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A color-coded audience packed City Council Chambers and spilled onto the grounds outside Wednesday for an emotional and sometimes heated debate over proposed changes to San Antonio's nondiscrimination ordinance.
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A divided crowd continued to stream in during the evening public comment period that stretched late into the night. Just past 10 p.m., it had not diminished much, leaving few chairs open in chambers where the red shirts overtook the blue.
Throughout the session, people became increasingly animated, each side booing the other. More than three hours after it began, speakers kept the line moving, sharing their thoughts.
"People have given their lives for freedom in this country. How many more have to die because they live in fear?" said Mick Hinson, pastor of Metropolitan Community Church, an LGBT-friendly congregation.
Nancy Russell, who said in an interview that she was a founding member of the Stonewall Democrats in Bexar County, told the council she is a veteran and a lesbian.
"I served my country for 20 years to protect the equal rights of all Americans," she said, "rights I still do not have because of the blatant ignorance of a small percentage of the public."
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Violation of the ordinance, if it's passed, would be a Class C misdemeanor, with up to a $500 fine — the same fines in place under current ordinance for violations pertaining to housing and public accommodations.
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"If you believe that under no circumstances we should offer protections to gays and lesbians, then we're going to have to agree to disagree," he said. "If you believe we can work together to come to a balance where we can offer protections to a group that I think sorely needs them ... and at the same time respect the religious liberties and First Amendment rights of folks who may have a different view, I believe we can do that."
Some religious leaders have supported the proposal, some have called for clearer protections of religious expression and others flatly oppose it.
For weeks, opponents have complained about a portion of the ordinance that dealt with "prior discriminatory acts."
Bernal met with religious leaders and others who voiced concerns and removed the language at their behest. Though the language already exists in city code, Bernal has said its removal wouldn't weaken it. He floated a new version of the NDO late Tuesday.
Councilman Carlton Soules, on the opposing side, questioned removing that portion and said taking it out would undo 20-plus years of city law.
He contended it would allow an avowed racist to be appointed to city boards or commissions.
Bernal and Bernard both said that assertion is untrue — that the council appoints board members and would be able to keep racists from being appointed with or without the language.
Chan, who drew standing ovations throughout the day, said she was confused by definitions in the proposal and voiced concerns over unintended consequences of passing the ordinance.
She called for a citywide ballot initiative rather than council action for approval. Soules agreed.
Soules and Chan asked whether there are statistics showing a need for added protections.
Councilman Rey Saldaña said he has witnessed "deliberate attacks of this ordinance to confuse folks." He said he wanted to address those issues, including the claim there's no discrimination in San Antonio.
"The protection's not in there because they exposed an illness, a problem that exists, but much more so to cover up a potential gap, a potential discrimination," the city attorney said.
Soules and Chan hammered the issue of restrooms, locker rooms and other sex-specific public accommodations, continually voicing concerns that men would be able to invade women's facilities, though Bernard explained existing laws prohibit it.
Other council members who already have publicly announced their support for the ordinance — Shirley Gonzales, Ray Lopez, Cris Medina and Ron Nirenberg — underscored that support Wednesday. Council members Ivy Taylor and Rebecca Viagran both left lingering questions as to how they'd ultimately vote.
Just before 12:30 a.m. Thursday, the council adjourned, having heard hundreds of speakers in more than six hours of public commentary.


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Hello and welcome back to my blog!
Its been a while since my last post, this is because I've been working on a multi-player game, called mmoAsteroids which you can play by clicking on the icon on the side-bar. This post is my attempt to crystallise the most important points I've learned during the making of this game and my other multi-player prototypes.
Firstly, it's important to identify what I mean by multi-player and what implications that has. I'm talking about non-local multi-player, over the internet rather than at the same computer.
Of course this means there needs to be some kind of way for the players to communicate with each other over the internet. I've chosen the server-client model rather than peer-to-peer, because that's what my target platform client, Adobe Flash supports.
Client side
Why choose Flash? Because:
- The install base is massive, even compared to HTML5
- It's a fixed platform, you don't need to worry about different browsers, or different hardware
- The Flash portals are an amazing resource for distributing games
- There are very mature development environments available which support full debugging via the world class Visual Studio
- It has support for TCP sockets built right in
Server side
Because I'm using the client-server model, I need to choose a platform for the server-side code.
I've chosen node.js for this article, simply because it's the fastest way to get a decently performing server set up and running with the least amount of code. Also, with your own server there are no limits on the number of clients you can support simultaneously, unlike ready made packages like player.io, or SmartFoxServer which limit you to a certain number of users until you sign up to their paid plan.
Of course, they provide a lot more features for that money as well; it's important to weigh up the costs and benefits of whatever platform you choose.
How do server-client based multi-player games work?
Briefly, the client and server communicate by sending messages to one another. The client might send a message to the server saying he wants to move forwards. The server will receive the message and react accordingly. The server might send back a message saying that the player collected a power-up, or that someone else has joined the game.
The client and server both maintain a copy of the game universe; the server has the master copy and then client has a (possibly partial) copy for local simulation and display purposes. The server has authority over all the important decisions in game, like players getting hit by bullets, or being killed, or levelling up. The client has authority about what keys are being pressed and other pieces of user input data.
The reason for this separation of authority is to prevent cheating; although this is only really something you need to worry about once your game is big enough for hackers to invest time in finding cheats, it's worth taking simple steps ahead of time to prevent the possibility of a hacked client from, for example, transmitting that he killed everyone in the world to the server, or something of that nature.
Having the server be in authority simply prevents this from being possible.
It's important to distinguish between the various types of multi-player game before we get into this too deeply, because the type can have a massive effect on the amount of code you need to write.
Starting at its simplest form, I'm going to define an MO or Multi-player Online game as a multi-player game supporting as many players as possible running on one server (a physical computer located on the internet somewhere).
An MMO is a Massively Multi-player Online game. There are many different forms this can take, but nearly all of them will involve more than one physical server working together to handle the huge load that 'massively' implies.
How they work together will define how the game is to be designed; for example you might want your game universe to be shared by all players at the same time, as in Eve Online; this requires that several servers work together to form a large shard to share the load. Or you might want to instance your universe so that each individual server actually holds a unique copy of the universe and players in one universe cannot see players in another, like Realm of the Mad God. Or yet again, maybe you want to have some kind of combination of the two, where the universe is split up into realms and players cannot see players in other realms but they can travel between these realms, like in World of Warcraft.
Making a genuine MMO with a non-instanced universe is a massive undertaking, not to be attempted lightly. Even one with realms and travel between is fantastically complicated.
The more you instance your universe, the easier it gets to create the architecture because you can simply hand off instances to new servers as your game expands. If the players can't communicate across these instances things are easier still. This is the architecture that mmoAsteroids uses currently. Each universe can hold 20 players (since the level is only a certain physical pixel size) and each server can hold 10 instances at once, giving an on-line capacity of 200 players per server.
What I'm going to describe in this article is an MO, since that is the easiest concept to code. Adapting this to a highly instanced MMO is entirely possible.
TCP vs UDP
The choice of whether to use TCP or UDP communication protocols has been made for us by the fact that Flash only supports TCP. This would seem like a big problem for a very fast paced multi-player game because TCP has a reliable, in-order delivery policy and in particular has Nagles algorithm which tries to group separate packets of data together into larger payloads before actually sending them, which can introduce lag. UDP is very different in this regard and offers no such features, but also suffers from no such issues. However, using TCP it is possible to disable Nagle and thereby remove this lag inducing restriction, so all is not lost.
At the end of the day, anyone set on using UDP for their game will have to implement their own version of TCP's reliable, in-order delivery policy anyway, so once Nagle has been disabled there really isn't that much separating TCP and UDP in terms of raw speed. Here is a related discussion on GameDev.net.
If you would like to follow this article through and make your own server-side code, you will need download and install node.js. At the prototyping stage you don't need a real server, you can just run everything locally - this is a far simpler and quicker way to develop anyway.
When you want to deploy for real, you'll either need your own VPS, or you can subscribe to one of the growing number of node.js hosting providers. Here is a large list of providers.
The game
For this article, I've chosen to recreate the prototype version of mmoAsteroids. For me this game is interesting because it's a very fast paced, bullet-hell like, twitch reaction arcade game. Not a genre that is typically seen as a multi-player game (although there are exceptions such as Continuum and Realm of the Mad God) perhaps because it's difficult to get such games performing well over the internet.
Prototyping is extremely important and is absolutely the first thing you should do once you've figured out what game you'd like to make. The goal is to get the core part of the game up and into testing as fast as possible because the number one thing which will stop your game from being a success is it not being finished! Read more about how to approach the process of making a game here.
Here is the prototype in all its glory which you can buy the full source code to at the bottom of this article:
Where to start?
The fundamental component of a multi-player game is the server. In this case it's a socket-server since clients will be connecting via sockets. A socket is just an access channel for communication over a persistent connection between computers on a network. This is different to HTTP (which is how you are reading this article right now), which is a request/response protocol with no persistent connection.
Having a persistent connection is very important for a game like this, because response times are so important - we can't be waiting around for seconds for a response to keyboard input from the server!
The socket server
For the socket-server, I'm going to be using the net package which is built into node.js, because it provides a nice clean interface and a good starting point. The experienced reader might be wondering why I've not chosen to use the socket.io package which enables WebSocket support for node.js. The reason is that I want more control over the way messages get broadcast from the server and that finding a decent Flash implementation of the full web-socket protocol is difficult.
If you have chosen to use javascript for your client, you should use socket.io because javascript is best suited to WebSockets since it has no native TCP socket support of its own.
The simplest socket server
Here is what the most simple socket server possible looks like in node.js:
var port = 8000; var host = "localhost"; var net = require('net'); var server = net.createServer( function(socket) { socket.on('data', function(data) { console.log("data received: " + data); }); socket.on('close', function(socket) { console.log("close received"); }); socket.on('timeout', function(data) { console.log("timeout received"); }); socket.on('error', function(data) { console.log("error received"); }); }); server.listen(port, host);
It really is a testament to the quality of node.js that you can create a socket server in such few lines of code. You can browse the documentation for the net package here.
The first parameter to createServer() is the closure which will be called once a connection is made from a client. During this closure we attach various listeners to handle events that node.js sends us, such as close (when a client disconnects), or data (when a client has transmitted some data). Then on the final line we start the server listening for connections, using the port we want and the host address that we want to listen on.
The choice of which port to use is entirely up to you, although it probably pays to do some research to find out whether the majority of your players are able to connect to the internet via the port you've chosen; many players might be at work, or behind a firewall in a library which prohibits connections on non-standard port numbers. For mmoAsteroids, I chose 443, which is usually used by the HTTPS protocol; I found this to be the port which afforded me the greatest amount of external visibility to players.
The data event
The most interesting aspect of the above server is the data event, which indicates that data has arrived for processing - this is how the client and server will communicate primarily. Note that it does not mean a message has arrived, just that some amount of data is present to be read. It could be part of a message sent from a client, or it could be several messages together. The reason for this is that TCP is a stream oriented protocol, not a message oriented one. We need to do a little bit of work to build our own message protocol on top of this.
The message protocol
We would like the server to notify us when individual messages get received from the client. In order to do this we must design a simple message protocol. The one I've chosen for this tutorial is a simple UTF8 string based protocol with a terminating character separating each message.
Figure 1 shows a simple example of a message and the terminating character (which in this case is \n, or ASCII code 10, the newline character). Of course this means that messages cannot contain \n as part of the message, as this would confuse the protocol.
Figure 2 shows a possible set of individual data events numbered 1-5 encountered during the transmission of two individual messages: message\n and message\n. This gives you an example of the type of processing that we need to handle.
Fortunately, actually separating messages like this is quite easy when dealing with strings because both javascript and actionscript have the split() function on a string, which divides the input string up into chunks based on a separating character; effectively separating our messages from each other. It's not quite as simple as that, though as you can see from Figure 2, because not all data events will yield a string with a terminating character; we need to buffer the data as we go along.
var server = net.createServer( function(socket) { // // this gets called once for each connection we have from a client... // // utf8 encoding socket.setEncoding('utf8'); // no data received yet var socketData = ""; // // attach data handler // socket.on('data', function(data) { socketData += data; var substrings = socketData.split( "\n" ); var lastMsg = substrings.length-1; if ( substrings[lastMsg].length!=0 ) { // partial data read, store for later socketData = substrings[lastMsg]; } else { // full read, clear buffer socketData = ""; } // process all messages for ( var i = 0; i<lastMsg; i++ ) { var message = substrings[i]; // process message! } } });
The above code is all we need in reality. Inside the data handler, the data received is first buffered:
socketData += data;
Then it is split into sub-strings:
var substrings = socketData.split( "\n" );
This returns an array with minimum of 1 entry. Then we check to see if we have a partial read:
var lastMsg = substrings.length-1; if ( substrings[lastMsg].length!=0 ) { // partial data read, store for later socketData = substrings[lastMsg]; }
In which case we replace the buffered data with the last substring. If not it means we have a full read and we clear the buffered data completely:
else { // full read, clear buffer socketData = ""; }
Then we go on to process any and all messages received so far:
// process all messages for ( var i = 0; i<lastMsg; i++ ) { var message = substrings[i]; // process message! }
We write the same code on the client and now we have a working message protocol!
Now we can happily send string based messages to and from our client. But what use is that? We need to be able to send data, not just strings!
Both javascript and now actionscript, Flash Player 11.0 have built-in support for the industry standard data serialisation/deserialisation format, JSON which is what I've chosen to use for this tutorial. There are many other possible serialisation formats, but this is the one which is fastest to get up and running. It pays to do some research and find the format which is best suited for your individual needs.
Serialising an object to JSON in javascript is as simple as:
var messageString = JSON.stringify(data) + Message.Constants.kMessageTermintor;
Notice the appended message terminator which forms part of our protocol. In actionscript it's nearly identical:
var message:String = JSON.stringify(data) + kMessageTermintor;
Deserialisation is just as simple:
var data = JSON.parse(messageString);
var data:Object = JSON.parse(messageString);
The only slight issue is that the deserialised data is always just annoymous objects, not concrete types. This doesn't matter so much in javascript because that's how the language was designed to work, but actionscript is a statically typed language and we can take advantage of that to root out bugs at compile time before they occur unexpectedly in the runtime.
In order to deserialise into a concrete type in actionscript we must do some extra wrangling of the data.
package Code.System { import flash.utils.*; import flash.geom.*; import flash.system.*; import flash.display.*; import flash.net.*; public class Helpers { /** * * @param obj * @return Class * */ static public function GetClass( obj:Object ):Class { return Class( getDefinitionByName( getQualifiedClassName( obj ) ) ); } /** * * @param obj * @return String * */ static public function GetClassName( obj:Object ):String { return getQualifiedClassName( obj ); } /** * Take a annoymous type and try to copy the properies over into the given concrete type * * @param source Annoymous type * @param targetType Concrete type * */ static public function CloneIntoR( source:Object, targetType:Class ):* { Assert( source!=null, "CloneIntoR(): source is null! Type=" + GetClassName(targetType) ); var data:* = new targetType( ); for ( var prop:Object in source ) { Assert( data.hasOwnProperty( prop ), "Helpers.CloneInto(): supplied type didn't have required property " + prop ); try { data[prop] = source[prop]; } catch ( e:Error ) { data[prop] = CloneIntoR( source[prop], GetClass( data[prop] )); } } return data; } /** * Import an annoymous type from the server into a concrete type of the client * * @param source Annoymous type * @param targetType Concrete type * */ static public function ImportServerDef( source:Object, targetType:Class ):* { var data:* = CloneIntoR( source, targetType ); data.PostFixUp( ); return data; } } }
The above function Helpers.ImportServerDef() does just such a job. It will even work for recursively stored complex types. You can use it like this, for example:
var psd:PlayerSpawnDef = Helpers.ImportServerDef(data, PlayerSpawnDef);
Where PlayerSpawnDef in this case represents the data the client expects to receive from the server when a new player spawns in the game:
Message from server:
Concrete type:
public class PlayerSpawnDef extends BaseDef { public var m_pos:Vector2; public var m_uid:uint; public var m_name:String; public function PlayerSpawnDef() { m_pos = new Vector2(); } }
This enables strict type checking on the individual names of each part of the message, which prevents a typo from resulting in a bug. Absolutely invaluable in anything larger than this simple prototype.
The reason the constructor creates an empty Vector2() is so that Helpers.ImportServerDef() can know the type it's supposed to be importing - there is no way in the actionscript runtime to determine the type of variable if that variable is null.
Ok, now we're able to send objects and data over our message protocol and have them deserialised into concrete types on the client. So how do the client and server actually know what type of message they are receiving? It might be a message to create a new player, or one to respond to player input, or any other kind. We need to pre-package our messages inside a special container class which describes the message type as well as the message data.
package Code.Messages { public class MessageContainer { /** Message name */ public var n:String; /** Message string */ public var s:String; /** Message data - to be filled in by client */ public var m_data:*; } }
Above is how I handle this. All messages are encoded into a container, which contains the name of the message and the message string itself. So for example message names might be defined as single letters like this, for the sake of bandwidth saving:
/** * Must be kept in sync with server! */ public class MessageNames { static public const kTime:String = "a"; static public const kCreatePlayer:String = "b"; static public const kReady:String = "c"; ... }
And a fully encoded message with a container might look like this:
So, the message name is "c" and the message itself is:
And when it comes to decoding the container string:
package Code.Messages { import flash.net.*; import flash.utils.*; import Code.System.*; import Code.Maths.*; /** * Static class members to handle message sending and reading */ public class Message { ... /** * Deserialise a message from a string * * @param messageString * @return MessageContainer * */ static public function Get(messageString:String):MessageContainer { var containerA:Object = JSON.parse( messageString ); if ( containerA.s!=undefined ) { containerA.m_data = JSON.parse( containerA.s ); } // clone into concrete type var container:MessageContainer = Helpers.CloneIntoR( containerA, MessageContainer ); return container; } } }
I can just call:
var messageContainer:MessageContainer = Message.Get(messageString);
Which gets the message container, containing the decoded message and its name which was picked up and separated into a message by the message protocol as previously described. I can then simply interrogate the type of message and deserialise the inner data appropriately:
switch (messageContainer.n) { case MessageNames.kReady: { // unpack and create the world ... } break; case MessageNames.kCreatePlayer: { // deserialise the message data into a concrete type var psd:PlayerSpawnDef = Helpers.ImportServerDef(messageContainer.m_data, PlayerSpawnDef); ... } break; }
Note that the inner message data cannot be deserialised into the correct concrete type until the type of message has been understood by the game code via the message name, as shown above when creating a player.
Ok, now we have a socket server, a message protocol with serialisation and deserialisation, a way to determine the type of message received on either end. Now all we need is the actual game itself!
That's the subject of the next article in this series!
Buy the source
If you can't wait for the next article and just have to find out how it all ends, or you simply want a decent base to build your own multi-player prototype on top of then you can buy the source code accompanying this article!
It will give you the complete prototype as shown in playable form above, with both server and client code. You will need either Flash Develop or Amethyst to build the client-side code and of course you will need node.js installed to run the server-side. You will also need Flex SDK version 4.5.1 or above. If you would like to edit the assets included with this demo, you will need Adobe Flash CS4+. Note that you cannot build the client side code with only the Flash IDE.
Your purchase will also contribute to my ability to be able to continue to write articles like this! 🙂
It comes in two versions, a personal edition which you are free to use for your own, non commercial purposes and a commercial version which allows you to use the code in any number of different commercial products or games:
Personal use licence - USD 49.99
Commercial use licence - USD 199.99
Subscribers can access the source here
If it seems expensive, bare in mind that it took a couple of solid weeks of programming to produce, which would have been around $3500 if I were contracted... Not to mention the many weeks and days it took to arrive at a solution powerful enough to handle a twitch reaction game over a 3G connection!
That's all for now! Until next time, have fun!
Cheers, Paul.


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No one could catch Phil Mickelson or Billy Horschel as the second round wrapped up early Saturday at the U.S. Open, where sunny skies helped dry muddy Merion Golf Club.
Ian Poulter tried to join them but had a bad lie in a bunker at No. 16 and his approach rolled off the back edge of the green at the 18th. The two bogeys sank him from even par to 2 over after his round of 71.
Once everyone finished, Mickelson and Horschel remained the only players under par, at 1-under 139 at the halfway point of the championship.
"I'm three off the lead in the U.S. Open," Poulter said. "And that's the difference of one hole. You can make birdie and someone can make double. I'm right in position and right there where I want to be. It's going to be a fun weekend."
The cut line was 8 over, saving both defending champion Webb Simpson (5 over) and Masters champion Adam Scott (7 over). Third-round play was scheduled to start at 12:15 p.m., with threesomes teeing off at Nos. 1 and 11 in a tournament that fell behind schedule when storms moved through the Philadelphia area on Thursday.
Tiger Woods was tied for 13th at 3 over, still in the hunt as long as he can deal with the pain from a troublesome left elbow — as well as Merion's wicked rough and flummoxing greens that more than compensate for shorter-than-usual yardage for a U.S. Open.
"It's hard with the wind and the pin locations," Woods said after his second-round 70. "They're really tough. ... We didn't think they were going to be as severe as they are."
The top of the leaderboard was a study in contrast. Mickelson has won four majors. Horschel has won once on the PGA Tour, and that was less than two months ago.
Mickelson displayed his usual take-a-chance flair Friday. His round of 72 was the full package of par saves and makeable birdie putts that all went awry — until he finally sank one from 20 feet at the 18th, the hardest hole on the course, to tie him with Horschel seconds after the horn sounded to suspend play for the day.
"On 18, when you don't really expect to get one, I put the ball in a good spot and was able to roll one in," Mickelson said.
Horschel's path was much more straight-forward. He merely put the ball on the green in regulation 18 times out of 18, a stellar achievement for a regular tour event, much less a major championship. His 3-under 67 was the best round of the day.
"I wasn't in the zone, I was just focused on what I tried to do," said Horschel, who missed the cut in his only previous U.S. Open appearance, as a teenager in 2006. "I didn't know I hit every green until I walked off 18. It's a cool thing."
Yeah, pretty cool, considering he was one of only six players to shoot a red number in the second round at Merion. Justin Rose and Steve Stricker both carded a 69 to stand at even par, tied with Luke Donald (72) for second place.
Nearly half the field was still on the course when play was called due to darkness. Groups are allowed to complete the hole they're playing after the horn sounds, so Mickelson's birdie at 18 was the golf equivalent of hiking the football before time runs out and getting to complete the down. In fact, his group was so eager to finish the round that they negotiated with the group ahead for playing partner Keegan Bradley to hit his tee shot early at 18.
"We need to hit one tee shot so we could finish," Mickelson said. "They moved out of the way, and Keegan hit a tee shot and they went back and finished the hole. ... It's nice when guys like that help out."
Horschel's surge shouldn't be much of a surprise. He's having a breakout year, with six finishes in the top 10 on the PGA Tour, including his victory at the Zurich Classic in late April.
"I've acquired some patience, not as much as I wish I had," said the 26-year-old from Jacksonville Beach, Fla.
Still, he's no Mickelson. The most recent personal buzz about Lefty was his decision to attend his daughter's eighth-grade graduation ceremony on the eve of the Open, then fly cross-country overnight to play his first round Thursday on little sleep.
Horschel? Well, his official PGA Tour bio says that he "read all four Twilight books in two weeks and is a believer in Bigfoot and UFOs."
He's also said he's steadied his game with the help of sports psychologist Fran Pirozzolo, who helped convince Horschel to think of the U.S. Open as "another tournament."
"I know it's a big event. I know it's a historical event," Horschel said. "But one thing that me and Fran have worked on is limiting the distractions."
US OPEN Saturday Tee times (EDT) Top 10 after two rounds.
T1 Mickelson, P 2:40 pm
T1 Horschel, B. 2:40 pm
T3 Stricker, S. 2:29 pm
T3 Rose, J. 2:29 pm
T3 Donald, L. 2:40 pm
T6 Mahan, H. 2:18 pm
T6 Schwartzel, C. 2:18 pm
T6 Senden, J 2:29 pm
T6 Colsaerts, N. 2:18 pm
T10 Goggin, M. 2:07 pm
T10 Stenson, H. 2:07 pm
T10 Poulter, I. 2:07 pm
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Soup to Nuts: BastardChef Too
(More MasterChef Music)
Monday, May 14, 2012
As begun last week, this is the second instalment of the do-it-yourself series of compilation CDs that should rightfully put Matt Preston's virtually foodless music compilation to shame.
Soup to Nuts: BastardChef Too:
- Muffin Man - Frank Zappa/Mothers/Captain Beefheart
- Meat City - John Lennon
- We Are Hungry Men - David Bowie
- America Eats Its Young - Funkadelic
- Too Many Cooks (Spoil The Soup) - Mick Jagger
- Cookin' In The Kitchen Of Love - Ringo Starr
- Tandoori Chicken - Ronnie Spector
- Saturday Night Fish Fry - The Coasters
- The Rhubarb Tart Song - John Cleese
- Sugar Sugar - The Archies
- Boiled Beef And Carrots - Lenny Henry
- Bread and Butter - The Newbeats
(Unfortunately, if you are reading this post on your Apple iDevice, you won't see the player below; it's encoded in flash.)
1: Muffin Man - Zappa/Beefheart/Mothers
Muffins occupy an interesting place on the food spectrum. Or perhaps two — since on the one hand, they're that bready substitute you toast for brekky, to have hot with butter and the spread of your choice or with sausage and egg. But then they're also a kind of cake – sometimes with fruit, so you can kid yourself that you're having something healthy with your coffee or tea.
Although it takes its name from an innocent nursery rhyme ("do you know the muffin man/Who lives on Drury Lane?") Frank Zappa brings a different muffin conundrum to the fore:
Girl, you thought it was a man
But it was a muffin.
The cries you heard in the night
Was on account of him stuffin'.
What's he stuffing, exactly? (Or, as Tom Waits might ask, 'What's he building in there?')
The tack piano that accompanies the mad narrative, reminiscent of the original soundtrack to Fritz Lang's Metropolis). But combined with Zappa's declamatory narrative, it is a b-grade horror movie – about the Muffin Man in question, ensconced in his Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, working on "that prince of foods: the muffin".
Every chef's been in a similar situation. And not just chefs: every creative identifies with the archetypal 'Frankenstein' scenario of the mad scientist bringing their creation to life. Even Zappa himself – who'd use horror movie nomenclature for his work: follow-up songs and albums may be titled 'Son of… and 'Return of the Son of…' (as in the Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar series). He also named his home studio the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen.
It's significant that the song graces Bongo Fury, the live album commemorating the mid-'70s tour undertaken with Captain Beefheart. The good Captain – entangled in contractual purgatory at the time – was a childhood friend of Zappa's and they shared a love of music and cinema. Indeed, early on they sought to collaborate on a b-grade movie their own: Captain Beefheart vs the Grunt People. Beefheart's dad used to drive a bread van, which the teenage pair would break into in order to steal pineapple buns. Muffins of their time, no doubt.
So – d'ya reckon anyone in the MasterChef utility research kitchen will have a stab at 'that prince of foods, the muffin'? Who cares. It's more exciting when the monstrous culinary equivalent of Frankenstein rises from the slab.
Find it: closing the album Bongo Fury as well as the compilation Strictly Commercial: The Best Of Frank Zappa.
There's clearly a fine art to cooking meat well – but that has nothing to do with this song from John Lennon's fourth post-Beatles album.
Lennon seems to be a running theme on this volume of BastardChef; in addition to this offering, from his 1973 album Mind Games, you'll find him twiddling Mick Jagger's knobs on 'Too Many Cooks (Spoil the Soup)' and bashing Ringo Starr's keys on Lennon's own 'Cookin' (In the Kitchen of Love)'.
The Mind Games album dates from the beginning of Lennon's 'lost weekend', its origins lying in Yoko Ono's album Feeling the Space. Lennon dug the musicians her assistant May Pang had assembled. Turns out Lennon dug May Pang: by the time he'd written a bunch of songs and was ready to record, he'd split from Yoko, who'd somehow given her blessing on his taking May as his mistress. How did this affect John? Take a look at the album cover: Yoko still looms large over lonely Lennon.
So rather than wholesale butcheries with massive cool rooms featuring acres of fresh flesh on display, it would seem 'Meat City' is about Lennon's visit to the world of singledom: pick-up bars, swingers parties and the massive hotbeds featuring acres of fresh flesh on display.
True to that period of unfocused rage, there are still elements of random political activism left over from previous album Sometime In New York City: that weird interlude that sounds like a synthesised chipmonk speaking alien is in fact Lennon's own voice, sped up and run backwards, suggesting all pigs ought to be loved very much (my paraphrasing). The version on the flip side of the Mind Games single is a slightly different mix, where the synthesised chipmonk turns out to be saying "check the album" backwards.
Find it: on the album Mind Games.
3. We Are Hungry Men - David Bowie
Whomever said, 'the way to a man's heart is through his stomach' wasn't lying. All men are hungry men. But none more so than late-'60s David Bowie: hungry for success, and, to look at him – 'Biafra-thin rabbit-in-the-headlights' as one cultural commentator described him – literally hungry.
The hunger to make it as a recording artist meant the former David Robert Jones toyed with various styles and genres including cockney music hall, mod beats and whatever category this vision of a future dystopia fits into. The song opens with a Kenneth Williams impression (so it's not meant to be taken so seriously, clearly), delivering the bleak news of over-population. Then Bowie takes on the role of a young, charismatic, crackpot leader offering more-or-less the same Modest Proposal as Jonathan Swift as a means to overcome the multitude of starving poor.
The early 'hungry' – or 'lean' period – of Bowie's work includes a stack of songs that have been repackaged in various compilations over the decades. While the artist has all but disowned his oeuvre from that time, the collection was finally given its rightful release as a deluxe double CD collection, much to fans' pleasure. Bowie himself cherry picked his favourites and re-recorded them for an album called Toy earlier this century – that still remains officially unavailable.
Find it: in both stereo and mono mixes on the 2-disc David Bowie [Deluxe Edition].Download it here.
4: America Eats Its Young - Funkadelic
Following on from the high-camp Bowie song about infantricide, 'We Are Hungry Men', comes the darker, down-beat bad acid trip of Funkadelic.
Are they proclaiming, on a metaphoric level, that America has failed its youth? The dark mutterings don't quite lend themselves to transparent interpretation.
Instead, sit back and enjoy – as best you can – the grunted insinuations and squealed backing vocals as they slowly build to a grinding, faded frenzy. It helps if you imagine it the soundtrack of Matt Preston discovering the fish is still raw, the omlette contains eggshell and the rice hasn't been fluffed; time to send the dish back, and the chef away in tears.
And if it gets too much, relax: a far more upbeat food-related funk will follow, courtesy of Mick Jagger's 'Too Many Cooks'.
Find it: on the album America Eats Its Young . Download it here.
5: Too Many Cooks (Spoil the Soup) - Mick Jagger
If it's a Rolling Stones song about anything other than getting some nookie, you can bet that it is in fact a metaphor for getting some nookie. This is also the case with almost all of Mick Jagger's solo oeuvre. 'Too Many Gooks (Spoil the Soup)' appears to be a more explicit reading of 'Cook Cook Blues'. 'Cook Cook Blues' is an '80s Stones blues jam that took a long time to prepare - finally served as a single flip side in 1989 (and features on BastardChef Volume 1) that uses food as its metaphor. But the funky 'Too Many Cooks' was not written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and its recording predates 'Cook Cook Blues' by about a decade – even though it took even longer - almost another decade! - to see the light of day. It has a far more interesting pedigree.
The song was produced by John Lennon during his 'lost weekend' – some 18 months of separation from Yoko Ono that involved revelry, debauchery and recording with various buddies. The sessions for 'Too Many Cooks' must have been quite debauched indeed, since Mick Jagger claims to have had no recollection of them, unaware the song existed until an acetate of it turned up many years later (and, knowing Mick, then taken back into the studio for tweaking, polishing and finishing properly before subsequent release).
If the food-as-sex metaphor is annoying, play this song on and on; what with the strange eroticism on display when you watch Nigella Lawson taste everything she's preparing, and Matt Preston tasting absolutely anything, the appetite may sicken and so die…
Find it: along with two other previously unreleased tracks, on the Very Best of Mick Jagger compilation.
6: Cookin' (In The Kitchen Of Love) - Ringo Starr
Stepping out first with an unlikely collection of old-time crooner's standards, Sentimental Journey ("recorded for me mum!") and then the country album Beaucoups of Blues , by his third album Ringo the erstwhile Beatles drummer had hit upon a system that's pretty much served him well ever since: treat each album as a party and invite all your mates to rock up with a song (or, in Ringo's case, 'easy listening' up with a song).
Hence John Lennon's contribution for Ringo's 1976 album, Ringo's Rotogravure : a party song about getting through life, with Lennon himself guesting on piano.
Initially, the 'cooking in the kitchen of love' metaphor sounds as though it might reside in the same region as the Stones' 'Cook Cook Blues' or Mick Jagger's 'Too Many Cooks' (and more specifically, whichever Kiss song demands "let me put my log in your fireplace"). But by the second metaphor, "truckin' down the highway of life" and subsequent philosophical exposition "It's got to be high, it's got to be low/'Cause in between we just don't go" it turns out that there's no hidden message or any depth to these words whatsoever. Lennon saved that stuff - in songs like 'Imagine', 'Instant Karma' and 'Power to the People' - for himself.
Don't hold it against him. It's been noted that Lennon – and Lennon & McCartney for that matter – were, more often than not, 'dozy lyricists' when tossing off a ditty for Ringo. And besides, by this stage the working class hero was about to go into musical hibernation; he'd spent his 'lost weekend' being high and was about to settle into being low for the next half-decade, the sessions for this song proving his last until he started recording Double Fantasy.
And remember: Lennon's time away from the music industry as househusband and dedicated father would be marked by such domestic activities as baking bread, about which he'd speak at length when he finally came out of retirement. Cooking in the kitchen of love, indeed.
Find it: on Ringo's Rotogravure.
7: Tandoori Chicken - Ronnie Spector
After John Lennon handed the hitherto 'unreleasable' Get Back tapes over to legendary 'Wall of Sound' producer Phil Spector – who refashioned them into Let It Be – both Lennon and George Harrison were keen to have him produce their post-Beatles solo albums.
Sessions for a proposed solo album for Spector's wife – and former Ronette – Ronnie Spector followed on from George Harrison's triple album All Things Must Pass. Unfortunately, the album was shelved after only a handful of songs were recorded, the total official result being the 1971 single 'Try Some Buy Some'.
While that song had been demoed by Harrison for All Things Must Pass and was given the Wall of Sound treatment, the flip side, 'Tandoori Chicken' sounds, lyrically, musically and instrumentally, pretty much as thrown together as the dinner arrangement that gave rise to it: Harrison sent Beatles roadie Mal Evans out for some takeaway during the recording sessions. Suddenly it's a blues based b-side. It's nice that Harrison's Indian influences aren't limited merely to instrumentation.
Find it: on the flip side of the 'Try Some Buy Some' 7-inch single; sadly not available on CD right now…
8: Saturday Night Fish Fry - The Coasters
The Coasters' 'Saturday Night Fish Fry' is another hard-to-get food hit. The original version by the song's author, Louis Jordan, and his jump blues backing band the Typany Five, is considered by some to be the very first rock'n'roll record. It's the story of a party that gets out of hand and ends with an arrest.
A 'fish fry' is a kind of poor folks fundraiser – the person throwing it will cook and anyone willing to pay for the feed (and, no doubt, sly grog) is welcome. (The song takes place "down in New Orleans", which, enjoying an excellent fishery until the BP oil spill pretty much killed the Gulf of Mexico, had access to excellent cheap seafood.) If you can help provide the food and drink, or serve it, or present some live entertainment, you get in free. In this song, the protagonist is the singer of the song, telling of a Saturday night fish fry that was so good, it had to be shut down by the cops. Although the protagonist never wants to hear about fish again, listening to it makes you hanker for a piping hot fish burger.
Jordan's original version was over 5 minutes long, so it had to take up two sides of a 78rpm record. The Coasters's version lived on the flip side of the single 'She's a Yum Yum', dating from 1966 so part of the material recorded when they were signed to Atco – making it harder to get your hands on.
Find it: at the end of disc 3 of the excellent and exhaustive compilation, There's a Riot Goin' On: The Coasters on Atco.
9: The Rhubarb Tart Song - John Cleese/At Last The 1948 Show
Some people have never been subjected to the [dis]pleasure of rhubarb, but apparently it's good for you, which is why it doesn't taste particularly nice. And it's used to make dessert-type foods, despite being a bitter vegetable that's allegedly good for you. This alone makes it the perfect subject of a silly song, and who better to deliver it than John Cleese? The song gives the rhubarb tart a great deal of pomp and majesty, not just by listing great historical personages as fans of the food, but by accompanying the doggeral with one of John Phillip Sousa's finest marches.
The song dates from 1968 sketch show At Last the 1948 Show , in which Cleese partook with fellow Python-to-be, Graham Chapman, and future The Goodie Tim Brooke-Tayler as well as Marty Feldman, with whom they'd all written for David Frost's various satirical shows. (Frost in fact produced At Last The 1948 Show and was later slighted that he couldn't be part of Monty Pythong's Flying Circus.)
At Last the 1948 Show contains many elements that would go on to be seen as prime Python characteristics. Inded, The Four Yorkshiremen Sketch, so beloved of Python fans, originated in At Last the 1948 Show and the fact that it is still identified as a Python sketch continues to irritate Tim Brooke-Taylor, who co-wrote it.
As opposed to parodying a popular song with a new set of lyrics, 'The Rhubarb Tart Song' specifically takes a pre-existing instrumental and marries it to foolish words. This is a motif to which John Cleese would return. The song 'Oliver Cromwell', for example, appearing on the 1989 album Monty Python Sings, began as Frederic Chopin's 'Polonaise No. 6 Opus S3 in A flat'. The borrowing of a Sousa march also becomes a motif: the Pythons borrowed Sousa's 'The Liberty Bell' to serve, this time wordlessly, as the theme to their television show.
Find it: 'The Rhubarb Tart Song' lives on the original album tie-in of sketches and songs from the television program, At Last the 1948 Show.
Pure bubblegum pop at its best, 'Sugar Sugar' is said to have been offered to the Monkees, who turned it down as being too cheesy just as they were maturing to a point of playing their own instruments on far more mature albums. Although there are rumours of Monkee Davy Jones having sung lead on an instrumental backing recorded by session musicians (as most of the earlier Monkees songs were constructed) and Mike Nesmith punching a hole through a wall in anger at being expected to record the song, nowadays both stories are considered myths. Indeed, it's more likely the Monkees resisted recording an entirely different song entitled 'Sugar Man', but over the years their dummy spit at 'Sugar Sugar' has proven the more entertaining anecdote.
Irrespective, Don Kirshner, the producer behind the launch of manufactured band The Monkees was also behind the manufactured band The Archies, which he prefered more since, being cartoon characters, they were far more easy to control than The Monkees. The Archies were never gonna complain that they should be writing their own songs, and playing their own instruments on the recordings. Although the session musos behind The Archies might have wanted to ark up, especially after 'Sugar Sugar' proved a massive hit.
Although Ron Dante's lead vocals melt in the mouth more like fairy floss, they live up to the sweetness promised by the song title. And as any chef worth his weight in… well, weight, really, will tell you: there is no substitute, in the end, for cooking with sugar. When the recipe calls for it, use it; none of that chemical substitute, thank you!
Find it: on the remastered compilation, Absolutely the Best of the Archies. Download it here.
11: Boiled Beef and Carrots - Lenny Henry
You most likely won't remember him as Gareth Blackstock in the BBC show Chef! irrespective of how fitting it would be for our purposes here. And just as likely you don't remember Lenworth George Henry – or 'Lenny', as he's better known – for his daliance with the music hall standard 'Boiled Beef And Carrots'.
Fact is, Lenny would also prefer you don't remember it. But it shouldn't be so surprising that he had a go with a novelty hit, given his rise to showbiz success began on a telly talent show (New Faces) and included regular appearances on kids show TISWAS. The synthesiser arrangement dates this recording but also adds to its charm.
It's fitting that Lenny would make the cut of BastardChef given his former Missus, Dawn French, is currently appearing in ads for MasterChef sponsor Coles. Part of me is asking, does she really need the money so badly? Maybe. She couldn't afford to get her hair cut evenly on both sides. Could it be terms of the divorce? Does Dawn need to pay Lenny off? What's a Lenworth after all? Maybe he is back to living on boiled beef and carrots…
Find it: alongside far more novelty songs by British comedy and light entertainment types than you'll ever consume in one sitting, entitled You Are Awful But We Like You.
12: Bread and Butter - The Newbeats
If food can be a tool of seduction, it can also be the cause of a break-up, as evidenced in the Newbeats' hit single of 1964, 'Bread and Butter'. It sounds like another bubblegum hit with its precise and economic instrumentation, but it predates that movement by a few years. Indeed, in 1964, all pop was bubblegum pop; there was no sophistication to it just yet, so rock'n'roll hadn't given way to rock. And besides, unlike 'Yummy Yummy Yummy' and 'Chewy Chewy', there's a lot more going on in 'Bread and Butter'.
The protagonist is a simple man, given to simple needs, which his "baby" provides perfectly: "bread and butter… toast and jam". But one day he comes home to the ultimate betrayal: his baby "with some other man". Not caught in flagrante delicto, as such. Or rather, yes, caught in the very act: if bread and butter and toast and jam are the proof of true love, then "chicken and dumplings" with the other guy is gross infidelity.
Lead vocalist Larry Henley (who would go on to serve as a co-writer of 'Wind Beneath My Wings') has a voice so thick you'd have to leave it out a while before you could spread it on a piece of bread; brothers Dean and Mark Mathis – if aliens attempted to replicate the Everly Brothers, this'd be them – provide the perfect bed for it.
Find it: on the compilation Bead And Butter: The Very Best of The Newbeats. Download it here.
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Forum Post: The Teabag Taliban Fail to Kill Food Stamps: Class War on the Poor
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The Teabag Taliban Fail to Kill Food Stamps: Class War on the Poor
But not for lack of trying!
The rabid Teabag Taliban ~ who invaded Congress in 2010 because newbie Dems were too busy having a temper tantrum to VOTE ~ are still doing their best to kill, destroy or block safety nets, social programs, and any signs of a modern progressive society while bending over backwards for the so-called "Job Creators."
Listen to the unbelievable arguments RepubliCons use to redistribute funds from the needy to the GREEDY!!
Friday, June 21, 2013 : Randi Rhodes: Get informed!
John Boehner's Republican-controlled House has failed to pass a farm bill. This gives John Boehner a black eye to go with his mahogany face. The thing about a farm bill with a food stamp program included is that it has something for everybody. But House Republicans only want things for somebodies. Traditionally in a farm bill, the farm subsidies help rich agribusiness, and the food stamp program helps poor people. Democrats are willing to let Republicans give money to those who don't need it, in exchange for getting food to poor children. But now Republicans won't even do that.
The Republicans added an amendment to the bill that would have let states require that food stamp recipients work for their food. Amazing! The Republicans seem to have adopted a carrot and stick approach to food stamps—and they want people to have to work for the carrot. There was also an amendment that would have allowed states to drug-test people to qualify for food stamps. Interestingly, there was no similar requirement to drug-test people applying for farm subsidies. They could pee in a silver cup.
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GOP's Food Stamp Amendment Sinks Farm Bill
By Alan Pyke on Jun 20, 2013 at 4:04 pm
Rep. Steve Southerland (R-FL) The House killed a five-year farm bill on Thursday afternoon after Republicans passed an amendment that would have replicated the failures of Clinton-era welfare reform in the food stamps program. The bill was already facing steep odds after the White House issued a veto threat and conservative groups like Americans for Prosperity began whipping GOP votes against the measure, and the final amendment Republicans tacked onto the bill chased away the Democratic votes needed for passage.
How Food Stamps Killed the Farm Bill
Florida Rep. Steve Southerland's amendment made the bill unpalatable to most Democrats.
Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/06/21/food-stamps-killed-the-farm-bill/#ixzz2WuMifWD5
Stockman staff beating 'SNAP Challenge'
Jun 18, 2013 | Press Release
Liberal stunt backfires, proves food stamp cuts can go even further WASHINGTON – The "SNAP Challenge," a left-wing publicity stunt intended to make it appear proposed cuts to food stamps would leave families unable to feed themselves, has been debunked this week by the office of Congressman Steve Stockman.
About 30 House Democrats are participating in the "SNAP Challenge" in which someone must feed themselves on $31.50 a week, which Democrats claim is the level of benefits available to a person under the Farm Bill. Democrats have been intentionally buying overpriced food and shopping at high-priced chains to make it appear the cuts go too far.
Donny Ferguson, who serves as Stockman's communications director and agriculture policy advisor, was able to buy enough food to eat well for a week on just $27.58, almost four dollars less than the $31.50 "SNAP Challenge" figure.
"I wanted to personally experience the effects of the proposed cuts to food stamps. I didn't plan ahead or buy strategically, I just saw the publicity stunt and made a snap decision to drive down the street and try it myself. I put my money where my mouth is, and the proposed food stamp cuts are still quite filling," said Ferguson.
"We can cut the proposed benefits by an additional 12.4 percent and still be able to eat for a week," said Ferguson. "Not only am I feeding myself for less than the SNAP Challenge, I will probably have food left over."
MUST SEE VIDEO: The GOP Tries To Defend Cutting Food Stamps: Rep Sessions, Michelle Bachman, Newt Gingrich, Paul Ryan, Jan Shakowsky Respond
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
natural dyeing with pecans
But favorite white sweaters tend to become careworn. Seams came undone. Stitches unraveled. Stains materialized.
I used my tidiest skills to make physical repairs, but the faint yellow under the arms and a stubborn dot of a coffee stain on the chest meant that the white sweater never came out of the drawer for the past two years. It made me sad everytime I spied it, because I knew it had a lot of life left in it.
What's a girl to do? Well, an idea came to me recently when we had to prune a branch off of our pecan tree. I plucked all the unripe pecans off of it and put them in one of my dyeing buckets. After snapping this photo, I bashed and bruised them with a wooden post (very cathartic, must say) and covered them with water to soak for a week.
I washed the sweater to make sure that it was as clean as it could be. And then when I was finally ready to start the dyeing, I soaked it in cool water for about an hour to make sure that the fibers were fully saturated.
Meanwhile, this is what had become of the soaking pecan hulls. The water had become a thickened, slightly frothy yellow-brown. Slow, fermenting soaks like this can have an "ick" factor. But I find them very earthy and satisfying, and so much easier than hot dyeing, when I have to haul heavy pots around on the stove. This just happens in buckets in a corner of my backyard.
For cold dyeing, especially with plant fibers, you typically need a long soak. The wet sweater went into the strained dye liquor and stayed in for almost two days, with repeated airings (which I'll explain below). During the daytime, I'd move it around every few hours to try to make the dyeing more even. During the nighttime, though, it would stay in one spot for 10-12 hours, so that some spots ended up darker than others. If I'd really wanted it to be even, I would've removed it at night. But, well, I relish the wabi-sabi quality of the uneven dyeing (and in real life, the variation does seem a bit softer).
The one thing I wish is that I had taken process photos of the dyeing. There is definitely something curious going on with the oxidation and pecan hull dye. Since I haven't seen anyone else write about it, you'll get my full description.
The dye liquor was yellowish to start, and in the first couple of hours of dyeing, the sweater was taking on a light yellow-brown hue, except for the underarms, which were turning orangeish (probably due to the aluminum salts in deodorant, which were basically an inadvertent mordant!). It was hideous.
I pulled the sweater out of the dyebath to reconsider, and while it was in the air, over the course of maybe an hour or so, the color of the sweater was transformed. It darkened, deepened, and became more reddish rather than yellowish. This was really a shock.
I've dyed with dozens of natural dyes -- leaves, flowers, barks, and bugs -- and the only other one that you see this kind of real-time, color-changing oxidation process with is indigo, which is in its own category of natural dye because the chemistry is so different (basically, the pigment needs to be in a reduced and alkaline solution in order to be in a dissolved form that can adhere to the fiber. You carefully lower the fiber into the bath so that you don't introduce air, and then when you remove it, and the pigment hits the air and oxidizes, the fiber turns from greenish-yellow to blue).
The process of repeated airings not only changed the color of the sweater, but over time it introduced a lot of air into the dyebath itself, and that became a darker reddish brown as well. It was fascinating. Wild and crazy times with natural dyeing!
9 comments:
- Jackie said...
I am so glad you were able to give your sweater a new life! The color looks great and I love the natural dye process you used. I have never dyed anything naturally because I am absolutely clueless, but your explanation was very educational and inspiring.
- Florence said...
That is so neat! I am glad you were able to save your sweater. Have you ever tried black walnuts? They stain the skin so I wondered if it worked on fabric.
- Acorn to Oak said...
Wow! That's incredible! I can't believe what a rich, dark brown your sweater is now. The process sounds fun and fascinating.
- Turtle said...
wow what a great color! Wish i had sent you some lace weight yarn to throw in the leftover dye! :)
- Laurel said...
That is beautiful color! I enjoyed your description of your dye process also. I want find some black walnuts.
- kathy b said...
Wow. YOu are so creative and innovative....way to keep the old shirt alive..
- Rachel said...
What a fascinating post...thanks for sharing! I know very little about this process so I didn't know the bit about indigo and oxidation...quite interesting!
Your sweater, by the way, looks great and I applaud the idea to renew life into it rather than toss it.
- KiniaCat Crafts said...
I love the way it came out! The variegation is stellar!
Thank you also for the guidance through the dying process. Spiffy!
- Mimi said...
Well, I've learned a lot here. I had no clue you could do this. Love the end result.


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After recording our conversation, I transcribed it as closely as possible. This was probably the most difficult part of the project, but I discovered some simple tactics that made it easier. After transferring the audio file from the recorder to my computer, I used a media player to play it back, and transcribed it into a template I'd made in my word processing program. I used different colored text for each person, to make the conversation easier to follow. I could transcribe one person's sentence, pause the recording, then simply move my cursor to the next line, and the text would automatically change color.
One of the helpful features of the media player I used was the timeclock feature. Since this was a labor-intensive job, I did it in small bits, and by noting the clock reading (in green) I could easily pick up where I left off, or find this place in the recording if I needed to in the future.
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2013-14 Presidential Graduate Fellows announced
University of Nebraska President James B. Milliken has announced the seven recipients of 2013-14 Presidential Graduate Fellowships. These prestigious fellowships honor a select group of NU graduate students each year on the basis of high scholastic performance and personal accomplishment. Fellows receive a stipend provided through the University of Nebraska Foundation that allows them to pursue their studies full-time.
This year, fellowships are presented to three students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, two at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and two at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The honored students are pursuing advanced degrees in sociology, English, engineering, psychology, health services research and administration, and genetics and immunology.
"Presidential Graduate Fellows are among the University of Nebraska's most outstanding students," Milliken said. "They have already accomplished a great deal both inside and outside of the classroom, and I'm confident that they will continue to be successful as they complete their studies and begin their careers. The university is fortunate to have a level of private support that allows us to recognize these scholars and provide them an opportunity to devote full time to their academic pursuits."
This year's Presidential Graduate Fellows are:
Anna Bellatorre, of San Jose, Calif., a Ph.D. student in sociology at UNL. Bellatorre is a health disparities scholar with sophisticated methodological training. Her published work and active projects focus on health disparities resulting from discrimination based on race, gender or sexual identity, exposure to risk and access to health knowledge. Through her dissertation research, Bellatorre hopes to answer important questions related to the magnitude of diabetes risk in American young adults – a critical social problem because disparities at this point in individuals' lives can significantly alter their future morbidity and mortality risk. Bellatorre earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from San Diego State University.
Trey Moody, of San Antonio, Texas, a Ph.D. student in English at UNL. Moody will use his fellowship to make significant progress on his second full-length manuscript of poetry. His first full-length collection, Thought That Nature, which he wrote during his first three years as a doctoral student, won the 2012 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. His poems have been published in a number of anthologies and literary journals and he has presented at conferences and given readings, including at the 2011 (downtown) omaha lit fest. Moody's primary academic interest is in place studies. He also hopes to secure an academic position teaching creative writing and literature.
Pradhumna Shrestha, of Kathmandu, Nepal, a Ph.D. student in engineering at UNL. One of Shrestha's major projects is the design of a wireless sensor system that will allow real-time monitoring and control of railroad operations – an innovation that could revolutionize the freight industry by increasing safety and security and reducing operating costs. Another of Shrestha's projects focuses on improving the security of computer networks. He's also interested in studying the threat that natural disasters pose to wireless communications infrastructure. His academic achievements and publishing record demonstrate strong success so far, but to Shrestha, the most important measure of success is the impact his research will have on society, particularly in developing areas.
Aaryn Mustoe, of Milwaukee, Wis., a Ph.D. student in psychology at UNO. Mustoe's research interests include the biological underpinnings of social and parental behavior; hormonal, social and cognitive contexts for cooperative behavior and altruism; hormonal, social and cognitive regulation of stress, reproduction and development; and early-life experiences' influence on later-life outcomes. He is a published author and has several other manuscripts in preparation, and has given talks and presented posters at a number of conferences. He currently works at UNO's Callitrichid Research Center and the Endocrine Bioservices Laboratory and teaches a Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences course. He serves on the Scientific Program Committee for the American Society of Primatologists.
Zachary Jacobs, of Bennington, Neb., a master's student in English at UNO. Jacobs earned his bachelor's degree in English and history from UNO and in addition to his master's degree is pursuing an advanced writing certificate from UNO. He has published several poems and essays and last year was the runner-up for UNO's inaugural John J. McKenna Graduate Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction. Jacobs is a graduate teaching assistant in UNO's Department of English and a teaching assistant for the Fine Lines Creative Writing Summer Camp in Omaha. His teaching interests include creative nonfiction; disability, mental illness and addiction narratives; graphic literature; and media studies.
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I currently work in higher education administration and am working on the creative, business, legal tasks for this start-up. My partner is an IT professional and is working on the development of the products and services. Frustrated with our current employment situations we are looking to take our talents and venture out on our own and work for ourselves. We currently live in Philadelphia, PA (USA) and love Thai food and dogs. : )
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The annual NYC tech bowling event is around the corner. Kingpins of Silicon Alley will happen on April 7th, at 7pm
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April 7, 2014 7 PM
Kingpins of Silicon Alley is New York City's first and only startup bowling competition. It is a fundraiser and friendly competition for the entrepreneurial community in NYC. The funds go to benefit InSITE, a fellowship that connects exceptional graduate students to start-ups to help accelerate those companies to funding.
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I will be there and plan to sponsor a lane. If you would also like to sponsor a lane, you can do that here. I hope to see there on April 7th. It's a fun evening.