images may not be safe for work, but the link is set to only show safe and suggestive rated images)
- It's no longer just "happening". There are now 81,962 pieces in DeviantArt under 'pony human'
- "Object Ponies" are also somewhat common, where a normally inanimate object is "ponified". Artists like Nips and Badumsquish are both quite fond of such creatures, with the latter even writing stories about these creatures meeting their human "master".
- The Equestria Girls series is a canon take on this, with the ponies' skin colors being the same as their coats (to avoid the thorny issue of each pony's canon ethnicity).
- Speaking of DeviantArt, there seems to be almost more Gijinka of the Penguins of Madagascar than "normal" stuff...
- Here's the main cast of U.S. Acres (plus Sixth Ranger Aloysius Pig) as human girls.
- Interestingly popular on the Japanese site Pixiv is personification of the Thomas and Friends cast, of all things.
- This Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) animated short has Donatello using a cloaking device to let us see what Donatello, Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo would look like as humans. Since the short was written by Kevin Eastman (one of the original creators) and Paul Jenkins, it's about as canon of a take as we'll ever get.
Web Animation
- Someone has managed to personify Adobe Flash. As in the animation program.
Web Original
- The Other Wiki has Wikipe-tan (along with Commons-tan and Quote-tan). TV Tropes itself has Trope-tan, while Encyclopedia Dramatica has AE-tan and Uncyclopedia has Uncyclo-tan.
- OC Re Mix uses OCR-tan, with a new one for every forum version. The youngest, Ocr 1-tan, is the first incarnation of the forum.
- Most of the boards of 4chan have a moe anthropomorph. For example, /a/ is a Meganekko under-age Trap with an Ahoge.
- The CWCki Wiki of Sonichu has CWCki-tan, and the majority of that "art" will likely make you cry inside, especially the one for Valentine's Day.
- On the Final Fantasy Wiki, there's FFWiki-tan, a Viera librarian that takes care of the Chocobo in the Wiki's logo.
- Firefox-ko for Mozilla Firefox.
- There's also Opera-tan, for the Opera browser.
- Captcha-tan◊. The spambot that 4chan had to implement the captcha for (leading to Captcha-tan's creation) was also anthropomorphized as "Cornelia".
- Skewered in this Anime News Nina comic.
- Fantendo now has their own Fan-Tan.
- Starting with Episode 20 of Dave Madson's Looney Tunes Intro Bloopers, the characters, whose voices are provided by Speakonia and to a lesser extent, Robo Soft, are giving rather cute human-like designs.
- The Lost Media Wiki has LMW-tan.
- Know Your Meme has KYM-tan.
- Anime and J-Drama streaming site Crunchyroll has the popular, sporty, animal-loving otaku Crunchy-hime, while their German counterpart, Crunchyroll.de, has Henner the rabbit.


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Get into a lunge position with one knee nearly touching the floor and the opposite leg's thigh parallel to the floor. Rest one hand on the glutes of your raised leg and the other on that leg's thigh muscle (the one nearest to the midline of your body) [1]. Begin extending your hips and knees so that your body moves straight up, feeling the contraction in both your thigh and glutes as you rise [2]. As soon as you feel either muscle group lose tension, lower yourself back to the starting position. That's one rep. Complete all your reps on one side, and then switch sides and repeat.
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Top 100 Artists of the Decade: #17 The Knife
The Top 100 Artists of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post one artist and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 artist of the decade!
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#17 The Knife
Illusive brother and sister duo from Stockholm, Sweden The Knife is one of the most unique and intriguing electronica groups around. Their spectacular 2006 album Silent Shout catapulted them to international fame, winning them countless awards (although they never show up to collect them). The group remains shrouded in secrecy, often donning Venetian bird masks, preferring instead to offer us a brilliant and complex body of work full of dark mysterious characters.
The Knife is all about the killer synth riffs - like a classic new wave band, but more intense, more cerebral than their electro-clash counterparts. Karin Dreijer Andersson's voice is at once haunting and comforting, breathy and visceral, often singing in high-pitched childlike voices, while Olof backs her up taking on various sinister personalities. Together they capture the energetic feel of a good rock band, much like Depeche Mode, with classic laser-beam techno synthesizers and slick, crisp old school drum machines. The result is polished and futuristic yet organic and lyrical.
At first refusing to play concerts, The Knife is now known for their surreal theatrical performances, complete with creepy masks and sci-fi light show, like a Kraftwork concert in a David Lynch film. The band releases their own material independently on Rabid Records, a small label started by Karin while fronting her first band Honey is Cool. Honey is Cool gained a bit of notoriety in Sweden through the late nineties, but broke up in 2000. Karin has just debuted her new solo project called Fever Ray with tracks available for download on Beatport and iTunes. The full length Fever Ray album is due in March.
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For bartenders like Tannille Riccitello, it's nearly as important that a drink looks every bit as good as it tastes.
'Tis the season for parties.
These are reminiscent of Eccles cakes, the U.K.'s flaky, currant-laden pastries.
These have a surprisingly complex flavor: bright lime with the sweetness of cornmeal.
Ever participated in a cheesecake-baking marathon?
The best thing about shopping for the outdoors lover or golfer on your holiday gift list is that you have so many choices that are sure to be hits with the recipients.
Today, you can get a beautiful piece of jewelry or a fancy watch disguised as a tracker.
Here's a look at our highly recommended classical boxed sets for gift-givers and receivers this holiday season, listed in descending order of price.
A list of book suggestions for this holiday season.
Why settle for run-of-the-mill holiday gift wrapping when there are dozens of wonderful papers available?
Whether you want to name-check Jack Kerouac at customs or drink beer in all 50 states, you'll find something to like on our list of 20 travel must-haves for 2016:
Margaret Warner takes doctors' medicines.
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his is a great time of year to be part of a skiing or snowboard family.
Christmas morning is giggling outside the closed bedroom door, waiting impatiently for what could pass for a decent hour so the heads of the house can be awakened without retribution.
In a small back room at Perreca's Bakery in Schenectady, Maria Perreca Papa is in a jolly mood.
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After months of hanging twinkling lights and arranging mammoth holiday displays, Quick Response is hosting its 15th annual Santa's Playland on Route 9 this holiday season. Once again, the community is encouraged to enjoy the winter magic for free
The demand for vintage Christmas ornaments has exploded, according to Michael Messinger, owner of the Christmas Gift Shoppe on Route 50 just east of Saratoga Springs.
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Going Back to Chaim Grade
When Yiddish writer Chaim Grade died in 1982 he was highly regarded in Yiddish literary circles, though less known to English readers. Only a few of his novels had been translated, and hardly any of his poetry. He was also overshadowed by his more famous contemporary, Isaac Bashevis Singer, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.
When Yiddish Came to North Korea
On September 4, 1965, Lin Jaldati stepped onto a stage in Pyongyang, North Korea and quite possibly became the first person in Communist North Korea to sing in Yiddish. As I will discuss in a July 13 talk at the Yiddish Book Center's Paper Bridge Summer Arts Festival in Amherst, Mass., Jaldati and her husband, Eberhard Rebling, became the voices of leftist Yiddish culture throughout the Communist world at the height of the Cold War.


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Would the Buffett Tax "stabilize our debt and deficits"?
The Wall Street Journal assesses Obama's claims about the Buffett Tax.
Forget Warren Buffett, or whatever other political prop the White House wants to use for its tax agenda. This week the Administration officially endorsed what in essence is the Obama Rule: Taxes must be high simply to spread the wealth, never mind the impact on the economy or government revenue. It's all about "fairness," baby.
This was long apparent to those fated to closely watch the 2008 campaign, but some voters might have missed the point amid the gauzy rhetoric about hope and change. Now we know without any doubt. White House aides made it official Tuesday in their on-the-record briefing on the new federal minimum tax that travels under the political alias known as the "Buffett rule."
The policy goal is to impose an effective minimum tax of 30% on the income of anyone who makes more than $1 million a year. When President Obama first proposed this new minimum tax he declared that the rule "could raise enough money" so that we "stabilize our debt and deficits for the next decade."
Then he added: "This is not politics; this is math." Well, remedial math maybe.
The Obama Treasury's own numbers confirm that the tax would raise at most $5 billion a year–or less than 0.5% of the $1.2 trillion fiscal 2012 budget deficit and over the next decade a mere 0.1% of the $45.43 trillion the federal government will spend. When asked about those revenue projections, White House aide Jason Furman backpedaled from Mr. Obama's rationale by explaining that the tax was never intended "to bring the deficit down and the debt under control."
So if it doesn't do what Obama says it's supposed to do, what would really do?
The Buffett rule is really nothing more than a sneaky way for Mr. Obama to justify doubling the capital gains and dividend tax rate to 30% from 15% today. That's the real spread-the-wealth target. The problem is that this is a tax on capital that is needed for firms to grow and hire more workers. Mr. Obama says he wants an investment-led recovery, not one led by consumption, but how will investment be spurred by doubling the tax on it?
The only investment and hiring the Buffett rule is likely to spur will be outside the United States–in China, Germany, India, and other competitors with much more investment-friendly tax regimes. The Buffett rule would give the U.S. the fourth highest capital gains rate among OECD nations, according to a new study by Ernst & Young, to go along with what is now the highest corporate tax rate (a little under 40% for the combined federal and average state rate). That's what happens when politicians pursue fairness over growth.
When you make it less attractive for people with capital to invest their capital: here at home: then they will take their capital and invest it abroad. What Obama's proposal accomplishes is to outsource jobs – the exact thing that he is always complaining about. It's higher taxes and more regulation, especially EPA regulation, that causes capital (and consequently jobs) to move overseas. If you want capital to come into America, you lower the tax rates.
In other news, the Obama administration is suing a company owned by Warren Buffett for unpaid taxes.
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By Emily Le Coz/NEMS Daily Journal
VERONA – The Lee County Agri-Center sits on the side of U.S. Highway 145, deteriorating after years of neglect and revolving-door management.
Its marquee doesn't work. Its walls are dingy. Its siding is torn. The heating-and-air-conditioning system needs repair, as do the pens and gates and stalls.
It also needs a thorough cleaning.
When that's done, the facility will be up to standard, according to a report issued last month by a hired consultant for Lee County.
But it'll require far more to regain its position as one of the state's best multi-purpose facilities.
Attaining that status, said consultant Matt Buchanan, will necessitate upgrades, expansions and new hires that will cost the county an estimated $1.2 million over the next five years.
The amount doesn't include the average annual allocation of $182,000 that county taxpayers already funnel into the facility to keep it afloat.
Although the Agri-Center generates an average $212,000 annually, it requires an average $394,000 annually to run. The county funds the difference, taking money from a couple of funding pools.
But additional investments appear unlikely. County supervisors, who approve fiscal-year budgets in September, still are grappling with a sluggish economy as well as mounting legal costs in their fight against Tupelo's proposed annexation.
Unless the Agri-Center can turn a profit, officials are leery about more funding.
"I want to provide a larger budget for the Agri-Center, I just don't know that we can," said Board of Supervisors President Darrell Rankin. "The economy is fairly stagnant, so it comes down to the reality of whether or not we have any money."
But the Agri-Center can't boost its earnings without financial support. It operates on a shoestring budget as it is, with only three full-time employees to handle administration, public relations, maintenance, marketing, cooking and whatever else comes up.
Among those three employees is newly hired director Julia Viator. A former Gap manager and marketing wiz, Viator replaces Clint Young, who left last year after so-so relations with the Board of Supervisors.
Board of Supervisors Secretary Tammy Rodgers had served as interim director between the two tenures.
Interim directors notwithstanding, Viator is the fifth person to lead the Agri-Center since it opened in April 1994. The first, Dody Vail Turner, left after a few months to spend more time with her family. All others stayed an average of five years.
Attempts to reach the three longest-serving directors – Frank Swanger, Stephen Johnson and Young – were unsuccessful.
The Daily Journal did, however, talk to past assistant director Billy Boren. He served under Johnson and ran the annual fairs. Boren said politics and management often collided, and pointed to the supervisors.
"They hire good people with good intentions, but they don't give them the backing," Boren said. "It's just a real sad situation. I go by there and just about tear up because I know what it can do, but I know it will never be that way if politics continue to be involved in it."
Daily Journal articles around the time of each former director's departure detailed some kind of disagreement with the board just before the resignations.
Usually, it had to do with the fair.
Longtime supervisor Charles Duke, who retired from the board in 2005, agreed the relationships between the two weren't always sunny.
"The board and the directors over the years have had differences of opinions," said Duke, whose vision helped build the Agri-Center.
"I don't think we really had what I call the right director," he said. "I think really the problem is having a good director that works well with the Board of Supervisors. But I don't blame everything on the directors because the Board of Supervisors are directly over it, so I can take some of the blame."
A group effort
The Agri-Center sat on the drawing board for 20 years before being built for $2.25 million in 1993-94. It was a joint effort by the county, the Community Development Foundation, the Tennessee Valley Authority, Mississippi State University and other groups.
The original complex held the 3,000-square-foot arena, a horse-and-cattle barn, a swine-and-lamb barn, a warmup ring and a 1,400-square-foot parking lot.
The state kicked in $170,000 to help pay for stalls and related equipment.
When completed, it was the one of the first major agricultural facilities in the state. And with little or no competition, the Agri-Center easily snapped up events such as rodeos, tractor pulls, monster truck races, circuses, gospel shows, festivals, auctions and livestock shows.
"It was marketed as a regional facility," said longtime County Administrator Ronnie Bell, who now works for Three Rivers Planning and Development District.
"But shortly about the time Lee County got involved in building it, the state of Mississippi … decided that they wanted to give other communities an opportunity to have agri-center-type facilities," Bell said.
"So the state provided some grant monies, and instead of that facility being a regional draw, if you look around you have agri-centers almost in every county now. They all compete against one another. "
In 1995, the state Legislature authorized $10 million in bonds for a new program to help counties and municipalities build or improve their livestock facilities.
Today some four dozen agri-centers exist throughout the state – nine of them in Northeast Mississippi.
Lee County also benefited from the program. It applied for and received $500,000, which it matched with $500,000 of its own.
With those funds, it built an all-purpose building – the Magnolia Center – and a second horse-and-cattle barn.
Other funds were earmarked to improve lighting, the sound system and the heating-cooling system.
Money woes
And though the Agri-Center was never meant to be a money-maker, officials did hope it would break even each year.
"We intend to never let it be a burden on the county," Turner told the Daily Journal in June 1994, two months after the facility opened and when she was still director.
For a while, it appeared a strong possibility. In its first full year of operation, the facility earned nearly $410,000. It still needed about $130,000 in county funding, but everyone at the time thought revenues would continue to rise.
But the center never again matched its first-year earning level. Revenues steadily declined over the years, hitting a low point in FY 2009 with $78,985.
The current fiscal year doesn't look promising, either. So far, the Agri-Center has generated $72,380. Most of money today comes from rental fees – $800 per day for the arena and $600 per day for the Magnolia Center.
In the past, most revenues came from a cut of ticket sales, merchandise sales parking fees associated with big events. Those earnings have declined along with the number of large events.
Yet each year, the supervisors funnel money into the Agri-Center. Most of it covers staff salaries, contractual services and materials and supplies. It has kept the operation afloat, but not up to standard.
"We've let it run down because it wasn't making money and we didn't keep it up like we should – the buildings and bathrooms and everything," Duke said. "The infrastructure, we're going to have to put some more money in it, the county is, to bring it up to a standard where we can compete with surrounding counties."
But, said current County Administrator Sean Thompson, "It didn't get this way in one year, and it can't get to show place in six months or one year."
Viator knows funding won't materialize immediately. She said she hopes for a small increase over last year's level, but already has plans to make improvements and generate revenues without extra cash.
She recently struck a deal with the 4-H Club, which has used the complex for free since it opened. In exchange for that usage, Viator said, group members will provide free labor to help clean and repair the place.
The new director also implemented another change. A long-standing rule against concerts at the Agri-Center has been lifted with the supervisors' permission.
Viator said concerts have big money-making potential. And lifting the ban would allow officials to regulate these events – which for years have been inserted into the venue under the guise of "family reunions" or other seemingly benign happenings.
Return of the fair?
But reviving the regional fair is where the real money lies, according to Viator, the consultant and many officials both past and present.
"The earning potential for a fair could be huge," Viator said.
In the consultant's report, issued last month, Buchanan estimated a reorganized Lee County Regional Fair would draw 80,000 people and generate $500,000 in one year. After expenses, the profit would be $175,000.
"I believe building the Lee County Regional Fair to its fullest potential is the key factor in making the Lee County Agri-Center stand apart and rise above any other facility of its kind in Mississippi," Buchanan wrote in his report.
The Agri-Center used to host nine-day fairs with carnival rides, musical acts, livestock shows and other entertainment. But dipping attendance forced supervisors to cut the fair to five days, shuffle the dates, split the livestock show and try other means to earn more money.
In 2007, the county had no fair. Its reappearance since then has focused mainly on carnival rides.
"The last few years there we lost money," Duke said. "People don't go to the fair like they used to."
But attendance at the Mississippi State Fair in Jackson has steadily climbed each year since 2005 – except for last year due to rain, said Andy Prosser, spokesman for the state Department of Agriculture.
Prosser said the declining economy has forced families to change their vacation plans. Instead of going to Disney World, they take their kids to the state fair where they can have fun at a good price.
But families need more than carnival rides, and Buchanan proposed that the Agri-Center offer concerts, talent shows, competitions, arts and crafts, hands-on livestock exhibits and a host of other attractions to draw large crowds over a multiple-day event.
Duke said even a reorganized fair won't work. No one goes anymore, and the Agri-Center should focus on what it does best: livestock and horse shows.
But for Viator, the facility has limitless potential – not just in livestock and fairs, but in the dozens of other activities it can host.
"We can't just draw on the horse people or the cattle people or the sheep people," she said. "We need to diversify."
But it all comes down to money and manpower. And right now, the Agri-Center lacks both.
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No two holes are alike, it makes you throw every type of shot that you can think of, four distinct layouts, and even the short white-white course is one of the most technical short par 54 layouts I've ever seen.
Tushar - you don't know how lucky you are to get to play there locally. I love my Cranbury, and compared to the fairways at Cranbury, B'Land is wide open, but it is in no way forgiving. Just a hell of a course.
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Interesting goings-on in Belgium (really). "Plucky little" Belgium, HQ of the very post-national European Union, is in the throes of a deep political crisis, driven by strong nationalistic feelings. The winner of the recent general election, Yves Leterme, has proved [FL] unable [FR] to form a government across the Flemish-French divide, and talk of the country splitting two (or even three) is more serious than ever before. [more inside]
What country, friends, is this?
Born abroad. 7.5% of the UK's population was born outside the UK and Ireland. This fascinating mini-site from the BBC shows where they all came from, and where they live now. Immigration has been a hot-button issue in UK politics for a while now. In Scotland, they want more immigrants. In England, at least on the right, they want far fewer. The conservative right hate Europe, and hate immigration. Perhaps we'd better not tell them that Germans are the third-largest immigrant group (India and Pakistan at 1 and 2), while the USA-icans languish in 5th.
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How Will You Light It Up Blue?
Tens of thousands of people have already committed to raise help autism awareness on April 1 and April 2 by wearing blue clothing, by lighting their homes blue, or by hosting events in their community. Want to upload a photo? Download an iPhone app? Get the word out on Facebook and Twitter? Visit lightitupblue.org to find out all the ways you can take part. Plus, read "Diary of a Mom" blogger Jess's post "This is My Autism," which urges President Obama to light the White House blue on April 1 and 2.
Support Autism Organizations and Families in Japan
The relief initiative AutismCares is seeking donations to support autism organizations and families affected by the natural disasters in Japan. Donate to support families in Japan and learn more about AutismCares.
Tenth Palm Beach Walk is Biggest Yet
Co-founders Bob and Suzanne Wright led the10th Annual Palm Beach Walk Now for Autism Speaks that took place on the City Common in Downtown West Palm Beach, Fla., on Sunday, March 6 with 186 teams and over 7,000 people in attendance. This year's event also included the 1st Annual Run with over 250 runners participating. Visit walknowforautismspeaks.org to find a Walk near you.
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Recognizing the seriousness and urgency of the problem of wandering among individuals with autism spectrum disorder, Autism Speaks vigorously supports the proposed ICM-9-CM diagnostic code for wandering. Learn more and sign a petition in support of the code at http://www.change.org/naa.
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Every day, new technology is changing our lives in ways we never imagined. For individuals with autism, some new technologies can make it easier to communicate, assist in the development of social skills, and enhance the ability to learn. This month's Community Connections is focused on helping families understand how new technology can improve the quality of everyday life! Sign up here to receive Community Connections by email each month.
Sumner M. Redstone Donates $500,000 to Autism Speaks
Sumner M. Redstone has donated $500,000 as a lead gift to support Autism Speaks' Translational Research Initiative, an effort to accelerate the discovery of treatments for autism, including pharmacological therapies. The Translational Research Initiative brings together industry, government, the scientific community, and the non-profit sector to advance the search for autism treatments.
Enactments, Full Passage, Endorsements! Autism Insurance Reform On the Move!
Thanks to the signature of Governor Mike Beebe on HB 1315, Arkansas became the first state this year, 24th state overall, to pass meaningful autism insurance reform into law. Last Saturday, the West Virginia legislature passed HB 2693 which now heads to Governor Earl Tomblin's desk for enactment. Thanks to Senator Charles Fuschillo, Jr. (S. 4005) and Assemblymember Joseph Morelle (A. 6305), New York introduced legislation on Monday with broad community support which when passed would become one of the most comprehensive autism insurance laws in the United States.
Robison Launches New Book, Be Different
Author John Elder Robison, a member Autism Speaks' Scientific Advisory and Treatment Boards, has a new book, be different, now available for presale. Click here to see a preview of the book and here for details on the book tour.
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Supporting the "Obama" of Iran?
I got a good laugh out of this particular characterization by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the external spokesperson for Mir Hossein Mousavi. Foreign Policy magazine interviewed him in Paris:
FP: There has been growing criticism here in Washington that U.S. President Barack Obama hasn't said or done enough to support those demonstrating in the streets of Iran. Do you think Obama is being too careful? Or even that he is helping Ahmadinejad by being cautious?
MM: Obama has said that there is no difference between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi. Does he like it himself [when someone is] saying that there is no difference between Obama and [George W.] Bush? Ahmadinejad is the Bush of Iran. And Mousavi is the Obama of Iran.
FP: Would Mousavi pursue a different foreign policy than Ahmadinejad?
MM: As you may know, former President Mohammad Khatami, who is supporting Mousavi at the moment, was in favor of dialogue between the civilizations, but Ahmadinejad talks about the war of the civilizations. Is there not any difference between the two?
We [Iranians] are a bit unfortunate. When we had our Obama [meaning President Khatami], that was the time of President Bush in the United States. Now that [the United States] has Obama, we have our Bush here [in Iran]. In order to resolve the problems between the two countries, we should have two Obamas on the two sides. It doesn't mean that everything depends on these two people, but this is one of the main factors.
The only problem is there is nothing to really indicate that concerning the large issues – nuclear weapons, funding terror organizations (Hamas/Hezbollah) and keeping the Palestinian/Israeli situation stirred up, there'd be any difference at all.
As the Times of London reminds us:
Mr Mousavi, 67, is a creature of the political Establishment — a former revolutionary and prime minister who would like to liberalise Iranian politics but has never challenged the system in the way his followers are doing.
So the question remains who is this guy in reality? In fact he may be more like Obama than we imagine. He's riding a wave of "hope and change" in Iran that may be completely different than what he's willing or able to deliver. In other words, just as here in the US, he's letting those who support him decide what "hope and change" mean for the purpose of putting him in power. He'd then govern as an establishment president albeit with a softer and more diplomatic touch.
The first indicator of his true colors comes today:
The moderate Iranian leader who says that he was robbed of victory in last week's presidential election faces a fateful choice today: support the regime or be cast out.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, has told Mir Hossein Mousavi to stand beside him as he uses Friday prayers at Tehran University to call for national unity. An army of Basiji — Islamic volunteer militiamen — is also expected to be bussed in to support the Supreme Leader.
The demand was made at a meeting this week with representatives of all three candidates who claim that the poll was rigged, and it puts Mr Mousavi on the spot. He has become the figurehead of a popular movement that is mounting huge demonstrations daily against the "theft" of last Friday's election by President Ahmadinejad, the ayatollah's protégé.
Will he stand by Khamenei or will he defy him? My money's on him supporting the regime.
5 Responses to Supporting the "Obama" of Iran?
MM: Obama has said that there is no difference between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi. Does he like it himself [when someone is] saying that there is no difference between Obama and [George W.] Bush? Ahmadinejad is the Bush of Iran. And Mousavi is the Obama of Iran.
Boy, that Mohsen Makhmalbaf sure knows how to hurt a guy.
All the Iraqis I talked to seemed to like Bush a lot (in all seriousness).
Truth be told, there is very little difference between Bush and Obama


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