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John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, took to Twitter on Friday after conservative blogger Matt Drudge mocked his fashion choices.
On Tuesday, the campaign unveiled a T-shirt designed to look like one of Clinton's trademark pantsuits. On Friday, Podesta posted a picture of himself wearing the shirt to encourage supporters to buy one in the campaign store.
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Happy New Year? Hope so. Of course it would be happier if modern comedians could actually tell jokes acceptable to a family audience. The best comic progs on TV this Christmas were the old ones. Those not sprinkled with the f word. Even I risked introducing my parents to Cuckoo (BBC) - sure, I had enjoyed it immensely on my own, but in their presence I became acutely aware of the use of the f word three times and even the w word once in just the first episode. Mother showed up to see the second episode and the f word showed up embarrassingly twice. Needless to say the third episode was voted "don't bother" in favour of the news.
Then there was an episode of Mock the Week with Dara O'Brien (?) a slap dash compilation of highlights that seemed to be made up in the last five minutes of things from the cutting room floor apparently with all the swear words the non- funny comics could think of. This is not Mock the Week, it's mock the public. Sorry, absolutely not one funny thing to laugh at.
Never been a fan of Mrs Browns Boys either. Disgusting that they get away with so much bad language.
New Years Eve channel 4 with 8 out of 10 cats received a drubbing from Daily Mail as being offensive crude and rude.
Ricky Gervais didn't seem to be on anywhere. Always liked The Office when viewed alone, but he regularly tweets the c word and if he persists on any TV show he won't be on my TV watch list for long.
Dads Army, Vicar of Dibbley, Morecambe and Wise and shows of that ilk have been great to re-watch and will continue to be shown because they are funny. There is absolutely nothing added to comedic value by adding the f word. Script writers need to up their game and learn a few more adjectives especially if they want longevity. #banfword #bancword
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Distributor: Lumivision/Streamline Pictures (USA)
Original Year of Release: 1987
English Video Release: 1992, Subtitled (also dubbed VHS version released)
Japanese Title: Gokiburi-tachi no Tasogare
Runtime: 105 minutes
In the general anime fan community, I guess there was a perception that Streamline only released what would be considered exploitation and genre fare. B-movie stuff in other words. Sure, most of the material they released was of a high standard compared to what was available in the Japanese market at the time, but a fair wack of what the company put out was slightly dodgy. Take two of their highest selling titles for example; "Wicked City" and "Fist of the North Star". However there's always an exception to the rule. In Streamline's case, it was this film; "Twilight of the Cockroaches". Hidden amongst all the blood soaked, testosterone filled titles in their catalogue was an art house film with a whimsical sense of humour. It was an animated feature about anthropomorphic cockroaches, with live action background footage and plates, plus two actual human actors who appear on screen. Without a doubt, it sticks out like a sore thumb in Streamline's catalogue.
The film follows the life of Naomi and Ichiro, who are two young cockroaches living a large colony situated in a squalid flat owned by the depressed Saito (Kaoru Kobayashi). On the day Saito's wife and child left him, the cockroaches began a new era of freedom without the fear of death or need to scrounge for food. This was because Saito never bothered to clean up the place or kill the roaches. Naomi and Ichiro are soon to be married, though Naomi seems to be having second thoughts. One night as they are sleeping, an exhausted and battle scared cockroach from a tribe in living in a set of units across the field, accidentally wakes them. The handsome and strong stranger is named Hans. Hans tells them of his clan's war with the human living in the flat his tribe occupy. The young roaches who only know of the good times with Saito are confused as to why a human would want to hurt a cockroach.
The leader of tribe parades Hans as a hero during their "Armistice Day" celebrations (marking the day Saito's family left), but Hans decides to head back to his clan to continue the battle. Naomi has fallen in love with Hans, and runs away to make the long journey to the next block of flats. After an arduous journey, she arrives at the flat and she meets the female human (Setsuko Karasumaru) living there. Unfortunately the human is not at all pleased to see Naomi, and she tries to kill her. Though terribly frightened and confused, Naomi manages to find Hans and the members of the clan who hiding out in the shadows. Unlike Saito's flat, the cockroaches here are constantly forced to attack the woman living here to create a diversion so that they can steal food from her. Naomi is shocked at the massacre of her fellow roaches and the sacrifices they have to make.
Despite the horror of what she has seen, Naomi decides to live with Hans for the time being. A couple of weeks pass and whilst Hans goes off the battle, Naomi accidentally ends up in a "roach motel". But thanks to the compassion and strength of the trapped cockroaches inside, she is thrown to safety. However just as she is freed, the human woman suddenly shows up and Naomi is forced to hide in her handbag. When she feels it's safe to come out again, she is surprised to discover that she is back as Saito's flat. Unbeknownst to the cockroaches, Saito has been seeing the woman from the flat across the road, and she has decided to live with him. Ichiro is overjoyed to find Naomi is back and makes plans to marry her. However the wedding day doesn't quite go to plan. As the wedding takes place on the kitchen table, the human female sees them and starts killing the wedding guests. Though most of them escape, the tribe is absolutely shocked at this turn of events. They decide to fight back and are relegated back to the shadows and sneaking around to get food. Unfortunately what they don't know is that Saito and his new girlfriend are planning a cockroach holocaust.
This a very odd and dark little film to say the least. It's a mix of live action and animation like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" or "Dot and the Kangaroo" (most people who were kids during the late 1970's and early 1980's would remember that one). Unlike those films, this one is more for a mature audience. The cockroaches are the heroes of the story and are drawn in a human likeness and portrayed in a sympathetic light. The humans on the other hand are large and threatening like giant monsters. They only scream or shout in the film and neither of the human actors have any dialogue. The camera travels at cockroach height and sounds are scaled down (or is that up?) to cockroach size. Even normal sounds such as a human eating or gurgling become loud and terrifying. Unlike a lot of anime films of that period, the animation and character design are very different. Even though the animation was produced by Madhouse, the film really feels that was made by someone from outside the industry. This seems to be director Hiroaki Yoshida's debut feature, a director that seems to have had no anime credits before this film. Surprisingly he only worked on one other film after this one, a Japanese/US co-production called "Iron Maze", a rather obscure thriller from 1991. Yoshida now days seems to be fairly high up in TYO Productions, the company which produced this film. The other staff are pretty much unknowns except for Yoshitaka Amano ("Vampire Hunter D"), who is credited with art direction. The film has aged over the years with the animation and some of the camerawork looking rather worse for wear when compared with what can be done with modern day CG and cameras. A lot of the close up photography in is hindered by the technology of the time. The focal length of camera lens of the era leads to lot of the shots looking partly out of focus. But for me though the strength and strangeness of the story is what kept me interested and was the movie's selling point.
Watching the film again, it's sometimes a little hard to see what the director was aiming for. During the opening scenes I wondered if it was meant to be a satire on modern day (1980's) Japanese society. Yoshida himself apparently said the film was about how Japan's focus on racial and cultural purity and how he thought this was perceived by the outside world. However during the latter half of the film, you can't help drawing parallels between the holocaust in World War II or ethnic cleansing in Eastern Europe during the 1990's, even though this wasn't really the director's intention. The film explicitly shows humans and cockroaches at war with toy tanks and guns featuring occasionally in the film. One of the saddest scenes in the film is a sequence showing cockroach children playing on tin toys as if they were in a human playground, just before the humans massacre them. But as you can imagine with a film like this there are a lot of odd moments too. For example as Naomi travels across the field to the other flat, she has a brief conversation with a claymation dog turd! This is perhaps one of the oddest sequences I've ever seen in a film. The other element I found to be a bit strange was the wardrobe of the human woman played by Setsuko Karasumaru. When I first watched the film, I thought she was a prostitute. For whatever reason, she wears a lot of tight fitting clothes in a number of scenes. Not sure what the director was thinking there. Still this doesn't detract from the story being told.
Streamline's adaptation is pretty good. Somehow I've managed to miss out on seeing the English dubbed version of this film which was released on VHS in the US in 1992 and Australia in 1995 (by Kiseki Films). Anime Projects in the UK did have the film classified by the BBFC in the mid 1990's, but it failed to make an appearance in the video market or cinemas there. I originally saw the film on Australian multicultural station SBS in a subtitled format back in 1993. Unbelievable as it sounds, Streamline actually released the film (through Lumivision) as a subtitled laserdisc in 1992 which is the version I have. Carl Macek is credited with the subtitles (originally produced for the May 1989 US theatrical release) and has done a decent job. There is one exception; the sequence when Hans accidentally wakes Ichiro and Naomi and they all first meet. Macek has stuffed up the timing of the subtitles and it looks as if Ichiro is asking Hans not to call off the wedding. It's humorous to say the least. There are also a number of mistimed and missing lines. Even though it's presented in its original aspect ratio, the print used for this edition has a fair bit of damage, and reel dots can be seen every 15 minutes or so in the top left hand corner. The film is really dark too (well cockroaches don't laze about in the open do they?) and would probably look better in the theatre or on BD or DVD. Sensibly the picture has been moved up on the LD edition, so the subtitles appear on the "black bar" rather than on the picture. However this isn't so good for modern 16:9 TVs. There is no way to zoom in so the picture fills the screen. The laserdisc version includes Japanese distributor Kitty Film's English language promotional trailer at the end of the film as a bonus. While watching it, you realise the marketing strategies between the US and Japan are poles apart. The quality of the trailer is pretty shocking. It looks like they dragged the film on the ground a bit before they decided to master it for the laserdisc.
This film is a bit of a rarity. It's clearly an experimental film, yet it's extremely entertaining and fascinating. For me it didn't change my view on cockroaches (still not very fond of them), but that's not the point of the film or why it was created. Unfortunately this film is one of the few Streamline titles that didn't get picked up by another company after they folded. It's really a damned shame. I guess many anime fans wouldn't like the film. It's very un-anime like in just about every aspect. I highly doubt this film will make an appearance in any commercial English language market ever again. The film still hasn't been re-issued on DVD or BD in Japan and I doubt it ever will be. The quite rare laserdisc and the far more common rental VHS versions are the only versions you'll find. It's pretty much the same for the English versions; the subbed laserdisc and dubbed VHS versions are surprisingly easy to find and relatively cheap. If you really like experimental animation or are bored with the current state of anime, this is a great title to seek out.


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Discussion in 'Lifestyle' started by dmora, Jul 19, 2004.
Or should i even bother and just get a photostitching app?
nikon 12-24 is a sweet lens.
Personally I'd just use the kit lens. 18mm ~= 28mm in the old scale which is a decent wide angle. If you need wider than that then just stitch the photos
the 18-70 has a bit of pincushion distortion at 18mm but none at 25mm so set it to 25mm and take 2 photos for stitching and it'll come out better since you don't have lens effects to correct for.
The purist in me likes using a genuine wide angle lens for wide angle shots but the student in me really doesn't feel like paying AU$2000 for it (US$1k for you guys). Unless of course you do a LOT of wide angle photography (ie, you specialise in landscapes)
I'd love to specialize in it.
maybe come xmas time.
What about the Sigma 12-24mm? It can be used on a full-frame body as well.
significant malfunction? sure
when I buy my D70 I'm only buying nikon lenses
dmora: simple answer = photostitch until you're eyeing off a 12-24mm f/4G and can afford it
Well, in general you get what you paid for when it comes down to optics, but that doesn't mean all Sigma lens are crap.
For 70-200mm, I had take the Nikon 70-200mm VR no doubt, even when it cost more than 2 Sigma 70-200mm combined.
However Sigma does offer some lens that is not found in the Nikon line-up. For example the 50-500mm Bigma, I also believe that the 70-300mm MARCO APO SuperII is better than the Nikon 70-300 ED.
So, while I do agree with many Sigma lens sucks. There are a few Sigma I would consider.
Sigma is the best of the 3rd partiy manufacturers, but you do get what you pay for.
For the 70-200, Canon has an F/4 for 550, F/2.8 for 1100 and F/2.8 IS for 1600, while the Sigma F/2.8 is like 600. So most compare the 2.8 sigma and the Canon F/4, which is pretty good, considering the Sigma is not real useable at 2.8, (Just not very sharp), while the Canon is quite useable at F/4, so you basically have the 2 as equals. Except that the sharpest F-Stop is usually 2 stops form wide open, so on the Canon it's F/8 while on the Sigma it's F/5.6. And the Sigma is gonna be bigger and heavier since its a F/2.8.
So which one would you go with (if you needed a canon mount?) Most end up with the Canon, not because of any of the reasons listed above, but because the Canon lens is white and gives the $$$ and power factor, while the sigma is a boring black lens.
I'd always go for an L lens over a 3rd party lens. Which one can you sell for pretty much the same price as you paid for it, assuming it's in perfect nick?
The genuine brand, that much is certain. TCO is lower even if it costs more to begin with, assuming you don't drop the thing and break it.
I hope you are being sarcastic.
I don't shoot Nikon, so I don't know the price difference between Sigma and Nikon, I'm simply giving an example.
I wish. As a pro photo student, I see it everyday
No way, shit....
I thought we were just comparing 3rd party lenses and genuine brand lenses.
At this stage in proceedings I fully intend to buy only Nikkor lenses when I get my D70. The kit 18-70 is supposed to be great, and something in the ~80-200 range will be next. Probably an older 70-210 but I haven't decided yet.
Possibly I'll spot a ripper bargain and buy a 3rd party lens but even Nikkon have lenses that are priced very cheap for what they deliver.
That is exactly why I wouldn't buy the sigma. There's no point in buying an f/2.8 lens if it's unusable at f/2.8. You're just carrying around a shitload of glass you can't use. Rather have the L at f/4 and be able to use it wide open and get great shots
Although the Sigma would have the Canon beat at it's sharpest point by a full stop, which is pretty big. As long as you have a tripod or TONS of light, it wouldn't be an issue
what you mean..
If I had a tripod or tons of light I wouldn't be stressing over a 2.8 lens.. I'd use an f/4 lens or an f/11 lens or a shoebox, who cares


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Gamertag Radio writes: "Quite frankly, without First Person Shooters, I wouldn't be where I am with my Gaming history. Yes, Super Mario Bros. was an amazing experience in the NES days, and yes, all the brawlers from Konami were really cool, Zelda, Metroid, Sonic, all are great games, but something really changed to a lot of people, including myself when Wolfenstein3D, the original Doom and all over in 1996 when Duke Nukem3D came into the scene. My mind was blown away by the visuals, cool enemies and weapons, all the way to the great level design."
Cuz its easy. Pick and play. There "is" a learning curve, but not as challenging as a fighter or action rpg for instance.
Easy...it's been the nature of man for thousands of years...Kill each other. It sounds terrible, but what better way to do that than to do so with no negative consequences. I suppose it also has alot to do with the competitive nature, but what it all boils down to is.....killing each other, for fun...which is fun
go to youtube and add /watch?v=FhHK1ltJJg4&NR=1 to the url. N4G thinks im spamming -.-
But i think this is why FPS games are popular
I remember reading articles discussing whether or not 1st person shooters are used to train youths to use guns & learn the basic fundementals of war (stealth, tactics, gun types, etc.)...
It's because the view in the game is the view you have in real life.


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There is no way you can resist the tempting technological advancement which is going on and on even more wildly these recent days. If you previously think that you will never afford to have video conferencing with anybody you would like to talk to, you seem to be very much startled.
Yes, video conferencing has been quite familiar, from business level telecommunication needs to domestic stage. We can probably now find it pretty easily to communicate with our friends by truly seeing their face through a live video conference.
But are you quite sure to be adequately enlightened by the advantages and disadvantages? Well, let us bring it down.
Advantages of Video Conferencing
No doubt that video conferencing does help you resolve some difficult things you usually face whenever you are in phone calls. During phone calls, you probably hesitate about someone's telling the truth or not. Now that you got video conferencing system, you can manage to see their gesture and body language, which are truly much more relieving.
Not only that, in terms of its cost, video conferencing is pretty much cheaper to afford, rather than meeting the one you will talk to in person. This technological advancement is surely much preferable for those business workers who are in need of formal discussions, involving people from different distant places.
The affordable cost and flexibility are indeed the upsides of having video conferencing as one of your telecommunication methods, even in this era. Thanks to this system for now panel discussions are certainly possible to conduct though the participants are miles away separated.
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However, it is not fair to not come with the downsides. Even video conferencing got some for you. The first point goes to its cost. While domestic-staged video conferencing does not merely require big cost, the business level system is pretty costly. It does certainly deal with the more complex hardware and software which are probably not pretty much affordable for everyone running their business.
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YOURSAY | 'The PM is dishing out sound advice on corruption. And with a straight face too.'
- வியாழக்கிழமை, ஜன 12, 2017 7:45 காலை
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Najib gives a good example of the word 'oxymoron'
PM: Civil servants must not take what belongs to the rakyat
Commentable: Now we understand why a Malaysiakini writer has proclaimed Najib Razak as a great PM.
But this is where his greatness lies, the ability to say such things (civil servants should not take what belongs to the rakyat) with a straight face when all around him are sick in the stomach.
Never mind that a leader should lead by example, to him mere lip service is good enough.
Even if one gets caught by accident, the rule of thumb is to immediately switch oneself back to Mr Righteous and feign ignorance.
Other civil servants in the right departments will automatically come to his rescue and declare it as no further action.
These people are called 'dedak' seekers, their job is to shield the boss, whom many are still worshiping him as the Chosen One.
Victor Johan: Indeed, Najib gives a new example of the English word of "oxymoron", a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in "cruel kindness" or "to make haste slowly."
Kingfisher: The PM must be highly commended for his advice to civil servants to be prudent with public funds and to rightly deliver to the public what is provided for in development assistance.
This is perhaps a kindly acknowledgement by the PM in respect to the public's increasing discontent that there is default by individuals, institutions, and agencies of the present government in the management and disbursement of public funds.
It can be speculated that this timely reminder by the PM is an expression of his own concern that there is perhaps a waning of confidence and trust in his government.
Admittedly there are unfavourable socioeconomic circumstances for discontentment of the people and the people at large, one would expect, are aware of the circumstances and can be discontented.
As the PM addresses this discontentment, effectively the confidence of the of the people may be restored.
Pemerhati Bebas: The PM is dishing out sound advice. And with a straight face too. My toes are laughing.
The Mask: By the way, Mr PM, doesn't the 1MDB money belong to the rakyat and how come the US Department of Justice (DOJ) claimed that some of the money went into your personal bank account?
Clever Voter: If only Najib could lead the way. Talk is cheap. As one who holds the highest job in the country, he should lead by example.
Evidence of his involvement in the 1MDB scandal has not led to any actions personally or otherwise, and it does not auger well for his credibility.
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Speaking Sense: Civil servants must not indulge in corruption, but politicians certainly can do so with impunity so long as they belong to the right group.
We should make it mandatory for all ministers to undergo psychiatric tests to see if they have lost their sense of reality.
Lukesky: I am undecided on which saying is more apt in this instance. Is it the Malay saying "Cakap tak serupa bikin" or the English saying "Pot calling kettle black"?
You decide, but you know what I am getting at.
Demi Rakyat: This is just a few days into 2017 and we probably already have the best joke for the year.
CQ Muar: Mr Prime Minister, you sure have a way with words and know how to twist them to your advantage.
"What the MACC has done this past few days reminds us about wastage. About taking away the rights of the rakyat. Don't take away the rights of the rakyat. It belongs to them," he said.
Be more specific, Najib. I'd rather you swap the term "wastage" to "greed" or "avarice".
Najib, why compare our weak and ever declining currency to the 149 countries and being among the 123? How clever of you as PM with your deception.
Last but not least, "2017 is year of delivery", did you say? Consider us lucky if you stop imposing price hikes and render the poor poorer.
Odin Tajué: A long while ago, I commented that this person is suffering from split personality. The delusional persona speaks.
The mentally normal persona acts, for example, allegedly steals, holidays, purchases. The former persona, of course, is completely unaware of the existence of the latter one and vice versa.
That is the reason he has said all that has been reported here.
Carpe Diem: Yes, I can only come to the conclusion that there are in fact two Najibs, or a body double. It must be possible since Hollywood produced a movie called "Dave".
Either that or Malaysia has a PM with a serious personality disorder.
Roar For Truth: Perhaps his pious twin was giving the homily to the civil servants assembled at Putrajaya. I wondered whether the civil servants roared in laughter hearing this.
Shunyata: Perhaps every now so often, the PM finds the need to admonish the man in the mirror. I suppose it's therapeutic after all that private jet-setting.
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With Henry Ford's revolutionary idea of the assembly line, the automobile industry boomed in the 1920s. When automobile production was soaring, local and state governments became involved in the construction of roads, which generated jobs for many. As motor vehicles became more popular, gas stations began to appear more frequently. The oil and steel companies, along with mechanics, began to enjoy the splendor of the automobile boom of the 1920s. With a new form of transportation, Americans began to enjoy a new form of freedom for the popularization of automobiles allowed for them to travel great distances.
Route 66 was one of the first original highways in the United States. It was first opened in November 11, 1926 and spanned throughout most of the United States. Running from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California, Route 66 measured a total of 2,448 miles. The communities that were dotted along the Route benefited economically because the Route attracted a great deal of people. Route 66 was a popular route for those who migrated to the western United States.
Women of the 1920s
The 1920s developed a method of entertainment still enjoyed in the modern era: motion pictures. In the 1920s, it was not uncommon for towns to have a movie theater of their own. The movies served as a distraction from people's commonplace activities. Originally quite brief, motion pictures were later lengthened to complete a storyline; The first few films were of the romantic comedy and horror genre. Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle were some of the successful silent film actor of 1920s. With the introduction of talkies in film making in 1927, films were now able to use sound.
Society saw a major change in the world of women after the passing of the 19th Amendment: the Amendment granting women suffrage. Women began to develop the lifestyle of the flappers. Flappers usually had their hair cut to a bob style, wore rayon stockings, and wore eye-liner, lipstick, and powder. The flapper style had the hem of their skirts high enough to see a woman's knees; This was a major shift in women's form of dress. Along with a rouge change of dress, a rather scandalous lifestyle accompanied. Flapper culture embraced smoking, drinking, and sexual activity: all activities unexplored by women until the 1920s.
The 1920s had a shift in fashion in which completely revolutionized the way both men and women dressed. In women's clothing, there was a trend to wear less traditional articles of clothing such as corsets, and more comfortable clothing such as trousers. Materials such as rayon, silk, velvet, and satin were quite popular in the female fashion world. In men's fashion, it became popular to wear more athletic clothing, compared to the formal apparel of before. More loose and wider clothing characterized the clothing change in the male sphere.
The first radio broadcast was done in 1920. After the first broadcast, the popularity of the radio skyrocketed. With the greatly increasing demand for radios, the manufacturers also benefited from the radio boom. The radio became so popular that at some points in time, radio manufacturers could not keep up with the public demand. Only two years after the first broadcasting and about 600 radio stations sprouted in he United States. The radio stations played classical music, popular music, spoke of sports, politics, and weather. It was not until long for advertisers to use the radio's popularity to promote their products.
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The 1920s introduced many great authors into the world of literature. Among one of these authors is F. Scott Fitzgerald, the renowned author of the novel The Great Gatsby. Another great author of the 1920s is Upton Sinclair: the author of the satirical novel Main Street. One of the most renowned American poets also made a splash in the 1920s: Robert Frost. Frost's collection of poems were quite popular in his era.
The 1920s gave birth to a myriad of great pieces of literature such as T.S Eliot's The Waste Land: a poem regarding World War I. Another great piece of literature released in the 1920s is Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: the text that coined the term the "Lost Generation" for the young survivors of World War I. In Germany 1925, Adolf Hitler published Mein Kampf: a text in which he reveals his resentment towards the Jews. In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes what many consider his magnum opus: The Great Gatsby. The literature of the 1920s is immortalized by its popularity in the present and in the past.
Before the 1920s, airplanes were used in World War I for attacking units, but it was not very effective in doing so. During the 20's however, the airplane's popularity soared when the federal government began using airplanes to delivery mail faster. With Air-Mail's popularity, the air transport of goods overshadowed the traditional land transfer. The airplanes later took on a more precious cargo: people. Initially, only the wealthy could afford airplane travel, but as it became more common, prices fell and more Americans were able to afford airfare.
The 1920s did not see many electronic luxurious items in its decade. The majority of items were home appliances such as washing machines and vacuum machines. The radio, as previously mentioned, was a form of entertainment for many Americans in that decade. The prices of household electronics were relatively cheaper then than their upgrades are worth now. A washing machine in the 1920s could be bought for about $82.00. The television was a concept touched in the twenties, but its primordial form only showed a silhouette of the object shown.
Thanks to the growing use of magazines, radio, and automobiles, advertizing reached a new height in the 1920s. Advertisers would see how many people heard the radio and read magazines such as the Ladies' Home Journal, so they cleverly thought to advertise where the people would definitely see it: the media. Aside from radios and magazines, the rising popularity of automobiles made advertisement billboards more common. The practice of including advertisements in the media later becomes a commonplace practice.
Installment Plans
In the 1920s, many Americans could not resist purchasing luxury goods with the aid of installment plans. With installment plans, one did not have to pay the full price of an item at once, but in smaller payments over a period of time. This enabled many to buy items such as pianos, automobiles, and homes which they could not afford. But due to the purchasing of items beyond one' economic ability, the economy began to wither and crumble into dust, causing the market crash of 1929.
The 1920s saw an overwhelming increase in the popularity of many sports. Swimming, football, golf , boxing, and baseball all became quite popular in that decade. With the explosion of new media and advertising, ameture sporting events grew into colossal professional ones. Due to the large amount of people visiting the events, stadiums were erected and sports stars were well paid. In 1924, the United States participated in the world's first Winter Olympics Games. Athletes such as Babe Ruth became immortalized in this era.
After World War I, many Americans had a surplus of money and invested that economic excess in entertainment. In the 1920s, almost half the homes in the United States has access to a radio. Radio stations would have a national broadcast so that everyone would be able to hear the same news, popular music, and advertisements. Along with popular music on the radio, Broadway performances blossomed , having more than 268 performances in the decade alone. Silent films reached their acme point in the twenties, attracting the attention of thousands upon thousands.
In the 1920s, Broadway musicals were quite popular, attracting many Americans to see their performances. Some performances on Broadway, such as Broadway's The Jazz Singer, used black face: a notorious style of entertainment that utilizes black make up on and exaggerated facial features to mimic an African American. Besides musicals, actors also shared the stage. Initially, performances depicted young ladies as dainty and peasant-like, but with the change in women's image, flappers replaced the image.
Music and Art
Art and music flourished in the 1920s due to the popularization of a wide variety of subjects. In the early 1920s, the surrealism art movement began: a movement in which art did not necessarily have to literally represent a subject, but it was a way for the artist to express him or herself. A great example of this is Pablo Picasso's Three Musicians (1921). In the 1920s, jazz music became increasingly popular. Jazz's genesis is from African American culture and made it's way into American popular music. The blending of cultures such as the introduction of guitar and violin to jazz music increased the American popularity for jazz music.
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At times the music is completely minimalist in its sense of unchanging stillness; this is never truer than on the title track, in which carefully placed notes convey an air of calm reflection, and the spaces are as important as the notes themselves. In similar vein is "Unrest, the album's longest track (at nearly ten minutes) and centerpiece; its multiple layers of keyboards combine to produce a shimmering kaleidoscopic quality reminiscent of early Terry Riley.
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Taken as a whole, Be Still is a highly inventive and varied album without a weak trackand a fine debut that is sure to stand the test of time.
Track Listing: Cornered; Weave In and Out; Be Still; Alone; Unrest; Why; Exhale; Give In; Passing Pain.
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Two English app developers Matt Gray and Tom Scott today launched Emojli, the world's first emoji-only network, where people are identified by their emoji-only user names and will swap emoji-only messages.
In the first few hours of the network's launch, 10,000 people signed up for their emoji-only usernames.
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Having problems accessing this blog- another site comes up and states that my blog name is owned by someone else and I need to purchase it! I just wanted to blog about my life people! Yikes- I can not even get to my blog content without clicking immediately on "post" or "design" to get to this area. I have no idea if someone has "Hijacked" my blog content too!!!
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A Gallon of Learning...
Well known educator, Charlotte Mason once wisely said: "Unless our method of education allows children the opportunity to establish relations with many different things, a gallon of teaching will result in only an ounce of learning."
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Teaching Our Kids About Natural Disasters
Kid Scoop, the kid's online "e-zine", is a great resource that we have used this year and they have put together a FREE e-zine dealing with tsunami's and the earthquake in Japan.
If your children have been interested in finding out more about the earthquake in Japan, but you have been wondering how to teach about this type of natural disaster on their level, without frightening or disturbing them through all the images that the mainstream media provides, this may be a good tool for your family.
This "Special Edition" even includes information on how our students can help those who are in need as a result of the earthquake and resulting tsunami. You can download the special edition and the free printable mini unit, by clicking on the Kid Scoop logo above.
Our family has always believed that it is important to teach our children when their interest level is high about a particular subject. This is a good opportunity to teach your children the Science and geology behind an earthquake and tsunami and about the geography & culture of Japan, as well as taking time to engage them in reaching out to those who need our help in the days to come.
I hope that you and your family will also join us in praying for the people of Japan~
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Grape Jam!
Finally I have time to post pics of our grape jam processing - I will have to post about why it took me so long later!
Of course this is how they start out - fresh picked from our own organic vines right out my back door!
We got around 41 pints of Grape Jam from three types of grapes
Here are the pretty purple grapes!
These turned out a more "rosey" color- they are the best though! The orangy colored grapes are more of a "juice" grape, but Andy wanted to try jam from them first since juice always gives less of a yield. They taste good as jam, but they look sorta bad, so we call that our "Ugly" Jam!
We had a ton of fun with this project and it was lots easier than doing jelly - plus we kept the added nutrients in the skin of the grapes.
Hope that you are all having a terrific week !
Merit K
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Monday, July 26, 2010
From Our Garden...
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
A Friend Can Even Give you A Spider...
OK... well she really gave me these lovely flowers from her garden along with the cutest, little green garden SPIDER.
The spider has since escaped into my house somewhere, unless the cat ate it when she knocked over the flowers the other night!
Thanks for my flowers Laura, and for all the excitement they have brought along with them :)
On another note, I have noticed that I have posted a lot of pics of my Kitchen table and so I pledge to try and include others areas of my home and the outdoors in future blog postings so that you won't get sick of seeing my favorite green checked tablecloth all the time! I really do love it though- it is so cheerful. My other favorite Tablecloth is a red gingham one - maybe I will post a pic of that one later-lol!
I really love my kitchen!
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
The Sour Dough Starter That Ate My Kitchen!
Here is a picture of a "summery" flower wreath that my gal made me!
I have had a busy week. I keep meaning to blog, but life is getting in the way!
I love to bake, in fact I bake all our bread , and I love to try new recipes, but it just so happens that I am lethal to sour dough starters. My friends are so sweet - they just keep supplying me with new starters after I kill one off!
I recently let a starter that my friend gave me last year die a slow death. I had baked with it rather regularly because it made a great cinnamon bread and the kids loved it for breakfast. But as the weather gets hot, I tend to use the oven less and thus the dough was forgotten.
Last weekend I was feeling like baking again for some reason and realized I had no sour dough starter. I had no time to go and beg for starter from one of my friends who bakes, so I decided to try my hand at making my own starter.
I have tried this before, without success, but I decided that was the past and I would try again!
So I carefully followed the recipe and then threw in some other ingrediants that sounded good :) and a little extra yeast and then set it out on the counter to let it grow the yeast I needed to make a good, lasting starter!
I proceded to get the kitchen spotlessly clean and was about to relax at the computer and blog (brag!) about my accomplishments that day, when my youngest came downstairs to ask me what was all over the kitchen counter!
Here is what I came up to see:
Well, actually that was taken after I started to clean it up, but you get the idea! That starter was all over the place. I calmly cleaned it up and put it into a HUGE bowl so that it couldn't escape again.
After a couple of days on the counter, I figured that I better feed the stuff so it didn't die on me again. So right before I went to bed, I "fed" it and put it into some pretty canning jars again. I love the way that looks sitting on the counter. It is just so "homey" !
Well I had just settled in with a good book, when my hubby came into the room and asked me what on earth I had done in the kitchen! You guessed it, the stuff went crazy again! So I cleaned up my counter and the starter went back into the "prison" bowl!
The next day, I decided it was time to use some of the starter up and make some bread. So I mixed it all up. That bread rose like a champ, so I punched it back down and I put it into the bread pans. I felt so happy that all the craziness had been worth it!
Guess what - It wouldn't rise! Grrrr - I baked it anyway and no-one will eat it except me 'cause it looks flat. They are so spoiled!
It tastes good, but it is obviously very upredictable to work with sour dough. I have to get the hang of it though because it is almost time for the Fair and I would love to enter a good loaf of sour dough!
Anyone have any good tips for me ????
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Monday, July 12, 2010
Review of "Molly's Money Saving Digest" for August
Storing Summer's Bounty
Sometime last year, I found out about a great free e-newsletter and website with lots of money saving tips. I have enjoyed receiving Econobuster's "A Minute with Molly" in my email, but I have been so busy lately, that I have been procrastinating on checking into the full digest version.
Now I do not know about you, but I have found that once I get busy, I get more disorganized and once I get disorganized, it is not so easy to pay attention to the budget! And once I am not paying attention to the budget, it is very easy to go over the budget!
Recently, I realized that I need to get back to some money saving techniques, but I have just felt unmotivated!
Then I got an opportunity to review the August Digest for Econobusters, so I jumped at the chance.
I set aside some of those tasks that have been keeping me so busy that I could not focus on my family's financial well being as much as I would like, and sat down with the August issue of Molly's Money Saving Digest.
It turned out that this ezine was just what I needed to get me moving again! I hope my review will help you know if you could use the type of information included in this publication as well!
"Molly's Money Saving Digest" is a Monthly ezine that focuses on helping you to save money.
Not only does the Digest contain money saving ideas, it also includes time saving recipes and organizing tips that suit my lifestyle much better than some of the glossy magazines available, which are mostly advertisements anyway.
I found that the recipes are not too time consuming and do not include a lot of "exotic" ingredients that will be difficult to find and pricey. I love the way the "grocery shopping list" is listed in the digest so that you can easily add to your shopping list what you will need to try the recipe.
The August articles include: directions for freezing fresh produce to enjoy later, using a dehydrator, canning, making bread and shopping/couponing information that anyone can use. The ezine is very practical, but I also enjoyed the ideas for decorating my home beautifully and frugally.
The articles are well-written by people who are also interested in living a simple life so their tips on frugality are very doable! They also include additional resources and links that I can "click" to go right to the information which saves me more time!
My favorite thing in the Digest this month is the "Freezer Inventory" page that I can print out to help me keep track of what is in the freezer. Since our family grows and raises a lot of our own food, I really need to get (and keep) the Freezers organized.
There is a lot of fun, free stuff that goes with the Subscription ($3.95 per month) including e-books from TOS. You can also sign up for the free newsletter for more tips and ideas.
There are a number of other convenient ways to purchase Molly's Money Saving Digest here at the Old Schoolhouse store including the Subscription and "Back Issues" or just order the August issue so you can check it out to see if you love it too:
I really got motivated this month by reading Molly's Digest and I hope that you will check it out too!
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Natural Pest Control
While we were on our vacation to the Creation Museum in Kentucky, they had several workshops and presentations, including one of our favorites from Ron Dudek about "Carnivorous Plants"!
We learned about some of our NC native plants including pitcher plants and the venus fly trap.
We were thrilled, because at last we knew how to care for the venus fly trap plants. I always have been fascinated with them, but never wanted to buy them, because I just knew they would always die. Now, thanks to Ron, I know that they like peat moss and perlite only and distilled water only and you can only activate their 'trapping mechanism' 5-7 times before it runs out of energy and dies without 'food' (meaning bugs!)
So Andy bought me two! Like a proud new mama, I took pictures of them when we got home. If you look carefully, you can see that one of the leaves is closed on a tiny fly! We were all so excited - we must have ten pictures of these plants :)
Well, they should have plenty of bugs to keep them healthy around here and I am enjoying my new "All Natural Pest Control" !
The Creation Museum trip was a great educational and fun vacation and you can find out more about the plants as well as the "expert" on carnivorous plants here:
Have a great week!
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Wordless Wednesday
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Monday, May 31, 2010
Lobster Network Review- Homeschool Tools You Never Thought Of!
The Lobster Network
The Lobster Network is all about connecting you- connecting you with the items that you need and connecting you with the people who need the items that you have. Whether you want to sell, buy or give away, the Lobster Network is a great tool to help you in your Homeschool!
It is totally FREE to join the network and it is easy too. I joined and set up two separate groups for our Homeschool Support Group (T.E.A.C.H. Home Educators!) to use very quickly. We are using it as a way to track our lending library. Our Librarian can easily see who has borrowed an item and anyone can view the listing to see who has the item they need and when it will be returned.
We are also using it to set up a "barter" type system wherein those members of our group who have a service or item to trade, can let everyone know what they have and what they need. This is perfect for many in our group, because we have quite a few self-sufficient types, crafters and Homesteaders!
We are just beginning to use the network, but so far it is going well and our members are starting to join up as we get the word out to them, so that they won't miss out on all the great "stuff" people want to give them trade or sell.
Our Homeschool Group is very pleased with the service we have received and we are excited that this resource was created by a Homeschooling family and is available to us at no charge!
Imagine the possibilities for a great venue like this ...
Thanks Lobster Network!
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"A fun way to announce the gender of your baby to family, friends and coworkers! I wanted to make sure they not only looked cute, but tasted great too! I've been told by several people that they have never eaten a cupcake that tasted this good. :-)"
Best Gender Reveal Cupcakes Ever!
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YIELD:24 cupcakes
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- 2 (1020.58 g) box white cake mix or 2 (1020.58 g) box butter recipe cake mix, use required ingredients as stated on the box
- 3 eggs (use amount specified in cake mix directions)
- 295.73 ml water (use amount specified in cake mix directions)
- 78.07 ml oil (use amount specified in cake mix directions)
- 473.18 ml butter (room temp)
- 2129.31 ml powdered sugar
- 226.79 g bakers white chocolate
- 9.85 ml vanilla
- 44.37 ml heavy whipping cream
- red food coloring or blue food coloring
- 946.0 ml heavy whipping cream (put the container of whipping cream and a bowl in your freezer 20 minutes before you use it to have )
- 2 (198.44 g) box vanilla instant pudding mix (my fav is cheesecake!!, my fav is cheesecake!!) or 2 (198.44 g) box white chocolate pudding mix (my fav is cheesecake!!, my fav is cheesecake!!)
- 283.49 g strawberry preserves (girl) or 283.49 g blackberry preserves (boy)
- Cupcakes:
- Bake the cupcakes as per the instructions on the cake mix box.
- I suggest doing this the night before as I did -- being pregnant saps my energy and dividing the work makes it easier for me! I also cooled the cupcakes and put them in the freezer to make them easier to work with and ice the next day.
- Icing:
- Set the Butter out so it gets to be room temperature. Next take the 8 oz of white bakers chocolate and chop it up and put it into a microwaveable bowl. Microwave it in 15-20 sec increments, stirring in between, until melted. Whip the Butter and white chocolate together (first I squished the butter with a fork and then used a mixer). Add the Vanilla and Heavy whipping cream and mix well. Keep using your mixer and gradually add the 9 cups of powdered sugar. Set Aside.
- Surprise Filling:
- Take the heavy whipping cream out of the freezer (you put it in there 20 minutes ago, right?) and dump it in your bowl. Using cool or cold beaters on your mixer, beat the whipping cream on medium-high until it starts to get thick. Add the Jello pudding mix and keep mixing until it gets really thick and somewhat stiff. Fold in your desired amount of preserves (I used about 2/3 of a small jar) and add food coloring. Beat the mixture until it's a even color.
- Filling the Cupcakes:
- Take the cupcakes out of the freezer immediately after finishing the filling. Cut a upside down triangular cylinder out of the top of the cupcake. (That makes sense, right?) Cut the point off the triangular cylinder so it leaves lots of room for filling and it will be like a lid.
- Using a regular spoon, fill the cupcakes with the colored surprise filling and put their "tops" back on carefully.
- Icing the cupcakes:
- take your icing and either just slather it on the top, covering any hint of blue or pink filling -- or be all fancy-like and use an icing bag and tips and swirl on a beautiful top. Add blue and pink sprinkles or whatever you like on top of that.
- Store Cupcakes in the refrigerator! They can last a few days, just make sure to store in the fridge!
- You may have left over filling -- which my pregnant self and my small children had no problem eating out of the bowl with a spoon!
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Simple & Modern Login Form.
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UK seeks to become global hub for green finance
The UK's energy and climate ministry has launched an initiative to boost private sector investment in climate mitigation and adaptation projects. The intention is to make London's financial district a global centre for low carbon investment.
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