#will it be of substantial use for me to bring a tape measure so i don't need to try pants on

[snarp]

@ medical professionals how dangerous is the thrift store as compared to like, Walmart

#will it be of substantial use for me to bring a tape measure so i don't need to try pants on #( #i have torn up a couple pairs of my thrift store pants #and thus need more pants #) #medical cw #covid cw

[dolls-and-cats]

Tutorial: crocheted snood for 18" doll (or child or adult); same pattern can be used to make a netted market bag

The pattern assumes no prior knowledge of crocheting. Hat tip to my Mom who initially taught me to do this!

materials:

*yarn or string.

*scissors

*crochet hook (I'm using H6 but this can be done with variety of hooks. I'll provide measures in inches/cm so you can get there with different size stitches. Size E4 is smaller than I'd use for this.)

*measuring tape

*your doll (about 2/3 way through to size your final product).

*ribbon to make the tie. Alternatively, I'll talk through making a tie with the string/yarn as another option.

*optional: your cat to “help”

I'm writing this for an 18" doll, but you could adapt this for a snood for a different size doll, child, or adult. You can also riff on this pattern to make a fruit/veggie market bag.

Big picture: we're going to make a flat oval or circle bigger than the doll's head and then add a ribbon to cinch it around the doll's head.

1. Make a loop around crochet hook and knot it.

2. Daisy-chain about 10 stitches ( or 4 inches/10 cm). Daisy chain means bring loop through your loop (one stitch), then a loop through that loop (another stitch). Later in the pattern, I’ll just say “chain three” etc and I’m referring to the daisy chain.  

3. Think of your chain of stitches as having a top (2 pieces of yarn per stitch), a bottom (1 piece of yarn per stitch), and windows (holes in the middle).

This thin chain is what we’re starting with. Now we’ll make it wider, so that it becomes an oval. We're going to do this by making single stitches around it. Start by putting your crochet hook into a window and working with the bottom of the stitch (1 piece of yarn). Now do a single stitch. A single stitch means: go in the window (pre-existing hole) and then pull the yarn through the window with your hook. Now you have 2 pieces of yarn on your hook (pic below).

Now catch the loose line of yarn with your hook and bring yarn through both pieces of yarn on your hook. That makes a yarn thing that is a little taller with a window inside of it and you have one loop over your hook. That is a single stitch. Now go to the next "bottom stitch/1 piece of yarn with a window" of the original chain and make another single stitch.

In case my description of single stitch isn’t clear, here’s what I got when I googled: https://www.anniescatalog.com/crochet/content.html?content_id=68

ok, la la, keep single stitch crocheting until you get to the end of the row. Now we're going to do something weird; we're going to crochet around the narrow end (that is about a quarter-inch or 0.5 cm wide) and then we're going to crochet on the whole other side of this thing. In other words, we're crocheting an oval around the original chain. So to get around the end, make several (approx 4) stitches in the same window and then start single-crocheting on the other side.

Now you're single crocheting around that secomd side, and put several stitches (3) in the window at the end of the row. Now you do a slip-stitch with the original stitch where you started the first row. Slip-stitch means go through the window of the original stitch and bring the loose line of yarn through everything with your hook. Now you have a tied-up oval.

Now chain one (just pull a loop through your loop). You finished row 1 and are ascending to row 2.

4. row 2: same thing. Single crochet around the long ends, put several stitches (approx. 3) through the same window on the short ends, making an oval around the whole thing. When you've finished row 2, slip-stitch through the original stitch and then chain 1 to ascend to the next row.

Big picture: make a flat oval shape that is gradually growing outward. If it's curving in on itself like a bowl instead of lying flat, pull the string to undo some stitches and then add more stitches in the same window at the ends.

If you need to leave the project for a while, pull a loop through and then pull it toward you several inches so that the stitch won't come out.

5. It may get hard to tell where your rows begin, as you keep going around this thing. Optional: on a temporary basis, pull a small piece of different-colored yarn (or a small piece of paper) through the place where your row starts. You'll pull this out at the end of the snood.

6. row 3: same as row 2. As the ends grow wider, you'll want to add the extra stitches in more than one window on the ends. Think of adding them to the "corners" as if this were a rectangle. Slip-stitch with the original stitch, chain 1.

Now I have a flat oval that is 5 inches/13 cm long and 2 inches/4.5 cm wide. Smaller is fine. If it's a lot bigger than that and it's for a doll, I'd probably tug the string and pull out a row because you want your snood to be mostly netting, not solid.

7. row 4: Now we'll do a super awesome stitch that I think of as the "market bag" stitch, but it probably has a different name. This part will go faster than all the single stitching.

On the outside of your oval, you have stitches - the two pieces of yarn per stitch are on the outside and each stitch has a window. We're going to go into some of those windows and not in others, which is what is going to make this like a net.

To prevent the oval from turning in like a bowl, add extra stitches at the corners. Now that you're making chain-loops, this is how you add extra stitches on the corner:

Now you have an oval with ome row of chain-loops all around it.

Chain 5, go in the 2nd stitch (instead of the 3rd/middle stitch) of the previous chain, slip-stitch. Chain 5, go in the 4th stitch of the chain, keep going.

8. rows 5 through approx. 8. If you're tired of learning, you're in luck. It's easy peasy from here.

Continue doing what you did for row 4. Use the middle (3rd stitch) of previous loop- chains for the basis of each new loop-chain. Except for at the corners, where you use the second and fourth stitches of previous loop chains. Do that until you have a mostly-flat oval that's about 9 inches/23 cm by 8.5 inches/22 cm for an 18 inch doll. (A little concave like a bowl is ok, especially at the last row, but a completely flat oval will also be fine). For another sized doll or human: about twice as long and twice as wide as the face. For a market bag: whatever seems right.

If you need to tie your string/yarn to another piece, push the knots and messy stuff to the side facing you, which will be the inside of your snood.

9. Last row: now you're going to riff on what you've been doing, but you just want to make a smooth edge of the oval now instead of continuing to make it bigger. So chain 3, go in the top stitch (3rd, or middle stitch) of a chain from last row, slip-stitch. Repeat until end of row. Tie off by making a final slip-stitch, make a knot, cut a tail of a couple inches, and then thread it through your snood to hide it, letting the tail point into what will be the inside of the snood.

10. Now cut about 40 inches/101 cm of ribbon and thread it through the last row. Pull it closed around the back of her head. This will be your snood! Alternative to ribbon: daisy-chain (loop through loop) until you have about 40 inches/101 cm, then tie off.

Now Addy can keep her hair out of her face while doing chores or playing!

For a market-bag: I do everything for the snood, but keep going until I have a bigger oval. After I’ve done the last row to make a smooth oval, I make a daisy-chain from one side to the other for a handle, and then single-crochet a couple times to make the handle more substantial. Repeat for a second handle.

This is the first time I've written out a crochet tutorial. Feel free to let me know if parts are unclear.

#doll crafts #tutorial #addy walker

[officialjameelajamil]

I weigh

Today is my 32nd birthday.

This is the best birthday I’ve ever had because I’ve woken up to thousands of women sending me pictures and messages about the things they love about their lives, and the things they have done that they are most proud of. This has been going on for days now.

I was scrolling through “explore” on Instagram (always a certified mine field for one’s self esteem) and came across this disastrously damaging picture.

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. A group shot of grown women with their respective weights posted across each of their bodies, and the post asking what we think of their weights and then asking its followers, “What do you weigh?”

WHO CARES? What kind of crazed toxic nonsense is this? What is this post trying to achieve other than to induce anxiety into young women about something so entirely irrelevant? What are we teaching women about our value? Can it be measured using a metric system? Why do so many posts like this exist on social media? How is anyone supposed to get through the fucking day happy with themselves when we are given such unreasonable and shallow goals to achieve, falling short of which, no matter who we are, what we do, how many lives we save, how many children we raise, how many people’s lives we touch, we are not worth anything.

I snapped. I am just done. I’m so done with seeing this and letting it pass me by. It’s so dangerous and disgusting. It’s so belittling and abusive. We are subliminally bullied all day by the magazines, the side bar of shame, social media, and by each other. The onslaught is so aggressive that we are going to have to retaliate with 10 times the strength to undo all of the damage to the global psyche of women. So I posted this:

A small ode to the brilliant life that I am so lucky to live, that I built by myself from scratch, to the friends I am so lucky to have and to my self worth. This is how I measure myself. What I did, how I made people feel and how much I have enjoyed myself. It has taken me 10 years to get to the realisation that I am worth more than the digits on a measuring tape. And more importantly, the push back against body shaming shouldn’t just be about how much we love our flaws, it should be about something that isn’t really about the body at all. Self acceptance is important. But we deserve more than acceptance. Let’s step as far away from the conversation about our bodies as possible and make acclaim, integrity, achievement, contribution to society and kindness: Values worth shouting about again.

I posted it on twitter, and within an hour women started sending me their own ones. There were too many to keep track of. It happened so fast. The pictures were amazing. None of them were posed and filtered, nobody was contoured to within an inch of their life, or sucking anything in. It was women living their lives, writing down all of the things they were grateful for and proud of. All of the degrees they have, the babies they made, the cancer they beat or are fighting, their families they love, the disabilities they live with or help with, the relationships they have built, the companies they started. Just women waking up and remembering that they are valuable, and they do important, difficult, incredible things. Things that are more than just achieving the perfect lip liner, losing baby weight quickly or being able to EAT PIZZA WHILST AT A LINGERIE PHOTOSHOOT!!! (WOWWEE!)

Here are some of my favourites:

Women of every size and shape and age and background sent me their declarations of self love and clapped back at the shame they have been drenched in their whole lives. We are attacked by this beast our WHOLE DAMN LIVES. Bemused parents are writing to me that social media has their 8 year olds talking about diets and what they dislike about their tiny growing bodies. We are facing an epidemic of self hatred. Instagram while sometimes an amazing way for us to share, is in many ways, hurtling us at light speed towards the demise of what the suffragettes were building.

We lack focus because we are concentrating on the wrong things. Most of the women I know wake up much earlier than men to get ready, and spend much of their time and money on complete nonsense like manicures and pedicures, hair treatments, and waxing. Women bleach their bumholes. THEY BLEACH THEIR BUMHOLES. This is how far we have gone with our pursuit of perfection, that we are no longer satisfied with the natural colour of an area almost nobody in the world will ever see. We have to be thin, but with big breasts and bottoms, gravity free, spotless, hairless, ageless, light skinned but always with a year round sun kissed glow; we must be fun and eat pizza and drink beer but also completely cellulite free and we must all have tiny noses and enormous eyes and lips but with skinny faces, but our skinny faces must never look gaunt and old.

And after all this, and after all the work we do, that we do as much of as men, ON SUBSTANTIALLY fewer calories than we probably need, we get judged more and paid less anyway.

NO. I’m sorry but at some point something has to give. We have to object. We have to do it together. Rather than just complaining about it, lets fill the void of sense with some perspective and some regard for the lives we are so lucky to live. An education is a luxury and a beautiful thing, not afforded to millions of women in the world. Bringing children into the world and raising them to be happy and healthy and kind is a great achievement, that literally builds the world. Surviving illness and war and trials of mental health makes a warrior out of you. Fighting for the rights of those who have no voice is heroic and important. Reading and writing and filling yourself with knowledge makes you so much more fun to spend the day with. Travelling and being independent and supporting yourself is the sign of a woman in control of her life.

We spend our lives in pursuit of the approval of others when we don’t yet even really approve of ourselves. My opinion of me is now (and only very recently) the one that matters.

I remember being 15, miserable and so relentlessly disappointed in myself, thinking it didn’t matter that I had a full academic scholarship and that I had a job and good grades, a Grade 8 in piano and I was a good kid, because my hip bones didn’t jut out, I had a round face and my thighs were forever touching. I was taught nothing else mattered. And that my fat covered up my achievements. I am so, so aware of the damage the media does to a vulnerable mind, it ruined the first 20 years of my life.

I found this really sad old drawing I did of myself when I 16, with what I felt I had to look like in order to be accepted by girls at school, and society in general.

I can’t sit by and read the messages of self hatred that teenage girls send me, about how they hate themselves for not looking like Victoria’s Secret models. I can’t watch what happened to me, happen to them.

I hereby call out every newspaper run by a man that shames women about their appearance.

I hereby call out journalists who write passive-aggressive shaming articles about weight gain and congratulatory ones about women who lose weight.

I hereby MASSIVELY call out celebrities who don’t document what it takes for them to look the way they do. If you have had surgery, say something. If you have a strict diet and workout regime, say something. It is UNFEMINIST to push an image that was created in the fantasy lab of the patriarchy, essentially that of a sex doll, to other women, and pretend that it comes naturally to you, and that junk food and lying down in expensive hotel suites is what keeps you beautiful. You have a platform and have to use it responsibly.

I hereby call out the fashion industry for STILL after 10 years of being called out, perpetuating the idea that expensive clothing only looks good on stick thin, barely pubescent girls. (None of whom can afford your bloody clothes)

I hereby call out the women who troll other women online about their appearances.

I hereby call out the trolls that live in our own heads and eradicate all of our achievements and shower us in self-doubt and loathing.

In this uprising of female power we must realise we are being set absurd extra goals, thick and fast. The further we come as a gender, the more ridiculous the ideals we have to fulfil become. We are being distracted and exhausted and our eyes are being taken off the ball. Every minute you spend thinking about how thin or gorgeous you aren't, is a minute you aren’t spending on growing your business or your life.

I’m not saying it’s not important to watch out for your health. I’m not saying your BMI isn’t something to pay attention to. I do think it’s important to try to be active and put good food into your engine. But I also think the shame and feeling of failure is what drives us to the unhealthy eating habits we acquire to “comfort” us when we feel inferior and depressed. It’s a catch 22.

And by all means take pride in your appearance. Enjoy your looks, and your clothes and your sex appeal, but don’t make it your number one concern and selling point. It can be in your top ten, but it should never, ever define you. It isn’t important. We aren’t supposed to all look the same. And nothing good ever comes of self hatred. It will never further you. It will always hold you back.

Please think of the things in your life that you are proud of, that fulfil you, that make you happy and write them down somewhere, and look at that list every time you feel that you are failing, or that your jeans are tight, or you have a chubby arm in a group photo of a night out, or when you watch a video of a Hadid eating pasta.

Please remember you have every right to be here, and your life is important and it is precious, and on your death bed you aren’t going to be thinking about your love handles.

I love women and we deserve so much more than this. We can do better. We have to.

We can win the revolution against shame.

#blog

[thewritespace]

Nesting Instincts and Echoes

There are plenty of times I look back on my childhood and adolescence and think, “What the hell was my mother thinking?!”

Circumstances this week bring to mind the time my mother said, “Sure you can paint the dresser.”

In my bedroom. With red paint. Spray paint.

While the incident probably accounts for more than a few of my lost brain cells, it undoubtedly also informed a life of decorating risks and rewards. It started with a small three-drawer chest, black, with simple line carvings highlighted in gold paint, and gold circle pulls…maybe 3” in diameter, two per drawer. I don’t recall if much prep went into the dresser beyond removing the pulls and a light sanding. I do know that I was scrupulous, in the way a 16-year-old girl with zero tolerance for delayed gratification can be, in prepping the painting theatre. Forty-five years ago there wasn’t a Home Depot stocked with blue painter’s tape and plastic drop cloths, there was only old sheets and newspapers. And a little collateral damage on a garment bag. It’s the garment bag that’s indelibly etched on my mind, much as the red paint was indelibly etched on it. Extra long to encase a prom gown, it dragged on the floor a bit as it hung from the closet rod. It fell victim to the fine mist of over-spray that swirled and eddied under the closet door, depositing cherry red sprinkles on the floor and the garment bag that lay upon it. Probably my mom got upset about the floor. But, come on, it was in the closet. And, hello?! Who let’s their kid spray paint a piece of furniture in the house already?

there’s no photographic evidence of the original, but here’s evidence that I learned from experience, when I recently painted my older daughter’s hope chest, in her living room, with pretty substantial prep of the area. 

And a brush.

I think of this now, because the End Times are coming, presaged by the Pinterest and Instagram pix my engaged daughter is sending me of mismatched chairs spray painted various shades of green. The End Times are coming, because my daughter, her son and her fiancé signed a lease on an apartment. She is in full Nesting Mode. Over the past five years, as anyone who will stand still long enough to let me tell them…and let’s be real, provide copious photographic evidence…I’ve been blessed to attend the birth of my grandson, to witness an incredible bonding of mother and son, to watch a beautiful baby boy grow into a funny, sweet, uh…let’s say persistent, rough and tumble, compassionate human being. My husband and I have been privileged to watch our daughter blossom in motherhood and we’ve been so honored to be integral parts of our grandson’s formative years.

Parents and adult children living together can be a challenge, but I like to think we’ve all risen to it. Probably we could have done better, but I think we’ve done pretty okay. If anyone asks, I would say communication is, as in most areas of life, the key to any sort of success.

I will miss the easy camaraderie and the comfort of the rhythm of our days. I will miss having her as back up if I hear a noise in the night when we’re home alone. I will miss her alternately being my enforcer (really hiding the Oreos) and being my enabler (hiding them in plain sight). I will miss her support and encouragement in all things and her ability to know just the wine I want when I want it. I will miss her proofreading my essays, because I know they’re good if they make her cry.

I’m not crying, you’re crying. I will not tell you all of the things I won’t miss, because that would ruin the flow of my story. As for my Jack…I will miss everything. Everything. From spontaneous “I love you, Groms” to 5:45 am calls of “Is it time to get up?” I will miss him sauntering through our bedroom at 6:30 in the morning on his way to use our potty – when there’s a bathroom right next to his room. I will miss his love of cuddling and the way he has to divide up his time between his people as we watch Fixer Upper before bed. The way he’ll read Sandra Boynton’s Perfect Piggies, “…but don’t sing it, Grom.” And in the next breath will ask me to sing the Armor Hot Dog Song. Everything, 24/7.

My first picture with Jack.

If you ever have opportunity to live with your grandchildren, take it. There is something incredibly special about the bond, the depth of love combined with the lack of responsibility that is precious and priceless. Although to be sure, I have both worried over him more and taken much better care of him than my own children. When caring for mine, I had to answer to me. When caring for Jack, I have to answer to Momma Bear.

Jack enjoys his first Celtics game with Papa.

I think a measure of our success as a multi-generational family is that I don’t want them to go. But I don’t want them to stay, either.

I mean, I do. But I don’t. A twisted microcosm of the roots/wings phenomena. It’s a time for letting go I have somehow not prepared myself for. As I pondered this late last night, in the recesses of my mind I could hear the faint echo of my mother telling me to “Let go and let God.” I think, I hope, I know that my daughter knows how much I love her. And her little boy, too. I think she knows because when each of my grandchildren has been born, I have thought, “There! Now, finally, that new parent knows how I feel about them.” And in grand-parenthood, the depths of love in the relationships I was so fortunate to have with my grandmothers becomes clear. My daughter knows she’s taking huge pieces of my heart with her, as she moves literally, just blocks away.

But I’m still not letting her spray paint any chairs in this house.

new roots, new wings. 

#paint #hopechest #newfamily #spraypaint #familylife #multigenerationalliving #roommates #roots #wings #movingon #motherandchild

[bellewatches]

9 Great Watches for Small Wrists (Under 40mm) // Seiko, Rolex, Hamilton and MORE

What's up guys? My name is Brock. You're watching The Modest Man and today we're talking about some great watches for guys with a smaller wrist. Okay, if you clicked on this video, then you might have a smaller wrist, like I do. But if you're not sure about your wrist size, it's a good idea to measure. So, to measure your wrist, you just need a soft tape like a tailor's tape. You can also just use a piece of string. Wrap it around your wrist and then measure that string. But you want to wrap it around at the widest part of your wrist, right over the bone, and then that's your wrist measurement. So, my wrist is about six and a third inches around, that's definitely on the slender side. I think anything under 7 inches could be considered small, but if you're like six and a half inches or less, I would say that you should stick with smaller sized watches. Now, when we talk about watch size, we're really talking about the case diameter. That's the most important measurement. So, that's just how big is the case without the lugs or the crown and a small watch could be considered anything that's under 40mm in case diameter. I prefer like 38mm or less. I'll definitely wear watches that are 36 or 34mm. I think those are great sizes if you have smaller wrists. If you have a smaller wrist, I think under 40mm is the way to go. So, I've asked a few of my fellow YouTubers and watch enthusiasts to share some of their favorite watches for smaller wrists, under 40 millimeters and then after we hear from them, I will share one of my favorite watches for guys with small wrists. These are great guys, who really know their stuff. So, if you haven't already checked out their channels, definitely go do that. All right gentlemen, take it away. Hey gents, all feels right in the world when I have a small watch on my wrist. At 6'4" and 170, I'm tall and slim, but with six and a quarter inch wrist, I like something that's a little bit more subtle and elegant. I have videos on my channel, where I talk about my favorite watch in my collection, which is my 34mm Omega, which is a bumper model from the 50s. But if you can't go with something that's a little more vintage, I have two recommendations for modest wrists. Number 1 is from a company called Nordgreen. This is the Philosopher model. It's 36mm only, 7. 2mm thick. So, it has that really nice slim small profile, comes in at the $200 price point and it is designed by Jakob Wagner, who comes from Bang & Olufsen and he also has an exhibit in MoMA. It's a quartz movement, but it is hackable and so not only do they have several different metals and sizes, but they're nice slim and sleek and much better than most other fashion brands I've come across. Number 2 is from the Internet's favorite watch brand, which is Orient. This is their Stella model at 36mm. The list price is $350. It was $210 when I was doing this video. It's 12.5mm thick, and it has an open heart displaying the F6T22 movement. So, it's automatic, it's hand whining and hack-able as well. There you have it gents, two excellent affordable and modest size watches for those wrists. Thank you Brock for letting me represent Tall Guys on The Modest Man. If you want to know about the best menswear on the Internet, regardless of height, come over to my channel at The Kavalier. Until next time gents, this is The Kavalier. What's up fellas! My name is Barron, and I run a men's style website and YouTube channel called Effortless Gent. So my favorite watch, in particular, for my small wrist is my Rolex DateJust 16030. Now, I know it's not the most affordable watch, but I think if you can only have one really nice versatile watch, this is the way to go. The 16030 is a vintage model, this is in the early to mid 80s. It has a black dial that measures 36mm. I think that is the perfect size for smaller wrists. My wrist measures six-and-a-half inches around, and I think it fits perfectly. Although if I did have a bigger wrist, I wouldn't say that this watch looks terrible on that either. I think it's a really handsome watch, that will look good even if your wrist is 7 pushing 7. 5 inches around. I think what I love most about this watch is the versatility. Now, I could wear it with jeans and a sweater on my days off, but I could also dress it up with a suit. The jubilee bracelet is a really nice touch and just that steel, all steel watch, with a black dial, it just looks really sharp. Ofcourse, many brands like Seiko, Citizen, etc. make watches that are very similar, very simple, steel bracelets with steel casing and a black dial. So, you don't have to go the Rolex route, but I think if you are looking for something, that is vintage, that will last a long time, I think this is the way to go, and there are many resources online that you can check out, that you can actually buy a vintage Rolex for a relatively affordable price. All right fellows, I hope you like my suggestion. Thank you to Brock for having me in this roundup, and if you want to see more videos from me, please check out my channel, Effortless Gent. What's going on guys! Teddy Baldassare here, and a big thank you to Brock, for letting me come back on the channel. So, I have a youtube channel, talk all about wristwatches and really the whole goal of it is to create a new generation of watch lovers. So, if you want to learn more about watches, definitely go over there, subscribe, I'd really appreciate it. So, when thinking about watches for smaller wrists, this is something I've talked about a good amount. I wanted to pick a watch that I personally own and that is the Nomos Ahoi Neomatik. So, my wrist is 6. 25 inches. So, definitely on the smaller side of things, and when I wear this watch, I really don't get any overhang but the one thing you have to be cognizant of, when you're buying Nomis watches is the lugs are rather long. So, that 36mm, certainly is a little bit deceiving because this watch is going to wear more like a 38 to 40mm watch, with its lug to lug height, a thing that you really need to consider, it has a 45mm. And why I like this watch? I think it has a clean minimalist aesthetic. On top of that, it has an in-house caliber like I mentioned, and the 200 meters water resistance while not having a traditional diver bezel. Has all the specs of a diver, except does not have the bulky design that a lot of divers have. So, that is my choice here today. Thanks again to Brock for having me on, and hope to see you guys on my channel in the future. What's up everybody! I'm Alessandro; and Brock, thank you so much for having me on your channel today. I'm the host of The Standard Wrist, a channel, where we talk about watches for small wrists and general watch talk. Lists, reviews, these kind of things. Today, I'm rocking one of my favorites Seiko 5s ever and that is the Seiko SNXS79K. This one has a 37mm case, which suits my six inch wrist, no problem; and this has got to be the best looking dial for around $120. I mean, look at that gorgeous sunburst dial. This looks awesome in casual outfit or in a business environment. The supplied bracelet looks okay. Doesn't feel all that great, but put this bad boy on a suede needle strap and boom! It looks the absolute business. I've been rocking this one at a Grand Seiko event and people were actually asking me about it. This is just how good it looks. You just can't go wrong with this one and if you want to check my review, just go to my channel, The Standard Wrists. In the meantime, thank you so much again Brock for having me, and guys, stay stylish and keep watching! What's up YouTube! I am Christian from Theo and Harris. Thank You Brock, for having me on the channel. You asked me to bring my favorite conservatively sized watch; a watch that fits super well on a smaller wristed gentleman. But, since I own a thousand watches, that fit those criteria perfectly, I brought you three. Omega Seamaster, it may not look like it, but this is an original classic sports watch. Great examples can be had between a $1,000 and $2,300, and they are some of my favorite watches. Next, a Cartier Tank Louie. Something that I get a disproportionate amount of use from, because I happen to love dressing up. But a watch like this definitely belongs in everyone's collection. And finally Rolex's DateJust. The watch that I've built my entire career and watches around. It measures in 36mm. It wears extremely modern, beefy and substantial. I think it's probably the perfect middle ground between old and new worlds. So, that's it, those are my picks. Thank you so much for having me on. All right, thank you guys. So for me, one of my favorite watches for smaller wrists is the Hamilton Field Officer Khaki Mechanical - kind of a mouthful. I think it's usually just called the Hamilton Khaki Mechanical. It's the manual wind diversion of this watch, so there's an automatic version, but this version is a little bit thinner, so I really like the size. It's got a 38mm case diameter, which is a very universally flattering size. Even guys with bigger wrists, I think look really good wearing a 38mm watch. It's a Swiss made watch, but it's from a brand that was American originally, and it has a lot of cool history behind it, so if you care about heritage, Hamilton is a really cool brand. Since, I dress casually most days, I find myself wearing this watch at least a couple times a week, if not more. For the price, it really is one of the best everyday casual watches out there, especially if you like a mechanical watch as opposed to a quartz, and if you like that field watch kind of military aesthetic. This is about as big as I'll go. I definitely wear smaller watches, like 34mm watches, and I would wear a smaller watch than that like a Cartier Tank or something. Now, if you love bigger watches, if you like that over-sized look then, you know, by all means, wear a bigger watch, but if you do have smaller wrists like I do, and you want something that's gonna look proportionate on you, I would stick with something that's like 38mm or smaller. I will link to this watch and all the other watches mentioned in this video, down below in the description. Thanks again to everybody who helped me make this video. Go show these guys some support by subscribing to their channel. Thank you, as always, for watching and until next time, stay stylish! what's up guys my name is Brock you're watching the modest man and today we're talking about some great watches for guys with a smaller wrist okay if you clicked on this video then you might have a smaller wrist like I do but if you're not sure about your wrist size it's a good idea to measure so to measure your wrist you just need a soft tape like a tailor's tape you can also just use a piece of string wrap it around your wrist and then measure that string but you want to wrap it around at the widest part of your wrist right over the bone and then that's your wrist measurement so my wrist is about six and a third inches around at definitely on the slender side I think anything under seven inches could be considered small but if you're like six and a half inches or less I would say that you should stick with smaller sized watches now we talked about watch size we're really talking about the case diameter that's the most important measurement so that's just how big is the case without the lugs or the crown and a small watch could be considered anything that's under 40 millimeters in case diameter I prefer like 38 millimeters or less I'll definitely wear watches there are 36 or 34 millimeters I think those are great sizes I'll be a if you have a smaller wrist I think under 40 millimeters is the way to go so I've asked a few of my fellow youtubers and watch enthusiasts to share some of their favorite watches for smaller wrists under 40 millimeters and then after we hear from them I will share one of my favorite watches for guys with small wrists these are great guys who really know their stuff so if you haven't already checked out their channels definitely go do that hi gentlemen take it away hey gents all feels right in the world when I have a small watch on my wrist at 6 4 and 170 I'm tall and slim but with six and a quarter inch wrists I like something that's a little bit more subtle and elegant my videos on my channel where I talk about my favorite watch my collection which is my 34 millimeter amiga which is a bumper model from the 50s but if you can't go with something that's a little more vintage I have two recommendations for modest wrists number one is from a company called noir green this is the Philosopher's model it's 36 millimeters only at 7. 2 millimeters thick so it has that really nice slim small profile comes in at the $200 price point and it is designed by Jakob Wagner who comes from banging olsen and he also has an exhibit in MoMA it's a quartz movement but it is hackable and so not only do they have several different metals and sizes but they're nice slim and sleek and much better than most of their fashion brands I've come across number 2 is from the Internet's favorite watch brand which is orient this is their stella model at 36 millimeters the list price is 350 it was 210 when I was doing this video is 12. 5 millimeters thick and it has an open heart displaying the F 6022 movement so it's automatic it's hand whining and hackable as well there you have a gents - excellent affordable and modest sized watches for those wrists Thank You Brock for letting me represent tall guys on the modest man if you want to know about the best men's wear on the Internet regardless of height come over to my channel at the Cavalier so next time gents this is the cavalier what's up fellas my name is Baron and I run a men's style website and YouTube channel called effortless gent so my favorite watch in particular for my small wrist is my Rolex date just 1603 oh now I know it's not the most affordable watch but I think if you can only have one really nice versatile watch this is the way to go the 1603 o is a vintage model this is in the early to mid 80s it has a black dial that measures 36 millimeters I think that is the perfect size for smaller wrists my wrist measures six-and-a-half inches around and I think it fits perfectly although if I did have a bigger wrist I wouldn't say that this watch looks terrible on that either I think it's a really handsome watch that will look good even if your wrist is seven pushing seven and a half inches around I think what I love most about this watch is the versatility now I could wear it with jeans and a sweater or on my days off but I could also dress it up with a suit the jubilee bracelet is a really nice touch and just that steel all steel watch with a black dial it just looks really sharp of course many brands like Seiko citizen etc make watches that are very similar very simple steel bracelets with steel casing and a black dial so you don't have to go the Rolex route but I think if you are looking for something that is vintage that will last a long time I think this is the way to go and there are many resources online that you can check out that you can actually buy a vintage Rolex for a relatively affordable price I thought I hope you like my suggestion thank you to Brock for having me in this roundup and if you want to see more videos for me please check out my channel effortless gent what's going on guys Teddy Balthasar here and a big THANK YOU to Bronk for letting me come back on the channel so I have a youtube channel talk all about wristwatches and really the whole goal of it is to just create a new generation of watch lovers so if you want to learn more about launches definitely go over there subscribe I'd really appreciate it so when thinking about watches for smaller wrists this is something I've talked about a good amount I wanted to pick a watch that I personally own and that is the No Mas oh boy neo Matic so my wrist is 6. 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I snatched my children from Sun Myung Moon

▲ Nansook Hong, 32, has found refuge with her five children (as seen in the photos on the table) in this house in New England.

Translated from French to English

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Paris Match 2579    29 October 1998 pages 108-110

Interviewed by Romain Clergeat       Photos by Yann Gamblin

She thought she had married the son of God on earth. Instead, Nansook Hong tied her destiny, at the age of 15, with Reverend Moon’s eldest son, a violent, drunken, and drug addicted youth with whom she had five children. Now divorced, the young Korean woman evokes her ordeal in a book recounting her story. “In the Shadow of the Moons” is published by Editions1. She wrote it “to assure my protection,” she admitted to Paris Match. Nansook Hong reveals the hidden face of the Moon empire: the brutality of her husband, Hyo Jin Moon, the hypocrisy of her parents in-law, but also the reverend’s scheming, the diversion of money, the blindness of the faithful ...  It is a story of a dive into a Unification Church hell on earth.

From 15 to 29 years of age, Nansook Hong dedicated her life to the famous Reverend and married one of his sons. Now she straightens the record. For the Unification Church it is a shattering book.

Paris Match. Your departure from the Moon sect three years ago provoked the Reverend’s wrath. Things seem to have gradually calmed down. Why have you put fuel on the fire with this book?

Nansook Hong. When I left, I immediately thought about telling my story. I felt a kind of moral obligation towards those who were still in the organization. I would be happy if my experience could “enlighten” even one person. I spent a part of my life, from 15 to 29, in the Unification Church. For my mental equilibrium, I absolutely needed to make sense of what I had lived through. I also wrote this book for battered women and those who live in fear. I want to let them know that one can always get out of even the worst situations.

P.M. Your parents are members of the sect. In a sense they “gave” you to Reverend Moon to marry to Hyo Jin, his son. Do you feel bitter towards them about that?

N.H. No, not for a second. They had dedicated their lives to the Unification Church. For them it was an honor that their child had been chosen by Reverend Moon.

P.M. During the years of your marriage, did you talk with your parents about what you discovered each day in the sect?

N.H. I never told them that my husband was beating me. It would have “devastated” them. To endure, I very early on considered my marriage as a mission that I had been given by God. I could not complain. On the other hand, when I began to understand that Reverend Moon was not adhering to the principles he preached, I talked to my parents about it. But we felt stuck. For a while, I naively thought that I could change all that from the inside. That, of course, was an illusion. So I concentrated on educating my children; I wanted to raise them in a good way.

P.M. When did your husband, Hyo Jin, start drinking and taking cocaine?

N.H. He was doing that from the start of our marriage, when he was 19 years old. He was doing it in rebellion against his father. He felt immeasurable resentment against him. He blamed his father for not raising him.

▲ The young Korean Nansook married Hyo Jin, Reverend Moon’s eldest son, in January 1982, at the age of 15. In the foreground, her divine in-laws.

P.M. Did you try to reason with him?

N.H. At the beginning, yes. But he quickly became addicted to coke. That said, the only times he spoke was when he took it ... but soon his words did not make sense. He had a very Asian concept of the role of women, and considered them to be subordinate, and certainly not meant to help him solve his problems. In the evenings when he was particularly angry, he said that it was all my fault ... Then he started to hit me, which seemed quite normal to him since his father boasted of doing the same thing with a female church member.

P.M. Do you think he would be capable of taking over the leadership from his father?

N.H. I heard it said that the Reverend Moon had designated his successor. It will be one of Hyo Jin’s brothers. When the Reverend disappears there will be a bloody battle.

P.M. Why did you wait fourteen years before leaving?

N.H. I have asked myself that for a long time. If I had been 20 years old at the time of my marriage, I do not think I would have stayed more than a year. I was 15 years old and I was very naive. As time passed things got more complicated, above all because of my children. Besides, I was very religious and Reverend Moon was the embodiment of the Chosen One. It took me a long time to break that image. It was a long and painful journey. When I decided to leave, at 29, it was, in a sense, totally unrealistic. I was the mother of five children, living in unbelievable luxury, and I was going to find myself living without any money and all alone. And a lot of people were going to hate me eternally.

▲ It was already hell. In 1993, two years before fleeing, Nansook with Hyo Jin and four of their five children. Photographed at a Moon property in Irvington.

P.M. How long passed from the moment you decided to leave the Church to the day you actually did?

N.H. In January 1995 I felt that I had to leave. The beating sessions became more and more frequent and I knew that it would worsen, and that he would attack my children. I did not want to wait until it reached that extreme situation. It would have ended up with him killing all of us. I remember one evening watching my husband get dressed to go to a strip-tease club or to the bars. I had like a revelation: God authorized me to leave. Since I had deep faith, I needed this spiritual permission. It was a kind of grace. It was the best day of my life. I felt liberated. All the same it took me eight months to realize what I had felt so intensely.

P.M. How did you escape?

N.H. First of all I secured custody of my children. Without money and caught off guard, I could not fight against the financial power of the Moons. I consulted lawyers. I rented a house and, bit by bit, I took my things to a storage place. Fortunately, my husband, under the influence of drugs and alcohol, did not notice anything. Within the Church, no one thought that I would leave such a luxurious life. This was my chance.

P.M. Isn’t it surprising, despite suspicions, that no one, starting with the Moons, reacted?

N.H. It did happen. When I went to New York to see the lawyers, several people recognized me and then made their reports. Following that there were times when I was told off, but I repeat, no one thought that I would really leave.

P.M. Have you received any threats?

N.H. Of course. But I had taken care to obtain legal measures that forbade my husband to approach us by less than 50 meters. That did not stop him from hiring people to track me down. In the end they did find me. Fortunately, Mr. and Mrs. Moon prevented their son from doing something stupid. That said, again these days, people come around to the house, call us on the phone and scare my children. I still fear them – and even more so my husband who is a dangerous man. I was scared, but the publication of this book and the publicity surrounding it will give me some protection. At least, I hope so.

P.M. Did the Moons try to buy you?

N.H. Of course. They tried everything from threats to propositions. Mrs. Moon sent me tapes in which she spoke about a reconciliation. She sent people to visit my parents, and my friends. They also wanted to buy my silence when they realized that I would not come back. I’m glad they did not offer me a huge amount of money when I was weaker; I would have probably accepted.

P.M. Do you remember the first incident that made you understand that Reverend Moon was surely not the Messiah he claimed to be?

N.H. I understood that something was wrong when I realized that he thought he was God. It was a shock to me. He took himself to be the master of the universe. And these days how can a person conquer the world if not with money? He spoke as much about money as he did about God. But I do not know to what extent he has not gone mad, he has not convinced himself that he is really the all powerful Messiah.

NANSOOK HONG “Sometimes the Moons gave $1 million in cash to my husband. It was for him to “recycle” in the Korean businesses of New York.”

P.M. How does the collection of money work in the Church?

N.H. At first, to become a member, it was very simple: you had to give all your money. Today, it’s more fuzzy. Moon still always wants more members and has to “content” himself with substantial donations but not total ones. The main source of income for the Church comes from Japan which is the most flourishing branch of the Church. At regular intervals emissaries bring suitcases full of cash. The Japanese members are probably the most fanatical. They work until they are exhausted to fulfill the goals of the Church. In addition to the restaurants, hotels, and newspapers that Moon controls, the Church hides behind organizations such as The Women’s Federation for World Peace. Under the pretext of humanitarian work, they go knocking on the doors of the rich and extort incredible sums from them.

P.M. How does money laundering work?

N.H. Oh, it is very simple! The Moons sometimes gave $1 million in cash to their children, to the sons, who immediately make a trip to the family owned Korean restaurants in New York. It is a very easy way to recycle the money.

P.M. You say in your book that the true power of the sect is in fact held by Moon’s wife.

N.H. Reverend Moon had several extramarital affairs that he called “providential encounters, trials that God put on his path”. He and his wife had some sort of tacit agreement, a little bit like Hillary and Bill Clinton. Given power and a fortune, she closed her eyes. She is the mother of his thirteen children; she knows all his secrets. In traditional Asian societies, even if the man commands, in the shadows the woman is pulling the strings. If you had a favor to ask Reverend Moon, the best way to get it was to address his wife. Unfortunately for me, she never supported me. My husband beat me, but according to her I was one to blame. If I had lived up to my task, I should have changed him, she said. But how could I have transformed a violent manic-depressive when they themselves, who called themselves superior, had failed in their education of their own son? In their defense, my husband scared them. He is the only one in the family who answered back to his father.

P.M. Does Reverend Moon have illegitimate children inside the sect?

N.H. In the inner circle, it is known! But people are bound by the money and the desire to preserve their comfort.

P.M. You say Reverend Moon is able to give speeches to the members for fifteen hours. Does he use drugs to achieve such performances?

N.H. No, absolutely not. But these speeches are translated from Korean into English, which reduces his effective speaking time to seven hours; which is not bad.

P.M. What exactly does he talk about?

N.H. It’s a pretty incoherent jumble about God, family, purity and other nonsense ...

P.M. What are you living off these days?

N.H. Through my lawyers, I receive a pension from the Moons for the education of my children. That is my only source of income. I work at an association for battered women.

P.M. After being betrayed, do you now find it hard to trust your fellow men?

N.H. Not really. I find it hard believe the talk of religious people. In any case, I do not want to be under the control of anyone. ♦

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Video : Hyo Jin de la “famille parfaite” Moon

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J’ai arraché mes enfants à Moon – Nansook Hong

« L’ombre de Moon » par Nansook Hong

Les Moon sont entrés dans Paris 1990

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Nansook Hong, transcripts of three interviews, including ‘60 Minutes’

Nansook Hong interviewed by Herbert Rosedale

Nansook Hong – The Dark Side of the Moons

Nansook Hong In The Shadow Of The Moons

Sun Myung Moon: The Emperor of the Universe

The Moons entered Paris in 1990; Hyo Jin fled in a black Mercedes when the police arrived!

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Nansook Hong entrevistada en español

‘A la Sombra de los Moon’ por Nansook Hong

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Nansook Hong – Ich schaue nicht zurück

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Exactly how Frankfurt's '80s Tape Scene Laid The Groundwork For The Urban area's Techno Revival-- Telekom Electronic Hammers

"Pass Away Puppe by Perish Type from France was actually a discovery to me because it was one of the 1st speculative albums that used the TR-808," mentions Weiss. "The absolute most magic instant of appointment Lars and Tobias was when I entered their place in Frankfurt and Tobias possessed an 808."

The renowned part of package came to be the central emphasis of Hypnobeat. In the years to come, as much as three would certainly be used on stage at one time along with a tangle of various other drum equipments as well as FX devices.

Roman Rütten was likewise fascinated with the opportunities of digital music. He had been raised as a classically trained pianist, however coming from the age of 14 he was actually swept up by the hooligan surge.

"I obtained all the documents from the Sex Guns until Sham 69, therefore I felt this symphonic music way is certainly not my style, I need to perform one thing of my personal," Rütten clarifies. "I started drumming on iron pubs with little bits of lumber. I acquired 4 strip recorders, and afterwards the 1st MS synth from Korg."

Rütten's project, Schaum Der Tage, started in 1982. He utilized a multi-track audio-cassette recorder to record noises and melodious passages from his synth as well as underpinned it along with simple drumming on a refuse newspaper container. The 1st Schaum Der Tage strip release failed to show up until 1986, however Rütten's musical instruction increased his lo-fi tips into distinct tune pieces.

Rütten additionally functioned with his old school pal Martin Schopf as Subrosa. Sometimes Schopf as well as Rütten bore down, albeit naively, to compose genuine tunes like "Thousand of Far Away", however they appeared most unforgettable spitting out the rude electro thug of "Zeitlos."

"Martin is just one of my earliest institution good friends," mentions Rütten. "It was a lot later on we determined to make songs together. I would not mention our experts made great popular music with each other, but our aim was merely enjoying yourself, making jokes during."

The price and also access of cassettes were actually intrinsic to DIY popular music culture in the 1980s. There were a handful of vital strip tags in Frankfurt that helped push this culture regionally and around the globe, via a combo of songs customer reviews, categorized adverts in magazines as well as handles on tape inlays. This below ground system relocated slowly-- it might take 3 months to obtain a reply to a deal of strips-- however it was actually vibrant.

Peter Weiss' Black and white Tapes was primarily a vessel for Hypnobeat recordings, but the Independent World compilations he and Steinfadt placed all together were a measure of the reach of tape culture. As local acts like Vo Ese, Hypnobeat as well as Stefan Freund, they were able to score monitors through Die Type, Pink Market, Tom Ellard (of Severed Moves), Steven Brown (of Tuxedomoon), Coming From Scratch and also much more.

"The compilations that Peter made were amazing," describes Müller. "He understood Severed People as well as people like that. So he would certainly acquire monitors through folks you wouldn't count on to help in a compilation that 'd sell possibly one hundred duplicates.'"

There was actually additionally a set of compilations on the MAM-Aufnahme, Ffm tag that assisted the local area setting alongside international acts, while No worry Tapes launched pair of thorough collections including ratings of overlooked, one-off jobs. Collectionism additionally stands out as a particularly achieved Frankfurt group coming from the era, while Niko Heyduck's collaboration with noted writer Thor Kunkel as Perish Synthetische Wohlfahrt provided a great self-released demo in 1984.

The abovementioned Klistier Records outlet was a core hub that offered the well-known industrial and experimental launches of the day. It's manner enhance could be found in Jinx, a shop put together in the Nordend neighborhood through Christa Kilbinger and Andreas Comtesse. It functioned as a bodily meeting factor for the tape scene.

"The fashion style in Jinx was actually influenced by musicians like Tuxedomoon, Paradise 17 as well as the clothes of ladies musicians," reveals Kilbinger. "Huge shoulder pads, large sports jackets. To minimize the expenditure, our team filled our personal self-made clothing as well. In the end of 1985, we began marketing strips. Our experts spoke to neighborhood bands and promoted the outlet in regional journals, where our experts talked to the cassette folks to obtain in call along with our company."

In 1986 Jinx coordinated the Frank Cassetten Festivity at Batschkapp, which included real-time performances through Hypnobeat, Cocks In Stained Silk as well as Collectionism. Before that, the place had held the rising ruffian motion as well as took place to take prominent industrial as well as new age acts like Tuxedomoon, Tool Channel as well as Chris & & Cosey to community.

"I played my 1st gig in Batschkapp opening for Pork Beat Policy," claims Uwe Schmidt. "The Batschkapp will bring much bigger international process, folks like Skinny Puppy and afterwards a nearby musician would open. I had no tip what to carry out when I participated in there certainly."

A substantial festival in Frankfurt's early digital record was actually Geminox. It was coordinated in 1984 by the late Walter E. Baumann, a neighborhood impresario from the area's abundant art scene that rushed the renowned fine art and also popular music magazine Schvantz! Geminox included speculative audiovisual performances through Z'EV, Nightclub Moral, as well as Mainz-based group Non Toxique Lost. It was also where Hypnobeat played its initial job.

"Peter as well as I were preparing the music for Geminox," discusses Müller, "and our company were actually unsure our company might play to such a big audience, merely both people. So our team talked to Tobias and also Pietro [ Insipido] if they will happen on stage along with our team and also take part. Peter and also I performed the drum programs, as well as they were managing the devices as well as using impacts systems."

When they were actually still pupils, a number of the musicians in this particular performance arranged their first online experiences by means of jobs at their colleges, albeit along with a reader that was actually arguably harder than the much more switched-on interrupt well-known sites.

"Tobias and I played our very first job at institution in '79 or perhaps '80," says Müller. "Our experts got some amps, took our personal devices, as well as we really didn't know exactly how people would respond. Individuals sometimes were quite vigorous, making an effort to take out wires. For ordinary individuals, participating in with drum makers evidently was a huge provocation."

"I was coordinating jobs along with buddies in university," points out Rütten, "one thing like a high school gathering. It was awful. Uwe Schmidt was aiding me to make the mix, yet a friend of mine made blow up puppets, which he burst along with fans that were actually louder than my music."

A few years much younger than the sort of Weiss, Freund and also Müller, Uwe Schmidt really did not start making music up until the mid 1980s. He initially pertained to the focus of the scene's protagonists at a makeshift school gig where he played along with his university close friends Olaf Finkbeiner and Torsten Kühne as Pornotanz.

"Martin stated to me, 'an old friend of mine is playing in a school, perform you intend to come?'" recollects Müller. "I assumed the band, Pornotanz, was actually awful, but the component Uwe carried out was actually outstanding, like a customized variation of Tavern Voltaire or Cutting Edge Convocation. I claimed to Martin, 'permits go as well as speak with him,' as well as coming from then on our experts blew up a friendly relationship."

It took a while before Schmidt presented his own recordings as Lassigue Bendthaus, caught on the lo-fi however deftly created 1988 document The Engineers Passion. It was actually released on NG Medien, a strip tag established by Rütten, Finkbeiner as well as Schmidt. The sonic development in between Pornotanz and Lassigue Bendthaus is actually subtle however obvious, and also it shows the greater changes that influenced the digital music setting both in Frankfurt as well as beyond.

"I was captivated due to the digital body music developments," points out Rütten. "I possessed connects with coming from the strip scene, to Costs Leeb coming from Skinny Pup. Our team accepted to release the 1st album by his brand new band Cutting edge Assembly in Germany on NG Medien."

Whereas the industrial culture of the very early 1980s had been undefined and also available, through the mid-to-late '80s specific new methods had formed. Key amongst these was actually EBM. Sequencers, samplers and also electronic technology triggered punchier dancing floor sounds. Sven Väth promoted EBM alongside various other digital dancing music at his nightclubs Vogue as well as Omen. Fabled, disco-era Frankfurt club Dorian Gray even compromised to this songs, largely with the work of local area promoter Andreas Tomalla (aka Talla 2XLC) and also his Technoclub celebrations.

Talla was also connected with Bigod twenty, an EBM team made up in Frankfurt in 1988 led through Markus Nikolai. Bigod 20 discovered better results in the very early '90s when they incorporated vocalist Thomas Franzmann (a.k.a. Zip Campisi) to their selection. Nikolai and Franzmann would certainly go on to develop the famous minimal property label Perlon eventually in the '90s.

Schmidt's own journey as Lassigue Bendthaus proceeded swiftly. Wrenching up hrs of workshop opportunity at the semi-professional Besser Tonstudio; after pair of years of meticulous job he arised along with Issue, his bold, compelling 2nd cd that bent greatly into the noise of EBM. Schmidt took place to document under credit ratings of aliases, a number of the best prominent being AtomTM as well as Señor Coconut.

Alongside EBM, the arrival people dancing popular music coming from Chicago and also Detroit additionally induced a seismic change in the digital songs garden. Artists were actually right now faced along with the possibility to take factors in an even more specialist, or perhaps commercial, direction.

"When Tobias and I started doing our stuff, Yellow Magic Orchestra released Technodelic," clarifies Müller. "Our company started phoning our songs 'techno'. Our experts utilized 'techno' for a long period of time, possibly until '87 or even '88, and afterwards once your house and acid scene started the tag techno quickly had a different meaning, and I didn't such as to utilize it any kind of a lot more."

Through 1987, the core companionship group of musicians as well as close friends in the Frankfurt tape scene included a rotary combination of cooperations and also experiments. Alejandra Carmona Cannobbio as well as Claudia Iglesias had entered the imaginative fold. Müller and Cannobbio had actually a task phoned Arquitectos De Ruidos, and also a loosely described group task developed phoned Area Industriel. They took a road journey to play a job in Barcelona, captured in wistful Super 8 through Freund and also readily available to check out on his Vimeo webpage.

It was actually around this time that the band Sieg Über Pass away Sonne likewise took condition. The initial file under the title, the Mr. Leben 7" in 1989, featured Freund, Schopf, Müller, Cannobbio, Iglesias and Heyduck. Adhering to the vacation to Barcelona, a clear crack arised in the group that left behind some of the core participants by the wayside. Roman Rütten, much more rapt along with the song-based structures of the post-punk and also gothic movements, was actually told he no more matched the team's cosmetic.

"At that time, around 1988, Martin told me I failed to suit the group anymore," states Rütten. "Him and Tobias and also all the various other individuals mentioned, 'our experts have to go our digital method, as well as Roman should go his post-punk way.'"

Rütten happened to several various other jobs throughout the '90s and also '00s, featuring Crux Ansata, Zerose and also Endraum. Meanwhile, Müller, Schopf, Cannobbio as well as Iglesias moved to Chile in 1989 and played their part in encouraging the growth of a digital songs scene in Santiago. On returning to Germany, Müller was informed he was actually zero longer a part of Sieg Über Die Sonne. Freund and also Schopf relocated to Berlin, proceeded the venture by themselves, and located considerable results with their wacky, crossover electro-pop noise.

"It's unfortunate for me," mentions Müller, "because many of individuals you are actually discussing were a group of good friends performing things all together, till around the late '80s when the entire performance started to break down and relationships were dropped. When I returned from Chile, I learnt in a very distressing way that Tobias and Martin were certainly not thinking about proceeding along with me."

This content was originally published here.

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Hackers Dissect ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 4 Episode 8: ‘Request Timeout’

Episode 8 of Mr. Robot’s final season was intense. We discussed zip ties, phone restoring, location trackers, mixers, Elliot’s sloppy Python script, and the final hack [SPOILERS, obvs]. (The chat transcript has been edited for brevity, clarity, and chronology.)

This week’s team of experts includes:

Jen Helsby: SecureDrop lead developer at Freedom of the Press Foundation.

Jason Hernandez: Solutions Architect for Bishop Fox, an offensive security firm. He also does research into surveillance technology and has presented work on aerial surveillance.

Harlo Holmes: Director of Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation.

Trammell Hudson: a security researcher who likes to take things apart.

Micah Lee: a technologist with a focus on operational security, source protection, privacy and cryptography, as well as Director of Information Security at The Intercept.

Yael Grauer (moderator): an investigative tech reporter covering online privacy and security, digital freedom, mass surveillance and hacking.

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Yael: I want to start out by saying that I agree Momofuku is good.

Micah: In the very first scene, in 1995, when young Elliot is playing hide-and-seek and hiding something in the Queens Museum, I thought it was cool that he was running past all this retro computer equipment from 1995.

Trammell: Getting to the Queens Museum from 2nd avenue is a long haul on the F to the 7. And isn't Krista's place somewhere in upper Manhattan?

Yael: During the cab ride, I couldn't believe they were still showing videos of Tyrell after he's dead. But I guess I can't say I'm surprised if they put a lot of money into producing it. I mean, it IS Evil Corp. Also, shoutout to Krista. She got KIDNAPPED and KILLED someone and was still counseling Elliot after all that. Talk about emotional labor. (Or don't, lol, Twitter is a mess.)

Micah: Yeah, Krista is quite the badass. I also liked that when they got to the police station and Elliot was like, "I can't go in there with you," she was totally fine with it.

Dom and Darlene’s Kidnapping

Yael: So the Darlene/Dom kidnapping scene reminded me of a conversation we had in a previous chat about duress, and how you can program stuff to lock you out, but if someone's gonna start offing people, maybe you don't want to. Also, how do you get out of zip ties?

Harlo: About a week ago, I did this kidnapping simulation, which was actually pretty harrowing. Before you go into the scenario, they try to prepare you by teaching you how to get out of zip ties, handcuffs, and duct tape. Brief detour: zip ties are fun. While you can definitely just bust them by bringing them down with enough force onto your hip bone, more substantial ones require a long enough shoelace, which you loop through the cuffs, tether to your feet, then flop over and pedal like you're on a recumbent bike to slice through the plastic. Super fun. Great parlor trick. But when I did the sim, it was tricky to feel confident and safe enough—and unsurveilled enough—to attempt the escape, even if you knew how to do it.

Yael: Timing is really important. I think Dom had the sustained training and probably experience to really use it to her advantage, in a way civilians probably don't.

Harlo: Also, kidnapping sims that you do after one day of training DO NOT ever bring in the "cuntstick" with a baggie full of different torture knives. That would absolutely dampen your spirit as far as escape is concerned.

Micah: I just wanna say that Dom is a fucking badass.

Harlo: Yeah, she fucking nailed it.

Micah: Pulling the knife out of your chest and stabbing someone else with it, then shooting your captors.

Yael: That was awesome. It was cool that Dom had a plan, too. I was pretty disappointed that she didn't before. And now the license plate thing makes sense whereas before I was like, of course Dark Army is surveilling you; they own you.

Harlo: I have a nitpick. In the scene where Janice calls her bang-bang-bois over Signal. Didn't Signal at the time NOT play the regular phone ringing tone? Instead, it was this kinda cool radar sound? It used to have this amazing submarine radar sound. Also, Dom and Irish bastard are not using Signal. They were using regular-ass phone. But whatevs. I feel like a fucking walking ad for Signal nowadays. I must be absolutely insufferable.

Yael: I heard something recently about how Signal wasn't secure for people in China who use an Android keyboard.

Harlo: It's because sometimes your keyboard is a snitch. It's not a Signal problem per se, but by default, you might find yourself typing secrets into Signal that are captured by your keyboard, and then, anything goes.

Yael: Well, maybe Signal shouldn't allow external keyboards, or not have them on by default, hmm…

Harlo: In settings: there is "incognito keyboard," and if that's in your threat model, turn it on.

Yael: Do you think Darlene giving up her brother's location was the right call? Or his phone's location? She's basically trading his life for (maybe) saving Dom's family members' lives.

Micah: I don't know… it's kind of impossible to decide between who should get murdered and who shouldn't.

Jen: Mr. Robot's version of the trolley problem. I mean, a bunch of kids were gonna get killed. Sad, but a reasonable call.

Yael: Janice could just kill them anyway, though. It was hard to tell whether Dom thought Janice was gonna kill her family or knew they'd have escaped. But I can see why Darlene did it. I was surprised she didn't do it after Dom got stabbed. I want to know whether it's advisable to tell your armed kidnapper to eat shit, then die.

Micah: She gets my respect for it.

Yael: I've had a crush on Darlene since Season 1. Even if she is a murderer.

Jason: I think it's hard to consider Janice a credible person to negotiate with. She seems unreliable… why would Darlene expect to survive, even if she does everything Janice wants?

Yael: Yeah, that's why I wasn't sure it was a good call.

Micah: Yeah, she's terrifying because she's an unreliable psychopath.

Harlo: There are different classifications of kidnappings. What we saw on Mr. Robot was NOT the most prevalent one, which is just about squeezing money out of someone whose family/loved ones might have it.

Phone Restore

Micah: I think when Darlene wiped her phone, she actually wiped it for good and didn't have a way to recover the data again.

Trammel: The secure element or TrustZone stores a key that is inaccessible to the user. If it gets cleared, then the Flash memory is as good as erased. How did she recover it?

Micah: I don't think she could have restored it, not without taking a backup of the phone first. But when you take an Android backup, the Signal app doesn't back anything up, so she would have lost Elliot's location even if she did restore a backup. I think instead she just installed her hacked Signal client again, and got pinged from Elliot's phone again. That's the only way I can see that working.

Harlo: I don't even think that Darlene would need her Signal mod; Elliot's was modded only to ping with his latitude/longitude periodically. So all Darlene needs is Signal.

Micah: True. Her hacked Signal client must not care about safety numbers—something we talked about last week. Elliot's Signal client could decide to not trust Darlene's number again if her safety numbers changed, but it looks like that wasn't the case.

Harlo: Yeah, I guess there was no safety measure like, "do not ping if safety number has changed" baked in; too bad!

Yael: Darlene got sloppy! Or maybe it was intentional, in case she had to ditch her phone.

Micah: It takes a lot of trust to put an app that tracks your location on your phone.

Yael: She grabbed Elliot's phone from his hand and put it on for him.

Harlo: Signal wasn't available as a plain old APK then… unless you built it from the source code. But it didn't look like Darlene had a computer with her.

Micah: She had a shortened URL to download her modified APK. Also, it's possible she just logged into a Google account and downloaded from the Play store.

Harlo: Ah, then that would be most expeditious. What I'm curious about is how she restored it. Like, if you need to use the Play store, you need a Gmail account. Or F-droid.

Location Tracking

Yael: I thought Janice had a good point when she said, "You didn't give me your brother's location; you gave me his phone's location." A lot of drone operators should learn the difference.

They seemed like they were outside of Krista’s house. How good is this geolocation tracking? Is it just a general location based on the device’s proximity to cell phone towers, or can it locate the exact floor in the exact apartment?

Jason: Geolocation on phones is flaky, especially if you're in an "urban canyon" like NYC where you don't have good line of sight to satellites. Phones also use Wi-Fi data and cell tower data to identify where they are, but it's not perfect.

Yael: Companies like Skyhook Wireless can provide very specific location data based on hotspot IP addresses. They have these huge databases that correlate hotspot locations with the IP addresses. They use a combination of direct hotspot scanning and the cooperation of app “partners” who pass along hotspot IP data from users as they connect. But I dunno if Darlene would subscribe to Skyhook; it's hella expensive.

Jason: Those location databases aren't super reliable. They'll give you a latitude and longitude that is precise but not necessarily accurate.

Micah: Android has two location permissions, "coarse" and "fine." I believe "coarse" location works without GPS and instead relies on Wi-Fi access points the phone can see, combined with Google's massive database of Wi-Fi access points it knows about, and "fine" uses GPS. I think she would use the phone's built-in location services.

Yael: How fine is fine?

Micah: I guess it depends on where you are, but if you take out your phone, open your maps app, and click the button to zoom in to where you are—that's how fine.

Jen: Kashmir Hill has done some nice reporting on some of the unfortunate situations that arise due to errors in those geo-IP location databases.

Yael: I was thinking about this recently with Protonmail. It has this new privacy feature that's supposed to remind your phone to wipe local data if you enter a certain area. But it looks like it would only work if you were right in the center of the country, and it seems like it’s hard to change the radius precisely.

Elliot’s Hack

Harlo: Elliot's stressed. Print twice?

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Jen: Yeah, he had some syntax errors in that script. SyntaxError on line 16 (first line in the coinCoins() function).

Trammell: The main call is cleanCoins(), but his cleaning function that passes them through the tumbler is named coinsCoins. And since Python doesn't check that when it compiles code, it might cause a runtime error. Hopefully Elliot doesn’t lose all his coins, like when Sonic hits an enemy.

Harlo: I was totes gonna drag him for that, but I gotta check the tape again; perhaps cleanCoins is above the fold and we don't see it.

Trammell: Sonic collects rings, not coins. Please disregard my attempt at a nerd reference and deduct one from my score.

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Micah: One of the print commands was Python 2. The other was Python 3.

Harlo: In 2016, he was probably not using Python 3?

Yael: Elliot has been through a lot. Or maybe there were different personalities typing.

Jen: Mr. Robot is Python 2, Elliot is Python 3.

Yael: What is little Elliot?

Jen: He's that programming language for kids.

Yael: I learned the little Python I do know from the Python for Kids book, by the way. "A resource for the rest of us"?

Micah: Also, why is he using both os.system() and subprocess.check_output()… to call curl? You can make HTTP requests directly from Python.

Jason: Yeah, he should be using requests.

Jen: TFW your TV show doesn’t get permission to use requests, so you gotta subprocess out to curl.

Harlo: lol, they can't afford the rights to show requests. Also!

Did y’all notice the autofill? _main_ (one underscore). Somebody's been writing some non-working code that they're hoping to deploy under duress… Also no pep 8, but hey, what are ya gonna do?

Micah: To be fair, he was in the middle of writing that script, and super stressed out, and clearly hasn't tried running it yet. So maybe we're not being fair. I have typos and broken stuff in my unfinished code all the time.

Jen: Yeah, we're just being annoying. It looks hackery enough for the show. We're just giving the readers of this article what they want: line by line code feedback. If I know anything about normal humans, they love Python programming.

Yael: I don’t think he’s slept in many episodes, either.

Jason: If he was doing real development, he'd have Stack Overflow up, and he'd be copy/pasting from it.

Harlo: Anyhoos, okay, we've got some curl with a cookie; and what are those other flags? Don't worry about SSL if it's not available? I forget…

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Yael: I just want Darlene to finish the hack because she "happens to be smart and good at things," as she said several seasons back. If this episode was Request Timeout, does that mean the next one is Conflict?

Oh, dumb question, but does Darlene actually need to find Elliot to finish his hack?

Micah: I'm not sure… I'm actually a little unclear on the details of the hack they're in the middle of doing, and how it works.

Trammell: Looks like the plan is to steal cryptocurrency and pass it through a tumbler to launder it.

Yael: Can we do an ELI5 about tumblers and mixers?

Jen: A coin mixer is a service you can move your coins through such that you can hopefully disassociate the coins with where they came from (which one would do if coins were illegally acquired). Like money laundering.

Trammell: The base64 doesn't decode to ASCII, unfortunately.

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Harlo: What does it decode toooooooo? Shall I get out the CyberChef?

Yael: I don't understand how any of this works, tbh. Like, I know he's trying to steal crypto. CryptoCURRENCY.

Micah: This Python script that Elliot's writing isn't actually the full hack. It's not even exploiting anything. It appears to be laundering cryptocurrency. I think once they steal the money, this is how they're going to retrieve it without getting caught. But this script isn't actually stealing the money.

Jen: The other comment is valid. It looks like at some point he renamed a function during development and when the main() function runs, it'll crash with a NameError.

Micah: It looks like the final output of the script is a list of new wallet addresses that the money was ultimately sent to.

Jen: Presumably, he'd run this in test before moving millions of USD worth of coins through a mixer.

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