text:
DATE (YR-MO-DA)
Charles F. Saffle
Updated drawing to the latest requirements of MIL-PRF-38534. -sld
REV STATUS
OF SHEETS
PMIC N/A
Gary Zahn
MICROCIRCUIT
DLA LAND AND MARITIME
CHECKED BY
Greg Cecil
http://www.landandmaritime.dla.mil/
THIS DRAWING IS AVAILABLE
FOR USE BY ALL
AND AGENCIES OF THE
AMSC N/A
REVISION LEVEL
DRAWING APPROVAL DATE
MICROCIRCUIT, HYBRID, LINEAR, POSITIVE,
LOW DROPOUT, ADJUSTABLE VOLTAGE
DSCC FORM 2233
5962-E209-16
1.1 Scope. This drawing documents five product assurance classes as defined in paragraph 1.2.3 and MIL-PRF-38534. A
choice of case outlines and lead finishes which are available and are reflected in the Part or Identifying Number (PIN). When
available, a choice of radiation hardness assurance levels are reflected in the PIN.
1.2 PIN. The PIN is as shown in the following example:

stock class
(see 1.2.1)
1.2.1 Radiation hardness assurance (RHA) designator. RHA marked devices meet the MIL-PRF-38534 specified RHA levels
and are marked with the appropriate RHA designator. A dash (-) indicates a non-RHA device.
1.2.2 Device type. The device type identify the circuit function as follows:
Generic number
MSK 5970RH
Circuit function
Radiation hardened, 1.5 A, adjustable voltage regulator
1.2.3 Device class designator. This device class designator is a single letter identifying the product assurance level. All
levels are defined by the requirements of MIL-PRF-38534 and require QML Certification as well as qualification (Class H, K, and
E) or QML Listing (Class G and D). The product assurance levels are as follows:
Device class
Device performance documentation
Highest reliability class available. This level is intended for use in space
Standard military quality class level. This level is intended for use in applications
where non-space high reliability devices are required.
Reduced testing version of the standard military quality class. This level uses the
Class H screening and In-Process Inspections with a possible limited temperature
range, manufacturer specified incoming flow, and the manufacturer guarantees (but
may not test) periodic and conformance inspections (Group A, B, C, and D).
Designates devices which are based upon one of the other classes (K, H, or G)
with exception(s) taken to the requirements of that class. These exception(s) must
be specified in the device acquisition document; therefore the acquisition document
should be reviewed to ensure that the exception(s) taken will not adversely affect
system performance.
Manufacturer specified quality class. Quality level is defined by the manufacturers
internal, QML certified flow. This product may have a limited temperature range.
MICROCIRCUIT DRAWING
DLA LAND AND MARITME
1.2.4 Case outlines. The case outlines are as designated in MIL-STD-1835 and as follows:
Outline letter
Descriptive designator
See figure 1
Bottom terminal chip carrier, ceramic
TO-257AA with tab, straight leads, glass sealed
TO-257AA with tab, leads formed up, glass sealed
TO-257AA with tab, leads formed down, glass sealed
1.2.5 Lead finish. The lead finish is as specified in MIL-PRF-38534.
1.3 Absolute maximum ratings. 1/
Supply voltage (VIN - VOUT).........................................................
Output current ............................................................................
Junction temperature (TJ) ..........................................................
Thermal resistance, junction-to-case (θJC), TC = +125°C:
Case outline U ........................................................................
Case outlines X, Y, and Z .......................................................
Storage temperature ..................................................................
Lead temperature (soldering, 10 seconds) ................................
+25.0 V dc
1.5 A 2/
+150°C
5.1°C/W
1.4 Recommended operating conditions.
Supply voltage (VIN - VOUT) ........................................................
Case operating temperature range (TC).....................................
+1.5 V dc to +20 V dc
1.5 Radiation features.
≥ 100 Krads (Si) 3/ 4/ 5/
Maximum total dose available ..................................................
2. APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS
2.1 Government specification, standards, and handbooks. The following specification, standards, and handbooks form a part
of this drawing to the extent specified herein. Unless otherwise specified, the issues of these documents are those cited in the
solicitation or contract.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SPECIFICATION
MIL-PRF-38534 - Hybrid Microcircuits, General Specification for.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE STANDARDS
MIL-STD-883 - Test Method Standard Microcircuits.
MIL-STD-1835 - Interface Standard for Electronic Component Case Outlines.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE HANDBOOKS
MIL-HDBK-103 - List of Standard Microcircuit Drawings.
MIL-HDBK-780 - Standard Microcircuit Drawings.
((Copies of these documents are available online at http://quicksearch.dla.mil or from the Standardization Document Order
Desk, 700 Robbins Avenue, Building 4D, Philadelphia, PA 19111-5094.)
Stresses above the absolute maximum ratings may cause permanent damage to the device. Extended operation at the
maximum levels may degrade performance and affect reliability.
For compliance with MIL-PRF-38535 appendix A current density specifications, the maximum output current is derated
to 1 A.
These parts may be dose rate sensitive in a space environment and may demonstrate enhanced low dose rate effects.
Radiation end-point limits for the noted parameters are guaranteed only for the conditions as specified in MIL-STD-883,
method 1019, condition A. Dose rate shall be in accordance with MIL-STD-883, method 1019, condition A.
Bipolar device types may degrade from displacement damage from radiation which could affect RHA levels. These device
types have not been characterized for displacement damage.
See figure 3.
2.2 Order of precedence. In the event of a conflict between the text of this drawing and the references cited herein, the text
of this drawing takes precedence. Nothing in this document, however, supersedes applicable laws and regulations unless a
specific exemption has been obtained.
3.1 Item requirements. The individual item performance requirements for device classes D, E, G, H, and K shall be in
accordance with MIL-PRF-38534. Compliance with MIL-PRF-38534 may include the performance of all tests herein or as
designated in the device manufacturer's Quality Management (QM) plan or as designated for the applicable device class. The
manufacturer may eliminate, modify or optimize the tests and inspections herein, however the performance requirements as
defined in MIL-PRF-38534 shall be met for the applicable device class. In addition, the modification in the QM plan shall not
affect the form, fit, or function of the device for the applicable device class.
3.2 Design, construction, and physical dimensions. The design, construction, and physical dimensions shall be as specified
in MIL-PRF-38534 and herein.
3.2.1 Case outlines. The case outlines shall be in accordance with 1.2.4 herein and figure 1.
3.2.2 Terminal connections. The terminal connections shall be as specified on figure 2.
3.2.3 Radiation exposure circuits. The radiation exposure circuits shall be as specified on figure 3.
3.3 Electrical performance characteristics. Unless otherwise specified herein, the electrical performance characteristics are
as specified in table I and shall apply over the full specified operating temperature range.
3.4 Electrical test requirements. The electrical test requirements shall be the subgroups specified in table II. The electrical
tests for each subgroup are defined in table I.
3.5 Marking of devices. Marking of devices shall be in accordance with MIL-PRF-38534. The device shall be marked with
the PIN listed in 1.2 herein. In addition, the manufacturer's vendor similar PIN may also be marked.
3.6 Data. In addition to the general performance requirements of MIL-PRF-38534, the manufacturer of the device described
herein shall maintain the electrical test data (variables format) from the initial quality conformance inspection group A lot sample,
for each device type listed herein. Also, the data should include a summary of all parameters manually tested, and for those
which, if any, are guaranteed. This data shall be maintained under document revision level control by the manufacturer and be
made available to the preparing activity (DLA Land and Maritime -VA) upon request.
3.7 Certificate of compliance. A certificate of compliance shall be required from a manufacturer in order to supply to this
drawing. The certificate of compliance (original copy) submitted to DLA Land and Maritime -VA shall affirm that the
manufacturer's product meets the performance requirements of MIL-PRF-38534 and herein.
3.8 Certificate of conformance. A certificate of conformance as required in MIL-PRF-38534 shall be provided with each lot of
microcircuits delivered to this drawing.
4.1 Sampling and inspection. Sampling and inspection procedures shall be in accordance with MIL-PRF-38534 or as
modified in the device manufacturer's Quality Management (QM) plan. The modification in the QM plan shall not affect the form,
fit, or function as described herein.
TABLE I. Electrical performance characteristics.
Reference voltage
Conditions 1/ 2/ 3/
-55°C ≤ TC ≤ +125°C
unless otherwise specified
(VOUT + 3 V) ≤ VIN ≤ (VOUT + 20 V),
IOUT = 10 mA
M,D,P,L,R 1/
10 mA ≤ IOUT ≤ 1.5 A
Line regulation
VRLINE
Load regulation
VRLOAD
VIN = VOUT + 3 V,
Short circuit current 4/
VIN = VOUT + 5 V, TC = +25°C
Ripple rejection 5/
IOUT = 1.5 A, COUT = 25 µF,
f = 120 Hz
Device type 01 has been characterized through all levels M, D, P, L, R of irradiation and tested to 1.5 times
at the R level. Pre and post irradiation values are identical unless otherwise specified in table I. When performing post
irradiation electrical measurements for any RHA level, TC = +25°C.
Unless otherwise specified, VIN = VOUT + 5 V, IOUT = 10 mA, COUT = 22 µF minimum.
method 1019, condition A.
Guaranteed by design but not tested. Parameter shall be tested as part of the initial characterization and after design
and process changes. Parameter shall be guaranteed to limits specified in table I for all lots not specifically tested.
Case outline U.
--3.30
--.012
1. The U.S. government preferred system of measurement is the metric SI. This item was designed using inch-pound
units of measurement. In case of problems involving conflicts between the metric and inch-pound units, the inchpound units shall rule.
2. Lead identification for reference only.
3. Case outline U weight: 2.2 grams typical.
FIGURE 1. Case outlines.
Case outline X.
øb
D1/E
øP
2.54 TYP
5.08 REF
--13.39
.100 TYP
.200 REF
.1075 REF
1. Pin 1 is indicated by the ESD marking on the package. Pin numbers are for reference only.
2. The U. S. Government preferred system of measurement is the metric SI. This item was designed using inch-pound
units of measurement. In case of problems involving conflicts between the metric and inch-pound units, the
inch-pound units shall take precedence.
3. Case outline X weight: 3.2 grams typical.
FIGURE 1. Case outlines - Continued.
Case outline Y.
3. Case outline Y weight: 3.2 grams typical.
Case outline Z.
3. Case outline Z weight: 3.2 grams typical.
Case outlines
X, Y, and Z
Terminal number
Terminal symbol
NOTE: Case outlines X, Y, and Z: The case / mounting
flange is isolated from the internal circuitry.
FIGURE 2. Terminal connections.
FIGURE 3. Radiation exposure circuits.
TABLE II. Electrical test requirements.
MIL-PRF-38534 test requirements
(in accordance with
MIL-PRF-38534, group A
test table)
Interim electrical parameters
Final electrical parameters
1*, 2, 3
Group A test requirements
Group C end-point electrical
End-point electrical parameters
for radiation hardness
assurance (RHA) devices
* PDA applies to subgroup 1.
4.2 Screening. Screening shall be in accordance with MIL-PRF-38534. The following additional criteria shall apply:
Burn-in test, method 1015 of MIL-STD-883.
Test condition A, B, C, or D. The test circuit shall be maintained by the manufacturer under document revision level
control and shall be made available to either DLA Land and Maritime -VA or the acquiring activity upon request.
Also, the test circuit shall specify the inputs, outputs, biases, and power dissipation, as applicable, in accordance
with the intent specified in method 1015 of MIL-STD-883.
TC = +125°C minimum, or.as specified in accordance with table I of method 1015 of MIL-STD-883.
Interim and final electrical test parameters shall be as specified in table II herein, except interim electrical parameter
tests prior to burn-in are optional at the discretion of the manufacturer.
4.3 Conformance and periodic inspections. Conformance inspection (CI) and periodic inspection (PI) shall be in accordance
with MIL-PRF-38534 and as specified herein.
4.3.1 Group A inspection (CI). Group A inspection shall be in accordance with MIL-PRF-38534 and as follows:
Tests shall be as specified in table II herein.
Subgroups 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 shall be omitted.
4.3.2 Group B inspection (PI). Group B inspection shall be in accordance with MIL-PRF-38534.
4.3.3 Group C inspection (PI). Group C inspection shall be in accordance with MIL-PRF-38534 and as follows:
End-point electrical parameters shall be as specified in table II herein.
Steady-state life test, method 1005 of MIL-STD-883.
TC = +125°C minimum, or as specified in accordance with table I of method 1005 of MIL-STD-883.
Test duration: 1,000 hours minimum as specified in 1005 of MIL-STD-883.
4.3.4 Group D inspection (PI). Group D inspection shall be in accordance with MIL-PRF-38534.
4.3.5 Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA) inspection. RHA qualification is required for those devices with the RHA
designator as specified herein. End-point electrical parameters for RHA devices shall be specified in table II. Radiation
testing will be in accordance with the qualifying activity (DLA Land and Maritime-VQ) approved plan and with MIL-PRF-38534,
Appendix G.
4.3.5.1 Total dose irradiation testing. Total dose irradiation testing shall be in accordance with MIL-STD-883 method 1019,
condition A and as specified herein. Testing shall be performed at initial qualification and after any design or process changes
which may affect the RHA response of the device type. The initial wafer of the radiation hardened active element shall be tested
in the hybrid circuit with a minimum of 8 devices tested (4 devices under bias and 4 devices not under bias) in accordance with
MIL-STD-883 method 1019, condition A.
5. PACKAGING
5.1 Packaging requirements. The requirements for packaging shall be in accordance with MIL-PRF-38534.
6. NOTES
6.1 Intended use. Microcircuits conforming to this drawing are intended for use for Government microcircuit applications
(original equipment), design applications, and logistics purposes.
6.2 Replaceability. Microcircuits covered by this drawing will replace the same generic device covered by a contractorprepared specification or drawing.
6.3 Configuration control of SMD's. All proposed changes to existing SMD's will be coordinated as specified in MIL-PRF38534.
6.4 Record of users. Military and industrial users should inform DLA Land and Maritime when a system application requires
configuration control and the applicable SMD to that system. DLA Land and Maritime will maintain a record of users and this list
will be used for coordination and distribution of changes to the drawings. Users of drawings covering microelectronic devices
(FSC 5962) should contact DLA Land and Maritime-VA, telephone (614) 692-8108.
6.5 Comments. Comments on this drawing should be directed to DLA Land and Maritime-VA, Columbus, Ohio 43218-3990,
or telephone (614) 692-1081.
6.6 Sources of supply. Sources of supply are listed in MIL-HDBK-103 and QML-38534. The vendors, listed in MIL-HDBK103 and QML-38534, have submitted a certificate of compliance (see 3.7 herein) to DLA Land and Maritime-VA and have
agreed to this drawing.
STANDARD MICROCIRCUIT DRAWING BULLETIN
Approved sources of supply for SMD 5962-09211 are listed below for immediate acquisition information only and
shall be added to MIL-HDBK-103 and QML-38534 during the next revisions. MIL-HDBK-103 and QML-38534 will be
revised to include the addition or deletion of sources. The vendors listed below have agreed to this drawing and a
certificate of compliance has been submitted to and accepted by DLA Land and Maritime -VA. This information
bulletin is superseded by the next dated revisions of MIL-HDBK-103 and QML-38534. DLA Land and Maritime
maintains an online database of all current sources of supply at http://www.landandmaritime.dla.mil/Programs/Smcr/.
PIN 1/
5962R0921101HUA
5962R0921101HUC
5962R0921101HXA
5962R0921101HXC
5962R0921101HYA
5962R0921101HYC
5962R0921101HZA
5962R0921101HZC
MSK 5970HRHL
MSK 5970HRHS
MSK 5970HRHU
MSK 5970HRHD
5962R0921101KUA
5962R0921101KUC
5962R0921101KXA
5962R0921101KXC
5962R0921101KYA
5962R0921101KYC
5962R0921101KZA
5962R0921101KZC
MSK 5970KRHL
MSK 5970KRHS
MSK 5970KRHU
MSK 5970KRHD
The lead finish shown for each PIN representing a hermetic
package is the most readily available from the manufacturer
listed for that part. If the desired lead finish is not listed
contact the Vendor to determine its availability.
Caution. Do not use this number for item acquisition. Items
acquired to this number may not satisfy the performance
requirements of this drawing.
Vendor CAGE
and address
Anaren Incorporated
6635 Kirkville Road
East Syracuse, NY 13057-9672
The information contained herein is disseminated for convenience only and the
Government assumes no liability whatsoever for any inaccuracies in the
information bulletin.
5962-9750901QPA SMD
5962-9851501Q2A SMD
84152012A SMD
5962-0050601QEA SMD
5962-8960901EA SMD
ACT4418N 5962-92085
MSK5970RH - M.S. Kennedy Corp.
Total Dose Radiation Test Report MSK5970KRH RAD Hard Positive
ETC 5962R9955601HXA


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Alfredo De Villa
Mexican director
De Villa, July 2011
University of Miami (BA) Columbia University (MFA)
www.alfredodevilla.com
Alfredo De Villa is a Mexican director.[1] He is best known for directing award winning films such as Adrift in Manhattan,[2] which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007, and Washington Heights,[3] which won a special mention for directing and acting at the Tribeca Film Festival.[4]
2 Career
4 Filmography
4.1 Film
5 Awards and nominations
De Villa was born in Puebla, Mexico. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Miami and his Master of Fine Arts from the film division of Columbia University, with an emphasis in directing.[5]
De Villa's two short films, Joe's Egg and Neto's Run were both awarded the Best Latino Director Award from the Directors Guild of America in 1995 and 1999, he is the only filmmaker to be awarded this honor twice.[6] De Villa has gone on to direct many acclaimed feature films.
De Villa currently resides in Los Angeles, California.[6]
Fugly! (2013)
Harlistas: An American Journey (2011)
Nothing like the Holidays (2008)
Adrift in Manhattan (2007)
Washington Heights (2002)
Neto's Run (1998)
Joe's Egg (1995)
Sundance Film Festival
Nominated, Grand Jury Prize: Adrift in Manhattan (2007)
San Diego Film Festival
Winner, Best Director: Adrift in Manhattan (2007)
Indianapolis International Film Festival
Winner, Best Narrative Feature: Adrift in Manhattan (2007)
Gotham Awards
Nominated, Open Palm Award: Washington Heights (2003)
Austin Film Festival
Winner, Best Feature Film Washington Heights (2002)
Los Angeles Film Festival
Winner, Audience Award, Best Feature Film Washington Heights (2002)
Tribeca Film Festival
Winner, Special Mention for Washington Heights (2002)
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^ "Adrift in Manhattan (2007) - Movie". www.moviefone.com. Retrieved Feb 16, 2019.
^ Holden, Stephen (May 9, 2003). "FILM IN REVIEW; 'Washington Heights'". Retrieved Feb 16, 2019 – via NYTimes.com.
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Q: openssl 3 does not prompt password to the user using OSSL_DECODER_from_fp() Before openssl 3, (in openssl 1.1.1) when reading an RSA private key file, I used this function:
PEM_read_RSAPrivateKey(f, NULL, NULL, (void*)pass);

Where f is the FILE* and pass is a const char*.
If pass was NULL, this function automatically prompt a the user for password.
If pass wasn't NULL then it used the value pointed by pass as a password.
Now in openssl 3 I had to use another function:
OSSL_DECODER_from_fp(*dctx, f)

Where dctx is some context created by OSSL_DECODER_CTX_new_for_pkey() and f is that same private key file from before.
In order to set the password automatically (compared to having value for pass in openssl 1.1.1) I can use this function:
OSSL_DECODER_CTX_set_passphrase()

In case I do not call OSSL_DECODER_CTX_set_passphrase(), OSSL_DECODER_from_fp() fails with error:07880106:common libcrypto routines::passed invalid argument without prompting the user for password.
From the man pages I see this (they use OSSL_DECODER_from_bio() instead of ...fp()):
if (pass != NULL)
    OSSL_DECODER_CTX_set_passphrase(dctx, pass, strlen(pass));
if (OSSL_DECODER_from_bio(dctx, bio)) {
    /* pkey is created with the decoded data from the bio */
} else {
    /* decoding failure */
}

Which shows what I was trying to do - call OSSL_DECODER_from_fp() and expect it to prompt the user for password in case pass == NULL.
Unfortunately there aren't any good examples, or any examples at all for openssl 3.
I tried digging in their source files and I saw some complicated stuff which I think may do that simple thing that I was trying to do, which is what was the generic-default behavior in openssl 1.1.1, which is to prompt the user for password.
Stuff with ui and UI_construct_prompt...
Question: is there any simple way to prompt the user for password when reading a private key RSA file using openssl 3 with OSSL_DECODER_from_fp(), as it was with openssl 1.1.1 with PEM_read_RSAPrivateKey() ?
Thanks.
Reproducible example:
#include <openssl/err.h>
#include <openssl/decoder.h>
#include <string.h>

int main() {

        EVP_PKEY *pKey;
        OSSL_DECODER_CTX *dctx = OSSL_DECODER_CTX_new_for_pkey((EVP_PKEY**)&pKey,
                "PEM",
                NULL,
                "RSA",
                OSSL_KEYMGMT_SELECT_PRIVATE_KEY,
                NULL,
                NULL);

        if (!dctx) {
                printf("dctx\n");
                return -1;
        }
        const char* prv_path = "/path/to/prv.pem";
        FILE* f = fopen(prv_path, "rb");
        if (!f) {
                printf( "fopen() %s\n", prv_path);
                return -1;
        }
        if (OSSL_DECODER_from_fp(dctx, f) <= 0) {
                char buf[1024] = {0};
                ERR_error_string_n(ERR_peek_error(), buf, sizeof(buf));
                printf("OSSL_DECODER_from_fp(): %s\n", buf);
                return -1;
        }
        return 0;
}

*

*Make sure you change the prv_path to an actual path to a private key generated with password.

*Compile and run:

$ gcc example.c /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.a -lssl && ./a.out
OSSL_DECODER_from_fp(): error:07880106:common libcrypto routines::passed invalid argument

Example of how to generate a private key with password from this site

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Pulau Weh island off the NW tip of Sumatra has been interpreted as the remains of a partially collapsed older center breached to the NW and filled by the sea. Pulau Weh was included in the Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the World (Neumann van Padang 1951) based on its geothermal activity. Volcanism was assumed to be of Pleistocene age (Bennett et al., 1981), but fumaroles and hot springs are found a NW-E-trending line along the summit of the island and near the western shore of Lhok Perialakot bay on the northern side of the island.


Time to pick the tea leaves! Someone's gotta make money for our travels.
We went to the Cameron Highlands in search of clean, fresh mountain air. Instead what we got was overpriced lodging, a relatively tiny selection of food options including a ridiculously first-world priced Starbucks, too many tourists, price-gouging taxis, and gimmicky tourist attractions. If you can't tell already, we weren't crazy about Cameron Highlands.
The Lavender Garden costs less than $2 USD to enter and it's worth about $1 USD.
A mushroom shaped building at the Lavender Garden that is failing to impress anyone.
Pick-your-own strawberries is a big thing here, but it was out of season so we stared longingly at the ripe strawberries that we couldn't pick.
This is how we entertain ourselves when there's nothing else to do.
We saw a lot of foreigners including the typical backpackers, but more interestingly we saw a ton of Middle East Arabs. We know they were from Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq because we overheard some of them talking to hotel staff or wait staff about where they were from and we soon learned that it's holiday time in the Middle East. Their holiday lasts for two months and I assume they come to Malaysia because it's cheap, different, and they don't get discriminated against for their conspicuous religious attire. Islam is the federally recognized religion of Malaysia. It's also the most practiced religion here, over 60% of the population is Muslim. I haven't seen this many Muslims since we were in Turkey last year and I have rarely seen Muslim women fully covered in black with only a slit for their eyes. Sure, I've seen a few here and there in Brooklyn, but not this many. They seemed to be having a blast in Cameron Highlands.
The absolute worst bee farm I have ever visited. I'm not sure there were any bees there and it was just an excuse to sell honey sticks.
The only bee at the bee farm. He's smiling but he'll stab you with that sharp spear if you don't buy some honey sticks.
The backpackers like us, on the other hand, didn't seem to enjoy it as much. They all had the same bored look on their faces as they walked up and down the one small street in Tanah Rata trying to decide if they want to eat at the only decent Indian restaurant again or go to Marrybrown for fried chicken. Like us, they probably found a brief description about the beautiful tea plantations and decided to come here since it's only a bus ride from KL and on the way to the beaches on the east coast. By the looks of it, they were just as unimpressed as we were with the place.
This child is having a good time with that 8″ chef's knife.
An old Land Rover used to transport people and produce around the mountain.
There were only two attractions that we found worthwhile in Cameron Highlands — The Boh Tea Plantation and Cactus Point. The Boh Tea Plantation is the largest in Malaysia and it's probably the main reason most people visit the Highlands. We were lucky enough to have a driver who had a fascinating background in the Highlands and he told us about his time as a tea picker and how he used to make about .23 cents per kilo and now most of it is picked by machine except for really hard-to-reach plants. The plantation has little cabins around the perimeter for the workers and he lived there with his young family while working as a tea picker and even though they were poor, he said it was the happiest time of his life. Now he's a taxi driver who works 10-hour days and has to eat his meals in the car while waiting for clueless tourists to wander around the plantation. He drove us to the plantation and pointed us in the direction of the tea factory before going back to wait for us in his navy blue Mercedes.
Most of the taxis in Cameron Highlands are vintage Mercedes-Benz cars ranging from the 1960's to the 1980's.


Every time she wrote, a little bit more of her spirit un-furled and each day I prowled around her site, never daring to stick my head above the parapet yet falling that little bit more in love with her. Not in the head over heels, love at first read way I fell in love with Sarah Ban Breathnach, but in a slow, organic way, impressed with the woman I saw growing before me and inspired by her courage and absolute determination to be the best she could be.
A few years later and Leonie Dawson's instructions, purple and jangly as they might be, are starting to add a little more shape to my days. Her story throbs with honest to goodness joie de vivre and it is always a pleasure to see a post from Leonie in my reader for I know that at the end of reading it I will turn away from the computer inspired yet again to keep on keeping on creating a life I adore. Her aesthetic may not be mine, but she has, though she does not know it, become one of the mentors I have long sensed I needed. Last year I took the plunge and became a Goddess and not for one minute have I regretted it, for there in my subscription is a wealth of gorgeous, do-able inspiration that sits beautifully well with the puttery, home-centered life I have created for myself here.
This then is the first year I have used Leonie's Create Your Incredible Year Workbooks and Planners and using it was one of the greatest pleasures of the week between Christmas and New Year, as I sat down with a glass of elderflower bubbly, night after night, to say goodbye to 2012 and to make friends with 2013, listing my hearts desires in a 100 wish long list of requests to the universe.
For the first time in my life I feel the twelve months in front of me has some purpose: not the wishy-washy might not happen intent of a resolution but a list of to-do's to shape my year. To-do's that need ticking off one by one!
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Chapter 15 dealt with three things, all of them happening in the New World. First, we looked at the Wampanoag's war against the English colonists, also known as King Philip's war. Such a mess! It is one thing to inspire the children with stories of brave explorers who sailed across unknown seas in search of a shorter route to India. It's another thing altogether to talk about the aftermath of such explorations and colonization attempts.
But history must be taught, no matter how painful and sad it may have been. Since history repeats itself, we want to make sure that we learn what happened in the past so that we may not repeat others' mistakes.


The Samek / Bell duo's intense working relationship and musical drive are so equally matched. Audiences will remain transfixed by the incredible diversity if this enigmatic duo.
Samek / Bell are Victoria Soames Samek and Michael Bell. The duo supports their performances with informative introductions and offer creatively constructed programmes drawn from a wealth of repertoire for Bb, Eb and bass clarinet; soprano, alto and tenor saxophones, making their recitals a feast for audiences to enjoy.


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KADIN BRIDGE
The builders' inscription is explicit. The 100-metre-long five-arched stone bridge over the Struma River is the work of Ishak Pasha, Grand Vizier of Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror. Ishak Pasha built the bridge in 1469-1470 to facilitate travel from Constantinople to Skopje and the western Balkans. Despite this, the stories that locals have told about the construction of the bridge over the ages have no reference to the name of the man who did this good deed.
SVILENGRAD BRIDGE
The quality of highways and other large-scale infrastructure projects built in modern Bulgaria with EU funding is a matter for public debate. Interestingly, one town in this country has been using the same bridge over the Maritsa River for the past five centuries. Until recently, it was still used even by trucks.
SBORYANOVO
Thracian and Ottoman heritage co-exist in a reserve in Bulgaria's north-east
Famous for its potatoes, but offering a lot more on its plate
THE BEST BULGARIAN BRIDGES
Old and new, 'Roman,' Ottoman or Communist, this country's bridges span across rivers, epochs and cultures
OTTOMAN BULGARIA
Heritage from five centuries of imperial domination abounds throughout country
AROUND BULGARIA IN 5 SACRES SITES
Spirituality abounds through a country of many faiths and religions
PLOVDIV TEMPLES
Spinoffs of world religions coexist in Bulgaria's second city
New book details 500 years of Muslim heritage
CHURCHES OF ARBANASI
Technicolor murals, claustrophobic spaces and 'miracle-working' icons coexist in one of Bulgaria's most popular traditional villages
PAVEL KOYCHEV'S ART BY THE HIGHWAY
Traditional villages, Thracian rock shrines and natural phenomena are the most common off-the-beaten-rack experiences in Bulgaria, but when you take the small road from the OMV petrol station at the…
BULGARIA'S OLD CAPITALS THEN & NOW
Think Sofia says it all? Think again
Shrines, stone cities, tombs and rock sanctuaries make up strange yet fascinating heritage
RIBNOVO WEDDINGS
Traditional ritual baffles outsiders
SEEDS LIKE TEETH
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Skiing on water does sound a different. A little new to the adventure sports arena of India, water skiing is a lot more thrilling from snow skiing. The first major factor is that there's no snow or mountainous slopes instead one glides on water. Secondly, you need to be good swimmer because you never know when you have to let go off the tow-rope attached to the boat.
Splashing through the watery depths isn't new for those who love to glide through waves. There's a good similarity between surfing and water skiing but the major difference is that here your hands aren't free. While surfing take places in the high tides of the ocean, water skiing is not restricted to sea only; it can be done in lakes too.
Are you getting seasick? Then may be it's your first time in water skiing. Usually beginners in this sport get a little nervous and sea sick, but once get that sense of balance you will find riding on water as a piece of cake. As they say practice makes a man perfect, if you know how to swim then you can easily ski on water.
This water sport is tough, so you have to get your basics right and there's always an option of letting go the tow-rope if the excitement become too much for you. Water skiing provides a good exercise too your body and strengthens your muscles of arms and legs. But its always wise to be a little conscious if you are trying out a water skiing for the first time as it can easily tire a beginner. And the best method of getting started in this sport is to first try it on a dry land, besides getting thorough with the balancing act on water.
The best water skiing site worth checking out in India is the Asan Barrage Water Sports Resort. This place has got plenty of options for trying out besides water skiing such as Sailing, Boating, Rowing, Water Skating, Kayaking and Canoeing. Water skiing courses are also available at the Asan Barrage for water sports enthusiasts and training is given by well qualifies instructors.
Situated just 32-km from Srinagar, the facility for water skiing is available at the lake sites of Dal Lake. This site has has privately owned 'bathing boats' which hire out motor launches, water-skis and trained instructors. Also worth checking out is the Nagin Lake site, which much more popular among water sports lovers for its cleaner waters. A government run Institute of Water Sports is also situated at this lake site with trained instructors.
Another good water skiing option is Manasbal Lake, with a mirror like sheen on its surface becomes an attractive water sports resort, approachable from Srinagar by road. In Kashmir from May to the end of August, that's covering the whole summer season; water of the lakes remains pleasant for water sports. If someone wants a night stay over there then the tourist's huts and bungalows are also available on all the above lake resorts.
Water skiing on the beach sites of India not only makes a perfect relaxation beach holiday activity, but an ideal adventure sport that can be done on the seacoast. Among the best beach haunts for water skiing the best ones are situates at Goa, where various beach resorts and hotels offer well-equipped and up to date facilities that are required for water skiing. Besides surfing this is one sport that is catching the interest of beach lovers a lot and with the high safety standards and low risk factor people are more drawn towards this water sport.
Beside the beach sites of the Indian mainland, there are the beaches of the India's tropical islands too, especially Andaman & Nicobar where Water Sport Complex at Diglipur and Island Water Sports Club at Port Blair, offer Water Scooters, Speedboats, Jet Skies, Tube Ride, Wake Board Ride, Knee Board Ride, etc. and is functioned under the Directorate of tourism. So, if you lure for a thrilling experience on water then this sport is meant just for you.


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Mozambique sugar plantation wildcat continues
Around 4,000 workers in Sofala province having rejected government calls to return to work and a divisive offer aimed only at cane cutters and not the other plantation workers, insisting their demands will be met collectively or they will remain on strike.
allAfrica.com reports:
Seasonal workers at the Mafambisse sugar plantation in the central Mozambican province of Sofala remained on strike on Tuesday, despite the offer of a wage rise of almost 50% for cane cutters. The 4,000 workers staged a wildcat strike early on Monday morning, demanding a wage rise, overtime pay, and a reduction in what they regarded as the excessive work load that the company, owned by the South African group Tongaat Hulett, had imposed.
Company guards opened fire on the strikers, killed one and injuring three others. According to a report in Wednesday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias", the company made two major concessions in the negotiations, mediated by the Sofala provincial director of labour, Omar Jalilo. They agreed to raise the wages of cane cutters from 66 to 92 meticais a day [at current exchange rates, this rise is an extra 50p per day].
The company also pledged to respect the provision in the labour law which states that the normal working day is eight hours long. The workers had complained that they were obliged to work 14 hours a day, and the company did not pay for this six hours a day of compulsory overtime. The company also promised to provide protective clothing for the workers within four weeks.
However, there is no agreement yet on the wages of the other plantation workers (for example, those who work on planting cane, weeding, and on the drainage channels), whose wages ranged from 44 to 62 meticais a day. The workers had demanded that these be lifted to between 85 and 95 meticais a day. The workers praised Jalilo's efforts in the negotiations - but turned down his plea to return to work. They said they intended to remain on strike until a satisfactory solution is reached for the wages of the other seasonal workers.
Both the plantation and the mill were entirely paralysed on Tuesday, with the company protesting that the strike will lead to enormous losses. Meanwhile, the Criminal Investigation Police (PIC) are investigating the origins of the bullets that killed 23 year old Domingos Chanjane and wounded three other strikers. The workers insist that the shots were fired by the head of the Mafambisse security force, Cardoso Equivale.
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River research and restoration in the Upper Midwest is an area of intense activity involving federal and local agencies, watershed managers, consultants, researchers, and educators. There is a clear demand for discussion, knowledge exchange, and collaboration between these entities, including two-way exchanges between research and practice as well as interagency communication. The Partnership for River Restoration and Science in the Upper Midwest (PRRSUM, prounounced "prism") is an organization dedicated to bringing together regional river and stream restoration practitioners from throughout the Midwest for knowledge exchange and networking.
PRRSUM strives to help build and formalize a professional stream restoration group in the Midwest region, providing opportunities for networking and collaboration through an annual symposium, webinars, online resources, and other activites.
Several 2017 UMSRS attendees enjoying a beautiful day visiting the Bee Branch Restoration project site in Dubuque, Iowa.
Please explore this website to learn more about our history, our members, our annual symposium and other events, as well as check out our Midwest Stream Restoration calendar, our Resource Library, our PRRSUM Community Bulletin Board, and our Restoration Practitioner Map. You can sign up for our email list-serv, as well as support our organization through sponsorships for our annual symposium.
Our new website is still under construction, so please bear with us as we continue to add and enhance resources. Send any feedback on the new website design/content to Barbara Heitkamp.
2019 Call for Abstracts is now Open!
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This manuscript, written in a nobleman's commonplace book from the 1660s, may be the earliest surviving rendering of a ballad beginning "Should old acquaintance be forgot." Various versions of this text circulated in manuscript during the seventeenth century before it was printed in broadside form and eventually in James Watson's Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems (1711). Though the first line is familiar, the rest of the text bears little resemblance to the enduring version published over a century later. While Burns's "Auld Lang Syne" stirs pleasant memories of carefree companionship, the "old acquaintance" of this ballad is a faithless lover ("Thou art the most disloyall maid that ever my eye hath seen"), its narrator full of bitterness and regret.


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Once all prep is complete, place all bags in freezer until needed. After you've made your meal plan for the coming week, consider setting an alert on your phone to remind you to take your bag out to thaw the day before you plan to make it!
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OMG, this is SO AWESOME! I've tried freezer cooking in the past but all the recipes seemed to require a lot of cooking. It literally took me all day! I can't wait to try this! Thank you so much!!!!
It wont let me open the links to print.
What if I don't have fb because someone harasses me on there? Am I totaly out of luck?
Thanks for the great recipes! I was able to print them out but not the grocery or " how to put together" lists. Not sure why? I have " liked" this site on FB.
The how to put it together list doesn't come up for me either. Could you email me the document as well?
FYI – I went grocery shopping using the handy list from FB. The sweet onion isn't listed on there at all (only the dried, minced onion)!!! Bummed that I have to figure out when to trek back to the store to pick up that one ingredient. Hopefully you can fix it quick before someone else runs into the same issue.
Maneesha, thank you so much for letting me know, and I am so, SO sorry for the inconvenience! We fixed the printable so hopefully no one else will have that problem!
I can't believe how easy that was!! Taco Soup warming in the crock pot, can't wait to try all 5 recipes!
I would LOVE a vegetarian one too! Thanks!
Yes! Please!!! I'm a vegetarian too. I make a lot of freezer chili. I also make mudajara and daal for the freezer. But I would love some fresh new ideas. Although there are so many different ways to prepare chili, and believe me I have tried so many different ones, I am getting a little tired of that being my go-to meal.
Just came across your blog today and love the 10 freezer meals in an hour. Really practical and helpful on those busy days we all have. I do not belong to facebook either and would appreciate you emailing me the necessary pages for fixing the meals. I see there are several others in the same situation. Maybe putting on the blog so it can be downloaded from there might be a help to you. Thank you in advance for these great recipes. Going to be busy in the next week or so.
Can you suggest any easy vegetarian meals?
Thank you so much for the step by step instructions and labels and shopping/prep list. I need things spelled out for me!! I am so excited to try these meals!!!
I can't get the shopping list or prep to print either, and I did like the fb page. Please email to me. Thanks bunches.
I've noticed printing the labels is off by about a 1/4 of an inch. Am I the only one? Any tips or tricks? This happens on part 2 also. Thanks for making this so easy for the rest of us!
This is the first freezer meal plan that included ALL meals that my family will actually eat. No seafood! My husband thanks you – my whole family thanks you!
Yay! I'm so glad you all liked it Caryn!
I cant get the instructions to come up. 🙁 the PDF just has the shopping list and prep/prepare. Can you email it to me? Thanks in advance for a great easy meal prep!
I can't even read this blog all the way through — so so so excited! I am going to go to the grocery store tonight and cook this stuff tonight! Thank you so very much! This will make tax season so so much better. I almost want to cry from relief. Once again – thanks!
Ruth I have been following your Facebook page for some time now and I have to say you are an inspiration. So happy to randomly have come across these tonight while doing a search…how did i miss this! I will be making part one and part two this week. I have a family of nine. Thanks for all you do.
Thank you SO much! I made two of your freezer meal pages today for a total of 20 meals! taco soup for dinner tonight! I forwarded your page on to a military spouse facebook page because we are ALWAYS looking for easy meals and freezer meals! I tasted the sauces as I went and they were so good. This will be dinners and lunches for the next 20 days! THANK YOU AGAIN!
This is great! However don't you have fish and/or other seafood dishes?
I like all of these recipes, but am not the cooking type so forgive my ignorance: Do each of these recipes get put into a crockpot when you're ready to eat them? And for how long?
Thank you so much for sharing, I have never done a freezer meal before. How long do they stay good for? Deciding when I need to start these!
These look great! I just had a quick question…When I look at each of the 5 recipes do I need to double the amounts of each one to make it a total of 10 meals? Or is it already doubled to make a total of 10 meals?
Just prepped all 5 recipes , cooking one for dinner tonight. Thought these were going to be whole meals, so a bit disappointed. However I have 4 lots of marinated meat and pots of taco soup in my freezer.
The website was a bit slow but eventually I printed everything off. Loved having one shopping list done for me. Couldn't get some things here in England (any ideas for when I need Hambeens?) but seem to have worked out well. Taco soup was good, just needed a bit more marinading. Next one should be delicious.
Can't wait to try some of the other recipe plans.
I like all the info…but have a hard time printing it. can you make a print application easier?
Do you have any suggestions for a red wine substitute? We don't purchase alcohol–at all. 🙂 Thanks!
Finally someone has some recipies that arent all chicken!
I've liked the page on fb but am still having a hard time getting the pro tables, would you send them my way? Thanks!!


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Best Buy Teen Tech Center
Debuting a new service model for teens, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District Foundation has partnered with Best Buy to create a cutting edge teen technology lab and lounge at the Clark County Library.
The Library District has long been the bedrock of early childhood learning in Southern Nevada, and now our libraries are emerging as the place where teens can explore and master new technology and digital skills, follow their passions, create, and collaborate in a supportive environment and even start a business! The tech center works to bridge the digital divide by giving youth access to tech education opportunities, relationships that help to build confidence, and a foundation for school and career success. The center's approach is designed to empower youth from all backgrounds to become more capable, creative, and confident learners. Teens can drive their own projects according to their interests and ideas, while our staff and mentors provide support and assistance. No prior tech skills are necessary.
By working with partners like the library, Best Buy is committed to preparing one million teens from underserved communities for tech-reliant jobs each year by the year 2020. You can read more about their mission here. In addition, a partnership with The Clubhouse Network also connects teens to a global community of over 100 clubhouses in 20 countries.
The Best Buy Teen Tech Center is designed for project-based and production-based learning opportunities. Teens in middle and high school are welcome to drop into the center and try out all that it has to offer. The technologies that are available at the center include:
Circuit Easy Press & 3D Sublimation Heat Press
Dell all-in-one touch screen computers
Digital media equipment
DJ Lab
Editing station for video and sound recordings
Movie production with green screen
Poster maker
Project gallery boards and ideation whiteboards
Recording studio with musical instruments
Hours of operation for the Best Buy Teen Tech Center in the Clark County Library (as of October 26, 2020):
Monday — Thursday: 7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday — Sunday: 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
1401 E. Flamingo Rd.
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Hikaru no Go Volumes 13-15
It's been a while since I've checked in with this entertaining game competition series. (In part, that's because of a Diamond hiccup soliciting volume 14, which meant I had 15 but had to wait to get the books in order.) I'm glad I could read all three of these volumes together, since they make up a major turning point in Hikaru's life.
Hikaru has become a professional go player, and as volume 13 begins, he's dressing up for the recognition ceremony. He's still learning how his new occupation works, who plays whom when and what it all means, but he's still focused on catching — and passing — Akira Toya, son of the reigning champion.
They're all so indoctrinated in the rules and roles of the competition that a slight or inadvertent insult becomes grounds for a vow to win against them in a match. That keeps the games emotionally involving both for the characters and the reader. Yet the characters recognize how much they all, as go players, have in common, as part of a tradition much bigger than they are. There's also a mysticism about certain people sensing something special about Hikaru that fits right into a story that features a ghost.
Also in competition are Hikaru and Sai, since both want to play using Hikaru's hands. Hikaru's become a strong enough player on his own that his rise in professional ranking is believable, but he needs to continue making his own decisions in order to really learn the subtleties of the game.
Given how long Hikaru's been chasing Akira, their match isn't to happen yet. (The reader will remain in suspense even longer.) Akira is kept away from the games when his father, holder of five championship titles, has a medical emergency that hospitalizes him. Coincidentally, that wraps back to a previous plot point about playing go on the internet, an outlet that allows Sai to compete without others becoming suspicious. The champion player takes up online gaming when he must stay in the hospital, bringing him back into contact with Sai and Hikaru, whose childish exuberance and lack of thinking result in an unexpected wager with major consequences.
I realized in this volume that I really missed seeing women in major roles. Most of the competitive players and observers are male, so it's only the rare wife or female assistant who gets to speak. I suppose it's realistic that Hikaru no longer keeps in touch with his schoolmates, since his life has gone in a different direction, but I loved seeing his cute little friend appear again.
I haven't said much about the art because it's so excellent. Beautifully rendered, clear expressions, dramatic shots… the standout sequence, though, has to be when Sai plays on the internet. The game is staged with the two players, their board, and nothing else, just surrounded by black space. Sai's presence comes into view behind Hikaru and then subsumes him as the ghost begins directing the play, one of the most important games of his (after)life. It's impressive and intimidating, focusing only on the showdown between two giants.
The online game, watched by curious players all over the world, continues in volume 14. Hikaru sees something very important during the game, demonstrating to Sai that the boy has reached a whole new level of play. This is the most significant turning point in both of their lives. The way the match was arranged also causes some to be curious about Sai's connection to Hikaru, causing him additional consternation.
Although Hikaru and Sai's relationship is non-traditional, there are some very universal aspects to it. This turning point marks where the father figure gives up on his own plans and instead does what he can to see that his child will carry on into the future to become the best he can be. While Sai and Hikaru have this transition spiritually, Akira and his father face it physically. In both cases, they're chasing their destinies.
Volume 15 is where the most important change occurs. I don't want to say too much about it, for fear of spoiling anything for readers, but I will say that I never expected the series to go in that direction, although it's a stunningly good choice in retrospect. (According to one source, this is 2/3 of the way through the overall series, which ran to 23 volumes, so it's a good time for it, too.)
The event shows how Hikaru is growing up while reminding us in many ways that he's still a young boy, with a lot to learn about life and behavior. His enthusiasm and energy need tempering before he drives everyone around him crazy. And he doesn't realize the truth of what he's got until it's gone.
Also in this book is a tour of significant go history sites and shrines, reminding the reader just how long this game has been played and revered.
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Dave Axene -- a fellow with the Society of Actuaries, which has been working with insurers to analyze data trends about enrollees in the Affordable Care Act's exchanges -- said, "The [double-digit rate] increases we've been hearing are probably exaggerated."
He acknowledged that there likely would be wide variations in premium rate increases across states but that the rates would increase by only between 6% and 8.5%, compared with increases of between 7% and 10% prior to the ACA's implementation.
In addition, Axene said that based off of analyses of early exchange enrollees, such individuals tend to be people with "higher morbidity." Specifically, about 6% to 8% of early enrollees had higher-than-average health care needs, USA Today reports. However, this trend was expected and likely will not influence the 2015 premium costs, according to Axene.
Axene noted that premiums still could increase in coming years, particularly in 2017, when "the risk corridors go away, which provide financial protection if [insurers] are bad at estimating numbers." He said insurers might increase premium costs in 2016 to spread out the overall increase over a two-year period.
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Industry Reports Support Expert's Predictions
According to USA Today, Axene's predictions about decelerations in premiums and health care costs have been substantiated by several recent industry reports.
One report from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics found that while health care costs have rebounded alongside the economic recovery, overall health care costs have remained lower than usual.
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Dressing the Mutton
I grow old . . . I grow old . . .
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. —T.S. Eliotalice lowe
I throw on purple tights and an orange racer-back tank top with the logo of Milestone Running—the San Diego store where I buy my athletic gear—emblazoned on the front. I'm out for an early five-mile run. After I return home and shower, I dress in jeans and a t-shirt for a day at my desk, add a hoodie when I walk out later to the library and grocery store. This is me, age seventy-four, on a typical Tuesday.
My grandmother died when she was younger than I am now. In my memory, she's an old woman, blue-haired, stocky and shelf-bosomed. In a family photo from my brother's 1956 high school graduation, she wears a dark shapeless dress under a long shapeless coat, a little pancake hat perched on her tight tinted coils. She dressed her age, like most sixty-something women of her day. In tights and a tank top or jeans and a t-shirt, she'd have caused a stir. She'd have been accused of making a pathetic attempt to pass herself off as younger, of being "mutton dressed as lamb."
Will I wake up one Tuesday morning—next month or next year or ten years from now—and want to wear a powder-blue polyester tracksuit on my morning run? Will I deem it more appropriate, decide it's time to dress my age? What does that mean, and is it still a valid consideration? One question conjures another; they pile up in my mind like back issues of The New Yorker. I've explored and written about women's aging from both societal and personal perspectives, seeking answers to questions like these. The matter of dress presents itself as a thread worth following.
The expression "mutton dressed as lamb" originated in Britain, where both are commonly eaten. Lamb is under a year old, tender and desirable. Mutton is the meat from older, tougher, gamier sheep—an acquired taste, I'm told—often relegated to stews and soups. Hosts were known to try to fool their guests by having mutton roasts prepared and presented to pass off as lamb.
Lamb chops often are adorned with little paper frills—accessories like bows in the hair, scarves or beads around the neck—but lamb roasts are served without ornamental embellishments, so whatever made them lamb-like is a mystery. Recipes for mutton recommend marinating and tenderizing it, cooking it long and slow. It may turn out as a respectable roast, but no one's going to mistake it for lamb. Mutton is mutton, and ostensibly you love it for itself.
In reference to women, "mutton dressed as lamb" was attributed to the Prince of Wales, later George IV, in the early nineteenth century. He used the expression to praise older women, however, not to denigrate them. He liked the frills or perhaps was titillated by the subterfuge: "Girls are not to my taste," he said. "I don't like lamb; but mutton dressed like lamb." In recent times, it's become a form of ridicule addressed toward older women who defy what they believe to be antiquated standards.
When we're young we're birds, chicks, fillies. Then, without warning, we're no longer "spring chickens." We become crows, hens, nags. One day we're lamb; the next, mutton.
When I entered the workforce in the early sixties, women, regardless of their age, did not wear pants—slacks, trousers, or any legged garments—in business offices. Chanel and Schiaparelli designed women's pantsuits in the thirties; Marlene Dietrich and Katharine Hepburn wore them on screen and in public; but they didn't catch on with the greater population of women and were outlawed in the secretarial pool. My mother was hired as a bank teller in her fifties, becoming the oldest nonmanagement employee at the branch. She was caught in a limbo of needing to appear both young enough to be thought viable in her position and tastefully mature but not superannuated. We dressed much the same in skirts and blouses, dyed-to-match sweater sets, shirtwaist and A-line dresses, feminine-cut jackets.
In my mother's time, as in my grandmother's, older women—whatever number is assigned to the category—were still expected to look and dress their age. They must be tidily outfitted and coiffed, with nothing too short or showy or sexy, nothing that would draw attention, nothing that would seem unseemly. Over recent decades, we've seen the relaxation of social mores and a loosening of formality in dress. The social revolution of the late sixties opened the door to an anything-goes assault—but on what? On hypocrisy and pretentiousness, some believed; on decorum and decency, according to others. How far one went was subject to cultural, socioeconomic, geographic, and generational divides.
Growing up in a San Diego beach town, I was aware that what was accepted in casual Southern California may not have washed on the East Coast, where my family originated, or even in sophisticated San Francisco, where my grandmother lived. I don't recall particular shibboleths about dress, but my mother recited and adopted this refrain: when a woman reaches forty, her hair shouldn't reach her shoulders.
Now it would be easy to say that standards of dress based on age are no longer a consideration. That we're freed of constraints. Except that's not entirely true. I can wear my skinny jeans, or I can don polyester with an elastic waist, but my choices are still subject to scrutiny and consequences. At stake is my identity, the statement I make about myself to the world. It's a Catch-22. Women past a certain age are mocked if they dress like their daughters, dismissed if they dress like their mothers. They can straddle the middle, hug a safe space along the continuum, but they still teeter on the brink of uncertainty. Is there a right and a wrong, and is it as capricious as it appears? Is seventy the new fifty, or is it still irredeemably geriatric?
When I retired after thirty years in human services management, I donated my casual/professional nonprofit "dress-for-success" attire—suits, blazers, tailored slacks and blouses—to a program that helps homeless women get back into the workforce. I winnow my wardrobe periodically and discard garments I no longer wear, but I've never rejected anything because it was no longer age appropriate. I was always a conventional dresser and aimed for good taste and a mature-but-youthful appearance, so with the exception of a few impulse buys later regretted (like the open-weave crocheted mini number I wore to a friend's wedding), my style of dress hasn't changed.
I'm bemused by this whole idea of appropriateness. Whether it pertains to dress or speech or behavior, it carries a weight of judgment: appropriate (fitting, suitable, seemly, apt, proper, correct) according to whom, and to what standard? With no fixed criteria, it becomes a precarious balancing act. Even in that seemingly safe middle ground, scrutiny dangles over you. Magazines and the internet, as wide-ranging as The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, and Forbes, proffer advice: how to know if you're dressing too old, too young, or just right—like Goldilocks sampling the three bears' porridge—in six signs, nine mistakes, ten tips. At some indeterminate point, showing skin (midriff, cleavage, thigh), wearing t-shirts with slogans, or borrowing your daughter's clothes may trigger an alarm, a flashing neon sign—"Act your age!"—or a convulsive shock.
Arbiters of fashion pay lip service to a liberating consensus—you should wear whatever makes you feel confident and comfortable. But there's a caveat: don't take this freedom too far. The women surveyed in the 2014 Women in Clothes, by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton, took a fatalistic view; they appeared ready to give up the fight before it began. The study's older contingent consisted of women in their forties, whose days, to hear them tell it, were dwindling down to a precious few: "After forty it's time to give up your game." "I'm almost forty, but I still want to wear tight pants." "…straddle the line between slutty and frumpy." They sound as if they'd stepped into a bottomless middle-aged crevasse. My grandmother at forty might have been one of the respondents.
In vivid contrast, Ari Seth Cohen declares in "Advanced Style" (books, website, and documentary), "The ladies I photograph challenge stereotypical views on age and aging. They are youthful in mind and spirit and express themselves through personal style and individual creativity." Cohen's subjects are a striking bunch—some glamorous and elegant, others ranging from quirky to outrageous, all over sixty, all eye-stopping. For them, "appropriate" could be a verb: to wrest, seize, commandeer. They've laid claim to the art and fun of dressing up, of making a statement, of performing. Their age is a license to dress as lamb or lion or lemon meringue pie, and they go to great lengths to create their public personas.
As a sociology major in the eighties, I was surprised and delighted to learn that one of my instructors had studied dress as it defines our identities, that such a topic was deemed worthy of sociological research. Another professor published a paper on thrift-store shopping. She found that women's behavior and purchases in second-hand stores were more adventurous and assertive, less constrained by societal "should," than in department stores. These projects employed qualitative methodology—interviews, observation, direct experience—rather than quantitative. They drew from Erving Goffman's 1956 seminal work, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, which posits that social interaction is a kind of theatrical performance, that we're acting out roles, whether in front of an audience or backstage. As one of Ari Cohen's models remarked, "We must dress every day for the theatre of our lives."
In the perennial student costume of jeans and tee, I don my sociologist/detective hat and magnifying glass, a la Sherlock Holmes, and take up my post in a carrel at the San Diego State University library, nested among the same stacks I inhabited as an undergraduate. I scan the shelves and peruse professional journals for "aging and dress" and find its continued significance in provocative titles that include:
"'Growing old gracefully' as opposed to 'MDAL': the social construction of recognizing older women"
"'No one expects me anywhere': invisible women, ageing & the fashion industry"
"'Bat wings, bunions, & turkey wattles': body transgressions & older women's strategic clothing choice"
Fashion and Age: Dress, the Body and Later Life is grounded in fashion theory and cultural gerontology. Working from the premise that age is a social division like gender, race, class, sexuality, or disability, author Julia Twigg found that while aging has become more fluid as a result of the Baby Boomer effect, it is still associated with a toned-down, self-effacing presentation. A moral code of dress continues to exist, and it's fraught with ambiguity. Don't dress too young, expose too much, let yourself go. Do resist age, be up to date and well dressed. The women surveyed wanted neither to stand out nor to disappear—the message they sought to convey was "look at me, I'm not invisible," echoing another of Ari Cohen's subjects: "I would rather be considered different and somewhat mysterious than ignored." I may never make the pages of "Advanced Style," but I recoil at the idea of "toned-down and self-effacing," of invisibility.
My investigations reveal a scantily clad elephant in the room. Sex has been glaringly absent and/or discreetly swept under the bed. The literature is silent about sexuality in older women, lingering sexual taboos, or the conflict between the two as they relate to the way we dress. Changes wrought by the sixties became a demarcation point between my mother's generation and my own; now Baby Boomers are entering their seventies with visions of eternal youth and undiminshed libido. Today most people would agree that older women are sexual beings and as such can, if they choose, announce it in their appearance and dress. Celebrities are trotted out as evidence—Helen Mirren in a bikini, Jane Fonda in a miniskirt, Sophia Loren in anything—but it wasn't apparent in Vogue or Sociology Today.
In her 2008 memoir, Somewhere Towards the End, Diana Athill reflects, at ninety, on differences between present and past for old women. In her grandmother's day, women wore what amounted to a uniform; they "went a bit drab and shapeless, making it clear that this person no longer attempted to be attractive." Old women still can't get away with dressing like teenagers, she says, "but I have a freedom of choice undreamt of by my grandmothers." She recalls past loves and writes fondly of the sexual relationship that "accompanied me over the frontier between late middle-age and being old." At its end, past seventy, "I might not look, or even feel, all that old, but I had ceased to be a sexual being."
No one wants to be old, fat, ugly, undesirable. Age is in conflict with society's focus on youth, beauty, and sex. The fashion industry, keen to capitalize on the lucrative gray market, promotes "new ways of being older" yet still bows to the ambiguous standard of age appropriateness. Complicit are bodily changes that accompany age and defy fashion. The response is to cover up and hide sags, spots, veins, and wrinkles in longer skirts and higher necks, darker colors (as if in mourning), or bland neutrals. Or to adapt, by means of elastic waistbands and stretchy fabrics, toddler-like shapes and asexual styles. Think Annie Hall's "Grammy" in lavender and lace, my grammy in pastel prints. In "I Feel Bad About My Neck," Nora Ephron observes that she and her women friends wear turtlenecks, scarves, and mandarin collars to hide their telltale crepey necks. She calls it compensatory dressing. For me it's jeans like NYDJ (Not Your Daughter's Jeans), with high waists and hidden tummy tuckers, fitted to enhance mature bodies without sacrificing style.
In my working years, I shopped equally at Nordstrom and second-hand stores. I combined smart professional wear with shabby chic to stretch my dollars and achieve my take on an Annie Hall-in-middle-management look. I still rifle through the racks at thrifts for jackets, workout gear, and t-shirts (with or without logos). My body is contoured differently from when I was young—there's been some shift over time—but I'm still slender and toned. People say I look younger than my age, including my daughter, who will be the first to tell me if and when I'm out of line.
Thanks to cultural and social changes over the past fifty years, we have the freedom Diana Athill celebrated. We no longer have to dress in high collars and low hems or accept that being old means being dismissed, undervalued. We're still sexual beings. But there continue to remain capricious and often concealed standards and expectations, rights and wrongs. If I've exaggerated the dichotomy between mutton and lamb, it's to emphasize that a quandary still exists. Older women walk a narrow tightrope of judgment, because, like upstart toddlers or defiant teens, we're still seen as needing to be controlled. Seventy is still seventy, but a new seventy, and yes, this is what it looks like—it can wear purple tights and orange tanks. I don't think a baby-blue polyester tracksuit is in my future, but I have that choice too.
Alice Lowe reads and writes about life and literature, food and family. Her personal essays have appeared this past year in Superstition Review, Ascent, Waccamaw Review, Baltimore Review, Stonecoast Review, Hobart, and Bloom. Her work has been cited in the Best American Essays notables and nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Alice is the author of numerous essays and reviews on Virginia Woolf's life and work, including two monographs published by Cecil Woolf Publishers in London. Alice lives in San Diego, California; read her work at www.aliceloweblogs.wordpress.com.
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