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Surfaces are a two-dimensional whereas the solids are three dimensional bodies. For two –dimensional bodies, are to be determined but for three dimensional bodies volume is to be determined. This chapter deals with determination of area of two-dimensional bodies and volume of three dimensional bodies. Also the first moment of area and second moments f areas of plane sections such as rectangle, triangle, circle, T-section and I-section are discussed. The concept of mass content of intertia, principle moment of intertia and principle axis of intertia is also given.
4.1.1 Centre of Gravity
Centre of gravity of a body is the point through which the whole weight of the body acts. A body is having only one centre of gravity for all positions of the body. It is represented by C.G. or simply G.
4.1.2 Centroid
The point at which the total area of a plane figure (like rectangle, square, triangle, quadrilateral, circle etc.) is assumed to be concentrated, is known as the centroid of that area. The centroid is also represented by C.G. or simply G. The centroid and centre of gravity are at the same point.
4.1.3 Centroid of Centre of Gravity of simple Plane Figures.
(i) The centre of gravity (C.G.) of a uniform rod lies at its middle point.
(ii) The centre of gravity of a triangle lies at the point where the three medians* of the triangle meet.
(iii) The centre of gravity of a rectangle or of a parallelogram is at the point, where its diagonal meet each other. It is also the point of intersection of the lines joining the middle points of the opposites sides.
(iv) The centre of gravity of a circle is at its centre.
4.1.4 Centroid (or Centre of Gravity) of Areas of Plane Figures by the Method of Moments.
Fig. 4.1 shows a plane figure of total area A whose centre of gravity is to be determined. Let this area A is composed of a number of small area a1, a2, a3, a4, …. etc.
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We're holding a Twitter chat tomorrow night, 7pm til 8pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, focusing on professional development (PD). We thought we'd share some tips about participating in Twitter chats to help you get prepared.
What is a Twitter chat?
Not sure what a Twitter chat is? This definition from the Buffer blog explains it all:
A Twitter chat is where a group of Twitter users meet at a pre-determined time to discuss a certain topic, using a designated hashtag (#) for each tweet contributed. A host or moderator will pose questions (designated with Q1, Q2…) to prompt responses from participants (using A1, A2…) and encourage interaction among the group. Chats typically last an hour.
Imagine a business networking event—but without a dress code and with a keyboard instead of a bar. The same social customs apply—courtesy and respect—and it's a great way to meet new people with similar interests. There are Twitter chats in almost every industry imaginable.
Use a Twitter chat monitoring tool
Twitter chats use hashtags to group tweets into a conversation. You could simply search the hashtag at twitter.com but you'll find the conversation is easier to follow if you use a tool that aggregates all the tweets for the hashtag.
This is a simple tool with a really clean interface. It
- prepopulates the hashtag field
- allows you to reply, retweet, quote and favourite tweets with one click
- hide retweets from the feed (useful for removing duplication caused by people retweeting)
- pause the tweet stream if you need to catch your breath
The only issue with this tool is that when you reply to tweets you are mentioned in, it includes your Twitter handle in the reply, which is a bit frustrating because it takes up characters.
TweetChat is a pretty basic tool with all the functionality you need to participate in a Twitter chat. It refreshes in real time so you'll always see the latest tweets. It also prepopulates the compose field with the hashtag so you don't have to type it. Win! You can't see heaps of tweets on the screen but the neat thing about this tool is that the compose field floats, so even if you scroll down the page, you can still compose a tweet without having to scroll to the top of the screen.
Twubs is another free tool with all the essential functionality you need for a Twitter chat. It also prepopulates the compose field with the hashtag and there's a pause button so you can pause the tweet stream and catch up if the pace gets a bit crazy. You just login with your Twitter account and then you can tweet from the Twubs interface. There's no need to use the Join this Twub functionality, but you can if you want to.
Prepare in advance
We'll be running the Twitter chat from our group account @qutisg, so follow us ahead of the chat.
You might also like to follow the rest of our team, who'll be chiming in during the chat:
- @kathleensme
- @ellieabdi
- @skdevitt
Note the hashtag
We'll be using the tag #ilnpdchat – make a note of it so you're ready to roll at 7pm!
Read the questions and think about responses
I always find it easier to participate in a Twitter chat when I've got some time to think in advance, so we wanted to give you some questions ahead of time. Here's what we'll be talking about on Monday night.
- Should PD for librarians be compulsory and linked to professional accreditation? Why or why not?
- What are your top 3 goals for PD this year and how did you decide on them?
- What are the biggest challenges for you in managing your PD?
- What strategies do you use to keep up to date with what's happening in the profession?
- What free PD activities would you recommend to others?
- If funds and time were unlimited, what PD activities would you prioritise? What's on your wish list?
Right before the chat
Warn your followers
Tweet a warning to let people who follow you know you're participating in a Twitter chat and will be pumping out a high volume of tweets using a specific hashtag. They can then mute the hashtag.
Log in to your tool of choice
Log in to your Twitter chat tool and search the hashtag.
During the chat
Use the hashtag
Make sure you append the hashtag to all of your tweets – even replies – so they appear in the chat feed.
Answer the questions
We'll ask questions across the one hour chat. Each one will be prefaced with a question number hashtag. Example:
#Q1 What did you think of blah blah blah? #ilnpdchat
To respond, append the corresponding answer hashtag to your tweet, preferably at the beginning. Example:
#A1 I think blah blah but blah #ilnpdchat
Try to keep the question number in your tweets while you're still talking about things related to that question.
Tweeting answers you've composed in advance
Preparing answers in advance is a good strategy, but there are a couple of things you might like to keep in mind if you're adopting this strategy.
Wait for the question to be tweeted before tweeting your answer
It's best if you hold off tweeting the answers you've composed in advance until the question has been asked.
Participate in the conversation
By all means, prepare answers to the questions in advance and tweet them during the chat, but make sure you also try to engage with other tweeters. It's a chat – i.e. a conversation – and it's the engagement with others that makes it interesting.
Can't keep up? Press pause!
The Twitter chat tools I've mentioned above allow you to press pause on the conversation so you can catch up. If the conversation is moving too fast and you're feeling overwhelmed, use the pause button.
Recognise that you won't be able to read every tweet
There's no way you're going to be able to read every single tweet in the Twitter chat. Trying to do that will just be overwhelming.
Minimise noise in the hashtag
If you're having unrelated conversations, it's best not to use the hashtag.
How to tweet faster
- Use a Twitter chat tool so you don't have to type the hashtag.
- Don't worry about typos – they happen to everyone! This isn't an academic essay and it doesn't have to be perfect.
- Don't edit unless it won't fit in the character limit. Your tweets don't need to be beautifully structured.
- If you can't fit your whole though into one tweet, stretch it over two tweets. Just type … at the end and … at the beginning of the next tweet. While it's generally best to try and encapsulate one thought in a single tweet, nobody has time for crafting tweets in a Twitter chat.


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So here are some more of my favorite South African birds and, as usual, the images are not mine (see web addresses below).
The one with the red belly is a crimson-breasted shrike and I love him. His Latin name is Laniarius atrococcineus. I saw him regularly when I was with my original host family, about 8 hours north east of where I now live. I miss him.
Beside him is the crowned lapwing, or Vanellus coronatus. I see this guy where I live now. He likes open areas and I usually can see a few of them feeding in my school's soccer field in the morning. He stands about 20 inches tall and when I first look out into the field, if there are a lot of them, I mistakenly think there is a group of dogs on the soccer field. I like his red legs.
The nicely posed gray bird is the Grey Go Away bird and his Latin name is Corythaixoides concolor. I don't see this one in my area now, and too, saw him in my original host family's area and I saw him again in an area northwest of Pretoria. He supposedly makes a sound that "says" "go away, go away." But I think he sounds like a carnival wheel that has hit a bad note. I loved finding this bird perched in trees or in a Euphorbia because he reminds me of those kinds of birds I've only ever seen in a zoo.
And then the red-faced mousebird, or Urocolius indicus. This one lives in my area and for some reason, he likes to perch on chain-linked fences. I sit under the pepper trees by the tennis court in the evenings just to watch him perch there.
And lastly, the African grey hornbill, or Tockus nasutus. This guy makes a terrible racket. I met him when I visited friends in the area northwest of Pretoria and he was obnoxiously noisy. Remember the dog, Peanut? (I snapped a picture of him with his eyes closed and it looked as though he was smiling?) He would bark his head off when these guys flew over. They are in my area too, and once I was talking to my mom on the phone when they flew over. She said, "What was that?" The sound they make is indescribable, but it is definitely unpleasant.
So, no pretty pics to share today so I thought I'd find some on-line of my bird-pals.
And random things I've wanted to chime in on:
privacy: 1) the state of being able to be alone, and not seen or heard by other people; 2) the state of being free from public attention. (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English)
me: I have no privacy.
Did you know that you can "clean" your stomach of parasitic worms by eating certain foods? Neither did I! Neil Orr and David Patient of Positive Health suggest the following:
A handful of raw or roasted pumpkin seeds cleans many worms and parasites from your stomach.
A raw carrot a day...
Papaya leaves, dried and crushed then sprinkled over your food (like pepper)... Or pour boiling water over a half a papaya leaf then drink like tea...
Two to three cloves of raw garlic a day... Or you can substitute onions, but onions aren't as effective... (91-2).
So, I'm eating a raw carrot a day. Also I'm eating the onions, but not many. I could eat the garlic but the resulting smell I would emanate would have South Africans ferrying me to the next plane to the States.
Oh, I have to tell this story. My worry-worts are likely to be rattled, but it's a great story.
One day early last week, a group of young men woke me very early in the morning (around 3 or 4 a.m.) because they had gathered, as a group, outside of the hostel (hostel is what they call dormitories here) and were singing, whistling, and in general, making all kinds of loud noise.
Now, the last time a group of young men started singing so early in the morning, there was a student protest beginning and they set things on fire. So, I was somewhat alarmed but could see nothing burning, so tried to go back to sleep.
I later learned, (hang on to your hats worry worts!), that the gentleman had found a snake in their hostel and were making noise to "confuse it and drive it away." Apparently, this is a Tswana custom.
Now, I'm sure you are all freaking out by now. The snake in question WAS NOT INSIDE MY HOSTEL. It was inside the men's hostel across the parking lot.
Remember some photos from awhile back, that showed cattails growing 20 feet high? I mentioned how well things were growing out of the effluent, and was sharply warned to stay away from the effluent? That I had heard a "splash" over in that area, where the plants seemed vibrant and happy? Hmmm, let's see... Standing water, lush overgrowth... If I were a snake, that's where I'd want to be!! And that is where the snake was: in the hostel that borders the wet, lush, overgrowth.
My hostel's border is dry and well kept. No snake would ever want to live in my hostel.
But isn't that a great story? That the Tswana people come together as a crowd to make noise and confuse the snake? I thought so.
And now, with living on my own, I'm getting on my own last nerve. I've found that it's easy, when living with others, how the blame of irritating circumstances can be easily passed along to others. For example, when wondering whose pee is collecting under the toilet seat? It's my pee that collects under the toilet seat. All of the stacks of books and papers lying around, the ones that I was proud of seeing in the film Sylvia? (See, all great writers keep stacks of books and papers lying around!) All of my stacks of books and papers lying around are on my last nerve. Do I really need all FIVE pairs of my shoes out of the closet and lying about? And it really is nice to have someone help with the cooking and doing the dishes.
I think that's enough for now. I'm killing time before my class starts at 4:30. grr.
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Wow! I remembered to do this post on Sunday like I had originally planned! Late, but still. :)
Just have a few things from this past week.
- Levi: "My wove my two gwanma's."
- Levi doesn't like it when anyone calls Paige a nickname/pet name other than him. He calls her Paige-y sometimes. If I call her Paige-y or Paige-a-roo or anything like that he'll say, "No! My only call her Paige-y!"
- Levi has an imaginary pet puppy named Zoom-zoom. (????) According to Levi, he lives in a dog house at the farm at grandpa's. He is Buddy's friend. What can I say, he's got a good imagination!! :) Crazy kid!
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Welcome to the World's First Great Big Vegetable Challenge! Six years ago we went on a vegetable journey of a lifetime. A 7 year year old boy named Freddie and his mother faced up to the challenge of turning him from a Vegetable-Phobic into a boy who will eat and even enjoy some of life's leafier pleasures. We ate through the alphabet of vegetables...and returned to tell the tale. Join our Great Big Veg Challenge!
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Y is for Yams
There is a stall in our local market that sells exotic fruit and vegetables. On our first visit it was like visiting a zoo and being unable to recognise any of the animals. But now we are old hands. Freddie was circling the stall pointing at each vegetable saying, "I've eaten that", "Tried that", "Hated that", "Loved that."
He enjoys collecting football cards. This market stall has become his own personal vegetable collection.
Freddie stopped at one huge pen of vegetables and called me over. There was tray after tray of huge boulders; a Jurassic park of vegetables. They looked like nests of dinosaur eggs and Freddie was in awe. The price label said yams. On sale were Cocoa yams, white yams from Ghana, yellow yams, gigantic yams labelled Puna yams and Brazil soft yams, oozing sticky white milk.
We wondered if they might hatch if we took them home.
Yams are grown in tropical countries with different species cultivated in each area. I dithered over what to buy, my confidence waning. Freddie picked up one of the biggest boulders with skin like tree bark.
I edged up to a woman in the local fruit and vegetable market, leaning against a huge wooden tray of yams. I quizzed her on cooking techniques and how to prepare the different varieties.
"Are you feeding a lot of people?"she asked.
"No just the four of us."
"Well if you want to use it to put in a beef stew, then buy some white yams. They can be a little bit hard but they are good in a stew. The easiest thing is to make some mash. But if you want to make a really soft mash that little children will like, try the soft yam," she advised, pointing at the yam oozing white milk.
We brought our yam selection home. The yam is the swollen underground stem tuber of a sprawling vine. Each variety of yam differs in its texture, sweetness and moistness. They can be used like potatoes or sweet potatoes so I thought that we should try out Yam Rosti for a Sunday breakfast. We used the soft yam. When I cut into it and peeled it, it became very sticky and moist. I grated it into a bowl. By now the yam was soft and sticky and clung together. It was as if some kind of chemical reaction was underway. The yam rapidly turns an unpleasant grey colour if you don't add some lemon juice. Using a tea-towel I squeezed some of the moisture out of the grated yam and spooned it into little mounds to fry as rosti. They need to be seasoned with some salt and pepper as yam does not have a very strong taste of its own. Freddie and Alex, who have tasted rosti made from potato and sweet potato thought the yams were just as good. They earned 9 out of 10.
Yam Rosti with poached eggs
To serve 4
450g of peeled and grated yam
Juice of half a lemon
Salt and freshly ground pepper
2 tbsp of olive oil or knob of butter to fry.
4 eggs, poached
Peel the yam and grate it. You will need to squeeze some lemon juice into the grated yam as it discolours very quickly. Using a clean tea towel, squeeze the moisture out of the grated yam. Add some salt and freshly ground pepper. Stir round. Heat the olive oil or butter in a large frying pan. Put four tablespoons of grated yam spaced apart in the pan. Carefully flatten them down with a fish slice. Cook in the oil or butter for 1-2 minutes. Use a fish slice to turn over each rosti. Make sure both sides are golden brown and crisp. Prepare these in batches so warm a dish in the oven to store them as you cook each batch. Serve with a poached or if you prefer a fried egg on top.
How do you like your yams?
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Mmmmm! another great recipe and useful yam info. Have you come across Kumara? I found them in Sainsbury's the other day - and was transported back XX years to our honeymoon in New Zealand! I scrubbed them and left the skins on, tossed them in oil and seasoned well then roasted in the oven - the taste memories came flooding back - Abel Tasman National Park, a meal before kayaking in the creek. Kumara are little purple yams with orange flesh, slightly floury with a nutty flavour.ReplyDelete
Good luck with the book launch Freddie!!!
I can't say that I've ever had white yam, but purple yam (also known as Ube) was used a lot in Hong Kong and South East Asia. You could get purple yam cake and Ube mochi (a purple ice cream with a thin rice pastry surrounding it - delicious).ReplyDelete
This looks live a very interesting recipe: http://burntlumpia.typepad.com/burnt_lumpia/2007/09/purple-gnocchi.html
After having a brief google it looks like the purple yam is mostly used as a dessert ingredient.
I love the photo series of Freddie at the market--just great!ReplyDelete
Hi again - I've just checked, and Kumara areactually a sweet potato rather than a yam - whatever – they taste very nice!!!ReplyDelete
- Charlotte at GBVC10:11 AM
Magic Cochin - Our local market sells kumara - we will be trying them out this weekend.ReplyDelete
What a top recipe for a veg, believe it or not, I have never eaten! So well done Freddie, you are one up on me. And I am more than gutted I can't come and see you and your clever mum next week... :o(ReplyDelete
I love the photos of Freddie at the market. Most kids would run the other way. Kudos to you Charlotte. What an absolutely fabulous and valuable project!ReplyDelete
I love yams and want to send you my yam and spinach ball. Here is the link: http://www.tasteslikehome.org/2007/10/neglected-guest.htmlReplyDelete
I have never cooked with yams before, but I love the thought of having any type of rosti with poached egg on top. It looks simply delicious! Top marks from me!ReplyDelete
Its really really good - works with any kind of root vegetable - but Yams seem to work perfectly.
Cynthia - Thank you Cynthia - Wel will try this out this week!
Lori Lynn - thanks. The market is fantastic - full of things that I dont quite recognise...but we are getting better at the vegetable recognition...in fact Freddie is an expert.
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In the summer of 2015, SanSkritA completed a 200-hour Hatha/Iyengar alignment-based yoga teacher training, catapulting her into the world of professional yoga practitioners. Besides the intensive training aspect of the course, it also took her on an inward creative journey into self-discovery and an honest examination of her beliefs, limitations, motives, and potentials.
Today, SanSkritA continues the practice of yoga for both its physical and spiritual benefits. She has an in depth understanding of asana practice (safety first), pranayama techniques, proper alignment, modifying poses and adjustments, prop use, anatomy, sequencing building blocks, working with different body types, hands on adjustments, practice teaching, role playing, Sanskrit translations, exploring different types of yoga, Ayurvedic health, dealing with special needs, the history and philosophy of yoga and the business aspect of yoga.
SanSkritA has personally used yoga as a means to reach a meditative awareness of the inner life. As both a physical and spiritual practice, yoga has the ability to inspire movements of the spirit through which we are positively influenced in our daily lives.
In regards to her teaching style, SanSkritA writes, "I believe that yoga can inspire the best within us and I work on manifesting that sense of positive confidence in my students. It is not through physical feats of strength and flexibility that we gain purpose, but in the effort required to achieve this in the first place. If we put the effort in we will feel good at the end of the day, no matter if we can touch our toes or not."
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- Talkative Man by R.K. Narayan
Heinemann, 119 pp, £7.95, September 1986, ISBN 0 434 49616 2
Narayan has written a postscript to his new novel which ought to have been a foreword, since it answers the exclamation practically every reader will make on seeing it: 'Such a short novel!' One hundred and nineteen pages of large print would hardly make a novella: it is only slightly more than a short story. Narayan is perfectly aware of this inevitable reaction from his devoted readers, who can never have enough of Malgudi. His reply is uncharacteristically forceful: 'Why not only 119 pages? I question. While a poet or dramatist rarely exceeds a hundred pages even in his most ambitious work, and is accepted without anyone commenting upon the length of his composition, a writer of fiction is often subject to a quantitative evaluation.' Too true: we are conditioned by the size and weight of the classics, of the Odyssey and the Mahabharata, of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, to take seriously only what has weight, although the weight of a book's worth ought surely not to be connected with its avoirdupois.
The point is, can Narayan satisfy his reader with a book of this length, or rather brevity? He confesses that although he set out to write 'a full-length novel, and grandly titled it Novel No 14', it simply would not proceed beyond page 119, 'when it came to a halt, like a motorcar run out of petrol'. Far from being depressed, he decided – with that buoyancy of spirit that is a characteristic of a Malgudi man – that he enjoyed, that he preferred 'the shorter form, because it gives me scope for elaboration of details, but within certain limits; I can take up a variety of subjects and get through each in a reasonable time, while a novel ties me down to a single theme for at least two years. When I am at work on a novel, I imagine that I am keeping out a crowd of characters waiting outside my door, who are in search of their author.'
It will be reassuring for his devotees to know that the little town of Malgudi still has treasures to be discovered and explored – eccentric and everyday characters, piquant and commonplace situations – and that Narayan is ready and waiting to record their tales. The question remains: can a novel that has 'no laboured detail and description of dress, deportment, facial features, furniture, food and drinks – passages I ruthlessly skip when reading a novel' – give the reader a sense of a whole world created, of characters of flesh and blood whose experiences take over one's imagination and convince one of their likelihood and importance? It is in Narayan's style that the secret lies, the style of which Graham Greene said: 'After the death of Evelyn Waugh, Narayan is the stylist I most admire.' Economy is, of course, its salient feature: 'While writing, I prefer to keep such details to a minimum in order to save my readers the bother of skipping. Also, I have a habit of pruning and trimming when I look over the first draft, and then in a second draft a further lopping off is certain until I am satisfied that the narrative progresses smoothly.' Narayan sees 'details' as an impediment to the smooth progress of the narrative: very kindly he removes them from the reader's way. How does he convey with any force what he wishes to say of his characters and their lives? By trimming each sentence so that its meaning stands out vividly, unobscured, unsoftened, making exactly the impact on the reader's mind that he wishes to make, no more and no other.
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Oh, you didn't know volleyball had a champions league too?
There are a lot of champions leagues out there, all hoping to emulate the success of the famous one, European soccer's biggest event for clubs. North America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania have soccer champions leagues of their own. (South America's carries a different name, the Copa Libertadores.) There are champions leagues for 20/20 cricket, team handball, table tennis and roller hockey. And most of these events also have women's equivalents.
The volleyball champions league is under way now. The men's event starts with 24 top club teams, three each from volleyball powers Russia and Italy, two from Germany, Belgium, France, Poland and Greece and one from Austria, Bulgaria, Romania, Spain, Turkey, Serbia, Slovenia and Montenegro.
The teams are divided into six groups of four, and, as in the famous champions league, play each other home and home. The top two teams from each group advance, plus the best third place team..
Whoa there! That's 13 teams. How are we going to get from 13 teams down to one?
As you know, volleyball isn't nearly as popular as soccer. The soccer Champions League final could sell out anywhere in Europe no matter who was playing. But getting people to turn up for the volleyball Champions League final at a predetermined neutral site would be just too difficult. So after the group stage, the organizers pick one team to be the host, and that team gets a double bye all the way to the finals. The remaining 12 teams are reduced first to 6 and then to 3 by home and home playoffs. The survivors join the lucky host in a single-elimination final four.
The women's tournament this year is similar, though smaller. Only 20 teams are entered, so there are five groups of four. The top two in each group and three best third places advance. If it seems a little lame to you to play a whole group stage just to cut a field from 20 to 13, consider that in 2009-10 there were only 16 teams involved: four groups of four. The top three in each four team group advanced. And Metal Galati of Romania advanced as the best fourth-place team. Yes, a last-place team went on to the next round (They didn't win.)
Is there the equivalent of a UEFA Cup or an NIT for volleyball teams not good enough for the big show? There are two of them: the CEV Cup and the even less prestigious Challenge Cup. Sadly, they provide little fodder for devotees of sports systems and structures; they are both straight knockout tournaments from beginning to end.


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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Burda 10-2007-119, Frilled With My New Coat
I have loved Burda 10-2007-119 ever since it came out in the magazine. Love the shoulder princess lines and the vaguely military appeal. At the time, though, I wasn't confident in my skills to think I could make a coat. Discovering Pattern Review and blogging has really helped me to grow! I changed the style to single breasted and eliminated that decorative seam in the front panel.
The outer fabric is a wool herringbone from The Carol Collection that I had block fused in New York on LindsayT's recommendation. What a luxury! It was awesome to just cut into this fabric and sew it up without a couple hours of fusing in there.
I lined it with tie silk from FabricMart, in 2008 Cidell and I split two 10 yard bundles ($20/bundle). I have used it previously in an obi, as lining for a hat, and to make wine gift bags. I think it is fantastic for coat lining because it is stable and sturdy, and silk is so warm and luxurious. I had to use two different fabrics because there wasn't enough of either. I had enough of the paisley-ish (used as trim in this blouse) for the body, and used the striped for the sleeves. They coordinate well enough, and I brought the stripe in more with a big pocket in the lining. The buttons are also FabricMart, from a 4 pound bag.
The coat is interlined with a wool/silk/cotton from my Fabric.com Vera Wang $1.99/yd binge last January. I have to say, though I bought too much of that fabric (probably), I have sewn up a surprising amount of it. I'm not quite up to half, but I have certainly sewn down a quarter of it--and considering I started with 46 yards, that's not nothing. I was hoping to make a skirt with the rest of the interlining fabric, but working with it confirmed that it is just too wrinkly for clothes. Great for interlining, though.
I started this project by serger-constructing the interlining. I did not get off to a propitious start as the first seam off the machine was the center back seam--except that there was one large shoulder in the middle of my neck. Hmmm. The downside of a shoulder princess garment is that it's not instantly obvious which is the center back and which is the side back seam. However, not having to ease those seams as in an armscye princess is worth momentary confusion and dumb moves.
The trim is the only pricey thing about this coat. At $12/yd from Fabric.com, the cotton velveteen is an expensive fabric by my standards. But I had a vision in my head and if $12/yd fabric is what it took I would pay $12/yd.
I had about six inches over two yards of the herringbone. The coat is drafted to below-knee length (on a petite, or should I say alleged petite given Burda's ersatz petite-ing). I wanted a mid-thigh coat so I shortened the length 4 inches. This turned out highly fortuitous as I had exactly the right amount of fabric--we're talking about one extra inch of fabric. I actually managed to make a coat with a self-faced front! I like the contrast facing (as seen here and here), but in this case I didn't want to do it. I definitely did not want velveteen as the facing since it would pick up lint, stick to my clothes, and start looking shabby before the rest of the coat, but I didn't want to introduce a third fabric, either. Relief!
As previously discussed, my new technique for this coat was bound buttonholes. I will say no more about that trauma. The other new thing I tried was topstitching. I had been admiring the topstitched seams on the RTW coats hanging on the coat rack at the gym (love this surreptitious opportunity to look at all different coats). I thought that to get the dimensional effect you had to do a welted seam or something, but I figured I'd just give normal topstitching a try. It worked! That great look is not complicated at all!
As usual, I reinforced the pocket seamline with ribbon to keep the pocket line from stretching out. When it is cold, I generally walk with my hands in my pockets for extra warmth. I was not thinking when I sewed the pockets and sewed them with a normal 1/2" seam instead of a slightly smaller seam allowance to roll them toward the inside. I used the tie silk as the front half of the pocket to reduce bulk, so it's lucky that I decided to ruffle the pocket opening as it hides that contrast fabric. Here's a view of the completed pocket.
For even more warmth in the pockets, I lined them with fleece. I cut out fleece pieces based on the pocket pattern, cut off the opening edge seam allowance, and sewed them outside the seamline to the pocket seam allowances. I placed the fleece on the front of the pocket for an extra layer of wind blocking.
I separately constructed the outer shell, lining, and interlining. The interlining was cut to match the lining with its center back ease pleat. To put them together, I lined up the lining and interlining at the neckline edge, pleated them together for the CB ease pleat, and stitched as one to the inner collar, as seen above. I hand tacked the interlining to the lining at the shoulder and underarms as well to keep it from shifting, and sewed the interlining and lining as one at the sleeve hem. I trimmed the interlining an inch above the lower hem and it hangs free inside the coat. I extended the interlining all the way to the front opening edge on the left side and sewed the buttons through the outer fabric, interlining, and facing to secure. For the right front opening edge with the buttonholes, I trimmed the interlining a couple inches short of the edge and then invisibly hand-stitched the interlining to the facing to keep it from shifting around.
My original plan was to serger gather the ruffles. I adjust the differential settings as high as they go and...nothing. Absolutely no effect on the velveteen. OK, fine, I'll just use the sewing machine to run a basting stitch. Um, no. The velveteen was way too thick for that the work. So I had to gather all the ruffles by hand. I thought it would take forever, but it actually only took the length of Legally Blonde. I didn't bother to locate my thimble until I was almost done, and my fingers were pretty sore. I don't think I pricked myself, though.
I was pretty proud of myself on the cuff frills. I actually had to calculate the final length of the sleeves in advance to properly place them. I ran the running stitch so the frill would create a wedge shape, narrow at the top and the full width at the bottom. The cuff frills are one of my favorite features.
I was so scared about setting in the sleeves. The Tuxedo Jacket of Doom has scarred me for life. As I was cutting, I realized that I had forgotten to alter the pattern for a broad back. As a quick and dirty fix, I swung out the armscye of the side back about an inch and then tapered back into the side seam. With this additional length in the armscye, the sleevecap needed no easing. It went in like a dream. Since Kathleen Fasanella asserts that sleeve cap ease is bogus and I have noticed no mobility problems (I mean, it's a coat--I'm not going to be doing yoga in it), I may do this in the future for coats.
One of the big places where coats fail me, I find, is where the wind whips in through the sleeve opening. This is especially a problem on a bike, where your hands are positioned for maximum exposure of the opening to the whoosh of oncoming wind. I have been biking a lot this winter using my Capital Bikeshare membership. As an aside, I LOVE it--I did not anticipate how much I would use it. If you're in the DC area you should really consider joining. Being able to take one way trips and not having to deal with locking up my bike (not to mention I carry it up to the third floor for the season) are huge.
For years I wore these gloves, which I didn't even like very much due to the blah color. But that woolly (synthetic) cuff kept my arms safe from the wind so I didn't give them up until there were holes in all the fingers. I cut off the cuff and slid it over the lining/interlining sleeve before bagging the sleeves. Once the sleeve edges were sewn, I hand tacked the woolly cuff in place at the bottom of the lining. The sleeve opening is not beautiful to look into, but it seals that opening over my wrist and no wind is coming through that sucker. I did this to a lesser extent on my purple coat just using fleece. It will be a feature in all my winter coats from now on.
I did my first successful bagging of the lower hem. It was very exciting.
I used my digital camera to place the back half-belt correctly. I pinned it on, took a picture, adjusted, took a picture, etc. It was tedious but handy, as I'd been having no luck using my paper tape double.
I went to Baltimore on Friday to hang out with Cidell. Well, I told her it was to hang out. Really it was to force her to take photos! So there are a ton of them and they are great. It was even snowing. You can't plan that. We took pictures, did a little shopping (more on that later), and ate awesome pizza at Pepe's before I hit the MARC to go back home. I had been avoiding wearing the coat, not wanting to get it wrinkled, but I see that I managed to sit on the back in a wrinkly way. Oh well.
This coat took three weeks to make and I thought I'd never finish. But I wanted to get all the details right so I'd be happy with it for several years. I hate to say it, but I am kind of over my purple coat. I have been wearing it a ton this winter because it has been so unusually freaking cold, and I feel shapeless and schlumpy in it (may have to do with the weather). I didn't want that to happen with this one, though it's not warm enough to replace the purple (it's no good below freezing and really only starts to be useful a couple degrees above).
All photos are here and the pattern review is here.
47 comments:
- Little Hunting Creek said...
Beautiful coat - what fabulous details. Nothing Slapdash here - you may have to change the name of your blog :)
I especially love that ruffle trim. So chic!
- February 1, 2011 at 2:14 PM
- Lori said...
Incredible coat, it looks so fantastic on you. Your careful planning and all the details you thought of shows in the finished garment.
- February 1, 2011 at 2:16 PM
- Eugenia said...
What a wonderful idea to put frills on a military styled coat - the masculine/feminine mix looks great! It looks so stylish and cosy! I love those fun photographs - Cidell has done an excellent job!
- February 1, 2011 at 2:28 PM
It's difficult not to feel schlumpy when you're wearing a winter coat over 2 layers of long johns :-). But you sure won't look like it AT ALL in this coat! Fabulous, and fabulous job as well.
I should recommend double-breasted for warmth though, especially on a bike, but whatever. I find your inner cuffs quite interesting. I've taken to thick knitted fingerless mittens for the same reason, and they work well for me even with shorter bracelet-length sleeves (you can wear thin gloves underneath if you need them).
Totally agree with the incredible convenience of once-in-a-while biking, no schlepping, no worrying about theft and parking.. Absolutely the way to go. Although I'm less tough than you and I've given it up for the winter :-).
- February 1, 2011 at 2:30 PM
- Uta said...
Great coat! The combination of menswear type fabric with frills is one of my favorites. I love all the details you added to make it beautiful and practical for yourself! On the biking: I usually don't below freezing. Yesterday DD wanted to, although it was freezing, and I was so cold...
- February 1, 2011 at 2:40 PM
- Sewlovely said...
Love the ruffled trim! Great idea to insert wrist warmers in the sleeves and fleece lined pockets. I love that.
- February 1, 2011 at 2:41 PM
That coat was three weeks well-spent! I love the ruffle placement on the sleeves and pockets.
- February 1, 2011 at 3:09 PM
- Sheila said...
Beautiful coat and love all the details.
- February 1, 2011 at 3:51 PM
Really beautiful, I love hte ruffle. Coats do take FOREVER but you feel soooo wonderful when they are done.
- February 1, 2011 at 4:09 PM
- Carol said...
Gorgeous! I've traced this same pattern off and one day I may even make it! I love your frilly trims and I adore your yellow gloves. I envy you the cool weather. This morning at 6am I got up to go for a walk on the beach and it was 25 degrees celsius (80ish in your language, I think). I don't even want to know how hot it is now.
- February 1, 2011 at 4:12 PM
- Melissa said...
Absolutely beautiful coat! I love the ruffles too. A job well done and your time was very well spent! :-)
- February 1, 2011 at 4:16 PM
- Our Heroine said...
(singing) Fabulous!!! The frills are so fun :)
- February 1, 2011 at 4:50 PM
- Faye Lewis said...
I'd be thrilled with that new coat too. You did a marvelous job!
- February 1, 2011 at 5:10 PM
- MushyWear said...
What an impressive endeavor! I love how you re-used the mitten cuffs and lined your pockets with fleece for extra warmth. Smart thinking! Overall, it's a beautiful and unique coat. Also, just wanted to say I love your new workout gear too. You did a really nice job of customizing the tops. Feeling good in what you wear while working out is so motivating!
- February 1, 2011 at 5:38 PM
- Becky said...
Wow, the jacket looks great! The ruffle details are a very nice touch, too. And I love how many practical features you were able to incorporate into it and still have it look so stylish!
- February 1, 2011 at 6:23 PM
- Trudy Callan said...
I love the frills! This coat is so gorgeous and looks so warm.
- February 1, 2011 at 7:52 PM
- Venus de Hilo said...
Those cuff frills are awesomely fantastic! I don't need a coat, but now I want to put frills on something...
- February 1, 2011 at 7:53 PM
- Barbara at Cat Fur Studio said...
The three weeks you spent making that coat were very well spent. Love the ruffles. All the elements come together perfectly. Beautiful.
- February 1, 2011 at 8:01 PM
- Andrea said...
You did a beautiful job on this coat. I LOVE it!!!!! The added details that you added make it so unique. I never thought of adding fleece for extra warmth on the pockets. I'm going to have to keep that in mind when I finally make my coat.
Great photo shoot. I know you and Cidell had a great time.
- February 1, 2011 at 8:01 PM
- BConky said...
Your coat is so cute, love the ruffles. You look adorable in the photo's. You look like you are having fun.
- February 1, 2011 at 8:16 PM
- Jane M said...
What a fabulous combination of tweedy warmth and ruffly fun. Smart planning for those cozy pockets and cuffs. I love your whole ensemble....and also love that Pepe's pizza.
- February 1, 2011 at 9:15 PM
What a fun ruffled coat! I think, we all need to make a coat at this time of year to get through the last monthes of winter...Lovely! And I love the yellow gloves with it!
- February 1, 2011 at 9:32 PM
- Joy said...
Nice work on this! A winter coat is no small effort. I love that you lined the pockets with fleece!
- February 1, 2011 at 10:00 PM
- Lisette M said...
Coats are a lot of work aren't they?
I love all the special details, the frill, the sleeve "thingy" to keep the draft out. We still have a lot of winter left for you to enjoy wearing it!
- February 1, 2011 at 10:36 PM
- KID, MD said...
Wow, wow, wow!!! It is completely amazing. I love the shape, the color, the frills - everything! You did some beautiful work as well.
- February 1, 2011 at 11:00 PM
- kbenco said...
I adore looking at winter coats when it is 42 degrees C. It is nicely chilling. Thanks. I want some yellow gloves.
Your coat is totally cute. I love the cuff frills. I am amazed that your fingers are not bleeding, I am sure there is a hole in the top of my thimble after hand sewing velvety/corduroy fabric. I also find your fleece pocket lining and bike riding sleeve adjustment very clever.
- February 1, 2011 at 11:34 PM
- AllisonC said...
Great transformation of a pattern into something a little unusual, the ruffles are gorgeous. I really love your Burda-esque photo shoot too!
- February 2, 2011 at 12:34 AM
- Adelaide B said...
You have been making some amazing things lately. I love this coat! The ruffles are totally cool.
- February 2, 2011 at 1:30 AM
Love the coat & the yellow gloves. Nice job. Great details in your blog post. Thanks.
- February 2, 2011 at 7:47 AM
- Lindsay T said...
Three weeks is not a long time at all for this coat! You did a great job on it and you look spiffy-cute.
- February 2, 2011 at 7:56 AM
- BrusselsSprout_Katharine said...
Wow, it's beautiful, and you look great in it. Very stylish.
- February 2, 2011 at 9:37 AM
- Noile said...
You not only made the coat, but you changed significant features, and added some cool touches all your own! I love the use of the tie silk (not, ahem, "Thai" silk!) contrast/coordinate in the sleeves and the body. It looks wonderful on you.
- February 2, 2011 at 9:56 AM
- Cennetta said...
Outstanding! The coat is beautiful and well crafted. The buttonholes and the frills make it extra special.
- February 2, 2011 at 12:54 PM
- Audrey said...
Wow, this coat is not only great looking, but you incorporated so many great features to make it toasty warm as well. I have definitely made notes to myself that 1. Interlining can be done with any appropriate material, 2. Line pockets with fleece so that hands will be extra warm, and 3. Use ribbing cut from sweaters, gloves or socks to prevent sleeve wind tunnels. And the gathered trim inserted in the seams, I love it. In fact in my inspiration file I have a picture of a dress with similar contrasting gathered trim inserted in sleeve and bodice seams.
- February 2, 2011 at 1:45 PM
- -E said...
I did the out loud "Ooooooooo" when I opened up your blog. Awesome coat :)
- February 2, 2011 at 4:25 PM
- Clio said...
Three weeks is seriously not bad for a coat. I love the frill on the sleeves!
- February 2, 2011 at 4:48 PM
This is wonderful - I love the frill and the fleece-lined pockets
- February 2, 2011 at 6:40 PM
- SEWN said...
WOW!!! I love the contrast of feminine ruffles with the military look. Gorgeous coat.
- February 2, 2011 at 6:57 PM
- gwensews said...
That is an adorable coat! Wow, it looks fantastic. So feminine.
- February 2, 2011 at 9:06 PM
- Carolyn (cmarie12) said...
This is so stinking cute! I love the ruffled trim and how you adjusted the pattern to make it your own! What a great job you did on this!
- February 2, 2011 at 11:47 PM
- Rosie said...
The ruffles (and color thereof) makes your coat all you! Great job!
- February 3, 2011 at 2:52 PM
- ELMO said...
Love the idea of the fleece pockets, I have some scraps I don't know what to do with. Great coat!!
- February 3, 2011 at 4:04 PM
- Vicki said...
Congratulations! Fabulous coat. Fun photos too.
- February 4, 2011 at 6:49 AM
- senaSews said...
I love the combination of masculine fabric with the ruffle details. Great, great coat! And nice pictures, too!
- February 4, 2011 at 8:07 AM
- McVal said...
Brilliant idea to line the pockets with fleece! It turned out great!
- February 4, 2011 at 10:02 AM
- Isabelle said...
Great pictures! What a fun coat.
- February 8, 2011 at 1:58 PM
- Patricia said...
Beautiful work! What a trouper you were to hand gather the ruffle! I have found that sewing a wide zigzag over a string or size 10 crochet cotton thread works well to gather heavy fabrics. Just put a big knot in the end before you start sewing, and when finished zigzagging, pull both ends of the string to gather. The string can easily be pulled out after the ruffle is sewn to the garment, but it often doesn't hurt to leave it in.
- February 8, 2011 at 10:13 PM


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|CHO-Anti-Human CTLA4 MAb stable cell line is clonally-derived from a CHO cell line, which has been transfected with an anti-human CTLA4 MAb gene to allow expression of the MAb. It is an example of a cell line transfected using our proprietary CBTGS gene screening and amplification system.
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This picture was taken mid afternoon in Dubai, with the sun about half high in the sky. The flash power needed in this circumstances is no mean feat, if an umbrella is used. The aperture was relatively open at 6.3 because I used a Polarizer to soak up light and smoothen the skin tones. The main light comes from a shoot through umbrella with three Metz 45 at manual full power. The fill light was an on camera SB 900 set to manual 1/32 which also triggered the Metz Set up.
The three flashes assembled with their brackets. All of them had the diffuser on, and were set to full Manual Output.
I used three photocells to trigger them individually, because I used three different models. CT-1, CT-4 and CL-4 digital. I did not want the three different models with very different Voltages to be wired together. Therefore one cell for each.
!!!! Caution !!!! If you connect a CT-1 and a low voltage model to the same cell electronics might be damaged!
The main question I want to explore today is the one of multiple flashes used to get a stronger output. Joe Mc Nally's Christmas Tree like set up with many SB-800 and SB-900 are legendary.
However there is physics to be considered. Combining two flashes does NOT result in double the guide number. Because light fall off in square relation to distance one needs a the power of 2 of number of flashes. Therefore to double the guide number (effectively double the distance) FOUR units are needed. To quadruple the guide number SIXTEEN units are needed.
There is a German website http://www.plainpix.com/fototools.php which has a number of tools to easy calculate some photographic relations. On the bottom of the page is a tool where one can give in the guide number of combined flashes and the overall guide number is calculated.
Below is a table with Guide Numbers for additional flash units used. (Guide Number for ISO 100 in meters at 35 mm)
|Metz 45
Looking at the table there are a few interesting observations.
1) For each additional unit added the actual increase in guide number gets less and less. The second SB 800 adds 16 to the overall guide number. The eighth adds only 6. The conclusion is that the "many small light" build up has its limitations and the point where it becomes really impractical is quickly reached.
2) Comparing models in the table one realises that maximum initial power is desirable in such a set up. For a guide number of 90 one needs 4 Metz 45ers compared to 7 SB900.
3) Big Stobes are really more practical from a point. 500 Ws = GN 85, 1000 Ws = GN 120, 1500 = GN 150. Comparing price and bulk the big ones are worth a consideration if a high power light output is needed. To replace one 1500 Ws big flash 16 SB900es would be needed.
Huh? Isn't that contrary to the whole carry less equipment story that started the strobist movement?
Well a full fledged big flash set up with 2 to 3 lights is much more bulkier than 3 or even 8 small flashes. The many small flashes are also more versatile in distributing them. And most of the time when full power output is not needed the small flashes do the same job as a big one with a weight advantage comparing light to light.
However when Raw power is needed the big ones come to the forefront.
Back to the picture above. The three Metz 45 have a raw GN of 78. With 200 ISO , 1.7 meter distance that would amount to an Aperture 64. The light loss in the shoot throough umbrella of roughly two stops brings us to Aperture 22. A further two stops of loss for the polarizer and we arrive at 11. The wide angle diffusers bring us to about 8. Close enough to the aperture found by test shots.
The sky is in the direction against the sun and is still very, very bright. Closing the aperture further to get the sky darker would have needed quite a bit more light.
So how far can I go by using all my available flash units fired together? 2 x SB900, 4x SB800, 2 x Metz 54-4, 6 x Metz 45 Total =152 I have not tried that yet. There will be another sunny weekend in Dubai.


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- Symposium on Changing Employment Relations [PDF Version]
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- New Realities of Working Families: Overview [PDF Version]
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- Problems Facing the Working Poor
- Promoting Workforce Effectiveness and Life Quality: Early Evidence from the Cornell Couples and Careers Study [PDF Version]
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- Helping Low-Wage Workers: Policies for the Future
- Who are the Low Wage Workers?
- Functional Literacy and Labor Market Outcomes
- An Overview of Economic, Social and Demographic Trends Affecting the U.S. Labor Market
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Think a Wonder Woman Movie Could Never Work? Watch This Kick-Ass Fan Trailer, You'll Be Begging for More
When it comes to live-action adaptations Wonder Woman has struggled. Not since the 70s and Lynda Carter has there been either a Wonder Woman TV show or movie, and when they have tried, well, putting it nicely would be saying they failed. She's fared pretty well in cartoons, animated features, and video games, but when it comes to bringing Wonder Woman to life with a real, flesh and blood actress Hollywood doesn't get it.
So I say, let the fans have a crack at it. This trailer for Female Super Hero Fan Film from Jesse V. Johnson is astounding. This is what I want from Wonder Woman, not her juggling business and crime-fighting, not her discovering herself in high school, I want Wonder Woman kicking ass and protecting the innocent on a major scale. Johnson's trailer gives us that, plus Nazis, and who doesn't love seeing Nazis get the shit kicked out of them? Nina Bergman's Amazon is beautiful, but also capable and deadly. Ah! I love this so much, just watch.
What do you say? I think I'll be spamming Warner Bros. and DC with this trailer for the rest of the day. Seriously, call Jesse and cast Nina, please.
Source: io9
Category: Comics, Cosplay, Nerd Culture


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This Day In Sports History (March 11th) — NFL Adopts Instant Replay
It was on this day in 1986 that the National Football League announced it would use instant replay for the upcoming season.
In 1986, the technology was nowhere near what it is today, which made instant replay unpopular with players, coaches and the fans. As a result, in 1992 the NFL decided to abandon its instant replay system, but after years of complaining from several coaches, instant replay made a comeback during the 1999 season. Although there were still many aspects that were flawed, the ability for a coach to challenge a disputed call has definitely improved the game of football. The current rules allow a coach to challenge two plays throughout the course of a game. He is awarded a third if the first two challenges are successful.
Human element and mistakes have always been part of any sport and will continue to be in the future. However, instant replay has made the game better and less controversial. Although it might take an extra few minutes, it is always better to get the call right.
Notable Birthdays
Shawn Springs, NFL – Born March 11th 1975 (age 39) in Williamsburg, Virginia
Elton Brand, NBA – Born March 11th 1979 (age 35) in Cortlandt Manor, New York
Dan Uggla, MLB – Born MArch 11th 1980 (age 34) in Louisville, Kentucky


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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Boston Sports Tonight! *NOW WITH UPDATE*
This game preview has been brought to you by the letter B.
Anyway, now that Jason Bay has officially gone all the way at Fenway, it's time for us to set our sights on new and loftier goals. Like, for example, not losing two in a row to the goddamn Royals. GIL MECHE IS THEIR ACE. They're like the Poland of MLB: landlocked and utterly defenseless. I guess that would make us the Nazis so I'm going to go ahead and cut that analogy short right there. Point is, we can't be dropping games to shitty teams like Kansas City when we're still 3 games out of first place. So, like, go Red Sox.
Fun fact of the day: Since Friday, my fantasy team is batting .214 with 7 home runs and 14 RBIs. Without Ryan Ludwick, they're .168 with 4 home runs and 10 RBIs. That's so godawful I could just curl up in a corner and cry. What did we learn, kids? DON'T DRAFT PRINCE FIELDER IN THE FIRST ROUND YOU WILL SPEND THE REST OF THE SEASON MIRED IN SELF-LOATHING. Gahh!
Frivolous prop bet of the night: Didya see that insane-o brawl the Royals got into with the ChiSox this weekend? Sam Mellinger of the Kansas City Star suggested that the fight was "another small step on the franchise's path back to relevance." Really, Sam? Seemed pretty moronic to me. I'm pretty sure no pitchers in the AL actually give enough of a crap about Miguel Olivo to deliberately go after him. "These Royals are suddenly looking a lot like the potent Beltran-Dye-Damon-Sweeney teams of the early 2000s," writes Sam. I'll ask again: really, Sam? Like the team that went 77-85 in 2000? Or 65-97 in 2001? Or a holy-shit-let's-just-give-up-now-and-sell-the-team-for-spare-parts 62-100 in 2002? (Please note that 2002 was also the year Detroit finished 55-106, which kind of makes you wonder how on earth the AL Central as a whole, let alone the Royals, has continued to maintain any sort of relevance.) Anyhoodle, my issues with our friend Sam's analysis of the fight aside, the Red Sox are a team that people love to go after, and I'd love to see a fight tonight. I'm calling David DeJesus taking a swing at mega-Christian JD Drew after Drew tells him his name is blasphemous or something. Ooh, or maybe Josh Beckett and Gil Meche (god I love ripping on Gil Meche) will come to blows after a "tubby face/gross chin pubes" contest ends in a hopeless draw. Fightfightfight! IT'S IMPORTANT TO YOUR TEAM'S RELEVANCE DAMMIT!
Serious prediction of the night: I really, really miss the '07 Beckett. I bet he'll be back to form tonight (despite the purported Damon-esque prowess of this KC offense). 8 innings, 3 hits, 1 ER, several million Ks. BOOM!
Bay bats bizarrely, but Boston bowls over Bannister, breezes by Blue as Beckett baffles bats. Beautiful!
I think I should go to bed. Which also begins with B. Bye!
8 comments:
- A Pimp Named DaveR said...
The Red Sox: Brought to you by the letter B, hitting like the number 2.
- August 5, 2008 at 3:30 PM
- Hazel Maes Landing Strip said...
I have something in common with Papi, I heard a clicking in my wrist during the Red Sox game as well. But that was mostly due to the Heidi Watney interviews...
- August 5, 2008 at 3:36 PM
- Zach Martin said...
A fellow Zach has something to say about that...
- August 5, 2008 at 4:17 PM
- futuremrsrickankiel said...
Greinke is very good, but as I understand it Meche is still their #1 starter, no? Much in the way that Lester has better numbers on the season, but Beckett is still our #1.
- August 5, 2008 at 4:23 PM
- Hazel Maes Landing Strip said...
Wait, I thought even though he is hurt Curt Schilling was our #1
- August 5, 2008 at 4:25 PM
- Zach Martin said...
@FMRA - I guess. I hate it when shitty pitchers still are considered #1's. That's lame. Gil Meche sucks Peter Kings' sentimental (vieny) boner with his sweet ERA+ of 105. Meh. Your boy (and mine), Harden gave up 5 runs today. Something bad is happening...
- August 5, 2008 at 4:34 PM
- The A-Train said...
I'm guessing geography wasn't your favorite subject in school. Poland's not land locked, it's actually got 328 miles of coast (yes, I had to look up how many miles on Wiki. Shush you!) They are still quiet weak however, much like the Ukraine and the back end of the Yankees rotation.
- August 6, 2008 at 8:46 AM
- Zach Martin said...
I think she meant Belgium...wait...shit...i'll get back to you on that
- August 6, 2008 at 2:35 PM


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Profiting Off Islamophobia: Pamela Geller Pitches Book On 'How-To Guide To Fight Creeping Sharia'
Our guest blogger is Elon Green, a freelance writer living in Brooklyn.
Last October, right-wing hate blogger Pamela Geller signed a six-figure book deal with Threshold, Simon & Schuster's conservative imprint headed by Mary Matalin. Geller, not known for scholastic writing or research, has gained recognition by scoring interviews with John Bolton, pontificating in a bikini, and bashing Muslims. The news that Threshold agreed to publish The Post-American Presidency was ignored, even by her conservative fellow travelers.
In an interview with Publishers Weekly, Geller's agent predicted his client would justify the advance because "the book will appeal far beyond Threshold's conservative base." It hasn't. The Post-American Presidency has sold approximately 5,000 copies, according to Nielsen — enough to warrant a second printing, but hardly an indication of crossover appeal. Simon & Schuster may have underestimated the demand for a book that refers to the President as 'Barack Hussein Obama' 52 times (even if it's autographed) for the bargain price of $27.
ThinkProgress has now obtained the proposal for Geller's next book, which has been submitted to a variety of other publishing houses. A review of the proposal for Stop Islamization of America: A Practical Guide for the Resistance suggests that the project is a step too far for Threshold. (A Simon & Schuster rep declined to comment.)
According to the proposal, Stop Islamization of America — to be ghostwritten by frequent collaborator Robert Spencer, apparently — will be:
[A] how-to guide to fight the creeping sharia in our schools, towns, culture, government, and economy. It will elucidate the stealth infiltration of Islamic supremacism into every aspect of American life and show Americans how to fight back.
Read the full proposal here.
The work "lays bare the chilling details of the Muslim Brotherhood' s strategy of steady subversion and erosion of our freedoms," the 'evidence' for which includes construction of "mega-mosques all over the U.S.," "expansion of 'hate crime' and 'hate speech' laws" and "Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the Defense Department, State Department, and other government agencies." The proposal reveals a few of the section headings and their corresponding chapter titles:
Stealth Jihadist Members of Congress (Chapter Two, "Infiltration")
Telling the truth = hate speech (Chapter Four, "Silencing the jihad's foes")
Why CAIR and other Brotherhood groups need hate crimes (Chapter Five, "Hate crimes as weapons")
Fashionista jihad ("Chapter Seven: Cultural jihad")
Even children run the risk of subversion by the Brotherhood, via the "introduction of Islamic observances into public schools under the guise of pedagogical 'role-playing.'" This may explain the need for "guidelines that are far from politically correct, but are our only option for survival as a free people." Indeed, Stop Islamization of America will be "a much-needed wake-up call about a sinister, subversive agenda that could do nothing less than destroy the United States."
This time around, the target audience is relatively narrow. Geller predicts Stop Islamization of America will find favor with "readers of The New York Post, the Washington Times, National Review, the American Spectator, The Weekly Standard, Human Events, American Thinker, Big Government, Newsmax, and publications in that general ideological range." (It should be noted: this "range" is not vast — roughly from the far right to the far-far right.) Geller promises blurbs from conservative luminaries including John Bolton, James Woolsey, Andrew McCarthy and Geert Wilders.
Despite the limited audience, the optimistic Geller believes that Stop Islamization of America will be successful enough to warrant another book:
Based on the success of Stop Islamization of America, Pamela Geller is planning a book on the recent and ongoing proliferation of honor killings among immigrants to the West from Muslim countries, tentatively entitled Sex, Murder, and Islam: Honor Killing in America.
Contacted by ThinkProgress, Geller declined to comment. Her agent, Scott Mendel, could not be reached.
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Each May the Baltimore Orioles flurry through the backyard and it is spectacular! As the sunset calms the backyard each evening, the arrival and departure (migration) of birds brings me a feeling of light. Is that God?
- The Baltimore Oriole's sunset colored belly and flutter took my breath away today, (5/16/12).
As the rainbow's path begins and the "baby girl pink" flowers smile to themselves, I question the depths of sincerity and the ramifications we place on ourselves. What is the point of anything if we are not sincere? Because if I am sincere then, 1) I am truthful 2) I am sorry 3) I love you 4) I forgive you 5) I meant what I said 6) I apologize for the misunderstanding 7) thank you 8) my thoughts mirror my actions 9) I was wrong and 10) you were right!
- How is your sincerity working for you today?
- Do you glare at others with your actions?
- "Often individuals whose opinions do not correspond with their words cannot help but reveal their true thoughts in actions."--OM (I have had multiple retweets on Twitter)
Let's pray for the women, children and animals that need our determined protection at all times!
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NEW YORK — The pendulum swung again for stocks Thursday.
The stock market got a boost from a couple of encouraging signs that the economy could pick up after a winter slump. That wiped out Wednesday's drop, triggered by some unnerving news from the Federal Reserve.
Manufacturing in the U.S. expanded at the fastest pace in almost four years in February, according to a private survey by Markit. In a separate report, the Conference Board said its index of leading indicators posted a moderate gain in January, suggesting that the economy will continue to expand in the first half of the year.
"Today's market is reflecting the fact that the economy has gone through the doldrums due to the weather, and we should now see a substantial pickup," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 11.03 points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,839.78. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 92.67 points, or 0.6 percent, to 16,133.23. The Dow fell 89 points Wednesday after minutes from the Fed's latest meeting showed that a few policymakers raised the possibility that an increase in interest rates should come "relatively soon."
The Nasdaq composite climbed 29.59 points, or 0.7 percent, to 4,267.55.
The stock market is now close to erasing all of its losses after a volatile start to the year. Concerns about slowing growth in China and other emerging markets, as well as worries about the health of the U.S. economy, had pushed the S&P 500 down almost 6 percent for the year by the start of February.
Among individual stocks, Safeway rose 2.1 percent after the grocer said it was in talks to put itself up for sale.


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Firestone expands to EuropeComments Email
Giscosa produces EPDM at its Terrassa plant, located near Barcelona. The acquisition expands Firestone's global product offering as well as its manufacturing and distribution capabilities. It is Firestone Building Products' first overseas manufacturing presence.
"Expanding Firestone's manufacturing capacity overseas is part of our strategy to position the company to better serve the needs of our European and global customers," Tim Dunn, president of Firestone Building Products, said in a news release.
Giscosa is the manufacturing business of sister company Rollgum, which is not included in the transaction. The firms are not making financial details of the transaction available. The acquisition was completed at the end of 2013.
John Vasuta, vice president and managing director of international operations at Firestone Building Products, said all of Giscosa's employees will be integrated into Firestone under the new entity, Firestone Building Products Spain S.L., which will own the assets of Giscosa.
Giscosa brings a broader product offering, Vasuta said. The company produces clean sheet EPDM, and it also makes some different sizes of EPDM that are beyond Firestone's current capabilities.
The firm will be able to develop thinner gauge materials, different width and clean sheets. The acquisition also allows Firestone to break further into window, through wall and strip applications.
"Giscosa allows us to expand our global distribution capabilities," Vasuta said. "It positions us in a leading location in the European and global markets over there as well as strengthens our product offering."
Rollgum has been Firestone Building Products' long-term partner in Spain, and Vasuta said Firestone plans to maintain that partnership. He said Rollgum sold Firestone's large-sheet EPDM products for the roofing and lining industry and over the years complemented that offering with its Giscolene brand of clean sheet and smaller sheet products.
"This transaction allows us to expand the building envelope strategy that we have for Firestone Building Products," Vasuta said. He said Giscosa's Giscolene brand will be marketed globally with an initial focus in maintaining its strength in Europe. Over time, the brands will be made available through Firestone's global network. The firm also will examine Giscosa's processes to see what upgrades Firestone's technology can provide to its brands.
"This allows us to extend that partnership with them in Spain as well as grow the complementary products they have throughout the world by teaming them up with our products," Vasuta said.
Firestone Building Products is a U.S. manufacturer and supplier of commercial building products. It has existing sales networks in Europe and Spain. The firm is a division of Bridgestone Americas Inc., a subsidiary of Bridgestone Corp., and is headquartered in Indianapolis.


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Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited (GACL) Has Released Job Notification For Recruitment of Various Professionals.All Eligible Candidates Are Required to Download Detailed Advertisement From Their Official Website And Must Apply Offline On Or Before 25th May 2014 GACL Recruitment 2014 - Various. Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited Seeking B.Sc, BE, B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA, MSW, MLW, MHRM, MBA, LLB, MSW, Qualified Candidates to Appoint As Professionals On Full Time Basis In Gujarat. Candidates are advised To Check Detailed Individual Post Information Like - Exam Pattern, Syllabus, Age Limit, Selection Criteria, Exam Date, Eligibility Criteria And Experiences Requirement, Admit Card, Results Before Applying.
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Dr. JoAnn McCarthy has been named Assistant Provost for International Affairs, Interim Provost Peter Conn announced.
Dr. McCarthy will start her new position March 1, coming here from the University of South Florida where she has been Dean of International Affairs since 1999. In her role as Assistant Provost, she will work with the President, Provost and Deans to develop and implement the University's global strategy, enhancing our distinctive strengths as an international institution. She will oversee Penn's initiatives for increasing visibility in the international arena and provide leadership to move our international agenda forward.
This position, originally Executive Director of the Office of International Programs, has undergone some transformation over the past several months. "The increased responsibility Dr. McCarthy will assume reflects the increased importance this administration is placing upon global initiatives. I expect that in addition to running OIP, Dr. McCarthy will take responsibility for articulating Penn's international character, both internally and externally, and will encourage and promote international activities throughout the University community," Dr. Conn said.
In her position at USF, Dr. McCarthy has overseen the Division of International Affairs, which encompasses Latin American and the Caribbean Studies, the Center for Africa and the Diaspora, study abroad programs, services to over 2,200 international students and scholars, international recruitment and admissions, inter-national linkages, international distance learning projects, and international faculty and curriculum development. Previously, Dr. McCarthy served as Executive Director of International Programs at Old Dominion University in Virginia and at Illinois State University.
She holds a Ph.D. from Florida State University in foreign language education. Dr. McCarthy has served as President of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) and has also served on the editorial board of the International Education Forum. She was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Council on International Educational Exchange and has been an active member of NAFSA: Association of International Educators for more than 20 years. She has represented AIEA to the Coalition for International Education and the Alliance for International and Intercultural Exchange. She is a member of the American Council on Education's International Commission, the Group of Advisors of the National Security Education Program (U.S. Department of Defense), and the national advisory board of the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI Program for Foreign Language and International Studies. She has also organized and served as president of statewide consortia for international education in Illinois and Virginia.
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Your next door neighbours might not thank you when this comes bouncing over the fence, and it certainly won't be a straight forward conversation when you ask for your ball back.
When fully inflated this Giant Football measures at about 6 foot tall, that's one big ball.
It is inflatable so just remember, any sharp objects will punture this, and if your dog manages to get its mouth around this a punctured football is the least of your worries.
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Outland 3" Stainless Steel Bull Bar 82501.21
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Let's be honest: photog Mario Testino can really do no wrong! Though I'm never incredibly inspired by supermodel Kate Moss (due mainly to over-saturation of her image), she and Testino certainly paired perfectly for the April issue of Vogue Paris magazine to create a very well styled, South American-tinted editorial.
I love the mix of designer separates with Peruvian influence pieces. Fun fact: Testino is from Peru! Enjoy:
That's it - tomorrow I'm wearing a colorful headscarf, fedora and open blazer.
Lo que belleza!
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