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It's given me an excuse to rummage through some ancient video clips, and it occurred to me that those who won't be there tomorrow might like to see them.
A promising newcomer?
The first one dates from 1981, when he was still the prospective parliamentary candidate for Yeovil, and John Heritage and I were in the process of recording all the televised output from that year's three main political party conferences.
At this stage, Paddy wasn't really aware of how rhetoric works and has to break off when his three-part list prompts a burst of applause - looking vaguely surprised that it had brought so positive a response from the audience.
Nor, it appears had he given much thought to wearing a jacket and tie - and maybe he'll be able to tell us tomorrow night whether the lectern was hiding sandals.
After becoming an MP in 1983, Paddy was transport spokesman for the Liberals and had been lent a copy of my book Our Masters' Voices (1984) by a mutual friend (now Lord Bradshaw) who introduced us with a view to my helping the new MP with his speeches.
By the time of the 1987 General Election, Paddy had become the education spokesman for the SDP Liberal Alliance, which meant that he would have to speak when they launched their campaign at the Barbican.
So this was the first speech that we worked on together to be televised. A puzzle with an alliterative three-parted solution was among the lines that got the desired response. And one of these 'Rs' came from a Scrabble dictionary, which can be a useful resource for searching lists of words quickly and without being deflected by definitions.
Although Our Masters' Voices had quite a lot to say about rhetorical devices like contrasts and three-part lists, it said little about the importance of imagery and story telling as ways of getting your message across. However, having by this stage become more involved in coaching people to make speeches and presentations, I'd become much more aware of how effective metaphors, similes, analogies and anecdotes could be.
And it was a contrastive simile that won both laughter and applause in this sequence:
Liberal Party merger debate, 1988Having fought the 1987 general election as two parties in an alliance, the Liberals and SDP turned to the question of whether they should become a single party.
Paddy was keen that they should, and planned to speak in support of merger at the special assembly early in 1988. I wrote a speech but did not go to the conference. On the train to the venue, one of his other advisors persuaded him to leave out every sentence I'd written - except for one.
To my great delight, it was the Tower of Babel/tower of strength contrast that only line that was selected as a sound bite on prime-time news programmes. One of the commentators even claimed it was a 'clear statement' of Ashdown's intention to run for the leadership if a new party were formed (which it wasn't).
Leadership campaign, 1988
Once Paddy had decided to run for the leadership of the new party, we spent weeks working with him on the speech in which he would announce his candidacy - not realising at the time that, for the next three weeks, he would need at least one new speech per day.
Amidst the ongoing panic that followed, I remember getting a note from one of the other writers saying "My price is a peerage, what's yours?" - but, for some strange reason, neither of us has (yet) been elevated to the House of Lords.
But I was quite pleased that a widely played sound bite from the speech was a simple three-part list in which yesterday, today and tomorrow were used as metaphors for past, present and future:
The new leader
A few days before the result was announced, it became clear that our candidate was going to win. By then, the gains of the two parties at the 1987 election had been largely whittled away, and Paddy was well aware of the need to remind the public that the Alliance was still going strong (?) in a different form.
Reflecting on my brief to cook up some lines to get this across, I was stuck in one of those traffic jams on the M6 where there's so little movement that you have to turn the car engine off.
Reaching for my pen and pad I started trying different possibilities and came up with a contrast between being "not only back in business, but mean business", which BBC political editor John Cole seem to think good enough to headline his introduction to live footage - of yet another three-part list.
Who's helping?
I've often likened speechwriting as an occupation to being rather like robbing banks, in that you can't go around advertising your wares by boasting which speeches you wrote for whom. Nor, usually, can you expect a client to tell all his friends that he'd got someone else to help him.
But on this, Paddy had a different and refreshingly open approach. During his leadership campaign, he asked me if I would mind if he told the media who'd been helping him with his speeches.
Initially, I wasn't convinced that this would be a good idea from his point of view, as my involvement in coaching someone to win a standing ovation at the 1984 SDP conference had earned me the name 'Dr Claptrap' in some quarters. But his line was that it was as rational to consult an 'expert' on speechmaking and rhetoric as it was to consult 'experts' on IT or any other field he felt he needed help with -
At around that time, the director of communications of a large multi-national company told me it wouldn't do my business any good if it became known that I was associated with such losers as the Liberal Democrats.
Ten years later, I was still in business, Ashdown had more than doubled the number of Liberal Democrat MPs but the company of the director of communications had gone into liquidation a few years earlier.
As for why I got involved, I had been a keen supporter of the SDP and believed then (as I still believe now) that, if Ashdown didn't win the leadership of the new party, it would be the end of three party politics in the UK for at least a generation.
How much?
Party members who worry about how much I was paid by the Lib Dems during the twelve years I worked with Paddy will be relieved to know that it was a grand total of £0.00. In fact, given that I never charged for travel costs, it was actually a substantial minus figure - not least because, in those early years, all the Sainsbury cash had stayed with David Owen's rump SDP (before being diverted to 'New Labour').
For those of us whose journey to the Liberal Democrats was via the SDP, the Blair years were arguably pretty much what the gang of four had been hoping for all those years ago...


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- a rope of negligible weight
- a balloon filled with helium, which can lift for around the same weight, 80kg.
My question is, which of the following outcomes will occur (without considering weather conditions)?
- The balloon can actually lift a bit more than 80 kg.
- The balloon cannot lift more than 79.9 kg
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The morning's storm gave way to a glorious afternoon to celebrate the groundbreaking of a new Allen County Hospital on Monday, May 7, 2012. Cris Rivera, CEO at Allen County Hospital, welcomed about 150 people at the site on North Kentucky Street in Iola, Kansas. The voters overwhelmingly approved a $30 million bond issuance to finance the hospital project plus a quarter cent sales tax.
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Q&A with Pedro de la Rosa…
HRT Formula 1 Team and Pedro de la Rosa have written a golden page in the history of Spanish motorsport this season. The union of both has resulted in the first time in Formula 1 history that a Spanish driver takes part in an entire World Championship with a Spanish team. At the age of 41, the driver from Barcelona is taking on his fourteenth season in Formula 1, but he maintains the same motivation and hunger as the first day to ensure that this project consolidates itself in the pinnacle of motorsport.
We're at the halfway stage of the season, what assessment do you make of these first months?
They've been seven very intense months, with a spectacular amount of team work, which I've taken on with a lot of hunger and desire. We've made steady progress but now we're at a key moment and we must take another step forward. My assessment is very positive because we set ourselves realistic targets, we've accomplished them and we're, more or less, where we expected to be. We've still got to improve more and we have nine races ahead in which to do so.
The start was complicated but the team is working better together and improving day by day. Would you say the objectives set at the start of the season are being accomplished?
Without a doubt. We're accomplishing them and with flying colours at times. We started outside the 107% in Australia and we've reached peaks of 103.6% in Monaco and our best qualifying result which was 103.4% in Valencia. That was a very ambitious target that we set ourselves because, for us, to be close to 104% is a realistic objective. We've surpassed it and have potential to do more. In our case, it's going to be easier to improve in this second half of the season than it will be for a big team that is striving for perfection because we've got much more room for improvement. For now we've accomplished our objectives but there are still many races to set ourselves more ambitious targets.
With your experience at big teams it can't have been easy to arrive at such a humble team as this one. On a personal note, how do you face this challenge and what is most rewarding about it?
I'm taking it on as a challenge, well aware that challenges are never easy and that in Formula 1 no one hands you anything. But in my opinion we're doing a good job, with humility, work and pride. The most rewarding thing is to work with the people from the team and see that in very difficult conditions, and with much less people than other teams, they work day and night with the conviction that we can beat our rivals. The team is going through a period of change and growth and now we've got a fantastic headquarters that has transformed the team. We've got a base from which the team is growing day by day. No one has stopped pushing, no matter what the situation. And we've felt supported. It's not easy being at the back and finishing last. But what motivates us every day is that we see that we're improving and we believe that we won't be at the back for long. It's very nice to see that, despite the fact that i t's being very tough, we believe in that step forward.
How is your relationship with your teammates? What would you highlight about each one?
My relationship with Narain is very good. There's a lot of sincerity and we both want what's best for the team. We fight hard on the track but in an honest way and, out of the teammates I've had, he's one of the most sincere ones. We try to achieve the best set-up on the car between the two of us without hiding anything from each other. One of the characteristics of Narain and the engineers is that there is total transparency and no bad intentions, we're aware that we're last and if one of us finds something that can improve the car he shares it with the other because the objective is to progress. We're team players.
Dani is a great driver and an important part of the team because he's got a great sense of humour and he makes things seem less dramatic with his characteristic humour. That's very important for the team and everyone appreciates him. But he's also very professional and knows how to work well. When he's driven on Friday's he's contributed a lot.
Ma has integrated very well. He's the future of China and a driver that must play an important role in HRT Formula 1 Team. He's probably the first Chinese driver with enough quality to be a Formula 1 driver and he left us all flabbergasted at the Young Driver Test in Silverstone with his great performance.
And what's your relationship with the Team Principal, Luis Pérez-Sala, like?
Luis is one of the main reasons I'm at the team. I've always held him in the highest regard and I have blind faith in him. He's never going to deceive me and I like to work with people who you can trust in and with whom there are no secrets. With Luis what you see is what you get. Sincerity is our strength and that gives us a lot of agility when making decisions.
The F112 had a complicated birth but is a car with potential. What would you say are its strengths and weaknesses?
Its main strength is that it has a great mechanical platform of suspensions and chassis and it has proved it at circuits where that is important. It is also reliable. Its weakness is its lack of downforce compared to other cars. We know exactly where we lose time and why, so we must work on that.
Of the circuits to come, which are you most looking forward to racing at? And the least?
This is a trick question because my favourite circuit is Suzuka, since in my opinion it's the nicest in the championship, but almost all of its corners are quick and that's going to give us a lot of problems. So the circuit I'm most looking forward to is Monza because it has long straights and strong braking corners, and our car performs very well in this kind of circuits. The ones I'm least looking forward to are Suzuka and Spa because they're going to be very complicated for us.
What would you consider a success once the season is finished?
If we manage to qualify inside the 103% it will be a complete success. Especially doing so without KERS and a much less effective DRS system than the other teams. But it's going to be very difficult because at the last Grands Prix the difference has been a bit bigger. If we manage to be under 104% with the aero package for Singapore it will be a great finish to the season and the necessary momentum to start next season strongly.
But now it's time to rest a bit to face an intense second half of the season. What plans do you have for the holidays?
Like every year I'm going to Mallorca, to a small town on the east coast. I've spent my summers there since I was 3 years old and I have my childhood friends there and I'm going with my wife and three daughters who I'm really looking forward to spending as much time as possible with.
A message for the fans
The same one as at the start of the season. We're thankful for their support and we're here because of them. I thank them for their patience because I understand that the fans want us to be fighting at the front. But they also see that we're improving every day, cutting down the difference, and building a serious project for all us to feel proud about.


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From the wineries of Jack London Square to the tasting rooms sprinkled downtown, Oakland's wine trail is an impressive complement to the city's world-class culinary scene. At the Fourth Street warehouse housing JC Cellars and Dashe Cellars, you can taste some of the most highly lauded syrahs and zinfandels in California. Venture across the freeway to the 25th Street Collective that Two Mile Wines calls home, and discover stunning examples of boutique sangiovese and viognier. Here's a sampling of wineries that stood out for us, have regular tasting room hours and form a mini-wine trail of their own. Check their websites for hours and other details.
Dashe Cellars: Mike and Anne Dashe have been making stellar Sonoma County zinfandels and Rhône-style wines for 17 years (10 in the 16,000-square-foot winery they share with JC Cellars) using cool-climate fruit from low-yielding vines, native-yeast fermentations, and minimal handling. Be sure to try 2011's The Comet, an intense, old-vine zinfandel commemorating Comet ISON, and the 2012 Potter Valley Dry riesling, a dead ringer for the Mosel. Stay tuned for a first-time Sierra Foothills Grenache Blanc to be released in April. (55 Fourth St.; www.dashe cellars.com)
JC Cellars: The name Jeff Cohn has been synonymous with zinfandel since he was the winemaker at Rosenblum Cellars in the 1990s and crafted more than 70 different wines per year. Today, he's down to 20-something, with a focus on Rhône varietals sourced from some of the best vineyards in California, including Rockpile in Sonoma County and Stagecoach in Napa (This one's a rock-star cabernet). The 2012 Impostor is classic Cohn Rhône, jammy yet elegant. Be on the lookout for a new Stagecoach viognier and a zinfandel aging in amphora. (55 Fourth St., www.jccellars.com)
Urban Legend Cellars: Down the street in the Ironworks district, a former biologist, Marilee Shaffer, and her engineer husband, Steve, are showing off an eclectic portfolio of wines crafted almost exclusively from organically farmed vineyards. The 2009 Teroldego is all black: blackberry, black pepper and black figs. The 2012 Rosati Di Barbera is light and juicy, a serious strawberry lemonade. Be sure to ask about the latest wine in their Neighborhood line, Jingletown, a blend of grenache, syrah and pinot noir celebrating the pocket arts community west of Fruitvale. (621 Fourth St.; www.ulcellars.com)
Periscope Cellars: Brendan Eliason's new tasting room in Old Oakland's Swan's Market is not only a great place to mingle with hipsters and taste wine; it is, undeniably, the best place to enjoy gourmet grub and wine pairing in the area. The former Va de Vi sommelier serves seven to 10 of his wines, including a Russian River Valley chardonnay and Sonoma County sangiovese, both 2009, from a keg tap alongside Rosamunde's sausages and Miss Ollie's fried chicken. Can't decide? Get the wine "to go" in a 500-ml refillable flip-top bottle. (Swan's Market, 517 Ninth St.; periscopecellars.com)
Two Mile Wines: Bill Bedsworth and Adam Nelson run their boutique operation out of the 25th Street Collective, an incubator housing slow-food and slow-fashion artisans. They source fruit from sustainable vineyards across Sonoma County and the Central Coast and make and pour their handcrafted wines, including a beautiful, Old World-style Dry Creek sangiovese, alongside Platinum Dirt's Dustin Page, who makes leather goods out of recycled materials salvaged from old cars. A great stop during Art Murmur. (477 25th St.; twomilewines.com)
Stage Left Cellars: On the first Saturday of each month, owner Melinda Doty and winemaker Rich Williams open their cellar doors to the public for tastings of their handcrafted, microlot Rhône-style wines, from Central Coast viognier and roussanne to juicy Santa Maria grenache and meaty syrah from Oregon's Rogue Valley. (2102 Dennison St.; www.stageleft cellars.com)
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Reading List….Elegance – The Seeberger Brothers
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Fantastic. I'm going to look for the book. As for your own body of work, I seriously expect people to be looking at it years from now. This morning I was searching through the archives trying to find the firt post I ever commented on and was struck, as I always am, by the wealth of fantastic images contained in the archives of this blog alone. I've been commenting on posts on the Sartorialist for about two months and had never come across another person posting as Dan until yesterday when a second Dan commented on "Last Looks of Summer" (that's what sent me to the archives- because that same person had been the subject of my first post and I wondered when it was)and that prompted me to create a profile so for now this former Dan will be Dan in Richmond. And speaking of books, are there any plans afoot for a book of your photographs? I bet every regular visitor to this blog would buy- how many's that for a start?
That is absolutley lovley. Especially the girl in the second photo… so elegant and stylish! I want this book!
i have that book too and look through it often for inspiration.
Amazing photos! Thanks for posting.
It's a fabulous book!!!
Beautiful. I will be looking for this book. The images are gorgeous and inspiring…as are yous :)
So lovely!
Great pictures! I wonder what is it about the men's clothing from that time that gives them so much allure, even in most simple outfit (for ex. man in the last picture). Is the trousers cut? Something else?
Absolutely perfect. I just ordered this book and can't wait to receive it.
wow, those are gorgoeus images! as are yours. thank you for doing what you do Sart. you're one of my daily reads and looking at your pictures never fails to make me smile. cheers!
The last picture looks as if it was shot today and not 50, 60, or 70 years old. A classic shot
le sigh…
How I long for a return to elegance! Our entire culture has lost track of what beauty, taste, and wit are all about. Instead of beauty, we have an infatuation with the grotesque. Instead of taste, we have shock value and, "Oh, that's really different!". Instead of wit, we have infantile, embarrassing, potty-mouth humor.
But ah, these images… people putting on nice clothes just to leave the house… that lovely enveloping coat and face-framing hat on the woman in the August picture… the man at the seaside in cream trousers and a tweed jacket…
The pendulum can swing back any time now.
They are all wonderful, but the first and third photos in particular are amazing – that perfect androgynous, effortless glamour with the man's jacket on the girl in #1, while the third pic is SO Jay Gatsby…
What I especially like about them is their sex appeal -they are relaxed rather than posed and stuffy. I think that is the value of documentary photography, its ability to capture spontaneity and the ephemeral moment, the 'toppling hour', as the poet Louis MacNeice described it.
I think your photographs do that very well.
all the images are beautiful and inspiring, indeed. it makes me smile to know that there are people like you insist on making good art and keep inspiring people even generations after. this will never end I hope!
Hi– I'm a brand-new fan of your blog and am just now going through the archives. What you do here is most certainly Art in my opinion– as creative as the fashion design itself.
I sell the clothes of a famous design brand at a huge department store… your blog is inspiring me to understand my job in a new light.
Wow. I am moved by those images…
The last one is beautiful, and inspiring, and somehow heartbreaking.
The man on the beach is just a gorgeous piece of art, and terribly poignant. The girl in Chanel makes me think of Edna St Vincent Millay.
Life moves so quickly.
In the last picture, of the couple, what accounts for her very dark skin above and her very light legs below?
yeah, here's to looking forward to a book of your images, Sart :)! I think what will be unique about your book would be the images of men. I find your capture of men's style exceptional, more so than the women's if i may be so outrageously candid. i also deeply admire your use of light, the spontaneity you capture and the depth in the backgrounds.
Indeed. Thank you for sharing!
I bought this book in the Brooklyn Museum a couple of months ago when i went to see the small but wonderful Art Smith jewelry exhibit. Sart, I agree, it's a terrific book and the images relate to yours' because the photos are of people in everyday life, they are not models posed and primped for the camera.The pictures say so much. I have always thought that your work is a lot about social documentary and as such has a far reaching importance. You are very broad minded in who, what and where you choose to photograph and no detail misses your eagle eye. I've been wanting a book of your work book eversince i started following your blog and I want a first edition because it will become very valuable (!) – your work will be looked at and discussed for many, many years to come.
The woman sitting on the fence looks very modern. I guess when materials for clothes were short for ordinary people,they took more care of them. Today the mentality is much like buy,wear and throw away.Also the fact that clothes were tailored make a difference. I´m sure that this book is very interesting for you and for all of us.
Hello Sart, delightful photos of yesteryear. I have not a shred of doubt that your photos will be shared and looked at in much the same fashion as you have looked at those in Elegance. Thank you for the sample look into the book will buy.
I am so inspired. This is just what I needed. thank you. If you see a girl walking around NYC during fashion week looking like she stepped out of the 1920s, its me. hah!
Where can I get this book?
From the number of comments in your blog, I think you will find that not only will people return to look at your pictures years from now, but you are also becoming a marketing tool for many in the fashion industry, and now publishing. I think you are creating a valuable fashion archive since you photograph what people wear on the street rather than on a photo shoot, and that has a lot of value. Jorge from W Palm Beach
I think the genius himself, Mr. Armani has studied this book in detail. Lots of similarities. Great find!
it's just gorgeous
Great find – I'd love to have this book!
Great pictures !! I particularly love the last one ..
so beautiful!
The images from the book are great, and it seems likely that your own work will endure in a similar way. However, I'd like to say, for the record, how much your work means to me today, this year, this season. While runway and fashion mag photos inspire and amaze, your work brings us into the world of style and real people, and it's truly rich. Thank you.
On a side note, it's not so far-fetched that one would wear furs on a North Sea beach like Deauville in August. brr.
I see that this book can be bought on sale at the publisher's site right now for 30% off using promo code "zipcar" at checkout:
Such a beautiful book and beautiful thoughts of your own….thank you!
What a great book! Thank you! Must get it now!!!!
I am going to look for this book. The few photos you show are perfection, and I have to say Sart on the whole your shots are future classics as well. It is so interesting that true elegance is continually relaxed and unpretentious and many of your shots, and certainly the photos you display here, represent this. I am always looking for it. Thanks for getting it right.
amazing. Tha time people even had a different and extremely elegant way of stare. They just STARE so beautiflly. Their bodys were much more elegant…
thanks to readymade i found your blog. i really love your images! i will come back to visit often! i love seeing what you capture!
I adore old photos. I recently received a disk full of old family photos (1900-1960s) and I was struck by the elegance of subjects. This was in New Zealand which may seem remote now, but in those days it was weeks or months away from the fashion centres. NZers back then were probably out of fashion by international standards, but it doesn't seem to matter when seen through the filter of time. Now I can look at the photos and admire the formality (and smirk at the impracticality)! I posted a few of the photos on my blog the other day, and it is marvellous to click here and have a glimpse at what the real fashionistas were up to at the same time. Thanks, Sart.
I love the fashion!!! It´s so elegant!
Lovely and inspiring.
sorry i am offtop.
I am from Russia, have ou ever been to Russia? and have you made any pictures there?
lovely images, i'll look for the book…
also, sart, have you seen this?
it's a pretty clever parody.
the second woman is my favorite.
I feel sure your photos will be of the same interest. It is the everyday of these images that makes history real; breathes life into mere facts and dates. t.x
yum!!!…another book for the must have list…
love it!!
love the beachy girl and boy in the last pic…they could be from any time (including right now)!
that's style.
My mother gave me this book for Christmas last year. There's a photo of a lady wearing a polka dot dress (or jacket, can't remember) and walking a Dalmation which I just adore. As a book I find it endlessly inspiring.
If it counts for anything, I find your photos to be equally inspiring. I view your blog almost daily and I've discovered it to be a lovely way to escape the stresses of life; just to see such wonderful photographs of such unique styling and very individual people.
I referred a friend to your blog, who also views it daily, and we have both fallen head over heels in love with it. Not just because we get ideas from the style of people you've photographed, but also because of the immense care you put into every shot.
You are truly inspiring; an timeless hero. Thanks for everything.
fantastic. i love all these photos.
Wow Sart, those are awesome images. I've always been enthralled by photo books. I'm sure you'll have one under your belt in no time. =)
Wow, I have a feeling there will be a run on this book, amazing images!
Sart this is exactly what you are already doing. A book of your photos is a must but The Sartorialist is already an electronic catalogue. People flick through the archive pages daily, as they would with a book. Your images are beautiful and timeless, I'm certain people will be flicking through either your hardback or electronic pages in years to come.
Thank you for introducing me to this book, I must have it!
the last one is perfection!
we carry this book in the shop I work at, I bought it immediately !!! I recommend that everyone who reads the sartorialist read this book!
fantastic pictures, thanks
true fashion is enduring, not trend, not fad, but true fashion…love that bottom photo.
Well, Sart, these are fantastic pix. I especially love the lady in the suit. No only am I into men's wear as my own personal style, I love the lady. She looks like Ingrid Bergman, one of my favorite old-school actresses.
And there is certainly a book somewhere among the beautiful pictures you've given us. But even if not, you must know how many of us get the same feeling from opening your blog that you get when you open the book.
The Sartorialist is weirdly addicting and if it were a book I would keep it on the table in my office where others could enjoy it. The appreciation of style sounds so frivolous when you consider that we've invaded another country and so many people have died from that one ridiculous move and the economy is fucked up and we have a president who makes me embarrassed to be an American when I go abroad…. With all that, there is still the simple pleasure of coming here and seeing someone who pulled something out of their own closet that didn't necessarily cost a ton of money and without the help of a "stylist" and they are a walking piece of art with their own identity and personal style. And many of your pictures are just beautifully lit and composed. Excellent portaiture.
Unlike Vogue (which I glance through with a bit of annoyance at being reminded of how poor I am) you give us something attainable and real — you put on display true style which doesn't require mega bucks.
Of course if you have mega bucks (or fashion connections) that helps…. (see all your shots of Vogue editors in their great, fashionable pieces).
If you do get a book together, I will be the first to fork out the hundred bucks (a lot of money to moi)…. 'cause you're worth it, babe.
Keep on keepin' on.
Fabulous, fabulous photos. I am adding this book to my list of "must haves" right now. Thank you. Your blog is elegant!
well clearly, sart, if you don't mind me calling you that..you have a book to be published calling out to you. there's just something about photos compiled in a book and felt in the hands to be savored that cannot be the same as on a cold, mechanical screen. what say you?
What a great find, so inspirational as far as fashion and photography!
Also, I adore your blog! I think it's a great example of current fashion that can become timeless. It's very inspirational to me, and gives me new ideas for my current wardrobe, and what I'd like to buy to add to it. It will be a great reference for the future.
Take care!
Much love!
That looks like a beautiful book.. thanks for sharing.
looks like a great book…the vintage images are beautiful!
Wow! the fashion then was so different, yet so intrinsically the same at certain levels.
I wonder what the front of that white dress in last snap looked like.
Thanks for the head's up….
With the last picture, I was initially confused – I thought that you had included one of your photos! I had to look closer at the man to determine that it wasn't completely contemporary.
The black and white -photos are sovereign!
i absolutely adore the chanel 458 photo- this high class flapper style is just so captivating. imagining that it's the tiuleries is great, but i think it matches 1920′s new york so well.
I have this book and I have always love the simple elegance of the images.
wonderful, thanks for sharing!
August in Brittany: COLD! Just had to cancel a week there because it was apparently going to rain ceaselessly. So not such a disconnect from today's world after all.
Beautiful photos, and I agree yours are fascinating too. While I'm commenting for the first time, let me mention that I subscribe to your RSS feed and love seeing new batches of your pictures pop up. You have a fantastic eye—the photographs you take each contain some idea to ponder, to love or hate, adopt or reject, or simply appreciate. There are no boring pictures on your blog, despite the consistency of your subject (person in the street wearing clothes, usually standing, seen head to toe, and usually aware of the camera). Your genuine interest in what you see, the care you take in the images you present, and your impressive instinct is evident everywhere. I do hope you have your own glossy photo book someday—it will be not on my shelf but forever open on my dresser. A million thanks for all this.
Tangentially –
I have heard many times, from several people, the question on whether photography is a true art form, when all it does is capture what is already created, existing. Why can't art start from someone's eyes? From someone's perception of what is worthy to be captured and remembered? True, you 'document' these fashions, but if your eyes did not judge what is beauty, and if you didn't translate that through an evolving technique, who else can show it to us the way that you wanted it shown.
Art can be well planned, well executed. But it can also be about recognizing stories in the most spontaneous of situations. And that's why photography, even those that are created for blogs, can be art.
Great photos, I will certainly check out the book.
As to the photo of people really bundled up in the middle of August…trust me, on the Normandy coast can get quite chilly in mid-August…even in today's world!
Thank you for this lovely post. I really enjoyed it, every word of it, every picture…now I want to buy the book!!
I love all these vintage but timeless examples of elegance you show here…you made a great selection of images.
Your blog never dissapoints, no matter if you are bringing us all those wonderful outfits you seem to find anywhere you go or you are sharing your thoughts, reccomendations and excelent eye for style like here in this post.
Thank you Scott!
Love those images – what a fascinating book. I'll have to pick it up.
I come here looking for inspiration – and I find it every time. Beyond all the fashion – it's like you say, how it represents a beautiful person in a beautiful time. You always capture it wonderfully.
Those pictures are not too distant from the realities of Deuville today. Especially that of the women perched, swaggeringly so, in front of a changing room. How Great Gatsby of her.
It's spooky to see, i was only recently holiday-ing in Deuville and those dividers all display plaques with the names of hollywood greats on, i wonder what her role was in life?
Yes and what will make your book fascinating 100 years from now is that it's not just 'society' or 'fashion' people that you shoot (although there are enough of those to keep things interesting)–it's also everyday people out on the streets.
This book looks wonderful and I'm sure the publisher is seeing a sudden and unexpected spike in sales at the moment!
Like Dan In Richmond said…
I look forward for a book of your own…..probably "Fashion History" book….for a next generation..
This is a coffee table "must have".
Just bought it on Amazon!
What more can be said besides: BEAUTIFUL! Your photos truly follow in the great tradition of these images–and it's so fascinating to see such modern, lively pictures that were actually taken 80 years ago–I definitely must get the book.
I am a huge fan of authentic vintage clothing. I like to incorporate it into my own look. This book is fab. I'll have to find a copy for myself. I would love to see people wearing hats again. The millinery is tres chic!
In a world where the true meaning of style and sophistication have long been forgotten, it is inspiring to have a blog like yours. Thank you very much Mr. Schuman.
I have noticed on some of our older family photographs that they seem to be dated when they were developed rather than when they were taken.
I especially love the first two photos! What expression! I love the first one because of its' lively nature. And the second, the woman is lovely, and very much in the style that this site enbodies.
Thank you for putting your photographs (really, your artwork) up for all to enjoy!
This is great! I hope one day you would put together a book like this, and I'm sure it will inspire generations and generations to come. :)
The photos are… what can I say…
I simple love 1920´s and 1930´s clothes. These photos are more than inspiring… and you are a great professional.
As a student of literature, I really appreciate your perspective on your photography; its status as a document and something important, but not strong-armed into the funny classification of "art".
Keep up the good work. Your photos are beautiful!
Beautiful images. This is one of my favorite posts. The book looks yummy.
I immediately went out and bought the book. These photos capture the elegance of an era that I so long to return to. I try in my own small way to capture it in what I wear. Your photos Sart are doing a wonderful job of keeping elegance and grace ahead of trend and flash.
I think the two people in the romantic beach pic are both girls are they not? Its very beautiful and timeless anyway. Thanks for sharing. Am purchasing the book pronto.
Will you be releasing a book of images?
I hope you do, it would be fantastic!!
I think your photos would make just as good a documentary book as these. It is so unusual to see vintage photos that are not formal and posed. My favorites are the last one with the couple overlooking the sea and the man on the beach in a jacket and white pants. Casual wear was just so much more elegant then! No ratty T shirts and skanky thong bikinis.
Elizabeth is right—the coat is not so far-fetched. In fact, I was in the Alps on August 14th of THIS year—and we had to turn on the heat. On the 15th, it was only 46 in the morning…. so: it's really more pragmatic than romantic. (Actually, most of Paris' weather is that way—pretty chilly. We don't get much in the way of summer here unless you head to the south coast).
I tuned into the fashions of the 20s and 30s a long time ago. I would record old movies, and watch them all day just to get a daily dose of eye candy. The tailoring and the quality of everyday clothing back then was incredible, women with limited means are deprived of that now.
Hi Sart– I turn to your blog and photos at least three times per week for inspiration, a dose of intrigue and spirit, and a fix on true human beauty, in much the same way it seems you turn to this book. Thank you for sharing your daily work and art with us all.
I LOVE THIS POST! The way you worded things made it ten times beautiful. "…the disconnect from today's world that I think make these images romantic and mysterious." Nicely put
It's cold in Normandie, even in August, no matter what year it is.
I, too, own the Seebergers' book, and it is a treasure. All the people look as if they have stepped out of "Tender is the Night," but in a good way.
Sart: you have an eye for elegance and quirkiness that can put you in the pantheons with these photographers. Not likely that we can summon up another talent like Scott Fitzgerald, however…
We are Seebergers here in the US (no relation), and I have studied and lived in France, while my family have worked in ladies' fashions for decades. We enjoy this book for the name association and the gorgeous and glamorous images –really a time gone by, yet style that still speaks!
I have just come back from Deauville in northern france and they have a big exhibition of these pictures on top of the beach huts by the board walk. They are absolutely beautiful. To see them in situ is even more exciting as the sea front hasn't changed since the photographs were taken.
"Elegance" is a beautiful book created in memoriam of a celebrity photographer that worked before the Second World War. It portrays celebrities of those times from France and Switzerland. Pictures are outstanding and artistic for those times where the technology of photography was at the beginnings. The people pictured are mainly from the elite of Europe but not only. However, they show Style and Class, which is so RARE nowadays. It is a great book to learn from as a photographer, but also it is greatly recommended to all who are in search of their personal style and want to refine it.


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LSC-PA holds largest student orientation ever on campus
More than 100 new Seahawks attended Lamar State College - Port Arthur's three-hour orientation on Thursday, Aug. 7, reports Dave Rogers of LSC-PA.
New students and their family members arrived in drives for the informational session and to tour the campus. In this photo, the students and families cross Lakeshore Drive from the Performing Arts Center to the Parker Center as part of the tour during the student orientation held in advance of the start of Fall 2014 semester beginning Aug. 25.
Brooke Wilhelm, an incoming freshman from Deweyville, won a door prize drawing for a laptop computer.
Lamar State College-Port Arthur is a member of the Texas State University System and an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.
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Talk:Iranian Telecommunications Corporation internal documents, Jun 2009
From WikiLeaks
This is apparently the Works Cited page for a report about the effects of economic corruption. Not worth much. --188.8.131.52 21:09, 18 June 2009 (GMT) i didn't read the document myself, i'm relying on the translation of a pretty reliable guy
Slideshow in powerpoint file.
Well, some may be ITU-T documents about strategic management.
But the powerpoint file...it contains a rather interesting slideshow that has relevance to the present occasions going on in that Islamic Republic, including some shocking images of police brutality.
It is entitled, according to Google Farsi "Iranian national epic". katana0182 02:57, 20 June 2009 (GMT)
Pdf file within archive - rename to a ASCII name, then run Adobe Reader
Translation by Google's ALPHA Farsi Translator...
Mir-Hossein Mousavi has announced that in protest of election results declared Monday
Time 25 June 1388 from 4 PM to Azadi Square in Tehran revolutionary march will
Asked that their sympathizers to join him.
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To have the company.
Mr. Mousavi day campaign Sunday announced a request for licensing Our dear
Office has been sent to Iran, but Morteza Tamaddon, supplying Council of Tehran Province, said
Do not permit issued and "Our dear is illegal."
Mr. civilization also announced "Police Station with any assembly without permission or راهپيمايي
Will encounter. "
County Council to provide consequences Our dear heads the Tehran headquarters knew Mir Hossein Mousavi
And said: "This action demonstrates the behavior of non-staff is responsible for this."
Shahab al-Din Tabatabai, youth chief of staff حامي Mr. Mousavi told the BBC Persian
Mir Hossein Mousavi if the decision is done to prevent or Our dear encounter severe
Sepulcher with supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini in south Tehran and go there and sit-in rally.
Mr. Tabatabai said that if any obstacle or to the presence of Mr. Mousavi sepulcher Ayatollah Khomeini
Be created, he حسينيه Jmaran northern Tehran where they will and will Mthsn.
Mousavi telephone message: 'for I am under pressure to accept the election results'
On the other hand the day Sunday message from Mir Hossein Mousavi published in this message that he sent the
"Supervised" for being.
According to those close to Mr. Mousavi, his message through the phone for one of their advisers have read
And asked him to allow this message to supporters.
Mr. Mousavi this message in their health and family news and said: "Despite the pressure
Many countries by the authorities for accepting the election results are fabricated for adjudicate
Rights and Syant real people vote and declared the vote to request waiver Office visit
Have. "Mr. Mousavi more the message said:" Among the possible presence of people or any
Communication and dialogue with them has been withdrawn and I am under surveillance. On the other hand Headquarters Office
اينجانب closed and the participation of party members were arrested. "
Mr. Mousavi the end of your message asked the people "while attending the scene", and any involvement
Avoid tension.
katana0182 02:52, 20 June 2009 (GMT)
According to Powerpoint metadata, the document was created by "MRT" using "www.Win2Farsi.com", was created on June 16th (Tuesday), has been revised 40 times, and has been edited for like 180 minutes or so. katana0182 03:12, 20 June 2009 (GMT)
These documents are internal documents from Iranian Telecom however, they are of routine nature. 1 document is repeated twice and is just a works cited page for a report which is not included. Another is just personal notes from a meeting (not the official minutes, just notes). Another is just a memo explaining the current media blackout (however, there is nothing new in it, everything that you hear on CNN is basically just repeated here). The PowerPoint has some previously unreleased pictures, however, the same sort can be found all over the internet.


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The LEGO Factory has 10 employees.
Godtfred Kirk Christiansen starts creating models. He is 17 years old.
Godtfred Kirk Christiansen (GKC) cuts Ole Kirk's motto "Only the best is good enough" and hangs it up in the workshop.
Selected Product News 1936
Numskull Jack on the goat
The business manufactures its first LEGO wooden duck and markets "Kirk´s Sandgame" its first construction toy.
Selected Product News 1935
The LEGO Duck
Clothes hangers (Dagny Holm design)
The company and its products now adopt the name LEGO, formed from the Danish words "LEg GOdt" ("play well"). Later, it is realised that in Latin the word means "I put together".
The firm has 6-7 employees.
Ole Kirk Kristiansen, master carpenter and joiner, establishes his business in the village of Billund, Denmark. His firm manufactures stepladders, ironing boards, stools and wooden toys.
His son, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, starts working in the business at the age of 12.


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Yesterday's filmstrip is today's PowerPoint presentation, and slides have been replaced by digital files. Today's sophisticated technology requires support systems tailored for modern communication formats. We have the platforms that will support, store and display all your equipment, supplies and literature, making it easier for you to communicate. Dimensions: 15"D x 37"W x 60"H Open display shelves invite browsing. Adapt shelves for larger literature, with easy vertical adjustment. Tilted shelves keep literature in place.


text: Yeah, maybe the original Chevy Suburban predates the IH Travelall, but the Travelall was the first truck-based wagon that combined car-like appointments with four-wheel drive. And without 4WD to negotiate those tough mall parking lots and rain-slicked cul-de-sacs, do you really have a true SUV? All we can say is: real trucks are descended from farm equipment! [New York Times]


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A satellite is falling back to Earth and is expected to crash down late Friday or early Saturday. NASA scientists say the disintegrating satellite pieces – some weighing hundreds of pounds – are likely to splash down in water, but the U.S. could be hit.
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"We wanted to design a place that feels like your home. Where you tell your story online is really personal. You invest a lot of time in it and you curate it. You link to it and you tell all your friends to find you there. So we wanted to make Timeline a place you're proud to call your home. So Timeline is a completely new aesthetic from Facebook ... so you can express who you really are." – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talking Thursday about Facebook's new Timeline feature, which allows users to document their entire lives.
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History can move in two directions at once
Benjamin Todd Jealous | 9/16/2013, 10:55 a.m.
(NAACP) – In my time as an organizer, I have been guided by the words of many people – activists and authors, colleagues and friends. But the most powerful lesson I ever received about the struggle for civil and human rights came in 1993, when my grandmother taught me that history could move in two directions at once.
I was in college, celebrating a friend's 21st birthday. A round of toasts went up. One friend raised his glass to honor the memory of all those we knew who had been killed or sent to prison before they reached the age of 21. Another friend lifted his cup to toast to the fact that one more of us had lived long enough to reach the quintessential age of adulthood.
I could not raise my glass on that last toast. In fact, it felt as if the notion cut me like a knife.
The notion that a man of any race, of any age, in the world's greatest and wealthiest democracy, could think it an accomplishment to simply breathe past the age of 21 – it cut me to the core.
After so many historic civil rights victories, how could it be that my generation had grown up just in time to find itself the most murdered generation in the country and the most incarcerated generation on the planet?
So I did what I always did when I am stuck. I went to my grandmother's table and I laid my burdens down.
I said, "Grandma, you told me that my generation was supposed to be the first generation to be judged not by the color of our skin but by the content of our character. Not because of what we are or where we come from – but because of who we are and where we are headed. What happened?"
My grandma got real quiet. She looked at me with sad eyes and then she said, "Son, it's sad but it's simple. We got what we fought for, but we lost what we had."
Those are wise words to remember in times like this.
We got the right to be police officers, but we lost the right to live in safe communities. In Chicago, a culture of poverty-fueled gang violence has reinforced the notion that living until 21 is an accomplishment.
We got the right to send our children to any school, but we lost the right to assume that they would receive a good education at whatever school they attend. In Philadelphia, the school system is facing a $300 million budget gap that already delayed the start of the school year and threatens to devastate support staff at schools in the most underserved communities.
We got the right to live in any community, but we lost the right to know that our children would be protected by the police – or the community watch volunteers – who are supposed to serve them. In 2011, before New York City passed a racial profiling ban with teeth, the New York Police Department made more stops of young Black men between the ages of 14 and 24 than there were young Black men between 14 and 24 in the city.


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There is a JSON file at http://xkcd.com/info.0.json which contains the details for the current strip. Details for past strips are also available at http://xkcd.com/123/info.0.json. If you need to access it from another page with JavaScript, there is a JSONP proxy at http://dynamic.xkcd.com/api-0/jsonp/comic/ for the latest strip, or http://dynamic.xkcd.com/api-0/jsonp/comic/123 for a specific strip... this accepts the usual ?callback=whatever parameter, so you can use it with jQuery or whatever. The JSONP proxy is slightly less reliable, though, and if you can use the static JSON file directly then you should.
This is, quite simply, the best way to get the latest comic. It's easy to parse, and most likely to remain consistent... compared to scraping information out of the HTML page (harder, and more fragile if the page format changes), or scraping from the RSS feed (even more fragile, for the reasons davean goes into below). The JSON, however, is easy to get, easily machine-readable (there are libraries out there for pretty much any language you want to use), simple to get the data out of, and unlikely to change drastically in the future. Save yourself the pain and use it. Thank you.
The original OP has been thrown into a spoiler tag for being out-of-date (it recommends scraping the HTML, only because the JSON didn't exist yet at the point this post was made).
davean wrote:Please people, using the RSS like you are doing is just plain broken, not only does it contain other items, it only contains 3, and it might be possible none of those are comics thus requiring the script to save state and handle several edge conditions.
There are two sane ways to get the current comic, ether use http://xkcd.com/current/ which will redirect the most recent comic image or parse http://xkcd.com/ directly at which point your code will work consistently and invariantly unless the site templates change (and any time you code to an API, API changes may cause program changes).
Broken scripts are not cool. I'll sticky good scripts that are their own topic if people want.
Just please stop with the RSS junk, your code hurts me eyes. (Not only is the RSS more complicated (and none of you have even tried to do it right) but it can only be done correctly as your poll interval goes to zero)


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More Texas Superstar plants
We gardeners are often looking for those plants that can give some structure and beauty and color to the yard but don't grow as large as a tree. The wonderful Aggie Superstar group called "Woody Shrubs" might have just what you are looking for among its choices. These are plants chosen by horticulturists all over Texas for their drought-tolerance, lack of disease issues and beauty, among other things.
They have given us three rose options to try. Consider the popular Belinda's Dream Rose, "Marie Daly" Rose, Grandma's Yellow Rose or the "Knock Out" Rose. Two other plants in this category are the Lowery's Legacy Cenizo and the beautiful Texas Lilac Vitex, which will be covered in next week's The Examiner.
Belinda's Dream Rose is an Earthkind rose that is very resistant to blackspot and root-knot nematodes. Its huge blooms on this luscious shrub thrive in our heat. Just a stroll by the flowers will give you a whiff of their fruity scent. They have the classic hybrid tea rose form that is unusual for shrub roses. You will love the way they grow upright and bushy.
The "Marie Daly" Rose is what you want to choose if you are looking for an easy care shrub rose with few thorns. It is very fragrant with doubly good-looking double pink blooms. Successive flushes of bloom will please you spring to frost. This rose was developed for Texas. It is the new version of its renowned antique rose cousin "Marie Pavie'.
Grandma's Yellow Rose was inspired by a yellow rose found in Sabinal, Texas. The "Sabinal" is a beautiful rose, but it was difficult to root. The Aggie Superstar designation required more. Another yellow rose was found in Nacogdoches. It was named "Sarah Jones," as it was found growing and blooming at a retired school teacher's home by the same name. Another option was a yellow rose found growing in San Antonio called "Brady," but it too was difficult to root. After many years of research, the final Grandma's Rose will make you blush as its blooms turn form deep yellow to pale yellow as they mature.
The Knock Out Rose is probably the most well known of the Texas Superstar rose options. They are popular with some but some "real" rose enthusiasts don't consider them a true gem. You will enjoy blooms from spring until frost with this easy-to-grow option. They are definitely disease resistant. The breeder of this rose, Bill Radler, is thought to have revolutionized the way we think of roses with the Knock Out. It is said that this rose singlehandedly brought rose genetics from the 20th into the 21st century. The most widely sold rose in North America, it is certainly an option for anyone wanting a low maintenance, winter-hardy, heat-tolerant bloomer. Happy growing.
Joette is an avid gardener and prides herself on staying up-to-date on the latest gardening activities and tips. To share your gardening news with Joette, call (409) 832-1400 or fax her at (409) 832-6222. Her e-mail is joreger [at] msn [dot] com.


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U.S. Marshal Killian Samuel goes from alien hostage to intergalactic bounty hunter in Prey 2, and these Gamescom screens show off his less-than-happy hunting grounds.
Prey 2's premise is rather original, taking a helpless human from the original game and transforming him into a force feared by criminals across the known galaxy. You just can't use there term bounty hunter along with aliens without evoking the holy trinity.
Ain't nothing wrong with being compared to or bringing to mind Star Wars. At least it doesn't remind me of the Wing Commander movie.


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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
American cheese and happiness: are they mutually exclusive? Discuss.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Just you wait.....
When I saw that the topic for this week's Spin Cycle is opinions, I knew it wouldn't be hard to come up with a spin. The problem would be narrowing it down. I could write about how difficult I often find it to give my opinions on certain subjects, because I worry if I disagree with someone, I might offend them. Or I could write about how much it bugs me when people develop opinions they won't ever reconsider despite the fact that they are based on misinformation (don't even get me started on all the crazy emails these kinds of opinions generate, especially on the topic of politics).
Any of these topics could have gotten me writing, but instead I am choosing to blog about one of my biggest pet peeves, what I like to call Maleficent Prophecies of Doom (or MPoD for short). Despite its pompous title, these sorts of opinions are ubiquitous. You have probably been the recipient of an MPoD without even realizing it. Very often they start with the phrase "Just you wait," as in these examples:
"Just you wait. When you have teenagers they will never talk to you and you will know the misery I feel."
"Just wait. You'll see, as soon as your son enters elementary school you'll have to fight tooth and nail to get him services and it will be a complete nightmare."
"When you hit 40, your body will totally fall apart and you will age 20 years in one day and your life will forever be miserable. Just you wait."
I hate MPoDs for so many reasons. The person who bestows such pronouncements seems to find glee in the prospect that you will soon be joining her in the Hell in which she currently resides. These people tend to take delight in other people's misfortunes, and that makes me feel uncomfortable.
Don't get me wrong. I have been known to indulge in a certain amount of schadenfreude. I have on occasion wished that a Smug Mother of Girls would have a seriously rambunctious boy after she gave me a witheringly judgmental glare on the playground. I have also been known to take some satisfaction when people who have been mean to me or to my kids have gotten their comeuppance. But I am not proud of those feelings. I tend to reveal them only to my closest friend because I don't want people to know about my mean streak.
But those who regularly make MPods don't hide their selfish desire for everyone to be as miserable as them. And for some reason when this mean-spiritedness is flanked by a "Just you wait" and an "You'll see" all of a sudden it is socially acceptable to be an ill-tempered shrew.
Let me highlight an example of a particular Maleficent Prophecy of Doom that Bil and I still talk about. One New Year's Eve, right after our first anniversary, Bil and I attended a small party at my brother and sister-in-law's house. While we were playing Taboo with various family members, we noticed major tension between my sister-in-law's brother and his wife, M. It was obvious they were fighting, about what I am not sure, but M was constantly biting her husband's head off. She yelled at him for missing her Taboo clues, for not giving better clues when it was his turn, and she was making everyone feel uncomfortable.
Bil and I sat on the couch minding our own business. We happened to be holding hands, which apparently really ticked off M, because she turned on us suddenly and declared with great vehemence, "Just you wait. When you have been married for 10 years, you won't be holding hands! You'll see."
It shocked me, her absolute antipathy towards Bil and I, two people who did nothing other than appear happily married. Why, I wondered would anyone hope for another to have marital problems?
What is sad about these predictions is that when we use them, we become victims. Victims of fate. We are saying that we have no control over our lives or anything that happens in them, that everyone suffers this way so why bother changing? And that saddens me. I know we don't have complete control over many aspects of our lives, so to relinquish the control we do have (ie: the ability to not fight over a game of Taboo) is so wasteful, in my opinion.
More than that, when we predict another's problems, we are bringing them down with us. We are stealing their hope. We are wishing hard times on them.
Interestingly, for whatever reason, when an acquaintance begins to predict some doom and gloom in my life, I feel determination begin to swell in my chest. I am overcome with a desire to prove them wrong. Maybe that's a good thing.
All I know is that Bil and I have been married for 8+ years and we are still holding hands.
And we never fight over Taboo.
Take that, M.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Monday Mumbers--back with a vengeance
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Tacky Day
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
autism, acceptance, and anger
"Please put this on your status if you know someone (or are related to someone) who has AUTISM. My wish for 2010 is that people will understand that autism is not a disease; people with autism are not looking for a cure but for ACCEPTANCE."
Friday, January 8, 2010
Spring cleaning--the Spin Cycle
As those of you who have visited my house may have deduced, cleaning is not my pastime of choice. When I saw this week's spin cycle topic, I almost had to google the term "spring cleaning" before I had a vague recollection of hearing the term from my mom when I was a kid. Let's just say the closest I typically get to official spring cleaning is in October when my mom usually visits us for a week.


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Five addenda to ANSI/ASHRAE/USGBC/IES Standard 189.1-2011, Standard for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, are open for public comment until March 9, 2014.
Proposed addendum bg revises the definition of native plant, clarifies the Plants section by renaming it Landscape Design, and requires a minimum area of landscapes to be native plants.
"The intent of the proposal is to maintain or restore a minimum level of biodiversity, including biodiverse plantings, native plants, and limited turfgrass," Anthony Floyd, a member of the Standard 189.1 committee, said. "Supporting and maintaining the biodiversity is critical to the long-term health and sustainability of ecosystems of which humans and all life depend on for existence. Sustainable development recognizes and attempts to account for the interdependencies of ecosystems in the human-built environment. Hence, Standard 189.1 addresses biodiversity at the building-site level in recognition of these interdependencies."
Susan Gitlin, also a member of the Standard 189.1 committee, added: "Native plants provide habitat for animals that non-native plants have not evolved to provide. … The vast majority of human-built landscapes use lawns and other plants that have been sourced and cultivated in such a way that they have minimal benefits for any wildlife, e.g., the leaves are not those that caterpillars have evolved to eat, and without the caterpillars, birds are not provided with that essential protein source."
The other proposed addenda open for review are:
• Addendum al, which matches requirements for opaque wall assemblies in climate zones 1 through 3 to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1-2013, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings.
• Addendum bk, which adds a fan-efficiency requirement that is slightly more stringent than the fan-efficiency section in ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1-2013.
• Addendum bm, which adds more building components and clarifies salvaged-material requirements in Section 18.104.22.168, Recycled Content.
• Addendum w, which provides bicycle-parking design requirements.
For more information and to comment, go to www.ashrae.org/publicreviews.


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New Zealand's Wildlife - A Bunch of Weirdos.
At first glance, New Zealand might not appear to be the ideal place for viewing wildlife...
It's true we have no bears, no snakes, no crocodiles, no big cats, only one slightly poisonous spider (which is really, really hard to find) and our entire native mammal population is made up of two species of bat (also really, really hard to find).
"If I come on an adventure trip to New Zealand will I see any interesting wildlife at all?" you might ask.
New Zealand is a weird and interesting place for wildlife because it's been out on its own, geographically-speaking, for the last 80 million years. We were once attached to Australia, but before any wombats, koalas or kangaroos had a chance to hop aboard, New Zealand separated from our gum-tree-covered neighbour and drifted off into the South Pacific like a rocky canoe. It was, however, a rocky canoe that had loads of birds on board and heaps of marine mammals (and penguins!) swimming around it.
Wildlife galore
While some of New Zealand's most interesting birds, like the enormous flightless Moa (a cousin of the ostrich), and Haast's Eagle (once the world's largest eagle) are now extinct, along with at least 50 other species of native New Zealand birds, there are still plenty of unusual and curious birds flying – or in many cases walking – around the New Zealand wilderness. And our surrounding ocean and endless dramatic coastlines are home to a plethora of whales, dolphins, fur seals, sea lions, penguins and other sea birds, including the enormous Northern Royal Albatross. Chances are, if you join us for a trip around New Zealand's national parks and other remote areas, you'll see a bunch of these curious creatures along the way.
A cheeky robin
A few years ago, when I was guiding our adventure trips, it never failed to surprise me where, when and how we would be greeted by our native wildlife. Hiking through Nelson Lakes National Park on our Rimu trip, I once spotted a native New Zealand robin following us through the beech forest. I knew that if I stirred up a little patch of soil on the track, the bird might venture down to see if there were any bugs in the disturbed ground.
What I didn't expect was that this little bird would fly down and land on the toe of my hiking boot so that she could check out the bug situation. Everyone stood quietly around while the bird feasted on a few morsels that were wriggling on the track – it was a special moment with one of our smaller forest dwellers.
Glorious Albatrosses
At the other end of the spectrum, one sunny day out at Taiaroa Head on the tip of the Otago Peninsula, near the city of Dunedin, with a light onshore breeze we saw several Northern Royal Albatrosses soaring back and forth next to the sea cliffs below us.
They used the updraft against the rocky cliffs to slowly gain height before they would rise over the cliff top and circle the hill at the very end of the peninsula where their nests are perched – the only mainland breeding colony for Royal Albatrosses in the world! On this particular day, the wind was so light that the albatrosses would only gain the smallest amount of height each time they flew back and forth, and for one bird this meant barely clearing the top of the cliff by a mere 6 feet (2 meters). Of course, we were standing at the top of that cliff, so we quickly found ourselves ducking underneath a fast-moving bird with a 10-foot (3m) wingspan!
The endangered kakapo
Amongst the rarest of New Zealand's birds is the Kakapo, a large flightless parrot weighing up to 4 kg (9 lb). There are only 126 of these birds remaining, the majority of which live on predator-free Codfish Island, west of Stewart Island, the third largest island in the New Zealand archipelago. The Department of Conservation have an intensive breeding program underway and the bird numbers are slowly rising from a low of less than 60 birds in the 1990s. To find out how they did it, read Rat Island: Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue.
Chatham Islands black robins
Sixty individuals isn't many when it comes to an entire species, but New Zealand lays claim to what may be the closest a species has come to extinction without actually going extinct. In 1980, only 5 Chatham Islands black robins remained. Out of those, three were male, and of the two females remaining, only one was fertile. The one fertile female bird, named "Old Blue" – along with help from some very hard-working conservationists - was responsible for the recovery of the species, which now sits at 250 birds.


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Long Beach Organization Hosts Remember 911 – 10th Anniversary Motorcycle Ride, Celebration of America's First Responders
2011-08-03 · By Editor
ACCORD Community First, a Long Beach non-profit, announces a tribute to our nation's fallen heroes and first responders on September 11th, 2011. This year marks the 10th Anniversary of the nation's tragedy and the 9th year of the Remember 911 Motorcycle Ride. The Official Ride will wind its way from Cooks Corner in Trabuco Canyon, Orange County; west to the coast; north up Pacific Coast Highway passing through southern California beach communities; and ending at McKenna's on the Bay at Alamitos Bay Landing in Long Beach. Riders will be met with cheering crowds, families and friends, first responders and patriotic American's of all types along the route.
Participants are able to register as an Official Rider at www.remember911ride.com. Information about making personal donations to the Remember 911 Memorial Fund; details about the days FREE Tribute Concert, Military flyover and Fireworks celebration as they unfold can also be found on the site.
It all started 10 years ago with local Long Beach Fireman Gary Biggerstaff who upon returning from Ground Zero started a west coast tradition by building a memorial of 343 crosses with the names of each of the fallen in his front yard for the public to honor those who perished on 9/11. In the years following, he and a few friends added a solemn motorcycle "Ride of Honor" which has grown to include thousands of volunteers and more than 1700 Riders from all over southern California passing through three counties along the way.
This year partnering with ACCORD, the ride will end in Long Beach at McKenna's on the Bay at Alamitos Bay Landing and culminate with a dedication ceremony, a special FREE tribute concert, Military fly over and commemorative fireworks display to close the day on the West Coast the evening of 9/11. This year the encore event will mark the first year the Ride will establish a fund that will go to Firefighters and selected Charities in Long Beach, Orange and Los Angeles Counties, so that we may honor the lives of the brave men and women who serve as our first responders. The day's goal is to "never forget' as we continue to remember those who have served us to keep our nation free.
Biggerstaff says "honoring these fallen heroes and their families has always been my mission." Since that fatal day and for the past (10) years Gary, friends and volunteers have honored our fallen with a solemn vigil in his neighborhood and on the 911 Ride to Remember. It has grown to be more than the neighborhood is able to handle with thousands returning each year. "This year we hope to keep the memory of 9/11 fresh in the hearts and minds of every American with this Tribute and by establishing a Memorial Fund that will bring to mind the memory of America's heroes each year going forward", adds Biggerstaff.
ACCORD Community First is a non-profit workforce development organization that provides training and support for unemployed, challenged youth and military in the 9-county southern California region. ACCORD has become the organizing arm of GaryBiggerstaff's10 year project to honor and support America's first responders. For more information please visit the website or call: David Zanatta at: 562 244 7644 for details, donations and sponsorships for the event.
ACCORD Community First
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Will Amazon's Fire TV Disrupt the Console Gaming Industry?
The Amazon Fire TV is the latest mainstream tech product with a credible chance of disrupting the increasingly crowded gaming space. The set-top box was announced and released at the beginning of April with an MSRP of $99 for the main unit and $39.99 for its gaming controller. The device represents Amazon's first tangible commercial step into claiming a portion of the gaming market, but the online retail and cloud giant has taken steps to ensure that the Fire TV is not viewed as a "console." How much of a threat does the new device pose to the respective gaming empires of Sony , Microsoft , and Nintendo ?
Are 'non-consoles' the future of gaming?
Rumors that Amazon would enter the console gaming space were persistent throughout the year leading up to Fire TV's release, but the actual product is less focused on gaming than the rumors have suggested. Upon officially revealing the Fire TV, Kindle VP Pete Larsen decreed that the device was definitely not a gaming console. The Fire TV has primarily been positioned as a streaming device competitive with the likes of Apple TV, Google Chromecast, and Roku, but Amazon's roundabout entrance into gaming can be taken as a sign of things to come.
Dedicated gaming is headed for a contraction
Despite strong launches for the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, the future of the dedicated console gaming space remains very much in doubt. The failure of Nintendo's Wii U console all but guarantees that the market will contract in this hardware cycle, and developers are increasingly moving resources to mobile and PC platforms.
The majority of the Japanese gaming industry appears to have abandoned the triple-A console games market, and rising development costs mean that there are fewer big games in development for the new systems than there were for their predecessors. Due to the need to reach as large of an audience as possible, many of the big games that will hit the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in 2014 will also be available on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. The new consoles from Sony and Microsoft have yet to offer much outside of marginally improved visuals, and Nintendo has never looked weaker on the console front. The traditional console gaming space is ripe for disruption.
Everyone is getting in the game
Amazon's statement that the FireTV is not a gaming console is indicative of the direction in which gaming is heading. In fact, the messaging for the product bears certain similarities to that of the Xbox One upon its initial unveiling. Microsoft positioned its latest console as an all-in-one multimedia box that would have a heavy focus on television integration and original interactive programming.
The greater success of Sony's more gaming-centric PlayStation 4 pushed Microsoft to alter the presentation of its Xbox One messaging, but consoles have expanded to become multimedia devices. Alternatively, phones, smart televisions, and video streaming devices are becoming increasingly capable when it comes to gaming. As a greater number of platforms emerge for consumers to get their gaming fix on, dedicated consoles will have to offer increasingly impressive and differentiated experiences to justify their existence.
Amazon targets the casual audience
The casual gaming market that exploded in the last console cycle and drove Nintendo's Wii to a staggering 100 million unit installed base is now largely served by offerings on mobile platforms. A $99 set-top box with basic gaming features from Amazon (or its immediate competitors) has the bells and whistles necessary to provide a basic gaming experience and court consumers away from dedicated console offerings.
With an average price for paid games of $1.85, the Fire TV offers an attractive and affordable entry point into gaming without the need to purchase dedicated hardware. Of the big three console platform holders, the rise of set-top gaming poses the greatest threat to Nintendo, while Sony and Microsoft have greater cache with the hardcore audience. They have also invested more in the hardware and network capabilities necessary to provide a more distinguished, high-end experience. Still, neither console manufacturer is immune to the inevitable rise of devices like the Fire TV.
The beginnings of a transition
Amazon's gaming-enabled set-top box isn't going to revolutionize the industry overnight. The device will likely wind up being little more than a footnote in a broader transition, but the company has shown that it's serious about building infrastructure and playing a larger role in games going forward. With Amazon, Apple, and Google looking to be increasingly influential in shaping the industry, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo face added pressure to convince consumers that their respective platforms are essential.
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John West wants you to know where your tuna came from. Enter the can code into their website and see the ocean and boat that caught your tuna.
This is a good start in transparency for tuna. The big tuna companies could have done this a long time ago. They track their tuna to minimize costs in the case of recalls of unsafe tuna.
Now all we need is sustainability information like how it's caught and whether fishing is sustainable. What do you say John West? Will you collaborate with eNGOs on adding sustainability information to your website?
Monday, October 10, 2011
Where's your tuna from?
Posted by Mark Powell at 2:35 AM
5 comments:
- Rachell Search The Internet said...
Canned tuna does not like me much, for everything that is said about canned and processed foods, I would I have some reservation to these foods as canned tuna.
- Thu Oct 13, 08:49:00 AM PDT
- Angler Gang said...
This is a cool concept
- Thu Oct 13, 09:46:00 PM PDT
- Ryan Pearson said...
A nice step forward! Hopefully the consumers will learn about it and start to take note of where and how their tuna is caught.
- Thu Oct 27, 05:51:00 PM PDT
- wirawan said...
That's good for the consumers they should learn about this. They just eat but never know about detail, where is this tuna came from.
- Thu Nov 03, 08:23:00 PM PDT
- Kitchen Benchtops said...
Tuna fish is one of the most loved fishes in the world, thanks in part to the popularity of canned tuna.
- Thu Feb 09, 07:54:00 PM PST
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