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Technology Consulting

Our technology consulting services are value-driven to help our clients obtain the best return on their technology dollar. While each area below has specific objectives, they all serve this core purpose.  The underlying goal is to achieve the optimal alignment of technology with your business so that you can best serve your customers, generate profits, and grow your company.

We build the bridge together and lead you across it.

Technology Assessments

• IT Audits

• Portfolio Analysis

• Platform Reviews

• Issue Remediation

Technology Planning

• Strategic Planning, Portfolios, and Roadmaps

• Product Evaluations and Selection

• Outsourcing, Capital and Operating Expense Optimization

• Information Asset Protection

Technology Staffing

• FTE Skills and Utilization Analysis

• Organizational Alignment

• IT Coaching and Team Development

• Project Management Office (PMO) Implementation

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• Inventory and Data Gathering

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Frequently Asked Questions for Mental Health Counseling

1. I need to see someone immediately, what should I do?

Foundations does not provide mental health crisis intervention; however, we will do our best to accommodate your needs. If you need immediate assistance and we are not able to accommodate your needs, please call the Crisis Center at (920) 437-8888.

2. What is counseling?

Counseling is a process during which the client and the counselor examine current problem areas and strengths of mental health to develop a plan to improve the areas where improvement is needed.

3. Are there different styles of counseling?

Yes. Some counselors draw out answers from the client using discussions while some counselors give more information. Certified counselors all have training in techniques used to improve the mental health of the client. It is important to find a counseling style that works well for you.

4. What happens when I get there?

Counselors will gather information on your current feelings and behavior and help you clarify your treatment goals. Gathering individual and family history will be part of the first session.

5. Can I go in with my son or daughter?

Counseling for children and adolescents often includes a blend of family and individual therapy. Parents are part of the first session where gathering background information is needed. Parents will then be involved to the degree the counselor sees as helpful in achieving the agreed upon goals

6. What services do you provide?

Foundations has Counseling Services and Group Therapy and Foster Care. We also have a Resident Training Program for professionals who need to earn hours for certification.

7. Do you provide faith based counseling?

Each therapist is educated in the process of integrating spirituality into therapy. Therapists assess each client’s spiritual values and resources. The client’s own faith values are used when designing the client’s therapy goals.

8. Who are your providers? What are their credentials?

See Our Therapists (Bios).

9. Do I need a referral?

We do not require a formal referral from a medical provider or another specialiste may ask if you were referred to Foundations by anyone, or how you found our agency. We will only use summary data for grant writing and development purposes; you will not be identified in this information if you do provide your referral source.

10. What are your hours?

Normal business hours are Monday – Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; additionally evening hours are Monday and Wednesday until 6:30 p.m. These hours are subject to change. Please feel free to call the Crisis Center at (920) 436-8888 if you need immediate assistance outside our normal business hours.

11. What are your rates?

Fees for therapy are $170-$195 for an initial 50 minute diagnostic evaluation, and $135-$160 for either a 45 or 60 minute session. Psychological testing is $185, and group therapy is $67.50.

12. Will my insurance pay for services?

Many of our services are insurance billable and, as a service, we will bill your insurance. You are responsible, however, for ensuring our services and therapists are covered by your insurance. Please contact your insurance company for a complete description of your out-patient mental health services benefits and eligibility. Please refer to your insurance card for contact information details.

13. What if I don’t have insurance?

Payment alternatives may be available for patients who do not have insurance. If you are uninsured and would like to discuss alternatives, please have your income information available and contact our Intake Coordinator at (920) 437-8256.

14. I have a high deductible insurance plan and can not afford to pay the regular rate at each session. Can I still be seen?

Yes. We will work with you to establish an affordable payment plan. If you would like to discuss your account, please call (920) 437-8256.

15. Do you accept Wisconsin Forward Insurance (Medicaid)?

16. Are you a state licensed facility?

Yes, we are a State Certified Outpatient Mental health Clinic which is the Wisconsin licensing terminology.

17. What happens if I can’t come to an appointment?

Please notify our office, (920) 437-8256, at least 24 hours in advance if you are unable to keep your appointment. This courtesy makes it possible to give your appointment time to another client who would like to see a therapist. If you do not notify our office at least 24 hours in advance, we reserve the right to charge you for the missed appointment.

18. How do I obtain my medical records from services provided by a Foundations provider?

You need to fill out and sign a Release of Information Form and return it to our office.


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Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from John Hope, 15 March 1765

From John Hope7

ALS: American Philosophical Society

Edinb. 15 March. 1765

I was favoured with your obliging letter of the 25 feb two days ago and same day the box of seeds came to hand the assortment of which gave general satisfaction.8 But on examining the parcels we found several of the seeds quite spoilt particularly the acorns magnolia and honey Locust and Besides several of the seeds were all mixed so together that the numbers referring to the Catalogue were of no use to us.

A greater attention to the following circumstances seems absolutely necessary to the delivering the seeds in good order that the seeds which are ripe early in the season shou’d be sent off by themselves without waiting for the late seeds—perhaps this woud require 3 several importations. All the acorns Magnolias and other seeds apt to perish shou’d certainly be packed up in Sand or dry earth and sent off as soon as possible and the boxes ought to have many wooden divisions to prevent the mixing of the seeds.

I am informed there is annually a ship or ships loaded with Linseed which comes from Pensylvania to some port of Scotland. This ship might be of us[e] in bringing directly to Lieth such seeds as were ready at the time of her departure.

I shall write Mr. Colinson soon to thank him and pay him for the seeds and I shall also write Mr. Bertram soon giving him a commission for seeds of growth 1765.9

This year we have given commissions to Quebec Newfoundland Pensylvania Virginia and Carolina. At same time it is much our interest to be served from as few places as possible and pensylvania is by far the best situated if it suits Mr. Bertram’s convenience to send us the seeds according to our commissions and they be collected and packed properly so long as the Society subsists and it has the appearance of growing yearly he might expect 50 or 60 pounds of our money. This year we cannot exceed £15.

I presented your Compliments to Sir Alexander Dick he is in perfect health. Lady Dick was lately brought to bed of a Daughter she is recovering very well.1 I am with much regard and esteem Your most obedient and much obliged Servant

Jo: Hope

Addressed: To / Benjamin Franklin / Esqr,

Endorsed: Dr Hope Hope

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

7For Hope, professor of botany at the University of Edinburgh and superintendent of the botanical gardens there, see above, X, 16 n.

8BF’s letter has not been found. The box of seeds was sent by John Bartram to Peter Collinson, who apparently turned it over to BF for shipment to Scotland. See above, p. 61. Hope wrote Bartram on March 7, 1765, thanking him for another consignment of seeds and “specimens of rare plants” which he had sent in the fall of 1764. Darlington, Memorials, pp. 434–5.

9Bartram sent 1765 seeds in a ship which landed in Ireland. The seeds were then sent to Chester, where they were seized and held for a considerable period by customs officers. By the time they were liberated and sent to London and then to Edinburgh, they were worthless. Bartram lost money in this transaction, which Hope and some friends at Edinburgh repaid by sending him a gold medal through BF in 1773. Ibid., pp. 405, 435–6.

1Sir Alexander Dick had written BF a note, Feb. 19, 1765, congratulating him on his arrival in England. See above, p. 70. A daughter named Mary was born to the Dicks on March 6, 1765. She died on Feb. 13, 1766, and her name was given to another daughter, born on May 1, 1766. Scots Mag., XXVIII (1766), 56, 223.

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Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from George Wythe, 27 July 1776

From George Wythe

Williamsburg, 27 July, 1776

G. W. to T. J.

Lord Dunmore, driven from Gwins, retreated to St. George’s island in Potowmack, a station we hear he found no less unquiet than what he left, so that he hath gone up that river, distressed, it is imagined for want of water. Ought the precept, ‘if thine enemy thirst give him drink,’ to be observed towards such a fiend, and in such a war? Our countrymen will probably decide in the negative; and perhaps such casuists as you and I shall not blame them. I had not reached this place before the appointment of delegates. An attempt to alter it as to you was made in vain. When I came here the plan of government had been committed to the whole house. To those who had the chief hand in forming it the one you put into my hands was shewn. Two or three parts of this were, with little alteration, inserted in that: but such was the impatience of sitting long enough to discuss several important points in which they differ, and so many other matters were necessarily to be dispatched before the adjournment that I was persuaded the revision of a subject the members seemed tired of would at that time have been unsuccessfully proposed. The system agreed to in my opinion requires reformation. In October I hope you will effect it. I have directed a carriage to meet me at Hooe’s ferry the third of September. So soon as I saw Mr. Bruce I mentioned the copies you wanted. He told me he could not find some of the papers. I propose in a day or two to assist him in searching for them, and wi[ll] desire him to get them ready by the time you will be in Virginia. Farewell.

The one you put into my hands: Wythe had carried TJ’s Third Draft of a constitution for Virginia to Williamsburg when he left Congress on 13 June; see Virginia Constitution, June 1776, Editorial Note and Document iii. Mr. Brucethe copies you wanted: This allusion is unexplained.

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George Washington Papers

Editorial Note

Editorial note. From the first days of his presidency, GW was determined “to visit every part of the United States” during his term of office if “health and other circumstances would admit of it” (GW to Edward Rutledge, 16 Jan. 1791, ScCMu). A month after GW returned from his New England tour, Gov. Charles Pinckney of South Carolina wrote him suggesting a tour of the southern states (14 Dec. 1789, DLC:GW), and GW replied 11 Jan. 1790 that nothing would give him more pleasure although his time was not his own (DNA: RG 59, Misc. Letters).

By the following summer rumors were circulating in the South that GW would come that fall, but when William Blount of North Carolina called on GW at Mount Vernon in September, he learned that the southern tour would start by spring. “You may shortly expect to hear of pompous Orders for equiping and training the Cavalry,” Blount confidently wrote his brother in North Carolina; “and perhaps,” he added, news of GW’s tour “may induce the Overseers of Roads and Ferry-Keepers to mend their Ways and repair or build new Boats. If the very greatest Attention and Respect is not paid him he will be greatly disappointed and Mortified for to the North the Contention has been who should pay him the most” (William Blount to John Gray Blount, 20 Sept. 1790, BLOUNT description begins Alice Barnwell Keith et al., eds. The John Gray Blount Papers. 4 vols. Raleigh, N.C., 1952–82. description ends , 2:117–20).

Congress adjourned 3 Mar. 1791. Bad roads delayed GW’s departure from Philadelphia for a while, but the need to traverse the route before “the warm and sickly months” were upon the South prompted him to leave on 21 Mar. (GW to William Washington, 8 Jan. 1791, and GW to David Humphreys, 16 Mar. 1791, DLC:GW).

Before setting off GW prepared a careful itinerary describing the dates, places, and mileages for his proposed “line of march.” His route south was to be an eastern one through Richmond and Petersburg, Va., New Bern and Wilmington, N.C., and Georgetown and Charleston, S.C., to Savannah, and his return by “an upper road” from Augusta through Columbia and Camden, S.C., Charlotte and Salem, N.C., and Fredericksburg. In all he was to be gone more than three months and would travel an estimated 1,816 miles (“Route & Stages of G. Washington in the yr. 1791,” GW to Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and Henry Knox, 4 April 1791, and GW to Alexander Hamilton, 13 June 1791, DLC:GW).

As on the New England tour GW planned to lodge only at public houses and to refuse all offers to stay in private homes. “I am persuaded you will readily see the necessity of this resolution both as it respects myself and others,” GW wrote his relative William Washington of South Carolina. “It leaves me unembarrassed by engagements, and by a uniform adherence to it I shall avoid giving umbrage to any by declining all invitations of residence” (8 Jan. 1791, DLC:GW). Nevertheless, lack of suitable ordinaries along several parts of his route was to oblige him to make exceptions to this rule on more than one occasion.

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Chilli Rush

(Now Closed)
Food and Café
Petaling Jaya
69 Tips and reviews
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  • SImM3i
    SImM3iJanuary 14, 2016
    Awesome carbonara spaghetti and mushroom soup! No compromise on portions and quality despite huge discount over OFFPEAK reservation, highly recommended and 2 thumbs up!
  • Rielz C.
    Rielz CheongJanuary 13, 2016
    Go Level 10 for real spiciness (would rec Wrap instead of a full dish for individual, unless you have 3-4 person to share the spiciest chicken). Prepare for a spicy a**hole the next day ;)
  • Rielz C.
    Rielz CheongJanuary 13, 2016
    Quesadilla was disappointing. The Rush signature drink was good spicy drink. None like other. Chili beef 'soup' was packed with beef and it was a good snack! Sweet potato fries were meh.
  • Cia L.
    Cia LuvsCöféDecember 27, 2015
    Where are you chilli Rush?!!! Please tell your fans your whereabouts.. They're searching for you frantically.😢
  • Rika Diana B.
    Rika Diana BusriJune 13, 2015
    Dare to be challenged? This is the place.
  • Kingsley Y.
    Kingsley YoungerMay 9, 2015
    The food in this restaurant does not contain MSG (Ajinomoto).
  • Cia L.
    Cia LuvsCöféFebruary 1, 2015
    Though not really a coffee specialty, this cup of mocha taste GREAT!
  • Cia L.
    Cia LuvsCöféFebruary 1, 2015
    CR8 pathetically spicy but I completed the challenge triumphantly 😁 they improved with new menu n food varieties# they had 'kids eat for free' promo too
  • Kingsley Y.
    Kingsley YoungerOctober 2, 2014
    They are supposed to have and use Bhut (Naga) Jolokia aka as the Ghost Pepper (the 2nd or 3rd hottest chilli pepper in the world) in the hot wings.
  • Kingsley Y.
    Kingsley YoungerOctober 2, 2014
    This is the restaurant that is supposed to serve the hottest, spiciest food in the whole of Malaysia. They are supposed to have chillis that are hotter than habanero, and they are called Bhut Jolokia.
  • Cia L.
    Cia LuvsCöféSeptember 22, 2014
    Great for lil kids or 'rush' intolerant ;-)
  • Kingsley Y.
    Kingsley YoungerSeptember 20, 2014
    It is true...they have toned down the spiciest Level 10 because customer complained!!! The staff themselves confirmed that fact with me! This means that even if you conquer Level 10, it is fake!
  • Capu
    CapuSeptember 10, 2014
    93-G, Block H, Jaya One, No 72A, Jalan Universiti, 46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan. +6 03 5650 2642 (Restaurant) +6 012 612 9990 (Terri)
  • Nadia A.
    Nadia AlZawawiAugust 24, 2014
    Affordable lunch set, yummy spicy chicken.... Do you dare? :)
  • Jy
    JyJune 2, 2014
    Impressive! The pasta set is all refillable: Pasta, salad, soup, iced lemon tea! The pasta Arabiata with grilled chicken is spicy & yummy! Good ambient. A great hidden place that you should not miss!
  • Yolenda D.
    Yolenda DiewMay 12, 2014
    Love their spicy chicken wings..tried level3.. acceptable level for me..
  • sue o.
    sue olallaApril 18, 2014
    Do not ever challenge yourself with level 10 if you cannot even survive level 5. Level 10 is like killing yourself! I'm proud that I've tried but i swear i won't do it again, ever.
  • Jue L.
    Jue LinaApril 1, 2014
    Awesome latte!!!
  • Christopher S.
    Christopher SlaterMarch 21, 2014
    This place is great! If you love spice you just found a new great spot to get your fix!
  • Mastura A.
    Mastura AlattasMarch 20, 2014
    Level 10 chicken wings is hot hot HOT!!
  • Clara S.
    Clara SHFebruary 14, 2014
    Food took over an hour to be served on Friday afternoon lunch!
  • Farah K.
    Farah KamaruzamanJanuary 26, 2014
    A good place for pedajal orang
  • Jag L.
    Jag LauOctober 20, 2013
    Level 8 was surprisingly not hot for me.. Need to come back for a challenge.
  • Suk Pei L.
    Suk Pei LeeOctober 5, 2013
    Try their chicken wings! If you are a spicy food lover, start at at least level 6! Guess that level 6 is still less spicy than Shin Korean Ramen.
  • Hardy D.
    Hardy DeeSeptember 29, 2013
    Veggie burger is awesome but cant eat like normal burger because its too soft...nonetheless its delicious!
  • Adrian C.
    Adrian ChanSeptember 23, 2013
    Spicy cheese burger with a super filling of chilli!
  • Kee Y.
    Kee YongSeptember 4, 2013
    Password: chillirush123
  • Toro K.
    Toro KengJuly 27, 2013
    Vegetarian burger is unexpected nice...
  • Loshana K.
    Loshana K ShagarJune 29, 2013
    Love the ambience. Angel hair pasta is good, albeit a bit oily. Must try the "brownie" :-)
  • Shazzy S.
    Shazzy SabriJune 11, 2013
    Really2 good spinach pasta
  • Diana C.
    Diana CheeJune 11, 2013
    I had 1 tiny piece of level 10. Almost died.
  • EAN
    EANMay 31, 2013
    Wifi password: chillirush123
  • Amuyo T.
    Amuyo TomokoApril 24, 2013
    Been here 5+ times
    Serves Illy coffee. Good choice for coffee lovers.
  • Daph_ M.
    Daph_ MeApril 13, 2013
    Level 8 and I survived! Hahahaha! Next challenge will be level 10. Haha!
  • Amuyo T.
    Amuyo TomokoApril 2, 2013
    Been here 5+ times
    Vegetarian Angel Hair - Not recommendable...! The chef failed to remove the dried chilli seeds when serving. *shakes head*
  • Yu-Shern C.
    Yu-Shern ChinMarch 31, 2013
    Chilli rush pizza nice, chicken wing lvl 3 nice, mango smoothie nice, lamp rice so so only..
  • Johan N.
    Johan NasirFebruary 22, 2013
    Death by chilli. Most spiciest pepper's in the world, certified by Guinness. It's called Naga Bhut Jolokia, 400 times hotter than Tabasco. Level 9 is Ultimate Insanity on the menu. We had Level 10!
  • Ayan B.
    Ayan BharudinJanuary 31, 2013
    Good service.friendly staff.good ambience.tasty food.will come again for second time and try their hot wings on level 10.we did try level 5.maybe level 8 will good enough :)
  • Francesca P.
    Francesca PerisJanuary 4, 2013
    Chilli Rush Challenge. good serving.
  • Mohd I.
    Mohd IdlanDecember 27, 2012
    All you can eat pasta mania promo. Just RM17.90++
  • Azlina U.
    Azlina UthongDecember 12, 2012
    Been here 5+ times
    Very nice anchovies pasta..d lunch set is with salad n soup- is cheap considering it's refillable!! Awesome
  • Anasuya K.
    Anasuya KDecember 11, 2012
    Spinach pasta great . Lamb curry too . Vindaloo pasta was so crap tasted like sugar curry !!!
  • Liyana D.
    Liyana DizzyNovember 12, 2012
    Can't believe no one's said this yet: the moussaka's good! Small portion for the price tho. Angel hair pasta's the reverse: big portion but boring.
  • Gadiy L.
    Gadiy LimNovember 4, 2012
    Level 7's, Perfect for the spicy king. Reporting in.
  • Fadli S.
    Fadli SaidinSeptember 21, 2012
    Eatable. At level 4 its juz nice for me. And ate lvl 5 too. So can say total I eat 9 level?
  • Nadira G.
    Nadira GhaniAugust 27, 2012
    great choc brownie!
  • Faye C.
    Faye CheangApril 26, 2012
    Been here 5+ times
    All you can pasta during weekdays from 11.30 to 3pm. Tried chicken wings rate 5 and 6 and it's still acceptable. Might move up the next level. :)
  • Rachel MeiSia O.
    Rachel MeiSia OoiMarch 3, 2012
    I flavor curry chicken, sambal, nasi lemak a lot, still the spiciness of the chicken wing in level 3 is more spicy than what I've expected, not to mentioned it has 13/14 levels.
  • _spinmesilly
    _spinmesillyFebruary 17, 2012
    Hot wings were disappointing, soggy and very sambal-like. Service very slow.
  • Michael T.
    Michael TanFebruary 14, 2012
    Try the chilli wings. We did level 5. How bout you?
  • Angeline T.
    Angeline TanFebruary 12, 2012
    Service here is BAD. And their watermelon juice has lots of watermelon seeds in it =.=
  • Sara L.
    Sara LiewJanuary 10, 2012
    Been here 10+ times
    Mushroom spinach salad is a gd non carb option. Wings not great - tried level 4
  • SuTing K.
    SuTing KhooNovember 30, 2011
    Brownies r heavenly . Its almost like fudge cake tho !
  • Edwin T.
    Edwin TayNovember 27, 2011
    Warm up with lower chilli level first before attempting level 10.
  • SCSY
    SCSYNovember 15, 2011
    Must try the spicy chicken wing. Try the level 5 first.
  • Wendy T.
    Wendy TanNovember 11, 2011
    The brownies are not brownies per se, but still sinfully awesome. :D
  • amekok
    amekokNovember 5, 2011
    Wifi password 8CA5CA5884
  • Melvin T.
    Melvin TongOctober 11, 2011
    Look for Leslie for Excellent service ;)
  • Vincent T.
    Vincent TanOctober 8, 2011
    Level 6 no kick whatsoever
  • Li-Ann A.
    Li-Ann AwOctober 8, 2011
    Been here 25+ times
    They have the hottest chilli in the world served here... Says the Guiness Book of Records....
  • Li-Ann A.
    Li-Ann AwOctober 8, 2011
    Been here 25+ times
    Try the cheesy spinach pasta with pan fried dory. It's amazing!
  • Vincent C.
    Vincent ChoyOctober 7, 2011
    Level 5 is too much for me....
  • William Lye Wei Wern
    William Lye Wei WernOctober 5, 2011
    Slow service but yummy wings
  • Penny L.
    Penny LiewSeptember 23, 2011
    Slow service. Very slow.
  • Vingie H.
    Vingie HimSeptember 17, 2011
    the iced cafe americano is nice!
  • Momo
    MomoSeptember 12, 2011
    Wont come here for second time ..
  • Nikki F.
    Nikki FatinAugust 25, 2011
    The chicken wings are a must try..even level 3 is spicy enough.
  • Kururu R.
    Kururu ReirraAugust 14, 2015
    Eleeeehhhhhh camtu jee pedas dia?????
  • Lolazu
    LolazuOctober 24, 2012
    Cool environment.kalau tak tahan pedas,jgn order chicken wings lebih dari level 5.
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Always and Forever Heart Cutout Keychain/ Heart Necklace Set, Hand Stamped Valentine's Day Jewelry w/ Customizable Dates

Super fun new item! A keychain with a heart cutout near the top that has been stamped by me with 'and forever' along with a date, and a matching heart necklace from the cutout stamped by me with 'always' with the same date! Perfect for you and your loved one to remember your special day.

Please let me know the date you would like me to add in the note to seller box at checkout

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Note: The always heart is small and cannot fit larger fonts. It is stamped in my Scarlett signature font.

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Over the last 5 years, the IHEU has led the way in providing advocacy and support for humanists at risk around the world.

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Watching Chef Heidi Krahling in action at Fresh Starts Chef Events is like sitting in a good friend’s kitchen. Despite being an award-winning chef, a cookbook author and the owner of Insalata’s and Marinitas, two highly regarded  restaurants, she talks … Continue reading

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Hourglass offers some of my favourite powders.  Of course it doesn’t hurt when they always come packaged super sleek and with those lovely marbly designs!

Last year we had a teaser of Hourglass new offering of Ambient Strobe Lighting Blush in a limited edition trio for Holiday 2016.  I couldn’t wait to get my hands on a single to try.  The 3 single shades that are available in the UK are Brilliant Nude, Euphoric Fusion and Iridescent Flash.  I picked up Brilliant Nude for the fabulous easy everyday makeup.

LOOK at the marbly design!  I personally love it!  It’s exciting that no two blushes are the same!  The Ambient Strobe Lighting runs differently in each blush.  I can choose to concentrate my brush in certain areas of the pan depending how much luminosity I’d like to have on the day.

Brilliant Nude is a light peach with very fine gold sparkles .  The powder is extremely finely milled so it can be a little dusty depending what type of brushes you use.  Brilliant Nude offers great buildable pigmentation and blends out like a dream.  The longevity is fabulous too, lasting more than 8 hours on me without any patchiness.  Brilliant Nude goes well with most looks and absolutely perfect for summer time.  The finish is beautiful, natural and luminous without emphasising my skin texture.  The sparkles are visible under direct lighting so you can definitely rock it on a hot summer evening!

Ambient Lighting Blush vs Ambient Strobe Lighting Blush

Ambient Lighting Blushes contain no visible sparkles as far as I can see and the finish is not as luminous.  Of course the amount of luminosity in both types of blushes would depend on the marbling effects.  I’d say if you are someone who doesn’t like your blush to look flat then go for Ambient Strobe Lighting Blushes.

So I’m happy to say that Hourglass hasn’t disappointed me with their new offering.  Brilliant Nude has been my go-to blush since I purchased it.  It is indeed brilliant!:)

Have you tried Hourglass Ambient Strobe Lighting Blush?

Much love always,

  1. 7th July 2017 / 6:08 pm

    Great review Sandy and stunning photos! Love Hourglass powders, they’re so finely milled and feel like silk on the skin. Will definitely have to add this blush to my collection!

    ~ Cat L.

  2. sassypout
    17th July 2017 / 9:00 am

    This shade is so pretty & looks amazing for quick everyday looks :))

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

The Garden in September 2012

September is fast coming to an end and I've not yet done a tour of the garden for the month. So here it is. I've been taking photos occasionally through the month so this tour covers a bit of time. We start in the bean patch back on the 19th.

In the foreground are the Early Hakucho edamame soy beans that I sowed between July 7 and 24. They were so incredibly fussy and prone to rotting in the soil and slow growing that I nearly ripped the surviving plants out. They have surprised me by actually setting some beans, at least the few surviving plants from the first sowing. The later sown plants are much smaller and just starting to bloom. The flowers on the soy bean plants are so inconspicuous that I didn't even notice the plants had bloomed until I saw the first small beans. The beans are filling out sooo slowly that I'm not sure that I will actually get to harvest anything worth eating. I'm not sure that I'll be experimenting with edamame again, but on the other hand, it has been a cooler than usual summer and fall and I do love edamame and can't find any to buy that aren't imported from China. So, there's always next year.

The Fagiolo del Purgatorio beans growing under the row cover (protection from munching rodents) underwent a sudden growth spurt and were starting to bust out of their tunnel.

About a week later, on the 25th, the plants were still growing like crazy and it was obvious that the tunnel was going to be too small.

I was concerned about exposing the plants to the full force of the (intermittent) sun after spending their lives under cover so I rigged up a roomier tunnel using rebar stakes and some old holey polyethylene 5/8-inch drip tubing. I'm not as worried about the rodents now, they like munching on the seedlings but not the mature plants and I'll just have to take my chances on them eating or not eating the young beans. I'm not very confident about getting a crop of dried beans from these plants this year, it's shaping up to be a much cooler than usual fall around here. We typically have our warmest and sunniest weather from September through October and sometimes into November, but the coastal fog has been quite persistent this year and we've had cold foggy nights and cool breezy days. At least the plants are blooming and setting beans now. Perhaps the tunnel will help to get them through the rest of the season and I can add some plastic sheeting if the weather threatens to become wet.

Next to the Purgatory beans is the second planting of Rolande filet beans that I started on June 29 and July 10. These shots were taken this morning. The plants are pretty small for having been sown about 3 months ago. The summer planting has not been at all as vigorous as the spring planting. But in spite of being quite spindly the plants are producing some good beans, although there probably won't be much more after this bunch. The spring planting produced almost 11 pounds of beans from June 14 through July 27, much more than I expected, and the summer planting is going to produce much less than I expected.  The garden is always doing the unexpected...

The zucchini plants are  occupying the space next to the filet beans. The photo above is on the 19th and the one below was taken this morning. You can see the powdery mildew on the leaves in the shot below and you can probably see that I've cut off many leaves as they've become totally infected. Last week I sprayed the plants with an organic fungicide called Actinovate (more effective and much less unsightly and smelly as milk) because the PM was starting to infect the new growth so quickly that before long I would have had to cut off so many infected leaves that the plants would have been defoliated. The newest leaves are holding up fairly well now and the plants continue to pump out the zucchinis.

Below is the cucumber tower on the 19th. The cucumbers have also become infected with powdery mildew but I treated them with Actinovate also and the newest growth is looking ok. The Persian cucumbers seem to have stopped blooming and I haven't seen any new flowers or small cucumber on them lately. The Tasty Green Japanese cucumbers keep producing a few cucumbers and I saw blossoms and a few baby cukes on the plants this morning.

Senescence is the word that comes to mind when I look at the Gigante runner beans. I've been really pleased with how these beans performed. I haven't weighed any of my harvests yet, but I have filled almost 3 quart jars with dried beans so far and there are still pods drying on the plants.

Below is the view of half the vegetable garden this morning. You can see the pea soup fog hanging low and obscuring the view of the valley. This is what we've been waking up to nearly every morning and what has been obscuring the setting sun most evenings. I'm really getting tired of it - June Gloom in September (July and August too), bleah!

I'm glad I thought to put the determinate Rosabec tomato plant at the end of the row, it really is a shorty next to those Amish Paste. The Rosabec has been quite productive but only has a few green fruits left on the vine. The Amish Paste is just starting to produce ripe tomatoes and is loaded with green and ripening fruits. It is doing quite well in spite of the cool weather and it did quite well in the colder than usual weather last year as well. The tomatoes are big, meaty, and full flavored. They make a fantastic sauce and can be reduced to an excellent paste. This variety seems to be a winner for me and I think it may become THE paste tomato in my garden. It really surprises me that an Amish variety that I would normally associate with hot summers (like Brandywines that do not grow well here) has done so well in my cool climate garden. I've been collecting seeds as I've been processing the tomatoes this week.

The photo above shows the Martian Giant plant on the left and the Nyagous plant on the right. Martian Giant is a big beefsteak type that is the last to produce a ripe tomato in this year's tomato lineup. I harvested the first tomato this past Sunday but haven't tasted it yet - tonight is the night. The Nyagous plant seems to be afflicted by one of the many diseases that can affect tomato plants, but it continues to grow and produce and the tomatoes are delicious. Shown below are the Fiaschetto plum tomatoes. These are a prolific determinate variety. These plants also seem to be infected with something that is knocking back the foliage but which is not affecting the quality of the fruits. I think that the dying foliage could actually be beneficial in my cool climate. The fruits are getting more sun and I believe that struggling plants put more energy into their fruits. Anyway, I've been drying most of the crop because these make excellent dried tomatoes (more on this in a later post). I also canned 8 pints of these the other day.

The tomatoes occupy half of this bed, the other half is devoted to mostly brassicas and lettuce and a row of now jumbo scallions.

Above you can see this year's second planting of Apollo broccoli and beyond the broccoli are some Sweetie Baby romaine lettuces. Below is the spot where the first planting of Apollo broccoli has been replaced with some seedlings of Dorato d'Asti celery and I've also slipped in a couple young lettuces (butterhead or buttercrunch, I don't remember which).

Next to romaine lettuces are newly planted seedlings of Tronchuda Beira Portuguese cabbage. And next to the cabbages are even newer seedlings of Purple Peacock broccoli.

Below is the view of the pepper/eggplant bed this morning. Bed #4 has not been constructed yet because I have just not had the time to devote to clearing the space for it this summer.

The eggplants are doing quite well in spite of a developing infestation of spider mites that I haven't dealt with yet. I got only one seed of Sicilian eggplant to germinate this spring and the single plant was something of a runt but I planted it anyway and the plant has surprised me by thriving and setting this gorgeous beauty (and others on the way).

The runty stunty pepper plants have also thoroughly surprised me be being quite prolific, click on the photos to enlarge and look closely - you will see a lot of big healthy look green peppers peeking out of the foliage.

The peppers on the Moroccan plants are held upright and are particulary conspicuous. These look like they should be spicy, but the last time I tried to grow them they were entirely sweet even though the plants were quite stressed and produced much smaller fruits, factors which generally up the spice quotient.

Here are a few highlights from the pepper patch:

PI 593480 (Morocco)

Odessa Market

More Odessa Market

Flamingo Bell

Pimenta Biquinho

And finally, a few additions to the pepper bed - some winter vegetables.

Seen above, newly planted seedlings of Diamante celeriac and then a couple days later I trimmed back the basil and slipped in a couple seedlings of Lacinato kale. And below are a couple seedlings of Flamingo chard and place holders for a couple of seedlings of Golden chard which are sizing up in pots before I plant them out.

And one last view of the part of the garden on a sunny but breezy day (see the mylar strips blowing in the breeze?). And perhaps you noticed the defoliated trees in the background. Those are evergreen oak trees which have gone through a second season of a California Oakworm infestation. Most of the trees in the area have been munched on by the caterpillars this year and many of them last year as well. Some of them got munched in the early spring, grew new leaves, and then got munched on again in the summer. The infestation is a nusiance but is generally not harmful for the trees unless they are already stressed for some other reason. The Oakworm is a native pest that has evolved with the oak trees and I imagine that there is some benefit to the trees, perhaps all that caterpillar poop (loads of it) help to fertilize the trees. It sure does make for some ugly trees and when the moths spin down out of the trees on their silk threads it becomes rather unpleasant to walk under the trees. But it is all part of the natural process so I prefer to let things be.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Harvest Monday - September 24, 2012

I've been watching all summer long while other garden bloggers in the northern hemisphere have hauled in harvests of summer vegetables. My patience started to wear thin as I saw a bounty of tomatoes and peppers and eggplant coming out of their gardens. There were ripe tomatoes everywhere, except my garden. Now, as many of them talk of clearing out their plots at the end of the season, guess what, summer looks like it has finally come full blast to my garden, right on schedule.

Here are the harvests last Monday:

Fiaschetto tomatoes

Diamond, Kamo, and Salanga eggplants

Da Fiore zucchini, Rolande filet beans, Gigante beans

The last of the Apollo broccoli

Tuesday I cleaned and weighed the green coriander seeds that I had harvested and dried in the previous few weeks.
Dried green coriander seeds

And I harvested all the ripe Yellow Manzano and Aji Angelo chile peppers (not done yet).

Yellow Manzano and Aji Angelo chile peppers

Wednesday I needed to harvest a bunch of Padron peppers before they got too big and there were a few cucumbers.

Pimento de Padron peppers, Green Fingers cucumbers,
and Tasty Green cucumbers

And the basil plants had gotten out of hand so I harvested a big bunch to make pesto. It is still very good in spite of being in absolute full bloom.

Profumo di Genova basil

Thursday I harvested a small handful of filet beans and a few peppers to use in Tomato Gazpacho. The zucchini plants are still producing a steady crop in spite of the powdery mildew.

Lady Bell, Shephards Ramshorn, and Jimmy Nardello's peppers
Rolande filet beans
Da Fiore zucchini

Sunday was the day to tackle the tomatoes. I started with my least favorite part of the job, the cherry tomatoes. I like to harvest them with the caps on which prevents them from cracking and then spoiling but it makes for tedious work.

Sunshine Cherry and Wheatly's Frost Resistant Cherry tomatoes

Next least favorite tomato harvest, the plum tomatoes which also get harvested caps on because many of them will sit a few days before I can get around to processing them.

Fiaschetto tomatoes

When I filled that box shown above it maxed out my kitchen scale so I had to move some of them to another box.

More Fiaschetto tomatoes

And then I got to move on to the rest of the tomatoes.

Amish Paste, Nyagous, Jaune Flamme, Wheatly's Frost Resistant
and the first Martian Giant

And finally the very productive Rosabecs, just a bit of BER affected tomatoes remaining.

Rosabec tomatoes

More Padrons needed to be harvested, and there were more zucchini, a few cucumbers and a nice handful of filet beans.

Pimento de Padron peppers, Da Fiore zucchini, Tasty Green cucumbers,
Green Fingers cucumbers, and Rolande filet beans

And there was a lot of eggplant that needed to be brought in and I found two ripe Odessa Market sweet peppers. The sweet peppers are the last of the summer vegetables that have yet to produce in quantity.

Diamond, Kamo, and Salangana eggplants
Odessa Market peppers

Here's one dish that I made last week with some of the bounty, Eggplant Stuffed with Pork from Claudia Roden's book The Food of Spain. These were tasty but the filling was a bit moist for my taste, it includes bread crumbs that are soaked in milk. Next time I think I'll include the bread crumbs without the milk. These were even tastier a couple of days later.

Pork Stuffed Eggplant

Some of the bounty of zucchini went into a dish that I made up to use the rest of the ground pork that I had on hand. I grilled the zucchini and some sweet onions on my stove top ridged griddle and then a made a saute with the ground pork and a bit of chopped onion, garlic and fresh Aji Angelos, some ground fennel seed and chopped capers, and some quartered Fiaschetto tomatoes that were added at the end to soften but not cook down. I arranged the zucchini and grilled rings of onion on a platter and piled the pork mixture on top. I wish I had taken the time to take a photo, but it was late, we were hungry, the camera was not at hand...

I have been making a different variation of the tomato, cucumber and sweet pepper salad almost every day. Last night I seasoned it with Merlot wine vinegar and pomegranate molasses and added bacon and blue cheese - oh yum. I'm really liking the addition of a bit of pomegranate molasses to the dressing, it's better than balsamic, well, at least different.

The final harvest of Apollo broccoli went into another frittata for my husband's lunches last week. I finally tore out those plants to make way for some celery plants that I had growing in pots. It may be a bit late to plant the celery, but we'll see.

Last night I used about 2 1/2 pounds of the eggplant to make a big batch of Caponata. That's a nice dish to have on hand for my weekday lunches.

Here's the harvest totals for the past week:

Rolande filet beans - 11.1 oz.
Apollo Broccoli - 9.4 oz.
Dried green coriander seeds - 4.3 oz.
Green Fingers Persian cucumbers - 10.1 oz.
Tasty Green Japanese cucumbers - 2 lb., 3.6 oz.
Diamond eggplant - 2 lb., 7.3 oz.
Kamo eggplant - 3 lb., 10.5 oz.
Salangana eggplant - 3 lb., 2.5 oz.
Tango lettuce - 3.5 oz.
Aji Angelo chile peppers - 9.9 oz.
Jimmy Nardello's peppers - 3.7 oz.
Lady Bell peppers - 4.6 oz.
Odessa Market peppers - 6.4 oz.
Pimento de Padron peppers - 2 lb., 5.3 oz.
Shephards Ramshorn pepper - 4.8 oz.
Yellow Manzano chile peppers - 4 lb., 6.7 oz.
Amish Paste tomatoes - 3 lb., 13.7 oz.
Fiaschetto tomatoes - 26 lb., 8.9 oz.
Jaune Flamme tomatoes - 2 lb., 9.6 oz.
Martian Giant tomato - 1 lb. (one beautiful tomato)
Nyagous tomatoes - 5 lb., 7.2 oz.
Rosabec tomatoes - 6 lb., 11.4 oz.
Sunshine Cherry tomatoes - 5 lb., 2.4 oz.
Wheatly's Frost Resistant cherry tomatoes - 15.9 oz.
Da Fiore Zucchini - 4 lb., 8.9 oz.

The total harvests for the week came to - 79 lb., 5.7 oz.
Which brings the totals for the year up to - 310 lb., .7 oz.

Harvest Monday is hosted by Daphne on her blog Daphne's Dandelions, head on over there to see what other garden bloggers have been harvesting lately.


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The OA

Last watched December 2016

A woman is spotted jumping off a bridge and her parents know it is their daughter. She survives the fall but there are so many questions left unexplained — How can she see again? What are these marks on her body? Where has she been for the past seven years? She calls for volunteers to hear her story and help her with a very special mission.

The OA is a show not unlike Lost in that with every question it answers, it triggers an avalanche of more questions. It straddles that divide of surrealism and realism in very believable ways. It’s got fairly good politics as it cast an asian trans boy as an asian trans boy and it’s kind of beautiful how everyone is chill about him being trans apart from his father. There’s also a really compelling older female character who is just this sort of lonely and sad figure. It just sucks that there’s this gross structural ‘not all men’ narrative around one of the boys (who is just a horrible person) that basically implies this deeply troubled young man only needed to be loved (by a maternal figure and by a girlfriend). Basically: women can fix him! Gross. All in all though it didn’t take away from the core of the story. Also there is this deity-like figure whose dress and name felt casually racist, though it might just be alluding to something I don’t know about? Not sure.

If you intend to watch it, let me assure you of two things: it’s likely that you will get sucked in and have to marathon it and the ambiguous ending will baffle you (perhaps not in a good way). I found it to be pretty compelling even with the most mundane reading of the film.

Genre: drama, magic realism

Pros: woman lead, women writers, older female character
Cons: structural sexism, racism(?)

Would approach with caution if: you struggle with kidnap and imprisonment, depictions of delusions and/or mental illness, being orphaned,death of a  babies being sold, gross demonised sex worker narrative, explosively violent and controlling young men, transphobia from parents, images and depictions of self harm

Can be found: Netflix
Accessibility: closed captions 🙂 🙂

If you liked this, I would suggest: Stranger Things, Sense8, The Fall, Trepalium, 3%, True Detective, Ajin, Black Mirror

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Gamecock Defense Shines In First Scrimmage Of Spring

Head coach John Grass

Head coach John Grass

JACKSONVILLE — The only coaches left on Jacksonville State’s football staff from last season are on the offensive side of the ball.

There was no lack of confidence in the offense coming into spring practice. However, it was the defense that shined in the Gamecocks’ first full-contact scrimmage of the spring.

“I think we’re almost ahead of schedule,” first-year head coach John Grass said, “as far as learning new terminology and a new system. Our guys are just more football fluent this time this year than they were last year. Our football knowledge is better. I think they’ve been able to pick up to it really quick.”

The defense only allowed the offense one touchdown in an 80 play scrimmage. It forced three turnovers, including Bryant Mitchell’s interception return for a touchdown early on. The goal for every practice is four.

“The defense has just got to get the ball and find a way to score points,” Mitchell said, ” and help our offense out whenever we need to.”

Redshirt-freshmen Darius Jackson and Siran Neal made a case for playing time Saturday. They joined the turnover party when Jackson caught an interception and Neal recovered a fumble.

“I came out and showed people I can play,” Neal said. “The ones who didn’t play last year, the redshirt freshmen, I think we came out and did a pretty good job at giving everybody a good look a good look at what we’re going to do in the season.”

Injuries to the offensive line plagued the offense’s production all day. The lone offensive touchdown came on redshirt-sophomore Eli Jenkins’ 28-yard pass to junior wide receiver Telvin Brown. But, it was his maturity under pressure that impressed Grass the most.

After scrambling out of the pocket, Jenkins fired a pass into the empty seats. Such a play is usually nothing to admire. But Jenkins has a history of forcing passes into coverage while under pressure.

“I just think it’s a year of maturity and growing up,” Grass said. “I was very pleased with him not throwing any dangerous balls. Him throwing the ball over the middle and making some completions and things he did with the ball was very good.”

According to Grass, Saturday’s scrimmage was junior running back Miles Jones’ “best scrimmage by far.” Jones showed a few bursts on the ground, but his pass blocking is what stole the show. He laid a punishing block on a blitzing Neal.

“(Jones) did really good today,” Grass said. “He’s coming on. I think he’s growing up. He knows what we expect out of him and had a very productive spring practice today.”

One question that still remains is who will fill the vacancy at kicker left by All-American Griffin Thomas. Grass called it “the biggest hole we’ve got to fill.” Even so, he was most impressed with kicker Conner Rouleau’s at the end of the scrimmage.

“He’d been struggling a little bit,” Grass said, and then we kicked right there at the end of practice and he did well. I know he missed one early. But i think he’s getting better.”

The Gamecocks will return to practice Tuesday morning before scrimmaging again Thursday morning. They will practice in shorts on Friday before being released for spring break.

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Age of Mythology

Home Coming (Reviewed)

:::::Reviewed by CoolSk8r32::::: Tranceman has made a scenario that needs improvement. It really does. To start off, the opening cinematic has no music or camera angle changes and
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thus rushes you into the scenario with a mediocre intro, but at least he's taken the time to make a cinematic, however not-so-great it might be. You pretty much watch Ajax run down a path for a while. Then the scenario starts; this is probably the most common plot for a scenario. He says: 'What the...' and whadaya know, cyclopes are attacking your town. You take your spread out crappy army and beat back the cyclopes, and you are transferred into another cinematic. Ajax talks to his father, who says that the cyclops have been attacking for a few days, and now some imitation heroic dialog, ending with Ajax: I WILL FIND OUT THE SOURCE OF THESE ATTACKS! or something like that. Now some of the villagers start working and you task the other on farms etc. Right at this point you notice that there is some pretty good eye candy in this map, like the area around the temple, which is isolated from the city and has villies praying at it. There is no music even up to this point, degrading the FunFactor heavily. You wait a few minutes playing a normal, extremely uneventful time, and then about 10 cyclopes attack. You by now have had no chance to rebuild your army and you are completely undefendable and you have no other choice. At this point you could either lose the scenario or cheat. TINES OF POWER comes in handy. With about 30 forkboys, you beat back the invading cyclopes (Cyclopes use their special ability to instantly kill forkboys, but there is no other option besides mass cheating or extremely harsh rebuilding). I took about 10 more forkboys and created a small defense army. I tasked all of my villagers on wood and gathered 300 wood, thus able to build a barracks, archery range, and a tower. I trained a few hoplites, got bored and attacked the northern cyclopes. You have perfect knowledge of approximately how many enemies you have to face, because the teams are listed in plain view on the right side; the creator of the scn didn't bother to hide them from view. Needing all of my units, I travel north and just barely defeat the proportionately-to-your-army gigantic force, and the scenario ends with a camera cut of Ajax seeing an underworld passage and then the scenario ends. The conclusion has no point to it. An ending title comes up and says 'Victory!.' You are presented with a traditional 'Next Scenario' screen, but obviously there is no second scenario and you are taken back to the main menu. Overall, meh. I don't recommend it. I mean, the creator of this needs to know what effort is. His eye candy isn't bad, but the triggers are completely generic and way out of proportion. I'm sorry I had to cheat, I know, lol, but there was that option or never be able to review it, so... Seriously, Tranceman, update this! Besides all this, there is no readme!!! Come on, at the very least write something. TO ALL WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO INSTALL SCENARIOS: Put the .scn or (Titans only) .scx file in your ...Age of Mythology/Scenario program files folder.

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Theme Hospital: Retro

Theme Hospital was developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1997. The aim of the game is for the player to design and manage a hospital. Like most of Bullfrog’s games, Theme Hospital is permeated by an eccentric sense of humour. The game is the thematic successor to Theme Park, which was also produced by Bullfrog.

The player has no direct control over the patients that wander the hospital, although gameplay largely centres on influencing their actions in one way or another. The player does, however, have the ability to pick up any staff member in the building and move them to a different area and to expel any patients from the hospital. The player may also force the patient into taking a chance of possible cure at the risk of killing the patient and rearrange the queue of each of the rooms in the hospital.

Each level consists of an empty hospital to plan and design, with set goals in the fields of financial attainment, patients cured, percent of patients cured, and hospital value. Holding negative funds or allowing sufficient patients to die will bring about losing requirements. When the goals have been met the player has the option to move on to a new, more elaborate hospital with tougher winning conditions and more diseases present. The final level in the game, ‘Battenburg‘ consists of an enormous, yet somewhat awkward, hospital with all the diseases and rooms in the game present, all disasters frequent and very high winning requirements.

Game Dev Tycoon – #Ep3: Whackier Racers

Episode 3 in the lets play Game Dev Tycoon Series!

We come back with high hopes for our new racing game and we are all keeping our fingers crossed it’ll be that big money spinner

Game Dev Tycoon – #Ep2: Downgrade to Prince

Its Gamer Time!
After the slightly bad start LionStar games looks to pastures new for bigger and better things in Episode 2

This series is on Game Dev Tycoon from the guys over at

Sexism, objectification and harassment of the Cosplay girl

Let me take you back to the late eighties / early nineties, computing and the ability to play video games without the need for an arcade machine was breaking into our homes. The 80’s gave us a taste for video games with the release of Tetris and that little yellow bugger Pac-man, both of which reman some of the most addictive games ever created even by todays standards. 1991 saw Sonic the Hedgehog in full swing with his first outing and Mario had been jumping all over the shop for some years already. It was a simpler time but with the inevitable advances in technology our video game characters soon became more and more life like along with the backing of bigger budgets and much bigger ideas. The games industry has grown fast, picking up momentum with each passing year and all of a sudden we are in 2013. Video games are no longer just for geeks, bashing the same button over and over again after school trying to deny the fact they have a load of homework to do. I wouldn’t say that video games are a staple of our everyday life, like movies are, just yet but they are certainly not too far off. So with each year that passes and the thousands of new games that get released ‘Cosplay‘ has become a big part of this for girls and guys. At E3 or Eurogamer and pretty much every other video game expo out there, the problem of objectifying and harassment of cosplayers, mostly girls, is becoming larger and more commonplace.

So what is Cosplay? It’s basically shortened version of the words costume play. Guys and girls wear costumes to represent a fantasy character from things such as anime, comic books, films and video games. More so with the female caricature which tend to be developed and designed by males, and that’s not to say designed just for males, a cosplayer will dress up and become the character. Trying to imitate the look, hairstyle, clothes and personality of each character is the ultimate goal.

There is also a side of the cosplay culture based around sex appeal, with cosplayers specifically choosing characters that are known for their attractiveness and revealing costumes. A lot of these caricatures have been styled by a man who wants a certain look for his character, body shape, eyes, hair, lips etc. a designed vision of his perfect fantasy. I wouldn’t ever say that all men design characters to look slutty or like whores, that is simply not true. I will say a lot of characters are designed with a sexy appearance… why? well there is no real reason why, its just how males have decided to design some of their characters. This is where it gets tricky, when you take a fantasy character and put them into a real life situation sometimes problems arise.

Recently the topic of harassment has become more frequent with the issue of grabbing Cosplay girls, or them being objectified, at certain expo events. I in no way condone these actions, it is their choice to dress in cosplay and if thats what they wish to do then more power to them, BUT I see a problem with it just being accepted in society. Just because they have stepped into the guise of a character that was designed to have sex appeal doesn’t mean they want to be harassed. Lets be honest these characters are going to appeal to guys and it works, that is the bottom line. You can Google most female game characters and I would say right now 75% of the cosplayers you will find are half naked with a very prominent chest. When you take fantastical ideas of women, bring them into the real world for everyone to see, these types of problems will continue to arise. Until there are more women developing games with a different vision in mind things may be slow to change. Women need to get into the scene and start their own game development with characters they want to see being imitated. For some men out there seeing one of their favourite characters in real life will be too much for them to handle. They will act or say something inappropriate, this is unacceptable but that doesn’t mean it will stop. I think there has been some amazing cosplay outfits made, but there will also be people that will ruin it and do something stupid.

I think this shows us that gamers as a group are still maturing. The way we look at cosplayers, even avatars and being able to see some of the more ‘risky’ efforts in real life shows that maturity for SOME still hasn’t quite hit home yet. I would like to add that I feel no one has the right to tell another person how to dress or appear in public. I personally feel that any girl or guy that is willing to put themselves out there and do that kind of thing is good and more power to them!

A new Link

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

The Nintendo 3DS

I have now owned a 3DS for about 3 months now and have had the chance to formulate an opinion on it, I didn’t buy one earlier as there is always the suspicion with Nintendo that there will be an updated version of the hardware at some point and there was barely any games available initially. The first point proved true as Nintendo released an XL version of the machine which is physically larger and has larger screens, this is the version I got. And in terms of the software, there have now been a number of titles released and there is a significant number on the horizon too. I have one or two minor grumbles about the machine, the first being that for me the 3D is an irritation, but that’s really a meaningless complaint as it’s entirely optional and it operates via a slider meaning that you can find a setting that works best for you and I suspect my issues with the 3D are predominantly down to the way I sit when I’m playing.

My other complaint is the selection of titles on the Virtual Console, the majority of games available so far are Game Gear and Gameboy games, there seems to be a segregation where 3DS gets handheld titles and the Wii U gets home console games, again though this is a minor complaint, mostly born from the fact that an English language translation of Earthbound has been announced for the Wii U’s virtual console. I will say that the cost of digital versions of the game are about the same as you would pay in a high street shop and only marginally more than most online retailers, which is actually something of a first when you consider that this has always been a problem with digital releases. Memory wise my machine came with a 4gb SD card which the system uses to save any downloaded games and DLC, this is fine as a starting point as DLC and DSiware games don’t take up too much space however a digital version of a full game can take near to 2gb up, with that said the cost of an SD card is pretty negligible so shouldn’t represent a problem in the grand scheme of things.

imageThe system also has a feature called Spotpass which from what I have experienced allows you to share your Mii with people who you are close to if you have the feature activated and the system in standby mode. This also seems to allow certain functionality within games too though I haven’t witnessed this much, and another one feature where walking while carrying the machine in standby mode will generate play coins which can be used in certain games for different things. In Animal Crossing, for instance, you can purchase fortune cookies which produce fortunes that can be exchanged for rare items.

Battery wise I seem to get around 4 to 5 hours out of the machine, which isn’t the worst I’ve ever experienced especially, but the machine doesn’t come with a power adaptor bundled with it for some strange reason. This means that you have to purchase, or if you have a DS lite or any models afterwards you can use the same power adaptor. With all that said it’s the games that really make a machine so with that in mind I’m going to write a bit about the games I’m looking forward to and the ones I currently own.

Games I’m looking forward to:

Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds – While it’s not the HD remake of Majora’s Mask that I desperately want, it is the sequel to Link to the Past which is my second favourite Zelda game. I’ve only seen one screenshot so far but I will be looking out for this one to see if it can offer the same kind of epicness as it’s predecessor.

Yoshi’s Island – For some reason I’ve always preferred the Yoshi platforming games to the equivalent Mario ones as I find them to be more fun and better looking, so I’m looking forward to this one to see if will be as good as the ones before it.

Fantasy Life – This has been billed as a cross between Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing which are both series that I adore, and it’s made by Level 5 who make the Professor Layton, Inazuma and Ni No Kuni games so it should look absolutely stunning and have some interesting gameplay features.

Mario and Luigi: Dream Team – Assuming it’s like the previous entries in the series then it will be a combination of RPG and platformer and will be great fun to play. I’ve really enjoyed other entries in the series so this one is definitely on my radar.

Hometown Story – From the creator of Harvest Moon and set in the same game universe, this is definitely one that I’m curious about as I don’t really know much about it at all. I will be keeping an eye on it though to see if it’s a game that will generate the same level of interest as the Harvest Moon games always have for me.

Mario Party – This one will be interesting to see if there is a good and varied selection of mini games, and if so then hopefully friends who also own a 3DS will in turn purchase so that multiplayer can be enjoyed.

Pokemon X and Y – When the new Pokemon was announced that was the point where I decided to get a 3DS, I’me really looking forward to it and seeing what tweaks they’ve made to the system and also seeing what new Pokemon there are.

Games I’ve played:

Animal Crossing: New Leaf The Animal Crossing series has always been pretty chilled out and just allowed you to fish, upgrade your house and collect furniture at your own pace and while this one also allows you to do that it also changes things up a little by making you mayor of the town. This allows you to customise the town to suit you, be it building things requested to you by residents or changing the opening times of shops. It works really well and is one of those games thats good for a quick go here and there or a prolonged fishing or bug catching session, and the multiplayer works quite well too.

Fire Emblem: Awakening A phenomenal tactical RPG, this requires a lot of thought and strategy in order to progress and while it can be a little difficult at times it also feels really rewarding when you make it past a particularly tricky battle. It also has different difficulties depending on the challenge you want with the easier mode meaning that units stay dead on the harder mode or are resurrected upon successful completion of a battle on the easier mode. There is also a wealth of depth to the game by allowing units to build up support with each other and in some instances certain units can have kids together which offers up even more tactical options.

Luigi’s Mansion 2 – This is a really fun game that should actually be a bit more frustrating than it is as there’s a lot of backtracking in the locations that each level is set in, however it makes it work by offering up collectibles and different ghosts as well as clever use of upgrades that makes sure that the backtracking feels worthwhile.

Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns – As a Harvest Moon fan I had gotten a bit bored with previous entries as there was never a lot different, this one makes one very key change in that you have to pick a town to live in and in doing so this directly impacts your farm as one town specialises on livestock and the other in crops. You can move as the game goes on though so you can get the full experience but overall it’s a fun little game that requires planning to get the most from each in game day.

Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy – An odd hydrid of RPG and rhythm action game that uses songs from each of the first thirteen core entries in the Final Fantasy series, gameplay is relatively straight forward though pretty tough on harder difficulties, but as a fan of the series for the most part it’s fun and provides an awesome amount of nostalgia as well as having a huge amount of unlockable content and the levelling up system is fun too. There is also a large amount of songs to download, each costing 90p, my only complaint would be that from a personal standpoint some amazing songs aren’t in the game.

Virtue’s Last Reward – I bought this after reading good things and from playing it the game feels like an interactive novel of sorts, the puzzles feel a bit like a point and click adventure in that they don’t always feel very obvious but then that encourages you to think, there is definitely an intrigue to the game that makes it more engaging to play.

Crush 3D – A combination of platform game and puzzle game, the concept of the game is collect all the items in a level and each the exit but this is only possible by moving the camera into one of 5 positions and engaging the crush feature which turns the angle chosen into a 2 dimensional viewpoint. It’s a surprisingly clever game and really makes you think creatively to progress through each level.

Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask – This plays pretty much the same as previous entries in the series which isn’t a bad thing at all, the puzzles are interesting and the mini games are fun and provide a nice contrast. The main difference for me is that the plot feels a bit more personal as it links to the eponymous Professor’s past and this makes for a very interesting game.

Cooking Mama 4 – This game is more or less the same as previous entries, the main difference as far as I can see is that there are a number of unlockable items and mini games as a result of achieving certain goals during the main game. I’ve always found it fun and a game that is good when you just want to have a quick 5 or 10 minute go on something.

Shinobi – I picked this up for a fiver and as such went in with pretty low expectations and while it’s not the best game I’ve played, and it’s certainly nowhere near as good as Shinobi 3 on the Mega Drive it’s a decent game though a bit unforgiving at times.

Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D – I picked this up for free as part of a promotion where I bought 3 games (Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem and Luigi’s Mansion) and while the game mechanics need some getting used to, it’s a fun and properly old school platformer and it looks good too, there’s a lot of detail on the screen.

Tetris – This is pretty much the same as every Tetris game ever produced, which isn’t a bad thing as traditional Tetris is a classic, there’s other modes to play too though they’re not a patch on the original mode but as with all versions the difficulty increases as you progress while playing.

Pokemon Dream Radar – This is essentially a mini game that allows you to catch certain pokemon and items and then download them to a copy of Pokemon Black or White 2, the main draw is that it allows the user to catch the three legendaries Tornadus, Thundurus and Landorus and import them into your save game but once these have been caught you gain the ability to put one of the DS Pokemon games into your 3DS and use the game to catch that games respective legendary.

Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move – A puzzle game where you have four different modes, each with numerous levels, where you have to fill in the missing pieces for a maze in order to guide the minis on that level to the exit while collecting the three tokens present. It starts of easy enough but does make you think as often the solution requires a degree of trial and error to find.

Shaun vs Zombies

A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.

Singstar Wars Mashup

SingStar Wars Edition, with brand-new force control feature, only compatible with PLAYSTATION 4 means you won’t need to worry about picking up your PS4 controller as you sing along. Simply speak into your Wireless SingStar Wars Microphones and announce which track you want to sing next – and it will appear on your screen! Plus you can even shop and search through your SingStore Carousel using your voice! Being a SingStar’s never been so much fun…

Unleash some attitude with the Cantina Band, then grab your best padawan for a pop duet with the Cantina Band, rock out with the Cantina Band or perform a sexy solo without the Cantina Band.

Game Dev Tycoon – #Ep1: Garage King

Its Gamer Time! Guys, Guys, It’s 1980 and your in your garage, what do you do?
HECK YEAH WE MAKE GAMES! This series will be on Game Dev Tycoon from the guys over at

The 8th Wonder of the World

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with leading lady.

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3DS VGA – I Thought about it first-Edition

Here’s a 3DS entombed inside a plexiglass case for $500. Why? Cause he thought about it first. I guess at the time it was a good idea and since you’re really not able to play your 3DS other than old ports of games, I guess it might as well sit inside the plexiglass case and inside the original box. The seller was also nice enough to watermark the image so you know which idiot who did it.

How come nobody’s done a VGA copy of Shaq-Fu yet? “Uncirculated Shaq-Fu VGA 90+ – It never even came out of the warehouse…… edition!”. That has a nice tone to it..

10 Responses to “3DS VGA – I Thought about it first-Edition”

  1. I’m going to take a trip to the store and buy all the new games and consoles there and do this exact thing. I’ll also put them on eBay and charge a 35% premium. 🙁

  2. Yeah now that is pointless. I could see if it was given an ultra high score fresh from a factory sealed case. With a few minutes of hassle anyone could pick up a unit and score a 90. If anything a sale like this will increase the number of people who do just that. Thus making his 90 even less desirable with an increased number of higher scores.

    • Based on the seller being in GA where VGA supposedly is, I’m going to say that’s exactly why they did it.

    • thats why VGA fails. i would imagine that it would make sense that sealed nes zelda be graded if pictures isn’t enough to warrant it’s condition. but the price shouldn’t double or triple in value just because its graded. it’s the perfect way to con unsuspecting collector’s thinking that housing it on a plexi glass case and giving it a rating is instant gold-like status.

  4. Le sigh. I’ve been meaning to get some random DS Hamster / Barbie games graded for much the same reason.

  5. Fuck VGA for god sake

  6. Too bad, I only like the black 3DS’s. There is still time GameSniped!

  7. I was the one who bought the toast with the image of Virgin Mary on it. I had it sealed in plexiglass and I plan on buying a small island with it some day and retiring.

  8. Lies. Pretty sure a gaming casino owns that. Maybe they should buy this too.

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Blogging is hard work. And getting the tone of voice just right is part of that struggle. Without the right voice, readers won’t stick with you to take in your great content.

Here’s the challenge: You want to be authoritative, but not a know-it-all. You want to be upbeat, but not saccharine. You want to be specific, but not clinical. You want to be informative, but not scientific. You want to be clear, but not patronizing. And you want to show a sense of humor without sliding into a standup routine.

Here’s my trick: try writing as if you’re talking to a specific audience. Picture who you are delivering the information to. Make it visual. And make it personal.

Then craft your content. And do it with the tone you’d use in one of these seven situations…

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2. to bargain for a deal,

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4. to pick yourself up after a bad day,

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7. to help a stranger.

See if that doesn’t make it easier next time you need to post. I’d be interested to hear how this worked for you. Here’s more about writing for a specific audience with some examples.


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The Care & Feeding of Zebras

An A to Z Look At The Ironies Of Life

A true friend will never let you rush foolishly into a roaring fire 🔥! While sadly false friend will heap kisses 😘 and praise on you while shoving you in front of a MAC truck speeding at 100 mps! It’s hard to take what we would call criticism of what we have done, maybe doing, or planning to do. It also feels so good when you hear cheers from the stands to go on, do whatever you want! Truest friends want us to succeed but not by ramming our heads against brick walls. Look twice at who is cheering you on, and don’t let all the praise blind you to the cliff your about to fall from. Remember, God is the promise maker! God is the promise keeper! Trust His plan for each of us! Yes, He will be in the midst of any storms we go through but He finds no delight in seeing us blindly falling off our cliffs! #nosmallfaith #kyeoj #TheJesusMovement @gee43 @gee543

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If it’s really good, men made it

I feel odd blogging about a movie I haven’t seen, I want to get that out of the way. But a lot of women I trust are telling me that the movie The Social Network (a dramatisation of the founding of Facebook, script by Aaron Sorkin and direction by David Fincher) is infuriatingly sexist. Men made Facebook entirely, apparently, and women granted them sexual favours for it. As is the natural order! (See the Melissa Silverstein and Laurie Penny links in our last spam for this.)

(If you want to discuss The Social Network in particular, rather than the rest of this post, which is about geek women’s invisibility in general, I’ve set up a discussion thread for the movie.)

The erasure of women geeks from geek history is going to continue and snowball, most likely, because here are some of the factors that play into it:

  1. what geeks do is hard! you can tell, because women don’t do it!
  2. you might have heard geeks are not that high up the masculine status chart! you are wrong! because there’s no women doing it and that makes it Man Stuff! which is hard, see 1! (also wot Restructure! said)
  3. s things become important in retrospect, they become men’s work.

On that last point, there was a related discussion in Australia last year about the recent history of rock music. Triple J, a youth music radio station which is part of the government funded ABC network, ran a “Hottest 100 of All Time” poll for songs its listeners like best. Triple J’s airplay is generally “alternative” and in the late 1990s (when I listened most) featured women artists such as PJ Harvey, Courtney Love of Hole, Shirley Manson of Garbage, Liz Phair and Veruca Salt.

There was some leadup criticism about the voting website:

Divided into decades, starting with the 1960s, each page shows between 9 and 15 album covers, with an accompanying note about musicians or bands that influenced the direction of rock and pop. The section on the 60s mentions the Supremes as one of the groups on the Stax/Motown label, and Janis Joplin as appearing at the Monterey Pop Festival. Then the 2000s section mentions the White Stripes. NO other female artists or groups that include women are mentioned.

And although the website was merely a memory jogger and did not restrict listener voting, it turned out it was a harbringer of what the listeners voted for. The top 100 songs contained two female vocalists, both appearing in one-offs as vocalists with Massive Attack (with songwriting credits). There were also five bands with female members. This became a big deal: Triple J was quick to defend itself by noting that it was a listener poll. One of the most interesting pieces of commentary went to air on Triple J’s own coverage, from Catherine Strong, whose PhD research was into changing memories of music (thanks to Lauredhel for this transcript):

Catherine Strong: “What happened with grunge – it’s very interesting, that in the early 1990s, grunge was seen as being a very female-friendly type of music. There were lots of women involved in the grunge. So you had bands like Hole, and L7, and Babes in Toyland. There was also the associated riot grrl movement that was happening at the same time, so bands like Bikini Kill and Heavens to Betsy. At the time, these bands were quite successful: commercially successful, and they were critically acclaimed, they were talked about as being fantastic. There was a lot of celebration in the press of “Women in Rock”, “Isn’t it fantastic to see women in rock?” But then if you look at the media coverage over time, when people talk about grunge over time, the women don’t get talked about anymore. So on the tenth anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death for instance, there were lots of magazines that came out talking about “Let’s look back at grunge”, “what was important about grunge”, “why was grunge such a great thing?”, and the women are hardly mentioned at all. So again you can see the public record leaves the women out – they just disappear, they fall out over time, as people write about it, and think about it looking back.

And the thing in rock that I think is particularly interesting, is that periodically, women are rediscovered. So every five years or so you’ll find that there’s something that will turn up in the media saying “Hey, it’s great! Women are making inroads into rock for the first time!”, when it’s not the first time. So every time those stories come up, I think we as a society, or people who like rock, feel as though progress is being made; but what’s actually happened is we’re just going round and round in circles. Women are being discovered, then they’re being forgotten, then they’re being discovered again, and they’re being forgotten again, and it’s just going round and round like that.”

And here it is, happening with geek history. To avoid one obvious strawman: no, I am not claiming that there was a woman who was more important to the story of Facebook than Mark Zuckerberg! I’m claiming that the movie is part of this pattern in geek history:

  1. when we look back on geek history, things women worked on, and women who were involved in men’s projects will slowly vanish from the story as part of a pattern of making what geeks do important and hard and real
  2. there will continue to be active resistance to women being visible as geeks because the presence of women takes away status points in the masculinity hierarchy and/or that geekdom is a men’s space for men who don’t want to be around women (I keep meaning to find the explicit comments I’ve seen on LWN to this effect, if the lazyweb helps I won’t object)
  3. perhaps most worryingly of all, every few years there will be a brief spotlight on women geeks, everyone will conclude “hooray they’re/we’re here, we’ve been seen, this is the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning of the battle, thank goodness for that” and then a few years later we’ll do it all again (see an example of “but women geeks are new” here).

What do you think? How many rounds of the geek women visibility battle have you been present for? (I’ve been around for at least two major ones, I think.)

20 thoughts on “If it’s really good, men made it

  1. Lesley Hall

    O dear o dear yes, I have noticed this historically in so many fields of arts and science: once something becomes Important and Recognised and a path to career progression and a regular salary and so forth, not only is there an influx of men into the field, they then create a patriarchal genealogy of how it got there, erasing the women’s lineal contributions.

  2. Virginia

    I think people should stop calling it “a great movie, but sexist” and just go for “a sexist movie.” Call it what it is.

  3. Donna

    Yep. I think you’re spot on.

    Not to mention that ‘girl stuff’ is generally devalued or un-recognised.

    In our own space… it was a woman, Christine Peterson who coined the phrase ‘Open Source’ but it’s two men who generally get all the credit.

    The question you don’t ask or answer… is why? Why is this case?

    I remember the JJJ women in rock travesty. I posted on this too http://kattekrab.net/hottest-100-songs-sung-women. Reading through comment threads at the time I noted the fact that women didn’t vote for women in the contest either… Why does this happen – why do we fade into the wallpaper?

    Is it a lack of shameless self-promotion? Is it a complex mix of factors? I dunno. However, I don’t think it’s a conscious conspiracy and I do think we women are somehow complicit.

    Ada Lovelace Day is a great initiative – we should embrace and extend it. Perhaps in the lead up to next year do some serious research into computing herstory and uncover untold stories.

    Numbers of women in computer science courses are falling in western countries. Why? Enrollment numbers overall have been falling, but attracting significantly less women. Which leads me to conclude that something is wrong with computer science.
    Two years ago, Randall Stross wrote, What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science? in the New York Times.

    Let’s remember this isn’t limited to the rock music scene and geekdom, but also to science, art, literature, politics and history in general. There have always been women in positions of power, influence and leadership – but their stories have not always been told.

    Fran Allen and Barb Liskov weren’t the first women deserving enough to win a Turing award, they were just the first women to win one.

  4. Mackenzie

    Ooooh like all those people who are *shocked* to hear Grace Hopper did anything other than pull a moth from a relay. You know, like inventing the compiler.

    1. Carla Schroder

      Being clean is women’s work, so it was natural for Admiral Hopper to clean the moth out of the relay. A male admiral would have made a subordinate do it.

  5. hn

    In “geekdom” it’s even worse than in science or music, the two geek history books I located on my shelf (Geeks Bearing Gifts, Masterminds of Programming) don’t mention any women at all [iirc] (the latter of course is just interviews with the engineers of popular languages, who all happen to be male, not necessarily their fault).

    Is there a handy list of women’s geeky achievements? (and not current entrepreneurs, being CEO of eBay doesn’t really help technological advancement…) Because I usually start uhmming after mentioning Lady Ada, Grace Hopper and Marie Curie.

    1. Mary Post author

      Have a look at various bits of the Geek Feminism wiki, for example:
      http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_women_in_Computer_Science (super incomplete, Fran Allen and Barb Liskov aren’t filled in!)

      Look also for Ada Lovelace Day 2009 and 2010 writeups, the 2010 list is at http://findingada.com/list/ and this blog’s posts are at https://geekfeminism.org/tag/ada-lovelace-day/

      Ada Lovelace Day is specifically designed to make sure we have more names to hand when people ask about women geeks.

  6. Laurie Penny

    Hey you guys! Great post, but you got my name wrong! Penny, not Petty (Lori Petty is Tank Girl, and I’m not that cool).

    1. Mary Post author

      I’m so sorry! *fixes all the things*

      (I know what happened actually: I was writing this too soon after reading a Pratchett novel with a “Petty” surname.)

  7. G

    Yes, we do have to fight the same battles over and over again. So many of these issues like ‘how many women in open source’ and the misogynist BS that they stir up are issues I thought we had settled back in the 70’s. I expect Hopper’s generation thought they had been settled in the 40’s and were shocked to find their progress reversed in the 50’s.

  8. Eivind KjÃ¸rstad

    For added bonus, pay attention to that subset of geeks who go

    a) There’s no women in technology – ‘cos its too hard for ’em

    and simultaneously:

    b) It’s not true that male geeks are generally losers on the dating-front, infact there’s plenty of women in technology.

    Met atleast 3 guys who managed to argue both – without seeing the contradiction.

  9. Kea

    Well, I’m in my 40s (an unemployed female Theoretical Physicist) and definitely feeling pretty invisible right now. With regard to the Women Geek Debut, I think we’re talking long wavelengths here. After all, the Powers That Be don’t want anyone actually remembering the last time the groundhog popped up. In my field, we’ve been through a few cycles of “oh, how cute, some women do Real Physics – but of course there aren’t many of them! Hah, freaks!” and we’re still some way off getting to an actual “oh, they’re here” phase.

  10. KevinL

    The only geeky field I’ve encountered that appears to feature women in key roles is modern astronomy as reported by _Astronomy_ magazine. They have a section every month highlighting the work of various individual researchers including background about how/why that scientist got interested in those problems that often is “I’ve always been interested in space since I was a young boy/girl”. I’ve been subscribed for a couple years and they have done a very good job showing a wide variety of people all over the world being interested. That said – most (all?) of their regular columnists are men.

  11. John

    Another largely forgotten female scientist is Rosalind Franklin; her male colleages Crick and Watson are much more famous, although it seems she deserves equal credit.

    1. Sean

      Wow, I’d never even heard of her, and yet I’m quite familiar with Watson and Crick. Yeesh.

  12. K00kyKelly

    This is what prevents women from hitting the tipping point in so many fields. There have always been women contributing, yet somehow each group and their colleagues feel they are the first beyond a few pioneers. How do we break the cycle? Can we increase the number of women mentoring other women? What other options exist for letting girls know our real contributions through history? How can we counteract white male as the default?

  13. Meg

    I’m reading Revolutionary Backlash right now, and it makes this point. Apparently there was a whole genre of books starting in the 14th century that talked about female historical figures, and were pretty popular. Of course, they were popular then because those female historical figures had been generally ignored in all non-female-specific histories.

    I think it’s part of the same dynamic that makes people ask “why are there no women in computer science?” or “why aren’t there any women qualified to present?” It is why affirmative action can’t ever make up the differences in opportunities. There is so much mental resistance to the idea that women were innovators, were central, were historic, that people just forget they heard those stories or forget there was a woman involved at all. When it comes time to tell the important stories to someone else, gender never comes up.

    (This is one thing that pisses me off about “post-racial” and “post-feminist” approaches. If you don’t mention that the person in your story is a woman, you’ve turned them into a man. If you don’t mention a race, you’ve turned them white. I heard the story about “bugs” being actual bugs 10 years before I discovered that all the programmers then were women. I had studied Turing in college five years before I discovered he was gay. If I hadn’t met )

    Now when I talk about the invention of LISP, I make sure to mention that MIT only had 158 women enrolled in the entire college at the time. I got a funny look the first time I did this, and I clarified that the total lack of women in it’s early history required an explanation, as opposed to Fortran, Cobol and Smalltalk (though not if you read it’s Wikipedia page). Turned out no one seemed to think there was anything odd, because they had no idea that there were women involved in those other languages! I decided that it was an important point to make, that the absence of women should be as note-worthy as their presence.

    Until we succeed in shifting the center away from straight, white men, this will continue to happen. Until every story about a man mentions his gender, and every story about a white person mentions their race, we will continue to receive a sanitized, erased version of history from those who came before.

    1. Eivind

      Agreed. Allthough it’s a little of both: It’s true, that women gets written out of history, because when the “default assumption” is that important people are men, then anyone who’s not explicitly named tends to get considered male.

      But, offcourse, it’s *also* true that there genuinely where less women — if that wasn’t the case, then I don’t think the “default assumption” would’ve arisen in the first place.

      In other words, humanity really did (and still do!) waste a considerable fraction of their talent – for every Einstein, we could’ve had a Curie, instead, we wasted a huge fraction of that talent. I consider this to be among the great tragedies of humanity. (aside: how many people would even guess that the only physicist to win the nobel prize *twice* was a woman)

      That the talents that -wheren’t- wasted, is then retroactively made invisible, just adds insult to injury.

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Image Entertainment Buys Rights To THE RESIDENT Starring Hilary Swank

U.S. distribution rights for The Resident starring Hilary Swank have just been acquired from Exclusive Media Group's Hammer Films by Image Entertainment, Inc.

The Resident also stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Sir Christopher Lee and Lee Pace. The film was directed by Antti Jokinen is set to be released theatrically in Spring 2011.

The Resident follows a beautiful young doctor (Swank) who begins a new life in Brooklyn after separating from her husband. Her stunning and spacious loft seems too good to be true, and when mysterious occurrences lead her to believe she's not alone, she discovers the unthinkable... someone is watching her.

Bill Bromiley, Chief Acquisitions Officer for Image Entertainment made the following statement...

"The accomplished cast and creative team behind the film have done an extraordinary job in bringing this compelling and thrilling story to life." "We are proud to be a part of the new Hammer family and excited to be working with the team at Exclusive Media with their exceptional track record."

Simon Oakes, President & CEO of Hammer, said..

 "'The Resident' is another film in the grand tradition of Hammer that offers up quality genre pictures with big name talent, as is the case here with two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank. We look forward to working with the entire Image Entertainment team as we now take this film to audiences across the U.S."

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