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Quote of the Day: 21 March '12~Miuccia Prada
"What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language." ~Miuccia Prada
Black Magic Women: Muses
Muses are something that every designer has, whether it is in
nature, a person, architecture, literature, or art. It's your
inspiration of sorts. In Greek mythology muses are the nine daughters
of Mnemosyne and Zeus who inspire the creation of literature and
the arts. They were considered the source of the knowledge, related
orally for centuries in the ancient culture, which was contained in
poetic lyrics and myths. The compliment to a real woman who
inspires creative endeavor is a later idea. When I design I imagine
my muse as a woman and I ask who she is, then I think about what
person/character or celebrity embodies the spirit of the current collection.
And, since my spirit is always torn between the old, or vintage if you will, and
the new; the interesting; the tinge of 80s rock glam, my muses come from all
over time. A style whirlwind mash-up ("What did you say? Leather doesn't go on
lace…what??","The harsh & ruff doesn't go with soft & frilly?"
Johnny are you queer boy?).
A company's archetype should have a lot to do with who their
muses are. Sometimes the "face" of the brand is usually the muse
in today's society. Often times being celebrities or models, which makes
it a little easier to choose them as muses because everybody usually knows
who they are.
The 1930by ChrisJackson "woman" is sort of like a Succubus or a Femme
Fatale (yeah that sounds waaay sexier than Succubus, but you get the point): mysterious,
seductive, irresistible, desirable, a little dangerous, a seductress, an enchantress,
a woman whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire,
often leading them into compromising, dangerous,
and deadly situations.
In order for me to get all of that I pull from different places & eras
(Mostly Old Hollywood & the 80s)…..almost like I'm Dr. Frankenstein
building my perfect woman by using different characters (a.k.a celebrities)
because of either their music or roles they've played in movies.
These are the women who inspire me, GO FIND YOUR OWN! 🙂
L'Histoire de Mode~Elizabeth Taylor, RIP 2/1932-3/2011
Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE, was an English-born
American actress. Beginning as a child star, as an adult she came to
be known for her acting talent and beauty, and had a much publicised private
life, including eight marriages and several near-death experiences. Taylor was
considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. The
American Film Institute named Taylor seventh on its Female Legends list.
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in Hampstead, a wealthy district of
north west London, the second child of Francis Lenn Taylor and
Sara Viola Warmbrodt (1895–1994), who were Americans residing in England. Taylor's
older brother, Howard Taylor, was born in 1929. Her parents were originally from Arkansas City, Kansas.
Francis Taylor was an art dealer, and Sara was a former actress whose stage name was
"Sara Sothern." Sothern retired from the stage when she and Francis married in
1926 in New York City. Taylor's two first names are in honor of her paternal
grandmother, Elizabeth Mary (Rosemond) Taylor.
A dual citizen of the United Kingdom
and the United States, she was born a British subject through her birth on British soil and
an American citizen through her parents. She reportedly sought,
in 1965, to renounce her United States citizenship, to wit: "Though never accepted
by the State Department, Liz renounced in 1965. Attempting to shield much of her
European income from U.S. taxes, Liz wished to become solely a British citizen.
According to news reports at the time, officials denied her request when she
failed to complete the renunciation oath, refusing to say that she
renounced 'all allegiance to the United States of America.'"
At the age of three, Taylor began taking ballet lessons with Vaccani. Shortly
before the beginning of World War II, her parents decided to return to the United States
to avoid hostilities. Her mother took the children first, arriving in New York in April 1939,
while her father remained in London to wrap up matters in the art business, arriving in November.
They settled in Los Angeles, California, where Sara's family, the Warmbrodts, were then living.
Through Hedda Hopper, the Taylors were introduced to Andrea Berens, a wealthy
English socialite and also fiancée of Cheever Cowden, chairman and major
stockholder of Universal Pictures in Hollywood. Berens insisted that
Sara bring Elizabeth to see Cowden who, she was adamant, would
be dazzled by Elizabeth's breathtaking dark beauty; she was
born with a mutation that caused double rows of eyelashes,
which enhanced her appearance on camera.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer soon took interest in the
British youngster as well but she failed to secure
a contract with them after an informal audition
with producer John Considine had shown that she
couldn't sing. However, on September 18, 1941,
Universal Pictures signed Elizabeth to a six-month
renewable contract at $100 a week.
Taylor appeared in her first motion picture at the age of nine in
There's One Born Every Minute, her only film for Universal Pictures. Less than six
months after she signed with Universal, her contract was reviewed by Edward Muhl, the studio's
production chief. Muhl met with Taylor's agent, Myron Selznick (brother of David), and
Cheever Cowden. Muhl challenged Selznick's and Cowden's constant support of Taylor:
"She can't sing, she can't dance, she can't perform. What's more, her mother has to be
one of the most unbearable women it has been my displeasure to meet."
Universal cancelled Taylor's contract just short of her tenth birthday in February 1942.
Nevertheless on October 15, 1942, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed Taylor to $100 a week for up to
three months to appear as "Priscilla" in the film Lassie Come Home.
Lassie Come Home featured child star Roddy McDowall, with
whom Taylor would share a lifelong friendship. Upon its release in
1943, the film received favourable attention for both McDowall and Taylor.
On the basis of her performance in Lassie Come Home MGM signed Taylor
to a conventional seven-year contract at $100 a week but increasing at
regular intervals until it reached a hefty $750 during the seventh year.
Her first assignment under her new contract at MGM was a loan-out to
20th Century Fox for the character of Helen Burns in a film version of the
Charlotte Bronte novel Jane Eyre (1944). During this period she also
returned to England to appear in another Roddy McDowall picture for
MGM, The White Cliffs of Dover (1944). But it was Taylor's persistence in
campaigning for the role of Velvet Brown in MGM's National Velvet that
skyrocketed Taylor to stardom at the tender age of 12.
Taylor's character, Velvet Brown, is a young girl who trains her beloved
horse to win the Grand National. National Velvet, which also costarred
beloved American favorite Mickey Rooney and English newcomer Angela Lansbury,
became an overwhelming success upon its release in December 1944. Many years later
Taylor called it "the most exciting film" she had ever made, and the film changed her
life forever. Although it vastly increased her star power, many of her back problems were
traced to when she hurt her body falling off a horse during its filming.
National Velvet grossed over US$4 million at the box office and
Taylor was signed to a new long-term contract that raised her salary
to $30,000 per year. To capitalize on the box office success of Velvet,
Taylor was shoved into another animal opus, Courage of Lassie, in which
a different dog named "Bill", cast as an Allied combatant in World War II,
regularly outsmarts the Nazis, with Taylor going through another outdoors
role. The 1946 success of Courage of Lassie led to another contract
drawn up for Taylor earning her $750 per week, her mother $250,
as well as a $1,500 bonus. Her roles as Mary Skinner in a loan-out
to Warner Brothers' Life With Father (1947), Cynthia Bishop in Cynthia (1947),
Carol Pringle in A Date with Judy (1948) and Susan Prackett in
Julia Misbehaves (1948) all proved to be successful.
Her reputation as a bankable adolescent star and nickname of "One-Shot Liz"
(referring to her ability to shoot a scene in one take) promised her a full and bright career
with Metro. Taylor's portrayal as Amy, in the American classic Little Women (1949) would prove to
be her last adolescent role. In October 1948, she sailed aboard the RMS Queen Mary
travelling to England where she would begin filming on Conspirator, in
which she would play her first adult role.
Unlike other child actors, Taylor easily transitioned to adult roles. Before
Conspirator's 1949 release, a Time cover article called her "a jewel of
great price, a true star sapphire", and the leader among Hollywood's
next generation of stars such as Montgomery Clift, Kirk Douglas, and
Ava Gardner. The film failed at the box office, but 16-year-old
Taylor's portrayal of a 21-year-old debutante who unknowingly
marries a communist spy played by 38-year-old Robert Taylor,
was praised by critics for her first adult lead in a film. Taylor's
first picture under her new salary of $2,000 per week was
The Big Hangover (1950), both a critical and box office failure,
that paired her with screen idol Van Johnson. The picture also
failed to present Taylor with an opportunity to exhibit
her newly realized sensuality.
Her first box office success in an adult role came as Kay Banks in the romantic
comedy Father of the Bride (1950), alongside Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett.
The film spawned a sequel, Father's Little Dividend (1951), which Taylor's costar
Spencer Tracy summarised with "boring… boring… boring". The film did well at the
box office but it would be Taylor's next picture that would set the course for her career
as a dramatic actress. In late 1949, Taylor had begun filming George Stevens'
A Place In The Sun. Upon its release in 1951, Taylor was hailed for her performance as
Angela Vickers, a spoiled socialite who comes between George Eastman (Clift) and
his poor, pregnant factory-working girlfriend Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters).
The film became the pivotal performance of Taylor's career as critics acclaimed it as a
classic, a reputation it sustained throughout the next 50 years of cinema history.
The New York Times' A.H. Weiler wrote, "Elizabeth's delineation of the rich and
beauteous Angela is the top effort of her career", and the Boxoffice reviewer
unequivocally stated "Miss Taylor deserves
an Academy Award".
Taylor became increasingly unsatisfied with the roles being offered to her
at the time. While she wanted to play the lead roles in The Barefoot Contessa
and I'll Cry Tomorrow, MGM continued to restrict her to mindless and
somewhat forgettable films such as: a cameo as herself in Callaway Went Thataway
(1951), Love Is Better Than Ever (1952), Ivanhoe (1952),
The Girl Who Had Everything (1953) and Beau Brummel (1954). She had
wanted to play the role of Lady Rowena in Ivanhoe, but the part was given to
Joan Fontaine. Taylor was given the role of Rebecca. When Taylor
became pregnant with her first child, MGM forced her through
The Girl Who Had Everything (even adding two hours to her daily
work schedule) so as to get one more film out of her before she
became too heavily pregnant.
Taylor lamented that she needed the money, as she had just bought
a new house with second husband Michael Wilding and with a child on the way things
would be pretty tight. Taylor had been forced by her pregnancy to turn down Elephant Walk
(1954), though the role had been designed for her. Vivien Leigh, almost two decades Taylor's
senior, but to whom Taylor bore a striking resemblance, got the part and went to Ceylon to
shoot on location. Leigh suffered a nervous breakdown during filming, and Taylor reclaimed the role
after the birth of her child Michael Wilding, Jr. in January 1953.
portrayed Louise Durant, a beautiful rich girl in love with a
temperamental violinist (Vittorio Gassman) and an earnest young
pianist (John Ericson). A film critic for the New York Herald Tribune
wrote: "There is beauty in the picture all right, with Miss Taylor glowing
into the camera from every angle… but the dramatic pretenses are
weak, despite the lofty sentences and handsome manikin poses."
Taylor's fourth period picture, Beau Brummell, made just after
Elephant Walk and Rhapsody, cast her as the elaborately costumed Lady Patricia,
which many felt was only a screen prop—a ravishing beauty whose sole purpose was to
lend romantic support to the film's title star, Stewart Granger. The Last Time I Saw Paris
(1954) fared only slightly better than her previous pictures, with Taylor being reunited
with The Big Hangover costar Van Johnson. The role of Helen Ellsworth Willis was based on
that of Zelda Fitzgerald and, although pregnant with her second child, Taylor went ahead with the
film, her fourth in twelve months. Although proving somewhat successful
at the box office, she still yearned for meatier roles.
Following a more substantial role opposite Rock Hudson and
James Dean in George Stevens' epic Giant (1956), Taylor was
nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress four years in
a row for Raintree County (1957) opposite Montgomery Clift;
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) opposite Paul Newman;
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) with Montgomery Clift,
Katharine Hepburn and Mercedes McCambridge; and finally
winning for BUtterfield 8 (1960), which co-starred then husband Eddie Fisher.
In 1960, Taylor became the highest paid actress up to that time when she
signed a one million dollar contract to play the title role in 20th Century Fox's
lavish production of Cleopatra,[14] which would eventually be released in 1963.
During the filming, she began a romance with her future husband Richard Burton, who
played Mark Antony in the film. The romance received much attention from the tabloid
press, as both were married to other spouses at the time. By working overtime,
Taylor received more than $2 million for her role.
Her second Academy Award, also for Best Actress in a Leading Role,
was for her performance as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966),
playing opposite then husband Richard Burton. Taylor and Burton would
appear together in six other films during the decade –
The V.I.P.s (1963), The Sandpiper (1965), The Taming of the Shrew (1967),
Doctor Faustus (1967), The Comedians {1967} and Boom! (1968).
Taylor appeared in John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
opposite Marlon Brando (replacing Montgomery Clift who died before
production began) and Secret Ceremony (1968) opposite Mia Farrow.
However, by the end of the decade her box-office drawing power
had considerably diminished, as evidenced by the failure of
The Only Game in Town (1970), with Warren Beatty.
Taylor continued to star in numerous theatrical films throughout the 1970s, such
as Zee and Co. (1972) with Michael Caine, Ash Wednesday (1973), The Blue Bird (1976)
with Jane Fonda and Ava Gardner, and A Little Night Music (1977). With then-husband
Richard Burton, she co-starred in the 1972 films Under Milk Wood and Hammersmith Is Out,
and the 1973 made-for-TV movie Divorce His, Divorce Hers. A chain smoker from an early age,
Taylor feared she had lung cancer in October 1975 after an X-ray showed spots on her lungs;
however, she was later found not to have the disease.
Taylor starred in the 1980 mystery film The Mirror Crack'd, based
on an Agatha Christie novel. In 1985, she played movie gossip columnist
Louella Parsons in the TV film Malice in Wonderland opposite
Jane Alexander, who played Hedda Hopper. Taylor appeared in the
miniseries North and South. Her last theatrical film was 1994's The Flintstones.
In 2001, she played an agent in the TV film These Old Broads. She appeared on a
number of television series, including the soap operas General Hospital and
All My Children, as well as the animated series The Simpsons—once as herself,
and once as the voice of Maggie Simpson, uttering one word "Daddy".
Taylor also acted on the stage, making her Broadway and West End debuts in 1982
with a revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes. She was then in a production
of Noel Coward's Private Lives (1983), in which she starred with her former husband,
Richard Burton. The student-run Burton Taylor Theatre in Oxford was named for the
famous couple after Burton appeared as Doctor Faustus in the Oxford University
Dramatic Society (OUDS) production of the Marlowe play. Taylor played the ghostly,
wordless Helen of Troy, who is entreated by Faustus to "make [him]
immortal with a kiss". In the 1980s, she received
treatment for alcoholism.
In March 2003 Taylor declined to attend the 75th Annual Academy
Awards, due to her opposition to the Iraq war. She publicly condemned
then US President George W. Bush for calling on Saddam Hussein to leave
Iraq, and said she feared the conflict would lead to "World War III".
Taylor is known to have smoked cigarettes into her mid-fifties.
In November 2004, she announced that she had been diagnosed with
congestive heart failure, a progressive condition in which the
heart is too weak to pump sufficient blood throughout the
body, particularly to the lower extremities: the ankles and feet.
She broke her back five times, had both her hips replaced, survived
a benign brain tumor operation and skin cancer, and faced life-
threatening bouts with pneumonia twice, one of which (1961),
resulted in an emergency tracheotomy. Towards the end of her
life she was reclusive and sometimes failed to make scheduled
appearances due to illness or other personal reasons. She used a
wheelchair and when asked about it stated that she had osteoporosis
and was born with scoliosis.
In 2005, Taylor was a vocal supporter of her friend Michael Jackson in his trial
in California on charges of sexually abusing a child.[26][27] He was eventually acquitted when
the prosecution collapsed due to a lack of concrete evidence. On 30 May 2006,
Taylor appeared on Larry King Live to refute the claims that she had been ill,
and denied the allegations that she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease
and was close to death.
In late August 2006, Taylor decided to take a boating trip to
help prove that she was not close to death. She also decided to
make Christie's auction house the primary place for selling her
jewelry, art, clothing, furniture and memorabilia.[29] Six months later,
the February 2007 issue of Interview magazine was devoted entirely
to Taylor. It celebrated her life, career and her upcoming 75th birthday.
On 5 December 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and California
First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Taylor into the California Hall of Fame,
located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts.
Taylor was in the news in 2007 for a rumored ninth marriage to her companion
Jason Winters, which she dismissed as a rumour. However, she was quoted
as saying, "Jason Winters is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known and
that's why I love him. He bought us the most beautiful house in Hawaii and we visit
it as often as possible," to gossip columnist Liz Smith. Winters accompanied
Taylor to Macy's Passport HIV/AIDS 2007 gala, where Taylor was honoured with
a humanitarian award. In 2008, Taylor and Winters were spotted celebrating the
4th of July on a yacht in Santa Monica, California. The couple attended the Macy's
Passport HIV/AIDS gala again in 2008.
On December 1, 2007, Taylor acted on-stage again, appearing
opposite James Earl Jones in a benefit performance of the
A. R. Gurney play Love Letters. The event's goal was to raise
$1 million for Taylor's AIDS foundation. Tickets for the show
were priced at $2,500, and more than 500 people attended.
The event happened to coincide with the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike
and, rather than cross the picket line, Taylor requested a "one night dispensation.
" The Writers Guild agreed not to picket the Paramount Pictures lot
that night to allow for the performance.
Taylor had a passion for jewelry. She was a client of well-known jewelry
designer Shlomo Moussaieff. Over the years she owned a number of well-known
pieces, two of the most talked-about being the 33.19-carat (6.64 g) Krupp
Diamond and the 69.42-carat (13.88 g) pear-shaped Taylor-Burton Diamond, which
were among many gifts from husband Richard Burton. Taylor also owned the 50-carat (10 g)
La Peregrina Pearl, purchased by Burton as a Valentine's Day present in 1969. The pearl
was formerly owned by Mary I of England, and Burton sought a portrait of Queen Mary
wearing the pearl. Upon the purchase of such a painting, the Burtons discovered that the
British National Portrait Gallery did not have an original painting of Mary, so they
donated the painting to the Gallery. Her enduring collection of jewelry has been
documented in her book My Love Affair with Jewelry (2002) with photographs by
the New York photographer John Bigelow Taylor (no relation).
Taylor started designing jewels for The Elizabeth Collection, creating
fine jewelry with elegance and flair. The Elizabeth Taylor collection by
Piranesi is sold at Christie's. She also launched three perfumes, "Passion",
"White Diamonds", and "Black Pearls", which, together, earn an estimated
US$200 million in annual sales. In fall 2006, Taylor celebrated the 15th
anniversary of her White Diamonds perfume, one of the top 10 best selling
fragrances for more than the past decade.
Taylor devoted much time and energy to AIDS-related charities and
fundraising. She helped start the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR)
after the death of her former costar and friend, Rock Hudson. She also created
her own AIDS foundation, the Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation (ETAF). By 1999,
she had helped to raise an estimated US$50 million to fight the disease. In 2006,
Taylor commissioned a 37-foot (11 m) "Care Van" equipped with examination tables
and X Ray equipment and also donated US$40,000 to the New Orleans Aids task force, a
charity designed for the New Orleans population with AIDS and HIV. The donation of the
van was made by the Elizabeth Taylor HIV/AIDS Foundation and Macy's.
In the early 1980s, Taylor moved to Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, which was her
residence until her death. She also owned homes in Palm
Springs, London and Hawaii.
Taylor was a supporter of Kabbalah and member of the
Kabbalah Centre. She encouraged long-time friend Michael Jackson
to wear a red string as protection from the evil-eye during his 2005
trial for molestation, where he was eventually cleared of all charges. On
6 October 1991, Taylor had married construction worker Larry Fortensky
at Jackson's Neverland Ranch.[38] In 1997, Jackson presented Taylor
with the exclusively written-for-her epic song "Elizabeth, I Love
You", performed on the day of her 65th birthday celebration.
In October 2007, Taylor won a legal battle, over a Van Gogh painting
in her possession, View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint Remy. The
United States Supreme Court refused to reconsider a legal suit filed by four persons
claiming that the artwork belonged to one of their Jewish ancestors,
regardless of any statute of limitations. Taylor attended Michael Jackson's
-private funeral on 3 September 2009.
Taylor was married eight times to seven husbands:
- Conrad "Nicky" Hilton (May 6, 1950 – January 29, 1951) (divorced)
- Michael Wilding (February 21, 1952 – January 26, 1957) (divorced)
- Michael Todd (February 2, 1957 – March 22, 1958) (widowed)
- Eddie Fisher (May 12, 1959 – March 6, 1964) (divorced)
- Richard Burton (March 15, 1964 – June 26, 1974) (divorced)
- Richard Burton (October 10, 1975 – July 29, 1976) (divorced)
- John Warner (December 4, 1976 – November 7, 1982) (divorced)
- Larry Fortensky (October 6, 1991 – October 31, 1996) (divorced)
Burton and Taylor remarried 16 months after their first divorce, in a mud hut in Botswana. He disagreed with others about her's famed beauty, saying that calling Taylor "the most beautiful woman in the world is absolute nonsense. She has wonderful eyes, but she has a double chin and an overdeveloped chest, and she's rather short in the leg.
Taylor converted from Christian Science to Judaism, between her marriages to Todd and Fisher.
With Wilding (two sons):
- Michael Howard Wilding (born 1953)
- Christopher Edward Wilding (born 1955)
With Todd (one daughter):
- Elizabeth Frances "Liza" Todd (born 1957)
With Burton (one daughter):
- Maria Burton (born 1961; adopted 1964)
In 1971, Taylor became a grandmother at the age of 39. At the time of her death she was survived by her four children, ten grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
Taylor dealt with many serious health problems during her life, and many
times newspaper headlines announced that she was close to death. In 2004 it
was announced that she was suffering from congestive heart failure, and in 2009 she
underwent cardiac surgery to replace a leaky valve. In February 2011, new
symptoms related to congestive heart failure caused her to be admitted into
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for treatment.
Taylor won two Academy Awards for Best Actress (for her
performance in Butterfield 8 in 1960, and for Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf in 1966). She joined a select list of two-time Academy
Award winning Best Actress winners which includes Luise Rainer,
Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Vivien Leigh, Ingrid Bergman, Glenda
Jackson, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Jodie Foster, and Hillary Swank.
Additionally, she was awarded the Jean Herscholt Humanitarian
Academy Award in 1992 for her work fighting AIDS. In 1999, Taylor
was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Taylor died on March 23, 2011, surrounded by her four
children at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles,
California, at the age of 79.
Quote of the Day: 21 March '11~George Bernard Shaw
"The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last."~George Bernard Shaw
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L'Histoire de Mode~Corset
A corset is a garment worn to hold and shape the torso into a
desired shape for aesthetic or medical purposes (either for the duration
of wearing it, or with a more lasting effect). Both men and women are
known to wear corsets, though women are more common wearers.
In recent years, the term "corset" has also been borrowed by the fashion
industry to refer to tops which, to varying degrees, mimic the look of
traditional corsets without actually acting as one. While these modern
corsets and corset tops often feature lacing and/or boning and generally
mimic a historical style of corsets, they have very little if any effect
on the shape of the wearer's body. Genuine corsets are usually made by
a corsetmaker and should be fitted to the individual wearer.
The word corset is derived from the Old French word corps, the diminutive of
body, which itself derives from corpus – Latin for body. The craft of corset construction
is known as corsetry, as is the general wearing of them. (The word corsetry is
sometimes also used as a collective plural form of corset.) Someone who makes
corsets is a corsetier or corsetière (French terms for a man and for a woman,
respectively), or sometimes simply a corsetmaker. The word corset came into general
use in the English language in 1785. The word was used in The Ladies Magazine
to describe a "quilted waistcoat" called un corset by the French. The word was used
to differentiate the lighter corset from the heavier stays of the period.
The most common and well-known use of corsets is to slim the
body and make it conform to a fashionable silhouette. For women
this most frequently emphasizes a curvy figure, by reducing
the waist, and thereby exaggerating the bust and hips. However,
in some periods, corsets have been worn to achieve a tubular
straight-up-and-down shape, which involves minimizing the bust and hips.
For men, corsets are more customarily used to slim the figure. However,
there was a period from around 1820 to 1835 when a wasp-waisted figure
(a small, nipped-in look to the waist) was also desirable for men; this
was sometimes achieved by wearing a corset.
An overbust corset encloses the torso, extending from just under the arms
to the hips. An underbust corset begins just under the breasts and extends down
to the hips. Some corsets extend over the hips and, in very rare instances, reach the knees.
A shorter kind of corset, which covers the waist area (from low on the ribs to just
above the hips), is called a waist cincher. A corset may also include garters to hold up
stockings (alternatively a separate garter belt may be worn for that).
Normally a corset supports the visible dress, and
spreads the pressure from large dresses, such as the
crinoline and bustle. Sometimes a corset cover is used to
protect outer clothes from the corset and to smooth the lines
of the corset. The original corset cover was worn under the
corset to provide a layer between it and the body. Corsets
were not worn next to the skin, possibly due to difficulties
with laundering these items during the 19th century, as they
had steel boning and metal eyelets which would rust. The
corset cover would be in the form of a light chemise,
made from cotton lawn or silk.
People with spinal problems such as scoliosis or with internal injuries may be fitted
with a form of corset in order to immobilize and protect the torso. Andy Warhol was shot
in 1968 and never fully recovered, and wore a corset for the rest of his life.
Aside from fashion and medical uses, corsets are also used
in sexual fetishism, most notably in BDSM activities. In BDSM, a
submissive can be forced to wear a corset which would be laced
very tight and give some degree of restriction to the wearer. A dominant
can also wear a corset, often black, but for entirely different reasons,
such as aesthetics, and to achieve a severe, armored, "unbending",
commanding appearance. A very common fetish costume for
women is the dominatrix costume. Usually it consists of mostly
dark or even black clothing. The woman usually wears a corset or
bustier and stockings with high-heeled footwear. High boots
are quite common as they enhance the woman's domination.
Women in dominatrix costumes usually carry an accessory such
as a whip or a riding crop. A specially designed corset, in which
the breasts and vulva are left exposed can be worn during.
vanilla sex or BDSM activities.
Corsets are typically constructed of a flexible material (like cloth,
particularly coutil, or leather) stiffened with boning (also called ribs or stays) inserted
into channels in the cloth or leather. In the 19th century, bones of elephant, moose,
and whale were favored for the boning. Plastic is now the most commonly
used material for lightweight corsets and the majority of poor quality corsets,
whereas spring or spiral steel is preferred for stronger corsets and generally the
better quality corset too. Other materials used for boning include ivory, wood,
and cane. (By contrast, a girdle is usually made of elasticized fabric,
without boning.)
Corsets are held together by lacing, usually (though
not always) at the back. Tightening or loosening the lacing
produces corresponding changes in the firmness of the corset.
Depending on the desired effect and time period, corsets can be
laced from the top down, from the bottom up, or both up from the
bottom and down from the top, using two laces that meet in the
middle. It is difficult—although not impossible—for a back-laced
corset-wearer to do his or her own lacing. In the Victorian
heyday of corsets, a well-to-do woman's corset laces would
be tightened by her maid, and a gentleman's by his valet.
However, Victorian corsets also had a buttoned or
hooked front opening called a busk. If the corset was
worn loosely, it was possible to leave the lacing as
adjusted and take the corset on and off using the front
opening (if the corset is worn snugly, this method will
damage the busk if the lacing is not significantly
loosened beforehand). Self-lacing is also almost impossible
with tightlacing, which strives for the utmost possible reduction
of the waist. Modern tightlacers, lacking servants,
are usually laced by spouses and partners.
By wearing a tightly-laced corset for extended periods, known
as tightlacing, men and women can learn to tolerate extreme waist constriction
and eventually reduce their natural waist size. Tightlacers dream of 16 inches (41 cm)
and 17 inches (43 cm) waists[citation needed], but most are satisfied with anything under
20 inches (51 cm). Some went so far that they could only breathe with the top part of their
lungs. This caused the bottom part of their lungs to fill with mucus, symtoms of this
include a slight but persistant cough and heavy breathing causing a heaving
appearance of the bosom. Until 1998, the Guinness Book of World Records
listed Ethel Granger as having the smallest waist on record at 13 inches (33 cm).
After 1998, the category changed to "smallest waist on a living person"
and Cathie Jung took the title with a 15 inches (38 cm) waist. Other women,
such as Polaire, also have achieved such reductions
(14 inches (36 cm) in her case).
However, these are extreme cases. Corsets were and are still usually
designed for support, with freedom of body movement, an important
consideration in their design. Present day corset-wearers usually tighten
the corset just enough to reduce their waists by 2 inches (5.1 cm) to
4 inches (10 cm); it is very difficult for a slender woman to achieve
as much as 6 inches (15 cm), although larger women can do so more easily.
In the past, a woman's corset was usually worn over a chemise, a sleeveless
low-necked gown made of washable material (usually cotton or linen). It absorbed
perspiration and kept the corset and the gown clean. In modern times, an
undershirt or corset liner may be worn.
Moderate lacing is not incompatible with vigorous activity.
Indeed, during the second half of the 19th century, when corset
wearing was common, there were sport corsets specifically designed
to wear while bicycling, playing tennis, or horseback riding,
as well as for maternity wear.
The corset has been erroneously attributed to Catherine de' Medici, wife
of King Henry II of France. She enforced a ban on thick waists at court attendance
during the 1550s. For nearly 350 years, women's primary means of support was
the corset, with laces and stays made of whalebone or metal. Other
researchers have found evidence of the
use of corsets in early Crete.
The corset has undergone many changes. The corset was
originally known as stays in the early 16th century. It was a
simple bodice with tabs at the waist, stiffened by horn, buckram,
and whalebone. The center front was further reinforced by a busk
made of ivory, wood, or metal. It was most often laced from
the back, and was, at first, a garment reserved for the aristocracy.
Stays took a different form in the 18th century, whalebone began to be
used more, and there was more boning used in the garment. The shape of the
stays changed as well. The stays were low and wide in the front, while in the
back they could reach as high as the upper shoulder. Stays could be strapless
or use shoulder straps. The straps of the stays were attached in
the back and tied at the front sides.
The purpose of 18th century stays was to support the bust, confer
the fashionable conical shape while drawing the shoulders back. At this
time, the eyelets were reinforced with stitches, and were not placed
across from one another, but staggered. This allowed the stays to be
spiral laced. One end of the stay lace is inserted and knotted in the
bottom eyelet, the other end is wound through the stays' eyelets
and tightened on the top. Tight-lacing was not common in this
time period, and indulged in only by the very fashionable.
Stays were worn by women in all societal levels, from
ladies of the court to street vendors. At this time, there
were two other variants of stays, jumps, which were
looser stays with attached sleeves, like
a jacket, and corsets.
Corsets were originally quilted waistcoats, worn by French women
as an alternative to stiff corsets. They were only quilted linen, laced in the
front, and un-boned. This garment was meant to be worn on informal occasions,
while stays were worn for court dress. In the 1790s, stays fell out of fashion. This
development coincided with the French Revolution, and the adoption of neoclassical
styles of dress. Interestingly, it was the men, Dandies, who began to wear corsets.
The fashion persisted thorough the 1840s, though after 1850 men who wore corsets
claimed they needed them for "back pain".
Stays went away in the late 18th century, but the corset remained.
Corsets in the early 19th century lengthened to the hip, the lower
tabs replaced by gussets at the hip. Room was made for the bust in
front with more gussets, and the back lowered. The shoulder straps
disappeared in the 1840s for normal wear.
In the 1820s, fashion changed again, with the waistline lowered back to
almost the natural position. Corsets began to be made with some
padding and boning. Corsets began to be worn by all classes of society.
Some women made their own, while others bought their corsets. Corsets
were one of the first mass produced garments for women. Corsets began to
be more heavily boned in the 1840s. By 1850, steel
boning became popular.
With the advent of metal eyelets, tight lacing became possible.
The position of the eyelets changed, they were now situated across
from one another at the back. The front was now fastened with a metal
busk in front. Corsets were mostly white. The corsets of the 1850s-1860s
were shorter than the corsets of the 19th century through 1840s. This
was because of a change in the silhouette of women's fashion.
The 1850s and 60s emphasized the hoopskirt. After the 1860s,
when the hoop fell out of style, the corset became longer to
mold the abdomen, exposed by the new lines of the
princess or cuirass style.
During the Edwardian period, the straight front corset (also known as
the S-Curve corset) was introduced. This corset was straight in front, with a
pronounced curve at the back that forced the upper body forward, and
the derrière out. This style was worn from 1900-1908.
The corset reached its longest length in the early 20th century.
The longline corset at first reached from the bust down to the
upper thigh. There was also a style of longline corset that started
under the bust, and necessitated the wearing of a brassiere.
This style was meant to complement the new silhouette.
It was a boneless style, much closer to a modern
girdle than the traditional corset. The longline
style was abandoned during World War I.
The corset fell from fashion in the 1920s in Europe and North America,
replaced by girdles and elastic brassieres, but survived as an article of costume.
Originally an item of lingerie, the corset has become a popular item of outerwear in
the fetish, BDSM and goth subcultures. In the fetish and BDSM literature, there is often
much emphasis on tightlacing, and many corset
makers cater to the fetish market.
Outside the fetish community, living history re-enactors
and historic costume enthusiasts still wear corsets
according to their original purpose, to give the proper
shape to the figure when wearing historic fashions.
In this case, the corset is underwear rather than
outerwear. Skilled corset makers are available to
make reproductions of historic corset shapes,
or to design new styles.
There was a brief revival of the corset in the late 1940s and early
1950s, in the form of the waist cincher sometimes called a "waspie". This
was used to give the hourglass figure dictated by Christian Dior's 'New Look'.
However, use of the waist cincher was restricted to haute couture, and mos
t women continued to use girdles. This revival was brief, as the New Look
gave way to a less dramatically-shaped silhouette.
Since the late 1980s, the corset has experienced periodic
revivals, which have usually originated in haute couture and
which have occasionally trickled through to mainstream fashion.
These revivals focus on the corset as an item of outerwear
rather than underwear. The strongest of these revivals
was seen in the Autumn 2001 fashion collections and
coincided with the release of the film Moulin Rouge!, the costumes
for which featured many corsets as characteristic of the era. Another
fashion movement which has renewed interest in the corset is the
"Steampunk" culture, which utilizes late-Victorian fashion
shapes in new ways. The look was popularized by the
costumes in the film "The Golden Compass."
Quote of the Day: 16 March '11~Bruce Oldfield
"Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas."~Bruce Oldfield
L'Histiore de Mode: Nouvelle Mode~Fabrican
In 2000 Fabrican patented an instant, sprayable, non-woven fabric.
Developed through a collaboration between Imperial College London and the
Royal College of Art, Fabrican technology has captured the imagination of designers,
industry and the public around the world. The technology has been developed for use
in household, industrial, personal and healthcare, decorative and fashion applications
using aerosol cans or spray-guns, and will soon be found in
products available everywhere.
The original idea of spray-on fabric came from Manel Torres'
work in the fashion industry. These photos capture the essence
of science and fashion in collaboration. Fabrican spray-on fabric
will liberate designers to create new and unique garments, offer a
carrier technology for delivery of fragrance or even medical active
substances, and allow the wearer to personalise their wardrobe
in infinite combinations. New textures and material characteristics are
a matter of adjusting chemistry. In addition to fashion, the technology is
opening new vistas, offering sprayable material for any application requiring a
fabric coating. The technology opens new vistas for personalised fashion,
allowing individual touches to be added to manufactured garments, or even impromptu
alterations. Garments could incorporate fragrances, active substances,
or conductive materials to interface with information technolgy.
After a decade of research, this futuristic
vision is taking shape.
Fabrican is a rare achievement in transforming a dream to practical realisation.
Through combination of clever exploitation of people's immediate fascination with
the spray-on fabric, and Manel's extraordinary ability to motivate multi-disciplinary
collaboration, Fabrican has brought interest and worldwide
media coverage.
Company History
- 1995 – 1997 Manel Torres conceives the idea for Spray-on Fabric whilst studying for his MA in Fashion Women's Wear, Royal College of Art, London.
- 1998 – 2001 Manel Torres obtains his PhD for Spray-on Fabric at the Royal College of Art and has a patent filed for this technology. During his PhD research, his work was supervised by Dr Susannah Handley (Royal College of Art) and Professor Paul Luckham (Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London).
- 2003 Manel Torres establishes Fabrican Ltd. with Professor Paul Luckham.
Aware of the slow process of constructing garments, Manel investigated novel ways to speed up this process. Manel's foresight and vision led him to think of developing a material that would almost magically fit the body like a second skin and at the same time have the appearance of clothing.
The original concept was to utilise Spray-on Fabric in the fashion industry. However, the technology has the potential to revolutionise and enhance numerous market areas.
Fabrican is focused on the research and development of Spray-on Fabric which can then be used across a number of market sectors. Fabrican's mission is to develop prototype products, in collaboration with leading industrial partners, leading to commercial exploitation by the partner.
Our technology can be used across many industries, positively impacting the lives of millions of people as well as the environment.
Fabrican Ltd. is a company exploiting inter-disciplinary research which links the subjects of science and design.
Our team is dedicated to meeting the needs of consumers with creative ideas and innovative products, through the development of new applications for Spray-on Fabric technology.
Our novel concepts are enlightening major worldwide manufacturers as to the huge potential which exists, through the successful branding of a product range.
Our underlying ethos is to produce concept products which are market leaders, through scientific research and development for future markets.
Fabrican in Action
In the science lab
On the Runway
Couture in a Can
I still can't tell yet if it would be a good investment as a designer or a huge waste of money, time, & effort. LoL Who wears that out? Gaga? That's it?!?
Quote of the Day:15 March '11~Manolo Blahnik
"About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs."~Manolo Blahnik
L'Histoire de Mode~Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on
March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the
history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest
loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history. The fire
caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, who either died
from the fire or jumped to their deaths. Most of the victims were
recent immigrant Jewish women aged sixteen to twenty-three.
Many of the workers could not escape the burning building because the
managers had locked the doors to the stairwells and exits. People jumped from
the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors. The fire led to legislation requiring improved
factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union,
which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was
located in the Asch Building, now known as the Brown Building of Science, a New York University facility.
It has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and
a New York City landmark.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory occupied the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors
of the Asch Building. Under the ownership of Max Blanck and Isaac Harris,
the factory produced women's blouses, known as "shirtwaists." The factory normally
employed about 500 workers, mostly young immigrant women, who worked nine
hours a day on weekdays plus seven hours on Saturdays.
On the afternoon of Saturday, March 25, 1911, as the workday was ending, a fire
flared up in a scrap bin under one of the cutters' tables on the eighth floor.Both owners of the
factory were in attendance and had invited their children to the factory on that afternoon.
The Fire Marshal concluded that the likely cause of the fire was the disposal of an
unextinguished match or cigarette butt in the scrap bin. Although smoking was banned in the
factory, cutters were known to sneak cigarettes, exhaling the smoke through their lapels
to avoid detection. A New York Times article suggested that the fire may have been
started by the engines running the sewing machines, while The Insurance Monitor, a leading
industry journal, suggested that the epidemic of fires among shirtwaist manufacturers
was "fairly saturated with moral hazard." No one suggested arson.
A bookkeeper on the eighth floor was able to warn employees on the
tenth floor via telephone, but there was no audible alarm and no way
to contact staff on the ninth floor. According to survivor
Yetta Lubitz, the first warning of the fire on the ninth
floor arrived at the same time as the fire itself.
The floor had a number of exits – two freight elevators, a
fire escape, and stairways down to Greene Street and
Washington Square – but flames prevented workers from
descending the Greene Street stairway and the door to the Washington Square
stairway was locked to prevent theft and the foreman who held the
key had escaped by another route.
Dozens of employees escaped the fire by going up the Greene Street
stairway to the roof. Other survivors were able to jam themselves into the elevators
while they continued to operate. Within three minutes, the Greene Street stairway
became unusable in both directions. Terrified employees crowded
onto the single exterior fire escape, a flimsy and poorly-anchored iron structure
which may have been broken before the fire. It soon twisted and collapsed from the
heat and overload, spilling victims to their deaths onto the concrete pavement
nearly a hundred feet below. Elevator operators Joseph Zito
and Gaspar Mortillalo saved many lives by traveling three times up
to the ninth floor for passengers, but Mortillalo was eventually forced
to give up when the rails of his elevator buckled under the heat. Some victims pried
the elevator doors open and jumped down the empty shaft. The weight of these
bodies made it impossible for Zito to make another attempt.
As a large crowd of bystanders gathered on the street, sixty-two people
died by jumping or falling from the ninth floor. Louis Waldman, later a
New York Socialist state assemblyman, described the scene years later:
One Saturday afternoon in March of that year — March 25, to be precise — I was sitting at one of the reading tables in the old Astor Library… It was a raw, unpleasant day and the comfortable reading room seemed a delightful place to spend the remaining few hours until the library closed. I was deeply engrossed in my book when I became aware of fire engines racing past the building. By this time I was sufficiently Americanized to be fascinated by the sound of fire engines. Along with several others in the library, I ran out to see what was happening, and followed crowds of people to the scene of the fire. A few blocks away, the Asch Building at the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street was ablaze. When we arrived at the scene, the police had thrown up a cordon around the area and the firemen were helplessly fighting the blaze. The eighth, ninth, and tenth stories of the building were now an enormous roaring cornice of flames.
Word had spread through the East Side, by some magic of terror, that the plant of the Triangle Waist Company was on fire and that several hundred workers were trapped. Horrified and helpless, the crowds — I among them — looked up at the burning building, saw girl after girl appear at the reddened windows, pause for a terrified moment, and then leap to the pavement below, to land as mangled, bloody pulp. This went on for what seemed a ghastly eternity. Occasionally a girl who had hesitated too long was licked by pursuing flames and, screaming with clothing and hair ablaze, plunged like a living torch to the street. Life nets held by the firemen were torn by the impact of the falling bodies.
The emotions of the crowd were indescribable. Women were hysterical, scores fainted; men wept as, in paroxysms of frenzy, they hurled themselves against the police lines.
The remainder waited until smoke and fire overcame them. The fire
department arrived quickly but was unable to stop the flames,
as there were no ladders available that could reach beyond
the sixth floor. The fallen bodies and falling victims also
made it difficult for the fire department
to reach the building. Bodies of the
victims being placed in coffins
on the sidewalk.
Although early references of the death toll ranged from 141 to 148, almost all modern
references agree that 146 people died as a result of the fire. Six victims remained
unidentified until 2011. Most victims died of burns, asphyxiation,
blunt impact injuries, or a combination of the three. Almost thirty
of the victims were men. The first person to jump was a man, and another man
was seen kissing a young woman at the window before they
both jumped to their deaths.
Twenty-two victims of the fire were buried by the
Hebrew Free Burial Association in a special section at Mount
Richmond Cemetery. In some instances, their tombstones refer to the fire.
Another six victims were buried in the Cemetery of the Evergreens in
Brooklyn. Originally interred elsewhere on the grounds, their
remains now lie underneath a monument to the tragedy,
a large marble slab featuring a kneeling woman.
Six of those victims were identified in February 2011.
The company's owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, had fled to the building's roof
when the fire began and survived. They were later put on trial, at which Max Steuer, counsel for
the defendants, managed to destroy the credibility of one of the survivors, Kate Alterman,
by asking her to repeat her testimony a number of times — which she did without altering
key phrases that Steuer believed were perfected before trial. Steuer argued to the jury that
Alterman and probably other witnesses had memorized their statements and might even
have been told what to say by the prosecutors. The defense also stressed that the
prosecution had failed to prove that the owners knew the exit doors were locked at the
time in question. The jury acquitted the owners. However, they lost a subsequent
civil suit in 1913 and plaintiffs won compensation in the amount of $75 per
deceased victim. The insurance company paid Blanck and Harris about
$60,000 more than the reported losses, or about $400 per casualty. In 1913, Blanck
was once again arrested for locking the door in his factory
during working hours. He was fined $20.
- American Experience: Triangle Fire (2011), documentary produced and directed by Jamila Wignot, narrated by Michael Murphy
- The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal (1979), directed by Mel Stuart, produced by Mel Brez and Ethel Brez
- Those Who Know Don't Tell: The Ongoing Battle for Workers' Health (1990), produced by Abby Ginzberg, narrated by Studs Terkel
- With These Hands (1950), directed by Jack Arnold


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A cyclist from the Netherlands was involved in a horrific crash Sunday afternoon during the women's road race final in Rio.
Annemiek van Vleuten, 33, was leading the race for gold at the time of the crash.
She was on a downhill decline in a light rain when she attempted to turn right around a bend in the course and her tires appeared to skid out from under her.
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She attempted to stop the slide, but instead flew headfirst over the handlebars and slammed into the roadside curb. She lay motionless on the side of the road as other riders eventually passed her. At least one medic could be seen running to the scene right after the crash.
The Dutch cycling federation tweeted that she suffered three small vertebrae fractures and a severe concussion. Officials said she will spend 24 hours in intensive care. They said that she was conscious when she was transported from the course to a local hospital.
Yesterday van Vleuten tweeted a selfie and said she was ready for the race to begin:
Sunday's race eventually was won during a dramatic sprint to the finish by van Vleuten's teammate, Anna Van Der Breggen.
The crash by van Vleuten was similar to one that occurred the day before during a men's race. Italian rider Vincenzo Nibali was leading that race when he crashed and broke his collarbone.

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A man trying to create a Bigfoot hoax on a western Montana highway died after being hit by two cars, CNN reports.
Randy Lee Tenley dressed in a Ghillie suit — camouflage designed to resemble the ground and trees — and stepped out onto U.S. 93 Sunday night hoping to make people think they'd seen Bigfoot, his companions told authorities.
Instead, a 15-year-old girl hit him with her car, another car swerved, and a third car driven by a 17-year-old also ran him over, KECI-TV reported.
"He probably would not have been very easy to see at all," said state trooper Jim Schneider.
Read more:
Bigfoot hoax ends in death
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Reward increased for information surrounding Tom Sublett's death
Glynn County Commission will match $25K reward offered by police department
BRUNSWICK, Ga. – The Glynn County Commission increased the reward for information about last week's death of Tom Sublett.
The commission said on Thursday they are going to match the $25,000 set by the Glynn County Police Department, making the total now $50,000.
Sublett was found dead last week. According to police, the 52-year-old's body was found floating in the water early Tuesday morning between a boat and a dock on St. Simons Island.
A coroner confirmed Sublett drowned in the river near a dock at St. Simons Boating and Fishing Club. An autopsy revealed his hands were tied with plastic zip ties and he fell into the water after he was shot in the head.
Channel 4's Scott Johnson was at Thursday's meeting at the Glynn County Commission. Along the row of Glynn County commissioners, one seat sat vacant, that of Sublett. His presence was felt throughout the first commission meeting without him.
MORE: Glynn County commissioner killed
"I never thought that I would have to sit up here at my last commission meeting without him here to my right."
The commissioners began the meeting with a moment of silence for the fallen commissioner, and a prayer focused on him.
"We're saddened by the death of our friend and brother, Tom Sublett."
All eyes now turn to the investigation. Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering was on hand. He said there are no new details he can release on the investigation, but he did say this has been a difficult one for the department to conduct.
"The personal relationship that we had with the commissioner in a professional and friendship side. It's an extension of family," said Doering. "It changes things. It's not the high profile case of it. It's that it's family. It makes a difference."
The final item on Thursday night's agenda was voting on a reward for information leading to the arrest of Sublett's killer.
"We hope that we're going to be able to finalize some of these questions in the very near future," said Glynn County Commissioner Bob Coleman. "Still got some facts that we haven't sealed yet. Hopefully we'll have that."
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Continuing with the subject of the Divine qualities of Al-Shahid and Al-Shaheed Hazoor began the Friday Sermon today by further explaining the connotations by means of lexicon. Hazoor said Shaheed is an attribute of Allah which signifies a Being from Whom nothing is hidden and Shahid is One whose words are based on knowledge, and the two words connote a Being that is present. A Shaheed is also one who gives one's life in the way of Allah in that they are always alive in the Presence of Allah and also that the angels bear witness to their admittance to Paradise.
Hazoor related that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be on him) said that after death a person with piety does not desire to return to this world, but a Shaheed (martyr) wishes to repetitively return to this world in order to go through his experience again and again and that if a person sincerely and most truly seeks martyrdom then Allah grants him that status even if that person meets his death on his bed.
Hazoor cited several Quranic verses with reference to Allah the Exalted bearing Witness for the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be on him) and said that Allah displayed miracles that were signs of the Holy Prophet's (peace and blessings be on him) truthfulness. Hazoor said when the Holy Prophet's (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) prophethood was established and all his reasoning and proofs were evident and yet some did not believe in him, addressing them he simply said that Allah was sufficient for him as a Witness.
Hazoor recounted that the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) said that a revelation is ineffectual without a practical testimony. Just as any governmental employee is protected against adversaries by his judicial rights etc. people who try to contend with those appointed and established by Allah are destroyed.
The Jumu'ah (Friday) prayer is one form of congregational worship in Islam. It takes place every Friday. Regular attendance at the Jumu'ah prayer is enjoined on the believer. According to a Saying of Muhammad(sa) this congregational prayer is twenty-five times more blessed than worship performed alone. (Bukhari)
"O ye who believe! When the call is made for Prayer on Friday, hasten to the remembrance of Allah, and leave off all business. That is best for you, if you only knew." more
"… (He who) offers the Prayers and listens quitely when the Imam stands up for sermon, will have his sins forgiven between that Friday and the next" (Bukhari)


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Nanling Restaurant occupies a renovated mansion (168 Yueyang Lu) which in the roaring 1920s was home to opera artistes. The mansion seemed lacking in upkeep compared to the modern upscale restaurants now teeming in Shanghai but this is where the locals come to eat, and the food at Nanling is favored by older folks who want their Huaiyang food the old school way.
First the 8 cold dishes:
Jelly fish 'head'--tender, crunchy and delicious, the 'heads' are much better than regular jelly fish. The bite is very different from regular jelly fish.
Pork in aspic tasted like ham. Refreshing.
Lotus root stuffed with glutinous rice in osmanthus sauce was delicate and yummy.
Spring onions and oil on boiled chicken was very good, the chicken full of flavor.
Squid in a delicious soy sauce.
'Sween yu' is a highly fragrant fish that's fried and soaked in a sauce made with soy sauce, crystal sugar, wine and star anise. My MIL does this dish very well.
Potato salad, Russian-style, is perhaps influenced by those days in the 1930s when Shanghai was the 'Paris of the East'.
I've forgotten what this was, but it's likely it was lamb.
Now the 10 hot dishes:
Eel in soy sauce--I get uneasy eating eel so I had only one piece of this. It was good, very tender and sweet.
Gunxi tang, a popular Shanghainese soup of bean curd, winter bamboo and Chinese ham. The old folks complained that the bean curd strips were too fine and gave a different feel on the tongue. I nodded and learnt, trusting their taste buds which have been seasoned through decades of eating the best food.
Crystal prawns, so-called because they are seasoned to be almost transparent, or translucent, and are very crunchy.
Peking duck is usually served as crispy duck skin wrapped in a pancake with scallion strips and a thick hoisin sauce. Nanling serves their Peking duck skin with some meat on. Yumm... just the way I like it.
Of all the dishes, I was most awed by this: lion heads. Nanling's Yangzhou lion heads with prawn roe are braised in a superior soup while Shanghainese lion heads are braised in a wine and soy sauce. The meatballs were also different in that the fat was not chopped with the meat but rather they seemed to have been cooked and cut into bits and mixed into the meat, so that you can taste the butter-soft fat bits on your tongue. To this day, I think about this dish and I know this is what I'll eat on my next trip to Shanghai. Absolutely heavenly, a gorgeous dish.
'Little dragon buns' give a mouthful of delicious soup that's not to be wasted so you have to be careful not to break the buns before popping them into your mouth.
A delicious stir-fry of fish maw and crab meat.
Another dish that makes you wonder if you're in heaven. This was a special fish cooked with a super delicious sauce.
One of the simplest but absolutely delicious greens, doe miao which is the tender tip of the pea sprouts.
There are many versions of fen jen rou ('flour steamed meat') and Nanling's version wraps the meat in lotus leaves. Another yum dish but I was weary by then.
But wait, what was this? I thought that the transparent bits were water chestnuts but when I put one into my mouth, there was no crunch and instead, the 'chestnut' just melted in my mouth. I was astounded and took another bite, just to feel the 'chestnut' melting in my mouth again. The other diners knew what they were eating and didn't have a stupid look on their faces like I did. My host graciously explained that this was steamed cake with pork fat. The fat is not ordinary pork belly fat. Pork caul (what I used to call omentum) is a net-like piece of transparent membrane with bits of white fat here and there. The fat bits are painstakingly cut out from the membrane for this cake.
Something this special needed more attention so although I had food running out of my ears, I reached out for a whole piece of the steamed cake and bit into it, savoring everything about it, the texture, the flavor, the taste, the experience of eating something new and unusual. The other diners had given up eating and I had the whole plate of pork fat cake to myself. I didn't disappoint them because I ate another piece, three pieces in all. I said a silent prayer for my heart (and thighs). The cake was subtle in taste but was soft, delicate and exquisite. Wow.
Shanghai pancake was greasy but so tasty.
An excellent meal full of variety that included all the top Huaiyang dishes. Very well done, Fang Sisters.


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The Gulfport was one of two cars built for the first lightweight Panama Limited in 1942 and is the only one to survive to this day. Illinois Central sold the Gulfport in 1968 and it became a fishing cabin of sorts beside Bee Lake in Mississippi.
Another view of the Gulfport fishing cabin.
In 2006 the Gulfport was moved via road to Monticello. Here the mover is getting ready to jack the car up and set his dollies for the move.
Out on the road after a lot of trouble to get it this far.
Getting ready for high iron (in this case the Interstate).
No we're not going the wrong way, just following the directed truck route.
At Monticello, getting ready to swap the rubber wheels for steel ones.
Another view of the transfer process.
The end result (for now) with trucks under car again.
The Monticello Railway Museum depends upon many sources of income to acquire, restore, maintain and operate the museum and we welcome donations. Donors help fund and facilitate many projects at the museum and provide income above and beyond train tickets, gift shop sales and membership dues.
While our volunteers perform the majority of the required labor for restorations at the museum, the need for money to purchase materials and equipment is increasing. Now that work on steam locomotive #401 is complete, the amount of consumable shop materials used is increasing. For example: acetylene and oxygen for the cutting torch; drill bits and cutting tools for the machine shop; grinding wheels and wire wheels for metal preparation and LP gas for heat to allow our volunteers to work during the winter are costing several-hundred dollars each month.
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An appeals court ruled Tuesday to reinstate two of four claims in a lawsuit that New York state brought against Charles Schwab accusing the brokerage firm of falsely describing auction-rate securities as liquid investments without disclosing the risks.
According to Bloomberg, a four-judge appeals court panel reinstated two of the four claims in the case, securities fraud allegations based on the state's Martin Act law, saying the attorney general's office presented enough evidence for a trial.
"We find the Martin Act causes of action to be sufficiently pleaded given the fact that the statute is remedial and should be broadly construed in order to attain its beneficial purpose," Bloomberg quoted Justice Richard Andrias as writing. "Under the statute, the word 'fraud' is broadly defined so as to embrace even acts which 'tend to deceive the purchasing public.' Based on this standard, the complaint sets forth actionable Martin Act claims notwithstanding the absence of a specific allegation that Schwab represented ARS to be liquid at times when they were illiquid."
The Martin Act gives the New York attorney general extraordinary powers, more than other state regulators, to fight financial fraud.
The San Francisco-based brokerage was sued by then-Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in August 2009, and State Supreme Court Justice Justice O. Peter Sherwood granted Schwab's motion to dismiss the case in 2011, Bloomberg reported.
The attorney general's office sued on behalf of investors who bought the securities through Schwab.
According to Bloomberg, the company was accused of engaging in "fraudulent and deceptive conduct" and failing to disclose the risks involved in the investments.
Schwab argued that the complaint didn't allege statements that were false when made or identify who made the misstatements, when and where they were made or how they were misleading, according to Sherwood's order, as quoted by Bloomberg.
Sherwood said the complaint was "devoid of any allegation of misrepresentations made that were untrue when made," noting that the attorney general's office spent more than a year investigating before filing the suit, Bloomberg reported.
The appeals court, Bloomberg reported, said Sherwood based its conclusion on a finding that there had been no failures in the auctions in the 20 years preceding August 2007 and erroneously evaluated the merits of the claims.
However, Schwab told Bloomberg in a statement that it intends to fully defend its position and is confident the court will rule in its favor. About 98% of the auction-rate securities held by Schwab clients have been redeemed at par value, the company said in the statement.
"Unlike some other downstream brokerage firms, Schwab did not market or promote ARS, market or sell them to clients online or compensate its registered representatives for ARS transactions," Schwab said in the statement. "Schwab's role in these transactions was simply to accommodate clients when they asked for these types of products."
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PARIS (AP) — Four French journalists held hostage in Syria since June have been released, France's presidential palace said Saturday.
President Francois Hollande's office said in a statement he felt "immense relief" after learning of the release of Edouard Elias, Didier Francois, Nicolas Henin and Pierre Torres — all said to be in good health despite "very trying conditions" of their captivity.
Private Turkish news agency DHA said the four were found blindfolded and cuffed in the southeast Sanliurfa province late Friday. Turkish soldiers on routine patrol found the journalists after they were dropped off near the Turkey-Syria border by an unknown group.
Turkish television showed pictures of the four at a police station and then a local hospital.
Hollande's office said the four would return soon to France, and it did not provide any details about the conditions of their release. French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal declined to comment.
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XXX-rated ordinance: City wants to regulate adult fun
Charlottesville's long and colorful history includes brothels, sex shops– and even porn flicks packaged as "businessman's special" matinees at the now abandoned Terrace Triple theater. What the city has never had is an ordinance regulating such activities. That's about to change as the city totally rewrites its zoning ordinance in graphic detail.
The revised regulations aim to create a more urban, pedestrian-oriented community and provide stability to traditional neighborhoods, says Jim Tolbert, head of neighborhood development services. City fathers, it seems, don't believe the new urbanism will be aided by topless bars.
"I think it was a general notion our community was vulnerable," says deputy city attorney Lisa Kelley. "We were lucky we hadn't had a red-light district." The city planning staff decided to throw in a section on adult use while the zoning ordinance was being overhauled for the first time since 1972.
Kelley says the intent isn't to ban strip clubs, adult theaters, and massage parlors. Nor, she says, was Ultimate Bliss, a new store loaded with sex toys, a factor. (Although its July opening in the old Reines Jewelers building behind Kentucky Fried Chicken on Angus Road raised a few neighborhood eyebrows.)
"We want to prohibit a concentration of them," explains Kelley, "so they didn't all congregate in one red-light district."
Still, with the proposed ordinance limiting adult establishments from within 1,000 feet of each other, residences, schools, religious institutions, public parks, playgrounds, or day care centers, someone wanting to open an adult video store would be hard pressed to find a suitable spot.
"It would need to be in the heart of a longstanding industrial or commercial use district," suggests Kelley. Job one upon receiving such an application? "We'd have to get out the ruler," says Kelley.
Under the proposed ordinance, Ultimate Bliss would not be allowed to open in its current location. That doesn't bother owner Greg because his establishment will be grandfathered in as a nonconforming use.
"We went with what was on the books," Sakaf says. "We haven't caused a problem or disturbance."
So as Charlottesville legislates, Sakaf's virtual monopoly of the dildo business may actually be protected by the proposed ordinance. "Why would I want to fight it?" he asks.
This isn't the first time a community has changed zoning after Sakaf showed up. In Kinston, North Carolina, the ordinance was changed to prohibit adult use within 1,000 feet of a cemetery after he opened a store near a graveyard.
And Sakaf has run into an interesting irony in Lumberton, North Carolina: a church opened up next to his sex shop.
"The zoning department had no problem putting a church in beside us, but we couldn't be within 1,000 feet of a church. Is there something here that I'm missing?" he asks.
Why is 1,000 feet the magic distance between sin and sanctity? Mainly because that's what was used in Richmond and Roanoke, upon which Charlottesville's regulations are based, say Kelley and Tolbert.
A draft of the new ordinance spells out in explicit detail what constitutes adult use. Its specifics regarding adult anatomical areas and sexual activities make it the only regulation on the books that uses the words "turgid," "areola," and "tumescence."
"You almost need a brown bag wrapped around it," joshes Tolbert.
Among big no-nos in the specified sexual activities section are masturbation, intercourse, and fondling of the female breast. But wait, aren't those evils routinely shown in R movies?
As long as the wanking off, rolling in the hay, or groping occur in a movie rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America, it's okay under city ordinance. Nor will it be a problem if Vinegar Hill chooses to show NC-17 movies or an unrated film such as Requiem for a Dream.
"The question is whether a theater receives a substantial portion of its business from adult movies," says Kelley.
And if Live Arts puts on a production with full frontal nudity like Venus Hottentot or Wit, well, the ordinance allows "live theatrical performances with serious artistic, social, or political value" to go on– no matter how many genitals are shown.
Under the adult massage parlor section, exemptions are made for massage by an athletic trainer or in a licensed hospital under the auspices of a doctor but no mention is made about licensed massage therapists, with which this town is replete.
Kelley says the intent is not to restrict massage therapists and adds that they may need to be included in the ordinance. She clarifies: The person being massaged may be unclothed, "but the person providing it can't be naked."
By November 26, the planning staff will have a draft of the ordinance on the city's website, says Tolbert. A public hearing on the entire zoning ordinance is scheduled for December 10; then it goes to the planning commission for a vote December 14. If it passes there, it should come before city council in January.
And if approved by council, the adult use section with its detailed forbidden sexual acts and anatomical descriptions promises to be the hottest government paper since the Starr Report.


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The other day I went over my fantasy baseball strategy for snake drafts. Lots of the strategy there also applies here. If you ask me — and you kinda did ask me by reading this shizz — auction drafts are where it's at, yo! You get in a room with your best fantasy baseball buddies. The guys you haven't seen since last year's draft. The guys you don't want to see until next year's draft. One guy, and there's always one, has his phone on vibrate just in case the missus calls about little Petey. He's got the flu, ya know. Then you have the guy who will go the extra dollar for (fill-in favorite player from his favorite team). You have the guy who brings only Cheetos and then asks the host for some cola every 30 minutes. Then, finally, you have the guy who made plans at 5PM and begins to yell at everyone at 4PM that they're taking too long. And, it always turns out, this day is the best day of the year. Auction draft day is better than your wedding day. As for online auction drafts, they're not as fun. Anyway, here's some tried and true tips to help you through your auction draft.
1. Early in the draft, throw out guys that you know you have no interest in that will cost others a lot.
Say David Ortiz snuck into a 21 and under club with Esmailyn Gonzalez's fake ID and took your baby sister home. Now you refuse to draft him. So the first name you should nominate is Ortiz and let others overspend on him. This is not to say you should let him go for cheap. You don't want high-priced pitching? Nominate Johan. You think Kinsler's overrated? Nominate him. You get the idea. Moving on…
2. Go the extra dollar if you really want someone.
When you get to the end of the auction, no one has any flippin' idea what they spent to get a guy. If you want Alexis Rios, go the extra buck or two. You really need a closer and Hanrahananan is the only one left? Go the extra dollar or two. Get the players you need.
3. You want to be "rich" with auction money, especially at the end of the draft.
You won't always have the most money at the draft, but, whenever possible, you want to. The more money you have A) The better leverage you have attaining any guy you may want. B) You can get great buys late in the draft when no one else has any money. Invariably, someone will throw out Elijah Dukes for a dollar (or some player that they think they can sneak through). Then you get Dukes for $2 and everyone in the draft room groans, wishing they still had some money. At the end of the draft, you want to be like the little tuxedoed guy from Monopoly.
4. Decent catchers and closers are even easier to acquire in auctions.
In a snake draft, you never know when the Doumit, Iannetta, Chris Perez, Capps or whoever is going to go. The beauty of the auction is you can have anyone. In my experience, you should wait until most of the teams have filled up their closers or catcher(s) slot then you nominate some one dollar beauts. I'll take Hanrahanananan for $1. Sweet!
5. Keep track of who other people want.
The beauty of the auction is you know exactly what everyone else is thinking. If Joe Schmohawk goes to $12 on Furcal and you get him for $13, keep JS in mind when you're looking to trade Furcal after his hot April. If someone groans when you get McLouth, keep it in mind. Unless it's the same guy who's been eating nothing but Cheetos and cola for ten hours. Then it might just be gas.


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KDE Commit-Digest for 19th February 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
I thought rekonq wasn't officially a part of KDE?
By Anonymous at Wed, 2012/02/29 - 10:38pm
it is because
It's on the KDE git server :-)
By Boudewijn Rempt at Thu, 2012/03/01 - 3:59pm
re: rekonq
By Paul Eggleton at Thu, 2012/03/01 - 6:29pm
And to add to that - it's at
And to add to that - it's at 0.9 now, see http://adjamblog.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/rekonq-0-9-stable/#comments
That is good news - having a browser which has proper integration in the desktop is a big improvement over what Firefox and Chromium offer. Both are nice and fast but their UI's are mediocre to bad, offers no integration in the desktop (unless you install plugins which don't work half the time) and they eat loads of memory. Rekonq seems lighter and has proper integration - a big plus.
By Jos Poortvliet at Fri, 2012/03/02 - 1:50pm
KDEPIM & Nepomuk
* Work on extended quick search to include fulltext results from Nepomuk in KDE-PIM
- now THAT is cool! It means that the quick search field above mail folders (which now only searches in the subjects & from) will be able to search the FULL TEXT right away! Awesomeness :D
Combined with the many improvements in desktop search lately, including some cool new features, things are coming together...
By Anonymous at Thu, 2012/03/01 - 10:31am
No one seems to have said it in a while, so I'll say what I'm sure many of us are thinking: it's always a pleasure to read these and see the never-ending amazing progress being made. There's a lot of very creative work going on, as well as the impressive progress on bug-fixing.
Thanks to the digest team and all the developers/translators/bug triagers/documentation writers/packagers/etc.
By Anonymous at Thu, 2012/03/01 - 10:34am
Basket is dead, unfortunately
One year and nothing. Basket devel-list (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=basket-devel) had 20 messages exchanged, mainly about how to contribute. No developing. What a pity. Such a nice app!
By Anonymous at Thu, 2012/03/01 - 12:55pm
Basket is dead, unfortunately
Indeed, a great app!! I use the 1.81 version and would love to see it maintained and developed further.
By Anonymous at Sun, 2012/03/04 - 1:17pm
RE: Basket is dead, unfortunately
+1 for wanting Basket to continue increasing in awesomeness.
I am very much impressed with it and would love to continue using it.
Maybe BasKet could be turned into a service of some sort that Kate/Kmail/Akonadi/Nepomuk could interact with? Keeping track of miscellaneous notes is a regular part of the usual "Desktop Experience" and making BasKet-like features easy to access would be a great benefit to me.
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The view from County Rd. 5 during a fall storm.
Ridgway Colorado.
Hesperus Mountain
Sweet evening light on Hesperus Mountain from Twin Lakes. Nearest town is Mancos Colorado.
Double RL Sunrise
A beautiful cold crisp morning on Ralph Lauren's cattle ranch near Ridgway Colorado.
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Weminuche Wilderness
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Aspen Sunburst
Fall aspens.
Lake City Colorado
Calm after the storm.
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Ouray Colorado
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Sunrise at Clear Lake Basin
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Yankee Girl Mine
Clearing fall snow storm.
Red Mountain Pass
Ouray Colorado
Columbines in Bloom
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Mt. Sneffels Wilderness
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Beaver Pond
Ridgway Colorado
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Taken along Red Sandstone Rd.
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Miners cabin with a view to die for.
Mayflower Gulch
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Summit County Colorado
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Moon Lake
Weminuche Wilderness
Nearest town Bayfield Colorado
Sunrise @ Moon Lake
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From Moon Lake
Weminuche Wilderness
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Lake City Colorado
Rd. 7
Ridgway Colorado
Ice Lake Reflection
Ice Lake @ sunrise.
Near Silverton Colorado
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Red Mountain Pass
Ouray Colorado
The Tarn @ Moon Lake B&W
This amazing little tarn has view in every direction and due to it's tiny size lays still almost all the time.
I really like this in B&W. Hopefully Ansel would approve.
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Weminuche Wilderness
16 mile backpack in to this area from the Pine River Trailhead.
Ice Lake Basin
After 5 hours of rain the clouds parted and handed us on of the most amazing sunsets I've ever been witness to.
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Large Tarn in Ice Lake Basin
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Grendadier Range as seen from Molas Lake
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EMC was in the house at Oracle's OpenWorld extravaganza in San Francisco on Monday, with not-quite-yet-retiring CEO Joe Tucci playing elder statesman with his 42 years in this racket, and talking a bit about clouds and the storage and virtualization giant's use of Oracle software to run the EMC business.
Tucci started out by saying that EMC and Oracle had over 70,000 common customers, which is a sizeable percentage of the 380,000-strong Oracle customer base. And one of those shared accounts happens to be EMC itself. "We use Oracle internally, and we are proud of that," Tucci said.
El Reg wonders about the health effects of applying Oracle internally. But let's move on...
Being in the IT business since the time when mainframes were the hot new data processing technology, Tucci said he had seen his share of changes, and joked that IT was actually short for "Industry in Transition." The Oracle OpenWorld crowd was a rough – and perhaps hungover – one, and refrained from laughing at Tucci's witticisms.
"The one thing I can tell you for sure is that these waves have created massive disruptions, they have also created massive opportunities," said Tucci, assuring the assembled multitudes that they have chosen the right career path.
That said, Tucci called the IT industry onto the carpet – a red one, of course, this being an Oracle event – and chastised it because 73 per cent of IT budgets are going to maintaining existing systems, and only 27 per cent is left over to do new and, presumably, more fun and valuable things.
Perhaps it is a flaw in our thinking that keeping the systems at the heart of our businesses operating is a problem, but that is a comment piece for another day. Tucci's comment, though, was direct: "As an industry, we have failed. And we need to change this."
One of the big problems the IT industry faces, he said, is that the need for more IT infrastructure is growing at a compound annual growth rate of more than 50 per cent over the next few years, but we are only adding people at a rate of 4 per cent.
And, of course, the answer to all problems is the cloud.
EMC is in the midst of a transition to a "private cloud," meaning a virtualized infrastructure running its applications. Specifically, EMC is moving to x86-based servers – Vblock machinery made in conjunction with server partner Cisco Systems and virtualization minion VMware – to run its internal Oracle ERP and CRM systems and their related databases.
For example, EMC has moved a 12TB Oracle 11g database that is behind its CRM system onto Vblocks running VMware's ESXi hypervisor, reduced the number of servers by a factor of ten, and driven up database server utilization to 70 per cent of CPU while at the same time increasing the performance of the CRM application by 300 per cent and saving $5m in the first year.
Pat Gelsinger, the former Intel chipper and now president of EMC's Information Infrastructure Products division, took the stage after Tucci and said that EMC was in the process of virtualizing its Oracle applications and databases, and had already successfully moved over about 40 per cent of the workloads. By the end of next year, EMC's Oracle stack will be completely virtualized on VMware.
That's a slightly higher rate of virtualization penetration for Oracle environments worldwide, which Gelsinger said are now virtualized in about 25 per cent of cases.
EMC is still a storage company, and even with a former Intel chip designer in charge of its Information Infrastructure Products division, the company had to talk a bit about storage. Gelsinger said that EMC was working on beefing up its Symmetrix VMAX arrays so they can support the storage needs of 5 million virtual machines.
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Well Wishes For Venezuela's Chavez on Social Media
[Global: Venezuela]
Dozens of get-well messages addressed to President Hugo Chávez are arriving each day at the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the U.S. in Washington, DC, following an announcement by the Venezuelan leader that he will soon undergo another surgery after having a cancerous tumor removed last June.
Venezuelans, Americans and Latin Americans have expressed love and solidarity with the Venezuelan president through letters, emails and messages on the Facebook and twitter pages of the Venezuelan diplomatic mission.
"Mr. Chavez, please get well soon, you are loved; God bless you and keep you-I wish I could visit and send flowers to you," Sandye McCleskey wrote on the Embassy's Facebook page.
"We need thousands of more Chávez… Go forward, Commander!," commented Ramón Pérez.
Matthew Geary, another fan of the Embassy on Facebook, wrote: "Best wishes for a successful surgery, a speedy recovery, and continued good health, President Chavez!"
Yonnier Salazar called for a chain of prayers for the Venezuelan president. "National prayer for the President at 9 pm. Write your prayers via twitter."
In a letter sent to the Venezuelan diplomatic mission in Washington, DC, Carlos Ochoa Silva expressed his admiration for the Latin American president and wished him "many years of life and leadership."
President Chávez who travels to Havana today to undergo treatment on Thursday said: "I want to thank everyone, since I have no time to reply to all the messages. Thank you very much, Cristina [Fernández de Kirchner], Evo Morales, all your words make me stronger; Olanta Humala, Rafael Correa, President Santos, Mexico's [Felipe] Calderón, Daniel Ortega and all friends of this world, thank you very much."
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This is according to The Pink Triangle, a new book by Hollywood biographer Darwin Porter.
The book reports conversations with Gore Vidal, Truman Capote and others.
The book reports conversations with Gore Vidal, Truman Capote and others.
Capote believed Bobby Kennedy was homosexual.
Reportedly, Nureyev and Robert Kennedy were seen 'kissing each other passionately in a phone box'.
Nueyev told a Danish newspaper:
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"If you don't believe me, ask Bobby and John-John Kennedy.
"Nobody can resist me.
"Everyone who has gone to bed with me has fallen in love with me."
John John (John F Kennedy Junior)
Jackie Kennedy considered that Nureyev was "paying too much attention to her son, JFK Jr."
President Kennedy of course was gay.
JFK (bottom) and Lem Billings (top)
The Assassination of President Kennedy
Rose Kennedy's chauffeur Frank Saunders wrote:
"Kennedy had a boyfriend named Kirk LeMoyne Billings - known to everybody as Lem. Their friendship went back to their days as classmates at Choate School for Boys in Wallingford, Connecticut."
Rose Kennedy's chauffeur Frank Saunders wrote:
"I made the mistake of asking who this friend Lem Billings was. 'Oh, him! He's always here,' Dora Lawrence (the maid) said. 'I think he sleeps with Jack more than Jacqueline does,' she said...
"The maid laughed, a kind of half laugh. 'President Kennedy doesn't like to sleep alone, Frank. Lem Billings is an old school chum, and he's always with him,' she said. (Saunders, Torn Lace Curtain, pp. 45-46)."
The Assassination of President Kennedy
Kennedy (top) Billings (bottom)
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