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Anzac Day
It is ANZAC Day morning and I can't sleep quite right. I am going to the Dawn Service – but it isn't the same without Alice.
Alice was a war-widow who looked after me as a child, and I looked after a little in old age.
In memory, here is a post from 2009, the last time I went to the remembrance parade with Alice.
Alice was a war-widow who looked after me as a child, and I looked after a little in old age.
In memory, here is a post from 2009, the last time I went to the remembrance parade with Alice.
The original ANZACs were the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. They landed on 25 April 1915 at Galipoli in the Dardenelles for what was to become a protracted and punishing military defeat.
Australians (and New Zealanders) still commemorate Anzac Day as their national day of remembrance and with numerous dawn services, remembrance parades followed by war stories, stories about the (great) grandkids and drinking with your mates. It's a day that is both sombre and joyous, reverential and light-hearted. We remember our dead in a peculiarly Australian fashion.
Today I was privileged to go to the ceremony with Alice. Alice looked after me as a child and I return the favour in her old age.
Alice served as a nurse in the Second World War. Her first husband served in Palestine, Tobruk and possibly El Alamein – but paid with his life at the true battle for Australia – at Kokoda. (The reason I am not sure he fought at El Alamein is timeline. He may have been at El Alamein and he was certainly in Egypt but the main battle was fought at El Alamein in late 1942 and the Kokoda battles were already happening by then.)
Alice's family sacrifice did not end there – her second husband had what I suspect were continued psychological problems after New Guinea. Alice's son (Richard) served in Vietnam. (It is possible however that Alice's second husband fought at El Alamein – and she confuses which battles they fought in.)
I pushed Alice in her wheelchair at the Legacy War Widows Service in Sydney. The ranks of World War II War Widows are getting thinner – and Alice may have been amongst the oldest. She is the youngest (and one of only two surviving) of more than a dozen children. Being the youngest of many her father was not young when she was born – and – possibly uniquely – she was wearing her father's Boer War medals. The medals proudly were issued under Queen Victoria and Edward VII and showed their heads – reminding us that Australia has always fought under the auspices of the British Crown.
The ceremony was short and moving – and whilst I was pushing a wheelchair I did not feel that I belonged in the march. Other people had sacrificed much and I was a beneficiary not a victim. Still many tears were shed.
It was about an hour till the main march went through. Richard disappeared to march with his Vietnam buddies. I was left chatting with a bunch of mostly spritely women in their 80s whose husbands had died when they were 18-20. Most did not remarry though one did and the second husband died in the Korean War.
Their husbands mostly died in campaigns against the Japanese after fighting the Germans. The woman who sat next to me told me her husband served on HMAS Australia and was killed by a kamikaze at the Battle of the Coral Sea. I was surprised as I did not know that kamikazes had been used as early as the Battle of the Coral Sea (1942). Moreover it did not gel with her age as she was 18 married and pregnant when the war ended (1945) so it was unlikely that he was killed in 1942. But HMAS Australia was the victim of a kamikaze – possibly the first kamikaze and there were many dead. The date of that attack (January 1945) matched the age of her child. Not to quibble. She bought up a very well adjusted child as a very young widow – and she never remarried. It does talk however to how inaccurate memory is – even of very important things. Her mixed up memory matched Alice's doubt about which husband (if any) fought at El Alamein.
The march itself was charming, lighthearted, sad and poignant. And most of those things all at once.
It was led by a group of horses in full nineteenth century military regalia. After a decent interval came a man with a wheelie bin and a shovel who – to cheers from the crowd – cleaned up the horse dung.
Then came a riderless horse called Galant in lieu of any surviving veterans from the Boer War. Another riderless horse represented the First World War which was dated 1914-1918. Flags representing all Australian divisions that fought in that war were carried by serving military officers.
There was no horse and no other representation for Australia's (minor) involvement in the Russian Civil War (1919). Australia played a very small role in that war – and there were few Australian dead – but the parade did not honour them. The Australians fought in British units – though – according to this minor history at the Australian War Memorial web site Australia did send naval ships for reconnaissance.
After a decent interval came a formal precession led by Professor Marie Bashir. Marie Bashir is the Governor of New South Wales – and hence the representative of Her Majesty the Queen of Australia. Governor Bashir is I think 78 years old – but my spritely war-widow companions thought she looked young and fantastic.
Then came a large number of divisions of Second World War veterans. Some were carried in taxis, some in military vehicles, some in wheel chairs – but most marched. A few dropped out of the march to flirt with the war widows which I found hilarious and the widows found flattering. Many saluted as they went past us.
The women tended to look a little better than the men (which is not atypical amongst 85 year olds). Most colourful were the women who served in field hospitals who were dressed to the nines and all wearing gleaming (and elegant) white gloves. Interspersed were marching bands mostly provided by various high schools including my high school. My old high school (Sydney High) is an academically selective school with a history of taking the upwardly mobile children of the latest generation of immigrants. In the days that Jim Wolfenson went there it was full of Jews and other children of Eastern European refugees. It now is the children of Indians and Middle Eastern Muslims as well as South East Asians. The band filled me with hope for Australia – and the racial mix of the students in it differed dramatically from the all-white Second World War returned soldiers.
The troops went past largely in order of the campaigns they fought. Most of the campaigns I knew Australians were involved in – but there were groups that fought with Americans and other services (usually in specialised roles) that I did not know about. One example were the Polar Bears – a naval group covering arctic supply lines.
There were contingents from Korea, the Malaya Emergency and extensive Vietnam Veterans. There were small groups from the first Gulf War, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Finally there were groups representing allies we fought with in various wars. There were for instance a small group of Dutch soldiers who were assigned to Australian Divisions after Dunkirk. There were Americans (mostly from Vietnam), Ghurkhas and other assorted South Asians. The largest group were Vietnamese who fought for the South and later settled in Australia as refugees.
To me though one of the most moving parts of the whole parade happened by fluke. We tried to find a bathroom for Alice – and a woman who worked for Legacy led us to a disabled toilet. Legacy is a charity for families of war dead – and it was Legacy who had organised the War Widows special ceremony. They have a group for the children of war dead – and – for the first time – she had organised them a place in the parade. They were led by a military truck and in the back was their oldest member – a son of a soldier who died in the Great War – and their youngest member – a son of a soldier who died in Afghanistan. I would not have understood the significance of that baby had I not met the organiser.
And whilst I am sad for the child – if I judge it by the children of the war widows I sat with then the boy will turn out OK, and in sixty five years he will still be honouring his father's sacrifice.
PS. I have to repeat one of the comments.
My mother was raised in an orphanage in Brisbane run by Legacy. As far as I know, she doesn't go to A.N.Z.A.C. Day parades, but does go to the Dawn Service. The "Legacy Kids"/orphans have their own get-togethers. Every August for the past 26 years, the orphans have a re-union on the birthday of the woman who ran the orphanage. She was a Legacy employee who had lost her husband on the Kokoda Track. One of her brothers was a Rat of Tobrook (9th Division) and El Alemein veteran, who later lost an arm at Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea. Another of her brothers is buried in France, killed while flying for the RAF. After her husband died, she lost her only child. She later gave back by running the orphanage for Legacy. She touched hundreds of orphan's lives. They never forgot her. She was also my Godmother.
My Grandfather was killed in Sydney during WWII while serving in the Australian Army. My mother has never visited his grave – its just too painful, even after all these years. My father has an uncle buried in northern France, a casualty of WWI's Battle of the Somme. No one from our family has ever visited his grave to pay our respects. There are many families like ours in Australia with similar stories to tell.
Lest We Forget.
PPS. I have been a little perplexed by the stories told by the War Widows. They are sometimes embellished, sometimes the stories are compressed. I gather Alice's first husband fought with the 7th division. He could not have fought at El Alamein as he would have been in New Guinea by that time. Here is a history from the 7th's website. Almost all of what Alice told me (and the medals she wore) are consistent with this history – though she mixes her two husband's campaigns up.
The 7th Division left Australia in October 1940 for the Middle East. Over the next two months, the 7th was concentrated in Palestine. It was slotted for a move to Greece to help in the defence against Axis invasion, but instead moved into defensive positions in the Western Desert. Parts of the Division under the command of Maj General Allen crossed into Syria and fought a hard won victory in the campaign against the Vichy French . 18th Brigade excelled itself as part of the defence of Tobruk. With Japanese invasion of Australia imminent, the Division was recalled home. Elements of the Division (2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, 2/2 Pioneer Battalion, 2/2 CCS,2/6 Fld Pk Coy and 105 Gen Tpt Coy)were diverted to Java. They fought a defensive campaign against overwhelming Japanese odds and were only forced to surrender after an early capitulation by the Dutch forces there.
The Division moved to New Guinea and established headquarters in Port Moresby. The timely arrival of the Division in New Guinea helped to halt the Japanese advance.. 21st Brigade fought a bitter campaign of attrition on the Kokoda Track,until replaced by 25th Brigade who slowly forced the Japanese northwards. 18th Brigade and other Australian units inflicted the first decisive defeat of the Japanese on land in World War 11 at Milne Bay and then at Buna and Sanananda in January 1943. 21st Brigade and the militia 39tth Battalion won a costly victory at Gona in December 1942. George Vasey took over command of the Division in October 1942, until his death in a plane crash in 1945. Major General Milford then took over command until the end of the war. In 1943, the Division was airlifted from Port Moresby to Nadzab in the Markham Valley. After an advance on Lae, the Markham and Ramu Valleys were soon swept clear of Japanese troops. A bloody campaign in the mountains of the Finisterre Ranges followed.


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- jmcozzoli said...
Thank you, Pierre. Your kind words, coming from such a superlative (and award winning) blogger and authority on The Monster just made my day.
You pointed out the most thrilling part here, the waiting to see something completely new, novel, and thrilling. What a fantastic experience to have had. I envy these people.
- August 17, 2012 at 11:45 AM
It's possible, though not a certainty, that the graverobber display in the photo isn't a printed poster, but a unique one-of-a-kind creation (probably a tempura painting, possibly with elements added in collage) of an artist employed by the theater to produce such decorations for the lobby, front entrance, and marquee. Many of the big city movie palaces had such craftsmen on the staff; I have a 1930s Studio hardcover by "Duke" Wellington showing dozens of examples of his work for such theaters. Sadly, since artwork like that was seldom taken very seriously back then, it's likely that very little of it has survived, thrown away or stored carelessly or cannibalized for other displays.
- August 24, 2012 at 1:32 PM


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TORONTO (AP) DeMar DeRozan scored 20 points, Amir Johnson had 14 of his 15 points in the fourth quarter and the Toronto Raptors beat the slumping Orlando Magic 97-86 on Sunday.
Andrea Bargnani had 17 points, Linas Kleiza scored 10 of his 12 points in the fourth and Jose Calderon had a season-high 18 assists for the Raptors, who had lost six of their previous seven home meetings with Orlando.
Glen Davis led the Magic with 16 points and 12 rebounds, E'Twuan Moore scored 16 points and Arron Afflalo had 15.
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Afflalo scored four points as Orlando opened the third with an 8-2 run, cutting it to 51-49. A driving layup by Nelson with 1:13 left gave the Magic a 67-66 lead, their first since scoring the game's opening basket. Nelson scored six points in the third, all of them in the final 1:49, as the Magic took a 69-67 lead into the fourth.
NOTES: The Raptors announced that former C Jamaal Magloire has accepted a role as development consultant and community ambassador. The Toronto-born Magloire was cut during training camp, ending his 12-year NBA career. ... Toronto begins a three-game road trip at Philadelphia on Tuesday. The Raptors are 1-4 away from home this season. ... Calderon had 17 assists in a triple-overtime loss to Utah on Nov. 12. ... Buffalo Bills players Jairus Byrd and Kyle Williams attended the game.


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C. Michael Hogan PhD
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This slow growing narrowly conical upright conifer is native to Canada and the extreme northern USA. In the far northern part of its range, Black Spruce is noted for its dwarfing and its distinctive asymmetrical form sculpted by "ice pruning". Controlled by frequent wildfires, P. Mariana stands uncommonly achieve an uneven size distribution. Preferring soils that are peaty or rich in organic material, P. mariana is able to out-compete other tree species in many parts of its range, and is also dominant where rooting depth is limited over permafrost.
The Black Spruce/Feathermoss climax forest occurs in the south to central range and exhibit moderately dense canopy featuring a forest floor of feathermosses (e.g. Hylocomium splendens, Pleurozium schreberi, Ptilium crista-castrensis). Black Spruce/Sedge forest manifests open stands of dwarfed trees on wet sites with the understory dominated by sedges, grasses and mosses (but not sphagnum) Black Spruce/Speckled Alder forests occur where groundwater is perched, at least during the summer. Black Spruce/Sphagnum Bog forests are found above humus rich or moist high mineral soils with extensive dwarf shrub and sphagnum mosses understory. Typically in the northerly part of its range Black Spruce forests are dwarfed and sparse, exhibiting severe "ice pruning". In these northern forests there are many lichen species that thrive on exposed boulders on the forest floor (e.g. Worm lichen, Finger lichen, Jewel lichen, Map lichen, Pixie cup, Sunburst lichen and Rock tripe)
Pollen core analysis indicates that P. mariana and P. glauca both invaded central Alberta as recently as the early Holcene, (Begon) with peak densities occurring about 3400 BC outstripping the populations of P. glauca, which thrives on high mineral mesic soils; it is likely that these peak densities of P. mariana correspond to a point in time where organic material had time to accumulate, this rich humus being the preferred soil for Black Spruce.
{This is an upright tree with a narrow crown attaining ten to 15 meters in height except for the northernmost part of its range, where growth is dwarfed from the shield geology, shallow permafrost and abbreviated growing season. Trunks of the Black Spruce are only about 15 to 40 cm in diameter, and lesser in the far north. The thin bark is somewhat scaly and brown, and twigs are hairy. Branches are very short, and dead branches are retained for many years. The short stiff evergreen needles are four-sided. The common name "Black Spruce" derives from the dark green foliage, and likely from the very dark contrast in snowy environments, where ice-pruning also accentuates the woodiness. (Ice pruning is the phenomenon, whereby windward branches are selectively pruned by wind driven snow and ice, preferentially defoliating the windward side leaves.)
The shallow root architecture is ideally adapted to thin soils atop shallow permafrost and rocky shield formations; for these reasons Black Spruce is a dominant tree in its northern range. Nevertheless, shallow rooting renders this species vulnerable to wind-throw. The monoecious flowers feature purple female flowers and red male structures, the latter turning yellow in the late summer. The cones are more diminutive than any other spruce, measuring 1.5 to three cm in length.(Viereck) These grayish black fruits are ovoid to spherical and are concentrated in the upper portion of the crown.
When bogs reach a eutrophic climax and create a sedge mat, Larix laricina and P. mariana typically are first invaders; after more thorough Black Spruce establishment, the soil fertility may advance, with Abies balsamea and Thuja occidentalis generally replacing the pioneers On the Great Slave and Keller Lake plains, an early colonization stage is sometimes a raised polygonal permafrost bog with isolated Black Spruce in windswept krumholz forms.
Fire incidence promotes frequently recurring successional communities. Hardwoods Betula papyrifera and Populus tremuloides are pioneer invaders to burns of Black Spruce. Since P.mariana seeds rapidly subsequent to a forest burn, it will typically advance to a dominant position over the successional hardwoods.
In the far northern range of Black Spruce an interesting but abbreviated palette of mammals subsist; for example, in the late fall I have observed Ursus maritimus migrating to the forming ice pack (Hogan) and arctic fox. A limited number of birds occur in association with the far northern Black Spruce forests. In the western Hudson Bay Plain, I observed the Gray Jay, Gyrfalcon, Willow Ptarmigan and Corvus corax; easterly in Labrador others report the Rock Ptarmigan, Snow Bunting and Wheatear. (Boston) Spruce budworm larvae can defoliate P. mariana, leading to tree death if these events recur in several successive years
Special consideration may be warranted for recent burned Black Spruce forests, since these regimes are associated with high bird biodiversity.(Burton) Furthermore, old growth Black Spruce forests merit protection, since they offer unusually high densities of Rangifer tarandus, which species is threatened in some local areas. Efforts need to be taken to prevent habitat fragmentation since some of the large mammalian species (e.g. Ursus Maritimus and Rangifer tarandus) depend on considerable migration distances; moreover, continuity of habitat in the harsh north is highly desirable to promote Rescue Effect for many species of plants and animals. These needs are amplified due to threats of climate change, and resulting enhanced demands on faunal migration.
Michael Begon and Alastair H. Fitter (1993) Advances in Ecological Research: Volume 24,
Academic Press, 410 pages ISBN 0120139243
* Leslie A. Viereck, Elbert L. Little, Jr., Elbert uther Little, George W. Argus (2007)
Alaska Trees and Shrubs, University of Alaska Press, 370 pages ISBN 1889963860
* Michael G. Barbour and William Dwight Billings (2000) North American Terrestrial Vegetation, Second edition, Cambridge University Press, 708 pages ISBN 0521559863
* David E. Reichle (1981) Dynamic Properties of Forest Ecosystems, Published by CUP Archive, 683 pages ISBN 0521225086
* C.Michael Hogan (2008) Polar Bear: Ursus maritimus, GlobalTwitcher, ed. Nicklas Stromberg
* Boston Society of Natural History (1907) Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History
* Philip Joseph Burton and W. L. Adamowicz (2003) Towards Sustainable Management of the Boreal Forest, NRC Research Press, 1039 pages ISBN 0660187620
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Kids, in the spring of 2014, "How I Met Your Mother" aired its final episode, and part of its legacy may be its knack for long-running gags.
See, the genius behind the CBS comedy wasn't just the nonlinear storytelling, but the writers' way of weaving inside jokes and recurring story lines to sometimes deliver a humorous slap to the face stronger than Marshall's storied slap of a thousand suns.
With "How I Met Your Mother" having come to a close Monday and Ted (Josh Radnor) having revealed how he meets the titular mother of his two children (and what shockingly happened after that), we look back at the prolonged witticisms that writers and show runners Carter Bays and Craig Thomas sprinkled throughout the series. Besides, the audience has always been the honorary sixth member of their tight-knit group (sorry, Mother), listening intently to the quips usually exchanged over several beers at their MacLaren's Pub booth.
Here's a look back at some of the favorites (beware of the "cockamouse," er, spoilers):
"Sandwiches": This gag usually wafts its way into the series in the flashbacks within a flashback that introduced the college versions of Ted, Lily and Marshall: Ted was frizzy-haired, bespectacled and pretentious; Lily (Alyson Hannigan) was a goth kid and Marshall (Jason Segel) was a wide-eyed slob. And they all got high quite a bit. However, since future Ted is recounting the tale to his children, any time he mentions smoking weed, he refers to it as "eating sandwiches." Because of that editorial decision, scenes of the trio in college usually have some sort of decadent submarine in the frame to stand-in for marijuana.
Interventions: What begins as an intervention to help a friend address his drinking problem turns into a running gag. The gang hangs up the handmade "intervention" banner for a variety of reasons -- both frivolous and life-changing -- throughout the series, including to convince Marshall to take off a ridiculous hat, to persuade Lily to stop using a fake British accent, to end Robin's (Cobie Smulders) obsession with spray tans, to confront Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) about his pyromaniac magic tricks and to question one another's relationships. There's even an intervention to end the interventions.
Saluting: Sometimes couples can be adorable, but often they're the only ones who think they're adorable. Ted and Robin prove that to their friends by giving a military-style salute any time a word is preceded by the words "major," "general," "kernel" or anything else that sounds as if it could double as a military rank (e.g. "major baggage," "kernel stuck in my teeth" and "general knowledge"). Though it is a major irritation (salute!) to the gang, it's an inside joke that recurs during both the best and worst times in Ted and Robin's relationship.
Robin Sparkles: As a result of Robin's boyish upbringing, she rebels and becomes the star of "Space Teens," a Canadian TV show about "two average teenagers who solved crimes in space using math." Little by little, the gang discovers Robin's secret pop star background, which was first revealed by her irrational fear of shopping malls. How do we learn this? Barney discovers her catchy smash single, "Let's Go to the Mall."
Throughout the series Barney comes across more Robin Sparkles singles, and we meet her former friends and flames -- notable Canadians played by Nicole Scherzinger, Alan Thicke and James Van Der Beek. But in an "Underneath the Tunes" special, it's revealed that things go downhill for the pop star at a huge Canadian sporting event when she transforms into Robin Daggers, a grungy Alanis Morissette-like version of her former persona. The gang's distaste of Canada is also a long-running gag until Barney learns he's part Canadian.
The slap bet: One of the best ongoing jokes in the series began as a bet between Marshall and Barney about a secret from Robin's past (see "Robin Sparkles"). After Barney loses, Marshall is awarded five slaps (he gets to slap Barney in the face as hard as he can), to be doled out at any point in the future. Lily serves as the arbiter of the bet (the "Slap Bet Commissioner"), and Barney begins to live in a state of fear -- compounded when Marshall's slaps are upped by three in another bet involving a Ducky Tie. Marshall's slaps are served over the span of several years, sometimes on Thanksgiving (ahem, "Slapsgiving"). The final slap occurs in the penultimate episode -- Marshall slaps some sense into Barney moments before his wedding to Robin.
Doppelgangers: Scattered throughout the series are encounters with doppelgangers for each member of the gang -- "Lesbian Robin," "Mustache Marshall," "Mexican Wrestler Ted" and "Stripper Lily." When Marshall wants to start a family and Lily isn't sure if she's ready, they agree to wait for a sign from the universe – a sighting of Barney's elusive doppelganger. After Barney tries in vain to appear as his own look-alike, Lily sees a pretzel vendor whom she decides looks like Barney. The rest of the gang sees no resemblance, but they decide to play along since Lily obviously wants to have a baby after all. The decision leads to an encounter with Barney's real doppelganger -- Marshall and Lily's fertility doctor. Lily is convinced that Dr. John Stangel is Barney in disguise until she sees both men in the room at the same time. During her physical examination, Lily makes Barney wear the Sensory Deprivator 5000 – a whole other recurring gag.
The yellow umbrella: OK, maybe this one isn't necessarily a joke, not even a sight gag, but it's essential to future Ted's account of the "short story" of how he met the mother. The brightly colored rainy-day accessory is perhaps Ted's (and the audience's) only link to the mother for much of the series.
It was first introduced about midway through Season 3 when the audience learns that it belongs to his future wife, eventually portrayed by Cristin Milioti. However, Ted just happens upon it as he leaves a terrible St. Patrick's Day party and has no idea who it belongs to. He inadvertently leaves it in the mother's apartment years later (he was dating her roommate at the time). The writers continued to conceal the mother's identity behind the umbrella, using it to tease the audience up until their meeting in final episode. "Funny how sometimes you just find things," the Mother tells Ted on the train platform.
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is written by Tony Grafanello (Jason Jones), a deadbeat karate instructor we meet just before Ted's wedding to Stella Zinman (Sarah Chalke). Stella leaves Ted at the altar for Tony, the father of her child. Adding insult to injury, Tony bases the "The Wedding Bride" on their love triangle but rewrites the story to make Ted the villain, a pathetic scumbag named Jed Mosley (played by Chris Kattan). The rom-com and its sequel become box-office hits, beloved by everyone but Ted. (Well, it later fell out of favor for Marshall when its sequel featured a caricature of him named Narshall.)
Red cowboy boots: Ted discovers a pair of red cowboy boots while shopping with Robin and falls in love. However, he's the only one who believes he can actually pull them off. The flashy footwear meets its demise when Jeanette (Abby Elliott) burns down his apartment. The boots also become a wardrobe staple for Jed Mosley (see "The Wedding Bride").
Challenge Accepted!: Barney is perhaps one of the most quotable characters, thanks to the various iterations of his catchphrases. He says "challenge accepted" to tasks he was never challenged to in the first place, just because he knows they will make for a good story (especially if he can execute them in an "AWESOME" way). He had a "No. 1 rule" for everything, and whether he's trying to hook up with women wearing a ducky tie, overalls or dressed as a woman, the Barnacle even manages to make his failures sound "legen -- wait for it -- dary, legendary!"
The suit-loving magician is also a bit of an author: He creates "Barney's blog," a real blog on CBS.com, is an astute enforcer of his "Bro Code" and user of the word "bro," and he enacts numerous entries of "The Playbook," which was an integral part of his proposal to Robin. They all help the "high-functioning sociopath" get sex, and Barney brings them up to the gang ad nauseam.
High-fives: Every group of friends has its congratulatory gesture, and the characters of "How I Met Your Mother" definitely brought the high-five back to a respectable level of cool. Whether Lily and Marshall delivered an especially poignant zinger about Ted's love life, Barney nailed another conquest, or Robin and Barney bonded over something only they could appreciate (prayer five!), the high-five came back with a vengeance. And Barney, being the trendsetter he believes himself to be, always had to take them one step further with the "self-five," "condolence five," "phone five" or "door five" among numerous others. Even the characters knew how important high-fiving was: Ted enlisted Barney to partake in a hand-withering "high-five to echo throughout eternity" -- or a "high infinity" -- to properly bid adieu to the gang.
Telepathic talking: When you're friends as long as these guys are, you can communicate non-verbally. The gang adopts telepathic talking to communicate with one another, especially in cases that require keeping a certain character out of the loop.
"I'm Gonna Be (500 miles)": The Proclaimers' "cassingle" is the only track that plays in Marshall's Pontiac Fiero and becomes the signature soundtrack to nearly any and all road trips taken by the gang. That's thanks to its repetition on college Marshall and college Ted's journey to Gazzola's. Think it'd get annoying? Sure, but it always comes back around. "I am never going to get sick of this song!" proclaims teen Marshall. "Never ever never never ever!"
Lily's girl crush on Robin: Maybe Lily's early romantic link to Marshall deprived her from experimenting in college. Maybe it didn't. But Robin Scherbatsky's magnetism is at its most hilarious when Lily repeatedly expresses sexual desires for her beautiful best friend. The relationship comes to its climax in the last season when Lily's shares a long-awaited kiss with Robin in order to get Barney out of an alcohol-induced stupor. Hannigan and Smulders also share a kiss in character during an appearance on Bravo's "Inside the Actor's Studio."
"Weekend at Barney's": One of Barney's many dreams is for Ted and Marshall to reenact "Weekend at Bernie's" with Barney as the corpse. References to the film recur throughout the series, but one night Barney dreams that the guys actually do it and that he should write it down in "The Playbook." In the final season, the cast performs their own version of the film in an elaborate ploy to convince Barney that he didn't miss wedding weekend landmarks.
And these long-running jokes deserve an honorable mention:
The mystery (and even better revelation) of Barney's job and his meaningless motivational posters, his ducky tie, pick-up lines, penchant for suits and sixth sense about crazy eyes, nerdy leanings and love of laser tag, philandering mom and Ted and Barney's dream of opening a bar and calling it "Puzzles."
Ted's fun facts and grammar corrections (it's encyclopaedia!), that whole thing with the goat, his "tramp stamp" and how butterfly tattoos came full circle thanks to Lily and Gary Blauman, the blue French horn cameos, the mystery of the pineapple incident and his invention of the Sensory Deprivator 5000.
Marshall and Lily's bet about Ted and Robin's relationship, their TMI sexual exploits, their fight "pauses," Lily's full-size "Marshpillow," her incinerationg "you're dead to me" look, her dad's terrible ideas for board games, her menacing kindergarten students, her over-spending issues, insistence on calling herself "mama" and varying wigs depending on her hairstyle in the flashbacks.
As for Marshall, there's his need to say "lawyered," make up songs, his jerky older brothers' and his family's penchant for mayonnaise and his mom's need to eavesdrop on phone calls, his obsession with Minnesota and hatred of Wisconsin, his awful fish jokes and his insistence that he'll always prevail in a battle of Marshall vs. the machine.
Robin's repeated use of "But, umm...," her drunken Canadian accent, obsession with hockey, her terrible TV gigs that no one watches, all those dogs from her ex-boyfriends, volatile relationship with Patrice and her mounting concern over the "ring bear" and "flower gorilla" at her wedding.
Other miscellaneous picks: the gang's knack for spot-on Halloween costumes, the inexplicable "cockamouse," Ranjit always being the chauffeur, the Captain's use of boat puns, the road trip game Zitch Dog, woo girls, robots vs. wrestlers and even the kids' growing exasperation with Ted's prolonged storytelling.
Did we miss any major gags? (Salute!) Tell us in comments along with your favorites.
Times staff writer Noelene Clark contributed to this report.


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Alice Eve knows aliens, or at least she does in her movies. The British actress has dealt with the topic of extra-terrestrial life quite a bit, as she's appeared in both "Star Trek Into Darkness" and "Men In Black 3," which is fitting since she believes we're not alone.
During a recent appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," the 31-year-old spoke of a Skype chat she took part in alongside "Star Trek" director J.J. Abrams and co-stars Chris Pine and John Cho, as well as the astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The actress told Kimmel it was a fascinating experience, but she isn't convinced that NASA has been honest with the public about the existence of alien life.
"That was definitely the coolest thing we've done. I mean, we've shared the movie with countries around the world, but we got to Skype ... with the guy in a space station. And he was turning around in the air when we were talking to him and when he would talk, he would suddenly let go of his mic and it would just stay there. It was a very weird experience," she told Kimmel.
Though Eve enjoyed the Skype chat, she said she grew suspicious after Abrams said he once spoke to an astronaut who claimed to have seen forms or shapes that made him believe in alien life. She said she was irked by the seemingly canned answers given when Abrams asked if the space station astronauts had ever seen alien life.
"And the response that the guys at the NASA base gave us was so rehearsed and so clear that they had seen [aliens]," she told Kimmel, before joking that she was going to "get abducted" for saying that.
Of course, Eve isn't the only star to believe in aliens. During a panel discussion for "Oblivion" in Moscow this past April, Tom Cruise also admitted he doubts we're the only lifeforms out there.
"I don't think you can actually count it out," he said of the question of whether life on other planets exists. "It might be a little arrogant to think we were the only ones in all the galaxies throughout the universe -- but I've never met one!"


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4-H'ers win national awards
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The National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colo. is a big deal to livestock breeders, agriculture industry leaders, and now to four Marion County 4-H club members.
This past weekend, 24 states and Canada sent top qualifying 4-H livestock judging teams to the national livestock judging contest, part of the national stock show.
Lauren Geis of Durham, Karl Riffel of Tampa, Nicholas Meyer of Marion, and Bryce Roberts of Hillsboro represented Marion County; and the things they saw and did at the National Western made a lasting impression.
"The whole atmosphere was just amazing," Geis said. "I saw and judged some of the best livestock I have ever seen in my life there."
Each team member evaluated 10 classes of livestock including beef, sheep, swine, and meat goats. They gave several sets of oral reasons for their placings in each category.
Geis said she went into the contest knowing she would be up against the best of the best in evaluating livestock, but she made it her goal just to keep it simple and pretend like it was just another contest.
"This was the first time I had ever been to a national contest, so it was a bit overwhelming," she said. "I just had to keep telling myself, 'Keep it simple,' and that worked."
Geis led the Marion County team and placed fifth in individual beef, seventh in sheep, and 12th overall. A contest official singled her out at the awards ceremony for recognition in giving a top set of sheep reasons.
As a team, Marion County 4-H took third in beef placings, seventh in beef reasons, and fifth team overall in beef. They were seventh in swine placings, seventh in swine reasons, and sixth in team overall in swine. The team placed ninth in overall placings, eighth in overall reasons, and eighth in the overall sweep.
"We worked out a lot beforehand," Roberts said. "All the preparation really paid off. We gave numerous sets of reasons and really worked hard ahead of time."
Roberts said the hardest part of the whole contest experience was the long, long day of judging.
"We left our hotel at 6:15 a.m. on Saturday, and didn't get back there until 8 p.m.," he said. "It was a really long day, hard to stay focused. But overall, it was a great experience."
It was also cold at the contest located near the Rocky Mountains, just 15 degrees the day of judging activities.
"We were mostly inside, but it was a big open building," Roberts said. "We had to wear our suit jackets, so it was cold, but we just focused on judging."
Geis and Roberts, both high school seniors, said they planned to continue judging livestock in college next year.
"This is something I definitely want to keep doing," Geis said. "I would love to get on a college team and judge nationals at that level someday. At least I hope I get a chance to try."
Hutchinson Community College has offered Geis a full scholarship for livestock judging.
She said she was leaning toward a two-year commitment with that school because of her experiences being part of the Marion County team.
Roberts said he was undecided yet about college choice, but there was no doubt he also wanted to continue judging livestock if possible.
"I've always been involved in agriculture," he said. "It's like keeping alive a legacy. Judging is a lot of fun, and a good way to connect with livestock."
Riffel and Meyer are both juniors in high school. They plan to continue practicing livestock judging with hopes of returning to state and national contests again next year.
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Liriano shines in Pittsburgh debut, Pirates crush Mets
Flushing, NY – Jose Tabata went 4-for-5 with a two-run homer, an RBI double and three runs scored as the Pittsburgh Pirates received a sharp season-debut from Francisco Liriano in a 11-2 win over the New York Mets in the third test of a four-game set at Citi Field.
The Pirates recorded 16 hits, their second straight day in double figures, and tagged Mets starter Jonathon Niese (2-4) for five runs in the fifth inning to break the contest open.
Jody Mercer hit a pair of solo homers, Mike McKenry knocked in three runs, Clint Barmes drove in a pair and Andrew McCutchen had an RBI and scored twice in the Pirates' second straight win.
It was a successful first outing in a Pittsburgh uniform for Liriano (1-0), who struck out nine over 5 1/3 innings and allowed just a run on six hits. The lefty signed with the Pirates in February, but was in the middle of recovering from a broken right arm suffered in December.
"I tried not to get too excited," Liriano said. "I didn't want to try to do too much."
Niese's struggles continued, charged with the loss for the fourth time in his last five starts. He gave up eight runs on eight hits and lasted only 4 1/3 innings.
"I'm not really deceiving anybody right now," Niese said. "With my arm angle being down, I think they can pick the ball up a lot sooner, and that's why I think they're not chasing some of the pitches that they normally have chased. Hopefully I can get it back."
New York only had six hits, with Marlon Byrd driving in the only run on an infield single.
The Pirates gave Liriano plenty of support early, starting in the second when they jumped in front 1-0 off a bases-loaded RBI single from Barmes.
They tacked on three more runs an inning later as Starling Marte led off the third with a single, moved to second on a ground ball out from Mercer and sprinted home on McCutchen's soft liner into center. Pittsburgh's edge moved to 4-0 when Tabata clubbed a two-run homer over the left center field wall.
Liriano struck out four of the first five batters he faced, and the Mets managed just a single base runner through the first four innings. They fell completely out of it when Niese imploded in the fifth.
Mercer sent a solo blast over the center field wall and after walking McCutchen and Gaby Sanchez, Niese served up an RBI double to Tabata, concluding his outing.
Scott Atchinson took over on the mound and wasn't much better as McKenry reached him for a two-run single and Barmes capped the five-run frame with an RBI single up the middle to give Pirates a 9-0 lead.
New York finally got on the board in the sixth when Byrd came up with runners on corners and pushed a run home with a weak ground ball down the third base line.
Three straight one-out singles in the seventh pushed the Pirates' lead to 10-1 on an RBI hit from McKenry and Mercer's second homer of the game an inning later gave Pittsburgh a 10-run cushion.
Following a 47-minute rain delay, Brown hit a leadoff homer in the bottom of the ninth to cap the scoring.
Game Notes
New York has dropped seven of its last nine home games ... Pirates catcher Russell Martin sat for a second straight day with neck stiffness ... Liriano was activated from the disabled list prior to the game. To make room on the roster, Pittsburgh optioned Duke Weller to Triple-A Indianapolis ... The Pirates were 6-for-12 with runners in scoring position.


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What is the most effective way to stay up late and study? Simply caffeine?
Thank for the advice, I will have to order that book on amazon this weekend.
Quote from: BlackDuck on May 03, 2011, 03:54:56 PMThank for the advice, I will have to order that book on amazon this weekend. Amazon now closed on weekdays?
It's not Adderall. No, definitely not Adderall.
Adderall is one of those things that is a constant presence on any college campus. Some of my friends swear by it (Im positive that they wouldnt have survived most of their classes without it). I have tried it once, but I didnt feel much of anything. In fact, the only effect I experienced was increased drunkenness when I celebrated finishing a 25-page paper at the bar.
If I made it through all these years of drinking and cramming without Adderall, you can too. Just grab a cup of coffee/tea, all your books, and plant your ass at the library. It will add up to the same result, trust me. Good luck!


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Stories from the U.S.
Jennifer Ambrose '09: Washington, D.C.
Jennifer worked as an intern for the Bureau of African Affairs at the Department of State, which is one of the Department's few bureaus that focuses on foreign aid. Her main tasks were in research and conference planning. She conducted research for several projects, studying mainly U.S. foreign aid and trade agreements in Africa and public health issues there. She also assisted with her office's preparations for the 2007 African Growth and Opportunity Act Forum held in Accra, Ghana, which is the annual conference allows government officials and civil sector representatives from the U.S. and all parts of Africa to discuss issues related to trade and development. Finally, she had the opportunity to attend an HIV/AIDS workshop at the Foreign Service Institute, offered for Foreign Service Officers working in countries severely afflicted by AIDS.
Ice Cream for Poverty: Claremont, California
Laura Ackerman '09 and Janae Hockensmith '09, two members of the SAC, along with a couple of friends, decided to raise money for Fonkoze, a microfinance NGO in Haiti by selling liquid nitrogen ice cream at a CMC Halloween event. Using liquid nitrogen (-196 oC) courtesy of the Joint Science Department to freeze a mixture of heavy whipping cream, half and half, sugar, vanilla, and orange food coloring, a sum of $100 was raised.
"Two years ago, as a sophomore at CMC I wrote to Professor Petropoulos, the head of the Center for Human Rights Leadership at that time, to tell him that I was interested in becoming involved in the Center's activities. "It has taken me over a year here to realize the wealth of opportunities I am offered everyday at CMC," I wrote, "and the Center for Human Rights Leadership is one of them." In my letter, I informed him that the previous semester I had written my final term paper on the Holocaust and that I had been studying the events that occurred at Auschwitz since then on my own. In addition, I told him that I had listened to Francis Bok speak about his experience as a slave at the athenaeum, and that after that, I could no longer remain passive about human rights' issues. I recognized that I had to take initiative; I had to not only care-but act. I had to be willing to stop what I was doing in my everyday life to reach out to others, to ensure that someone else in the world, perhaps even someone in my own country, could have an "everyday life". It is two years later and I still feel just as convinced of those words as I am today. I became involved with the Center two years ago because I believed that I could make a difference. I believed that small actions could vastly improve and in some cases-save lives. It is precisely that desire to make a difference for others that motivated me to hold a fundraiser for Fonkoze. Certainly, my friends and I raised only a small sum of money, but our small sum of money combined with other small sums of money has the potential to do great things for Haiti. Everyone has the ability to give something, and for me, someone who is majoring in chemistry, I had the opportunity to combine my passion for chemistry with my passion for service, to give to Haiti in an unconventional way, and to support an institution at CMC which I firmly believe will continue to do great work in the future."
Monica Brazelton '10: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Monica spent her summer as an intern for the University of Minnesota's Human Rights Center. The Center distributes human rights educational materials through a variety of mediums, including an education program that has been implemented in many Twin-Cities area public schools. It also is responsible for the world's largest human rights library. Her primary job was a grant writer for the center, and her work was rather significant. During her eight weeks, she applied for more than $250,000 worth of grants for the Center. Her secondary role was to research and prepare reports on the status of human rights issues throughout the world. These reports were very important for the Center's employees as well as donors to the Center.
Anna Kheyfets '11: New York City, New York
During the summer of 2008, Anna was an intern for Orphans International Worldwide (OIWW). OIWW has established a network of locally incorporated homes to house and educate children orphaned and abandoned after the Tsunami in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, and the 2004 hurricane in Haiti. Over the course of her time there, she was assigned several different projects. Firstly, she worked to facilitate the grant writing process by researching pertinent issues needed to make the grant a success. She also conducted research on the different types of companies that would help provide job training for the kids in Sri Lanka. Finally, she spent a large amount of time working on a fundraising event for an orphanage in Haiti, where she needed to secure donations for every part of the fundraiser.
Joanna Repsold '07: Hollywood, California
My first introduction to the Center was through a trip to Washington DC where we had the privilege to meet with leading experts, members of Congress and researchers at the Holocaust Museum on human rights issues around the world. What an eye opener to what is happening in every corner of the world, from child soldiers in the jungles of Uganda to young women in the Middle East. I would later go on to travel again with the Center to Germany to study one of histories darkest periods and then down to Louisiana to lend our hand to Hurricane Katrina refugees.
Shortly after that first DC trip, I became involved with the Center as part of their Student Advisory Committee, helping to bring speakers to CMC to expand the students' knowledge of human rights issues around the globe and partnering with other campus efforts on the issue of genocide. In the Winter of 2005, four of us from the Center headed back to Washington DC to lobby members of Congress towards action on the issue of genocide in Darfur, as well as expand our education on the issue by meeting with the Holocaust Museum and members of the State Department.
Working and traveling with the Center took my experience with human rights issues from cursory knowledge to active involvement. It gave me the opportunity to meld my love of politics with my desire to impact the world. My eyes were opened to the breath and depth of need and injustice around the world while providing me with resources and connection to be proactive in helping find and implement solutions, raise awareness and educate others. I graduated CMC with a broadened world-view and a desire to continue my involvement in human rights issues.
Since CMC, I have been working in Hollywood at a production company dedicated to making issue-advocacy films that take on controversial topics relevant to today's culture in an effort to raise awareness and bring about change. My time at the Center has given me a unique perspective and level of expertise not often found in this industry, as well as an overall awareness of the most pressing human rights issues facing our world today. I am forever grateful for my time at the Center for the experiences it gave me and how it impacted my life, both then and now.
Olivia Kuhlman '11: Atlanta, Georgia
As a recipient of the Human Rights Fellowship, Olivia will intern at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) regional office in Atlanta, Georgia. She will assist international refugees during their transition into U.S. society. IRC provides emergency relief, rehabilitation, protection of human rights, resettlement services, and advocacy for refugees who have been displaced by violent conflict and oppression. Olivia will work primarily with refugees from Burma, Iraq, and Sudan. She will work with the IRC's "First Things First Woman's Literacy" program, an intensive vocational English program. Olivia's responsibilities include developing and organizing materials for the curriculum, leading small group conversational practices, and providing one-on-one tutoring. In addition, she will assist with running and maintaining IRC's education program.
Update from Olivia
Every single experience I have had with the clients has been incredible. They are amazing people who are full of life. Despite the fact that they have lost everything, that they are away from their home country, and in a new place where they don't speak the language, they are the most positive, friendly, and caring individuals I have ever met. My experiences, during my internship, have included seeing women in the women's literacy class develop into empowered individuals with confidence to speak up in class and voice their opinions. In VESL, I have seen women obtain a job for the first time in their lives and I have seen men and women from various countries (where women would never work alongside men) working together and encouraging one another to complete a common goal.
Brendan Sasso '10: Washington, D.C.
This summer, Brendan will participate in the Investigative Internship Program at the Criminal Justice Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center. Selected as a recipient of the Human Rights Fellowship, he will assist attorneys in preparing defense strategies. Brendan will investigate scenes of alleged crimes, gather evidence, and prepare demonstratives and documents for trail. The goal of the Criminal Justice Clinic is to ensure that individuals have access to high quality legal representation regardless of their financial situation. An adequate legal defense is a basic human right, and Brendan anticipates the opportunity to personally work to ensure that defendants receive the right of a fair trial.
Update from Brendan, July 2009
We start each case by reviewing the police report and other official documents. But the government's version of events is not always the whole (or the true) story. So we dig deeper by interviewing witnesses and collecting any other records or evidence we can. When we talk to people who will probably be prosecution witnesses, we try to get a signed statement from them detailing everything they know so they can't change their stories when they get on the stand.
Allison Scott '11: Berkeley, California
Allison is passionate about criminal justice, specifically her opposition to capital punishment. This summer, she will intern at the Death Penalty Clinic at the Berkeley School of Law. Her internship is funded by The Center's Human Rights Fellowship Program, and will provide Allison with the opportunity to partner with prominent law professionals and work on death penalty cases that are in the post-conviction appeals stages. Allison will maintain case files and work with the investigative aspects of the cases. Her internship also will allow Allison to learn and practice the procedural and practical skills necessary for a career in law as well as participate in a case that is significant from a human rights point.
Update from Allison
Working at the Death Penalty Clinic at Berkeley Law School has truly been an exciting and fulfilling experience. I had the opportunity to work on a breadth of issues, including the current California debate over lethal injection. The California Department of Corrections is working to create new protocol for the lethal injection process, and there is currently a moratorium on executions in California until the provisions are finished and approved. I worked with lawyers at the DPC on a specific case. In this specific case, the DPC is co-counsel and our client was granted a retrial for the penalty phase. My responsibility was to help compile information from the client's time spent in prison, which has been nearly 20 years. This information will be used as mitigation for the retrial. This required sifting through 20 years of documentation, including physical and mental health records, disciplinary records or any information that could help convince a jury that the client deserves life without parole.
Katrina Weeks '11: New York City
Through CMC's Center for Human Rights Leadership, I had the amazing opportunity to intern at Human Rights Watch in New York City over the summer of 2009. Human Rights Watch is an international non-profit organization devoted to exposing emerging or overlooked injustices and defending human rights throughout the globe. Human Rights Watch works in over 80 countries, is featured in news headlines daily, and is one of the most influential human rights organizations in the world.
Working for Human Rights Watch profoundly inspired me. Throughout my three-month internship I witnessed the impact Human Rights Watch had on governments, policymakers, and perpetrators of human rights crimes. Human Rights Watch continues to make palpable differences in many different arenas of international human rights by focusing on the facts, investigating with determination, and using creativity to address complex issues. Some of the world's most crucial humanitarian crises only entered the public consciousness through Human Rights Watch's documentation.
As for my specific role within Human Rights Watch, this summer I interned in the communications department. Since Human Rights Watch is an organization devoted to revealing, documenting, and challenging human rights violations, our communications team works to raise global awareness about these human rights issues. As a member of the communications team, most of my time was spent focusing on journalists and media markets around the world. This included assessing Human Rights Watch's media coverage, contacting prominent journalists, targeting the media outlets policymakers read, researching news sources, and other press related work. Throughout my internship I worked to maximize media coverage of Human Rights Watch reports to advance respect for human rights and hold human rights violators accountable. Some releases I worked on that received significant international attention and important reactions by policymakers include: human rights abuses in the Marange diamond fields of Zimbabwe, rampant abuse by police forces in India, and horrific corruption in Equatorial Guinea.


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Okay - true confession time. In school, I was a theater rat... always in plays and musicals, always taking artsy-fartsy classes, including "How To Mime" or, as I remember it, "How To Pretend You're Stuck In A Box And Look Foolish Doing It." Unless you're Marcel Marceau, you look really silly doing mime. So... no mime today. But, we are still making a box. In particular, a boxed corner. This is a sewing technique everyone should have in her/his arsenal. The boxed corner creates space in something that would otherwise be flat. For example, in a bag, you'll have a lot more room to stash your stuff if you create boxed corners. Basically, any sewn corner can be turned into a boxed corner with a few simple steps. We show you the two most common methods.
Projects shown top, clockwise from top right: Messenger Style Brief, Quintessential Plaid Tote, Back to School Totes, Day at the Beach Tote, Dritz Buckle Bag.
If you sew two squares together, then turn them right side out, the square is still flat. If you were to stuff it with some filler, it would make a lovely knife-edge pillow. If you want to turn your flat square into something with more dimension, you add boxed corners.
We love the box corner here at S4H. Below are just a few projects made more appealing and functional thanks to their boxed corners.
Mustang Messenger Bag with Push Locks
The basic box corner
For this tutorial, we've used a light fabric with contrasting thread so you can clearly see the steps of our techniques. You would use the fabric of your choice with coordinating thread.
In this example, we're assuming you're working on a project that has sewn corners and is shaped like a square or rectangle. If you're following a pattern or tutorial, the boxed corners (as well as the exact measurements) will be indicated.
- Place the fabric right side together.
- Using a straight stitch, and the indicated seam allowance, sew the side and bottom seams, pivoting at each corner. We used a ½" seam allowance.
- With the sewn fabric still right sides together, use both hands to pinch and pull apart the corner. As you keep pulling, the fabric will begin to make a little peak with the corner point at the top and the seam lines running down the middle of the front and the back. Align these side and bottom seams. Place a pin in the matched seams to hold them together. It is very important that you exactly match the seams; that is what will make the intersecting lines of your finished corner look good.
- Mark the depth of the boxed corner with a fabric marking pen or pencil and a straight ruler, positioning your ruler so the depth is measured from side to side at the base of the "peak." Our boxed corner depth is 3" (more on how to determine measurements below). Slide the ruler down from the peak until you reach the point at which your "triangle" is at the appropriate width (3" in our sample). Draw a horizonal line at this measurement.
- Another measuring option is to measure vertically from the corner point of your seam (the actual end point of the seam – not the tip of the fabric) down along the seam line. In this case, you measure HALF the width of your finished corner – or 1½" in our sample. It's a bit harder to tell in the photo below, but from the point of the seam to the ruler is 1½" – look at the grid lines on the cutting mat, which are 1" squares. Draw a horizontal line at this measurement.
- Sew across the peak on the drawn line. Be sure to backstitch at the beginning and end of the seam.
NOTE: Depending on the project you're sewing, you may want sew across two or three times to reinforce for added strength at corner. This would be an especially good practice for a bag.
- Trim away the peak to ¼" - ½" from the line of stitching.
- Gently pull apart the corner at the seamline to see the boxed corner take shape.
- Turn the fabric right side out to really see what your finished boxed corner looks like. Lovely!
Cut-out box corner
As with many sewing techniques, there's an alternate way to create a boxed corner. Some people prefer to cut a square from each corner, then bring the seams together to sew the corner. You get the exact same finish as above, just in a different way. You may find this to be a better approach to sewing a boxed corner with heavier-weight fabrics.
- Place the fabric right sides together on a flat surface.
- Measure, mark and then cut equal size squares from each corner. In our example, we wanted a 4" finished corner and so cut out our corner squares at HALF that size or 2" x 2" squares (if you are using a pattern, you should be given your cut dimensions, but there are additional notes on measuring below).
- Using a straight stitch, and the indicated seam allowance, sew the side and bottom (or adjacent) seams separately (because you just cut away the corner you would have pivoted at!).
NOTE: You can also sew the side and bottom seams first, pivoting at the corner (as above) and then cut out the corner. You just need to be sure of all your sizing. It doesn't matter that you are cutting into the seam as it will be secured again when the corner itself is stitched.
- In the same manner as the basic box corner above, carefully match the side seam with the bottom or adjacent seam. Pin in place.
- Sew along raw edge of the corner, using a straight stitch and the indicated seam allowance. In our example, our side and bottom seams were ½" so our seam allowance across the corner should also be ½". Be sure to backstitch at the beginning and end of the seam.
NOTE: Interestingly enough, you will sometimes see pockets shaped like this (with the two bottom corners cut out) except they use just one layer of fabric. Think about a cell phone pocket inside a bag; you need depth in the pocket for the phone... solution: boxed bottom corners.
If you're not following a pattern or tutorial that tells you the proper measurements, you will need to do some calculating to determine the size (or depth) of your boxed corner. It's recommended you start with a shorter distance and go from there; you can always increase the size of box corner (especially if you've already trimmed away the fabric), but ya can't go smaller after you've made your cuts. As always, we recommend testing any new technique on scraps prior to starting on your project.
Basic box corner
With a basic box corner, the distance from one folded edge to the other at the base of the peak is the depth of the box corner. Remember, in our example above, we sewed 3" across the peak from fold to fold, which yielded a 3" box corner. Or from the top fold of the peak, you can measure HALF the width of what you want your finished corner to be.
The farther away from the peak that you draw your line and sew, the deeper the box corner will be. Using a ruler to mark the stitch line will help you determine the depth, plus it helps you stay consistent on the other corner(s).
Cutout box corner
When you plan to use the cutout box corner method, you need to pre-determine the size of the box corner. The most important thing to remember is: the size of the square you cut away is HALF the size of your finished box corner. In our example above, we cut out a 2" x 2" square, which resulted in a 4" box corner.
The other detail to remember is seam allowance. You want to use the exact same seam allowance across the box corner seam as was used for your side and bottom (or adjacent) seam allowance.
As always, accuracy in cutting is key so the box corners are consistent in size.
A few additional helpful notes to remember about box corners
- The deeper or larger the box seam, the shorter the project.
- The smaller or shorter the box seam, the less depth you will have overall.
- If you're making a bag, remember that you will need to create identical box corners on your lining.
Sample Creation and Instructional Outline: Jodi Kelly


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Agoria Flanders promotes and protects the interests of the Agoria member companies with all relevant decision makers from the political, economic, social and academic world. Through targeted actions this policy unit advocates a favorable business environment for the benefit of the technology industry in Flanders.
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07/11 Belgian Plastics Day 2019 - Plastics in a Circular Economy How is the Belgian plastics industry performing in a circular economy? What are the market trends? How is the uptake of recycled plastics in Belgium? This is what you can discover on the second Belgian Plastics Day, co-organised by Agoria and essenscia PolyMatters.
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With Office 365 from GoDaddy, you can create email signatures in Outlook, on your PC, that are automatically added to the end of your emails.
- Launch Outlook on your PC.
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- Click Options.
- Go to the Message tab.
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JPMorgan Chase, UBS assess risks to tally natural capital costs
If sustainability executives want Wall Street and other financial stakeholders to care more about natural capital, they must speak a different language.
That vocabulary should focus far less on measures such as absolute metric tons of carbon pollution emitted, kilowatt-hours of electricity saved, or millions of gallons of water consumed by their organization and more on the demonstrable financial impact of that data on the bottom line.
That translation won't be easy, but it's the only way companies can truly account for the value of natural resources such as fresh water, clean air or tillable soil that are taken for granted, according to experts speaking Wednesday at GreenBiz Forum in New York.
"Wall Street can only make a difference on this stuff if we figure out a way to make money on it," said Matthew Arnold, managing director and head of environmental affairs for JPMorgan Chase, during a panel session dubbed "The Power of Wall Street in Promoting Sustainable Development." "It has to move the needle."
That in itself might not seem a major revelation, but until now few companies have invested in natural capital accounting, partly because it's really, really hard.
That's changing because the case for valuing natural capital is building, mainly a risk mitigation strategy. If those costs were tallied globally, the liability would be considerably more than $1 trillion, according to the State of Green Business 2013 published this month.
Changing the methodology
Erika Karp, managing director and head of global sector research at UBS Investment Bank, jokes that she has been "accidentally sustainable" for quite some time without realizing it.
The UBS research team routinely discusses risk factors like water stress as a way to provide investors with a long-term view into a company's viability — not because it had an environmental interest, necessarily, but because it believes this information is of interest to stakeholders.
"It became more and more obvious that these issues were pivotal," said Karp.
Trying to get investment banks to take big "leaps of faith" isn't for the fainthearted. That's why Karp and Arnold are focused on applying traditional financial risk analysis techniques to the problem of talking about natural capital. "We don't finance fuel choices, we finance balance sheets," noted Arnold.
For both it comes down to a question of materiality: "What does a reasonable person need to know about this?" said Karp.
JPMorgan's process of educating both its own bankers, and by extension its clients, about the environmental, social and governance risks associated with hydraulic fracturing (aka fracking) offers one example of how things are changing.
The bank's exposure to this is substantial: More than 100 of its legacy oil and gas industry clients are involved with fracking to some degree. So Arnold's team has methodically been interviewing each of those companies about their experiences. After more than 80 sessions, JPMorgan has developed a 12-point risk assessment framework that it is sharing not only with its own clients — so they can benchmark their own policies — but with its competitors so that the principles might be adopted more quickly.
"We need to understand this. It is potentially quite threatening," said Arnold.
Photo of Wall St. sign in front of the New York Stock Exchange provided by Karen Struthers/Shutterstock
Sports apparel and shoemaker Puma is widely credited with creating the first corporate Environmental Profit and Loss statements, which attempt an accounting of its exposure.
While the math is still imprecise, these calculations have provided the company with an unprecedented view and directional guidance as to how its operations might be affected in the future, said Richard Mattison, CEO of research firm Trucost, which is helping a number of companies with this exercise.
For example, almost 57 percent of Puma's embedded risk, which it calculated at around $192 million, is related to the cattle ranches it uses to source its leather, particularly the water they need to thrive.
Clothing company H&M faces a similar conundrum: The price of the cotton it uses for its products has been rising quickly over the past 24 months, largely driven by water shortages. And consumer products giant Unilever has estimated publicly that climate change is costing the company around $265 million annually.
"It is of value to understand these metrics from a design point of view, to understand regulatory scenarios and so on," said Mattison.
Slowly but surely, forward-thinking companies are embracing that idea.


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Nugget, I don't know where they went but I have the feeling I may be in trouble yet again!!
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Did you know that Electromach trained more than 500 people the past year? We've trained end-users, engineering companies, OEMs, students and primary school pupils about explosion protection.
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Safety class has various modules: 'Basic Explosion protection', 'ATEX', 'Selection of electrical equipment' or detailed courses on a protection method or functional safety (SIL).
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Stewart, Colbert returning
Comedy Central hosts Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert announced today they'll return to the air on Jan. 7 despite the writers strike. Both are members of the Writers Guild of America.
"In a statement, the hosts said they would prefer to return to work with their writers. "If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence," they stated.
Stewart and Colbert join the ranks of returning late-night hosts Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien (coming back Jan. 2) and Carson Daly (who is already back at work).
I'll be thrilled to have Stewart back on the air. But doesn't this dilute the impact of the strike? Is the public's demand for bedtime entertainment more important than supporting the strike to get appropriate compensation for writers?