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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

My Swan

Here is a little friend I made late last year. She's turned into a real friend!
Lots and lots of love,
Kate xxx

Monday, May 30, 2016

Little Boxes of Crochet

Thank you so much for all of your warm, welcoming words! You made it such a pleasure to be back.
I thought I would show you a very special something I have been involved with over the past little while.
I have a wonderful friend, Amanda Bloom who in November last year, launched the most amazing crochet subscription box, Little Box of Crochet. And guess who was lucky enough to be the first designer - Me!!!!
As it was Autumn, we decided something seasonal would be lovely and somehow the subject of Toadstools came up, something we are both passionate about.

And so, with lots of chatting between NZ and the UK, the plan hatched for three crocheted toadstools.
While I was busy with toadstool maths (the easy part let me tell you), Amanda established an empire sourcing yarn, boxes, printers all to the highest standard and most beautiful of aesthetics. And she did all this while her gorgeous daughter Jenny was battling cancer.

The day the first box arrived in my mailbox was one of the most proud I have had. So proud of Amanda and Jenny and so honoured to have been a part of it.
And guess what? The box sold out!
However,... a little bird told me, the Toadstool Box is set for a re-release - wahoo!
I can't wait to show you more boxes I've recieved over the past few months. They brought so much joy to me, just as Amanda and Jenny have for me.
Lots of love,
Kate xxxxx

Saturday, May 28, 2016

Hello Again!

I've gathered up the courage to write on my blog again. Thank you so much for all of your lovely comments expressing your concern and wishes for me to start up again. I really appreciate it and it has made a huge difference to me in coming back.
I won't go into the full story but sadly there were a couple of tricky people who engaged in some nasty plagiarism which made me question whether it was all worth it. And of course it is, I just had to retreat for a while and think about how to stay true to myself, what is worth protecting and how to keep singing (metaphorically - I won't be popping my shower tunes up for you....).
And it is so good to be back. I was starting to forget the wonderful community that exists in the blogosphere.  Hello!!!!
Now, the photos above are some that I took for the latest edition of Taproot. Traveling Stanley has finally had his pattern published. Stanley is now a teenager and loves to go camping with his banjo. I think making the banjo was one of my favourite things ever.
Lots more to write about but I will save it up for my next post.
Lots of love,
Kate xx

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Why is Grass Fed Beef a Dark Red Color?

I was on a search for a scientific reason as to why grass-fed beef is dark, dark red or in our case almost a dark purple.  I found that the science behind why meats are darker/lighter in color is pretty interesting but not easy to understand or explain.  I need to get the book The Science of Cooking to get the even more detailed explanation.

So here goes nothing on the simple answer.  A muscle needs oxygen.   Typically a muscle can get oxygen from the blood flowing through the muscle.  However, muscles that are heavily used may not get enough oxygen from the blood inside the muscles so they resort to oxygen stored in myoglobin (a protein molecule).  When myoglobin is carrying oxygen, it is red.  So because grass fed animals have to walk around the pasture to find their food and walk around to get their water, run with the calves, etc.  their muscles need more of the oxygen stored in myoglobin as they won't get enough from the blood in the muscle, and will be darker as a result.

Now I would assume that if you had a grain fed animal that had to walk from one end of the pasture to get their food and another end to get their water, then maybe those animals would have darker meet as well.  So the color has nothing to do with food (grain/grass) but all to do with exercise.

This is also why turkey and chicken legs are dark meat while the breasts are white meat.  The legs are working so they have more myoglobin.  Same goes with different cuts of pork.  If the muscle is getting used-- it's darker.

Now darker meat has more flavor but the danger is that it can be tough so must be cooked properly.

We've been plowing steadily through our beef and I can say it's all dark, dark red and so, so, so flavorful.

So there you go--- lesson of the day!!

Michael@greenakeys.com said...

Another thing to consider is that some times steers who are stressed highly right before slaughter can be ruined. The meat turns out really dark. All of it. Butchers call them "dark cutters" and the meat is next to worthless. A bad butcher, or processor can ruin fabulous grass-fed beef in a heartbeat. Literally.

Jessika said...

Wow! I've wondered why that was always the case. And what's great is that now I have the ammunition to tell friends another difference with grass-fed beef other than just taste. Here's to having something more to hopefully encourage better meat-buying practices for friends!

SteveandAlina said...

That is very interesting. I've always preferred dark meat on chicken and turkey myself. What do grass-fed steer eat during the winter?

Michael@greenakeys.com said...

(couldnt resist)

Hay and other forages that have been cut and baled. Some people will cut hay and wrap it tightly in plastic so that it ferments. Its calley haylage. Some people feed corn silage, the corn stalks left over after the harvest. You can also graze your cattle all winter. Some times cattle graze over cornfields after harvesting, some people grow corn just for the grazing. The animals eat the leaves and stalks before the corn ears grow.

We feed hay. Its not great, but it works.

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Friday, October 16, 2009

A Finished Top!

I finished the quilt top today!  This was a big accomplishment for me, since I don't consider myself to be a great piecer.  To complicate matter even further, I decided this afternoon to make a pieced border.  What was I thinking?!  All those little squares, and if the seam allowances were off just a bit, it wouldn't have fit.  But much to my surprise, it fit PERFECTLY!  I still can't believe it.
This will be a fun one to quilt, with all the large white areas.  If I have time, I'll baste it over the weekend.  The quilting won't be started until next week, though.

This quilt pattern is a "Quilt in a Day" pattern.  It took me all week, working almost all day every day!  And this is just a lap sized quilt.  If someone can really make it in a day, they deserve a medal.

SewCalGal said...

Congratulations. Isn't "finishing" a good feeling? Your quilt top is beautiful. Great fabrics, great colors, great design. Can't wait to see this quilt after it is quilted.

Thanks for sharing.

PS - My mother was from Gadsden and my sister now lives in Dothan!

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Sunday, 5 December 2010

Haycrafts of Deptford

Dona Haycraft has written to us saying..

I am starting to research family history connected with the Haycrafts in Deptford (ironmongers). My interest started with the Haycraft halfpenny 1795 of which I have a couple and portraits of Joseph and Sarah Haycraft Deptford website Bonhams - the paintings did not sell to my relief!).

I wonder if there is any reference of where John Haycraft had a dock allegedly in Rotherhithe and whether there is any trace of where Thomas (he of the halfpenny) had his business in Deptford's Broadway or whether it was flattened in the bombing of the Broadway in WW2.

The GIHS Webmaster says: According to the Bonhams site, the Haycrafts were a family of shipbuilders, prior to 1700 in Torbay, then subsequently in Rotherhithe and Deptford, Joseph was part of the family business, by then a company of ironmongers fitting out ships in the Viturlline Yard in Deptford. In 1795 his brother, Thomas Haycraft famously coined his own token, the 'Haycraft Halfpenny' which bears the legend 'Payable at Tho's Haycraft's, Deptford'.

I clearly must come to Deptford. Any suggestions of the best places to start? The links between Lewisham/Deptford/Greenwich are confusing to someone in Suffolk!

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

The Waiting Room

Sunday, my mom and I went to the hospital waiting room on the maternity ward. My brother and sister-in-law were having their first baby. They went to the hospital in the middle of the night.

Now, at 9:30 a.m., my mom and I walked through the lobby.

In the waiting room, we met my sister-in-law's family. If you are ever at the hospital and would like to say hello, our family is the one having a party. For extended stays, we usually roll out a buffet. Nothing extravagant. Some deli sandwiches. Potato salad. Baked beans. Coors light. That kind of thing.

But this was a short visit, so we sat and talked, about our own childbirths, for one thing.

Three things stick out in my mind about having babies. One: Justin kept leaving my bedside to get a sandwich. It was like sandwich, sandwich, sandwich. All about the sandwiches. In hindsight, it was probably just one sandwich per childbirth. But because I was in the throes of labor, the contractions multiplied my perceptions by 50,000--like a prism of pain. Secondly, everyone in the hospital has a cart the size of a caboose and they wheel it in your room in the middle of the night and bump it against everything in sight. Clang, clang, clang goes the trolley! And thirdly, that little baby is so darn cute that those annoyances seem pretty silly.

Occasionally, we walked back to the labor room to check on the parents-to-be, Josh and Sarah. Josh pointed to where the lights would descend from the ceiling for the birth. He said that, for dramatic affect, the doctor would also descend from the ceiling on a stage a la Jesus Christ Superstar.

"Sarah is so strong and beautiful," my mom said, once we got back to the waiting room. "And Josh is a basketcase."

When my family talks about each other, the following phrases come up: basketcase, nerves are shot, etc.

Nervousness runs in the family.

My grandmother Mume used to walk around her kitchen, saying "who, who, who," as she fixed dinner. Her doctor told her this would settle her nerves. My brothers and I used to imitate this relaxation technique, and I'm sure one day our grandkids will make fun of us for doing the same thing.

But nervousness is also a trait of new fathers.

My Papa was so worried when my Nana gave birth to Aunt Kathy that he was hospitalized for nervous exhaustion. Nana and the baby had to visit him in the hospital.

Josh and Sarah's friends arrived.

My mom pointed out a photo hanging in the waiting room of an elderly couple posing in a park with a little girl (probably their grandchild).

"That's nice," my mom said. "It shows you can have a child any age. Even in your seventies."

There was also an airbrushed photo of a barechested father holding his baby and one of a pregnant lady in a sexy negligee vamping for the camera. It was like the island of misfit pictures.

A newspaper was spread out on the tables and chairs. Sarah's sister read Sarah's horoscope, which said, "Today, let the wild child inside you out."

Of course that cracked us up.

At this point, Josh and Sarah were delivering the baby. That's the odd part about waiting rooms. The family is talking and laughing, or crying and praying, rallying around the person. But just when you want to help them the most, you can't help them at all. It's them versus nature.

With the baby coming any minute, we placed bets on his weight and whether he would be a boy or girl and what his name would be. (As you can see, most people thought they'd have a boy.)

My friend says waiting to find out whether your baby is a boy or girl is the last good surprise you will have in your life. As a kid, life is full of surprises: Who will be your homeroom teacher? What will Santa bring you? How many coins will the tooth fairy bring? But once you're an adult, it's more like: Surprise! You need triple bypass surgery.

We in the waiting room were excited to find out. I've never been in a waiting room for a baby before.

My mom said, "What about when J.J. was born? We were all in the waiting room then."

But I reminded her that I was elsewhere. Having the baby, you know.

I don't remember what we were talking about, but all the sudden, everyone said, "Josh is coming! Josh is coming."

And with a broad smile, he paused a minute...and said, "It's a girl!"

Everyone was crying and laughing. He said her name was Francesca and she and Sarah were doing great.

Soon, we went in the room to hold the baby (after determining who won the pool. Also, baby needed to take her Apgar test, which she aced.) It's hard to describe a baby's personality. When you hold her, you just feel it.

It was amazing how calm Francesca was considering what she'd been through that day. Going from the womb to the world is the equivalent of changing planets. It has to be the biggest surprise of your life.

You'd think the baby would be pacing her kitchen saying, "Who, who, who," but, no, she took it in stride.

On the way home, my mom said, "Isn't it amazing a little baby can bring so many people together to wait for her?"

Surprise. Nervousness. Laughter. Tears. Memories. Predictions. The baby inspires all these things in us. Even while we're still waiting.

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wonderful!! I cracked up about 'who, who' - I'd forgotten that! how funny that you said Francesca should have been saying that. I love the analogy about womb to world -like changing planets - great! See you at Francesca's this morning! Love, Mom

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Blogger Tim Higgins said...

Mother Nature sees to it that all prospective fathers are basket cases for a reason. The helpless feeling is designed to insure that they recognize all of the things that they, who have sworn to protect their wives and children from even unto death, will be unable to. It is a lesson neither easily accepted, nor ever truly learned.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

I concur with all of your commments regardig birthing and waiting rooms. I had to watch "Shogun" whike in labor with Joe...as if labor wasn't bad enough...there wer only 3 channels back in the olden days you see.

I have seen Fancy Francie and she is quite beautiful. I only wish she had Grandpa Rich's eyebrows!

6:01 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...

see what the memory of childbirth
does to your typing skills!!

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

I forgot - is Peggy the reading specialist at school? Does that have anything to do writin? just wonderin

1:28 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...

YEAH!!!!!! i wish i was with you all there!! i can't wait to meet Fancie Francie!!

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2015.05.13 – STORM #11 hits stores – my last issue!

The last issue of my STORM series hits stores next Wednesday!  Check out a few preview pages and an interview with Comic Book Resources readers right here.

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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Oh summer

Summer blasts on. Some days she is relentless with her heat and incessant humidity, here in the South land. But we did get a bit of a reprieve of late. Alas her fiery, firm grip returns again, like we all knew it would. And we are left to fend for ourselves in the breach; afternoon temperatures in the 90s and heat indicies over 100.

Still I slog some late afternoon and early evening miles, some days with Peyton around the Ashley High School grounds before track practice. The high school cross country kids have begun their voluntary work-outs, a signpost that perhaps their is a light at the end of summer's long merciless tunnel.

I talked to old Bob this morning about Tri-Span Saturday. He joked about needing to start early in order to just finish the 10k. I said the good thing is plenty of liquids on the course. But we both agreed about how tough running on the far side of the Cape Fear River is. You are exposed, there is scant shade... the heat radiates off the asphalt in sinister, unforgiving waves. The humidity lies along the river basin like an invisible, heavy wet blanket... threatening to choke the life out of even the most hearty of folk.

But we love it, right?  For it gives all something to talk about over post race refreshments downtown... back on the slightly more forgiving side of the river. Where there is some shade from the buildings and trees.

And as runners we don't duck challenges. We revel in them, and sometimes extoll the virtues of having the fortitude to overcome... or at the very least, in attempting to overcome the best way we know how. That is one foot in front of the another.... trudging along.


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Saturday, May 31, 2008

Internet Allstars

"Weezer enlisted the help of the biggest Internet celebrities for the first video off their new album. These aren't cleverly edited clips. This is the real deal. Every one from Tay Zonday to Miss Teen South Carolina are really in the video. The song is called "Pork and Beans.""

I actually find the song itself catchy.

Friday, May 23, 2008

Someone's coming, act like a cat!

Did we get any treats yet?

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

My RAM (random access memory) finally arrives today!
What, no applause? I bought 2 gigabytes of it, though D:
Hm, maybe this isn't a significant thing for you. A wasted blog post? (Looks at remaining blank pieces of blog paper) I see, maybe it was.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

The Cure

Is the song of my weekend!

Saturday, May 10, 2008

YouTube's Best Video

Don't you agree?

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Tokyo Police Club

their new cd is pretty

I hope i can have a band to make this kind of music some day

that was a faulty recording of it.. so i put up a new one

Warm Vs. Cold

Cultural preconceived concepts of both:
Warm - Happy, sunlight, alive, comfortable
Cold - Death, uncomfortable, oppressive

Now I used to be a cold person (not cold hearted, but I liked the cold better), but recently I've realized that it's almost entirely pointless to TRY to like the cold. Sunny days are generally more positive, and it's hard to go against something that is positive. I can't really fight the fact that I enjoy sunlight and being warm anymore, I don't have to force myself to walk around and freeze.

This post? Pointless. Short, so you're more likely to read it, but utterly pointless.
I'll have to pour some philosophy in here later.

(Physical Education ACE) <----Random

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Why did you not pick this one, oh my lost brother?

Control yourself
Take only what you need from him
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I had hoped that the movie 12 Years a Slave, which opened last Friday nationwide, would serve as a fair launching point for discussions I plan to cultivate in this space around racism, environmental justice, and American history. There is much to unpack from the slavery era that helps explain some of our problems today with issues ranging from environmental racism to climate change. I’ll explore that in future blog posts, but meanwhile, I learned a lot from some of the readers of my blog post about the environmental story in 12 Years.

Michael Metivier, an environmental writer in Vermont, contacted me about his own exploration of the history of land and human subjugation in America. He came to these topics in 2010 when he, a white man, found out that he is a descendant of William Benjamin Gould, a black man who escaped slavery in Wilmington, N.C., in 1862, and later joined the Union Navy. Gould’s diaries are considered authoritative texts on the conduct of war and slavery.

Meltivier’s discovery led him to research both the racial and natural history of the place where his great-great-great-grandfather was enslaved — a town that in 1898 would become the location of the only violent overthrow of a local government in U.S. history when white supremacists gunned down freed black and white elected officials.

That kind of violence during both slavery and Reconstruction is a history lesson all too seldom taught by itself. But another commenter brought to my attention the violence done to the land throughout the South. Aaron Joslin, a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia, who teaches about soils and hydrology, commented on Grist’s Facebook page that “the ecological consequences of cotton farming and the slave labor that enabled it … were enormous and inhibit agriculture in the South to this day.”

Offline, Joslin elaborated that slavery-era cotton farming led to massive soil erosion from Virginia to Alabama, rendering much of it unfit to be farmed in the future, or even to be passed down to plantation owners’ children.

“They put no effort into erosion control methods or crop rotations, things which were known but not perfected by their European ancestors,” he told me. “Millions of years of development of the fertile top soil eroded away in roughly 100 years.”

He continued:

The cotton growers did not obey the precept that we inherit the earth from our children, and they destroyed the soil to the point that their children could not use that land in any sort of productive way. So the evil then was much as the evil of corporations is today: Go for as much profit as you can right now and who cares about future generations.

Additionally, the evil to me is that they were completely unconcerned with their place in the ecology of their home, elevating the importance of themselves while devaluing the soil and its ecological functions that they depended on. The androcentric nature of their worldview allowed their greed and self-importance to prevail while undermining their empathy and pursuit of balance and harmony with the world around them.

Joslin’s observations square with those made in the book, Mr. Jefferson’s Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase, which tells how despite President Thomas Jefferson’s stated advocacy for small farmers, he financed the expansion of the large plantation system, which ended up damaging farmland across the South. It was like if President Obama today campaigned on behalf of food trucks and then instead allowed for increased subsidizing of Big Ag. Oh, wait …

University of Georgia historian Charles Hudson is quoted in Lost Cause explaining slavery-era cotton farming’s impacts in Florida as such: “Erosion and gullying were so great on the cotton plantations in the Tallahassee hills that the land lost as much as three-quarters of its topsoil by 1860.”

The book’s author, Roger Kennedy, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, wrote: “Twentieth-century maps showing the Florida counties requiring the most intense rehabilitation if there were to be any hope of restoring them to productive uses can be overlaid without much adjustment upon earlier maps of the concentration of slaves and the highest percentage of large plantations in 1850.”

All of this is what commenter snailkite was referring to when he commented on my blog how, “The ‘cash crops’ of the antebellum South depleted soils and created an environment in the upper South where landowners displaced smaller farmers … Younger white sons and displaced white small farmers fled to the lower South where cash crops (cotton, rice, indigo, sugar, tobacco) produced large yields on the fresh Native American’s lost lands. Upper South whites sold their enslaved people ‘down the river’ as a source of income, subsidizing the low yields from their own ruined soils.”

It’s what Harvard historian Walter Johnson calls “synthesized racial domination, profit, and economic development.”

Finally, I was pleased to read comments from Paula Duncan, also a noted historian who is studying the impact of slavery on the Americas. In Duncan’s review of 12 Years a Slave for Newsone.com, she wrote about the enslaved who used their knowledge of the natural landscape to escape the plantation system:

These were people who showed that they brought special skills to the plantations; they brought the knowledge from the places where they had lived, where they had been stolen. … With instincts like this to be free, that is why my Maroon ancestors rebelled on slave ships and as soon as they landed.

Those instincts are what led Solomon Northup, whose memoir is the basis for the movie 12 Years a Slave, to once attack one of his overseers, John Tibeats, after being accused of jack-planing wood for a house incorrectly. Throughout the story, Tibeats envies Northup’s resourcefulness with tools and lumber and heckles the slave every time he creates a solution for the plantation staff, who often find themselves clueless in Louisiana’s wild. (In one movie scene, when Northrup builds rafts to navigate some of the deeper swamp areas, Tibeats jealously asks if Northrup is “an engineer or a nigger.”)

In the physical tussle with Tibeats, Northrup is aware that his knowledge and penchant for self-defense might get him killed. Northrup’s thoughts while entangled with his master: “Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it. At that moment it was dear to me, enslaved and treated as I was.”

This to me was Northup’s direct refutation of the “survival of the fittest” mentality that drove plantation owners to reduce Africans to property and render them as disposable as the dirt below their feet. Northrup was fighting for his right to live, and to stop the destructive culture that slavery’s proponents were allowing to fester.


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1965 Vox Phantom bass your premier vintage guitar, bass and amp dealer. Click the 'back' plectrum to go back to the previous page, or click the "Grouse Guitars" nameplate above to go directly to the Grouse Guitars homepage.

Here's a very rare early-build vintage Phantom Bass. Note that this is a genuine UK-built version, before production was switched to Italy. Details which differ from subsequent (more common and less valuable) versions are the headstock logo, which reads "Phantom" rather than the later "Vox", the unbound neck, lack of clip-on padding at the rear, and the toggle (rather than rotary) pickup selector switch. Totally original, except for a brilliant pro refret by Dave Ulbrick. All electrics work well, and all hardware and paint is original. The paint has a few checks and small marks - see the detailed photographs in the 'more pictures' section below.

These 'coffin-shaped' Vox Phantoms are highly collectable, both in guitar and bass form, and none more so than the original, rare UK-made examples. This Phantom bass is also extremely useable, having a full-length scale of 34", contributing to its great tone. This classic example in its original white finish is particularly attractive. Unfortunately, we do not have the case.

The serial number on the back of the headstock is 68985 (Italian-made examples have the serial number on the neck plate), and the date stamp on the neck indicates Nov 1965, while the neck pocket has a stamp of ?? August 1965 (I can't make out the digits). Both neck and neck pocket also have a "G" stamped on them. This would have made this bass one of the last to be made in the UK before production switched to Italy.

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Accelerating Haskell Application Development

A Google Summer of Code 2012 Project

Rebooting Haskell and a new github repository

on May 26, 2012

Just offering an update on what I’ve been working on for the last several days.

In addition to writing code to abstract the relevant features of INotify (continued from last post), I’ve rebooted my Haskell environment for Linux and posted the initial code to github.

I’m running Arch Linux on my laptop so I originally installed Haskell using pacman packages. Unfortunately, some pacman/Haskell issues ended up causing dependency failures when I attempted to install some necessary Haskell packages to do my work. I’ve heard that some other Google Summer of Code 2012 projects are working on improving dependency resolution in Cabal, which is good news. Anyway, after both pacman and cabal-install failed to install the packages I elected to reinstall Haskell to a user-specific location, build/bootstrap Cabal+cabal-install, and start using cabal-install for Haskell package management. The process was a little long because my laptop is old and slow, but things seem to be running smoothly now. Special thanks to sciolizer for suggesting the long but effective fix, as well as showing me how to build a local copy of documentation automatically with cabal-install.

The github repository, hfsnotify, contains broken code at the moment (I was encouraged to get it available to my mentors and the community, even though it’s a work in progress).


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Veterans History Project: Md-Mz

Meramec's contribution to the Veterans History Project of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress.

Mecklenburg, Bill

War: Vietnam

Branch: Air Force

Rank: E-4

Recorded:  October 28, 2012

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Mitchell, Henry M.

War: Vietnam

Branch: Navy

Rank: E4

Birthplace: Houston, Texas

Recorded: November 24, 2009

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Moore, Richard Paul

War: Vietnam

Branch: Air Force

Rank: E4 Sergeant

Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri

Recorded: November 28, 2009

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Morris, Scott

Service Location: Germany

Branch: Marines

Rank: Corporal

Recorded: September 30, 2011

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Mundt, Frederick J.C.

War: Korean

Branch: Army

Rank: First Lieutenant

Recorded: November 13, 2011

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St. Louis Community College Libraries

Florissant Valley Campus Library
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Phone: 314-513-4514

Forest Park Campus Library
5600 Oakland
St. Louis, MO 63110-1316
Phone: 314-644-9210

Meramec Campus Library
11333 Big Bend Road
St. Louis, MO 63122-5720
Phone: 314-984-7797

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Advertising and Promotion Ideas When you Own a Dollar Store

Author: Bob Hamilton

If you own a dollar store, one of the best moves to make is to place advertising and promotion at the top of your priority list. After all, your goal is to build year-to-year sales and profits for your business. A well thought out plan of action can be the cornerstone to achieving the sales goals you establish. Yet it doesnâ€™t require a Fort Knox budget to reach your goals. It can be done with a limited budget when you take advantage of the opportunities that are there. In this article I present advertising and promotion idea when you own a dollar store.

Simply stating there isnâ€™t enough money to support advertising and promotion is not an acceptable choice if you wish to grow sales and profits. Start by setting a budget for the advertising and promotion of your business. Your budget doesnâ€™t need to be huge, but it does need to exist for the purpose of supporting growth. In todayâ€™s economic climate, investing to promote your business is even more important. Once youâ€™ve set a modest budget, make your plans and then follow-through.

If you own a dollar store develop a list of your planned advertising and promotion actions. Break your plan into no-cost actions, low-cost actions and all other actions. Be sure you carefully test all of the actions you identify to actually put into practice. It doesnâ€™t make sense to focus time and effort on free actions that contribute nothing to the growth of sales and profits. If money is involved it is very important to make sure you are spending wisely.

Focus on the low-cost and no-cost options first. This will help decrease your total investment marketing and promotion. Since little cash investment is required, plan to implement as many of these ideas as possible to maximize the results. As you begin to see a return from the no-cost and low-cost efforts begin to add actions requiring an investment to the mix.

Invest your advertising dollars where you gain the most leverage when you own a dollar store. Remember the highest cost actions may not be the most productive for your store. Select the very best options for growing store sales and profits. Select actions that target your local shoppers. It does little good to spend thousands on advertising that primarily focuses on potential shoppers hundreds of miles away. Remember also; prospective shoppers will need to be exposed to your store name multiple times before they are likely to take action.

To your success when you own a dollar store!

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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Harmony Hollywood

Just in time for the Oscars, I'm proud to present this kitschy cool piece of Americana.

Ever see another sunburst-type finish like this? Added to Oscar on this headstock, this is a little slice of art deco that would have been nostalgic in the 60's.

My friendwho owns this guitar moved from New York to California in the mid-70's, with big dreams and little money. Unfortunately, he had to sell off his other guitars to stay alive, but with 40 bucks in his pocket he bought this guitar in Berkeley, CA. He did very well for himself and counts some lovely instruments among his collection, yet still treasures this funky old box.

Full of visual appeal, it's also charming plugged it, and added to the backstory it's easy to see why he's hung on to this beauty.

Guitar courtesy of Shaky Ceasefire. Images c2012 by Derek See.

Friday, February 24, 2012

1967 Standel

Known more for unique California-made amplifiers, Standel guitars are a rare sight. Standel's final attempt at guitars resulted in a partnership with the Harptone case company (Newark, NJ) in 1967 of which this lovely guitar is an example of. While there is no model designation on the guitar, it is very similar to a Guild Starfire model guitar although that amazing headstock design is in a class of its own. These guitars were quite expensive at the time and very few were made.

The electronics of this guitar were quite anachronistic for the time, as they were the type of DeArmond brand pickups that Gretsch had used in the 50's.

Guitar courtesy of an anonymous collector; images c2012 Derek See.

1965 Martin D-28

While the D-28 was introduced by Martin in the early 1930's, it proved to be an incredibly popular and important guitar in the 1960's, as both John Lennon and Paul McCartney each bought brand new D-28's in 1967, which are heard all over "The Beatles" (aka The White Album), "Abbey Road" and "Let It Be".

This particular guitar was built with a set of awe-inspiring Brazilian rosewood; probably the most coveted wood of all, in terms of acoustic guitars. Martin stopped using Brazilian rosewood in 1969, as regulations regarding its harvest began to fall into effect (thankfully). The downside of the use of this beautiful wood was the decimation of the Brazilian rain forest.

Perhaps the ultimate singers' guitar, the D-28 became synonymous with acoustic rock.

About ten years ago, I scraped together money I basically didn't have by selling off a bunch of other things (a couple of guitars, some records, etc) in a manic week of ebay auctions because I HAD TO HAVE THIS GUITAR. four years ago, I HAD TO HAVE ANOTHER GUITAR and had to sell this one. FORTUNATELY in one of the most incredible twists of fate I've ever been able to experience first hand, I was reunited with this guitar a year ago when it became available again. This time around, I will NEVER sell it. It's meant to be I reckon.

Sunday, February 19, 2012

1964 Gibson J-50 (with Hummingbird pickguard)

One of the most beloved guitars of the 60's folk boom was the J-45/J-50 from Gibson, and the J-45 itself was introduced in 1942. In 1955, Gibson took the sunburst J-45, gave it a natural finish and called it a J-50. Both guitars feature the classic combination of spruce top, mahogany back, sides and neck as well as an easy-playing 24 3/4" scale length (most Martin acoustic guitars have a 25.4" scale which puts the strings under higher tension).

This rare bird (pardon the pun!) boasts a factory mounted pickguard from Gibson's ever popular Hummingbird model, and it looks very pretty on the slope shouldered J-50.

Images courtesy of Gryphon Stringed Instruments.

1960 Fender Telecaster

While the Telecaster, designed in 1949, is certainly not a 60's design, it was a design that was ahead of its time in every way, revolutionizing the guitar world with this radical design.

I am happy to feature this particular guitar, as it is very similar to the Telecaster as used by Steve Cropper on countless Stax/Volt hit records throughout the 60's. Cropper's snaky, twangy, soulful lines powered numerous hits from Otis Redding, Booker T & The MG's, Carla Thomas, Eddie Floyd, Sam & Dave, and many others.

Images courtesy of Gryphon Stringed Instruments.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

1968 Gibson SG Standard

The Gibson SG was one of the most popular guitars of the sixties, and the SG Standard was a guitar seen on the stages of many a psychedelic ballroom.

Thanks to its overall popularity upon its introduction in late 1960, the SG underwent very few changes through the 60's. In 1965, the nut width changed from 1 11/16" to a narrower 1 5/8" and the hardware w ent from being nickle plated to having a shinier chrome plating. In 1966, the neck heel, which was prone to breakage, was elongated for strength, and the pickguard became the so-called "batwing" style as seen on this guitar.

Images courtesy of Gryphon Stringed Instruments.

1967 Gretsch Nashville (6120)

The earliest of all Chet Atkins Gretsch models, the 6120 model was introduced in 1955 and featured western motifs such as cactus inlays and a large "G" cattle-branded onto the body. The western touches were lost relatively early on, and the guitar changed quite a bit by 1962, then remained relatively unchanged throughout the 60's.

In late '61, Gretsch introduced the "Electrotone" body; namely a hollowbody guitar without any open soundholes (the tradition 'f" holes on the top are painted on). This closed body reduced feedback, and was introduced thanks to a suggestion from Chet Atkins himself. Fortunately for rock n rollers, the closed body helped reduced howling feedback. Also, the closed body called for the open hole in the back of the guitar in which to load the electronics (as seen in the photos).

This model is commonly confused with the Chet Atkins Country Gentleman, and while the shape is similar, the lower bout of the Nashville measures (approximately) 16" across, while the larger Gent is ((approximately) 17" wide at the lower bout and was also featured in a dark "walnut" stain.

Images courtesy of Gryphon Stringed Instruments.

Friday, February 10, 2012

1966 + 1968 Gibson ES-335 12 Strings

Introduced in 1965 to capitalize on the folk-rock craze spearheaded by The Beatles "A hard Days Night' (specifically, George Harrison's use of a Rickenbacker 12 string electric on the record and as seen in the film), Gibson took their incredibly popular ES-335 (introduced in 1958), elongated the headstock and VOILA- instant jangle, with a twist of the Gibson 'growl".

This '66 example is finished in what's been dubbed (unofficially) "iced tea sunburst"; a light sunburst shade that was commonly seen on '60's Gibsons.

Probably the most famous use of this model was by Lou Reed in The Velvet Underground days, and it was heard in a big way on their brilliant, self titled third album.

This gleaming cherry red model was built in 1968; a few '68 Gibson models (ES-335, J-45, B-25) have the cool stenciled logo on the pickguard.

Guitar courtesy of Shaky Ceasefire; images c2012 Derek See.

Monday, February 6, 2012

1966 Epiphone Texan

The Epiphone Texan is one of the most HEARD acoustic guitars in history, yet it remains relatively unknown to the guitar fanatics at large.

In 1964, Paul McCartney purchased a Texan while the Beatles were on tour in the US. This guitar became a favorite of his which he uses to this day. The iconic status of this guitar is cemented , however, because his Texan is the guitar heard (tuned a whole step low- DGCFAD, low to high) on the 1965 recording of "Yesterday".

The Epiphone Texan is similar in many ways to the Gibson J-45/J-50, of which it shares its slope-shoulder dreadnought body. The biggest difference, however, is that the Texan is a long scale guitar (25.4") compared to the short scale J-45's (24 3/4"), making the Texan louder and with a more focused low end. All in all, Texans are fabulous guitars, although many modern players don't care for the narrow nut width (1 5/8"). Texan backs and sides also featured a mahogany stain that is very light, and almost blonde in color.

Throughout the '60's, Epiphone guitars were made side by side in the Kalamazoo, MI Gibson factory. The Epiphone brand was used by Gibson as a way to open up more dealers to their product and not compete with other retailers who were selling the distinguished Gibson brand; there is no difference in quality, yet the Epiphones had a slightly lower retail price during this era. In 1970, Epiphone production shipped to Japan, effectively closing the books on US production of this brand.

Images courtesy of the author; c2012 Derek See.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

1967 Rickenbacker 450/12

Prototyped in December 1963 with its unique "reverse" set up (namely, the string is struck before the octave string), this design became the finalized Rickenbacker 12 string electric guitar, which turned the music world upside after it was seen on the big screen in the summer of '64 in the hands of George Harrison. This exotic "Rickenbacker" guitar brand was also seen (earlier) in the hands of John Lennon (specifically, his incredibly rare 1958 model 325), and had also become one of the most famous guitars in the world (albeit one that practically no one could purchase, as they were made in such miniscule numbers).

It was after seeing "A Hard Day's Night" that folkie Jim McGuinn decided to "plug in" a 12 string Rickenbacker and form the Byrds, stamping out a sound that was copied in garages worldwide with the jangly tone of a twelve string electric.

Rickenbacker saw the same type of mass hysteria for their products as Gretsch, and also ramped up production to record numbers between 1964-1968.

The Model 450 was evolved into this shape and these features as seen in 1962, and remained virtually unchanged until it was dropped in the early '80's. Just like Lennon's 325, the model 450 is a short scale guitar; unlike the 325, the 450 is a solid body. 450/12's were made in very limited numbers, and although production totals are "lost" for 1967, only 109 black 450/12's were made in 1966.

This guitar is exceptionally cool as it pulls together three "Beatle" models; it has the 12 string thing, the black and white 'tuxedo' look of John's 325, and also George briefly played a 425 solid body (essentially a single pickup version of the 450) for a brief time in 1963, which he purchased that year, pre-Beatlemania in the USA, on his first trip to the states to visit his sister in Illinois.

The 450/12 was used quite often by The MC5's Fred 'Sonic' Smith:

guitar courtesy of Gryphon Stringed Instruments.


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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Matt Cassel to sign Tender

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An NFL source has confirmed, as first reported by ESPN's Chris Mortensen, that Patriots quarterback Matt Cassel and his representatives sent a letter Saturday notifying the Patriots that Cassel accepts the non-exclusive franchise tag and the one-year, $14.65 million tender that goes with it.

This is akin to the sides agreeing to contract terms.

All that remains is for the Patriots to send Cassel a formal contract with the tender offer and he will sign it, guaranteeing himself a significant raise from the $520,000 he made last season. (Unlike standard NFL contracts, franchise tenders are guaranteed for the full amount.)

The Patriots notified Cassel via a letter Thursday that they were designating him as their franchise player. Cassel's letter is a response to that letter.

The franchise tender number for Cassel is the average of the top five salaries at the quarterback position.

Cassel's acceptance of the $14.65 million tender means that the Patriots will have $29.27 million of the $123 million salary cap allocated to two quarterbacks, Cassel and Tom Brady, who will make $5 million in base salary in 2009 and an additional $3 in bonus money, but will carry a $14.62 million salary cap number due to the amortization of past bonus money.

Having that much money tied up in two quarterbacks suggests the Patriots most likely will trade one of them, with the 26-year-old Cassel being the obvious candidate, for salary cap relief.

Another option would be to try to keep both quarterbacks, but either extend the contract of Brady, whose contract runs through the 2010 season, or work out more than a one-year deal with Cassel.

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Meeting Single Ukrainian Women Online On UkraineDate

There are some very beautiful women here but meeting them in public can be pretty hard. For foreign men meeting Ukrainian women online on UkraineDate can make things a lot more efficient for you.

The obvious initial hurdle that most guys face here is that they aren’t in the Ukraine. Some may not feel like traveling there because of the internal strife that is going on in the country.

If you do happen to plan a trip to Ukraine we suggest you stick to Kiev or Odessa. There are certain areas you don’t want to be right now, but you should be fine there. Also try and book your vacation during the summer, unless you like being snowed in.

Another big obstacle is going to be the language barrier. Do you speak Ukrainian or Russian? If not it is going to be pretty hard to walk up and have a chat with a single woman here since most don’t speak English very well.

It isn’t impossible, like most places in the world Ukrainian women do like foreign men. Your English speaking abilities can definitely help you some, but you are going to have a lot higher conversion rate if you can speak their language as well.

Lets quickly talk about what a typical guy who takes a week vacation to meet Ukrainian women without using online dating sites can accomplish. Then we will compare it to what you can do when using UkraineDate.

Meeting Ukrainian Women In Public

So you want to meet women in public. OK, during the day your best bets will be to head to a shopping mall or maybe the nice touristy area of whichever city you are in.

Since most foreign men visit during the summer you also will want to hit up the popular beach parties. They don’t get many warm sunny days in these parts, when they have them the single Ukrainian women will be out on the beach showing off their sexy bodies.

When the weather is nice you can find some of the best nightlife in Europe in both cities. Clubs like Arena in Kiev and Ibiza in Odessa are really fun places to spend a night out.

At night there is plenty of nightlife around. Remember that there will be many hookers around in the clubs so if they aren’t your thing be wary if things are seeming too easy. If they are your thing here is a longer post on how to find sex in Kiev.

Lets say you go out all day and all night trying to meet as many single Ukrainian women as you can. You have a great day, approach 15 women, and get 10 numbers.

That is some major effort you put in and a pretty high number of contacts you have made. Ukrainian women seeking foreign men don’t often put out on the first night, usually it takes three dates, if you are lucky you might score in 2.

So that first day was just a number hunting day, and now you have 6 days left in town. You do the smart thing and set up a couple of coffee dates with those numbers to get 1 of the required 3 dates out of the way.

You also add a few more numbers at night. The next day you get a couple more coffee dates out of the way and even get a 2nd date out of the girl you like most.

If you put in this much effort and have things break your way (like the women being free right after you meet them) you might be able to start scoring by day 4 or 5. That will take some luck, but its possible.

That is the best case scenario, and its really no different than your expectation when using online dating. However what if you only get 5 numbers that first day, and all 5 of those Ukrainian women have jobs and can’t meet you until the weekend?

Now you wait a few days to get date 1 out of the way, and they aren’t free to meet you again until after you have left town. If you are moving here you can play this long game, but even then adding some more efficient ways to meet single women will help.

Meet Many Singles On UkraineDate

If foreign men use UkraineDate to meet single women you can have 50 numbers before you even get to the city you are traveling to. You don’t need to waste a day collecting numbers, you can get the coffee date process started on your first day.

Or better yet you can spend some time Skyping with them and casually drop in that it felt like a date. Maybe, just maybe, she will scratch off 1 of the required dates if you do.

Of course there is no exact 3 dates and get laid formula here, but it is pretty standard. The more single women you meet the more likely you are to find a slutty one that doesn’t want or need to wait.

You can message a hundred women in an hour on UkraineDate. They will likely be better at reading and writing English than speaking it, but still use small words and keep your messages short.

If you are on a short trip you can have plenty of numbers before you even arrive. If you are going to live there you can constantly be meeting new single women and inviting them out.

There is no more efficient way to meet single women these days then online dating no matter where you are in the world. But in a country where you don’t speak the local language it makes things ten times easier.

Good Luck Meeting Ukrainian Women Online

Head over to UkraineDate and check out the selection of beautiful women on the site. We are pretty sure that you will like what you see, if not you don’t need to register and you got to give it a look for free.

There is a reason why this country sent out so many mail order brides over the years. The women are beautiful and you can easily find a great wife, girlfriend, or just someone to spend some time with.

Don’t get us wrong, there are plenty of other ways to meet them when you are in town. If you see a beauty walk past you then you would be a fool to not at least make an attempt.

But it is just so much more efficient for foreign men to try meeting single Ukrainian women online on UkraineDate. Contact as many in an hour as you can approach in a month.

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Monday, December 19, 2016

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Kayaking on Mittry Lake Arizona
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Small Girls, Big Vaults

NBI, 50/1977 - They can barely see over the vaulting horse, over which they fly with artistic jumps. They mock gravity on the beam and bars. Fourteen- and fifteen-year-old gymnasts dare to perform exercises today that seemed implausible yesterday. At the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, Nadia Comaneci and Nelli Kim set high standards. Young girls, who were unknown a year ago, have now equalled or exceeded them.

In this group is the sixteen-year-old Moscow schoolgirl Elena Mukhina, whose star rose at the 1977 European Championships in Prague and where she surprised everyone with the most difficult program and a world premiere on uneven bars: from a squatting position on the upper bar, she jumped backwards and performed a full twist with millimeters to spare before catching the bar again. Fifteen-year-old Natalia Shaposhnikova made a similarly bold foray at the 1977 World Cup in Oviedo by performing a giant swing on uneven bars, an element that had never been done before due to the closeness of the bars. Difficult elements have also blossomed in the routines of the "sparrow of Montreal," as Montreal journalists called Maria Filatova, the smallest gymnast of the Olympic Games. This talented girl from Leninsk-Kuznetsk won the 1977 USSR Championships and the 1977 World Cup.

The example of Nadia Comaneci has set a precedent in many places. At the last European Championships, seven girls were 13, eleven girls were 14, and twelve girls were 15. Half of the 62 participants were not yet 16 years old. This has never happened before, and indicates clearly enough the tremendous rejuvenation process. The reason for this trend: it's easier for small gymnasts with low body weight to learn difficult movements requiring much coordination, which today is necessary if you want to fight for medals.

In the 1977 season, 17-year-old Steffi Kraker from Leipzig was a GDR gymnast to who made a name for herself in the world. In Prague, she was the bronze medalist on uneven bars, and the silver AA medalist at the World Cup and Chunichi Cup. But she also showed her younger teammates that they have to define themselves if they want to compete against the Soviet, Romanian and Czech "gymnastics kindergartens" in the future. The next world championships will be held in Strasbourg (France). It's certain that the new extravagant elements of today will again be performed.


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28 April 2016

You might have seen this frankly brilliant fact pop up on the @HaggardHawks Twitter feed this week:

Poor old penguins. It can’t be much fun humpling around in sub-zero temperatures avoiding being eaten by seals all day. But then along comes Oliver Goldsmith—whose seven-volume History of the Earth and Animated Nature is the source of that quote—to tell us that eighteenth century sailors called them arse-feet. It’s just not fair really, is it?

Not that it was only the penguins, though. The nickname arse-feet dates back to the sixteenth century, when it was originally another name for the little grebe, and over the centuries it’s been used in reference to a whole host of other species, all of which had one thing in common—the position of their feet noticeably close to their derrieres. Frankly, it gives a whole new meaning to having a boot up the arse. (Shameless plug: there’s more on all this in the HH factbook, Word Drops.)

But if that’s the history of arse-feet, what about penguin?

Well, the word penguin also dates back to the sixteenth century, with the earliest record we know about coming from the logbook of Sir Francis Drake’s Golden Hind. According to Drake’s admiral, Francis Fletcher, as he sailed through the Magellan Strait in 1577:

[20 August 1577] In these Islands we found great reliefe and plenty of good victualls, for infinite were the number of fowle, which the Welsh men named Pengwin … [The birds] breed and lodge at land, and in the day tyme goe downe to the sea to feed, being soe fatt that they can but goe, and their skins cannot be taken from their bodyes without tearing off the flesh, because of their exceeding fatnes.
Yep, not only did the penguins have to contend with waddling around in sub-zero temperatures and being called arse-feet, but Drake and his crew decided to announce their presence in the Southern Ocean by eating every penguin they could lay their hands on.

But then there’s this:
New found land is in a temperate Climate… There are Sea Guls, Murres, Duckes, wild Geese, and many other kinds of birdes store, too long to write, especially at one Island named Penguin, where wee may driue them on a planke into our ship as many as shall lade her. These birdes are also called Penguins, and cannot flie.
If you know anything about natural history, that quote might strike you as a little odd—penguins are only found in the Southern Hemisphere, so what the dickens were they doing in Newfoundland?

Well, that second quote isn’t from Drake’s logbook, but from a letter, written on 13 November 1778, by a Bristol merchant sailor named Anthony Parkhurst to the famed English geographer Richard Hakluyt. And the penguins Parkhurst is talking about aren’t the same penguins we know today—in fact, the penguins he’s talking about haven’t been seen by anybody for 150 years.

Parkhurst’s Newfoundland penguins were in actual fact great auks—tall, flightless, black-and-white seabirds (whose arses were just as close to their feet) that were once native to much of the North Atlantic. Although the great auk is now extinct (and the story of its slow demise makes for a sobering read, alas) in Drake and Fletcher’s day they were still widely abundant—so abundant, in fact, that as Parkhurst points out they could be driven in huge numbers from “Penguin Island”, along a plank, and onto a ship to provide food for the crew.

Well, this is aukward...

Fletcher’s quote might predate Parkhurst’s by over a year, but it’s thought that the birds Parkhurst wrote about were the original “penguins”—after all, for there to be a place called “Penguin Island” in 1578, we can presume the word penguin was in use in reference to the great auk long before then. Drake’s crew, meanwhile, would have presumably been familiar with the sea birds they knew from back home, and so when they saw remarkably similar flightless black-and-white birds in the equally freezing cold waters of the Southern Ocean in 1577, they either mistook them for the great auks they knew from home, or simply referred to them by the same name, penguin, because they were so similar.

That’s all well and good, of course, but what does the word penguin actually mean? Well, Fletcher’s reference to the birds’ “exceeding fatness” points to one possible theory: that penguin might derive from a Latin word, pinguis, meaning “plump”, “dense”, “fatty”—or pinguid. But a more likely explanation lies with Fletcher’s “Welsh men”. Penguin is thought to derive from pen gwyn, the Welsh for “white head”, and sure enough the great auk had a noticeably bright white patch of plumage between its bill and its eyes.

So all that means that the original “penguins” weren’t actually penguins, and weren’t from the Antarctic. But their feet were close to their arses...

27 April 2016

10 Figures of Speech

Rhetorical terms and words for different figures of speech crop up every now and then on the HaggardHawks Twitter feed, and are without exception brilliant, brilliant words:

But with our YouTube channel now in full swing—incredibly, this is already video number 16!—we thought it might be good to dedicate an entire episode to bringing together a choice set of ten:

Many of the words language experts use to describe tropes like these—including all those included in the video—are based on Greek word roots, which are often brought together in quite inventive and memorable ways. Take one of those from the video, antanaclasis: it refers to a word being used with two different meanings, like “I can’t wait to wait tables all day” (which no one in the service industry has ever said) or “I can’t wait to bar him from the bar” (which absolutely everyone in the service industry has said). Because of this repetitious, back-and-forth arrangement, the word antanaclasis derives from the Greek word for a reflection.

Likewise another term from the video, chiasmus, takes its name from the X-shaped Greek letter chi because it refers to the criss-crossed arrangement of repeated words found in “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”.

And elsewhere in the rhetorician’s dictionary we find words like zeugma, which refers to the use of a single word in two different contexts in the same sentence, like “I will take my camera and some photographs”. It derives from the Greek word for an ox’s yoke, in the sense of one word “yoking” its two meanings together in one sentence. A prodiorthosis is a warning that you’re about to deliver bad news, and essentially means “a pre-apology”. Hendiadys is the emphatic use of two separate words rather than a single word and a qualifying adjective or adverb—like “the rain and the weather spoiled our holiday” rather than “the rainy weather”—and as such literally means “one through two”. And prosopopoeia is a form of personification in which an inanimate object is portrayed as talking:

Brilliantly, it literally means “making a face”.

25 April 2016

You probably noticed a bit of a hoo-hah at the weekend surrounding the 400th deathiversary of someone called William Shakespeare. We marked the day with a video about 10 unsolved Shakespearean terms over on YouTube and a missing words quiz here on the HH blog, while over on Twitter we were ridiculously busy bombarding you with half-hourly tweets about the great man himself all day Saturday. And apologies to all non-Shakespeare fans out there, but we’re going to do the same again now.

There were quite a few calls over on Twitter for us to collate all our Shakespeare facts in one place. And as ever, your wish is our command. So from a Shakespearean shipwreck to a man extinguishing his trousers with beer, here is our #Shakespeare400 list in full:

23 April 2016

10 Words Shakespeare Used That No One Can Work Out

In honour of the #Shakespeare400 anniversary on 23 April 2016, this week’s HaggardHawks YouTube video is looking at a part of Shakespeare’s writing that isn’t dealt with all too often.

Everybody knows Shakespeare invented a considerable number of the 31,534 words he used in his work—as many as 1 in every 20, if some statistics are to be believed—and alongside those, he transformed many pre-existing words into different parts of speech, a process known as anthimeria. So if you’ve ever grazed, squabbled with, elbowed, caked or ghosted someone, then you’ve got Shakespeare to thank for it: none of those had been used as verbs before he got hold of them...

All this linguistic playfulness, however (coupled with the obvious fact that his writing is four centuries old) can make Shakespeare’s work tough to navigate these days, and a little patience and background knowledge is often are needed to unlock some of his toughest lines. But even the best Shakespeare scholars have to admit that—well,  sometimes we just don’t know what the hell he’s talking about.

Armgaunt. Eftest. Pajock. In his buttons. The list of words and phrases that crop up in Shakespeare’s work that no one can quite decipher runs on and on. But just because we don’t know for sure what he meant doesn’t mean that we can’t have an educated guess. And it’s that that we’re looking at in this week’s video…

21 April 2016

Quiz: Shakespeare’s Words

We could hardly let a little thing like the Shakespeare quadricentennial pass us by, now could we? So besides an entire day of Shakespearean facts over on its way on the @HaggardHawks Twitter feed, in honour of the great man himself here’s a mighty tricky quiz...

12 Shakespearean quotes, each one with a missing word. In each case, the word that’s missing is one Shakespeare invented. How many of the 12 quotes can you complete by picking the correct word? Or, to put it another way, can you pick the 12 everyday words we owe to Shakespeare and his work?

Let us know how you get on over on Twitter or in the comments below—and good luck!

15 April 2016

Lazy Lawrence

A long-forgotten (but no less useful) expression popped up on the HaggardHawks Twitter feed the other day:

And this isn’t the only proverbially lazy Lawrence to find his way into the dictionary. Long before lazy people had “Lawrence on their backs” there was an earlier expressionLawrence bids wages, that the OED explains was used to imply that “the attractions of idleness are tempting”—or, in other words, doing nothing looks like a lot of fun. Even Lazy Lawrence itself has been used as a nickname for an idling lazybones for centuries, as well as being the name of a mischievous fairy or sprite supposed to induce lethargy or idleness.

So apologies to anyone named Lawrence, but you’re immortalized in the language as a metaphor for laziness. Still, it’s better than being known for a one-year prison sentence or destroying gates, I suppose. But why Lawrence? And why laziness?

Well, one theory is that the connection is purely coincidence, and that Lawrence just has a nice alliterative ring to it—so this could just as easily be “Lazy Linda”, or “Leon bids wages”, or “to have Loretta Lynn on your back”. It’s certainly plausible (well, apart from the Loretta Lynn bit) but needless to say there are a couple of more imaginative explanations on offer. And one of them even involves a barbecued saint, what more could you want?

One theory is that phrases like these refer to St Lawrence’s Day, 10 August. That date puts it bang in the middle of the “dog days” at the height of the summer, when you can expect to endure the hottest, sultriest, most stifling weather of the year—the kind of weather that makes you want to lounge around and do nothing except lounging around doing nothing. The dog days are traditionally said to last anywhere from mid July to early September, and take their name from the tradition—probably started in Ancient Greece, if not Ancient Egypt—that the appearance during the summer months of Sirius, the Dog Star, just above the horizon before sunrise somehow amplified or added to the heat of the Sun. In fact, the so-called “heliacal rising” of Sirius always occurs sometime around August 10–11.

You cannot be Sirius

So is our proverbially lazy Lawrence inspired by the highest hottest heat of high summer? Possibly. But we can’t ignore the fact that there’d be no St Lawrence’s Day without St Lawrence himself.

Lawrence of Rome was the highest-ranking of seven deacons that served under Pope Sixtus II in the 3rd century AD, whose job it was to oversee the church’s treasury and distribute alms to the poor. Everything was going splendidly for Lawrence until August AD258, when a letter arrived at the Senate from the Roman Emperor Valerian—who was imprisoned in Antioch, having left Rome to fight a war with the Persians—calling for all Christian senators to be stripped of their titles and assets, and for all priests, bishops and deacons to be arrested. If they renounced their faith and agreed to perform a sacrifice to the Roman gods, they would be freed. If they refused, they would be put to death. Valerian, it seems, wasn’t going to let a little thing like being held in prison 2,000 miles away stop him from running his Empire.

In accordance with Valerian’s orders, the Senate rounded up Pope Sixtus and his seven deacons. All eight refused to comply with the edict, and so, on 6 August 258, they were beheaded—all, that is, except Lawrence. As the archdeacon in charge of the treasury, Lawrence was given a three-day stay of execution to collect together all the church’s wealth and hand it over to the Roman state; instead, he reportedly spent the next three days giving as much of the money away as he could. On August 9, he returned to the Senate with a group of Rome’s poorest, sickest, neediest citizens, and boldly claimed that these were the true treasures of the church. The Prefect of Rome, frankly, was far from pleased.

Whereas Pope Sixtus and his other deacons had been beheaded, Lawrence’s singular act of defiance earned him an especially cruel death: the sentence was passed that he should be roasted to death, suspended on a gridiron above roaring fire.

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There’s some disagreement over whether or not Lawrence was actually burned to death in this way, because some sources claim that the Latin record of his death (assus est, “he was roasted”) should actually have read passus est, “he suffered”. But whether true or not, the question still remains—what does an early Christian martyr’s gruesome execution have to do with laziness?

Well, Lawrence’s death was so notably brutal that it soon became the subject of a macabre bit of folklore that claimed midway through his roasting Lawrence had quipped, “Turn me over, I’m done on this side!” It might sound more Groucho Marx than it does Archdeacon of Rome (and you can make your own mind up as to whether he actually said it or not), but this legend nevertheless apparently inspired a joke that Lawrence was “too lazy” to turn himself over.

So is this the true origin of our lazy Lawrences? It’s impossible to say for sure, but it’s a good story all the same. And one well worth telling round the barbecue this summer.

14 April 2016

10 Words From Johnson’s Dictionary

The great Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language was first published 261 years ago today, on 15 April 1755. Its two volumes defined a total of 42,773 words, illustrated by 114,000 literary quotations (the majority from Shakespeare), and unlike dictionaries today, it was infused throughout with Johnson’s own personality and humour.

Words that he personally disliked or thought unimportant were omitted (so out went recent French loanwords like champagne and bourgeois), as was the letter X, which he bluntly explained in a note on page 2,308 “begins no word in the English language.” The definitions too were full of Johnson’s wit and wisdom:

And who, of course, could forget this:

Or, indeed, this:

Johnson was paid the princely sum of 1,500 guineas (equivalent to more than £200,000 today) to compile the work, which he did so single-handedly over nine years, with assistants only ever brought in to reproduce pages and copy out quotations. It was, frankly, a monumental achievement and remained the standard English dictionary for the next 150 years.

So in honour of the anniversary of Johnson’s wonderful contribution to our language, this week on the HH YouTube channel we’ve picked 10 long-forgotten words from his dictionary that deserve to be revived:

As explained in the video, that doesn’t mean that Johnson is personally responsible for coining these words (although it’s thought that a number of his entries were his own invention), nor that his dictionary provides us with their earliest written record. Instead, these are just words that were included in his Dictionary but which have long since disappeared from the language—and more than deserve to be recovered.


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Monday, September 19, 2011

Mapping Viking Migration with Y-DNA STR's

Mapping Viking Migration with Y-DNA STR's

Y-DNA analysis of STR information can provide clues to Viking migration in recent time frames. The Y-DNA STR YMRCA estimates suggests that the Norse (Vikings) could have originated from seafaring peoples of the Mediterranean Sea.

In March, 2011, the results of grouping the DNA STR information by country for the I1 (M253) haplotype were studied.

These results suggested a migration along a sea-faring route in recent time frames. In order to visualize that, a possible migration route is presented here. As stated in the article in March, the method does have some problems. It may be worthwhile to visualization the difference in from currently posted maps of SNP's in order to contrast with what was found from the STR study.

Most SNP maps today show an overland route for M253 either through the mountains of Europe, or through the general vicinity of Germany. The STR map (below) suggests a sea-faring route, based upon TMRCA estimates for STR modal groups by country.

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Some of the resulting TMRCA estimates were stylized in order to represent the data in one graphic.

For reference, see "Y-DNA and Viking Migration"

  and "On Viking Origins & Y-DNA"

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